Academy Magazine - November 2006

Morgan Park Academy Magazine Chicago, Illinois 60643

November 2006

Morgan Park Academy Magazine Novem ber 2006

Ch icago, Illinois 60643

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Morga n Park Acad e m y Magazine

The familiar face on the front cover belongs to David A. Jones, headmaster of the Academy from 1966 to 1997. The photograph was taken in 1965, when he was principal of the upper school.

David Jones, 1930-2006 ................................................... 1 Words of Wisdom .............................................................. 3 Remembering David Jones ............................................... 4 Arthur Baer's persistence and the BAC ........................... 6 William E. Barnhart: The moving spirit for the creation of the art center at MPA .................................... 8

David Jones died in Houston, Texas, on May 8, 2006. Pages 1-19 of this issue recount some of the high points of his Academy career. As he was fond of saying, "the Academy is my life."

Barry Kritzberg: The long, acrimonious road to the re-integration of Morgan Park Academy in the 1960s ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••..••••••.•••••••.••••••••••••• 13 Mark Linnerud: The 2006 commencement address: the purpose of life .......................................................... 20

Put that on your transcript ............................................. 23 Tania Ismail: the Bolivian exchange student and ISL volleyball player of the year .................................... 24 Gourmand Games: a 29-20 slam-dunk, no-doubt-about·it, victory ••..•••.••••••.••••.••••••.•••.•••.••••.••.••.• 25 Michael Cappozzo: My season with the World Champs ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 27 Pamela Steinmetz: Butch McGuire and the singles' bar ........................................................ 31

Volunteer of the Year Award .......................................... 33

About the cover:

Contributors: William E. Barnhart ("The moving spirit for the creation of the art center at MPA" ) is a financial writer for the Chicago Tribune and a Beverly resident.

Barry Kritzberg ("The long, acrimonious road to the re-integration of Morgan Park Academy in the 1960s") is editor of the Morgan Park Aademy Magazine.

Mark Linnerud ("The 2006 commencement address: the purpose of life" ) is an upper school science teacher.

Michael Cappozzo [1995] ("My season with the World Champs" ) is a camera man for Comcast Sports Net Chicago.

Pamela Steinmetz ("Butch McGuire and the singles' bar") is a former editor of the Morgan Park Aademy Magazine.

Photo credits: Morgan Park Academy archives: front cover, 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 31, 32, back cover.

Trevitt Allen, 25, 26 Michael Cappozzo 27, 28, 30.

Editorial staff: Editor: Barry Kritzberg

Alumni Giving •••..••..••..•••••.•••.•••..•.•••.••••.•••••..•••.•••.••••.••.•••• 34 Class Notes ••.•.••..••.•••.•••••.•••.•••..•.•••..•••..•••••.•••.•••.••••.••.••.• 35 Taps •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••..•••.••••••.•••.•••.••.••••.••••. 40 Building on Tradition ...................................................... 41

Alumni pages: Lisa Bourke Alumni assistant: Sandy Williams Proof-readers: J. William Adams, Carol Coston Technical consultant: Michael Wojtyla Design consultant: Lisa Speckhart, Captiva Designs captivadesigns@sbcglobal.net

The Morgan Park Academy Magazine is published by the office of development and alumni affairs.

Groundbreaking Ceremony .•••.•••••..•••.••••.•..•••.•••.••.•.••.••.•• 42 Two Million Reasons to Celebrate ................................. 43 Salute to Excellence 2007 ............................................. 44

Letters and other editorial matter should be addressed to: Barry Kritzberg Editor, Morgan Park Academy Magazine Morgan Park Academy 2153 W. l11th Street Chicago, IL 60643 bkritzberg@morganparkacademy.org

Annual Report .•••.••.•••.••••..••..••.••••••.••••.••••••••••••••••••••••.••.•• 45 MPA Pathway Brick Program .......................................... 54 Write you classnotes ...................................................... 55

Alumni matters should be addressed to: Lisa Bourke, Alumni Coordinator Morgan Park Academy 2153 W. lllth Street Chicago, IL 60643 sgrassi@morganparkacademy.org

(957 David Jones , 1930-2006 David A. Jones, headmaster of Morgan Park Academy from 1966 to 1997, died in Houston, Texas, on May 8, 2006. He was 76.

Surviving are his widow, Leora "Lee" (whom he married in 1955); two children, David Jr. and Crista (both Academy graduates); four grandchildren; a brother, Warren; and two sisters, Phyllis 1958 Little and Marilyn Oplinger.

David Jones was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, on January 9, 1930, but he moved to Chicago at an early age and attended public elementary and high school in the city. He graduated in 1947 from Harper High School, named after William Rainey Harper, the founding president of the University of Chicago, and who was instrumental in developing Morgan Park Academy as the preparatory school for the University of Chicago.

He received a diploma in Bible and theology from St. Paul Bible College, St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1952; an associate arts degree from Wilson Jr. College, Chicago, in 1953; a bachelor's degree from Taylor University, Upland, Indiana, in 1954; and a master's degree in history from Northwestern University in 1955. He continued to take courses at various colleges and universities over the next two decades.

Jones served in the U.S . Army from 1955 to 1957 and was hired as an instructor in English and social studies at Morgan Park Military Academy after his discharge.

In addition to teaching, he was, at various times, rifle team advisor, chairman of the English and social studies departments, director of publicity, director of studies, and principal of the summer school, middle school and upper school.

He succeeded Ted Withington as headmaster in 1966.

The Academy News commented (spring 1966) on the announcement: "We weren 't just losing a headmaster [in Withington] , but we were losing a friend - the spirit of MPA. How could we survive? The answer wasn't long in coming, and the answer was Mr. Jones, our principal and headmaster elect.

Now everyone wondered why they had been so worried.

Morgan Park Academy would be in good hands."

1958 He also served the Independent Schools Association of the Central States during his tenure as Academy headmaster (and even in his retirement) in many capacities, including treasurer, director and chairman of the ISACS finance committee. His most significant contribution to ISACS, however, was the more than thirty times he served as visiting chairman of school evaluations.

Robert D. Johnston, then headmaster of University School Milwaukee, wrote (November 1, 1982) to thank Dave Jones for his evaluation work at his school: "Jim Henderson [president of ISACS] said you would be a fine chairman for the evaluation team. Jim, I find, is given to understatement. When we saw you in action, we all realized that you were not just a fine chairman; you were a truly outstanding one."

Jones also served as the director of the Beverly Art Center; board president of St. Mary's Academy, Nauvoo, Illinois; and as a board member for the Washington and Jane Smith (retirement) Home.

David Jones was a teacher first and, for a good fifteen years after he became headmaster, he continued to teach one or two classes.

Building, too, is an important part of his legacy. Barker

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(957 of 1968.

It was the calculated gradualIsm , orchestrated by headmaster David Jones, which allowed integration to occur at the Academy without divisiveness and allowed for the development of the diversity, which is one of most celebrated aspects of the school.

He had a well-deserved reputation for always being thoroughly prepared, whether it was for an English lesson on the Bible as literature or for a presentation to the board on the complicated intricacies of the Academy budget.

As a headmaster, he was always somewhat formal perhaps a carry-over from the military tradition of the Academy - and he was not inclined, for example, to join the faculty and staff in the periodic casual dress days.

There were two memorable exceptions to this, however, and that was when his beloved Chicago Cubs won divisional titles in 1984 and 1989. He came to work sporting a Cubs hat and jersey and spent much of those play-off days in cheerful repartee with many White Sox fans among students, faculty and staff. He might have even played hooky a day or two those seasons.

In his letter of resignation to Academy board president Stephen 1. Driscoll, he noted that his thirty-one years as headmaster were "an exciting challenge, and every year has presented new challenges." He was "comfortable, however, with the assurance that he will leave a very strong institution with a promising future."

Jones added - what everyone associated with the Academy always knew - "Morgan Park Academy has been my life."

Hall and the Beverly Art Center came into being in the I 960s, after fire had destroyed Blake Hall and obsolescence necessitated the razing of East and West Halls.

There are other, less obvious, things that he was also responsible for: in the 1960s he instituted exams before Christmas break; gave students their own lounge; and established a policy of open scheduling for qualified students; in 1973, a house was purchased and quickly razed to provide more parking space for students, faculty, and staff; in 1976, he secured the adoption ofTIAA-CREF as the Academy's retirement plan; and, in the 1980s, he recognized the need for computers in the Academy and initiated a plan to bring them into common use for students, faculty and staff.

Perhaps his most enduring accomplishment, however, was persuading the board in 1968 that it was time for the Academy to once again become an integrated school. The 1960s were a turbulent time and the board feared the school could not survive yet another change (It had, after all, demilitarized, admitted girls, and abandoned boarding to become a day school in very short order. Many thought any additional change might threaten the stability and the future of the school).

The issue of integration had been simmering for a number of years and had repeatedly been brought before the board by headmaster Ted Withington. David Jones, as headmaster, found a way to reach a compromise with an apparently divided board on the issue. The board did not issue a non-discrimination policy, but, instead, adopted a resolution that, in effect, put the matter squarely on the shoulders of David Jones.

David Jones responded by integrating the school in the fall

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1965: Dave Jones (right) relaxes withfaculty members.

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(957 Words of Wisdom It is the headmaster's pleasant duty to offer words of wisdom to each graduating class. Here are some of the words, collected from Academy yearbooks, which David Jones directed to seniors during his tenure:

1967

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To the class of 1967: Every headmaster must remember with a special sense of warmth the first graduating class of his tenure. Some of you I have known for eight years; most of you I worked with in sophomore English; all of you will certainly remain in my memory for many years to come.

A 1912 graduate ofMPA wrote to me recently saying that the Academy had done more for him than any college or university he had ever attended. You mayor may not be able to say the same thing sixty years from now, but I do feel confident that you are leaving MPA well equipped to begin the next phase of your life.

1968 1978 Graduation and commencement are words frequently used for the same event. The first places an emphasis upon what has been completed; the second stresses that which is still ahead.

... Each class which graduates from the Academy has its own distinction; your class is no exception. Your achievements and your times of difficulty will both be a permanent part of my memory.

1969 Dol dare Disturb the universe?

[-T.S. Eliot]

1979 ... No examination we could administer can measure our success; what you yourself become in years ahead will determine the extent to which we have realized our goal. If you succeed, we have succeeded.

As high school students, you have been witness to a turbulent period in American history. But you have also been witness to a period of phenomenal progress which has made 'shoot for the moon' too limited a goal.

Soon, now, your current role as a somewhat passive onlooker can be changed to one of active involvement. What you do will partially determine the characters to be inscribed on the yet unwritten pages of history. Prufrock experienced only frustration when he posed his question to himself; may history record your answer to his question as having been both affirmative and positive.

1982 I could not help but think how this mission [The spaceship Columbia's space walk was cancelled because of a malfunction of a small fan in a multi-million dollar space suit.] can be viewed as a metaphor for both achievements and frustrations in life. To be able to hurtle man and machine into space, and yet to be stymied by a little fan, presents irony indeed....may your spaceships soar and all your fans keep working.

1970 It has been fashionable oflate for young people to point out the errors and the shortcomings of the world and the society in which we live. Too many, however, have merely criticized and made no effort to aid in the search for solutions to problems which we face.

My sincere wish for the members of the class of 1970 is that you will not be content merely to express discontent, but that individually and collectively you will employ your talents and your education to help resolve the critical issues which will confront your generation in the final quarter of this century.

1992 Years ago when I taught U.S. History in the eighth grade, we used a text titled America: Land ofPromise. Looking at our nation today .... [but] America: Land ofProblems might be more justified.

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Remembering David Jones A giant in spirit When I graduated from MPA in 1965 David Jones was the principal. He was principal during my four years at MPA. Mr. Jones was a tiny man. One day a group of us big boys, over six feet tall, were teasing Mr. Jones about how small he was. He gave us a big grin and flashed open his sport coat to show us the label. Grinning his patented grin he said, "Litton Boys' Store, I pay half of what you do for clothes." Mr. Jones was a tiny man in body, but he was a giant in spirit. There were a lot of big boys at MPA and some of us weren 't all that nice, but when Mr. Jones talked we jumped out of respect.

- Bob Becht [1965]

1970 whenever I thought we needed something for the computer systems, he was behind me . I tried never to waste money, but I spent a lot over the next 20 years .

I remember another favor, too . He was a dyed-in-the-wool Cubs fan. In about 1986 or 87 even 85, he got [my daughter] Becky invited to go onto the field at a game honoring high school students. She was as rabid a fan as he . She was so excited.

He led this school through at least two turbulent times.

Right after demilitarization, the school was in deep trouble and again in the 80s it was very rough. I believe he helped uphold the standards while keeping high enough enrollment to keep floating. I have a very different view of him because he always backed me in whatever I asked. I tried to never request anything unnecessary, but he did say no to others. I always appreciated his willingness to look ahead and protect the reputation of the school. It must have been very difficult at times.

Nurtunng I started at MPA when Dave was teaching English and his daughter, Crista, and son, David, were toddlers . Lee used to tell me what a very loving father Dave was. He bathed, diapered, fed and rocked his little ones. He was a real team man when it came to nurturing their children. And years later, he still adored little kids. He'd pass me and my first-grade brood in the hallways, and stop and gaze at the "little lambs." I never told him that some of them could at times pass for bulls in china closets.

- Bernadine Walton [former lower school teacher]

Agoodfnend I am quite sure I was the first person Dave Jones hired. He hired me in December 1967 after facing a crisis in the science department. I shall never know why he kept me because I know some of the bone-headed things I did back then (and still do).

He was a good friend to me and the other members of the department.

He called me into his office in the fall of 1977 and basically told me he wanted me to purchase a computer system. It so happened there was the first of the large computer shows up in Rosemont. A few of us went and spotted the IMSAI 8080 system that Compute-A-Bit of LaGrange Park was selling. I had never touched a personal system, having worked on only mainframes. On August 24, 1978, it was delivered (I remember; for that was our 17th wedding anniversary) and I sat and wept with fear. I had never touched a system like this, didn't know BASIC, and we had 30 some students enrolled because computers were new. David backed me as long as he was here, and

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A real cream pUff inside My best memory of Dave was how much he enjoyed babies. Unbeknownst to me, I was pregnant when I was hired at MPA. Winn ie was very displeased, but came around.

Dave, after Doug was born, insisted that I bring him to school. When I brought the baby to his office, I saw a side of Dave that I didn 't see very often. He so enjoyed Doug as a baby, holding him and almost cooing at him.

(Almost!) He always asked to see him. When Doug came for his kindergarten screening, Dave made me feel like I was bringing the Messiah to start at MPA! It was a very nice side of him to experience.

I also remember that when his granddaughters, Abby and Jenny Reidinger, Dave and wife, Lee, with comedian Sam Levenson at a celebration of the Academy's 100th were in my music class, he anniversary in J973. wou ld sneak into my room to - Larry Brown [upper school science teacher] have a peek. Somewhere inside, there was a real cream puff!

- Daryce Nolan [music teacher]

Never a dull day

I have two distinctive memories of Mr. Jones. One occurred when I went to his office as a parent to advocate for my son who was in second grade at the time and about to be suspended for something stupid, but not malicious. At one point I raised my voice, which led to Mr. Jones rai sing hi s. This exchange was very brief. Soon we both calmed down and I sai d to him, "1 would never want your job. No matter what you do, someone is going to be unhappy."

His response (which has stuck with me all these years), was, "Yes, but I never have a dull day." 1 understood then why he was so successful at what he did and how he was able to do it for so long. It was what he loved doing.

I also remember him coming up to Tom Drahozal and me in the Markham courthouse during the Aaron Harris trial and informing us that he was going for a smoke and lamenting that he had just quit three weeks prior, but the trial led him to resume smoking. He was, after all, a man like the rest of us. He just seemed like Superman to me then .

- Tony Churchill [middle school social studies teacher and coach]

Of squirrels) flowers and Jeopardy Mr. Jones loved flowers and he hated squirrels. He had a fresh flower in a vase on his window sill every day and he never had a good thing to say about squirrels.

He was very passionate about Jeopardy. He and hi s wife would compete against the contestants, trying to shout out the answers first. 1 saw it more than once.

- Rich Szkarlat [director of buildings and grounds] Q

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(96Z Arthur Baer's persistence and the BAC Blake Hall - containing an assembly hall, the campus store, and a number of classrooms - burned down July 13, 1962. The site was cleared shortly thereafter and remained vacant for the next several years.

Morgan Park Academy, in the meantime, had to resort to some ingenious improvisations to find places for the student body to meet.

Arthur Baer, a member of the MPA board of trustees and president of the Beverly Bank, approached headmaster Ted Withington in 1964 with an idea. Baer and his wife, Alice, along with Eleanor Pillsbury, had long dreamed of establishing an arts center in the Beverly/Morgan Park community. Baer was confident that he could raise the money for such a building, but he was less confident about finding an affordable site. He proposed, therefore, that the building be constructed on the Academy campus.

Ted Withington rejected the proposal, however.

Baer offered his proposal again, in 1966, when David Jones became headmaster. That initiated a plan, after numerous meetings and considerable discussion that led to a joint fundraising campaign by Morgan Park Academy and a new corporation, the Beverly Art Center, to construct not only an art center, but also a lower school classroom building.

Barker Hall Groundbreaking for England 1. Barker Hall took place in December 1967, with a completion date expected by July 1, 1968.

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The Academy met the balance of that financial obligation and fund-raising efforts thereafter concentrated on raising money for the Beverly Art Center, which was to be constructed on what was once the site of Blake Hall. Construction for the art center began in the fall of 1968, even though little of the money had been raised by that time.

The trustees of the Academy passed a resolution (June 10, 1968) pledging to advance, if needed, up $200,000 to complete the building. Funds were thereafter advanced by the Academy as construction bills came due.

England J. Barker Barker Hall is named in honor of England 1. Barker (1863-1925), who was born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada.

He was self-educated and his first job was as a machinist in New Jersey. He moved to Chicago and, in 1894, he was one of the organizers (and, later, president) of the United Autographic Register Company, which produced machines and forms to simplify bookkeeping.

Barker believed in hard work and honest representation and was a stern-disciplinarian. The United Autographic Register Company flourished under his leadership.

He was also the founder and first president of the Beverly Bank.

He had a house (designed by Harry Hale Waterman) built for him at 10605 S. Longwood Drive in 1910. In the 1930s it became the home for the Loring School for Girls.

He had married another Canadian, Matilda Leard, in 1887 and they had three sons and four daughters.

Their son, Lewis [1915], donated the money to build a lower school in honor of his father.

Three of Lewis' grandchildren - Melinda [1965], Christopher [1967], and Bruce [1973] - graduated from the Academy.

"Academy launches space program" "Academy launches space program," the page one headline of the Academy News extra declared (fall 1967).

The board approved a million dollar plan October 18, 1967 to construct an art center and an elementary school building.

"The art center will be designed to house the John H. Vanderpoel Art Collection," the article said.

Major gifts include $200,000 from Lewis Barker, $150,000 from Mrs. Charles Pillsbury, and $100,000 from Mrs. Arthur Baer.

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The estimated cost for the classroom building was $250,000 (the actual cost was $313,000) and the projected cost for the art center was $700,000.

The classroom building was completed for occupancy by September 1968, but only $248,461 had been raised by that time. The Barker family was primary benefactor for the classroom building and so the building was named in honor of a family member, England. 1. Barker.

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The newly created board of trustees of the Beverly Art

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(96Z Center was composed (as Dave Jones recalled) of seven people, membership and, in addition , all auditorium rental revenues . five MPA trustees (Arthur Baer, Ross Beatty, James Tuthill , The center was truly a volunteer-run organization at the Dimitry Wanda and Walter Snodell or Reid Barker) and two outset. Committees planned all programs and a small executive (Alice Baer and Eleanor Pillsbury) from the Vanderpoel Art committee conducted the affairs of the center.

Association. " We all pitched in to work," David Jones recalled, "as Arthur Baer spearheaded the continuing fund raising hosts, ushers, and even janitors."

The executive committee met at Beverly Bank and most of efforts among Academy parents and friends, community the secretarial and clerical work was done by Katherine Cornell, leaders, and social organizations. AI Payne, ofMt. Greenwood Arthur Baer's secretary. Headmaster David Jones handled many bank, was an early and generous supporter who hosted a number of fund-raising dinners for the BAC. Ross and Marion of the details A small school for art classes was organized and the Pitt Beatty were also generous contributors.

Players brought more people into the BAC. The center had to The major donors, however, were Eleanor Pillsbury and eventually hire a part-time secretary/clerk to answer telephones, Arthur and Alice Baer. Alice even sold a piece of property in sell tickets, meet the public, and much more. The center was Florida to pay for the BAC elevator. often a place that was An agreement in use from 8 a.m. between the Academy until 11 p.m. and the BAC leased a The costs of piece of property to maintaining and the BAC to build an operating the BAC art center. The were not entirely Academy would foreseen . Electricity operate and maintain and gas costs, to take the building and also but one example, rose be given access for dramatically.

The educational purposes. total cost for all the A portion of the Academy buildings, building was subincluding residences leased to the and the BAC, was Vanderpoel Art just over $20,000 in Association for 1969.

In 1996, the operating a gallery and cost for gas and conducting children's in the BAC electricity art classes. (No offices alone exceeded were included in the $40,000. building design; the As the operations current admissions of the center became office, on the first more and more floor, was once a it became complex, cloakroom; and the apparent that a second floor office of director for the BAC the Academy archivist was needed.

The was planned as a small logical choice for that conference room).

1967 position, Arthur Baer The BAC, as realized, was David Jones and he served in that position for originally envisioned, would be run entirely by volunteers. The more than twenty years, beginning in the early 70s. gallery would have regular hours; an art class was to be held on David Jones recognized the difficulty of his dual position, Saturday mornings, and special cultural programs would be as headmaster of the Academy and director of the art center, offered several times a month. and vigorously sought to avoid situations that might have BAC membership, in those early years, was ten dollars produced a conflict of interest. annually and there were about 1700 members. The Vanderpoel "1 strenuously and conscientiously tried to do justice to Art Association agreed to discontinue its separate membership, both organizations without favoring or slighting either," he said. but it would receive three dollars of each BAC membership.

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The moving spirit for the creation of the art center at MPA by William E. Barnhart an artist. His rich outpouring of stories, poems, plays and editorials in his high school and college years reveals an uncommon breadth of literary insight and writing ability that almost none of his friends and associates in later life ever knew.

American literature celebrates many men and women who turned their talents from other pursuits, including business, to make major contributions as artists. Poet Wallace Stevens, a lawyer and insurance company executive, comes to mind. But the history of American bus~ness does not tell us of many artists who turned to business. Put another way, we know something of how business experiences can shape an artist's creative instincts. Stevens, one of America's great poets, once said: "It gives a man character as a poet to have daily contact with a job.

I doubt whether I've lost a thing by leading an exceedingly regular and disciplined life." But we know little about the ways in which a well developed creative writing talent may enhance a life in business enterprise.

Often, the artist-businesspersons's work is unknown.

Frequently, achievements in business bear no obvious link to artistic ability. Nonetheless, a writer's vision and the discipline of good writing must contribute more than just words on a page. Skillful literary expression certainly denotes broader attributes. The life of Arthur Baer (1896-1975), provides some clues about the ways in which a writer's talent influences a successful non-literary career. The poet in Arthur Baer was never far removed from the merchant, banker and community activist.

Baer was born in Chicago on Thanksgiving Day 1896, the second son of Herman and Fannie Baer. He was born at home, two blocks from the family store near I02nd Street and Vincennes Avenue in the city's Washington Heights neighborhood, a small, bustling commercial center along the Rock Island railroad, kept vibrant by the giant Chicago Bridge & Iron company plant nearby.

Six years earlier, the area had been annexed to Chicago.

Before the ubiquity of automobiles and expressways, neighborhood business centers - village squares within the city punctuated Chicago's map, along rail and streetcar tracks and at important street intersections. In the early days of the store, simply called Baer's, shoppers traveling by buggy tied their horses to the railing outside and stepped across a wood-plank sidewalk. They entered to find furniture , carpets, dresses, shoes, shirts, celluloid collars, kerosene lamps and dozens of other items common to the inventory of a general store. For children, penny candy was displayed prominently and dispensed frequently for free .

Residents of the neighborhood who remember Arthur say

(This is an abridged version of a paper read before The Chicago Literary Club, Monday, October 9, 2000. The full text is available on the Chicago Literary Club Website.)

"If I had had the courage to run in and hold the farmer, the whole thing might have ended there. The rest would have helped me to keep the two separate.

But I was cold all over.

My mind and body Arthur Baer would not work .... I only know that the farmer pulled a long pocket knife out of his coat, pushed aside the table, and plunged the blade into the unprotected breast of the drunkard's wavering body. Then he ran out of the back door, with the saloon pack at his heels, screaming and shouting in filthy language. I saw the dying man prone on the floor, his blood slowly coloring the sawdust in which he lay.

There was my own strained face in the mirror behind the bar. A dog began to bark fiercely in the yard. I stood motionless for a long time, fascinated by the horror of the murder, until I saw the frightened bartender run to lock the front door. I got there before him, burst through, and jumped on my bicycle." The scene was a bar in Portage, Indiana. The narrator, an unnamed young man with a bicycle who finds himself, "silent and morose," peddling furiously and mysteriously into a starless night toward the home, where he had never been, of the dead man's parents, whom he had never met, who greeted him like a long-awaited messenger. "We've been waiting for you," says the mother. "Your super's waiting for you."

The author of this tale of the supernatural was Arthur Alois Baer, the nineteen-year-old son of a Chicago dry goods merchant who dreamed of being a writer and apparently had a pretty good start on his goal. Raised in a conservative Jewish home at the turn of the century in Chicago, Baer must have been a prodigious reader or a dedicated patron of silent movies to glean such details as sawdust on a barroom floor and the instinctive move by the bartender to lock the front door immediately after a fracas. Indeed, Baer displayed all the early warning signs of a man destined, for better or worse, to a life as

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the two great influences on his life were his father and his wife.

Herman Baer, according to one recollection, was "a handsome, blue-eye man with a full, sandy moustache and the center-dip hairdo that was popular in his day." Arthur Baer's full face, thick lips and heavy eyelids resembled more closely his mother, who was born in the Austrian province of Bohemia and married Herman in 1889. But in explaining his character, those who knew Arthur recall Herman. Baer often paid tribute to his father's struggles against repression in his youth and his pride in immigrating to America. In a graduation speech to nursing school students in 1965, Arthur Baer addressed his father's background: "He knew what freedom meant more intimately than I will ever know. He was born in East Prussia and as a young man was apprenticed to a draper, who paid him nothing for the three years of his apprenticeship and beat him when he did not learn swiftly enough. Then the German army took him, and he underwent severe disciplines. When he was released, he ran away, still a boy, to London, where he learned several trades and learned the rigid class system ofthe British social groups at that time .... Finally, he came to America .... His citizen papers were his proudest possession, to his very death."

Herman was not yet twenty-five years old when he established the store on Vincennes Avenue. His difficult encounters in early life and his efforts to make the store succeed imparted a seriousness of purpose, maturity and sense of obligation upon Arthur - traits that were revealed in his years in Calumet High School, where we find the first evidence of a fledgling writer.

Years later, as a college senior, he wrote this self-portrait: "About eight years ago there was in our high school a young man who presented all the symptoms of becoming a longhaired poet ofthe Victorian type. He was in a continual state of abstraction; he often forgot to eat; he was a faithful and brilliant student of the classics; and was, in short, for high school, quite impossible."

As a high school junior wishing farewell to the graduating class of 1913, the year Woodrow Wilson became president, editor Baer wrote with gravity well beyond his years. But Arthur did not confine himself to such weighty subjects. In the same year, he wrote the school song: We have heard of schools galore, and we'll hear of many more, but there's none to rival you, 0, Calumet.

Shine afar, Maroon and Blue, colors of the brave and true, every heart beats strong for you, 0, Calumet.

Many boys have romantic crushes on their high school teachers. For Baer, it was a life commitment. His English teacher was a brilliant young woman named Alice Margaret Hogge. Alice was sickly as a child and had been schooled by an

uncle at home until age eleven. She graduated from John Marshall High School at age fifteen. Her father, grain broker Morgan G. Hogge, was a friend of William Rainey Harper, the first president of John D. Rockefeller's University of Chicago, which opened its doors in 1892. When Alice enrolled in the school, women were being actively recruited, in part because of the demand for teachers in the western states and the financial need of the school to boost enrollment. In Chicago, women's organizations, including the Fortnightly, raised money and urged the establishment of genuine co-education at the new institution. In the 1901-1902 academic year, more women were admitted than men. After three years of study, Alice received her degree in 1905, at age eighteen.

Alice was ten years older than Arthur and a gentile, two momentous barriers in those days to his romantic intentions.

Nonetheless, he assured her that one day they would marry.

Meeting Alice released the poet in Arthur. His unpublished and often handwritten verses to Alice, a collection of which is housed at the Ridge Historical Society, constituted a lifelong expression. Arthur assembled booklets of verses for Alice and often bound them with ribbon between leather covers.

When Baer compiled this first book of verse he was a freshman at the University of Chicago. Alice, who was living with her family in Woodlawn, had urged him to attend college in nearby Hyde Park. "Otherwise," she recalled later, "he would have gone down to the University of Illinois, which was a country club."

The Cap and Gown yearbook of 1918 said of him "Arthur Baer is a problem in Liberalism, Socialism, Free Thought and Editorials. He was managing editor of the Maroon this year; wrote the best editorials ever printed in that newsless sheet; and read books way over the head of Mr. Herrick, which is going some."

"Mr. Herrick," was Robert Herrick, a professor of English and one of the Harvard University graduates recruited to be part of the original faculty at the university. Herrick, who was fortyeight when Baer matriculated, and Herrick's younger associate, Robert Morss Lovett, forty-three, were major influences on Baer's student life. Both were liberal political and academic thinkers. Herrick, a novelist as well as a teacher, became 'known as a sharp critic of the university and of Chicago itself.

These were heady days for Baer, who immediately voiced from his new position as president and managing editor of the Maroon, an empathy for fast-moving world events. In those years the managing editor of the four-page Daily Maroon wrote a daily editorial. Baer titled his first editorial, published May 24, 1917, "The New Policy."

"To find a middle course between the hysteria and the horror of world conditions and world thought at the present time is the only remedy for the pain that must come to every social-thinking individual," he wrote. "It is the opinion of the present writer that there is another field for the college editor or for any person who writes sincerely and faithfully; in short, that

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Baer contacted another University of Chicago associate, classmate Harold Swift, a member of the Chicago meatpacking clan, and obtained a job in the Swift & Company advertising department. In 1921, he presented another bound volume to Alice. The poems comprised his proposal of marriage, including this two-line entry: I will bathe your feet in my humility And set you free proudly.

The booklet ended with a prose appendix: "On the twentysecond day of the month of June in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-one, please, Poggy, marry me. Arthur Alois Baer."

She did. "He bothered the life out of me, so I married him," Alice recalled years later.

Around the time of their marriage, Alice became the principal of the Kohn School at 104th and State Streets, a position she held until 1945. Meanwhile, Baer's career as a professional writer ended when his father was disabled by a heart attack. He left Swift & Co. after a year's employment to run the family department store. Arthur and Alice Baer, who did not have children, traveled throughout the world in years to come. But their lives were anchored firmly in the Washington Heights community, which later became known as East Beverly.

When Baer took over management of the store at about the same age as his father was when the store was established, the small commercial district was changing, thanks to the automobile. But the store and Baer's style of unquestioning personal service prospered, and the staff grew from five to thirty clerks.

In 1929, as the country entered the Great Depression, officials of the struggling Beverly State Bank, nearby at 103th Street and Vincennes Avenue, asked Baer to become a director.

The two-story brick bank had been organized in 1923 by executives of Chicago Bridge & Iron company, the United Autographic Register company and other employers in the area.

After the 1933 bank holiday, Beverly Bank was one of the first in Chicago to reopen, reflecting the support of the community's major employers. In 1942, Baer, who continued to manage the dry goods store, was named a vice president, a post he took without pay on condition he receive two months vacation each year for the travels he and Alice so enjoyed.

He began to modernize the bank's operations, applying principles of retailing to the task of attracting and retaining bank customers, even as the community around the bank began to change. The bank opened a drive-up window, the first in the area. The bank grounds were landscaped beautifully with trees and flowers, a Baer trademark. In 1944, he became the bank's president. In the same year he joined The Chicago Literary Club, which became an outlet for stories and essays about his many travels. In 1960, Baer sold the department store and became the bank's chairman. He built Beverly Bank into one of the Chicago area's largest and most profitable banking organizations, owning banks as far away as Wheaton, Illinois.

But where was the artist Arthur Baer, the romantic who every year at Christmas gave Alice a book of verse? He wrote

he may try with all his heart not to represent, not to better, but simply to help others to make an attempt, however feeble it may be, towards assuaging the pain of life, modifying the terror and the horror of world destruction in the minds of those who 'look on.'"

Shortly before the university's summer recess, as antiGerman sentiment mounted in Chicago, he wrote: "The United States must aid, we presume, to crush the dogma of Prussianism in order to uphold the creed of democracy. It must not hate the German people. We have not advanced to the present state of civilization in order to become cynics, pessimists, haters."

During that summer, Baer's parents sent him to the West, where he worked in logging and mining camps and developed a lasting appreciation for those who worked with their hands in the outdoors. His senior-year play, Gardens, was, according to a reviewer, "a deeply moving piece of symbolism by Arthur Baer.

His picture of the flower-loving miner in the grip of circumstances and his simple refusal to knuckle under brought a brief silence after the curtain which meant more than the enthusiastic applause that followed."

Jingoistic sentiment against his father's homeland intensified in Chicago and at the university. Baer refused to conform.

"We who are not immediately absorbed by the problem of sticking a bayonet through a German breast have this responsibility to bear: to prepare ourselves in mind and body for the period of reorganization." Many Baer editorials followed the lead of the liberal magazine, New Republic, which a few years later would name Lovett as editor. Baer advocated internationalism and praised the British Labor Party for its plans to reform England's class-driven society after the war. He wrote, "The classes that bear the burden desire to have something to say about the size of the burden and the length of time it must be borne."

His editorials advocated the women's suffrage amendment, then being debated in Congress. When his year as managing editor ended, Baer named Rose Fishkin as the Maroon s day editor, placing her in line to become the paper's first female managing editor. A fellow student recalled: "Arthur invited Miss Marion Talbot, the long-time greatly respected and somewhat feared dean of women, to accompany him to the annual Washington prom. To her credit, be it said that she did so, white gloves and all." Talbot, an associate of the first dean of women, Alice Freeman Palmer, was a life-long champion of women's rights and among the first nine women appointed to the faculty when the university opened.

As soon as he graduated, with Phi Beta Kappa honors, Baer enlisted in the Navy. As a biographical sketch put it, "he was assigned to a freighter shipping sugar from Cuba ~ an ignominious way to serve his country, he felt." Germany surrendered in November 1918, and Baer was mustered out of service in New York City in early 1919.

Unable to secure even a subsistence income as a writer there, Baer returned to Chicago and Alice Margaret Hogge.

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nine papers for The Chicago Literary Club and considered his election as president for the 1966-1967 season the greatest accolade ever bestowed upon him. Baer never aspired to fame.

He told an interviewer shortly before his death, "I have been in the public eye ... but actually I am not in favor of publicity for myself, because I always feel that the good things in this world are accomplished by groups of people rather than by an individual."

Yet the artist in him kept alive his keen sense of observation and his eagerness to consider new ideas. In a speech to fellow bankers he remarked, "I find myself inclined to act and let the chips fall where they may. Fortunately my officers are more practical." An expression still associated with Arthur Baer in the Beverly Hills/Morgan Park neighborhood is this: "The art of living is the greatest art of all." Baer found his art in business.

Shortly after Baer's death, Charles D. O'Connell, the University of Chicago's dean of students, proposed an answer to the question of finding the artist in the banker: "He had an innate sense of the cultural continuum," O'Connell said, "in literature, art, and music, and all the affairs of men, which somehow helped him see the present more clearly than most of us because he could distinguish between what would pass and what would endure .... This strange and truly remarkable ability to be deeply involved in life and yet at the same time to retain a gentle - I am tempted to say luminous - detachment from its most turbulent distractions remains for me the central paradox of Arthur Baer."

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Baer's beloved Beverly community was in turmoil. Serious doubts emerged about whether it would endure. Homeowners and businesses were pulling up stakes, convinced that their neighborhood would be next target of block-busting real estate agents who already had hit neighborhoods immediately to the east, transforming them from white to black occupancy in a matter of months. For years, the Beverly area had fought valiantly against such a fate.

Leaders of the community would buy properties for sale to hold them off the market. But the defensive posture, which included the worst kind of racial profiling and opposition to open occupancy regulations, was not working.

Many Beverly residents had moved from racially changing neighborhoods elsewhere on the South Side and now faced the prospect of moving again. Crime increased in a community now on the front line of racial change. In 1967, a local book store owner declined to contribute to a new business association, citing personal hardship. "Today my typing is poor," he wrote, "because of the recent injuries sustained Jan. 9 from hoodlums waiting in the shadows of the Morgan Park Post Office. Dealing with one eye is difficult, I find."

Like others in his beloved neighborhood, Baer feared integration because of what it had come to mean elsewhere in Chicago - a quick conversion from white to black. The Chicago newspapers and such notable writers as Father Andrew

Greeley had pronounced the end of the neighborhood as a bastion of white middle class life on the southwest side. "At this point, nothing much can be done to save Beverly," Greeley declared in an article in Chicago Today.

Fortunately, members of Beverly's substantial Catholic community had become energized by the inclusive and democratic spirit of Vatican II. Earlier in the century, Catholics, not African-Americans, had been the outsiders perceived to be invading the largely Protestant Beverly neighborhood. Crossburnings and other demonstrations of hate had greeted Catholics, who established the first parish there in 1920. Suspicions and resentments between Catholics and old-line Protestants remained fifty years later.

On July 11, 1971, L. Patrick Stanton, an advertising executive and chair of the community relations committee at Christ the King Catholic Church in North Beverly, entered the pulpit at each mass that Sunday morning - the first time a layman had been so permitted in the church. Using flip charts common in his business, Stanton challenged his fellow parishioners to see the community's problem in a new way.

"Integration is inevitable," he declared, because many African Americans could afford to buy in Beverly Hills/Morgan Park and were blocked by overt racism from relocating to many nearby suburbs. But re-segregation, from all white to all black, was not inevitable, he insisted. It was a subject many members of the church would not discuss in public. But Stanton broke the ice. The answer, he proposed, was to end the neighborhood's exclusionary, defensive policies and begin a positive marketing campaign, which he called "Beverly Now," through a new community organization, to present the values of the historic and architecturally distinguished community to all comers. The neighborhood needed to sell itself to current residents as well as outsiders, he said. Despite his rhetorical skills, Stanton knew that money talked, and he asked for financial pledges to establish the commitment of community organizations. Christ the King, under Father Ed Myers, pledged $15,000 to initiate the project.

The initial reaction to Stanton's message was mixed, but word spread, and soon other churches and organizations asked him to make his presentation to their members. A critical, unspoken issue, Stanton recalled, was whether the community'S Protestant establishment would accept the advice of a liberal Catholic who had lived in the community only thirteen years.

"Out of the blue, I got a phone call from somebody I had never met but certainly had heard about," he recalled. It was Arthur Baer. Stanton remembers Baer's remarks today: "Well, I've been hearing about some of the things you're into, and we should get together to have a little talk."

By the 1970s, Baer rarely took a high-profile role in community affairs, preferring to offer support in the background. No one was more old-line Beverly that Baer, who was not a practicing Jew and who had long-standing relations with the most recalcitrant Protestant residents and business owners.

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He would not directly arrange lunch meetings between city officials and community leaders, for example, but his presence on the guest list caused key people to attend, and he invariably picked up the tab.

"Everything that took place, Arthur Baer had his finger in it," Stanton recalled. In that sense, Stanton said Baer's phone call to him "must Alice Baer have been very tough for him. Who in the hell did I think I was?"

In fact, Baer probably knew exactly who Stanton was and understood completely his attempt to apply business marketing principles to a community problem. In the mid-1960s, Alice and Arthur Baer, in their most remembered community activity, undertook with their neighborhood friend Eleanor Pillsbury to build a community art center on the campus of Morgan Park Academy.

The facility, opened in 1969, would be named the Beverly Art Center and would house the Vanderpoel collection of tumof-the-century paintings by James Whistler, Maxfield Parrish , Lorado Taft, Mary Cassatt and others. But there was no doubt about the greater purpose of the project.

In a solicitation letter written in May 1968, a month after

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the assassination of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., Baer made no mention of paintings or the arts. "The Beverly Art Center will be an enduring cultural institution, reflecting the unusual educational and economic level of our community," he wrote. "It will lend a stability and focus to our community that few 'home towns' anywhere can claim to possess. It will be an important factor in influencing our children and grand-

children to continue to live here."

Long before Stanton addressed his church, Baer had applied the salesmanship of a veteran retailer and retail-oriented banker to his community's problems. "Beverly is the best suburb left in the city limits," he told a community meeting in 1970.

Stanton and William Coughlan, who headed the Beverly Hills/Morgan Park Human Relations Commission, met with Baer in Baer's Beverly Bank office. Stanton recalled: "He showed me some notes he had made about the need for an organization, and a list of people who should be on the board - all WASPs." Baer proposed that the existing neighborhood organization, the Beverly Area Planning Association, oversee the effort. But he told Stanton, ''I'll get the money."

In short, Baer quietly helped to put the "Now" into "Beverly Now." Funds were raised. Personnel and other resources at Beverly Bank were diverted to the new marketing campaign, to the point of annoying bank officers who wanted the use of their copying machine back. The mission of the Beverly Area Planning Association, representing oldline residential organizations, was transformed under new leadership. The neighborhood's Catholic churches displayed tireless leadership. In the end, Andrew Greeley's forecast proved to be an incitement for renewal and a false prediction of despair.

Dave Jones, left, unveiling Beverly Art Center drawing and plans. Administrators Winnie Theodore, Q Don Coller, and Don Lints are on the right.

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1960:) The long, acrimonious road to the re-integration of Morgan Park Academy in the 1960s by Barry Kritzberg Herbert W. Smith, principal emeritus, urged the trustees in 1942 to consider a more active policy. It was felt that the distance that some Negro children would have to travel to attend Parker would not be an obstacle for some parents.

In addition, two Negro teachers from the South, with the help of the Rosenwald Foundation, were given teaching apprenticeships at Parker in 1942. The integrated policy has continued until the present.

There were three principles on which the more active policy would be based: no Negro child would be admitted who would be sole representative of his race in a given grade; no Negro child would be admitted at the outset above fifth grade; and Negro enrollees should be "characteristic of the school in all respects other than color."

The first Negro students were admitted to Parker in 1944 "with no particular publicity." In 1947, when some of the Negro students were in 8th grade a problem occurred. Some parents were worried about dance classes. In a meeting with parents, two points were clearly established by the administration: first, in a dancing class one might be assigned to any partner and families who found this objectionable should not enroll their children in the school; second, children would not be pressured ''to dance across the color line" in purely social situations.

(The Laboratory Schools of the University of Chicago, according to Ida B. DePencier, in The History of the Laboratory Schools, was integrated the previous year. The question of admitting Negro pupils had come up from time to time, DePencier explained, and parents raised the question again in 1942. Mrs. Louis Gottschalk wrote (December 3, 1942) to the administration: "Since we are engaged in a war in which our enemies are using the doctrine of racism as one of their principal weapons to enslave the world, we believe it is important to demonstrate in our institutions and personal conduct that we believe in the opposite principle of equal opportunity for all people, irrespective of race, color, and creed ... By admitting qualified Negro pupils to the Laboratory School, we will make it possible for our children to experience the meaning of democratic citizenship which we now deny them." 209 of 261 families signed a petition for integration and the Lab School council, therefore, admitted, Negro children in the fall of 1943. ''As far as can be ascertained," Depencier added, "the Lab Schools were the first private school in Chicago to admit Negroes." (It is now evident, however, that the Academy was a half-century ahead of the Lab school in integration - at least the first time.)

Perhaps in response to Withington's letter, the board approved this statement [drafted, apparently, by Arthur Baer, for

"As I have stated in a number ofboard meetings, one of the important problems we face in the near future ofMorgan Park Academy is that of the acceptance ofNegroes for admission.

This problem is certainly going to be forced upon us by the world, national and local situation and by the fact that I personally feel that it is wrong not to admit students ofall races to a school. Because I also feel that we must not do anything to damage the future of Morgan Park Academy, I think this problem must be faced with caution and patience. I also feel, however, that we cannot look away from it, however, and say that it can be delayed indefinitely."

So MPA headmaster Frederic Withington wrote, in a letter to board members on February 20, 1962.

The Academy had been integrated from 1892 to 1907, when it was the preparatory school for William Rainey Harper's University of Chicago, but it had apparently adopted, quietly and gradually, an unspoken policy of segregation which went unchallenged until the 1960s. So quiet was that policy, in fact, that words such as "Negro," or "black," or "colored" are conspicuously absent from the Academy records for almost half a century.

Withington's letter was that "fire bell in the night" that initiated a debate (often acrimonious) that led to the reintegration of the school in 1968.

This is the story of that six-year struggle.

When Withington sent his letter to the board, he enclosed an article by Cleveland A. Thomas, principal of Francis W. Parker School, on "The Independent School and Desegregation" (The School Review, 1961).

"From the beginning," Thomas wrote, "the Francis W. Parker School has had a policy of not barring applicants of any race or creed. The basis of this is the Constitution of the United States with its Bill ofRights.

Col. Parker, the founder of the school, linked these rights to education in Talks on Pedagogics [1894]: "The public school in a republic means that in their early life children of all classes, of all nationalities, of all sects, of rich and poor alike, children of both sexes, shall work together under the highest and best conditions in one community for from eight to twelve years before prejudice has entered their childish souls, before hate becomes fixed, before distrust has become a habit."

When Francis W. Parker school opened in 1901, children of many nationalities attended. There were two Negro applicants, but it was felt by the parents that a single Negro child in the school would "feel conspicuous," and the applicants were not accepted.

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/960~ the best plan for legal, effective action to protect ourselves, our homes and property. ADMISSION IS FREE! TELL YOUR NEIGHBORS!" There were others, however, who read the temper of the times in a different way.

A friend, Peter Van der Sterre, writing from Dunster House, at Harvard, to Withington, on December 10, 1964, gives a good measure of how others were thinking: "I have been giving a great deal of thought to the discussion we had last summer concerning the possibility of integrating Morgan Park Academy.

I think that at the time I may have given you the impression that a 'go-slow' or 'not now' policy would be best. I have since changed my mind. My basic sympathies, as you know, have always been with the principles of integration, but at that time I agreed with you on the impracticality of it. I have since become convinced that such a step is not only right, but necessary. It is necessary now, both as a service to Beverly and to Morgan Park. How can we expect students to recognize that the community is severely threatened by maintaining its present attitudes and policies; that the Negro is an equal; that we are in the middle of a social revolution, if the school refuse to recognize these facts? In our discussion you also mentioned the incident and the reasons for the departure of Mr. Wallace. You say that Mr. Wallace had never done anything for Negroes - he had never associated with them or worked for a civil rights group. I think this misses the point. The Negro doesn't want to be loved, or helped, or even accepted - he just wants his rights - the right to go anywhere and do anything - the right to get the best possible for his family, in housing and education. I therefore think you should make every effort to integrate MPA in the near future. Ifno steps can be taken without the consent of the board, pack it. Morgan Park Academy has a great opportunity to lead in this vital area. A failure to do so would be a great disservice to the community."

Some of the faculty, it seems, shared the view of Van der Seere, and were actively involved in integration activities in Beverly and elsewhere.

The MPA board looked askance at these activities, however, and in a meeting of April 12, 1965 noted that "some of the faculty of the Academy, and their families, have been taking a rather militant part in the pro-integration activities around us.

The board recognizes a person's feelings in this regard are his own business. His actions, however, as an employee and representative of the Academy should be consistent with Academy policy. [It] was moved that President Beatty be instructed to meet with Mr. Withington, convey the feelings of the board to him and discuss the desirability of controlling some of these outside activities."

The tension was mounting and the board's position was causing some reaction even among parents.

Mrs. Judith McCoy, writing to Withington, on June 7, 1965, declined to contribute to the scholarship fund, for example.

it bears the initials "AAB"] in March of 1963: "Although Morgan Park Academy has always accepted properly qualified students from all religious and almost all racial groups, including Orientals, it has not in recent years admitted Negro students. In the judgment of the board of trustees of the Academy, to admit Negro students at this time would seriously disturb the progress of the Academy. While we sincerely believe that no qualified student should be denied the opportunity of education at Morgan Park Academy for any reason, financial, religious, or racial, we must acknowledge the practical fact that current patron support is vital to the continuation and improvement of the school. We take it for granted that Morgan Park Academy will accept Negro students in the future.

But first the Academy must attain an impregnable financial basis."

The board was worried, in other words, that integration might lead to the demise of the school. The transformation of the Academy from a military boarding school for boys to a coed day school had been tumultuous enough and the board felt that it could not risk another potentially divisive situation. There was a feeling, too, that the community would not support integration at the Academy.

There was good reason to assume that the community did not support integration, as this 1964 flyer suggests: "Urgent! Citizens' information meeting, held in Alumni Hall, September 3, 1964 - [flyer from Harry T. Everingham, president WE, THE PEOPLE! National Coalition of Patriots to Protect Private Property and Individual Liberty] "You are invited to attend a meeting of responsible citizens to study plans for practical action to protect your home and property under the U.S. Constitution. Our present one-party government is going too far today in appeasing powerful, organized pressure groups!

Letting the minority rule the majority. They are pushing Forced Housing upon us and calling it 'Open Occupancy.' You know what will happen when people lose freedom of choice and are forced to sell or rent their homes and apartments to bring a new element into our community! Some of our people will panic many will put their homes up for sale overnight. This will mean that property values of our homes will fall 30 to 40 per cent at once. How many of us can afford to lose up to 40% of the value of our homes? You know the rest of the story - more crime in our community, attacks after dark on our streets, in our alleys, in our parks, as the criminal element comes in to terrify our women, our young people and our older people as well. There are legal ways by which we can avoid all this in our neighborhood. Come and discuss this calmly in a neighborhood meeting before it is too late. Don't stay home watching TV, entranced by problems of other days and other places, when we have the most important problem of our lives to solve here in our neighborhood! So, if you believe in liberty, the security of your family, and want to save the value of your home and property - PLAN TO BE WITH US where we can freely discuss this most urgent problem in a calm, unemotional way and choose

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1975, with principal Don Lints.

It could be that the board feels the same way about this important matter. But we are an educationa l institution which has had a difficult time paying its own way for ten years. We cannot afford another period of deficit financing. Therefore, we are adhering to what we consider ' safe' policies f inancially.

Deliberately integrating the school now would possibly introduce controversy, and, under the circumstances, might well result in lower enrollment. After our struggles for seven years to bring the school up to, relatively, a break-even position financially, we cannot face the prospect of possible declining enro llment. And ensuing declining income. I feel personally that the position of the board will change in the near future .

Please do not think too ill of us. Our problems are not simple."

A note (May 16, 1966) from board president Ross Beatty to headmaster elect David Jones said, Baer's letter " states the board's position well."

Another board communication to the headmaster (September 14, 1967) declared: "Integration is a complex subject which the board constantly studies. As a matter of fact, our most recent discussion about it was held on September 10. We feel that our first concern must be for the welfare of the Academy rather than for any group or individual. The question is not, ' are we going to integrate our student body?' but rather, ' when?'

Considering all factors , including the feeling in the community, the student enro llment pressure and, this is very important, the state of the school's financial well-being, the time has not yet come when Morgan Park Academy can afford to integrate."

"We, along with other parents," McCoy wrote, " have urged that the Academy exercise its obligation of its role in thi s community by quietly integrating its student body and faculty.

We have seen many fine teachers leave your staff because of the policy of undemocratic selection of students. We have recently learned that Marietta Carmichael has not been offered a contract for the coming academic year. We must presume that the recent instances of Marietta's outspoken beliefs have been allowed to overshadow the real worth of the musical training and knowledge that she has. [we ask that MPA] lead this community in recognizing the value and dignity of the individual rather than cater to its fears and prejudices."

Withington responded [June 14, 1965] that he didn 't "know of one single teacher who has left our school primarily because we do not have Negro students." Some have not accepted teaching positions because the schoo l was not integrated, however, he conceded. The decision not to rehire Marietta Carmichael , Withington added, was not on the basis of her political beliefs.

The issue of integration did not go away, however.

Arthur Baer wrote to Dr. Lonnie Myers Wang on April 30, 1966 to express sympathy with the desire for integration, but he also cautioned that it might not be financially wise: "I am sympathetic with the ideas [of integrating MPA] expressed eloquently in your letter of April 27, addressed to Ross Beatty.

The administration in 1975: Winnie Theodore, David Jones, and Don Lints.

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Martin P. Cornelius Jr., on a page torn from an MPA catalogue, wrote (October 28, 1967) to Jones: "1 don 't think a segregated school has any business invoking the image of Dr. [William Rainey] Harper. The 'spirit' was vividly shown during last year's basketball game with Elgin. The deep hostility and extremely unsportsmanlike conduct of the student body toward two Negroes on the Elgin team sent my daughter home in tears.

When the Academy shows a genuine interest in correcting its most serious fault, I shall be happy to be a contributor." [DJ's response does not come until May 20, 1968] The segregated Morgan Park Academy was the subject of an article, an editorial, and a column in the University High School student newspaper, Midway, on April 23 , 1968.

Cousins, Brothers and Sisters (CBS), a recently formed interracial club for student discussion, was planning to boycott MPA athletic events for the rest of the year because of an incident at a basketball game where a white MPA player did not shake hands with a black U-High player before the center jump at the start of the game. The boycott, however, was because of MPA's segregationist policy - not the incident - and CBS planned to invite other Independent schools to join the boycott.

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Parents continued to exert pressure, however.

RobertValerious, writing (December 29,1967) to Dave Jones: "We are interested in having our son attend school with all A'inds of children. Our assumption is that the board will use this contribution with that fact in mind."

Not satisfied with the board's response, Valerious soon wrote: "We wish to withdraw our pledge from the Morgan Park Academy building fund. It has come to our attention within the last two weeks a pre-first candidate was refused application to the Academy simply because to quote what his mother was told: 'Negroes are not accepted at the Academy.' Our family cannot morally condone such a policy. When our son first enrolled in the academy we were told that only two Negroes had applied for entrance and they had been refused because they sought boarding facilities ."

Dave Jones's reply [April 24, 1967]: had a sad weariness about it: "1, too, believe [integration] would be a desirable change. 1 anxiously await the day when I can inform you that the policy has changed."

Faculty member Stanrod Carmichael sent this (undated) note to Dave Jones with a contribution to building fund : "an aspect of the school 's policies which causes us moral distress. I continued to be troubled by the fact that I teach in a segregated school; that our children receive their college preparatory education in a racially discriminatory academic and social environment. 1 covet for my children and for my students the opportunity to grow up with day-to-day, personal encounter with Negro students of their own age and intellectual capabilities with whom they may share the full heritage and privileges of American citizenship." Carmichael added that he would

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(960~ policy that discriminates on the basis of race. I trust this will alleviate the problem of our schools meeting in athletic competition. I feel it was an ill-timed and unnecessary stand taken by your students. I deeply regret that you were unable to accept the strong suggestions of Mat French and John Graham [headmaster of the Latin School] regarding the tabling of the matter at the Independent school league meeting in May. I can not, nor will I try. to, defend our former policy on moral or ethical grounds. But J believe it is just as wrong for a school to attempt to influence the policy of another school. We value most highly our rights of autonomy and self-determination as an independent school. I cannot understand how a young man as intelligent as Mr. Dworkin could write a story purporting to reflect Morgan Park Academy student views toward integration, and base it entirely on random comments by two seventh grade boys. Both the newspaper articles and the resolution presented at the league meeting upset me deeply - and personally - and in hopes of reaching a better understanding between our schools, we invited a group representing the Laboratory School to spend a day with us . That, too, has caused me serious concern, for it failed to improve relations at all. From the moment the twelve students entered our doors, their intent was not to learn about us, but to act as our advisors. They seemed almost disappointed that the board had modified our admissions policy! After lunch, your delegation met with our student council, and immediately launched a tirade against Morgan Park Academy. This argumentative - almost petulant attitude was carried over into the interschool student council representative meeting held at Francis Parker on May 31.

There, joined by students from one other league school , your students indicated a continued unwillingness to meet in athletic competition with out school. I question whether we should continue athletic competition with any school which feels compelled to interfere with the internal workings of another school. The protest lodged against Morgan Park Academy, apparently based on moral concerns, was completely within your right. Therefore, I feel justified in registering a formal protest, but at present only to you personally [about an ISACS code of ethics violation by Lab: interviewing a teacher after he had signed a contract with MPA and recruiting a student who had attended MPA for seven years and had already signed a contract for his senior year]. Is it not possible for two independent schools to exist with different philosophies and policies?

Must Morgan Park Academy become a miniature U-High in order to maintain its existence?"

Max Sonderby, a Chicago Sun- Times reporter and community activist, responded to a solicitation for money for the building of the Beverly Art Center: "Before J sign this, please let me know (1) how many Negro students you have, and (2) how many Negro teachers are provided to give your select clientele a well-rounded introduction to America's greatest issue. As a graduate of the University of Chicago, r question your right to cite Dr. Harper as the author of your educational

1990 The editorial - which reads more like another news story - indicated that Mr. Lloyd, the Lab school director, said he would "state the Lab school's policy toward playing schools that are segregated at the May 6 ISL meeting. We do not think it proper for the Lab Schools to engage in any interscholastic activity with a school that discriminates." The editorial concluded that no action should be taken until MPA had its say at the May 6 ISL meeting.

A column ["Mostly sunny: a day at Morgan Park or: why get excited?"] by student Dick Dworkin, quoted an exchange with an MPA 7th grader, John Gustafson, who ambiguously stated that he didn't mind segregation; and another interview, with an anonymous MPA 7th grader, suggested that the students were in favor of integration, but the board was the obstacle.

A student poll , undated, but probably 1967, asked: "Are you for, against, or have no opinion on integration of Morgan Park Academy?"

These are the results:

9th

53

30 [57%]

15 [28%]

8 [15 %]

10th

40

22 [55]

13 [33]

5 [12]

11th

41

30 [73]

6 [15]

5 [12]

TOTAL

134

82 [61]

34 [25]

18 [14])

Jones wrote to Francis Lloyd (June 19, 1968): "I have been given a completely free hand regarding admissions decisions by our board, which means we no longer have an admissions

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(960:)' would certainly feel ashamed of philosophy. If! am wrong, I would myself if! did not in some way like to be informed." express myself [on integration].

Dave Jones sent (November 8, Whoever or whatever the strange 1967) Sonderby's note to board force that is holding up the change president James G. Tuthill, and will do nothing but create a void in observed that "[integration is one of the minds of the students of MPA many things] which we would like with tragic results. Morgan Park to see done at the school and that in Academy is unique in many ways, trying to determine priorities, I felt but how can any community be it necessary to place the construcproud of a creation which retion of certain physical facilities sembles a fortress of white ahead of integration." (Jones did not supremacy?" Her husband, respond to Sonderby until May 20, Richard, also a faculty member, 1968. "We have received no stated "it is both expedient and applications from Negro teachers essential for Morgan Park Acad[in the last five or six years] until emy to integrate its faculty and/or this year," he wrote. "I have twice students as soon as possible. An written to the single Negro applicant institution which places itself in the this year requesting an employment vanguard of education should not interview, but have as yet received be left in the rearguard of human no response.") relations. " Dave Jones, in a memo to Martha Sauvage, finishing her Tuthill (February 21, 1968) mentioned that there were inquiries from first year teaching at MPA , wrote that she had sent her children to Negro families and alluded to a conversation with Joseph Sheridan, public school , noting that while MPA offered a superior education, president of the Morgan Park Planning organization. Sheridan had 1990 but "not a total education [in a segregated school]." submitted applications for his two children in 1966 and had talked to Withington. Sheridan's Another faculty member, Bob Cahill, said that "since coming to the Academy six years ago I have repeatedly said I children were then at Harvard-St. George, but he would have preferred to transfer them to MPA. "The reason I mention this" was in favor of integrating the schoo!. Now, in the light of the Jones concluded, "is that I sense a somewhat different approach recent tragedy; the findings of the Kerner report [which on the part of our nearby Negro population" - quiet, lowinvestigated the causes of urban riots in the summers of 196367 and blamed them on racism, inner-city frustrations and pressure through groups.

And then, on April 4, 1968, the debate over the reintegrahopelessness] the fact that polls show a majority offaculty and the student body favor integration, I feel that now is the time to tion of MPA acquired a new urgency.

Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, act. To wait any longer will do more damage to the good where he had gone to lead a march seeking better wages and reputation of the school."

One teacher candidate - Virgil E. Hall Jr. - withdrew his working conditions for sanitation workers in that city.

Riots erupted in more than one hundred U.S. cities, name as a candidate, saying: "To accept a position where including Chicago, and the rage and hurt and shame could be segregation was being practiced would be to deny and ignore seen on television news night after night. many of the basic values and goals of an education."

Many in the MPA community spoke eloquently and Stanrod Carmichael, in a May 4, 1968 letter of resignation, fervently in favor of integrating the Academy. explained: "I was not unaffected in making my very difficult Nineteen members of the Morgan Park Academy faculty decision by a remark you made recently to a teacher applicant. sent (April 10, 1968) a petition to the board "to express our You stated to him that you hoped to be able to employ as an dissatisfaction with the present admissions policy of Morgan instrument of persuasion , in focusing the attention of the board Park Academy. The present policy is not consistent with the of trustees on the consequences of its segregated admissions democratic aims of our school and of our society." policy, the declared unwillingness of an otherwise well qualiIndividual members of the faculty also made their positions fied teacher applicant to join the faculty of this school because known. of that policy. Perhaps you can use my resignation in the same Nancy Baum, wrote: "As a member of your faculty, I manner. You have also declared that you , yourself, have felt that

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(960~ date at your school. What does disappoint is Morgan Park chooses to be a segregated schoo!."

Roger Boscardin: "the policy [of segregation] is not only morally indefensible, but educationally harmful."

Mrs. Harry B. Rosenberg: "Our oldest child is now in second grade, and he has several times asked why there are no Negro children attending Morgan Park. Frankly, we have had a difficult time explaining this to him since we live in an integrated area and his friends in Hyde Park all attend integrated schools."

Mary G. Leggitt "In the I ight of the events of the past week, it is increasingly evident that if we are to have a peaceful society in this country, opportunities that exist for the white population must be extended to all Americans. The excellence of the Academy can only be enhanced by the entrance of Negro pupils - the education of white children is unrealistic in a segregated situation."

Dr. and Mrs. Edmund Kearney: "Although we are both educators and should have better informed ourselves about the school our two oldest children attend, we were shocked to hear of the refusal to allow application to Morgan Park Academy of a prospective student because of his race. This refusal and the pol icy it represents together comprise an act of aggressive bigotry which no parent with a conscience can overlook. It is no longer possible to describe the Academy as one which aims to help students 'use their knowledge and talents for the good of community, their country and the world.' (Morgan Park Academy Catalog, 1966/68). It is no longer true to say that the school is 'a non-denominational school, but of Christian tradition.' (catalog, p. 6). It is no longer conceivable that any parent or trustee with a social conscience can remain silent."

Finally, on May 21, 1968, David Jones wrote his many correspondents that "I am happy to inform you that on the basis of action recently taken by our board of trustees it is now possible for me as headmaster to consider applications from all qualified applicants."

Morgan Park Academy, in September 1968, after sixty years, became an integrated school for the second time.

1995 graduation.

when and if the moment arrived in which you could no longer with conscience and conviction implement and execute the policy of the decisions of the board, you would resign. As a teacher, with no other means of effective access to the board, 1 take a page from your book in disassociating myself from the school at this time. I could not live and work here for another year with honor, and dignity, since you have so explicitly [in a faculty meeting] equated loyalty and trust with silence and inactive, uncritical assent to the board's policy."

David Jones, in a memo (April 17, 1968) to board member Ross Beatty, had mentioned the various pressures for integration; one Negro family came for testing for five year-old; white parents expressed deep concern about MPA's admission policy; one faculty member wrote a lengthy letter, and another came to see him . "In every instance, Ross," Jones concluded, "the persons involved have been polite, and definitely not pushy. No one is trying to apply force, stir people up, or cause trouble.

Rather, they are speaking out of a deep personal conviction that the present policy is not wise."

Parents, too, added eloquent pleas for integration.

Mr and Mrs. John W.B. Hadley: "It has come to our attention that a petition is being circulated among the faculty at Morgan Park Academy re favoring accepting Negro students in the school. Mr. Hadley and I would like to add our vote to that as parents. We have been very pleased with our experience to

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Z006 The 2006 commencement address: the purpose of life by

Mark Linnerud five times more neurons are firing and five times more neural When I sat down to write this commencement speech I connections are being formed. tried to think of someone I admire, and what they would tell you Did you ever notice how easy it is for Mike Jucewicz to on yo ur graduation day. For many years the person that I admired the most was Mother Teresa. You were all in second remember every detai 1 of a conservative argument, and how grade when she passed away, so you may not even know who Kevin Wolf is equally persuasive on the left? When it comes to their own personal brands of politics, the thing they're most she was, but many people my age thought of her as a living sai nt. passionate about, they 're brilliant. So do what you love and you Mother Teresa was born in Macedonia in 1910. In 1931 she can be brilliant too. became a nun and was sent to India where she taught at St. Have you ever noticed that when there 's a subject you're really excited about, learning just Mary's High School in Calcutta. ~!'~ After teaching for 18 years, she comes naturally? The facts and received a calling to care for the figures about that topic just seem to stick in your mind. All that extra poorest of the poor. She founded the Sisters of Charity and began a brain gl ucose you 're consuming school for hungry and homeless makes remembering things five children, which she picked up on times easier. If you aren't sure yet the streets of Calcutta. what it is you love, college will She took no money from the provide a great opportunity to church to begin her order, but exp lore new things. Ask upper relied on donations for the food and class men who the teachers are that supplies she needed. By the time are passionate about what they 're she died in 1997 her order operated teaching. Look for teachers who are schools and shelters all over the on fire about their subject and see if world, and had en listed over a you can catch fire as well. million people to aid them in their How is it that Dani can get up at work. three in the morning to work out Mother Teresa 's most famous with her rowing team, and still words were these: "The purpose of manage to get her homework done? life is to love and be loved." Well I How did Ann manage to practice her thought that was pretty good if skating at 5:00 in the morning and someone you admire could come sti ll stay awake in chemistry class? right out and tell you the purpose Where do Justin and Joel find the of life. Usually you're supposed to time for all that violin practice? How have to climb a tall mountain in the did Lindsay find the time for those Himalayas to find someone who tennis matches all over the country? can answer a question like that. So How did Anu and Alicia put together Mark Linnerud if Mother Teresa was speaking here that dance show in their spare time today I'm sure she would tell you about the power of love. But when, as everyone knows, MPA students don't really have any since she's not with us any more, what can a science teacher tell spare time? Where does Sheena Agerwal find the energy to do, you about love? well, everything? How did Chris and Joe and the rest of the First of all love has been proven to make you smarter. Ifwe Rube Goldberg team build that incredible machine? inject a small amo unt of radioactive glucose into a test subject I watched MaryAnn perform her Indian Dances for over we can trace the activity of the brain with a PET scan. Because two hours w ithout missing a step. It was amazing. How does glucose is the energy source for the brain we can actually see she do that? How did Anu and Joel, and Emilio and Bill create the brain working as it consumes this tracer g lucose. When a the movies we saw last week? How do all of you who are subject undergoes a strong emotional response, the brain athletes, actors, artists, dancers, musicians, filmmakers, and consumes five times more glucose than normal. This means that participate in so many other activities find the time for all of

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Z006 those extras? I think it's because these things are energizing.

When you do something that you love, all that extra glucose consumption, energizes you and gives you the ability to do more than you ever thought possible.

Remember the story we heard at an assembly this year about the Harvard business school study? In 1960, Harvard researchers surveyed 1500 business school graduates. They fell into two groups. Group A said they wanted to make money first so that they could do what they really wanted to do later. Those in group B planned to pursue their true interests first. 83 per cent of the students were in group A, only 17% ... group B... decided to follow their hearts. Twenty years later they were interviewed again. There were 101 millionaires in all, only one from group A. Based on this study, if you just go for the money, your chances of success are one in 1,245. But two out of five who followed their dream were millionaires, and I'll bet that all of those in group B were happy, because they were doing what they loved. If Mother Teresa had been part of the Harvard study, she would have been in Group B. She said work without love is slavery. She took a vow of poverty, but she was still wildly successful. She saved millions of people from starvation, and, in 1979, she won the Nobel Peace Prize. So do what you love and success will follow.

Now as a science teacher, another thing I can tell you about love is that fish don't love their children. I used to raise tropical fish and without lots of plants in the aquarium as hiding places, a mother fish will eat her own young. This system works out fine, though, because at birth baby fish fall to the bottom of the tank and immediately start foraging for food. They can take care of themselves the first minute after they're born. They don't need parents who love them.

Humans, on the other hand, need 13 or 14 years of care before they can survive on their own. So nature has arranged it such that when human parents hold their babies in their arms for the first time, they fall utterly and completely in love with them. While this is something that you won't fully understand until you have children of your own, it's simple evolution. It's the only way that a parent would put up with all the work required to care for a child that long.

So you have these loving parents taking care of you, they're happy, you're happy and everything is going pretty well until you hit 12 or 13 or so. Then, suddenly, your hormones kick in.

You have all these chemicals in your body encouraging you to leave the clan and venture out to seek a mate from another tribe so you can contribute to the genetic diversity of the species.

These hormones encourage risk taking. They make you fearless, and encourage you to go hunting for things like mastodons and saber tooth tigers. Your sleep patterns change. You stay up all night and sleep all day. This enhances survival of the species because while everyone else is sleeping you can be the lookout against hostile invaders.

At the same time, however, your brain hasn't finished

growing. We used to think that you were born with most of your adult brain cells intact. Recent research suggests that that isn't really true. Your brain goes through major growth spurts during the terrible twos and again during adolescence. So at these times your brain is in flux. For those of us who are parents this explains a lot...

Additionally one of the last parts of your brain to finish growing, is the pre frontal cortex. This part of your brain, just behind your forehead, isn't fully-grown until you're 25. This is the part of your brain that governs inhibitions and self-control.

It's what allows for good judgement, but at your age it hasn't completely formed yet. That's the reason that car companies won't rent you a car until you're 25.

So you're staying out late thrill seeking because excitement, new experiences and especially risk, produce a rush of dopamine's that make you feel really good. Meanwhile, your parents are sitting at home worrying about you out there running around with no pre frontal cortex. This explains why, when you walk in the door a little after your curfew, some of the conversations that ensue don't always sound too loving. But just remember that the whole reason your parents sometimes get upset with you is because they love you and they're scared to death that something bad is going to happen to you.

While it's important to do what you love, if you want to be loved it's important to do for others. For Mother Teresa love was an action verb. She spoke of her work as God's love in action, and she acted tirelessly to help others. And because of that, she was loved throughout the world. Her actions spoke louder than her words. And this service to others is one of the keys to happiness. I hope that you have noticed through your activities during service days and ACT, that you feel best about yourself when you are helping others.

I bet Emilio Tostado felt good when he was raising money for the Snow City Arts Foundation with Charity Flicks. And I bet it was an equally good feeling when Alicia and Anu raised money for Aids research with their Dance Shows. Mother Teresa said give of your hands to serve, and your hearts to love.

Because of the location of my classroom, I've been able to watch Dr. Brown work harder and longer than anyone I know to help his students learn physics. Now most of us don't think of physics as a very touchy-feely subject, but when graduates come back to the Academy, Dr. Brown is often one of the first people they want to go see and give a hug to. So if you want to be loved, find a way to help other people and do what you can.

There is even a lesson about love from MPA's spring musical. Right before we would go on stage, the cast and crew of Fiddler on the Roof did this thing called "warm-fuzzies," where you hold hands and shuffle around in a circle until someone says stop. At that point it's that person's turn to speak and say something nice about someone else. On the last day of the play, while we were doing the warm-fuzzy thing, Katie Mc Cafferty said, "At first I didn't think I was going to like everyone in the play, but I love all you guys."

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Z()()6 thoughts you hug your baby tighter and fall even more deeply in love. And now I want you to put a face on that beautiful baby, and the face is your own, because that baby is you.

Feel how your parents loved you on that day you were born.

Just take a moment to know what that's like ... to love yourself, to love and be loved at the same time. Now give yourself one more hug, take a deep breath, let it out, and slowly open your eyes.

Well I hope that felt good, and I hope that as you walk through life that's how you'll feel about yourself. I hope you'll love yourself and treat yourself the way loving parents would treat their child.

And that doesn't mean spoiling yourself or giving in to every little whim or desire, because that's not what a good parent would do. It means loving yourself enough to choose what's best for you in the long run. It means caring enough about your soul to create a nurturing environment with friends that will encourage you to achieve your dreams and do what's right, rather than tempting you to cut corners, and do what you know is wrong. And it means having enough faith in yourself to try your best even when you're afraid you might not succeed.

So love yourself and always do what, deep down, you know is really best for you. Listen to that inner voice, because from here on you'll each be going your own way, and it's really only that inner voice that will always be with you to give you good advice.

So take time each day to slow down, quiet your mind and ask yourself... Why am I here? And when you do, I hope that inner voice will echo Mother Teresa's words: "The purpose of life is to love and be loved." ...

And love makes you smarter and more energetic. If you do what you love, your talents will be multiplied and success will follow.

Next, remember, fish don't love their children, but your parents do love you. So when you leave for college, call them at least once a week and tell them you love them too.

And keep doing that forever.

Three, if you want to be loved, find a way to help other people and do what you can.

Four, if you're not too keen on someone, try to get to know that person better and you'll almost always find something to love.

Five, when you have decisions to make, examine your motives. The choice you make out of love will always be the right decision.

And finally, you are the only person who is going to be with you for every minute of every day for the rest of your life, so love yourself and you will always be loved.

I know you have worked very hard to make it to this day.

I'm proud of you, everyone here is proud of you. Be proud of yourself. You deserve much success and happiness. I wish you prosperity, I wish you peace and I wish you love.

I think there is something we can learn from that. At the end of three months of play practice all of the cast and crew knew each other pretty well and, because of that, they really connected and cared about each other. I think that people are mostly good. If you meet someone and you don't really like him or her initially, make an effort to get to know him or her better.

Frequently people are just a little unsure of themselves, so they put on a false front. Once you really get to know them, though, and they feel safe enough to let down their defenses you'll almost always find that there's something lovable about them.

Remember that every person you meet is God's creation. Don't be too quick to give up on them.

There is a short story that illustrates another important lesson about love. In "The Gift of the Magi," by 0' Henry, Jim and Della Young try to eek out a living on Jim's meager salary.

Christmas Eve comes and despite their best efforts to save, neither has the money to buy a present for the other.

They have only two prize possessions. Jim has a fine gold pocket watch that has been passed down from his father and grandfather, and Della has shining brown hair that hangs past her knees when she lets it down. Della sells her hair to buy Jim a platinum watch fob, while Jim sells his watch to surprise Della with a set of jeweled, tortoise shell combs.

The last lines of the story are these: "Of all who give and receive gifts, ... they are wisest. They are the Magi."

On the surface, it seems that Jim and Della's choices were poor ones. They have sold their most prized possessions and the gifts they have purchased are now useless. But the Magi are the three wise men, and O. Henry says that Jim and Della are the Magi, that their gifts were the wisest of all. Well, of course, that's because each one's gift has let the other know how much they are loved.

No matter how things turn out in life, no matter what irony fate may deal you, you will never regret the decisions you make out of love, because, regardless of the outcome, you can never feel bad about a decision that you made for the right reason.

This is a commencement address, I know, but as a science teacher I'd like to try one last experiment with you. Pretend you just had your first baby, and the doctor puts that little bundle in your arms. You put one hand on your arm like this, and the other one you hold out to support the baby's head. Pull that baby in a little closer to you.

The rest of you can try this too. Hold your arms like this.

You parents already know what I'm talking about. Now close your eyes. See that soft perfect skin and smell that new baby smell. Now imagine yourselffalling deeply, utterly and completely in love with your child. You want this baby to live a charmed life, to grow up happy and healthy and to know right from wrong.

Now look deep into that baby's eyes. They say that the eyes are the windows to the soul. And it's a beautiful soul, God's perfect creation, full of possibilities for helping others and making the world a better place. And as you think these

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Z006 Put that on your transcript Students applying to college are often advised to emphasize the unique, the thing that makes them stand out from the crowd.

So, how does " snake wrangler" grab you?

Rather different, eh?

MPA, at least, has never seen the likes before, but Charles Baxley [2006] is just that: a snake wrangler.

He didn't learn that at MPA, but down under, there, in Australia, where snake catchers are in greater demand than in Jones Bowl.

Charles was born in the Phoenix, Arizona, but lived in a number of places (his father was in the military) before settling in Australia.

He attended a large Catholic School in Australia, with 300 students in each grade and some 30 in each class. There were other differences, too, that set the school apart from MPA: students could - and about half of them did - leave school at age fifteen after the 10th grade; those who continued on had to sign a contract that they wou ld follow the Catholic teachings, abide by school rules, and work to graduate; admission to university was on the basis of a national examination. " It is so small at MPA," Charles Charles said, "virtually everything is public and almost instantaneously known. One good thing about the size, though , is that better relationships with the teachers are possible. And MPA is definitely more academic than my school in Austral ia."

After taking his high school diploma at Martyr de College, in Western Australia, he decided to come to MPA, where his two cousins Adam [1992] and Ben [1995] Rhodes had attended, because he wanted to go to an American university.

Now, about those snakes. He lived right next to a national park in Australia and, he, too, was once afraid of snakes. It was that natural curiosity which urged him on to overcome those initial fears.

"I wanted to know if! could work with animals and park rangers were sympathetic and took an interest," he said. "After awhile, I wanted to see if! could work with animals that were deadly and do it without getting hurt. I learned that one has to think when approaching a poisonous snake. You just can 't walk over and pick it up. You have to be able to read the snake."

He captured some dangerous snakes, such as the brown snake, for which there is no anti-venom, and with the tiger snake, perhaps the most aggressive of the poisonous Australian snakes.

"I did carry a machete," he said in response to an alarmed look on the part of his interviewer, "and I've killed a few. I'd rather be safe first."

There was not a lot of snake wrangling to be done about MPA, however, and it was his cousin Adam who suggested that he become a volunteer at the Lincoln Park zoo.

Charles became Baxley fascinated with the zoo and soon became the youngest person to ever complete the volunteer docent program.

He will continue to volunteer at the zoo while he pursues a degree in zoology at North Park University.

His favorite thing about MPA? "The classes," he said without hesitation. "I learned a lot that I didn 't know before."

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Z006 Tania Ismail: the Bolivian exchange student and ISL volleyball player of the year each house. All the families were wonderful , however, and in She is a superb volleyball player, with a killer serve that each house I had a sister of my own age - Alyssa Bartolini, strikes terror into opponents' hearts. She was voted 2005-2006 player of the year by ISL coaches. She was instrumental in Lauren Rodriguez, and Kate Hibbs." helping the MPA volleyball team reach new heights of glory Perhaps the hardest thing for her to get used to was the ISL, sectional, and regional titles, and a 30-2 record. different meal hours.

"We were intimidated just by Tania's reputation," teammate "In Bolivia," she said, "we eat our main meal at 3 p.m. and Lauren Rodriguez said, "but it all changed once we got to know then have a light dinner at 9 or 10 p.m. Eating dinner so early her. She never complained, was always smiling, and she made here was very hard to get used and I put on weight." practice fun for everyone. She was just like a sister, especially She went to many restaurants in Chicago, but she sti ll when it was my turn to be her host." missed having pica, a Bolivian meat, sausage, and potato dish.

She also missed lasagna; she had it here, but it was never quite She started playing volleyball at age nine and she comes from a family of athletes. Her father was an the same as when her mother made it. outstanding runner, her mother a volleyball The museums were her favorite thing coach, and her brother is a professional about Chicago. "They are amazing, especially volleyball player. the Museum of Science and Industry."

There is another part of the story, There were many things about the however, one that makes this all the more education at Morgan Park Academy that she remarkable. liked, even though she found the language Tania Ismail, the 2005-2006 MPA more difficult at first than she expected. exchange student from Bolivia, devoted "At MPA," she noted, "teachers prepare those untold hours to volleyball while she one better for co llege. The teachers really care learned the language and adjusted to a new and, because it is so small, there is lots of time culture. for individual conferences. I started out in There was an additional complication: senior English, but I didn't have the vocabuher exchange program required stays with lary. I moved down to sophomore Engli sh, but three different families.

I still had to work hard and be patient. I She attended a German private school wanted to learn." in Bolivia and her decision to come to the She also took AP Spanish and was Tania Ismail United States on an exchange program was surprised to see how fluent her classmates influenced by two factors: her father had done it before her and were. It became her favorite class, but not because it came easy she liked the English language better than German . Tania was for her. also hoping to attend college in the U.S. "I missed speaking Spanish, and the c lass gave me that Tania considers herself to be Bolivian, although she was opportunity," she said. born in Mexico City, Mexico, and lived in that country for nine "I enjoyed being able to help people with Spanish; it meant years before returning to her parents' homeland. a lot to me."

While living in Tijuana, she had had opportunities to visit Laura Ingram, her volleyball coach and Spanish teacher, such places as San Diego, Sea World and Disneyland, so concurs. coming to Chicago was not an entirely new experience.

"Tania was very sensitive," Ingram said, "very kind, and Her first impression of Chicago was that it wasn't as cold very supportive of those at different speaking levels. She, as a (she arrived on August 26, 2005) as she feared it would be. She native speaker, was invaluable and raised the level of diseventually gave Chicago weather the mixed review it deserves : course."

"I was delighted to see and touch snow, but it was the longest Tania also mentioned, just in passing, that she is top winter of my life." student in her Bolivian schoo l. She didn't mention that she was Staying with three different families required new adjustthe number one volleyball player in her Bolivian school , nor ments for Tania every three months or so. that she was on the Bolivian Junior Olympic team, but that " It was easier than I thought it would be," she said. " It was wasn't necessary. not just changing houses, though, it was different customs in

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Z003 Gourmand games: a 29-20 slam-dunk, no-doubt-about-it, victory

Pat revisited M PA in 2006 to participate in a pie eating contest. It wasn't much of a contest.

His first contest was inauspicious, even humbling.

As a junior, he was a contestant in the MPA student council -sponsored Lucky Charms eating contest. He didn 't come c lose to winning, and yet he always had this enormous capac ity for food.

Pat Bertoletti [2003] didn 't much care for breakfast, but in middle schoo l his standard lunch was a big sandwich, chips, fruit, dessert, and two cans of soda.

It might seem like a typical lunch for a middle school boy, but once when his sister Sheila got his lunch by mistake, she complained that his sandwich was so thick that she had to eat it with a knife and fork .

There were no leftovers at the Bertoletti dinners when Pat was around. Two or three helpings were routine for him.

He once ate ten hot dogs at a mothers ' club picnic and only stopped because he felt embarrassed at having a bit more than his fair share. " I always had a tremendous appetite," Pat explained, "and [ ate faster than any member of my family. I didn't need to chew as much, it seemed."

It was his sister Susan who encouraged Pat to put his eating proclivities to the competitive test. He entered a pizza eating contest and, to qualify, one had to demonstrate that one could devour three slices in under fifteen minutes.

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Z003 group of annoying guys."

He ate his three slices in under seven minutes - and each Bertoletti emphasized that competitive eating, for him , is a slice, just for the record, weighed between 12 and 16 ounces. weekend recreational activity ("like a sport," he added), but Pat finished in a tie for third with a pro (yes, Virginia, there during the rest of the week he pursues food in an altogether are professional eaters) by putting away 5 and 1/4 slices (the different way: he is training to be a chef at the School of winner ate 6 and 3/4 in the required time).

Culinary Arts at Kendall College.

And so Pat was launched on a recreational career as a He sees no contradiction between the two and one never member of the International Federation of Competitive Eaters. interferes with the other.

He soon became an eating celebrity and by June 2006 he was "I keep a low-profile at ranked 4th in the world as a Kendall and don 't make a bigcompetitive eater. In one deal about eating competitions. In five-month period, Pat the kitchen, I'm all business." earned $18,000 by eating as He has always been fascimuch as he wanted as fast he nated with food and the myriad could. ways it can be prepared. He did a Jeff Ruby, a food writer little cooking at home from an for Chicago Magazine, had early age and often helped out also heard of Pat and with an uncle 's catering business. challenged him to a pizza"It was nothing spectacular, eating contest. It was an off just basic recipes, but by the time day for Pat, he was not I took my first cooking class, I feeling quite up to it, but he knew that was what I would be still had little trouble in doing for the rest of my life." besting Ruby.

He couldn't name a favorite It was, perhaps, a bit food ("there are too many," he like the local playground said), but he admitted that he whiz thinking he could devoured cookbooks - especially outpoint Michael Jordan in his prime in a one-on-one those that deal with the hi story of food - almost as quickly ("five contest. Pat downed 29 or six a week") as he gobbles slices, while Ruby only pizza or chocolate ice cream. managed to put away a paltry 20.

His favorite restaurant?

Pat enjoys the competi"Hot Doug's (a gourmet tion and he has made some sausage emporium at 3400 N. California), but I can never get friends that he might not have otherwise met. out of there for less than $60."

"Food contestants are Just for the record: my tab at Pat, sporting at-shirt from his favorite restaurant. surprisingly normal," Pat Hot Doug 's never exceeds $20 said. "We are like a fraternity, but not like that stereotypical and that 's for two people.

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Here are some of Pat's recent gustatorial feats, taken from hi s "bib sheet" on the International Federation of Competitive Eating website:

Corned beef sandwiches: 11 eight-ounce sandwiches, in 10 minutes, January 11 , 2006.

Chocolate: 1 pound, 15.5 ounces, in 7 minutes, February 13 , 2006.

Corned beef and cabbage: 5.75 pounds, in ten minutes, March 16, 2006.

Key-lime pie: 10.8 pounds, 8 minutes, May 21, 2006.

Ice cream: 1.75 gallon, in 8 minutes, May 26, 2006.

Strawberry rhubarb pie: 7.9 pounds, in 8 minutes, July 29,2006.

Pickled jalapenos: 177, in 15 minutes, Aug 26, 2006.

Cherry kolachkes: 44, in 8 minutes, September 2, 2006.

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(995 My Season with the World Champs by Michael Cappozzo Journal Entry: Monday November 7th, 2005: "Typically, NU Coach Randy Walker's Monday morning press conferences receive minimum coverage. Times are changing. After a huge comeback win against Iowa, the Chicago media is jumping on the Northwestern football bandwagon. I' m standing a long side several other cameramen gearing up for the presser. A minute in, a burning smell begins to fill the air. It's not unusual for smoke to make an appearance at a press conference. A piece of plastic or metal encased in the camera lights sometimes overheats, causing burn off. However, this was something different. Like dogs catching a scent, everyone put his nose in the air. After a few shoulder shrugs, the press conference goes on as if nothing happened .

When it's all over, I grab my camera and swing it over my shoulder. It's at that moment I confirm the culprit of the stench.

The smell ignited my senses. Adrenaline pumped through my ve ins. Overwhelming feelings of excitement came rushing back. I placed it. It was White Sox World Series celebration champagne ... burning off my light. 12 days ago in Houston was the last time I switched it on ..."

Growing up playing baseball , I was always taught timing is everything. To win you need talent, good chemistry, a little bit of lady luck and it all has to come together at the same moment.

That's exactly what happened with the 2005 Chicago White Sox. It took 88 years for them to land another World Championship . Fortunately, my road to covering the team didn 't take quite that long. Who would've thought a south side kid with only five years of TV experience would find himself in the middle of all of this history?

Timing is everything.

After TV career adventures in Bismarck, North Dakota, and South Bend, Indiana, I came home to Chicago on August 15th 2004. I took a job with the start-up station, Comcast Sports Net Chicago.

When you see players at their lockers with lights, cameras, and a dozen microphones in their faces, I'm one of those guys behind the lens that you seldom see.

In 2005, T covered 38 out of8 1 home games, establishing myself as the unofficial "Sox" cameraman. Little did I know my enthusiasm for covering the team would payoff come October.

True, 1 vo lunteered because I am a south sider and a fan, but I also had a good feeling about this team.

Ironically, that feeling was born during my stint covering the Cubs at spring training. For fifteen days straight I was stuck with the North Siders but on this day the Cubs hit the road to Tucson, the spring training home of the White Sox. Those of us

Mark Buerhle, of the White Sox with Mike Cappozzo after the World Series win. reporting on the Cubbies weren 't used to the foreign confines.

We got lost in the labyrinth of tunnel s looking for the clubhouse.

Walking swiftly, I turned a corner blindly and nearly smacked Ozzie Guillen with my camera. With that undeniable Ozzie accent he shouted, "Hey media, you look lost, you looking for me?" He rambled on, "Of course you're not looking for me, all you media ever care about is Cubs, Cubs, Cubs never the f***ing Sox!! " We all laughed, but somehow I felt like a traitor. I wanted to yell back, "1 agree!" but I had to stay objective. The Sox ended up destroying the Cubs that day. In my mind, they began a quest that day in shedding their second fiddle image in the Second City.

Something special was in the air that summer. A humid night in June during inter-league play against the L.A. Dodgers was proof. The Sox were decked out in their 1959 throwback uniforms, playing the very team that had beaten them in the 1959 Series.

A.1. Pierzynski hit a two-run homerun in the bottom of the

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The Comeast sports erew joins Jerry Reinsdorfwith the World Series trophy.

9th to win the game. It was the team 's 20th come-from-behind victory of the season. After the game A.J. told us, "This team has no quit." By late September the word "quit" wasn't in the Sox vocabulary. They were now in position to make their post season run ... and so was I. The defending World Champion Boston Red Sox came calling for games one and two of the Divisional Series. It was all hands on deck as far as Comcast coverage went. Before the first pitch of the game I was still in the 3rd base camera well arranging my gear. The rafters were rocking from the roaring crowd. It was a surreal moment.

The White Sox had been in the post season before, but this year seemed different. There was a chip on this team's shoulder.

From the first game of the season to the last, the White Sox were in first place. Some local and most national media outlets gave them little chance against the mighty Red Sox, however.

Now it was time to put up or shut up.

On national television the White butchered the Red and no one could really believe it. Did the White Sox just take two straight from the World Champs? When it came to coverage for game three in Boston only a select few were chosen to go. My hard work during the season paid off, and I was going.

It's the last of the 9th in Boston. I'm sweating bullets and it's not just because my Sox are three outs away from a sweep.

If they win the game, I have only one task. Get to the field, hook up the satellite cables to my camera and get a live shot on the air.

Easy, right?

Wrong. Fenway Park is a logistical nightmare. Security orders demanded I wait in the hallway inside the park. The only way to the field is through the stands. I guess they didn't have the media in mind when she was built in 1912. Anxiously, I paced, despite having one bag strapped to my back, another over my shoulder, a tripod in my left hand and the camera in the other.

Three outs away and here I am watching the game on TV with a Boston cop and a hot dog vendor.

The officer scans my gear.

"Camera man, huh?"

He bleeds Boston native with his thick accent.

"That stuff heavy?" he smirks.

I smile and nod politely, not saying a word. His investigative eyes notice my White Sox hat.

"White Sox fan, huh?"

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(995 "Yes I am," I reply proudly, but curbing my enthusiasm.

Cop or not, Bostonians have a reputation for being a bit crazy about their Sox. The Red Sox are down to their last out. By now the trickle of fans coming down the ramp is a steady flow. After a magical run in 2004, the idea of being swept by a different pair of Sox was too much for Boston fans to stomach. The last out is recorded and history is made. The White Sox have won their first playoff series since 1917.

Pandemonium on the field? I could only guess.

Like a fish fighting an up stream current, I was swimming against a river of angry fans. Or, so I thought. In that moment of monumental struggle I experienced the greatest show of sportsmanship.

"Hey camera guy, go White Sox, beat those f***ing Yankees!" a man yelled as he brushed by.

Another Bo-Sox fan, covered in red from head to toe chimed in, "Red in '04, White in '05. Go get 'em!" Several pats on the back came from those who could reach me.

Clinch night in Boston was amazing. I shot celebratory interviews on the field with various champagne soaked players and coaches. It was the thrill of a lifetime. I found three popped champagne corks in the dugout - one for me, one for my brother and one for my dad.

We never did see those "f***ing Yankees." Instead, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim came calling.

But not for me. The day after clinching in Boston I could barely walk. My reward for lugging around one hundred pounds of gear for 18 hours in Boston was the disabled list and a visit from the chiropractor.

I wasn't there for the heartbreaking game one loss of the ALCS. I didn't cover the legendary "Dropped Third Strike" game.

Shelved for the trip to Anaheim, I was fearful that I was destined to watch the rest of the drama unfold on TV Although thrilled for the Sox, I was disappointed I couldn't be there when they clinched a spot in the World Series.

As a kid I once hurt my knee sliding, and one of my baseball coaches once said, "Mike can you still play?"

I responded, "I think so, coach."

Smiling he replied, "Well rub some dirt on it and get back out there!" That's exactly what I did.

My "Boston back" was still throbbing, but no way was I going to miss this.

On October 22, 2005, the World Series returned to the South Side for the first time in forty-six years. Our crew arrived at U.S. Cellular Field five hours before game time and so did everyone else, it seemed. Media outlets from all over the world blanketed every square inch of the field. A rainbow of video and audio cables slithered into dozens of cameras. I had my $70,000 video camera in one hand, and my $5 throw-away camera in the other.

I imagined the roar of the crowd that night sounded like the

Coliseum did at the height of the Roman Empire. The Sox fed off the stadium energy... like gladiators, they could smell blood.

Poor, poor Houston.

Game two was one for the ages. Paul Konerko's grand slam and Scott Podsednik's legendary game winning homer in the bottom of the 9th ... and I wasn't there.

I worked a day shift, covering the Bears game at Soldier Field. It wasn't punishment, but company strategy. I was to be on a 5:45 a.m. flight to Houston the next morning to cover the Sox arrival. On one hand, I was honored to cover the team on the road, but once again I had to watch another amazing White Sox victory on television. I was being responsible. I had a press credential for the game, but knew that if I went to the game, I might not be alert as I should be for the next assignment.

The mere possibility of the Sox sweeping the series, however, made it impossible for me to catch a wink that night.

Momentum, luck, and timing were now all on my side. I had a chance to capture history in the making. The very thought turned me into an insomniac.

Back from a commercial break.

"We've now passed the five hour mark," Fox play-by-play man Joe Buck announces. You'll never guess where I was for game three. A front row seat in the bowels of Minute Maid Park watching the game on - what else? - TV!!!

Those were the cards that I and dozens of media crews were dealt. For hours on end we waited and watched eagerly from the TV that hung above the Sox clubhouse doors. My broadcasting mentor and friend Mark Giangreco of ABC sports was there. He was sitting on the dirty floor right next to me in his $1,000 suit.

Then it happened. Geoff Blum hit a two-run homer in the 14th inning to put the Sox up for good. I felt brand new. I sprung to my feet as I watched the ball sail over the stands.

Media ethics were thrown out the window as hugs, high fives and cheers echoed down the hallway. After 5 hours and 41 minutes, the longest World Series game in history was finally history. At 1:45 a.m, the media swarm around Blum's locker was so enormous, it was 15 people deep.

I didn't get much sleep that morning. In fact, I hadn't slept more than 5 hours in three days. My adrenaline was the only thing keeping me awake. l8-hour days and sleepless nights were a small price to pay for what I was about to witness on October 26th.

During game four, my crafty reporter Chuck Garfien, asked the Sox Public Relations Staff for permission to record the end of the game from Jerry Reinsdorf's private suite.

A few innings later, Reinsdorf, White Sox chairman, responded through his PR guy.

"Here's how it will go," he whispered. "If the Sox take the lead late in the game and are still winning in the 9th, Jerry will allow your camera man in. Your camera man only, no interviews, just video."

I was that lucky camera man. The only one in the world

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(995 There was so much champagne burning his eyes he could barely spit out the right words.

Then General Manager Kelmy Williams valiantly marched in carrying the World Series Trophy over his head.

A.J. Pierzynski's voice shouting, "THERE IT IS! " helped guide my lens to the shot that made me famous amongst colleagues and friends.

A waterfall of champagne cascaded upon me as the players dumped everything they had into the trophy. Proudly caught in the middle, I felt like part of the team.

Countless years of heartbreak and "what-could-have-been" all washed away in an instant.

Earlier in the season my producer friend Ryan McGuffy and I were talking Sox. Like me, he's a huge fan.

"You know what Mike," Ryan said, " if the Sox win it all and I happen to be there, I ' m gonna do a cart wheel right there on the field."

I shook his hand and replied, "It's settled then ; ifI ' m there, I'll do one with you."

At I :30 in the morning on the Astro's home turf, with a bad back and all, I performed the ugliest cartwheel ever.

For the first time since the last out I was able to take it all in. Almost collapsing, I took a seat on the infield. I was drenched in celebratory champagne from head to toe, the dirt clinging to my wet clothes.

Without any hesitation, I grabbed a big handful of that dirt and shoved it in my pocket. I could feel the victory dirt sifting in between the champagne corks I had grabbed earlier from the locker room.

At that moment of bl iss it was all so very clear.

My dream as a kid was to play for my hometown team, the Chicago White Sox. If there 's such a thing as a runner-up dream, I've lived it.

allowed to record the defining moment of White Sox history.

A scoreless game through seven innings and I was drenched with sweat. The friction from rubbing my palms was so intense I could ignite a fire. Fittingly, I was watching the game on a TV in a secondary press box.

Jermaine Dye sealed my fate with an RBI single in the 8th inning.

As promised, the doors to Reinsdorf's suite swung open for me during the bottom of the 9th. I was in.

There was Jerry in the front row. He couldn't decide whether to sit or stand. He was pacing back and forth with his hands clenched.

"Get a shot of that Mike," I thought to myself.

The crowd below was buzzing; dead silence in Jerry's suite .

I kept thinking, "Just keep rolling tape no matter what happens, just don't stop recording."

Juan Uribe makes a diving catch in the stands, two outs.

Now, the only thought racing through my mind was, "Oh my God, please do not let my battery die ."

I was so nervous I could barely keep my camera steady.

My mouth began to twitch , a bad flashback to the 10 seconds before reporting my first live shot.

Fortunately, when I panned my camera to Jerry 's grand kids a dead calm came over me. In my view finder I saw their eyes filling up with tears. I zoomed in. I knew I wasn't just capturing a moment; I was in the moment. This realization relaxed me and 1 regained focus.

The last play - Uribe throwing to Konerko at first for the out - seemed to move in slow motion.

My shot was steady. I could see the play develop in the back ground, with Jerry sitting in the foreground. With the steadiest of hand, I captured it.

Out at first! Jerry jumps up with his hands in the air... pandemoni urn!

THE WHITE SOX HAVE WON THE WORLD SERIES!!!

Timing is everything.

1 follow Jerry all the way down to the locker room, rolling video the entire time. Along the way, he accepts hugs and high fives from the likes of Mayor Daley, family, friends and even me. My reporter Chuck Garfien, was holding my spot outside the Sox clubhouse. The line was 200 people deep.

We were among the first media crews to enter. My camera was tightly sealed with rain gear, everything but my camera light. If it shorted out then so be it, but it survived the "champagne jam"(as one player called it). As for me, I decided long ago that ifI made it to the Championship locker-room ... I would be soaked.

I brought a hotel towel along for the ride. It was an emergency tool just in case too much champagne got on my lens.

Instead, I used it to wipe otTPaul Konerko 's face while filming an interview with him. He was grateful.

The cartwheel.

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Butch McGuire (1930-2006) Robert Emmett McGuire died in May 2006.

He entered MPMA in 1944 and soon acquired the nickname by which he was known thereafter - "Butch."

Butch played football for four years and was the most valuable player on the 1946 lightweight team .

He also participated in basketball, track, and boxing and was a member of the emblem club.

Butch McGuire and the singles' bar by Pamela Steinmetz (reprinted/rom the 1991 Academy Magazine) tucked away in a notepad Butch calls "the White Starched, Commercially Laundered Shirt File."

Next to that, folded in fourths, his personnel roster - a si zeable list of successful and talented people from all walks of life.

Butch pointed out the variety as he ran down the list.

"This little girl is an outstanding artist who may make $100,000 a year herself," he continued, "here we have a banker...a dancer, a professional baseball player, a musician, a salesman, an opera singer, a housewife ... Some of them make a lot money - but (working here) keeps them out of mischief.

They make money and, in return, save money by not going out."

Observing the energy, the action and the decor of the saloon - the original antiques and paintings, Butch 's encased collection of crystal, the linen - scroll paneling and (distinctly Irish) plaster crown molding in the back room - it's difficult to imagine the " used to bes" of McGuire's.

At Butch 's opening in 1961 , the saloon was only 1,700 feet, draft beer was 35 cents and mixed drinks sold for 65 cents.

But the history of the saloon, one might say, is based on upon the cooking talent, the love of company, and the passion for "partying" held by two MPMA alumni.

"Eugene Kosciolek [1948] ," McGuire explained, " was my roommate in Old Town. He was a great cook and I enjoyed the friendship of (literally) hundreds of young people. We 'd have a party three times a week. He'd cook and I'd be the bartender...and that's basically how it started." " I knew I wanted my own saloon from the time I was ten ," McGuire added, "but after college, none of my buddies wanted to get into the business. Finally, my mother agreed to lend me the money (about $500 for the saloon) on one stipulation .. .never to take a partner. I'm still thanking her for that."

But much has changed since the saloon got its start in 1961. "(In this business) , you learn lessons every day," McGuire said, shaking his head. "The industry changes so rapidly. Today, (our weekday) support is lower than it's ever been, but weekend business is up considerably.. .simply stated, people don't drink. As the incidence of drinking decreases, the number of bars increases."

Within the first thirty years of the saloon 's existence, 18 bars have opened on the same block, 17 one block down .. .and a total of 450 have come into being "within ten minutes" of McGuire's.

To the 6500-plus couples who have met and married through Butch McGuire's, the establishment (at 20 W. Division, Chicago) is more than just a "singles' bar."

To the hundreds of young men and women who paid for all or part of their education by working at McGuire's, the business is more than just "a place of employment."

Butch McGuire in /991.

And for the parttime doorman who makes more than $100,000 per year through his regular job, Butch McGuire 's means more than just "extra income."

Simply stated, the man who made McGuire 's saloon (in the true sense of that word) is its namesake, Butch McGuire [1948].

It 's paradoxical that a man with military (MPMA and the U.S . Army) roots would end up a saloonkeeper, but much of Butch McGuire's background has carried over - and perhaps helped his business flourish .

"I've learned that the best way to survive (in this business) is to run the place as clean as you can," said McGuire matter-offactly, "and that takes discipline . What we (at MPMA) considered to be harsh discipline was really beneficial...it was a good atmosphere for a bunch of teenage boys. So many people today lack that kind of discipline. But in the real world, you have to be disciplined. If you don't believe me, take a look at every successful man in this country - they 're all disciplined."

"Even today I'm conscientious of pressed pants and wearing a starched shirt with a tie," said McGuire, lifting his pants leg for a clear view of his feet. I wear freshly shined shoes every day of my life."

Butch expects the same from his employees when they show up for work.

Though retired from working lively evenings at McGuire 's, Butch is the eyes and ears of his saloon. With a watchful eye for proper customer service, Butch keeps impeccable employee records. Just check his back pocket for daily files . Neatly

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Butch also made several other drinks famous - the Skip and Go Naked, Mr. and Mrs. T Sweet n' Sour and the Harvey Walbanger.

"We were playing volleyball in California," Butch said of the latter, and this guy, Harvey, dreamed it up. He had six and he really was bouncing off the wall."

It's a dream come true to be responsible for this Cheers-like atmosphere, but Butch admits the business is not as glamorous as it may appear. " It 's really a seven day a week business and a lot of hard work - but it's the kind of work that, to me, is quite enjoyable.

I enjoy good conversation and the characters we have coming in . You never have to look for an excuse to laugh - they're always giving you one. You really gain a lot of friends."

There is a lot of give-and-take to the business, too, and Butch does his fair share of giving. During the holiday season, for instance, he sponsors Santa Claus Anonymous, a program to benefit underprivileged school children. Some years ago Butch persuaded his teacher customers to give him the names (and sizes) of their poor school children so that the kids could have proper-fitting, warm winter clothes.

Each child, according to Butch, " receives shoes, slacks and a sweater, an outer coat, and galoshes - as well as a personal gift and a family gift."

But the giving heart of Butch McGuire extends far beyond jingle bells and Christmas cheer.

Butch has made his establishment not only a saloon, but also a state of mind. It can be seen in the laughter and smiles of his customers. It can be seen in the enthusiasm of his employees.

And only a few weeks ago, it was alive on the faces of a young couple nestled together in the back room of the saloon.

Another match made at McGuire's, the couple The graduate. was there to celebrate their third day of marriage.

From across the bar, a cheerful saloonkeeper turned with a smile, and said "make that 6,50 I couples ... and get those kids a drink."

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"Drinking is expensive nowadays," said Butch. "The average guy can't afford to go out anymore. His house payment is up, gasoline is up, and so are uti Iities."

Butch can relate to the inflating costs of simple day-to-day operations. Although the saloon has tripled in size over the years, McGuire says the biggest change has been the massive increase in operating costs.

Other changes?

An older weekday The lineman. crowd, a younger (more suburban) weekend crowd, fewer people consuming hard liquor and the ever-changing yuppie beer of the week (which currently includes Leinenkugel and Samuel Adams).

One thing that has remained consistent throughout the years is the saloon's best selling beer - Old Style.

Being the founder of the first single's bar, Butch has also seen changes in the social interaction between male and female customers.

"It's almost as if the roles have reversed, but the progression has been slow enough to not be too shocking," McGuire observed. "Today, the girls are more forward ... they are the chasers and are having a good time at it and the guys are taking full advantage of the situation. Some of them don't even work.

We have a group of male regulars called 'The Association of Supported Husbands.'"

Amidst these changes, the saloon has endured countless phases and rather unique experiences - many of which have helped to make the saloon a legend.

McGuire's has appeared in several films, including the popular Lookingfor Mr. Goodbar.

The saloon has played host to celebrities such as Candace Bergen.

Butch, himself, was highlighted and extensively interviewed in a 1986 issue of the Chicago Tribune Magazine.

Perhaps less conspicuous, but also famous are the drinks which Butch has made famous. He was the first to put a celery stalk into a Bloody Mary. A fan of south side hot dogs, he knew that the secret ingredient was celery salt. He thought that rubbing it around the rim of a Bloody Mary would add a special bite to the drink.

"Adding a celery stalk as a stir was a logical extension," Butch explained.

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Volunteer of the Year Award presented to Tom Malcolm The Morgan Park Academy faculty and staff celebrated the completion of another successful school year at their final "all-school" meeting June. The department of development and alumni affairs used the occasion to announce the 2006 MPA Volunteer of the Year, honoring Tom Malcolm, long time faculty member and middle school head teacher.

Malcolm's nineteen years of volunteer commitment to Salute to Excellence, the Academy's annual fundraising gala, left no doubt that he was deserving of this award. Volunteer leadership is the hallmark of successful fundraising efforts at MPA, and at every independent school. Malcolm's unwavering dedication to Salute, as well as his service in many other academic and extracurricular areas, continues to set a high standard for the entire Academy community.

Malcolm, who generally avoids the spotlight and shuns efforts to recognize his generosity, humbly accepted his certificate of appreciation and gift presented

by Bob Eichinger, director of development and alumni affairs. The presentation prompted a standing ovation from the entire faculty and staff as an admiring team of peers and co-workers affirmed his outstanding work and dedication to his students and to the school.

Please join us as we celebrate Mr. Malcolm's personal standard of excellence that he has displayed for so many years at Morgan Park Academy. And may his efforts and accomplishments that brighten the future of our students inspire all of us.

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Alumni Giving Wellington Smith [32] Joseph Maurey [34] Deceased Donald Carner [35] Edward Cerny [37] Julius Kern [3S] C. Robert Tully [39] Hobart Van Deventer [39] Richard Duchossois [40] Tony Pociask [40] Robert Spong [41] Donald Badziong [42] Philip Freund [42] Charles Getz [42J Frank Major [42] Stanley Balzekas [43] Joseph Grassi [43} William Keefer [43] Asa (Mel) Bacon [44} William Braker (44] Joyce [Hooper) Crowe (44) Richard Price [44} Jerome Thrall[44} J. Robert Gilbert (45] Jerome Levin [45] Gene Simonson [45] Theodore Vlahos [45] Bonnie [Kistner] Weller [45) Robert Bowyer (46] Robert Shetler [46] Joseph Simon [46] John Aberson [47] Allen Andreasen [47] Karion Fitzpatrick [47) Donald Kreger [47] William Rundle [47] Deceased H. Lincoln Vehmeyer [47] Francis Flynn [4S] Robert Gamble [4S] Louis Kole [4S] Robert McGuire [4S] Deceased Lawrence Novak [4S] M. Lee Tew [4S] Virginia Hess-Kole [49] William Kwan [49] William Liptak [49] James Orphan [49] Ronald Davis [50] Walter Hofman [50] Terry Johnson [50] James Meck [50] Gary Nestor [50] John Kitch [51] Harold Boex [52] Charles Cresap [52] William Gaps [52] Robert Rolfe [52] Bernard Steuber [52] Martha [Herriott] Swift [52] Jerol [Hillard] Hanlon [53] Edward Kole [53] DeWayne Anderson [54] Frank Caravette [54] Stanley Eigelberner [54] George Mahon (54J Carol (Leatzow] Prather [54] Peter Voss [54]

Anne [Wiegel] Boyd [55] Allen Grundstrom [55] Ned Holland [55] Edward Johnson [55] Jay Kennedy [55) Mark Klein [55] Thomas Lelon [55] Ronald McGuire [55] Robert Metsker [55] Philip Rosi [55] John Scheuneman [55] Alden Smith [55} Stephen Grice [56] Charles Hart [56] Raymond Regan [56] Ronald Aitchison [57] Jerry Bowden [57] Sandra {Bartz] Johnson [57] Julius Zschau [57] Diane [Molenar] Gilbert [5S] Edward Haney [5S] Kenneth Mack [5S] Ralph Von Lutzow [5S] Pearson Williams [5S] Dominic Amadio [59] Charles Junkunc [59] Claudia [Bergamini] Kappel [59] Paul Lang [59] Duane Timmons [591 . t Barbara [JanSma]Bayer~d~E~.: Diane [Pritchard] Ca"'~1,JJ Grant DeNorman~~ Diane [Dina] Donofrt&;짜;O] 1&9] Sally [Rohe] April [Fern] Ne\v:~nJ(iO] Joy [Bartz] Ingers911{60J. Karren [RodighierJ J.u"'~ t~ol Pamela [Payne] Ke Michael McClurll:.J Kevin Smith [60f' Janet Wiegel-Elmore [60] Judith [Johnson]York [60] Linda [Evans] Millette [61] James Mitchell [61] Edward Rund [61] William Springer [61] Steven Erickson [62] Janice Erickson [62] Charlotte [Welton] Singer [62] Walter Snodell [62] Donna [Ladas] Staynar [62] Robin Goss [63] Carol [Wolk] McPherson [63] Kenneth Mortenson [63] Peter van der Sterre [63] James Wognum [63] Jack Borok [64] Andrew Dahlberg [64] Thomas George [64] Howard Meyer [64] Fred Montgomery [64] Peter Monzures [64] Douglas Braun [65] Nancy [Dahlberg] Davis [65] Allen DeNormandie [65] Gary Hall [65]

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Katherine Krasin [65] Sydney [Hayles] McKay [65] Judith [Hen nan] Orzechowski [65] Richard Sack [65} John Wass [65] Henry Welton [65] Keith Cunliffe [66] George Kumis [66] Jane [George] Przyborski [66] Susan [Shimmin] Trefil [66] Robert Beatty [67] Theodore Carlson [67] Dana Green [67] Peter Matson [67] David Rosi [67] Harry Viezens [67] Stephen Kahn [6S] Guy Rohe [6S] Robert Rosi [6S] John Horn [69] Gus Kumis [69] Gail [Scruggs] Lauryn [69] Michael Rogers [69] Kathryn [Mozden] Carmona [70] Donald Coller (70] Joan Driscoll [70] Thomas Jundanian [70] JnlfetCol:feen] Rudawsky [70] CyJnbia"ll:;erzian] Sheely [70] [70] Stamper [70] [70] [71] p.o.> ........ [71] ]

[71] Coller [72] Mnntmlm".rv [72] Panovich [72] Carpenter [73] .i>eoo....tl [Wagner] Fuhlbrugge [73] Kermit Kelly [73] Jean [Silberman] Rush [74] Marguerite [Lopez] Burke [75] Carol [Patejdl] Coston [75] John Daniels [75] Paul Gurney [75] Leonard LeRose [75] Sharon [Mizen] McCarthy [75] Pamela Russell [75] Barbara [Raines] Soderstrom [75] Eric Spinazzola [75] Jason Stickney [75J James Strenk [75J Cynthia [Kliros] Layer (76) Linda Weinfield (7fi) Kimberly Duffek [77) George Wiegel [77} Claudia [PridjianJ Nazarian {78) Verneta Simon [7S) James Branit [79J Jean Doyle [79J Ronald Drynan [79J Gregory Dumanian [79J Robyne Robinson [79] Mark Wiegel [79J

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Geri [BernardJ Tucker (SOJ Caryn Burkhart [SOJ Karen Butler [SOJ Corey Conn [SOJ William Flagler [SOJ Jane [CooleyJ Flagler [SOJ Gerald Gately [SO] Evangeline Kanaris [SO] Cynthia [HarrisJ Lewis [SOJ Michelle Murphy [SO] Eric Odell [SO] Daniel Opyd [SO] Bradley Pechter [SO] Tracey Williams [SOJ Lisa [KirkJ Bourke [SI] F. Morgan Gasior [SIJ Dale Richards [SI] Ralph Steinbarth [SI] Mary [Resman] Guthrie [S2] Carrie Swearingen [S2] Michael Giglio [S3] Raja Kandala [S3] Timothy Murnane [S3] Rajeev Rathi [S4J Claire Concannon [S5] Tara [Brigham) Allen [S6] Adrienne Alton-Gust [S6] James Butler [S6] Raman Chopra [S6J Hope Concannon [S6J David Cuadros [S6] David Hechler [S6] Manu Kacker [S6] Lisa Karaitis [S6] Sarah Kim-Thompson [S6] Scott King [S6J Jennifer Kraft [S6] Adam LaTour [S6] Melvin Maclin [S6J Melanye Maclin-Carroll [S6] Theodore Paris [S6J Patricia Reyes [S6] Richardo Ugarte [S6] Ani [Hovanessian] Kasparian [SS] Wendy Heilman [S9] Aras Lapinskas [S9J Aileen [HovanessianJ Agopian [92] Deborah [JuradoJ Plate [92J Jodi [KapjonJ Gaertner [93] Ronald Aitchison [95J Shara [Harris] Allen [95J Mark Dinos [95} Kruti Trivedi 196] Dana [Sassol Wright [96J Ellen Coneannon [99] Bennett Kalafut [99] Heather ILis} Solomon [99] Bonnie Yap f99} P~gy Gatsinos [1000J Ellen Rasmussen [2000J William Arnold [2002J Alex Hibbs [2002] Effie Gatsinos [2004] Beata Wodziak [2005]

Wellington S. Smith [32J attended Lake Forest Academy, University ofIlIinois, John Marshall Law School and Northwestern University Graduate Executive course. He writes that he had a very pleasant and exhilarating experience at MPMA and also that he is very proud of his Academy education.

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Robert M. St. Pierre [43] of Georgetown,

Texas writes he graduated from DePaul University in 1950 with a degree in business management. His outstanding memories were that he received the Donald C. Carner [35J tells us that he reChicago Tribune silver ceived his BA and MBA from the University of Chicago. He _ ......... medal for militalY excellence in his 2 nd year. Bob enjoyed is CEO, major the full dress parades and medical centers. ceremonies, along with the "On graduation Loring Academy friendships! day at MPMA "Living the military life at while in uniMPMA made very easy the form as a cadet transition to the Navy during captain and just my 1943 to 1946 tour in prior the beginWWII. ning of ceremonies, a faculty member handed Jerome S. Levin [45J me a notice. 1 received his B.S. from Donald and Hazel Carner had to IMMEDIDePaul school of commerce L -_ _ _ _C _h_r_i_st_In_a_s_T,_e_a_(2,O,O_5J ____--' and his J.D. from DePaul law ATELy leave the campus in order to report to the West Point school. His memories at MPMA include officers on assignment in Chicago. They being battalion commander on Memorial would give me information regarding the fact Day, the parade on Michigan avenue, and that I had been selected as a cadet for the next receiving the Medal of Honor as a member of West Point freshman class. I followed orders. the 75 club. "Not only did the Academy After introductions the first question I received prepare me for my time in the United States was 'Cadet Carner, why do you want to go to Army but it prepared me for college and was West Point?' 'Gentleman, I am here as orhelpful in obtaining my degrees in commerce dered. I do not want to go to West Point. ' and law".

The Academy education prepared me exceptionally well for challenges after graduation."

Richard M. Leonard [46] says he retired in Donald also adds that "The Academy was 1992 as President ofC.B. Leonard Co. , a more helpful to me than the University that reinforcing steel contractor. He and his wife issued my Bachelor and Master degrees. " Darvaia Reitman have been married for 57 Captain Gray will never be forgotten, nor will years. They have three children and seven Duty, Honor and Country. Adding to fond grandchildren and for 31 Y2 years they owned Academy memories is my MPMA girl friend, a villa in Acapulco and they also like to Hazel Mae Kruse who changed her name to collect antiques. Richard would like to hear Carner in 1940. Together we enjoy news from from his classmates. You can get his inforthe Academy at our condo in San Rephael, mation by calling the Alumni Affairs California". department at the Academy.

Stanley Balzekas Jr. [43] writes that he is the Honorary Consul for Lithuania ... Palm Beach, Florida, the president of the Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Cu lture, and president ofBalzekas Motor Sa les, Inc. His favorite memory of the Academy was the outstanding teaching staff.

I to r: Stanley Balzekas, Jr. Robert Balzekas alld U.S. Sellator Ricltard Durbin greetillg tlte HOllorable President of Litlll/ania, Va/das Adalllkus (far rigltt).

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ClassNotes Dale E. Barnes (46) was a graduate of Indiana University and the Indiana College of Mortuary Science. Dale is a funeral director and enjoys golf and gardening. His favorite MPA memory is of the football team and his roommate, Edward Hamar (deceased). Dale sold his funeral home and retired in 1992. He now enjoys travel and his family.

CDR Richard J. Biederman, USN (ret.) [461 reports that he received his higher education from the United States Naval Academy, the University of Chicago, RPI, and MIT. His hobbies are skiing, tennis, sailing and bridge. A favorite at MPMA was singing in "The Quartet" (Timberlake, Nash, Woolard, and Biederman). CDR Biedermap is retired from the Navy and does consulting as well as teaching the U.S. Constitution. He is married to Barbara Greene, Loring [50].

Dr. Ronald R. McCormick [481 says he applauds the Academy for remembering the veterans who have served our country from Morgan Park Military Academy and Morgan Park Academy at the Hall of Fame Induction at the All-School Reunion weekend. Dr. McCormick enrolled in MPMA's Junior R.O.T.C. during WWII. "This was a time when MPMA students took their military training seriously. Subsequently, throughout my working life, 1 have focused on aerospace science for the U.S. Air Force, defense industry, and NASA programs." Dr. McCormick also states that NASA just announced that the Lockheed Martin Corporation was selected to construct the next manned spaceships, destined for the moon and Mars. He is looking forward to a role promoting that venture. "America is going back to the the moon and beyond, and I hope to playa part in furthering America's support of space exploration."

Robert WaItman attended MPMA in 1945 and 1946. He gives great credit to Barry Coleman 1491 writes from the military training and discipline for Cologne, Germany with his wife his scholastic and personal success to the Barbara, that the cruise from Vienna to officers and system that they used to eduAmsterdam can be cate. He recommended for recalls Maall, especially retirJor ees of MP A. In Mayhew September, Barry was the and his wife welofficer in comed their 11 th charge and grandchild. his number two was Captain Julius J. Zschau Kling. Bob [571 Tampa, Florplayed his ida, a graduate of first organthe University of ized footI -.............

--~------~----~ Illinois B.S. JD, ball at Top ro w I to r: a lower school light weight football team letter, a and John Marshall MPMA and shou lder braid worn on the outside of the dress tunic, a lower school also won a heavy weight football team letter; middle row I to r: an E company Law School, LLM, shou lder patch, a dress uniform hat insignia, a medal for win ning is a partner at the medal for the 125 Ib class boxing tournament, a marksman qualification badge law firm of Penboxing. He for riflery; Bottom row: I to r: belt buckle for the over tunic belt, regul ar uniform trousers belt buckle. nington, Moore, took miliL -_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _- - - , _ , -_ _ _ _ _-----.J Wilkinson , Bell & tary dresDunbar PA. He had several favorite sage and received a Marksman badge for memories of MPMA. He is the chair riflery. (see picture on above) He would of real property, probate & trust law love to get in contact with anyone from section of the Florida Bar (I 1,000 the class of 52 or 53. He and his wife members), American Bar Association reside in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. standing committee on lawyers title

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guaranty funds and co-chair of the ABA task force on preservation offamily farms; he also sits on the board of directors of the ABA standing committee on lawyers' title guaranty funds; (past chairman of the board). Jay Zschau, was recently awarded the status of "Super Lawyers" by Law & Politics magazine.

Kenneth R. Mack [58] of Phoenix Arizona writes that his hobbies are all Chicago sports teams, fantasy football, and his shepherds running free at the dog parks. His favorite memories at MPMA were the sock hops and the dances with his first love, Bernice. Kenneth also enjoyed playing football at Abells field, morning formations, and his good friends Chris Ellis, Basil Condos, Orlando Carvette and many others. His favorite instructor was Captain "Big" Joe Ziemba, in civics. He lost his wife Barbara of20+ years in April of2005.

Kenneth retired with a combination of USAF years and the Department of Veterans Affairs Service. He owns rental properties and a tax business in Phoenix, Arizona and plans to retire in Costa Rica.

Charles A. Junkunc [59], says his memory of graduation day was the outdoor ceremony where he gave a short boring speech as valedictorian and the sentimental walk of graduating seniors around the bowl saying goodbye to the underclassmen.

John Stack (61) ofIndianapolis tells us that his favorite memories at MPMA were band with Lt. Anderson, basketball with Bitta, target range, the old PX and haircuts. John worked in insurance sales for 33 years and also was a landlord of rental properties and involved in family housing development. He also refined

ClassNotes and built an air structure called golf-dome.

The dome enabled him to start a not-forprofit to allow youth and the disabled a place to golf in off times and the summer months.

William Springer 161) writes that he received his A.B. from Bowdoin. He enjoys golf and boating and is on his way to the Serengeti for the great animal migration. His favorite MPA memory was the all nighters with DeStefano, Gervasi and Lloyd.

Ronald Pearce [61] writes "Morgan Park is all I needed". He and his wife Carol owned and operated Century 21 offices until they moved to Florida in 2002. He enjoys fishing , boating, scuba diving, and traveling. His interests center around real estate and technology. A favorite memory at the Academy was the night of his freshman prom where he had his first "real" kiss from his older blind date that his mom had set up. He is currently working as an infonnation technology and training manager for Century 21 Aztec & Associates, in Port Charlotte, Florida.

Susan Lee-Fleming [70) writes to tell us that she is an animal behaviorist and dog trainer in Joliet, lllinois. She opened her business called Family Pet Consultants in March 2005. Previously she taught business and management courses for 17 years . She holds a B.A. , M.H.S., M.B.A. , and an Ed. D. Mikael Salovaara [75J attended a dinner at the Law School in Charlottesville in conjunction with the public announment of the $3 billion campaign for the University of Virginia: Knowledge is Power. Sitting with him was Elizabeth [Tyree) Taylor [67], wife of Barry Taylor UV A Law [75]. It took them longer than it should have to remember that they had MPA in common, but especially enjoyed the evening when they did. Libby Tyree graduated from Sweet Briar in 1975 and lives currenly in Atherton, Ca liforni a.

Mikael graduated from UV A Law in 1980 and li ves now in New Jersey.

The Class of [81) would like to thank Clarence Simmons for all his hard work and planning for our 25th in Las Vegas.

Dr. C. Adam Compton [81) writes that after graduating from Indiana University and Northwestern University Dental school, he owns and operates a busy dental practice just north of Indianapolis, Indiana. He has a 12-year-old daughter, Lexi, and a 2-year-old son , Christopher with his wife Jeannine of 16 years.

A favorite MPA memory of his, was his arrival at the Academy three weeks into the t h grade in Mrs. Bogle's

Deborah [Michiko] Aruguete [94J reports from the department of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, that on May 19 th she received her PhD in physical chemistry. Thi s past summer she spent time in Korea on an NSF mini-fellowship on titanium dioxide and metal sulfide nanocrystal synthesis. In October she will start at Virginia Tech in a post doctorate fellowship to do research on the interactions between bacteria and nanocrystals, as applied to natural environmental

Christian S. Tonsgard [96) ted with a B.A. from Lexi (12 yrs. old), and Christopher (2 yrs. old) Comptoll Monmouth College, and L-_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _, -,--_ _ _ _--' a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design as a studio artist.

[Mackal] class. The class had already His favorite MPA memory is the homefinished a book, They call me Charlie. coming soccer game and every sporting "The whole year, every time there was event versus Lab School. Christian will a quiz or a test I would say, "Mrs. be getting his MFA in ceramics at AriBogle [Mackal] do I have to answer the zona State.

He was married in August. questions on They call me Charlie, you The best men included Josh Hendel , do remember that I wasn ' t here the first Scott Campbell and Paul Stavropoulus. couple of weeks of school," by the end He makes his home and studio in Proviof the year she would start laughing dence, Rhode Island. before I reached her desk, because she knew the question was coming."

Lawrence White [81) and Priscilla celebrate the bilih of their son, Landon Akaash White, born July 2, 2006, weighing 5lbs. 2 oz. and 17.25 in. long.

Gretta [Heintz) Stables [93J married Scott Ian Stables in his hometown of Aberdeen , Scotland on February 25 , 2006.

Elham Abdishi [93) was Gretta ' s Maid of Honor. Gretta and Scott currently reside in Warrenville, Illinois.

The happy couple are expecting their first child in March 2007.

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Ramesh Srinivasan [98] and Victoria [Thompson] Srinivasan [98] were married on May 21, 2006 in Libertyville, IL. Victoria and Ramesh met while at MP A and attended Northwestern University together.

Ramesh graduated from the University ofMichigan Medical School in June and is now in the orthopaedic surgery residency program. Victoria is working on her D.D.S degree at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry.

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Ben Kalafut [991 writes: "For those who don't know already, I am working on my PhD in Arizo na, being a biophysics lab rat."

Sheneah Taylor [OIl writes: I am presently a social worker in New Jersey. I have to complete two years of internship there.

After which, I plan to attend Grad School to get my Masters Degree in public health/ psychology. While working [am still traveling, spreading the word and the knowledge of the AIDS virus.

As far as future plans, I don't think that I will ever live in Chicago again. [have fallen in love with the East Coast and plan to make this my home, so far. My favorite MPA memory is being on the girls' basketball team and all the fun we had traveling with Mr. Drahozal and the nickname he gave me, "Chalupa" because when we would stop at Taco Bell after the games, I would have six of them to go.

I to r: Joyce Crowe [44}, Pete Monzures [64}, Bill Adams,

Rob Crist [70}, Warren Crist [63} and Robert Sayers [50}.

Sara [White} Grassi [ 71} and Donald Coller [70} in West LaFayette, Indiana.

Don is the Asst.

Athletic Director at Purdue.

The Office ofDevelopment and Alumni Affairs would like to thank everyone who participated in the all-school reunion 2006. The success ofthe weekend was in part due to a large number of volunteers that shared their time and talents with us. Your generosity will ensure the future advancement at Morgan Park Academy.

Lisa [KirkJ Bourke [81J - Alumni Affairs Coordinator

Elizabeth Seward [04], a sophomore equestrian studies major at the University of Findlay, recently performed in the university's musical Bells Are Ringing. Elizabeth also has been named to the dean's list.

Susan Springer, former French teacher.

Susan and her husband Michael live in Kansas City and have an apartment in the south of France on the Mediterranean where they spend most schoo l vacations and all summer.

Her son Ian (25) graduated from NYU , and is a writer for Comedy Central, Chapin (23) went to Syracuse and is an actor in New York City (most recently on the Guiding Light).

Susan still teaches French and Spanish at a middle school.

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IU Gretta (Heintz) Stables [93J married Scott Ian Stables in his hometown of Aberdeen, Scotland on February 25, 2006. Gretta's Maid of Honor was Elham Abdishi [93J (seen on the right with Gretta). The happy couple are expecting their first child in March 2007.

Congratulations to Albert Richard [49} and his wife Shirley, who celebrated their 5(/" Wedding Anniversary in September, 2006.

Victoria [Thompson} Srinivasan [98} and Ramesh Srinivasan [98}, high school sweethearts, were married on May 21,2006 in Libertyville, Illinois.

Victoria and Ramesh met at MPA. (on left: Senior Prom picture, on right: wetlding picture).

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GROUNDBREAKING CEREMONY May 3, 2006

I to r: Lynda Pariso, Ald. Ginger Rugai, Susan Trefil [1966], lmre Boarden, Sydney Fishman [2012], Richard Duchossois [1940], Bill Adams "We are facing new chal lenges in the upcoming months in order to accomplish the transition to a new era here at MPA for the building of our new athletic complex. It's significantly more than just a new building. This complex represents the success of raising the capital funds that are needed to support the challenges of our Mission".

- Bill Adams, Head of School

"We are very proud of all that Morgan Park Academy does for the community," said 19th Ward Ald. Ginger Rugai. "I'm very happy for the school that they will be getting this great new building."

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Ald. Ginger Rugai, Beverly Review

"Our students deserve a campus that supports the world class education they receive at MPA"

"Morgan Park is unique in today's educational environment in that its core values are rooted in the finest traditions of our shared American heritage. I'm very proud of my alma mater and support their efforts. I hope all of its alumni and friends will do the same."

- Imre BOG/'den Campaign Chair, Parent

- Richard Duchossois [40}

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Two MILLION REASONS TO CELEBRATE!

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MORGAN PARK ACADEMY REACHES A FUNDRAISING MILESTONE IN OUR 133路YEAR HISTORY

Thanks to alumni, parents, faculty, staff and friends of Morgan Park Academy, we kicked-off the 2006-2007 Annual Giving Fund appeal with a celebration of our most successful fundraising year ever in the 133 year history of the school.

Over the course of last year, we raised more than $2 Million through the Annual Giving Fund appeal, the Building on Tradition Campaign, Salute to Excellence and contributions to endowment.

Alumni, parents, faculty, staff and friends joined in celebration of this milestone achievement at the "Two Million Reasons to Celebrate Cocktail Reception" at Morgan Park Academy on Friday, October 13, 2006. This fun filled event was hosted by the Bertoletti family. Deborah, Lou, Joseph [95], John [96], Sheila [98], Patrick [03], and Susan [03] are all part of the rich MPA history. In addition to Deborah's legacy as president of the board of trustees and her continued commitment as a Board member, the family has hosted a thank you party for co:ptributors to Morgan Park Academy's Annual Giving Appeal for many years. Their incredible hospitality, Cajun style cooking and musical talent are a Morgan Park Academy tradition.

As we strive to increase success in 2006-2007 , the department of development and alumni affairs hopes to meet with a record number of members of the MPA community in an effort to share our vision for the future of Morgan Park Academy, as well as gather valuable input and increase participation. If you would like to hear more about the campus master plan, the purpose of annual giving, the progress of the Building on Tradition Capital Campaign and ways in which you can playa role in the future of MPA, we would love to hear from you. Please contact us today at 773-881-6700 ext. 268 to set-up an appointment with a member of the Development and Alumni Affairs Department.

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SALUTE TO EXCELLENCE 2007 "City Lights, Starry Night"

Saturday, March 10, 2007 at the Adler Planetarium

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Morgan Park Academy is delighted to announce that Salute to Excellence 2007 will be held at the Adler Planetarium, one of Chicago's premiere lakefront venues . Please join us for an exciting evening of out-of-this-world food and drink, dancing and live and silent auctions to benefit the Academy.

Co-chairs for Salute 2007 are Sonia Koht and Malinda Steele, proud parents of both alumni and members of the class of 2007. Sonia and Malinda and a star-studded event committee have poured countless hours of time and effort to plan our biggest fundraiser of the year and invite you to support this effort through volunteer participation, sponsorship, auction donations and ad purchases. Your involvement is a key to our success A heavenly VIP reception will be held during the event for our sponsors, underwriters and stellar supporters. To find out how to reserve your place among the stars, contact Paulette Boyd, Special Events Coordinator @ 773-881-5117 ext. 230 or visit the MPA website at www.morganparkacademy.org and click on "Support MPA" to download Salute forms and information.

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Z005-06~~ Building on Tradition Capital Campaign This list contains the names of donors who contributed or pledged their support since the beginning of the Capital Campaign through June 30, 2006

*Trustee

$1,000,000 and Above Mr. Richard Duchossois [40]

$500,000 - $999,000 Members of the Classes of [61] - [67] In Memory of Andrew Bitta

$100,000 - $499,999 Anonymous * Anonymous Alumnus Mr. William and Mrs. Mary Lou Mastro Salute to Excellence 2003-2006 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Story and David Story In Memory of Edwin Gausselin [29] Mr. and Mrs. George Venturella

$50,000 - $99,999 Anonymous* Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth Bielinski The Crist Family [63] [70] [71] Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Kenny Mr. Louis [48] and Mrs. Virginia [Hess] [49] Kole Mr. Richard* and Mrs. Lisa Nichols Mr. Kenneth [63] and Mrs. Linda Mortenson

$25,000 - $49,999 Mr. and Mrs. J. William Adams Dr. Anil and Mrs. Shashi* Agarwal Mr. and Mrs. Khaled Akkawi Mr. and Mrs. John Atkinson Dr. Terrence Bartolini & Dr. Carol Braun Dr. Wilfred and Mrs. Imre * Boarden Mr. Harold [52]and Mrs. Mary Helen Boex Hammond, Beeby, Rupert, Ainge, Inc. Mr. David and Dr. Maria Hibbs Mr. William Hickey [71] & Mrs. Leslie Shimmin-Hickey [72] Dr. John Keane & Dr. Shirley Maides-Keane

Drs. Anil & Sunita Kothari Mr. Minas* and Mrs. Stasia Litos Mr. Howard [64] and Mrs. Sharron Meyer Mr. Fred [64] and Mrs. Michele Montgomery Mr. Joel and Mrs. Wanda* Pelz In Memory of Basilo and Tomasa Casado Mr. AI* and Mrs. Anne Petkus Mr. Rajeev [84] and Mrs. Tanuja Rathi Mr. Sanjeev [83] and Mrs. Sapna Rathi Dr. and Mrs. Antanas Razma Mr. Michael and Mrs. Lora* Salerno Mr. Vijay and Dr. Priti Singh Mr. Aloysius Stonitsch & Mrs. Helen Witt Mr. James Tuthill [71] Mr. Edward and Mrs. Greta* Wimp

$10,000 - $24,999 The Baum Family Mr. Louis and Mrs. Deborah* Bertoletti Chicago Community Trust Mr. Robert and Mrs. Sharon Eichinger Mr. Michael Flannery & Ms. Susan Larson Mr. and Mrs. Paul Fuller Mr. Jeffrey Gilbert* & Ms. Malinda Steele Dr. and Mrs. Richard Green Kellogg Corporation Dr. and Mrs. Ajit Kumar Mr. Leonard [75] and Mrs. Ilene LeRose Mr. Irwin [40] and Mrs. Elizabeth Martin Mr. Peter Monzures [64] Mr. Thomas* and Mrs. Suzanne Olivieri Mr. Carl* and Mrs. Karyn Pettigrew Mr. Irv Ruder Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Sheppard

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Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Sipich Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Thomas Mr. Phillip* and Mrs. Mary Ann Vasquez

$5,000 - $9,999 Mr. Robert [67] and Mrs. Iona Beatty Mr. and Mrs. Ronney Deanes Dr. William Earman Mr. Francis [48] and Mrs. Dolores Flynn Generations Barbecue Company Mr. David [Deceased] and Mrs. Leora Jones Mr. and Mrs. Jack Jucewicz Mr. and Mrs. Edward McGunn Ms. Lynda Pariso Dr. and Mrs. M. Nabil Shabeeb Dr. and Mrs. Mark Slaughter Mr. and Mrs. Mariano Sori-Marin Mrs. Melissa M. Wall Mr. Michael Wojtyla & Ms. Lynne Kerger Ms. Linda Wolgamott*

Up to $4,999 Anonymous Mrs. Madonna Abdishi [63] Mr. Ronald Aitchison [57] Mr. DeWayne Anderson [54] Mr. John Bacino [54] Mr. Jack Borok [64] Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Boyd Mr. Douglas Braun [65] Mr. Richard Bright Mr. Frank Caravette [54] Mr. William* and Mrs. Patricia Collins Mr. Keith Cunliffe [66] Mr. and Mrs. Michael Danis Dr. Michael Davenport & Mrs. Loretta Hopkins-Davenport Mr. John Drennan [54] Mr. Stephen* and Mrs. Mary Kay Driscoll Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Dryjanski Mr. Stanley Eigelberner [54]

Mr. and Mrs. John E. Erdahl Mr. and Mrs. Mark Erzen Dr. Don Fishman & Dr. Elizabeth Allen Sydney Fishman [2012] Dr. John Fitzgerald [54] Mr. Karion Fitzpatrick [47] Mr. and Mrs. Harry Fleming Mr. Steven and Mrs. Sara [White] [71] Grassi Mr. Robert Hartman [54] Mr. Alex Hibbs [02] Mr. Charles [59] aand Mrs. Karren [Rodighier] [60] Junkunc Mr. David and Mrs. Gail [Scruggs] [69] Lauryn Dr. Richard Lewis Rachel Lindsey, Ph.D. Mr. and Mrs. Roger Lis

Mr. Greg Lochow* Mr. and Mrs. Charles Long Mr. George Mahon [54] Mr. Thomas Malcolm Ms. Susan Mangels* Mr. James Meck [SO] Mr. and Mrs. Niko Mourgelas MPA Fathers' Club MPMA Class of 1954 Mr. Marc Odier & Mrs. Marilyn Hanzal Rev. William O'Donnell Mr. and Mrs. Thomas O'Neill Estate of Charles Pagels [40] People's Gas Mr. and Mrs. Cornel Raab Mr. and Mrs. Rodd Rasmussen Dr. and Mrs. Gerardo Reyes Mr. Michael Rogers [69]

R.W. Collins Company, Inc. Mr. Richard A. Sack [65] Mr. L. Mikael [71] and Mrs. Beth Salovaara Mr. John [61]and Mrs. Cynthia Stack Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Taft Mrs. Susan L. [Shimmin] Trefil [66] Mr. and Mrs. John Tubutis Mr. Peter Voss [54] Dr. and Mrs. Jesse Wardlow Mr. Howard [40] and Mrs. Shirley [44] Weckel Mr. Mark*[79] and Mrs. Jeri Wiegel Mr. Pearson Williams [58] Master Donald Williams[16] Mr. and Mrs. Kurt Williamson Miss Shelby Williams [18]

Designated Gifts David Jones Memorial Mr. and Mrs. J. William Adams Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Becker Mr. Donald [70] and Mrs. Ann [Yardley] [72] Coller Mr. Brad Davis and Mrs. Irene McCormick-Davis Mr. and Mrs. Casey Doherty Mrs. Katherine Draper Mr. and Mrs. Robert Eichinger Mr. and Mrs. James Fitch Mr. and Mrs. Tony Jarvis Franklin, Cardwell & Jones University Place Residents' Association Boyer & Ketchand Mr. Michael [60] and Mrs. Brenda McClure Mr. and Mrs. William Morrison Ms. Barbara Neiser Mr. and Mrs. William Patejdl Mr. and Mrs. Rodd Rasmussen Smith Village Madame Martha Swift [52] and Mr. Dean Miller Mr. and Mrs. James Tuthill Dr. Jeff [70] and Mrs. Lisa Unger Mr. David Weinfield [79] Mr. and Mrs. Donald Williams

Claudette LeRose Scholarship Fund Ms. Claire Concannon [85] Mrs. Leora "Lee" Jones Mrs. Cynthia Layer [76] Mr. and Mrs. Mark Linnerud Ms. Diane Nippoldt [77] Mr. David Wilkinson [77]

Francis Gray Scholarship Fund Dr. Calvin Johnson [46] Martha G. Moore Foundation

Special Projects Dr. Anil and Mrs. Shashi* Agarwal

Martin Wolf Scholarship Fund Ms. Claire Concannon [85] Mrs. Mary [Resman] Guthrie [82] Ms. Carrie Swearingen [82]

Gifts In Kind Accurate Printing Dr. Anil and Mrs. Shashi* Agarwal Mr. Trevett Allen Mr. Stuart Baum Bella Flowers & Greenhouse Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bollacker

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Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Churchill Mrs. Mary Lou Costin Ms. Margaret Fitzpatrick MPA Fathers' Club MPA Mothers' Club Mrs. Diane Freer Mr. David and Dr. Maria Hibbs Jenner & Block JohnsBryne Company Ms. Alice Keane Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Kenton Kirkland & Ellis LargerPond, Inc. Mr. Minas Litos* Mr. and Mrs. Ernesto Lizardi Mr. and Mrs. Charles Long Mr. Thomas Malcolm Mr. and Mrs. Terence Raser Mr. and Mrs. Rodd Rasmusen Ms. Susan Robertson Mr. Michael Rogers [69] R. W. Collins Company, Inc. Mr. Michael and Mrs. Lora* Salerno Mr. and Mrs. Michael Schmidt Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Sipich Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Taft Mr. Mark [79J and Mrs. Jeri Wiegel Mr. Bruce Willette and Ms. Linda Kurut

Annual Giving Fund Gifts received July I, 2005 through June 30, 2006

Founder's Circle [510,000 +] Mr. Richard Duchossois [40] Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Story

Headmaster's Circle [55,00059,999] Mr. and Mrs. J. William Adams Anonymous* Mr. Kenneth Mortenson [63]

Benefactor's Circle [52,50054,999] Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr.

and Mrs. William Mastro Richard* and Mrs. Lisa Nichols and Mrs. James Smith Walter Snodell [62]

Millennium Circle [51,00052,499] Dr. Surendra and Dr. Sunitha Avula Mr. and Mrs. Michael Bertucci Dr. Wilfred and Mrs. Imre* Boarden Dr. James Bray & Dr. Linda Janus Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cantrell Mr. Robert Carpenter [73] Mr. Michael Ceranski and Mrs. Diane Schule Dr. Randall Davenport Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Driscoll Mr. and Mrs. Robert Eichinger Mr. and Mrs. Mark Erzen Mr. Jerome Frazel & Mrs. Nancy Wilder Mr. Jeffrey Gilbert* & Ms. Malinda Steele Mr. Joseph Grassi [43] Illinois Tool Works Mr. and Mrs. Jack Jucewicz Mr. Louis Kole [48] & Mrs. Virginia Hess-Kole [49] Mr. William Kwan [49] Mr. Ara Lapinskas [89] Mr. David and Mrs. Gail [Scruggs] Lauryn [69] Dr. Richard Lewis Mr. and Mrs. Thomas O'Neill Mr. Richard Patrick & Dr. Nanette

J ames-Patrick Mr. and Mrs. Richard Pellar Mr. Joel and Mrs. Wanda* Pelz Mr. Albert* and Mrs. Anne Petkus Mr. and Mrs. Rodd Rasmussen Dr. Mark Reiter & Dr. Kathleen Ward Mr. and Mrs. Gerry Ring Dr. and Mrs. Mark Slaughter Mr. Ralph Steinbarth [81] Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Taft Mr. M. Lee Tew [48] Mr. Jerome Thrall [44] Dr. and Mrs. Dinker Trivedi Mr. and Mrs. Dean Vallas Mr. and Mrs. George Venturella Dr. Linda Weinfield [76] Mr. Mark* [79] and Mrs. Jeri Wiegel Mr. and Mrs. Donald Witte

Academy Partner [5500-5999] Mr. Hama Amadou and Mrs. Debra Christian-Amadou Mrs. Harriet Arnold Mr. William Arnold [02] Mr. Asa Bacon [44] Dr. Terrence Bartolini & Dr. Carol Braun Mr. Louis and Mrs. Deborah* Bertoletti Mr. and Mrs. David Bird Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bollacker Mr. James Bremer & Ms. Margaret O'Brien-Bremer Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Roger Brewin Mr. and Mrs. David Case Mr. and Mrs. Javier Casimiro Mr. William* and Mrs. Patricia Collins Ms. Claire Concannon [85] Mrs. Mary Lou Costin Mr. and Mrs. John Craven Dr. and Mrs. Juanito Dalisan Mr. and Mrs. Michael Danis Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Doherty Dr. C. Elise Duffy Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Edwards

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Dr. Arvind Gandhi and Dr. Jayshree Bhatt Mr. Michael [83] and Mrs. Lisa Giglio Ms. Elizabeth Gradle Mr. Steve and Mrs. Sara [White] Grassi [71] Mr. David and Dr. Maria Hibbs Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Hoyles Mr. Darrell Jackson and Dr. Valencia Ray Dr. and Mrs. John Kalapurakal Ms. Alice Keane Kirkland & Ellis Dr. and Mrs. Antoun Koht Dr. Muhammad Kudaimi & Dr. Randa Loutfi Mr. and Mrs. Mark Linnerud Mr. and Mrs. Charles Long Mr. and Mrs. Bennett Lum Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Maloney Dr. and Mrs. Allan Olthoff Mr. and Mrs. Scott Panozzo Mr. and Mrs. David Perry Mr. and Mrs. Terence Raser Dr. and Mrs. Donald Reed Dr. Louis Rutland & Mrs. Tara Tillman-Rutland Mr. Michael and Mrs. Lora* Salerno Mr. and Mrs. Mariano Sori-Marin Mr. and Mrs. Steve Swine a Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Thomas Mr. and Mrs. Paul Thompson Mr. and Mrs. John Tubutis Mr. James Tuthill [71] Mr. Hobart Van Deventer [39] Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Vasquez Mr. and Mrs. Ignatius Villasenor Mr. and Mrs. Robert Volkmann Mrs. Melissa Wall Mr. and Mrs. Claude Williams Mr. and Mrs. Donald Williams Mr. Edward and Mrs. Greta* Wimp

Century Club [5100-5499] Mr. and Mrs. Zaher Abbasi Mr. John Aberson [47]

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Dr. Anil and Mrs. Shashi* Agarwal Ms. Michelle Alfano-Ortiz Ms. Shara [Harris] Allen [95] Dr. and Mrs. Sherriff Alli-Ballogun Dr. and Mrs. Hassan Alzein Mr. Dominic Amadio [59] Mr. Donald Badziong [42] Mr. and Mrs. John Bakker Dr. Garfield Batchelor & Dr. Minakshi Joshi Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Baum Mr. and Mrs. Gary Bell Mr. Mark Berry and Dr. Gabrielle Bosely-Berry Mr. Stanley Balzekas [43] Ms. Mary Bochenek Ms. Joyce Bonner Mr. William and Mrs. Lisa [Kirk] [81] Bourke Ms. Dawn Bowe Mr. Robert Bowyer [46] Mr. and Mrs. Abi Boxwalla Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Boyd Mr. James [79] and Mrs. Ting Ting Branit Mr. and Mrs. Pete Breakey Dr. Marian Brinker-Williamson Dr. and Mrs. Larry Brown Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Brown, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Melvin Bunn Mr. and Mrs. Jim Byczek Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Cabrera Mr. and Mrs. James Callihan Mr. Donald Carner [35] Mr. Edward Cerny [37] Dr. and Mrs. S. Josiah Chan Dr. Sandeep Chandra & Dr. Madhulika Saxena Dr. and Mrs. Muhammad Chishty Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Churchill Mr. and Mrs. David Clanton Mr. and Mrs. James Cleary Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Clott Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Collins Ms. Ellen Concannon [99] Mr. Charles Cresap [52] Mr. and Mrs. Michael Crispo Ms. Adriana Cuevas Mr. and Mrs. John Cummings Mr. Keith Cunliffe [66] Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Daker Mr. and Mrs. Fred Danielewicz Ms. Merry Demko

Mr. Allen DeNormandie [65] Mr. and Mrs. John Devens Mr. and Mrs. Denis Doherty Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Donahue Ms. Joyce Donaly Dr. Gregory Dumanian [79] Dr. Marlon and Dr. Michele Everett Mr. Karion Fitzpatrick [47] Mr. and Mrs. Harry Fleming Mr. Patrick Folliard Ms. Kareem Franck Mr. and Mrs. Leo Frontera Mr. William Gaps [52] Mr. Gerald Gately [80] Capt. J. Robert Gilbert [45] Mr. and Mrs. Clarke Gillespie Mr. and Mrs. Richard Gould Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Grant Ms. Dana Green [67] Mr. Stephen Grice [56] Mr. Steven Griesbach and Ms. Diane Berkowitz-Griesbach Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Guest Dr. Mehmet and Dr. Yesim Gulecyuz Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Hampton Mr. Edward Haney [58] Ms. Carole Hanzyk Mr. and Mrs. Michael Hardesty Mr. and Mrs. Jamal Hassan Mr. Paul Hease & Mrs. Carol McGury Mr. and Mrs. John Higgins Dr. Walter Hofman [50] Mr. John Hom [69] Mr. Michael Hyatt & Mrs. LaVonia Ousley-Hyatt Dr. and Mrs. Mahmoud Ismail Dr. Edward Johnson [55] Mr. Erin Johnson Mr. Charles [59] & Mrs. Karren [Rodighier] [60] Junkunc Mr. James Kallianis and Mrs. Andrea Lieberman-Kallianis Mr. and Mrs. Edward Kaspar Mr. William Keefer [43] Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kemp Mr. Jay Kennedy [55] Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Kenny Mr. and Mrs. Sean Kenny Ms. Yolanda King Dr. John Kitch [51] Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Klawitter Mr. Mark Klein [55]

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Mr. James Kowalsky & Dr. Vicki Williams Mr. Donald Kreger [47] Mr. George Kumis [66] Mr. and Mrs. Robert Larson Mr. Charles Lay and Mrs. Pamela Phillips Dr. and Mrs. Joseph LeBlanc Ms. Cheryl LeBlanc Mr. Jerome Levin [45] Mr. Anthony Lewis Mr. and Mrs. Minas Litos Mr. Greg Lochow* Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Lockard Ms. Mary Lynch Mr. and Mrs. George Macey Mr. Kenneth Mack [58] Mr. Frank Major [42] Mr. Thomas Malcolm Ms. Susan Mangels Mr. and Mrs. Michael Marmo Mrs. Virginia Maurey Uoseph [34] deceased] Mr. Michael McClure [60] Mr. James McDonald and Mrs. Sheila Mcdonald Ms. Connie McGee Mr. and Mrs. Mark McLawhorn Ms. Candace McMillan-Wolf Mr. and Mrs. Kevin McQuillan Mr. and Mrs. Garrett Messmaker Ms. Carol Metzcus Mr. Herman Miller & Mrs. Kimberly Battle-Miller Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Mocarski Mr. and Mrs. Niko Mourgelas Mr. Timothy Murnane [83] Mrs. Claudia [Pridjian] Nazarian [78] Dr. and Mrs. Chiedu Nchekwube Ms. Susan Oczkowski Mr. Thomas* and Mrs. Suzanne Olivieri Mr. and Mrs. Jon Olsen Ms. Barbara O'Malley Dr. and Mrs. Kaushik Pandya Dr. and Mrs. Dilipkumar Parikh Mr. Theodore Paris [86] Mr. Carl* and Mrs. Karyn Pettigrew Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pietrus Dr. and Mrs. Mohammad Razzaque Mr. and Mrs. Liam Reardon Mr. and Mrs. Jeffry Reckinger Ms. Robyne Robinson [79]

Mr. Guy Rohe [68] Ms. Joy Rooker-McLaurin Mr. and Mrs. Edward Rosa Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell Rosen Dr. David Rosi [67] Mr. Robert Rosi [68] Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ruiz Mr. Edward Rund [61] Mr. William Rundle [47] Deceased Ms. Kathleen Ryan Mr. Richard Sabatini Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Sarabia Mr. and Dr. Asif Sayeed Mr. John Scheuneman [55] School Pop Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Scott Mr. William Semmer [71] Mr. and Mrs. John Sheehy Mr. and Mrs. Jacek Skawiniak Dr. Leon Slota & Dr. Susan Lambert Mr. Alden Smith [55] Mr. Stephen Smith & Mrs. Charlotte Harrison-Smith Mr. and Mrs. Terrence Smith Mr. William Smith Mr. and Mrs. William Somers Mr. and Mrs. Steven Sorfleet Lt. Col. Robert Spong [41] Mr. William Springer [61] Mr. Bernard Steuber [52] Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sullivan Mr. and Mrs. Moqueet Syed Mr. and Mrs. Jovan Tica Mrs. Susan [Shimmin] Trefil [66]* Mr. Julius Tucker & Mrs. Jennifer Holt-Tucker Dr. Jeff Unger [70] Union Pacific Railroad Dr. Hardarshan and Dr. Bhupinder Valia Dr. and Mrs. Michael VanderWeele Mr. H. Lincoln Vehmeyer [47] Mr. Theodore Vlahos [45] Mr. Peter Voss [54] Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Walker Mr. James Wallace and Mr. Colin McFarland Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Wallenstein Mr. Kevin Waller & Mrs. Jean Roche Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Walton Mr. John Wass [65] Mr. Eudell Watts and Mrs. Julie Culberson-Watts

Mrs. Sarah Webb Mr. Harry Williams Ms. LaJuanese Williams Dr. Mark Williams and Dr. Stephanie Whyte Ms. Beata Wodziak [05] Mr. and Mrs. Wladyslaw Wodziak Mr. Steven and Dr. Cheryl Wolfe Mr. and Mrs. Guy Wolgamott Ms. Linda Wolgamott* Mrs. Dana [Sasso] Wright [96] Mr. James Xeros and Mrs. Georgia Petropoulos Mr. Julius Zschau [57]

Academy Friend [Up to $99] Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Adamson Ms. Farah Baqai Mr. Sean Barnes and Mrs. Kimberly Pickens-Barnes Mr. Eric Bell and Mrs. Sherry Grutzius Ms. Karen Butler [80] Mr. and Mrs. Terry Chambers Mrs. Carol [Patejdl] Coston [75] Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Cullina Ms. Cynthia De Bois-Davis Mr. Mark Dinos [95] In Memory of Lorraine D'Louhy Ms. Kimberly Duffek [77] In Memory of John Eichinger Mr. Kevin Kirwan-Farmers Insurance Agency Dr. Don Fishman & Dr. Elizabeth Allen Mr. Charles Fitzgerald & Mrs. Mary Ellen Dennehy Ms. Margaret Fitzpatrick Ms. Tamara Frazier Mr. Philip Freund [42] Mrs. Deborah [Wagner] Fuhlbrugge [73] Mrs. Jodi [Kapjon] Gaertner [93] Mr. Robert Gamble [48] Ms. Effie Gatsinos [04] Ms. Peggy Gatsinos [00] Mrs. Mary [Resman] Guthrie [82] Ms. Wendy Heilman [89] Dr. and Mrs. Kurt Hendel Mr. and Mrs. Gnomon Johnson Dr. Terry Johnson [50] Mr. Bennet Kalafut [99] Mr. Raja Kandala [83]

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Mr. and Mrs. Martin King Dr. and Mrs. Antoun Koht Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Kouba Ms. Jennifer Kraft [86] Mr. and Mrs. Barry Kritzberg Mrs. Cynthia [Kliros] Layer [76] Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Lazo Dr. and Mrs. Robert Marquis Mr. Peter Matson [67] Mr. and Mrs. Donald McGrath Mrs. Carol (Wolk] McPherson [63] Mr. Robert Morrow & Mrs. Patricia Haynes MPA Mothers' Club Mr. Marc Odier & Mrs. Marilyn Hanzal Mr. James Orphan [49] Mr. and Mrs. Mario Ortiz Ms. Karen Page Ms. Lynda Pari so Mr. Tapan Patel Dr. William Petty and Dr. Kathryn Bielik Ms. Deborah Uurado] Pietrus [92] Mr. Richard Price [44] Mr. and Mrs. Reno Provine Ms. Ellen Rasmussen [00] Mrs. Ellen (Weiss] Rissman [71] Mrs. Julie [Coffeen] Rudawsky [70] Mr. and Mrs. Tim Scolan Col. Wellington Smith, Ret. [32] Ms. Anna Stange Mr. Ricardo Tostado & Mrs. Jacqueline Cibils Ms. Kruti Trivedi [96] In Memory of Walter Tubutis Mrs. Bonnie [Kistner] Wefler [45] Ms. Bonnie Yap [99]

Z005-06~~ Salute to Excellence 2006 Diamond Society [$10,000 +] Mr. Richard Duchossois [40] Mr. and Mrs. James Seward

Platinum Society [$5,000 +] Mr. and Mrs. Michael Bertucci Dr. and Mrs. Raffy Hovanessian Mr. Richard* and Mrs. Lisa Nichols Marina Cartage, Inc. Mat Leasing, Inc.

Gold Society [$2,500 +] Mr. and Mrs. J. William Adams Mrs. Helen Ayers Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth Bielinski Mr. and Mrs. Paul Fuller Mr. Jeffrey Gilbert* & Ms. Malinda Steele Mr. and Mrs. William Mastro Mr. James McDonald Mr. and Mrs. Edward McGunn Mr. and Mrs. Cornel Raab Mr. Irv Ruder Dr. and Mrs. M. Nabil Shabeeb Mr. and Mrs. James Smith Dr. and Mrs. Rhay Street Ms. Linda Wolgamott*

de la Paz-Hansen Mr. Darrell Jackson and Dr. Valencia Ray Mr. and Mrs. Jack Jucewicz Dr. Anil & Dr. Sun ita Kothari Mr. Leonard [75] and Mrs. Ilene LeRose Mr. Minas* and Mrs. Stasia Litos Mr. and Mrs. Michael Marmo MPA Salute Women Mr. Joel and Mrs. Wanda* Pelz Mr. and Mrs. David Perry Mr. Carl* and Mrs. Karyn Pettigrew Mr. Lewis Putman Dr. and Mrs. Antanas Razma Mr. and Mrs. Gerry Ring Mr. Aloysius Stonitsch & Mrs. Helen Witt Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Taft Mr. Jerome Thrall [44] Mrs. Susan [Shimmin] Trefil [66]* Mr. and Mrs. John Tubutis Mr. and Mrs. George Venturella Dr. Samir Wassef & Dr. Wafaa Hanna Mr. Edward and Mrs. Greta* Wimp

Bronze Society [$500 +] Silver Society [$1,000 +] Dr. Anil and Mrs. Shashi* Agarwal Mrs. Tara [Brigham] Allen [86] Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Baum Dr. Bill and Mrs. Imre* Boarden Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Bolden Mr. James Bremer & Ms. Margaret O'Brien-Bremer Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cantrell Mr. Tom Carey Anonymous* Crown Corr Mr. and Mrs. Ronney Deanes Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Dryjanski Mr. and Mrs. George Eck Dr. Don Fishman & Dr. Elizabeth Allen Mr. and Mrs. Harry Fleming Mr. James Hansen & Mrs. Roseann

Ms. Michelle Alfano-Ortiz Mr. Hama Amadou and Mrs. Debra Christian-Amadou Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Beckham Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bollacker Mr. and Mrs. Jim Byczek Mr. William* and Mrs. Patricia Collins Mr. and Mrs. John Craven Mr. and Mrs. Fred Danielewicz Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Doherty Mr. Dave Bonnan and Ms. Jean [79] Doyle Mr. and Mrs. Robert Eichinger Mr. and Mrs. Russ Fishman Mr. Michael Flannery & Ms. Susan Larson Mr. Michael [83] and Mrs. Lisa Giglio

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Mr. Joseph Grassi [43] Mr. and Mrs. Jamal Hassan Mr. David and Dr. Maria Hibbs Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Hoyles Mrs. Ani [Hovanessian] Kasparian [88] Ms. Alice Keane Dr. John Keane & Dr. Shirley Maides-Keane Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Kenton Dr. and Mrs. Antoun Koht Mr. James Kowalsky & Dr. Vicki Williams Mr. George Kumis [66] Dr. Richard Lewis Mr. and Mrs. Matt Maloney Midwest Anesthesiologists, Ltd. MPA Mothers' Club Mr. Marc Odier & Mrs. Marilyn Hanzal Mrs. and Mr. Karen O'Neill Mr. Jeffrey Ortmann Dr. and Mrs. Kaushik Pandya Dr. Audrius and Dr. Sigitia Plioplys Project Quality Assurance Mr. and Mrs. Terence Raser Mr. and Mrs. Mark Slaughter Dr. Leon Slota & Dr. Susan Lambert Smith Village Mr. and Mrs. Mariano Sori-Marin Mr. M. Lee Tew [48] Mrs. Melissa Wall Mr. James Xeros and Mrs. Georgia Petropoulos

Gala Club [$100 +] Dr. and Mrs. Ismail Abbasi Aesthetica Chicago, LLC Alderman Ginger Rugai Ms. Elysabeth Alfano Ms. Adrienne Alton-Gust [86] Col. Allen Andreasen [47] Ms. Harriet Arnold Balemaster - Illinois Tool Mr. Daniel Baltierra Mr. Stanley Balzekas [43J Bankfinancial Mr. Sean Barnes and Mrs. Kimberly

Z005-06~~ Pickens-Barnes Batuta Secure Access, Llc Mr. Louis and Mrs. Deborah* Bertoletti Beverly Area Planning Association Mr. Jerry Bowden [57] Mr. and Mrs. Karn Boyajian Mrs. Anne [Wiegel] Boyd [55] Mr. William Braker [44] Mr. James [79] and Mrs. Ting Ting Branit Ms. Rosemary Brannin Dr. and Mrs. Larry Brown Ms. Cicely Bryar Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Bryar Dr. George Bryar & Ms. Nancy Reilly Dr. James Butler [86] Mr. Thomas Byrne Mr. Theodore Carlson [67] Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Catania Center for Pych Services Mr. Raman Chopra [86] Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Churchill Mr. and Mrs. David Clanton Mr. and Mrs. Ted Cohen Mrs. Edna Coleman Columbia College Chicago Columbus Auto Rebuilders Ms. Claire Concannon [85] Ms. Hope Concannon [86] Connections Learning Cneter Mr. John Connolly Mr. David Cuadros [86] and Dr. Susana Ugarte [91] Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Daker Mr. Richard Driscoll Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Driscoll Mr. Ronald Drynan [79] Dugan & Lopatka CPA's PC Mr. Tom Eck Everything's Relative Ms. Margaret Fitzpatrick Mr. and Mrs. Harry Fleming Ms. Goldie Fleming Mr. Francis Flynn [48] Mr. Keith Frank [71] Mr. and Mrs. John Gallagher Mr. William Gaps [52] Mr. F. Morgan Gasior [81] Mr. John Gavin George J. Roll & Sons, Inc. Dr. Charles Getz [42] Capt. J. Robert Gilbert [45J

Ms. Dana Green [67] Mr. Steven Griesbach and Ms. Diane Berkowitz-Griesbach Mr. Eric Bell and Mrs. Sherry Grutzius Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Guest Mr. Jack Hallberg Ltc. Charles Hart [56] Mr. David Guido and Mrs. Sara Haskins Mr. David Hechler [86] Ms. Patricia Hibbs Ms. and Ms. Nicole Hill John Sheehy & Sons Funeral Home Johnson, Jones, Snelling, Gilbert & Davis Dr. Manu Kacker [86] Mr. James Kallianis and Mrs. Andrea Lieberman -Kallianis Dr. Lisa Karaitis [86] Mr. and Mrs. Robert Keelan Mr. Julius Kern [38] Ms. Sarah Kim-Thompson [86] Mr. Scott King [86] Kinsale Properties, LLC Mr. Edward Kole [53] Mr.and Mrs. Leonard Kosinski Ms. Jennifer Kraft [86] Mr. Donald Kreger [47] Mr. and Mrs. Ray Kurut Mr. William Kwan [49] Ms. Keri Larson Ms. Jill Larson Mr. Adam LaTour [86] Mr. David and Mrs. Gail [Scruggs] [69] Lauyrn Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Lazo Dr. Rachel Lindsey* Mr. and Mrs. Mark Linnerud Mr. William Liptak [49] Little Company of Mary Hospital Little Lamb Scholastic Academy Mr. Greg Lochow* Mr. and Mrs. George Macey Mr. Kenneth Mack [58] Mr. Melvin Maclin [86] Dr. Melanye Maclin [86] Mr. George Mahon [54] Mahon and Calderone Mr. Thomas Malcolm Ms. Susan Mangels Mr. and Mrs. William Manley Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Marmo

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Mr. Peter Matson [67] Ms. Connie McGee Mr. and Mrs. Donald McGrath Mr. Ronald McGuire [55] Mr. James Meck [SO] Mr. Kelley Clute and Ms. Anne Melville Mr. Kenneth Mercury Dr. and Mrs. George Mesleh Dr. Sam Mikaelian Mr. Robert Montgomery [72] Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Morrissey MPA Fathers' Club Mr. and Mrs. Carleton Nolan Mr. Lawrence Novak [48] Dr. and Mrs. Allan Olthoff Mr. and Mrs. Mario Ortiz Mr. Jacob Ourada Mrs. Susanne [Gnilka] Panovich [72] Dr. and Mrs. DiIipkumar Parikh Ms. Lynda Pariso Patio Food Products, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Pellar Dr. Peter Perrotta & Dr. Sharon Kraus Mr. AI* and Mrs. Anne Petkus Mr. Carl Pettigrew Mr. Tony Pociask [40] Portia Mr. Thomas* and Mrs. Suzanne Olivieri Mrs. Jane [George] Przyborski [66] R. W. Collins Company, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Rodd Rasmusen Ms. Ellen Rasmussen [00] Ms. Patricia Reyes [86] Mr. Dale Richards [81] Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell Rosen Mr. Robert Rosi [68] Salute Committee Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Sarabia Mr. and Dr. Asif Sayeed Mrs. Meg Simmerling-Faeh and Mr. Paul Faeh Mr. Joseph Simon [46] Ms. Verneta Simon [78] Col. Gene Simonson [45] Mrs. Charlotte [Welton] Singer [62] Mr. and Mrs. Jacek Skawiniak Dr. Catherine Slota-Varma Mr. and Mrs. William Somers Mr. and Mrs. John Somerville Somerville Design

l005-06~~ Mr. and Mrs. Steven Sorfleet Southwest Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ltd. Mr. William Springer [61] Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Springer Mr. Ralph Steinbarth [81] Steuber Florist - Mr. Bernard Steuber [52]

Mr. Ryan Stojkovich Structure Management Midwest, LIc Mr. and Mrs. Moqueet Syed Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Thomas Ms. Angenette Thomas Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Thomas Ms. Karen Tiljak Mr. Duane Timmons [59] Ms. Jean Tourville Dr. Luis and Dr. Alicia Ugarte Mr. Richardo Ugarte [86] Dr. Jeff Unger [70] Mr. Peter van der Sterre [63] Mr. Hobart Van Deventer [39] Mr. Harry Viezens [67] Mr. and Mrs. Ignatius Villasenor Mr. and Mrs. Robert Volkmann Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Walton Mr. Eudell Watts and Mrs. Julie Culberson-Watts Ms. Sarah Webb Ms. Nel White Thompson Mr. George Wiegel [77] Mrs. Janet Wiegel-Elmore [60] Mr. and Mrs. Donald Witte Mr. and Mrs. Wladyslaw Wodziak Mr. Steven and Dr. Cheryl Wolfe Mr. and Mrs. Carl Wolgamott Mrs. Dana [Sasso] Wright [96]

MPA Club [Up to $99] Mrs. A짜eeQ. [Hov~nessianl Agopian [92] Mr. Ronald Aitchison [95] Mrs. Margaret Allison Dr. Garfield Batchelor & Dr. Minakshi Joshi Mr. Carl Bibbs and Ms. Cheryl Jewell Mr. and Mrs. Abi Boxwalla Mr. and Mrs. Willie Carter County Fair Foods Mr. and Mrs. Dalyn Drown Mr. and Mrs. John Eichinger Mr. and Mrs. Mark Erzen Mr. Charles Fitzgerald & Mrs. Mary

Ellen Dennehy Ms. Goldie Fleming Florida Plastics International, Inc. Mr. Jerome Frazel & Mrs. Nancy Wilder Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Gagnon Dr. Arvind Gandhi and Dr. Jayshree Bhatt George Poulos & Associates, Photographers Ms. Maureen Gilligan Ms. Robin Goss [63] Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Grant Mr. and Mrs. James Harlow Mr. Paul Hease & Mrs. Carol McGury Mr. Robert Nolan and Mrs. Daryce Hoff-Nolan Mr. and Mrs. Matt Ingram Mr. and Mrs. Russell Ingram Ms. Alice Keane Dr. John Keane & Dr. Shirley Maides-Keane Mr. Brett Kleebauer MPA Student Council Mr. and Mrs. Barron Marschke Mr. Mark Mclawhorn Mr. Lonn Wolf and Dr. Candace McMillan-Wolf Messerle Architect Milano's Pizza Ortigara Musicville Ms. Karen Page Palos Sports Mr. and Mrs. Scott Panozzo Mr. Tapan Patel Petty & Bielik DDS Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pietrus Mr. and Mrs. Reno Provine Mr. and Mrs. Edward. Ro~a Mr. and Mrs. Micha~l Saierno Mr: Robert Shetler [46] Dr. Jaswinder and Dr. Kalyani Singh Mr. James Strenk [75] Suburban Bank & Trust Company Mr. and Mrs. Richard Szkarlat Mr. and Mrs. Knollys Thomas Mr. and Mrs. Jovan Tica Mr. Julius Tucker & Mrs. Jennifer Holt-Tucker Mr. and Mrs. Dean Vallas Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Walker Mrs. Sara [White] Grassi [71] Mr. James Wognum [63]

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Gifts In Kind Accurate Printing Mr. and Mrs. J. William Adams Dr. Anil and Mrs. Shashi* Agarwal Mr. and Mrs. Khaled Akkawi Mrs. Michelle Alfano-Ortiz Mr. Trevett Allen American Theater Company Armando Vasquez Spa & Hair Design Ms. Harriet Arnold Auburn Supply Company Bally Fitness Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Baum Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Beckham Bella Flowers & Greenhouse Benedictine University Mr. Louis and Mrs. Deborah* Bertoletti The Beverly Art Center Beverly Hills Car Wash Beverly Body Works, Inc. Beverly All Stars-Steve Thomas Beverly Woods Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth Bielinski Chicago Blackhawks Dr. Bill and Mrs. Imre* Boarden Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Boyd Mr. Jim Bremer and Mrs. Peggy O'Brien-Bremer Bridgestone/Firestone Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Bryar Mr. and Mrs. Alan [59] Canfield The Chicago Cubs Chicago Historical Museum Chicago State University Chipotle Mr. Tony Churchill Concannon Virieyards Country House Restaurant Court Theatre of the University of Chicago Mrs. Susan Craven Dairyland Greyhound Park The Dance Gallery Mrs. Karen Danielewicz Mrs. Lori Danis DePaul University Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Doherty Mrs. Jane Doherty Donald F. Doyle, D.D.S. Mr. Tom Drahozal and Mrs. Dianne Durham

Z005-06~~ Mr. Dalyn Drown Mr. Thomson Dryjanski [OS] Master Kyle Earman [09] East Bank Club Mr. and Mrs. Robert Eichinger Eli's Cheesecake Company Mr. Michael Flannery Mrs. Gloria Fleming The Four Seasons Hotel Mr. Glenn Gagnon Dr. Arvind Gandhi and Dr. Jayshree Bhatt Mrs. Elaine Gillies Glass Junkie Hands On! Children's Art Museum Harley Davidson-Donna Zarcone Mr. David and Dr. Maria Hibbs Dr. and Mrs. Raffy Hovanessian The Hyde Park Art Center Il Mulino Improv Olympic Mr. and Mrs. Russell Ingram Miss Natalie Ingram [10] Innisbrook Mrs. Tiffany [Lis] Insalaco [95] Mr. Oscar Isberian The John G. Sheed Aquarium JohnsBryne Company Mr. Erin Johnson K.A. Pridjian & Company Mr. Kermit Kelly [73] Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Kenny Klees Golf Shop Mr. and Mrs. Harry [59] Klein Mr. Mark Klein [55] M. Colleen Klimczak Dr. and Mrs. Antoun Koht Mr. James Kowalsky and Dr. Vicki Williams Lake Forest College Late Nite Catechism Mr. Fred Latsko Mrs. Maria Lazo Mr. Greg Lochow* Loews Cineplex Loyola University Luther College MAKJewelry!

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Stories of Morgan Park Military Atademy.

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Do you remember those long-ago days? Early morning formations and close-order drill, Saturday afternoon football games and the pure hell of being a plebe. Spit-shined shoes and polished brass, flying flags and fluttering guidons. Sunday parades, full-dress balls, and the never ending grind of studies. The joy of cars and girls and dreams of youth. Above all, the exciting, confusing, and always uncertain adventure of growing up and coming of age.

Sixteen heartwarming, often humorous stories that cover four decades of ritual, custom, and tradition at Morgan Park Military Academy, seen through the eyes of one legendary instructor...Capt.

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