Academy Magazine - November 2005

Morgan Park Academy Magazine Chicago, Illinois 60643

November 200S

A Campaign for the Future of Morgan Park Academy

VIEW FROM NORTHEAST CORNER (as of September 30, 2005)

Morgan Park Academy Magazine November 200S

Chicago, Illinois 60643

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About the cover:

PAGE Morgan Park Academy Magazine

The top photograph shows the gym in the winter of 1924. The bottom rendering shows the gym of the future.

J. William Adams, The campus master plan ..................... 1 Melissa Maggiotto, An historic evening to launch a new era ......................... 4 Bob Eichinger, The Academy gym: a retrospective •••••••••• 5 Karen O'Neill, High Fives! ................................................. 6 Paulette Boyd, Salute to Excellence looking back, looking ahead ............................................ 7 Barry Kritzberg, The Rube Goldberg machine takes off and soars .•••••••••••••••••..••••••••••••••••••.•••• 8

1878: A model horse ...................................................... 11 1879: Bicycles were all the rage ................................... 12 1881: Alligators and 19th century baseball •••••••••••••••••• 13 1888: Toughest in the state ........................................... 14 1888: A declaration of separation ................................. 15 1888: Empty all water pitchers ...................................... 16 1896: "Swe·de·le-we-dum-rum" ...................................... 17 1900: The dean of Stanford's law school ••.••••••••••••••••.•• 17 1904: Metric marks ........................................................ 17 1904: The Lincoln League and the NAACP •.••••••••••••••••.•• 18 1889: The Constitution's sturdy bulldog ........................ 18

Contributors: J. William Adams ("The campus master plan" ) is head of school at MPA. Melissa Maggiotto ("An historic evening to launch a new era") is the capital campaign coordinator.

Bob Eichinger ("The Academy gym: a retrospective") is director of institute development.

Karen O' Neill ("High fives!") is a development assistant.

Paulette Boyd ("Salute to Excellence - looking back, looking ahead") is coordinator of special events and annual giving.

Barry Kritzberg ("The Rube Goldberg machine takes off and soars") is the editor of Academy Magazine.

Sara Grassi ("ClassNotes") is alumni coordinator.

Sandy Williams ("ClassNotes" and "Annual report') is development and alumni assistant.

J. Trevett Allen (the alligator sketch) is upper school art teacher.

1904: Long ago and far away ......................................... 19 1905: From MPA dean to college president ................... 20

Editorial staff:

1897: An Egyptologist of international renown ••••••••••••• 20

Editor. Barry Kritzberg

1906: Thirteen on the thirteenth ................................... 21

Alumni pages: Sara Grassi Alumni assistant: Sandy Williams Proof-readers: J. William Adams, Carol Coston Technical consultant: Michael Wojtyla

1898: All for good sport ................................................. 22 1907: The man who made nature live ............................ 23

Design consultant: Lisa Speckhart, Captiva Designs captivadesigns@sbcglobal.net

1920s: John DeGrandpre: Quartermaster •••••••••••••.••.••••• 24 1920s: Roy Mcintosh: scale models and Latin wall charts ...................................................... 26 1925: Silver seconds ..................................................... 28 1926: "Shorty" ••••••••••••••••••••••••••..•••••..•••••..••••••••••••••••••••• 29 1942: From MPMA into the Army ................................... 30 Class Notes •••.•••••.•••••••••.•••.••••••••••••••••••.•••••••••.••.••.•.•••••••• 31 Taps •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••.•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••.• 43 Annual report .................................................................. 44

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

Letters and other editorial matter should be addressed to: Barry Kritzberg Editor, Morgan Park Academy Magazine Morgan Park Academy 2153 W. lllth Street Chicago, IL 60643 bkritzberg@morganparkacademy.org Alumni matters should be addressed to: Sara Grassi, alumni coordinator Morgan Park Academy 2153 W. lllth Street Chicago, IL 60643 sgrassi@morganparkacademy.org

Z()()5 The Campus Master Plan by

J. William Adams

During the 2002-2003 academic year, our school was blessed, through Ferhat Zerin (mother of Sabine Chishty [2008]), to make contact with the director of planning at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SaM), the renowned architectural fIrm in Chicago. After some initial discussions, their senior planner, Philip Enquist, offered to help MPA develop a full master plan for the future of our school on a pro-bono basis.

Soon we were deep in meetings and discussions that examined everything from our present to our future needs.

Committees-made up of trustees, parents, faculty, administrators and students-met. We analyzed our programs; we thought through the strengths and weaknesses of our current facilities, relative to our mission. Thereafter, under the gentle guidance of the leaders from SaM, we projected into the future to anticipate what we might become during the next twenty-five years.

Naturally, this work led to the urgent need to address our

gymnasium, for the fIre department of the city of Chicago demanded in 2003 that we close down the second floor of the building. And so, the work began to defIne our physical education and athletic needs. Today we have a wonderful concept of what our gymnasium complex will look like, as well as where it will be.

Our architects, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, created the drawing (see next page) in the spring of2002. Finally on September 30, 2005, we "went public" with the first phase of construction on our full Campus Master Plan. Much work needs to be accomplished; more monies need to be raised before we break ground late next spring or early summer on the gymnasium complex (which will include a new gym sitting in front of a renovated existing gym).

A new era has arrived at Morgan Park Academy. It is indeed an exciting time as we begin work on our next twentyfIve years.

An aerial view of the campus, taken in 1976.

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BUILD ON THE HERITAGE OF HISTORIC BUILDINGS

Preserve Jones Bowl on the green space that brings the whole campus together New buildings should not be built on Jones Bowl Replace the aging trees in the Campus with new trees Reconfigure playground to accommodate new classroom building Proposed new East Classroom building arranged around a new courtyard facing Jones Bowl Gardens in the new courtyard that can engage chjldren in outdoor learning and planting

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Build the New Gy mnasium as the southern anchor of Jones Bowl Reconfigure all Playing Fields 10 provide proper orientation, and to accommodate new gymnasium

Phase I ofNew Gymnasium to be buill with exisling Gymnasium in place Phase 2 Gymnasium 10 be built after Phase J is completed and existing Gymnasium can be demolished

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paving on 112th Slreet 10 mark entrance and drop ojfzone

Add new pavilions in Jones Bowl /0 provide shaded seatingfor ptJ1WIts and children Acquire and relocate existing house /0 apIIIId existing driveway and por/tbIg Proposed new East Classroom building arranged around a new courtyanl.facJng

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Z005 An historic evening to launch a new era by Melissa Maggiotto An important event in the history of Morgan Park Academy was marked on Friday, September 30, 2005 . The public phase of the Building on Tradition Capital Campaign was launched amid an enthusiastic crowd of more than 200 alumni , parents, faculty/staff and friends.

The Academy has been raising funds quietly for a little

also took the opportunity to share the events that led to the gymnasium project's selection as the first phase of MPA's 25year campus master plan.

Bill Adams next introduced Lonn Frye, President of Frye Gillan and Molinaro, as the lead architect on the project and proudly unveiled the initial designs for the athletic facility. The designs revealed that the new structure will be constructed in front of the current gymnasium and will echo the prairie style architecture of the original bui lding.

The project also includes substantial renovation and refurbishment of the 104 year-old gymnasium.

In addition, the building's original tower entrance will serve as a focal point and design highlight of the new building's main hall. The architects ' plans demonstrated that the Academy is not only figuratively, but also literally, building on tradition.

During the ceremonies, Bill Giannos also presented a sculpture dedicated to his wrestling and football teammates (see back cover).

Jim Mitchell then spoke of his love for his alma mater and the responsibility that lies for the Supporters ofthe Bitta Challenge Match: Jim [61] and Linda stewards of great institutions like Morgan Park Academy. After sharing a few humorous anecdotes Mitchell, Fred Montgomery [64] and Michele (Bitta) Montabout his time as a basketball player under former gomery, Howard Meyer [64] , and Jack Borok [64] .

MPA teacher and coach, Andy Bitta, he urged the more than two years to support the construction of a new community to answer the call of the campaign and to pledge ath letic facility. Generous pledge and outright gift committheir support for the benefit of MPA's students today and for ments from MPA's leadership and key members of the alumni generations to come. He acknowledged, as did Boarden, that and parent communities have helped the although raising more than $3.4 million is a Academy raise more than sixty-eight per tremendous achievement, there is still cent ($3 ,432,060) of the $5 million cammuch work ahead. Now is the time for the paign goal. This amount surpasses the board entire community to come together, pay requirement that the campaign reach sixty tribute to its experiences at the Academy per cent of the goal to "go public." and pledge support for this landmark " project.

Guests at the launch reception on Friday .... :::: The public launch sets into motion an evening received a warm welcome from ...... ,,.t exciting and very active year of raising board of trustees chair, Susan Shimmin [66]. .::::, ..... awareness and support for the new and Featured speakers for the evening included I::' enhanced athletic facility. To stay abreast of Imre Boarden, campaign chair; Bi ll Adams, ~the campaign 's latest developments, please head of school; and Jim Mitchell [61], a visit morganparkacademy.org or call Bob generous alumni donor and one of the Eichinger, director of development and guiding forces behind raising funds for the Capital Campaign chair, Imre alumni affairs at 773-881 -6700 (x 231) or project via the Bitta Challenge Match.

Boarden and husband, Bill. reichinger@morganparkacademy.org.

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Z()()5 The Academy gym: a retrospective by Bob Eichinger Many people think only of our military tradition when the early years of Morgan Park Academy are mentioned. But from 1892 through 1907, Morgan Park Academy served as the college preparatory school for the University of Chicago under the leadership of William Rainey Harper, its first president.

Tills era in the Academy's history was a particularly busy one in the area of construction, for three buildings were erected between 1898 and 1901.

Two of these buildings, East Hall and West Hall, were designed by Dankmar Adler and built by 1899. Both were built as dormitories, with East Hall providing a kitchen and dining room, as well as a temporary gym. Plans to build a new gymnasium were underway to replace a structure that had burned down in 1897. Adler was tapped to design this building as well, but died in 1899.

Dwight Perkins, a rising star in Chicago 's architecture world, received the commission for the new Academy gym.

Perkins worked for Daniel Burnham and John Root early in his career, and once shared office space with Frank Lloyd Wright.

Perkins is perhaps best known for his prairie school design, and more than forty schools in Chicago are credited to him. His design of the Morgan Park Academy gymnasium is an early expression of this style.

The gym was built of brick and brown stone, containing four large divisions.

The largest of these had an earth floor, with elevated comers, which served as a running track (17 laps to the mile). In addition to a main court, the building also accom- The gym apparatus room, 1902.

modated a batting cage, handball court and bowling alley.

The facility stood as it was built until 1953, at which time the board of trustees approved an addition that contained new offices, a locker room and a multi-purpose space.

The hopes of improving, renovating or replacing the existing structure swelled at times throughout the twentieth century. As early as 1914, a student group, calling themselves "The New Gymnasium Club," tried to rally the school to secure loans "for the complete remodeling of the present gymnasium."

They dreamed of a modem swimming pool, drill hall, a library, and club rooms. The price tag for this effort was estimated to be $25,000.

Many alumni who played sports at the Academy have recounted tales of recruiting meetings at which faculty members or administrators enticed them to enroll with promises of a new gym before they graduated. In the end, other priorities took precedence, in the form of new dorms, classrooms and an art center. As the student body changed over the years, the Academy found ways to accommodate boys and girls, and younger and older children.

This elder statesman of buildings on the Academy campus has stood the test of time and provided the backdrop for more than a century of athletic tradition. At last, relief is on the way with the announcement of plans for a new facility.

The tradition of the original will endure, however, as the new gym will be constructed adjacent to the old.

Morgan Park Academy is not replacing, but "building on tradition."

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Z005 High-fives! by Karen O'Neill As I approach the gymnasium, on my way to interview members ofthe physical education and athletic department, I watch Coach Dale Ralston high-five the kindergarteners parading out of gym class. He has a personal message for each student, complimenting each boy and girl on his or her hard work.

The students beam with satisfaction as Coach Ralston acknowledges their accomplishments. I am reminded of what I love most about Morgan Park Academy: valuing and providing individual attention to each of our students.

The purpose of my visit is to tour the gym and meet with the members of their staff and learn how physical education and athletics function in MPA. I meet with Coach Lynda Pariso and Coach Dalyn Drown, who describe, in detail, the purpose of physical education offered daily to our lower and middle school students. The core component of physical education is to assist

Lynda Pariso

Dalyn Drown

Dale Ralston

in the physical development of motor ski lls, health and lifelong fitness.

"We provide gym everyday to the lower and middle school" said Coach Drown, "and it's a bit of a challenge because we are temporarily limited in space. But we recognize how important it is to their development. Personal fitness is imperative to the development of discipline, leadership, peer cooperation and recognition. Physical education also helps students to develop physical and mental confidence."

Another vital part of our program is extra curricular athletics. MPA middle and upper school students can choose from a wide range of sports, including baseball, softball, basketball, volleyball, soccer, golf, and tennis.

Over sixty per cent of the middle and upper school student body participate in a team sport. These students compete against members of the Independent School League, which is governed by the Illinois High School Association.

"We have to provide adequate practice time to the 27 teams competing throughout the year." Said Coach Pari so, "I think that our record over the last five years speaks to our commitment to the kids, despite limited facilities. This year the

varsity volleyball team, with only one regular season loss, won the ISL championship. Softball took second place in the league in spring of2005. In soccer, we've become leading contenders in the ISL and advanced to the "elite eight" in the state tournament for the first time ever. Over the last 5 years, we've had eight of our tennis players qualify to compete at the IHSA state tennis tournament."

Interestingly, but not surprisingly, these students excel in the classroom as well as on the playing field. In 2004-2005 , every MPA team received the IHSA team academic achievement award, acknowledging that entire teams had minimum grade point averages of 3.0. Coach Pariso said, "These kids possess it all. Your better athletes are often your better students."

As we talk of the expanded gymnasium, Coach Pariso and Coach Drown burst forth with plans for the faci lity. Coach Drown said, for example, " these new facilities will provide ath letes with the Erin Johnson Sue Oczkowski opportunity for conditioning. We can bring outdoor sports inside during winter months to practice and improve their skills. We'll also be able to expand the number of students who can participate in sports through intramurals and recreational sports."

Touring the campus and interviewing this exceptional team is the very best way to experience what makes MPA, its faculty, staff, and students, stand out amongst all of the independent schools. Their unparalleled dedication to their students results in an exceptionally happy, confident and well-educated student body. High-fives to coaches Ralston, Pariso, Drown, Johnson, Oczkowski, and the entire physical education and athletic department for the exceptional job they are doing.

Alumni are welcome to schedule a tour of the campus, visit the classrooms while in session, tour the gymnasium and review the architectural plans for the expansion. If you are interested, please contact Karen 0 'Neill in the department of development and alumni affairs at 773-881-6700 ext.268 or koneill@morganparkacademy.org. We'd be delighted to hear from you.

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Z005 Salute to Excellence looking back, looking ahead by Paulette Boyd Salute to Excellence 2005 was very successful on many levels, beyond just the bottom line. One of the goals set by our event chairs, Marilyn and Marc Odier, was to create a variety of involvement opportunities for every parent and student. The "big event" on March 12,2005 attracted more than 320 guests for a grand evening that netted more than $155,000 in support of the campaign to build our new athletic facility on campus.

The 20th Annual Salute to Excellence will be held on March 18th, 2006 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Chicago. "The Crystal Ball - A Celebration of Memories and Dreams is being co-chaired this year by Vicki Hovanessian (past parent, Salute Founder in 1987 and six time event chair and co-chair), Lisa Nichols (2002 chair) and Greta Pope Wimp, MPA parent and trustee. As the name suggests, the evening will focus on cherishing the past and looking to the future of Morgan Park Academy. Once again Salute proceeds will benefit the construction of our new gymnasium.

A lively and dedicated group of trustees, parents, alumni, friends, faculty and staff are working together on a host of events and activities in support of the event. A successful car wash was held on September 10 to kick off the publicity and fundraising. Speakeasy 2, a night of dining, dancing, gaming and gift-gathering, was held in Alumni Hall on November 12.

Everyone in the MPA community is invited to support Salute to Excellence. The success of the event builds a stronger community, enriches the learning environment for our students and brings us closer to achieving our dream of building a new athletic facility.

The Salute to Excellence car wash was truly a

family affair.

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More than two dozen student volunteers joined with parents for a day of good, clean fun.

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The Rube Goldberg machine takes off and soars by Barry Kritzberg We all know it is not that simple, but Larry Brown in his "but they needed experience and a place to work. The keys to shrewd and wise way, made it seem so. my basement gave them access to both. There were some nights "Morgan Park Academy captured second place in the when I would just go off to bed while they stayed on and national Rube Goldberg competition," Doc said, "because I worked." turned the keys to my basement over to a group of six teenagUntil they were old enough to drive themselves, Larry's ers." wife, Nancy, was there to run errands (especially for food; and AloccaSIOnthough the ally to the group did not hardware store) for seem all that serious (if them. There one can be was so wholly much serious about coming and something going, in which is, in and out, one sense, especially perfectly, on weekdelightfully, ends, that absurd) as Larry freshmen , thought it their passion wise to for the Rube inform a Goldberg new competition neighbors intensified in that the their sophosteady more year stream of and persisted teenagers through their was not a splendid sign of drug showing at dealing, but the 2005 only the nationals. actions of Larry Brown, Joe Gradle, Chris Brewin, Ryan Rasmussen, Steve Marovitch, Dan the team "They Cullina and Kevin Larson at the awards ceremony. had the that was ability, they constructeven knew how to design things as sophomores," Doc said, ing the Rube Goldberg machine. Later, he invited the neighbors to see for themselves.

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Some of Ryan Rasmussen preliminary sketches for the In a way that Rube Goldberg himself might have appreciated, the team's 2005 battery-changing machine, which ran as planned in trial-after-trial, only to fail when the judges were present! It was that little failure, that momentary glitch, that probably kept MPA from winning the national title.

The contest is named after Rube Goldberg (1883-1970), the whimsical cartoonist, who specialized in sketching elaborately complicated machines to accomplish the simplest of tasks (such as closing a window in 47 intricate steps).

The 2005 contest required that teams remove old batteries from a two-battery flashlight and install new ones in twenty or more steps.

Rohini Srinivasan [2005], the only girl on the team, gave it up after three years.

It was not sexism that drove her away, "although," she reflected, "I sometimes heard things that I didn't particularly want to hear." She had quite enough to do with the newspaper, the literary magazine, and the yearbook, she thought, and gave up Rube Goldberg after junior year.

"Some of those guys were born engineers, but I didn' t have that much time. They were obsessed when it got to crunch time.

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They lived and breathed Rube Goldberg. I also don't think I had the machine mindset of the others. I was useful on occasion, however. For one machine, I was the only one light enough to climb up on a table to hook up a loose wire or tighten a connection.

In my junior year, I was the only one who had a car, so I became the 'go-fer.'

I learned a lot, though, especially that it was possible to do things even without talent. And I discovered, too, that Doctor and Mrs. Brown are the most generous people in the world."

Kevin Larson [2005] hadn't heard of Rube Goldberg before he started working on the machines. "It just sounded like fun, like asking a little kid to build things with leggos."

The move to the Browns basement was a good thing, Kevin reflected.

"Our freshman year we worked on it in the physic lab, but that was too inconvenient. We didn ' t have enough room and there were too few tools available. A lot of our work was by trial and error and, when we first started working as freshmen, we were quite inefficient. There were a lot of squabbles, too, but we eventually learned to squabble even more effidesign. ciently. There were certainly times when we got on one another 's nerves, but fortunately Mrs. Brown was there to act as mediator."

One lesson, which Kevin will take with him to his study of engineering at the University of Illinois, is that "it never works the first time."

Ryan Rasmussen [2005] was attracted to the Rube Goldberg competition by the "intriguing and absurd" drawings of the cartoonist. "They were wonderfully impossible, and that made it a challenge to the imagination."

"The Goldberg type," Ryan mused, "combines math and science with an artistic element and is willing to work multiple months and ungodly hours before a machine can even be tested. It is a slow process, and often quite stressful. It doesn't seem as though it will amount to anything at the beginning.

Our senior machine was, in many ways, the most complex and the most reliable, and yet it fumbled at nationals. No wonder we had a love-hate relationship with that one. The senior machine was a modular one, and that made it much easier to take apart and put together. That saved us hours and hours."

For Steve Marovitch [2005], it was the opportunity to do things-engineering and using tools-that were not part of the MPA curriculum that attracted him to the Rube Goldberg team.

Z005 "We were told it would be more than three hundred hours of work, but it was easily more than a thousand," Steve said. "We worked almost every weekend, over Thanksgiving and Christmas breaks. We put fifteen ballbearings (of one inch diameter) and forty thousand BBs into that [senior] machine."

His favorite moment was at the nationals. "It was comforting to know that there are so many other wacky people out there."

Chris Brewin [2006] said that his particular skill was in the actual construction. He acquired tools from a neighbor some six years ago and has been fixing things ever since. He said he learned by watching, and often concluded from his observations that tasks were not as hard as they seemed. He also was attracted by the absurd complexity of Rube Goldberg machines. "After Rube Goldberg, doing it the simple way might be too boring," he said.

He remembered some rough moments (which are funny now, after the fact) , such as forgetting to install the trays to catch the BBs. It would take hours just to pick them all up," he said. "We were already trying to do something simple, in a more complex way, but spilling BBs wasn't very useful."

It was Project Week that drew Joe Gradle [2006] to the Rube Goldberg team. He liked the challenge of "th inking outside the box" and, he said, " if one can learn to do something complexly, one appreciates more the beauty of doing something simply."

The machine.

The battery-changing machine was his favorite, for it was the most fun to tinker with and its success demonstrated, time and time again, that "we were on top of our game."

Dan Cullina [2005] , the acknowledge leader of the team, said one reason for MPA's success was that three students worked on the project for four consecutive years.

"We learned every year from the mistakes of the previous year and we could see steady improvement in precision from year-to-year. We also learned from one another's strengths and weaknesses. Those who haven't participated in Rube Goldberg

can't imagine how much fun it is to construct machines such as these. Everyone, from little kids to adults, is amazed to see our machine change a battery in an operation that takes two and one half minutes. Why, some of the teams did something similar, but their machines only ran for ten or fifteen seconds.

We finished third in our junior year in the state competition because, in part, too many of our operations were concealed.

This year, for the nationals, we made sure that every operation was visible, slow, and easy to understand. We did everything we could, but we just didn't get lucky."

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A model horse and often used the track to find apt metaphors for his speeches.

After losing the 1884 race for vice president, he was asked why he didn't make any public comment.

"Because the public never follows the losing horse to the stable," he said.

In June 1897, sculptor Augustus St. Gaudens completed the equestrian statue of General Logan (which still rises majestically above Michigan avenue and Ninth street in Grant Park) which he had worked on for six years.

The black stallion that was used as a model for the sculpture belonged to the general's son, John A. Logan Jr.

Major John A. Logan Jr. [1878], son of Civil War General John A. Logan, was killed by a sniper November 11, 1899 in the Philippines.

He was named Manning Logan, after an uncle, and attended the Academy under that name. When he reached manhood, he changed his name to John A. Logan Jr. His family, continued to call him Manning, however.

He was very fond of horses and raced them for much of his life, but for some unknown reason he used the name of John A. Manning at the track in Saratoga, New York.

His father, Gen. Logan, was also very fond of racing horses

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A close up of the St. Gaudens statue in Grant Park.

The view from the south.

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(879 Bicycles were all the rage depression after "the panic of 1893." What followed was what Percy described as "a long period of discouragement."

He found new employment selling bicycles, which were then, as Percy put it, "all the rage."

The future began to look bright once again and, in April 1896, he married Jennie and spent his honeymoon at the Pfizer Hotel in Milwaukee. The couple returned to Chicago via Lake Michigan "on the old side-wheeler, City of Chicago."

The newlyweds lived in a flat at 1198 Rokeby (now Fremont), paying $22 a month for a new flat with steam heat.

Percy operated a bicycle store at Clark and Belmont, but the bicycle craze apparently did not last and the business closed in December 1896.

He spent the next five years working as a salesman, traveling through the Midwest, for several bicycle companies, but in 1900 found himself again out of work.

His next job was soliciting and delivering orders for a coffee and tea company. This he did on his bicycle, weather permitting.

When the weather was bad, he walked.

"These were," Percy said, "days of hardship and small returns."

There was much moving around, three children were born, but various employments produced only very small salaries.

A settlement from a streetcar accident gave the Percy Armstrong family enough money to buy a lot in 1908 and later build a house at 866 Bluff, in Glencoe, Illinois.

A number of different jobs followed, including more than a decade (1923-1934) as postmaster of Glencoe. These jobs, in general, were more profitable and Percy and his family at last acquired a sense of security.

The different environment of Glencoe gave the family, Percy noted, "an entirely changed outlook for the future. It was possible to do a lot of gardening, a lifelong passion with Jennie and myself, and as the children grew and housekeeping cares diminished, [the garden] has produced a substantial financial return."

Percy worked for the Miles-Murphy oil company from 1934 until his retirement in 1943.

Percy and Jennie celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1946, a year after moving to Florida.

Percy Armstrong died in Palatka (near St. Augustine), Florida, in 1953 at age 85. He was buried in Evanston, Illinois.

Percy Armstrong [1883], like any other student, had a life before and after his sojourn at the Academy, but rarely are those details available to the historian.

The details of his life are recorded in various genealogical sources, however, and afford an interesting glimpse of life in 19th and 20th century Chicago.

Armstrong's place in the history of MPA is secure, however, because his autograph book, containing more than one hundred signatures of classmates and faculty that he collected from 1879-1882, is in the Academy archives [see the November 2001 issue of Academy Magazine].

Percy's father, John, was born in Ireland and came to Chicago in 1853. He soon became a grain merchant and one measure of his success was the fact that his family, as large grain shippers, always rode the Illinois Central Railroad on free passes.

The house that John Armstrong had built for him in Chicago was destroyed on the second day (October 9, 1871) of the great Chicago fire.

A great many of the family effects, however, were saved and transferred to the Armstrong country home in downstate Arcola, Illinois.

In the chaos of the rapidly advancing fire

The fire, Percy later said, was his earliest memory. "I remember being taken out of bed and seeing the glow [of the fire] in the distance," he wrote.

After the fire, the family shuttled back and forth between Arcola and various rental houses in Chicago for the next several years.

Percy was first tutored by Miss A. Macdonald and then sent to the Ogden School, at State and Chestnut, Chicago. He also spent some time at the Douglas School on 35th Street before going to Morgan Park Military Academy in 1879.

He had little to say about his years at MPMA. His father's failing health in 1890 forced the family to sell the Arcola property at a great loss. After his father's death in 1892, Percy worked for Gage Brothers and Company, a wholesale millinery firm, but his salary was barely enough for his personal needs.

In 1894, he became engaged to Jennie Tilt, but his marriage had to be delayed because of his financial difficulties.

He had lost his job, perhaps as a result of the financial

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Alligators and 19th century baseball Baseball, in some form or another, seemed to be a regular feature of Academy life almost from the beginning. Mark Morton, who attended the Academy in 1875, alluded to "the baseball club of the Mt. Vernon College" which played Blue Island. The nine-inning game ended with a score of 17-16, "in favor of the College boys."

Six years later, William A. Purdy, writing (May 12, 1881) from MPMA to his father: Dear Papa, I forgot to say in my Sunday letter that I received the alligators, all safe but one was dead and the other died in less than 12 hours after I received them. We are going to playa game of ball Friday at the comer of 35th Street and South Park

Avenue. If you want to let Fred come down and see the game, send him down about two o'clock and I will take care of him.

He knows the way and won't get lost. Good by, your affectionate son, Willie Willie, it seems, might have been a player on the team (hence the invitation to his brother), but what was he planning to do with those alligators?

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The toughest in the state Some of the dates in J.S. Smith's "A Bit of History," which appeared in the Academy student publication, The Autocrat (Summer 1896), are plainly wrong and that made his other information somewhat suspect.

Smith mentioned, for example, that "early in the [eighteen] nineties the school divided into two parts; one continued here [at Morgan Park] until the present academy [under the University of Chicago] was started, and the other moved to Highland Park. There a new academy, known as Northwestern Military Academy, was founded."

This seemed unlikely, for no other MPMAIMPA source corroborated the story. The dubious validity of a number of other points in Smith's "A Bit of History" cast the shadow of doubt on his whole account.

Smith said that "the boys [ofMPMA] in the 1880s had the reputation of being the toughest set in the state, outside of Joliet prison, and it was no easy matter to keep them in bounds. As might be imagined, the rules were very strict; for the slightest offenses the boys were made to walk time with knapsacks filled with bricks, while for wilder escapades they were thrown in the guard-house and kept on bread and water."

He said that the former drill hall, used as a MPMA cadets in front of Park gymnasium in the 1890s, also served as a prison, which was attested to by the many laments (still very much in evidence at that date) about breadand-water diets scrawled on the walls. Another story that Smith related was about smoking. So many boys would gather under the wood sidewalks north of Morgan Hall that passers-by would think the sidewalk was on fue.

All of this seemed to be far-fetched, the hyperbolic effusion, perhaps, of adolescent imagination. Smith had also said it was the harsh discipline ofMPMA that led to the split which brought about the founding of Northwestern Military Academy.

There is evidence now, however, to suggest that Smith generally had it right, even though he was not very careful about dates.

An article in the very first issue of The Target (1889), a student publication of Northwestern Military Academy, describes the founding of the Academy in Highland Park in terms that support the assertions of J.S. Smith.

Major H.P. Davidson (the founder of Northwestern Military Academy), The Target relates, was the military commandant and an instructor of mathematics at MPMA when Capt. Talcott was superintendent. There was a severe drop in enrollment (not quite half of the anticipated 60 appeared) in 1886 and Talcott and Davidson were both disheartened and dissatisfied.

Two days before the 1887 commencement, Capt. Talcott decided to retire and Major Davidson became the superintendent.

The enrollment in September 1887 increased to fortyseven. Major Davidson then began negotiations with Capt. Talcott, owner of the property, to improve and expand the facilities. These negotiations proved fruitless and Maj. Davidson saw two Hall, 1888. alternatives before him: abandon the enterprise altogether or continue a military academy in a new location.

He then began searching for a new location, and found one in Highland Park that had many of the same advantages of Morgan Park (beautiful location in healthy surroundings in a flourishing suburb, not too far from Chicago, conveniently near the Chicago & Northwestern Railway) and one that Morgan Park didn't offer: proximity to Fort Sheridan.

Eighteen students who had been at Morgan Park Military Academy followed Major Davidson to Highland Park when Northwestern Military Academy opened in 1888.

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of separation A dispute over discipline (among other things) led to a serious division among the cadets of Morgan Park Military Academy in 1888.

About half the students followed Col. H.P. Davidson, the head ofMPMA, to Highland Park, Illinois, where a new school - Northwestern Military and Naval Academy - was founded.

The students who remained at MPMA came under the tutelage of a new principal, Henry 1. Stevens, who had been a teacher of Latin and English at the Academy in Morgan Park.

It was Stevens, it seems, who changed the name of MPMA to Illinois Military Academy.

Stevens was a young man, only twenty-six, and a recent graduate of Dartmouth.

His record at Dartmouth was quite distinguished, where he excelled in the classics and English, and was Phi Beta Kappa.

He was the class historian his sophomore year and one of the founding editors of the Dartmouth Literary Monthly.

His first teaching position was at MPMA and he continued

as the principal of Illinois Military Academy (while the Owen school was flourishing at the north end of the campus) until the founding of the University of Chicago in 1892.

He was an inspiring teacher and had, after the Illinois Military Academy, a long and distinguished career as teacher and/or administrator at high schools in Leominster, Massachusetts, Rochester, New Hampshire and the DeWitt Clinton School in New York city.

Stevens was admired by those who knew him for his devoted care of, first, his ailing mother, and then, later, for the faithful care of his chronically ill wife, Harriet, whom he married in 1892.

The strain of teaching and nursing were, perhaps, too much for him, for he spent the last eight years of his life in a mental institution in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

He died in 1944 in Grand Rapids and was buried beside his wife in Mt. Hope Cemetery, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.

Henry J. Stevens, circa 1890.

An anonymous cadet of the 1880s.

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Empty all water pitchers ton, D.C. to deliver a message to R.S. Alger, the Secretary of War. The corps camped out along the way, did their own cooking, and actually gained weight on the trip. Not a single cadet dropped out along the way.

Davidson, as early as 1898, had been experimenting with the military possibilities of the automobile. The first of these, manufactured by the Charles Duryea Company of Peoria, Illinois, was called the "Battle Wagon." Arms were mounted on the automobile and armor plates protected the gunner.

Davidson is also credited with designing the first armored car ever constructed in America, but he also designed a radio car (with telescope antenna), an ambulance, and a motorized field kitchen.

This persistent ingenuity earned him the title of "Father of Mechanized Motor Units."

He succeeded his father as superintendent upon the latter 's death and he continued in that position until ill-health forced his retirement in 1942.

He died January 16, 1943.

Col. Royal Davidson [1888], superintendent and son of the founder of Northwestern Military and Naval Academy (which had moved from Highland Park, Illinois to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin), sent his regrets (June 1, 1923) that he would be unable to attend the 50th anniversary of Morgan Park Military Academy.

He did offer some reminiscences, however.

"While I was attending the Academy from the fall of 1886 to June of 1888, [my wife] was attending the Chicago Female College, and so I have in many ways the old Academy to thank for this acquaintance which has meant so much to my happiness as well as to what little success I have had in life.

I have been wondering how many of the other old fellows remember the order during the winter months at Tattoo: 'Empty all water pitchers to prevent freezing.'

[I wonder if they remember] how the old Academy building was heated with one stove on the second floor, this heat being supposed to spread out not only for this second floor but to rise through the big air shaft to the rooms on the third floor.

I wonder if they remember the strain that it used to be to keep ' eyes front' on drill and other ceremonies when the 'Fem Sems' were out for their afternoon walk with a teacher in front and a teacher in the rear?

I wonder if they remember certain characters that used to look out the barred windows of the old Guard House?"

He stopped there, however, in his letter to Abells, saying "but I know you are a busy man and so I will not take any more of your time with reminiscing."

A Northwestern Military and Naval Academy memorial issue of The Log Book (February 1943) states, however, that he had "a short association with Morgan Park Military Academy as an instructor" before being a member of Northwestern Academy's first graduating class, then located in Highland Park, Illinois, in 1889.

This is perhaps not as confusing as it might seem. It was not uncommon for high school graduates to take an additional year at another institution to prepare for college. He is listed, at any rate, as a graduate ofMPMA, but it also seems possible that he might have worked as an instructor while attending the school.

After college (Massachusetts Agricultural College and University of Wisconsin), he returned to the military academy his father had founded in Highland Park, Illinois in1888.

As commandant of cadets at Northwestern, he created a bicycle corps that regularly made excursions of25 to 60 miles.

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Col. Royal Davidson, circa 1890.

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Swe-de-Ie-we-dum bum Charles Carey [1896], in 1943, wrote about a popular song that was sung at the MPA in the 1890s: "The Academy was a very different place in our day," he said, "with boys and girls going to classes together and joining in many social events. Not a few of the students met their future wives or husbands there but I can recall no elopements or hasty marriages, There was more supervision and more formality in those days than now and I cannot remember that our good times were in any way less enjoyable on that account. We used to sing [these lyrics, to the tune of] Litoria, Litoria."

Charles A. Huston [1900], after taking his law degree at the University of Chicago, opted for an academic career.

He was an assistant professor of law at Stanford in 1908 and advanced rapidly through the ranks, to associate professor in 1909, and full professor in 1911.

He spent a year at Harvard law school, adding the S.J.D. degree, and in 1916 he was the unanimous choice of the Stanford faculty to become dean of its law school.

The next year, however, he was on leave to work for the Intelligence Department of the War Trade Board.

Huston returned to Stanford as dean in 1918 and remained in that position until his sudden death in 1922. His colleague, Prof. Cathcart, said Huston was "a ripe scholar, an inspiring teacher, an able executive, [and] he endeared himself to his colleagues and to his students by rare qualities of mind and heart."

Oh Morgan Park Academy Swe-de-Ie-we-dum bum, Is part of the great U. ofC. And each of us is bound to be A Doctor of Philosophy.

Morgan Park is where the boys Eat, sleep and study without noise And if they get in any scrape They just slides down the fire escape.

Blake Hall is where all thro' the week We show our skill in French and Greek In Latin and Geometry With marks that range from A to E Park Hall is where you fmd the girls With eyes like stars and teeth like pearls' And this is why we always sing Co-education is the thing.

Metric marks

Litoria Litoria is the scientific name of a tree frog noted for its musicality.

The origin of the tune is uncertain, but many different sets of lyrics were put to it, particularly by college fraternities in the 19th century, where "Swe-de-Ie-we-dum bum," frequently occurs in the chorus.

For one delicious moment in 1904 (and perhaps even a little longer), Morgan Park Academy held all of the national preparatory school track records.

It was only an inter-hall meet (what, today, would be called intramural), but all marks of that day were new records, for all of the distances in that 1904 meet were measured by the metric system, instead of the then-standard measurements in yards, feet, and inches.

All the times of that meet were established as national preparatory school records for, as the Academy News proudly proclaimed (July 8, 1904), "we were the first to use the [metric] system."

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(901The Lincoln League and the NAACP Robert Reed Church Jr., after attending parochial schools in Memphis, Tennessee, came to Morgan Park Academy in 1902 to further his education and he remained at MPA until 1904.

His was a typical MPA story of ambition, but with a difference: he was the first - and perhaps the only - African American to attend the Academy in the 20th century, before the integration of the 1960s.

He was bound for a business career and, after an apprenticeship on Wall Street, became the president of the Memphis bank his father founded. He resigned, however, after a few years to manage his family'S extensive real estate holdings.

It was his conscience, however, and not his financial success, for which we remember him today.

Robert Reed Church Jr., at a time (1916) when it was dangerous for a black man in the Jim Crow South to even think of politics, had the courage to found and finance the Lincoln League of Memphis. He believed that the ballot was the best way citizens of color could obtain civil rights and the Lincoln League, therefore, was devoted to organizing voter registration drives, creating "voting schools," and, when necessary, even paying poll taxes. Ten thousand voters were registered within a few months.

The Lincoln League also put up candidates for election (including a black candidate for Congress in 1916) and, although the ticket was not successful, it established the league

as a force to be reckoned with in local politics. The Lincoln League soon developed into a state-wide and, later, a national organization.

In 1917, Church organized, in Memphis, the first branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in the state of Tennessee. By 1919, he was on the NAACP national board of directors.

He was a Memphis delegate to eight successive Republican national conventions, 1912-1940, and eight successive times had to battle against white party forces who opposed any black participation. In 1944, he organized the Republican American committee and was elected its chairman. The committee, consisting of two hundred influential black leaders, sought to pressure white Republicans to enact civil rights and fair employment legislation.

Church also served, at the invitation of A. Philip Randolph, on the board of directors of the National Council for a Permanent Fair Employment Practices committee (later known as the Equal Employment Opportunity commission).

He died in Memphis on April 17, 1952, after attending the Republican state convention at Nashville to promote the candidacy of General Dwight D. Eisenhower for president.

Much of his political activity, however, was behind the scenes, although he wielded enough power for Time magazine to label him as the "roving dictator of the Lincoln Belt."

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The Constitution's bulldog Harry Atwood [1889] believed in the U.S. Constitution and made it his life's work as a lawyer, author, and founder of the Constitutional Education Association. When he died in 1930, he was hailed as "the man who rescued the Constitution."

It was the all-absorbing hobby of studying the Constitution that made Atwood instrumental in the establishment of national observances of Constitution day (September 17).

He was also a recognized authority on the Constitution and in his several books he gave special prominence to George Washington for creating it, Benjamin Franklin for preparing it, Alexander Hamilton for ratifying it, John Marshall for interpreting it, Daniel Webster for his exposition of it, and Abraham Lincoln for preserving it.

Some of Atwood's admirers suggested that, for his untiring efforts to make the document better known to the general

public, his name ought to be added to those illustrious names associated with the Constitution.

Atwood was born on a farm in Morgan Park in 1870 and, after attending Morgan Park Military Academy, he worked his way through the University of Chicago, where he won honors in debate and athletics.

After serving in the Spanish American War, he studied law and became an assistant state's attorney for Cook County and, later, an assistant U.S. district attorney.

His career as a constitutional authority began in 1918, when he gave up law practice to become the leader of a new "back-to-the-Constitution" movement. Among his better-known books were Back to the Republic, Safeguarding Democracy, American Ideals, and The Constitution Explained.

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Long ago and far away [1902], whose picture he had recently seen in the University of Col. Harry D. Abells, in September of 1947, received a Chicago alumni magazine. letter from a student of long ago (1901-1904) who was then far away (Tehran, Iran).

"What a happy time we had at MPA and the "I want you to know," the former student U of C. I remember [Bovee] was acting in the Blackfriars as the leading lady, Katherine." wrote, "that your beloved face has ever been engraved in my heart and mind. Your kindness to He also listed twenty-two classmates as "old friends whom I have never forgotten. " me wi ll never be forgotten . Those impressionable Harry Abells, much touched by the letter, years of my life I spent under your care are never the forgotten . You were father to us all, and we circulated it among some of the Raffie's classloved you as one loves his own parents." mates.

His name, in his days at Morgan Park AcadAlbert Long [1905] , one of those on Raffie 's emy, was Murza S.M. Raffie [1904], but when he list of old friends, was also charmed by Raffie 's returned to Iran, he took his father's name, letter. He wrote: "It is unbelievable that you Amirrnuzaffar Ed Din Khan de Farrokh, and he should remember me unless it is for some less took the title, "Arfa-Es-Sultaneh" (Peer of the than agreeable quality or deed- of which I am Realm). sure there are many. I was but a little fellow, and I Murza S.M. Raffle He went on to get a degree from the University do not look back with satisfaction on the picture of of Chicago, where he was one of the organizers of the Internamyself of those days which I retain. But I do remember you tional Club. Later, he contributed to the building of the Internawell. Your charity will forgive our boyish recognition of you as tional House on the university campus. someone quite different. Your kind recollection of us puts us to He also attended the college of physicians and surgeons at shame, I remember a dim realization of your great courage in Columbia University, but he left there in 1911 because of a facing that difference, a persistent query as to your reason for romance that didn't go according to plan. coming to the school, this country. I have never ceased to be to Raffie (as he was then be aware of that courage and to still known) was engaged to ask that question. As our the daughter of Witch Hazel international problems have manufacturer E.E. kept Iran in the news [January Dickinson of Essex, 1948], I have thought often of Connecticut. The engageyou." ment was broken off, Long also added his name however, because Dickinson to those who remember Abells refused to allow his daugh(and Haydn Jones) as kindly, ter to move to Persia. formative influences. He then After spending some added: "No recollection of the time in the Persian army, he Academy which does not note became the governor of the loveliness of those two Kazeroon, in South Persia, women [Mrs. Abells and Mrs. in 1926. He later served as Jones] in that comer of the liaison officer for Angloworld which is the Academy Iranian oil company. can have a true sense of the He was a professor at accomplishment of the Acadthe University of Tehran at emy or our debt to it as the time he wrote to Abells alumni."

The class of 1904, with Raffle in the second row, and said that he and his Raffie returned to MPA in second from the right. brother-in-law, Hekmat, 1955, as a good will ambassa"jointly organized the University of Tehran." dor for Iran, and gave a lecture to the cadets on his native country.

In the letter he mentioned, in particular, Arthur Bovee

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1905 From MPA dean to college president When Franklin Winslow Johnson was offered the position of dean ofMPA in 1905, he was given the particular charge of increasing enrollment.

His tenure at the Academy was brief, however, for the University of Chicago discontinued its relationship with Morgan Park in 1907.

He was "a man halfway between thirty and forty," The Post said (September 23, 1905) of him, "who even at that early age possesses a long record as a successful teacher and director of school management."

He had received his M.A. from Colby in 1893, and had been principal of Calais (Maine) high school 1891-94 and headmaster of Coburn Classical Academy 1894-1904.

Johnson reported to Harper that he was disappointed that his initial effort at recruiting students for MPA, for it brought in only 63 new students to add to the 71 who were returning.

Harper, however, was encouraging. "Don't fail to let me know when the 150th [student] comes in," he wrote (Oct 18, 1905). "That will be an important event."

Johnson, on the other hand, was encouraged by what he found at the Academy. He was, as he wrote (October 19, 1905) to Harper, "particularly pleased with West Hall. The boys said they intended to make of West a model hall this year, and in that direction they are succeeding admirably."

He was disappointed, however, by the desire ofMPA mathematics instructor Ernest Wreidt to return to his previous position at University High School. Ifhe does leave MPA, it will be, Johnson said, "a serious loss to us."

Johnson addressed three Baptist gatherings in his efforts to recruit students. "I have made it plain [to the Baptists] that our purpose is not to make a sectarian school, but a school of strong religious influence."

He wrote (Nov 28, 1905) to Harper, too, about little

matters. For the past several years the Academy had been using two rooms in the house of Peter Matsen as an infirmary.

Matsen had been paid two dollars a week for the thirty-nine weeks ofthe school term, but he argued that the pay should be for fifty-two weeks. Harper agreed.

In another letter (May 13, 1906), Johnson indicated the kind of men he wanted on the faculty.

He hoped they would be "strong men. The discipline and general effectiveness of the Academy depends in great measure upon the life of the dormitories. The house masters must not only be good instructors, but men of character and personal attractiveness."

The enrollment did climb to 160 in 1906, but Johnson was still dissatisfied, for the capacity of the Academy was 200.

There were seven foreign students, he noted, but the decrease of Chicagoans at MPA was attributed to the development of University High School and the decrease of Morgan Park students was explained by pointing to the recently opened village high school.

When the University of Chicago severed its ties with the Academy, Johnson was appointed principal of University High School. He remained there until 1919, when he became a professor of education at Teachers College, Columbia.

He was the author several books, including The Problems ofBoyhood, A Course in Ethics for Boys ofHigh School Age (1914) and The Administration and Supervision of the High School (1925).

Johnson returned to Colby in 1929 to become the fifteenth president of the college and he continued there until his retirement in 1942.

Ernest Cummings Marriner, in The History of Colby College (1963), said that Johnson was "one of the most able administrators who ever sat in the president's chair."

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An Egyptologist of international renown research abroad, particularly in Egypt and Lebanon.

He was the organizer and field director for over two decades ofthe university's epigraphic and architectural survey of Luxor, Egypt.

He was the author (or co-author) of more than a dozen books on Egypt and, from 1904 to 1924, he was professor of history at the American University of Beirut.

He died in Chicago in 1954 at the age of seventy-five.

Harold H. Nelson [1897] became, according to a citation from the University of Chicago alumni council, "an Egyptologist of international renown." He also served as acting director of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, his card recorded.

Nelson, who had been a student at the University of Chicago of another Egyptologist of international renown, James Henry Breasted, spent most of his adult life conducting

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(906 Thirteen, on the thirteenth It isn't exactly a secret society, but it is definitely exclusive, and it is just about 100-years-old.

It has never had more than thirteen members at a time and, when the Thirteen Club started in November 1906, it was characterized in The [Morgan Park] Post (December 8, 1906) as "a bonafide masculine literary society" which would challenge superstitions and "fly in the face of fate."

It is still, almost a century later, a "bonafide masculine literary society" and many of the key members have, as it did from the beginning, strong Academy connections.

Most of the founding members, in fact, were Morgan Park residents. Morgan Park was still a sparsely settled suburban village in 1906. The first roll of members, which reads like an intellectual who s who of the Morgan Park of the day, included such stalwarts as Dean Wayland Chase, H.S. Wetherell, Rev. W.E. Chambers, Prof. Leonard, Principal Johnson, Superintendent Heil, Frank Nay, Dr. German, Robert B. Thompson, F.J. Canty, May, Schofield and FJ. Baldwin.

The program for that first year included papers on Women s rights, Chase on u.s. relations with Cuba (November 2), and Chase again later on Union with Canada and its difficulties; Wetherell on State ownership of railroads; Heil on Critical American political campaigns (November 30); Chambers on Tendencies in American morals (December 27) and later, on Socialism; Johnson on The American Negro, May on the Duke of Wellington, Baldwin on Science and immortality, Dr. German on the European balance ofpower, FJ. Canty on The liability of the employer to employee in personal injury cases, Mason on the feats of modern engineering; and Leonard, on three occasions, Passing phases of the labor question, then on The message ofIbsen to this generation, and, finally, on the topic of Art for art s sake, or art for a purpose?

The Post observed that the program read "like a page from the North American Review."

Members must have found the North American Review stimulating, indeed, for longevity has been the rule, rather than the exception, in the Thirteen Club.

In the first seventy-five years of the club, there were only 74 members. The average individual membership has been about - would you believe it? - 13 years.

David Rule holds the longevity mark with 47 years (1933-

1980) and Harry Abells was a close second with 44 years (1910-1954). Several members stayed the course for more than three decades.

Another remarkable facet of the Thirteen Club is that it has managed to flourish for nearly a century without ever finding it necessary to have written by-laws.

A note that Owen Price wrote to a prospective new member in 1966 does give some idea, however, of the internal mechanisms of the club.

"The group meets on Friday evening [closest to] the 13th of each month," Price wrote, "(except June, July, and August) for dinner and to hear and discuss a paper prepared by a member. Yes, membership is limited to 13 men. It has no formal organization, no by-laws, no officers, and no secrets. A revolving three-member committee annually assigns topics and arranges for hosts of the meetings. It is customary for the monthly host to provide dinner, usually at his home. Papers are delivered and discussions of them are held at the host's home. I have always found the club's meetings very pleasant socially and usually very stimulating intellectually.

Our members cover a wide field in occupation or profession, political conviction, and in social and religious viewpoint. And with very few exceptions, [the members] have produced highly interesting and well informed essays."

A fairly complete list of members does exist, but club secretaries (if there were such) were a lot more casual about indicating who delivered what paper when.

Topics are assigned today, it seems, on an almost random basis, and one isn't given a topic simply because one has some particular expertise in that area.

Mark Linnerud, MPA chemistry teacher, who has been a member for over a decade, recalls that his first topic was What do those rock-n-rolilyrics really mean?"

His second topic was the Algonquin Indians, but in doing his research he got so fascinated by the Iroquois, that he forget all about the Algonquin. His paper on the Iroquois was favorably received-except by the person who had assigned him to do the Algonquin. His third assignment, therefore, became the Algonquin and his next was the Sioux.

"After that," Linnerud said, "I never wanted to do another paper on Indians."

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(906 One of the most memorable series of papers for Mark was the year the club repeated the topics that had been chosen in the founding year of 1906. He also liked the imagination displayed on the series of papers based on one-word subjects, such as Beans, and even one on It. MPA physics teacher Larry Brown has been a member since 1971. He was invited to join by Owen Price to take the place of Don Coller, MPA's middle school principal, who died that autumn just before school was to start.

Most of the papers, Larry said, are about thirty-to forty minutes and then each member is invited to offer a response to it.

Larry, like Mark, is also fond of the one-word assignments, and he recalls being asked to research such singular topics as Joy, Discipline, Music and Ozone. Particularly memorable for him were Bob Nolan's exploration of Suspenders and Don Akers on that biggest little topic in the world, It. In general, however, he welcomes the opportunity to think about things outside of his academic disciplines.

There is still a strong MPA core in the Thirteen Club, and Larry noted that he, along with Mark, Bob Nolan, Don Akers, Bob Stelton, Art Myron and John Bukacek have, or have had, some MPA connection.

"There are ItO rules for the club," Larry said, "but 1 have noticed some subtle changes in the three decades 1 have been associated with the Thirteen Club. We are less formal than we once were (it was always coat-and-tie at one time) and while we almost always had a full compliment of thirteen members present, now we rarely do. People are just busier today, 1 suppose."

The club has had very little public exposure and that, perhaps, is simply because it has never sought any publicity.

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All for good sport Arthur Stephenson [1898] wrote (May 27, 1923) that he could not attend MPA's 50th anniversary celebration, but then started naming all those he would like to see again.

"0 what is the use of naming all, he finally declared, "because 1 want to see everyone."

"I cannot run the 100 yards in 10 flat now nor could 1 carry the pigskin around the end for a touchdown as easily as of yonder day nor throw a baseball from deep center to home plate, but say I'd like to get the old bunch together and try. We don't have snow in San Diego at all so 1 would like to slide down old MP hill again to see how it goes and hear the girls squeal and see the boys tease. 1 would like to gather in one of the boy's rooms and sing barbershop chords until my throat was

sore. Sure 1 would like to get into Prof. Wightman's room and rough house his bed and put a pail of water on the door so it would duck him as he entered, ay, god bless him, it was all done for sport. Yes, 1 would like to catch the guy that ducked me one evening as 1 was going to a Morgan Hall reception all dolled up in my dress suit. Yes, 1 went home and put on dry clothes. 1 could talk on and on but you all remember all those things and god grant we never forget them. It keeps us young."

Stephenson, in his three years at MPA, in addition to playing football and baseball, was a member of the first relay team to win a banner for MPA, and he held the school records in the 100 and 220-yard-dashes.

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(907 The man who made nature live unquestionably meet with the entire approval of those naturalist-botanists of the more modem type."

The book included chapters on plants that walk, plants that eat insects, plants that fish, plants that carry life insurance, and plants that are athletes.

Here is a sample of his approach: "Not the least among the various sports of plants is dancing. Since the earliest times dancing has been associated with flowers. A strange plant of the East Indies, known to botanists as Mantisia saltoria, has gained for itself the name of 'dancing girls. ' This is, no doubt, due to its supposed resemblance to a woman. The name saltoria is derived from the Latin word meaning a dancer."

In The Human Side of Trees (1917), he sought to present trees as "living, growing, thinking creatures, with definite habits of life, efficient business methods, and characters often more to be admired than the man who chops them down."

Dixon also looked to the future of our forests with a kind of prophetic gloom. He saw in the deforested China a "picture of America tomorrow." This was not sensationalism, he contended, "but a prediction as sure as the statement that water runs down hill."

On one of his busy lecture tours, in 1928, he arranged his schedule so that he might lecture to the cadets at Morgan Park Military Academy.

Dixon wrote (January 31 , 1928) to Colonel Abells: "This [lecture] will cost you nothing- and my heart will be joyous at being back there. But I warn you that you will no longer see the same type of person whom you knew me to be twenty years ago. I really feel it is a bit courageous for me to dare to come back among myoid friends who knew me then; for I am more ponderous in size, and chilly winters have added a bit of whiteness to my hair, but the warmth of my heart for Morgan Park Academy has only increased and this is why, as one of the Academy's wanderers, I want come back."

Royal Dixon, the Academy wanderer, spoke at MPMA February 9, 1928.

He died in 1962.

He was a southerner by birth and he had a way with words.

He wrote some dozen books and was perhaps the most popular natural history writer and lecturer in the decades following World War 1.

Royal A. Dixon, after graduating from Morgan Park Academy in 1907, studied at the University of Chicago, Columbia and New York University before accepting a position as botanist with the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. He didn't stay long, however.

He found success on his own by writing and lecturing about plants and animals in an interesting and human way.

A 1927 press release, on the stationery of James B. Pond Bureau ("Managers of World Tours for world celebrities") described Dixon as a "persuasive and charming lecturer" who used no illustrations, but made "popular the study of the lower forms of life to an amazing degree."

Dixon was frequently called "the man who makes nature live." He believed that all life was one and "he love[ d] his subject and convey[ed] that love to you."

"People who think nature commonplace and uninteresting," the press release continued, "will discover through him that nature is indeed a fairyland of wonder." The release also stated that he was one of the founders of "The League of Foreign Born Citizens" and that Dixon was the author of the first book on Americanization.

The popular books that led him to additional success on the lecture circuit had such titles as The Human Side ofPlants, The Human Side ofAnimals, the Human Side of Birds, The Human Side of Trees, Personality of Plants, Personality of Insects, Personality of Water-animals , Wildwood Friends and Forest Friends. The titles for his lectures were often drawn from the titles of his books.

In The Human Side ofPlants (1914), Dixon aimed to unlock "the doors which have barred us from the mysteries of the plant kingdom," even though he would be presenting new truths "which must unquestionably meet the censure of the book-taught botanists of the old schools, but which will quite as

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{9l0~ John DeGrandpre: Quartermaster John DeGrandpre was so adept at handling men during combat that he was sent to a school for officers and was promoted to second lieutenant, Lyle F. Nolan wrote (on MPMA stationery, March 26, 1926) in his recommendation for the man who was in his platoon in France.

"A military institution securing his services in a military capacity would in my opinion be indeed fortunate," added Nolan, who was detailed to ROTC work atMPMA. A board member at the Hartwick (Iowa) Consolidated Schools, where DeGrandpre was principal, thought him ''worthy of a better position than we can offer him here." Other board members noted that he was a man "of mature years," of "excellent character and habits, always cheerful and gentlemanly," and ''thoroughly reliable."

He was soon hired by Col. Abells, but as late as September 2, 1926, there was some uncertainty about what he would teach. Abells was properly embarrassed about such uncertainty, for DeGrandpre had hoped to begin preparing his courses. All Abells could tell him at that date was "it is likely you will have a class in second year English, perhaps commercial geography, possibly physics."

In 1930, he was unanimously elected acting quartermaster, with Abells telling him the board had "faith in his manhood and possibilities."

Abells was always on the job, it seems (there were times when the board almost had to force him to take a vacation), and expected his staff to be equally dedicated. Once, in 1936, while the DeGrandpres were vacationing in Montana, Abells wrote and asked if he would mind driving one hundred miles to visit an Academy prospect.

DeGrandpre made the trip and

Abells, writing (August 24, 1936) to thank him, noted that "sometimes it takes a good many casts to get a bite and again the fish may get away but its is only through casting that we are going to catch any fish at all."

The fishing metaphor was maintained, for DeGrandpre wrote the next summer that he was visiting another prospect and hoped ''to land him."

There was real fishing, too, and DeGrandpre noted proudly that his son David "landed a ten-inch trout."

Fishing for trout and fishing for prospects became a regular feature of DeGrandpre's summers in Montana.

David's successful landing of the trout reminded Abells of the time his son, Delmont (who died some years before) landed the biggest bass caught on the St. Joe's River that season. "The fmal catch was made when [Delmont] dropp[ed] the pole, and [caught] the line and dragg[ed] the bass in."

A new position - executive officer ofMPMA - was created for DeGrandpre in 1938. He was given "paramount authority," after Abells and Jones, for junior school, lower school, upper school, and the college.

When Major Jackson was hired as commandant in 1939, Abells wrote to DeGrandpre (July 5, 1939) that he had asked Jackson to pay particular attention to pages 7-13 of the catalogue.

Abells also confided some of that philosophy: "a school, like a living body, is an organism and very often medicine and common sense are better than too many surgical operations."

In November of 1940, Major DeGrandpre was called to an indefinite tour of US military duty and so was given a leave of absence from MPMA. DeGrandpre, writing from the marine base at San Diego, had a story to tell about Al Gentleman [37], who was - 24-

serving as officer of the guard at the base. A prisoner escaped and did not heed the command to halt and Gentleman, spotting the prisoner about a seventy-yard lead, sprinted after him and brought him down. "It was," DeGrandpre said, ''the talk of the base for a few days."

Later, after being reassigned to Parris Island, SC, DeGrandpre wrote [Aug 2, 1941]: "Well, Colonel, no man could work at an institution as long as I did and not think of it frequently even though he may be miles away and doing a far different thing. As the months have rolled on, I have thought of you, your problems, the budget, the dining hall, the board meetings, chapel periods, and many of the activities which were part of our daily routine, and above all of our daily conferences and frequent trips to see either my friends, Mr. E.J. Price and "Joe' McNeill, or a short ride over to Professor Wells house for a bit of advice. I miss them all, Colonel, and I sincerely hope and I am selfish enough to want them to miss me at least a little.

I would be a disappointed man if it were not so."

He continued with a reminiscence of board meetings: "Believe it or not, I used to get the biggest kick out of putting the data on the blackboard and then waiting for the board members to find the loop holes. In that little game we can take a grade of 100 per cent plus. One or the other of us would have the answer. As I remember it all now, however, you had to back me up once in a while with a nod or a very brief explanation of some particular point .I can still see E.J.looking intently at the blackboard and then checking the figures against the previous year's audit report."

The war in Europe was also a topic of this lengthy letter, and he said: "It

(9Z0~ seems that man has lost his senses and might is prevailing over right. We can ' t have too many MPMAs in these times, Colonel. The boys must be taught again and again to cherish and protect the heritage that is theirs and ours. I'm glad I had the chance to instill, on many class-room days, some of the fundamental things which have been the bulwark of this nation. Wish I were there to give them a rapid-fire chapel talk right now."

Abells [Aug 20, 1941] read that passage to the boys at chapel.

A certain alienation, a coldness, developed between Abells and DeGrandpre, however, as the latter's military service continued.

There were long periods of silence (unusual for Abells) when he did not respond to DeGrandpre's letters. In 1942, there was a letter from the MPMA business manager asking that DeGrandpre settle his (apparently small) debt with the Academy.

DeGrandpre, hurt by the letter, explained (January 30, 1942) the circumstances and politely reminded Abells of the "Soldiers and Sailors Relief Act of 1940" which declared a moratorium on debts servicemen had contracted before being called to active service. He also asked that his letter be presented to the board.

In August 1944, DeGrand pre wrote to Abells that, after his four years of service, he might be released from active duty and return to MPMA. He remained on active duty through 1945, however, and correspondence concerning his return was cautious on both sides.

What seemed to be at issue was the quartermaster's position. DeGrandpre had been executive officer (in effect, third in command after Abells and Jones) before being called into military service.

The issue was complicated for Abells because, in the meantime, he had found a very able quartermaster and others had taken the duties formerly handled by DeGrandpre. In April 1945,

John DeGrandpre in 1926. after being called for a conference in Chicago, all seemed to work out satisfactorily. He would return as executive officer (but not quartermaster) in the fall of 1945, with expanded duties, and so on.

Abells (May 2, 1945) mentions the imminent arrival of Col. Sellers on campus, alludes to a letter of Judge which intimates a change, and Abells

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says: "Probably I shall be Superintendent Emeritus or something similar and have the joy of being of some service."

One of the last few pieces of correspondence in the DeGrandpre file is a request from Abells (June 26, 1945) for a biographical sketch and photograph to be published, perhaps to mark his long years of service.

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(9Z0~ Roy McIntosh: scale models and Latin wall charts Roy S. McIntosh included a brief biographical sketch with the credential file he submitted with his application to teach at Morgan Park Military Academy and it provides some details about his life before MPMA. He was born in Colorado in 1881 and attended public schools in Boulder before completing the classical course at the Colorado State Preparatory School in 1902. He majored in Greek, Latin, and philosophy at Colorado State University and received his B.A. in 1906.

He won a scholarship and received an M.A. from that institution in 1908, with advanced studies in history, economics and sociology. He was a teaching assistant in economics and sociology during that time.

His teaching experience was varied (including sojourns as principal and superintendent), but ancient history, Latin, and Greek became his specialties. He taught in Leadville, Colorado (1913-14), La Grande, Oregon (1914-16), Missoula, Montana

(1916-18), and Dubuque, Iowa (1918-1926).

McIntosh was not a man to be idle during vacations and he held a wide variety of summer posts in fields far removed from classical scholarship. He was an engineer for the Fort Lyon Canal Company, the St. Louis Land Company, and the San Diego Fruit Company. He worked on irrigation and deep-well projects in California and Mexico. He also worked for railroads as engineer, labor foreman, and refrigeration inspector (1914).

He did take a few summers off, however, to work on some of projects that earned him enduring fame as a Latin instructor at MPMA. He spent the summer of 1919, for example, in constructing a series of wall charts for "visualization in teaching Greek forms. In the summer 1924 he completed a series of similar wall charts for the teaching of Latin. His textbook, Greek Forms and Syntax, was also published in 1924.

Along with the charts, McIntosh promised to bring more than 1000 volumes on Greek and Latin literature for students to

McIntosh's Roman catapult.

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(9Z.0~ connected with it."

This is a typed document, which makes me think it was a form McIntosh was asked to sign, for all of the other correspondence in the file that bears his signature is written in a very elegant long-hand.

There is a brief exchange of letters between Abells and w.B. Webb, of the Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tennessee in 1937 that discusses McIntosh's inquiry about teaching at Webb.

McIntosh was not dissatisfied in any way at MPMA, but he was interested in two things that Webb offered: a chance to spend more time teaching classical languages and a warmer climate.

An undated (probably 1938) letter from McIntosh to Major John DeGrandpre, requests a raise in salary. "After a period of twelve years service in the school," he wrote, "accepting without question such cuts in salary as the exigencies of the depression seemed to make necessary, I do not feel that I should be deprived of any benefits that better conditions may bring."

He points out, also, that he very likely carries the largest teaching load of any faculty member. He taught fourteen hours in the junior college and fifteen in the Academy. He had "a total class enrollment of students in my department of one hundred and forty"- all taught by him, it seems- and twentysix students taking Latin (the "largest in some years") at the Academy.

Roy McIntosh did eventually opt for that milder climate, where he could devote his spare time to gardening and fruit growing, and where he thought the position he secured would be congenial. His letter of resignation had nothing but kind things to say about his years at MPMA.

peruse. He also had 400 stereopticon views of Greece and scale models of such things as Caesar's bridge, a catapult, and a battering ram. There were also replicas of such things as a roman sword, a helmet, and a sling.

He was also a man with an impeccable reputation. "I use neither tobacco nor alcoholic liquor in any forms," he wrote in his autobiographical sketch, "and I have no habits of life that are considered questionable, and that are liable to interfere with the deportment expected of a teacher."

The recommendations included in his credential file are, as one might expect, laudatory. "Mr. McIntosh is a young man of fine character and remarkable love for literature and of great attainments in Latin, Greek, and English." He had an "agreeable manner," a "very sympathetic attitude toward students," and he was "enthusiastic about his subject and inspired his students with his own zeal."

Charles E. Olsan, a school superintendent in Ilwaco, Washington, wrote: "I have never been asked to write a testimonial that I could write more willingly than I can this one, for of all of the teachers I have had working under me, Mr. McIntosh is one of the most satisfactory. His broad training combined with his wealth of experience gives him a reserve force which makes him a power in the classroom. He is not confined to the textbook slavishly, but his broad education and experience help him to [illuminate] the text by showing it in its proper perspective."

McIntosh arrived on the MPMA campus on September 8, 1926, but he left his wife (who, it Roy McIntosh seems, was about to give birth) in Dubuque, Iowa. The child was born shortly thereafter, for there is a draft of a telegram to be sent to his wife: "You are a wonder. Am tickled to death. Be with you Saturday."

There is little else of note in the file until June 18, 1933, when there is a rather odd memo, signed by McIntosh, and requesting "membership in the Academy faculty for the second semester."

It contains this curious paragraph, which sounds very much like the kind of loyalty oath that Senator Joseph McCarthy might have applauded: " It is agreed that loyalty to the institution with which we are associated is fundamental and that we shall cooperate with its policies unreservedly. In these emergency times it is absolutely essential that everyone on the faculty, both the teachers and their families, should give the Academy, its members and its programs, wholehearted and positive support. This cooperation includes discretion in conversation, even to the extent of not talking with anyone about anything deprecatory to the Academy or any person

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McIntosh's Roman battering ram.

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(9Z5 Silver seconds For two seasons in a row (1925-26 and 1926-27), MPMA's entire corps of cadets marched the basketball team down the hill to railway station and sent the players off, with plenty of cheering and yelling, to the National Academy Interscholastic Basketball Tournament, held at the University of Wisconsin.

The 1925-26 season began with a tough 16-13 home loss The second place to Onarga Military School, trophy, 1926. then the MPMA Maroons ran off three victories (23-21 over Luther Institute, 48-20 over Central High School, Hammond, Indiana, and 33 15 over Harvard) before losing to Onarga a second time, 22-20 in overtime.

MPMA won its next nine games, with only two games being decided by less than ten points. Against Latin, for example, the "giant center Burdick" scored six baskets in a 52-10 win. Burdick also scored sixteen points in a 33-25 rematch against Luther.

The final contest of the regular season, against St. Alban's, was perhaps the toughest of the season. The game was not decided until the final minute, when Thomas, the St. Alban's left forward, sunk a shot for a 22-21 win.

The Maroons finished the regular season with a 123 mark and were invited to 1926 basketball team.

play in the National Academy Interscholastic tournament at the University of Wisconsin. MPMA defeated Howe and Onarga, before falling to Pillsbury Academy (Owatonna, Minnesota) in the finals, 26-22. A basketball-sized silver trophy was awarded to MPMA for second place in the tournament.

The next season, 1926-27, produced a 13-3 mark for Coach Fleming's Maroons and another invitation to the tournament at Madison. Two wins, again, put them into the finals, this time against Culver. MPMA lost 26-22, but came home again with the silver basketball, emblematic of second place.

The two silver basketballs, perhaps a little less shiny than they once were, are in the Academy archives.

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(9Z6 "Shorty" Nagurski), the Cincinnati Reds, St. Louis Gunners and the Memphis Tigers and, although he weighed 246, a sportswriter once described him as "a mass of fastmoving muscle."

He later turned to professional wrestling and was credited with winning fourteen consecutive matches.

Burdick died in 1945.

Lloyd C. Burdick [26] was the nephew of mathematics instructor, Captain Gray, but he was better known to his classmates as "Shorty."

The nickname was perhaps bestowed with affectionate irony, for Burdick, at six feet, four inches, towered over the other cadets.

At the University of Illinois, he was known as the tackle who towered over all other Big Ten football linemen in physique and performance. He was starting tackle on the 1927 and 1928 Big Ten championship teams of Coach Bob Zuppke. He terrorized conference heavyweight wrestlers as well and won the Big Ten championship and took second place in NCAA tournament in 1930.

He played professional football with the Chicago Bears (in 1931 and 1932, with the likes of Red Grange and Bronko

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Burdick's graduation photo, 1927.

Burdick, second from left towers over other linemen.

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From MPMA into the Army It is a familiar story.

Ralph William Gilbert graduated from MPMA on June 14, 1942. He was sworn into the Army as a second lieutenant on the same day and took the train two days later for Fort McCardle, in Alliston, Alabama.

At the conclusion of basic training, on August 9,1942, he married his high school sweetheart, Arlena, in the 5th regiment chapel.

"There were about ten chapels on the base," Arlena recalled much later, "and they were all just as busy. Everyone had marriage fever before the boys went over."

He went on maneuvers the next morning at 4:30 a.m.

He trained at various bases, including Lodwick Aviation Academy (Avon, Florida), one of the many schools set up to train pilots in a hurry.

Gilbert never saw overseas service, however.

He later graduated from the Illinois College of Optometry and set up a practice in Elgin, Illinois.

After his retirement in 1989, he and his wife moved into a cedar log house overlooking the 4th hole of a golf course near Seattle, Washington where Gilbert (an avid golfer) played every day.

Arlena also recalled an epidemic which ravaged the Academy in about 1939 or 1940. There were so many taken ill that cots had to set up in the gym to accommodate them all.

Her husband, Arlena said, was so ill that he was transferred to the Cook County Contagious Disease Hospital (drolly referred to as "The Pest House"), where he was diagnosed with both scarlet fever and strep throat.

Ralph William Gilbert died in 2002, shortly before his sixtieth wedding anniversary, Arlena Gilbert wrote (June 29, 2002) to the Academy.

Ralph William Gilbert, 1942.

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Robert Dennler [47]: "After WWII Dr. Stanley Tylman [48]: "Retired ended, I transferred and in June 1947, from dentistry and now live in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. I'm so busy with I graduated from, The Harvard School for Boys, now closed. I then graduvarious community, church activities and ated from Grinnell College and hobbies that I don't know how I would attended the . .- - - - - - - - - - " have time to work."

Chicago-Kent College of William (Bill) Giannos [49] Law for two Attended Beloit College and reacademic ceived a Bachelor of Arts degree in years before 1953. His hobbies and interests are entering the art and music. Recently he has Army in 1954, been painting and sculpting and is before the moving to a new condo. legal end of the Korean Dr. Walter Hofman [50] works War in 1955. three days a week at his dental office in Glenview. His interests are photography and traveling and in Sephe is interested in all Chicago tember L....;..;.._ _ _ _ _ _......:::...._ _ _ _---I sports. He has two grandsons, 1953. I've been a college textbook ages five and eight. He has traveled most publishing executive residing primarof the world including Asia, Europe, ily in the Eastern part of the US since Eastern Europe and the Middle East.

1956 and am still active in college textbook marketing at 75-years-old. I James E. Meek [50] received his BS delegally changed my name from Robert gree in business in 1954. He was presiDennler Glubka to Robert G. Dennler. dent of an industrial supply company in My wife of 52 years and I have three Kokomo, IN and retired in January 1988. children and still lead a very active He traveled in a motor home in the social life with our large extended winters of 1989-2003. "Trip 1 - Drove in families here and around the country.

Mexico from Nogales to Guadalajara We also travel globally because that's then to Mexico City to Veracruz to Canwhat people in the publishing houses cun to Brownsville, TX. Trip 2 - drove like to do when they retire, even if down and back to Baja California. Trip they traveled a lot during their 3 - Drove to the Panama Canal and back careers." to Texas (that included seven countries).

Trip 4 - Drove four weeks in South AfJohn Stewart [47]: "I'm still working rica from Johannesburg to Cape Town. as a consultant to an investment counselWe are now parents of a sixteen year old ing firm and as a Director to Vision III granddaughter in Kokomo with summers Imaging. For recreation we enjoy travel at the lake in Plymouth, IN.''

and playing tennis. We do seem to keep busy! Love living in Carmel, CA."

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Russell Moline [50] was forty-four years in law enforcement. Currently, he enjoys his time fishing in the Florida Gulf and Lake Michigan. "My wife and I travel as often as possible. I am an active mason, Scandinavian Club member and limo driver. A few years ago I had open heart bypass surgery. I retired two years ago."

Tom Neely [50] is a children's book author. His hobbies and interests include exotic and wild bird rescue and rehab.

He is the educational director for the Oasis Sanctuary for exotic birds and president of GlobelMiami Avian Club. In addition to that busy schedule he's managed to put all of his children's books on CDs and DVDs, and also does author-a-day programs on a limited basis.

James Goss [55]: "Just hanging around waiting to retire."

LTC John J. Frank, USA (ret) [56]: "Since my graduation from MPMA, I graduated from U of I in Champaign in 1960 (BS in Journalism) and after commissioning from Army ROTC, spent 20 years in the Army. I sold insurance for 10 years in TX and FL and worked for AT &T for 9 years before 'retiring' again.

I most recently 'retired' again from the American Cancer Society. I have three children and two stepchildren with nine grandchildren among them. My hobbies are working on my family tree, golf when I can, and raising a 14 year old granddaughter. My wife and I are settled in Round Rock, TX. I hope to attend any class of 56 reunion activities next year."

John Inman [57]: "I am a civilian with the US Army in Kaiserslautern, home of the 2006 World Cup Soccer games (no access to tickets though)."

Douglas Bergmoser [58]: "I've been in the plastics business, injection molding, for 30+ years thus far. Serve automotive, - 32 -

telecom, medical device manufacturers, and general industrial accounts."

Richard Parkinson [59]: "I was president for 30 years of Morrison Institute of Technology, a two-year engineering technology college. Have also served as a college administrator as placement director, chief academic officer and chief financialofficer. Enjoy boating, snow skiing, bowling and have played an active role in off road racing."

Charles Junkunc [60]: "Spend winters in Florida and summers in RI. Married to Karren (Rodighier) from Loring [60]."

Michael McClure [60]: "I'm serving as the chair of the advisory board of the Greater Lafayette Salvation Army. I retired to West Lafayette, Indiana in 2000 after 35 years, primarily spent in college and professional sports administration.

Honored to be inducted into the Sigma Hall of Fame at the 150th celebration of the founding of Sigma Chi Fraternity.

Wife, Brenda and I are looking forward to attending the 45th MPA reunion."

Jeffrey Fox [62]: "Activities include whitewater kayaking, volleyball, and other sports."

Jerry Levit [62]: "My elder daughter, Keira, and her husband just moved into his grandmother'S former home in Monroe, GA after having completed a substantial and beautiful restoration project. Keira's interior design business has

her busy up and down the East Coast and the Bahamas. Naomi, my other daughter, is a free-lance photographer and barista in Eugene, OR and seems to be doing quite well. I'm getting ready to leave for a monthlong research trip to Eastern Europe. I'm working on a novel that is partly based in Poland and I need to stand on the ground where my ancestors lived and died."

where she works. I'm a senior business analyst at a software firm in San Mateo, CA.

John Hooks [66J: "I have been married to Nancy for over 25 years and we have three children. Jeff graduated from college this year with a BS in Criminal JusticelPolitics degree and a minor in History. Marc is at Cardinal Stritch University and he thinks he wants to major in psychology.

Renne is in college."

Stuart Huck [63J: "Weekly jazz show on KAJX, Aspen public radio. Teach photography at Colorado Mountain College of Fine Art. I'm a photographer specializing in traditional color processes and alternative black and white processes."

Carol Wolk McPherson [63J writes that she has ''just retired after teaching thirtyeight years in the first grade for Oak Lawn District 122 and will be moving to Lake Templene in Sturgis, MI.

Cynthia Nelson Zachow [66J: "I retired two years ago. In 2004 we returned to England for a birthday party. With no jobs to rush back to, we stayed a month, flew to the Isle of Jersey, crossed the Chunnel [the tunnel under the English Channel] to Lille, France, and enjoyed an II day river and lake cruise through Russia."

Kitty Kliros Stamper [70J: "currently running harness race horses at Balmoral and Maywood Parks in Chicago with husband. Been so busy had to put artistic business aside for a while."

Edward (Ned) Haggard [64J generously gave the Academy a copy of his latest work which is a collection of poetry and prose entitled Weave of the Sea. Ned was heard reading his poetry on Rev. Jesse Jackson's weekly radio-television broadcast in the summer of 2005.

Dr. Jeff Unger [70J is a consulting physician for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim baseball club.

He also directs a diabetes and headache center in Southern California. In October 2005, Dr. Unger's migraine book will be published. His diabetes text book will be published in 2006. He thanks everyone at MPA who taught him how to spell and type.

Allen DeNormandie [65J writes that he "retired in September 2004 after 35 years with DeNormandie Corp. and opened a muscle car show room in Mokena in June 2005.

It's called BDA Auto Brokers Inc. Our group buys and sells specialty cars from the 50s, 60s and 70s with my son Brandon who also designs autos."

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Daniel Weisberg [65J: "I've lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for 22 years after the Peace Corps and graduate school at the University of Illinois and the University of California-San Francisco. I received my BA at Earlham College, Richmond, IN. I've been married to Beth Weisberg for 32 years. We have a daughter, Rachel who is a graduate of the University of California in Santa Barbara,

l's & 6'S Scptclnber/October (TBA) Chicago

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Nancy Levin Zizmor [76] tells us that her hobbies include fundraising, travel and art collecting.

She is a benefactor of Yeshiva University and serves on the board of directors ofYCT Rabbinical School. "I am happily married and living in New York. I have two stepchildren."

Nancy (in white) with her husband and stepchildren.

Daniel Opyd [SO]: "I would love to meet with anyone from the class of 80 that visits this area.

Please contact me if you're coming to Denver or going to the mountains sometime."

Lisa Kirk Bourke [SI]: "I'm married and have 3 children. " Bertram Hoddinott [S3]: "I miss you all very much."

Nikbil Rangaraj [S9]: "My wife and I recently finished renovating an 1870s Victorian in the Boston area. Thankfully it was done just in time for the arrival of our daughter Annika (10/02)."

Vijay Adusumilli [90]: "Currently, I am an emergency room physician in Willoughby, Ohio at Lake West Hospital. I recently became board certified in emergency medicine as well. I often come to Chicago to visit my parents, who still live there.

Contact me at vijayadu@yahoo.com"

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Susana Ugarte [91] I'm now married to MPA alumn David Cuadros [86]. I have attached this photo of our son Alex (15 months); alongside his cousins Jack (son of Rachel Cuadros [90], Connor (son of Paula Cuadros [88]), and Nora (daughter of Julie Cuadros [93]).

Aileen Hovanessian Agopian [92]: "After Tufts, I moved to London to obtain my MA in post-war & contemporary art. I loved it so much that I decided to stay in the UK for 4 years and worked as the sales director for White Cube, a cutting-edge contemporary art gallery. I returned to NY to become the specialist of contemporary art in an auction house, and then met my husband Charlie. We married in Chicago on August 24,2002."

Reagan Wilkins Oden [92]: "I am currently in my third year of law school. My legal education was interrupted by the birth of my fabulous twins, Michael and Melanie. M&M have an older sister named Micalah. So, between school, mothering and 'wifing,' I am pretty doggone busy!"

Latania Broyls [93]: "I am a pediatric resident doctor at Children's Memorial Hospital of Northwestern University."

Jodi Kapjon Gaertner [93] is a certified teacher living in the Pacific NW, married with two sons, Gabriel Eden and Sebastian Sage.

Gretta Heintz [93] recently became engaged to Scott Stables. The happy couple will be married in April, 2006 in Scott's hometown of Aberdeen, Scotland. Elham Abdishi [93] will be standing up in her wedding as her maid of honor. Gretta is currently working as Vice President of Operations at Oberweis Asset Management in Lisle, 1L. Shannon Silverman [93]: "Hi! I'm living in San Francisco, working in the ever-interesting internet community. Drop a line sometime to get in touch!"

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LORING Joyce Hooper Crowe [44] has a practice in real estate in Arizona. She has a second home in Prescott, in a golf community, and recently she moved into a new townhouse in Scottsdale.

Beverly Oyler Shivers [52]: "Our recent travels have taken us to France, Spain, Ireland, Holland, and Belgium. Next year we will visit Portugal."

Carole Lundgren Currey [53]: "My Virginia Hess Kole [49] wrote to say that husband, three children and grandchildren she is a substitute teacher ..- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -.. are my main interests. I in Chicago and Phoenix. am active in several "Louie and I have been Santa Monica organizahappily married for 52 tions. I swim for exeryears. We spend June to cise and fun! I am a October in Oak Lawn and teacher in Culver City unified school districtNovember to May in Phoenix. adult school. I teach in the high school diploma Margaret Hoeppner program; I also teach Saunders [51]: "My current events to seniors hobbies include sewing, in retirement homes. quilting, cooking, travelThis year I am chair of ing, skiing, knitting, decothe board of trustees of rating, gardening, biking, the Santa Monica comkayaking, boating and munity college district. I swimming. I went out to have served on this Arizona this past winter elected board over 26 Loring Bathing Beauties (/ to r) years, but this is an unand am up at the lake Joyce [Hooper] Crowe, Marian Davis, usually busy year. We home in Door County, Mary Holderby, Marilyn Parrott, WI. Working on decoratBonnie [Kistner] Wefler. are in search of a new ....._ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.... superintendent and ing a new addition president. We were honored to have Govthrough the fall." ernor Arnold Schwarzenegger, an alumnus, as our commencement speaker in Betty Gardner Nelson [52] writes that she June. (It made national news!)" owned a mail order company for over thirty years in Colorado.

Donna Fraider-Woelffer [54]: "I have been a realtor on Longboat Key and SaraMartha Herriott Swift [52] When asked sota for 15 years. I have been widowed what she has been doing, replied "Travel! and remarried. We own a home in a subLast year for the first time I went to a counurb of Asheville, NC about 20 minutes try where I don't speak the language ... from the Biltmore Estate and 5 miles from Finland! My husband is a retired professor the Blue Ridge Parkway. Have been in of history and classic and religious studies.

FL for 22 years. Love to hear from forSo we go to conferences and he gives lecmer classmates." tures. If I want to comment on what he has said, I have to raise my hand. Can you believe it?"

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The Stelton's

Loring ClassNotes continue ....

Judy Crawford Stahl [57] moved to Alabama in 97, but serves on the Board at the Founders Bank in Worth, IL, so she is able to get back here often.

Robert (former MP A social studies teacher) & Doreen (former MP A art teacher): "Hello, the Steltons have not slowed up because of retirement. Both continue doing what they love, but by moving from the confinement of a classroom, to the globe, they have expanded their academic purview escorting adventurous travelers across the globe. Most recently Bob escorted a group to BolivialPeru to trace the origins of pre-Columbian myth and legend. Doreen recently escorted a group through the Art Institute of Chicago, examining art objects and placing them in their archaeological context. Both Steltons were recently awarded the Leonard W. Blake Distinguished Amateur Award for their contributions to archaeology by the Illinois Association for the Advancement of Archaeology."

Dabney Woodley Hoon [59]: "We've just returned from an Oregon Coast trip."

Barbara Jansma Bayersdorffer [60]: "My husband and I like to golf and have lived in AZ for 30 years. You would think we would be good at it. I retired last year after working in the accounting field for most of my life. I found boredom in retirement, so now I work part time for a local business. My husband Jack and I enjoy a relaxed lifestyle here in AZ." Charlotte Welton Singer [60]: "Dick and I have moved to Cape Cod and semi-retirement.

We love the ocean, biking trails and wildlife.

We hope to enjoy it as much as we can before we get too old!"

David Jones (former MP A headmaster )and wife, Lee Jones: "In August of 2004, Lee and I left Illinois and settled in Houston, TX. We live in a wonderful retirement community. It's nice not to have to cook or do housekeeping. We have wonderful programs frequently. We also have series tickets to the Houston Symphony, which is nice. Six days a week, we go to the Wellness Center on campus here and work out for at least 30 minutes every day. That's quite a lifestyle change for both of us. Last fall I took a course at the University on campus here and maybe I'll take another course next quarter. We miss our Chicago/ MP A friends and enjoy the Academy Magazine. "

Alumni Faculty ClassN otes William Bukovsan (former Loring science teacher): After Bill left Loring he went to Indiana University and received a doctorate in Endocrinology in 1967.

He has 2 sons and one granddaughter. One son is an economist in Australia and the other son is a theoretical mathematician in St. Paul, MN. Bill taught at New York State University for 32 years and retired in 2000.

Standrod Carmichael (former MP A English teacher): "I'm slowing down but not brain dead yet. I answer letters!"

Happy Golden Wedding Anniversary!

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Winnie Theodore (former principal of lower school): "I have just returned from several weeks in Florida, visiting a friend in Sarasota and my sister and brother-in-law in Naples. I will leave for Atlanta in March 2005 to visit my son and his family for a week and will spend time with my 9 and 10-year-old granddaughters.

On a regular basis I volunteer 3 days a week at my church resale shop and lunch with friends often. Needless to say I miss MPA but am happy to be near my Naperville sons and their families ."

2005 Seniors (above) 8th grade (left)

2005 MPA Varsity Volleyball Independent School League Champions!

Ranked #1 in IHSA Regional top row I to r: Christine Javorski, Lauren Rodriquez, Sara LeRose, Tania Ismael, Anna Rose Fitzgerald, Coach Laura Ingram bottom row I to r: Nikita Stange, Amy Kaspar, Christina Kelly, Jacqueline Miller, Maryann Manatt

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MPA Varsity Soccer 2005 IHSA Sectional Chatnpions!

Front row from left: John Davenport, Elias Litos, Jon Hansen, Alex Koht,

Sorabh Kothari Second row from left: Jesse Bakker, Robert Churchill, Jacob Cole, Jack Slaughter,

Mitchell Owens, Matthew Wiegel Third row from left: Jordan Gulino, Kevin Fleming, Brian Szkarlat,

Shawn Kothari, Max Nichols, Petar Radujkovich Back row from left: Head Coach Dalyn Drown, Sam Bakker,

Alex Ingram, Milan Tica, Ferris Odeh, Assistant Coach Joe Corbett, Assistant Coach Mike Weil, not pictured Nolan Bielinski

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Grant DeN orman die [64] is the 4th generation DeN orman die family member (along with cousins Allen [65] and Ed) who owns and manages the one-hundredyear-old companies, DeNormandie, Party Linens by DeNormandie and DustCatchers, Inc., located on the south side of Chicago. Grant has recently retired and now there is a fifth generation of DeNormandie in the company, his son Michael.

Barry Kritzber g, J ames Vesely [57] and Ed Jerabek [56] have a break during J im Vesleys' resear ch visit to the Academy for his new novel.

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Arizona reunion alumni included: (seated I to r) Rob Von Lutzow (son and nephew of MPMA alumni), Peter Monzures [64], Howard [53] and Marion Van Antwerp.

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Paula [79] and JoAnn [78] Newsome

Debra Weinfield [75] Horberg and her children.

Left-to-right: Carrie Swearingen [82] Elaine Gillies [music teacher] Jean Doyle [79] Lillian Mackal [former drama teacher]

The Rathi brothers returned to lunch with some of their favorite teachers.

Left-to-right: Jim Kowalsky Rajeev Rathi [84] Doc Brown Barry Kritzberg Sanjeev Rathi [83]

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TAPS Joseph E. Maurey MPMA [34J

Raymond Bingen MPA [56J

Col. William Boehm MPMA [37J

John Deacon MPA [64J

Arthur Teichner MPMA [39J

John Angelo Cairo MPA[70J

Richard Frank McCarthy MPMA [41J

Kathryn George, former MPAfaculty, mother of Thomas [64J

Charles Sandstedt MPMA[43J

Alzata Pincham, mother ofJames [77J

Henry E. Doney III MPMA [44J

Barbara Rosi, mother of Peter [53J & Philip [55J Rosi

David G Risto MPMA[48J

Loretta Vallortigara, mother of Mary Anderson [83J

Quentin D. Buckley MPMA[49J

George Turk, Sr. , former board member, father of George [79J & Jonathan [82J

Theophilus Schmid MPMA[49J Christine Drennan LORING [53J

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lOO1--05~~ Capital Campaign (Gifts through June 30, 2005) Building on Tradition *Trustee

A Campaign for the future of Morgan Park Academy

$1,000,000 and Above Mr. Richard Duchossois [40] $250,000 - $499,999 Anonymous alumnus Salute to Excellence 2003-05 $100,000 - $249,999 Anonymous* Anonymous - parent Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Story and Mr. David Story (In Memory of Edwin Gausselin [29]) $50,000 - $99,999 Anonymous* Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth Bielinski Hammond Beeby Rupert Ainge Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Kenny Mr. Louis Kole [48] and Mrs. Virginia Hess-Kole [49] 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 Drs. Terrence Bartolini and Carol Braun Dr. Wilfred and Mrs. Imre* Boarden Mr. Shawn Concannon* Mr. and Mrs. Crane D'Louhy Mr. David and Dr. Maria Hibbs Drs. John Keane and Shirley Maides-Keane Drs. Anil and Sunita Kothari Mr. Minas* and Mrs. Stasia Litos

Mr. Howard Meyer [64] and Mrs. Sharron Meyer Mr. Fred [64] and Mrs. Michele Montgomery Mr. Richard* and Mrs. Lisa Nichols Mr. Joel and Mrs. Wanda* Pelz In Memory of Basilo and Tomasa Casado Mr. AI* and Mrs. Anne Petkus Mr. Rajeev [84] and Mrs. Tanuia Rathi Mr. Sanjeev L83] and Mrs. Sapna Rathi Dr. and Mrs. Antanas Razma Mr. Michael and Mrs. Lora* Salerno Mr. Vijay and Dr. Priti Singh $10,000 - $24,999 The Baum Family Mr. Irwin [40] and Mrs. Elizabeth Martin Mr. Louis and Mrs. Deborah* Bertoletti Mr. and Mrs. Robert Eichinger Dr. Richard* and Mrs. Carol Green Mr. Michael Flannery and Ms. Susan Larson Mr. Jeffrey B. Gilbert, Esq.* and Ms. Malinda Steele Dr. and Mrs. Ajit Kumar Mr. Thomas* and Mrs. Suzanne Olivieri Mr. Carl* and Mrs. Karyn Pettigrew Mr. Irv Ruder Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Thomas Mr. Phillip* and Mrs. Mary Ann Vasquez

$5,000 - $9,999 Mr. Robert [67] and Mrs. lona Beatty Generations Barbecue Company Mr. Frands [48] Mrs. Dolores Flynn Ms. Melissa Maggiotto Dr. and Mrs. M. Nabil Shabeeb Ms. Linda Wolgamott* Up to $4,999 Anonymous Mrs. Madonna Abdishi [63] MPMA Class of 1954 Mr. William* and Mrs. Patrida Collins Mr. Keith Cunliffe [66] Mr. Stephen J. * and Mrs. Mary Kay Driscoll Mr. and Mrs. John Erdahl Mr. and Mrs. Mark Erzen MPA Fathers Club Miss Sydney Fishman [12] Mr. and Mrs. Paul Fuller Rachel Lindsey, Ph.D* Mr. Steven and Mrs. Sara White [71] Grassi Dr. Richard Lewis Ms. Susan Mangels* Rev. WilliamJ. O'Donnell* Estate of Charles Pagels [40] Mr. and Mrs. Rodd Rasmussen Mr. L. Mikael [71] and Mrs. Beth Salovaara Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Sheppard Ms. Susan Shimmin [66]* Mr. and Mrs. John Tubutis Mr. Howard [40] and Mrs. Shirley [44] Weckel Mr. Mark [79J* and Mrs. Jeri Wiegel Master Donald [16] and Miss Shelby [18] Williams

Designated Gifts Honor Scholarship Program Sara [White] Grassi [71] Hobart Van Deventer [39] William Keefer [43] Claudia [pridjian] Nazarian [78] Duane Timmons [59] Jane [George] Przyborski [66]

Phyllis Montgomery Fund Fred Montgomery [64]

Martin Wolf Scholarship Fund Claire Concannon [85]

Crist Scholarship Fund Robert & Barbara Crist Foundation Robert Crist [70] Warren Crist [63] Josephine [Crist] Kirk [71]

Francis Gray Scholarship Fund Frank Burd [52] Calvin Johnson [46] The Martha G. Moore Foundation

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Special Projects Mr. James Bremer and Mrs. Peggy O'Brien-Bremer Mr. and Mrs. Crane D'Louhy Mr. Kshetij Patwa and Dr. Kathryn Bryan Mr. Mark [79]* and Mrs. Jeri Wiegel

lOO1--05~~ Annual Giving Fund Ouly 1, 2004 to June 30, 2005)

Founder's Circle [$10,000 +] Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Story Headmaster's Circle [$5,000 $9,999] Mr. and Mrs. j. William Adams Mr. Kenneth [63] and Mrs. Linda Mortenson Benefactor's Circle [$2,500 $4,999] Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. Crane D'Louhy Mr. jerome Frazel and Mrs. Nancy Wilder Dr. Anil and Dr. Sunita Kothari Mr. Richard* and Mrs. Lisa Nichols Mr. Kshetij Patwa and Dr. Kathryn Bryan Mr. and Mrs. Gerry Ring Mr. Irv Ruder Mr. and Mrs. james Smith Millennium Circle [$1,000$2,499] Dr. Anil and Mrs. Shashi* Agarwal Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth Bielinski Dr. Bill and Mrs. Imre* Boarden Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Bolden Dr. james Bray and Dr. Linda janus Mr. and Mrs. Michael Danis Mr. and Mrs. Robert Eichinger Mr. and Mrs. Mark Erzen Mr. Michael Flannery and Ms. Susan Larson Mr. Steven and Mrs. Sara [White] [71] Grassi Illinois Tool Works Foundation Mr. Darrell jackson and Dr. Valencia Ray Mr. and Mrs.jackjucewicz Mr. William Kwan [49] Mr. David and Mrs. Gail [Scruggs] [69] Lauryn Dr. Richard Lewis Mr. Thomas* and Mrs. Susan Olivieri Mr. and Mrs. Richard Pellar Mr. AI* and Mrs. Anne Petkus Mr. and Mrs. Cornel Raab Mr. and Mrs. Rodd Rasmusen Dr. and Mrs. james Richardson Mr. L. Mikael [71] and Mrs. Beth Salovaara Mr. Vijay and Dr. Priti Singh Mr. Aloysius Stonitsch and Mrs. Helen Witt Mr. and Mrs. jerry Taft Mr. M. Lee Tew [48] Mr. and Mrs. john Tubutis Mr. and Mrs. George Venturella Mr. and Ms. Robert Zaniolo

Academy Partner [$500 - $999] Dr. Surendra and Dr. Sunitha Avula Dr. Terrence Bartolini and Dr. Carol Braun Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Baum Mr. Louis and Mrs. Deborah* Bertoletti Mr. and Mrs. john Biel Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bollacker Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Roger Brewin Mr. Robert [73] and Mrs. Sally Carpenter Mr. and Mrs. Javier Casimiro Mr. Michael Ceranski and Mrs. Diane Schule Mr. William* and Mrs. Patty Collins Ms. Claire Concannon [85] Mr. and Mrs. john Craven Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Daker Dr. Randall Davenport Mr. and Mrs. Ronney Deanes Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Doherty Dr. and Dr. Arvind Gandhi Mr. Benjamin Ghess and Mrs. Michele Pitman Mr. Michael [83] and Mrs. Lisa Giglio Mr. jeffrey Gilbert* and Ms. Malinda Steele Ms. Elizabeth Gradle Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Grant Mr. joseph Grassi [43] Mr. David and Dr. Maria Hibbs Dr. john Keane and Dr. Shirley Maides-Keane Dr. and Mrs. Antoun Koht Dr. Muhammad Kudaimi and Dr. Randa Loutfi Mr. Leonard [75] and Mrs. Ilene LeRose Mr. and Mrs. jimmie Lewis Mr. and Mrs. Mark Linnerud Mr. Minas* and Mrs. Stasia Litos Mr. and Mrs. Charles Long Ms. Melissa Maggiotto Mr. james McBride and Mrs. Mary Morse Mr. Richard Morton and Ms. Catherine Fuller Ms. Mary OToole [81] Mr. and Mrs. Scott Panozzo Mr. Richard Patrick and Dr. Nanette james-Patrick Dr. Peter Perrotta and Dr. Sharon Kraus Mr. and Mrs. David Perry Dr. Audrius and Dr. Sigita Plioplys Mr. and Mrs. Terence Raser Dr. and Mrs. Donald Reed Dr. Mark Reiter and Dr. Kathleen Ward Dr. and Mrs. Chidambaram Srinivasan

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Mr. and Mrs. Steve Swinea Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Thomas Mr. and Mrs. jovan Tica Mr. and Mrs. Dean Vallas Mr. Hobart Van Deventer [39] Mr. Phillip* and Mrs. Mary Ann Vasquez Mr. and Mrs. Ignatius Villasenor Mr. and Mrs. Robert Volkmann Mr. and Mrs. Devin Wilson Kirkland & Ellis Mr. and Mrs. Donald Witte

Century Club [$100 - $499] Mr. john [47] and Mrs. Patricia Aberson Mr. Ronald [57] and Mrs. Patricia Aitchison Ms. Michelle Alfano-Ortiz Mr. Simon [40] and Mrs. Marian Allen Dr. and Mrs. Sherriff Alli-Ballogun Mrs. Harriet Arnold Mr. William Arnold [02] Mr. Asa Bacon [44] Mr. Donald [42] and Mrs. Ruth Badziong Dr. julian [34] and Mrs. judith Barish Dr. Garfield Batchelor and Dr. Minakshi Joshi Mr. Paul [52] and Mrs. Louise Berezny Ms. joyce Bonner Mr. Robert [46] and Mrs. Gail Bowyer Mr. james [79] and Mrs. Ting-Ting Branit Mr. james Bremer and Ms. Margaret O'Brien-Bremer Dr. and Mrs. Larry Brown Dr. Frank [52] and Mrs. Patrice Burd Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Burnett Mr. and Mrs. jim Byczek Mr. Paul [46] and Mrs. Norma jean Byron Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Cabrera Mr. Edward [37] and Mrs. Betsy Cerny Dr. and Mrs. S. josiah Chan Dr. Sandeep Chandra and Dr. Madfiulika Saxena Citigroup Matching Gift Program Mr. and Mrs. David Clanton Mr. Donald [70] and Mrs. Ann [yardley] [72] Coller Mrs. Carol [patejdlJ Coston [75] Mr. Charles [52] and Mrs. Gail Cresap Mr. and Mrs. Glen Cross Mr. and Mrs. Fred Danielewicz Mr. Mark Dinos [95]

Mr. and Mrs. Denis Doherty Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Donahue Mr. Stephen* and Mrs. Mary Kay Driscoll Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Dryjanski Dr. C. Elise Duffy Mr. and Mrs. David Edison Mr. Eugene [76] and Mrs. Roberta Edwards Mr. and Mrs. John Fehlandt Mr. Wray Findlay [45] Dr. Don Fishman and Dr. Elizabeth Allen Mr. Charles Fitzgerald and Mrs. Mary Ellen Dennehy Mr. Karion L47] and Mrs. Doris Fitzpatrick Mr. Reuben Frodin [29] Miss Natasha Froud [06] Mr. Gerald Gately [80] Mr. Robert Gear and Mrs. Paulette Zimmerman-Gear [51] Capt. J. Robert [45] and Mrs. Marilyn Gilbert Mr. and Mrs. Clarke Gillespie Mr. Vinston Glover Dr. Richard* and Mrs. Carol Green Mr. Robert [61] and Mrs. Beth Guilford Mr. Edward Haney [58] Mr. James Hansen and Mrs. Roseann de la Paz-Hansen Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Harris ltC. Charles Hart [56] Mr. Robert [54] and Mrs. Rebecca Hartman Hawkinson Ford Ms. Elizabeth Hendel [94] Mr. William Hickey [71] and Mrs. Leslie Shimmin-Hickey [72] Mr. and Mrs. John Higgins Dr. Walter [50] and Mrs. Ellen Hofman Mr. Michael and Mrs. Eileen [Strenk] [76] Hofstetter Mr. Rodney Holmberg [61] Mr. John Hom [69] and Ms. H. Elizabeth Kelley Mr. Michael Hyatt and Mrs. LaVonia Ousley-Hyatt Mr. Keith [66] and Mrs. Barbara Johnson Mr. Charles [59] and Mrs. Karren [Rodighier] [60] Junkunc Mr. Peter [78] and Mrs. Katie Kanaris Mr. William [43] and Mrs. Gayle Keefer Mr. and Mrs. Robert Keelan Mr. Hugh Kennedy [52] Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Kenny Ms. Yolanda Price Mr. Frederick [46] and Mrs. Beverly Jane Kitch Dr. John [51] and Mrs. Betsy Kitch Mr. Mark [55] and Mrs. Carole Klein Mr. Edward Kole [53] Mr. John [61] and Mrs. Jeanne Krichbaum

Mr. George [66] and Mrs. Lynn Kumis Mr. Ralph Larson and Mrs. Beverly Ash-Larson Mr. Joseph LaBlanc Mr. Wilfiam Lingas [45] Mr. Greg Lochow* Mr. and Mrs. Bennett Lum Ms. Mary Lynch Mr. and Mrs. George Macey Prof. and Mrs. Errol Magidson Mr. George Mahon [54 J Mr. Frank [42] and Mrs. Betty Major Mr. Thomas Malcolm Ms. Susan Mangels* MPA Student Council Mr. Michael [60] and Mrs. Brenda McClure Ms. Connie McGee Ms. Mary Miller Mr. Robert Montgomery [72] Mr. and Mrs. Niko Mourgelas Mr. Timothy Murnane [83] Ms. Michelle Murphy [80] Mr. Don [73] and Mrs. Kay Norton Ms. Susan Oczkowski Ms. Diane Panos [78] Ms. Lynda Pariso Mr. and Mrs. Joel Pelz Mr. Carl* and Mrs. Karyn Pettigrew Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Powers The Prudential Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Mohammad Razzaque Mr. and Mrs. James Reddington Mr. Robert Reid [36] Mr. Robert [52] and Mrs. Barbara Rolfe Mr. Robert [68] and Mrs. Mary Rosi Mr. Gilbert Rubenstein [29] Mr. Edward [61] and Mrs. Ronalee Rund Mr. William Rundle [47] Mr. Warren Rusgis [56] Dr. Louis Rutland and Mrs. Tara Tillman-Rutland Dr. and Mrs. Mohammed Sahloul Mr. Michael and Mrs. Lora* Salerno Mr. Antonio Santillan [54] Schoolpop Mr. Anorew Selva [57] Mr. William [71] and Mrs. Mary Semmer Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Sheppard Ms. Susan Shimmin [66]* Mr. Richard [70] and Mrs. Paula Shopiro Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Sipich Mr. Alden Smith [55] Mr. and Mrs. Mariano Sori-Marin Mr. William [61] and Mrs. Carolyn Springer Mr. Robert [43] and Mrs. Betty St. Pierre Ms. Judy [Crawf9rd] Stahl [57] Ms. Chante Stepney [92] Dr. and Mrs. Rhay Street Target-Take Charge of Education Mr. Duane Timmons [59] Ms. Sumara Thompson-King [76] Mr. Charles Tokar and Mrs. Janice Prible

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Mr. Ricardo Tostado and Mrs. Jacqueline Cibils Dr. Jeff [70J and Mrs. Lisa Unger Mr. Peter [54] and Mrs. Janet Voss Dr. Jerrold [SO] and Mrs. Jean Voss Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Walker Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Wallace Mr. Kevin Waller and Mrs. Jean Roche Mr. Cochise Wash and Dr. Joan Horton-Wash Dr. and Mrs. Stanley Weber Mr. Daniel Weisberg [65] Ms. Kathleen Welch Mr. and Mrs. Donald Williams Mr. Pearson Williams [58] Mr. and Mrs. Kurt Williamson Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wimp Mr. and Mrs. Wladyslaw Wodziak Mr. and Dr. Steven Wolfe Mr. and Mrs. Guy Wolgamott Ms. Linda Wolgamott* Mr. Julius [57] and Mrs. Leila Zschau

Academy Friend [up to $99] Mr. Ronald Aitchison [95] Mr. Richard and Mrs. Tara [Brigham] [86] Allen Mrs. Margaret Allison Alsip Hotel Investors, LLC Ms. Farah Baqai In Memory of William Boehm [37] Mr. Harold [52] and Mrs. Mary Helen Boex Mr. Jack Borok [64] Mr. Carl [85] and Mrs. LaDonna Brody Mr. Bruce [61] and Mrs. Beverly Burmeister Ms. Karen Butler-Cook [80] Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Bryar Mrs. Rachel Cuadros-Steigbigel [90] and Mr. Glenn Steigbigel Mr. Stanley and Mrs. Carole [Lundgren] [53] Currey In Memory of Louise Millhuff Dean Ms. Kimberly Duffek [77] In Memory of Mr. John R. Eichinger Ms. Tamara Frazier Mr. Philip Freund [42] Ms. Melissa Frew Capt. George Froemke [42] In Memory of Mr. Edward C. Fron Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Gagnon Mr. Robert [48] and Mrs. Elizabeth Gamble Mr. William Gaps [52] Mr. Russell Gardner [47] Mr. Thomas [64] and Mrs. Carolyn [Smith] [65] George Mr. and Mrs. Jamal Hassan Ms. Wendy Heilman [89] In Memory of Mrs. Algean James Dr. Terry [SO] and Mrs. Janet Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Gnomon Johnson Mr. Bennett Kalafut [99] Mr. Jay [55] and Mrs. Alice Kennedy Mr. and Mrs. Martin King Mr. Andrew Kri~hbaum L97] Mr. Herbert Krueger [54]

In Memory of Mrs. Rita Lane Mr. George and Mrs. Cynth ia [Kliros] [76] Layer Mr. and Mrs . Dou glas Lazo Mr. Jon and Mrs. Marla [Hoffman] [78] Lunderberg Dr. and Mrs. Robert Marquis Mrs . Linda McCarthy-Klawitter Mr. and Mrs. Don ald McGrath In Honor of Ryan Patrick McGrath [14] Mr. Peter and Mrs. Carol [Wolk] [63] McPherson Mr. Greg and Mrs. Karen [Schulen berg] [80] Meersman In Memory of Mr. Joh n E. Oczkowski Mr. Marc Odier and Mrs. Marilyn Hanzal Rev. William O'Donnell* Mr. David and Mrs. Jane [George] [66] Przyborski

Mr. and Mrs. Gerardo Reyes Mr. Lawrence and Mrs. Ellen [Weiss] [71] Rissman Mr. George and Mrs . Julie [Coffeen] [70] Rudawsky Sch oolCash. Com Dr. Ronald Seavoy [49] Dr. Leon Slota and Dr. Susan Lambert Mr. Paul and Mrs. Allison [Reitz] [77] Smith Mr. Wellington [32] and Mrs. Frances Smith Ms. Anna Stange In Memory of Mr. James Steele Mr. Frederick Stocker [50] Dr. Stanley [39] and Mrs. Mary Tylman Dr. and Mrs. Michael Vanderweele Ms. Jean Waterman

Mr. W. Daniel and Mrs . Bonnie [Kistner] [45] Wefler Mr. Robert Whitfield [44] Mr. George Wiegel [77] Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Zidek Gifts in Kind The Alleruzzo Family Bausch & Lomb Bella Florist Dr. an d Mrs. Kenn eth Bielinski Dr. Wilfred and Mrs. Imre* Boarden Mrs. Susan Craven Mr. James Day [01] Ms. Margaret Fitzpatrick Mrs. Kathy Keelan Mr. Th omas Malcolm Mr. Marc Odier and Ms. Marilyn Hanzal Mr. Ksh etij Patwa and Dr. Kathryn Bryan

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Your support (at all levels) for the Annual Giving Fund (AGF) at Morgan Park Academy helps to uphold the tradition of excellence for its students and programs. Contributions from trustees, parents, alumni, friends, faculty and staff enhanced the health of our school today and for the long-term. Your contribution is an investment in our students' future that extends beyond tuition dollars. Some expenses covered by the AGF were:

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New High School Volleyball Uniforms New High School Softball uniforms and helmets Other miscellaneous athletic equipment 25 new computers for the Tech-Lab Expanded student computer useage in the Library New lighting in the theater Training opportunities for our faculty that impacts learning

Every gift counts! Your participation shows a vote of confidence in the school, a sign that each member of the MPA community understands and values the MPA educational experience. Your generosity helps Morgan Park Academy remain among the best schools in the Chicago are a.

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ZOOf--05~~ Salute to Excellence 2005 Diam.ond Society [$10,000 +] Mr. Thomas* and Mrs. Susan Olivieri Mr. and Mrs. James Seward Mr. and Mrs. James Smith Platinum Society [$5,000 +] Anonymous Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Javorski Mr. Richard* and Mrs. Lisa Nichols Mr. and Mrs. Richard Pellar Mr. Aloysius Stonitsch and Mrs. Helen Witt Mr. and Mrs. George Venturella Gold Society [$2,500 +] Anonymous Anonymous Bella Flowers & Greenhouse, Inc. Dr. Wilfred and Mrs. Imre* Boarden Dr. James Bray and Dr. Linda Janus Mr. and Mrs. Crane D'Louhy HM Graphics, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Jucewicz LargerPond Marketing Mr. Leonard [75] and Mrs. Ilene LeRose Marina Cartage, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. William Mastro Mat Leasing, Inc. Mr. Marc Odier and Mrs. Marilyn Hanzal Mr. and Mrs. Mario Ortiz Mr. and Mrs. Cornel Raab Mr. Irv Ruder Mr. and Mrs. Mark Slaughter Silver Society [$1,000 +] Accurate Printing Mr. and Mrs. J. William Adams Mr. and Mrs. Khaled Akkawi Ms. Michelle Alfano-Ortiz Anonymous Anonymous Auburn Supply Company Mr. Louis and Mrs. Deborah* Bertoletti C & C Waste Control Country House Restaurant Mr. and Mrs. John Craven Craven Creations Crown Corr, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Doherty Mr. David Bonnan and Ms. Jean Doyle [79] Mr. and Mrs. Mark Erzen Mr. and Mrs. Paul Fuller Dr. Arvind and Dr. J ayshree Gandhi Mr. Jeffrey Gilbert* and Ms. Malinda Steele Mr. Steven and Mrs. Sara [71] Grassi

Mr. James Hansen and Mrs. Roseann de la Paz-Hansen Mr. David and Dr. Maria Hibbs Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Hoyles Imagine Print Group Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie Lewis Mr. Minas* and Mrs. Stasia Litos Mr. and Mrs. Michael Marmo Dr. and Mrs. Allan Olthoff Mr. and Mrs. JoelPelz Mr. Al* and Mrs. Anne Petkus Mr. and Mrs. Gerry Ring Dr. and Mrs. Rhay Street Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Taft Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Thomas Mr. and Mrs. Dean Vallas Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Walker Whichcraft Ms. Linda Wolgamott* Bronze Society [$500 +] 4 Seasons Cottage at Union Pier Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Baum Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth Bielinski Mr. Harold [52] and Mrs. Mary Helen Boex Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bollacker Mr. James Bremer and Ms. Margaret O'Brien-Bremer Bridgestone/Firestone Mr. Colin Bryar Mr. and Mrs. Jim Byczek Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Dryjanski Mr. and Mrs. Robert Eichinger Mr. and Mrs. Randy Emer F & B Construction Services, Inc. First Attorney Consultants, Ltd. Mr. Michael L83] and Mrs. Lisa Giglio Mr. and Mrs. Clarke Gillespie Mr. Joseph Grassi [43] Mr. Pauf Hease and Mrs. Carol McGury Dr. and Mrs. John Kalapurakal Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Kenny Dr. and Mrs. Antoun Koht Mr. David and Mrs. Gail [69] Lauryn Ms. Mary Lynch Mr. and Mrs. George Macey Dr. and Mrs. Danilo Martinez Mr. and Mrs. James McDonald Midwest Anesthesiologists, Ltd. Dr. Elaine Cheng and Dr. Brian O'Leary Mr. Jeffrey Ortmann Mr. Kshetij Patwa and Dr. Kathryn Bryan Mr. Carl* and Mrs. Karyn Pettigrew Mr. and Mrs. Terence Raser Mr. and Mrs. Rodd Rasmusen Dr. and Mrs. Mohammad Razzaque Dr. and Mrs. Donald Reed

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Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ruiz Mr. Michael and Mrs. Lora* Salerno Mr. and Mrs. John Somerville StuartStories.com Mr. M. Lee Tew [48] Mr. and Mrs. John Tubutis Mr. Hobart Van Deventer [39] Mr. and Mrs. Robert Volkmann Dr. Samir Wassef and Dr. Wafaa Hanna Mr. Mark [79]* and Mrs. Jeri Wiegel Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wimp Mr. and Mrs. Donald Witte Mr. James Xeros and Mrs. Georgia Petropoulos Gala Club [$100 +] Dr. Anil and Mrs. Shashi* Agarwal Lt. Commander Richard Anderson Ms. Consuelo Arteaga Mr. Ronald [57] and Mrs. Patricia Aitchison Balemaster - Illinois Tool BankFinancial Dr. Garfield Batchelor and Dr. Minakshi Joshi Mr. and Mrs. Mike Bauschelt The Beverly All Stars The Beverly Review Mr. and Mrs. John Biel Mr. Jerry [57] and Mrs. Virginia Bowden Mr. William [44] and Mrs. Patricia Braker The Breakfast Club Mr. Darryl Brown and Mrs. Deborah Harper-Brown Dr. and Mrs. Larry Brown Dr. George Bryar and Ms. Nancy Reilly Mr. and Mrs. Jack Butler Mr. and Mrs. James Campbell Campbell & Company Captiva Designs Mr. Theodore [67] and Mrs. Dee Carlson Mr. and Mrs. Antony Carter Ms. Flora Carter Center for Psych Services Mr. Michael Ceranski and Mrs. Diane Schule Mr. and Mrs. Michael Chapan Mr. and Mrs. Ted Cohen R.W. Collins Company, Inc. Mr. William* and Mrs. Patty Collins Ms. Claire Concannon [85] Connections Learning Center Mr. John Connolly Cover-All Remodeling Mr. Robert [70] and Mrs. Bonnie Crist Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Daker

l.OOf--05 ~~ Mr. and Mrs. Fred Danielewicz Mr. and Mrs. Michael Danis Dr. Randall Davenport Mr. Bill and Mrs. Olga [78] Derkach Mr. Joseph [47] and Mrs. Shirley Dixon Mr. and Mrs. Denis Doherty Dr. e. Elise Duffy Mr. and Mrs. George Eck Mr. and Mrs. John "Eichinger Mr. and Mrs. Robert Evans Mr. and Mrs. Donald Fesko Mr. Roger Findley Dr. Don Fishman and Dr. Elizabeth Allen Mr. Michael Flannery and Ms. Susan Larson Mr. Fleming [45] and Mrs. Margaret Flott Mr. Francis L48] and Mrs Dolores Flynn Ms. Sheila Foote Franconello's Capt. George Froemke [42] Mr. Matthew Galla.8her Mr. William Gaps L52] Mr. F. Morgan Gasior [81] and Mrs. Darlene Mallouk Dr. Charles [42] and Mrs. Vicki Getz Mr. Benjamin Ghess and Mrs. Michele Pitman Mr. Robert Gianone Capt. J. Robert [45] and Mrs. Marilyn Gilbert Mr. Vinston Glover GLStudios Mr. Steven and Mrs. Sara White [71] Grassi Dr. Richard* and Mrs. Carol Green Dr. and Mrs. Rodney Greene Mr. Richard Guminski and Mrs. Chris Guminksi Mr. and Mrs. John Gustaitis Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hall Mr. Homer Hanzal Mr. and Mrs. Edward Harmening Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Harris Harris Bank Mr. and Mrs. Jamal Hassan H.C.I. Transporation Technologies, Inc. Mr. Howard Hill and Mrs. Antoinette Bryant Mr. Darrell Jackson and Dr. Valencia Ray Mr. and Mrs. Steven Jenner Johnson, Jones, Snelling, Gilbert &: Davis Mr. David [78] and Mrs. Socorro Jones Mr. Charles [59] and Mrs. Karren [60] Junkunc Dr. John Keane and Dr. Shirley Maides-Keane Mr. and Mrs. Robert Keelan Mr. Edward Kole [53] Mr. Louis [48] Kole and Mrs. Virginia [49] Hess-Kole Dr. Anil and Dr. Sunita Kothari Mr. James Kowalsky and Dr. Vicki Williams

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Kralovec Mr. and Mrs. Barry Kritzberg Kubasiak, Fylstra, Reizen &: Rotunno, P.e.

Thompson &: Kuenster Funeral Home Dr. and Mrs. Ajit Kumar Mr. Ralph Larson and Mrs. Beverly Ash-Larson Structure Management Midwest, LIc Ms. Jean e. Lawson Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Lazo Dr. and Mrs. Harvey Levin Dr. Richard Lewis Dr. Rachel Lindsey* Mr. and Mrs. Mark Linnerud Mr. William [49] and Mrs. May Liptak Little Company of Mary Hospital Mr. Gre~ Lochow* Mr. PatrIck [53] and Mrs. Gloria Lonergan Mr. and Mrs. Charles Long Mr. Kenneth [58] and Mrs. Barbara Lee Mack Ms. Melissa Maggiotto Mr. George Malion [54] Mr. Harry [41] and Mrs. Marjorie Mahoney Mr. and Mrs. Matt Maloney Ms. Susan Mangels* Mr. and Mrs. Donald McGrath Mr. James [50] and Mrs. Marty Meck Dr. and Mrs. George Mesleh Ms. Carol Metzcus Mr. John Mikulski Mr. and Mrs. John Mikulski Jr. Ms. Mary Miller Morgan Park Auto Service Mr. Richard Morton and Ms. Catherine Fuller Mr. and Mrs. Niko Mourgelas MPA Summer Program MPA Mothers' Club MPA Alumni Association Mr. Timothy Murnane [83] Mr. and Mrs. Steven Murphy Mrs. Barbara Murphy Mr. Levon and Mrs. Claudia [78] Nazarian Mr. and Mrs. Jim Nolan Mr. Lawrence [48] and Mrs. Sheila Novak Mrs. Camille Odeh Orthospine Center, Ltd. Mr. David and Mrs. Susanne [72] Panovich Mr. and Mrs. Scott Panozzo Ms. Lynda Pariso Pediatric Dental Associates of Indiana, Inc. Dr. Peter Perrotta and Dr. Sharon Kraus Mr. and Mrs. David Perry Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Peterson Mr. Frederick Pipin [55] Dr. Audrius ancfDr. Sigita Plioplys Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Powers Mr. and Mrs. Richard Raser Dr. and Mrs. Antanas Razma Mr. Robert Reid [36]

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Mr. and Mrs. Julius Rhodes Mr. Dale [81] and Mrs. Debra Sue Richards Dr. and Mrs. James Richardson Robin Philip Jesk &: Associates Alderman Ginger Rugai Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Sarabia Mr. Asif and Dr. Shaheen Sayeed Mr. Robert [46] and Mrs. Lois Scardon Dr. Keith and Dr. Anne Schaible Dr. and Mrs. M. Nabil Shabeeb Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Sharp John Sheehy &: Sons Funeral Home Sheffner's Jewelers Ms. Janice Shepard Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Sheppard Ms. Susan Shimmin [66]* Col. Gene [45] and Mrs. Ruth Simonson Mr. Richard and Mrs. Charlotte [62] Singer Mr. Vijay and Dr. Priti Singh Dr. Leon Slota and Dr. Susan Lambert Dr. Catherine Slota-Varma Mr. Stephen Smith and Mrs. Charlotte Harrison-Smith Mr. Thurman Smith Mr. and Mrs. Steven Sorfleet Mr. and Mrs. Mariano Sori-Marin State Farm Insurance-Ken Mercury Ms. Martha Swift [52] and Mr. Dean Miller Mr. and Mrs. Moqueet Syed Mr. and Mrs. Ricliard Szkarlat Mr. Allan Teske Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Thorsen Mr. Jerome [44] and Mrs. Lynn Thrall Tinley Park Frozen Foods Mr. Charles Tokar and Mrs. Janice Prible Mr. and Mrs. John Toomey Mr. Joel [63] and Mrs. Jolene Tornabeni Ms. Jean Tourville TR Communications, Inc. Mr. Julius Tucker and Mrs. Jennifer Holt-Tucker Mr. e. Robert [39] and Mrs. Sandra Tully The Ultimate Smile Dr. Jeff [69] and Mrs. Lisa Unger Mr. and Mrs. Dean Vallas Mr. Peter van der Sterre [63] Mr. Phillip* and Mrs. Mary Ann Vasquez Mr. Abe Vasquez Mr. and Mrs. Ignatius Villasenor Ms. Cheryl Vittori Ms. Meredith Volpe Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Wardlow Ms. Kathleen Welch Mr. and Mrs. Marc Wells Mr. Henry [65] and Mrs. Page Welton Mr. and Mrs. Donald Williams Mrs. Rosalyn Williams Mr. and Mrs. Kurt Williamson

Dr. Leon [65] and Mrs. Kay Witkowski Mr. and Mrs. Wladyslaw Wodziak Mr. and Dr. Steven Wolfe Mr. and Mrs. Carl Wolgamott Mr. and Mrs. James Woods Mr. Dereck and Mrs. Dana [96] Wright Mr. Mark Zambon

MPA Club (Up to $99] Mr. Ronald Aitchison [95] Mrs. Margaret Allison American Express Ms. Connie Banks Dr. Terrence Bartolini and Dr. Carol Braun Dr. Garfield Batchelor and Dr. Minakshi Joshi Calabria Imports Mr. and Mrs. David Case Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Catania Mr. and Mrs. David Clanton Ms. Cynthia De Bois-Davis Mr. and Mrs. Ronney Deanes Mr. and Mrs. Dalyn Drown Mrs. Gail Elliott-Cox Ms. Kristine Fenton Ms. Deborah Ferguson Mr. Charles Fitzgerald and Mrs. Mary Ellen Dennehy Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Flahavin Florida Plastics International, Inc. Mr. Jerome Frazel and Mrs. Nancy Wilder Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Gagnon Ms. Robin Goss [63] Ms. Elizabeth Gradle Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Grant Mr. Dennis Hansen and Mrs. Janet Katschke-Hansen Mr. Robert Nolan and Mrs. Daryce Hoff-Nolan Mr. and Mrs. Don Hroma Ms. Cassandra Jackson Mr. Auntone Kelly and Mrs. Gloria Reveron-Kelly Mr. and Mrs. Ray Kurut Mr. Larry Larkin and Dr. Robin Snead-Larkin Mortenson Roofing Company, Inc. Ms. Carolyn Manley Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Marovitch Ms. Julia McGuire Ms. Kari Misulonas [S2] Mr. Hershey Norise and Mrs. Emma Webb-Norise Ortigara Musicville Palos Sports Mr. Richard Patrick and Dr. Nanette James-Patrick R. Jean Gallery In La Grange Ms. Verneta Simon [7S] Steuber Florist Suburban Bank & Trust Company Mr. and Mrs. Paul Thompson Mr. Ricardo Tostado and Mrs. Jacqueline Cibils Mrs. Leah Turrubiartes [S4] Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Wallenstein Mr. Kevin Waller and Mrs. Jean Roche

Ms. Marie Waters-Cross Mr. and Mrs. Michael Weil Mr. and Mrs. Thaddeus Wilkins Mr. and Mrs. Joel Windham Mr. and Mrs. Robert Winter

Gifts in Kind 4 Seasons Cottage in Union Pier 94 West Dr. and Mrs. Ismail Abbasi Mr. and Mrs. J. William Adams The Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum Dr. Anil and Mrs. Shashi* Agarwal Ms. Michelle Alfano The American Theater Company Ms. Harriet Arnold Bally Total Fitness Banana Leaf Restaurant Dr. Terry Bartolini and Dr. Carol Braun Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Baum Mr. Louis and Mrs. Deborah Bertoletti* Beverly Bodyworks Beverly Area Planning Association The Beverly Arts Center Beverly Bean Dr. Wilfred and Mrs. Imre* Boarden Bob Newhart Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bollacker Mr. James Bremer and Mrs. Peggy O'Brien-Bremer Miss Susie Bremer [00] Bridgestone/Firestone U.S.A. Calyx & Corolla Mr. Alan [59] and Mrs. Patricia Canfield Mr. and Mrs. Pat Catania Celtic Cottage, Ltd. The Chica~o Architecture Foundation The Chicago Blackhawks Chicago Children's Museum The Chicago Cubs The Chicago White Sox The Chicago Wolves Mr. Tony Churchill ComedySportz Ms. Janet Concannon Concannon Vineyard Wines Country House Restaurant County Fair Grocery Country House Restaurant Court theatre Mr. and Mrs. John Craven Dairyland Greyhound Park Mr. and Mrs. Fred Danielewicz Mr. and Mrs. Michael Danis Ms. Cynthia DeBoise-Davis Deer Creek Golf Club DePaul University Merle Reskin Theatre Mrs. Jane Doherty Mr. Tom Drahozal and Ms. Diane Durham Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Driscoll Mr. and Mrs. Dafyn Drown Mr. Thomson Dryjanski [05] Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Dryjanski Mr. and Mrs. George Eck, Sr.

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Mr. and Mrs. David Edison Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Edwards Mr. and Mrs. Robert Eichinger Eli's Cheesecake Company EPI Mr. and Mrs. Mark Erzen Mrs. Beth Ferguson The Field Museum Dr. Don Fishman and Dr. Elizabeth Allen Mr. Mike Flannery The Four Seasons Hotel Franklin Framing Mr. Glenn Gagnon Mr. Matt Gallagher Dr. Arvind Gandhi and Dr. Jayshree Bhatt Mrs. Lisa Giglio Mr. Jeffrey Gilbert* and Ms. Malinda Steele The Glass Junkie GLStudios Great Harvest Mr. Rodney Greene Mr. Dennis Hansen and Mrs. Janet Katschke-Hansen Mr. David and Dr. Maria Hibbs Hilton Oak Lawn Hyde Park Art Center The Improv Olympics Ms. Laura Ingram Mr. and Mrs. Russell Ingram Mr. and Mrs. Surinder Jain The John Hancock Observatory The John G. Shedd Aquarium Mr. Erin Johnson Mrs. Kathy Keelan Jim Kelly - Hall of Famer Mr. Mark Klein [55] Mr. Harry [56] and Mrs. Lonita Klein Dr. and Mrs. Antoun Koht Mrs. Donna Kosinski Mr. James Kowalsky and Dr. Vicki Williams Mrs. Heather Kurut Lakeshore Athletic Club Dr. Susan Lambert Land's End The Language & Music School Ms. Carol Larson Mr. Ralph Larson Mr. Fred Latsko Mrs. Gail [Scruggs] Lauryn [69] Ms. Maria Lazo Lil's Dietary Specialty Shop Mr. and Mrs. Mark Linnerud Mr. Greg Lochow Loews Cineplex Entertainment Mr. and Mrs. George Macey Mrs. Trish Maloney Miss Maura Marmo [OS] Mr. and Mrs. Michael Marmo Mr. and Mrs. Joe Marovitch Mr. William and Mrs. Mary Lou* Mastro Mr. Duke McDonald Mr. and Mrs. Don McGrath Menards Mrs. Kari Misulonas [S2] Mrs. Norine Morrison

Mr. and Mrs. Niko Mourgelas MPA 3 Year-Old Preschool MPA 4 Year-Old Preschool MPA Kindergarten MPA 1st Grade MPA 2nd Grade MPA 3rd Grade MPA 4th Grade MPA 5th Grade MPA 6th Grade MPA 7th Grade MPA 8th Grade MPA 9th Grade MPA 10th Grade MPA 11th Grade MPA 12th Grade MPA Fathers' Club MPA Grandparents MPA Mothers' Club MPA Student Council The Museum of Science and Industry Mr. and Mrs. Vichitra Nayyar Mr. Richard* and Mrs. Lisa Nichols Northlight Theatre Ms. Susan Oczkowski Mr. Marc Odier and Ms. Marilyn Hanzal Master Tom Odier [12] Miss Mackenzie Odier [14]

Odyssey Fun World Panera Bread Pegasus Players Mr. and Mrs. Al Petkus Ms. Debra Powell Mr. Dale Ralston Master Joseph Raser [08] Mr. and Mrs. Terence Raser Mr. and Mrs. Rodd Rasmussen Mr. Ryan Rasmussen [05] Mr. Michael and Mrs. Lora* Salerno Dr. Keith and Dr. Anne Schaible The Second City Ms. Diane Sepanski Seven Seas Villa Mr. James Shaw Ms. Susan Shimmin [66]* Mrs. Kathy Sipich Mr. and Mrs. Mark Slaughter Mrs. Lisa Smith Mrs. Katrina Sori-Marin Southwest Airlines Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies St. Xavier Ms. Anna Stange Stitch By Stitch Mr. Al Stonitsch and Mrs. Helen Witt Mr. Michael Tadin Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Taft

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Ms. Lisa Taylor Mr. Allan Teske and Ms. Lisa Maroski Theatre Building Chicago Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Thomas Tinley Park Meats Tony n' Tina's Wedding Tropical Sunsation Salon & Spa Truefitt & Hill Mr. and Mrs. John Tubutis Mr. Julius Tucker and Mrs. Jennifer Holt-Tucker Uhlmann Home Improvement Untouchable Tours Ms. Cheryl Vittori Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Wardlow Mrs. Sheila Webster-Gray Ms. Kathy Welch Wheel of Fortune Mr. Mark [79]* and Mrs. Jeri Wiegel Mrs. Greta Pope Wimp Mrs. Patty Witte Wm. Simon Jewelry Mr. and Mrs. Carl Wolgamott Ms. Linda Wolgamott* Mr. and Mrs. James Woods The World Wrestling Entertainment Wright's Hollywood Park Xsports Fitness Zanies Comedy Club Ms. Donna F. Zarcone

Alumni Giving Reuben Frodin [29] Gilbert Rubenstein [29] Wellington Smith [32] In Memory of Joseph Maurey [34] Julian Barish [34] Robert Reid [36] In Memory of William Boehm [37] Edward Cerny [37] Arthur Kralovec [39] C. Robert Tully [39] Stanley Tylman [39] Hobart Van Deventer [39] Simon Allen [40] Richard Duchossois [40] Irwin Martin [40] Harry Mahoney [41] Donald Badziong [42] Philip Freund [42] George Froemke [42] Charles Getz [42] Frank Major [42] Stanley Balzekas [43] Joseph Grassi [43] William Keefer [43] Robert St. Pierre [43] Asa Bacon [44] William Braker [44] Jerome Thrall [44] Robert Whitfield [44] Wray Findlay [45] Fleming Flott [45] J. Robert Gilbert [45] William Lingas [45] Gene Simonson [45] Bonnie [Kistner] Wefler [45] Richard Leonard [46] Robert Bowyer [46] Paul Byron [46] Frederick Kitch [46] Robert Scardon [46] Russell Gardner [47] John Aberson [47] Joseph Dixon [47] Karion Fitzpatrick [47] William Rundle [47] Francis Flynn [48] Robert Gamble [48] Louis Kole [48] Lawrence Novak [48] M. Lee Tew [48] Virginia Hess-Kole [49] William Kwan [49] William Liptak [49] Albert Richard [49] Ronald Seavoy [49] Walter Hofinan [50] Terry Johnson [50]

James Meck [50] Frederick Stocker [50] Jerrold Voss [50] Robert Gear [51] Paulette Zimmerman-Gear [51] John Kitch [51] Paul Berezny [52] Harold Boex [52] Frank Burd [52] Charles Cresap [52] William Gaps [52] Hugh Kennedy [52] Arnt Quist [52] Robert Rolfe [52] Martha [Herriott] Swift [52] Robert Tierney [52] Kenneth Zubrick [52] Edward Gardas [53] Jerol [Hillard] Hanlon [53] Carole [Lundgren] Currey [53] John Fehlandt [53] Edward Kole [53] Patrick Lonergan [53] Peter Cooper [54] Harry Darabaris [54] Robert Foerster [54] Donn Gear [54] James Goss [54] Anthony Kocalis [54] Richard Konarski [54] Gerald Ostrowski [54] Frederick Schick [54] DeWayne Anderson [54] John Bacino [54] Frank Caravette [54] John Drennan [54] Stanley Eigelbemer [54] John Fitzgerald [54] Robert Hartman [54] Herbert Krueger [54] George Mahon [54] Antonio Santillan [54] Peter Voss [54] Jay Kennedy [55] Mark Klein [55] Frederick Pipin [55] Alden Smith [55] Charles Hart [56] Warren Rusgis [56] Ronald Aitchison [57] Jerry Bowden [57] Andrew Selva [57] Judy [Crawford] Stahl [57] Julius Zschau [57] Edward Haney [58] Kenneth Mack [58] Pearson Williams [58]

Charles lunkunc [59] Duane Timmons [59] Karren [Rodighier] Junkunc [60] Michael McClure [60] Bruce Burmeister [61] Robert Guilford [61] Rodney Holmberg [61] John Krichbaum [61] Edward Rund [61] William Springer [61] Charlotte [Welton] Singer [62] Jim Wognum [63] Robin Goss [63] Carol [Wolk] McPherson [63] Kenneth Mortenson [63] Joel Tomabeni [63] Peter van der Sterre [63] Jack Borok [64] Thomas George [64] Howard Meyer [64] Fred Montgomery [64] Daniel Weisberg [65] Henry Welton [65] Leon Witkowski [65] Keith Cunliffe [66] Keith Johnson [66] George Kumis [66] Jane [George] Przyborski [66] Susan Shimmin [66] Robert Beatty [67] Theodore Carlson [67] Robert Rosi [68] John Hom [69] Gail [Scruggs] Lauryn [69] Donald Coller [70] Robert Crist [70] Julie [Coffeen] Rudawsky [70] Richard Shopiro [70] Jeff Unger [70] Sara [White] Grassi [71] William Hickey [71] Ellen [Weiss] Rissman [71] L. Mikael Salovaara [71] William Semmer [71] Ann [Yardley] Coller [72] Leslie Shimmin-Hickey [72] Robert Montgomery [72] Susanne [Gnilka] Panovich [72] Robert Carpenter [73] Linda [Lints] Espanol [73] Don Norton [73] Dorothy [Tyree] Alves [74] Amy [Wanda] Belair [74] Mary Derwinski [74] Mary Anne Hunter [74] Alan Nicholson [74] Peg [O'Donoghue] Rawles [74]

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Mary Roy [74] Nancy [Montgomery] Runyon [74] Jean [Silberman] Rush [74] Mike Salazar [74] Charles Schaefer [74] Nate Stelton [74] Maria [Burnett] Thomas [74] John Daniels [75] James Strenk [75] Carol [patejdl] Coston [75] Leonard LeRose [75] Eileen [Strenk] Hofstetter [76] Cynthia [Kliros] Layer [76] Sumara Thompson-King [76] Kimberly Duffek [77] Allison [Reitz] Smith [77] George Wiegel [77] David Jones [78] Peter Kanaris [78] Marla [Hoffman] Lunderberg [78] Claudia [Pridjian] Nazarian [78] Diane Panos [78] James Branit [79] Jean Doyle [79] Mark Wiegel [79] Karen Butler-Cook [80] Gerald Gately [80] Karen [Schulenberg] Meersman [80] Michelle Murphy [80] F. Morgan Gasior [81] Mary O'Toole [81] Dale Richards [81] Kari [Higginson] Misulonas [82] Michael Giglio [83] Timothy Murnane [83] Sanjeev Rathi [83] Rajeev Rathi [84] Leah [Atkins] Turrubiartes [84] Stephen Akers [85] Carl Brody [85] Claire Concannon [85] Tara [Brigham] Allen [86] Wendy Heilman [89] Rachel Cuadros-Steigbigel [90] Chante Stepney [92] Elizabeth Hendel [94] Shara [Harris] Allen [95] Ronald Aitchison [95] Mark Dinos [95] Dana [Sasso] Wright [96] Andrew Krichbaum [97] Bennett Kalafut [99] William Arnold [2002] Natasha Froud [2006]

Honor a family member or friend with a personalized brick on the Morgan Park Academy campus.

Your contribution of$100 will provide a permanent tribute for a loved one and enrich the learning environment at MPA. Each brick may be printed with up to three lines, including an individual or family name, as well as your message (class year, "in memory of, " etc.).

Fill in the boxes below with your message. Leave a space between words. Each line accommodates up to 14 characters, including spaces. Bricks are placed in the Jones Bowl pathway between the flagpole and the Arts Center. To order more than one brick, simply copy this form.

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Make your check payable to: MORGAN PARK ACADEMY Please fax or mail your completed form to: By fax: 7731881-8017 By mail: Morgan Park Academy Development Office 2153 W. lllth Street Chicago, IL 60643

*Your donation is tax-deductible to the extent that the Internal Revenue Code allows. Since your brick remains on the property ofMorgan Park Academy, no goods or services are provided to the donor by Morgan Park Academy in exchange for a charitable donation.

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Morgan Park Academy 20th Annual Salute to Excellence

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March 18,2006 Four Seasons Hotel Chicago

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William Giannos [49] created this bronze figure (shown from two angles here) in honor of his fellow MPMA cadets. His gift to the Academy was unveiled at the September 30, 2005 Building on Tradition Capital Campaign reception.

The sculpture will be on permanent display in the new gymnasium. Giannos is seen in his graduation photo (left) and on the football field (right). The May 2006 issue of the Academy Magazine will have an article on the artist.

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