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Photo cre dits: Cover: The M A G A Z I NE newspaper clippings and photographs are from a remarkable treasure in the MPA archives, the scrapbook that Barry Mumford [08] kept while he was a student atMPA during the first decade of the twentieth century.

University of Notre Dame Sports Information Department, 1 Brown University Sports Information Department, 2 Barry Kritzberg, 8,9,14,18,24 MPA Archives 10, 11, 19, 21, 23, 27, 28, 36 Sherry Grutzius, 27 (top) Joyce Rasmussen, 27 (bottom) Dale Ralston, 28 Bob Eich inger, 30 Mary Kay Marmo, back cover

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Barry Kritzberg: "Some little known facts about MPA" ............................. 1 " What's in a name?" ........................................................ 3 Barry Kritzberg: " The past is a foreign country " ............. 6 " The Capt. Gray file" ...................................................... 19 John R. Sadd: "A night·long vigil? " ................................ 20 " A snapshot of MPMA in the 1930s" ............................. 21

Robyne Robinson: " Thomas Wolfe was wrong, wasn't he? ......................... 23 "Vote early, vote often" ................................................. 24 Julie Cuadros: "Generation X, the millennium generation, and Community service" ............................ 25 The final answer is, well, right! ...................................... 27 Visions of snowflakes .................................................... 27 MVP: Eric Kelly .........................................................·.... • 27 Three.thousand, two hundred and seventy·eight .......... 28 New arrival ...................................................................... 28 MPA: a mini Ravinia ........................................................ 28

Jean Doyle: "An Invitation to join the fun" .................... 29

Contributors: Barry Kritzberg is editor of the Academy Magazine.

John R. Sadd [51] is a great-nephew of Col. Harry D. Abells.

Robyne Robinson [79] is a TV-anchor in Minneapolis-St. Paul.

Jean Doyle [79} is president of the alumni association and a fifthgrade teacher at MPA. Julie Cuadros [93] teaches in the upper school at MPA and is advisor to the new service organization, ACT.

"Alumni News" ............................................................... 30 "Reunions" .................................................................... 31

The Academy Magazine is published by the Office of Development and Alumni Affairs.

All news items should be addressed to:

Sandy Williams: "Alumni Briefs" .................................... 32 "Taps" ............................................................................ 36 The history project .............................. [inside back cover]

Barry Kritzberg Academy Magazine 2153 W. 111th Street Chicago, IL 60643 Printed for Morgan Park Academy by PrintSource Plus 12128 S. Western Ave. Blue Island, IL 60406

Some little known facts about MPA (A brief talk before the alumni on October 7, 2000) by Barry Kritzberg One of MPAs illustrious alums has something in common with President William Jefferson Clinton.

No, it is not that, and no, it is not that...

Robert W. Burgess, MPA 1905, was - like President Clinton - a Rhodes Scholar. He graduated from Brown University, and then spent three years studying in England on the famous program established by Cecil Rhodes for American scholarathletes.

Some day I hope to give a fuller account of Burgess' grand honor. It should be written down, once and for all, as part of what it is: a glorious little chapter in the history of the Academy. It shouldn't disappear down some Orwellian memory hole.

Robert W Burgess' story is only one of many such stories I am currently pursuing in the Academy archives. I thought I would spend a few minutes tonight sketching some of the all-but-forgotten stories, if only to give you a hint of the richness of the tradition that is MPMA/MPA. What follows, then, is a little preview, a coming-attractions, if you will, of stories you will read about in greater depth and detail in future publications of the Academy Magazine.

Most football fans know the famous story of how the forward pass was put on the map when Notre Dame, in 1913, used that relatively new weapon to upset a powerful Army team, 35-13. The coach of that famous Fighting Irish team was Jesse Harper, a 1902 graduate of MPA. Jesse Harper's coach at the Academy (and also at the University of Chicago) was Amos Alonzo Stagg, "the grand old man of football." [See the November 2000 Academy Magazine for more on Harper and Stagg.]

Here is another football story.

Wallace Wade, one of those unsung interior line-men on MPMA's football team, graduated from the Academy in 1913. His college playing and coaching career is somewhat better known.

He played right guard on the 1916 Brown University team that lost to Washington State in the Rose Bowl.

Later, as a coach at Alabama and Duke, he took five teams to the Rose Bowl. Duke University thought so highly of Wallace Wade's coaching that it named its football stadium after him.

Jesse Harper, A.A. Stagg, and Wallace Wade have all been affiliated with the Academy and all three are in the College Football Hall of Fame.

Shouldn't such information be more widely known?

The stories of Burgess, Harper, Stagg and Wade are, I hope you will agree, well worth the telling and should not should not be omitted from any account of MPA's history.

Here is another name, obscure now perhaps, but one that will be better known in Academy circles in the future: William E. Droegemueller.

He won a silver medal at the 1928 Olympic games in Amsterdam by pole-vaulting 13 feet five inches.

Droegemueller's success (he was also Western Conference pole vault champion while at Northwestern) is of interest to me - and I hope to you - because he was a 1924 graduate of Morgan Park Military Academy.

One of MPMA's coaches had a modest claim to fame also. Johnny Coulon, MPMA boxing coach for many years, was Bantamweight Champion of the World from 191014. Imagine how thrilling it would have been to have a former world champion as one's coach.

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These are not the only stories, of course, and the success of Academy graduates was by no means limited to the playing fields. I'll save those tales for another occasion, however.

I'd like to conclude with just a hint of what has been, for me, the most surprising discoveries of my research into the history of the Academy.

When I began teaching here in 1972, I was given a brief overview of the history of school: it was founded in 1873, it demilitarized in 1959, girls were admitted that same year, and the school was integrated in 1968.

The school was founded in 1873, but not much else in that brief account was accurate.

Did you know, for example, that the school de-militarized not once, but twice?

The first demilitarization occurred 1892, when the Illinois Military Academy (as MPA was then called) became Morgan Park Academy of the University of Chicago, the preparatory school for William Rainey Harper's new university on the Midway.

Jesse Harper, in his days as athletic director at Notre Dame.

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Harper emphatically insisted that there be a preparatory school for the University of Chicago and he selected the Morgan Park site for it for several reasons. The buildings and grounds of the Illinois Military Academy (which was in financial trouble, apparently) would be available and they were adjacent to the Baptist Union Theological Seminary, where Harper's scholarship and administrative talents attracted the attention - and, eventually, the money - of John D. Rockefeller.

(Incidentally, Harper lived, in his Morgan Park days, on what is now 111 th Street, right across from the Academy. He continued to take summer vacations here, however, even after he moved to Hyde Park as first president of the University of Chicago.)

In my research in special collections at Regenstein library of the University of Chicago, I have unearthed two remarkable facts about MPA in that period: girls were admitted to MPA, on an equal basis with boys, just as they were at the University of Chicago, as early as 1892; and black students (although there were not many) were admitted on an equal basis with whites.

Think of it! MPA, co-ed and integrated in the 1890s, and that remarkable progressive policy which William Rainey Harper established at the University of Chicago prevailed at the Academy as well.

There may be wonderful stories about those pioneering students of the 1890s and my modest hope is that I will someday be able to uncover some of them and give them their rightful place in the fascinating record that is the history of MPA. The faculty in the 1890s, it seems, was not completely at ease with the presence of girls. There were complaints sent to President Harper (who had the final say in everything, it seems) that discipline was lacking in girls' dormitories and it was charged

that girls went into the city unescorted and frequently did not return until after midnight.

The faculty was particularly disturbed that one student, Florence Spencer, returned after midnight on two successive evenings.

George W. Carman, Dean of Morgan Park Academy, in a letter covering some eighteen typed pages, responded soberly and sensibly to all the charges. He explained, for example, that Miss Spencer did indeed return after midnight on two successive evenings, but the facts were different from what the faculty insinuated. Miss Spencer was one of a number of students who accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Carman to the city to see a production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night on Friday night.

On Saturday night, as part of another chaperoned group, Miss Spencer attended a performance of the Theodore Thomas orchestra.

There was no hanky-panky, in other words.

Mr. Carman, who went on to be the founding director of Lewis Institute (which later became the Illinois Institute of Technology) patiently elaborated on the situation of Miss Spencer: "Study hours are not required on Friday and Saturday evenings. How can anyone begrudge the girl the pleasure of two such evenings or be so unreasonable as to think that such diversion for a girl who is working her way through school, would interfere with her studies?"

The sensible attitude of George W. Carman did not prevail for long, however. Girls were denied admission to MPA after 1900, apparently with William Rainey Harper's blessing. The official reason was "declining enrollment" among girl students.

The statistics, published by the university, show no such decline in female enrollment at the Academy.

There is a story there, I'm sure, but I don't have enough facts yet to tell it.

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And so, like the classic trailer of coming attraction fame, I'll leave you hanging on the edge of that cliff, wondering just what is going to happen next. You'll just have to tune in (to the Academy Magazine) at a later date to get the whole story.

Thank you.

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Ron Vallone, a Civil War buff with a particular interest in military schools, has gathered together the advertisements about Morgan Park Academy which appeared in Chicago papers from 1873 to 1916 and what they reveal about the Academy is very interesting indeed.

The earliest advertisement, which ran in the columns of the Chicago Tribune on August 17, 1873, stated:

Babcock, principal), No. 11 Eighteenth Street, which accepted boys and girls and promised to prepare students "for business or admission to any University, College, or Scientific SchooL" The 1876 notice listed the Morgan Park school as "under new management" (Capt. Ed N. Kirk Talcott, president, and Henry T. Wright, principal) with "largely increased facilities for thorough instruction."

By 1877 the school had a new name, Morgan Park Military Academy, with Talcott and Wright serving as associate principals for "the best Academy for boys in the Northwest." The location, on "fifteen acres of ground," was "attractive and elevated."

In the same column, however, there was also an announcement of the "reopening" of Mt. Vernon Military Academy in Chicago, with a commandant who was a graduate of West Point and S.S. Norton as president. The school did not seem to flourish, or perhaps it never got started at all. S.S. Norton and Mt. Vernon Military Academy do not appear in any ads after 1877.

Another rival, Irving Military Academy, with four resident professors and twenty acres of grounds, opened on the north side, in (what was then) Lake View, Illinois.

A slightly different emphasis was presented in 1880 as MPMA was advertised as "A Christian Family School for Boys," but in 1887 and 1888 the ads called it "the best boarding school in the west" and promised "first-class" English, classical, and commercial education. Capt. Talcott's name, listed as superintendent, appears in the ads for the last time.

In 1889, although the curriculum sounded much the same, the school had a new principal, Henry J. Stevens, and a new name: Illinois Military Academy. There were ads for Illinois Military Academy in 1890 and 1891, but they were not very different, except that the name of Charles W. Mann is listed as co-principal with Henry J. Stevens.

MOUNT VERNON ENGLISH, CLASSICAL, AND Military Academy for boys and young men, at Morgan Park, Washington Heights, Ill. Boarding and day pupils received from 8 years and upwards. Thorough preparation for business and college guaranteed. Circulars containing full information can be obtained by calling or addressing S.S. NORTON, Principal, No. 11 Chamber of Commerce, Chicago.

It was a bold stroke. All of the schools advertising in the Tribune that day were in the East (Connecticut, Massachu-

setts, and New York primarily), with the exception of Lakeside Seminary, a boarding school for girls and young boys, at Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. A school for "girls and young boys" was obviously not competing for pupils in the same market with a school promising "preparation for business and college for boys 8 years and upwards."

The ad for 1874 was much the same, but it was now listed as "Mt. Vernon Military Academy" and S. Sheldon Norton was then listed as the "Proprietor." Interested parents were invited to obtain full particulars from the principal or "Wm. Talcott, Esq. [perhaps the father of Edward Kirk Talcott], Attorney-at-Law, 42 Portland Block, Chicago, IL." More Chicago schools advertised that year, but perhaps the only serious rival might have been Chicago Academy (H.H.

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Expenses $250 to $400 per year." There was an also an appeal to the health conscious, for the school boasted of "pure air and water."

Another year [1899] brought yet another name: The Academy of the University of Chicago. "Our students, "the ad continued, "are admitted on our certificates without examination to University of Chicago, Williams, Dartmouth, Wisconsin, Michigan, Brown, Smith, Vassar, Wellesley." And 45 scholarships were available for students at the Academy.

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Franklin W. Johnson is listed as the principal of The Morgan Park Academy of the University of Chicago (A School for Boys) in a 1906 ad that states students are "enrolled from thirty-nine states and seven foreign countries " and are "thoroughly prepared to enter any of the leading colleges and universities."

A second ad, a few weeks later, was almost seven-by-nine inches, while rarely did any previous ad exceed one-by-four inches. Perhaps the second ad was necessary because enrollment did not meet expectations. The virtues of the suburban location are emphasized: "Situated 14 miles from La Salle Street Station in a beautiful village without saloons, the Academy is near enough to secure all of the advantages of the city while remote enough to escape its evils. "There is also an appeal that has not been tried before: "The Academy is noted for its democratic spirit. Boys from the North and South, East and West, poor and rich meet here on terms of equality. It is an ideal community for young men to prepare for Citizenship."

By 1908, the school became plain Morgan Park Academy, although a parenthesis indicated that the school was "cooperating with the University of Chicago," which was obviously not quite the same as being the preparatory school for the university.

A new approach was obviously being tested, for the ad said the Academy was "a character building school for boys."

The ad developed the concept a little further: "all Men Teachers selected for Personal Association with Boys to develop manliness of character as well as scholarship. Small classes, averaging only six pupils." In 1906, the student teacher ratio was listed as 15-to-1.

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A 1912 ad stressed the "notable record in preparing boys cleanly and thoroughly for College, Technical School and Business, "but also added something that had been absent for over two decades at the school: "military features for the development and care of boys. Parents were invited to write for a free and illustrated catalogue and an interesting booklet, Results with Boys.

Appearing just above the MPA ad is one for "The Kenwood Institute and the Loring School for Girls, consolidated at 4600 Ellis. Ave., Chicago." Stella Dyer Loring and Helen Dyer Loring, principals, offered kindergarten and primary departments as well as a college preparatory program and "unequaled advantages in Music, Art, and Preparation for Foreign Travel." The school had playgrounds, tennis and basketball courts, plus a "handsome residence, offering bath with each room." And parents could reach the school by telephoning Oakland 787.

A new principal, a new name, and a new direction were apparent from the ads of 1915 and 1916, the last in Ron Vallone's collection. The new principal was Harry D. Abells, and the school then took the name of Morgan Park Preparatory Schools.

A large ad, five-by-six inches, announced that the school had "old-fashioned scholastic standards," that "fundamental studies [were] thoroughly taught," that "each boy [was] handled as an individual" in a "splendid home culture."

There was also a military system of instruction, supervised

by Lt. Col. Thomas Winfield Winston, West Point 1890, to provide diSCipline and "true American citizenship." There would also be "tutor-conducted trips through Chicago's

great Mercantile, Civic, Industrial, etc, Institutions, with shop talks and business men's lectures [as] part of the regular school work."

It was, "an academic - not a trade-school," the ad also noted.

The advertisements tell their own story, then. The school has had many names (enough to confuse anyone) and many changes of philosophy, but one thing has persisted: an Academy, in some form or other, has sat atop that hill in Morgan Park ever since 1873.

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The past is a foreign country: MPA in the first decade of the twentieth century by Barry Kritzberg "The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there," is the opening line of L.P. Hartley's little gem of a BARRY KRITZBERG novel, The GoBetween. Leo, the protagonist of the novel, begins his journey to that foreign country known as the past by finding a diary he has not opened in half a century.

This particular journey to the Morgan Park Academy past began by perusing a scrap-book, not a diary, and to make matters a little more complicated the scrap-book was not my own.

I share a first name with the compiler (Barry W. Mumford [08]), but I felt at first like a distrustful parent, furtively reading his child's diary. The desire to know how foreign a country MPA was some ninety years ago overcame that low feeling of dishonesty, however, and this is a report of what the scrap-book contained.

Look over my shoulder as I turn the pages.

The volume has MPA Souvenir embossed on the cover and it is, as they say in the book trade, "badly foxed." The glue ("super," to be sure), on the other hand, firmly holds almost all of those ninety-year-old items in place.

The inside front cover of the scrap-book contains a program, dated May 17,1907, announcing that a minstrel show ("no seats reserved, all seats SO cents, ") will be held in "Blake Hall-Morgan Park." It is a disconcert-

ing beginning, for the words announCing the show are put in the wide-open mouth of a grotesque caricature of a Negro, reminding us just how common that unconscious racism was even in the North.

Glued below the minstrel program is an odd bit of doggerel, suggesting a tantalizing story about which, perhaps, we will never learn more.

Who broke the lock [?]

Mumford knows Ferrell says he does too.

Who broke what lock? Why does Ferrell say Mumford knows?

The doggerel is set in type, so perhaps it appeared in an MPA publication and, just pOSSibly, if it can be found, that mysterious story might some day be told again.

The next item is a reproduction (perhaps clipped out of an MPA catalogue) of a photograph, about ten inches wide and two inches high, showing West Hall, the gymnasium, and East Hall. A baseball game is underway in the foreground and spectators occupy seats along the third base-line or lounge about the grass along the first-base line.

The next item Barry Mumford placed in his scrap-book was the entire program (back-cover pasted down) of the University of Chicago's Sixth Annual Interscholastic Track and Field Games, June 8, 1907.

The signature of "Josephine Weis" appears on the cover of the program, but who was she? How did a program with her name on it find its way to Mumford's scrap-book?

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Chicago track - (although it doesn't say so) was probably dirt or cinders was not yet named after Stagg, but was called Marshall Field.

There were fourteen Chicago high schools represented in the meet some familiar names, like Lake View and Marshall, and some less familiar, like Curtis and North Division - but Morgan Park Academy was not among them, for it represented the suburban community of Morgan Park. There were also teams from down-state Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa and Indiana.

R.A. Mills (# 231), of MPA, was written in as the second place winner out a field of more than forty entrants in the 100-yard dash. He had won his heat in a time listed as 10 and 1/5 seconds. Mills took first place in the 220, with a time listed as "22," and, if accurate, established a new meet record, eclipsing the old mark of 22 and 1/5, which had stood since 1903.

A newspaper clipping, several pages further on, confirmed that Mills did, indeed, establish one of the nine records set in the meet.

MPA, which apparently sent only a small contingent to the meet, managed a second (A.H. Tilley) and a third place a.A. Watts) in "throwing the 12 pound hammer."

Winners of the events from 1902 to 1906 are listed in another part of the program and EO. Berquist posted wins in the 220-yard hurdles in 1905 and 1906 for MPA with identical meet record times of 26 seconds. R.E. Palmer, MPA's high jumper, shared the gold medal with other competitors with a leap of 5 feet, 9 inches. A.B. Benbrook finished fourth in the 12pound shot put. The 1906 squad, with eleven and one-third points, finished fourth in the meet, behind Detroit

Central (14), Detroit University School (17 1/3) and Chicago powerhouse, Lewis Institute (23), which had won the meet four years in a row.

On the opposite page are photographs (cut-out, perhaps, from the MPA newspaper, the Academy News) of the five members of the tennis team and ten members of the track team.

The track team displays a championship banner, but the details are too blurred to read.

The scrap-book also contains programs from similar inter-scholastic track meets, held at Northwestern, May 11, 1907 and at Ann Arbor Michigan, May 24 and 25, 1907. At Northwestern, Lyle Harper took a third in the 440-yard dash, J.A. Watts was third in the shot-put and fourth in the hammer throw, while A.H. Tilley grabbed third in the discus and surpassed his own meet mark in winning the hammer throw with a toss of 153 feet. No results are recorded in the Ann Arbor program, but MPA sent a team of seven to the meet.

An undated newspaper clipping tells the story, however. The meet favorites were Grand Rapids High, Detroit Central, Lewis Institute, and Detroit University School, but MPA came home with five golds, two silver medals, and two fourth place ribbons, for 31 points, and MPA's "first interscholastic championship banner"-perhaps that very banner pictured on an earlier page.

Palmer took a fourth in the 880, Tilley had a fourth in the discus and a first in the hammer throw, but the hero of the meet was R.A. Mills Jr., with a second in the broad jump and three firsts - in the 100, 220 and 440.

There is also a picture, on the same page, of the twenty members of

the 1906 football team, coached by Stearns, and captained by Wedow, accompanied by an article announcing that MPA "had severed athletic relations with Culver."

"From the date of our first football game to this last miserable fiasco," the Academy News complained, lithe whole record is full of disagreeable incidents, bad feeling, and general disgust."

One would like to know more about this incident, but the article consists more of ranting than informing. There is another article, apparently written in response to an editorial in

Ridge Record about the Culver-MPA incident, which concludes with these words: "We do not intend to suggest that the present student body is thoroughly perfect. But we do feel that it is a good if not better than the average school. The Ridge Record may get a fair idea of Morgan Park students by studying these lines - slightly revised - from Kipling: We are not moral heroes, but we are not blackguards too; We're just young boys away from home remarkably like you; And if our conduct is not exactly what your fancy paints, Why young boys away from home are not always plaster saints.

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team (ten players in uniform, two wearing suits and ties), with no caption, but on another page there is a ticket to a baseball dance, with the price of admission listed as one dollar per couple.

MPA edged by Lake Forest 49-48 in a track meet that also included Armour Institute and Evanston High School that was almost lost through over-confidence, The Academy News reported. Thirteen different MPA participants scored points in the meet, but that was almost overshadowed by Schnur of Lake Forest, who placed in six of the eight events in which he competed. The article is accompanied by a nice picture of Mills, winning the 100, in a severe straight-up-anddown style.

One certainly gets the impression, from these opening pages of the scrap-book, that sports were a very important part of the life at Morgan Park Academy in 1906-1908. They were obviously important to Mumford, too, but the odd thing is that his name does not appear on the rosters of any of the teams.

Turning to the next page, one finds a Record-Herald story which seems to confirm that the MPA boys were not always "plaster saints."

Some time during the evening of December 7, 1906 - perhaps while every one else was at dinner - the room of Prof. Arthur W. Leonard was vandalized. Things were thrown about, according to one newspaper account, but another said that furniture was smashed. lilt is not charged that there was any sinister motive," one newspaper said, aside from a disposition which has been cropping out for some weeks II

to disregard the authority of those who rule over the academy."

It was believed that the vandalism may have been an act of retaliation against the faculty, the most recent act in "a war" between upper classmen and administration. Two weeks before a request from upper classmen for an extension of privileges - that they be allowed to stay out later and to be able to visit Chicago more often - was denied by the faculty as "unreasonable and dangerous to the best development of the students."

The next afternoon, Prof. Franklin W. Johnson, head of the academy, called the thirty-nine residents of West Hall (scene of the vandalism) together and asked each one two questions: "Were you in West Hall on the evening of December 7 at the time Mr. Leonard's apartment was entered?" and "Did you then know that the West Hall students were expected to be late to dinner?"

Sixteen students refused to respond, but twenty-three answered "yes" to both questions and those twenty-three - on the authority of Harry Pratt Judson, acting president of the University of Chicago (which controlled MPA) - were summarily suspended from the academy and sent home the next day.

Prof. Johnson explained, "we suspended the boys who answered 'yes' to the questions offered because they practically conspired to shield the wrong-doers by remaining away from dinner untillate .... We are not afraid of having made a wrong decision. We shall insist that discipline is observed by students of the academy and we believe that the trouble will be adjusted speedily."

The "trouble" may have been speedily adjusted, but it was not quite over.

On the same page is another article (undated, but probably in the Spring of 1907) with this headline:

STUDENTS BURN JUDSON IN EFFIGY A surprise announcement, read to 175 students at chapel, informed the assembly that Morgan Park Academy, which had been an adjunct of the university from its inception in 1892, would be closed in June.

Harry Pratt Judson, obviously seen as the villainous source of the decision, was spontaneously burned in effigy, and one can't help wondering if smoldering resentment against his role in the December suspensions didn't fuel the Spring fire in the students.

More than a thousand spectators gathered to watch the burning of the dummy (which had been strung up on a telegraph pole in front of the Rock Island depot), and when the Morgan Park police (consisting, according to one account, of a detective chief, a sergeant, and a policeman, all named McChee) attempted to disperse the students, they were routed and driven off with their own clubs, accompanied by a rousing cheer: MPA Maroons, rah, rah, MPA Maroons, rah, rah Hu-rah, hu-rah, academy, academy, Rah, rah, rah .

An unidentified student leader said, "We feel pretty blue about it. We are all loyal to Morgan Park, and we hate to see this order. We feel that Dr. Judson is more to blame than anyone

else. And so we expressed our disapproval in this manner."

The students intended to further express their disapproval by wearing mourning crepe the next day. MPA's Columbian Literary Society and two other literary societies, the Filolexian and the Philadelphian, issued formal protests and dormitories and recitation halls were decorated in black.

The Academy News appeared with black borders.

A Sunday magazine supplement to the Chicago Inter Ocean, dated March 10, 1907, carried pictures of Walker Library, Morgan and East Halls, and proclaimed, in head andsub-head, "Abandoning a $250,000 College/School Where the Late Dr. Harper Started the Rockefeller Millions to Rolling to be Given Up." "There was a banquet held over a funeral in Chicago last night," the article begins, "probably the first that was ever held. The banqueters really came as mourners and their grief was serious. They had lost their alma mater."

The banquet, the article said, came just a week after President Judson was burned in effigy, so that means that that "little riot" occurred in early March.

The news of the closing also came as a great shock to the 1200 MPA alumni, many of whom were preparing at that very moment to form a more permanent alumni organization.

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G.R Schaeffer, president of the organization, said, "very few of the alumni of Morgan Park Academy are in a mood to discuss the event. Not a one of us, of course, has any fault to find with the university officials, or with any of the men upon whom responsibility rested, nor have we a word to say concerning Mr. Rockefeller's connection with the affair. It certainly would be very hard grace to censure so lavish a benefactor simply for deciding not to continue his gifts when results do not seem to justify the giving. II "The phase of the matter that appears most important to me is the seeming absence of sentimental considerations which characterizes the move," he continued. "The closing of the academy practically means that those of us who attended in the past years are to be deprived of some of the most pleasant memories of our lives. In very many respects a fellow's associations and experiences of prep school are more precious to him than those of his university years.

Speaking for myself, scores of the closest and dearest friends I have are men who attended Morgan Park Academy when I did. A great many of us have found great pleasure and experienced a most peculiar satisfaction in occasionally revisiting the institution and refreshing the memories of the days spent there. Some of us have hoped to send our younger

brothers and members of our future generations through the school in order that they might receive the wonderful benefits and perpetuate traditions which, perhaps, we had a hand in creating. Ideas and sentiments like these have been cherished by most of us, and now we are forced to yield them for more material considerations. It is hard.

"Most of the alumni with whom I have talked are of the opinion that the academy has not had time to justify its existence - that it has not had the proper opportunity for becoming a self-sustaining institution.

Many phases of the academy have been largely experimental. Changes in policy have frequently taken place. It seems to me that it is hardly fair to deny it an existence under such circumstances, but we cannot gracefully dispute the judgement of older and experienced men. We do insist, however, that the academy has been regarded too exclusively as a business proposition and that insufficient consideration has been given to the great work it has been doing in building up strong manhood in those who have been fortunate enough to attend.

"President Harper was always a stanch supporter of the academy. It was he who gave it its place and determined its mission. I believe the success with which it has fulfilled the mission is not thoroughly appreciated.

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"We had fondly hoped that in the years to come our association could number hundreds of prominent men - that we could be to the West what Philips-Exeter is to the East; that we could have Morgan Park associations in the larger cities of the country, which would be instrumental in the constant renewal of some of the keenest enjoyments of our lives, but it cannot be done now. It is pretty hard medicine, but I guess we will have to take it."

The Inter Ocean also noted that MPA was originally founded as a co-ed institution, but that policy was abandoned after a few years. MPA's first dean was I.B. Bronson, who came from Boston Latin, and still taught at the academy. He was succeeded by Prof. Carman, who was the founding director of the Lewis Institute (which later became the Illinois Institute of Technology). His successor was Prof.

Charles H. Thurber, who resigned to join the editorial staff of Ginn & Co. Wayland J. Chase became the next dean and (although he remained on the faculty) he was succeeded by Franklin W. Johnson, who became principal in 1905.

The closing of the school, with property valued at $250,000, would be a severe loss to the community, the Inter Ocean noted. The Walker library would be given to the village of Morgan Park, but the 10,000 volumes of the library would probably go the university. The football team, winner of the Inter-academic league championship for the past three seasons, would also be missed by the community.

A ticket stub, dated May 17, 1907, announcing the "Final MPA Minstrels" suggests that students were perhaps resigned to the University of Chicago decision to close MPA. Three reasons were cited in an undated article for the University of Chicago's decision to close MPA: the academy had become a financial drain on the university; high schools in

Chicago and the Midwest, once scarce, were now flourishing; and University High School on the Midway, established four years before, was thought to be "superior to the academy."

Prof. Thomas W. Goodspeed, registrar, and secretary of the board of trustees of the University of Chicago, said that the academy was established to make economical use of buildings vacated in Morgan Park when the divinity school moved to Hyde Park.

The assumption was that MPA would become selfsustaining and "a large feeder for the university."

"Although the academy has always had an especially able faculty," Goodspeed said, "and large sums of money have been spent on it for additional buildings, it has neither become selfsustaining nor has it sent such large numbers of students to the university as was anticipated."

MR. BAIRO Wallace MR VoR . ARONSON Heckman, counsel and business manager for the university, declined to discuss the matter, but denied that John D. Rockefeller had advised the closing of MPA. The same undated article also states that "William B. Owen, now dean of the University High School, was the first head of the academy. He started the institution in 1890 with a nucleus of students and gradually increased the enrollment to 100 in 1892 when it was added to the university on its present basis."

The very next page takes one back to the world of sports: two articles

West Hall won the shield four consecutive years (1899-1902) and then Morgan Hall won it 1903, 1904, 1905, and 1906.

The running events were over distances measured in yards, with one exception. There would be a 100meter dash, something so novel apparently that a parenthetical addition was necessary to explain that it was "109.36 yards." This event was instituted because Samuel W. Stratton, of Washington D.C., presented MPA with "a silver loving cup to be contested for in the 100-meter dash. " On the same page are three ticket stubs, reading "Orchestral International Theatre/EVG. FEB. IS ." Who were Mumford's companions? What did they see? How often did students go offcampus? Mumford made no annotations, for a mere glance at the tickets, surely, would very likely have recalled the entire evening for him.

One other point MP ~NIFFEN MR. BROWN VR LEONA. RD MR HORNE Mf< , ABELLS seems to be clear: the ?RIN )IH"S~-'H PROF. BURCESS !'TEARNS DEAN CHASE items are not placed The MPA faculty: 1907 C?1 in the scrap-book in strict chronological order, so it seems further on, with the cover proclaimlikely that the clippings and photoing: graphs were collected for a period of The Morgan Park Academy time before Mumford mounted them.

Of the University of Chicago A fragment of an Academy News article, dated July 4,1907, still reads The Ninth Inter-Hall Contest "Morgan Park Academy of the In Field and Track Events for the University of Chicago," but the tone Faculty Shield is more that of an obituary, relating some of the history and listing those May fourteenth, nineteen hundred who had been on the faculty. and seven The article seems to trace the Morgan Park, Illinois history of the school only as far back A note in the program explains as its connection with the University that the competition for the Faculty of Chicago, for Professor Burgess is Shield was instituted in 1899, and from the Academy News report on a spirited "inter-hall" track & field contest, won by Morgan (with 69 points), and followed by West (SO) and East (only 3) .

There was even "trouble" in one's own back yard, as "several wrangles marred the pleasantness of the day."

The most serious involved the low hurdles, where a somewhat unusual field rule resulted in the disqualification of two runners for knocking over the last hurdle.

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charge of introductory year, identified as "the first head of the 1897-1898 Academy." A dormitory building was Joseph J. Brobeck, science and destroyed by fire in 1896 and a director of the gymnasium, gymnaSium also burned, but appar1897-1900 ently at a later date. West Hall was Alice N. Simpson, assistant in constructed in 1897 and East Hall the next year and a new gymnaSium by introductory year, summer 1896, Latin, 1897-1898 1900.

Haydn E. Jones [lacuna] A partial listing of the faculty, ranked in the same fashion as university professors (" instructor, assistant, Haydn Jones is a familiar name in associate,"), included: MPA history, of course, but it is Arthur W. Leonard, English, intriguing that the names of two 1900-1907 women appear on this faculty roster Joseph M. Sniffen, botany and phYSiography, 1902-1907 James c.

Baird, manual training, 1904-1907 Tilden H. Stearns, physical training, 1905-1907 Franklin H. Smith, mathematics, 1906-1907 Roy R. Peck.

German and French, 1906-1907 Charles E. \\ Horne, mathWAll ( 1 ematics, 1906-1907 Bertram G. Nelson [lacuna] The Academy News staff, 1908, with Mumford front-row, Alfred R. Wightman, Latin, in the 1890s. Where they the first 1895-1903 women faculty members at MPA? Clara P. Anderson, English Why were there no women teachers 1895-1896 after 1900?

Edwin P Brown, assistant in There is an undated photograph charge of introductory year, of the faculty (all male), numbering 1896-1897 eleven, including" Dean Chase, Prin.

William H. Runyon, natural Johnson, Prof. Burgess, Mr. Abells." science, 1897-1900 The clean-shaven look predominated, Frederick D. Nichols, English, with only three of the staff sporting 1897-1900 facial hair, and the regular "four-inFrederick D. Eby, assistant in hand" prevailed over the bow-tie by

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eight to three.

That is followed by a picture of the football team - eleven players, a coach and a manger - and the basketball team - five players (the starters, perhaps?) in familiar looking uniforms and three, standing, wearing identical cardigans, and a manager in coat-and-tie. Only one - H.N. Welch - played both football and basketball.

Mumford also preserved an article, dated February 24, 1908, which described an unusual occurrence at Western Military Academy, Alton, Illinois.

John Fientge, age 19, was escorted to a train by a committee of his classmates and sent home to Cape Giradeau, Missouri, under orders never to return. Fientge was accused of being a "mollycoddle, a mama's boy" and of being "too stuck up" to associate with other Western students.

The remarkable thing was that although Fientge had violated no school rules, the administration endorsed the students' Vigilante decision.

Did Mumford applaud this decision? center.

Was there someone at MPA he'd secretly like to send packing? The scrap-book is silent on such questions.

The next several pages offer photographs of the principal MPA buildings, followed by interior shots of the "wall of trophies" in the gym, a chemistry lab, and a reading room at Walker library.

And then, without transition or warning, there is a Daily News clipping about Morgan Park Military

Academy football team. may have been the game that decided Military: there it is. Just like the championship. that. No more talk of burning Judson The "Coachless Wonders" also in effigy, just going on business as scrimmaged against Alonzo A. Stagg's usual apparently, but with a new University of Chicago varsity "and administration, new rules, and no had the honor of scoring four points."

Playing for the University were two affiliation with the University of former MPA players, Leonard G. Chicago.

Donnelly [06] and James G. Weldon Was the transition as easy and as [07]. painless as Mumford's scrap-book makes it appear? If there was any anguish, or nostalgic regret, E NOTICE Mumford did not record it.

ABSENC The sub-head on the story also records another change: no longer were they the MPA ) Lf Maroons, but -the MPMA Warriors, a nick-name which has stuck for some ninety years Mr. 'ndicated now. bllence as \ a nalty of onereponed tor The story said that if MPMA YoU have be~unexcused absence1ass~hese abseaces were victorious in the up-coming eac . d so that un e b eloW. For 't 15 IncurTe , =--.l---" game against Lake Forest Acadbalt a demerl deJllerits will be. pean as soon as sed your t d to the b emy, the Warriors "will again lay are excll Id be presen e . 'ly 1'111 not e xcuses sbOU _ and ordlnan E absen.... ._ claim to the western academic ssible after all ted within a wee •• championship." po . d it not presen ~ receW e The Warriors were characterized as one of the "huskiest" prep .......... Botany········ . ....

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University of Chicago), a student The Warrior manager, but no coach. basketball team was also successful, Quarterback and captain W. with resounding wins over Austin Robinson designed the plays and High School (64-29), Morgan Park drilled the team. The team, furtherH.S. (73-10), and South Chicago H.S. more, practiced only once or twice a (49-15). Prather made thirteen baskets week and, because it lacked the the field in the game against from numbers, never engaged in a scrimAustin and repeated the feat against mage (except during actual games). A South Chicago. small clipping a few pages later The date is uncertain, but one reports a 10-5 win at Culver on clipping indicates that MPA defeated November 2, and a 58-4 triumph over Evanston 29-26 in a game that was Lake Forest Military Academy in what

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Two other basketball reports perhaps from a different season indicate that Northwestern Academy defeated MPA 30-24, giving both squads 5-1 records and a share of the championship. There was also the possibility of a re-match to break the tie.

In an A.A.U. "120 pound" tournament at Lewis Institute, Morgan Park was outscored by the Association House Juniors, 35-1 in the first half. The final was 43-7.

The name of Barry Mumford turns up in the clippings for the firsttime: he is elected vice-president of the senior class. There is also an interesting story about senior privileges - given to offer" a taste of what they may expect in college next year."

The privileges included exemption from final exams, freedom from [mandatory?] study hours, and "leave to go the city [Morgan Park?] at all times during recreation hours." To qualify, a senior must maintain an average above 65 in each class. A student could lose the privileges, regardless of academic performance, if he accumulated more than 20 The first picture of a woman does not appear until one has gotten nearly half-way through the scrap-book. The woman is Anna Held, much-be-decked with flowers, and looking perhaps as though she were a stage actress.

And, on the very next page, is Barry Mumford himself!

He is one of the seven members in a photograph of the Academy News staff. He has a high-forehead, stares straight at the camera, with a faint, but serious smile. He is seated in the middle of the front row of three, suggesting that he is perhaps of diminutive stature. He, like the others, wears a military uniform, with a stifflooking collar right up to his chin.

He is one of two of the staffers to

display three stripes on his sleeve.

So Mumford has surrendered his anonymity. He is no longer merely the objective compiler of a scrapbook, but a participant, on the staff of the Academy News, and vice-president of his senior class.

Perhaps (although no by-lines appear to have been given) he was the author of some of those stories that have been placed in the scrap-book.

There are two topical (and, therefore) inexplicable cartoons, relating apparently to a postmidnight roll call and competition against other schools. No more sense than that can be made of them.

There is an announcement of an Academy News "hard times" dance for February 21, 1908 and there is a onedollar ticket for the dance.

The next page has a dance card from a baseball dance (May 30, 1908), with the odd numbers listed as "waltz" and the even as "two-step."

There are names written, in the same hand, after all but three of the twenty dances. The names - Mills, Sauer, Lytle, etc. - are the, by now, familiar names of other MPA students.

Was it the custom for cadet to dance with cadet? - or, was this an insider's joke?

Also included in the scrap-book is the "at-home" card of Miss Leah E. Davis, who would be receiving visitors at her home December 14, 1906, at 1941 Morgan Avenue.

There is a page of six photographs (perhaps taken by Mumford himself of various pals, one assumes) - one at the train station, another sporting football pants, etc. No explanations, no obvious connections can be made.

Mumford understood, no doubt.

An undated editorial in the Ridge

Record complained that "Residents of this village were surprised and disgusted to note the appearance of graffiti on cement walks on Morgan and Arlington avenues and other streets in the village a few mornings ago. What the students hoped to gain by painting the cement walks with 'MPA '08' is a mystery."

The editorial also noted that "last year some students of the old academy put a cow in the backyard of a resident of Berkeley avenue" and thereby did considerable damage. "Vandalism of that kind," the writer concluded, "is far from being a credit to the school or the students."

Another page shows a picture of the 120-yard high-hurdles event at a Northwestern meet, with hurdles being knocked down by four of the six competitors. The other two look as though they are about to also kick the hurdles. Was that the accepted technique of the day?

Mumford also included his registration card for 1906. He was assigned to room S2 in Morgan Hall, he indicated a preference for the Episcopalian church, and he would be taking Latin II, French I, plane geometry, and Greek I. He was also assigned to Mr. Bronson's Bible class.

There is another personal item on the same page: an overdue notice from S.E. Mills, librarian of the George C. Walker Library. It seems that Barry Mumford had taken out Lady Rose's Daughter on November 24, 1906 and had not returned it by January 11,

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1907. "A fine has already been incurred and this will increase with each additional day of delay in returning the book. Please attend to this matter at once."

What kind of book was it? Why didn't Mumford return it?

Perhaps Mumford was looking ahead to his graduation, for on the next page is a card from Dieges & Clust, "Official Jewelers of the Leading Colleges, Schools, and Associations," with offices in the Schiller Building, 103-109 Randolph Street (Telephone 311S Central). The firm's motto was, "If We Make It, It's Right."

Mumford has also included, perhaps inadvertently, a page of calculations where only the word "assets" appears. Perhaps he was considering buying an automobile, for the next page contains a brochure from The Paul Irving Company, New York, N.Y., "The House of Specialties for Ford Cars." The next page suggests another possibility: a subscription form for stock in Morgan Park Academy, "an Illinois Corporation."

There is also a rain check from a ticket to an American League Ball Club game, undated, but probably from 1907, since a shield bears the words "Worlds Champions." It stands on a page next to a printed Thanksgiving menu, offering the usual accompaniments to roast turkey and cranberry sauce, but also: maraschino cherry pie, pumpkin and mince pies, brick ice cream, cake, bonbons, nuts, raisins, and coffee.

A printed notice, with the name and the date (May 22, 1906) written in, informs Mumford that he has been given one demerit for "violation of hall rules," bringing his total demerits to four and one half. "Five demerits," the printed portion continues, "call for a warning to parents or guardians; ten lead to suspension." It is signed by Dean Johnson.

There is also what appears to be a of the student," the 1908[?J booklet And others will furnish a musical rough draft (on the stationery of declared. "Because of modern business treat. conditions, our schools are having to "Captain G.L. Byroade, U.S. Army, The Young Peoples Society with do an increasing amount of this greetings most hearty, Rtd., Superintendent") of standards for important work. Fifty years ago, when various athletic matters - a definition Feel sure you'll attend your own the social life was less complex, the of a school record; the basis on which Birthday Party. boy was built up in body by the free An anonymous printed poem, not emblems will be awarded; and a out-of-door life, and in character of precise description of the pattern of nearly up to Mrs. Atwater's standard, the home teachings, the surroundwas saved by Mumford also. It begins: the emblem: "an oval background of ings, and the large part he of necessity the school color (maroon) upon which Huh, dere ain't no buffalos had to take in supporting the family.

In S. Dakota, I don't dink, shall be mounted an elongated ellipse The modern boy often lacks robust, But dat Stanley, says he knows of white cloth from which the center manly traits in his character, because Why he says, dey come to drink has been removed and in which the he is largely deprived of his father's Und feed at your front door letters MPA have been placed accordcompanionship." ing to the pattern on Theodore file in the Roosevelt, then su perin tend en t's serving his second office. The white term as president of ellipse to be seven the United States, inches on its longest would have heartily diameter." endorsed such a The seven-inch program. letter was to be The students awarded for football, were directed as baseball and track. A individuals, and basketball letter classes were small could only be five -something, inches, while tennis apparently, that has was to be no more always been (and than four, which still is) one of the seems to be a clear distinguishing indication of the characteristics of relative value MPA. attached to each The environsport. ment of the Mumford has The program for the 1906 subway series, with rain-check attached.

Academy was also included a handcharacterized as having "the desirable Und wen you den yell- Scat!! written birthday invitation for features of both country and city. Pure Dey simply holler for some more.

Saturday, October 21, 1905, at the air, artesian water, and the freedom There are another two dozen home of Mrs. Atwater, 11218 Geneva which comes from having open fields lines, but this should suffice to give Ave.: and wooded hills in the vicinity; one a sense of what may have apThis birthday party is given to together with its accessibility from pealed to young men in that first you, Chicago, have made this a commudecade of the twentieth century.

Tis something novel, tis somenity of homes. No saloons, factories, Mumford also pasted into his thing new. or questionable places of amusement scrap-book what seems to be a new We send you each a little sack are here. It is a cultured village descriptive booklet, the purpose of Please either send or bring it back, LJ ... with the atmosphere of a New which was "to give parents a more With as many cents as you are England college town." complete knowledge of the care and old; The equipment, according to the training the student receives, than We promise the number shall late University of Chicago president was possible in the calendar." never be told.

Harper, was better than that of the "Particular attention is given also Kind friends will give you someaverage college and the architects to developing the character and body thing to eat,

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were notable: Dankmar Adler, "whose great work was the Chicago Auditorium," designed East and West Halls; and Dwight H. Perkins, designer of Hitchcock Hall at the University of Chicago, was the architect for the gymnasium.

The new element, however, was the military system, something that had apparently been absent since MPA came under the guidance of Harper's university. It was not intended for "handling unruly boys," but it provided "the best means for allaround physical development."

Parents were assured that MPA's military director was "second to none in the prestige its director has with the U.S. Army authorities." And although the military system provided 24-hour supervision, efforts were also made to provide a home-like atmosphere. The instructors, "with their wives, preside at the tables in the dining room. A cheerful well-furnished parlor is on the first floor of one part of the hall, and a reading room with magazines, books and piano is Similarly placed at the other end. Since the teachers with their families live in the dormitory they naturally develop there a home-like atmosphere."

The social life included theater, "Thomas Orchestra" concerts, guest lecturers, and monthly social gatherings which included dancing. The fee (including tuition, room, and board) was $600 per year with "no extras, outside of those directly specified in the calendar."

Mumford has also kindly included a type-written page of cheers, specifically directed at Culver Military Academy.

The first, sung to the tune of Blue Bells, seemed to be held in reserve for when the victory was sure: Farewell old Culver, no hope for you.

Your backs can never break our line so true, Alan and Artie go through to stay.

Hats off old Culver, hail [to] MPA

Next, Litoria.

Again we raise our happy song, awe de Ie we dum bum.

To help the old Maroon along, awe de Ie we dum bum.

We cheer it on with a right good will, awe de we chu hi ra [sa?].

Until old Culver has her fill, awe de Ie we dum bum.

Followed by Yale war song.

Englewood High, you got yours, but wait for CMA We will beat her up so badly, that she cannot play.

We will fix Mackine and Malcolm, and we'll do it right.

For we'll fight, fight, fight and we will tonight.

Morgan park forever more.

The next cheer was to the tune of the Eaton Boating Song.

The Culver backs may be clever, her line may be fierce and strong But we'll break up your interference, and her runs will not be long, For we will charge, charge together, and make her plays go wrong.

Robbi will give the signals, Vale, he will pass the ball, And we all get started, they won't stop us at all.

But we'll go down the field in rushes and we'll never lose the ball.

They may have a reputation, they

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think they have a name, But the old Maroon will conquer and get there just the same, For we'll cheer together, for MPA and her name.

And, to the tune of Soldier's Field.

Marching on down the field, fighting for MPA Break through the Culver line, their strength to defy.

Give a long cheer for Robbie's men they're here to win again.

Culver teams may fight to the end, but we will win.

And, finally, to the tune of Alice, Where Art Thou Going?

Culver, what art thou doing?

We're here to win today.

We'll make a desperate showing, our men know how to play, Our backs were made for going, Culver its up to you Run or walk or tear the sands, or fall into MPA's hands.

Culver, what art thou doing?

Cheers without the tunes are like songs without the melodies perhaps one simply had to be there.

Mumford, now a recognizable face, turns up next in a photograph of uniformed cadets (front row, fourth from the left) and there is a faded photograph of a dormitory room possibly Mumford's - showing posters on the wall (one saying, "hello girls"), an MPA pillow, a cloth draped over a radiator, with a silver chaffing dish on top.

Mumford also had the distinction of attending the first game of the 1906 World Championship Seriesthe only series of the century where Chicago couldn't lose.

He has included the rain check from game one at West Side Park (at Polk, Wood, Lincoln, and Taylor Streets) and the souvenir program book.

The program book states that the Cubs that season "set a high-water

mark in victories [116] ... which will stand for years to come." (And, oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.)

The program has advertisements for Mitchell Automobile Co., 1466 Michigan Avenue, The Edelweiss Restaurant, 104-106 Madison, Sid J. Euson's Theatre, with "all the best burlesque shows, "and Captain Anson's Billiards and Bowling, 141 Madison Street."

There are pictures of the players - the already "peerless leader, Frank Chance, Tinker and Evers, Mordecai Brown, and more, but not one White Sox player. The scorecard is completed, in a somewhat unorthodox and rather casual manner (with only hits and outs recorded), but it seems (if I read it correctly) that the White Sox triumphed 2-l.

Turning the page, one finds Mumford's registration card for 1907: he is assigned to East Hall, and will be taking courses in solid geometry, English III, Latin III, French II or German II. Immediately above it is an absence notice, dated November 16.

Mumford was given one demerit for an unexcused absence from physical training.

The same page, with back cover carefully pasted down, has a booklet, Summer Camp of Morgan Park Academy for Boys/1908/ Boulder Lake, Wisconsin.

"Camping is the ideal vacation for a boy, but to many it is impossible because the opportunity to 'rough it' rarely occurs," the booklet contends.

It seems to have been the first year such a camp was conducted, and Captain George L. Byroade's experience of camp life in the regular army in Cuba, the Philippines, and elsewhere, is cited as just the right background for such an enterprise.

The camp's connection with Morgan Park Academy was clearly established by emphasizing that faculty members - EO. Bergquist, Haydn E. Jones, J.e. Baird - would staff the camp and be available for tutoring, if necessary.

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The camp was equipped with army wall tents - with floorboards raised from the ground to insure dryness - and were furnished with two folding cots, camp stools, mesquito netting, etc.

The location of the camp was "the great north woods," some fifty miles below Lake Superior, and just a few miles from Star Lake. Most of the country was "still in its primitive state of wildness, the forest being penetrated only by old Indian trails."

Fishing and swimming were among the recreational activities and hay fever, at that altitude of nearly 1000 feet, was virtually unknown.

The campers would depart from Chicago on June 17,1908 on the "e., M. & St. P. Ry." for an eight-week stay.

The charge for the eight weeks, including meals and sleeping car accommodations, was $125.

Another page suggests that Barry Mumford, if not exactly swaggering, was perhaps more secure in his senior year, and was getting about Chicago a bit more. There are ticket stubs from a dance at the White City Ball Room, a complimentary pass to Riverview Amusement Park ("100 Acres of Shade, 200 shows and features"), another orchestra stub, and a ticket for the song service at the Pacific Garden Mission, then at 100 East Van Buren, where "strangers and poor are always welcome."

One of the fascinating documents Mumford put into his scrapbook was the Morgan Park (including Gresham, Washington Heights, Longwood, and Evergreen Park) Telephone Directory for November 1906.

It was all of thirty-two pages.

Residential telephone extensions were available at just fifty cents per month, reduced from a dollar per month. Among the general information to telephone users were instructions on how to use the telephone: "To call the exchange office, give two quick turns of the crank, take the receiver from the hook and listen for

the operator. Upon her call for 'Number, please?' give exchange name and number of the subscriber wanted and the operator will repeat to avoid mistakes. Remain with the receiver at the ear until an answer is received. If the desired line is busy, the operator will say, 'Line is busy, please call again.' This means that the line called for is in use."

One could ring up Blake Hall of Morgan Park Academy of the University of Chicago, "Morgan Ave nr Armida Ave," by asking for "Morgn Pk 11." In an advertisement from 1908, however, the phone number was given as "Morgan Park 1221."

There is an Academy News from May 22, 1909 which provides some details of the commencement activities. Mumford was there, apparently, to attend alumni events.

The exercises began on Sunday evening, June 13, with a baccalaureate address at the Baptist church. Monday was alumni day, featuring a studentalumni baseball game, military drill, refreshments, and a dance. Tuesday was devoted to senior class day exercises, including another dance in the evening. Wednesday brought a senior parade, the presentation of diplomas and, at 10 p.m., senior bonfire and song.

"After the military drill," a brochure explained, "you will rally round your class banner, in order to take your proper place in the parade of the classes, which will be lead by the academy band. Each class will carry a special banner and other insignia to indicate why it was the best class that ever graduated."

The brochure bears the names of the four members of the executive committee: Murray T. Morgan [00], Frank O. Bergquist [04], Miss Anna J. Le fevre [98], and Roland L. Bayne [06].

"We are all looking forward to having a bully time during these last days of school and without doubt they will form a fitting windup for the

year," the article noted. "The committee has wisely decided to bill nothing for the mornings, as we will undoubtedly require them to recuperate from the good time of the night before in anticipation of the good time of the night to come."

An editorial, from another page of the Academy News came out firmly against the introduction of fraternities at MPA. Fraternities, by their very nature were secret and divisive, the editorial contended and "with our small numbers it is only by standing together and having one common interest, and that interest the interest of the Academy, that we can expect to win for our school the honors which she deserves."

Another clipping offers compliments to Captain Earl. H. Crary [08?] band director, "for the piece he composed, called the M.P.A. March. It is a very good march and the band plays it with spirit."

It was the first year for the band, which boasted sixteen members, and so successful was it that an editorial commented, "it has become such a part of the school that it is hard to imagine how we ever got along without it."

Mumford also included the business card of the Kenfield-Leach Publishing Company, along with a receipt for $2.50 for one hundred dance programs.

There is also a business card from The New Russel hotel, in Grayling Michigan. Rates for commercial travellers: two dollars per day, with "special rates over Sunday."

Did Mumford stay there? What was he doing? Silence.

An Academy News Uune 30, 1909] prints a letter from Robert W. Burgess [OS] about his experiences at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. "The English are very like us," Burgess wrote, "but they manage to conceal it a good deal."

In the columns next to Burgess' letter from Oxford is a review by Harry D. Abells of his first year as

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principal of MPA. The school opened with fortythree students, but grew to Sixty-two before the year ended. Thirty-two were from Illinois, but students came from seventeen other states and one, Mills, came the greatest distance, all the way from Mexico. After providing these statistics, Abells added: "I want to warn you most earnestly against the fallacy that numbers make a school good or bad."

For the past sixteen years, Abells continued, MPA "has been distinguished as a college preparatory school," but it is also a military school, a home school, and commercial school. It manages to accomplish all of these things by having "the same standard [in commercial courses] as those in Latin or mathematics."

"The business affairs of the academy are in excellent condition today," Abells said, and although the military department was highly effiCient, "our work is not to make soldiers, but men .... They cannot be handled like bars of iron which are passed into the wonderful lathe machinery and all come out alike, and fairly perfect in every particular."

Abells, in a personal aside, said he learned discipline - even though he would rather having been playing baseball - by the responsibilities that were naturally imposed on him by virtue of being raised in the country.

"If I did not feed [the horses], they went hungry. Our city boys commonly have not had an opportunity to develop this very important quality at home."

MPA, through a system of privileges and responsibilities, sought to develop those qualities in each boy, so that "he will be able to bear greater responsibility as a man by bearing continually more as a boy."

Another Academy News provided a summary of the sports seasons: Much of the credit for the baseball team's success was given to

the coach, Dr. [Haydn] Jones, "who knows the game from one end to the other and who has the ability to teach what he knows."

Alonzo A. Stagg, who spoke during commencement week of 1909, was also given some credit for MPA's athletic successes. "There is no man in all this western country of more interest to the boy of clean mind, a healthy, active body, and a spirit that impels him to play the game hard, but fairly, than Prof. Alonzo A. Stagg of the University of Chicago," the Academy News commented. "Mr. Stagg has always been interested in Morgan Park Academy and her principal, Mr. Harry D. Abells. None of us truly realizes how great is the debt we owe to the 'Old Man,' as he is affectionately called by all who have worked with or under him. He has always been helpful with counsel, suggestions, and often times actual personal work with and in behalf of MPA teams."

The final item in Barry Mumford's scrap-book, pasted on the back, inside cover, is from a newspaper dated February 22, 1908.

The head-line and sub-heads swiftly tell the story: GIRL DANCER DROPS DEAD ****

Miss Blanche Arnold Expires Suddenly as Morgan Park Academy Revelers Start Home HEART WEAK, SAYS PHYSICIAN Victim Exclaims, "I've Had the Best Time of My Life," as The Fatal Attack Seizes Her Blanche Arnold collapsed in the parlor of the Academy gymnaSium while waiting for her carriage and died almost instantly.

Miss Arnold, of Audubon, Iowa,

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had been a junior at the Helen E. Starrett School for Girls, 4707 Vincennes Avenue. She had been under treatment for an organiC heart condition and, although she had been counselled to skip every other dance, "the persistence of youthful admirers had persuaded her to violate the doctor's injunction this time."

Miss Arnold and her classmate, Miss Margaret Gordon, attended the dance as guests of MPA students Clark Sauer and Horace Mulnix, both of Audubon, Iowa. Sauer and Mulnix were pall bearers.

And so, on this somber note, our tour of the past is ended.

Barry Mumford, of Pittsfield, Illinois, graduated from Morgan Park Academy in 1908. His academic record was, to use a polite euphemism, rather erratic.

Perhaps he spent too much tim e on his scrap-book.

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The Capt. Gray File: the third possibility The Morgan Park Academy archives has documents relating to Francis S. Gray from 1917 to 1944.

It doesn't tell Capt. Gray's whole life story, of course, but it does afford some insights into what might be called his" official character."

The first item in the file is a form from the Clark Teachers' Agency, filled out by Gray himself, and bearing the date of August 22, 1917.

He graduated from Illinois State Normal in 1907 and then earned a

law degree at the University of Michigan in 1912. His undergraduate education was evenly balanced, with multiple courses in mathematics, science, history, economics, and commercial areas. He did not seem to have much interest in foreign languages.

He taught two years in a country school in Christian County, Illinois and then was a principal at Vandalia (IL) High School and a village superintendent at Mt. Auburn (lL).

Gray listed himself as single, Presbyterian, 5-11, 184 pounds, and

looking for a salary in the range of $1200-$1500. His last salary, before coming to MPMA, was listed at $1100.

There are four recommendations, on Clark Teachers' Agency forms, tersely stating such things as: "Scholarship, Excellent...Success as a Teacher, Pronounced ... Character, High ... Personal appearance, Rather large. Very satisfactory."

The earliest contract (although other sources indicate that he started at MPMA in 1917) between Francis Gray and Morgan Park Military Academy dates from July 3, 1919 offers $1300, payable in ten monthly installments, but also included (at an estimated value of $35 per month) room, board, light and heat. The employee was expected to pay for "uniforms, after the model of the officers in the U.S. Army, a military overcoat, and other necessary equipments, bedding, towels, etc."

Much was expected of Francis Gray in return. He would be asked to teach five or six periods during the day, supervise evening study hall as required, spend at least one hour per day in athletic instruction (or some comparable activity) , supervise cadets at all times during the day and night, and to refrain from the use of tobacco on the streets or in the presence of cadets until after taps.

MPMA must have liked Capt.

Gray after that first year, for he was offered $2000 for 1920-21 school year, plus housing and the usual amenities.

(During the depreSSion, however, he would be expected to pay his own gas, electriC, and coal bills.)

Carson Pirie Scott & Co. wrote to MPMA on September 20, 1930 to ask if "Mr. Francis S. Gray, 2145 W. 110th Place," would be reliable if he were to be allowed to open an account at the downtown firm.

Harry D. Abells, writing to

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Carson's four days later, made it abundantly clear: "He is absolutely all right in every particular. He comes of that old Scotch-Irish stock that is single track in its honesty."

A memo [29 June 1937] to Capt.

Gray offered, on an experimental basis, a little extra money as a recruiter for MPMA. There would be a guarantee of $100 per month, plus expenses, with $50 for each Academy boarding cadet enrolled and $15 for each day student.

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There is also a an unsigned draft, dated June 14, 1942, of what appears to be a testimonial planned to celebrate Capt. Gray's twenty-five years at MPMA. It reads: "One summer afternoon twentyfive years ago there came to Morgan Park a stranger to visit a strange school in respect to a vacancy as head of the mathematics department.

We talked about the school.

Considering the characteristics of Capt. Gray, and I hope myself - it would not be quite appropriate to

disclose it was love at first sight. But it certainly was a great day for Morgan Park when Capt. Gray came and saw - and he and I took each other for better or worse.

Instead of attempting the eulogy which he so well merits and which you are expressing in your hearts, I am going to cite two incidents which are typical of the multitude you and I might present. My theme is, 'By their fruits ye shall know them.'

At mid-semester, we had this story from Harvard University: Jack Corrigan, M.P. class of 1940, winner of a national scholarship at Harvard, had taken his examination in math. The professor called Jack Corrigan in after the examination and asked, 'How do you explain your high grade in this examination? Your average grade is 93; your examination grade is 99. To my mind it must be due to one of three explanations. The first is that I must be soft and wrote an easy examination. This I will not admit.

The second is that you must be a brilliant student, which I think you will not admit.'

The two then agreed that it must the third possibility. 'And the third is,' the professor said, 'that in your preparatory school you must have had a - good teacher.'

Another one of Capt. Gray's qualities and one that is just as characteristic is shown by this incident: Last fall an alumnus of Morgan Park entered a distinguished university. A little later he lost his life in an automobile accident. Last Thursday I received this communication from his father: 'Dear Colonel: I understand that Morgan Park Military Academy alumni are planning a dinner during graduation to honor Capt. Gray.

I am thinking of one alumnus who greatly admired him and would have been anxious to share in any tribute to the man the boys all respect. The Captain is surely an important part of your fine institution and it is quite significant that alumni always flock to him when they return to school.'

Capt. Gray - you have enshrined yourself in the hearts of many cadets for the intellectual stimulus you have given them. Others have worked on a low level compared to their ability.

You have caused them to lift themselves to a higher level by means of the arts of the prods upon which you have a special patent. Others have had their special problems which you have joined in solving or carrying.

Capt. Gray - this is a time when we as individuals are giving our personal reactions toward you. May I add mine? In this I wish to include Mrs. Gray and Helen and Anna.

Among all the factors for good which you exert, the one which has the most influence upon me and has been of the greatest help to me is your absolute inherent honesty. You have been to me like the Rock of Gibraltar. I have sought your counsel; I have depended on your judgment.

It is your honesty which has been the foundation upon which your life at Morgan Park has been constructed.

Upon it is the superstructure of sincerity, understanding of boys, surgical operations on their indolence and careless habits when necessary; enjoyment of their athletics and the selfless giving of your time to them.

It is the foundation of honesty, and these consequent qualities which the boys appreciate in their hearts and which they know constitute the real Capt. Gray. They give you their respect, their trust, and they come to you for advice because you are their true friend.

Capt. Gray - you are one of the great teachers. On behalf of the trustees of Morgan Park Military Academy, and also Harry Abells, I salute you."

The tribute seems to have been the work of Haydn Jones.

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A snap-shot 01= MPMA in the 1950s

Roy Schoenbrod in 19 3 6 .

Another feature of lunch was mail call, usually conducted by Captain Gray and certain designated cadets - a privilege which Roy enjoyed during his senior year.

He was asked about Edna Miller, to whom the 1930 Skirmisher was dedicated. "She was lovely," Roy said with a fond smile. "Edna was in charge of the PX and she treated every cadet with a warm smile and a happy face ."

It was noted, too, that the set of Skirmishers Roy donated to the MPMA/MPA archives bore the Signatures of many, many cadets and teachers. "Getting autographs of everyone, especially teachers and upper classmen, was the thing to do," Roy explained, "and I remember 1936 when I didn't get them all until the final school meal before graduation."

Roy went to Camp Traverse, the summer camp conducted by Capt. Mayhew on 80 acres at Spider Lake, nine miles north of Traverse City, Michigan, for several long weekends in 1930. The entire venture (lodging, food and round-trip train fare) cost five dollars. Each new arrival at the camp was initiated by being tossed into the lake from a bridge. "I don't remember much about it," Roy said, "but they were kind enough, at least, to let me take my shoes off before they tossed me in."

Whirling Thunder, a Winnebago chief, accompanied the cadets to the camp. He did little wood carvings, charging twenty-five cents apiece and, on Friday nights, after Bible stories were read, he would show the cadets his skills at native dancing.

The 1932 eighth grade graduation was held, as usual, in the basement of West Hall. and Roy's aSSignment was to memorize and recite the second half of Longfellow's "Hiawatha." Bob Dempsey was assigned the first half. There was a declamation contest held each Spring. The first stage required everyone to memorize and recite a reading. The field was then narrowed to a dozen or so students. "The competition was intense," Roy said, "with elimination rounds, and I remember that Ted Liss was the winner. He really knew how to declaim."

The annual military Government Inspection (or "G.I." as it was more familiarly known by the cadets) was always an important event and Roy talked about his first one, in 1933.

"A visiting colonel, one of the inspectors, thrust a map at me and said, 'here, orient this.' I had no idea of what he was talking about," Roy admitted, "but I think I got through it in good shape somehow."

Roy was editor-in-chief of the 1935 Skirmisher, appointed to the post by advisor Hugh Price. "The juniors traditionally had responsibility for the year book and we all took it very

Roy Schoenbrod [36] remembers that mornings, in his first year at MPMA in 1929, began with bowls of cold water in the basement of West Hall.

The bowls of cold water for those morning ablutions were arranged on make-shift, long wooden tables, mounted on wooden saw-horses.

In the summer of 1930 decent bathrooms were installed and things were definitely

more civilized thereafter.

It was a time, too, when a cadet could readily name the day of the week by merely glancing at the meal to be served.

If it was chipped beef on toast, it must be Tuesday (and so on).

Cadet waiters were assigned to get trays and bowls from the kitchen and they were brought to tables graced with white table cloths and quarts of milk in orderly rows. There were ten people to a table, and lessons in manners were a regular feature of the meals.

Colonels Harry D. Abells and Haydn E. Jones, along with Maj. Bouma and various guests, sat at a round table near a set of microphones. Roy didn't pay much attention to the guests, but he does remember a French visitor - especially his beautiful daughter, Paulette.

Roy also recalls being assigned to Capt. Wade Woodworth's table for 1933-1934. Capt. Woodworth was the football coach and had been an All-American at Northwestern. He remembers his wife even better, however. "She was one of the most gorgeous women I ever saw," Roy said. "At lunch, once, as a prank, I unscrewed the top of the saltshaker. Mrs. Woodworth dumped it all over the table. She didn't say a word, but she must have known who did it. She calmly unscrewed the top of the pepper mill and dumped it all over my food!"

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seriously," Roy explained. "I spent the better part of a year nearby country club, who whined that his daughter should just carefully gathering scores from the various teams and I buy the house for him. We raised $5000 and he eventually wrote most of the text . Tom Bryant [36] did most of the bought his house. Captain Gray's stern-faced leadership was drawings, Capt. Taylor took the artistic something special, even when he threw division page photographs, and Jay chalk and his puttees at us!"

Blakeslee [36], a great salesman, sold a Roy received an architecture degree lot of ads as business manager." from the University of Pennsylvania and Roy, as editor-in-chief, could also eventually established his own architectural explain all of the somewhat mysterious and engineering firm, Schoenbrod and allusions in the book.

Associates.

The 1935 Skirmisher was dedicated, "I did all kinds of architecture," Roy for example, to "the memory of said. "My work was very eclectic." That Waldemer Carl Zinter... the personificawork included such things as a project in tion of Morgan Park spirit and ideals."

Paris and, in Chicago, four-flat buildings, Zintner died of a football injury. condominiums, high rises, warehouses and The "important business" that a food-processing plant.

Charles Goff [35] had to attend to in He and his wife, Barbara, celebrated Three Rivers was readily, and simply, their fifty-first wedding anniversary in explained: a girl friend.

November 2000, and though now retired, Roy also admitted to a senior prank he devotes a lot of his time to travelling or two. One was ringing the bell in Blake and volunteer work. Roy is a docent at the Hall (used exclusively for Signaling the Art Institute, a counsellor for Service Corps time to change classes) at two in the of Retired Executives, and a volunteer at the morning.

Johanna Bureau for the Blind and PhysiHis favorite memory about MPMA, cally Handicapped. He also was on the MPA The Skirmisher caricature of Roy. however, is something that happened board from 1989 to 1991. almost fifteen years after his graduation. "I had the plea"I shall always remember the Academy," he concluded, sure," Roy explained, "of serving as the chairman of the "as being the foundation for any success I may have had in committee to raise the money to permit Capt. Gray to buy life." his house. I remember being snubbed by the ladies of a Q

Leaving a Legacy -

Giving Thanks by Giving Back

Roy Schoenbrod has named Morgan Park Academy as a beneficiary of his estate plan.

He set up, with the help of estate planning profeSSionals, a Living Trust that ensures a lifelong income for him, his wife, and their three children. The estate will eventually be divided between MPA and three other beneficiaries.

Roy Schoenbrod did this because, as he explained, "this is a way for me to thank the Academy for all it has meant to me all my life and a way to honor the memory of my father, who sacrificed mightily in order to send me there."

He also spoke of the satisfaction of being able to make a much larger gift to the school

through the Living Trust than if he were to simply write a check. "My wife and I take great pleasure in knowing that sometime (not too soon, we hope!) in the future Morgan Park Academy will benefit by receiving a portion of our estate."

Creative estate planning helps families ensure the greatest benefit for heirs and avoids excessive taxes. It also makes it possible to produce a lasting impact on the charity of their choice.

If you are interested in finding out more about "leaving a legacy" to Morgan Park Academy, contact Bob Eichinger at the development office (773-881-5113).

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The June 2000 Commencement Address

Thomas Wolfe was wrong, wasn't he? by Robyne Robinson [79]

It had to be a mistake.

Me? Keynote speaker at an Academy graduation?

So I called my girl Jean Marie (that's ROBYNE ROBINSON Ms. DoyleBonnan, to you) and asked, "they do remember me, right?"

But she said, "yes, it was unanimous. The committee wants you to give the commencement address."

Weird.

I remember my graduation. Well, sort of. I slept through most of it.

I think if you took an exit poll of most high school graduates (as well as some faculty), you'd find that a large percentage couldn't tell you who the commencement speaker was, let alone what he talked about. I have no idea on either count. I mean, really - who cares about some fossil - correction brainiac fossil- who drones on and on about marching courageously into . the future while you're recovering from a week of proms and parties? All I could focus on was getting that piece of paper, returning the cap and gown, and getting the heck outta Dodge.

And that's exactly what I did. No hanging around to sign year books, no teary farewells. I was ready for what was out there, and didn't look back.

That's why it was such a surprise that MPA wanted me to speak at graduation.

So I sat and thought about it for a while. What could I say? And what could I say that wouldn't incriminate the ones I love that returned to MPA? "You cannot talk about the things

we did in high school," warned Jean Doyle, who is now a respectable fifth grade teacher. Jean, in fact, reminds me of a great old movie (with Rosalind Russell and Hayley Mills) called The Trouble with Angels. It is about a devilish student at an all-girls convent school who gets into wild situations, to the eternal frustration of the nuns. But in the end, she sees the beauty of the nun's lives and becomes one herself. Okay, maybe that's reaching. But having the prodigal daughter of MPA return home gave me food for thought.

I've often asked myself: If my life were a movie, would it be one of God's favorite picks? Would He kick back one night with some popcorn and a Coke and pop in The Story of My Life? And when the movie ends and He puts the videotape back on the shelf with the billions of other movies in His collection, would He smile and say, "that was a damned good movie?"

If I want the "two-thumbs-up" on my life, I know its up to me to make it happen. So, I've tried to make my life an adventure. One that is full of color and passion, kindness and generosity.

Exciting, too. A road map of sights, sounds, people, and places.

And I have to say... what a long, strange trip it's been.

There's no speech I can write that can really tell you, prepare you, for what's out there waiting for you.

Everyone's experience is different for different reasons. And it was so hard, finding the right words that can express that. I can't even remember the speech I was going to make, to tell you the truth.

Just remember this: don't collect bad Karma. Be brilliant in whatever you do. Don't let work define who

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you are. You get back the respect you give. Challenge yourself in the worst of situations. Kiss someone in the rain. Be a good friend. Tell your family you love them, even when they make you crazy. Keep good credit. Have an open mind. Exercise regularly. Floss.

Be who you are.

Remember all that, and you can sleep through any graduation.

And remember the Academy for all that it was. Because I've learned you can always go home again. Even if you were a difficult student. Ask Barry Kritzberg.

Robyne, in her MPA days.

Vote early, vote ot=ten There was one election, at least, where the choice was clear-cut, the voting decisive, and where one didn't have to wait until after midnight (or next week) to find out the winner.

The great question - pizza or hot dogs? - was put on the ballot in Norine Morrison's kindergarten class at Morgan Park Academy as the five-year-olds were given their first lesson in the democratic process.

The students registered, cast their ballots in secret (behind a faded bath towel strung on a clothesline in a corner of the room) and deposited their ballots before the watchful eyes of five-year-o ld poll watchers.

The ballots were counted in the presence of all the voters and, although there was some drama early as pizza and hot dogs tallied two each, pizza surged ahead and went on to an easy 8-4 victory.

It seems that even five-year-olds, however, are already crafty about revealing their preferences to pesky exit-poll takers .

One pollster, on the basis of his informal (and, it goes without saying, quite unscientific) exit poll, had predicted a unanimous victory for pizza. But who remembers, on the day after the election, what the polls had predicted?

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Generation x, the nlillenniunI generation, and cOnlnlunity service by Julie Cuadros

tion finds a permanent place for service in their lives. I hope they will see that service does not exist simply to add a line to that transcript or resume, but because they will feel genuinely exalted by helping others.

MPA has been discussing the potential benefits of a service requirement. Some think that enforcing a requirement destroys the purpose of service (this was also a hotlydebated topiC at the conference in Ohio). On the other hand, if service is not required or a part of the curriculum (as in a class), how do we fit service into students already jampacked day?

Some schools at the conference celebrated the impact required service had on apathetic or disinterested students.

Serving others, it was argued, had ignited something inside those children otherwise unreachable.

It is undeniable that children in independent schools are, on the whole, more privileged. Getting involved in service - looking beyond themselves into a world that is filled with poverty, homelessness, environmental disasters and the like - and understanding that their actions make a difference is true education.

These are some key elements, I learned at the conference, of making service learning effective at independent schools: * Making sure that students feel empowered to take on responsibility for the projects they participate in; this includes having a strong student voice in the selection of projects. * Designing well-organized projects that achieve the goals set by the students and the community in a way that makes the service reciprocal: we not only give to others but we get something out of giving to others. * Incorporating service into our curriculum so that it is in line with our mission statement; service should coincide with students' daily lives. * Including the WHOLE school in our service: faculty, staff, administrators and parents! * Celebrating our service: reflection on our work is key to the whole process of performing service; children get more out of service when they are free to talk about how they feel before, during, and after the service is performed.

The ACT club is up and running at MPA. We have partiCipated in "Share Your Soles," an all-school effort that collected 608 pairs of shoes for needy children in Appalachia. Although we only had three days to collect shoes, this drive was obviously a huge success. Our fall project was a canned food drive for the Maple/Morgan Park Food Pantry through the Mother's Club "Simple Gifts" program (we collected over 800 cans and also made monetary donations to the pantry). In the winter, we "adopted" fourteen children from Grainger Hall, a shelter for homeless families and

The so-called "millennium generation" (the children of babyboomers, born roughly after 1976) seems to be more respectful and mindful than the preceding "generation X" - that eclectic, rebellious crowd where each seems to follow the beat of a different drummer.

Such, at least, was the consensus of a recent a National Public Radio program which discussed the two JULIE CUADROS groups.

The gen-X'ers, in my view, seem overly preoccupied with the Internet and the stock market, too excited by the prospect of making their first million by age 30 - not particularly admirable.

What impressed me about the millennium generation, as characterized by NPR, was the degree to which they participate in community service. While gen-Xers generally see service as a punishment for misconduct, the millennium generation sees service as a responsibility.

As the advisor for the new community service club at Morgan Park Academy, appropriately named ACT (Acting in the Community Together), I am buoyed up by this news.

I was asked to attend, as advisor of this new organization, a community service conference, sponsored by the Council for Spiritual and Ethical Education (CSEE) at the Laurel School in Shaker Heights, Ohio.

The conference, What Are We Doing and Where Are We Going? Sustaining Service Programs That are Integral To Our School's Mission and Direction, was led by Charis Denison, CSEE's community service consultant and community service learning/project coordinator at the Urban School of San Francisco. The conference was attended by teachers, administrators and full-time service-learning coordinators from independent schools all over the country.

I learned that service learning is part of the curriculum at many independent schools because it is usually a large part of independent schools' missions to wholly educate children. The goal, in other words, is not merely to have students pass AP exams (which seems to have become the focus at too many schools) but also make them active participants in their community.

If what NPR suggested about the millennium generation is true, this group of kids will become the most wellrounded, selfless generation yet!

Morgan Park Academy's commitment to community service is woven into every word of our mission statement.

We seek to cultivate children who do not simply watch the world go by, but take on the responsibility of addressing what ails SOCiety. It is my hope that the millennium genera-

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families in transition on the west side of Chicago. As a school community, we collected over $750 to buy Christmas presents for each child. We far surpassed our goal of $350 and were able to spend the extra money on 25 toys and games for other needy children.

More recently, in a joint effort with the middle school, nearly $800 was collected for victims of the India earthquake.

Spring activities included a March of Dimes walk and additional Habitat for Humanity work.

The remaining four projects for the year will be selected by the teams of ACT student leaders: * Helping The Environment Team: Pooja Merai [04], Aby Truneh[03], Michael Salerno [02]. * Helping The Needy Team: Nishith Pandya [02], Greg Floyd[03], Amelia Rogers [04], Bridget Costin [04], Poonam Merai [03]. * Helping the Elderly Team: Brie Yaksic [02], Kate Costin [02] , Nuha Krad [02]. * Helping the Inner City Team: Milda Plioplys [03], Camille Reynolds [02], Shaneah Taylor [01] , Melissa Tribue [01], Christine Linnerud [01], Tialyr Winters [01].

How to choose your community service: (taken from the Icare Guide to Chicago/and Charities & Non-Profit Organizations) 1. Choose an organization you believe in. The most dedicated supporters of an organization usually to some extent identify with its mission. Whether you're choosing to help improve education, the environment, children'S issues or animal rights, your attachment to an organization will affect your level of participation.

This process of furthering your personal beliefs lends to a very fulfilling and lasting experience for you and the organization involved.

2. Choose an organization that has helped someone you know. Maybe you had a friend or relative who received assistance from a local agency when a basement flooded, or a child with a health condition who received the needed care because of medical research or treatment. The work of many organizations directly affects our lives in a number of ways you wouldn't expect. Your involvement with these organizations is a way to support friends or relatives while showing your gratitude.

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3. Choose an organization in your community. By helping a nonprofit organization in your local community you are making an investment in two ways: 1) your involvement benefits an organization in need; 2) your participation helps make your community a better place to live in by supporting your neighbors, local infrastructure, etc. It is important to note that some organizations offer programs in your community even though their administrative offices may be located in a completely different neighborhood.

4. Choose an organization to enhance your [future] career: Perhaps you [want to be] a lawyer and you want to support legal rights of underprivileged people, or you [want to be] in the real estate business and you want to improve housing opportunities for the needy; involvement with a related organization can truly enhance your [future] career. It can help you make the necessary contacts while building your level of experience. As far as a resume builder, work experience with a nonprofit organization usually makes a positive statement about you as a person, which may open up future job opportunities. Besides the merits of enhancing your career, these experiences also will contribute to your own personal growth!

Geeta Shah [02} and Meg Allison [02} painting on an ACT Habitat project.

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The final answer is, well, right!

MVP: Eric Kelly Eric Kelly [01] has the Michael Jordan work ethic.

Over the summer, he daily shot one hundred freethrows, twohundred jump shots, lifted weights, and ran two miles.

Jared Bell, a first grader at MPA, knew the answer to the $500,000 question, but the adults around him were skeptical.

He and his family were watching Regis Philbin's television quiz show, Who wants to be a millionaire?

The contestant was asked, "What musical instrument was used to represent the wolf in Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf?" A cool half-million dollars was

And his hard-work paid off nicely.

Eric averaged 24.7 pOints and 13.6 rebounds per game to lead the MPA boys to 2nd place in the ISL with an 8-4 record (17-11 overall). He led the ISL in scoring (717 points) and rebounds (395) and finished his MPA career with the rare distinction of scoring more than 1,000 points in his four varsity seasons, finishing with 1,449.

He scored only 33 pOints as a freshman, but garnered 341 as a sophomore and made the ISL second-team all conference. As a junior, he scored 358 and was firstteam all conference.

In his senior year, all the hard-work was translated into honor after honor: alltournament team at Mt. Carmel and Lincolnway, ISL all-conference again, and, finally, most valuable player in the Independent School League.

riding on the answer.

The contestant looked puzzled. He wasn't sure he wanted to risk an answer.

Jared then stunned the adults in the room by blurting out: "I know the answer. It's the French horn!"

Skepticism turned to amazement as Regis Philbin announced that the correct answer was, indeed, the French horn.

Jared's mother, upper school English teacher Sherry Grutzius, asked how he knew the answer.

"Oh," Jared replied, "Mrs. Hoff-Nolan taught us that in music last year."

If you ever find yourself on Regis Philbin's quiz show and are stumped by a musical question, you might want to take Jared Bell's telephone number as your life-line.

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Visions of dancing snowflakes "Are Snowflakes Ballerinas," a poem by Lauren Robinson, a fifth grader at MPA, will be included in Nature's Echoes, a volume of poems that a panel of judges selected from submissions to the International Open Poetry Contest competition.

The contest,' sponsored by Montel Williams and the Library of Congress, had no age limits.

Lauren, who has a passion for ballet, expressed a sense of wonder about the world of nature and the world of dance by linking them with a metaphor. Perhaps her idea for the poem, consciously or unconsciously, came from the dance of the snowflakes in Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker ballet.

This is her poem:

Are Snowflakes ballerinas?

Are snowflakes ballerinas dancing from the sky?

Glistening and sparkling, going by and by.

Twinkling and dancing unto a blanket of white.

Oh, what a beautiful sight!

So, I ponder in my sleep.

In the cold so very deep.

Are snowflakes ballerinas dancing from the sky?

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Th.ee-thousand, t""o-hund.ed and seventy-eight

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1,165 3,278 is a big number, a lot of points, and it represents the cumulative total of three seniors on the MPA girls basketball team. For the first time in the history of girls basketball at MPA, three members of the same team scored more than a thousand paints in their careers. The only other MPA player to break the 1000-point barrier was Kate Kozac. Christine Linnerud had 1,165, Jackie Mortimer 1,062, and Shaneah Taylor, 1,05l.

Linnerud and Mortimer (although injured for part of the season) played significant roles as freshmen on a team that was 4-12 in the ISL and 913 overall. Linnerud led the team in rebounding (255), steals (108), freethrow percentage (.609), total paints (289), and highest average (13.1) .

Mortimer, although playing in only 12 games, topped the squad with 29 three-pointers. Taylor did not playas a freshman .

As sophomores, with an improved record of 6-10 in the ISL 10-12 overall, Linnerud (14.9 paints per game) and Mortimer (13 .0) were the 1-2 scorers on the team. Linnerud repeated as leader in rebounds (189), steals (77), and total paints (327). Mortimer was credited with 49 of the 70 three pointers the team made that season.

Shaneah Taylor scored 99 points in 20 games in her first season with the team .

1,051 In 1999-2000, when the three girls were juniors, MPA had its first winning season in over a decade, 6-6 in the ISL and 14-10 overall. Mortimer led the team in three-pointers (56) for the third season in a row; Linnerud again led in rebounds (262) and tied with Taylor for the lead in steals (93) .

Taylor, finding her touch, led in freethrow percentage (.620), total points (484) and average paints per game (20.2) .

The following season, as seniors, the team finished second in the ISL with an 8-4 mark and ended the season with a 19-7 record . It was the winningest season in the history of MPA girls basketball. The team placed fifth in the Luther South Christmas tournament and won the Thanksgiving Invitational, hosted by MPA. Their record, over four years, was 52-42.

It was Mortimer leading in threepointers (71) for the fourth year in a row. She also had the best free-throw percentage for the season (.636).

Linnerud, for the fourth successive season, topped the squad in rebounds (247) and steals (104), Taylor, in her dash to the thousand mark, led allscorers with 462 points and a 19.3 points per game average.

The trio's four-year marks - aside from that 1000 point mark - are equally impressive. Mortimer made

205 three-pointers in her career and also posted 235 assists. Linnerud had 509 field goals (10 of which were three-pointers), 953 rebounds, 382 steals, and 123 blocked shots.

There were two other seniors on that team who played all four years, Tialyr Winters and Carol Harewood.

They didn't post fancy statistics, but contributions to a team's success can't always be measured by numbers .

There must have been some reason why all five seniors - Jackie Mortimer, Tialyr Winters, Christine Linnerud, Shaneah Taylor and Carol Harewood-served as captains for the 2000-2001 season.

"It has been a real pleasure to have coached Jackie, Shaneah, Christine, Tialyr and Carol for the past four years, "said Coach Tom Drahozal. "I am very proud of the effort and commitment they have displayed on and off the basketball court. The success we have had as a team is due to their hard work. Jackie, Shaneah and Christine have each had remarkable individual accomplishments and they all took different paths to reach the 1,000 point mark, but the truly remarkable fact is that they achieved these individual marks while always managing to play within the concept of a team. "

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A son, Joshua Dale Ralston, was born November 20,2000 to Coach Dale Ralston and wife Janet.

Morgan Park Academy turns up, sometimes, in unexpected places.

In the "Events You Won't Want to Miss" section of Midwest Living (August 1999), MPA was definitely one of the places to be.

The Music Under the Stars program, held on the campus of MPA, was compared to the more widelyknown Ravinia Festival of Highland

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Park, Illinois.

Readers of Midwest Living were invited to bring picnic suppers and sit on blankets (as at Ravinia) and enjoy a concert of big-band standards presented by the Dick Judson Orchestra.

The MPA concert was billed as (what else?) a "mini-Ravinia."

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An invitation to join the fun by Jean Doyle [79], president of the Alumni Association evening are wonderful opportunities to see old friends and meet new ones.

Just revisiting the campus is enough, for some, to start the many hilarious stories flowing.

Sunday brunch downtown at Butch McGuire's [48] is a great way to cap off the weekend.

We have all had wonderful times at the past few homecomings, and I know it would be even better if more of you could join us.

The classes of 1941, 1961, and 1981 are planning their 60, 40th, and 20th anniversary reunions.

But you don't have to wait for reunions. One of the alumni association's primary purposes is to help people get in contact with friends from their Academy days.

Let us be of service to you!

With the expansion Internet use, it is so much easier to be in contact. Thanks to Alan Bruno [64] and Doc Brown, we will soon have an interactive Alumni site for people to make those contacts.

Alumni events are being coordinated through Bob Eichinger, of the development office, and if you would like to set up a gathering of friends from your time at MPA, please get in touch with him. Call him (773-881-6700), or write him (MPA, 2153 W. 111th St., Chicago, IL 60643), or send him an e-mail (reichinger@morganparkacademy.org).

We would love to hear your stories or ideas from you on how we can gather more alumni together. Please get in touch, and keep in touch.

When I was a student here, I never anticipated that my life would be so closely woven with this school. I'm sure some of those who knew me during my time as a student might still wonder about it.

Others may wonder how a person could stay in one place and not go mad with the sameness of it all. I can tell you that the beauty of the sameness is that it is ever changing. Elaine Gillies and I were discussing that very pOint the other day and we agreed it is one of the best parts of being at MPA for a long time. There is nothing quite like the pleasure of watching children grow and mature over time. We have had the fun of teaching all of the children in one family, several times over. I have had the thrill of seeing children (who were in kindergarten when I began teaching here) head off to college. I teach them in 5th grade, and see many of them again in the upper school plays. Many of my former students are now fellow alumni.

I also have the pleasure of teaching the children of alums I once knew from school. I have come to know them

Time flies quickly at Morgan Park Academy.

I was a student here for four years, did my student teaching here, and now am completing my thirteenth year of teaching here. It is still truly fun and new.

I loved being a student here and I love being a teacher here because of the wonderful educational atmoJEAN DOYLE sphere at Morgan Park Academy.

People continue to grow and learn here, as they have done for a very long time.

I know I received a tremendous boost at MPA, and I do my best every day to carryon the tradition of excellence.

There was and is something about the educational system at MPA that provides kids with basic skills and self-confidence to succeed in life.

For the past two years, in addition, it has been my honor to serve as the President of the MPMAjMPA Alumni Association. Among the alumni association's greatest rewards are becoming reacquainted with the wonderful people I knew from my own time here, and getting to know graduates from other classes.

One amazing thing I've found is that, no matter what era, there is a common thread that unites the MPMAjMPA alumni. What is that quality? Could it be a fine mind and a keen interest in life? Could it be a sense of humor that makes even a simple gathering festive? Whatever it is, every gathering I've attended with MPA graduates has sparkled with something of these qualities. The feelings of camaraderie and understanding, liberally seasoned with humor and fun, have permeated all of these gatherings.

The alumni association would love to see more people join us, because there really is something excellent to share by returning to these "hallowed halls," or visiting with some old dear friends, wherever you might be.

Homecoming would be a great place to get reacquainted with your MPMAjMPA past. It is growing into a weekendlong, delightful event. Set aside some time on the weekend of October 6-7-8th, 2001. I can attest, from past experience, that it will be a fine time.

On the Friday before homecoming (October 6th this year), we have a gathering on campus, to especially welcome people from out of town.

The pancake breakfast Saturday morning, the soccer match that follows, and the dinner in Alumni Hall that

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Being an active member of t his association has brought many new and old friends into my life, and it has truly been a pleasure. I hope you'll give it a try, if you haven't before.

To those of you whom I've come to know through the association: see you for some campus tours at homecoming!

I can tell you there is still a very wonderful quality about the people who gravitate toward MPA. But don't just take my word for it. Come see for yourself.

in another whole phase of their evolution. Needless to say, one grows to care a great deal for these children and their families.

As my term as president of the alumni association draws to a close, I appeal to those of you who have been away from our school for a while: join in the celebration of homecoming, or to join us in any of the other events we have scheduled throughout the year.

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Classes of 2000 and 2010 share first reunion

Twenty-five young alumni attended the first annual "Post -Thanksgiv ing Receptio n " on Friday, November

Twelve members of the Class of 2000 returned to MPA on January 11 to participate in a question-and-answer session with upper school students. The graduates also paid a visit to the lower school and met their newest e-mail buddies. Last fall, the third grade students (Class o f 2010)

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24, 2000 at Joe Bailly's Restaurant. Tiffany Lis Insalaco [95] and Kathleen Driscoll [MS91] provided the inspiration and planning leadership for this event. With a goal to reach out to young alumni and to reconnect with middle school graduates, invitation postcards were sent to members of the classes of 1988 through 1996.

The date of the next gathering is Friday, November 23, 2001.

assembled and mailed care packages to the new college freshmen and swapped e-mail addresses. Each package contained a hand-made bookmark, MPA mouse pad, snack foods, and a host of dorm goodies. A handful of lucky children got to meet their e-pals face to face when the graduates dropped in on Ms. Arnold's and Ms. Chapan's classes. Big smiles all around were proof of the success of the project, which we hope is just the beginning of a long and fruitful friendship.

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Reunions

for an weekend of good food, good company and entertainment. Over 100 alumni and guests participated in the weekend that began Friday afternoon with a "Welcome Back" reception at the meeting house and was followed by a 50s sock hop in the upstairs gym with a live band that kept alumni of all ages dancing until midnight. Saturday's catered dinner featured a presentation of MPA facts and trivia by Barry Kritzberg, MPA teacher and archivist, and a video presentation assembled by Michael Wojtyla, MPA's technology coordinator. The final course for the weekend was a delicious brunch hosted by Butch McGuire [48], at his popular downtown tavern. Alumni from as far back as 1946 and as recent as 1995 participated in the weekend's events.

Another great weekend of activities is being planned for Reunion 2001. Mark your calendars and plan to attend.

Write, email or call your classmates and put together a group to join the fun. For information, or to help plan activities, contact Bob Eichinger in the Development/Alumni Relations office at (e-mail: reichinger@morganparkacademy.org) or (773) 881-5113.

40th Reunion of MPA/Loring Class of 1961/1962 Join classmates from 1961 and 1962 for a summer weekend reunion on July 21-22, 2001. The weekend 's festivities include a cocktail reception at the Academy on Saturday afternoon, and dinner at the Silver Lake Country Club in Orland Park. A Sunday brunch is scheduled at Butch McGuire's [48] downtown restaurant. Watch your mail for invitations. For information, please contact Ed Rund at (847) 729-7570 (e-mail: akrillx@interaccess.com) or Bob Eichinger in the MPA Development/Alumni Relations office at (773) 881-5113 (email: reichinger@morganparkacademy.org).

20th Reunion ofMPA Class of 1981 Tentatively scheduled for June 9, 2001. Contact Mike Flanagan at (847) 955-0175 (email: mflanagan@Vacala.com) .

MPMA/MPA/Loring All-School Reunion October 5-7,2001 Alumni Hall lived up to its name at Reunion 2000, when a host of graduates from Morgan Park Military Academy, Morgan Park Academy, and Loring School for Girls gathered

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Alumni Calendar of Events Saturday, June 9, 2001

Graduation 2001 Class of 1981, 20th Year Reunion

July 21-22,2001

Class of 1961, 40th Year Reunion

October 5-7, 2001

MPMA/MPA/Loring All-School Reunion

November 23,2001

Young Alumni Post-Thanksgiving Gathering Joe Bailly's Restaurant

December 29,2001

Annual Alumni Basketball Game

Meetings

Open to all alumni - held at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesdays, according to the following schedule at the meeting house on 111 th Street: June 12, August 14, October 9 and December 12, 2001.

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Alumni Briefs by Sandy Williams

Willialll Boehlll [37] would love to hear from any 1937 classmates. "I live about 2 miles north of Mt. Vernon. A quiet existence, primarily due to advancing years. Avocations are tournament bridge and golf, neither of which I excel at."

Charles F. Bacon [38] writes: After retiring from Sears as Corporate VP for Personnel and Labor Relations, I retired to Hilton Head, South Carolina. I am active in the local Homeowners Associations and play golf about 5 days a week. Still in touch with Irwin Martin, Bob Waggoner, Dick Duchossois and of course my brother, Mel. II

Mary Ellen Stoeber Richards [40] would love to hear from other Loring/ MPMA graduates of that era . You can write her at P.O. Box 41, East Wakefield, N.H. 03830.

Charles R. Carner [41] reports that he is up to lithe same thing, working on 5 books at present - one of which Harrison Ford has indicated an interest in turning into film. It's about flying - he's an avid pilot."

Ed Kelly [41] also vividly remembers his role in the 1939 Culver game where MPMA clinched the Midwest Conference

started this nation's Ballistic Missiles and Space Programs. We were invited guests of the Commander of the 14th Air Force, Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA. It was a base that we, the 'Old Timers' (as we are called), had selected as the nation's first operational ICBM missile base. Our 'boss,' 4-star General Bernard A. Schriever, celebrated his 90th birthday during the reunion. "

championship [see

Academy Magazine, November 2000]. MPMA had driven down to the Culver 15-yard-line, when the Warriors quarterback tossed a pass into the flat which was picked off by a Culver defender, with 85yards of daylight in front of him. Kelly caught him from behind and preserved the shut-out for MPMA. As he tells it: "I was all the way on the other side of the field, at about the Culver IS, but I turned and chased the runner down-field and caught him at about our 25. As we fell together, two of his blockers tumbled on top of us. Some of our guys thought I had broken my neck, but thank God I didn't. I was knocked-out, however, and did suffer a concussion. But Culver didn't score."

Robert D. Blew [43] retired from American Steel Foundries, Granite City, Illinois, where he was a mechancial engineer in the test development laboratories. His hobby is woodworking, and he is enjoying retirement.

Paul E. Byron [46] writes: "I thoroughly enjoyed attending the AllClass Reunion in October 2000. I drove in from Virginia to attend and it was well worth it. It was great to see the campus again after 54 years. It was also wonderful to see such a great reclaiming of the Academy's history and tradition. The alumni present were fantastic. It was really great to see Bob Scardon there from my class. I would sure love to hear from any other of my class members. My e-mail is PHOTOG4X6@aol.com.

Philip Freund [42] is living in partial retirement, but teaching part-time at The John Dewey Academy in Barrington, MA. "I use tales of Capt. Gray," he writes, lito let the youngsters know how easy on them I am! I have two children: Dimitri, 29, and Christina, 27, and that makes a happy family of four people."

Charles W. Getz [42] says: "We just hosted a reunion of the small cadre of Air Force officers who

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Louis J. Kole [48] Virginia Hess Kole [49] have 3 daughters: Karen, professor of law at ValparaiSO University; Kathy, a teacher in Phoenix, Arizona; and Kim, a teacher in Gainesville, Florida. There are five 5 grand children, the eldest at the University of Michigan, and the other 4 "are growing bigger and sweeter." They spend the winter months in Phoenix, Arizona and Virginia substitutes in schools in Chicago and Phoenix.

Jack Kwan [48] spent two months in China in 1999 on projects for the General Motors Corporation.

Billy R. Westgard [48], according to Frank Flynn [48], has expressed interest in working on an MPMA reunion in the Southeast.

Barry Colelllan [49] was

honored as the Texas pharmacist of the year in 1998.

Ronald E. Seavoy [49] has retired, a second time, from the department of business economics and public policy at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, Bloomington.

He is the author of several books, including most recently, A New Exploration

Robert E. Hartman [54] is in semi-retirement, but does a little work at North Star, Indiana. He has enjoyed fishing in the Columbia River and on the Oregon coast and is building a home in Palm Desert, California.

of the Canadian Arctic.

Mark C. Klein [55] has just celebrated his 42nd anniversary with his high school(Longwood Academy) sweetheart, Carole Stumpf. He is the owner of Computer Media Technolgies, in Silicon Valley, but his children now operate the business.

He flies a WWII trainer, plays golf, and collects classic cars as a hobby. He has been in touch with classmates Dick Novak, John Scheuneman and S. Ward "Stubby" Hamilton.

John R. Sadd [51] writes: "It was fascinating to read Greg Gentleman's article [Academy Magazine, May 2000] about the early history of MPMA and the role of Col. Jones and my great uncle, Col. Abells.

There was no mention in the article about two of the best teachers I experienced at MPMA, George Mahon (physics) and Gene Marshall (chemistry).

Perhaps MPMA had entered a decline by the time I entered in 1947, but I found myself very well prepared for college physics and chemistry a few years later. It was not so in math, however. But I am grateful to Capt. Gray, for my math woes got me out of engineering and into pre-med!"

Jack Fehlandt [53] writes: "My home inspection business continues to flourish as I serve my clients throughout the metro Chicago six-plus county area. I am starting to reduce my workload a little more each quarter to wind down as my spouse is soon retiring from the Village of Streamwood.

Joanne Wiegel Meier [57] writes: "I am so out of touch it is embarrassing! I have not lived in the U.S. since 1961, when I graduated from Colorado College and went to Bangkok to teach English at the International School. That led to my marrying a Swiss and, since 1964 (except for two years in Hong Kong) I have lived near Geneva, Switzerland. I have a son and married daughter who live in California. I visit the U.S., but rarely Chicago."

Jerry D. Bowden [57] writes: "I have been retired since June, 1993. I taught chemistry and mathematics at A. B. Shepard High School, Palos Heights."

Edward P. Haney [58] is Operations Manager for Lockheed Martin Surface Towed Array Sonar System (SURTASS). He manages crews and operations of eight T-Agos and one research vessel and travels extensively throughout the Far East and Europe. He has been married for 39 years, and has two daughters and three grandsons.

He retired from the USN after 30 years.

EdJarabek [56] and Jim Vesely [57] are looking for lost members of the ZETA fraternity for a possible reunion. Anyone who knows the whereabouts of fraternity brothers, please contact: Jim Vesely 144 Mariquita Lane Corrales, NM 87048 505-898-0048 jves@worldnet.att.net -or-

Michael D. McClure [60] says: "I am retired and have moved to West Lafayette to be near my two sons. We also have a family farm, which has been in our family since 1826."

Ed Jarabek 12828 Terrace Lane Crestwood, IL 60445 708-389-2138 jori@ync.net

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Eric M. Gustavson [61] retired from the U.S. Army Reserves recently after three decades of service.

He was sergeant major for the deputy chief of staff, resource management, headquarters 86th United States Army Reserve Command, Forest Park, IL.

Ron Pearce [61] writes: "My wife Carol and I have been realtors with Century 21 for 17 years. We have 4 children and 3 grandchildren. My parents are both gone now, but I often thank God that they had the foresight and generosity to send me to MPMA/ MPA. I know it's made a huge positive difference in my life."

John M. Stack [61] reports: "I have built an indoor Golf Learning Center for Women and children golfers. Finally, regular practice, but busy.

Hi to all. Big John."

Richard E.Jennings [63] is still running Smithereen Exterminating Company Family Pest Control business. He is also still racing

sailboats, and had with an overall win in the Chicago to Mackinac Race in 1999 and an overall win in the Port Huron to Mackinac Race in 2000.

John Hooks [65] executive search firm, John R. Hooks and Associates of Chicago, has expanded over the last several years by establishing associates in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, Denver, Detroit, Cleveland, Columbus, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Boston, and Atlanta. He is married and has three teenage children.

His e-mail: SearchSPC@aol.com.

Wally Washington [66] writes that demilitarization was not the end of football at the Academy (see Academy Magazine, November 2000): liAs a bench warmer on Academy football teams in the mid60s, I can assure you that MPA was still a football powerhouse. The Academy consistently finished near the top of its league, and frequently beat significantly larger schools by impressive margins. The football program in the 60s, in fact, was doing fine."

Barbara Glatt [69] owns Glatt Plagiarism Service (www.plagiarism.com) , based in Chicago, which has been marketing disputed authorship software to academic institutions around the

world for a decade. She would love to hear from any alumni (E-mail: drglatt@plagiarism.com).

Ice Hockey camp with the whole crew in New Hampshire again. 4) classics seminars in New Mexico at St. John's College (where I am on the Board) with wife and two children and 5) Three weeks with all in West Virginia."

Donald Coller [70] was appointed director of football operations at Purdue University in August 2000, just in time to serve as a university liaison with the Rose Bowl Committee in Pasadena.

Cristina R. Nelson [72] reports: "I am still working on my dissertation on US women, 1940-1970 but plans to be on the academic job market soon. I am teaching women's studies to UNC - Chapel Hill undergraduates. My children Sam (11) and Cecily (15) are doing very well. Sam is in public middle school and Cecily is in a small Quaker high school nearby."

Robert Crist [70] says: "Hi to all my classmates who celebrated our 30th year. Man, we are getting old. If you are ever in Arizona, I would love to hear from you. I had a nice talk with Jeff Fry recently and saw Gus Kumis recently also; both are doing great. Anybody in the market for an RV? Call me.

James Coston [73], a lifetime train buff, was appointed to a thee year term (expiring in 2003) on the Amtrack Reform Council, which monitors the performance of the passenger railroad.

Jeff R. Unger [70] and wife Lisa have welcomed child number 4, Gracie, into the world. Thanks to Gracie, Jeff is addicted to Barney and Telletubbies.

Jeff, a doctor, has delivered 3 out of his 4 children!

Don W. Norton [73] and his wife live in Macomb, Illinois. They have two children; Donnie (16) and Chris (13). They own Mediacall Marketing and Advertising - a full service advertising agency with clients throughout the Midwest. Don also teaches Communications at Monmouth College.

Lauri Mikael Salovaara [71] became chairman of Bernardsville, NJ public library board just in time to open a new $4.2 million library. "We spent the summer of 2000," he writes, "in states with two names: 1) New Hampshire; 25th College Reunion at Dartmouth with wife Beth and five children in June.

2) Home in New Jersey. 3)

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Eileen Strenk Hofstetter [76] writes: liMy husband, Michael, has just been appOinted to the position of Director of Sales of Restaurant and Institutional Products for the Arden Corporation.

Our family will be moving to Farmington, Michigan after our oldest son graduates from high school."

David A. Jones [78] reports: "I am still practicing law at Boyer, Ewing & Harris in Houston. Suzie is in Human Resources with Shell, working part-time.

We stay busy with soccer, Cub Scouts, tennis, and swimming with DJ (7 years old) and Katelyn (4 1/2 years old). We recently flew back to Palo Alto with friends to watch Stanford whip the UT Longhorns.

Paula Newsome [79], appeared in the season premier of the television prime-time series, ER, in October 2000.

Robyne Robinson [79], television anchor in Minnepaolis, was honored for her many contributions to the Lupus Foundation, May 6, 2000.

Paul Chronis [82] says: "I am a partner with the international law firm of McDermitt, Will & Emery where I specialize in commercial litigation and business counseling. I am married to Stacey, an attorney for Abbot Pharmaceuticals."

Karen Anderson Doornebos [83], husband Jacques and son Remy welcome the birth of

James c. Correll [84] reports: "Our first child was born September 11, 2000. Elizabeth Iole Correll weighed 9 lbs. 12 oz., and was 21 inches long.

Gregory Coleman [91] writes: "I am a captain, currently serving as a pilot in the US Air Force. I am a KC-I0 aircraft commander who, in the last 4 years, has flown all over the world. My missions have included combat and combat support sorties in the Persian Gulf and the Balkans. I currently reside in New Jersey, just outside of Philadelphia. E-mail: @erols.com.

Daniela Ford Silaides [94] reports: "Nothing much is going on. I am in my second year of law school at DePaul.

I look forward to hearing from and seeing members of my class.

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Kina Carisse GrayCHette [85] is the medical director of Greenwich House, Inc. in New York, New York.

Samanatha Rose, August 4, 2000.

Mary Vallortigara Andersen [83] writes: liMy husband and I recenly celebrated the birth of our fourth child and first girl: Elizabeth Terese Andersen, born June 27, 2000.

Elizabeth's three brothers are crazy over their little sister and so are we."

Andrew Akers [87] was married to Alison Bennett Bantz in St. George's School Chapel, Newport, Rhode Island, July I, 2000.

The Rev. Meredith Presbrey officated. The bride is the daughter of Judith Wilson of Barrington. The bridegroom is the son of Donald Akers and Barbara Akers of Chicago. Attending the bride were Heather Elaine Bardley and Susan Kate Furneaux. The bridegroom's attendants were Elizabeth Akers [90] and Stephen Akers [85].

The bride graduated from Scripps College, Calif., and received a master's degree from the Rhode Island School of Design. She is employed by Providence Country Day School. The bridegroom graduated from Bradley University and The Art Institute of Chicago. He is employed

by ExNihilo, Providence.

They visited the Berkshires on their honeymooon and live in Providence.

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Elizabeth Boyd [96] married Michael Reid Pernat in November 2000.

They will live in Westlake, Ohio.

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Ryan Cox [98] is a junior at Millikin University, earning a double degree in vocal performance and business management. He is on the dean's list, with a GPA of 3.9. He plays second doubles on the varsity tennis team, is currenlty the vice-president of Phi Mu alpha (the men's music fraternity) and the vp of the University Choir (Millikin's elite choir). He also recently received the ADM/ Growmark award from the university for outstanding potential leadership. He reports that, "all is well!"

In January 2000 he sang with the choir on ABCTV's Good Morning America.

TAPS

Gwendolyn Brooks, poet laureate of Illinois, leader of several poetry workshops for MPA students and commencement speaker in 1989, November 2000.

Charles Hillarie [37], January 24, 2001.

John Berkery [40], January 11, 2001.

Leon G. Winter [45], December 21,2000.

BernardJ. O'Brien [47], February 24,2000.

Donald R. Tracy [48], December 14, 2000.

Robert]. Meyers [52], May 2000.

Mike Ferris [57], March 30, 2000 in Orlando, Florida, where he had been invited to receive an award for one of the many toys he created. He was 60.

"Big Mike," as he was affectionately known, was to have been honored for his intricate Inspector Gadget action figure, a delightful addition to countless McDonald's Happy Meals. He also designed the Interactive Tarzan for Happy Meals.

Eleanor, his wife of 38 years, said that he was honored to be recognized for making toys. "But really," she said, "the only people he really cared about making happy were kids. He was one huge guy with the biggest heart you ever did see."

"He wanted to give all children the opportunity to use their imagination," she said. "He was deprived as a boy and that led him to use his artistic gifts for children."

Mike, the son of immigrant Lebanese parents, was born on the south side. His mother died while he was quite young and his father when he was just 13. He and his brother George were then bandied from one orphanage to another.

The brothers eventually settled into "home" at Morgan Park Military Academy.

Mike graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1962. He was a freelance illustrator for the Chicago Tribune and, for 15 years, designed toys for Marvin Glass Associates, once regarded as the most secretive toy maker in America.

He then started his own firm, Dem Guys Inc., where he invented the game "Masterpiece" and developed board games for such television shows as The Honeymooners and Cheers. He also designed the Mickey Mouse telephone.

Surviving, in addition to the widow and his brother, are a son, Michael, and a daughter, Emile.

Jane Lynch [62], July 2000.

William Hitchcock [63], July 24, 2000.

Frank Jones [72], son of late MPA coach and teacher, Warren, and brother of Warren Jr., Mike [73], Pat [74], Robert [76] and Alice [80], in November 2000.

Vincent Quinn, father of Matthew [97], November 2000.

Shu-Yung Wang, father of Sherwood [75], August 26, 1999.

George Toscas, father of Angela [83] and Michelle [85], October 7, 2000.

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MPMA/MPA/LORING HISTORY PROJECT The Skirmishers, the Compendiums, the Academy News -like the bulletins and catalogues, and other official publications of the Academy - don't begin to tell the real story of student life.

Only you can do that. I invite you, then, to tell your story so that when the history of the Academy comes to be written your story will be a part of the record, not just a yam that is told at alumni gatherings.

Barry Kritzberg Editor, Academy Magazine MPMA/MPA archivist/historian

Please include the following infonnation on a cover sheet: Name / Address / Telephone number / Date Year of Graduation Grade / Year entered MPA

Suggestions and Guidelines: Write chronologically and be as specific as possible about dates, names, etc. Write for the Kansas City Milkman: remember that things which are perfectly plain to you today will be perfectly obscure to readers years hence if you don't include the basic elements (who, what, when, where, why, how).

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Describe, if you know, how you came to attend MPA. Describe your first day at MPA. If you attended another school, you might discuss the differences.

Were you following (or leading) a sibling? What was that like?

Friendships: who / how / what / why / where / when?

Classes and school work: what did you like? Any funny moments? Memorable ones?

Books: significant readings, from The Poky Little Puppy to Walden, etc.

Activities: sports, plays, dances, newspaper, year-book, parades, drill, key-club, all-nighters, etc.

Teachers: adventures in learning: what was it like to learn to draw, to read, to write, to add and subtract, etc? any memorable characters? Inspiring moments? Depressing ones?

10. Romances?

11. The above is not intended to be exhaustive and there is much more, no doubt, that was important to you. Write about that, too. or e-mail: bkritzberg@morganparkacademy

Mail to: Barry Kritzberg Morgan Park Academy 2153 W. l1lth Street Chicago, IL 60643

Allen Andreasen [471 discussed the military traditions of MPMA with Mia DiPaolo [011 after the Veterans' Day assembly, November 2000 and, in March of 2001, Mia became a part of that tradition herself when she accepted an appointment to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland.

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