NEWS FROM MOSES BROWN TODAY
Hope & Lloyd Go Quakers!
This fall, the girls’ varsity soccer team upset undefeated Pilgrim in the semis and then went to the Division II State Championship game, bringing home the first RIIL championship for girls’ soccer in over 20 years.
Photo: Chuck Nadeau
Carving a Path
Nick Gilson ’07 will be the 2020 Commencement speaker on June 11. An MB “lifer,” Nick attended Johns Hopkins after MB, then taught middle school science in Nashville with Teach For America. A need to reach a wide range of education levels in his classroom led Nick to favor hands-on learning and to revisit a design he came up with when he was an eighth grader at MB, to share with students as an example of invention. Asking students to embark on a project of their own, Nick retrieved his own junior high design for a catamaran-inspired snowboard to model experimentation. It was only when he dusted off his own youthful idea to demonstrate scientific experimentation that he was led to start onto a path to business ownership. Today Nick is the founder and CEO of Gilson Boards, the fastest-growing snowboard company in the world, turning out thousands of innovative, catamaran-inspired snowboards and skis a year; you can also see FALL / WINTER 2019-20 his TED Talk on “Failing to Learn.”
MB is pleased to welcome Carlos Andrés Gómez ’00 as this year’s annual visiting poet. Carlos will present at MB on April 1.
Several new trustees joined the MB board of trustees this year: • Cheryl Cohen ’81
• Rebecca Leuchak P’04’09
• Joanne P. A. Debrah ’97 P’20
• Yiguang Qiu P’20
• Lisa Donahue P’21
• Ahvi Spindell ’72
• Dolph Johnson P’20’23
• Ariana Steele P’26’29
As part of this year’s cohort work by veteran faculty, Kristin Street will be hosting and running a papermaking residency in the Y-Lab, Tony Pirruccello-McClellan (left) is developing a destination for outdoor field trips for lower schoolers, and David Flaxman is creating music and exploring digital recording.
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