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rom its earliest days when it was known as the New Hampton Academy, this small school in Central New

Hampshire has impacted the Armed Forces of the United States by preparing students for a commitment to service. Whether it was an alumnus fighting in the Civil War or a more recent graduate jumping out of planes in Afghanistan, New Hampton School has been well represented in wartime and in peace. By Will McCulloch perhaps headmaster emeritus t.

While the following pages include the sto-

Holmes Moore ’38 serves as an appropriate

ries of graduates who made the ultimate

metaphor for what New Hampton has

sacrifice, there also are the enriching stories

meant to the military and what the military

of those who used the military as a spring-

has provided to graduates of the School.

board to other endeavors and those who

Almost twenty years before John F.

continue to serve. For their efforts, military

Kennedy uttered the words, “Ask not what

service has provided lasting values, enduring

your country can do for you, but what you

friendships, and a way of expressing their

can do for your country,” Moore and so

patriotism. These stories are those of only a

many other New Hampton men spent large

small fraction of the New Hampton School

chunks of their life not only serving their

graduates that have served, but they are

country, but doing so with the pride that this

offered as a way of thanking all the graduates

institution hopes to instill in all graduates.

who made the commitment to their country.

The United States military has, since the Civil War, used medals to recognize service. above, left: the American Defense Service Medal recognized American active duty military service from September 8, 1939 to December 7, 1941. above, right: the National Defense Service Medal is awarded for active duty military service during the Korean, Vietnam, and Gulf Wars, as well as any conflicts during the War on Terrorism. The medal is oldest service award still in circulation by the United States armed forces. All medal images in this feature courtesy the US Department of Defense; background image courtesy the National Archives.

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Eric Buer ’84 Eric Buer ’84 spent countless hours in attack helicopters, risked his life during innumerable missions in Iraq as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Marine Corp, and found himself hunkered down in the Pentagon reporting to the joints staff in recent years. But Buer—who found his facility for intellectual engagement as a four-year student at New Hampton— might have discovered his true calling recently as an associate Professor at the National Defense University. Buer traded the long hours of pondering strategy in hallowed offices of the Pentagon in 2010 for standing before a cast of future decision makers in his classes on Strategy and Policy and Ethics. The soldier turned strategist is now a professor, and life seems to be pretty good for the married father of four.

“Preparation for class for me is two or three times as much as it was as a student,” says the San Francisco native who received a Bachelor’s in economics from Ohio Wesleyan; an mba from La Salle, and Master’s degrees in military studies and strategic studies from the Marine Corps Command and Staff College and the War College. “With teaching you need to put everything in context. You need to read things a couple of times and actually know what you’re talking about.”

Buer carries a sense of humor that was needed during the more challenging moments of his military career, which included three tours in Iraq. In 2004–05, he was based in Al Anbar province between the flashpoint cities of Fallujah and Ramadi. His command of 400 included pilots and air crew, maintenance and healthcare workers, and administrative and logistics specialists.

Buer carried incredible responsibility, which led to a bump to Colonel and a posting at the War College. After three years of traveling

the world and helping to determine the policies of nato, he now spends his late hours reading for class. He is no less inspired by the rewards that come with the military life.

“What keeps me going is the sense of service,” Buer explains. “The traveling is great; the three tours in Iraq were not so great. But fundamentally, the satisfaction I get from service is above all about the people. You meet the most incredible people. …As you get older, it’s a cool job because you’re with a younger people—18- and 19-year-olds. It amazing what we put on those folks. And to lead them and mentor them, it was a big part of what I did.”

Buer believes that New Hampton School pushed him toward a career in service.

“I think you get exposed to a lot of opportunities there,” he explains. “You have a chance to go to Golden View Health Care Center and show prospective students around. With all the sports I played, there was camaraderie and teamwork. There is a sense of family there, and the Marine Corps are very similar. At New Hampton, I got exposed pretty quickly to a sense of volunteerism.”

After three years working for the Chairman of Joint Chief’s staff, Buer is settling into his new role, commuting to the nation’s capital from Fredericksburg, Virginia.

His days of flying attack helicopters are over, but Buer carries with him all his experiences from Iraq, Somlia, Kuwait, and the former Yugoslavia, and is proud of the Distinguished Flying Cross with Valor he earned with more than 35,000 flight hours and 370 combat missions, many aimed at rescuing wounded soldiers. As the United States of America tries to navigate through the treacherous global landscape and the conflicts in which it is involved, friends of New Hampton School can feel proud to have a soldier in their midst that has provided hands-on service, shaped policy, and is now molding the next generation of military leaders. r

inset: the Distinguished Flying Cross with Valor Device (bronze “V”). The cross is awarded for “heroism or extraordinary achievement while participating in an aerial flight, subsequent to November 11, 1918,” while the Valor Device is awarded for heroism in combat. Eric Buer ’84 was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross with Valor Device in 2005 for his service in the Middle East. above: Eric Buer ’84.

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Alicia Burrows ’00

Alicia Burrows ’00, spoke at the 2011 New Hampton School Commencement.

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Alicia Burrows ’00 was sitting in her dorm room at Colby College in 2011, preparing for a French class when the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2011 struck. It changed the way Americans think about homeland security and the career path of a freshman college student from Meredith, New Hampshire.

Four years later, Burrows was an Army platoon leader headed to Iraq, responsible for forty men and women and far away from the athletic fields, classrooms, and campus spaces that had been a far less turbulent setting for her maturation as a leader.

“I’ve learned a great deal from my experiences in the military and what sticks out the most is leadership,” says Burrows, a Captain who has completed seven years in the service and endured two combat deployments to the Middle East. “Young Army officers are purposefully introduced to the military by a sort of ‘baptism by fire.’ My particular experience

was taking charge of a platoon of 40 soldiers as a 22-year-old lieutenant and leading them through a yearlong deployment to Iraq.”

Burrows believes she was ready for the challenge, though, with her experiences at nhs and Colby tucked away in her toolbox.

A class president, standout athlete, and exemplary student during her time at New Hampton who won the Meservey Medal, Alicia tackled leadership roles and responsibility from a young age.

“Fortunately, my preparation for that moment began years ago right here at New Hampton School,” Burrows told New Hampton School graduates in May 2011.

Now a full-time student at the College of William & Mary’s Mason School of Business, pursuing a Master's in Business Administration, Burrows appreciatively looks back on her service thus far. With all the challenges that come with a military life, there are also the opportunities for travel and exploration.

Alicia calls living in Germany for five years and travelling throughout Europe her biggest thrill. Now she’s taking advantage of the educational benefits of the armed services.

For Burrows, military service began as something to keep her personal grade book filled, but morphed into something more holistic in its meaning.

“I initially joined the Army Reserves in college because I wanted a challenge,” says Burrows, who remains on active duty as a full-time student and will return to Army responsibilities next summer. “At the time I had no plans to serve on active duty, but then 9/11 happened shortly after I completed basic training. Unsure about my post-college career plans and with my country at war, I decided to pursue and accept an rotc scholarship for active duty service.”

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Robert Crum ’59 Robert Crum ’59 uttered revealing words to Private David Dolby as he passed away at the age of twenty-six from multiple bullet wounds in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam on May 21, 1966.

“How are my men? How are my men?”

On that horrific day, Lieutenant Crum and his Army platoon walked into an ambush of almost insurmountable circumstances, and on that day Crum, with his final words, continued to exhibit the character that made him a respected student at New Hampton School, a caring family member, and an enigmatic college-educated officer among teenage soldiers.

In a detailed chapter of S.L.A Marshall’s Battles in the Monsoon: Campaigning in the Central Highlands, Vietnam, 1966, Crum’s final day is detailed, painting a picture of Dolby’s courage and Crum’s leadership under fire. Awarded the Purple Heart as well as the Silver Star and Vietnam Gallantry Cross with Palm, posthumously, Crum was first shot in the shoulder on that day in Binh Dinh Province before suffering fatal wounds. According to firsthand accounts, “he continued to direct his men to cover the personnel in the area who had become casualties, demonstrating his fearlessness and courageous leadership to his men.”

While the chapter in Battles in the Monsoon chronicles the manner in which Dolby selflessly charged up a hill and tried to protect his platoon’s casualties from a barrage of gunfire, it also elucidates the magnitude of Crum’s leadership. Providing guidance to the end, Crum recognized that the unlikely position of machine gunner, Dolby, was the man who needed to make the strategic decisions for the platoon.

“Take control and get these men out,” Crum said to Dolby.

Crum’s nephew John Leonard was not even born yet when his uncle died in Vietnam, but he has made considerable effort as an adult uncovering what happened in Vietnam and honoring his uncle’s bravery.

What resonates more than the details of the ambush, is the man Crum showed himself to be before and during his tour in Vietnam.

Leonard recalls the story that Dolby told him about Crum. Dolby—a five-tour veteran who received the Congressional Medal of Honor and died last year—walked into Crum’s tent in the early days of his time in Vietnam and immediately recognized that Crum was not the classic officer. On his bunk was a book that was battered, highlighted, and tabbed.

Crum, who loved consuming the poetry of Rudyard Kipling and Walt Whitman, was doing more practical reading. The book was about what it is like to be an infantryman. As Dolby recalled, he knew that Crum was “different. He wanted to know about us. I appreciated that.”

Long before he adorned his Army uniform, Crum distinguished himself as anything but an ordinary guy at New Hampton. A hockey and football player, Crum was also the business manager of the Belfry yearbook. Jason Pilalas ’58 recalls “a smiling happy-go-lucky kid. He had a huge streak of common sense and saw the humor in every situation.”

Olivia Thompson married Crum in 1965 in a “beautiful military wedding.” She had met him six years earlier when Crum was a college freshman at Wake Forest and she was a waitress in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

“He was a young man full of life, full of energy, and full of fun,” Thompson recalled during the dedication of the Crum Campus Center at New Hampton in 2004. “He had a curiosity, warmth and eagerness that drew you to him—charisma and a zest for life that see “crum,” on page 40

inset: the Silver Star, awarded to members of the US military for valor in the face of the enemy; Crum was a recipient of this. top: Robert Crum ’59 before enlisting in the Army. above: Robert Crum ’59 in active duty.

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Donald Galletly ’41

above (l–r): Donald R. Galletly ’41; the carrier USS Bataan returns from Korea in 1951; Grumman AF Guardian anti-submarine aircraft of the type flown

by Galletly. The aircraft consisted of two airframes: the AF-2W (bottom) “hunter” that carried detection gear and AF-2S (top) “killer” that carried the weapons.

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His only son tears up over the telephone when he considers the father he only knew for five months, but grew to love and appreciate even more as he became an adult and built his own family.

“He loved to fly,” says Donald Galletly Jr., son of Donald R. Galletly ’41. “He was very close to his friends in U.S. Naval Reserve and thought very highly of them.”

A little more than ten years after graduating from New Hampton School, Donald Galletly Sr. was shipped out to the West Coast to prepare for a combat role in the Korean Conflict. Galletly was activated for duty. He was an experienced pilot who had grown up flying planes as a youth around his hometown of Great Neck, New York. He was flying a Grumman AF Guardian plane based at Los Alamitos that was landing on the aircraft carrier USS Bataan off San Diego in December 1951. When turbulent seas created difficult conditions, his plane crashed into the deck and sank. Donald Galletly perished in the high seas. He was twenty-eight years old and left behind a young wife, Barbara, and two children.

“My mother never spoke about it much, because it was such a hole for her,” says his son, who now lives near Philadelphia after a successful career in business. “He was very

special to her. He was a wonderful person and family man.”

During his two years at New Hampton, Galletly was every bit the team player. Well liked by his classmates, he played football, JV hockey, varsity baseball, and also contributed to the Manitou newspaper. A graduate of Lafayette College, Donald Galletly worked in advertising for the New York Daily News and was in the U.S. Naval Reserve, based out of Willow Grove, Pennsylvania. When he became an active member of the Navy, he embraced the opportunity to serve his country. His brother Robert ’42, father of Peter Galletly ’73 and Robert Galletly Jr. ’71, also served in the War (see photo insert, page 43).

Young Don was forced to paint a picture of his father, a sketch that became more clear when he encountered his old friends. They didn’t fill the air with exaggerated descriptions. It was always sincere and genuine.

“From talking to them, I would say he was the kind of guy who would walk into a room and light it up,” says Donald Jr. “He had a big personality and was very thoughtful. He loved the outdoors and sailing. …He was a true patriot, loved being in the service of country, loved that aspect of his life.” r

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Victor Lima-Deangelis ’03 The sacrifices that military folks make for their country tend to dwarf those of the civilian man. For Victor LimaDeAngelis ’03, son of longtime faculty member and head of the tennis program Veronica Lima-DeAngelis, each treacherous deployment into the warzone is exacerbated by a simple fact: he must leave his family behind.

“I have a beautiful wife named Emily, who is currently in nursing school and will graduate January 2012,” he explains, “and a beautiful daughter, Sophia Valentina. It is so hard to go home and see them, and spend such an unbelievable time creating great memories throughout the year, and then when it’s time to deploy, having to tell them, especially my daughter who is almost four, that Daddy is leaving for a year, and she won’t be able to see him until he is done working. That has got to be the worst thing ever, because you always wonder what if that is the last time you will see your family.”

A six-year veteran of the Army, LimaDeAngelis is awaiting his Sergeant pin and is a team leader in a Scout/Sniper/Reconnaissance platoon that is currently serving in Afghanistan. He is part of the 3rd Brigade Combat team (First Battalion, 32nd infantry regiment), which is a subordinate unit of the 10th Mountain Division based out of Fort Drumm, New York. It is Lima-DeAngelis’ third deployment after stints in Abu Gharib, Iraq, and Kirkiurk, Iraq. In the middle of September, Lima-DeAngelis wrote from the Zari district of Kandahar, Afghanistan, where he was excited about his unit’s progress.

“We recently pushed to the Arghandab River for the first time,” Lima-DeAngelis explains. “And let’s say that it has definitely been a wild one. We are the first unit to push that far south to the river.”

Since arriving in Afghanistan six months ago, Lima-DeAngelis has endured the totality of wartime, the reality of losing comrades, but also the thrill of trying to accomplish a mission.

“I would have to say my biggest thrill was a few weeks ago, when we got into a pretty good fire fight and we were pinned down,” he explained in September in an e-mail.

“And we used our amazing Air Force and definitely showed them up. Oh man, when you hear that gun run from an A-10 Jet, everything just stops.”

The military was an option that LimaDeAngelis thought would make the most sense given his desire for a challenge and activity. see “lima-deangelis,” on page 41

inset: the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal was awarded for US military for service from September 11, 2001 to 2005 within Iraq and Afghanistan. top: Victor Lima-DeAngelis ’03 in the wake of a Blackhawk helicopter in Afghanistan. above: Victor (right) with cohort in Afghanistan.

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T. Holmes Moore ’38

top: Vought os2u Kingfisher, similar to the one flown by Bud Moore, on the deck of the battleship USS North Carolina. The aircraft was catapultlaunched (see open catapult on left of deck) and then retrieved from the water using the crane at back. above: Bud Moore in 1943.

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Headmaster Emeritus T. Holmes Moore ’38 was about to enter his senior year at Middlebury College in the Summer of 1941, spending a few months on the shores of Newfound Lake playing music for money with his band the Black Panthers in Harry Meehan’s Jungle Ballroom. He played tennis and golf and took hikes to the neighboring peaks in between swims in Newfound Lake. But life would take an aerial twist.

“In spite of our separation from the real world, we became increasingly aware of the fact that something was wrong with the world,” Moore writes in his unpublished memoirs. “This awareness was sharpened when the Navy announced the V5 program, a newly established program which enabled young men who had completed two years of

college and could pass a flight physical to qualify for enlistment into flight training to become Naval aviators.”

A few months later, Bud Moore was learning how to fly and beginning what would be a four-year stint in the Navy. Only a few months removed from playing music, he was the Junior Ensign on a ship of 2,109 men and the Junior Officer in the V (Aviation) Division. He flew os2u Kingfishers off the battleship Indiana and embraced the time-draining process of flying the main float seaplanes with two wing floats. The planes were catapulted into the air and then returned to the vessels when they landed on sleds that were pulled by the battleships.

Moore, who became the Senior Aviator at the age of twenty-two to his disbelief, spent most of his time in the South Pacific where he transitioned from the battleship USS Indiana to the USS New Mexico, another battleship. All the while, his responsibilities were consistent.

“Our job was to take islands back from the Japanese,” Moore says of his flights over the Marshall and Solomon Islands, “and spot the guns firing from the shore—soften them up for when the Marines and Army landed. That was my major duty. There was a lot of reconnaissance. But mostly it was the spotting.”

For his efforts in the South Pacific, he was presented with the Air Medal for “consummate skill and daring beyond the call of duty in the performance of duty as Senior Aviator of the Indiana and the New Mexico in the Gilbert Islands, Marshall Islands, and Marianas campaigns.”

During his time in the Navy, he managed stop-offs in Pearl Harbor and Australia between patrols in the South Pacific. His travels continued in 1944 when he was assigned to see “moore,” on page 41

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Jason Pilalas ’58 Jason Pilalas ’58 was a student at Harvard Business School in the early 1970s and did not have the same weekend schedule as many of his peers. Once a month, Pilalas hopped in his car and made the trip to New York for Naval Reserve training. He would return early on Monday mornings for classes, a seemingly inconvenient part of life for an ambitious young man attempting to cull the most out of his graduate school experience.

But few people shared the affinity for the Navy that Pilalas developed and maintains to this day. For if there was any experience that paved the way for his success more than his time at New Hampton School, it was his 23 years in active and reserve duty.

“I always loved going to sea,” Pilalas says.

“I like being with a bunch of people with a shared mission who are determined to accomplish the mission.”

And his missions were rarely cruises through the harbor during peace time.

Pilalas was not ready for college in the spring of 1958 when he left New Hampton before graduation and enlisted in the Navy. He spent six months “chipping paint” as a seventeen-year-old enlistee before finding his way to the Naval Prep School. Then the Navy, in exchange for his service, paid his way through the University of Southern California on an rotc Scholarship. Pilalas graduated in 1963, and the Vietnam War greeted him with his diploma. A young man in his early twenties, Pilalas quickly earned a great deal of responsibility. He made three tours in Vietnam and was the second commander of a ship with 26 officers and 260 crew. Though his first two tours included more pedestrian missions, “moving from peace time to war time” and “running with the carriers and supporting Marines,” his third tour proved to be the

most challenging. Pilalas found himself on the Mekong River in South Vietnam where he was on a converted Landing Ship, Tank (lst) that had ten pbrs (Power Boat, River) and Huey helicopters among other resources.

The bulk of Pilalas’ missions involved planning and giving orders for the rescue of downed aircraft.

“There was so much energy dedicated to getting there, aiding the wounded, and not getting killed. The most harrowing part of Vietnam was dealing with people who were badly injured,” Pilalas recalls.

The images from that final tour lingered with him in the ensuing years.

“I don’t know that I had post-traumatic syndrome, but for the first one-and-a-half years of my marriage, my wife told me she would wake up and I would be yelling. It eventually went away.”

What didn’t evaporate was Pilalas’ passion for helping people. A loyal supporter of New Hampton School as well as so many charities, Pilalas believes that his experiences in rescue situations made a profound impact on how he lived the rest of his life.

“I think the Navy and my experiences in Vietnam made me a more caring person,” says Pilalas, who with his wife Rena was the lead donor for the construction of the Pilalas Center for Math and Science at New Hampton (opened in 2009). “When you are involved in saving people’s lives, you get a great sense of satisfaction and have a desire to do it again. You want to do it again. …I have a generous streak that was magnified by my experience there.”

Pilalas’ loyalty to the Navy never wavered.

With his work as an investment titan at the Capital Group in Los Angeles taking him around the world on business travel and a wife and two children, he finally left the reserves in 1981 as a Lt. Commander. see “pilalas,” on page 41

inset: the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, awarded to members of the US military for service in the Vietnam War, until the creation of the Vietnam Service Medal in 1965. top: Jason Pilalas ’58, from the 1958 issue of The Belfry. above: a Navy Landing Ship, Tank (lst) in Vietnam.

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The Poh Family: Alexandra ’99, Tristan ’02, And Brendan ’05

top: The Poh clan, back (l–r) Brendan Poh ’05, Tristan Poh ’02, Timothy Poh; front (l–r) Alexandra Poh ’99, Diane Poh, and grandmother Peg Plumer. above: Navy P-3C Orion maritime patrol aircraft, similar to the type flown on by Tristan Poh ’02.

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When Tristan Poh ’02 considers his military service in the United States Navy, his thoughts don’t immediately drift toward covert missions and complex military tactics.

“Many of these missions have long names and can sound impressive at cocktail parties,” says Tristan, “but the more meaningful missions have been humanitarian.

My squadron was called upon to aid in the search and rescue of the Air France crash from Brazil and to assist Haiti after the earthquake in 2010. Whether it was trying to bring closure to the French and Brazilian families or helping guide aid to the victims in Haiti, the humanitarian efforts put forth by the United States military force is where our training is most evident.”

For the Poh family of Meredith, New Hampshire, service in the Navy is as much about being citizens of the world as it is about defending their country. A family tradition of military service has long been a staple of the success of the United States Armed Forces, and the citizens of the United States depend on the dedication of this familial tradition. The trio of siblings from Meredith perhaps embodies this more than any New Hampton School family of the last thirty years. Alexandra ’99, Tristan ’02, and Brendan ’05 all graduated from New Hampton with exemplary achievements in

and out of the classroom, only to be matched by their service to their country.

Alexandra “Sasha” Poh spent more than eight years in the Navy, receiving her official honorary discharge in July of 2011. Sasha left the Navy with the rank of Lieutenant, and her years of service provided enduring values and access into a career as a nurse.

“The Navy further instilled in me integrity, honesty, accountability, and leadership,” says Sasha, who earned a Masters in Nursing at the University of New Hampshire, before beginning work in the icu at Concord Hospital in the state capital while remaining in the reserves.

Today, Sasha lives in San Diego with her husband Chris. She is a registered nurse in the Cardiac Care Unit at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla. Her New Hampton experience resonated in her military travels to Hawaii, Singapore, Dubai, and Australia and now, as she embarks on civilian life and a career in healthcare.

“The School’s powerful motto, ‘in a world that expects you to fit in, we teach you to stand out,’ was an inspiration to me and it challenged me to believe in myself and follow my dreams,” Sasha says.

The eldest Poh lives around the corner from baby brother Brendan, who in 2009 was the third Poh child to graduate from the College of Holy Cross. A Lieutenant Junior Grade, O-2, Brendan is surface warfare qualified and was the Auxiliaries Officer onboard the USS Princeton (cg-59) until October. He recently moved to the USS Curts (ffg-38) as the Navigator onboard. Already, Brendan has accrued some adrenaline-inducing experience.

“My biggest thrill as a Surface Warfare Officer is being able to drive a billion-dollar see “poh family,” on page 40

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above: Nick Robillard ’05 (second from left) with his fellow Pararescue Jumpers. inset, below: the Purple Heart, awarded to any member of the Armed Forces of the United States who has been wounded or killed while serving with the U.S. military on or after April 5, 1917.

Nick Robillard ’05 Nick Robillard ’05 is frustrated. Forget about the painstaking yet speedy recovery he is making after getting shot four times on August 19, 2011, while serving his country in Afghanistan. Robillard wants to be back in the game, with his comrades and helping the United States’ cause in his highly specialized role as a Pararescue Jumper.

“My guys are still out there,” he explains.

“It kills me to not be out there with them.”

Robillard does not sensationalize the moments that led to a broken femur, soft tissue damage in his leg, and the broken bones and tissue damage two other bullets caused in his hand. Rather, he points to the fact that his skill set demanded more than two-and-a-half years of training compared with other United

States soldiers who carry basic training and six months of preparation with them on the front lines in Iraq and Afghanistan. Robillard can’t be too specific in his detail of the events on the day of his injuries, noting that he was performing additional ground duties with Navy Seals and Special Forces in Afghanistan.

He brushes it aside like a determined athlete who has sustained a torn acl.

“I knew what I was getting into,” he explains.

Robillard feels more comfortable talking about the work he was doing, the almost addictive nature of finding himself in a warzone, charged with the important task of helping soldiers in need. He is more inclined to talk about the 70-plus missions that went according to plan.

“Every time we went out it was like our hands just started working,” he explains.

“There were multiple patients and chaos everywhere. You always fall back on your training. Everything gets done quickly and efficiently.”

Robillard did not always know that helping people as a “PJ” was his destiny. After he graduated from New Hampton School in 2005, he found himself on the Seacoast of New Hampshire, working construction and trying to figure out what he was going to do.

College didn’t seem to be the right fit; he was searching for a passion.

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Frederick Smith ’45

top: Fred Smith ’45 (far left in back row) and fellow officers aboard the tanker vessel USS Platte. above: the USS Platte (center) refueling two ships in the the western Pacific in July 1955.

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When Fred Smith ’45 entered Officer Candidate School in 1953, the son of former New Hampton School headmaster Fredrick Smith had plenty of people trying to coax him into service in the United States Judge Advocate General’s Corps. Unlike so many other enlistees who were interrupting their studies, Smith already had completed his undergraduate work at Dartmouth and carried a law degree from Cornell. But Smith was compelled to see the world outside of courtrooms during his time serving his country.

“I could have gone into the jag and lived in New York City or Boston doing legal work and created a good resume, but I decided that if I was going to go into the Navy I wanted to see the world,” Smith says.

That’s exactly what Smith did. From September 1953 to February 1957, Smith served his country as a line officer and traveled throughout the Pacific.

“I spent three years aboard the USS Platte (a 550-foot tanker named for a river in Nebraska) in the Pacific, most of the time fueling, underway at sea, ships of all shapes and

sizes—minesweepers, submarines, destroyers, supply ships, cruisers, and aircraft carriers,” Smith says. “…I served initially as Gunnery Officer. The ship’s complement of officers was supposed to be 20 but, during all my time aboard ship, we never had more than 13.”

He also experienced some interesting moments during his time in the Navy due to his legal expertise.

“When I was aboard the ship,” Smith says.

“I would have to attend special court marshalls because I always had to represent the person who had done bad things. I was a lawyer.”

Though military service wasn’t on Smith’s immediate list when he graduated from New Hampton, he knew that public service was in his future, especially after his corporate law experience. When his time in the Navy was complete in 1957, he transitioned to a long and successful career as a Foreign Service Officer and U.S. State Department Attorney with stops in Washington D.C., Mexico City, and Toronto.

For Smith, who grew up attending a single-room elementary school in bucolic New Hampton and attended prestigious institutions, the military provided exposure to a global society as well as different cultures in the United States.

“It was an experience in the Navy,” Smith recalls. “There were people like me who were doing it after college. In contrast, the crew, sailors, and enlisted men, the great majority were from south and southwest—Alabama, Texas—a different culture. …We were exposed to different cultures. It was eyeopening, and that’s what I found most interesting.” r

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William Stirrup ’61 William “Bill” Stirrup ’61 knew after he graduated from Marietta College in 1965 that his draft into military was imminent. So instead of waiting for the military to call him, Stirrup, who already was working for Price Waterhouse in New York City out of college, enlisted in the Army.

According to Bill’s father, Al Stirrup, who lives in Florida, his son knew that he would have a different experience if he enlisted.

Opting to stay out of the front lines, he went off to Officer’s Candidate School and became a second lieutenant in the financial corp. Meanwhile, he got married and served his time while based in Indianapolis, Indiana. Between Christmas 1967 and New Year’s Day, Bill was shipped off to Vietnam where he was soon promoted to a full lieutenant.

“He was very impressed with the Army,” Al Stirrup says. “He was happy with his service, and was very willing to go to Vietnam.”

Bill was in Vietnam for five or six months, according to his father. During that time he wrote home to his parents.

“He would write about what was going on and how they would hit the foxholes once in a while,” Al Stirrup says, “but he didn’t do any fighting.”

As Al tells it, Bill was handing out pay to soldiers one day in Vietnam when he collapsed. He was airlifted to Walter Reed Hospital in Washington D.C. where he was diagnosed with advanced cancer. Two weeks later, on May 15, 1968, Bill died in Walter Reed Hospital. A wonderful man who made the ultimate sacrifice for his country, Bill Stirrup—who would have celebrated the 50th Anniversary of his graduation from New Hampton School this past June—was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star Medal for service. r

inset: the Bronze Star Medal; Stirrup received one posthumously. left: William “Bill” Stirrup ’61 from the 1961 issue of The Belfry. above: Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where Bill passed away on May 15, 1968. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress.

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Each day at New Hampton, hundreds of students walk beneath a plaque with Robert Crum’s likeness on it. The Crum Student Center remains a place for students to enjoy each other’s company, something Robert Crum, a hero, did so well. r

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“crum,” from page 31 endeared him to all. …I respected him as a person with a strong value system whose internal compass led him to embrace the military life as his duty.”

Thompson believes Crum’s time at New Hampton and the patience of T. Holmes Moore ’38, who called Crum into his office on occasion, had a profound effect on her late husband.

“New Hampton molded him into becoming a young man of courage and principles,” said Olivia Thompson, who still lives in Crum’s home state of New Jersey. “His budding maturity was acknowledged and rewarded. He received and cherished the medal for the most improved student. He followed his Headmaster’s instruction to the end.”

Crum’s passion for his country and his duty was only surpassed by his commitment to his men. The military seemed to allow the once mischievous Crum to embrace his innate capacity to lead.

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“poh family,” from page 36 warship,” Brendan explains. “In the United States, there is no more than one percent of people that can say they have accomplished this feat at the age of twenty-five.”

Military service has its benefits, but for the youngest Poh the learning outside the classroom is the enduring payoff. “I have learned that anything is possible,” Brendan says. “As long as you work hard, have enthusiasm, and never forget your goals in life you will succeed.”

Brendan believes he had a leg up on his peers when he entered the Navy because of the diverse community at New Hampton.

“A lot of the countries on the other side of the world have great cultures which are a learning experience,” Brendan explains. “New Hampton prepared me in that I was able to learn about these diverse cultures and mingle with people who are from different countries prior to my college experience and the Navy.”

Middle child Tristan lives in the other corner of the country, stationed in Jacksonville, Florida, where he lives with his wife. He is a Naval Flight Officer flying on the p-3c Orion as a Tactical Coordinator and Mission Commander. Carrying the rank of Lieutenant, Tristan has been deployed to Japan in support of the global War on Terror, El Salvador to help in the fight against illegal drug production, and most recently Italy and Djibouti, Africa.

To all corners of the globe the Poh family has taken their skills and commitment, and it is the Navy, the United States, so many coun-

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Then came the Pararescue pipeline, a succession of nine different courses including combat dive school, survival school, Army airborne, parachuting, free fall, free fall jumper, Air Force emt, and a civilian emt

paramedic course. He graduated in September , and moved on to two different deployments, one in Okinawa, Japan, and the next in Djibouti, Africa, the latter involving search and rescue in a country that pierced a young American’s emotions.

“We had the opportunity to go into orphanages. We brought soccer balls and frisbies, mres and water,” Robillard says. “…I remember a kid grabbing me and he brought me out to the field and begged me to play soccer with him. I almost got heat exhaustions we were out there so long.”

When his third deployment arrived, Robillard clutched the adrenaline that was in the envelope with orders to serve in Afghanistan. “I was pumped up,” he explains. “I couldn’t wait to get there and do my job. I couldn’t wait to get there and help people on the ground.”

And that is what Nick Robillard has done and hopes to do soon. Though the Pararescue Jumpers have carved out an enigmatic place in the military with their prodigious training and versatility, Robillard has learned so much from his service.

“It’s humbled me a little,” he explains. “I definitely developed a maturity. And overall, this career field has caused me to become a ‘silent professional’—the less you say the better off. It’s taught me humility. When you are working in military it’s not about you anymore, it’s about your country.”

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years at New Hampton seemed to have helped prepare him for every challenge and life- altering moment in training, Japan, Africa, and Afghanistan.

“All the different cultures that are at nhs really set me up for success,” he says. “I honestly didn’t think anything was that different because I had a lot of friends from around the world.” r “lima-deangilis” from page 33 “I chose to join the military because I have always wanted to fight for my country and college just wasn’t for me,” he explains.

“I am a guy that needs action all the time, and sitting in a classroom listening to people lecture, just wasn’t exciting for me.”

Meantime, Veronica Lima-DeAngelis is the picture of a proud mother overwrought with the fear that is expected when your son is thousands of miles away in such a precarious location.

“Having a son in Special Operations is very difficult,” Veronica Lima-DeAngelis says. “Victor has had two tours in Iraq and this one in Afghanistan. Working in the New Hampton community has given me the strength to persevere during these trying times. … I am very proud that my son is in the United States Army and serving his country. I feel a strong passion and feel for all who are in harm’s way. Victor chose this path, and I support him totally.”

Lima-DeAngelis opted to leave New Hampton early to finish his education where he could train for tennis, but remains thankful for his experience and the values it taught him. “New Hampton will always be a place that I will never forget—great memories and great people.”

The military has provided enduring lessons.

“The military has definitely taught me not to take anything for granted,” he says. “You never know when your last day is going to be, and you should definitely enjoy and make the best of every day.” r

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“moore” from page 34 Pensacola, Florida. He was trained to fly the f4u Corsair, a single-seat fighter-bomber, a combat plane that demanded a departure from his previous responsibilities. His extensive training included a move to Michigan where Moore and his colleagues flew countless training missions. Bud became a skilled aviator of this plane, despite a trepidationfilled final flight that included a spray of hydraulic fluid in his face.

“I got into the Navy because I wanted to learn to fly and serve my country,” he explains in his memoir. “The Navy served me well. I realized my childhood dream of being a fighter pilot and along the way learned a lot about leadership, problem solving, performing under pressure, decision-making and managing people.”

These were all skills that helped him in his transition to a life of service to his alma mater.

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“pilalas” from page 35 A collector of Naval artifacts who shared a passion for Naval History with then-Headmaster T. H. Moore ’38 during his time at New Hampton, Pilalas believes he was shaped by his Naval experience in a dramatic way.

“It made me a much more mature and confident person,” he says. “I have been in a lot of situations that required good judgment and rapid judgment and I did well in those situations. …Going to the Navy and getting a scholarship opened up everything for me—a progression of good events in my life. I met my wife at usc.”

Pilalas certainly gained some wisdom from the time when he was an enlisted man to the time when he was an officer carrying the load of so many lives in his hands. In addition to discovering a keen sense of his strengths and limitations, he developed an appreciation for his fellow soldiers and its role.

“It’s not McDonald’s that makes this country great,” Pilalas says. “It’s the the people risking their lives so the rest of us can live.” r

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New Hampton School Alumni Who Have Served in the Military (Listed alphabetically, with service branch and last year of attendance. This list reects the New Hampton School Alumni records. After our Fall 2011 feature on alumni service, we adjusted our list of alumni veterans, thanks to updates from alumni and friends.Please send corrections and additions to Cindy Buck in the Alumni Office, cbuck@newhampton.org.)

Adams, Basil R., Jr., usa, 1949 Adams, Jeffrey T., usa, 1981 Ahl, George W., Jr., USN, 1944 Alder, Anderson C., usmc, 1985 Allen, Byron A., USN, 1949 Allen, Kenneth R., usmc, 1949 Allen, Robert M., USN, 1940 Ames, Rodney W., USN, 1965 Anthony, Tony, USA, 1964 Bailey, Walter E., usa, 1951 Barlow, Robert S., USA, 1948 Bascom, William H., USA, 1965 Baston, Prescott W., Jr., USA, 1964 Becker, Robert E., usn, 1948 Benson, Gardner R., usmc, 1947 Bernhard, Leia N. Weaver, usaf, 2004 Borrego, Krystal Corbeil, usa, 1999 Brax, Harri J., USN, 1949 Bray, Stephen R., usn, 1959 Brockway, George R., USN, 1945 Buck, Conrad F., USAF, 1949 Buer, Eric F., usmc, 1984 Buliung, Arthur L., III, USA, 1965 Burke, F. Thomas, III, usn, 1945 Burke, Stephen P., uscg, 1989 Burrows, Alicia M., usa, 2000 Butler, Howard E., USA, 1945 Carey, Daniel M., usa, 1989 Carlsen, Alan R., USA, 1950 Carter, John P., usa, 1960 Casey, William F., Jr., usa, 1957 Casterline, Arthur B., Jr., usn, 1947 Cates, Richard L., USMC, 1943 Cavicke, Richard J., usn, 1949 Champney, William A., usa, 1958 Charron, Peter C., USAF, 1954 Childs, Dale R., M.D., USN, 1958 Colby, George P., USN, 1940 Conkey, Henry G., Jr., USA, 1946 Connare, John A., Jr., usn, 1951 Cooke, Bennett W., III, uscg, 1976 Coombs, Richard Y., USA, 1947 Cowe, Marc A., usaf, 1987 Crothers, Jeffrey K., usa, 1957

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Crowell, George R., usa, 1938 Crowell, William B., usa, 1949 Crosby, Carolyn Richards usn, 1981 Crosby, Peter, uscg, 1981 Crum, Robert H., usa, 1959 Cumming, Steven B., USA, 1969 Cutler, Hooper W., usn, 1958 Delaney, Steven G., usn, 1965 Derthick, Allison A., USA, 2010 Descary, William C., usaf, 1960 Desnoyers, Richard P., USA, 1964 Dexter, Clark O., usa, 1959 Diaz-Silveira, Jorge T., usa, 1960 Dickie, Jason S., usa, 1962 Dinsmore, Ronald E., USAF, 1944 Doherty, William F., usa, 1947 Drake, John E., usa, 1936 Drake, William M., usaf, 1943 Duffett, John R., USN, 1948 Durant, Michael, USN, 1949 Dyson, Albert O., usn, 1961 Eames, John B., usa, 1960 Ecker, J. Arlen, usa, 1982 Eddy, Burton A., usa, 1951 Edmands, Peter L., Esq., USN, 1957 Egner, John, Jr., usa, 1951 Eldredge, David W., USAF, 1944 Ernst, Charles A., III, usa, 1960 Etmon, Sean F., usmc, 1989 Evans, Carlton F., USN, 1943 Fahy, Richard H., Jr., usn, 1981 Fairbank, David P., usa, 1960 Farnham, Timothy A., USAF, 1963 Farris, Douglas M., usa, 1985 Feldman, Robert A., usa, 1960 Fendler, Donn C., usa, 1945 Ferdinando, Normand V., usa, 1954 Fitzgerald, James F., usaf, 1990 Fitzgerald, Thomas J., usa, 1958 Gallagher, Daniel A., usa, 1939 Galletly, Donald R., usn, 1941 Galletly, Robert C., usa, 1942 Gaudette, Alan C., usa, 1960 Gilbert, Francis P., USN, 1945

Gilbert, John J., Jr., USN, 1941 Gilmore, David S., usaf, 1974 Gilmore, Jefferson K., usa, 1979 Glidden, Barrie R., usaf, 1953 Glidden, Elmer G., Jr., usmc, 1934 Goode, Alan P., usa, 1965 Gordon, George F., usa, 1965 Gough, Kevin, USAF, 1940 Green, Richard J., usn, 1989 Greenbaum, Thomas L., usa, 1960 Hackel, Alan J., USA, 1957 Haff, Carter G., USCG, 1957 Ham, Richard L., USN, 1956 Hamel, Matthew S., usmc, 2008 Harmon, Christopher D., usmc, 1995 Harris, Richard E., USMC, 1950 Harrison, Webster L., usmc, 1959 Harter, Frederick J., USN, 1959 Heald, David, USA, 1938 Healy, Richard D., usa, 1938 Heckman, Debra L., usa, 1974 Henderson, Jacob R., USMC, 1961 Henry, Karl W., usn, 1965 Henshaw, David C., Ph.D., USA, 1964 Hill, David L., usaf, 1960 Hill, Edmund W., Jr., USA, 1951 Hill, William H., III, usa, 1960 Hiller, Berton B., usn, 1950 Hinchcliffe, John H., III, usa, 1960 Hirst, Judith A., usmc, 1973 Hoffman, William T., USMC, 1961 Holleran, Francis J., Jr., USN, 1944 Hollis, Peter B., dmd, usn, 1959 Holman, Rockwell, usn, 1944 Howley, Bryan A., usaf, 1989 Hoyt, Douglas A., USN, 1942 Huber, David E., usaf, 1951 Johns, Donald L., USA, 1946 Johnston, Scott D., USA, 1980 Jones, Theodore A., USAF, 1949 Kayajan, Armen G., USA, 1938 Keane, Garrett P., usa, 2001 Kennedy, Thomas R., Jr., usa, 1942 Kerchof, William C., USA, 1945

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Kimball, Christopher J., usmc, 2002 King, Robert S., USAF, 1966 Kirchhoff, Charles W., usn, 1960 Kleager, James S., usa, 1992 Klein, Christopher M., usmc, 1964 Knapton, John D., usa, 1950 Knox, Robert, usa, 1937 Koutsogiane, Charles M., USN, 1965 Kurtz, Robert J., usn, 1946 LaFlamboy, Wayne L., usaf, 1953 Larkin, Charles D., usa, 1963 Leary, Brian E., Jr., usmc, 1993 Lemke, Garrett D., usa, 2006 Levine, Samuel J., Esq., usn, 1959 Liebert, Jacob A., usn, 2010 Lima-DeAngelis, Victor P., usa, 2003 LiVolsi, Frank W., Jr., USA, 1957 Lucey, David T., usaf, 1960 Lynch, Kevin K., usa, 1965 Lyons, Robert W., USAF, 1944 MacGillivray, Earle P., Jr., USMC, 1951 MALLERY, Thomas O., USMC, 1950 Margolis, Gary F., Ph.D., USA, 1963 Marren, Mary E., usa, 1999 Martins, Jack D., usa, 1956 Masters, John F., usmc, 1958 McCamic, Jeremy C., USMC, 1946 McDonald, John D., usa, 1991 McIninch, Douglas A., USN, 1963 McIntosh, Henry H., usa, 1960 McKeen, Robert W., usa, 1958 Mead, John C., usn, 1960 Meckfessel, Ronald W., usaf, 1960 Metzger, John T., USA, 1955 Middleton, Curtis T., usn, 1971 Miller, Hien, usn, 2007 Mizell, Jackson P., usa, 2004 Moore, John D., USA, 1951 Moore, T. Holmes, usn, 1938 Moore, Thomas H., Jr., USN, 1963 Morganstern, Thomas C., USN, 1949 Morrison, Richard D., M.D., usa, 1953 Morrissey, William P., USN, 1941 Morrissey, Robert A., USN, 1945 Mudgett, Donald M., usa, 1963 Mullen, Thomas N. T., USA, 1962 Nichols, Chester E., II, usa, 1954 Noe, Keith F., usn, 1983 Norris, Olivia, uscg, 2008

Ochse, Bernhardt A., usa, 1982 O’Hara, John P., USA, 1951 Paddock, David H., USA, 1964 Pearce, Frederick P., usa, 1946 Penniman, Mary C., USA, 2011 Perkins, Gilbert S., usa, 1960 Perkins, Donald F., usaf, 1939 Peterson, Richard T., usaf, 1985 Peterson, Walter R., usn, 1942 Philippi, Eric T., usa, 1959 Pilalas, Jason M., usn, 1958 Plaia, Joseph S., Jr., usmc, 1991 Poe, William H., II, usaf, 1988 Poh, Brendan T., usn, 2005 Poh, Tristan D., usn, 2002 Pope, John A., USA, 1964 Provencher, Gregory J., usn, 1993 Raftery, Jill A., usa, 1997 Rainville, Eugene E., USMC, 1957 Reardon, Michael P., usaf, 1955 Richards, Edward L., uscg, 1975 Richards, Ernest H., usn, 1974 Richardson, Hugh B., usa, 1957 Richey, James P., USN, 1946 Roberts, Erling R., usa, 1959 Robillard, Nicholas A., usaf, 2005 Rodriguez, Richard S., usaf, 1976 Roy, Michael T., usaf, 1997 Sadler, M. W., usn, 1959 Sanborn, Alan M., usmc, 1959 Sanson, Edward J., USAF, 1943 Shattuck, James D., USA, 1958 Shaughnessy, Kerri Ann, USA, 1996 Shaw, Paul S., USN, 1937 Sims, Frederick R., Jr., usn, 1941 Skidmore, Frank M., USA, 1964 Smith, Carey T., usa, 1950 Smith, Craig A., usaf, 1973 Smith, David L., usa, 1960 Smith, Frederick, USA, 1910 Smith, Frederick, Jr., usn, 1945 Smith, M. D., USN, 1942 Smith, Robinson V., USN, 1942 Smyth, Philip J., USCG, 1944 Snyder, Christopher H., usn, 1996 Snyder, Patrick C., USA, 1968 Spear, Erwin M., Jr., USAF, 1945 Spear, Mark A., usa, 1988 Spivak, Steven G., USA, 1963

Sprague, Nathan, usaf, 1999 Stachelski, Mark E., usa, 1990 Stalker, Donald M., USA, 1965 Staples, Joseph M., usn, 1960 Starin, Mark S., USN, 1970 Sterling, Scott E., usn, 1992 Stirrup, William D., usa, 1961 Strickland, Andrew P., usaf, 1999 SULLIVAN, Alexandra Poh, USN, 1999 Swan, Robert S., usn, 1951 Tailby, Allen S., USAF, 1972 Topercer, Terry J., II, usn, 2006 Townsend, Norris G., USN, 1945 Tripp, Fred R., uscg, 1961 Turville, William S., USA, 1963 Umla, Walter E., USAF, 1941 Underhill, Robert L., usn, 1949 Uttley, Harold A., Jr., usa, 1953 Vellucci, Tomas S., USAF, 1947 Vohr, James C., Jr., usn, 1953 Vohr, Thomas D., USN, 1956 Vose, Frank R., USA, 1941 Wahl, Robert C., usn, 2001 Walker, James H., Jr., usa, 1959 Wallace, Robert S., usa, 1959 Walton, Mark L., USN, 1993 Ward, Owen M., USAF, 1943 Ward, Robert N., Jr., usmc, 1970 Warthen, John G., usa, 1968 Watt, Derek R., USA, 1990 Weeks, Robert N., USMC, 1953 Westland, Johnathan G., usaf, 2007 Whipple, Chandler S., usa, 1939 Whitcomb, Barrett S., usa, 1960 Whiting, Joel D., usa, 1961 Whitten, Bertwell K., usa, 1959 Williams, William J., usmc, 1973 Winkemeier, Howard R., usn, 1941 Winters, Geoffrey J., USMC, 1962 Worthen, Christopher S., usaf, 2003 Yeager, William L., USA, 1942

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