Park Tudor Phoenix Summer 2009

PA R K T U D O R

Phoenix

SUMMER 2009

See how she runs WHAT’S A LEARNING STYLE? REFLECTIONS ON THEVETERANS WEST BANK ALUMNI REMEMBER LIFE AT PARK TUDOR STUDENTS HONORING • REUNION 2009

On the cover

Marion County Athlete of the Year and IHSAA Mental Attitude Award recipient Hannah Farley ’09 outruns the competition – academically, athletically and artistically. (See articles on pages 24-25.) Photo by Mike Penington.

Park Tudor School Mission

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ark Tudor School’s exceptional educators and extraordinary opportunities prepare students to become confident and resourceful lifelong learners.

The school community creates an inspiring college-preparatory learn-

ing environment for highly motivated young people in preschool through grade 12.

Park Tudor School Class of 2009 Achievements • 104-member class attending 50 colleges and universities; accepted $2.4 million in college merit scholarships from nearly $7 million offered • 27% of class named Advanced Placement Scholars • Three 2009 Presidential Scholar candidates • 23 recognized by National Merit, Achievement and Hispanic Scholar Programs; 10 National Merit Finalists and 6 Scholars • Prelude Award winner • Indiana Academic Super Bowl champions • Indianapolis Star Academic All-Star • Prudential Spirit of Community Award winner • Toyota National Community Scholar • International DECA business award winner • Merle Miller Eagle Scout Project of the Year • State, regional and national honors in English, math, science, foreign language, fine arts • National Federation of High Schools Outstanding Contribution to Sport Award; US Figure Skating Top Ten Scholastic Honors Team • Marion County Girls Athlete of the Year • 12 Indiana Crossroads Conference and 7 Marion County team/individual champions • 7 All State Team selections; 9 Academic All State selections • 3 team, 4 individual sectional champions; regional girls tennis champions • 2009 Girls’ Lacrosse state runner-up • Third in state, girls track • Completed more than 19,300 hours of community service

PARK TUDOR SCHOOL Head of School

Douglas S. Jennings Editor

Lisa A. Hendrickson ’77 Editor Emeritus

C.J. Foxlow Staff Writer

Cassie Dull Alumni Coordinator/ Planned Giving Officer

Gretchen Hueni Alumni Board President

Brandon Phillips ’96 Vice President Emily Adams Indiana University John Amy Miami University, Ohio Ila Anand Indiana University John Arak University of Arizona Daniel Ash Tulane University Andrew Bain Valparaiso University Erin Biel Yale University Michael Blum DePauw University Bill Bobbs Hobart College Paul Bourdillon Northwestern University Tyler Braly Loyola Marymount U. Madison Broadbent Pepperdine University Erik Brueckmann Miami University, Ohio Cameron Cecil Purdue University Heidi Chen Stanford University Kendall Cochran DePauw University Aaron Cohn Indiana University Matt Davis DePauw University Carly Dean Indiana University Erica Diaz DePaul University Alex Dodd College of William & Mary Paul Dugdale DePauw University Wes Dunn Indiana University Tim Durham U. of Southern California Tyler Ebbinghouse Reed College Peter Eckel University of Indianapolis Max Eiteljorg Indiana University Lili Eiteljorg Miami University, Ohio Hannah Farley Stanford University Jessica Fisher Stanford University Danielle Fishman Academy of Art University Kristen Fox Indiana University Lauren George University of Notre Dame Emily Gillman Butler University Anthony Graves Vanderbilt University

Bill Hapak University of Montana Alex Hearn Indiana University Hannah Heyer U. of San Francisco Anna Hollansky Emory University (Oxford) Lyndsey Holt Samford University Helen Hopper Dickinson College George Hornedo Cornell University Andrew Hovhanessian Indiana University Caroline Huang Harvard University Amar Iyengar Indiana University Micah Johnson Indiana University Sara Johnson Indiana University Maddie Kahn Emory University Lee Keller Georgetown University Mark Kershisnik Indiana University Samir Khoso Boston University Knubbe Kunz DePauw University Alex MacAllister Purdue University Sarah MacPhail DePauw University Michael March Indiana University Kyle Marks Tufts University Scott Marquart Vanderbilt University Alli Matsuoka Lehigh University Danielle Mattingly Vanderbilt University Ryan McClure Purdue University Jeremy McDonald Wabash College Anna McKown Indiana University J.J. McLaughlin University of Colorado Amanda Miller Columbia College Scott Morton Purdue University Lara Naanouh DePauw University Shelby Nefouse Indiana University Erik Nelson U. of Southern California Molly Newell Indiana University Andrew Noel Purdue University

Baili Olive Boston University Morgan Penny Pennsylvania State U. Lauren Plewes Indiana University Barrett Ponski American University Dionte Pounds Indiana University Ali Raja Indiana University Kristen Rogers Xavier University Eric Sabandal Southern Methodist U. Joseph Scales Miami University, Ohio Victoria Scanlan Indiana University David Scofield Indiana University Lindsay Shake DePauw University Samuel Shoopman IUPUI Cole Sommer DePauw University Justin Spurgeon Indiana University Ann-Christine Stepien New York University Ben Stovall Vanderbilt University Alyssa Sullivan University of Notre Dame Sterling Summerville University of Missouri Elliott Sweeney Northwestern University Ashley Tambunan DePaul University Lauren Tavel Indiana University Natalie Tomlin Ball State University Sarah Towne Oberlin College Marc Wagoner Ball State University Dan Walsh New York University John Wilson Azusa Pacific University Paul Winston U.S. Naval Academy Emily Winters Indiana University Anisha Yadav DePauw University Sahil Yakhmi Columbia University Brenda Zhang Brown University John Yerant Purdue University Remington Zience Miami University, Ohio

Cathy Yingling ’87 Treasurer

Andy Kight ’89 Secretary

Kasey Kruse ’00 Directors

Jessica Benson Cox ’99 Fred Emhardt ’78 Linda LaFollette Foley ’89 Nikhil Gunale ’96 Kay King ’66 G.B. Landrigan ’81 Stephanie Goodrid Lawson ’00 Nick Lemen ’93 Drew Miroff ’92 Ann Rogers Mitchell ’85 Lindsay Elder Thornton ’95 John Townsend ’89 Adrienne Elizabeth Watson ’06 Heather Reilly Murphy ’90 ex officio

Contents

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feature

Words of War: Students relive history . . . . . . . . 26

departments

News of the School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 From the Head’s Desk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Commencement 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Student/Faculty Accomplishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 A Salute to Departing Faculty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Spring Athletic Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Alumni News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Reunion 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Where are they now? Jan Wright . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 6

Class Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

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The Phoenix is published three times annually for alumni, friends, and parents of Park Tudor School. We welcome your comments and suggestions. Please send them to: Lisa Hendrickson, Editor Park Tudor School 7200 N. College Ave. Indianapolis, IN 46240-3016 317/415-2756 Fax: 317/415-2714 lhendrickson@parktudor.org

News of the School FROM THE HEAD’S DESK by Doug Jennings, Head of School

Doug Jennings

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s you read through the pages of this issue of

The Park Tudor Phoenix, I predict that you will be highly impressed by the myriad accomplishments of our students and our teachers over the course of the past school year.

I especially want to highlight the achievements of the Class of 2009, which are detailed not only on the inside front cover but throughout this entire publication. From our three Presidential Scholar candidates to our academically talented four-person girls track 4 park tudor phoenix SUMMER 2009

team winning third place in the

However, Park Tudor is not

sion to reduce our work force

state finals, there is much to

immune from the economic

by eight percent. We are not

celebrate at Park Tudor.

turmoil surrounding us, and

filling the positions of some

As we note the many accom-

we have been proactive in

who retired this year, and we

plishments of this school year,

addressing our challenges so

have eliminated and/or reor-

I would be remiss if I did not

that the school may remain as

ganized some administrative

also address the recent eco-

strong as possible in both the

and faculty positions. Schools

nomic crisis that has affected

near and the long terms. The

are built on relationships, so

our nation, and specifically

Board of Directors is craft-

“downsizing” our faculty and

how Park Tudor is meeting the

ing a multi-year strategic plan

staff has been a painful, but

challenges of these turbulent

that will provide innovation

necessary, process.

times. The contributions of our

and fiscal sustainability while

In all of this, we have been

faculty and staff, students, par-

maintaining excellence in all

able to be true to our mission

ents and alumni have helped

we do.

and model, so that class sizes

to shape the excellence of our

Our immediate challenge

remain small and no programs

school, and we continue to

earlier this year was to deal

(academic or co-curricular)

carefully steward the resources

with a decline of nearly 40

have been cut. Our overall

that you have helped us build.

percent in our endowment,

staff remains as one of the

As is made clear within

and the resulting lower draw

strongest in independent edu-

these pages, the school con-

for our operating budget. For

cation, and I ask you to join

tinues to operate from great

next year’s budget we must

me in thanking those who have

strength; our students continue

realize savings of more than

contributed so much to Park

to flourish. And as you will

one million dollars (from a

Tudor.

note while reading the list of

total budget of $22 million).

We want to keep your rela-

our graduates’ college accep-

Faculty will not be receiving

tionship to Park Tudor forever

tances, I am confident that

raises for next year, other bud-

strong, and so we also thank

Park Tudor’s reputation is one

gets have been trimmed, and

you for your continuing sup-

of national prominence.

we made the difficult deci-

port of our school.

News of the school

104 graduates head off to 50 colleges

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ark Tudor’s 104 members of the Class of 2009 will head this fall to 50 colleges and universities throughout the nation and will take advantage of more than $2.4 million in college merit aid from nearly $7 million offered.

Many have earned additional scholarships and distinctions: National Merit Scholarships, the Lilly Endowment Scholarship, the Hoosier Scholar Award, the Hunt Leadership Scholarship, the Toyota Community Scholarship, the Cox Research Scholarship and others too numerous to list.

Eight graduates have made commitments to play on colle-

giate athletic teams, some with full scholarships.

At Park Tudor’s 106th commencement exercises on May 29 at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, speakers focused on the contributions of the Class of 2009, while urging them to continue their achievements at the university level and beyond.

Attorney Chris Braun, treasurer of the Park Tudor Board of Directors and father of Marissa ’10, Catherine ’12, Rachel ’08 and Lauren ’07, offered this year’s “Address to the Graduates.” A senior partner with the law firm Plews Shadley Racher & Braun,

“A promise was first made 107 years ago by Tudor Hall’s founder, Ms. Fredonia Allen, to prepare students for the most rigorous colleges and universities. That promise and tradition remain to this day, thanks to the dedicated faculty and administrators of this great school.

As a result, Park Tudor has become a nationally recognized college-preparatory school from which confident and resourceful learners emerge, year after year.

teaching and learning. They possess impressive educational pedigrees and teaching skills that many schools seek but few rarely find. In the Upper School alone 80% of the faculty has earned master’s degrees and eight have earned Ph.Ds. They could work at lots of other high schools and colleges across the country but they have chosen to be at Park Tudor because it is a very special place.”

“This school has an exceptional faculty and administration, who have a passion for

– Chris Braun Address to the Graduates

“You are alums now and you will soon find out what a good job Park Tudor has done in preparing you for college.

You will arrive at your chosen college this fall knowing how to study; knowing how to write; knowing how to pre-

pare for and take a two-hour final. And maybe, like me, you’ll find that a Park Tudor teacher has turned out to be one of your life’s greatest influences.”

LLP, Braun urged the graduates, who devoted more than 19,000 hours to community service during high school, to continue that leadership: “Our needs are great and demand thoughtful, honest leadership… Go into service to others with your eyes wide open, and just know that change will not come easily. If it was easy they wouldn’t need you. There will be setbacks, but you are strong, smart and creative – you must persevere – and, ultimately, you will prevail.”

Mary Moses Cochran ’75, civic leader and mother of graduating senior Kendall Cochran, brought greetings

from alumni, while social studies teacher David Kivela, who retired this year after 39 years of teaching history at Park Tudor, brought greetings from the faculty.

Junior Kishan Shah, Student Government president-elect, brought greetings from the student body. Head of School Doug Jennings made welcoming remarks, and the Park Tudor Singers performed.

To read each of the commencement speeches in their entirety, visit the Park Tudor web site at www.parktudor. org/commencement.

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104 graduates head off to 50 colleges Continued from Page 5

“When I began teaching, a colleague asked why I taught, and at the time I said it was because I loved history as a discipline, and I still consider it to be vital for understanding the world today. However, over the years I’ve come to realize that we teachers do it because we love the students. I know that it is the day-to-day relationship with them that I will miss the most in my retirement.”

– David Kivela Greetings from the Faculty “In the last four years, we have seen a number of revolutionary events, including the first African-American President, and a devastating blow dealt to the economy. Many have experienced hard times, but we know that the people of our world will have hope because we are sending you into the world to help them. We know that the dynamics of the Class of 2009 provide hope for the future.”

- Kishan Shah ’10 Greetings from the Student Body “From your study of ‘Hamlet’ you may remember the advice given to Laertes by his dad, Polonius, as a send-off to college.

Polonius was a rather foolish old man, but he hit upon some good advice, as some of us older folks do from time to time.

Because the messages of Shakespeare are said to be timeless, let me tell you what he said and then see how it applies to you, 400 years later.”

– Doug Jennings, Head of School Welcoming Comments

The traditional bouquet of 18 red roses is at front and center as the senior girls await the beginning of the commencement ceremony.

The graduating seniors enjoyed applause from faculty, students and parents who gathered for the annual Senior Serenade on May 21.

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PT board officers, members elected

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t its annual meeting in June, the Park Tudor Foundation elected four new members to the board of directors effective July 1.

In addition, the Foundation elected the following board officers for 2009-2010: President - Joe DeVito, Vice President - Chris Braun, Secretary Steve Cagle ’71 and Treasurer - Kathy Dunbar.

New board members Alan Hill, Chris Miyamoto ’88, Heather Reilly Murphy ’90 and Jim Toomey will assume their seats on July 1. Re-elected to three-year terms are current board members Cynthia Bir, Steve Cagle and Kathy Dunbar.

Alan Hill is vice president for enrollment and marketing at Franklin College. A graduate of DePauw University, he earned a B.A. in 1981 and an M.A.T. in 1983 and then worked as a marketing representative for IBM in Indianapolis. He returned to DePauw in 1987 as an assistant director of admissions and later served as director of new student financial services, director of financial aid, assistant to the provost and dean of students.

He then joined Alma College in Michigan as the vice president for enrollment and student affairs before accepting his current position at Franklin College. He and his wife Jennett are the parents of Courtney, who just completed her first year at Southern Illinois University - Carbondale and Preston, grade 10.

Chris Miyamoto, a member of the Park Tudor Class of 1988, is an otolaryngologist/ head and neck surgeon at St. Vincent Hospital and Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital, and serves as volunteer assis-

The 2008-2009 Park Tudor board of directors gathered in Foster Hall before their final meeting of the school year. Left to right: Jim Bremner, Susan Kilkenny, Henry Camferdam, Heather Reilly Murphy ’90, Steve Cagle ’71, Joe DeVito, Gerardo Lopez, Head of School Doug Jennings, Ed Harris ’60, Chris Braun, Fritz French, Kathy Dunbar, Kim Smith Stickney ’74, Cynthia Bir, Anita Woods, Jason Sturman ’93, Jon Sturgill, David Eskenazi ’83 and Courtney Schwab.

tant clinical professor at IU School of Medicine. He and his wife Brenda are the parents of Alexandra, grade 2. He holds a B.S. degree in biology from Washington and Lee University, M.D. from IU School of Medicine, and completed his internship and fellowship at University of Cincinnati and a fellowship at Harvard Medical School.

Heather Reilly Murphy is a parent, alumna and outgoing president of the Alumni Association board of directors. As an eight-year member of the alumni board, she served two years as vice president and two years as president. Her previous work experience includes real estate development at REI Investments. She holds a B.A. degree from Brown University, M.S. degree from Columbia University and a M.B.A. degree from Vanderbilt University. She and her husband Patrick have three daughters,

including two at Park Tudor: Olivia (grade 2), Annie (senior kindergarten) and Hadley.

Jim Toomey is vice president and director of American Funds Distributors, Inc., which provides retirementplan services nationwide. He previously served on the board of Mayfield Junior School in Pasadena, California, where he was chair of the Annual Giving Campaign and Strate-

gic Plan Committee. He holds a B.A. degree from University of California Los Angeles. He and his wife Monique are the parents of Camille, grade 3, and Claire, grade 5.

Our sincere thanks go to Jim Bremner, president of the board from 2007-2009, and board member Kim Smith Stickney ’74, who have fulfilled their terms on the board.

Annual Fund success

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upport of Park Tudor’s annual fund has remained strong during a year of economic challenges and downturns.

June tabulations show contributions in excess of $840,000, or 93% of our $900,000 goal for the 2008-2009 school year. The Annual Fund supports the school’s current operating budget and aids all grade levels and co-curricular programs of the school.

Thanks to those generous donors who made possible this year’s Park Tudor Annual Fund Challenge, which provided the opportunity for one gift to make twice the difference. We thank all those who so generously support the Annual Fund.

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List of end-of-year awards, honors is lengthy NATIONAL MERIT AWARDS

Six seniors were awarded scholarships in this year’s National Merit Scholarship program. Erin Biel, Morgan Penny and Sahil Yakhmi were awarded $2,500 National Merit Scholarships by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, while Kyle Marks was awarded a college-sponsored National Merit Scholarship Award sponsored by Tufts University.

Erik Nelson was awarded a $6,000 National Merit Scholarship Award sponsored by Old National Bank Foundation and also has been designated an “Honorary Scholar” in the National Achievement Scholarship Program.

From more than 1.5 million students who entered the 2009 National Merit Scholarship Program, only about 8,200 have been chosen from the 15,000 Finalists to receive these scholarships. The awards

PT honored by Indiana ACT

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ark Tudor is one of only seven schools recognized by the ACT State Organization for having one or more students in the Class of 2008 who earned a top composite score of 36 on the ACT college admissions and placement exam.

Cameron Johnstone ’08 earned the top score of 36.

Only 428 of the more than 1.4 million 2008 graduates nationally who took the ACT earned a top score. In Indiana, only eight out of more than 15,000 tested earned the highest score.

The average ACT composite score for the national high school graduating class of 2008 was 21.1. The average composite score for Park Tudor’s Class of 2008 was 27.7.

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are based on a record of very high academic performance and submission of a detailed scholarship application. More than 270 companies and businesses finance National Merit Scholarships for Finalists who meet their specified criteria.

Senior Tony Graves has been selected as the winner of a National Achievement $2,500 Scholarship. More than 150,000 students who took the 2007 PSAT/NMSQT entered the 2009 National Merit Scholarship Program and also requested consideration in the National Achievement Program, in which only Black Americans participate.

TOP PT HONORS

• Heidi Chen ’09 was chosen by faculty members to receive The Frank Meek Memorial Award, the highest award the school can bestow on a recipient. The award was established by friends of the late Lt. Frank Meek, Class of 1948 as an incentive to students to aspire to the highest degree of loyalty to Park Tudor School and the community. Heidi’s accomplishments include a 4.0 grade point average, designing a professional-level web site for a local non-profit organization, serving as a member of the third-place in the state girls’ track relay team, and forming a string quartet that performs throughout the community.

Heidi also was featured as one of six central Indiana “Super Grads” in “The Indianapolis Star.” An article about Heidi and her accomplishments was published in the newspaper’s May 28 edition.

• Erin Biel and Eric Sabandal were honored with The Fletcher, Rebecca and Margaret Hodges Awards, given annually to a male and female member of the senior class adjudged by the faculty to have significantly and wholeheart-

edly contributed to the life and spirit of Park Tudor throughout their years on campus. The award was established in 1974

by Fletcher Hodges Jr. and his wife Sarah Moore Hodges of the Tudor Hall Class of 1928 to perpetuate the memory of Mr. Hodges’ parents—his father a respected Indianapolis physician, and his mother a teacher at Tudor Hall. Erin will attend Yale University and Eric will attend Southern Methodist University.

• A record three seniors shared the Virginia E. Smith Highest Academic Average Award this year. Erin Biel, Heidi Chen and Lee Keller all graduated with perfect 4.0 grade point averages.

ACADEMIC SUPERBOWL

• Park Tudor’s Academic Superbowl team had an outstanding performance at the state competition at Purdue University on May 9. The math team of Richard Ni ’11, Jeffrey Shen ’11, Caroline Huang ’09 and Jessica Fisher ’09 took first in its division and the Interdisciplinary team of Jessica Fisher, Erin Hoffman ’11, Ovini Rodrigo ’09, Emily Adams ’09, Alex Hearn ’09 and Joseph Scales ’09 took second in the state.

At the regional event held in April, the math team delivered a superior performance with a perfect score, while the English, Fine Arts and Interdisciplinary teams won first in their division and the Social Studies and Science teams took second and third place respectively.

Franklin Central, 60-51.

Our team defeated Ben Davis High School in the second round, 62-27, and Roncalli in the quarterfinals, 56-26.

Congratulations to all team members for an outstanding year - Captain Alex Hearn ’09, Eric Bohn ’10, Alex Sventeckis ’10, Richard Ni ’11, and Samuel Clarke ’11 - and to team advisors David Kivela, Joanne Black and Tom Page.

BUSINESS

Four Park Tudor students traveled to Anaheim, California in April to compete in the International Career Development Conference. George Hornedo ’09, Meg Patterson ’10, Alex Sventeckis ’10 and April Wang ’10 competed for plaques, ribbons and scholarships against 15,000 students from the U.S., Canada, Germany, Puerto Rico and other nations. George Hornedo won a bronze medal and yellow ribbon for ranking among the top 20 among 192 competing in his category, Sports and Entertainment. Each of the four students earned the trip to the international competition by finishing third in the Indiana competition in April.

In that contest, 11 other members of PT’s 38-member squad placed fourth in their events, while nine earned sixth-place finishes. This year’s state competition proved to be the strongest performance overall in the four-year history of the Business Club. Team advisors were Upper School faculty members Bill Browning and Sheila Young.

BRAIN GAME

Park Tudor’s nine-time champion Brain Game team made it to the semifinals of the competition this year. In a hardfought match in which the lead changed hands several times, PT’s Brain Game team lost in its semifinal match against

CUM LAUDE

Seventeen members of the Class of 2009 and one member of the Class of 2010 were inducted into Park Tudor’s chapter of the Cum Laude Society on April 13 for demonstrating academic excellence. In addi-

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tion, three seniors who were inducted last year as juniors were honored.

This year’s inductees were Class of 2009 members Emily Adams, Daniel Ash, Paul Bourdillon, Heidi Chen, Lauren George, Hannah Farley, Jessica Fisher, Caroline Huang, Sara Johnson, Mark Kershisnik, Danielle Mattingly, Molly Newell, Morgan Penny, Alyssa Sullivan, Elliott Sweeney, Sahil Yakhmi and Brenda Zhang, as well as Brent Cleveland from the Class of 2010.

Seniors Erin Biel, Heidi Chen and Lee Keller were inducted as juniors last year.

Park Tudor’s chapter of the Cum Laude Society, which includes faculty members and administrators who were inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, elects no more than 20% of the senior class for the honor, as well as any juniors who have a 4.0 GPA. Students in grades 9, 10 and 11 who currently hold an A- average through the third quarter of this year also were honored as commended students.

Two young alumni who also were members of Park Tudor’s Cum Laude Society were the featured speakers at the assembly. Annelise Pruitt ’00 and Ashwin Murthy ’01 spoke about how learning from failure and adversity can be as important as achieving success. Annelise is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and Parsons School of Design and is a successful fashion designer who has done work for Ralph Lauren and Chanel.

Ashwin will begin his residency in internal medicine at St. Vincent Hospital in July.

SCIENCE

Middle and Upper School students competed against their peers from nine other high schools in 23 scientific events at the 2009 Science Olympiad at Butler University

on February 28. Our Olympiad team members finished third or higher in five of the 23 events that ranged from Astronomy and Physics to the Egg-O-Nautengineering competition. Alexis Fink ’12 won the Disease Detective event.

Also taking home awards were freshman Bill Ristow ’12 in the Ecology and Herpetology categories and Cameron Cecil ’09 and Ryan McClure ’09 in the Electric Vehicle category.

SPEECH AND DEBATE

Park Tudor’s Speech and Debate Team placed third in Class A at the State Speech Tournament on March 22.

Keith Trump ’10, in his first state meet, advanced to the final round in Broadcasting and earned a fifth-place trophy.

Ovini Rodrigo ’10 advanced to semifinal rounds. Seven PT speakers qualified for the state tourney, joining more than 575 speakers from 82 schools across the state. Max Thomas ’10, Lara Naanouh ’09, Haydon Osborne ’10 and Keith Trump competed in Broadcasting; Alex Sventeckis ’10 in US Extemporaneous; Kristen Rogers ’09 in Dramatic Interpretation; and Ovini Rodrigo in Original Oratory and Original Performance.

TECHNOLOGY

• Park Tudor scored firstand second-place wins at the 30th annual American Computer Science League (ACSL) All-Stars competition in Huntsville, Alabama in May – the school’s highest-place finish ever at this event.

Two teams of PT students qualified for the competition, at which more than 200 teams from the U.S., Canada and Europe participated in various divisions. Teams competed throughout the school year and the top scorers were invited to compete head-to-head at the All-Stars competition.

Samuel Clarke ’11, Jessica Fisher ’09, Adam Roth ’10, Jeffrey Shen ’11 and Michael Wintermeyer ’10 represented our five-person Senior team.

They won the Central Division title and placed second at the All-Stars competition.

Freshmen Rebecca Chen, Alexis Fink and Joey Whitaker represented our threeperson Intermediate team. At the ACSL awards ceremony, Rebecca Chen, Samuel Clarke and Michael Wintermeyer were recognized for receiving perfect scores on all the contests in the regular season.

• Park Tudor teams earned third and sixth place out of 30 teams in the Association of Computing Machinery computer science competition at Miami University in Ohio on April 25.

Students work in teams of up to four to solve as many problems as possible within a four-hour time frame. Our two top-scoring teams correctly solved all ten problems. Winning team members were: Third Place - Michael Wintermeyer ’10, Samuel Clarke ’11, Ted Cho ’12 and Rebecca Chen; Sixth Place - Jeffrey Shen, Richard Ni ’11, Tommaso Verderame ’11 and Erin Hoffman ’11; 28th Place - Nupur Bhatt ’12, Adam Gaynor ’12, Morgan Essex ’11 and Joey Whitaker ’12. Teams from Ohio, Michigan and Indiana took part the in competition.

• Park Tudor also took the top two awards in the IUPUI High School Computer Programming Contest, winning the competition for the third year in a row. The winning team was Jessica Fisher ’09 and Michael Wintermeyer ’10.

This is the second time in three years that Jessica has competed on the winning team. Second place went to the team of Samuel Clarke and Jeffrey Shen. Twentyeight students from six high schools participated in the

third annual contest. Two-person teams were presented with 10 programming problems and given three hours to write the programs. They were judged by the speed with which they completed the programs and how the programs conformed to the specifications of the problems.

WORLD LANGUAGES

• Four Park Tudor students have achieved perfect scores on the 2009 Introduction to Latin National Latin Exam.

Rebecca Chen ’12, Hannah Farley ’09, Catherine Mytelka ’13 and Morgan Penny ’09 were among only 386 students out of more than 17,400 who attained this distinction. Students participated from the United States, Australia, Canada, England, Italy, Mexico, Mozambique, New Zealand, Poland, Bulgaria, China and Guam.

• Six Park Tudor juniors have been selected to spend six weeks in Europe this summer as participants in the prestigious Indiana University Honors Program in Foreign Languages. The program, which began in 1962, is a unique language immersion program for high-school juniors throughout Indiana. After a lengthy testing and application process, only 30 students are selected each year for each of the seven locations (two in France, one in Germany, three in Spain and one in Mexico). The students live with a host family; take daily classes in conversation, culture, literature and grammar; and pledge not to speak in English for the duration of the program. Those studying in Brest, France are Lynelle Chen, Katharine Kulka, Anju Paul, Adam Roth and Keith Trump. Brent Cleveland traveled to Valencia, Spain.

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PT ranks in national, regional math contests • Because of their combined scores on two rounds of American Mathematics Competition (AMC) tests, Jeffrey Shen ’11 and Richard Ni ’11 are two of only 500 students in the United States to qualify for the United States of America Mathematics Olympiad competition.

Early in the year, interested students throughout the U.S. took one of the AMC tests, the AMC 12 or the AMC 10.

Those who scored well on either test qualified for the second round of the competition, the American Invitational Mathematics Exam (AIME).

Those qualifying for the AIME were Richard Ni, who earned a perfect score on the AMC 10 B; Jeffrey Shen, who has earned a perfect score on the AMC 10 A two years in a row; April Wang ’10, with the highest score at Park Tudor on the AMC 12 A; Michael Wintermeyer ’10, with the highest score at Park Tudor on the AMC 12 B; and Caroline Huang ’09 and Rebecca Chen ’12.

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Ronghui Ji, associate professor of mathematics at IUPUI, will offer a yearlong seminar course for advanced Upper School math students next year. The course will be open to Upper School students who have successfully completed all of Park Tudor’s math courses before their senior year.

Dr. Ji holds his Ph.D. degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and does research in the areas of Operator Algebras and K-Theory.

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• Park Tudor was the winning high school and freshman Rebecca Chen the firstplace individual winner in this year’s IUPUI Mathematics Contest. April Wang was one of five second-place winners and Richard Ni was awarded honorable mention. Six hundred area high school students participated in the competition.

Rebecca received a medal, a trophy and a $500 cash award; April was awarded a medal and a $300 prize; and Richard received a medal. Park Tudor was awarded the annual traveling trophy.

• April Wang, Park Tudor’s exchange student from China, was named the Site Winner for her first-place finish in the comprehensive level of the Indiana Council of Teachers of Mathematics math contest on April 25. April outscored 29 other students from 12 area high schools. She also received “Scholar” designation as a student who scored 75% or better on the tests.

• Park Tudor students once again held leading positions in this year’s annual fourround national Mandelbrot Mathematics Competition for high school students. Students choose to compete on either the regional or national level, taking five tests during the year. They are ranked after each round based on their cumulative scores.

After the fifth round on the national level, Jeffrey Shen ’11 held the 12th highest cumulative score in the first tier of 50 students with a perfect score on the fifth-round test. Also competing on the national level were Richard Ni and April Wang in the second tier of 64 students. Both Richard and April completed the year with the same cumulative score, the 26th highest in the national competition.

Thirty-six students began the year competing in the 11-state River/Southern Region, with 11 completing the test for all five rounds. The Mandelbrot

Competition also ranks the schools in each region, and our Park Tudor team placed sixth in the River/Southern Region.

This year students also participated in the Mandelbrot Team Competition, in which teams of four students work together to solve problems on three tests throughout the year.

Out of 92 teams, the Park Tudor quartet of Richard Ni, Jeffrey Shen, Rebecca Chen and April Wang had the 11th highest score in the competition.

• Park Tudor’s team won first place among 12 area high schools at the Butler University Mathematics Scavenger Hunt on January 29. The team of sophomores Richard Ni, Jeffrey Shen and Samuel Clarke finished 45 minutes ahead of the secondplace team. In this annual competition Butler students accompany teams of three students as they race from room to room solving problems.

Students win individual honors • Senior Lee Keller was honored by the Rotary Club of Indianapolis in April for outstanding academic achievement. A nationally ranked figure skater who holds a perfect 4.0 GPA, she was recognized as a top student among Marion County high schools. She was accompanied to the event

by Global Scholars Program Coordinator Dr. Jan Guffin.

• Erin Biel ’09 is one of only 100 graduating seniors nationwide to be awarded a $10,000 Toyota Community Scholarship. The scholarship is based on outstanding academic achievement, leader-

ship and community service.

Erin also was named a 2009 Indiana Academic All-Star by “The Indianapolis Star.” Forty seniors were selected for their outstanding academic achievement from nominations by their school.

• Cam Sobleski ’10 and Reggie Nesbit ’10 were selected to attend the 34th Annual Summer Leaders Seminar at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, in June. Reggie also attended the U.S. Naval Academy Summer Seminar. These seminars are for high-achieving students who have completed

their junior year in high school and are considering applying for admission to the academies after graduation.

• David Lynn ’10 has been awarded early admission to Purdue University’s aviation school for the 2009-2010 school year. David, who earned his private pilot’s license as a sophomore, is licensed to fly single-engine, fixed-wing aircraft and frequently flies throughout the region. He will graduate from Park Tudor at the end of the 2009-2010 school year with the rest of his class.

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Smith College professors assist biology students with advanced DNA experiments

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tudents in our freshman and Advanced Placement biology classes are among only a handful of high schoolers nationwide participating in sophisticated DNA experiments led by four Smith College professors. This spring marked the third year of Park Tudor’s educational partnership with the prestigious Massachusetts women’s college, made possible by a generous grant from Park Tudor alumnus Dob Bennett ’76 and his wife Deborah.

Students analyzed a segment of their DNA to determine whether they carry a certain

“taster” gene and also processed their own karyotypes to see all 46 of their own chromosomes under a microscope. Smith College biological science professors Dr. Bob Merritt, Steve Williams, Sandra Laney and Lori Saunders spent the week of March 16-20 leading students in three separate projects related to genetics and DNA. Last year, Smith College Artist Susan Heidman and Senior Lecturer and Director of Choral and Orchestral Activities Jonathan Hirsh spent a week working with Park Tudor’s band, orchestra, choir and art students.

The Smith College partnership and the digital audiobook program were made possible by generous gifts to the school’s “Empowering Learners” capital campaign.

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• Ovini Rodrigo ’10 has been awarded the Prudential Spirit of Community award based on her service to the community and exceptional initiative. The award is given to those deemed to be among the top 10 percent of Indiana student volunteers.

She also was one of 50 students selected to participate in Molecular Medicine in Action, a symposium sponsored by the IU School of Medicine. Students will learn techniques used in modern biomedical research.

Ovini also won a number of awards in the Central Indiana Regional Science and Engineering Fair for her project “Super Bug or Super Hype? Incidence of Mupirocin Resistance in Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) from Active Surveillance Program.”

• Neena Parikh ’10 recently won first place and a $3,000 college scholarship in the Executive Women International essay contest. She competed against students from 29 schools. She was selected from four finalists after submitting an essay on the topic “Who or What Inspires You” and participating in an interview. Her essay now will move ahead to Executive Women International’s corporate competition.

• Ellen Grein ’10 has been selected as a member of the Mayor’s Youth Council. The council provides an opportunity for youth to have a voice in Indianapolis government.

Students are selected based on their leadership skills, school activities and community involvement.

Smith College professor Lori Saunders helps freshman A.J. Sood with the experiment that enabled him to analyze his own DNA.

Digital audiobooks help kindergarten students learn to read

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rs. Debbie March’s senior kindergarten class has a new way to combine creativity, technology and learning via a set of classroom iPods equipped with digital audiobooks. The kindergartners can now pop in a set of headphones and learn to read along with the digital books.

Funding for the iPod project was made possible by gifts to “Empowering Learners,” the school’s capital campaign.

Mrs. March worked with

Scholastic Books to arrange for copyright permission to digitize the books. Scholastic remarked that Park Tudor’s request was the first of its kind, and the company is now looking into ways to offer its stories and books on iTunes and Amazon.com.

Senior kindergartner Jack Button said, “It was kind of weird listening to a story on the iPod because they usually have music, but it was good weird.”

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Connecting with the world: students broaden their horizons

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wenty Upper School students spent 12 days in June traveling in China, the school’s second trip to the country in the past two years.

Meanwhile, 13 Middle School students traveled to Costa Rica in a school program that put both their environmental science and Spanish-speaking skills to good use.

• Park Tudor is sponsoring its second trip to Egypt and Jordan for Upper School students during spring break 2010. This two-week trip will feature historical and cultural sites in Egypt and Jordan, as well as a school visit in Amman, Jordan.

• A new Upper School trip to Peru is planned for June 2011, involving collaboration between the Social Studies and World Languages departments.

• Middle School students will have the opportunity to travel to Spain, France and England on a 13-day trip in June 2010 to be led by teachers Carole Simmons and Jane Sidey.

• Nine 12-year-old girls from Valladolid, Spain visited the Park Tudor Lower School for ten days in April as part of an exchange program between Park Tudor and Colegio Internacional de Valladolid that began last year. Students who have traveled on exchange trips to Uruguay and Spain hosted our guests.

• Fourth-graders took their annual class trip to Williamsburg, Virginia in April to learn about colonial life in America.

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those of the colonial times.

They learned how animal skin was turned into leather, how to make a canoe out of a log using only shells, and how a cannon works. They also visited nearby Mount Vernon to see Washington’s tomb.

• Meanwhile, sixth-graders boarded buses bound for Dearborn, Michigan this spring to learn about many different historical aspects of the region.

They visited the Henry Ford Museum, Motown, the Museum of African-American History, the Holocaust Memorial and Greenfield Village.

• The seventh grade class traveled to the Howell Nature Center in Michigan, which operates as partners with Heifer Project International and has designed a hands-on program to teach students about global issues. Students participated in discussions and roleplay activities on world hunger, sustainable development, poverty and population. The students also observed some

of the more than 2,000 animals receiving rehabilitation at the Nature Center and participated in leadership games and activities.

• Author Francisco Jimenez, a professor of Ethnic Studies/ Modern Languages and Literatures at Santa Clara University, conducted a “virtual” workshop with Upper School Spanish students in April. Jimenez, who came to the United States from Mexico as a child of migrant workers, has written four books, two of which students have read in Spanish IV, V and VI classes. In this audio conference, students asked him questions about his books, which have won a number of awards, including the American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults Award.

• The Environmental Science class participated in an e-mail-based conversation about water sustainability with high-school students from King’s Academy in Amman,

Thanks to the generosity of the Freudenberg family and The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, students had the opportunity to get an up-close look at a real Indy car during the month of May. The Children’s Museum sponsored an Indy 500 car to promote its upcoming King Tut exhibit, which opened June 27. Lower School students learned more about the Ancient Egyptian exhibit at an assembly and then took a trip outside to view the Indy Racing League No. 34 Conquest Racing car. Here, students in Chris Holobek and Brandi Barnett’s classes check out the race car. Miss Barnett is in the driver’s seat.

Jordan. Upper School students presented a list of questions and concerns to their overseas peers. Of particular interest to Park Tudor students was determining the success of a new water delivery system to deal with the lowering Dead Sea levels and how King’s Academy uses water in a sustainable manner. Park Tudor students answered questions posed by King’s Academy students that covered topics ranging from water conservation at Park Tudor to the Israeli/ Palestinian conflict.

• For the second year in a row, Madame Janice Vote’s French VI culture class is the only high school class in the nation to have submitted a translation of an article to the University of Michigan’s collaborative translation project of “L’Encyclopédie.” This monumental encyclopedia was originally edited by Denis Diderot and Jean D’Alembert in the late 18th century. The students completed a French-to-English translation of an article describing the chauve-souris (bat). The original French article and our students’ new translation will be available on the University of Michigan Diderot project web site later this summer. Last year’s class translated two articles, “giraffe” and “mantichore,” which already appear on the Diderot project web site.

• Park Tudor’s French department has introduced a new blog for French students, www.ptfrench.blogspot.com, that contains information, news and links to French language and study tools.

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Fine arts honors THEATRE

• Freshman Julia Johnstone won the top award in the Indiana Repertory Theatre’s fourth annual Young Playwrights in Process Contest. Julia was the winner in the senior high division for her play “Quad Shot, Hold the Foam.” In this clever, hip treatment of the work environment at a local coffee shop, employees fall all over themselves to please their boss, only to get caught up in a surprising twist at the end.

Julia received a cash prize of $1,000 and a two-day workshop with actors, directors, and dramaturges, followed by a gala reception and public reading of her play by professional actors at the IRT on April 6.

• Summer Stock Stage, a professionally run theatre company for youth, is celebrating its sixth season at Park Tudor.

With students from more than 31 area high schools, Summer Stock Stage will present “Beauty and the Beast, Jr.” and “Rent” in Ayres Audito-

rium in June and July. For more information visit summerstockstage.com.

MUSIC

• Freshman Matthew White is one of three high-school musicians to win an award in the Orchestra Category of the Indiana Music Educators Association 2009-2010 Composition Competition. Matthew was a runner up for his composition “Rising Ambition,” which had its premiere at the spring Upper School orchestra concert.

• Vanessa Gehring ’13 and Abby Miller ’14, voice students of Barbara Horine, participated in scholarship auditions at Butler University on May 3 sponsored by Indianapolis Matinee Musicale. Both earned monetary awards for the continuation of their musical studies.

• Park Tudor’s three Upper School jazz combos performed at the University of Indianapolis Jazz Festival on February 28, with a number of students

The Upper School performed the comic musical “Anything Goes” March 13-15. First performed on Broadway in 1934, the show features music and lyrics by Cole Porter, with the book by Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse.

The musical chronicles the adventures of passengers aboard the S.S. American while sailing from New York to England. Here, Maddie Kahn ’09 as nightclub singer “Reno Sweeny” belts out a tune along with the chorus.

winning Outstanding Musician awards. Those honored were Anthony Graves ’09, alto sax, from the “Thursday Combo”; Drew Links ’12, guitar, from the “Wednesday Combo”; and Cameron Cecil ’09, clarinet, from the “Tuesday Combo.”

• Park Tudor musicians Heidi Chen ’09, Grace Barlow ’11 and Kevin Lee ’11 performed in a chamber music concert sponsored by the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra on April 19 at the Hilbert Circle Theatre.

• Keith Trump ’10 competed in the recent Assemblies of God Indiana State Fine Arts Festival in both voice and violin, earning first place in the string solo category.

VISUAL ARTS

Park Tudor students fared well in the recent Indiana Crossroads Conference Art Competition. Award winners were: First Place - Shelby Campbell ’11 (Photography), Maddie Kahn ’09 (Ceramics); Second Place - Tyler Braly ‘09

(Ceramics), Grace Moh ’11 (Drawing), Campbell Washington ’10 (Photography); Third Place - John Amy ’09 (Ceramics), Emily Spurgeon ’12 (Painting); and Honorable Mention - Max Berman ’10 (Drawing), Heidi Chen ’09 (Ceramics) and Mackenzie Turner ’10 (Photography).

Park Tudor placed third in the overall competition, with Beech Grove placing first and Cardinal Ritter second.

• Fifth grader Jack Lloyd has been honored by the Indianapolis Art Center for naming a new piece of artwork on display at the Center. He suggested “Recycled Dreams” as a title for the piece by Ghanaian-born artist El Anatsui that features bottle caps, tops, copper wire and recycled materials sewn together in the style of a quilt. Jack won the contest by entering the proposed title in a suggestion box at the Art Center, and his name is featured on a plaque located with the artwork.

Student musicians Sahil Yakhmi ’09, Ben Stovall ’09 and Scott Morton ’09 relax during a break at the Park Tudor jazz program’s ninth annual Jazz Kitchen Concert and Dinner on April 19. The event featured performances by the Park Tudor Jazz Ensemble, the three Upper School PT Jazz Combos, the PT Middle School Combo, and the Rich Dole Jazz Quartet.

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Lower School students publish book on water conservation

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ll 272 students in the Lower School spent time this year learning about the importance of water - and have published a full-color, illustrated book titled “Why Water?” to show the world what they have learned.

The study of water is included in the Peacejam program, which includes 12 Nobel Peace Prize winners who have agreed to work with youth around the world to help them realize how to make a difference in tackling local, national and/or global problems. Water is one of the ten global problems the 12 Peace Prize winners have identified.

Lower School counselor Nancy Canull coordinated the study program and book, and Elizabeth Epstein, an Indiana

University graduate student with degrees in international human relations and psychology, presented a three-week program to students on the uses of clean water, consequences of dirty water, and how they can make a difference. Some of the drawings they created following each classroom discussion were included as illustrations for the children’s book.

Children have learned about the scope of the water problem and gained an appreciation of how an individual effort can contribute to a greater good.

They also have learned about the process of creating, publishing and marketing a book from start to finish.

The profits from the book sales will benefit WaterAid, an organization that drills wells

for clean water availability around the world.

To purchase a copy of “Why

Water?,” contact the Lower School office at 317/4152701.

Senior creates “Science in a Suitcase” project

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or his Eagle Scout project, Ryan McClure ’09 came up with an innovative and practical solution to relieving some of the high costs of science equipment for classrooms. He created a science equipment lending library for central Indiana teachers. For his project called Science in a Suitcase, Ryan collected donations of science equipment and materials from businesses, universities and individual donors. Ryan was awarded the Merle Miller Award for Outstanding Eagle Scout Project of the Year for his innovative project.

The collection can be viewed at www.scienceinasuitcase.

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com, a web site created by Sahil Yakhmi ’09 and Alex Hearn ’09. Teachers can visit the site to check out materials for their classrooms for two to four weeks. The collection is growing and currently includes such equipment as a Van De Graaf generator, a six-foot wind tunnel, a Resusci-Anne doll for teaching CPR, meters, chemistry equipment, a unit on the human body complete with models of cells, a skeleton and medical equipment. There are units on electricity, physics, ecology, biology, chemistry and magnetism, among others.

The library will be housed at Park Tudor and run by volunteer staff and students known

as the “Science in a Suitcase Club,” led by eighth-grade science teacher Susan Harrison.

Ryan, who was selected from more 450 Scouts who completed projects in Indiana, was honored at a dinner where he gave a short speech about his project to about 650 community leaders.

“I’ve always thought one of the compelling aspects of science is being able to see it in action. I hope this project will make science ‘cool’ to those who otherwise wouldn’t have the opportunity,” says Ryan.

• Tyler Ebbinghouse ’12, Kevin Harris ’11 and Ben Stovall ’12 also earned the rank of Eagle Scout this year.

Kevin’s Eagle project was the construction and landscaping of a playground for Westminster Neighborhood Ministries built on an abandoned home site. The playground will be enjoyed by children from IPS #14 attending after-school and summer programs at Westminster.

• Genna Yedlicka ’10 has been awarded the Girl Scout Gold Award - the equivalent of the Eagle Scout Award.

Her project was turning an overgrown area of pebbles and ferns into a prayer garden at Bell’s Chapel on the near east side of Indianapolis. Her intent was to provide a quiet place of solitude and worship for parishioners.

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Computer science class designs web sites for non-profits

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f you run a not-for-profit organization and need a professional web site, look no farther than the students in Park Tudor’s Dynamic Web Development class!

The class gained real-world professional experience during the second semester of this school year by designing interactive web sites from start to finish for two Indianapolis nonprofit organizations.

Students in the class first invited requests from community-service organizations, and through an application and interview process selected two organizations to support.

The students created web sites for The Miracle League of Indianapolis, which provides children with mental or physical challenges the opportunity to play baseball, and for Pathway Community Center, which creates opportunities to promote self-sufficiency for low-income residents living near the Amber Woods Cooperative.

The projects were made possible through a grant from Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS), founded at Purdue University in 1995 to bring together high school and college students with strong technical backgrounds and community service agencies with technology needs. The grant provides matching funding for research and development expenses associated with the project.

Seniors Heidi Chen and Jessica Fisher learned about the EPICS program while studying at Purdue last summer, and expressed an interest in working on a summer project that followed the EPICS approach.

The result of that interest was

their creation of a web site for Indy School on Wheels. As a result of the success of that project, Park Tudor applied for and received a grant from EPICS to formally establish the program in the Dynamic Web Development class.

Computer Science teacher Ryan Ritz says, “The biggest advantage of this project is the fact that the students are working in a real-world environment, learning teamwork, research, communication and leadership skills that will benefit them in years to come. You really see the students grow in a project like this. It’s very exciting for the students and the teacher – you are learning and researching and don’t know where it will take you.”

David Danic, treasurer of the Miracle League of India-

Middle School junior thespians presented the musical play “Seussical!” on April 23. The show, which features many of the beloved characters who inhabit the land of Dr. Seuss, follows the story line of “Horton Hears a Who.”

napolis, wrote, “Through close collaboration with the Miracle League and countless hours of programming, your faculty and students’ design suits all of our needs as a growing not-

for-profit organization in the Indianapolis community. The web site’s design was matched only by the professionalism of the students and leadership demonstrated by Mr. Ritz.”

Indianapolis Mayor Gregory Ballard (right) visited Park Tudor on February 17 as part of his program to visit all Indianapolis high schools. The Mayor met with school administrators and Erin Biel ’09 and Kishan Shah ’10 to learn about the school’s many service-learning projects, then spoke at an Upper School assembly.

“To the gifted goes the responsibility,” said Mayor Ballard. “You owe the world more than your talent. You owe the world bringing others along. The special thing about this school is how it teaches you to give back.”

The Mayor presented Habitat for Humanity project leaders Marissa Braun and Joseph Scales with certificates honoring their service to the community. Head of School Doug Jennings gave the Mayor a copy of Park Tudor’s history book, “Park Tudor School: The First 100 Years,” noting how the school’s growth has paralleled that of the city.

Legacy Initiative project director Kathryn Lerch presented the Mayor with Volume III of the project’s “Words of War” history book series.

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In the community: students receive grant for playground project

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committee of four Upper School students has provided leadership for a creative Middle and Upper School plan to clean up an environmentally hazardous area and create a playground for the Project School. This new IPS charter school has been Park Tudor’s partner in several servicelearning activities this year.

Upper School project leaders Kishan Shah ’10, Eric Sabandal ’09, Patrick Rezek ’11 and Ashley Tambunan ’09 hosted a brunch event and led a student team that has been awarded a $4,000 grant to help fund the project - the largest grant given this year by Youth as Resources of Central Indiana.

Earlier this year, when our students found out that the Project School had no outdoor play area for its students, they sprang into action and formed the Project Playground committee. They began by interviewing administrators and students at the Project School to create a vision for a playground that would be the cornerstone of the developing community located near 22nd Street and College Avenue.

They learned that the soil of the land designated for the playground contains toxic elements and has been deemed a “brown field,” an abandoned area of land available for reuse but complicated by environmental contaminants.

Our students learned about the hazards of brown fields, remediation strategies for the land, funding sources for cleanup, and have been working with local city officials and neighborhood developers on their plans. With guidance from several Park Tudor parents and the Mayor’s Action Committee for Sustainable Indy, they are creating a plan to remediate the soil and build 16 park tudor phoenix SUMMER 2009

a sustainable, safe play area.

The construction of the playground will take place during the 2009-2010 school year and will provide hands-on opportunities for students to participate.

• The Upper School Environmental Club held two “carpool, walk or bike to school” days this spring. Brenda Zhang ’09 and Lyndsey Thygesen ’10 worked to identify carpool partners by matching Upper School students by zip code.

The Club also sponsored its first-ever microloan to assist a Filipino woman attempting to launch a sustainable bamboo wall decoration business.

Bamboo is a popular product in the sustainable-design movement and marketplace.

The loan will be repaid to the club over time so that future microloans remain “sustainable.”

• The girls soccer team held a used athletic shoe/cleat drive this spring, which resulted in the donation of 20 pairs of shoes to Souls4Soles, an organization that distributes footwear to those in need.

• Upper School students raised more than $6,000 for the American Cancer Society as team members in the Relay for Life held at the Indiana School for the Blind on May 16-17.

• The Junior Class “Fashion for Food” fashion show event in February raised more than $420 and hundreds of donations of canned goods to benefit Gleaners Food Bank.

Juniors Ellen Grein and Samantha Johansen organized the event, with clothing donated by local stores Frankey’s, The Pink Lime and Caché.

• Chris Holobek’s fourthgrade class collected books, stuffed animals and games for Teachers Treasures, a local nonprofit organization that

provides free school supplies to teachers at schools with a significant number of households that fall below the poverty index. The students’ collection filled an entire car from top to bottom. Mr. Holobek and orchestra director Lorelei Farlow also have been delivering supplies donated by Park Tudor faculty members to

Teachers Treasures over the course of the school year.

• Once a month after school, nine fifth graders volunteer to help at the First Baptist Church food pantry. The fifth graders prepare bags, help greet at the door, carry bags for older people or those with young children and help stock shelves.

Park Tudor’s Visual Arts Department is partnering with the nonprofit organization Homes with a Hug to create handmade works of art for homes for underprivileged families. Founded by PT parent Carrie Holle, the mission of Homes with a Hug is to furnish and decorate these houses, creating a warm environment and striving to improve the quality of life by turning a “house” into a “home.” Students in Tracey Petrov’s Upper School printmaking class created silkscreened comforter covers, sheets and pillowcases for one of the houses, while students also donated their original works of art to be sold in the silent auction at the organization’s fundraiser.

The fifth-grade classes planted an Aristocrat Pear tree, shrubs and flowers at the entrance to Lauth Field for an end-of-the-year service project.

The project was created to encourage service learning, promote positive role modeling for the younger Lower School students and to leave a positive legacy as the fifth graders graduate into the Middle School. The fifth grade dedicated the pear tree with a plaque during the Fifth Grade Award Ceremony. Here, students in Mary Jo Wright’s class enjoy the fruits of their labors while watering their new plantings.

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A salute to our departing faculty members We extend our sincere gratitude and appreciation to the administrators and faculty members who are retiring or departing from Park Tudor this year. Those leaving were honored by the Park Tudor Alumni Association during Alumni Weekend, by the Park Tudor Parents Association at its annual spring parent reception, and by the school and colleagues at a number of end-of-school-year assemblies, events and parties. We thank them for their extensive contributions to our school.

David Kivela

Tom Black

No one has worked harder or longer for Park Tudor than Tom Black, shown here with daughter Mimi Black Rassi ’89 during Alumni Weekend. Since joining the faculty of Park School in 1961, Mr. Black has served as admisHistory teacher David Kivela’s true legacy may be the introduction of the

sions director, Upper School director, assistant and associate headmaster,

phrase “Kivela Test” to the lexicon of Park Tudor. Thirty-nine graduat-

interim headmaster, math teacher, math tutor and mentor to faculty. At

ing classes can attest to the fear that strikes their hearts when they hear

times throughout his tenure he has coached Middle School football, bas-

those two words. But it is the strength of his teaching that is his greatest

ketball, and baseball, varsity boys’ golf and soccer, varsity football, cross

legacy. Since Mr. Kivela is also the championship Brain Game team advi-

country and track. And he also has contributed his services as campus

sor and football-game announcer, Athletic Director Brad Lennon presented

photographer, leaving a decades-long chronicle of athletic events, dances,

him with his own microphone and keys to the press box at the year-end

homecoming events and more.

Upper School Awards Assembly. You won’t see Mr. Kivela in the classroom next year, but he won’t be completely retired: he will continue to announce PT football and basketball games.

“In Government class, Mr. Kivela was fond of stirring some debates and asking us to question our assumptions and beliefs. Like just about every other teacher we all had at PT, he wanted the best out of us. And he was, and no doubt still is, approachable, smart, and a caring teacher….

“I still remember Mr. Kivela sitting at the top of the hill overlooking the football field next to the student parking lot during the football games. He’d always run the scoreboards. In one of the old yearbooks…there’s a photo of him working the scoreboard with one hand while holding up an umbrella in the other due to the pouring rain.”

– Bill Fosgate ’75

“I have many fond memories of Tom Black, as he taught me both algebra and calculus during my Upper School years. He was, of course, an excellent teacher, demanding, but patient....As a 14-year-old freshman in 1967, I sat in my coat and tie with eight or so other boys in Mr. Black’s Algebra 1 classroom. We would copy the equations into our notebooks as he wrote them on the blackboard. So as not to stain his fingers, the chalk was inserted into a spiffy tube with claws on one end to hold the chalk in place and a release button on the other end to let the chalk out when it became too short to continue writing. Being boys, we were not above the occasional acting out as he wrote on the board with his back to the class. We quickly learned of the third eye in the back of his head that allowed him to see the antic, seamlessly pivot, and release the chalk smack into the back wall over the head of the offender. And, being boys, this lesson was repeated many times during the school year.

“Thank you, Mr. Black, for the many lessons that you taught me.”

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A salute to our departing faculty members Joanne Black

Bill Browning

Hundreds of Park School and Park Tudor students have known and appreciated Mr. Browning’s passion for teaching over the past 44 years. Bill has served as Middle School director, Middle School geography teacher, and Upper School economics and history teacher. He also has been wrestling coach and sponsor of DECA, the business club that he agreed to sponsor Since joining the Park Tudor faculty in 1979, Mrs. Black has taught algebra

in its infant year, which in the past four years has grown to more than 60

I, geometry, pre-calculus, calculus I and linear algebra. For many years she

students.

served as math department chair and also was co-sponsor of the champion Brain Game team and coordinator of mathematics competitions for the Upper School. She loves sharing math with her students and taking math teams to competitions, where they invariably make a mark.

“I am forever indebted to you for your help and understanding while I was in your pre-calculus class in 2006. Mrs. Black, you taught me more than pre-calculus; you showed me never to give up on myself and that perseverance is power.”

– Alex Johansen ’06

Susie Maxwell

“Under Mr. Browning's guidance [of the DECA business club], the teams of students have performed well at all levels of competition, including several international championships. He has driven the competitors, myself included, to become successful businessmen and women. Although I was never a member of either his history or his economics classes, he did teach me how to follow my passion in business and to find success in that field. As my homeroom advisor and DECA advisor, he was able to ignite that passion and help it grow. He has inspired me, something he has been able to do for so many students for so many years.”

– Alex Sventeckis ’10 Susie Maxwell (right, photo at left) has served the school with distinction, leading the Development and Alumni Relations Office for the past 17 years.

She developed a comprehensive fundraising program for Park Tudor, ably guiding many annual fund campaigns and two successful capital campaigns, “A Gift for Teaching” and “Empowering Learners.” She also planned and executed memorable special events, developed creative and successful fundraisers for the school, and warmly reached out to alumni across the generations. Susie was honored at a June reception, where she is shown with former Park Tudor board member and Capital Campaign CoChair Julie Davis. Photo courtesy of ORG Magazine.

“Mrs. Maxwell always supported us during our Habitat for Humanity project. By her example, we aspired to a level of professionalism that helped shape us from students into leaders.”

– Joseph Scales ’09 Student co-chair, Park Tudor 2008 Habitat for Humanity Build 18 park tudor phoenix SUMMER 2009

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Joan Staubach ’66

Betsy Dykstra and Mary Golichowski

Both of these 18-year veterans generously shared their talents and love of literature with Middle School students. A lifelong educator, Betsy “retired” from her position as Middle School English teacher several years ago to Shown here with retired math teacher Bill Robinson during Alumni Weekend, Tudor Hall graduate Joan Staubach returned to campus 22 years ago as an eighth-grade science teacher. Her passion for science was evident in the many interactive labs she constructed for her students. Married to former Instrumental Music teacher Ed Staubach, Joan took up playing the cello, a skill we know she’ll continue in retirement. A few years ago, Joan left the classroom to become the middle school’s academic dean, where she carried on the Tudor/Park Tudor tradition of creating challenging class schedules and teaching the love of learning to students.

job-share with Mary as Middle School Media Specialist. She returned to the classroom in 1997 following six years as Park Tudor’s Middle School director. Betsy plans to continue and expand her extensive volunteer work in the community and spend more time with her four grandchildren. Many students will remember going on the archaeological dig at Raven Site in Arizona with Mrs. G.

Cathy Dezelan

Mary Jane Maudlin

Even before she joined the staff 28 years ago, Cathy was a member of the PT family, as husband Joe was dean of students and football coach. Mrs. Dezelan has been a teaching assistant in both senior and junior kindergartens. She is also well known to Lower Schoolers as the teacher that brings them sign language during every Monday Morning assembly. Cathy started Math, scheduling, Middle School trip planner extraordinaire, Middle School

the sign language program as part of the kindergarten curriculum and it

assistant – these are the titles that define Mary Jane Maudlin’s career at Park

spawned a special interest group in older kids. She also has contributed

Tudor. She came to Park Tudor as a sixth-grade math teacher and has been

her talents as the Lower School photographer and producer of end-of-year

assistant middle school head since 1998. Many students went to Dearborn,

slide shows.

Michigan and enjoyed Mrs. Maudlin’s special brand of good humor on those trips. She also was the keeper of PT memories as the yearbook advisor from 1987-1998.

“Mrs. Dezelan, thank you for giving our family the gift of sign language. Your songs always bring a tear to my eye.”

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A salute to our departing faculty members Nancy Canull

Lori Honer

After spending this summer teaching at Culver Summer Camps, as she has done for many years, Nancy Canull will head to Taipei, Taiwan, on August 17 to spend a year tutoring students in English. She also hopes to spend time traveling in Europe next year. Nancy joined Park Tudor in 1980 as a junior kindergarten assistant, then taught second grade and later senior kindergarten. She then taught half time and worked half time as counselor for students in kindergarten through grade six. In 1993 she assumed the role of full-time counselor. She also took a yearlong sabbatical to teach in Thailand during the 2002-2003 school year. Nancy wants everyone to know that the Tibetan peace flags the second graders made on Lower School

Co-director of the Upper School Orchestra and Lower/Middle School String Program assistant since 2003, Lori is moving on to continue her musical education. She has been admitted to the doctoral program at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.

Mothers’ Morning soon will be flying high at a school in Taipei.

Carol Shumate

Dr. Jeff Mitchell

Carol Shumate joined the Park Tudor faculty in 1979 to teach Advanced

Lower School Director Dr. Jeff Mitchell has accepted the position of head

Placement art history and assist in the Upper School library. She then

of school at Tuscaloosa Academy, an independent college preparatory

moved to the Middle School to teach both French and Spanish. In addition

school for 400 students (prekindergarten through high school) in Tusca-

to serving on the Personnel Practices and the Professional Development

loosa, Alabama. Dr. Mitchell joined Park Tudor as Lower School Director

committees, she helped to initiate the Senior Projects program, the Santa

in 2005 after serving as the deputy principal of the Junior School at St.

Fe field trip, Fine Arts assemblies, and the Middle School foreign-language

George’s School in British Columbia. Next year at Park Tudor the two posi-

fair. No doubt that in her retirement Carol will be spending more time in

tions of Hilbert Early Education Center Director and Lower School Director

Santa Fe, where she and her husband David own a lovely “retreat.”

will be combined, and current Hilbert Center Director Debbie Dominguez will assume that new role.

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Debbie Everett ’69 to continue as Upper School director

H

ead of School Doug Jennings is pleased to announce that Debbie Stuart Everett, Tudor Hall Class of 1969, will continue as director of the Upper School next year.

Jennings says, “Debbie has done an exceptional job this year as interim director of the Upper School, and I am happy to report that she has agreed to stay on in a permanent capacity. Her dedication to Park Tudor as a student, alumna, administrator and faculty member is helping us to carry on our strong traditions of academic excellence and character development.”

Mrs. Everett holds a B.A. degree from Carroll College and a M.S.W. degree from Indiana University. She is the recipient of both a Park Tudor Distinguished Alumni Award and a Distinguished Faculty Award. In her 30 years at the school, she has taught Upper School speech and social studies and Lower School drama and served as associate direc-

tor of admissions and as director of communications and alumni relations. She also has been coordinator of the awardwinning speech and debate team, cheerleading sponsor, faculty sponsor of the Sociology Club, co-director of the Middle School productions from 1998-2002 and Faculty Annual Fund liaison. She chaired Park Tudor’s Independent Schools Association of the Central States evaluation committee in 1987 and was vice chair in 1992. She also has served several terms on the Park Tudor Alumni Association Board of Directors.

We will welcome a new Upper School social studies teacher next fall to replace 39-year faculty member David Kivela, who retired at the end of the school year. Dr. Sven Dubie will join us with a distinguished record as a history professor at both the university and independent-school level. In addition to teaching Advanced Placement U.S. His-

tory and Western Civilizations, he will assist with the speech and debate program.

Dr. Dubie holds a Ph.D. in United States History from the University of Delaware, a MALS degree in American Studies from Wesleyan University and B.A. degrees in history and German from Colby College in Waterville, Maine, where he graduated magna cum laude and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. He attended Philips Exeter Academy for secondary school. He is the author of numerous essays and articles published in history publications, including articles on the American Civil Rights Movement. He also is a board trustee of the Cleveland Heights Historical Society and served as a research assistant for the John F. Kennedy Library.

Since 2001, Dr. Dubie has been a history lecturer and visiting assistant professor at John Carroll University in University Heights, Ohio. He

also has been a middle- and upper-school history teacher at the Episcopal High School of Jacksonville Poughkeepsie Day School, where he also was a coach.

Dr. Dubie notes that he is eager to return to teaching secondary school, where he will be able to devote more time to his students. Of his philosophy of teaching, he writes, “My preference is for discussion rather than lecture. Humor and laughter are important tonics in my classroom and are conducive to the free and open exchange of ideas. I regularly use novels and poetry, music, films and documentaries, and other media to illuminate a particular event or period.

Similarly, I incorporate the fruits of my current research interests into the curriculum.

Not only does this help to keep the material we are covering current, but it also serves as a reminder to those in my classes that, at heart, I remain a student.”

Lower School students invited their moms into the classroom on May 8 for Mothers’ Morning, an annual event. Moms and students interacted with

Senior kindergartners visited Young Chefs Academy in Carmel in February.

games, activities and lessons. Here, Brian DelaRosa ‘18 and his mother

They learned nutritious recipes, including apple berry salsa, which Sam

Katherine make a Native American sand drawing together.

Tobias and John Warren took time to carefully assemble.

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Faculty in the news • Upper School English teacher Kim Pulfer has received a $3,000 scholarship from the English Speaking Union to study at Oxford University this summer. She is attending the three-week History, Politics and Society seminar in the University of Oxford Summer Programme at Exeter College in July. The seminar, which provides insight into issues and events that have influenced the contemporary world, consists of a daily lecture program given by leading scholars and distinguished speakers and study in small seminar groups with specialist tutors.

• Upper School French teacher Janice Vote has received a $2,000 curriculum-development grant from the Western European Studies Department at Indiana University. She is using the grant funds to attend a language and cultural immersion workshop this summer in Bayonne, France. The workshop focuses on the Basque culture and on current events in France, such as European Union activities and developments in national French education.

• Upper School Director and longtime speech and debate team advisor Debbie Stuart Everett has been named a “Diamond Key Coach” by the National Forensic League.

Under her direction, Park Tudor speech and debate team members earned more than 15,010 credit points during their competitions; the coach receives one-tenth of her students’ points. On attaining a total of 1,500 points, coaches are entitled to wear the diamondset National Forensic League key or pin. She received special recognition for this honor at the National Tournament in Birmingham, Alabama, in June. The National Forensic League is a non-partisan, not22 park tudor phoenix SUMMER 2009

for-profit educational honor society founded in 1925 to encourage and motivate high school students to participate in and become proficient in the forensic arts.

• Upper School Spanish teacher David Malcom served as president of the Indiana Association of teachers of Spanish and Portuguese for 2008-09.

• Middle School Spanish teacher Joanne Jones was a presenter at the Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages in Chicago in March. She made a presentation on how to establish and maintain a statewide affiliate organization, in this case the Indiana Network For Early Language Learning, an affiliate of the National Network for Early Language Learning.

Mrs. Jones is the Indiana state representative to the National Network. Along with two colleagues, she will make a simi-

lar presentation at the national conference of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages in San Diego in November.

• Hilbert Center/Lower School vocal music teacher Jennifer Nie performed in the chorus of “Pirates of Penzance” by Gilbert & Sullivan with Indianapolis Opera.

• Upper School History teacher Jeff Johnson attended Indiana University’s Symposium “China’s Revolutionary Century,” which offered new approaches and innovative resources for teaching about the rapid changes China is experiencing.

• Latin teacher Clifford Hull, who also teaches evening Classical Mythology courses at IUPUI, was named a Favorite Professor by the IUPUI student-athletes and honored at the university’s Favorite Professor Night. Mr. Hull also attended the AP Latin Devel-

opment Committee’s meeting in New York City in March to finish writing the 2010 AP Latin exam. This committee is comprised of three high-school teachers and three college professors who write all of the AP Latin exams. He also will serve on this committee next year.

• Spanish teacher Sheila Young and Social Studies teacher Margo McAlear this summer serve as AP Readers to evaluate and score exams taken in their respective subject areas for the College Board’s Advanced Placement program.

More than 1.5 million students worldwide took approximately 2.9 million AP examinations in 22 subject areas in May. • Upper School biology teacher Justin Dammeier has received his master’s in education degree in curriculum and instruction from Indiana Wesleyan University.

Students in the Lower School and Hilbert Center enjoyed the annual tradition of Field Day on May 27. Students were divided into red and white teams and participated in events that included: Shoes Off Relay, Shoes On Relay, Soccer Ball Relay, Hockey Ball Relay, Sprint Races, Basketball Relay, Cone Knockdown Relay, Park Tudor 500 Relay, Ball and Spoon Relay, Blindfold Relay, Tug-o-War and a cheer contest. In the end, the white team prevailed, 115-65.

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Spring athletic update: Girls track team takes third place at state meet

By Brad Lennon, Athletic Director

GIRLS TRACK

It was another record-setting spring for the Park Tudor girls track team. Individually and collectively, the girls set numerous school records, won championships, and – most impressively – finished third in the state meet in Bloomington in early June with only a four-person team. The Farley sisters, Hannah ’09 and Abby ’11, had phenomenal showings at the state meet, with Abby capturing the state title in the 800-meter run with a school record time of 2:12.42. She set a new sectional record in the event of 2:16.93. Her sister Hannah won several medals, taking second place in the 400-meter race, third place in the 200, and third in the 100.

She had taken a triple win in the three events at regionals.

Hannah and Abby also teamed with Heidi Chen ’09 and Constance Lee ’11 in the 1600-meter relay, finishing third with a school record time of 3:54.39. Park Tudor garnered a third-place team total of 39 points, just behind second place Warren Central’s 45 and state champion Lawrence North’s 51. It was the second consecutive top-five finish for Coach Ryan Ritz’s Panther squad at the state meet. In addition to their state meet victories, the girls swept top honors at the Indiana Crossroads Conference meet earlier in the spring, and took runner-up in both the Park Tudor Relays and the Howe Invitational.

BOYS TRACK

Senior Kyle Marks had a remarkable spring, breaking school records in both the 1600-meter run (4:20.90) and the 3200-meter run (9:31.84).

Kyle’s record time earned him the first sectional cham-

pionship for an individual in boys track. He and sophomore Henry Farley advanced to the track regionals based on their strong finishes at sectionals.

Kyle was unable to compete in the regionals after incurring a concussion in an auto accident prior to the meet. Henry had a strong showing, finishing in fifth place in the 800-meter race in 1:58.90, just two places short of advancing to the state finals. As a team, the boys took first place earlier in the spring at the Howe Invitational and third place in the Indiana Crossroads Conference meet.

BASEBALL

After a fast 13-3 start to the season, the boys baseball team found themselves atop the 2A baseball polls. Coach Courtney Whitehead fielded a somewhat veteran, yet still young team, only to learn prior to the start season that senior AllState shortstop and IU recruit Micah Johnson ’09 would be sidelined most of the season because of shoulder surgery.

With Micah out of the lineup, the rest of the team responded quite well. Andrew Bain ’09 led the Panthers at the plate and in the field, along with Kyle Hardacker ’10, Madison Foster ’12 and Nolan Smith ’11. Junior Max Thomas provided strong pitching along with Foster, Bain and Max Zhang ’11. The team captured the Indiana Crossroads Conference championship with a 5-1 league record and advanced deep into the Marion County tourney with wins over Lawrence Central and Franklin Central, only to fall short in the semifinal to Southport, 11-4. In sectional play Park Tudor defeated Indian Creek and Scecina, but fell in the title game, 6-5, to eventual state champion Heritage Christian.

SOFTBALL

Coach Carolyn Coyne welcomed an enthusiastic group of girls in early March. With four returning seniors and a bumper crop of underclassmen, the season held much promise for an improved record from the previous campaign. Sophomore Morgan Essex returned from off-season elbow surgery and looked good on the mound, while freshman Maya Vance provided much promise as catcher. The Panthers faced one of the toughest schedules in 2A play considering that both Lutheran and Scecina, perennial state powers, were on the schedule twice – including a matchup with the Saints in the County Tourney. After a slow start the girls managed a couple of victories before the injury bug hit the team.

Lynelle Chen ’10 suffered an injury to her jaw when she took a fly ball to the face, then Morgan Essex broke a finger attempting to field a line drive, resulting in season-ending surgery. Maya Vance moved to the pitching rotation while sophomore shortstop Teagan Johnson took over at catcher position. The girls still managed to win two games before ending their season with a first-round sectional loss to eventual state finalist Scecina.

Kudos to seniors Anna McKown, Kendall Cochran, Kristen Rogers and Lara Naanouh for all they have given to the program over the past four years.

BOYS GOLF

After battling cold and rainy weather during the first part of the season, the boys golf team settled in to complete a winning dual-match season ending with a 5-4 record.

The linksters captured second place at both the Winchester and Southmont Invitationals

as well as at the Indiana Crossroads Conference meet, where they finished one stroke behind champion Beech Grove. In the Marion County Tournament Park Tudor grabbed third place out of 16 teams and finished a respectable sixth of 14 teams in sectional play. Sophomore John Norton shot an 18-hole round of 74 at the sectional – good enough to qualify for the regional, in which he shot an 80. The future looks bright for the golf team, with all varsity players returning next year.

BOYS LACROSSE

The boys lacrosse team finished its season with a 10-7 win-loss record, showing much improvement from a year ago when it struggled to score. This year’s squad had a good mix of veteran and inexperienced players who blended well in a very competitive season. Coach Matt McInrue was pleased with the team’s progress and believes it could be one of the best in the state next year. Seniors Eric Sabandal and Justin Spurgeon both garnered postseason recognition, earning Honorable Mention All-State honors from the Indiana High School Lacrosse Association.

Sabandal and Elliott Sweeney ’09 were named Academic All-State and Paul Bourdillon ’09 was named one of only two Academic All Americans from Indiana. In state tournament play Park Tudor won a closely contested battle against Brebeuf, only to fall in secondround play to Culver.

GIRLS LACROSSE

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lier in the spring Park Tudor won a heart-stopping 16-15 game against Culver in a game that served as a prelude to the state-title match. The Panthers’ run to the championship game was marred by season-ending injuries to seniors Carly Dean and Knubbe Kunz. Both sustained knee injuries, tearing their ACLs – Carly in practice and Knubbe in the state semifinal. As much as their injuries affected the Panthers at the defensive and offensive ends of the field, the rest of the team picked up the slack and nearly pulled out a victory. The loss represented Coach Candi Parry’s seventh state runner-up trophy to go along with her 2005 state championship win.

Several players earned postseason honors. Seniors Sara Johnson and Knubbe Kunz received All-State recognition and junior Maddie Kahn was named All-State Honorable Mention. Samantha Johansen ’10 was named to the All-Tournament team. The team finished with a 12-3 record.

GIRLS TENNIS

One of the great chapters in Park Tudor girls tennis came to

a close this spring. After capturing four consecutive IHSAA state championships (20052008) and a school record 78 straight dual-match victories, the girls fell, 3-2, to eventual state champion Carmel in the semistate final. The loss ended one of the most successful fouryear runs of any school in state history. However, the girls captured both the Indiana Crossroads Conference and Marion County Tourney championships in addition to sectional and regional titles.

Freshman Chelsea Carter stepped in to take the No. 1 singles spot, but missed the middle of the season owing to a sprained ankle. She recovered in time to lead the Panthers through their state-tournament run.

Sarah MacPhail was the lone senior in the starting line-up.

She teamed with junior Caroline Emhardt at the No.1 doubles slot. Sarah was an integral member of three team state titles, and in two of those state titles won the deciding match for the Panthers. With six of the top seven positions returning next season, the team will be one of the favorites to win next year’s state crown.

Park Tudor placed third in the 4x400 meter relay at the Girls State Track Meet at the IU Track and Field Stadium in Bloomington on June 6. Here, Hannah ’09 and Abby Farley ’11 (standing) and Constance Lee ’10 and Heidi Chen ’09 (seated) enjoy the spotlight at the awards ceremony.

SCHOOL RECORDS 2009-2010

SPECIAL HONORS

Nigelie Assee – 100m Hurdles – 16.46 Nigelie Assee – 300m Hurdles – 49.42 Kyle Marks – 1600m Run – 4:20.90 Kyle Marks – 3200m Run – 9:31.84 Hannah Farley – 100m Dash – 12.35 Abby Farley – 800m Run – 2:12.42 Girls 4x400 Relay – (Constance Lee, Abby Farley, Heidi Chen, Hannah Farley) 3:54.39 Girls 4x100 Relay – (Constance Lee, Christine Lucas, Katie Purucker, Nigelie Assee) 52.24 Katie Purucker – Girls Pole Vault – 6’0” Preston Hill – Boys’ Pole Vault – 7’6”

Ms. Track, Indiana – Hannah Farley Indianapolis Star Marion County Female “Athlete of the Year” – Hannah Farley Marion County Coaches of Girls Sports Marion County “Athlete of the Year” – Hannah Farley IHSAA Mental Attitude Award for Track and Field – Hannah Farley Indiana Crossroads Conference “Medal of Honor” Recipients – Lyndsey Holt, Justin Spurgeon U.S. Lacrosse All-American – Sara Johnson U.S. Lacrosse Honorable Mention All-American – Knubbe Kunz

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Spotlight on Hannah Farley ’09

By Cassie Dull

A

sk most sports fans and they’ll tell you how incredibly rare it is to find an all-around athlete who can excel in just about any sport.

The Class of 2009’s Hannah Farley is one of those allaround athletes.

During her four years in the Upper School, Hannah participated in soccer in the fall, followed by basketball in the winter and then track in the spring. Not only did she participate in all three sports, but she also excelled as the leader on each team. This past year, she led the soccer team in goals and the basketball team in both scoring and rebounding.

But her true athletic leadership shows on the track. Hannah advanced all the way to the state meet her freshman year, where she picked up her first of three consecutive state titles in the 400-meter race.

Throughout her four-year high school track career, Hannah eventually added the 100m, 200m and 1600m relay to the list of events in which she’s medaled at state.

This spring at regionals, Hannah took a 100/200/400 triple win and led the 1600 relay to a second-place finish.

Looking to become only the second female runner in Indiana history to win her fourth consecutive state title in the 400m, Hannah gave it her all but didn’t show any disappointment with her secondplace finish. She also finished third in both the 100m and 200m and anchored the 1600m relay to third place.

Hannah truly is the embodiment of the term all-around athlete when it comes to highschool sports. Not only does she have outstanding athletic ability, but she also has the sense to know that being an

all-around student-athlete requires sportsmanship, leadership, dedication to academics, and showing involvement and pride in her school.

Hannah is headed to Stanford University on a track scholarship this fall. She graduated with a 3.96 grade-point average, and she earned a gold medal in the cello competition of the Indiana State School Music Association. “(She) is a unique combination of an athlete who can ‘wow’ everyone in the gym, soccer field or track stadium, yet also have that same ‘wow’ effect on her teachers, friends, family and anyone else who comes into contact with her,” said girls varsity basketball coach Barb Skinner.

Her athletic honors this year include: All-Conference, Academic All-Conference and All-Marion County in soccer; All-Conference and Academic

All-Conference in basketball; Fall 2008 PT Crown Award; National Federation of State High School Associations Outstanding Contribution to Sport Award; Athlete of the Year by the Marion County Coaches of Girls Sports Association; Park Tudor Female Athlete of the Year; The Indianapolis Star Marion County Female Athlete of the Year; the Indiana High School Athletic Association Mental Attitude Award; and the title of “Ms. Track” for the state of Indiana by the Indiana Association of Track and Cross Country Coaches.

“Hannah really opened the door to where people believe they can follow in her footsteps,” said track coach Ryan Ritz.

“They’re looking at Hannah and saying, ‘What is she doing to have this success?’ They see her goals and work hard, and they follow in her path.”

Beach International Equestrian Center in Wellington, Florida in March. The FTI Winter Equestrian Festival is one of the biggest shows in the United States, featuring a host of spectacles including the only Nations Cup Showjumping Challenge. The three-monthlong festival hosts the world leading riders and offers more than $5.5 million in prize money.

• Congratulations to both the 6th and 7th/8th grade girls basketball teams for winning their respective IISL tournaments and becoming IISL champions! The sixth-grade girls team defeated the Orchard Owls, 13-6, to win the tournament.

The Panthers also were the IISL League Champions with a 10-2 record. The 7th/8th grade girls also defeated Orchard (37-27) to capture the tournament title and the league championship. The team had a perfect season, finishing with a 16-0 record.

Athletes in the news • Congratulations to Upper School track coach Ryan Ritz for receiving the 2008 Girls Track Coach of the Year Award (Class A) from the Indiana Association of Track and Cross Country Coaches (IATCCC).

Ritz also was the recipient of the Park Tudor Booster Club’s Coach of the Year Award for Upper School. Middle School basketball coach Becky Ragsdale won the award for the Middle School.

• Park Tudor’s male and female “Athletes of the Year” honors were awarded to graduating seniors Hannah Farley and Kyle Marks.

• Ben Daughtery ’10 (wrestling) and Sara Johnson ’09

(sport) were named recipients of the Booster Club’s Winter 2009 Crown Awards, while Heidi Chen ’12 (track) and Max Thomas ’10 (baseball) were winners of the Spring Crown Awards. The Crown Awards are given each athletic season to a male and a female student who excel in both athletics and academics.

• Seniors Cole Sommer and Marc Wagoner were invited to play in the Indiana High School East-West All Star Soccer Game in June. Both boys played on the West Squad.

• Laurel MacAllister ’12 was named Reserve Champion at the 2009 FTI Winter Equestrian Festival held at the Palm

The Applefest Golf Tournament scheduled for September 2009 is being postponed to spring 2010. More details will be announced as they become finalized. Stay tuned!

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Words of War: a tribute to veterans I

n a tribute to all veterans and those in the service today, the

wartime documents and oral histories.

Park Tudor Legacy Initiative history project celebrates the

Among the “Words of War” collection are riveting

May 2009 publication of the fourth book in the “Words of War”

accounts of a pilot flying on the Second Schweinfurt Raid, an

series, compiled by Park Tudor students and edited by Social

infantryman fighting his way through the Bocage country of

Studies Department Chair Kathryn Lerch. The series is a col-

Normandy, a Fifteenth Air Force crew member held as a POW

lection of wartime memories from veterans and civilians, both

in Yugoslavia, as well as a survivor of the sinking of the USS

abroad and at home from many of America’s wars.

Indianapolis.

“Words of War: Wartime Memories - Oral Histories from

Since 2002, students in the Legacy Initiative at Park Tudor

WWII” offers the perspectives of 63 veterans (40 of whom are

have recorded and transcribed more than 450 interviews with

from Indiana) on the trials, triumphs, camaraderie and day-

veterans and civilians. From this collection, students select,

to-day experiences of life during the Second World War. This

edit, research and write narratives for the Words of War

320-page, hardbound volume includes stories from veterans

anthologies.

who served in the European, Mediterranean and Pacific the-

For more information on the Legacy Initiative, visit www.

aters, in amphibious, air or land operations, from Pearl Harbor

parktudor.org/legacy. The web site was built by Jessica Fisher

to V-J Day.

’09 and Heidi Chen ’09.

At a veteran recognition event and book signing by veter-

The following is an excerpt from the latest volume of

ans and student authors on May 11, the Director of the Library

“Words of War,” the compelling story of World War II pilot

of Congress Veterans History Project, Robert W. Patrick,

Roland H. Martin, whose plane was shot down over Germany.

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Anna Hollansky ’09 created this photo collage, “History Repeats,” for her Advanced Photography class. “In this photograph, I manipulated an old photograph of my great grandfather. I placed a blue jay in a tree to symbolize the happiness and fulfillment my great grandfather felt as he emigrated from the Czech Republic to America. I placed a river in the valley to help signify the importance of the cycle of life. Also, the repetition of the stack of books, to me, represents that history repeats itself, as it seems unattainable and far away. I created this illusion by utilizing five different images using Adobe Photoshop.”

The Second Schweinfurt Raid – Black Thursday First Lieutenant Roland H. Martin, 525th Bomb Squadron, 379th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force flying out of England Roland Martin, a Californian, flew this mission in a B-17 on October 14, 1943. The primary target was the ball-bearing factory in Schweinfurt, Germany. Martin finds this mission especially painful to relate and has only told this story twice: Even today I get very emotional. . . . Well, this was the second Schweinfurt raid. There was an earlier one on August 17th when [we] lost sixty airplanes on that battle, and the second Schweinfurt we lost another sixty. Those are just airplanes that were lost over Germany. Many of those that were able to get back to their bases were so badly shot up that they were

junked. We knew that it was going to be very difficult and . . . we were prepared for it. We were not very well organized from a wing . . . .

It turned out that one of the groups had such a difficult time forming up over England that there was almost an hour’s difference between the two [groups] and so instead of supporting one another, the Germans had a free shot at 120 airplanes.

And then those German fighters that were left had another shot. Anyway, . . . airplanes were falling out of the sky and blowing up. I think we all questioned whether we were going to make it. But, we flew under attack . . . with more different kinds of attackers than we had ever seen before. There were the 109s and the 190s that were the predominant fighters—first Continued on page 28 SUMMER 2009 PARK TUDOR PHOENIX 27

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Continued from page 27 line fighters, but they had Me-110s, they had Heinkel-111s, . . . then there were 210s (a later version of the twinengine fighter bomber) and the fighter bomber types didn’t attack . . . head on or en masse, but they flew over or alongside and fired rockets, they dropped bombs attached to parachutes on long cables. If you happened to hit Graduation photo of a cable that would either slice the wing Roland Martin, age 19 or it would slide along until the bomb was pulled into the airplane. But, . . . we made it to the target and I don’t know whether we lost an airplane or not [referring to the bomb group] going in, in spite of the attacks, but I can recall watching five or six fighters come in line astern and you could just see them firing and coming in and almost would be looking right into their eyes.

We were all over the sky. There was a lot of physical work moving that airplane back and forth and yet staying reasonably close to the formation. But we did get to the target.

Now, Martin experienced the worst part of the mission: As we were on our bomb run, I could see a three-burst 88 elevator Flak bursts ahead of us. And the bursts were brilliant red with black smoke and not very large but lethal. And I could look right down the line on the one-two-three and I could count each one of them—and they were all in line and right at my altitude. And at this point on the bomb run you couldn’t change.

So that was the first one. The second one I saw two flashes and then there was an explosion and we lost the two starboard engines and with that, about that time, it was also bombs away. . . . I don’t know when we dropped our bombs because that was something the bombardier did—he toggled off the lead ship. But, we immediately began losing speed. Within a minute maybe less than a minute—whatever it took for them to reload, this same battery had us dead on and they were cutting the fuses for our absolute almost exact altitude. I could see two more explosions and another one which rocked the ship and we lost the two port engines. With that, of course, we were dead in the water. The group kept going. . . I could look out the left side— the pilot’s side—and the wing was shattered, the gasoline was pouring out. I could look back and there was a hundred yards of fuel just spraying out behind and . . . there was a [German] mop-up plane, . . . it was a JU-88 which is a bomber, but they were fitted with forward firing guns, [they] came in to finish 28 park tudor phoenix SUMMER 2009

us off. [They may have been] using tracers, but I knew that if those tracers hit a wing or even fired through this gas—and by the way, whatever was also flowing out of the left wing, was flowing out of the right wing—so we were spewing gas. I had seen enough airplanes blown up that that’s where I thought we were going. But for some reason that didn’t happen and I do remember saying (I’m not a religious person at all. I have a certain amount of faith), but I can recall saying, ‘God, if You ever help me, help me now!’ The Flak from the gun had shredded the wings, knocked out the engines, and . . . and knocked out the instrument panel, and . . . I could smell cordite. I didn’t know at the time, but it had nicked my jacket and also cut my leg enough that there was some blood. . . .

According to a reminiscence written by Martin after the war, “The Iron Maiden fell from formation and started a rapid descent. A powerless B-17 has the glide angle of a brick.” It was a miracle what happened next: With no power, normally what one does is bail out, but on one of the shots . . . the top turret dropped about 18 inches. It just blew the base out of it. But, I couldn’t bail out until I knew how the rest of the crew had fared. So the top turret gunner— Macri— I looked at him and he was pea green—absolutely pea green. . . . I yelled at him to go back and see what’s happened in the back, see who’s there and let me know. So he couldn’t go back with a parachute on, because he couldn’t get through the bomb bays.

So, I was taking evasive action, because every time this plane came in, I’d put the nose down to pick up some speed and every time the 88 came in firing at us, I’d pull the nose up and I found, by the way that—I think the reason he was firing at us, was because Rittenberg, my bombardier, was firing at him. If I’d been the [German] pilot, I’d be firing back. I mean it—we were a wounded duck, but the wounded duck was . . . firing at the German mop-up. So, I was going up and down as violently as possible. I had no aileron control on one side, but I had on the other. . . . I let the plane drop quickly and gain enough speed that when the mop-up—I can’t even call him a fighter bomber—came in, I could raise the nose, and he’d have to keep raising or we would run into one another and so, many of these shots were going astray. But, it was very, very rough. . . we had gone from somewhere between 15 and 20,000 down to about 1500 feet. There was no room to bail out or no altitude. . . . There was only one thing to do and that was to crash land and I had picked out a field as we were trained to do in primary training. . . .

Crash Landing . . .we came in. I laid the plane down and fortunately, it didn’t blow up and it was a pretty good landing. . . . Anyway, this [JU-] 88 was still circling us and had fired—and I was

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Germans observing crashed American bomber (Courtesy Roland Martin.)

afraid he was going to fire at us on the ground, but it turned out that this field was being worked by a dozen, 15 or 20 people.

They were all, fortunately for us, old men and old women.

Everyone else was on the Eastern Front at that point, and they surrounded the airplane.

Well, the moment we hit the ground, Price, the co-pilot, and Rittenberg, the bombardier, were out of that plane like rabbits. I mean, they really hit the ground running, as they well should. But I was trained to see that the plane was destroyed before leaving it, so I tried—I wanted to fire the airplane.

Martin remembers that he and the top turret gunner spent possibly five minutes trying to burn what was left of their plane. . . . I was equipped with a Colt .45 and I took that and threw that into [the chute]. I was not about to shoot a German deep in Germany—and then with that, I told Macri, ‘Let’s go, we’re going to walk right to the forest. Don’t run, just start walking.’

The German farmers were as stunned with us as we were with them and they just stood there—they had hoes and shovels and God knows what else. They didn’t attack us and the 88 couldn’t shoot us because . . . they were around.

Erin Biel ’09 (left) and Anisha Yadav ’12 (center), who interviewed World

As soon as Martin and another officer made it into the forest, “they took off on a run” in the direction of Switzerland— two weeks later they were captured and sent to Stalag Luft I in northern Germany, where Martin remained until the arrival of the Russian Army in May 1945.

War II veteran William Rice for the “Words of War” book, presented him with a copy during the Legacy Initiative program. The organization “Never Too Late,” which partners with the Legacy program, granted Mr. Rice’s “wish” by sending him and his children on an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington, D.C. in June to visit the World War II memorial and other sites.

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Emma Skeels ’12 and Brooke Hasler ’12 talk with World War II veteran John Jameson at the Park Tudor Legacy Initiative’s book launch and program honoring veterans on May 11.

“History is a fleeting, intangible entity, words and events lost to the wind unless they are captured from the air and recorded down somehow. It has been Legacy Initiative’s determined mission to clasp eagerly onto every piece of veterans’ history that may come our way, at risk of losing those words to the wind. As a member of Legacy, I have become all too familiar with the ephemeral nature of history, as we have sadly lost many of our contributing veterans over the past few years. Such has instilled in me a sense of personal responsibility in preserving history before it is too late, which would result in losing a treasure trove of information that would otherwise enlighten generations to come.

It is these same experiences on Legacy that have demonstrated to me the importance of fostering intimate relationships with individuals while one has the opportunity to do so. Each veteran has such a unique and detail-filled story to relay. Upon sitting down with these veterans and conversing on a close level, suddenly their most defining experiences emerge and I am truly able to understand these incredible individuals on a more personal level. It is this personal connection with history that Legacy aims to present in its “Words of War” series, and we hope it will encourage people to take these veterans’ stories to heart, forever remembering the intrepid contributions of our American soldiers.”

– Erin Biel ’09 Excerpts of comments presented at the Legacy Initiative book-launch event on May 11, 2009.

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Alumni News Alumni Weekend 2009

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ore than 300 alumni came from across the United States and abroad to attend this year’s Alumni Weekend on May 1 and 2.

The kick-off event of the weekend brought together the entire Park Tudor family at the annual Founders’ Day celebration in the varsity gym.

Founders’ Day dates back to 1933, when the Tudor Hall Grandchildren’s Society was established. Students were recognized on Founders’ Day if family members had attended Tudor Hall. Today, the entire school gathers to honor and recognize families who have multi-generational links to Park Tudor. Speakers included Distinguished Alumni Award recipient LeAnne Smith Hardy ’69 and, representing the 50-year alumni class, Carol Cummings Rogers ’59 and Markham Campaigne ’59.

On Saturday, alumni from the classes of 1924-1959 came together at Woodstock Club for the Fifty-Year Club Brunch.

Park Tudor’s 1999 Class A State Championship baseball team reunited at a cookout during the Panthers’ games against Scecina. Alumni joined retired English Department Chair and teacher Jim Foxlow as he shared excerpts of poetry and other writings.

And to cap off the day, alumni gathered in Clowes Commons for a reception and class photos, and the chance to honor departing Park Tudor faculty members.

And the answer to this year’s Alumni Weekend “trivia question”: the alumnus who traveled farthest to attend Alumni Weekend was Colin Burt ’84 and his wife, Zeynep, from London, England.

Class of 1999 members Jay Bryan (left) and Nick Eaton (right) and friends get a kick out of reading the “memory sheets” they completed when they graduated from Park Tudor. The Park Tudor Alumni Office kept the sealed envelopes and distributed them at reunion to assist with a trip down memory lane.

Retired English teacher Jim Foxlow chats with Art Brown ’64 and Head of School Doug Jennings following his poetry reading during Alumni Weekend. He read several poems by Thomas Hardy and shared his thoughts on their importance and meaning. To receive a complimentary video DVD

“Longevity Awards” (for attendees with the longest tenure as alumni) were

of the poetry reading, please contact Lisa Hendrickson at lhendrickson@

presented at the 50-Year Club Brunch to Tudor Hall’s Bertha Van Derbilt

parktudor.org or 317/415-2756.

’33 (shown here) and Park School’s Dick West ’42 and Bill Clark ’42.

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Park Tudor honors three Distinguished Alumni

By Cassie Dull

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n annual tradition that began in 1987, the Distinguished Alumni Awards banquet is one of the most anticipated alumni events of the year. Park Tudor honored three Distinguished Alumni Award recipients during Alumni Weekend at a banquet at the Woodstock Club on May 1.

The honorees for this special award for 2009 are LeAnne Smith Hardy (Tudor Hall 1969), John Krauss (Park School 1967) and Rob Brown (Park Tudor 1979). These three Distinguished Alumni are just a small sample of the thousands of Park School, Tudor Hall and Park Tudor alumni around the world who make a difference in their communities.

LeAnne Smith Hardy ’69 was a quiet leader during her days at Tudor Hall. She was known for her beautiful soprano voice and her academic success, but her talent for writing and her secret love for children’s literature led her to become an author and freelance editor later on in life.

LeAnne embraced a call to missionary service that took her and her husband Steve on a journey to live in six countries on four continents over the past 25 years. She used her skills as a librarian to reach out to people in need, especially children, in places such as Ethiopia, Brazil, Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia and England.

Classmate Sharon Drach Mangas, who introduced LeAnne at the Distinguished Alumni Awards dinner, said, “LeAnne scarcely fits the stereotype of a shy and retir32 park tudor phoenix SUMMER 2009

LeAnne Smith Hardy and classmate Debbie Stuart Everett share a funny memory after the Founders’ Day ceremony.

ing librarian. Wherever she’s lived, she’s been an active force for literacy, using her strong faith and love of knowledge to make a difference in the world.”

LeAnne has worked tremendously to improve the lives of some of the nearly 12 million orphans in Africa today – most of whom have lost their parents to HIV/AIDS. She makes a difference in the lives of these children by bringing books to them, reading to them, and writing stories that allow children to see the world as other people see it, show them that they are not alone and encourage them to see possibilities.

Classmate and Upper School Director Deborah Stuart Everett ’69 says of LeAnne’s dedication to helping children in Africa, “She took it to a far greater extent with an incredible amount of writing and workshops on AIDS and HIV. She took that mission and that sense of service and translated it into a far greater impact than any of us could have ever imagined.”

LeAnne’s publications

include “The Wooden Ox,” “Between Two Worlds,” “So That’s What God Is Like” and “Glastonbury Tor,” all published by Kregel in the United States.

John Krauss ’67 has been an important force in the development and advancement of community initiatives in Indianapolis for nearly 40 years. In his 20s, he took on the position of executive director of the Greater Indianapolis Progress Committee, which served as the backbone of the city’s transition into a major metropolitan city.

From there, he furthered his involvement in public policy as the director of the city’s Department of Metropolitan Development and later as deputy mayor from 1982-1991 under Mayor William Hudnut. Some of the initiatives that John was involved with include planning for Circle Centre mall, maintaining and developing Indianapolis’ various museums and other cultural amenities, preserving neighborhoods, and putting Indy on the map as a sports town.

John’s success in public policy can be attributed to his natural abilities to listen, arbitrate and mediate among differing viewpoints. “He [has] a remarkable ability to balance different interests and treat people with respect,” said Mark Miles, a Park Tudor parent and president and CEO of Central Indiana Corporate Partnership.

CEO of Clarian Health and former classmate Dan Evans ’67 said, “He’s one of the few of us that you could say made a difference in the entire community, not just in our business or family life.”

John now serves as the director of the Indiana University

John Krauss accepts his Distinguished Alumni Award.

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Distinguished Alumni Award recipient Rob Brown ’79 and classmate and brother-in-law Bruce Myrehn at the Distinguished Alumni Awards dinner.

Public Policy Institute and the IU Center for Urban Policy.

He and his team research and report information that policy makers use to help their communities thrive. He also serves as the director of the Indiana Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations and is an associate of the Kettering Foundation, consulting for and evaluating its community politics programs.

Additionally, he has a joint academic appointment as a clinical professor at the IU School of Public and Environmental Affairs and an adjunct professor of law at the IU School of Law-Indianapolis. He also directs the Law School’s civil-mediation certification program.

As if all of those roles didn’t keep him busy enough, John furthers his genuine passion for the city by serving as vice chair of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, vice chair of Tourism for Tomorrow and director of the President Benjamin Harrison Foundation.

Rob Brown ’79 could often be found on the football field during his days at Park Tudor,

but it’s not the passing and tackling skills that led him to where he is today. The leadership skills and work ethic that Rob developed while playing high school football are among the abilities that have led him to a successful career in marketing.

After graduating from Indiana University with a M.B.A. in marketing, Rob joined Eli Lilly and Company and began working his way through the sales and marketing field.

Within 10 short years, he took the position of general manager of LillyChina. Rob, his wife Ruth and their children packed up their belongings and moved halfway around the world.

Under his leadership, LillyChina operations grew from fewer than 50 to almost 500 employees. Rob also was the general manager of Lilly Suzhou JV, and he was named an Honorary Citizen of Suzhou for his work in establishing the manufacturing plant there.

“Fortunately for Lilly, his effort, his ability to get along with other people, and most importantly his ability to get people to do the right thing

allowed him to be fast-tracked, if there is such a phrase at Lilly,” said Chris Doyle ’77, president of Annual Reports, Inc. Rob and his family returned to the Lilly headquarters in Indianapolis in 1999, when he started up the marketing efforts for Cialis, a drug that was the company’s first foray into pharmaceuticals with a strong consumer focus. Currently, Rob serves as vice president – chief marketing and operations officer for the U.S. affiliate. He oversees the marketing plans and strategies for Lilly’s entire portfolio.

“He has this zest about him, this energy that when he wants to get things done, he doesn’t ask other people to do it. He usually takes it on himself and is a leader and will spearhead those types of initiatives to get them done, so it’s not a surprise to me that Rob has

seen success in his professional career,” said Joe Dezelan, former PT football coach and dean of boys.

No matter how far his life after Park Tudor took him, Rob never forgot his alma mater. He served as the president of the Park Tudor Alumni Association from 2003-2005.

During his tenure, the alumni association became a much more active community.

“I think his leadership skills that he developed at Lilly really came home to roost on the alumni board, and I think his tenure certainly made the board better in terms of how to be a board and how to be effective in dealing with both the kids at the school now as well as the kids who have graduated,” said Chris Doyle of Rob’s loyalty to Park Tudor.

Members of the 1999 state champion baseball team gathered for a cookout during the PT-Scecina game during Alumni Weekend.

“Playing baseball at Park Tudor yielded some of the most fun and rewarding memories during my time at PT. I was truly lucky as a freshman to come to a school that had such a promising group of athletes that were willing to let me join their team and contribute.”

Dan C. Golden ’00 DH, Right Field (#24) “I really enjoyed the game and the ceremony and it was really great of you for putting it together.”

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Reunion class photos Visit the Park Tudor web site (parktudor.org), Facebook (facebook. com/parktudor) and the Park Tudor online alumni community (http:// alumni.parktudor.org) for many more reunion photos and videos!

Didn’t order a reunion class photo? Photos may be ordered directly from the photographer’s web site at www.batemanfoto.com.

Class of 1954 Standing (l to r): Sandra Dunbar Paul, Sue Eaglesfield LaFollette, Julia Ballard Johnson Seated: David Darbro, Doug Wade

Tudor Hall Class of 1939 Standing (l to r): Carolyn Culp Smith, Helaine Borenstein Simon, Thelma Sachs Blickman Seated: Albertine Palmer Shipman, Mary Eleanor Fenstermaker Stuart

Class of 1959 - Tudor Hall Class of 1949

Standing (l to r): Carol Cummings Rogers, Helen Lorenz Holderman, Peg-

Back row (l to r): Judith Meek Bowes, Connie Cadick Earle, Judie Morri-

Shannon Laidly, Betsy Woodard Clark, Peg Mallot John, Susie Block Pot-

son Winchell, Marjorie Teetor Meyer, Patsy Smith Kennedy, Marty McCord

terat, Vicki Baron Prince, Judy Eckerson

Platt, Carol Lynn Blackburn Clark

Seated: Lucia Dunbar, Jody Madden Barth, Nancy Scheutz Aurand, Kathy

Seated: Steve West, Charles Culp

Shirley Poor

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Reunion class photos

Park Tudor Class of 1974 Back row (l to r): Carol Overman, John Davis, Steve Robinson, Chuck Showalter, Dan Free, Jon Toumey, Kim Smith Stickney Middle row: Amy Collins, John McKay, Travis Selmier, Hap Rodehamel,

Class of 1959 - Park School

Charlotte Henderson Russell, Doug Dunn, Pat Brady, Kurt Pantzer, Sherry Mills Rodgers

Standing (l to r): David Spring, David Roys, Mark Campaigne, John Car-

Seated: Debbie Blake, Barb Chaillard Rendel, Anne Cunningham Robinson ’75,

penter, David Roberts

Lesle Walker Palmeri, Davida Pugh

Seated: Bill Wishard, Tom Adams, Hurst Groves

Class of 1964 Art Brown

Park Tudor Class of 1979 Back row (l to r): Andy Wirick, Will Rhodehamel, Mac McLaughlin, Mark Day, Cary Jordan, Chris Meyer, John Strong, Bill Browning Middle row: Carol Henderson Kennedy, David Yingling, Susie Skinner, Liz Wittenberg, David McLane, Dee Spicer Gegenbach, Gene Leser, Torry Stiles, Rob Brown, Megan Crowell Rhodehamel Front Row: Laura Brown Kistner, Margot McKinney, Pam Davis, Kathy Mance O’Brien, Cynthia LaFollette Emhardt

Class of 1969 - Tudor Hall Standing (l to r): Lizette Daggett Bennett, Janie White Hensley, Susan Nunmaker Carr, Rita Threadford Offett, Rusty Warren, Sharon Drach Mangus, Beth Ferrell Jeglum, Tina Mark Weldon, Debbie Stuart Everett Seated: LeAnne Smith Hardy, Beth Dornan Hoxie, Debbie Wasden Woodfin, Janet Galbreath Keller SUMMER 2009 PARK TUDOR PHOENIX 35

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Reunion class photos

Class of 1984 Back row (l to r): John Stiles, Erik Thropp, Colin Burt, Steve Cookson, Eric Doninger, Rod Brown Middle row: Susan Novak Buroker, Amy Wittenberg, Jenny Lowe Reigner, Ann Niebrugge Seated: Stephanie Shank, Amy Jester Murphy, Dana Ward Day, Maya Leibman

Class of 1999 Back row (l to r): Drew Elliott, Andrew Appel, Tyler Bouton, Bobby Mehl, Jason Napier, Bill Nagler, Casey McGaughey Middle row: Jessica Benson Cox, Samantha Leffel, Allison Hanna, Laura Elder Antrim, Scott Sadove, Nick Eaton, Jay Bryan, Cameron Clodfelter Seated: Amanda Hunter O’Rourke, Suzann Johnson Hummer, Amanda Reahard, Carlie Irsay Gordon

Class of 1989 Back row (l to r): Ted Hopper, Peter Bodem, Jon Teller, Jeff Kittle, Dean Mascher, Tomas Ewald, Jean Feit, Sean Brooks, Bryan Kumler, Mark Miller, Ted Bailey Middle row: Julie Lapp Stewart, Tiffany Bogard, Tony Leraris, Andy Kight, Jennifer Sands Marsh, Stuart Morton, Allison Turner, Heather Smith, Julie Heck Rodenberg, Zan Aufderheide, Chad Hughes, Erik Ochsner Seated: Erin Riley Leraris, Jen Pollack Bianco, Katie Domont, Leigh Riley Evans, Mimi Black Rassi, Jennifer Means Pope

Class of 2004 Back row, l to r: Jared Spaans, Brad Herman, Jeff Blickman, Michael Scanlon, Kyle Rechin, Will Hubbard Middle row: Zachary McCollum, Katelyn Miner, Lizzie Shula, Lindsay Clark, Ryan Gershman, Vikram Dhindsa

Did you know?

• Park Tudor has 5,113 alumni, of which 3,959 are living.

• Alumni live in 48 states (all but West Virginia and North Dakota) and 25 countries.

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Seated: Christine Mercho, Kemmie Mitzell, Dana Campbell, Lesley Simpson

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Reunion Class Gifts Tudor Hall Class of 1934

Mrs. Patricia Smith Kennedy

Park Tudor Class of 1979

Mrs. Melissa Black Rassi

Still awaiting your participation!

Mrs. Judie Morrison Winchell

20% participation

Mrs. Tracy Ball Roberts

Mr. Robert B. Brown

Ms. Heather Louise Smith

Park School Class of 1934

Park School Class of 1949

Mr. Mark S. Day

Mr. Jonathan L. Teller

20% participation

8% participation

Mrs. Cynthia LaFollette

Mr. John F. Townsend III

Mr. Charles Latham Jr.

Mr. Stephen R. West

Emhardt Mr. Eugene H. Leser

Park Tudor Class of 1994

Tudor Hall Class of 1939

Tudor Hall Class of 1954

Mr. David Bevan McLane

3% participation

50% participation

41% participation

Mr. Harry Roll McLaughlin Jr.

Mr. Seth H. Kleiman

Mrs. Thelma Sachs Blickman

Mrs. Sally Alexander Bean

Ms. Kathy Mance O’Brian

Mrs. Emily Ristine Holloway

Mrs. Albetine Palmer Shipman

Mrs. Eliza Miller Crowder

Mr. William A. Rhodehamel

Mrs. Helaine Borinstein Simon

Mrs. Suzanne Lamb Holder

Mrs. Megan Crowell Rhode-

Mrs. Mary Eleanor Fenster-

Mrs. Susanne Eaglesfield

maker Stuart Ms. Nancy McCown Symmes Park School Class of 1939

LaFollette

hamel

Park Tudor Class of 1999 8% participation

Mr. Torry Stiles

Mrs. Laura Elder Antrim

Dr. Mary Mckibben McCrae

Mr. Greg Valinet

Mrs. Julia Laughlin Arnold

Mrs. Catherine VanReekum

Dr. Suzanne Van Hove

Mrs. Jessica Benson Cox

Parsons

Miss Whitney Ford

50% participation

Mrs. Sandra Dunbar Paul

Park Tudor Class of 1984

Mr. Jonathan Glassman

Dr. Robert H. Cusack

Mrs. Carol Lynn Blackburn

10% participation

Dr. Amanda Reahard

Mr. Alex L. Bangs

Mr. Will D. Zink

Clark Tudor Hall Class of 1944

Mrs. Susan Novak Buroker

41% participation

Park Tudor Class of 1974

Mr. Stephen A. Cookson

Park Tudor Class of 2004

Mrs. Margaret Moenning

30% participation

Ms. Maya Leibman

4% participation

Mr. Melvin Baird

Mrs. Jenny Lowe Riegner

Mr. Jeffrey Blickman

Mrs. Joan Boozer Elder

Mrs. Anne Brennan Belden

Mrs. Barbara Wallace Rumsey

Miss Lauren Links

Mrs. Barbara Bradley Hare

Mr. Patrick C. Brady

Dr. Erik B. Throop

Miss Kemmie Mitzell

Mrs. Emily Flickinger Kennedy

Ms. Gabrielle Carr

Miss Marjorie Kroeger

Miss Amy Collins

Park Tudor Class of 1989

Mrs. Elizabeth Mayer Trixler

Mr. John E. Davis

9% participation

Mrs. Lucy Holliday Wick

Mr. Douglas W. Dunn

Mr. Andrew T. Kight

Mr. Daniel C. Free

Mr. Jeff Kittle

Park School Class of 1944

Mr. Steven A. Giles

Still awaiting your participation!

Mr. Christopher E. MacAllister

Wanted: Class Representatives!

Bamberger

Mr. John W. McKay Tudor Hall Class of 1949

Ms. Carol Overman

29% participation

Ms. Davida Pugh

Mrs. Susan Schloot Benjamin

Mr. Steven W. Robinson

Mrs. Judith Meek Bowes

Dr. Sherry Mills Rodgers

Mrs. Carol Lynn Blackburn

Mrs. Charlotte Henderson

Clark

Russell

Mrs. Constance Cadick Earle

Mrs. Kim Smith Stickney

Mrs. Carolyn Easton Friedman

Mr. Jonathan Toumey

Mr. John T. Rapp

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he Alumni Association is looking to fill the following positions for classes that will be celebrating a reunion in 2010. Responsibilities of a Class Representative include communicating with classmates about upcoming reunion activities and helping plan an individual reunion activity for your class.

Mr. Colin C. Stalnecker

1940 - Park School and Tudor Hall 1960 - Tudor Hall 1965 - Park School 1990 - Park Tudor School If you are interested in volunteering or have a question, please contact Gretchen Hueni at ghueni@parktudor.org or (317) 415-2766.

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Upcoming Alumni Events Distinguished Alumni Awards Call for Nominations

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Alumni Night at Victory Field

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Picnic and Indianapolis Indians

baseball game, 5:30 p.m. (see more

info below)

he Distinguished Alumni Awards Committee invites you to submit a nomination for a future Distinguished Alumni Award. You are encouraged to submit names of Park School, Tudor Hall and/ or Park Tudor alumni who you feel merit consideration.

Please consider for nomination:

Name ___________________________________________ Class Year ____________

Friday, April 30 – Saturday, May 1, 2010

2010 Alumni Weekend!

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Senior and Senior Parent Breakfast

Clowes Commons, 8:30 a.m.

Area of endeavor in which nominee has distinguished himself/herself:

You may attach any other pertinent materials or information regarding your candidate(s).

Nominator (optional) _______________________________ Class Year ____________

Park Tudor Alumni Night at Victory Field Thursday, July 23, 2009 The Park Tudor Alumni Association invites all alumni to join us for an evening at an Indianapolis Indians game, when the Indianapolis Indians take on the Durham Bulls.

Game time: 7:00 p.m. (seats are located in section 103)

Return this form by September 1, 2009 to: Development and Alumni Relations Office, Park Tudor School, 7200 N. College Ave., Indianapolis, IN 46240-3016

Updated Alumni Directory in the works

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ark Tudor is working with Harris Connect to produce an alumni directory scheduled for publication in January 2010. Over the next several months, you may receive postcards, e-mails or phone calls from Harris asking for updated contact information. We would appreciate your cooperation in updating your contact information. All updates are returned to Park Tudor so that our database remains current.

Harris Connect is only collecting information for purposes of the directory. Your information will not be released to any third parties. You decide whether or not your personal information is published in the directory—make your wishes clear to the representative with whom you speak. The Alumni Directory is a great way to stay connected with former classmates and friends!

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Picnic: 5:30 p.m. (left field) Menu: All you can eat and drink – hamburgers, hot dogs, pulled barbecue chicken, pasta salad, baked beans, fruit salad, cookies, Pepsi products, water and beer Price: $28 per person (children 2 and under are free).

Tickets will be mailed, so please include your mailing address.

Register Online: http://alumni.parktudor.org RSVP Deadline: July 7 Please let us know if you’d be interested in taking a free shuttle from Park Tudor School to Victory Field, to leave at 5 p.m.

Questions? Contact Gretchen Hueni at (317) 415-2766 or ghueni@parktudor.org.

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Where are they now? Jan Wright, retired English teacher Since leaving PT: • Wrote: “The Widow’s Journey” (available on Amazon) • Currently writing “Bosom Buddies: Women Fighting Breast Cancer” • Traveled to: Portugal, Spain, England, France, Mexico, Canada and China Jan Wright Middle and Upper School English teacher, 1980 to 1997 Current activities: Writing, reading, attending theatre, traveling, leading discussions on women’s experiences with widowhood, annual trips to Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Canada, volunteering in political elections.

Memories of PT: • Navigating my way around the PT campus as a new teacher.

• Learning (the hard way) that 8th graders are difficult to manage if trying to conduct class outdoors.

• Another hard lesson: In the last hour before winter break, permitting the 8th grade students to fly paper planes in study hall. (“We won’t make

Alumni Association Board welcomes new members

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he Park Tudor Alumni Association Board of Directors has elected the following alumni to serve on the board for two-year terms beginning in July 2009: Fred Emhardt ’78 Ann Rogers Mitchell ’85 Jessica Benson Cox ’99 Stephanie Goodrid Lawson ’00 Adrienne Elizabeth Watson ’06 Officers for 2009-2010: President: Brandon Phillips ’96 Vice President: Cathy Yingling ’87 Secretary: Kasey Kruse ’00 Treasurer: Andy Kight ’89 Board members are required to serve one two-year term (with the option of serving a second term), participate in monthly board meetings, serve on at least one alumni committee, be a dues-paying member of the Alumni Association, and support the school’s Annual Fund. The Park Tudor Alumni Board represents the diverse community of Park, Tudor Hall, and Park Tudor School alumni and carries out the mission and goals of the Alumni Association.

Please contact Alumni Board President Brandon Phillips at bphillips@thewatermarkgrp.com to nominate a potential member.

Candidates should possess leadership capabilities and be willing to make a strong commitment to the Alumni Association and its projects.

any noise, Mrs. Wright.” There are still paper planes hanging from the rafters!

• Theatre trip to London with Ms. Ulen and students, including my son John.

• The many wonderful plays featuring the students and directed by Mr. Grayson.

• The students’ outstanding music performances directed

by Mr. Williams.

• Cheering at the exciting sporting events involving my students.

• Welcoming the excited, bright-eyed freshmen to my classes.

• The absolutely unique and beautiful Park Tudor graduations.

• Leading discussion on literary topics with my students and watching with pride as they developed their criticalthinking skills.

• Sitting in a circle with my freshmen as they read the poems they created.

• Kicking my sons Joe and Steve (with others) out of class if they failed to do their homework (fortunately, not often).

• Comforting students who did poorly on one of Mr. Kivela’s tests.

• Discreetly trying to explain some of the jokes in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.

• Establishing the Friday afterschool “literary club” for faculty.

• Saying farewell to Park Tudor, a place I loved.

Alumni and teachers may contact Mrs. Wright at jbwright37@gmail.com.

After catching up with Mrs. Wright, the Park Tudor family was saddened to hear of the death of her son Joe ’88.

Friends, alumni, faculty and family gathered at Foster Hall on Saturday, May 23, 2009 to celebrate Joe’s memory, talent and friendship.

Carol Rogers ’59 and Mark Campaigne ’59 spoke at this year’s Founders’ Day ceremony during Alumni Weekend. They presented framed photos featuring highlights of their years at Tudor Hall and Park School.

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Attention recent college and post-college graduates!

A

t this stage in life, you‘re probably concerned with issues such as paying student loans and finding employment.

A charitable gift may be the last thing on your mind; however, it is possible to support Park Tudor School without jeopardizing your current and future financial responsibilities. Here are some examples: Gifts of Retirement Plan Assets More than likely, your first job will provide you with an opportunity to begin contributing to Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) and similar plans made available by

employers. If you would like to support Park Tudor, you can name Park Tudor as a beneficiary of your qualified retirement plan to receive a designated amount or percentage of assets that you wish to be used for charitable purposes.

Gift of Life Insurance Do you have a paid-up policy your parents purchased for you when you were a child?

You may name Park Tudor as beneficiary of that policy and/ or gift the policy to Park Tudor School.

Charitable Bequest It’s never too early to create a will. If you would like to

What’s new on the PT web site – Twitter, Facebook, lots more!

D

o you tweet? Park Tudor does! If you’re on Twitter, look for @parktudor! Even if you don’t have a Twitter account, you can see all of our posts at twitter.com/parktudor. If you’re not familiar with Twitter, it is an interactive social networking tool that allows users to share information quickly and concisely. It’s a great tool for the school to use because it allows us to listen to what’s going on in the community, as well as share news about all of the wonderful happenings at PT. • Also, don’t forget that PT is on Facebook! Become a fan (facebook.com/parktudor) and connect with more than 500 other alumni, faculty members, parents, former faculty members and past parents who have already joined our PT Facebook community.

• If you haven’t yet checked out Park Tudor’s Learning Project blog on childhood development and brain research, you can find it at www.parktudor. org/LearningProjectBlog. Dr. 40 park tudor phoenix SUMMER 2009

Scott Hamilton, director of the Learning Project, recently has written about topics ranging from the debate over lowering the drinking age to IQ testing, diagnosing ADHD, and steps to an effective time-out. The blog is your one-stop shop for learning how brain science plays a role in today’s common issues regarding children and teenagers. Join the discussion by leaving a comment to share your opinion or ask questions. Comments can be anonymous, but we encourage you to leave your name with your comment.

make a substantial gift to Park Tudor but you do not have the current disposable income or assets to do so now, consider a charitable bequest.

If you would like more information about how to use a planned gift to accom-

plish your charitable and personal objectives, please contact Planned Giving Officer Gretchen Hueni at (317) 4152766 or ghueni@parktudor. org. For more examples of planned gifts, visit our web site at www.parktudor.org.

Galbraith to receive University of Michigan honor

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etired Park Tudor Headmaster Bruce W. Galbraith has been chosen as a 2009 inductee to the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre and Dance Hall of Fame. Ceremonies will take place at UM’s Homecoming on September 25 in Ann Arbor. The Hall of Fame Award was established to recognize and honor individuals who have made outstanding contributions to society, their profession, the UM School of Music, Theatre & Dance, or one of its units, or to the School of Music, Theatre & Dance Alumni Society.

Previous inductees have included opera singer Jessye Norman; composers Jerry Bilik, Ross Lee Finney and George Crumb; Mannheim Steamroller founder Chip Davis, and many notable University of Michigan graduates, professors and conductors.

Galbraith is a 1962 graduate of the UM School of Music with a degree in music education. He was the director of the Interlochen Arts Academy (MI) before serving as headmaster of Park Tudor from 1987-2002. He and his wife Karen spend winters in Bonita Springs, Florida and summers in Celina, Ohio. In Florida, he serves on the Boards of the SW Florida Symphony and Chorus, The Bach Ensemble of Naples, and Canterbury School (Ft. Myers).

• Visit our web site frequently for new videos and photos, such as Jim Foxlow’s poetry reading during Alumni Weekend and reunion photos.

• Do you prefer “digital” to “printed”? Then visit the Alumni section of the PT web site to view past issues of “The Park Tudor Phoenix” in a Flash flipbook. You can even e-mail it to share with friends and family across the country or across the globe!

Retired Middle School teachers Marianne Schafer and Marcia Belt returned to Park Tudor in May for a retirement party honoring Betsy Dykstra and Mary Golichowski.

Class Notes

In Memoriam Joseph M. Bloch ’34 Joseph M. Bloch, renowned pianist

festivities. Can you believe Sandra Dunbar Paul and her husband Ed Ciannelli drove from Nevada to be with us and see her sister Lucia, who was celebrating her 50th? Also Judy Ballard Johnson joined us, along with Doug Wade and David Darbro.

if I forgot anyone – that happens these days!

“It was great to hear from several of you who couldn’t make it for one reason or another – Suzanne Lamb Holder, Nancy Barnaby Irvine, Mary Ellen Rossin Whitinger, Ann Morrow Misdom, Cathey Van Reekum Parsons, Eileen Post Lowery and Marcia Lurie all called or sent notes – much appreciated and so glad to hear from you. I apologize

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Carry on and hope to see some of you for our 60th – please keep in touch as I have with Sally Alexander Bean and Patsy Atkins DeLong, among others.”

• Sharon Drach Mangas authored a feature article published in the May 2009 issue of Guideposts magazine, which also is available on the Guideposts web site. She writes, “I’m very excited about it, as it’s my first article in a national publication!”

and teacher at the Juilliard School of Music, died March 4, 2009 at his home in Larchmont, NY. Block was a 1996 recipient of the Park Tudor Distinguished Alumni Award. During his visit to Park Tudor to receive the award, he taught a piano master class to then-senior Minju Choi ’98, who went on to study at Juilliard.

She recalls, “He had taken me out to dinner my freshman year at Juilliard, and when I graduated in ’04 with my master’s, he was also getting his honorary doctorate at Juilliard. It was special seeing him on Alice Tully Hall’s stage and passing by him while getting my diploma. He was so nice, and gentle. He will be greatly missed.”

1954 • Sue Eaglesfield LaFollette writes, “Hi once again ’54 Tudorites – We were small but mighty at reunion

PT - yesterday vs. today Mary Moses Cochran ’75, in her speech to the graduates at this year’s commencement, humorously compared the fashions of her Park Tudor graduating class to those of the Class of 2009: “In 1975, the girls wore uniforms, while the boys wore whatever they wanted. Looking back, that was so wrong!

The girls’ style then was to wear pettipants under our uniforms. I figured none of you had ever heard of pettipants, so I checked online for a description. According to Wikipedia, pettipants ‘are not considered a modern or popular style; currently they are most likely to be worn by square dancers or persons involved in historical reenactment.’ Now that hurt! The boys’ hair was long, very long, and girls’ skirts were short, very short.

“I graduated in a class of only 50 students. I wore a long white dress and carried 18 red roses just like all of you ladies. The boys, however, wore maroon brocade tuxedos with ruffled shirts – also something now most likely to be worn by persons involved in historical reenactment.”

1974 • Travis Selmier, co-director of the Investment Management Academy at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business, recently spoke to Emily Sturman’s Upper School math classes to provide them with real-world answers to the student math question “how will I use this in life?” Travis discussed how calculus is used in investment analysis and economic research. He is a sixthyear Ph.D. candidate in political science at IU, focusing on international and comparative political economy.

His academic interests stem in part from his experience running one of the ten largest U.S.-based emerging markets equities funds for most of the 1990s. Travis spent 17 years working in international equities, on and off Wall Street, after receiving a M.B.A. degree in finance from Indiana University.

1977 • Lucy Bowen McCauley has been named a 2009 Arlington, Virginia Community Hero for her work creating outreach programs that bring the joy and beauty of dance to new audiences, including those facing physical challenges. This award recognizes people and organizations who make an ongoing difference to the community in Arlington.

Lucy formed Bowen McCauley Dance in 1996, and has since created more than 50 works, ranging from lyrical ballets to highly physical contemporary pieces set to muscular rock.

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Continued from page 41 In the community, she created the popular and intensive Kenmore dance residency, which allows students to gain exposure to professional-caliber dance instruction and showcase their talents in venues such as the Kennedy Center.

In partnership with the Parkinson Foundation of the National Capital Area, Bowen McCauley Dance provides weekly dance classes for those with Parkinson’s disease and their caregivers.

1978 • Wendy Wright Ponader has rejoined Baker & Daniels LLP as counsel, commercial and bankruptcy practice group.

1985 • Seth Cahn has returned to Indianapolis after studying in Washington, D.C. and Boston. He is a neurologist with Heartland Neurology of Indiana. He and his wife, Dr. Victoria Hyatt Cahn, have a twin son and daughter.

1987 • Amye Sukapdjo recently received her Ph.D. in foreign and second language education at The Ohio State University. She writes via e-mail, “After almost five years and two major life changes (a third child and a cross-country move), I am officially Dr. Amye Sukapdjo. It feels great to have accomplished this goal.”

1994 1992

1982 • Robert Black was invited to participate in the Carmel Clay Public Library Foundation’s first Children’s Author & Illustrator Fair this spring.

He is the author of a number of children’s books, including his latest, “Lunar Pioneers.”

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Brian Fitzgerald ’97 married Jennifer Infanger on December 20, 2008.

• Nathan Warfel married Andrea Taff on December 6, 2008 at the Beaches Resort in Turks and Caicos.

A reception was held at the resort following the ceremony, with an Indianapolis reception following at the Terrace at Market Tower in Indianapolis. The Warfels live in Indianapolis.

• Drew Dupont and Allison Becker Dupont ’95 welcomed Zachary Ethan Dupont into their family on December 26, 2008. He joins brother Riley, age 3. Allison begins her subspecialty fellowship in interventional cardiology in July and Drew is enjoying being a stay-at-home dad. He has started a web site called triangledads.com for dads in the Raleigh/ Durham area.

• Pete Simmons and wife Letitia welcomed a baby girl, Livia Julianne, on May 7, 2009. She joins sister Ashley as a member of the Simmons clan.

• Kate Weldy Bailey and her family are still stationed at Fort Hood, TX. Her husband Scott is currently deployed for the year. He is also working on his Ph.D. and teaching courses in computers to military personnel. Kate is keeping herself busy

• Ayun Halliday’s first picture book, “Always Lots of Heinies at the Zoo,” inspired by an observation made by her then four-year-old daughter, was published by Hyperion this spring.

Keep up with Ayun’s writing and more at www.ayunhalliday.com.

Abbi Crutchfield ’00 and Luke Thayer were married in Indianapolis on April 25, 2009.

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with their three daughters, serving as the treasurer for the Girl Scout Service Unit of Copperas Cove, leading her daughter Lucy’s Girl Scout troop, and taking over as PTO president for the next school year.

She and the girls are hoping that the time of Scott’s fourth deployment flies by and he will return home safe and sound next year.

son, James Hotel, on August 4, 2008.

She completed her student teaching in Kenya with the IU foreign student teaching program during the spring semester of 2007.

• JP Day, sister Grafton ’05 and their parents Jeff and Liz Day were involved in the Indianapolis home build for the ABC-TV show “Extreme Home Makeover,” which aired on May 17 as the series’ sixth season finale. The Days donated furniture for the new home from their family furniture business.

1995 • Allison Becker Dupont and husband Drew ’94 welcomed Zachary Ethan Dupont into their family on December 26, 2008. He joins brother Riley, age 3. Allison begins her subspecialty fellowship in interventional cardiology in July and Drew is enjoying being a stay-athome dad. He has started a web site called triangledads.com for dads in the Raleigh/Durham area.

2004 • Robby Renihan is engaged to Jill Bowman of Carmel and will be married September 12, 2009 in New Albany, Indiana. Best man will be PT classmate Robby McInnes, groomsmen Brad Herman and Bart Bridge, bridesmaids Hilary Renihan Heffernan ’96 and Lori Renihan Hotel ’03, mother of the groom Diane Renihan ’71.

1996 • Hilary Renihan Heffernan received her MBA from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business in May 2008 with a double major of marketing and management. She is an assistant brand manager with Proctor & Gamble in Cincinnati.

• Gordon Strain, scenic designer and professor at Franklin College, was interviewed on the WFYI-FM Indianapolis program “The Art of the Matter” in April.

2005 Kate Olivier ’01 and Abby Poyser ’01 at Kate’s wedding to Mike Runge on December 27, 2008.

2001 • Kate Olivier married Mike Runge on December 27, 2008, in Indianapolis. PT classmate Abby Poyser served as a bridesmaid. Kate and Mike live in Indianapolis. Contact Kate via e-mail at kathryn.olivier@ gmail.com.

brother Robert Renihan ’04 (groomsman), Kelly Dunn ’03 (bridesmaid), Diane Duncan Renihan ’71 (mother of the bride). Lori gave birth to a

• Caitlin Cork, a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University with a double major in information systems and Japanese, has received a grant to continue graduate studies at Carnegie Mellon this fall. Also accepted Continued on page 44

2000 • Abbi Crutchfield and Luke Thayer tied the knot at Theatre on the Square in Indianapolis on April 25, 2009. The reception was held at The Art Center of Indianapolis. They are both working as stand-up comedians and live in Brooklyn, NY. Abbi and Luke honeymooned in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Those attending the wedding included former PT staff member Robbie McConnell (formerly Hepler) and Dr. Geoff Sharpless, wife Dr. Hilene Flanzbaum and their daughters Violet ’13 and Susannah ’11.

2002 • Jennifer Kling has accepted a Fellowship from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to pursue a Ph.D. in philosophy. She will begin the five-year program in the fall after her marriage in August to fellow Tarheel Patrick Himes.

2003 • Lori Renihan was married to David Hotel July 21, 2007 in Indianapolis. Members of the wedding party included sister Hilary Renihan Heffernan ’96 (matron of honor),

Grafton ’05 and JP Day ’03 and their parents Jeff and Liz Day were involved in the Indianapolis home build for the ABC-TV show “Extreme Home Makeover,” which aired on May 17 as the series’ sixth season finale. The Days donated furniture for the new home from their family furniture business.

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• To Clarke Kahlo ’66 on the death of his mother, Ellen Rogers Kahlo ‘30, on April 27, 2009.

Continued from page 43 to Stanford’s graduate program, she decided to return to Carnegie Mellon to study human computer interaction. Her research project is “Enhancing Japanese kanji acquisition in non-native readers.” She is spending the summer in Pittsburgh designing book covers for Carnegie Mellon Press and doing web site design. She graduated with university and college honors and is a member of Phi Sigma Iota, the International Modern Language Honor Society.

• To Debbie Wasden Woodfin ’69 on the death of her daughter-in-law, Renia Markoigiannaki, on May 5, 2009.

• To George Felton ’76 on the death of his father, Dr. John Forrester Pelton, on February 14, 2009.

• To David McLane ’79 on the death of his father, William J. McLane, on May 2, 2009.

• To John ’83 and Steven ’91 Wright and former English teacher Jan Wright on the death of their brother and her son, Joe Wright ’88, on April 28, 2009.

• Kyle Dietz was a member of the 2008-2009 Kelley Honors Leadership Team at Indiana University-Bloomington Kelley School of Business. He also was named a Founders Scholar in recognition of sustained academic excellence for all four years at IU. • Ayo Ositelu, who graduated from Vanderbilt University in May with a B.E. degree in biomedical engineering, has been elected as a Vanderbilt University young alumni trustee.

He will serve a four-year term on the university’s Board of Trustees beginning in July 2009 and will sit on the governance and board affairs committees. Ayo was nominated for the prestigious position by a fellow student, then elected by a vote of Vanderbilt juniors, seniors and last year’s nominating class. Ayo has been accepted to Cornell University’s one-year master’s in engineering program. At Vanderbilt he was president of the African Student Union, a member of the Multicultural Leadership Council, vice president-external of the Biomedical Engineering Society and Region III Academic Excellence Chair for the National Society of Black Engineers, as well as a university mascot for this year’s Vanderbilt football season!

2008 • Alaina Urbahns, who is studying at the University of Pennsylvania, spent part of May and June in Egypt working on a Yale University archaeological dig team. She was 44 park tudor phoenix SUMMER 2009

• To Frank ’85 and Scott ’89 Watanabe on the death of their sister Nan Watanabe Lewis ’82 on May 1, 2009, and their father, Gus Watanabe, on June 10, 2009.

Ayo Ositelu ’05

• To Jason ’95 and Matthew ’97 Nordby and instrumental music teacher Paul Nordby on the death of their grandmother and his mother, Stella T. Nordby, on March 27, 2009.

one of only two undergraduates to be invited to work with Yale graduate students on the project. Her involvement is the result of her Park Tudor Global Scholars project - “The Evolution of Ancient Egyptian Solar Religion and the ‘Revolution’ of the Pharaoh Akhenaten.” Her mentor for the project was the chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Yale.

• Letitia and Pete Simmons ’94 and Middle School teacher Carole and Samuel Simmons on the birth of daughter and granddaughter Livia Julianne Simmons on May 7, 2009.

Marriages

• Arthur J. Iles ’49 on May 11, 2009.

• Charlie Raiser ’65 to Jan Simons on May 3, 2009.

• Robert Evans ’61 on May 24, 2009.

• Nathan Warfel ’92 to Andrea Taff on December 6, 2008.

• Virginia Foltz O’Brien, former Tudor Hall faculty member, on March 15, 2009.

• To Cassandra Neal, Hilbert Early Education Center teaching assistant, on the death of her brother, Zachary Brown, on March 10, 2009.

Condolences

• To Mary Zajac, seventh grade science teacher, on the death of her mother, Teofila “Ofi” Zajac, on March 12, 2009.

• Brian Fitzgerald ’97 to Jennifer Infanger on December 20, 2008.

• Abbi Crutchfield ’00 to Luke Thayer on April 25, 2009.

• Kate Olivier ’01 to Mike Runge on December 27, 2008.

• Lori Renihan ’03 to David Hotel July 21, 2007 in Indianapolis.

Congratulations • Allison Becker Dupont ’95 and Drew Dupont ’94 on the birth of son Zachary Ethan Dupont on December 26, 2008.

Deaths • Ellen Rogers Kahlo ’30 on April 27, 2009.

• Janet Holliday Welliver ’31.

• Joseph M. Bloch Jr. ’34 on March 4, 2009.

• Joe Wright ’88 on April 29, 2009.

• To John S. Lynn ’34, Cheri Longardner Lynn ’67, Abigail Lynn ’00, and Charles Lynn III ’05 on the death of his wife, her motherin-law, and their grandmother Jane Shideler Lynn on May 9, 2009.

• To Rae Wilson ’63 and Sally Stephens ’68 on the death of their sister Julia Moses ’70 on April 13, 2009.

• To Josh Christie ’99, Anna ChristieCarnicella ’01, Mary Christie ’04 and Emily Christie ’07 on the death of their grandmother Evelyn June Mahoney on May 11, 2009.

• To Laura ’02, Michael ’06, and Emily ’11 Knapp on the death of their grandfather Peter Michael Knapp on April 22, 2009.

• To Brandon George ’05 on the death of his father, Tom George, on May 31, 2009.

• To Barb Skinner, assistant director of admissions and girls basketball coach, on the death of her father on April 4, 2009.

• To Anne and Brad Lennon, athletic director, on the death of Brad’s father, Paul Lennon, on June 27, 2009.

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Honor and Memorial Gifts

Mr. M. David Skeels

Mr. and Mrs. Frank O’Brien

Ms. Heather Carmody

February 3 – June 5, 2009

Mrs. Connie Skeels

(Dee DeMotte ’52)

Anonymous

Jane Collett Thomas ‘51

Dr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Gardner

Gifts in Honor of…

Mr. Henry G. Taggart, ’44 Robert and Elizabeth Taggart

Mr. Joseph Wright ’88

Mr. Joseph Chamberlin

Fitzsimmons ’62

Mr. and Mrs. Lester Binegar

Dr. and Mrs. Roger Lenke

Grant Church ’10

(Laura ’88*)

Manson and Phyllis Church Mr. John Brumbaugh ’03 Kendall Cochran ’09

Jungclaus-Campbell Company, Inc.

Mr. and Mrs. Kendall Cochran (Mary Moses ‘75)

Ms. Carole Diane Roe

Mr. and Mrs. Patrick G. Murphy (Heather Reilly ’90)

Mrs. Barbara Averyt Mr. Robert G Burke, ’57

Caroline Emhardt ’10

Mrs. Cathy Dezelan

Thank a Teacher

Alan Burke ’54

Mr. John Krull and Ms. Jenny Labalme

Mrs. Deborah Stuart Everett ’69 Dr. and Mrs. Roger Lenke

Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Wiesinger

Mr. Gerry and Mrs. Susanne

Mr. Scott Fischer

LaFollette (Sue Eaglesfield ‘54)

Mrs. Patricia DePrez Ewing ’36 Mr. and Mrs. Roderick Scheele

Mr. J. Michael Ayres

Mr. and Mrs. Edward G. Dunn

Anna Claire Kleiman

(Anne Ewing ’64)

Mr. and Mrs. Edward G. Dunn

(Ted ’72; Julia Townsend ’72)

(Ted ’72; Julia Townsend ’72)

Mr. and Mrs. Seth H. Kleiman (Seth ‘94) Park School and Tudor Hall

Mr. David Fisch ’98

Mr. Joseph K. Fumusa

Dr. and Mrs. Ryan D. Nagy

Mrs. Karen Ayres

(Katherine Deane ’98)

Mr. and Mrs. Leo G. (Skip) Watson Jr. Mrs. Shants Hart

Class of 1959 Reverend C. Davies Reed Cameron ’10 & Joshua ’11 Sobleski

Dr. D. Anthony Chao Lee

Miss Marjorie Flickinger ’40

Ms. Brandi Barnett

Mrs. Emily Flickinger Kennedy ’44

Drs. Alexander and Helen Niculescu

Anonymous Ms. Lisa Hendrickson ’77

Mrs. Barbara Beattie

Mr. Robert W. Hendrickson

Mr. and Mrs. Gary Sobleski

Dr. Anne C. Hodges Garrison ’28 Rebecca Garrison Tracy ’52

Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Amy

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas H. Stickney (Kim Smith ’74)

Ms. Laura Williams ’99

Mrs. Mary Coate Houtz ’22

Mrs. Stephanie Behringer

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen E. Williams

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel C. Free

Mr. and Mrs. Leo G. (Skip) Watson Jr.

(Mr. ’74)

Mr. Christopher Holobek Mr. and Mrs. Leo G. (Skip) Watson Jr.

Mrs. Joanne Black

Gifts in Memory of…

Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Jungclaus ’24 Mr. and Mrs. William L. Campbell

Dr. William C. Baker Jr., ’74 Mr. Melvin Baird ’74

Mr. Baxter S. Rogers ’59

Mr. Patrick C. Brady ’74

Ms. Carol Cummings Rogers ’59

Mr. Jonathan Toumey ’74 and

Reverend C. Davies Reed

Ms. Alison Jester Ms. Lynn Thomsen Dr. DeWitt W. Brown Jr. ’34

Mr. Jeffrey Blickman ’04

Mr. Rob C. Hueni

Dr. and Mrs. Roger Lenke

Anonymous

The Newell Family Mr. and Mrs. Stephen E. Williams Mr. Thomas E. Black Jr. Mr. Jeffrey Blickman ’04 The Newell Family

Mr. and Mrs. William L. Selm

Ms. Kathryn D. Fletcher ’91 Mrs. Joyce Amling Walbridge ’52 Mrs. Ellen Kahlo ’30

Mrs. Mary Sydney Haram

Mrs. H. Warren Earle

Matuska ’52

(Constance Cadick ’49) Mr. Herbert A. Wilson ’50

Mrs. Carrie Blankenbaker Enrique and Kathleen Conterno Mr. William L. Browning Mr. Lee Mandel ’08

Mr. David A. Kivela Mr. and Mrs. Douglas H. Stickney (Kim Smith ’74) Mr. and Mrs. Stephen E. Williams Mr. Marc A. Lickliter Anonymous Mrs. Laura I. Lowe Mr. and Mrs. Mason Floyd (Laura Tushan ’97)

Mr. Herbert Kulwin

Mr. and Mrs. Charles DeVoe

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas H. Stickney (Kim Smith ’74)

Mr. David B. Malcom

Ms. Heather Kulwin ’92

(Mr. ’48)

Mrs. Kathleen Campbell

Dr. and Mrs. Roger Lenke

Mr. and Mrs. James A. Hogshire III (Jim ’50)

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas H. Stickney (Kim Smith ’74)

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Honor and Memorial Gifts

Mr. Thomas Page

Ms. Jesse Sizemore

Mrs. Joyce M. Tucker

February 3 – June 5, 2009

Mr. and Mrs. Edward G. Dunn

Mr. John Krull and Ms. Jenny Labalme

Ms. Nicole Williamson

Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Wiesinger

Mr. Courtney M. Whitehead

Mr. Mark A. Phillips

Mrs. Joan Staubach ’66

Anonymous

Anonymous

Mr. Jeffrey Blickman ’04

Mr. and Mrs. Edward G. Dunn

Mrs. Kim Pulfer

Mr. Douglas J. Stotts

Dr. and Mrs. Roger Lenke

Anonymous

Mrs. Sharon Riddle

Mrs. Roxanne L. Taylor

Mr. John R. Williams

Mrs. Suzanne Tardy Maxwell

Mr. and Mrs. Edward G. Dunn

Dr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Gardner

Dr. Matthew H. French ‘87

Gina and Jim Bremner Family Fund

(Ted ’72; Julia Townsend ’72)

(Ted ’72; Julia Townsend ’72) Continued from page 45 Mr. Steven A. Math

(Ted ’72; Julia Townsend ’72)

Dr. and Mrs. Roger Lenke Mrs. Mary Jane Maudlin

Drs. James and Doris Hardacker

Mr. Jeffrey Blickman ’04

Dr. and Mrs. Roger Lenke Mr. Royce D. Thrush

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas H. Stickney (Kim Smith ’74)

Mrs. Rachel Salapka

Mr. Craig Hitchcock and

Mrs. Mary Jo Wright

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen R. West

Dr. and Mrs. Roger Lenke

Dr. K. Shaw Lamberson

Mr. and Mrs. Leo G. (Skip) Watson Jr.

Mrs. Carol B. Shumate

Mrs. Ellen Todd

Anonymous

Mr. John Krull and Ms. Jenny Labalme

(Mr. ’49) Mr. and Mrs. Stephen E. Williams

Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Wiesinger

Ms. Margo McAlear Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Amy

Ms. Jane Sidey

Dr. and Mrs. Roger Lenke

Enrique and Kathleen Conterno

Ms. Shelle Wright Mr. John Krull and Ms. Jenny Labalme

Mrs. Harriet C. Trimble Anonymous

Ms. Sheila Young Dr. and Mrs. Roger Lenke

Ms. Evelyn McClain Anonymous Dr. Scott McDougall Anonymous Mrs. Lori McIntosh Dr. Bruce Williams and Mrs. Nathalie A. Chiasson Mrs. Michele A. Modglin Mr. and Mrs. Leo G. (Skip) Watson Jr. Mrs. Molly S. Murphy Dr. Bruce Williams and Mrs. Nathalie A. Chiasson Ms. Jill Oldenettel Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Wiesinger Mrs. Angela Overpeck Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. Jose Caceres Enrique and Kathleen Conterno

Eighth-graders Lauren Talbert and Julia Marsan paddle with all their might to beat the competition in the annual eighth-grade boat race, in which students use many of the skills they have learned during the year to design and build “navigable” boats out of nothing more than cardboard and duct tape.

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Sophomores Willie Griswold, Logan Brougher, Eric Todderud and Marc Ranucci get their groove on during the Upper School Talent Show in May.

Alyssa Sullivan ’09 as Hope Harcourt and Joseph Scales ’09 as Sir Evelyn Oakleigh feign disdain during a conversation with the disguised Billy Crocker, played by Scott Marquart ’09, in a scene from the Upper School production of the musical “Anything Goes.”

PT’s No. 1 singles player, freshman Chelsea Carter, demonstrates a power shot during a spring match.

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Address Service Requested Junior Kindergartner Lauren Kittle helped her fellow classmates learn an important skill by conducting a shoe-tying clinic earlier this year. Here Lauren (right) and Brooke Bir (left) perfect the art of the knot.

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