Park Tudor Phoenix Summer 2012

Park Tudor

Phoenix Summer 2012

Alumni carry on legacy of teaching • Alumni Weekend 2012

On the Cover Teacher Kim Vawter ’04 greets students at the entrance of Valor Charter Academy, a grades 5 through 8 middle school in Los Angeles where immigrants from Armenia and Latin American countries make up the largest percentage of the student body. (See article on page 24.)

Park Tudor School Mission Park 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 learning environment for highly motivated young people in junior kindergarten through grade 12.

PARK TUDOR SCHOOL Head of School

Dr. Matthew D. Miller Editor

Lisa A. Hendrickson ’77 Editor Emeritus

C.J. Foxlow Staff Writers

Cassie Dull Alicia Carlson Graphic Design/Photography

Stefanie Dean ’05 Alumni Coordinator/Planned Giving Officer

Gretchen Hueni 2012-13 Alumni Association Board President Cathy Yingling ’87 Vice President Lindsay Elder Thornton ’95 Secretary Beth Tolbert ’03 Treasurer Nikhil Gunale ’96 Past President Brandon Phillips ’96 Alumni Association Directors Jessica Benson Cox ’99 Eric Gershman ‘98 Carlie Irsay Gordon ‘99 Joe Hawkins ’96 Emily Ristine Holloway ’94 Stephanie Goodrid Lawson ’00 Anne Rogers Mitchell ’85 Vanessa Stiles ‘88 Kelly Lamm Teller ‘87 Adrienne Watson ’06

Correction to the Spring 2012 Phoenix: On page 32, an incorrect birth date was given for Ruthie Anne Chambers, the daughter of Rachel Gatewood ’05 and Justin Chambers.

Ruthie was born February 1, 2012, not 2011.

Contents Summer 2012

Features Park Tudor inspires alumni teaching

By Alicia Carlson

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Departments News of the School

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Alumni News

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Class Notes

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Report from the Head of School 4 Commencement 6 Student news 9 Focus on faculty 12 Fine Arts kudos 17 Community service highlights 18 Spring athletic update 20

Alumni Weekend 2012 Reunion Class Photos Alumni community can help you network Alumni athletes make waves

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Upper School students relive Lower School Field Day during an end-of-year tug-of-war event between the “reds” and the “whites.”

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 Report from the Head of School

By Dr. Matthew D. Miller, Head of School As Board President Chris Braun recently reported to parents and faculty, it has been a remarkable year at Park Tudor, with numerous milestones to celebrate. Armed with the strategic plan (“PT 2015”) and with feedback from last year’s school evaluation by the Independent School Association of the Central States (ISACS), we were poised at the start of the year to make progress in all aspects of the school, most notably in the following areas: enhancement of resources and facilities; increasing community awareness of the school’s financial model and ensuring long-term financial sustainability; increased communication about the academic program, 21st-century teaching and the outcomes of a Park Tudor education; and finally, an increased emphasis on community-building. I’m pleased to report that we have made significant strides in all of these areas during the 2011-12 school year.

Enhancement of Resources and Facilities

On a personal note, my family feels settled, comfortable and delighted to reside on campus. We officially moved into the new head of school residence in January 2012. It has been wonderful to share our home with others. We have had the opportunity to host faculty get-togethers, admissions events and coffees with prospective parents, a senior-class cookout, and events for board members and donors. We also have restored the tradition started by former Headmaster George Young of serving sundaes at the head of school residence for all Lower School students at the end of the school year. For me, this was without question one of the most memorable days of the year.

In addition to bringing the head of school residence back on campus, we have vastly increased the footprint of the campus by roughly 20 percent with the acquisition of land north of Lauth Field (as reported in the Spring 2012 issue of The Phoenix). The opportunity to acquire this land contiguous to campus was extraordinary, and we are pleased that we now have increased options

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for future growth and master planning.

The Long-Range Planning Committee of the board is currently reviewing firms to assist us with developing a long-term campus master plan that will serve the Park Tudor community well for many decades to come. Within the next few months, we will select a firm to guide us through the master-planning process. Concurrently, we will conduct a full review of our facilities and an audit of vehicular and pedestrian traffic on campus. This process is critical to the school’s long-term success and will be conducted in a thoughtful and careful way, with input from all stakeholders and constituent groups. We will be guided in our planning by the school’s mission, with particular emphasis on our philosophy of teaching.

Financial Sustainability

This year we stressed the importance of Annual Fund donations in defraying the cost of tuition, supporting professional growth opportunities for teachers, and providing the necessary funds to allow us to innovate and to go the extra mile. Our goals were to increase the percentage of participation by parents, grandparents and alumni, and to significantly increase the number of dollars raised. Led by 100 percent participation from faculty/staff and board members, the Annual Fund has surged forward with a record level of participation by parents (65%) and increased alumni support; the final tally of $1.1 million represents a 32.5% increase from last year. I personally want to thank everyone for their support and I am excited to build on this foundation for next year.

In addition to Annual Fund dollars, I am pleased to report that the school was given $1.2 million in restricted gifts, which have supported the purchase of land noted above and renovations to the Wood Room, highlighted on page 8. The Wood Room renovation dramatically increases student space and also creates an ideal venue to display memorabilia from Park Tudor’s long history.

In consultation with the board, we are proceeding with the process of developing a long-term financial sustainability model with reference to Park Tudor’s endowment.

Our long-term goal is to reduce the draw from our endowment that supports the school’s annual budget to five percent

annually, which is more in line with a longterm sustainable financial model. Currently the draw is closer to six percent; when coupled with current debt obligations, it represents an even more significant number, thereby resulting in a reduction of principal in the endowment. The effort to reduce the annual draw represents both an annual and long-term goal, one that will take a few years to complete but that will, when accomplished, allow Park Tudor to stabilize and then grow the endowment and keep the school on a sustainable path toward growth and continued excellence. To support this initiative, we began the school year with a conversation with our faculty about the complexity of endowment draw and the challenges of our financial model; they were pleased to have a broader overview of our budget and the budgeting process.

Academic Program and Exceptional Teaching

The greatest strength of our community is the depth and talent of our faculty. With the creation of the position of associate head of school for academic affairs and the hiring of Peter Kraft in July 2011 for that role, we have been able to focus even more fully on great teaching and the K-12 curriculum at Park Tudor.

Among our most significant accomplishments was the definition of “Great Teaching at Park Tudor.” This document, highlighted on page 13, is the result of multiple full-faculty conversations that began with discussions of Tony Wagner’s book “The Global Achievement Gap” and culminated in a faculty Professional Development Day dedicated to creating a shared vocabulary around exceptional teaching. The newly formed Academic Affairs Committee, composed of department chairs, division directors, and a host of other academic leaders, was similarly busy in defining critical academic structures for the school. For example, the roles of the department chair and curriculum coordinator were refined to allow for improved integration within and between divisions and to provide chairs with the time needed to observe the teachers in their departments. From these initiatives emerged a revised faculty growth and evaluation system—one based on the fundamental premises that teachers must continually grow and develop their

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craft, and that professional growth and evaluation programs are most effective when they are formative in nature and when collaboration, self-reflection, and regular classroom observations are central to the process.

We also dedicated significant resources to faculty recruitment and expanded professional development opportunities.

Both strategies have already paid significant dividends. This fall we will welcome new teachers from as far away as New York and Tennessee and as close to home as Indianapolis. Their average teaching experience is 17 years, two hold Ph.D.s, and all have significant talents outside the classroom. Concurrently, we have almost doubled our Professional Development funding, enabling us to pursue professionaldevelopment initiatives for our faculty throughout the school.

College Counseling continues to be a hallmark of the school. As part of our efforts this year to increase the range and contact with the counseling process, we have been fortunate to increase our staffing in College Counseling this coming school year with the addition of Shari Sutton, who is coming to us from Choate Rosemary Hall. A seasoned college counselor, Shari previously worked at Vanderbilt and Indiana universities (see related article on page 15). Under Director Larry Eckel, the department has effectively implemented state-of-the-art technology, updated metrics and most importantly, a careful collegecounseling process that stresses fit, choice, and a sequential approach. Starting in the freshman year, students are exposed to specific aspects of the process and over the next three years are guided in developing their academic and personal profiles in ways that will maximize their college admission opportunities and enhance their effectiveness in presenting themselves on applications and in interviews.

Finally, this past year witnessed exciting developments on the curricular front. The Lower School implemented the Math In Focus (Singapore Math) curriculum, furthering our commitment to the conceptual, hands-on mathematics instruction techniques already undertaken in the Middle School. In the coming years we will continue to design “signature” programs in all three divisions that will help students find their intellectual passions and that will reinforce the attributes of initiative, adaptability and critical thinking that are important for future success. In addition,

we developed a Humanities program that will be introduced in the fifth grade, and will fully equip Lower School faculty and classrooms with iPads this coming year.

We will also increase our focus on bringing visiting scholars and speakers to campus to share their expertise, experiences and perspectives with students.

Community and Park Tudor Outcomes

A change of leadership brings the opportunity to reflect on the values of an institution and the outcomes of the educational experience. Building on the feedback from recent surveys of students, parents, faculty and alumni, we have started a series of conversations that will help us to define our shared values and to become fully engaged with our local community.

On the board level, we have focused on building coalitions and strengthening existing relationships with other schools and community organizations. The board also has reaffirmed Park Tudor’s mission-based commitment to character development, excellence in academics and athletics, meaningful local and global community engagement, and the creation of a diverse and inclusive environment.

This summer at our annual administrative retreat, we focused on defining the specifics of these commitments. At our faculty opening-of-school meetings in August, Dr. Gene Batiste, vice president of Equity and Justice Initiatives at the National Institute of Independent Schools, will speak about the NAIS principles of good practice.

From that platform, we will begin the

process of starting a dialogue with students, faculty and parents about these issues and identifying ways to ensure they are fully incorporated into the life of the school.

We also have focused on reconnecting with alums across the country and adding new emphasis to Alumni Weekend. During the year we have hosted events and visits with alumni in Seattle, Utah, Colorado, Chicago, Indianapolis, Boston, New York, Washington DC and Florida. I have enjoyed these opportunities to talk with alums and to share the amazing things happening at the school. We added a feature to Alumni Weekend called “PT University”—seminars that focused on issues of education and finance and that invited local talent to discuss and reflect on shifting trends and ideas. The seminars added a nice new dimension to reunion weekend.

Future Directions “The end hangs on the beginning”—so runs the old Latin expression. Guided by the school’s strategic plan, mission and survey feedback from our community, we will continue to focus on ensuring the school’s sustainability, providing the structure to support exceptional teaching, and building a strong community. Park Tudor justly deserves its reputation as one of the nation’s leading day schools. We are a vibrant school, filled with extraordinary educators who are inspired and motivated by the opportunity to meet the challenges that the modern global community presents. We are poised to move forward with a shared sense of purpose and the camaraderie that make this school so special.

Matthew Miller serves up sundaes to Lower School students at the end of the school year.

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Class of 2012 heads off to 57 colleges

“The teachers here of whom you are

taking your leave are your friends for life, your supporters, advisors, friends and mentors. Keep them in your hearts when you arrive this fall in New Haven or Crawfordsville, Bloomington, Lafayette, or New York or Chicago. Sustain those friendships.”

That was the first piece of advice offered to the Class of 2012 by Josiah “Si” Bunting III, president of The Harry Guggenheim Foundation in New York City, who presented the Address to the Graduates at commencement ceremonies on June 1.

The class of 99 graduates, who will attend 57 colleges, was offered more than $10 million in college merit scholarships.

Bunting was superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute from 19952003 and served as headmaster of the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey (19871995), president of Hampden Sydney College (1977-1987), and president of Briarcliff College (1973-1977).

Currently a visiting lecturer at Princeton University, where he is leading a seminar on “Democracies and Leaders at War,” Bunting urged the graduates to study and become fluent in a non-western

language, to enroll in a full range of subjects as freshmen in college, to carve out times of “solitude and consecutive thought,” and to make friendships “outside what we might call your comfort zones.”

Rob Brown ’79 brought greetings on behalf of alumni, saying, “The world you are going to face is changing so quickly that the most critical skill you will take away from Park Tudor is your ability to figure it out. I know you are well prepared for this challenge.”

Dr. Geoffrey Sharpless addressed the graduates on behalf of the faculty. He told them: “You have been a wonderful class. You have set a high standard. You have been forgiving, tolerant, generous and patient. I had moments this year, in the mid-January gray days of bleak Midwest winter, when like Ishmael in ‘Moby Dick’ all I wanted to do was to step into the street and knock off someone’s hat, and I’d come to work and see you and my heart would soar back to hope and gladness. It always made me smile to see you. And it still does.”

Read the commencement speeches at: www.parktudor.org/classof2012.

Rae Fagin ’12 pumps the air in celebration and Maddy Vonderohe ’12 looks on as they leave the commencement ceremony.

Class of 2012 PT memories “There are far too many that all stand out for different reasons, from Winter Formals and Proms to moments backstage during productions.”

– Emily Bohn “My Global Scholars presentation and having all the people close to me there to support me.”

– Ted Cho “Playing Pep Band at the Wigwam” – Nihanth Damera “Senior Retreat”

– DJ Ishola-Gbenla

“Pardon the sappiness, but every moment I’ve had at Park Tudor has been memorable. From freshman year biology to the Global Scholars program, I remember it all fondly.”

– Drew Links “Winning the 2011 State basketball title after coming up short the year before. Hard work pays off.”

– J.B. Rapp “Lower School Field Day” – Alice Selm

Commencement speaker Josiah “Si” Bunting III talks with Carol Cummings Rogers ’59 (left) during a visit to Park Tudor in May, as Head of School Dr. Matthew Miller, Coordinator of Media Services Janie Hizer and Director of Fine Arts John Williams look on. Bunting met with members of the senior class and faculty, attended classes, and presented an evening lecture to parents and students.

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New Board, Trust members elected

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t the annual board meeting of the Park Tudor Foundation on May 15, Park Tudor parents Michele Janin and Jim Schacht were elected to three-year terms on the Park Tudor Board of Directors and Park Tudor parent Christie Kelly was elected to the Park Tudor Trust. All three assumed their roles on July 1.

In addition, re-elected to three-year terms are current board members Steve Cagle ’71, Chris Miyamoto ’88 and Heather Reilly Murphy ’90.

The terms of board members Cynthia Bir and Kathy Dunbar expired at the end of June. As a result of increasing travel and business obligations Alan Hill and Jim Toomey also stepped down from the Board. On behalf of the entire Park Tudor community, we extend our sincere thanks to all of them for their many years of dedicated service to Park Tudor.

Elected as board officers are: Chris Braun, president; Rob Brown ’79, vice president; Steve Cagle ’71, treasurer; and Heather Reilly Murphy ’90, secretary.

Braun’s term will run through June 30, 2014, while the terms of Brown, Cagle and Murphy will expire June 30, 2013.

More about our new board and trust members:

Michele Janin – A graduate of Stanford University, Janin majored in international relations. Before moving to Indianapolis with her family, she had a career in public relations, communications and marketing that included positions in New York City, Hong Kong and England. She worked for the Cummins Engine Foundation as a community relations manager and program officer. Janin has served Park Tudor as a member of the Development Committee, and she founded and coaches the Middle School girls lacrosse team. Janin and her husband, Tom Linebarger, are the parents of Alex ’12 and Emily ’14.

Jim Schacht – Schacht is executive director of Cummins Business Services, a position he has held since April 2010.

He previously was chief operating officer of Touchbase Group, LTD, a UK-based

technology services company specializing in communications technologies. In addition, he has served as executive vice president of human resources at RCI, Inc.; senior vice president of call center operations at Cendant, Inc.; and CEO of Ziptone, LLC. He holds a B.A. degree in philosophy from Trinity College (CT) and a M.B.A. degree from Harvard University.

Schacht and his wife, Sally, are the parents of Allison ’14, Samantha ’14, Julia ’17 and Thomas ’17.

Christie Kelly – As executive vice president and chief financial officer of Duke Realty Corporation, Kelly oversees all accounting and financial reporting functions of Duke Realty. She previously was a senior vice president, global real estate, with Lehman Brothers. She spent most of her career at General Electric, holding a variety of domestic and global leadership roles. She holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Bucknell University. Kelly and her husband, John, are the parents of Jack ’19 and Olivia ’14.

Experience Summer @ Park Tudor There’s still time to check out the offerings in our “Summer @ PT” program, which runs through August 3. The summer brochure with details of all of the classes and camps is now available at www.parktudor. org/summer. New this year: a fourweek World Language Immersion program for students in K-12, and a nine-day Park Tudor Adventures trip for young men ages 12-15.

Lauren St. Clair and Victoria Edwards accept flowers and congratulations as they walk through the gauntlet of underclassmen during the annual Senior Serenade on May 24.

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Annual Fund surpasses $1 million goal

Thank you to the nearly 1,200 donors

who have helped to make the 2011-2012 Annual Fund drive (concluded on June 30, 2012) a huge success! Gifts were still being counted as The Phoenix went to print, but we have crossed our $1 million goal and expect final totals to be very near $1.1 million.

More important, we have continued to increase participation from both current parents and alumni. Each and every gift given in support of the Annual Fund helps our faculty and students continue the legacy of excellence in education we have all come to know. To read more about this year’s initiatives and programs supported by gifts to the Annual Fund, visit www. parktudor.org/afsupport.

Park Tudor welcomed new and returning families for a summer get-together at the annual Summer Social on June 17.

Golfers tee off at the Park Tudor Golf Outing on June 11 at Crooked Stick Golf Club in Carmel.

The annual fundraiser supports Park Tudor and its athletic programs.

Wood Room renovated

The end of the school year brought a new

look to the Upper School’s Wood Room, which was renovated over spring break to add expanded study and student-gathering areas.

The “new” Wood Room was unveiled at a ribbon-cutting event on April 9 led

by Head of School Dr. Matthew Miller, Upper School Director Debbie Stuart Everett ’69 and members of the Upper School Student Council. 2011-12 Student Council President David Kilkenny ’12 and incoming Student Council President CJ Harrington ’13 cut the ribbon to dedicate the new space. Members of the senior class attended the ceremony.

A portion of the south wall of the room, which previously hid a large storage closet, was removed to accommodate the new oak-paneled recessed area, which contains banquettes and seating areas where students can gather for small-group meetings and conversation. The paneling mirrors the design of Foster Hall and is decorated with memorabilia from the Park Tudor archives, including photos, sports equipment and uniforms from Tudor Hall and Park School. Ball caps signed by members of the senior class hang from the ceiling in the start of a new tradition.

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The addition to the Wood Room features conversation and meeting areas, along with memorabilia from Tudor Hall, Park School and Park Tudor.

Dr. Miller told the students, “We hope this new space becomes the center of student life at Park Tudor, bringing with it new and wonderful traditions.”

The renovation was made possible

thanks to a gift from an anonymous donor designated specifically for the Wood Room project. It provided complete funding for the renovation.

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iPads to invade Lower School

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new initiative to be launched at the start of the 2012-13 school year will bring 170 iPads to Lower School classrooms and an iPad for each Lower School teacher.

The decision to introduce iPads into Lower School classrooms follows a yearlong study by the Technology Steering Committee. The committee, created in response to a recent school evaluation by the Independent Schools Association of the Central States, was charged with reviewing current practices and creating a technology vision for grades K-12.

Based on that review, as well as teachers’ expressed desire for more devices easily accessible in the classroom, the Steering Committee recommended the iPad initiative as the best solution for the Lower School.

The committee’s work coincided with the regular “refreshing” cycle of Lower School technology devices, and as a result the Lower School was able to use those scheduled expenditures to fund the purchase of the iPads.

Lower School teachers received the devices and basic user information in June and are taking part in training this summer.

They already are finding ways to use the iPads to collaborate and to share how iPads – and all technology – can be useful tools to enhance teaching and learning. Stay tuned for additional details!

Chen named Presidential Scholar

Senior Rebecca Chen has been named

a 2012 U.S. Presidential Scholar, one of three Park Tudor students to be so honored since 2007.

Each year the U.S. Department of Education identifies 3,000 candidates for the academic component of the program, based on the students having scored exceptionally well on the SAT or the ACT. Final selections are based on academic achievement, leadership and service activities, and the quality and content of the students’ essays. Only one young woman and one young man are chosen from each

State, the District of Columbia, and from families of U.S. citizens living abroad.

Fifteen students are selected at large, and 20 from the visual and performing arts.

Rebecca received the Virginia E. Smith Highest Academic Average Award this year, graduating with a perfect 4.0 grade point average. She will attend Harvard University.

Rebecca and the other Presidential Scholars were honored during the National Recognition Weekend held in June in Washington, D.C. The Scholars met with government officials, educators, authors, musicians and scientists; visited museums and monuments; attended recitals and concerts; and were awarded the Presidential Scholars Medallion at a ceremony sponsored by the White House.

Each Presidential Scholar is asked to identify the one teacher who has had the most influence on him or her; Rebecca selected Computer Science teacher Ryan Ritz, who was honored with a Teacher Recognition Award at a reception during the National Recognition Weekend.

Board, he was awarded the David Hawley Leadership Award from the National Association of Student Councils. Chris also was honored by the Jonathan Jennings Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution as Park Tudor’s candidate for the DAR Good Citizen Award and Essay Competition.

• Jacob Baldwin ’12 and Ali Dakich ’12 were honored with The Hodges Awards, given annually to a male and female member of the senior class adjudged by the faculty to have significantly and wholeheartedly 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. Jacob will attend the University of North CarolinaChapel Hill and Ali will attend Vanderbilt University.

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Rebecca Chen with teacher Ryan Ritz at the Presidental Scholar Recognition Weeekend.

Students earn dozens of year-end honors TOP HONORS • Chris Eckersley ’12 received The Frank Meek Memorial Award, the highest award Park Tudor can bestow on a student, at the Upper School end-of-year awards assembly on May 24. The award was established by friends of the late Lt. Frank Meek ’48 as an incentive to students to aspire to the highest degree of loyalty to Park Tudor School and the community. Chris served as vice president of the Upper School Honor Council. A member of the Indiana Association of Student Council Executive

Chris Eckersley ’12 was honored with the The Frank Meek Memorial Award at the Upper School awards assembly on May 24.

Head of School Dr. Matthew MIller presents Jacob Baldwin ’12 and Ali Dakich ’12 with The Hodges Awards, given to a male and a female in the senior class selected for their contributions to the life and spirit of Park Tudor.

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News of the School Summer 2012 Park Tudor School continued from page 9 NATIONAL MERIT • Two members of the Class of 2012 have been selected as recipients of National Merit Scholarships. Rebecca Chen received a $2500 Scholarship underwritten by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.

The National Merit $2500 Scholarships are awarded in every state, in numbers based upon the state’s percentage of the nation’s high-school graduating seniors.

Maddy Vonderohe received a National Merit Scholarship underwritten by Indiana University. About 8,400 National Merit Scholarship winners nationwide were chosen from a group of approximately 15,000 distinguished Finalists.

• Asia Jernigan ’12 and Ayana Lindsey ’12 were named Outstanding Participants in the 2012 National Achievement Scholarship Program. They joined approximately 3,100 high-school seniors who are referred to regionally accredited U.S. colleges and universities based on their test scores. The National Achievement Program, conducted

by National Merit Scholarship Corporation, is a privately financed competition established in 1964 to provide recognition for outstanding Black American high-school students.

ACADEMIC ALL-STAR Senior Lillian Crabb was honored by “The Indianapolis Star” as one of Indiana’s 40 “Academic All-Stars” for 2012. The competition, now in its 26th year, is open to all high schools accredited by the Indiana Department of Education. Winners are selected based on academic achievement, extracurricular activities, leadership and community service. They also are asked to write essays honoring a school employee who most influenced their academic careers.

Crabb chose Upper School Social Studies teacher Dr. Sven Dubie as her “influential educator.”

ACADEMIC QUIZ COMPETITIONS • Park Tudor’s Hoosier Academic Super Bowl Math team placed second in the state in the Class 3 division competition at Purdue University on May 5. In the earlier area competition, the Fine Arts, Math and English teams placed second in Class 3 and the Science, Social Studies and Interdisciplinary teams placed third.

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Math team members were Dan Fu ’14, Nathan Mytelka ’15, Sophie Spartz ’14 and Michael Xu ’14.

• Park Tudor’s Brain Game team made it to the “elite eight” of this year’s competition. The team battled North Central in the quarterfinal match but came up short, 58-55. Our team prevailed in the Indiana Crossroads Conference Brain Game championship, advancing through the double-elimination tournament with a victory over Scecina (36-24) and two victories over last year’s WTHR Brain Game champions Cardinal Ritter (31-17, 36-20).

Team members were Kathryn Crabb ’12 (captain), Joey Whitaker ’12, A.J. Stautz ’14 and John Havlik ’15. Alternates were Dan Fu ’14 and Michaela Tinkey ’15, Julia Wang ’15 and JP LaBarge ’15.

• The Brain Game team members also advanced to the final four of the Indiana Quiz Bowl State Championship at Lafayette Harrison High School on March 17. The Panther squad went 3-1 in the preliminary rounds to earn a No. 4 seed in the “Elite 8” championship session. A strong victory in the first round over Chesterton High School put the team in the final four.

COMPUTER SCIENCE • Five Park Tudor students ranked among the top 10% of scorers in this spring’s National Cyber Foundations online competition, and junior Hope Casey-Allen ranked 15th in the nation in the contest. Landing among the top 10% of scorers were Prahasith Veluvolu ’13, Alexis Fink ’12, Cobi Petrucciani ’12 and Nupur Bhatt ’12. More than 600 students nationwide participated in Cyber Foundations, the entry-level competition in a series of increasingly challenging contests sponsored by the US Cyber Challenge, chartered to identify and nurture talented young Americans who can become the future cyber guardians of the United States.

In January, Park Tudor’s team qualified for the national CyberPatriot competition and was honored with a congratulatory letter from Indiana Senator Dan Coats.

Technology Manager Bryon Realey serves as the team’s advisor.

• The team of Catherine Mytelka ’13 and Dan Fu ’14 earned first place and Rebecca

Chen ’12 and Nupur Bhatt ’12 in the recent IUPUI Computer Science Contest.

CUM LAUDE Eighteen seniors and three juniors were inducted into membership in the Park Tudor chapter of the Cum Laude Society at an assembly on April 19. Inductees were Class of 2012 members Jacob Baldwin, Nupur Bhatt, Ted Cho, Nihanth Damera, Chris Eckersley, Adam Gaynor, Austin Kyker, Hannah Ladendorf, Reilly Martin, Kate McCarter, J.B. Rapp, Nina Roesner, Emma Skeels, Jack Thygesen, Monika Tilmans, Maddy Vonderohe, Niki Waddell and Joey Whitaker. Class of 2012 members Rebecca Chen and Lillian Crabb were inducted last year as juniors. Echo Angelicchio, Hope Casey-Allen, Catherine Mytelka were inducted as juniors this year as a result of maintaining a 4.0 GPA during their high-school careers.

Park Tudor’s chapter of the Cum Laude Society, which includes faculty members and administrators who were inducted into Phi Beta Kappa or hold a Ph.D. degree, elects no more than 20 percent of the senior class for induction into the Cum Laude Society based on their academic achievement, as well as any juniors who hold a 4.0 GPA. Alumni James Hamstra ’96 and Lauren Links ’04 addressed the assembly. Hamstra, a graduate of Wabash College and Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis and the IU Kelley School of Business, spoke on “Four Insights for a Balanced Life.” He encouraged students to embrace unexpected opportunities, to be authentic, to ask for help and remember to say thank you, and to stay financially and physically fit.

Links, a graduate of Johns Hopkins and of the NYC Teaching Fellows program, is a history teacher in Brooklyn. Links discussed the inequities she has discovered as an teacher in a high-poverty urban school, and contrasted her experiences with the “rare and excellent” Park Tudor education (see related article on page 27).

GEOGRAPHY Seventh-grader Adam Gottwald, winner of the Middle School Geography Bee at Park Tudor, qualified to compete in the statelevel National Geographic Bee at IUPUI.

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MATH & SCIENCE • Six Upper School students competed this year in the American Mathematics Contest (AMC), with all six scoring high enough to qualify for next level of competition. Participants were Rebecca Chen ’12, Catherine Mytelka ’13, Dan Fu ’14, Laurel Fink ’15, Nathan Mytelka ’15 and Julia Wang ’15. Nathan Mytelka was the school winner for the AMC 10/12A, with Julia Wang crowned the school winner for the AMC 10/12B. In the next level of competition, Rebecca Chen was the school winner for the American Invitational Mathematics Exam.

• Physics teacher Dr. Dario Untama led a contingent of Upper School AP Physics students to the annual Purdue University “Bridge Bust” competition February 26.

The competition’s objective is to have students apply their math and engineering skills to build bridges to withstand various forces. Park Tudor’s bridge placed 19th of 93 built by schools throughout Indiana.

• Our Science Olympiad team advanced to the finals of the State Science Olympiad at IU Bloomington. Dan Fu ’14 placed second in the Algorithms competition, while the team of Neha Anand ’13, Dan Fu and Catherine Mytelka placed fifth in Experimental Design and the team of Chris Eckersley ’12 and Prahasith Veluvolu ’13 placed fifth in the “Write It Do It” category.

Park Tudor placed 17th out of 26 teams.

• The team of Dan Fu ’14, Chris Hsu ’14, Michael Xu ’14, Julia Wang ’15 and Katelynn Kyker ’15 placed third in the team division for first-year students in the American Chemical Society National Chemistry Olympiad - Indiana exam.

SPELLING BEE Sixth grader Victor Xiao was one of 31 spellers who competed in the Marion County Regional Spelling Bee on March 20.

He advanced through 12 rounds, spelling words such as graupel, homogeneous, insidious and metamorphosis.

• Dan Fu ’14 and Jack Stewart ’16 received perfect scores on the 2012 National Latin Exam. More than 150,000 students from all 50 states and from 12 countries took the exam, with only 150 receiving perfect scores. Of the 48 Park Tudor students who participated, 44 received awards.

WORLD LANGUAGES • Lillian Crabb ’12 has received the American Association of Teachers of French Outstanding Senior Award, given annually to a graduating senior who has demonstrated excellence in the study of the French language and francophone culture. This is the first year a Park Tudor student has been nominated for the award.

Lillian has studied French for 13 years with an A average. She participated in the Indiana University Honors Program in Foreign Languages, served as co-president of the French Club and as a tutor and mentor in French, excelled on the National French Contest Exam, and contributed to National French Week activities.

• Chinese II students Alexandra Lombardo ’14 and Neale Moore ’14 were awarded scholarships to attend the National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y) Study Language Abroad Program for eight weeks in China this summer, following in the footsteps of Katie Kortepeter ’13, who received the scholarship last year. NSLI-Y, sponsored by the U.S. State Department, provides full, merit-based scholarships for eligible high-school students to learn less commonly taught languages in summer and academic-year overseas immersion programs.

• The Park Tudor Latin Club placed first overall for small schools at the Indiana Junior Classical League State Convention March 10-11 at Indiana University.

Caroline Tucker ’13 presided over the weekend’s events, completing her term as IJCL president.

• On April 20, Park Tudor students took part for the first time in the 27th annual Concurso Académico, a statewide Spanish competition that includes several individual competitions at middle- and high-school levels. Juniors Lauren Talbert, Sue Cho and Val Fedorikhin won fourth place overall. Graysen Montel ’18 took second place in the time and numbers competition.

Margherita Firenze, the only fifth-grader in the state to participate, placed fourth in the time and numbers contest.

• Eight Park Tudor juniors, pictured below, are participating in the Indiana University Honors Program in Foreign Languages this summer. Two will study in France, five in Spain, and one in Mexico. Students live with a host family, attend morning classes, and participate in afternoon activities and excursions with the other students. They agree to speak no English during their trip.

SPEECH AND DEBATE Nick Hornedo ’15 and Ruben Schuckit ’14 qualified to compete at the Indiana State Speech Finals on March 23 at Fishers High School. Nick, who competed in Declamation, was named a semifinalist. Ruben competed in Impromptu.

Coach Tamara Tudor was awarded a Teacher of the Month certificate.

IU Honors Program participants, l to r: Class of 2013 members Nicole Coghlan, Kelsey Johnson, Brianna Brooks, Melanie Ash, Fran Conterno, Abbey Buroker, Lauren Lowry and Ella Freihofer.

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librarian Donna Johnson and Upper School Spanish teacher Sheila Young were honored at several end-of-year events.

Sharon Robinson, daughter of baseball legend Jackie Robinson, presented Raeya Ponugoti ’19 with the Breaking Barriers Award at a Lower School assembly on April 27.

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ifth-grader Raeya Ponugoti was one of two grand-prize winners of the 2012 “Breaking Barriers: In Sports, In Life” North American essay contest. Raeya’s essay was selected from more than 10,000 submitted for this year’s contest, sponsored

by Major League Baseball and Scholastic.

Park Tudor fifth-grade students entered the writing contest in February. Students in grades four through eight across the U.S. and Canada wrote 200-700 word essays sharing personal stories of how they used the values exemplifed by Baseball Hall of Famer Jackie Robinson to overcome personal barriers. Raeya’s essay was about how she handled a difficult situation at a local dance studio.

Sharon Robinson, Jackie Robinson’s daughter and Educational Programming Consultant for Major League Baseball, visited the Lower School on April 27 to present the award to Raeya, and later that evening Raeya and her family attended Jackie Robinson Night at a Cincinnati Reds game. Raeya also was honored by the Indianapolis-Marion County City-Council Council at its monthly meeting.

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Three honored upon retirement

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distinguished faculty members whose careers total 80 years of service to Park Tudor retired at the end of the school year. Upper School math teacher Emily Moore Sturman ’66, Lower School

Emily Moore Sturman ’66 The recipient of a Park Tudor Distinguished Alumni Award in 2011, Emily Sturman has educated generations of Park Tudor students. For the past 40 years, she has combined high standards and expectations with exceptional warmth and deep engagement with students.

In announcing her retirement, Head of School Dr. Matthew Miller noted, “She has elevated our understanding of professionalism, and she represents the sort of stability and continuity that make our school remarkable.”

She has served as an advisor for Student Council, Brain Game and the junior class, as well as a member of the Personnel Practices Committee. Emily was president of the Park Tudor Alumni Board of Directors (1977-78) and a representative for the Tudor Hall Class of 1966.

Although retiring from the classroom, Sturman will stay closely connected to Park Tudor in a mentoring capacity, working with advanced math students as opportunities arise and assisting new faculty members in their transition to Park Tudor. And she will also remain connected

Retiring faculty members Sheila Young, Emily Sturman and Donna Johnson were honored at an end-of-year faculty dinner on May 30. Long-time tutor Sandy Kling, who is retiring from tutoring this year, also was honored at the event.

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to Park Tudor as a devoted grandparent.

The children of her sons, Jason ’93 and Jake ’98, now attend Park Tudor.

At the Cum Laude induction assembly on April 19, the incoming Cum Laude Chapter President, Upper School socialstudies teacher Dr. Sven Dubie, presented a special award to Sturman, recognizing her role as president of Park Tudor’s Cum Laude chapter since 1989.

Donna Johnson In her 28 years at Park Tudor, Donna Johnson has introduced hundreds of Lower School students to the wonders of books and reading, and has made her mark on the school by tirelessly working to foster literacy and a love of reading.

For the annual Lower School Literacy Day, she coordinated the visits of nearly 40 nationally known visiting authors and illustrators to the school and promoted “book character days.” In March 2004, she turned the Lower School library into a carnival to celebrate the 100th birthday of Dr. Seuss. She also introduced the fourth-grade Breakfast Book Club and the schoolwide weekly silent-reading initiative, and urged students to continue reading over the summer by carefully compiling their summer reading lists.

In addition, Donna has served as the Lower School Student Council faculty advisor for 25 years, working with our young students to support their community.

She also has been the Lower School yearbook advisor for the past 20 years.

Donna has served on five out-of-state ISACS evaluating teams, and is a member of the American Library Association and the American Association of School Librarians.

Sheila Young In her 12 years at Park Tudor, Upper School Spanish teacher Sheila Young has helped to foster in students not only a love of the Spanish language, but also of the Spanish culture and its people. Young culminated her Spanish-teaching career at Park Tudor after having previously taught Spanish at Arsenal Technical High School, as well as at Perry Meridian and Southport Middle schools and Southport High School.

Through the support of a Park Tudor Toward Excellence Grant, Sheila created

an in-service project entitled “Hacia la Excelencia” in which PT Spanish students spent two hours a week for eight weeks in the Indianapolis homes of immigrant families.

In addition she initiated the popular visits of Silvia Zuniga, who has sold tamales on campus for several years. She has cosponsored trips for the Park Tudor Spanish AP students to the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, and in 2007, accompanied a group of Park Tudor students to Quito, Ecuador with the Timmy Foundation. Sheila also has worked in Honduras, Costa Rica, Cuba and Colombia as an interpreter for four mission trips.

In 2007, she was named the Walter Hines Page Scholar to Argentina by the English Speaking Union of the United States. She has served as a member of the Butler University Spanish adjunct faculty and as a College Board reader of the AP Spanish Language Examination.

Head of School Dr. Matthew Miller says, “Donna Johnson and Sheila Young represent the finest aspects of professionalism, commitment to the school, and excellence in all aspects of their work.

They have made a deep impression on our community and their legacy will live on long after their departure.”

Defining “Great Teaching”

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s part of Park Tudor’s multi-year focus on “Great Teaching in an Age of Change,” the Park Tudor faculty spent annual Professional Development Day in February discussing and defining “What Makes a Great Teacher?”

Facilitated by Associate Head of School Peter Kraft and noted educator Connie Johnston, faculty met to develop a shared vocabulary around great teaching and learning. The result of their discussions, a document titled “Great Teaching at Park Tudor,” is excerpted here.

Associate Head of School for Academic Affairs Peter Kraft says, “This is an aspirational document, rather than a ‘checklist.’ It represents the most prominent themes of the Professional Development Day and is meant as a vehicle for individual and institutional growth — a tool to help us all become even better teachers by

identifying what we value as a community and by using a collective vocabulary to help define exceptional instruction.”

Kraft notes that the document, which will continue to evolve over time, also will inform many of the school’s ongoing initiatives, such as the faculty growth and evaluation process and the selection of professional development topics, among others.

Great Teaching at Park Tudor While there is no single “formula” for exceptional educators, great teaching at Park Tudor is founded on: • Teachers who set clear and high standards for their students and who empower them to be independent and critical thinkers; • Teachers who are approachable/ encouraging and who foster genuine personal relationships with their students; • Teachers who are passionate about their work, who are good role models, and who enjoy working with young people inside and outside the classroom; • Teachers who are respectful of students and who create a safe and caring classroom environment; • Teachers who are knowledgeable about their craft and their subject matter; • Teachers who are flexible in their approach and who differentiate effectively in the classroom; • Teachers who are creative and who employ a variety of methods to teach well; • Teachers who are lifelong learners and who embrace new information, technologies and approaches to teaching; • Teachers who communicate effectively with students, colleagues and parents; • Teachers who are collaborative and who embrace opportunities to work with colleagues; and • Teachers who are committed to the entire Park Tudor community and who are accountable for its results.

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Amstutz honored with Tom Wright Leadership Award

Hart named director of admissions

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ssociate Head of School for External Affairs and Director of Admissions David Amstutz, who is leaving Park Tudor to become Head of School at St. Richard’s Episcopal School in Indianapolis, was honored at a faculty end-of-year dinner on May 30 with the Tom Wright Leadership Award.

The honor is presented by the Board of Directors “to recognize persons whose sincere and energetic devotion to Park Tudor School has resulted in extraordinary service to the school and its students.”

In announcing the award, Head of School Dr. Matthew Miller noted Amstutz’s 11 years of dedication to the school. “As we all know, he has a keen intellect, a wonderful sense of humor, and he has been a great colleague and friend to many at the school. On a personal note, I have enjoyed working closely with David and, while excited for him personally, I am saddened by our loss. We will all miss him and his warmth.”

Amstutz says, ”I have great respect for both Park Tudor and St. Richard’s, and it is my hope that my new role at St. Richard’s will further strengthen the positive relationship that already exists between these two enduring schools.”

Departing Associate Head of School for External Affairs David Amstutz thanks Dr. Matthew Miller after being honored with the Tom Wright Leadership Award at a faculty dinner on May 30.

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Technology and library/media departments merge

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Shants Hart

Shants Hart, in addition to her role as

director of the Middle School, has been named director of admissions.

Head of School Dr. Matthew Miller says, “Shants is already deeply involved in admissions work on all levels, and she will provide important continuity as we pass the baton from David Amstutz. David has created a great team, with excellent representation at all levels of the school, and the admissions process presents our excellent educators and extraordinary opportunities in a wonderful light.”

“I am especially excited,” Hart notes, “to extend the reach of the school, and to take an even more proactive stance in all aspects of admissions, from student recruitment to developing relationships with different groups within the city; there is so much potential, and we have such an extraordinary story to tell.”

Hart and the admissions team of Barb Skinner, Joyce Tucker, Barb Skelton, Sandy Miller and Cathlynn Curnutt plan to continue the welcoming traditions that are associated with admission to Park Tudor.

Hart will continue as director of the Middle School. Amy Kerr, in addition to her regular Middle School worldlanguage teaching duties, will take on the new role of director of student affairs in the Middle School. She will oversee the logistical planning of a number of Middle School activities and will handle aspects of attendance and minor disciplinary incidents.

ark Tudor’s technology and library/ media departments are merging as part of a new program to support classroom technology innovation and to keep pace with the extraordinary changes in instructional, media and information technology.

Associate Head of School for Academic Affairs Peter Kraft explains that the realignment is also intended to improve efficiency and responsiveness in technology support, to draw a clearer distinction between “systems” and “instructional” technology, and to address a critical need for additional database support.

“Some of the leading independent schools in the country have moved to this model,” Kraft notes, “and one can see why: integrating technology with library and media creates natural synergies that promote effective teaching and learning and help schools become far more agile. This restructuring only strengthens the school’s commitment to 21st-century teaching and learning.”

Working with Kraft and Director of Technology Mark Phillips, Janie Hizer will spearhead the school’s efforts to reenvision library and media services and to expand the traditional boundaries of the library. She and three media and technology integrators will work with students and faculty to develop information literacy and innovative use of instructional technology.

They also will be responsible for faculty training and technology and media-related professional development. Hizer will continue to oversee the school’s library and media centers.

Each division will continue to house a research and information specialist (RIS) – a “librarian” who resides in the Library and Media Centers and promotes reading and literacy. The RIS in each division will also oversee organization of books, databases and related multi-media resources; assist students and faculty members with research; help manage the circulation of library materials; and work closely with a variety of learning activities within the various divisions.

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College Counseling Office expands

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ollowing an extensive national search, Shari Sutton has been appointed associate director of College Counseling. She will join Director of College Guidance Larry Eckel, Associate Director Sue Stemen, College Counselor Joe Fumusa and Registrar Mary Pendexter in the College Counseling Office.

Sutton brings significant experience from both the college admissions and secondary school sides of the desk. For the past four years, she has served as the associate director of College Counseling at Choate Rosemary Hall, a boarding and day school in Wallingford, Connecticut.

Previously she spent five years at Vanderbilt University, where she was senior assistant director of admissions, responsible for candidate file processing, international recruitment and related financial-aid applications. She also served as the admissions liaison to Vanderbilt’s School of Engineering and assistant liaison to the Department of Athletics.

Sutton’s international travels for Vanderbilt took her to more than 30 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Domestically, she oversaw the university’s recruitment outreach to Massachusetts, Hawaii and central Indiana.

A native of Bloomington, she graduated from Indiana University and worked as an admissions officer there for two years.

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companies find federal funding for their projects. Additionally, since 2004, she has counseled underprivileged and firstgeneration college students at “Summer Camp College” held on the campus of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee.

Larry Eckel, who chaired the facultyadministrative search committee, says “Shari’s combination of professional experience, personal warmth and student orientation makes her a natural choice for this new position, one that will enable us to broaden and deepen our work with families in planning for the many opportunities and challenges of today’s higher education landscape.”

New faculty for 2012-13 • Dr. Irena Penev, Upper School Math: Penev joins us from Columbia University, where she completed her Ph.D. in mathematics this spring. A 2006 magna cum laude graduate of Bryn Mawr College with degrees in mathematics and French, she has taught a variety of courses at Columbia, including College Algebra, Calculus I and II, and Linear Algebra. She will teach at all levels of the mathematics curriculum and will help in continuing to develop the school’s math team.

• Dr. Clarice Doucette, Upper School World Languages: A veteran of more than 20 years in the classroom, Doucette will join us from the Webb Schools in Tennessee, where she has taught since 1999. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Colorado State with a master’s degree from the University of Kansas, she earned her Ph.D. in comparative literature from Washington University in St. Louis.

• Laura Reysz, Upper School Science: Reysz comes to Park Tudor from Lawrence Township, where she taught for more than 15 years. One of the most decorated teachers in the district, Laura was selected as one of Lawrence Central High School’s “Honored Educators” (the highest teaching award in the school) a remarkable seven times. A graduate of the University of Evansville and IUPUI, she has been an AP

Reader and test developer for Biology and has taught everything from AP Biology and Environmental Science to Chemistry, Astronomy and Earth Science. Reysz’s focus will be on Anatomy and Physiology and Physics.

• Sarah Rogers, Research and Information Specialist and 10th Grade English: A summa cum laude graduate of Indiana State University with a B.S. degree in English and an M.S. in educational media and technology from IUPUI, Sarah comes to Park Tudor from Brownsburg High School, where she served as a technology training specialist for seven years. In addition, Sarah taught AP and honors-level English at both Brownsburg and Scecina.

At Park Tudor Sarah will serve as our research and information specialist in the Upper School, teach one section of 10th grade English and will serve as Academic Super Bowl coach.

• Spencer Summerville ’06, Upper School Math: A Park Tudor graduate, Summerville double-majored in mathematics and middle/ secondary education at Butler University, where he also played football. A scholarathlete, he was twice selected to the ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA Academic AllDistrict and Academic All-Conference teams and captained the Butler squad his senior year. Summerville has taught for the past two years in the Pike Township school district. He will work primarily with ninthand tenth-grade math students and will continue to coach.

• Jesse Bohnert, 1st Grade: A graduate of Indiana University with a B.S. degree in elementary education, Jesse is already quite familiar with Park Tudor. She served as teaching assistant at PT for two years and has been a summer school teacher since 2008. Trained as a Lindamood Bell tutor, Bohnert has spent the last two years teaching first grade at the Eman Elementary School in Fishers.

• Becky Honig, 5th Grade Humanities: Honig has worked in public and private education for eight years, most recently as a long-term substitute in sixth grade at Park Tudor. She earned her degree in English from the University of California Santa

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continued from page 15 Barbara and began her teaching career in California, where she worked as a middle school humanities teacher, combining English and history to create a writingintensive and project-based curriculum.

Honig also has worked extensively with students in Gifted and Talented Programs.

• Cammy Dubie, 4th and 5th Grade Science: A graduate of Colby College (B.A. in biology and environmental science) and Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education, Dubie brings extensive experience in a variety of independent schools. In her science teaching positions, she has been particularly involved in developing integrated, STEM and projectbased science curricula. She has served as executive director of Horizons at St. Richard’s Episcopal School, an academic enrichment program for low-income K-4 students. In addition to teaching, she also will work to enhance service learning and civic engagement at Park Tudor.

New roles for 2012-13 • Mary Rominger, Assistant Director of the Lower School: Working closely with Lower School Director Debbie Dominguez,

Rominger will assume the new role of assistant director of the Lower School.

She will focus particularly on faculty development and coaching, classroom innovation, and admissions. A longtime classroom teacher, Rominger also will serve as the Lower School literacy support specialist, assisting with classroom differentiation, helping to coordinate standardized testing and working closely with teaching teams to oversee curriculum mapping.

• Krista Fox, Lower School Math Support Specialist: A long-time teacher in the Lower School and, most recently, a tutor in our Middle School, Fox will serve as a resource for K-5 math teachers and assistants. She will assist with classroom instruction through curriculum planning, classroom observations and in some cases teaching alongside the math teachers. She will work with teaching teams on curriculum mapping and will be a part of the student strategies team that identifies interventions and works on accommodations that support learners who need additional challenges or extra support.

• Heather Teets, Assistant Director of Fine Arts: Working hand-in-hand with Director of Fine Arts John Williams, Teets will oversee the entire Visual Arts program

The Upper School presented “Grease” in Ayres Auditorium on March 10 and 11. The production was dedicated to the memory of Andrew Ponader ’10, who passed away on March 1, 2012. In connection with the production, the Park Tudor Parents Association presented the Fine Arts department with a check for $36,957.88 raised at its annual Dinner Theatre silent auction.

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and support the work of the arts coordinators in the Lower and Middle Schools. She also will serve as the Arts representative to the Academic Affairs Committee, will oversee evaluation of Visual Arts faculty, and will assist with the further development of various arts outreach programs. She also will continue to direct the highly successful “Visiting Artist Series.”

• Dr. Scott McDougall, Science Department Chair: McDougall brings impressive experience to the position, having taught in both the Middle and Upper Schools and having recently served as the associate academic dean and director of institutional data, a position he will continue to hold.

• Steve Math, Schedule and Academic Records Coordinator: While teaching four courses, Math will continue in his lead role as academic scheduler for Upper School. In addition to building the upper school schedule, he will work closely with department chairs, Academic Dean Mike Ayres, Upper School Director Debbie Everett and Associate Head of School for Academic Affairs Peter Kraft on the collection and analysis of course-related data.

• Bonnie Stewart, 5th Grade Humanities: Currently a second-grade teacher, Stewart previously oversaw the fifth-grade writing curriculum at Park Tudor before moving to Connecticut with her family. There, she taught second grade at Greenwich Country Day School. A graduate of Vanderbilt University with an Ed.M. in language and literacy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Stewart will work closely with Becky Honig to create a new fifthgrade Humanities curriculum.

• Kathy Hutchinson, 2nd Grade: Current first-grade teacher Hutchinson, a veteran teacher with more than 30 years of classroom experience, will be joining the second-grade team. She holds a B.A. and M.Ed. from Indiana University with a focus on special education and gifted and talented instruction.

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Learning Project update

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Mary Ann Scott, Middle School psychologist and academic support coordinator, has been named director of The Russel & Mary Williams Learning Project. She succeeds Dr. Scott Hamilton, who took a position at the Howard School in Atlanta, GA. An integral member of the Learning Project staff since 2004, Dr. Scott now directs the Learning Project faculty and staff and coordinates campuswide Learning Services. Additionally, she oversees academic coaching, tutoring and consultation, as well as the assistive technology program, at Park Tudor.

Dr. Scott also will serve as the school psychologist for grades 3-8 this year.

Lisa Mercurio remains the Upper School psychologist while assuming the new roles of school psychologist for junior kindergarten to grade 2 and Upper School academic support coordinator. She continues to perform critical functions in the Upper School, including consultation and the coordination of academic support, tutoring, assistive technology and testing.

She will continue to oversee AP testing.

During the upcoming school year, Scott and Mercurio will continue to provide state-of-the-art school neuropsychological evaluations at no cost to Park Tudor parents. In addition, Lower School students and families will be served by the Learning Project’s mathematics and literacy learning specialists, who will attend student strategy meetings, conduct basic assessments of students, and work with students who may need additional support or curricular extensions. For Lower School students with additional needs, Scott and Mercurio will be available for evaluation and consultation.

Worth noting… faculty honors • Middle School Social Studies teacher Chris Hammock has been awarded an $8,000 Lilly Endowment Teacher Creativity Fellowship for 2012. Hammock received the grant for her proposal “Pursuing Patriots in Paris.” This summer she is visiting the French capital to follow the paths of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and other patriots who spent time in Paris. Hammock

is one of 120 K-12 teachers statewide to be awarded the grants this year; they were selected from about 450 applicants. The Creativity Fellowship provides funding for teachers to “explore their own curiosities and dreams, spend time in other parts of the world, enjoy different cultures and just ‘get away,’” says Sarah B. Cobb, vice president for education at Lilly Endowment.

• Upper School history teacher Sven Dubie has been selected through a competitive application process to participate in the Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History’s weeklong seminar on “The Role of the Supreme Court in American History” at Stanford University this summer. The course examines key moments in the history of the Court and the country, exploring the historical context necessary to understand its evolving role.

• Latin and Classical Greek teacher Clifford Hull has been reappointed to serve on the AP Latin Exam Development Committee for 2012-13. He attended the AP Board’s DC Seminar, where he presented a paper to more than 60 high-school teachers on strategies to teach sight translations and answer multiple-choice questions on the AP Latin exam.

• Middle School math teacher DJ Weymuth was named “Educator of the Month” for April 2012 by DyKnow, an Indianapolisbased educational software company.

He hosted the company’s user webinar on best practices for interactive learning and classroom management on April 24.

A number of Park Tudor teachers use the DyKnow interactive software in their classrooms.

• The National Council for the Social Studies has invited Upper School Social Studies teacher Jeff Johnson to evaluate world history panel proposals for its 2012 conference in Seattle.

• Lower School music teacher Jennifer Nie performed as a member of the Opera Chorus in the Indianapolis Opera production of “Opera at the Movies” at Clowes Memorial Hall in March.

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Fine arts kudos • Lisa Muloma ’13 has been awarded a National Silver Key Award for her portfolio of 15 poems entered in this year’s Scholastic Art & Writing Awards of Central and Southern Indiana. Earlier this year, she was nominated for the national American Visions awards, which honors the best in show in any category and age group. A sample of her poetry was featured in the Spring 2012 issue of The Phoenix. “Poetry helps me think and figure out what’s going on inside of my head,” says Muloma.

• Katherine Kortepeter ’13 was named a semifinalist in the Young Playwrights in Process competition sponsored by Indiana Repertory Theatre and the Margot and Robert S. Eccles Trust. She will participate in a playwriting workshop and a public reading of her work “All is Dust,” about the Russian Romanov family during their captivity in Yekaterinberg.

• Abby Miller ’14 was first runner-up in the state division of The English Speaking Union’s National Shakespeare Competition.

For her performances of a monologue from “The Merchant of Venice” and a Shakespearean sonnet, she was awarded a medal and a $200 cash prize.

• For the third consecutive year, Park Tudor brought home the traveling plaque in the Indiana Crossroads Conference Art Competition. Participating high schools included Speedway, Scecina, Lutheran, Cardinal Ritter and Beech Grove. Best of Show was awarded to R.J. Huguenard ’12 for his photography. Other award winners were Rachel DeVito ’13, first place in ceramics; Robert Hicks ’13, first place in drawing; Nina Roesner ’12, first place in photography; Courtney Fehsenfeld ’12, second place in photography; Ali Lebovits ’14, second place in drawing; and Sierra Wallin ’13, honorable mention in ceramics.

• Orchestra members in grades six through 12 had the opportunity to see the Harlem Quartet in a workshop on March 15 at the Zionsville Performing Arts Center. Following the performance and discussion with these world-renowned musicians, students watched as the quartet

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members conducted a Master Class with a “Star Ensemble” of string students brought together from area schools. Park Tudor was represented in this group by Jeremy Wu ’13, Victoria Xiao ’13, Ruben Schuckit ’14 and James Cain ’14. The event, which ended with the Harlem Quartet playing side-by-side with the students, was sponsored by the Ensemble Music Society of Indianapolis and organized by Park Tudor Orchestra Director Lorelei Farlow, the educational outreach liaison of EMSI. • Eight Upper School students are spending the summer in Italy participating in the Spoleto Study Abroad program, an immersion program for high-school students interested in vocal music, visual arts, drama, photography and creative writing. Selected to take part in the program were Joseph Bir ’13, McKenna Duiser ’13, Rae Fagin ’12, Courtney Fehsenfeld ’12, Vanessa Gehring ’13, Kara Huster ’13, Ravi Shah ’14 and Maddy Vonderohe ’12.

Global Scholars program director Dr. Jan Guffin and Upper School photography and graphic design teacher Heather Teets both teach in this summer program.

• Brooke DeBettignies ’13 played the lead role of “Audrey” in Carmel Repertory Theatre’s musical production of “Little Shop of Horrors” in the Studio Theatre at The Performing Arts Center in Carmel in

June. She also taught a six-week summer improvisation class for students ages 10-19 at the Westfield Playhouse this summer.

• Second-grader Morgan Williamson is dancing in the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games. Morgan, who has been dancing competitively since age three, will be the youngest dancer traveling with her dance company, Dance Magic Performing Arts Center.

PT prepares to build seventh Habitat house

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ark Tudor is preparing to build its seventh Habit for Humanity house in September and October. Student Co-chairs Brianna Brooks ’13 and James Cain ’14 have worked diligently over the past year to raise the $70,000 required for the school to sponsor the project.

The partnership between Habitat for Humanity of Greater Indianapolis and Park Tudor began in 1999, when PT students formed the student Habitat chapter in conjunction with Brian Tolbert’s (’00) Global Scholars project. In 2002, Park Tudor became the sole sponsor of a home, and it continues to be the only school in the Greater Indianapolis area to sponsor a home on its own.

Upper School art students presented the Park Tudor Art Salon and Artist Reception on May 13 at the Canterbury Hotel in downtown Indianapolis. The group art exhibition featured student works and an hors d’oeuvres reception.

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Contributions from the Park Tudor community, combined with generous donations from the PT Alumni Association, the Park Tudor Parents Association, the Park Tudor Booster Club and numerous Indianapolis businesses and outside private donations, have helped raise nearly $62,000 to date. The Park Tudor Alumni Association has donated an additional $1,000 in a challenge grant. The additional funds will be used to help each PT grade level select and stock a particular room or area of the Habitat house next fall.

Students, faculty, parents and alumni will have the opportunity to assist with the build. Look for additional information on how to help in September and October.

Community service initiatives • The Lower School sponsored a school uniform donation drive in May to benefit the Indianapolis Challenge Foundation Academy, resulting in hundreds of donations. Fifth-grader Nick Conterno and his family introduced Park Tudor to the Academy, which offers a rigorous K-5 college-prep program. Despite the fact that more than 80% of its students live under the poverty level, the students consistently achieve at extremely high levels.

• Seventh-grade students spent March 23 learning about service by working at three local non-profit organizations and reflecting on the importance of helping each other.

In a partnership with the Joseph Maley Foundation, students worked in teams at one of three local non-profits – Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana, Joy’s House and the Society of Saint Vincent DePaul – and returned to campus for an afternoon of activities and discussion.

• Students reached out to assist those touched by the tornadoes that devastated portions of southern Indiana in early spring. The Lower School Student Council donated $1,000 to the American Red Cross using proceeds from the successful Lower School magazine sale. The Middle School organized “Hats for Henryville” to benefit students whose school was severely damaged by the tornado, raising $3,594

The Lower School took part in the annual JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes on May 4. JDRF is the leading global organization focused on type 1 diabetes research.

for their peers in the Henryville classes of 2016, 2017 and 2018. The Fine Arts Department donated a portion of proceeds from the spring Dinner Theatre to the fund.

• Eighth-grade students took part in Sit For Good, an awareness project led by Upper School student members of Building Tomorrow, a local organization that builds schools in Uganda. Sit For Good is a service-learning campaign that teaches students about philanthropy, the educational inequalities in our world, and sub-Sarahan Africa. Upper School students involved in Building Tomorrow led small-group discussions with eighth-grade students about their experience.

• Sixth-graders returned to the Paramount School of Excellence this spring to visit with the first graders they met last fall in a community engagement project to collect books for the students. They worked together on Indianapolis 500-themed activities.

• This spring, the Park Tudor baseball team sponsored a free clinic for more than 70 First Baptist Church baseball players, ages 5-12, and their 15 coaches. The team focused on teaching fundamentals of the game. “This was a great opportunity for our kids to make

a positive impact in our community and to give back to the youth in our city, spending time to teach them the game of baseball,” says Coach Courtney Whitehead.

• Freshman J.P. LaBarge spearheaded a “Changing Footprints” Shoe Drive this spring; students donated shoes for victims of disasters around the world.

• Sophomores Margaret House, Amy Skeels and Hannah Klapper led the initiative to get student and faculty involved in the annual Race for The Cure on April 21.

• Shelby Brown ’14 and Becca Ito ’13 were selected as Park Tudor’s first ambassadors to attend the Rotary Youth Leadership Award retreat at Camp Tecumseh in March. Becca also represented Park Tudor at Hoosier Girls State at Indiana State University.

• A.J. Stautz ’14 and Jack Thygesen ’12 were honored with the Eagle Scout Award, the highest advancement award of the Boy Scouts of America. A.J. led the construction of a 24-foot-long wooden footbridge in Daubenspeck Community Nature Park.

Jack’s service project provided the White Chapel Church in Carmel with landscaping overhaul and a website design.

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Spring athletic update: Track, baseball, golf win postseason honors

By Brad Lennon, Athletic Director BASEBALL Coach Courtney Whitehead’s team had a banner year, winning conference, sectional and regional championships for the second consecutive year. The Panthers were ranked in the top five in the state 2A coaches poll all season. Going into the semi-state round of the tournament, Park Tudor possessed a sparkling 24-4 record. The team ended its run with a loss to Evansville Mater Dei, 7-2, in the semi-state contest at Jasper on June 7. Coach Whitehead is four wins shy of his 200th career win as a coach, with a 196-86 overall record. The Panthers were solid across the line-up with depth on the mound and consistency in the batting order. All-Conference honors went to four players: seniors Madison Foster, Kevin Rex, Calvin Smith and Chris Eckersley.

Madison Foster was selected to the North/ South Baseball All-Star team.

TRACK & FIELD Both the boys and girls teams excelled this spring. The girls earned the conference championship title, with team members setting conference and school records in several categories. The girls 4x400 team qualified for the state meet with a time of 4:04.09, a time they beat at the state meet on June 1. Christine Lucas ’12, Maya Vance ’12, Samantha Schwab ’14 and Sydney Schwab ’14 placed second in their heat, finishing 17th overall with a new season-best time of 4:03.89.

Conference champions included Jessica Newton ’14, 200 M Dash; Lauren

Lowry ’13, Shot Put, new conference record; David Kilkenny ’12, 100 M Dash and 400 M Dash (new meet record 400M); girls 4x100, girls 4x400 and girls 4x800 (new meet record girls 4x800). For the boys, the 4x800 team and David Kilkenny in the 400M qualified for the regionals.

BOYS GOLF The boys golf team captured the school’s second IHSAA sectional title in history, outlasting the field in the Southport sectional at Heartland Crossing. The boys shot a tournament-best 317, just ahead of Lawrence Central and Roncalli. Will Clark ’13 tied for low medalist honors with a 77, subsequently coming up short in a two-hole playoff for top honors. The team placed sixth in regional competition. Other members of the sectional and regional team were Chris Block ’13, Austin Honigford ’14, David Dunbar ’12 and Cooper Ramsey ’14. Earlier in the season the boys took first place in the Indiana Crossroads Conference meet and finished with a very impressive third-place finish in the 16-team Marion County Tournament. With only one graduating senior in the lineup, the future looks very bright for the boys golf team.

SOFTBALL A young and relatively inexperienced softball team battled all season long, playing a very demanding schedule. The Lady Panthers walked away with only two victories all season. The youth of the team, combined with many newcomers to the sport, made for a challenging season.

Injuries and a shorthanded pitching rotation

The girls track team at the state meet: Jessica Newton ’14, Samantha Schwab ’14, Sidney Schwab ’14, Christine Lucas ’12, Maya Vance ’12, Sydney Weiss ’14 and Jessica Palmer ’15.

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added further obstacles for the coaches and participants. The team made strides, however, and with a season of experience under their belt the girls’ prospects for improvement are good.

GIRLS TENNIS One of the youngest tennis teams in the school’s history arrived for play in midMarch. The top-seven lineup was often comprised of four or five freshmen, a few sophomores, and an occasional senior. Coach Dave Heffern’s lady netters won their sixth consecutive conference championship, besting the rest of the field 5-0. However, the girls dropped a tough 3-2 decision to Brebeuf in the finals of the sectional. On the bright side, No.1 singles player freshman Brigitte Hodge advanced to the regional round of the state tournament.

CREW The Park Tudor crew team rowed in regattas held at Knoxville, TN, and Culver Academies. At Culver, the boats competed against crews from three states. Freshman Alec Stanley took home a gold medal, besting a highly ranked Culver crew by several lengths. In early May, the PT Crew, along with the other Indy Rowing Center Juniors, hosted the Indianapolis High School Invitational. For its spring season finale, the Park Tudor Crew competed against more than 30 teams in the Midwest Junior Championships in Cincinnati.

Sophomore Victoria Longe made the finals and the girls brought home the bronze.

BOYS LACROSSE The boys started their season on a strong note, jumping out to an impressive 9-2 record before the injury bug and a few tough losses caught up with them. A midseason win over Brebeuf was especially rewarding.

Though the roster held a good number of seniors, the squad returns a number of experienced players next year. The boys ended their season with a loss to Hamilton Southeastern in the state tourney opener.

Scott Purucker ’12 was named all-state honorable mention for defense, and Scott, along with fellow seniors Jack Thygesen and Michael Jackson, were named to the Academic All State team.

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GIRLS LACROSSE New coach Emily Hammer welcomed a relatively young squad in March. The girls experienced a roller-coaster year, winning games early in the campaign while dropping a few squeakers late in the season.

The girls dropped the opener of the state regional round, losing to Bishop Chatard.

Congratulations to Haley Hallenbeck ’14 and Isabel Tumminello, the Indiana players selected to represent Kentucky and Indiana at the 2012 Women’s Division National Lacrosse Tournament at Stony Brook University in New York. Hallenbeck, Emily Janin, and Tumminello were named to the All Regional team, and Hallenbeck was named to the First Team All State.

Athletic honors • Boys Varsity Lacrosse Coach Tim Clark is on “Lacrosse” magazine’s list of 20 Most Influential Black Figures in Lacrosse History. Coach Clark was the first minority selected to serve on the US Lacrosse Executive Board. He currently chairs the US Lacrosse Board Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion. He has coached at both the high school and collegiate levels and is founder of the Indiana Youth Lacrosse Association. Clark also was recognized as Indiana High School Lacrosse Association’s Man of the Year at this year’s state championship game at Carmel High School.

• Athletic Director Brad Lennon was named the recipient of the 2012 Charles F. Maas Distinguished Service Award for District 3 by the Indiana Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association. The award, presented at the organization’s annual conference on March 18, is given “in recognition of significant contributions to interscholastic athletics.” He was nominated for the honor by his peers.

• Tim Hardt will be the new girls volleyball coach for the 2012-13 school year. Hardt is the co-founder, director and coach of Indy Juniors Volleyball Club, a girls volleyball club with more than 189 participants ages 9-18. He has served as head coach of the 17-under, 16-under and 14-under teams, which all have finished in the top 20 of national competitions. Hardt served as

The basketball team celebrated its second state championship at Bankers Life Fieldhouse.

varsity assistant and freshman volleyball coach at Park Tudor from 2002-2005 and as head coach at Fishers High School in 2006-2007. Hardt has coached at a number of college volleyball camps, including the University of Kentucky and Purdue University. He holds a B.A. degree from Ball State University. Hardt is currently serving his third term on the Junior Volleyball Association National Board of Directors.

• The Booster Club presented Caroline Cox ’12 (swimming) and Austin Kyker ’12 (basketball) with Crown Awards for the winter athletic season. Spring Crown Award winners were Chris Eckersley ’12 (baseball) and Alexandra Cain ’13 (girls lacrosse).

Panthers take second straight state title

What a way to kick off spring break!

The boys basketball team earned its second straight IHSAA Class 2A Boys Basketball State Championship on March 26, defeating the Bowman Academy Eagles, 79-57, at Bankers Life Fieldhouse.

The team set new 2A records for largest margin of victory with 22 points, fieldgoal percentage with 29-of-52 (.558), and tied the record for made 3-pointers with 10. The Panthers joined only seven other

teams to have reached the state basketball finals three years running. Prior to winning the 2A state championship in 2011, the Panthers were runners-up in 2010.

Austin Kyker ’12 was named the recipient of the Arthur L. Trester Mental Attitude Award, presented to a senior participant in the state finals who best demonstrates strong mental attitude, scholarship, leadership and athletic ability.

Austin has been on the high-honor roll every year and has earned the designation of AP Scholar with Honors. He has been a part of three state finalist teams at Park Tudor and served as tri-captain of this year’s squad. Besides basketball, Kyker participated in his third year on the boys golf team this spring and also has run two years of cross country. He was an Academic All-State selection in cross country last fall. Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance, the IHSAA’s corporate partner, presented a $1,000 scholarship to Park Tudor School in Austin’s name.

The Panthers won the semi-state battle with Providence High School on March 17, 62-49, after capturing their third straight regional championship in Connersville on March 10. The Panthers defeated the Speedway Sparkplugs, 71-50, in the regional final.

The Panthers also scored a third consecutive sectional championship, defeating the Broad Ripple Rockets, 65-44.

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Clockwise from top left: Eighth-graders Jack Stewart, Adam Hamdouchi, Charlie Stewart, Wes Boland and Jack Lloyd were part of the annual Middle School trip to Washington D.C. March 21-23; Visiting Author Matthew McElligot signs a book for Senior Kindergarten student Daniel de Dios. McElligot, author of “The Truth About Cousin Ernie’s Head,” and other children’s books, spent the day in the Lower School on March 7; Seniors, including Emma Selm, try to contain themselves as they count down to graduation; Sunny skies and supportive spectators greeted more than 100 fourth- and fifth-grade students and parents at the P.E. Department’s annual Shamrock Run on March 14; Upper School prom guests revel in the elegance of a “Midnight in Paris,” the theme for the April 28 evening.

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Clockwise from top left: Indianapolis Metropolitan Police officers guide Junior Kindergarten students through annual Bike Day activities on May 18; Team Supra Dupra (Annie McCarter, Nina Sood, Harry Camferdam, Justin Palmer, Caitlin Cutsinger and Kun Choi) celebrates its victory in the eighth-grade Boat Race on May 18; Sixth-graders Alex Gregory, Rohith Yeleti, Noah Akins and Alec Palmer display their new knowledge during Middle School Brain Awareness Week in March, which featured activities to help students understand brain-function safety; Graduating classmates Niki Waddell and Brooke Hasler pop out of tents during “Occupy PT,” a “prank” that brought seniors together for a campus overnight; Chloe Mutz and Jackson Nie perform a carefully choreographed musical number with their Junior Kindergarten classmates during the annual class “Spring Sing.”

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By Alicia Carlson

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ark Tudor strives to “prepare students to become confident and resourceful lifelong learners. The school community creates an inspiring college preparatory learning environment for highly motivated young people in junior kindergarten through grade 12.”

While the mission statement’s emphasis is on learning, some students leave inspired to teach. And not in the familiar environs of an independent school: recent graduates have undertaken challenges in schools far different from the one they attended.

When Kim Vawter ’04 thinks about Park Tudor, she recalls being challenged in and out of the classroom.

Vawter remembers a math class with a “problem of the week” assignment that required an essay explaining how she’d solved a tough equation. Middle school field trips—to Detroit, Michigan and Washington, D.C.—and studying abroad in France in high school were memorable learning experiences. Fundraisers, like Penny Wars, to raise money for good causes, were a tradition.

Above all, she remembers teachers who knew her and cared about her.

“One thing really stands out to me,” says Vawter, who came to Park Tudor as a sixth-grader. “A lot of my teachers at Park Tudor were just there for me. I felt mentored. It was an unbelievable education.”

Vawter isn’t just waxing nostalgic. She’s putting her Park Tudor education into practice in what might seem an unlikely setting: Valor Charter Academy, a grades 5 through 8 middle school in a tough part of Los Angeles where immigrants from

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Armenia and Latin American countries, including Mexico and El Salvador, make up the largest percentage of the population.

At Valor, 90 percent of the school’s nearly 400 students qualify for free or reduced lunch. It’s not unusual for students from other Los Angeles schools to enter Valor two or three grade levels behind. An extended school day, which begins with breakfast at 7:15 a.m. and includes two hours each of math and English for all fifth- and sixth-graders, helps students catch up.

“It’s a long day,” Vawter acknowledges.

And, like her Park Tudor teachers, Vawter, who teaches math, is determined to challenge students. In Park Tudor fashion, she puts up a “problem of the week” to build math proficiency as well as to stretch students’ writing skills, especially important for the many non-native speakers of English. Valor students raise money for causes they care about through Coin Wars, a riff on Park Tudor’s Penny Wars.

Like their peers at Park Tudor—and unlike their peers at most Los Angeles public schools—Vawter’s students learn outside the classroom, too. They visit The Getty and Bowers Museums, both nearby in the geographic sense but worlds away from their everyday lives. Since Valor Academy opened, Vawter has been responsible for planning five field trips for every grade level, including an endof-the-year overnight, and for raising funds for those educational experiences. Along with her colleagues, she takes students on an annual nine-day hiking trip in Utah and plans to take students to Washington, D.C., too, during the upcoming school year.

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Career choice of the Ivy League?

Kim Vawter ’04 gives one-on-one attention to a student in her classroom.

In its third year of operation, Valor Academy has been named a California Distinguished School by the California Department of Education. That’s an important achievement to Vawter, who was a member of the founding team of the school in 2008. Vawter came to Los Angeles after graduating from Purdue University and being accepted into Teach for America, which provides corps members with an intensive five-week training institute.

Her first assignment was to Johnnie Cochran Middle School, which Vawter described as an overwhelmingly “huge” school with 1,500 students. After one year, the Los Angeles school district laid off 1,000 teachers, including many Teach for America corps members, and Vawter was soon looking at other opportunities for her second year of the two-year Teach for America commitment.

She found that opportunity at Valor Academy and joined the founding team of five teachers and four administrators.

“The day I signed my contract at Valor, we had three students sign up,” Vawter says. “That summer, we were walking through neighborhoods knocking on doors to talk to families and handing out flyers in Walmart, all while creating a framework for behavior systems and classes for this new school.”

She also finished her master’s degree in urban education from Loyola Marymount University and developed a taste for authentic Mexican food.

“The students and their families are like my second family,” Vawter says. “When I do home visits, I eat meals with my families, I sit in their kitchens. There are times in LA that I miss my Indianapolis family a lot, but I’ve fallen in love with my students and my community.”

Although she has no plans to leave Valor, she’s got big ambitions for her future, hoping to open her own charter school some day.

Teach for America is the national corps of college graduates and professionals who commit to teach for two years in urban and rural public schools and become lifelong leaders in the effort to expand educational opportunity.

Founded in 1989 by Wendy Koop, a Princeton University student who outlined a proposal for the organization as part of her senior thesis, the organization’s network for the 2011-12 school year included 9,300 corps members teaching in 43 regions across the country. Nearly 24,000 Teach for America alumni are working in education and “other sectors to create the systemic changes that will help end educational inequity,” according to Teach for America.

The inequality is stark: In the United States, nine-year-olds in low-income communities are already three grade levels behind their peers in high-income communities. Half don’t graduate from high school, and those who do are often reading and doing math at the level of eighth-grade students in more affluent areas.

A record 48,000 men and women applied to Teach for America’s 2011 corps, including 12 percent of all seniors at Ivy League schools and an astounding eight percent of the graduating class at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The average undergraduate GPA of a Teach For America corps member is 3.6, lending credibility to the organization’s claim that it is recruiting top college students to its ranks.

John Thornburgh ’06 joined Teach for America after graduating from Georgetown University in May 2010.

After two years at Miami Central High School in Florida, where he has taught government and economics and served as social studies department chair, Thornburgh says Teach for America is not a good choice for highly ambitious students who are just looking for a resume booster.

During this past school year Thornburgh taught seven classes, including honors and Advanced Placement classes, with 25 students each, all at a wide variety of reading levels in a highpoverty school. He also helped restructure the curriculum and hopes that, for the first time in at least five years, at least one—and maybe up to 25 percent or more of his students will pass the AP government test.

“It’s absolutely a hard job,” Thornburgh says.

“Individuals who join should join Teach for America for the right reasons,” he says. “Teach for America has put excellent, motivated people in the classrooms where they are needed, and it gives people an important perspective before they go off into a variety of industries. “

Impact on policy

Miami Central and Thornburgh made headlines in 2011 when President Barack Obama and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush visited the “turnaround” school that had made great strides in improvement. Thornburgh, who worked for the Obama campaign in 2008, was even featured by CNN as one of the new recruits helping to make a difference.

Only six months later, Miami Central faced closure because students had done poorly on Florida’s standardized tests that year.

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Justice and honor Lauren Links ’04 was invited to address the Upper School at the Cum Laude Society induction ceremony on April 20, 2012. Links earned her undergraduate degree in history and philosophy from Johns Hopkins University and a master’s degree in adolescent special education at Long Island University through the New York City Teaching Fellows Program. She will teach 11th-grade history this fall at the Berkeley Carroll School, an independent K-12 school in Brooklyn. The following is an excerpt of her speech.

The Cum Laude Society honors students who demonstrate

academic excellence, but its motto “Areté, Diké, and Timé” also reflects the organization’s commitment to two character traits that carry individuals beyond class achievement: diké (justice) and timé (honor). I have found that these two are the most difficult to uphold.

I can only offer the humble experiences of my own life. For what they are worth, here are my lessons:

John Thornburgh ’06 with a student following commencement ceremonies at Miami Central.

The school won a reprieve and was not closed, but the whole incident illustrates the problems with lawmakers who have “good intentions” but no real experience in public education, Thornburgh says.

That’s an area in which he hopes to make an impact.

Thornburgh has been accepted to the University of Michigan School of Law and hopes eventually to become involved in policy work.

“There is a dearth of policy makers with experience in the classroom,” Thornburgh says. “I want to have an impact on a lot of different issues, but especially education.”

But not yet.

Thornburgh, who earned his master’s degree in education at the University of Miami, has deferred his admission for a year to continue working with high-school students as a graduation coach, helping to make sure they are ready for college.

He sees plenty of untapped potential among his students.

“At Park Tudor–hands-down the best education in the state of Indiana–students get an excellent education and they have parents and family members who care enough about them to make sure they get an excellent education and have a goal of going to college,” Thornburgh says. “The biggest difference is that my students don’t have that. They have parents who have never gone to college.”

Thornburgh says he “owes it to society to help give back.”

“Education is the No. 1 way to help people attain what they want to achieve and help people who come from not-great circumstances climb out of those circumstances.”

Lesson One: Pay attention.

Teaching in the inner city schools of Brooklyn made me pay attention to a world I never knew existed.

When I left Park Tudor I headed east to Johns Hopkins University, where I fell in love—with books. I earned a double major in history and philosophy and was so caught up in my obsession with thinking that I hadn’t really given thought to what I’d do after college. When it came time to decide, largely inspired by the educators here at Park Tudor, I chose to become a teacher.

I signed up for the NYC Teaching Fellows program, which takes high-achieving individuals, gives them a crash course in

Emily Moore Sturman ’66 and Lauren Links ’04

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education, and puts them into some of the highest-need classrooms in the city. In other words: Put very inexperienced people in the most difficult and chaotic schools.

I felt over-prepared for college when I went, but I was not prepared for the work I took on. I’d like to give you a sense of the school that I worked in my first year of teaching: • In my first month of teaching, a student threatened to shoot me. And followed me around showing me a gun and trigger with hand gestures. No disciplinary action was taken by my administration.

• One afternoon in May, during my eighth-period class, I noticed three students ominously approaching another kid. I could sense that their intentions were not, say, friendly. While I tried to stand between the group and this boy, I was warned by my coteacher not to touch the students, for fear of being sued. So I ran to the hall to call for security guards. When I looked back into the room the three kids were pummeling this boy until blood dripped down his face.

• I’ll never forget the practice the school had of pulling down bars in the middle of the hallway. They looked like jail bars. The administrators or security guards would shut them and scream at children to get to class. School was a jail for these kids.

• Many of my students ate their only meals at school. Some lived in homeless shelters, many had unplanned pregnancies, many were in gangs, and at least three of my ninth-graders couldn’t read two-syllable words.

• Five months into the school year, one of my students was shot in the face in her public-housing complex. She hadn’t done anything wrong. She was just at the wrong place at the wrong time.

I don’t know if she survived. Her fate was never shared with the staff.

I witnessed life in poverty for the first time. I observed public education for city kids. The world had my attention.

Lesson 2: Recognize.

This experience fundamentally challenged what I thought education was. It certainly made me appreciate Park Tudor. But it also left me very, very angry. It didn’t make sense to me that I had the schooling I did, and my students in New York were receiving the terrible education they did. It made me imagine the thousands—if not millions—of school children that would never understand that education could be beautiful, empowering, and exciting. It made me feel like chance was the only thing responsible for the fact that I received a fantastic education, and these children almost none.

I recognized two things: First, that my experience at Park Tudor was rare and excellent. Secondly, I grappled with the injustice of classism and racism in American society.

Lesson 3: Own up.

Believe it or not, the biggest challenge I faced as a teacher in Brooklyn public schools was not the threats, the fights, or even teaching kids to read. The challenge I faced was a subtle one, a moral one. The school was a place where every aspect of the environment encouraged people to treat each other inhumanely.

Violence begets violence. Fear creates distance. Exhaustion creates burnout. These forces were dehumanizing.

My challenge became whether in the midst of chaos I could remember what mattered, who mattered and what my values were.

I decided that I had to “own up” and do something in the face of this challenge. This didn’t mean I opened a better school; I didn’t even teach all that well that first year. But I paid attention and worked hard to remember the beauty and humanity in the people around me, even when it was hard to find.

For example, I decided to ignore warnings about not touching kids. I threw out a cold bureaucratic guideline in the hopes of actually protecting children from harm. So I decided to step in, and believe it or not, at 5’3’’ I am a formidable fight blocker. It’s because I’m quite small and can squeeze through the gaps in the on-looking crowd.

I reminded myself that when a student swore at me, she was testing me and that she needed me to not be afraid of her, to be solid, and to come back again to help.

My ability to address the moral demands of teaching began here at Park Tudor in the tenth grade. When I sat in Ms. McAlear’s history class utter terror used to grip me. She would always put me on the spot and ask, “Well, what question do you have about that?”

She required that I think about what she taught, not settle for merely taking in information. I had to produce and wonder and imagine.

The teachers here inculcated in me the value of learning, taught me to strive for excellence, and how to think and analyze. It was the ability to think deeply that made me recognize the moral challenge before me and helped me understand how to tackle it.

While my story might seem as if you have to go looking in inner-city schools to confront moral challenges, that’s not true.

The challenge of remembering others and regarding them with respect, dignity, and compassion is a daily challenge.

We easily forget this.

It is especially hard to do in a contemporary world where buying things makes you feel good, where your smartphone beckons to be pressed and tilted, where Facebook stalking encourages exhibitionism but undermines more substantial human interaction.

This world is set up for us to find comfort and complacency.

Today’s world encourages individualism, but creates alienation.

Technology can be dehumanizing if you allow it to be.

The critical thinking and questioning that Park Tudor instills in you will help you resist becoming complicit in a world that is unjust, and help you resist becoming complacent in the status quo.

Your ability to think will help you confront the injustice of society when you do. It will give you a tool, as it gave me.

I’d like to leave you with some questions: What could you pay attention to that you are blissfully ignoring? What do you take for granted? Do you welcome the hard work the world asks of you?

What are you doing daily to question and challenge the world the way your education at Park Tudor has encouraged you to?

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Mentoring future teachers: Erica Bellamy Christie ’99 Erica Bellamy Christie ’99 says she got a great education at Park Tudor, but the lesson she learned best was about great teaching.

“The model of teaching I saw at Park Tudor was very impacting,” Christie says. “Teaching—the work, the profession—was taken very seriously. That doesn’t happen in a lot of places. I saw these thoughtful, intelligent people Erica Bellamy Christie ’99 and they made teaching their life’s work. It redefined what I though of teaching because I admired them so much.”

After graduating summa cum laude in sociology from Bowdoin College in Maine, Christie returned to Indiana and earned a master’s degree in education from Indiana University and taught in Perry Township in Indianapolis. She returned to IU to earn a Ph.D. and teach in the IU School of Education, instructing education majors how to become effective social-studies teachers and supervising student teachers.

Married to Josh Christie ’99 and raising their daughter, Alice, Christie is finishing her thesis in Indianapolis and has launched Curriculum That Matters LLC to develop high-impact curriculum materials for clients such as Y-Press Youth News Network, The Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, and the City of Indianapolis.

Helping future teachers find what she calls their “teaching identity” is a rewarding experience because nearly all the college students she encounters are so motivated to be the best teachers they can be, Christie says.

“Every teacher had a mentor,” she says. “I think about that when I teach and try to teach like that.”

“Our goal is to ensure that every child in Indiana has the opportunity for an excellent education. Is that going to happen tomorrow? No. But we have made seats available for students to get an excellent education.”

Most recently, Hawkins spearheaded The Mind Trust’s “Grow What Works” campaign, an $18 million fundraising initiative to invest in the most promising education reforms.

Grow What Works will provide additional support for programs that have had proven success in Indianapolis, including Teach for America, The New Teacher Project, College Summit and Stand for Children, and two that have been developed through Mind Trust’s Educational Entrepreneur Fellowship program, Teach Plus and Summer Advantage. The campaign will also support The Mind Trust’s Education Entrepreneur Fellowships and Charter School Incubator initiatives.

Hawkins joined The Mind Trust in 2011 after leaving Exact Target, where she was a marketing executive. Prior to that, she’d had a successful stint at The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and she found that while she enjoyed the business world, she really missed working for a cause in the not-for-profit sector.

At a career crossroads, Hawkins reflected on her life experiences and realized what a difference her education had made.

“Aside from my amazing parents, my education is really what provided me the opportunities I have,” she says.

Married in June 2012 to Sam Hawkins ’94, Hawkins has stepped back slightly from her role at The Mind Trust to work a part-time schedule more conducive to helping raise their young sons Tucker ’24 and Aden ’25, both students at Park Tudor.

Hawkins recalls an anecdote told by one of her most influential teachers at Park Tudor, Upper School social-studies teacher Margo McAlear, who stopped on her way to school one day to help someone whose car had broken down. How often, she asked the class, do we just drive by instead of stopping to help?

“When you think about true change, it happens when someone steps out on a limb,” Hawkins says. “When I think about being part of this movement to improve education, hopefully that is what I am trying to do.”

Sarah Smith Hawkins ’97: Education reform tops work Sarah Smith Hawkins ’97 isn’t in the classroom, but she’s working to make a difference in the lives of thousands of children through The Mind Trust, an Indianapolis-based education reform organization.

The Mind Trust has both sparked controversy and garnered praise for its groundbreaking reform efforts targeting Indianapolis Public Schools, a school system plagued with low test scores and graduation rates.

“We have a lot of momentum behind our work and a lot of community support,” Hawkins says. “I think the biggest impact of The Mind Trust has been in making people believe that true change is possible. If you look at other cities that have had pretty radical changes in public education—New York, Chicago, New Orleans—those cities are significantly larger. There are 30,000 kids in IPS, and our public schools are a huge problem, but it is totally feasible for us to reach 30,000 kids.

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Sarah Smith Hawkins ’97, Sam Hawkins ’94 and sons Tucker ’24 and Aden ’25.

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Alumni Weekend 2012

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ark Tudor welcomed more than 300 alumni during Alumni Weekend activities April 27 and 28. Classmates and friends gathered at Woodstock Club on the evening of April 27 to honor Hurst Groves ’59 as Park Tudor’s 2012 Distinguished Alumnus.

Groves, who served as managing counsel of Mobil Corporation; director of the Center for Energy, Marine Transportation and Public Policy; and as a professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs; was recognized for his substantial contributions in the legal and public-policy arenas.

In addition to the Distinguished Alumni Award Dinner, alumni gathered for a number of other weekend reunion activities, including a brunch at Woodstock Club honoring alumni from the Classes of 1962 and earlier, a school-archives tour, the annual five-year reunion class alumni reception on campus, individual reunion class get-togethers, and the new “PT University,” which featured educational offerings for alumni.

One of the PT University topics addressed “trends in the educational landscape,” a discussion about the roles of public education, independent schools and the growing charter-school movement. Head of School Dr. Matthew Miller and David Harris, president of The Mind Trust, an Indianapolis non-profit organization that seeks to improve public education by encouraging educational entrepreneurship, discussed the challenges in today’s educational environment.

Harris said, “Indianapolis may be as well positioned as any city in the U.S. to transform its public education system. We have a long way to go.” He noted that Park Tudor sets “a standard of excellence for the community.”

In the session “Philanthropy Begins at Home: Lessons Learned from Jacqueline Kennedy, Warren Buffet and Carol Brady,” Mary Stanley and Rob MacPherson of the Central Indiana Community Foundation presented a series of examples on how families can establish and develop philanthrophy plans.

Hurst Groves ’59: Distinguished Alumnus

“From the time he was a seventh grader,

Hurst never failed to make the high honor roll; his hard scholastic work resulted in his being admitted to the Cum Laude Society in his junior year. Hurst managed the bookstore in his busy ‘free’ time. As the faculty will recall, he was forever thinking up new ways of putting his knowledge of radio electronics to some use in school.

Hurst also played a prominent part in the Prompters Club plays, in addition to working on the ‘Red and Black’ and ‘Panther’ staffs.”

– Excerpt from the 1959 Park Panther After graduating from Park School, Hurst Groves earned an A.B. degree from Princeton University in 1963 and a Certificat d’Études Politiques from the Institut d’Études Politiques in Paris in 1964. He earned his law degree from the University of Michigan Law School in 1967, where he was a member of the editorial board of the “Michigan Law Review.”

After 10 years of corporate law practice in the New York and Paris offices of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, Groves joined the legal department of Mobil Oil Corporation. During his 23-year career at Mobil, he was chief counsel for Mobil’s transition efforts related to its merger with Exxon Corporation. He managed the company’s lawyers and paralegals in the United States, Europe, and the Far East who provided legal advice for the major business transactions undertaken by Mobil and its affiliates around the world; and served as general counsel of Mobil’s Exploration and Producing Division, its Japanese marketing and refining affiliate, and its Sales and Supply Division. He also held senior legal positions in the company’s Marketing and Refining Division.

Groves is a member of the New York and Indiana Bars, and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of International Trade and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He is a member of the American Bar Association (Chairman of the Energy Law Committee of the ABA’s Section of International Law and Practice

Hurst Groves ’59

from 1989 until 1993), the International Bar Association, and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.

In 2000, Groves retired from Mobil and became the first director of the Center for Energy, Marine Transportation and Public Policy at Columbia University, a project he helped design. In 2002, he was appointed Professor of Practice in International and Public Affairs at the university’s School of International and Public Affairs, holding that position through 2006. He currently serves as director of the charitable foundation that provides financial support to the center.

In 2008, he provided special counsel for a Houston-based upstream oil company in connection with a proposed investment in West Africa and a separate joint venture with the national oil company of the country in which the investment was to take place.

From 2010-2011, he provided special counsel for Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), Washington, D.C., in connection with its financing of the Netketabi project (a microfinance project supporting the sale of netbook computers to parents of elementary-school children and their teachers in the West Bank of Palestine).

Groves is a member of the Vestry of Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Middleburg, Virginia and currently serves as its Senior Warden. He is involved in a group that studies recent books and other publications on religious and philosophical

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Alumni News Summer 2012 Park Tudor School continued from page 29 subjects, and leavens that activity with concerts and lectures in New York and Washington and various programs at the Cosmos Club in Washington, D.C. He is also involved in developing several experimental arts projects. One supports the performance of Russian and other Romantic classical music in nontraditional venues by Russian-born artists, including a violinist with the National Symphony Orchestra. The second supports performances of Greek tragedies at outdoor spaces suitable for such events, including one near Middleburg. And the third will create studio space near Middleburg in which individuals interested in painting, drawing, sculpting, print-making, mixedmedia and other art can work under the supervision of experienced artists to develop their talents.

Groves’s principal hobby is flying his 1979 single-engine Cessna from Winchester Regional Airport in Northern Virginia. In 2009, he made a weeklong round-trip solo flight to California, traversing the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in New Mexico and the mountain and wilderness areas north of Los Angeles.

He hopes one day to serve as a volunteer pilot in the Angel Flight program, which provides free air transportation to medical centers in Washington, Baltimore and other cities in the northeast corridor for low-income children and others needing specialized medical care that isn’t available in their own communities.

Hurst married his Michigan law school classmate, Marilyn Woislaw, and is the father of two daughters, Jennifer Giangualano and Catherine Ramsdell. He has four grandchildren.

In accepting the Distinguished Alumni Award, Groves said, “In the opening chapter of his book ‘The Power and the Glory,’ Graham Greene said, ‘There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.’ Park School produced that moment for me.”

Alumni take a look at school memorabilia during an Alumni Weekend tour of the Park Tudor Archives hosted by school archivist Tony Onstott.

Anu Gunale ’87, Nik Gunale ’96 and Swati Gunale ’91 caught up with retired history teacher David Kivela at the Alumni Weekend reception.

Hurst Groves ’59 (standing, center) and his guest Barbara Sharp (seated) talk with past honorees H. Roll McLaughlin (left) and Dick West ’42 (right).

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Alumni Weekend 2012: Reunion Class Photos

Class of 1942: Dick West and wife, Dove.

Tudor Hall Class of 1947: Back row, l to r: Rosalie McKee Lange, Jane Esterline Darmer. Front row: Ann Huesmann Thompson, Jody Thomas Martin, Jeanie Milner Alig.

Tudor Hall Class of 1952: Back row, l to r: Claire Wilkinson Brooks, Valri Philpott Sandoe, Barbara Foltz Fortner, MC Swartz Pennington, Lolly Kackley Glasel, Rosanna Hall. Front row: Marty Wright, Dee DeMott O’Brien, Mary Sydney Haram Matuska, Ann Mahaffey McGrath, Rachel Boys Whittenbury.

Tudor Hall Class of 1957: L to r: Penny Savage Landrigan, Glenda Maris Bates, Barbara Kroger, Kay Marburger Mace.

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Park School Class of 1962: Back row, l to r: Kent Berglund, Gordon Wishard, Joe Persky, Rob Meek, Pete Lieber, Steve Cuthbert. Front row: Bob MacNeill, Steve Gaubatz, Don Davis, Harry Yankuner, Steve Feinstone.

Tudor Hall Class of 1962: Back row, l to r: Katie Lee Steele, Jeanne Lindholm Palleiko, Suzanne Boland Murphy, Joan Reahard Bennison, Margaret Spiegel Dawson, Ellen Meis Metzendorf. Front row: Marsha Spoerri Dennis, Holly Hartley, Sandra Stiles Lagoni, Brooke Scott Collins.

Park School and Tudor Hall Class of 1967: Back row, l to r: Katherine Benedict, Liz Sherwood Kubie, Tom Megenhardt, John Krauss, Ellen Wardwell Lee. Front row: Mary Pat Evans Hanson, Deborah Eck, Lyndi Hutchison Balven.

Class of 1972: Back row, l to r: Julia Townsend Dunn, Ted Dunn, Dave Howard, Eugene Thomas, Karl Zimmer, David Ring, Mary Lou Storey Anolick. Front row: Anne White, Robyn Horan Gibboney, Cathy Wood Lawson, Elizabeth Westfall Flynn, Helen Alig Roney.

Class of 1977: Back row: Chris Doyle, Jamie Huxhold, Craig Otto. Front row: Katie Caress Day, Lisa Hendrickson, Betsy Kunz.

Class of 1982: Back row, l to r: Deborah Ramsey Lehman, Pamela Robertson, Mary Stimming, Duane Willsey, Dina Varano, Lisa Krieg. Front row: JB Rogers, Jeff Kimbell, Doug Stewart, Craig Jackson.

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Class of 1987: Back row, l to r: Sanford Garner, Jeff Quinto, Taylor Kumler, Ken Harrell, Robert Katz, Sam Brougher, Bill Main. Middle row: Jennifer Dean Hunt, Anton Thompkins, Tanya Kane Powell, Matt French, Erik Aufderheide, Woody Taft, Terry Jackson, John Carlisle, Cathy Yingling, Kelly Lamm Teller, Arthur James. Front row: Krista Richter, Anu Gunale, Valerie Ferguson Stewart, Becky Cochran Ullyot, Lara Beeler Daniel, Amye Sukapdjo.

Class of 1992: Back row, l to r: Mark Fisch, Brian Broadbent, Nathan Warfel, Brian West, Abe Weldy, Adam Corya, Drew Miroff. Middle row: Heather Kulwin, Susan Batt, Sheridan Nichols Batt, Kate Bannister Gorman, Natalie Tushan Murphey, Holly Wilson Cole, Ali Stolkin Birge.

Front row: Jill Trester Cline, Alexis Steinrauf, Natalie Tushan Murphey, Katie LaFollette, Jennifer Gordus.

Class of 1997: Jaron Hilger and Amy Kleymeyer Stevens.

Class of 2002: Back row, l to r: Matthew Duncan, Michael Dougherty, Michael Friend, Jonathan McDowell, Billy Wick, Patrick Weaver, Ben Miner, Josh Hash, David Thomas, Chris Phillips. Front row: Kim Thompson, Melissa Franson LaViolette, Julie Mahomed, Kelli Polzin, Allison Blickman Lazin.

Class of 2007: Back row, l to r: Eric Selsemeyer, John Stewart, Danielle Trudeau, Devin Smith, Skye Wallin. Front row: Kelley Scanlon, Courtney Cantor, Morgan McGaughey, Alissa DiMarchi.

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Distinguished Alumni Awards Call for Nominations

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he Distinguished Alumni Awards Committee invites you to submit a nomination for the Distinguished Alumni Awards. 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 ____________ 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 ____________ Return this form by September 4, 2012 to: Development and Alumni Relations Office Park Tudor School 7200 N. College Ave. Indianapolis, IN 46240-3016

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Reunion Class Gifts Gifts made from July 1, 2011 through June 5, 2012 Tudor Hall Class of 1937 50 percent participation Mrs. Barbara Prentice Broad Tudor Hall Class of 1942 43 percent participation Miss Joan Atlass Mrs. Phyllis Behringer Holliday Mrs. Evaline Hitz Rhodehamel Park School Class of 1942 20 percent participation Mr. John H. Holliday Tudor Hall Class of 1947 47 percent participation Mrs. Mary Jean Milner Alig Mrs. Rosalie McKee Lange Mrs. H. Margaret Fisher Lasseter Mrs. Florence Jameson Miller Mrs. Georgianne Davis Neal Mrs. Catherine Nelson Simmons Mrs. Ann Huesmann Thompson Park School Class of 1947 9 percent participation Mr. John J. Kennedy Tudor Hall Class of 1952 56 percent participation Mrs. Claire Wilkinson Brooks Ms. Tobie Cadle Calkins Mrs. Mary Sydney Haram Matuska Mrs. Ann Mahaffey McGrath Mrs. Diane DeMotte O’Brien Mrs. Valri Philpott Sandoe Ms. Rebecca Garrison Tracy Mrs. Rachel Boys Whittenbury Ms. Mary Martha Wright Tudor Hall Class of 1957 4 percent participation Mrs. Becky Sharp Smith Park School Class of 1957 43 percent participation Mr. Thomas Esterline Mr. Lee Gery Mr. S. Duane Pritchett

Tudor Hall Class of 1962 45 percent participation Mrs. Margaret Spiegel Dawson Mrs. Elizabeth Taggart Fitzsimmons Ms. Holly Hartley Mrs. Sandra Stiles Lagoni Mrs. Ellen Meis Metzendorf Ms. Suzanne Boland Murphy Mrs. Jeanne Lindholm Palleiko Mrs. Katie Lee Steele Mrs. Mary Ann Ober Wallace Park School Class of 1962 44 percent participation Mr. Stephen Cuthbert Dr. Donald Davis Mr. Stephen Feinstone Mr. H. Peter Lieber Mr. Perry Meek Mr. Owen Neighbours Mr. Gordon Wishard Dr. Harry Yankuner Tudor Hall Class of 1967 25 percent participation Mrs. Kathleen Berns Albrektson Colonel Lyndi Hutchison Balven Ms. Katherine Benedict Ms. Deborah Eck Mrs. Judith Brown Fletcher Mrs. Mary Pat Evans Hanson Mrs. Elizabeth Sherwood Kubie Ms. Ellen Lee Mrs. Vivian Alpert Thompson Mrs. Deborah Ricketts Tolley Park School Class of 1967 50 percent participation Mr. Steven Falender Mr. Ransom Griffin III Mr. John L. Krauss Mr. Russell Pulliam John Reynolds Esq. Mr. James Sturman Mr. Turner Woodard Park Tudor Class of 1972 44 percent participation Anonymous Ms. Mary Storey Anolick Mr. Edward Dunn Jr. Mrs. Julia Townsend Dunn Mrs. Wendy Mantel Garbowit Dr. Robyn Horan Gibboney Mrs. Catherine Wood Lawson Ms. Gigi Chalfin Marks Felsher

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Mr. David Ring Dr. Eugene Thomas Dr. Anne White Ms. Mary Woolling Park Tudor Class of 1977 19 percent participation Mrs. Ellen Moxley Alesso Ms. Lisa Hendrickson Mr. Thomas Hicks Dr. Elizabeth Jessup Mrs. Holly Kuhn Lee Mrs. Juli Lee McGarrah Dr. Carl Meyer Mr. Charles Sutphin Park Tudor Class of 1982 17 percent participation Mrs. Beth Brueckmann Carney Mr. Craig Jackson Mr. Jeffrey W. Kimbell Ms. Lisa Krieg Mrs. Deborah Ramsey Lehman Dr. Kurt E. Rifleman Dr. Pamela B. Robertson Mr. J.B. Rogers Mrs. Kristin Throop Samra

Park Tudor Class of 1987 21 percent participation Mrs. Christina Kuhns Cochran Ms. Gretchen Doninger Dr. Matthew French Mr. Kenneth Harrell Mr. Arthur James Mr. William Main Mr. Robert Pockrass Dr. Amye Sukapdjo Mr. Thomas Taft Mrs. Kelly Lamm Teller Ms. Cathy Yingling Park Tudor Class of 1992 10 percent participation Ms. Susan Batt Mr. Aaron Dimmock Ms. Heather Kulwin Mr. Andrew Miroff Mr. David Weldy Mr. Brian West

Park Tudor Class of 2007 9 percent participation Ms. Lauren Braun Ms. Courtney Cantor Ms. Whitney Dawson Ms. Kristyn Horvath Mr. Matthew Lanter Ms. Julianne Sicklesteel Miss Cameron Thomas Mr. Bryan Tuckman

Park Tudor Class of 1997 10 percent participation Dr. Jordan Mossler Anaokar Mr. Sameer Anaokar Mrs. Weezie Elder Combs Ms. Sarah Smith Hawkins Mr. Darrell Huotari Mrs. Jessica Doyle Moskowitz Mrs. Amy Kleymeyer Stevens

Alumni Weekend 2013

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An alumni reception in Naples, Florida in March brought together Park Tudor leaders of today and yesterday. Head of School Dr. Matthew Miller and his wife Mia got together for dinner with former Headmaster Bruce Galbraith and his wife Karen. They were joined by Carol Cummings Rogers ’59 and her husband Davies Reed (left) and Director of Development Cathy Wood Lawson ’72 (right).

Park Tudor Class of 2002 7 percent participation Mr. Bowman Elder Ms. Laura Knapp Mrs. Allison Blickman Lazin Mr. Jonathan McDowell Miss Kelli Polzin

ttention Classes of 1933, 1938, 1943, 1948, 1953, 1958, 1963, 1968, 1973, 1978, 1983, 1988, 1993, 1998, 2003 and 2008!

Mark your calendar for your five-year reunion celebration, which will take place April 26-27, 2013.

You will receive additional information about the activities taking place that weekend in the upcoming editions of The Phoenix, email, the U.S. mail, the alumni online community and Facebook. If you are not receiving emails from the school, please forward your email address to Gretchen Hueni at ghueni@parktudor.org to ensure that you receive Alumni Weekend information.

Wanted: Class Representatives

The Alumni Association is looking for

alumni from the Park School and Tudor Hall Class of 1943 and the Park Tudor Class of 1973 to serve as Class Representatives.

Responsibilities include communicating with classmates about upcoming reunion activities for Alumni Weekend, April 2627, 2013 and helping to plan an individual activity for your class over that weekend.

If you are interested in volunteering, please contact Gretchen Hueni at ghueni@ parktudor.org or (317) 415-2766.

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Alumni Association Board of Directors welcomes new members

The

Park Tudor Alumni Association Board of Directors has elected Carlie Irsay Gordon ’99 and Joe Hawkins ’96 to serve on the board beginning in August 2012.

Officers for the 2012-2013 year are Cathy Yingling ’87, president; Lindsay Elder Thornton ’95, vice president; Beth Tolbert ’03, secretary; Nikhil Gunale ’96, treasurer; and Brandon Phillips ’96, past president.

Sincere thank yous to Nick Lemen ’93 and Peter French ’85, whose terms expired June 30, for their dedicated service on the Alumni Association Board.

The 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. 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.

Please contact Alumni Board Vice President Lindsay Elder Thornton ’95 at lindselder@sbcglobal.net 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.

Alumni community can help you network!

The

Alumni Association Board of Directors has acted on feedback from alumni that indicates that young alumni, current students and those making career changes are looking for a way to connect with fellow alumni for advice, guidance, job and internship opportunities. As a result, the school is unveiling a new and improved online community for alumni: Panther Connect. In addition to the social

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Seventeen members of the Class of 2012 became the first students to spend 15 years attending Park Tudor School. They were members of PT’s inaugural 3-year-old kindergarten class in 1997.

Back row, l to r: Alex Young, Andoni Alanis-Cue, Armando Caceras, Will Davis, Sammy Patterson, Austin Kyker, A.J. Sood, Michael Pheffer, Thomas Hilbert. Front row: Laurel MacAllister, Victoria Edwards, Emma Bova, Ashley Ullyot, Maddy Vonderohe, Niki Waddell, Claire Gerwig.

networking opportunities the site provides, Panther Connect will provide opportunities for alumni to mentor, post and seek job and internship openings, and much more.

If you’re not yet a member or if you haven’t checked out the site in a while, please visit http://alumni.parktudor.org today. Make sure that your personal profile is up-to-date so that you can take advantage of this powerful networking tool.

On your personal profile page, you’ll be asked if you would like to volunteer to be a mentor or resource to alumni and current PT seniors for advice on college decisions, where to live in a new city, interviewing tips, etc. If you agree to serve in this capacity, your name will be entered into a contest to win an iPad! The drawing will take place on September 10, 2012, so be sure to act today – you’ll automatically be entered in the contest by signing up as a volunteer. If you have any questions about navigating the site, please contact Gretchen Hueni at ghueni@parktudor.org.

New Endowment Society member

The school recognizes Ms. Alice Cohen

(deceased), whose name recently was added to the roster of The Endowment Society as a result of her legacy gift.

The Endowment Society recognizes Park Tudor family members who have notified us that their estate plans include a gift to the school. There may be others who have made such arrangements but have not told us about them. If you are one of these special people, please notify us so we may have the opportunity to thank you for your gift and to discuss your wishes for its use.

If you wish to remain anonymous, we will keep your name in strict confidence. There is no need to share the amount of the gift, but it is helpful for the school’s long-range planning. If you have questions about The Endowment Society, please contact Gretchen Hueni at (317) 415-2766, toll-free at 1-888782-5861 or ghueni@parktudor.org.

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Which 50% are you?

Recent surveys indicate that more than

50% of adults do not have a basic will.

Failure to make adequate plans is based on a number of reasons; however, the real issue might be that most Americans “know” things about wills that are not true. Here are a few examples of things people “know” about wills that may not be the case: 1. Only wealthy people need wills.

False. If you have any assets at all, you need a will, even if your estate is modest, your heirs few and your wishes simple.

2. Only people with children and others who depend on them need wills.

False. Even people with no dependents need wills if they want to determine who eventually receives their property.

3. Only the wealthy or people without close relatives make gifts to charitable interests through their wills.

False. More people with modest estates decide to make gifts to charitable interests through their estates and still provide generously for family and other loved ones. This is especially true today, as recent changes in the law have made estate taxes less of a consideration and have freed more assets to provide for others.

To learn more, request a copy of “The 37 Things People ‘Know’ About Wills” brochure from The Sharpe Group by contacting Gretchen Hueni at ghueni@ parktudor.org or at (317) 415-2766.

Former Head of School George Young honored

George Young, headmaster of Park Tudor

School from 1972-1986, was honored at a reception and portrait unveiling on May 30.

Young’s portrait, painted by artist Mark A. Kelso of Indianapolis, will hang in Foster Hall alongside the portraits of other heads of school of Tudor Hall, Park School and Park Tudor. Many retired faculty members who taught at Park Tudor during Mr. Young’s tenure gathered at the event.

His daughter Cara ’93, a Lower School teaching assistant, also attended.

Current and former Park Tudor faculty and staff members gathered for the portrait unveiling of former Headmaster George Young. Standing, l to r: Carol Cummings Rogers ’59, Ed Staubach, Jack Brake, Leslie Rapp, Debbie Stuart Everett ’69, David Kivela, David Malcom, Mary DeVoe, Jerry Grayson, Edith Greiwe, Cathy Dezelan, Joe Dezelan, Judy Bruch, Bill Main, Tom Black, Edie Enright. Middle row, seated: Joanne Black, Emily Moore Sturman ’66, Barbara Rominger, Tony Onstott, Christina Van Riper McCoy. Front row: John Williams, Judy Roberts Muirhead, Jim Foxlow, Reva Horine, George Young, Lisa Hendrickson ’77, Cathy Wood Lawson ’72.

Before coming to Park Tudor as headmaster, Young had been a mathematics and history teacher, director of the Middle School and director of the Upper School at the Greenhill School in Dallas, Texas.

During his tenure at Park Tudor, enrollment climbed by nearly 100 students—from 604 to about 700—and the school raised $2.25 million in a development campaign that resulted in the construction of Ayres Auditorium and the Fine Arts building.

“When I first came here in 1972 I was 36 years old,” Young recounted at the portrait unveiling. “Mr. Eli Lilly was still alive, he was 91 years old and he wanted to meet the new headmaster…. He was just a delight…. We were doing some long-range planning and we were thinking about this business of a new fine-arts building and he liked that idea. I left with some confidence that, by god, we were going to build that building.”

“Your legacy here is deep and long and significant,” Head of School Dr. Matthew Miller told Young. “Part of your legacy is as someone who brought people together.

You moved this from two schools into one school.”

Emily Moore Sturman ’66, who was hired as a math teacher by Young, described him as “forward-thinking” leader, pointing out that he enabled her to job-share at a time when that was not a common employment option. “Without people like George Young, that kind of thing wouldn’t happen,” she said. “We are all indebted to you for the friendships that we have, the wonderful memories that we have, and for where this school has come today.”

Former Headmaster George Young with his portrait, which now hangs in Foster Hall.

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Alumni athletes make waves Olympics-bound

Dr.

Claus Olesen ’93 will represent Denmark in the 2012 Olympic Summer Games, sailing in the Men’s Star keelboat event. This will be the second appearance in Olympic sailing for Olesen, who placed ninth in the Athens Olympics.

“So with me getting older, I better take home a medal this time,” Olesen joked via email from his home in Aarhus.

Olesen and his teammate Michael Hestbæk finished third at the 2012 Star World Championship in Hyères, France.

He also has been a member of the Swedish America’s Cup team.

Olesen was granted a leave of absence from his post-doctoral position in the Department of Biomedicine at Aarhus University in Denmark to compete in the Olympics. He earned his Ph.D. in medicine at Aarhus and received the 2009 Young Elite Researcher prize from the Danish Independent Research Council. He and his wife, Mie, have three children: Cecilia, 10, Nanna, 8, and Nicklas, 6.

Olesen was a Rotary Exchange student as a Park Tudor student who lived with host Norma Oman, mother of Will Hicks ’98. He’s been back to visit several times, most recently in 2010.

Claus Olesen ’93 (left) and teammate Michael Hestbæk

Winning cyclists

Two

PT alumni graced the winner’s podium at the 2012 Little 500 at Indiana University in April. RJ Stuart ’07, a member of the Delta Tau Delta team, won the men’s race, while Carly Dean ’09 was a member of the “Wing It” team that placed fourth in the women’s race.

The Indiana Daily Student reported, “Led by a breakaway effort from RJ Stuart, Delta Tau Delta won its first-ever Little 500 in front of a packed Bill Armstrong Stadium, ending the Cutters’ five-year winning streak.” “It’s a big moment,” said Stuart, who also won the individual timetrial competition.

Baseball standouts • Micah Johnson ’09 was drafted by the Chicago White Sox in the ninth round of Major League Baseball’s amateur draft

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Carly Dean ’09, left, passes competitors in the women’s Little 500 race. Photo: Zach Hetrick

in June. A second baseman for Indiana University, Johnson finished his junior year at IU and has joined the White Sox organization, playing second base for the Great Falls Voyagers in Montana.

Johnson, while playing for Park Tudor under Coach Courtney Whitehead, was named All State as a junior.

• Andrew Bain ’09, a starter for the Valparaiso Crusaders baseball team, scored two runs in an upset over No. 4 ranked Arkansas on February 26, 2012.

• Kyle Hardacker ’11, third baseman for Kenyon College, was named to the Division III Team of the Week by d3baseball.com for the week of April 9-15, 2012. He batted .667 and scored four times in a 3-1 week for the Lords.

• Max Zhang ’11 is a freshman relief pitcher for Washington University of St. Louis. He is on track to set the school’s single-season earned run average record.

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“Making a racquet” • In voting by the tennis coaches in the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC), three Park Tudor alumni now studying at DePauw University have earned spots on all-conference teams. Sam Miles ’10 was a first-team selection in singles. He posted a 17-14 singles record at first singles. Miles and teammate Ben Kopecky took secondteam doubles honors with a 21-8 record.

Michael Rardon ’08 was named honorable mention in singles. The DePauw men’s tennis team finished the season with a 17-8 overall record and third at the NCAC Championships. Maggie MacPhail ’11 was selected to the DePauw’s first team in singles; she was 23-8 at the number-two spot. In addition, MacPhail and teammate Kelly Gebert earned first-team doubles honors with a 22-10 record. MacPhail also was selected as the NCAC Newcomer of the Year. The DePauw women’s tennis team had a 17-6 season record and won the NCAC team title and a spot in the NCAA Division III Championships.

Fleet of feet • Colin Fong ’08 ran the 800-meter leg for the Bowdoin College Distance Medley Relay Team, which won the NCAA D III 2012 Indoor Track National Championship, making him a twotime All-American. He graduated from Bowdoin in May as a psychology major and government minor. He plans to work for Telamon in Inner Mongolia, China, after graduation.

RJ Stuart ’07 celebrates as he crosses the finish line, leading his team to win the IU Little 500 men’s race on April 20. Photo: Steph Aaronson, Indiana Daily Student

Skating along • Jon Laughner ’02 competed in the Red Bull Crashed Ice World Championship in St. Paul, MN in January 2012. In this daredevil competition, skaters race on a 406-meter long ice track filled with jumps, bumps and twists and turns. In his first time competing, Laughner ranked 130th of 244 competitors.

• Katie Laughner ’03 is the featured female soloist skater in Busch Gardens’ show ICEploration at the Moroccan Palace Theater in Tampa, Florida.

Micah Johnson ’09. Photo: IU Athletics

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Class Notes 1946

Class correspondent Virginia Obrecht Dulworth writes, “Our class of 1946 can be proud of the many ways we have each continued to learn and have contributed to the communities we have served and/or are serving. Here are two fine examples: “Helen Rogers, (now a retired California math teacher), writes that she is tutoring low-income but high-ability high-school students in pre-calculus mathematics. She also participates in a program that supports and guides students through the college application progress.

“In the fall of 2011. Helen spent two weeks in Turkey visiting sites of historic and archaeological interest from Ankara to the Aegean to Istanbul. This was followed by ten days in the Republic of Georgia visiting her niece Lesley who now lives in Tbilisi with her husband and two children.

Helen is obviously in good health to do the hiking and travelling that she does.

“In 2010, Liz Wiest Johnson was named a Park Tudor Distinguished Alumna for her philanthropy and the remarkable Traders Point Hunt Charity Horse Show she has hosted in August on her Zionsville Wild Air Farms for 35 years. Liz also was named ‘A Living Legend’ at the Madison Square Garden Horse Show in 1996 for her love of the sport and the many championships she had amassed over a lifetime of showing hunter jumpers. At this writing, (May 28), Liz is en route to the Merion Cricket Club in Haverford, PA where one of her horses will be inducted into the National Show Hunter Hall of Fame during the highly regarded Devon (PA) Horse Show. (My son-inlaw, Brent Jacobs, judged the American Saddlebred division there a few years back and his decisions were very well received.)

Liz’s horse was a Thoroughbred named ‘Super Flash.’ Liz rode the horse, trained

by Kenneth Wheeler of Keswick, VA, in the ‘Amateur Owner Hunter Division’ and Charlie Weaver rode him in the ‘Regular Working Hunter Division.’ Super Flash won many championships for both riders in each Division. Congratulations, Liz, to you and Super Flash for this great honor.

“My late husband, Early V. Dulworth, and I were inducted into the Louisville, KY Rock Creek Horse Show Hall of Fame in 2009.

“I want to hear from other classmates as to what they are proud to have done or

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are doing for their communities. Contact me at writerdin@aol.com or at my address 1376 Sugar Maple Lane, Lexington, KY 40511.”

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• Judith Howell Vander Heide and her husband Dr. Ralph P. Vander Heide recently published a novel, “Chris and Louisa.” The book spans the years from early Mormonism in 19th-century Nauvoo, Illinois, to the 1960s, chronicling changes in moral values. Louisa, a fictional “plural wife” of Joseph Smith, matures through the hardships of the founding years and treks to Utah. Chris, Louisa’s great-granddaughter, caught up in the turmoil of the 1960s, researches her ancestry in New York. She rejects Mormonism, enters a polygamous marriage, and contends with opposition and murder. The novel explores the hostility against Mormons, and their conflicted mixture of piety and lust. The Vander Heides have extensive firsthand experience with their subject matter. Ralph, a former Mormon, holds a Ph.D. in Germanic and Hispanic studies and has taught in colleges and high schools. Judy earned both B.A. and M.A. degrees. She studied writing with Wallace Stegner at Stanford University.

Judy has worked as a history and English teacher in high schools and as a guidance counselor. The couple has lived in the regions covered in the novel, and they now are both retired. Judy plays tennis. Ralph skis and runs. Together they travel and do volunteer work in the arts and humanities, but advise against spouses jointly writing a novel. They continue to consult each other but write separately.

1954

• Don Hughes continues to win accolades for his film “An American Boy,” set in Indianapolis in 1948. In 2011, it was an official selection at the Great Lakes, Williamsburg, Detroit, Oregon and Illinois festivals and won Vest Family Film and Best Young Audience Film awards at the Williamsburg, Oregon and Illinois events.

In 2012, it’s been shown at the Garden State Kidz Filmz Festival in New Jersey, and in at Thunderbird International Film Festival in Utah, where it won a National Silver Award for Short Films.

The film continues to be available on DVD at the Indiana History Center Store online (shop.indianahistory.org), with proceeds benefiting the History Center.

Don writes, “Perhaps it’s time to close out this long-running project, but we’re still enjoying the ride!”

Don Hughes ’54

• Cathey Van Reekum Parsons and her husband, Royce, live in Lawrence, KS. Both retired, they recently celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary. They have four children, five grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Cathey keeps busy with volunteer work. She designs posters for Operation Wildlife – a local wildlife rescue group – and is secretary of the Advisory Council of the Jayhawk Area Agency on Aging. She is serving a second biennium term as president of the Omicron chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma and sits on its Phi State executive board.

Thanks to George Reynolds ’65 and Jack Reynolds ’67 for their contribution of photos and yearbooks to the Park Tudor archives.

1967

• Kathleen Berns Albrektson was voted 2011’s Best Attorney by the readers of the “San Bernardino Sun” and the “Redlands Daily Facts.” After serving as a corporate attorney for Campus Crusade for Christ for many years, she opened her own private practice, which includes estate planning, probate, and trust administration.

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Lucy Bowen McCauley ’77 (left) is presented with the 2012 Pola Nirenska Award for Achievement in Dance at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

Kathy and her husband Ray have two children, Laurie and Joshua. Laurie is the mother of their three grandsons and is a sales director with Mary Kay cosmetics.

Laurie’s husband is also an attorney and joined her practice in 2008. Kathy’s son

Josh is a radiologist working at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. Kathy’s husband Ray is a seminary professor and does extensive international teaching. They enjoy living in Redlands, CA.

1977

Kathleen Berns Albrektson ’67

• Lucy Bowen McCauley received the 2012 Pola Nirenska Award for Achievement in Dance on March 2, 2012 at The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. The award, sponsored by the Washington Performing Arts Society, provides a monetary contribution of $5,000 towards Bowen McCauley’s work in the community. At the event, Lucy also premiered “Le Sacre du Printemps,” which she choreographed.

Bowen McCauley Dance (BMD) is an Arlington, Virginia non-profit organization with a mission to introduce people of all ages to the joy of dance. Founded by Lucy 16 years ago, the award-winning company is renowned for its spirited dancers, use

of live music, and outreach programs for socioeconomically diverse communities.

BMD also was named Nonprofit of the Year by Leadership Arlington. Leadership Arlington accepts nominations and selects one deserving individual or organization in the business, nonprofit, and public sectors to receive the honor.

1982

• J.B. Rogers was assistant director of the new Three Stooges film that debuted in May. Look for his sons Drake ’20, Weston ’18 and Baxter ’16 Rogers in the orphanage scene.

1984

• Ann Niebrugge married Bill Yater on January 28, 2012 in Indianapolis. Ann is the assistant vice president for student records at Ivy Tech Community College, and Bill is a senior consultant for Blue Horseshoe Solutions.

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1990

• Professional business and marketing strategist Susan Baroncini-Moe broke a Guinness World Record™ for the longest live uninterrupted webcast June 27-28 in a non-stop, 36-hour long, live webcast. Susan was joined by business owners, bestselling authors, and celebrity entrepreneurs to share their marketing tips, strategies, and tactics. The record-breaking attempt took place at the Conrad Hotel in downtown Indianapolis. View the webcast at http://BreakARecordWithSusan.com.

1993

• Dr. Tania Barman Basta was granted tenure and a promotion to associate professor last year at Ohio University.

More recently, Tania and her husband, Daniel, welcomed their second child, Callum Andrew Basta, on January 9, 2012.

1995

• Mia Esther Riggin Riverton plays the role of “Twinny,” a pregnant Hawaiian wedding planner, in her latest film project, Michael Kang’s romantic comedy “Knots.”

The film had its Los Angeles premiere at the LA Asian Pacific Film Festival on May 13. Mia writes, “We made this movie in Hawaii with a phenomenal cast and crew including Illeana Douglas, Sung Kang, Janel Parrish, and writer-star KimberlyRose Wolter.”

Cara Young ’93 married Rick Barretto on June 23, 2012 in Indianapolis. Cara and Rick are shown here with Cara’s parents, former Headmaster George Young and Joan Young.

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The Park Tudor Alumni Association hosted an alumni reception on March 23 in connection with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra’s performance of “Pirates of the Carribean,” conducted by Erik Ochsner ’89. Those attending included: (back row, l to r) Fine Arts Director John Williams, Head of School Dr. Matthew Miller, Heather Kulwin ’92, Stuart Morton ’89, Mark Ochsner ’86, Mara McCabe ’86, Rod Brown ’84, Christy Scofield. Front row: Jennifer Maglinte-Timbrook ’92, Tracy Herring ’90, Cathy Yingling ’87, Erik Ochsner, Mimi Black Rassi ’89, Upper School Director Debbie Stuart Everett ’69 and Vanessa Stiles ’88.

1997

• Noelle Page Kirchner has accepted the position of parish associate at the Presbyterian Church in New Providence, NJ, while continuing to be a stay-at-home mom. She is an ordained Presbyterian minister and mother to two sons, Owen and Luke, who was born in May 2011.

2003

• Blake Elder married Melissa Price in Durham, NC on May 5, 2012. Park Tudor alumni who attended included Catie Cunning ’03, Ross Cunning ’03, Brett Leonards ’03, Emily Hankey ’03 and Margaret Brumbaugh ’05. Blake is an assistant vice president at Gabelli Asset Management in New York City

2002

• Emily Henricks is an award-winning animator and motion graphics designer in Los Angeles. She graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a B.F.A. degree in graphic design and received her M.F.A. in animation from the University of Southern California. While at USC, her film “Multiply” was honored with a 2010 Student Academy Award from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. She also was commissioned by conductor Michael Tilson Thomas to work on visual music pieces for the New World Symphony in Miami. These animations are projected onto five unique sails designed by architect Frank Gehry to accompany live symphony performances.

She currently works as a motion graphics designer in Los Angeles. On June 30, 2012 she married James Eckstein, an aerospace engineer in the propulsion department at the Aerospace Corporation in Los Angeles.

Emily Henricks ’02 and James Eckstein

and is halfway through the Executive MBA program at Columbia Business School. Melissa graduated from Wake Forest University and is pursuing her master’s of social work at Fordham University. The couple met in New York City almost five years ago and live in Stamford, CT.

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both students at the Kelley School of Business, received the award for their creation of YuMingle, a mobile platform for facilitating social connections. Through YuMingle, people will be able to create unique micro-social networks based on location and interests. The competition opened in September with 61 submissions from a wide range of students on the IU Bloomington campus. After three rounds of judging, the field was narrowed to six finalists, who presented their business plans to a panel of investor judges at the School of Informatics and Computing on April 14.

Ultimately, four companies were selected by the panel of investors to receive funding totaling more than $250,000.

In addition, Nathan served as president of The Board of Aeons, a 12-member student research and advisory organization that works closely with the president of Indiana University. Founded in 1921, the Board has served alongside six IU presidents and two IU chancellors to offer student perspectives on campus issues. The Board is typically composed of juniors and seniors who have distinguished themselves through scholarship, leadership, and service to the university.

Blake Elder ’03 and Melissa Price

2006

• Jennifer Sondhi completed her first year of IU Medical School (Terre Haute campus) with a High Performer Award in both Immunology and Anatomy. She has an internship at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Indianapolis this summer.

2008

• Nathan Baldwin and his cousin, Jonathan Baldwin, were awarded $100,000 in the inaugural Building Entrepreneurs in Software and Technology, or BEST, competition at Indiana University. The annual prize is the largest in the world offered by a university solely to its students in a technology and businessplan competition. Nathan and Jonathan,

• Jenn Burns received the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award at Davidson College commencement ceremonies on May 20. The award recognizes individuals with outstanding spiritual qualities applied to daily living. Jenn graduated magna cum laude with a major through the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies. She wrote her thesis on the costs and benefits of shifting food systems from industrialized agricultural to more local and sustainable farms. Jenn, who wrote an article in the Fall 2011 issue of The Phoenix about a trip to study agricultural practices in Cuba, said of her future plans, “I want to continue working to change the food system to ensure that all people have access to food that is not only good for the body, but for the planet and the community.”

Jenn was a Terry Leadership Program Fellow at Davidson. She was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa national academic honor society, created the Food Club on campus and served on the board of the Davidson Farmers’ Market. She has been published in a variety of magazines,

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In addition, she has been selected as a delegate to the international conference of the Slow Food movement in Turin, Italy in October.

• Elizabeth Emhardt graduated from Denison University with the highest awards in several subject areas. She is headed to IU Medical School - Fort Wayne in the fall.

• Rajpreet Heir was selected to be a 500 Festival Princess for 2012.

• Alaina Urbahns graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, magna cum laude, with a dual degree with honors in Spanish and French and a double minor in ancient history and anthropology. She was selected as the outstanding student in the Romance Languages Department and as a result was chosen to be the flagbearer for the department at commencement ceremonies.

2011

• Preston Hill attended a White House garden reception for Prime Minister David Cameron of Great Britain hosted by President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama on March 14. Preston was a guest of former Indianapolis Deputy Mayor Carolyn Coleman, director of the National League of Cities’ Center for Federal Relations.

• Patrick Rezek led the effort to bring the American Cancer Society “Relay For Life” event back to Wabash College. The event, held April 6 at the Wabash campus, celebrated cancer survivors with the theme “Calling All Heroes.” Patrick participated in support of Park Tudor Fine Arts Administrative Assistant Jill Blair, who passed away from cancer last year.

Preston Hill ’11

Marriages

Congratulations

• Ann Niebrugge ’84 to Bill Yater on January 28, 2012.

• To Tania Barman Basta ’93 and her husband, Daniel, on the birth of son Callum Andrew Basta on January 9, 2012.

• Cara Young ’93 to Rick Barretto on June 23, 2012.

• Emily Henricks ’02 to James Eckstein on May 30, 2012.

• Blake Elder ’03 to Melissa Price on May 5, 2012.

• Human Resources Director Kristen Miller to Don Perkins on May 18, 2012.

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• To Spencer Lerch ’94 and Elizabeth Barret Lerch, and Upper School history teacher Kathryn Lerch, on the birth of son and grandson Griffin Westley Lerch on February 17, 2012.

• To Jim Combs ’95 and Weezie Elder Combs ’97 on the birth of daughter Taylor Elizabeth Combs on April 7, 2012.

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• To Laura Dick Chubb ’96 and her husband, Zach, Lower School teacher Debbie March on the birth of daughter and granddaughter Madeleine Margaret Chubb on April 5, 2012.

• To Accounting Manager Amber Chance and her husband, Alex Markov, on the birth of daughter Gwendolyn Maxine Markov, on March 12, 2012.

• To Online Communications Specialist Cassie Dull and her husband, Chad Dull, on the birth of daughter Hayley Addison Dull, on April 20, 2012.

Deaths • Betti Kahn Lurie ’33 on April 27, 2012.

• Marybelle Neal Richards ’38 on April 29, 2012.

• Jane Eaglesfield Darlington ’45 on March 5, 2012.

• Marsh Blackburn ’47 on April 11, 2012.

• Frances Lurvey Hackett ’47 on March 27, 2012.

• Carl Eveleigh ’48 on June 16, 2012.

• Elise Noonan Surdakowski ’57 on April 16, 2012.

• Sally Province Mink ’65 on April 14, 2012.

• Andrew Ponader ’10 on March 1, 2012.

Condolences • To Carol Lynn Clark ’49 on the death of her brother, Marsh Blackburn, on April 11, 2012.

• To Susanne Eaglesfield LaFollette ’54, John Darlington III ’83, Eldon Nyhart Jr. ’73, John Emhardt ’73, Cynthia LaFollette Emhardt ’79, Linda LaFollette Foley ’83 and Kathryn LaFollette ’92 on the death of their sister, mother and aunt, Jane Eaglesfield Darlington ’45, on March 5, 2012.

• To Priscilla Brown Ruddell ’55 and Elizabeth Kalbouss Ruddell ’82 on the death of their husband and father-in-law, Richard Ruddell, on October 30, 2010.

• To Jonathan Kling ’00, Jennifer Kling ’02 and tutor Sandy Kling on the death of their grandfather and father-in-law, Tom Kling Sr., on February 17, 2012.

• To Daniel Morse ’63 on the death of his mother, Ellen Morse, on April 2, 2012.

• To Margaret Eveleigh ’02, Carl Eveleigh ’04, Alex Tolbert ’98, Brian Tolbert ’00, Beth Tolbert ’03 and Susan Tolbert ’68 on the death of their grandfather and uncle, Carl Eveleigh ’48 on June 16, 2012.

• To William ’66 and Jonathan Julian ’68, Alyssa Lennon Collova ’95, Megan Lennon Haring ’00, and athletic director Brad Lennon and his wife Anne on the death of their grandmother, mother-in-law and mother, Frances Julian, on April 1, 2012.

• To Cheri Longardner Dick ’67, William Longardner ’77, Abigail Lynn ’00 and Charles Lynn III ’05 on the death of their mother and grandmother, Naomi Longardner, on April 2, 2012.

• To Melvin Baird ’74 on the death of his mother, Willie Beatrice Wimes Baird, on March 31, 2012.

• To Betsy Mockovak Ekelof ’76 on the death of her mother, Jane Watson Nicholson Mockovak, on February 24, 2012.

• To Wendy Wright Ponader ’78, Kim Wright Egan ’80, Matt Wright ’83, Mark Wright ’84 and Maggie Ponader ’08 on the death of their son, nephew and brother, Andrew Ponader ’10, on March 1, 2012, and of their father and grandfather, Dr. Jim Wright, on March 22, 2012.

• To Robert Shive ’83 on the death of his mother, Judy Shive, on June 11, 2012.

• To Valerie Ashanin Abshire ’85 and Michael Ashanin ’88 on the death of their sister, Marina L. Ashanin, on May 13, 2012.

• To Brooke Decatur Whitten ’86 and Trent Decatur ’88 on the death of their father, David Decatur, on March 12, 2012.

• To Melissa Franson Laviolette ’02 on the death of her mother, Anne Christine Franson, on May 15, 2012.

• To Alaina ’08 and Ross Urbahns ’13 on the death of their grandfather, Perry Parsons, on January 26, 2012.

• To Grant Church ’10 on the death of his mother, Diana Church, on June 10, 2012.

• To Rob Hueni, Technical Theatre Director, and Gretchen Hueni, Alumni Coordinator and Planned Giving Officer, and Caroline ’23 and Robert ’26 Hueni on the death of their mother, mother-in-law and grandmother, Letty Hueni, on April 24, 2012.

• To Middle School teacher Courtney Whitehead and his wife Elizabeth, and Nolan Whitehead ’24 on the death of their grandfather and great-grandfather, Delbert Whitehead, on March 14, 2012.

• To Maggie Michaelis, Lower School teaching assistant, on the death of her mother, Carmen Burns, on February 8, 2012.

• To Upper School music teacher Royce Thrush on the death of his father, Ronald P. Thrush, on March 30, 2012.

• To Matt Bremner ’00, Josh Bremner ’08 and Upper School math teacher Sarah Webster on the death of their grandmother, Janet Bremner, on March 31, 2012.

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Honor and Memorial Gifts Received February 1 - June 5, 2012 Gifts in honor of …

Charlie Stewart ’16 Mr. and Mrs. B.A. Bridgewater

Tom and Joanne Black Mr. and Mrs. Andrew L. Rassi (Melissa Black ’89)

Henry Stewart ’19 Mr. and Mrs. B.A. Bridgewater

Courtney Fehsenfeld ’12 Anonymous

Jack Stewart ’16 Mr. and Mrs. B.A. Bridgewater

Margherita Firenze ’19 Dr. Giuseppe Firenze and Dr. Isabella Velona

Tudor Hall Class of 1967 Dr. and Mrs. J. Raymond Albrektson (Kathleen Berns ’67)

Mr. Jim Foxlow Gordon ’62 and Anne Emison Wishard Mr. and Mrs. William N. Wishard (Bill ’59)

Mr. Gordon D. Wishard ’62 Mr. and Mrs. William N. Wishard (Bill ’59)

Dwayne Gibson Jr. ’15 Mr. Dwayne Gibson Mrs. Nicole Williamson Mr. C. Perry Griffith ’01 Mr. C. Perry Griffith Mrs. Claire Wishard Hoppenworth ’88 Mr. and Mrs. William N. Wishard (Bill ’59) Colina Miroff ’22 Mr. Franklin I. Miroff and Dr. Susan Maisel-Miroff Isaac Miroff ’23 Mr. Franklin I. Miroff and Dr. Susan Maisel-Miroff Mrs. M.C. Pennington ’52 Mr. and Mrs. Philip A. Brooks (Claire Wilkinson ’52) David ’55 and Susan Wishard ‘56 Poston Mr. and Mrs. William N. Wishard (Bill ’59) Mr. and Mrs. David N. Shane Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin D. Shane (Ben ’96) Mrs. Linda Sogard Mr. and Mrs. James R. Keller

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Mr. Gordon D. Wishard Jr. ’92 Mr. and Mrs. William N. Wishard (Bill ’59)

Gifts in memory of…

Mr. Marsh Blackburn ’47 Mr. and Mrs. John J. Kennedy (Jack ’47; Patricia Smith ’49) Mr. Shanon A. Fields ’92 Mr. and Mrs. Ronald M. Beck Mr. David Fisch ’98 Mr. and Mrs. Ronald M. Beck Dr. Bhuwan Garg Mr. Gerry and Mrs. Susanne LaFollette (Sue Eaglesfield ’54) Mrs. Frances Lurvey Hackett ’47 Mrs. Kitty Tavel Mrs. Phyllis Behringer Holliday ’42 Mrs. Evaline Hitz Rhodehamel ’42 Mrs. Kitty Tavel Mrs. Frances Julian Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Wood Mrs. Eleanor Krauss Mr. and Mrs. Stephen W. Fletcher (Steve ’65; Judy ’67) Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Thompson (Vivian Alpert ’67)

Mrs. Ethel Madden Mahnken ’52 Mr. and Mrs. Frank O’Brien (Dee DeMotte ’52)

Mr. Lloyd J. Tucker Mr. Christopher Holobek* Mr. Ben Shaw ’04

Ms. Evelyn McClain Mr. Christopher Holobek* Ms. Nancy R. King

Mrs. Robert F. Walbridge (Joyce Amling ’52) Mr. and Mrs. Frank O’Brien (Dee DeMotte ’52)

Ms. Patricia Moore ’65 Mrs. Elizabeth N. Funk Mann ’65 Mr. Ronald Nelson and Ms. Joyce Garfield Nelson ’65 Ms. Myrta Pulliam ’65 Mr. and Mrs. Randall D. Rogers (Randy ’64; Mary Holliday ’65) Miss Lianne Somerville ’66 Ms. Marion Sweeney ’65 Mr. and Mrs. Bob Walker (Diann Gery ’65) Gene and Mary Ann Zink Mr. Andrew D. Ponader Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Cox Mr. and Mrs. J. Mark Hilligoss Mrs. Mary Poulos Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Smith (Becky Sharp ’57)

Dr. John B. White Mr. and Mrs. John B. White (John ’76) Mr. David Yingling ’79 Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Brown (Rob ’79; Ruth Ellen Myrehn ’80) Mr. and Mrs. Gregory A. Hartmann (Mr. ’79) Mr. and Mrs. Eugene H. Leser (Geno ’79) Mr. and Mrs. Bruce D. Myrehn (Bruce ’78) Ms. Kathy Mance O’Brian ’79 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Pettinga (Tom ’80) Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey W. Yingling (Jeff ’78) Mrs. Mary Louise Yingling

Mr. Baxter S. Rogers ’59 Reverend C. Davies Reed Mr. and Mrs. William N. Wishard (Bill ’59)

Thank a Teacher

Mr. Douglass R. Shortridge Mr. Gerry and Mrs. Susanne LaFollette (Sue Eaglesfield ’54)

Dr. Santonino Banya John, Janna, Alaina ’08 and Ross ’13 Urbahns

Mrs. Elise Noonan Surdakowski ’57 Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Smith (Becky Sharp ’57)

Ms. Brandi Barnett Dr. and Mrs. Michael Rothbaum (Karen*)

Mr. Alexander L Taggart III ’42 Robert and Elizabeth Taggart Fitzsimmons ’62 Mr. Henry Taggart ’44 Robert and Elizabeth Taggart Fitzsimmons ’62 Christopher Jacob Therber Mr. and Mrs. Kirk McKeon (Emily Arnold ’90)

Mr. J. Michael Ayres The Urbahns Family

Mrs. Stephanie Behringer Dr. Alfonso de Dios and Mrs. Raquel Molina Ms. Stephanie Branch Sydney Green ’19 Mrs. Susan Buroker ’84 Dr. and Mrs. Michael Rothbaum (Karen*)

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Mrs. Anne R. Crafton Dr. and Mrs. Michael Rothbaum (Karen*) Mrs. Nicole Williamson Mr. Stephen Curry Mr. Daniel Salvas and Dr. Colleen Madden Mrs. Deborah M. Dominguez Dr. and Mrs. William R. Storer Mr. Kevin Doty Mr. Tom Linebarger and Ms. Michele Janin Dr. Sven H. Dubie Mr. and Mrs. Vincenzo Verderame Mrs. Deborah Stuart Everett ’69 Anonymous Chris and Cheri Sumner Mr. and Mrs. C. Daniel Woodfin (Deborah Wasden ’69) Fifth-Grade Teachers Mr. and Mrs. Richard Chadderton Ms. Pamela Fischer Mr. Tom Linebarger and Ms. Michele Janin Mrs. Kathleen Fry Kelly Gardner ’20 Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Hellman Mr. Joseph K. Fumusa Mr. and Mrs. Stephen C. Hilbert Mr. and Mrs. James Seymour John, Janna, Alaina ’08 and Ross ’13 Urbahns Ms. Laura Gellin Mr. Tom Linebarger and Ms. Michele Janin Mr. Jerry Grayson Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Ambrose Mrs. Joan Grinkmeyer Chris and Cheri Sumner Dr. Jan Guffin Dan and Beth Bohn Mr. Tom Linebarger and Ms. Michele Janin John and Deb Thornburgh

Dr. Paul Hamer Ms. Ellen L. Grein ’10 Dr. and Mrs. Douglas Rex John, Janna, Alaina ’08 and Ross ’13 Urbahns

Mrs. Lori Morales Dr. Alfonso de Dios and Mrs. Raquel Molina Mr. Kevin Honigford and Ms. Kimberly Pohlman

Mrs. Shants Hart Caroline Gardner ’16 Thomas Gardner ’14 Mr. Kevin Honigford and Ms. Kimberly Pohlman Mr. Daniel Salvas and Dr. Colleen Madden

Mrs. Molly S. Murphy Mr. Guy Westermeyer

Ms. Lisa Hendrickson ’77 Rae Fagin ’12 Mr. Christopher Holobek Mr. and Mrs. Craig M. Carpenter Mr. and Mrs. William Clouse Bobbi Byrn Plewes Mr. and Mrs. James Seymour Lily Sumner ’20 Mrs. Joan Kahn Richard and Nancy Gaynor Mrs. Laura I. Lowe Anonymous Ms. Pam Maddox Richard and Nancy Gaynor Mrs. Melanie D. Marshall Mr. and Mrs. Dan Gehring Ms. Margo McAlear Mr. Tom Linebarger and Ms. Michele Janin John and Deb Thornburgh Mr. and Mrs. Vincenzo Verderame Mr. A.J. McIntosh Mr. Jerry Halperin Mrs. Lori McIntosh Mr. and Mrs. Craig M. Carpenter Mr. Jerry Halperin Mrs. Lisa Mercurio Chris and Cheri Sumner Middle School Faculty and Staff Chris and Cheri Sumner Mrs. Michele A. Modglin Mr. Kevin Honigford and Ms. Kimberly Pohlman

Mrs. Alexis Odle Richard and Nancy Gaynor Mrs. Cynthia Pauszek Richard and Nancy Gaynor Miss Amanda Nicole Ranek Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Hellman Mrs. Sharon Riddle Richard and Nancy Gaynor Janna Urbahns Mr. Ryan Ritz Drs. Carlos and Ruth Gimeno Ms. Carol Cummings Rogers ’59 Mr. and Mrs. James B. Rogers (J.B. ’82) Mr. Eli Salatich Mr. and Mrs. Craig M. Carpenter Ms. Carrie Schwartz Lily Sumner ’20

Mrs. Emily Sturman ’66 Mr. and Mrs. Steven M. Falender (Steve ’67; Debra Dudenhoffer ’66) Mr. and Mrs. F. Haydon Hapak (Haydon ’74) Mrs. Heather Teets Mr. Tom Linebarger and Ms. Michele Janin Tenth-Grade Teachers Mr. and Mrs. Richard Chadderton Mrs. Ellen Todd Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Miroff (Drew ’92) Drs. Alexander and Helen Niculescu Upper School Teachers Evan Sumner Mrs. Janice L. Vote Alaina Urbahns ’08 and Family Mrs. Sarah Webster John, Janna, Alaina ’08 and Ross ’13 Urbahns Mr. Donald J. Weymuth Bobbi Byrn Plewes

Seventh-Grade Teachers Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Wiesinger

Mr. Courtney Whitehead Mr. Daniel Salvas and Dr. Colleen Madden Cameron Sumner ’17

Dr. Geoffrey Sharpless John and Deb Thornburgh

Mr. John R. Williams Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Ambrose

Mrs. Gaye Shula Mr. and Mrs. Edward G. Dunn (Ted ’72; Julia Townsend ’72)

Mrs. Mary Jo Wright John, Janna, Alaina ’08 and Ross ’13 Urbahns

Ms. Brenda Squires Janna Urbahns

Ms. Shelle Wright Mr. Guy Westermeyer

Mrs. Bonnie Stewart Mr. and Mrs. B.A. Bridgewater Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Miroff (Drew ’92)

Ms. Sheila Young Alaina Urbahns ’08 and Family * = faculty

Ms. Dionne A. Strong Mr. and Mrs. Edward G. Dunn (Ted ’72; Julia Townsend ’72)

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