Park Tudor Phoenix Summer 2013

Park Tudor

Phoenix Summer 2013

• IndyCar star Ed Carpenter ’99 • History of Lilly Orchard Part II

On the Cover

Ed Carpenter ’99 races down the track at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. He won the pole position at this year’s Indy 500. Article on page 24. Photo by Clayton Moore ’10. Moore is a photographer for the “Indiana Daily Student” at Indiana University, shooting a variety of events including athletics, plays, lectures and breaking news. A criminal justice and telecommunications major, he will graduate in May 2014.

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.

Congratulations to the Class of 2013

PARK TUDOR SCHOOL Head of School Dr. Matthew D. Miller Editor Lisa A. Hendrickson ’77 Editor Emeritus C.J. Foxlow Staff Writers Alicia Carlson Cassie Dull Graphic Design/ Photography Stefanie Dean ’05 Alumni Coordinator/Planned Giving Officer Gretchen Hueni

Marko Adams DePauw University Courtney Altman University of Alabama Hunter Ambrose Columbia College Chi. Neha Anand Yale University Echo Angelicchio Indiana University Melanie Ash Tulane University Ben Backer Indiana University Joseph Bir Hampshire College Chris Block Indiana University Brianna Brooks Boston University Evie Brosius DePauw University Indiana University Autumn Brown Abbey Buroker DePauw University Alexandra Cain Southern Methodist U. John Caldemeyer UCLA Kendall Casey U.of San Francisco Hope Casey-Allen Stanford University Jack Chen U. of Cal. at Berkeley Jeff Chen U. of Southern California Sue Cho Georgetown University William Clark Purdue University Indiana University Nicole Coghlan Fran Conterno U. of Southern California Peter Dakich Kenyon College Reid Dassow DePauw University Brooke DeBettignies Pace University Rachel DeVito Southern Methodist U. Bailey Dominguez Kenyon College McKenna Duiser Indiana University Val Fedorikhin Cal Polytechnic U. Patrick Finn Indiana University Ella Freihofer DePauw University Vanessa Freije DePauw University

Ryan Gabbert University of Dayton Samuel Geddie Amherst College Vanessa Gehring Indiana University Elizabeth Hann Purdue University Claude Harrington Wash. U. in St. Louis Brandon Harrison Indiana University Cyrus Hart Grinnell College Owen Hartman DePauw University Robert Hicks University of Richmond Jacob Hoffman University of Miami Charlie Hopper Landmark College Miami University, Ohio Davis House Collier Huntley Villanova University Kara Huster Butler University Becca Ito Wheaton College, Illinois Andrew Johnson Indiana University Kelsey Johnson Baldwin Wallace U. MeeJin Jungemann Indiana University Joe Kimbell Washington and Lee U. Katie Kortepeter Hillsdale College David Kroot DePauw University DePauw University Kamman Kunz Hanna Laikin U. of Southern California Joseph Landis Purdue University Tate Latinovich Texas Christian U. Christopher Lee Wheaton College, Illinois Lauren Lowry Indiana University Scott Lynn Purdue University Cassandra Marrero Indiana University Katy Math Purdue University True Miller Miami University, Ohio Dontae Monday Wash. & Jefferson College Lauren Moreland Taylor University

Christopher Morgan Purdue University Lisa Muloma Vanderbilt University Purdue University Cal Murray Catherine Mytelka Princeton University Jessica Olson Indiana University Colin Parker U. of Southern California Roshni Patel IUPUI Matthew Pauszek University of Michigan Gavin Pehler Butler University Graham Reinbold University of Dayton Kevin Rex Harvard University University of Alabama Katherine Scott Jack Seymour Pennsylvania State U. Violet Sharpless Princeton University Levi Siegel Indiana University Ian Skjodt Indiana University Rachel Smitherman UNC - Chapel Hill Lauren Talbert U. of Southern Indiana Andrew Towne Purdue University Caroline Tucker Princeton University Ross Urbahns Southern Methodist U. Purdue University Zach Urbanek Teja Vallapuri Wash. U. in St. Louis Prahasith Veluvolu Purdue University Colton Voege Purdue University Sierra Wallin DePauw University Jeremy Wu Indiana University Victoria Xiao New York University Grace Yedlicka Indiana University Ramya Yeleti U. of Southern Indiana Sri Divya Yeleti Indiana University Emily Zanetis Northwestern University

2013-14 Alumni Association Board President Lindsay Elder Thornton ’95 Vice President Joe Hawkins ’96 Secretary Beth Tolbert Johnson ’03 Treasurer Nikhil Gunale ’96 Past President Cathy Yingling Chapelle ’87 Alumni Association Directors Kate Engle ’95 Eric Gershman ’98 Carlie Irsay Gordon ’99 Emily Ristine Holloway ’94 Matt Kleymeyer ’00 Jonathan McDowell ’02 Vanessa Stiles ’88 Kelly Lamm Teller ’87 Zach Wills ’03

Correction: A caption accompanying a photo of the Louisville alumni gathering that appeared on page 30 of the Spring 2013 issue of The Phoenix incorrectly identified Virginia Obrecht Dulworth ’46.

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Contents Summer 2013

Features Hometown hero: IndyCar star Ed Carpenter ’99 23

When I awake someday 25

By Dr. Paul Hamer The history of Lilly Orchard: Part II

By Robert H. Rhodehamel ’68

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Departments News of the School

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Report from the Head of School Commencement

PT joins Global Online Academy

Student news

Focus on faculty

Spring athletic update

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Alumni News

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Class Notes

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Alumni Weekend 2013 Reunion Class Photos New Alumni Board members

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Background photo: Current and prospective eighth-graders enjoyed a day of activities at “Pantherpalooza,” an introduction to Park Tudor sponsored by the Admissions Office each June.

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

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News of the School Board approves initial framework for developing campus master plan “Beautiful and useful campuses are the result of strong institutional will and good stewardship over time. It is the deliberate attention of people committed to maintaining the spirit of the place—its unique personality—that ensures campus space, facilities, and land use remain rich and vital, and that possibilities for future campus development are maintained.”*

By Dr. Matthew D. Miller, Head of School

I am pleased to report that we have made

tremendous progress this year on the school’s campus master plan, which was approved as a “Plan in Process” by the Board of Directors at its June meeting. We will continue to refine, align and develop it in the coming months as we move forward with our strategic-planning process.

The goal of the campus master-planning process is to create a flexible framework that will 1) assess the current state of the campus to determine opportunities and areas of potential growth, 2) inform the concurrent strategic planning process by offering a vision of future campus development, and 3) provide a short- and long-term framework if and when capital opportunities arise.

As architect and planner Jeff Blanchard, our campus planner and principal of Blanchard Group of Richmond, VA, notes, “Master planning and strategic planning are iterative, and engaging them simultaneously will yield a more fully developed result.”

Why a Plan?

Master planning is in many ways the process of telling the “story of the school” and establishing a vision for future improvements to the campus. Much has changed at Park Tudor since the current campus was completed: The size of the campus has grown, the number of students has increased by nearly 40 percent, academic programs have expanded and matured, and the arts and athletics continue to flourish. Technology is more ubiquitous in every aspect of our lives, and the nature of teaching and learning, particularly the role of collaboration, has evolved.

These considerations alone begin to make the case for a well-conceived plan for future campus growth, but we also have

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found that as the school has grown, some academic and common spaces have become stressed and cramped. We lack dedicated space for certain programs, and teaching and learning options are occasionally constrained by physical surroundings.

In addition, some athletic spaces are undersized and supporting functions like lockers, fitness, and sports medicine are limited because of space considerations.

A facilities audit of the physical and mechanical structures on campus conducted in conjunction with the master planning process found that while the physical shells and basic structures of our buildings are strong and well-preserved, many of the buildings on our nearly 50-year-old campus are in need of modernization, and we are beginning to see aging of our systems, particularly electrical and mechanical.

“Taken as a whole,” noted Blanchard, “the school’s need to accommodate maturing and emerging programs over time, make the highest and best use of its fine but aging facilities, and resolve the natural tensions that come with decades of growth and change, require a thoughtful and organized approach to one of our most valuable assets—the campus setting.”

The Process Building on the work of the Board of Directors’ Long-Range Planning Committee chaired by Rob Brown ’79, the school engaged the Blanchard Group to conduct a series of focus groups, with more than 250 faculty, staff, administrators, students, parents, alumni and Board members participating. In addition, the school formed a Steering Committee to help shepherd the process. The only stipulations imposed on the process were maintaining—not increasing—the number of students and continuing the school’s long-standing emphasis on academics, fine arts and athletics.

Dr. Matthew D. Miller Brown says, “It was critical that we gather information and opinions from all facets of the school community, and the interview process helped immensely in identifying areas of focus.”

Considerations and Framework From these interviews, Blanchard identified several considerations that people felt should be of primary importance in the planning process. These included: improved vehicular and pedestrian access, improved opportunities for common points of reference or community, identification of a “front door” to campus, campus safety and security enhancements, addressing handicapped access, increased visibility of Foster Hall, improved facilities around our athletic fields, and integration of the recently acquired land north of campus.

As Blanchard explains, the ultimate goal of the master plan is to accommodate and integrate maturing programs while not losing sight of “interconnectedness between the functions of the school, physically, socially, and programmatically.”

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To ensure that we maintain the architectural integrity of the campus while providing for future opportunities, three “mutually dependent” core principles emerged that will help to drive all future decisions: 1. Honoring the Past: Park Tudor is blessed with wonderful buildings that have withstood the test of time; we intend to retain and care for these existing buildings with a careful maintenance and improvement plan as they will continue to serve us long into the future.

2. A Break-out Strategy: In keeping with our commitment to existing facilities, we intend to apply a scalable “break-out” strategy that will accommodate both mature and emerging programs. This strategy will enable us to highlight signature programs and programming; it also will allow us to repurpose existing space. In addition, it will provide options for developing some new spaces to accommodate our wide range of academic and extracurricular offerings.

3. Buildings in a Park: The school is looking to create a flexible land-use strategy that reflects the fundamental character of the institution. Specifically, we would like to restore the “park-like”

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nature of the school in a manner consistent with the original orchard setting by deemphasizing parking and vehicular traffic while augmenting green spaces and creating a more pedestrian-friendly campus.

One of the outcomes of this framework will be to expand the core campus, relocating secondary structures to the periphery of campus and organizing the campus on a north/south axis to provide a sense of orientation. This approach will create a well-defined “front door” to campus, as well as increased parking, improved traffic flow, and improved safety and security.

Now that the Board has approved this framework, the school can begin to make long-term decisions about where future structures should be placed and how current structures may evolve. We are also in a position to make “no-regret” decisions to address current needs that fall under a more short-term strategy for campus improvement. In addition, specific projects now can be organized around three broad areas of growth: providing state-of-the-art academic space, strengthening the space that the community shares, and enhancing the flexibility of the athletic and fine-arts programs.

What’s next?

Over the past year we have made tremendous progress in developing the overall direction for future campus development. Blanchard notes, “The campus master plan is conceptual and a working document that guides campus development and decision making. The school will continue to steward the plan— administer, monitor, and interpret the plan to meet its changing needs.”

During the coming months we will continue to work on creating the next generation of the school’s strategic plan, aligning it with the evolving campus master plan. We will begin sharing this framework in the fall with the Park Tudor community as it becomes more fully articulated.

I look forward to sharing more in the coming months and as always, I welcome your questions or input.

* This article draws heavily on The Blanchard Group’s “2013 Campus Master Plan: A Framework for Future Development” (2013). All quotations are from the report and the basic framework follows Blanchard’s contents.

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Class of 2013 heads off to 46 colleges

The 98 members of Park Tudor’s Class

of 2013 are heading off to 46 colleges in 20 states and the District of Columbia next month. The five speakers at commencement ceremonies held at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church on May 31 urged them to take time to explore the world, be open to new ideas and experiences, and to learn by making mistakes.

Michael I. Crowther, president and CEO of the Indianapolis Zoological Society, offered this year’s “Address to the Graduates.” Since his arrival in Indianapolis in 2002, Crowther has presided over the creation and implementation of the Indianapolis Prize, the world’s leading award for animal conservation.

In his remarks, he used the natural world as an example for the graduates as they chart their own life journeys: “Life on Earth does not succeed by isolating itself. Life works when we

interact. Life happens at the intersections between specimens and between species,” he said.

Head of School Dr. Matthew Miller made welcoming remarks, Carlie Irsay Gordon ’99 brought greetings from alumni, and history teacher Dr. Sven Dubie spoke on behalf of the faculty. Ravi Shah ’14, Student Council president-elect, offered remarks on behalf of the student body, and the Park Tudor Singers, conducted by Fine Arts Director John Williams, performed works by Handel and Katie Moran Bart.

“As you embark on this next chapter in your lives, rely upon the strong foundation the faculty has endeavored to give you. Sustain your curiosity about the world; revel in serendipitous discovery; courageously ask the challenging and difficult questions; test the limits of your comfort level. But fear not adversity or failure. The times of difficulty, self-doubt, and disappointment you will inevitably endure are the very crucibles of life that yield the most profound insights about ourselves. They also serve to strengthen our resilience, one of the most important qualities a person can possess.”

– Dr. Sven Dubie, Upper School Social Studies Teacher

Carlie Irsay Gordon ’99, a member of the Alumni Association Board of Directors, urged graduates to stay in touch with their friends and teachers from Park Tudor.

Michael Crowther

“The most fundamental lesson we’ve learned about ecosystem sustainability over the past few decades is the critical importance of biodiversity. The differences between us make our world work, and our broad spectrum of strengths combine to prevent imbalances from toppling us.

“We need elephants and elephant shrews, rhinoceros and rhinoceros beetles, buffalo and buffalo weaver birds. We need you to give future generations a wondrous world they would choose to live in, not be forced to endure. You are our world’s hope. Take care of it, and it will motivate, strengthen, and sustain you. But snip too many threads and the whole tapestry of life will unravel.”

– Michael Crowther, President and CEO, Indianapolis Zoological Society

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Dr. Sven Dubie

“In finding your way, please know that the right path for you may be difficult, inefficient, and even meandering at times. Don’t be discouraged. You will occasionally go backwards to go forwards: Use your time well, engage deeply with ideas and challenging people, and develop your genuine interests and passions. Some of you will discover academic fields that you never knew existed, while others will find your way into professional opportunities that currently don’t exist. In either case, the process of finding your calling will take time, discipline, and trust in those around you.”

– Dr. Matthew D. Miller, Head of School

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“This class has shown grace since the first day of school. They carried out their roles as seniors not in an intimidating manner, but in a way of mentorship and more importantly, in a way of friendship…. At Park Tudor, we like to think of ourselves as one community. One family. No class has led by better example than this one.”

– Ravi Shah ’14, Student Council President-Elect

Ravi Shah ’14

Graduating senior Lisa Muloma, the recipient of a Vision and Voices Regional Award for Poetry in the Scholastic Art & Writing Competition, wrote this poem about her last day of classes at Park Tudor. She presented it at the Park Tudor 5x5 Art Salon on May 19.

So it is the Last Day of School and I’m sitting here at a table A table in in the courtyard and it is partly cloudy.

Humidity hugging and all the air is alive with cries of lively alive lower schoolers living, roller skating, falling hard sometimes.

And I am sitting here at this stone table for maybe the last time.

Living Here, table, white brick, wood room, apple orchard, home For three, maybe four months more

I remember It wasn’t more than four, five years ago when

we started littering this place with our fingertips grew beards here, Learned what it was to have friends die, run away (want nothing more than to die to run away) We perfected parallel parking Came home smelling of bonfire smoke and the insides of cars some nights Rode yellow buses to soccer fields amidst cornfields Used ear buds Developed a taste for jazz music and standardized testing and the sweet quiet hours leading to

Daytime, day, time, here I am here am I Sitting at a stone table in the middle of a red-brick courtyard alcove Sitting, rallying myself for all the changing.

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Class of 2013 Achievements • 98-member class attending 46 colleges and universities • $10.5 million in college merit scholarships offered; $2.4 million accepted • 4 National Merit Scholars, 10 Finalists and 13 Commended Scholars • 2 National Achievement Scholars, 1 Commended Student • 3 National Hispanic Recognition Program Scholars • 2 AP National Scholars; Indiana winner Siemens Award for Advanced Placement • National winner, 2012 High School Cyber Defense Competition • National Junior Classical League president • American Voices regional nominee, Scholastic Art and Writing Competition • Indiana Academic All Star • Indiana Junior Classical League state title • State, regional and national honors in English, math, science, foreign language, fine arts • 7 Indiana Crossroads Conference, 2 Marion County, 5 Sectional, 5 Regional and 2 Semi-state Team Championships • 16 All-Conference, 16 Academic AllConference, 3 All-County, 4 All-State and 5 Academic All-State athletes • Class of 2013 completed 16,251 hours of community service Scholarships accepted by students include: • Cornelius Vanderbilt Scholarship Vanderbilt University • John B. Ervin Scholarship - Washington University in St. Louis • Bepko Scholar - IUPUI • Hunt Leadership Scholar - SMU • 2 Presidential Scholars - USC • 5 Purdue Presidential Scholars • Kelley Scholar and 2 Hudson & Holland Honors Scholars - IU • Bachelor’s/MD Program at USI/IU Medical • Central Indiana Community Foundation Wings to Fly Scholar • IU Jacobs School of Music Dean’s Scholar • DePauw University Trustee and Distinguished Scholar Awards • 3 Indianapolis Professional Association Scholars

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PT joins Global Online Academy

Sidwell Friends School in Washington, DC; Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; The Dalton School in New York City; and international schools in Jordan, Japan, Indonesia and China.

By becoming a member school, Park Tudor will both expand the elective course offerings available to Upper School students and provide them the unique opportunity to work and connect with students around the world. Examples of GOA electives offered for the 2013-14 school year include Japanese I, 9/11 in a Global Context, Bioethics, and Game Theory.

The small class sizes (limited to 18 students) enable close collaboration among the students and the teacher.

The online classes will not replace any current classes at Park Tudor but instead will provide additional course options for students. According to a study by

Marketdata Enterprises, Inc., one in three college students takes an online course. As preparatory schools, the participating GOA schools prepare students for what they will encounter in college and beyond.

Peter Kraft, Associate Head of School for Academic Affairs, says, “Given the shared values around quality teaching and rigorous standards, we are confident the courses will maintain the high standards of quality of which we are proud.”

Students will receive Park Tudor credit for the classes and will receive individualized feedback and customized assessments from GOA instructors.

The Global Online Academy also enables Park Tudor teachers to become part of an expanded network of outstanding independent school educators and extraordinary professional development opportunities. Park Tudor teachers will have the opportunity to teach the classes, receive rigorous training in online teaching, share best practices and discuss new ideas related to both online and traditional teaching.

Learn more about the Global Online Academy, including a complete list of participating schools and course offerings, at www.globalonlineacademy.org.

just getting to the destination was part of the adventure. For most students, the trip from Beijing to Xi’an, for example, was the first on an overnight train.

“By visiting China, students see different aspects of Chinese culture,” says Lee-Thompson. “They see the bright side of China and the not-so-bright side. A trip like this is a good example of Park Tudor’s focus on the ‘growth mindset’ for students.

It was a good experience, and challenging.”

Before leaving Indianapolis, LeeThompson showed students YouTube videos of how to haggle with Chinese merchants. Once in China, they proved adept at getting good bargains.

“They loved to shop,” she says. “At the Pearl Market in Beijing, they did very well.

They haggled in Chinese.”

Not on the official tour but just as memorable were moments of meaningful connection between Chinese people and Park Tudor students, Johnson says. In Beijing’s Beihai Park, for example, they encountered a group of elderly men doing calligraphy with water, brushing Chinese

characters on the sidewalks. PT students joined in and could brush their own Chinese characters, to the surprise and approval of the men.

“Thanks to our Chinese language program, Beijing retirees and Park Tudor teenagers were communicating artfully in one of the word’s most venerable scripts,” Johnson says. “It was a simple but meaningful interaction.”

This was the third trip Park Tudor students have taken to China. On this visit, students spent much more time visiting schools than on previous trips, and it was the first trip in which students stayed with host families, Johnson says.

Staying with host families challenged students’ language skills and forced them to be more resilient than the average tourist, according to Lee-Thompson.

“Home stays are good for kids. They are challenged to break out of their comfort zones. We don’t want them to just be tourists,” Johnson says.

For Sophie Spartz ’14, who has studied Chinese for three years, staying with a

This spring, Park Tudor School joined

the Global Online Academy (GOA), a consortium of 30 of the world’s leading independent schools that offers rigorous online courses for Upper School students.

Students have the opportunity to enroll in the courses beginning with the 2013-14 school year.

“Joining the Global Online Academy represents an important moment for our school and an exciting opportunity for our faculty and students to explore the emerging world of online learning,” says Head of School Dr. Matthew Miller.

“We join a network of leading schools that is proactively defining this niche, creating new learning environments, developing a global community, and leveraging technology and 21st-century learning skills to help students connect, share and learn with other students around the world.”

The academically rigorous online courses are taught by educators at the participating GOA schools, which include

China trip includes home stays

Eighteen Upper School students spent

spring break in China on a school-sponsored trip led by Director of Chinese Studies Dr. Caroline Li-Chun Lee-Thompson and Social Studies teacher Jeff Johnson.

From March 24-April 6, students visited the cities of Beijing and Xi’an, attended classes with Chinese middle school and high school students, played with children in an orphanage, and spent four days staying with Chinese host families in the city of Tianjin.

On the packed itinerary were mustsee sites such as the Great Wall, the 2008 Olympic Park, the Temple of Heaven, and the Forbidden City, palace of China’s last two dynasties. The group also visited less famous but equally illuminating places such as residential areas, the Muslim Street in Xi’an and public parks.

Each stop offered opportunities to sample food and culture, and sometimes

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Students explore Canada, Costa Rica

Two groups of Middle School students

Students had plenty of opportunities to explore the wide range of Chinese cuisine options.

set out on international explorations in June. Eighteen Middle School students headed to Canada for a six-day trip to the French-speaking region of Québec, while 14 upcoming eighth- and ninth-graders headed to Costa Rica.

French teachers Barbara Epperson and Christian Jacobs led the Canadian tour, which introduced students to history and highlights of the region. Students visited the old towns of Québec City and Montréal, visited the tallest waterfalls in North America, went whale watching on a three-hour cruise on the St. Lawrence River, enjoyed an authentic lumberjack meal at a sugar shack with traditional folk songs and dances, visited the Olympic Park, and explored a festival celebrating French culture and language.

Eighth-grade science teacher Sue Taylor and Spanish teacher Amy Kerr led the trip to Costa Rica, where students learned about the ecosystem and put their Spanishspeaking skills to good use during dinners at the homes of Costa Rican families. Other trip highlights included hiking and ziplining in the rain forest and visiting the Arenal volcano and a coffee plantation.

PT offers new cultural exchange program Students on the China trip learned that pop culture transcends borders. They practiced Korean “gangnam style” dance moves with a teacher during their visit to a Chinese school.

host family allowed her to experience what ordinary life is like for her Chinese peers. Walking to school through Chinese neighborhoods far from tourist crowds and visiting local shops are among her favorite memories, she says. Visiting schools and observing the cultural differences are also vivid and lasting impressions.

“I think about our China trip every day,” says Spartz, who remains in contact with her host family’s 15-year-old daughter.

“The memories are mostly about things my host sister thought were so ordinary, like walking to school. Even going to the grocery store was fun.

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“You can read as much as you want in a book, but it doesn’t compare with experiencing it,” she adds.

Future trips to China are on the horizon.

“Travel is a good experience for students, just to be in a crowd of people speaking another language and to immerse oneself in another culture,” says Johnson.

“We were learning something new with every step.”

Read daily accounts of the Park Tudor trip to China at http://econnectionchina. blog.com.

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ark Tudor will host two students from Guatemala through Faces & Our Cultures, a new cultural exchange coming to the school this fall.

Two Guatemalan student cultural ambassadors, 17-year-old Nicole Sapper and 16-year-old Diego Gonzales, will live for eight weeks in Indianapolis to experience American life within the educational environment of Park Tudor and host families.

Park Tudor students also will have the opportunity to travel to Guatemala and stay for extended periods of time.

In addition to this new program, Park Tudor hosts an exchange student in the Upper School each year through AFS Intercultural Programs.

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New Board, Trust members elected

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t the annual member meeting of Park Tudor Foundation Board of Directors on May 13, Park Tudor parents Rodney Byrnes and Mary Chandler were elected to serve three-year terms on the Board. Alumni and current parents Rob Brown ’79 and Jeff Kittle ’89, and parent Liz McCarter were reelected to serve second three-year terms.

Stepping down from the Board are Alpha Blackburn and Enrique Conterno, whose terms expired at the end of June, and Bill Stearman, who resigned owing to increased business obligations.

While current Board President Chris Braun will continue in his role through June 30, 2014, the Board reelected the following Board officers for one-year terms:

Vice President - Rob Brown ’79 Treasurer - Steve Cagle ’71 Secretary - Heather Reilly Murphy ’90

Elected to the Park Tudor Trust for three-year terms were current parents Don Aquilano and Philip Larman and past parent Fred Fehsenfeld. Reelected to additional one-year terms to the Trust are current parent Angela Braly and past parents Tom

Reilly and Sharon Sullivan. All assumed their roles on July 1. In addition, the terms for Trust members Jeff Cohen, Bo Elder and Skip Watson have expired. The school thanks outgoing Board and Trust members for their dedication to the school.

The Board solicited nominations for the positions from the Park Tudor community last fall.

2012-13 Annual Fund exceeds goal!

Thank you to the nearly 1,200 donors who

have helped to make the 2012-2013 Annual Fund drive (concluded on June 30) a huge success! Gifts were still being counted as the Phoenix went to print, but we have surpassed our $1.1 million goal and expect final totals to approach $1.2 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 tradition 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 the “Support PT” section of the Park Tudor website: www. parktudor.org. Thank you!

Among the golfers at the Park Tudor Golf Outing on June 3 were (left to right) Emily Moore Sturman ’66, Susan McVie Tolbert ’68, Margaret Spiegel Dawson ’62 and Janet Taylor Hardy ’68.

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Golf Outing thanks

The 2013 Park Tudor Golf Outing raised

funds to help support Park Tudor and its athletic programs. The annual event, organized by the Park Tudor Booster Club and sponsored by JetLinx, took place on June 3 at Crooked Stick in Carmel.

Thanks to all of our sponsors: Jet Linx Aviation: Title Sponsor Ice Miller, LLP: Cocktail Reception Sponsor St. Vincent Sports Performance: Prize Sponsor Mack Financial Group: Box Lunch Sponsor Plews, Shadley, Racher & Braun: Beverage Cart Sponsor LeadJen, LLC: Putting Contest Sponsor Taft, Stettinius & Hollister, LLP: Long Drive Contest Sponsor Hogan Mayflower: Closest to the Hole Sponsor Hole Sponsors: Best Bolt Products Inc. Courtney Whitehead Fan Club Cushman & Wakefield/Summit Realty Group Cynthia Bir - Underwood Insurance Agency Darryl and Suzanne Tannenbaum Digestive Health Center Don & Laura Lucas Family Doug and Leslie Rex Family Duiser Family Fans of Brad Lennon Fans of Mark Lickliter First Merchants Bank Gardner Family Hallenbeck Family Herman & Kittle Properties, Inc. Interstate Global Marketing Solutions Joe and Brenda DeVito John and Jerri Ramsey Kyker Family Mack Financial Group Mooreco-IV McDonald’s Park Tudor Booster Club Park Tudor Parents’ Association Precision Drilling Sandor Development Thomas English Retail Real Estate, LLC Village Cigar Zeb and Barbara Portanova Friend: Bateman Photography

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Smith College professors bring biology projects to PT

Students in Upper School biology and

AP biology classes again this year had the opportunity to participate in sophisticated DNA and genetics investigations led by Smith College professors.

This marked the third visit by Smith College biology professors Drs. Bob Merritt and Lori Saunders to Park Tudor.

They spent three days in March working with Upper School biology students, conducting labs and lectures, and were assisted by graduate student Caitlyn Kirby, president of the Smith College Class of 2012, and Park Tudor graduate Anagha Inguva, Park Tudor Class of 2011, a science major and member of the Smith College Science Center Committee on Diversity.

Anagha also met with students interested in science careers and/or science-related majors.

Biology students conducted an investigation of DNA found in a cell structure called the mitochondrion, while AP biology students participated in a newly created lab procedure that includes DNA amplification and inversion polymorphism at the end of the human X-chromosome.

Science Department Chair and biology teacher Dr. Scott McDougall says, “The mitochondrial DNA extracted from students’ cheek cells was amplified millions of times over, creating a large enough sample to conduct an evolutionary relationship analysis. Students were able to compare their DNA to that of the other animal species and extinct creatures like the Neanderthal.”

The partnership, which began in 2007, is made possible by the Bennett Fund, created by a grant from Park Tudor alumnus Dob Bennett ’76 and his wife Deborah, a 1981 Smith College alumna.

Over the past six years, Smith College professors have made visits to Park Tudor to work with fine-arts students as well as science students. The Bennett Fund also provides scholarships to enable Park Tudor students to attend Smith College, as well as for Upper School students to attend summer programs at Smith.

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Anagha Inguva ’11 (left) works on a DNA experiment with freshman biology students Haley Foster and Deeba Derazi.

Summer 2013

at Park Tudor

Park Tudor’s Summer 2013 program offers more than 100 classes, camps and workshops for central Indiana students in preschool through high school through August 2. A brochure and class registration are available on the Park Tudor website.

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Top PT Honors • Claude Harrington ’13 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, Class of 1948 as an incentive to students to aspire to the highest degree of loyalty to Park Tudor School and the community. Claude served as Student Council president.

• Lisa Muloma ’13 and Joe Kimbell ’13 were honored with The Fletcher, Margaret and Rebecca 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.

• Hope Casey-Allen ’13 and Catherine Mytelka ’13 were honored with the Virginia E. Smith Highest Academic Average award.

NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS • Lauren Lowry ’13 and Lisa Muloma ’13 were selected as winners of National Achieve-ment Scholarships underwritten by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. They are among 800 recipients of National Achievement Scholarships, worth a total of about $2.5 million.

• Jeffrey Chen ’13 was awarded a Merit Scholarship sponsored by the University of Southern California. About 200 colleges and universities underwrite approximately 4,800 National Merit Scholarships awarded to National Merit Finalists.

STATE ACADEMIC AWARD Kevin Rex ’13 was honored by The Rotary Club of Indianapolis on April 23 as one of the top high school academic scholars in the greater Indianapolis area.

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Dr. Matthew Miller presents The Frank Meek Memorial Award to Claude Harrington ’13.

Lisa Muloma ’13 and Joe Kimbell ’13 received The Fletcher, Margaret and Rebecca Hodges Awards.

MATH third place in Astronomy, while Amy and • Four Middle School students qualified Katy Math ’13 won fourth place in Remote to take part in the 2013 MathCounts Sensing. Alexandra Lombardo ’14 and State Competition on March 9 at Purdue Alexa Petrucciani ’14 also competed.

University, thanks to their eighth-place ranking at the chapter competition. • The team of Dan Fu ’14, Catherine Nicholas Conterno ’19, Alex Gimeno ’17 Mytelka ’13 and Nathan Mytelka ’15 placed Victor Xiao ’18 and Michelle Zhu ’17 fourth in their division at the American were among 171 students from 23 middle Computer Science League (ACSL) Allschools competing. Conterno received a Stars competition in May, which included plaque as the highest-scoring student from 28 schools from 17 states. Nathan earned Park Tudor. a perfect score on the short-answer portion of the contest. ACSL organizes computer• Fifth-grader Thomas Gimeno and sixth- science contests for junior and senior high grader Nicholas Conterno were first- and school students. second-place state winners, respectively, in their levels of the Math Kangaroo 2013 • Two Park Tudor teams won honors at math competition, an international multiple- the IUPUI Computer Science Day on choice test competition for students in March 15. Thirteen PT students took part grades 1-12. In each state, students who in the event, which featured programming earned the three top results at each level competitions for students in grades 9-12, were awarded State Level honors. Thomas teacher training and panel discussions. In won first place in Level 5 and scored in the the Advanced Programming category, the top 20% nationally in his division. Nicholas brother-sister team of Catherine and Nathan won second place in Indiana in Level 6.

Mytelka took second place, while the team of Jason Zhao ’14 and John Havlik ’15 placed third.

SCIENCES • Students won two medals at the State Science Olympiad in Bloomington on SPEECH March 16, competing against 30 teams. At the Indiana High School Forensics Amy Cohn ’14 and Rishi Bolla ’15 won Association state meet on March 23, Nicolas

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Hornedo ’15 earned semifinalist honors in “Humorous Interpretation.” Hornedo, who was a sectional champion, presented “The Adventures of Captain Neato Man.” Freshman Pavani Peri, who competed in Original Oratory, presented her speech “The Bank of Justice,” which was ranked in the top six at sectionals and qualified her to compete at the state competition.

WORLD LANGUAGES • Eleven juniors were accepted to participate in the Indiana University Honors Program in Foreign Language this summer. They are spending six weeks in France or Spain taking classes, living with a host family and going on cultural excursions. They sign honor-code contracts stating that they will speak only that target language throughout their stay.

Those attending the program in France are Abbi Dill and Alexandra Lombardo (Saumur), Alexus Sims-Barnes (Brest) and Linda Tauscher (St. Brieuc). Spanish students and their destinations are Katelynn Kyker and Mattie Shepard (Valencia), Jack McCarter and DeForest Williamson (Léon), Abby Miller and Amy Skeels (Oviedo) and Amy Sedgwick (Ciudad Réal).

• The Park Tudor Latin Club clinched its third consecutive state title in March at the Indiana Junior Classical League (IJCL) State Convention hosted at Indiana State University. Latin Club members Joseph Bir ’13, Ashley Ellison ’14, Thomas Schacht ’17, Sophie Spartz and Caroline Tucker ’13 took part, accompanied by Latin teacher Clifford Hull.

Spartz completed her term as IJCL Editor and was selected as Indiana’s candidate for National JCL office. She will run for the position of Editor at the National JCL Convention this summer at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas.

Tucker, the outgoing president of the national JCL, was elected secretary of the Senior Classical League, the collegiate affiliate of the JCL. She also was awarded the Eileen Johnson Memorial Scholarship for her contributions to the organization and academic achievements.

ACADEMIC QUIZ COMPETITIONS • AJ Stautz ’14, Michaela Tinkey ’15 and Joe Lybik ’16, members of the PT Brain

Game team, battled six conference foes at the annual Indiana Crossroads Conference Championship match at Scecina High School on February 23, bringing the championship trophy back to Park Tudor for another year.

• The PT Quiz Bowl team advanced to the semifinals of the state competition.

Katie Kortepeter ’13, AJ Stautz ’14, Michaela Tinkey ’15, John Havlik ’15 and Joe Lybik ’16 represented Park Tudor.

After the morning four-round elimination tournament, Park Tudor had the secondhighest point total and earned a No. 4 seed for the afternoon single-elimination tournament for the State title. The Panthers then defeated the No. 5 seed, Center Grove, 240-210. They lost to No. 1 seed and eventual state-title winner South Bend St. Joseph in the semifinal match.

• Park Tudor’s Hoosier Academic Super Bowl Team won first and second place honors at the state competition on April 27. First-place Math Team members were Sophie Spartz ’14, Nicholas Chun ’15, and Nathan ’15 and Catherine Mytelka ’13.

Second-place Interdisciplinary Team members included those listed above, as well as Caven Montel ’15.

BEE SEASON • Fourth-grader Kyle Xu placed ninth in the regional spelling bee on March 21.

Thirty students in grades 3-8 took part in the competition. Kyle advanced through 12 rounds, correctly spelling such words as isinglass and megalopolis.

• Seventh-grader Julia King, who won the Park Tudor National Geography Bee, earned the right to advance to the state level of the bee by placing in the top one percent nationally in the qualification exam.

• Eighth-grader Tommy Schacht participated in the national competition of the History Bee on June 1 in Atlanta.

Classmate Adam Gottwald also qualified, but was unable to attend the competition.

To achieve this honor, both worked their way though several levels of competition, including a local qualifying test and the regional competition in Chicago.

Cum Laude Society honors students

In April at an Upper School assembly,

new members were inducted into the Park Tudor chapter of the Cum Laude Society.

By Cum Laude charter, no more than 20 percent of the senior class is eligible for induction. Class of 2013 Cum Laude inductees were Neha Anand, Sue Cho, Francesca Conterno, Vanessa Gehring, Claude Harrington, MeeJin Jungemann, Joseph Landis, Christopher Lee, Lauren Lowry, Christopher Morgan, Lisa Muloma, Roshni Patel, Kevin Rex, Violet Sharpless, Rachel Smitherman, Caroline Tucker and Grace Yedlicka. In addition, Echo Angelicchio, Hope Casey-Allen and Catherine Mytelka were inducted last year as juniors. Amy Cohn, Dan Fu and Katelynn Kyker were inducted as juniors this year. Juniors may be inducted as a result of maintaining a 4.0 GPA, based on semester grades, through the completion of the fall semester of their junior year.

Park Tudor’s chapter of the Cum Laude Society also includes faculty members and administrators who were inducted into Phi Beta Kappa or who hold a Ph.D. degree.

This year, two new faculty members joined the Park Tudor chapter: Director of Development Doug Allen and French teacher Dr. Clarice Doucette.

At the Cum Laude assembly, Megan Kuhn ’01 offered students advice based on her own unexpected career path.

Kuhn, a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Richmond, once planned to be a school psychologist but after a stint in marketing at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., she decided to earn an MBA at IU’s Kelley School of Business and graduated in May. In addition to advising students to find a mentor, Kuhn also talked to students about being open to deviations in their career plans and to travel outside their comfort zone. “My challenge to you here is to be open to new experiences. You’ll have countless opportunities for new experiences. I want you to say yes to one or more of them,” she told students.

Speaker Fletcher Heisler ‘06 elicited laughter as he described a transformative encounter with a howler monkey while camping on the border of Guatemala and

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Belize. Heisler, a cum laude graduate of Princeton University, is senior software developer and lead data scientist at TrackMaven, a startup building a marketing intelligence tool. He is also a professional pianist.

Heisler recalled how Global Scholars and computer programming competitions at Park Tudor provided “messy and real” experiences that taught lifelong lessons.

He encouraged students to “reach out and discover what you are capable of.”

Poets, photographer receive high honors in Scholastic competition

Eighth-grader

Alex Gimeno was a National Gold Medal winner in the 2013 Scholastic Writing Awards contest for his poem “Ode to Paint,” which placed among the top one percent of all submissions. He was the only Indiana winner of a National Gold Medal in poetry this year, and also received five Regional awards for his writing.

Junior Sophie O’Neill’s poetry collection “The Messes,” which previously won a Regional Gold Key, was awarded a Silver Medal in the national-level competition.

Senior Lisa Muloma’s Gold Key poetry collection, including “What’s That Thing on Your Neck?” and other poems, was honored as an American Voices nominee in The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards of Central and Southern Indiana.

The selection panel of professional writers and educators selected Lisa’s work as among the five most outstanding Gold Key winners in our region—the “best in show” in any category and age group. This is the second year in a row that Lisa was honored as an American Voices nominee.

In addition, junior Shelby Brown’s photography work was selected for the first touring art exhibition of the Regional Scholastics winners. Her work will be on view in August and September at the Indianapolis Artsgarden and the Indianapolis Art Center.

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Dr. Jan Guffin, director of the Global Scholars Program, greets former Global Scholars Megan Kuhn ’01 and Fletcher Heisler ’06. Both spoke at the Cum Laude induction assembly on April 18.

Ode to Paint

Fine Arts honors

Paint is a blanket That wraps a beginning, A magician That conjures up sunsets, Or perhaps a field Where jackalopes and horned lions can graze

Paint is the cover Of a brand new novel With endless beginnings And infinite ends

Paint is a fire Able to warm hands but Also able to spread And destroy what took years to create

Paint is a liar A medium Through which the largest of hoaxes Can be conceived

Paint is a menu With too many choices And not enough time

Paint is the question: “Can you really see?”

VOCAL MUSIC • Nicholas Gehring ’16 participated in the first round of the National Classical Singer Vocal Competition at DePauw University on April 13. He placed third and was awarded a partial scholarship to the Summer Vocal Workshop at DePauw.

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• Vanessa Gehring ’13, Caroline Tucker ’13, Nicholas Gehring, Natalie Marsan ’17, Abbi Plewes ’17 and Natalie Long ’18 won scholarship funds in their respective categories in an event sponsored by Indianapolis Matinee Musicale on May 5 at Butler University. Vanessa also was awarded the $250 Senior Blazer Vocal Scholarship. All are voice students of Barbara Horine.

INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC • The Park Tudor Renaissance Ensemble performed for Eli Lilly and Company’s Chinese New Year Celebration on February 16. Victoria Xiao ’13, violin, performed the “Butterfly Lovers’ Concerto” accompanied by violinists Jeremy Wu ’13, MeeJin Jungemann ’13 and Jason Zhao ’14; violists Lisa Muloma ’13 and Chris Gregory ’14; cellists Joseph Bir ’13 and Nicholas Chun ’14; and bassist Vanessa Gehring ’13.

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• A number of Upper School students represented Park Tudor in the state level of the Indiana State School Music Association Piano and Voice Solo and Ensemble Contest and the Instrumental Solo and Ensemble Contest this spring.

Competing in the top level of competition, Group One, and earning a gold rating at the district-level contests earned these students the right to advance to the state contest.

Piano and Vocal State Contest: Soloists: Julia Wang ’15, piano; Joseph Bir ’13, Kelly Cleveland ’14, Bailey Dominguez ’13, Nicholas Gehring ’16, Michelle Lucas ’14, Claire Toomey ’16 and Caroline Tucker ’13, vocal.

Instrumental State Contest: Soloists: Amanda Li ’16, flute; John Havlik ’15, clarinet; Alex Stout ’16, tuba; Jackson Ward ’15, percussion; Margaret Kosten ’16, violin; Jeremy Wu ’13, violin; Jason Zhao ’14, violin; Michelle Zhu ’17, violin.

String quartet: Jeremy Wu ’13, violin; Victoria Xiao ’13, violin; Ruben Schuckit ’14, viola; and Nicholas Chun ’15, cello.

Renaissance Ensemble Plus: Violins: Jeremy Wu, Catherine Mytelka ’13, Victoria Xiao, Jason Zhao, Sue Cho ’13, Roshni Patel ’13, Bailey Dominguez; Violas: Lisa Muloma, Ruben Schuckit, Chris Gregory ’14, Linda Tauscher ’14; Cellos: Patrick Finn ’13, Joseph Bir, Nicholas Chun ’15; Bass: Thomas Knowles ’14.

VISUAL ARTS Park Tudor had several award winners in the Indiana Crossroads Conference Art Competition. Winning honors were: Ceramics: Val Fedorikhin ’13, first place; Echo Angelicchio ’13, second place; Melanie Ash ’13, third place.

Drawing: Robert Hicks ’13, first place.

Painting: Robert Hicks, Honorable Mention.

Photography: Danielle Johnson ’14, first place; Ravi Shah ’14, second place; Olivia Kelly ’14, third place; Emily Stark ’15, Honorable Mention.

THEATRE Kylie Clouse ’17 played the female lead role of Julia in the Indianapolis Young Actors Theater production of George Orwell’s “1984” in June.

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Students, parents, alumni, and faculty and staff were invited to submit a work of art or writing for the Park Tudor Art Salon “5x5 Show” held on May 19. More than 600 entrants created a work of art or writing limited to 5x5 inches in scale.

This photo by Shelby Brown ’14 won a regional award in the 2013 Scholastic Art and Writing Competition. Her work will be displayed in August and September at the Indianapolis Artsgarden and the Indianapolis Art Center.

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Middle Schoolers performed an adaptation of the musical “Once Upon a Mattress” on April 17 for the Lower School, with an evening performance for family and friends on April 18. The musical, loosely based on the story “The Princess and the Pea,” was staged by the Upper School in 2008.

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collaborative service project involving Upper and Lower School students this spring resulted in 100 capes that helped buoy the spirits of young patients at Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital. The mission of the hospital’s Hero Project is to ensure all kids who spend the night in the hospital leave a hero – with a cape to prove it!

The Hero Project provides community groups with instruction on how to create capes and raises funds to offset expenses through the sale of customized capes on its website. Rachel DeVito ’13 and Chris Block ’13, who have been involved with

The Upper School musical production of “Where’s Charley?” brought British comedy with a Frank Loesser score and lyrics to Ayres Auditorium March 8-10. “Where’s Charley?” first debuted on Broadway in 1948.

The Hero Project, wanted to get a group of Park Tudor students to create capes. As it turned out, Cammy Dubie, Park Tudor’s community engagement coordinator and Lower School science teacher, also was working with the hospital to find ways to involve Park Tudor in the Hero Project.

The two groups came together to create a plan that resulted in a unique collaboration.

Fifth-grade classes voted to use a portion of proceeds raised from their annual “garage sale” towards the effort. Led by DeVito and Block, two senior-class homerooms partnered with the fifth-grade classes to make the capes. The hospital also brought a former patient (superhero) to a lower

school assembly to explain what it’s like to be a kid with a chronic illness.

About 15 seniors attended a “blizzard” party in January, named for the blizzard fleece of which the capes are made, to learn to construct them. The senior homerooms spent an advisory period cutting fleece and preparing for the joint event, and on March 22, the entire fifth-grade class, led by the two senior homerooms, set a Hero Project record by making 100 beautiful capes in 50 minutes.

PT plans to make this an annual event.

Graduating seniors DeVito and Block recruited and mentored juniors Ravi Shah and Anna Kershisnik to help this year so they can lead the event in 2014.

Community leaders

Senior Chris Block dicusses capemaking strategy with fifth-graders Jordyn Feiwell, Ian Krull and Sammy Parrish.

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• Class of 2013 members Brianna Brooks and Abby Miller were honored for their exemplary volunteer service with statelevel Certificates of Excellence in the 2013 Prudential Spirit of Community Awards, which signifies that they were among the top ten percent of all Indiana applicants in this year’s program. In addition, based on the number of volunteer hours she has contributed, Brianna qualified for the President’s Volunteer Service Award, which recognizes Americans who have volunteered “significant amounts of their time to serve their communities and their country.”

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Brianna, as student co-chair of this year’s Habitat for Humanity build, helped to raise $70,000 for the Park Tudor project and coordinated student volunteers. As a summer intern at the Civic Theatre, Abby was in charge of a service project for the theatre’s Young Adult group. She raised funds to support fine-arts and music classes at the nearly all-Spanish-speaking Catholic School, St. Philip Neri.

• Katie Kortepeter ’13 was selected as Park Tudor’s candidate for the Daughters of the American Revolution Good Citizen Award. Katie took part in the DAR essay competition and was honored at a luncheon hosted by the Jonathan Jennings Chapter of the DAR. • Seventh-graders went to work for the community on March 22 during the Park

Tudor 7th Grade Service Day. The students volunteered at Gleaner’s Food Bank, St. Vincent DePaul, Hollis Adams Foundation, Down Syndrome Indiana and Joy’s House.

The goal of Service Day is to give students real-life opportunities to learn the value and importance of helping others while providing a team-building opportunity. The day was planned through a partnership with the Joseph Maley Foundation.

Five faculty members retire at end of year

We honor five faculty members who

retired at the end of the school year after stellar careers at Park Tudor. Tony Onstott, Sally Dreyer, Dr. Diane Hamstra, Paul Nordby and Barb Epperson contributed a total of 120 years of service to our school.

After a 47-year career at Park Tudor, it is nearly impossible to find an area of the school that Tony Onstott has not touched.

He began teaching seventh-, eighth- and ninth-grade math at Tudor Hall in 1966, then joined the math faculty at Park Tudor at the time of the merger in 1970, teaching Middle and Upper School math. He also coached Middle School tennis and ran the school bookstore. For 22 years, Tony spent his summers as a teacher leader/chaperone with the People to People international student travel program.

Onstott retired from teaching in 1999, but has continued to put his math talents to good use as a part-time assistant in the Business Office. He also has managed the school archives. In retirement, he plans to continue pursuing his wide variety of interests, including travel, gardening, cooking and home-renovation projects.

A reception was held in his honor on July 10 in the Wood Room, where his photo was added to the “Distinguished Service Wall of Fame.” The display honors Park Tudor employees who served the school for 30 or more years.

After celebrating their 25th anniversaries at Park Tudor this year, Upper School English teacher Dr. Diane Hamstra and Band teacher and Director Paul Nordby also have decided it’s time to retire.

Diane plans to pursue her many interests and enjoy being a grandmother while Paul, known by his students for

From top left: Tony Onstott, Paul Nordby, Dr. Diane Hamstra, Sally Dreyer and Barb Epperson

greeting them at the door of his classroom every day, will devote his time to his bassoon repair business.

Dr. Hamstra was at the forefront of using technology to help her Upper School English students improve their writing and

reading skills. She focused on providing them with strategies to develop their ideas in writing, navigate difficult texts, and support their opinions with research. She also focused on the importance of grammar in writing.

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In 2002, she was the recipient of the IPL Golden Apple Award, given to an Indianapolis-area teacher for the creative use of math, science or technology in the classroom and the ability to inspire and motivate student achievement.

Her son Nick is a member of the Park Tudor Class of 2002.

Nordby started the “Foster Hall Young Artist Series” in 1990 to highlight talented musicians. He also instituted the Park Tudor Jazz Program, which features a Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Combos that perform at The Jazz Kitchen and area jazz festivals.

He also conducted the Spring Musical, the pep band and the fifth-grade, Middle School, and Upper School bands.

His sons, Jason ’95 and Matthew ’97, are graduates of Park Tudor.

Paul plans to continue his other career in bassoon repair and restoration, where his passion and craftsmanship have brought him clients from around the world, including many musicians from major American symphonies.

Senior kindergarten teacher Sally Dreyer has gently guided her young charges for the past 18 years, sharing with them her love of art, science and nature. Many will always remember learning about insects in the butterfly garden she nurtured, and walking to Marrott Park each year for a “creek stomp.”

Sally is looking forward to spending more time with her three grandchildren, three daughters and husband, Steve, tending her garden, and moving toward her goal of visiting every U.S. National Park.

Finally, after five years at Park Tudor, Middle School French teacher Barb Epperson is taking what she calls her “second retirement” to spend more time with her family.

Several other faculty members left this year after many years of valued service.

Head of Media & Technology Integration Janie Hizer is heading to Bermuda, where she will be director of educational technology at Saltus Grammar School.

Mark Phillips has stepped down after more than a decade at Park Tudor as a middle school teacher, technology integrator and most recently, director of technology. Fifthgrade Humanities teacher Becky Honig is returning to California, where her husband has taken a new position.

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Faculty honors: Hull receives Fulbright • Latin and Classical Greek teacher Clifford Hull has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to attend the 2013 summer session of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece. The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to “increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries.” The program has provided almost 310,000 participants chosen for their academic merit and leadership potential with the opportunity to study, teach and conduct research, exchange ideas and contribute to finding solutions to shared international concerns.

• Upper School Spanish teacher Francisco Hidalgo is one of 100 Indiana teachers to be awarded a $10,000 grant by Lilly Endowment Inc. in the 2013 Teacher Creativity Fellowship Program. The grant enables him to travel to Granada, Spain, in July to conduct further research on his dissertation on medieval military history, as well as to study flamenco choreography and technique in group and individual lessons. According to Lilly Endowment, the purpose of the grants is to help teachers “become learners again as they explore their own curiosities and dreams, spend time in other parts of the world, pursue personal passions, and just ‘get away.’”

The recipients were selected from a competitive pool of about 450 applicants.

• Head of School Dr. Matthew Miller is a member of the search committee to select the new president of the Independent Schools Association of the Central States (ISACS). He also is a team leader of the ISACS Evaluation Committee for the reaccreditation of Cincinnati Country Day School.

• Orchestra Director Lorelei Farlow (viola) and private music teachers Kathy Schilling (violin) and Mark Schuster (viola) performed with the Carmel Symphony on April 13 at The Palladium. The symphony performed Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 9,” along with works by Karidoyanes and Elgar.

Dr. Eileen Janzen authors biography

Retired Social Studies Department Chair

Dr. Eileen Janzen’s biography of J. King Gordon, “Growing to One World,” will be published this fall by McGill-Queen’s University Press.

Gordon was a founding member of the League for Social Reconstruction in Canada. He later emigrated to the United States, where he became managing editor of the magazine “The Nation.” He also served as chief United Nations correspondent for the CBC and with the UN Division of Human Rights in Korea, the Middle East and the Congo.

Janzen began writing the biography in 1995 while teaching history at Park Tudor. She retired in 2008 and has spent the ensuing years completing the manuscript. writes She in the preface, “I first met King Gordon in 1978 when he agreed to become a subject for my dissertation Dr. Eileen Janzen research into the philosophical roots of Canadian socialism…. In working through full range of Gordon’s papers, I became convinced that the wider story of his work deserved to come to the attention of his fellow Canadians; but when I urged him to write his autobiography, he responded that he was too busy (undoubtedly true) and that he rather hoped I would do the task for him. It was a task that after his death I felt honoured to undertake.”

She notes, “It has been important to me personally, as a Canadian, to tell King Gordon’s story and show how love for one’s country need not preclude respect for the patriotic loyalties that other national groups hold for their own histories.”

The McGill-Queen’s University Press catalog calls Janzen’s 528-page biography “exhaustively researched and informed by a sophisticated analytical grasp of political theory and international affairs” and “a compelling look at an important supporter of peace, justice, and human rights across the globe.”

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Spring athletic update: Panthers celebrate season successes

By Brad Lennon, Athletic Director BOYS GOLF The boys golf team enjoyed one of its most successful seasons in school history. winning five invitational meets, the conference title, and the prestigious Marion County Championship. The County crown was the second in the history of the program. Adding to their list of accomplishments, the Panthers captured their second consecutive sectional championship, advancing to the regional round of the state tournament where they finished in fourth place – one spot short of qualifying for the state finals. Based on their success this spring, the Panthers broke into the top 20 in the state coaches poll for the first time in seven years. Will Clark ’13 and Austin Honigford ’14 made the All-County Team as well as All-Conference. Honigford was the individual sectional champion as well. Congratulations to Coaches John Dal Corobbo and Darren Thomas on an outstanding season.

GIRLS LACROSSE What a difference a year makes! New Head Coach Casey LeFevre moved from Buffalo, NY to take over the reins of the girls program and made an immediate impact. He guided the girls to a sparkling 12-1 regular season record, with their only blemish coming at the hands of top-rated Carmel in an 11-10 nail-biter. The Panthers earned the No. 1 seed in the region heading into the state tournament and advanced to the state semifinals, where they again met Carmel. They dropped the rematch,13-9, thus ending their season with an impressive 14-2 win-loss record. Haley Hallenbeck ’14 and Izzy Tuminello were named to the All-Tournament and All-State teams.

Emily Janin ’14 was named to the second team. Also, Haley and teammate Julia Amstutz ’14 were selected to play on the 2013 Indiana/Kentucky Women’s National Team, traveling to Lehigh University over Memorial Day weekend for the US Lacrosse Women’s National Tournament.

BASEBALL The baseball coaches were not sure what to expect this season. With graduation

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Members of the boys golf team and their coaches celebrate their sectional victory. Left to right: Coach Darren Thomas, golfers Will Clark ’13, Austin Honigford ’14, Reid Dassow ’13 and Coach John Dal Corrobo.

and a mix of new players, Coach Courtney Whitehead knew he had the nucleus of a good team, but he wasn’t sure just how good. After a fairly slow start to the season, the boys won eight of their last 10 games, leading to their third consecutive sectional title. A week later they followed with their third consecutive regional crown, defeating Speedway, 8-4, in the title game.

Unfortunately the Panthers fell short in the semi-state game, losing a 2-0 pitchers’ duel to South Spencer, thus ending their season with an 18-10 win-loss record. Prior to state tournament play the team took top honors at the conference championship, defeating Speedway to avenge an earlier regular season loss to the Sparkplugs.

TRACK The track team celebrated another exciting season. The Park Tudor Showcase meet and PT Invitational were well attended and saw some very good performances by all of the participants. The girls 4x400 team advanced to regionals after placing third at the sectional meet. That relay team and the 4x800 team each posted best times of the season at sectionals.

At the conference meet the girls captured second place and the boys sixth.

Conference champions were Jessica Newton ’14 (100m), Sydney Schwab ’14 (200m & 400m), Jessica Palmer ’15 (3200m), all three girls relay teams, and the boys 4x800 relay (new conference-meet

record). Grant Geddie ’13 smashed the shot put school record established in 1926, throwing 47’4”. At the boys regional meet, Marcus Downs ’15 set a new school record in the discus at 150’.

GIRLS TENNIS The resurgence of the girls tennis team was quite evident this spring, with a topseven line-up that did not include a senior.

The girls ended their season with an overall 9-6 record while racking up conference, sectional, regional and semi-state titles. The entire team won All-Conference selections, and Marion County honors went to the No.1 Doubles team of Ali Lebovits ’14 and Hannah Klapper ’14. The girls advanced to the team state championship quarterfinals where they dropped a 4-1 decision to Penn. Brigitte Hodge ’15 lost a close battle that came down to a tie-breaker score of 7-2. The highlight of the year came when Lebovits and Klapper went undefeated in state tournament play, advancing to the doubles state championship, where they upset previously unbeaten Fort Wayne Bishop Dwenger in the semifinal match.

Ali and Hannah faced an undefeated Evansville Memorial team in the doubles state championship match, only to fall in consecutive sets to Memorial, capping off a memorable run. The girls finished the season with an impressive 20-5 record.

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BOYS LACROSSE Varsity players Sean Fry ’14 and Charlie Schwab ’14 earned honorable mention for the All-State Team, voted by the Indiana High School Lacrosse Association coaches.

The team finished the season 9-5 after a hard-fought loss to Brebeuf, 9-6, in the first round of the state tournament.

SOFTBALL The girls softball team showed marked improvement from a year ago. Though a very young team with only one senior, Autumn Brown, the girls were much improved on the defensive end. Newcomer Rachel Hardacker ’16 brought credibility and help on the mound. The team was much more competitive and challenged several teams that it has struggled against in the past. With improvement on the offensive end and continued progress in the field, the girls look to be even stronger next year.

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ark Tudor’s basketball program has two new head coaches for the 2013-14 season.

Kyle Cox has been promoted to head boys basketball coach and Rob Albright has been named girls head basketball coach.

“Kyle has been an integral part of our team’s success over the last four years,” says Athletic Director Brad Lennon. Cox served as an assistant and head JV coach for three seasons and as head assistant coach this season. Cox will remain as an assistant in the athletic department and continue his role as a student advisor.

Cox replaces Ed Schilling, who resigned to join Steve Alford’s staff at UCLA. During Schilling’s four-year tenure at Park Tudor, his overall win-loss record of 87-18 included three consecutive trips to the state finals, where the Panthers captured back-to-back titles in 2011 and 2012; three straight ICC conference crowns; and the school’s first Marion County Championship this past winter.

After graduating from Blue River High School and leading his team to a state finals appearance, Cox attended Ball State University, where he was a pre-med major and played both basketball and golf.

He earned Mid-America Academic All-

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Conference honors in both sports and was named All-Conference in golf.

For the past three years, Albright has served as associate head coach and director of girls basketball operations at Guerin Catholic High School (41-29 record). This year he also served as JV head coach for the boys basketball team (14-6). Albright was the boys freshmen basketball coach at Guerin from 2008-2010 and previously was Middle School head coach at St. Pius X. He also was associate head coach of the 2012 Indiana Elite North-South All Star Challenge.

Albright holds a B.A. degree in history and communications from Indiana University. While at IU, he played varsity football, competing in the Peach Bowl in 1987 and the Liberty Bowl in 1988. He is director of sales and marketing at Polymer Science.

Athletes of note • Lucy Chadderton ’14 and Alec Stanley ’15, members of the Panther Varsity Crew team, have been selected to attend the National Junior Team Sculling Development Camp in Seattle, WA this summer. They are two of 48 athletes – and the only Indiana representatives — invited to join the

program. The purpose of the camp is to “develop the technical, physiological and mental skill set to compete successfully on the National and International level in 2014 and beyond.” At the end of the threeweek program, the PT rowers will be part of the team representing the USA at the BC Champs Regatta in Victoria, BC. • The Middle School golf team won its first-ever invitational at Yorktown on April 20, beating eight junior-high teams by 13 strokes. J.D. Dulin ’18 earned first place with a low score of 40. Players also included Aidan Harris ’19, Alex Honigford ’17, Alissa Honigford ’19 and Nels Surtani ’20.

• Junior Elliot Cecil competed at the Junior East National Diving Championships at Purdue University. He was seeded 23rd, but moved up to finish in 13th place. He qualified for the Nationals on the threemeter springboard after diving a personal best at the regionals in Bloomington in March.

• Olivia Buroker ’15 competed in the JVA World Challenge volleyball tournament in Louisville, KY in April. More than 100 college coaches observed the play of more than 640 teams.

Former PT baseball team members returned to the playing field on Saturday, May 11 for an alumni exhibition game. Taking part were (standing, left to right): Drew Miroff ’92, Andrew Pauszek ’08, Tommy Hardacker ’06, TJ Woodard ’06, Cal Smith ’12, John Ansted ’94, Chris Eckersley ’12 and Tim Eckersley (parent). Seated: Nolan Smith ’12, Brent Smith (coach), Danny Chin ’06, Kyle Hardacker ’11, Robbie Pauszek ’11 and Wes Dunn ’09.

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Clockwise left: It was a balancing act at this year’s Lower School Field Day; The Upper School Prom in April had the circus theme “Under the Big Top”; Clockwise from from top top left: Dads get into the act in science class on Upper School Fathers’ Morning; Young dancers show their skills at the annual Dance Recital; Upper Schoolers relive their younger days during Upper School Field Day in May.

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Clockwise from top left: The baseball team hosted young fans at a game; Eighth-grade teams raced boats built from cardboard and duct tape at their annual event; The Girls Ensemble at the Spring Vocal Concert; French students make crepes for their mothers on Upper School Mothers’ Morning; Junior Kindergartners demonstrate their counting skills at the JK Spring Sing.

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Ed Carpenter ’99: Indy 500’s hometown hero “The everyman hero competing against the giants of the racing

world” is how The Indianapolis Star described Ed Carpenter ’99 after he won the pole position in the 2013 Indy 500.

As the team owner and driver of Ed Carpenter Racing, the Park Tudor School and Butler University alum beat out the storied Penske and Andretti racing teams to earn the top spot in his hometown race. He led the race for the most laps - 37 of 200, finishing in 10th place after his car lost its front-end handling.

“This race is the single thing that made me want to be an IndyCar driver,” Carpenter told The Star.

Following the 500, Carpenter didn’t slow down—he had four more weeks of racing, capped by fourth-place finishes at both the Firestone 550k at the Texas Motor Speedway on June 8 and the Iowa Corn Indy 250 on June 23.

We asked devoted IndyCar fan Bella Realey, a Park Tudor eighth-grader, to interview Carpenter via email for The Phoenix.

Bella writes, “I live only a few miles from the track, so I’ve been around racing my whole life. This year was my first year with a garage pass and I used it as much as I could. I was so excited to go to the track every day it was open; I sometimes had to force my dad to take me. I was out at the track all 14 days it was open, including going to the Indy 500. I met so many interesting people, including racing legends Rick Mears and Mario Andretti. I learned a lot of racing history while I was out there. I met many of the drivers and they are all such great people. When Ed Carpenter won the pole for the race, I was ecstatic. I know all of Park Tudor was cheering for him!”

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Bella Realey’s Interview with Ed Carpenter Bella: What age did you start racing, and how old were you when you drove in your first Indy 500?

Ed: I began racing Quarter Midgets at the age of eight years old. I started my first Indianapolis 500 in 2004 at the age of 23.

Bella: Which track or race is the most challenging for you to drive?

Ed: Indianapolis is a very challenging track. With the high speeds that we run there, we have very little margin for error and maintaining 100-percent focus for the entire race can be quite a challenge. Each track that we go to has its own challenges, but I believe that Indianapolis tests us as drivers the most.

Bella: If someone were interested in learning to race, what would you suggest to help him or her get started?

Ed: I started in Quarter Midgets and that was great for me, but if I could do it over again I would also race Karts as well. It would have broadened my experience level at a younger age. As much experience as you can get from a young age is very important. So for anyone looking to get started, contact the Mini Indy Quarter Midget club, and for Karting contact New Castle Motorsports Park.

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Bella: Did any classes at Park Tudor prepare you for racing?

Ed: I don’t know that any specific classes at Park Tudor prepared me for racing, but I do think that I learned how to focus, study, and prepare in general while at Park Tudor. These basic skills were very valuable to me in college and have continued to help me in racing.

I don’t know that there is any specific class that can help prepare you for racing, but racing is a very mental sport, so anything you can do to be a little sharper than the competition is a good thing.

Bella: What thoughts go through your head as you are driving at 220 mph?

Ed: Believe it or not, we really don’t think about the speed that we are traveling. For me, I am thinking about the next corner, what my turn in points are and trying to feel what the car is doing. The only time that you really feel the speed is when something goes wrong and you are having an accident. It is hard to fathom, but going 220 mph feels normal to me.

Bella: Is your family supportive of your racing passion, and do they ever worry about you?

Ed: My family [wife Heather and children Makenna, Ryder and Cruz] is extremely supportive of my racing. I am very lucky that they support me and rarely miss a race. The only races that my kids miss are when we travel out of North America (Brazil). I am sure that they do worry about me at times, but more than anything they support me and are my biggest fans and supporters.

Our Phoenix correspondent, racing fan Bella Realey ’18, with a poster of Ed Carpenter ’99 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in June. Photo by Bryon Realey.

Ed Carpenter ’99 waves to the crowd during the 97th running of the Indy 500 on May 26. Photo by Clayton Moore ’10.

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When I awake some day

By Dr. Paul Hamer

The issue of age seems to be coming up all the time these days. I’ve

been telling the story that begins with a young woman in one of my classes asking, “Dr. Hamer, has your beard always been white?,” and ends with a different punch line, depending on the audience, for several months now. I was introduced to a new colleague the other day as a “lion of the faculty” at Park Tudor. I think “lion” in that context would be a metaphor for “grizzled veteran” and that “grizzled veteran” would be a euphemism for “old curmudgeon.”

The last time we received a mailing from TIAA-CREF, my wife wondered, “When are you planning to retire?,” and it suddenly struck me that it was time to start planning.

More troubling was the truly “senior moment” I experienced at one of the graduation receptions when I referred to a young woman whom I had seen almost every day for the last four years not by her own name but by the name of one of her friends. All summer long I’ve been wrestling with the notion that her final impression of me was a painful one. It would be embarrassing to reveal how many former students have stopped by to see me whose names I cannot recall even though I can recall their handwriting and where they sat in my classroom. Troubling in a different way was the question of a parent at another end-of-year reception who asked, “How will you get ready for another year in August? Is the whole cycle getting old at this point?”

It is painful to think about my career as having passed that moment in the narrative arc we refer to as the “climactic” one.

Everyone knows it is followed by the “falling action,” not to mention the “resolution.” All I could think of to say to the parent at the time was, “Well, I guess I’m not tired of it yet.”

Not to change the subject, but I haven’t grown tired of fishing yet, either, by the way. Yes, I’m still fishing. Although I took up fly fishing almost on a whim just a few years ago with help from a Lilly Endowment grant, it has not turned out to be a short-lived experiment. Of course, more often the word “still” suggests lack of motion now rather than continuation. The point of fishing, of course, especially if you’re not particularly good at it, is that it gives you time and space to think about things and a wealth of metaphors to bring to bear on experience. I was fishing for trout up in Michigan last summer when I had the experience of catching a dozen fish in fairly quick succession on the same fly. Not on the same type of fly but on the exact same fly, the same hook. It was an outlandish-looking thing known, probably to the chagrin of all those who feel the need to get dressed up in special clothing to go fly fishing, as a “dust bunny.” A couple of times I released a fish, dried the fly, and dropped it back onto the water, only to find a fish hitting it immediately without my even looking up, let alone casting. I was in the right place at the right time with the right fly was all, but still grinning, no doubt, as I reeled them in.

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Paul Hamer’s son Sam with his catch at Glacier National Park. Photo by Paul Hamer.

fooling the fish into taking it, setting the hook, and reeling in a plucky little brook trout, releasing it with energy to spare. You can see the connection to teaching, I’m sure: knowing where the fish ought to be and fooling them into rising to the occasion. One of my students sent me a Christmas card last December that said, among other kind sentiments, “You made us think deeply about things without knowing it.” I am better at finding the fish in printed as opposed to watery texts because I have been pursuing it so much longer, an advantage of finding oneself near the end of a career, and the fish can be both the meaning of the text and the needs of the student in this ambiguous metaphor.

The problem with thinking about growing old, while fishing or anywhere else, I guess, is that I can’t avoid thinking about my father and that always stops me. I was trying to read aloud an article about commencement that I had written before they were born to a class of seniors who were about to graduate, a sort of parting gift, and when I came to a paragraph about my father, I literally could not continue. I had to ask a student to read that paragraph and, in fact, she finished reading the whole essay, and I was grateful. There was the embarrassment of not being able to read aloud, but more than

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that there was the sense that, by the time he died, I had probably disappointed my father in every possible way. I remember the day he came to the county spelling bee to watch me compete. I went down on the word “sergeant.” Afterwards my father reminded me, although I was well aware of it, that he had been a staff sergeant in the Air Force during World War II. I think he wanted me to become president of General Motors, but I had become a teacher, instead.

And here I am, forty years into that career, still in the trenches.

In that same class, I had read Yeats’ poem “The Wild Swans at Coole.” When we got to the stanza “Among what rushes will they build,/By what lake’s edge or pool/Delight men’s eyes, when I awake some day/To find they have flown away?,” I told them that Yeats was an English teacher whose class was about to graduate, and they looked at me with puzzled expressions. I told them that the poem was a good example of an “elegiac tone,” a phrase they would probably encounter or need to use on the AP exam. I told them that I had adopted an elegiac tone in my own writing when I was about nineteen.

It would be impossible to overstate the motivating power of a steady stream of cards, letters, and visits from former students

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at this late stage, another of the rewards of longevity. A card in June said simply, “I loved coming to your class every day. You are awesome. I cannot thank you enough.” A card in July said, “You were exactly the teacher I needed. You helped me understand what was wrong with my writing, but you helped me understand myself, as well, through writing. Although it was not always easy for me, you gave me the chance to get it right.”

At the end of July I went with my family to Glacier National Park in Montana. I took my younger son fishing on the Flathead River. On my iPhone I have a picture of him holding a big cutthroat trout with both hands, a smile on his face that could melt the snow on the mountains in the background. Speaking of falling action, I fell twice on that fishing trip, once hard enough to draw blood. Back at the cabin we had rented, I would sit with my older son, poring over the second draft of the manuscript of a novel he has written, helping him to illuminate the few rough places in a story I have come to admire so much I do not want it to end. The whole family—my wife, five children, daughter-in-law, and three grandsons—would drive up to Logan Pass and hike the Hidden Lake Trail together, slip-sliding somehow across the snowfields, eventually sharing the path with mountain goats and, thrillingly for the youngest among us, baby mountain goats. The wind was fierce, the snow treacherous, but the view from up among the goat families sublime. The choice to be a teacher had kept me from my family so many times for the sake of grading papers and meeting other responsibilities for thousands of surrogate sons and daughters but had also brought me back to them with so much intensity during summer adventures like this.

In August two sisters, five years apart, former students, showed up at my classroom door. They were both beginning new chapters in their lives, one going off to college, the other starting a new job in teaching. They seemed to just want to say thanks once again before leaving town the next day. One admitted that it was she who had said on her end-of-course evaluation that my class had turned her into a “postmodern existentialist Judeo-Christian fly-fisherman.” “No, really,” she added. The other remembered that, years ago, even before my career was on the wane, I would reach for the chalkboard without even putting forth the effort to get out of my chair, draw some sort of rudimentary stick figure, and proclaim that I was “bringing learning to life with visual aids.” She now uses this story with her own classes. On the course evaluation questionnaire, I had apologized for not fully integrating technology into the classroom, for, in fact, not even providing a functional pencil sharpener. Her sister said, “Don’t ever integrate technology into your classroom. A pen and paper is all we need.”

We entered into an awkward group hug—one or two of us were not really huggers—before they left, beaming smiles back across their shoulders.

Then the new school year begins. I feel as if I’m at the base of a mountain I have to climb. There may be snow along the trail.

The view from the top may be breath-taking, but I will often feel out of breath along the way, sore in the joints, unsteady and offbalance. It will be a far longer journey than it seemed on a map or a mileage marker at the trailhead.

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Some day technology will be fully integrated into the classroom; in fact, all education will be online. This may be good because computers do not disappoint anyone, they do not make fools of themselves, they do not awkwardly embrace their students, and they do not go back to their offices and weep silently for the loss of their former lives.

Perhaps as we begin classes I will show the students my copy of the book we are about to read together. At the front, Tim O’Brien, the author, has written, “To Paul, Who speaks truly.”

I had the chance to discuss it with him last fall when I went to Bloomington to hear him speak, the only sort of “professional development” that has much meaning for me any more. When we were finished talking, he took my hand in both of his and said, “It means the world to me that you teach my book.” The one thing I seem to truly know as I approach the end of a long career is where the fish are. Philosophers call it “tacit knowledge.” Don’t ask me to explain.

Dr. Paul Hamer teaches Upper School English and serves as Park Tudor’s English Department chair.

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The history of Lilly Orchard: Part II

By Robert H. Rhodehamel Jr. ’68 Following the publication of “When Park Tudor Was an Apple Orchard” in the Fall 2012 issue of The Phoenix, we were contacted

by Robert Rhodehamel ’68, who shared the story of how his assignment for a speech class at Park School led him directly to Eli Lilly’s personal history of the J.K. Lilly Apple Farm. At the time, Lilly was honorary chairman of the board of Eli Lilly and Company.

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was in a speech class at Park School in 1966. One of the assignments was to give a speech to the student body. The specific topic for my speech was the history of Foster Hall. My father was a long-time employee of Eli Lilly & Company, and he mentioned my assignment to Mr. [Eli] Lilly. This obviously sparked his interest, as several days later he presented to my father his Notes on the J.K. Lilly Apple Farm. Needless to say, the Notes formed the basis for my speech, as I expanded the topic in light of Mr. Lilly’s incredible gesture. He had virtually written the speech for me. The only request he made of my father was that the original Notes be sent back to him and that I “return the compliment” and provide him a copy of my speech.

I had assumed that I had furnished a copy of Mr. Lilly’s Notes to the school in 1966. But subsequent events were to suggest that I had not—or that perhaps it had been lost.

Late in 1988 I read that Park Tudor was going to have on November 14th of that year a “Lilly Legacy Dinner.” As the title suggested, this was dedicated to the history and impact of the Lilly family on Park Tudor. Obviously Mr. Lilly’s history of Lilly

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Orchard seemed relevant. Consequently I made an appointment with the headmaster, Bruce Galbraith, and asked if he intended to include a reference to it at the dinner. He did not know the history existed. The result was my giving a brief (and very nervous) talk recreating the speech I had given to the student body all those years earlier.

That is the background to Mr. Lilly’s Notes on Lilly Orchard….

I am still amazed – more than four decades later – that Mr. Eli Lilly took the time to compose a thorough history of Lilly Orchard to facilitate a young student’s speech assignment. The generosity of this gesture says so much about the character of the man.

The History of Lilly Orchard Here is the speech Rhodehamel presented in 1966 while a student at Park School: Earlier this semester, Mr. Cervone asked me to speak on the history of Lilly Orchard. Little did I realize that a mere three weeks later I would be holding a manuscript on this subject written by Mr. Eli Lilly, a source which I feel is quite authentic. It relates the history back to 1720.

In this year the French king, Louis XV, established an overlordship of the Indians in this area. The overlordship was assumed in 1763 by the British when they defeated the French in the French and Indian Wars. However, the “Redcoats” lost this area to the United States in 1783, but it took the U.S. equally as long to gain complete control. It finally did when a treaty was signed with the Miami Indians, transferring the central part of Indiana into its hands.

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A view of the pumphouse from Foster Hall in the 1930s.

The area in which the “fruit farm,” as Mr. Lilly calls it, is located was sold to James Bonnel in 1823. His family kept the land until October 14, 1863, when Jacob C. Shook bought it. James Mustard gradually acquired the area from 1876 to 1901.

Harmon Bradshaw purchased the northern forty acres of the orchard in 1893. He proceeded for the next three years to establish a chicken farm. The farm was unprofitable, so he sold his land to Mr. J. K. Lilly, Sr. on June 9, 1896. The remaining fifteen acres of the present fifty-five were purchased from Mr. Mustard in 1901.

Mr. Lilly describes the condition of the orchard when the Lillys first purchased it in this way: “When the farm was first acquired, it was in deplorable shape. All the hillsides, except the unplowed fourteen acres of the pasture in the northwest corner, were seamed with deep gullies and washes---The pasture was filled with brier patches and other Hoosier undergrowth. There were many beech trees indicative of poor soil---. The saving grace was a large number of hard maple sugar trees.”

Mr. J. K. Lilly’s first project here was to establish a sugar

camp. However, Mr. Lilly really desired to make the place a fruit farm. Thus, he began preparing the place in the correct manner and ultimately planted pear and apple trees, the latter being somewhat more successful.

During this time which was probably around the turn of the century, young Eli and his younger brother, J.K. Jr., were having great adventures at the orchard. As Mr. Lilly puts it, “the wily redskins attacked Daniel Boone and party—and King Arthur and his Knights also tread the earth again.”

What really interested me at this point in Mr. Lilly’s story was the route between his house at 1325 N. Pennsylvania to the orchard. Remember, this is around 1900.

“In those days of the orchard,” Mr. Lilly says, “it was quite an undertaking to get from our home---. Our way was usually out Meridian to 46th Street (this was the end of it in those times), thence to Illinois across the canal and west on the old wooden covered bridge on Kessler Boulevard, up the Crow’s Nest Hill on the Spring Mill Pike, north to a blacksmith shop occupying the northeast corner at the present 64th Street. From there we turned

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east down the hill to the River Road on the north side of White River past the Mustard farmhouse to what is now College Avenue, then a dusty road, north to the farm.” As you can see, Indianapolis has grown with the orchard.

The first people to manage the orchard were Frank Nichols and his wife. However, as Mr. Lilly puts it, “his future employment at the orchard was cut short in a year or two on account of his frequent bouts with John Barleycorn.”

The next manager was William Engelken who faithfully served until his death in 1919. Then came Ernest Fischer and his family.

During his years as manager, the weekends at the orchard were jammed and thousand-gallon cider weeks were commonplace.

Foster Hall also was built during this period.

For some time Mr. J. K. Lilly Sr. had wanted a pipe organ, but there was no appropriate place for one in his home at 5801 Sunset Lane. Thus about 1926 or ’27 he decided to build a small “organ house” in the orchard. “Two architects were chosen, Robert Daggett and Thomas Hibben. Investigations were made for best proportions for proper acoustics and a modified French Provincial style was chosen.” Finally, the immense organ was installed in the early spring of 1928. Landscaping at the orchard was also done.

Here, I believe, would be the best time to relate about a footnote Mr. Lilly inscribed. It is directed to the builders of the new Park School. When these builders get to excavating a few

rocks southwest of Foster Hall, they will find what may seem to be “the ruins of Carthage.” Actually, they are the remains of a building project which Mr. Eli Lilly had been undertaking about the time in which Foster Hall was built. He had collected huge stone arches, columns and various pieces of stone. When he failed to follow through with this plan, he dumped these into the basement of the first old farmhouse. They were ultimately covered up.

Getting back to the history though, in 1956 Mr. Fischer retired and his brother-in-law Jules Ulrich, who had worked at the orchard since 1921, took over. Mr. Ulrich managed the orchard very capably for nine years. When he expressed his desire to retire early in 1965; Mr. Lilly sought a successor for him to no avail. After this search, he discovered “an opportunity---to dispose of the orchard in an ideal manner,” this being to give it to Park School.

I think Mr. Lilly himself concluded my speech for me in the best way possible. He said and I quote: “It is certain that Mr. J. K. Sr., my brother and myself would much rather see the orchard which meant so much to us all for seventy years become the campus of a good school than to have it cut up into who knows what kind of real estate venture.”

Mr. Rhodehamel has generously donated the correspondence he received from Mr. Lilly, along with a copy of his speech reprinted above, to the Park Tudor Archives.

The grounds of Lilly Orchard, taken from the area located behind the current Clowes Commons.

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Alumni News Alumni Weekend 2013

Park Tudor welcomed more than 300

alumni to campus during Alumni Weekend activities on April 26 and 27. Classmates and friends gathered at Woodstock Club on the evening of Friday, April 26 to honor Kay Ryan Booth ’68 as Park Tudor’s 2013 Distinguished Alumna.

“Kay’s approach to life, to her causes, to her work, to her family, to everything she does is marked by great passion, by unshakable loyalty and by a work ethic that has always set her apart form her peers,” said Kay’s cousin Ann Bolin when introducing her at the Distinguished Alumni dinner.

Booth has had a successful career on Wall Street since graduating from Tudor Hall and earning her fine arts degree from Indiana University in 1972. She was managing director and vice chairman of Global Research at J.P. Morgan, and most recently has been actively involved in the private equity markets, working with midto small-market companies to provide capital and resources.

Booth was honored by the New York City chapter of the National Organization for Women with its 2006 Women of Power and Influence award, among a number of other honors. She is a fervent supporter of Indiana University, serving as trustee of the IU Foundation and as vice chair of the Foundation’s Investment Committee.

She is a founding member and chair of the Women’s Philanthropy Council at IU and a member of the Dean’s Advisory Board of the College of Arts and Sciences.

In 2007, Kay received IU’s highest alumni award, the Distinguished Alumni Service Award. In 2010, the College of Arts and Sciences named her a recipient of the Dean’s Order of Merit, which recognizes individuals who have championed the College in distinct and significant ways.

After accepting the award from Head of School Dr. Matthew D. Miller, Booth said: “I think what struck me when thinking about tonight was how extraordinarily my Tudor Hall education prepared me for my future. The education I received fortified

me with all the tools to take the risks and to successfully meet the challenges of continuous change. Tudor Hall’s focus on academic excellence gave me a foundation to contribute, to be a part of the change, and the flexibility to adapt.”

She added, “We have lifelong friendships that began right here. Better than that, we can honestly claim to be better people from our experience at Tudor. Leadership and teamwork are the cornerstones of Park Tudor. We may have been fresh-faced kids with concrete for brains when we started, but Tudor Hall shaped who we are, and we are better for it.”

In Memory of Joe Wright ’88

In 2012, members of the Class of 1988

and Park Tudor School purchased their classmate Joe Wright’s Yamaha grand piano to enable his legacy of music to live on at Park Tudor. During Alumni Weekend, pianist Dr. Marianne Williams Tobias ’58 performed a recital centered on the theme of “life” for the dedicatory event.

Dr. Tobias is a graduate of Harvard University, Longy School of Music and the University of Minnesota, where she earned a double D.M.A. in piano performance and historical musicology. She is also a public radio commentator, lecturer and writer.

Joe Wright passed away in 2009. His mother, retired Park Tudor English teacher Jan Wright, attended the concert and his brother, John Wright ’83, performed on Joe’s piano.

Dr. Marianne Williams Tobias ’58 introduces the pieces she performed at the Joe Wright piano dedication recital on April 27.

Kay Ryan Booth ’68 with her sons Dillon (standing) and Casey (seated) at the Distinguished Alumni Award Dinner at Woodstock Club on April 26.

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Alumni Weekend 2014

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ttention Classes of 1934, 1939, 1944, 1949, 1954, 1959, 1964, 1969, 1974, 1979, 1984, 1989, 1994, 1999, 2004 and 2009!

Your reunion celebration will take place on April 25-26, 2014. Please mark your calendar.

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 PANTHER CONNECT, and Facebook. If the school does not have your email address, please forward to Gretchen Hueni at ghueni@parktudor.org.

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:

Alumni musicians

In April, two alumni musicians returned

to campus to take part in the Upper School Band and Orchestra concerts. Conductor Erik Ochsner ’89, music director of the SONOS Chamber Orchestra in New York City, conducted a piece in the band concert.

A guest conductor with symphonies around the world, Ochsner made his conducting debut with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra last year.

Meanwhile, at the Park Tudor orchestra concert, musicians performed Crystal Weaver’s arrangement of “Stairway to Heaven.” Crystal, a member of the Class of 2000, wrote the arrangement during her senior year at Park Tudor.

Margo Sweeney Campbell ’68 and Kris Manders Myers ’68 admire the Tudor Hall china during their tour of the school archives during Alumni Weekend.

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

Nominator (optional) _________________________________ Class Year ______ Return this form by September 4, 2013 to: Development and Alumni Relations Office, Park Tudor School, 7200 N. College Ave., Indianapolis, IN 46240-3016

On April 29, the Middle School welcomed author Bob Black ’82. Black has written a number of novels geared toward middle-grade readers, including “Unswept Graves,” “Liberty Girl,” “Lunar Pioneers” and “The Real Life Channel.” He met with classes to discuss writing and publishing.

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Reunion Class Photos

Park School Class of 1943 Linda Hamilton McLaughlin

Tudor Hall Class of 1953 Back row: Mary Ellen Moseley Cox Front row, l to r: Martha Stacy Bennington, Judith Howell Vander Heide

Tudor Hall Class of 1958 Back row, l to r: Sandra Weinhardt, Karen Miller, Barbara Sublett Guthery, Portia Hancock Elvedt, Irene Lilly McCutchen, Janis Sherman Popp Front row: Joann Pettit Leal, Judy Lamb Doninger, Kate Mahaffey Esterline, Judy Walsh Houley, Anne Kemper Bickel

Tudor Hall Class of 1963 Back row, l to r: Alice Lorenz, I’lina (Sandy) Cotton, Ann Robbins Schechter Front row: Patti Hester Grant, Diane Guingrich Lockhart, Sandra Shawley Green

Park School Class of 1963 Back row, l to r: John Miller, Steve Hoster Front row: Richard Stover, Jim Harris, Scott Keller

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Park School and Tudor Hall Class of 1968 Back row, l to r: Margo Sweeney Campbell, David Cochran, Mark Shullenberger, Scott Norris, Susan McVie Tolbert, Janet Taylor Hardy Middle row: Kay Ryan Booth, Nancy Shannon White-Hunt, Alison Kothe, Roberta Norris Ellsworth, Kris Manders Myers, Nancy Dennis Barefoot Front row: Sally Lathrop Butz, Debbie Dixon Baker, Cathy Ryan Watt, Leslie Spickelmier Ferris, Lyda Gierhart Harmon, Connie Ryan Lathrop, Stephanie Upham Lord

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Reunion Class Photos

Park Tudor Class of 1983 Back row, l to r: Steve Pockrass, Tony Kroot, David Eskenazi, John Wright, Jim Blankenbaker Front row: Debbie Storer, Cathy Doughty, Holly Hapak Betz, Marjie Wood, Mary Lea McTurnan, Amy Osborn

Park Tudor Class of 1988 Back row, l to r: Mark Rominger, Claire Wishard Hoppenworth, Mandy Lamkin Magaddino, Chris Miyamoto, Rob Bennett, Joe Brake, Hank McKay Middle row: Mike Ricos, Brian Hicks, Cathy Hamaker, John Boe, Jesse Ford, Tiffany Rider Rohrbaugh, Steve Jay, John Pasch, John Wilson Front row: Kate Howard Wilson, Karen Shaw Johnson, Vanessa Stiles, Rekha Rao, Erin McDonald, Pilar French, Christine Graffis Long

Park Tudor Class of 1993 Back row, l to r: Matt Miller, Ryan Graft, Nick Lemen, Jason Sturman, Mike Flynn Middle row: Emily MacNeill, Anne Myers Cleary, Diana Malcom, Brian Droz Front row: Molly Foglesong Sturman, Emily Hebert Groves, Courtney Burt Harper, Cara Young Barretto, Tonia Barmen Basta

Park Tudor Class of 1998 Back row, l to r: Eric Gershman, Jake Sturman, Zach Baker Front row: Anne Hankey Forman, Adrianne Glidewell Smith, Mallory Reider Inselberg, Katherine Deane Nagy

Park Tudor Class of 2003 Back row, l to r: Zach Wills, Justin Farlow, JP Day, Johnny Alden, David Quigley Front row: Jamie Butler, Jessica Sembach Siebert, Brett Mahoney-Kiebach, Patrick Lilly

Park Tudor Class of 2008 Back row, l to r: Sam Griswold, Lee Mandel, Patrick Lloyd, Mark Rusthoven, Phillip Yung Front row: Bill Eckhart, Audrey Nuckols, Jenn Burns, Colin Fong

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Alumni News Summer 2013 Park Tudor School

2012-2013 Reunion Class Gifts Gifts made from July 1, 2012 through June 5, 2013 Tudor Hall Class of 1943 25 percent participation Mrs. Ann Crapo Hannah Mrs. Ruth Bixler Hoffman Park School Class of 1943 50 percent participation Mr. Robert Smith Jr. Tudor Hall Class of 1948 44 percent participation Mrs. Margaret Butler Coe Mrs. Georgia Mattison Coxe Mrs. Julia Foreman Cunningham Mrs. Patricia Carter Ruckelshaus Park School Class of 1948 14 percent participation Mr. John Ruckelshaus Tudor Hall Class of 1953 33 percent participation Mrs. Martha Stacy Bennington Mrs. Judith Howell Vander Heide Park School Class of 1953 40 percent participation Mr. James A. James Mr. Philip Whitesell Tudor Hall Class of 1958 68 percent participation Mrs. Judith Lamb Doninger Mrs. Portia Hancock Eltvedt Mrs. Katheryn Esterline Mrs. Barbara Sublett Guthery Mrs. Lucy Graham Harvey Mrs. Judith Walsh Houley Ms. Joann Pettit Leal Mrs. Judy Little Mrs. Irene Lilly McCutchen Ms. Karen Miller Mrs. Janis Sherman Popp Mrs. Jane Sulya Mrs. Georganne Russell Thompson Dr. Marianne Williams Tobias Mrs. Sandra Weinhardt Park School Class of 1958 56 percent participation C. Willis Adams III Mr. Walter Foltz Mr. Russell Fortune III Mr. Douglas Hill Mr. William Sadlier Tudor Hall Class of 1963 16 percent participation Mrs. Marjorie Kitchen FitzSimons Mrs. Sandra Shawley Green Mrs. Patti Grant Hester Mrs. Diane Guingrich Lockhart Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Robbins Schechter

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Park School Class of 1963 38 percent participation Mr. Charles S. Hall Mr. James Harris Mr. David Huber Mr. J. Scott Keller Mr. John Miller Mr. Alfred Tod Reynolds Jr. Tudor Hall Class of 1968 27 percent participation Mrs. Kathryn Ryan Booth Mrs. Roberta Norris Ellsworth Mrs. Alison Kothe Mrs. Constance Ryan Lathrop Mrs. Stephanie Upham Lord Mrs. Kristine Manders Myers Mrs. Susan McVie Tolbert Ms. Vicki Townsend Park School Class of 1968 8 percent participation Mr. Hugh Warren Park Tudor Class of 1973 13 percent participation Anonymous Mr. Timothy Bookwalter Ms. Linda Hensley Mrs. Pamela Menzie Navarre Mr. William Stoops III Mrs. Nancy Nichols Williams Park Tudor Class of 1978 7 percent participation Dr. Barry Fisher Ms. Marya Jones Mr. Jeffrey Yingling Park Tudor Class of 1983 21 percent participation Ms. Holly Hapak Betz Mr. James Blankenbaker Mr. David Eskenazi Mr. Royal King Dr. Dana Giles Lasek Ms. Mary Lea McTurnan Ms. Amy Osborn Mr. Steven Pockrass Mr. Stephen Wade Ms. Marjie Wood Park Tudor Class of 1988 18 percent participation Anonymous Mr. Jesse Ford Mr. Brian Hicks Mrs. Christine Graffis Long Ms. Erin McDonald Dr. R. Christopher Miyamoto Mrs. Tiffany Rider Rohrbaugh Mr. Mark Rominger Ms. Vanessa Stiles

Park Tudor Class of 1993 21 percent participation Mr. Brian Droz Mrs. Holly Weaver Fenech Mr. Justin Fruth Mr. Ryan Graft Mrs. Emily Hebert Groves Mrs. Courtney Burt Harper Mr. John Lapp Mr. Nicholas Lemen Mr. Matthew Miller Mr. Jason Sturman Dr. Molly Foglesong Sturman Park Tudor Class of 1998 11 percent participation Ms. Julia Failey Mrs. Ann Hankey Forman Mr. Eric Gershman Ms. Kathryn Hebert Mrs. Katherine Deane Nagy Mr. M. Cary Stalnecker Mr. Jake Sturman Mr. Alex Tolbert Park Tudor Class of 2003 25 percent participation Anonymous Mr. I単aki Alanis-Cue Mr. Brett Clements Mrs. Shauna Dugandzic Mr. Blake Elder Mr. Justin Farlow Mr. Hunter Gardner Mrs. Maggie Hilligoss Gardner Mr. Richard Hall Mrs. Elizabeth Tolbert Johnson Ms. Brigid Kirlin Mr. Patrick Lilly Mr. Gregory Linderman Ms. Courtney Maguire Mr. Brett Mahoney-Kiebach Mr. Steven Nigh Miss Carolyn Pearson Mrs. Lindsay Winingham Pykosz Mr. Nicholas Reider Mr. Elliott Sosbey Mr. Tyler Thompson Ms. Ashley Wick Mr. Zachary Wills Park Tudor Class of 2008 2 percent participation Ms. Rachel Braun Ms. Madeline A. Patterson

Alumni News Summer 2013 Park Tudor School

Alumni Association Board welcomes new members

The

Park Tudor Alumni Association Board of Directors has elected the following alumni to serve on the board starting in August 2013: Kate Engle ’95 Matt Kleymeyer ’00 Jonathan McDowell ’02 Zach Wills ’03

Officers for the 2013-2014 year are: President - Lindsay Elder Thornton ’95 Vice President - Joe Hawkins ’96 Secretary - Beth Tolbert Johnson ’03 Treasurer - Nikhil Gunale ’96 Past President - Cathy Yingling Chapelle ’87

We extend a special thanks to outgoing Alumni Board members Stephanie Goodrid Lawson ’00, Anne Rogers Mitchell ’85, Jessica Benson Cox ’99 and Adrienne Watson ’06, who have so generously contributed their time and talents to the Alumni Board.

Board members 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, are dues-paying members of the Alumni Association, and support the school’s Annual Fund. The Alumni Board represents the diverse community of Park, Tudor Hall, and Park Tudor alumni and carries out the mission and goals of the Alumni Association.

Please contact Alumni Board Vice President Joe Hawkins ’96 at joseph. pierce.hawkins@gmail.com to nominate a potential member. Candidates should possess leadership capabilities and be willing to make a strong commitment to the Alumni Association and its projects.

Class of 2003 wins March Madness Challenge

Congratulations to the Class of 2003, the champion of Park Tudor’s March Madness Young Alumni Challenge! Members of the Classes of 1989-2012 competed for points in this race to support Park Tudor’s 2012-13 Annual Fund. Below are the final competition standings.

Class rankings were based on a formula that included overall class participation and total dollars raised.

A generous alum earmarked a gift of $5,000 for the Champion Class of 2003 to direct toward a need of the school in one of several areas, including Academics, Fine Arts or Athletics. Donors from the winning class chose to fund the purchase of four Ludwig timpani for the Fine Arts Department.

Class reps sought

Leave a legacy

The Alumni Association is looking to Purchase fill Class Representative positions for the Tudor Hall Class of 1944 and the Park School Class of 1954, who will be celebrating their five-year reunions in 2014.

Responsibilities include communicating with classmates about upcoming reunion activities and helping to plan an individual activity for your class over the weekend.

If you are interested in volunteering or in assisting your class representative in planning your reunion, please contact Gretchen Hueni at ghueni@parktudor.org or 317/415-2766.

a personalized brick and create a lasting symbol of your family’s connection to Park Tudor. The bricks will be installed on the walkway outside Clowes Commons. For more information, or to purchase a brick, contact Julia Sloope in the Development office at jsloope@ parktudor.org or 317/415-2768.

Women’s networking event for PT alumni

Tuesday, August 20, 2013 • 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Café Patachou • 4901 N Pennsylvania St. • Indianapolis Speaker: Jennifer Browning Holmes, Founder and President, Integrating Woman Leaders, Inc. (Jennifer attended Park Tudor from grades 3-6) RSVP to ghueni@parktudor.org • Stay tuned for details via email and on Facebook.

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The Class of 2013 was welcomed into the Alumni Association at the annual Senior Breakfast for seniors and their parents on May 23.

Alumni News Summer 2013 Park Tudor School

Indiana’s First Lady recalls her days at Park School

When Indiana First Lady Karen Pence

celebrated Arbor Day with Park Tudor second-grade students, the event brought back memories of her own days at Park School.

At the Arbor Day event on Friday, April 26, students planted a Bradford Pear tree in the Lower School courtyard with the help of Indiana State Forester John Seifert.

Before planting the tree, Mrs. Pence told students gathered in the Lower School library that she had danced as a student on that very library stage.

Mrs. Pence—who was Karen Batten when she enrolled as a second grader on the Cold Spring Road campus in 1964— attended Park School until sixth grade. Her mother, the late Lillian Batten Barcio, was an administrative secretary at Park School.

“She told me she wanted me to have this amazing second-grade teacher, Mrs. Laila Hartman,” Mrs. Pence recalls.

Mrs. Hartman—and Park School— lived up to her mother’s glowing description.

“Mrs. Hartman really did instill in me a love of reading, and of being read to. She also let me start a knitting club in the back of the room for students who had finished their work,” Mrs. Pence recalls.

Among her favorite Park School memories: the “ocean wave,” a “very dangerous and lots of fun” playground fixture; the traditional morning milkand-Oreo snack; family-style lunches; and a sense of freedom to play and learn,

Indiana First Lady Karen Pence showed second-graders a photo of herself when she was a student at Park School during her visit to plant a tree at Park Tudor.

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especially outdoors. During the month of May, students then often shared the Commons with race-car drivers from the nearby Indianapolis Motor Speedway. “I got Mario Andretti’s autograph,” Mrs. Pence recalls.

In the 1960s, girls attended Park School through sixth grade. Although Park School had relocated to the present Park Tudor location on College Avenue, the school would not become fully co-ed until the merger with Tudor Hall in 1970.

So Mrs. Pence went on to St. Luke’s Catholic School and Bishop Chatard High School, but her ties to Park Tudor continued.

Her mother married Latin teacher Bernard F. Barcio, who brought national attention to Park School when NBC-TV visited in 1966 for a segment on a studentbuilt replica of a Roman catapult. They counted many Park Tudor faculty among their family friends.

Barcio also managed the Lilly Orchard store on campus. Mrs. Pence worked there after school and on weekends, selling cider and polishing and bagging apples.

As a Park student, Mrs. Pence loved art classes with Mr. Bill Hopper, “a really gifted artist,” in the school’s art barn. She continued studying art at Butler University and returned to Park Tudor as a student teacher with art teacher Paul Sweeney. She later went on to teach art and elementary education for 13 years at Indianapolis-area schools.

“Park really nurtured me as a child,” Mrs. Pence says. “I have nothing but good memories.”

Our thanks to new Endowment Society members

The

Park Tudor Endowment Society recognizes members of the Park Tudor family who have notified us that their estate plans include a gift to the school.

Special thanks to new members: Mr. Terry Carr and

Mrs. Susan Nunamaker ’69 Carr Mr. and Mrs. Zach W. Ford (Abby*)

Ms. Angi Parks* Mr. and Mrs. Mike Stewart

*=current faculty/staff 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 the school so we may have the opportunity to thank you in advance for your gift and 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.

A huge number of PT alumni who attend IU attended an alumni reception at Mother Bear’s Pizza in Bloomington on April 9.

Alumni News Summer 2013 Park Tudor School

Endowment Society donor profile: The Stewart family

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hat started as a normal day in January 2013 for Park Tudor parent and volunteer Barb Stewart ended with exciting news for the school. Barb’s “normal” mornings include dropping off her sophomore son, Sam, at school, making her rounds through the hallways to greet fellow parents and teachers, and volunteering her time as a council parent, library assistant, LockerShop worker, Development Committee member, or with the Park Tudor Parents’ Association.

On this particular morning, Barb was helping the parent mailing committee prepare letters asking families to consider becoming a member of the Endowment Society, a group of donors who have included the school in their estate plans.

While working, Barb read the letter and was reminded of a conversation she had had with her husband, Mike, several years ago over lunch: “We were talking about our lives and laughing over the fact that we spend more

Barb, Mike and Sam Stewart ’15

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time at Park Tudor than we do in our home – and that includes sleeping!” she says. “It was at that moment that I questioned how I could possibly start to thank the institution that has helped raise our one-and-only son?”

Mike adds, “We chose Park Tudor to educate our son; however, what we’ve found is that Park Tudor has educated our entire family. Sam is an only child; therefore, his classmates have been his siblings. They’ve taught him how to be a friend, how to share, how to compete, and how to be a young man. In addition, we’ve grown as parents due to the advice and support we’ve received from other families as well as from the relationships we’ve developed with faculty members.”

Both Mike and Barb agreed that the ultimate thank you would be to include Park Tudor as one of several beneficiaries of their will. “It was a no-brainer!” says Barb.

Telling the school what they had done was not necessarily on Barb and Mike’s minds; however, after reading the letter and finishing her volunteer project, Barb contacted her friend Mary Stanley, who serves as the chair of Park Tudor’s Planned Giving Committee. Mary and the school were overjoyed to welcome the Stewarts into the Endowment Society, and they encourage people who have made similar

plans to let the school know. This provides the opportunity to thank you for your gift and to discuss your wishes for its use. If you choose 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.

Help celebrate Jim Foxlow’s birthday Jim Foxlow, retired English teacher

and editor emeritus of The Phoenix, will celebrate his 90th birthday in August. We invite all alumni and friends to wish him well at a birthday celebration to be held Saturday, August 17 from 2-4 p.m. in the Upper School Wood Room. Please RSVP to Julia Sloope at jsloope@parktudor.org if you plan to attend.

If you would like to contribute stories and/or memories for the celebration, please send them to Julia Sloope at the email above. If you can’t make the party and would like to send a card to be presented at the event, please forward it to Julia’s attention in the Park Tudor Development and Alumni Relations Office, 7200 N. College Ave., Indianapolis, IN 46240.

Mama Nunz Italian Steakhouse was the setting for the Alumni Reception at DePauw University on May 2.

Front row, left to right: Brooke Hasler ’12, Patrick Rezek ’11, Joan Grinkmeyer, Katie Purucker ’10, Lindsay Shake ’09., Dr. Paul Hamer, Knubbe Kunz ’09, Lara Naanouh ’09, Maggie MacPhail ’11, Ian Fry ’11.

Back row: Mike Blum ’09, Anisha Yadav ’09, Sarah Webster, Dr. Matthew Miller, Troy Holleman ’11, Joe Fumusa, Sue Stemen, Sam Miles ’10, Debbie Everett, Scott Purucker ’12, Paul Dugdale ’09.

Class Notes 1958

Jane Cripe Sulya is teaching two classes to high-school students with reading disabilities and working on a literacy program with Pi Beta Phi. Her son Peter and his wife Arin have opened an oral surgery clinic. Jimmy is teaching with Teach for America. Jane says, “Life is good...except I missed the reunion.”

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Bob Black’s latest book, “Night of the Paranormal Patterns,” will be published by Royal Fireworks Press of Unionville, NY. He writes via email, “This manuscript is my first book in the Mathematical Fiction project I’ve been developing for almost four years now. It’s my attempt to give myself a unique style and ‘brand identity’ by using storytelling to illustrate and teach math concepts….The new book is about a girl who sees vampires, ghosts, werewolves and other monsters, and they ask her to solve math problems. (Monsters are very bad at math, you see.) I’m currently working on two follow-up books, ‘Night of the Frightening Fractions’ and ‘Night of the Deadly Decimals,’ and I’ve got plenty of other math-related ideas waiting for me to develop after that.” Visit his website at www.rablack.com. (See related photo on page 32.)

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Kate Bussard has joined The Princeton University Art Museum as the Peter C. Bunnell Curator of Photography. She is responsible for developing special exhibitions, organizing changing installations for the collections galleries, developing public education programs, researching and overseeing the care and conservation of the Museum’s photographic holdings, as well as formulating a collecting strategy and securing significant new acquisitions for the photography collection. She was previously Associate Curator of Photography at the Art Institute of Chicago.

1996

Gordon Strain was awarded a Creative Renewal Arts Fellowship in Theatre by the Arts Council of Indianapolis. Originally conceived as a renewal opportunity similar

Director of Fine Arts John Williams was greeted by three generations of a Park Tudor family during this spring’s Upper School production of “Where’s Charley?” Brothers David Kimbell ’85 (left) and Jeff Kimbell ’82 (right), along with Jeff’s children – current students Kate Kimbell ’15 and Joe Kimbell ’13 – are pictured with Williams. The photo was taken by David and Jeff’s dad Alan Kimbell, who wrote to John: “Over the past 30+ years you’ve mentored and directed four of our progeny. They, and we, have benefited greatly from your interest and leadership.”

to an academic sabbatical, the initiative offers artists and arts administrators the opportunity to renew and refresh their creativity.

1998

Mallory Reider Inselberg was named The Outstanding Young Lawyer for 2012 by Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana. Mallory is an attorney with Eichhorn & Eichhorn LLP, where her practice involves medical malpractice defense and general litigation.

She lives in Indianapolis with her husband Rob and their two-and-a-half-year-old son Eli.

1999

• Ed Carpenter earned the pole position in the 2013 Indy 500 IndyCar Series race. He led the race for 37 laps and finished in 10th place. (See article on page 23.)

• Amanda Reahard married Michael David Rizzari in Indianapolis on March 2, 2013. Amanda and Michael met while both were in residency at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Amanda is now a psychiatrist in private practice in Dallas, and Michael is finishing his general surgery residency. They are moving to

Madison, Wisconsin this summer for Michael’s transplant fellowship at the University of Wisconsin.

2000

Abbi Crutchfield is comedian and social media manager at CollegeHumor. Her jokes have earned her a place as a contributor to Witstream, and she has been named among the “18 Funny Women You Should Be Following on Twitter” by Huffington Post Comedy. She produces the live comedy hour “The Living Room Show” monthly in Brooklyn and tours as a stand-up with Pink Collar Comedy. She appears in a YouTube parody video about the Obama daughters, “The Sasha and Malia Show,” that has garnered nearly 250,000 views on the web: http://youtu.be/gGRmNjOYpss.

2002

Nick Selm is one of the founding teachers at Project Libertas in Indianapolis. The school was founded by a group of parents last fall.

2005

Sarah DeVito was sworn in to the New York State Bar Association in February 2013.

2009

• Cameron Cecil received the 2013 Purdue Sudler Prize in the Arts, given annually to Purdue’s top senior in the arts. Every year, each arts department on campus nominates one candidate to this competition. The five nominated students each give a half-hour presentation on their life in and out of the arts, accompanied by a performance that showcases their talents.

• Hannah Rae Heyer graduated as class valedictorian from Johnson & Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island.

2010

• Graham Dewart was named to the Bissell-ABG-Giant Domestic Elite cycling team in January 2013. He finished seventh in the University of Michigan Criterium in April and also was invited to ride in the Joe Martin Stage Race in Fayetteville, Arkansas, part of the pro and elite amateur cycling tour of USA Cycling. More than 700 cyclists from 20 countries and all 50 states took part in the four-day, four-event Pro/Elite race.

• Sam Miles earned a spot on the all-North Coast Athletic Conference men’s tennis team. He was named to first team for singles, as well as first team for doubles with his partner Ben Kopecky. He plays at DePauw University.

• Alex Skelton organized a group run at Johns Hopkins University to support the victims of the Boston Marathon attacks.

The April 18th event raised money for Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston Marathon Relief Fund and the American Red Cross.

About 200 students participated in the event.

2011

Kyle Hardacker was one of a dozen NCAA Division III players named to the 2013 Capital One Academic All-District VII baseball team. He plays third baseman for Kenyon College with a team-best .415 batting average and leads the North Coast Athletic Conference in RBIs.

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Carly Dean ’09 (left), a rider for Wing It Cycling, celebrates her team’s third-place victory in the Indiana University Little 500 Race, the largest collegiate bike race in the U.S., on April 20. Photo by Clayton Moore ’10.

Marriages • Cathy Yingling ’87 to Joe Chapelle on April 13, 2013.

• Amanda Reahard Rizzari ’99 to Michael Rizzari on March 2, 2013.

• To Nikhil Gunale ’96 and his wife Rima on the birth of Tejas Gunale on April 18, 2013.

• To Laura Elder Antrim ’99 and her husband Rob on the birth of Jack Elder Antrim on June 6, 2013.

• Cindy Lambert ’01 to Chad Crowe on September 2, 2012.

• Marie Handfield ’03 to Nicholas Reider ’03 on May 11, 2013.

• Anne Johnson ’03 to Matthew Katz on February 2, 2013.

• Amy Kuhn ’05 to Michael Lamar on June 1, 2013 • Amanda Ranek ’06 to Michael Massel ’07 on October 5, 2012.

Congratulations • To Sam Hawkins ’94 and Sarah Smith Hawkins ’97 on the birth of Emma Elizabeth Hawkins on April 17, 2013.

Class of 2008 members Brandon Tucker, Patrick Lloyd, Daniel Stewart and Jenn Burns are reliving their Park Tudor days through sport. They all play on the same kickball team together!

Class Notes Summer 2013 Park Tudor School

• To Carlie Irsay Gordon ’99 and her husband Zach on the birth of Elliott Grace Gordon on February 27, 2013.

• To Ross Fleck ’00, his wife Tara, and Director of Physical Education Sylvia Fleck on the birth of twin daughters and granddaughters, Ella Lauren and Lucy Leigh Fleck, on April 20, 2013.

• To first-grade teacher Jesse Bohnert and her husband Joe on the birth of Selma Addison Bohnert on May 26, 2013.

• To Upper School biology teacher Justin Dammeier and his wife Betsy on the birth of Jackson Dammeier on April 15, 2013.

• To Middle School Social Studies teacher/ Athletic Coordinator Courtney Whitehead and his wife Beth on the birth of Addison Rose Whitehead on March 5, 2013.

Deaths

Anne Johnson ’03 married Matthew Katz on February 2, 2013 in Indianapolis. Park Tudor alumni attending included: Back row, left to right: Josh Ring ’04, Charles Lynn ’05, Charles Johnson ’05. Front row: Patrick Lloyd ’08, Matthew Katz, Anne Johnson Katz ’03, Sam Johnson ’08, Emily Saiter ’03, Chris Tucker ’04.

• Lucile Schaf Appel ’40 on February 23, 2013.

• Harry Stout ’41 on February 21, 2013.

• Katherine Paisley Harwood Cato ’49 on February 27, 2013.

• Thomas Fischer Kahn ’51 • Donald Hughes ’54 on May 3, 2013.

• Victoria Hartley Johnston ’63 on April 2, 2013.

Condolences • To Dan Appel ’73, Kate Bowes Appel ’73, Andrew ’99, Mary ’02 and Leslie Appel ’05 on the death of their mother, mother-in-law and grandmother, Lucile Schaf Appel, on February 23, 2013.

• To Linda Hensley ’73 on the death of her father, Louis S. Hensley Jr., on November 2, 2012.

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Amy Kuhn ’05 married Michael Lamar on June 1 at Woodstock Club in Indianapolis. Park Tudor alumni who attended included: Michelle Polanco ’05, Rachel Gatewood ’05, Clark Santoro ’05, David Braitman ’05, Megan Kuhn ’01, Helene Genetos ’05, Emily Hammock ’05, Courtney Dewart ’05, Andrew Gillman ’05, Doug Kuhn ’71, Andrew Perez ’05 and Charles Johnson ’05.

Also attending, but not pictured: faculty members Mark Dewart, Margo McAlear and Chris Hammock, and Doug Kuhn’s two sisters, Janet Kuhn Wood ’67 and Holly Kuhn Lee ’77.

Class Notes Summer 2013 Park Tudor School

Condolences • To Wendy Stout O’Brien ’74, Julie ’75 and Harry Stout ’76, and Middle School Science teacher Eli Salatich on the death of their father and grandfather, Harry Stout, on February 21, 2013.

• To Kim Smith Stickney ’74, Kevin Smith ’73, Karen Smith Elliott ’76, Elizabeth ’11 and Andrew Stickney ’13, and Robert ’99 and Christopher Mehl ’01 on the death of their husband, brother-in-law, father and stepfather, Douglas Stickney, on May 12, 2013.

• To Dawn Ebbeler Jeffers ’75, Jack Ebbeler ’77 and Lori Ebbeler Ross ’80 on the death of their mother, Mary Ebbeler, on May 8, 2013.

• To Jack Hall ’81, Michael Raymond ’02, Jennifer Carrico-Habel ’05, and Jack ’08 and Zachary Hall ’11 on the death of their father and grandfather, Jack Hall.

• To Beth Anne Kearney O’Brien ’84 on the death of her father, Franklin Graham Kearney, on May 2, 2013.

• To Donald ’86 and Kenneth Harrell ’87 on the death of their mother, Sally Harrell, on May 1, 2013.

• To Mark Matthew ’87 on the death of his father, Lewis “Ed” Matthew, on April 10, 2013.

Honor and Memorial Gifts

Received February 2 - June 5, 2013 Gifts in honor of…

Alec J. Bloomfield ’19 Mr. and Mrs. Kenton Roush Kathryn Ryan Booth ’68 Mrs. Jessica Bibliowicz Mr. Jim Foxlow Mr. Thomas B. Adams ’59 Lucy Fralich ’16 Mr. Emil Cerimele Mrs. Kathleen Fry* Drs. R.J. and Shirley Fry Sean Fry ’14 Drs. R.J. and Shirley Fry Mr. Joseph K. Fumusa* Mr. Jake Denker Mr. and Mrs. Michael Denker Mr. and Mrs. Rich Gans Mr. Bill Henderson Mrs. Ruth Henderson Mr. and Mrs. Michael Tannenbaum Chris Taylor Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Taylor Mr. C. Perry Griffith III ’01 Mr. C. Perry Griffith Jr. Mr. David A. Kivela Ms. Adrienne E. Watson ’06

Mr. Erik Ochsner ’89 Anonymous Natalie Odmark ’17 Mr. and Mrs. Jim Shute Theresa Odmark ’15 Mr. and Mrs. Jim Shute Park Tudor School Maintenance Mr. and Mrs. Rod Schroeder (Laura Kivela ’90*) Mattie Shepard ’14 Honorable Randall Shepard and Ms. Amy MacDonell Mrs. Bonnie Stewart* Mr. and Mrs. B.A. Bridgewater Jr. Mr. Laurence K. Treadwell Mr. Iñaki Alanis-Cue ’03 Caroline Tucker ’13 Ms. Barbara Skinner Tudor Hall Class of 1958 Mr. and Mrs. Leon Sulya (Jane Cripe ’58)

Gifts in memory of…

Mrs. Anne Barth Cols. Lyndi Hutchison ’67 and Terry Balven Mrs. Janet Bennett Mr. and Mrs. William G. Batt

• To Andrew ’97 and Matthew McLain ’99 and Jordan McLain Padgett ’02 on the death of their grandfather, Andrew McClain, on March 29, 2013.

Olivia Klein ’16 Mrs. Barbara F. Klein Mr. Michael Lenke ’11 Mrs. Helen Lenke

Mr. Michael Buschmann ’68 Mr. and Mrs. Dean Myers (Kristine Manders ’68)

• To Jenn Burns ’08 on the death of her mother, Debi Burns, on June 11, 2013.

Mr. A.J. McIntosh* Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Halperin

Mr. John Caldow Robert H. Cusack, M.D. ’39

• To Julia ’14, Christian ’17 and Mitchell Amstutz and former Associate Head/ Director of Admissions David Amstutz on the death of their grandfather and father, Dr. Harold Amstutz, on June 11, 2013.

Mrs. Lori McIntosh* Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Halperin

Mr. John DeVoe ’52 Mr. and Mrs. Charles DeVoe (Chuck ’48)

Luke McIntosh ’24 Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Halperin

Mr. Shanon A. Fields ’92 Mr. and Mrs. Kirk McKeon (Emily Arnold ’90)

The Mike McLain Family Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Hebert Mrs. Linda Hamilton McLaughlin ’43 Mr. H. Roll McLaughlin

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Mr. Dennis T. Hollings ’83 Mr. Douglas A. Peterson and Ms. Marjorie E. Wood ’83

Class Notes Summer 2013 Park Tudor School

Mrs. Jane H. Holt Nancy McCown Symmes ’39 Mr. Christopher D. Jones ’90 Mr. and Mrs. Andrew L. Rassi (Melissa Black ’89) Miss Marjorie Kroeger ’44 Dian Hutchison Baker ’69# Cols. Lyndi Hutchison ’67 and Terry Balven Mr. Andrew McLain Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Hebert Mrs. Elizabeth Hall Perkins Spiegel ’32 Mr. and Mrs. Edwin H. Dawson (Margaret Spiegel ’62)

Mr. David Yingling ’79 Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey W. Yingling (Jeff ’78) Mrs. Mary Louise Yingling Dr. Robert J. Yingling Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey W. Yingling (Jeff ’78) Mrs. Mary Louise Yingling

Mr. Clifford A. Hull Tommy Schacht ’17

Mrs. Shannon Averyt Dr. Alfonso de Dios and Mrs. Raquel Molina

Mrs. Kathleen G. Hutchinson Drs. Matthew Tector and Tracy Brenner

Mr. J. Michael Ayres Mr. and Mrs. Michael Massel (Michael ’07; Amanda Ranek ’06)

Mrs. Amy Kerr Bobbi Byrn Plewes

Mrs. Yvonne Pettinga Mr. and Mrs. M. Cary Stalnecker (Cary ’98) Mrs. Annette Ring Dian Hutchison Baker ’69# Cols. Lyndi Hutchison ’67 and Terry Balven

Mr. Kevin Doty The Schacht Family

Mr. Harry Stout ’41 Dian Hutchison Baker ’69# Cols. Lyndi Hutchison ’67 and Terry Balven Christopher Jacob Therber Mr. and Mrs. Kirk McKeon (Emily Arnold ’90)

Mrs. Sally L. Dreyer Dr. and Mrs. Darin Dill Mr. Larry Eckel Janna, John, Alaina and Ross Urbahns Eighth Grade Teachers Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Wiesinger Ms. Pamela Fischer Janna, John and Ross Urbahns Mrs. Kathleen Fry Kelly Gardner ’20 Mr. Joseph K. Fumusa Dr. and Mrs. Ted Reese Mr. and Mrs. James Seymour Dr. and Mrs. Darryl Tannenbaum Mr. Patrick Turner ’05 and Ms. Meghan Murphy Mr. Jerry Grayson Mr. Gordon R. Strain ’96 Dr. Jan Guffin Mr. Alex Tolbert ’98

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Thompson Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Hebert

Mrs. Chris Hammock Tommy Schacht ’17

Late Members of the Tudor Hall Class of 1953 Dr. and Mrs. Ralph P. Vander Heide (Judith Howell ’53)

Mrs. Shants Hart Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Wiesinger

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Mr. Rob C. Hueni Mr. Gordon R. Strain ’96 Janna, John and Ross Urbahns

Thank a Teacher

Mrs. Karen Ayres Mr. and Mrs. Michael Massel (Michael ’07; Amanda Ranek ’06)

Mr. Douglas H. Stickney Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Cassidy (Mary*) John and Ruth Denton Dr. and Mrs. Craig R. Dykstra Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Esterline (Tom ’57; Kate Mahaffey ’58) Ms. Lori Fetter Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Frank Mr. and Mrs. Vincent H. Geiger Jan and Jerry Gershman Mrs. Edith Greiwe Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Hill Mr. and Mrs. William H. Main Dr. and Mrs. John G. Rapp Ms. Carole Diane Roe Mr. and Mrs. David Simon Mr. Jonathan Toumey ’74 and Ms. Alison Jester

Mrs. Rebecca Honig Drs. Matthew Tector and Tracy Brenner

Mr. Christopher Holobek Dr. Alfonso de Dios and Mrs. Raquel Molina Dr. and Mrs. Darin Dill

Mrs. Laura I. Lowe Janna, John and Ross Urbahns Lower School Teachers Mr. Hiroyuki Maruyama and Ms. Rohaya Rahmat Mrs. Elizabeth Odmark Drs. Carlos and Ruth Gimeno Mrs. Mary M. Pendexter Janna, John and Ross Urbahns Mrs. Sharon Riddle Janna Urbahns Dr. Mary Ann Scott Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Wiesinger Ms. Jane Sidey Drs. Carlos and Ruth Gimeno The Schacht Family Mr. Spencer Summerville Tommy Schacht ’17 Mrs. Ellen Todd Dr. Alfonso de Dios and Mrs. Raquel Molina Dr. Dario Untama Mr. and Mrs. Jose Marrero Mrs. Sarah Webster Samantha Schacht ’14 Mr. Courtney Whitehead Mr. David S. Rowe and Mrs. Susan A. Swinehart The Schacht Family Janna, John, Alaina and Ross Urbahns # = deceased * = faculty

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