Park Tudor
Phoenix
Summer 2015
• Innovative Alums • The Sommers Mansion at Tudor Hall
On the Cover Graduates Courtney Lynn and Alex Urbanek enjoy a moment together following the Commencement ceremony.
Park Tudor School Mission
To create an inspiring college-preparatory learning environment, with exceptional educators and extraordinary opportunities, that prepares and motivates students to become balanced, confident, and resourceful lifelong learners.
From the Archives
PARK TUDOR SCHOOL Head of School Dr. Matthew D. Miller Editor Cathy Yingling Chapelle ’87 Editor Emeritus C.J. Foxlow Class Notes Cassie Dull, Julia Sipes Graphic Design/ Photography Stefanie Dean ’05 Director of Strategic Communications Cathy Yingling Chapelle ’87 Director of Development and Alumni Relations Douglas Allen Assistant Director of Development, Alumni Gretchen Hueni 2015-16 Alumni Association Board President Joe Hawkins ’96 Vice President Beth Tolbert Johnson ’03
Mark Lawlor ’84 and his daughter Katie Lawlor ’15 took their senior photos by the same tree on campus.
Secretary Matt Kleymeyer ’00 Treasurer Tony Holton ’06 Past President Lindsay Elder Thornton ’95 Alumni Association Directors Courtney Maguire Day ’03 Kate Engle ’95 Katie McKown Feldman ’03 Katelyn Miner Fisher ’04 Mallory Rider Inselberg ’98 Andy Marra ’06 Jonathan McDowell ’02 Reid Searles ’06 Julianne Sicklesteel ’07 Zach Wills ’03
Contents Summer 2015
Features
Innovators: Alums who are making their mark in technology By Lisa Hendrickson ’77
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“Millionaire’s Row:” Tudor Hall residence was born as a country estate By Lisa Hendrickson ’77
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Departments News of the School
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From the Head’s Desk Commencement Community-Engaged Learning Athletic update
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Alumni News
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Class Notes
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Alumni Weekend 2015
Background: Peter LaBarge traverses through the rough waters at the JCC pool during this year’s 8th grade boat race.
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: Cathy Chapelle, Editor Park Tudor School 7200 N. College Ave. Indianapolis, IN 46240-3016 317/415-2870 cchapelle@parktudor.org
News of the School Report from the Head of School
Early in June we celebrated the gradu-
ation of the class of 2015, a remarkable group of young men and women who will take on new opportunities across the country next year and chart the next phase of their growth and development. Their record levels for merit dollars earned (over $14 million dollars) and the diversity of their college and university matriculations (54 schools in all) speak to the strength of the class and the breadth of their vision. They leave Park Tudor with a superb education, and they join an incredible alumni body that is eager to welcome them into the fold. Financially, the school is equally strong. Under the careful watch of the Trust, our endowment now exceeds $77 million. At the same time, through the generosity of our parents, alumni, friends, faculty and staff, we again achieved record-level giving to the Annual Fund. Moreover, through careful stewardship of our operational funds, we continue to reduce our overall dependence on the endowment. With our “financial house in order,” we have in turn been able to deepen our focus on physical plant and infrastructure; faculty professional development; new programming and curricular options; and extraordinary opportunities for our students. With the publication of our new Strategic Plan, PT2020, we have also charted the next phase of Park Tudor’s evolution, with the goal of connecting our past to our future. The strategic plan covers three broad areas of inquiry—academics, community, and sustainability—and over the last year we have made significant inroads in all areas. Among our many academic goals, perhaps the most important is the charge “to think creatively and expansively about time, schedule, and calendar.” While maintaining emphasis on traditional academic opportunities, the Scheduling Committee, which was formed in February 2015, will focus on the following: maintaining a clear balance between the arts, athletics and academics; promoting intentional time for faculty and students to collaborate; allowing time for more integrated and interdisciplinary work; providing time for greater emphasis on implementing our core values;
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and increasing our focus on community engagement and global thinking. Ultimately, our plan is to have a working draft of a new schedule by the spring of 2016 that accomplishes these many goals. Equally important has been our work on community engagement. Driven by the ongoing work of the Community Engaged Learning (CEL) Committee, the school has established a series of guiding principles and a lens through which we will develop potential CEL projects. More than anything, CEL hopes “to bridge the classroom and community” to create dynamic opportunities for our students that are embedded in the curriculum and which focus on key curricular themes. For example, our pilot ninth grade Humanities course—an integration of English I and World Civilizations I—will focus on “great cities throughout history” and will be driven by key principles of CEL. The capstone project in the course will examine a key question: “What is a major issue facing our city and its citizens? And what can we do about it?” While traditional in readings and texts, the course will also have an external point of reference that will allow students not only to develop knowledge, but also to try it out in new and novel areas. With the award of an E.E. Ford Innovation grant and the generous match from the community, we have also been able to launch our summer Innovators Institute. The goal of the Institute is to offer real world experiences, in which students will think critically, problem-solve, communicate and collaborate. Two areas are of particular focus: an emphasis on design thinking and innovation; and a focus on entrepreneurship, with emphasis on concepts from launching a business to funding start-ups and basic elements of successful entrepreneurial thinking. The hope is that the Institute will be a venue for piloting new ideas and curricular opportunities, and “test-driving” new courses and pedagogies. To that end, this summer we also inaugurated two other exciting programs: the Ernst and Young (EY) Integrated Business Program and a new Southern Studies class. Taught by EY Partner and Park Tudor parent Jeff Aldridge, the Integrated Business Program offered 20 students the opportu-
Dr. Matthew D. Miller
nity to learn about all of the key elements of business—from finance, to marketing, to supply chain operations. Students also interacted with Indianapolis-area business leaders from Fortune 500 companies like Anthem, Cummins, and Kroger. In turn, the Southern Studies class, co-taught by English Chair Jane Sidey and History Chair Sven Dubie, included two weeks of intensive reading and writing about the American South and concluded with a week-long trip to Atlanta, Memphis, and Oxford, Mississippi, among other locations. As we pilot new curriculum and programmatic opportunities, it is equally important that we continue to focus on systemic professional development. For example, in Lower School, after a careful review of the Language Arts curriculum by the faculty and administration, we are implementing a new language acquisition program that enhances reading and writing skills. Similar to our approach to implementing the Math in Focus program, our Lower School faculty has participated in several professional development opportunities and will receive ongoing support for several years. Importantly, the “new” curriculum is in fact grounded in the hallmarks of a traditional education: close reading, strong textual analysis, systematic grammar instruction, and regular writing opportunities throughout grades 1-5. Beyond academics, as part of our Strategic Plan we spent considerable time
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reviewing and refining our mission and core values. With this in mind, it is exciting to report that a recent alumni survey showed that nearly nine out of ten Park Tudor alumni either agree or strongly agree that our mission statement is consistent with their experiences here. In addition, 83% of alumni agree that our core values — respect, responsibility, resourcefulness, integrity, and intellectual engagement — match their perceptions of Park Tudor. From the ISACS survey of current parents we conducted in the spring, eight out of ten report that the mission is widely known, endorsed and achieved. Lastly, there have been some extraordinary student achievements in 20142015. In September, Sophomore Weston (“West”) Clark was selected as one of only five members of the 2014 class of the National Student Poets Program (NSPP), the nation’s highest honor for high-school aged poets. West was honored at the White House, where he and his colleagues conducted a reading for First Lady Michelle Obama. In addition, Victoria Xiao, a 5th grader, represented the state of Indiana at the national “You be the Chemist” competition in Washington, D.C. Vanessa was the youngest participant at the contest (which was primarily composed of 8th grade students) and was one of only four young women in the field of thirty-six students. Senior Danny Rayl won his second boys singles tennis state championship. Finally, the boys varsity basketball team won its fourth state title in five years, a string of success unmatched in the annals of Indiana high school hoops. This is far from an exhaustive list. As you can see, there is a lot to be proud of at Park Tudor, and I hope you will visit the school to see first-hand all of the great things going on at your school. I look forward to updating you in the coming months, and as always I welcome your feedback.
Class of 2015 - College Matriculation
Emma Abbott.............................University of South Florida Abigail Adams........................................DePauw University Alexis Adams............................................Purdue University Madison Allen.......................................... Indiana University Riley Allen..............................................DePauw University Sydney Allen................................................ Oberlin College Andrew Backer.............................................Elon University Grace Bahler.............................................McGill University Phillip Barnhard................................. University of Chicago Ashley Beeson........................................DePauw University Rishi Bolla................................... University of Southern IN Douglass Boshkoff................................ Swarthmore College Roderick Bowlby......................... Johns Hopkins University Rachel Braly...................................... Washington University Olivia Buroker........................................Denison University Gabriel Caceres........................................ Indiana University Taylor Cassidy..............................................Elon University Nicholas Chun................. University of California, Berkeley David Daugherty.......................................... Wabash College Marcus Downs..............................................Yale University Jonathan Ericksen.................................... Indiana University Laurel Fink....................University of California, San Diego Evan Frank................................................... Wabash College Isabel Freihofer.......................................DePauw University Kevin Freije................................... Northwestern University Julia French................................................. Earlham College Alex French.............................................DePauw University J.J. Freudenberg.......................University of South Carolina Robert Gerdisch............................................Yale University Dwayne Gibson......................Nova Southeastern University Danny Gimeno................................ Northeastern University Alex Gottwald............................................. Duke University Emma Hammer.................... Southern Methodist University Dominique Harrington.................... University of Richmond Adam Hartman........................................DePauw University Brigitte Hodge................................... Washington University Nick Hornedo.......................................... Harvard University Kyla Ibsen................................................ Indiana University Allison Irwin............................................. Emory University Ethan Jackson............................................Purdue University Helen Jacobs............................................. Tulane University Adam Johnston.........................................Purdue University Kate Kimbell..................................... Washington University Ben Klapper........................................ Vanderbilt University Cece Komari............................University of South Carolina Alex Kortepeter.........................................Purdue University JP LaBarge................................................ Miami University Katie Lawlor............................................. Davidson College Lisa Legg..................................... University of Notre Dame Katy Lescano.............................................. Ohio University Zac Li............................................. Northwestern University
Erik Lopez............................................. University of Tampa Logan Lowry............................Indiana Wesleyan University Courtney Lynn......................................... Indiana University Gabby Maramba................................... Ball State University Myles Markey.......................................... Indiana University Spencer Marsh..........................................Purdue University Kendall Martin................. University of Southern California Priya Mirmira..................................... University of Chicago Caven Montel....................... George Washington University Bryce Moore...........................Western Michigan University John Moore............................................... Miami University Matthew Muhoberac.................................Purdue University Robert Myrehn..........................................Purdue University Nathan Mytelka.....................................Princeton University Theresa Odmark.............................. University of Wisconsin Courtney Oliver......................................DePauw University Layna Owens...................................Florida State University Jessica Palmer...............................................Elon University Nirmal Patel................................................................ IUPUI Ivan Peterson............................................ Indiana University Danny Rayl.................................. University of Notre Dame Lillian Read...............................................Purdue University Samantha Reese........................................ Tulane University Ben Rhodehamel.....................................DePauw University Matt Richardson........................................ Xavier University Adam Roesner..............................................Kenyon College Angad Sikand........................................... Indiana University Harry Smith.............................................. Indiana University Ali St. Clair............................................... Miami University Alec Stanley.................................................. Rollins College Emily Stark................................................ Butler University Sam Stewart................................................. Wabash College Andrew Stickney................................. University of Arizona Melissa Sturgill.........................................Marian University Austin Sventeckis................................. Ball State University Clare Sweeney.........................................Auburn University Nikhil Tewari...........................................Colgate University Scott Thygesen............................. Johns Hopkins University Brandon Tiassum......................... University of Notre Dame Michaela Tinkey......................... University of Pennsylvania Annie Ullyot....................................... University of Chicago Alexandra Urbanek...................................Purdue University Anusha Vallapuri............................. Case Western Reserve U. Jackson Ward............................................. Butler University Kenny Warren................................. Case Western Reserve U. Hagar Weinstein........................................Marian University Alayna Weiss.............................................Purdue University Lillian Wright....................................... University of Dayton Kevin Xie......................... University of Southern California Jenee Young............................................... Butler University Cassidy Zimmerman................................ Indiana University
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102 Graduates Celebrated at Commencement Ceremonies on May 31
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packed house was on-hand at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church to see the 102 members of the class of 2015 join the ranks of Park Tudor graduates on Sunday, May 31. “In order to have deep, meaningful and successful relationships with other people you must know yourself,” was some of the wisdom that keynote speaker Tom Linebarger shared with the graduates. The chairman and chief executive officer of Cummins, Inc. and father to Park Tudor alumnae Emily ’14 and Alex Janin ’12, offered advice from a book that he wrote for his daughters, “25 Things I Hope I Told You.” Linebarger went on to remind the graduates of the value of hard work, the importance of appreciating differences in people, and the necessity to live within your means. He also advised them to always remember that their parents will love them unconditionally, and “have your back… just call them.” In addition to Linebarger, speakers at the ceremony included Head of School Dr. Matthew Miller, who made welcoming remarks; Dr. Chris Miyamoto ’88, who brought greetings from the alumni; retiring Upper School Global Scholars Coordinator Dr. Jan Guffin, who spoke on behalf of the faculty; and Student Council PresidentElect Chris Johnson ’16, who represented the student body. The Park Tudor Singers performed musical selections. Welcoming Remarks: Dr. Matthew D. Miller, Head of School “Seniors: You have been blessed with a remarkable education that will serve you well now, and down the road, and we couldn’t be more proud of your accomplishments. We hope that you will have amazing experiences in the coming months and years and we know you will accomplish incredible things. As you continue to grow and as you evolve into your life as an adult, please keep in mind the concept of also working on becoming the person you
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want to be and spend time developing that equally important side of your personality. I wish you all the best and I look forward to following your progress. We will miss you!” Greetings from Alumni: Dr. Chris Miyamoto ‘88 “Make this wonderful education and opportunity worthwhile and meaningful. Your parents and family have invested significant time and resources in you – continue to make them proud. The faculty, coaches, and staff have similarly invested in you and wish you success. I would ask you to incorporate some aspect of service in your lives as you have learned here in school – support the communities to which you belong. The diplomas and education we possess are a privilege and we should use these advantages to help those around us and not just ourselves. Our society will need your contributions, large and small, helping individuals or larger segments of the population.” Greetings from the Student Body: Christman Johnson ’16, Student Council President-Elect “The positive atmosphere created by this class is present in nearly every facet of Park Tudor life. On athletic fields and courts, these student-athletes have proven time and again that they are not merely champions of their respective sports, but champions at heart. As seniors, the Class of 2015 has brought teams closer than ever before, mentoring younger teammates as well as radiating school spirit unique to this class. Not only has this class displayed authentic character in athletics, but these leaders have graced the halls of Park Tudor with imaginative artistic works and charmed audience after audience in Ayres Auditorium. It is during these performances - be they on the field or in the theatre that one can truly glimpse the joy these students receive when working together. The remarkable part is that rather than let this sense of togetherness create a barrier between them and the rest of the student body, the members of the Class of 2015 extended their arms to promote a school-wide sense of camaraderie throughout their high school careers.”
Dr. Matthew D. Miller, Head of School
Dr. Chris Miyamoto ‘88
Christman Johnson ’16, Student Council President-Elect
Dr. Jan Guffin, Upper School Global Scholars Coordinator
Tom Linebarger, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Cummins, Inc.
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Greetings from the Faculty: Dr. Jan Guffin, Upper School Global Scholars Coordinator “It was one of our most celebrated scientists, Albert Einstein, who expressed it best when he asserted that ‘Everything that’s countable doesn’t count, and everything that counts is not countable.’ …So I urge you, class of 2015, to reflect on the face time you and I have been privileged to share, to consider the value-added component of an extraordinary high school and do whatever you can to maintain a balance between face time and Facebook as you enter this exciting new period of your lives. Look at me, Class of 2015, look at your parents, look at my colleagues, everyone, look at each other and let’s face it together: everything that counts isn’t countable – we need each other alive and in person.” Address to the Graduates: Tom Linebarger, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Cummins, Inc. “You do not need much money to live a happy life. Most of life’s true joys cost very little. Love, friendships, exploring nature, engaging discussions with friends and colleagues, reading great stories, having a family – these are the things that have made my life rich and all can be had for very little money. The important thing is to match your lifestyle to your means. What makes us miserable is to desire more things than we can afford to buy. Happiness does not come from money or things or fine living. It comes from having love. Start by knowing and loving yourself. Then you can love and be loved by others. A loving relationship with a partner, family, and friends is the most important ingredient in a happy, fulfilling life.” Read the complete text of the speeches on the Park Tudor website: parktudor.org/class-of-2015.
Park Tudor Class of 2015 Achievements
Highlights of the 2014-2015 School Year
• 102-member class attending 54 colleges and universities • $14.3 million in college merit scholarships offered; $3.8 million accepted • 3 National Merit Scholars, 7 Finalists, 7 Semifinalists and 11 Commended Students • One Outstanding Participant, National Achievement Scholarship Program • Two National Hispanic Scholars; 2 National Hispanic Scholarship Finalists • One U.S. Presidential Scholar Semifinalist; 2 Candidates • Semifinalist, Intel Science Talent Search • Indiana Academic All-Star • Phi Beta Kappa honoree • Exhibitor, All-American High School Film Festival • Recipient, Indiana Outstanding High School Student of Spanish Award • State, regional and national honors in English, math, science, foreign language, and fine arts • Two-time Boys State Tennis Singles Champion • One top 6 finisher, US Rowing Youth National Championships • State Champions, Boys Basketball • Team State Semifinalists, Boys Tennis and Girls Lacrosse • Sectional Champions – Boys Basketball, Boys Tennis, Girls Soccer • Marion County Champion, Track and Field (Discus) • New School Record Holders, Girls Soccer and Boys Track & Field • One Indiana All-Star Volleyball Team Member • Semper Fideils Football All Star Team Member • Indiana Crossroads Conference Team and Individual Champions – Tennis, Basketball, Track & Field, Soccer, Swimming, Cross Country, Golf • Completed 13,794 hours of community service
Academics • Expanded participation in the Global Online Academy, with nine students taking eight different classes • Introduction of the first Innovators Institute summer program • New gender studies course • Computer Science curriculum in the Middle School • Introduced new for-credit Southern Studies summer school course • Launched Gateway program for incoming freshman to enhance executive functioning and study skills Fine Arts • Artist-in-Residence: Photographer Dr. Freddie Kelvin • Visiting Artist Exhibition and Lecture Series: J.B. Rogers ’82, Dr. Freddie Kelvin, Steve Nyktas, Gautam Rao, Melissa Parrott Quimby • Fall Play – “Alice in Wonderland” • Spring Musical – “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” • Middle School production – “The Wizard of Oz” • Student-led production – “The Good Doctor” • Vocal, instrumental and dance concerts • Art Seminar – “Lookism” • Student art shows Athletics • 4-time Indiana State Basketball Champs • Boys tennis singles state champion • State semifinalists – boys tennis and girls lacrosse • Top 6 – Youth Rowing National Championships Exceptional Educators • Twenty-three faculty members attended the National Association of Independent Schools People of Color Conference • Two Upper School faculty members taught Global Online Academy classes Extraordinary Opportunities • Eight students attended the People of Color Conference • Began new exchange program with La Reunion, France
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• Additional international exchanges with China and Guatemala • Lower School exchange with Valladolid, Spain • Spoleto Study Abroad Program in Italy • One of only nine schools in the U.S. invited to participate in the International Model UN in The Hague, Netherlands • Art History and French trips to Chicago • Eighth-grade trip to Washington, D.C. • Sixth-grade trip to St. Louis • Fourth-grade trip to Williamsburg • New spring break trips to Europe, China, and Guatemala Community Building • First freshman procession through the newly dedicated Cagle Gate • Sixth-graders, eighth-graders, freshmen and seniors attend overnight retreats • Dedication of the Hueni Theater Shop • Introduced new “Distinguished Friends of the Arts” honor • PT2020 Strategic Plan completed and launched • Community-Engaged Learning introduced throughout all divisions • Hosted visitors from the People of Color Conference and Student Diversity Leadership Conference • Honored Ed Harris ’60 as Distinguished Alumnus • Alumni events: Chicago, Indianapolis, Atlanta, San Francisco Bay area, DePauw University, Miami University (Ohio), Los Angeles, San Diego, IU, Purdue, Wabash, Boston and Naples • Class of 2003 wins March Madness Young Alumni Challenge • Class of 1985 wins inaugural Race to the Derby Alumni Challenge • Upper School hosts College Fair for grades 10-12 • PTPA Fall Family Festival • 500 attend Grandparents and Special Friends’ Day • Hilbert Center Playground Garden dedicated in honor of Debbie Dominguez
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Retiring Faculty and Service Anniversaries Celebrated at YearEnd Celebration
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ive retiring faculty and staff members were honored at the annual end-of-year celebration, toasted by colleagues and friends to thank them for their years of service to Park Tudor: Barb Beattie joined Park Tudor in the fall of 1990, and just completed her 25th year of teaching at the school. During her time at Park Tudor, Barb served as Art Department chair from 1990-2000, and taught ceramics, drawing, painting, 3-D design, visual arts foundation and AP Art Studio. Her school trips to Santa Fe, New Mexico and summer art residency at Oxbow School of Art have inspired her long-term love of ceramics and development of an outstanding ceramic program at Park Tudor. Larry Eckel began his career at Park Tudor in 2001, and completed his 14th year in the College Counseling office. Following 13 years as Director of College Counseling at Park Tudor, Larry assumed the position of Senior Associate Director in July, 2014. Dr. Jan Guffin joined Park Tudor’s faculty in 1994 after retiring as head of North Central High School’s International Baccalaureate program. Dr. Guffin helped to found Park Tudor’s highly regarded Global Scholars program, and has guided countless Global Scholars students through their research projects over the past 21 years. He also
has worked with a team of colleagues from other private schools to establish the Spoleto Summer Study Abroad Program for students in the arts, and he currently serves on the Board of Directors for the program. Carole Simmons joined Park Tudor in the fall of 1993, and just completed her 22nd year of teaching at the school. During her time at Park Tudor, Carole has served as a Student Council advisor and has supervised student teachers. She served as the 6th grade Guidance Counselor for four years, and has been Middle School Social Studies Coordinator for the past several years. She also served as transition coordinator for 5th grade students heading into 6th grade. Carole also worked with Janice Vote to create and organize the Middle School Europe trip, which she chaperoned nine times. J a n i c e Vo t e h a s taught French at Park Tudor for 22 years. Janice taught French in both the Middle and Upper Schools for her first 13 years here, and has taught Upper School French for the last nine. Janice has sponsored the Upper School French Club, and has also served as the Park Tudor School coordinator for the Indiana University Honors Program in Foreign Languages. She has led a number of student trips to Europe in her time at Park Tudor, in addition to pioneering the Middle School Europe trip with Carole.
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Faculty and staff members recognized for their years of service to Park Tudor: 25+ Years
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Carol Rogers
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Scott McDougall
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Marion Harris
Francisco Hidalgo
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Administrative Changes Announced for 2015-2016 • Upper School science teacher Mark Dewart became Science Department Chair, effective July 1, 2015. Mark is replacing Dr. Scott McDougall, who was recently appointed to be the next Middle School Director. Mark has been a distinguished teacher of AP Biology and Environmental Science since his arrival at Park Tudor in 1989. Over the years, Mark has mentored countless students, and his current project on monarch butterflies promises to continue his tradition of working closely with students on hands-on, research-driven work. Prior to coming to Park Tudor, Mark was the Science Chair at both the Storm King School in Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, NY, and the Colorado Springs School.
Park Tudor Hosts Visiting Faculty from Smith College and the University of Mississippi
In April, Park Tudor welcomed several
visiting professors, who joined Park Tudor History Department Chair Dr. Sven Dubie and Park Tudor English Department Chair Jane Sidey for a roundtable discussion. Expanding on a popular TED Talk – “The Danger of the Single Story” by author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – this roundtable discussion explored how an interdisciplinary approach can enhance study in a variety of ways. In addition to the roundtable discussion, the guest professors spent a day visiting several Park Tudor classes and talking to students about writing and interdisciplinary studies. The visiting faculty included Dr. Riché Barnes, assistant professor of Afro-American Studies at Smith College; Dr. Leslie King, associate professor in Sociol-
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• Debbie March has been appointed Director of the Hilbert Early Education Center. Debbie will take on this role permanently, after serving as Interim Director of the Hilbert Center this year. She has taught kindergarten for more than 29 years, previously teaching in Warren Township. She has also been an adjunct faculty member at IUPUI’s “Summer in the City” program. Debbie received a B.S. and M.A.E. in elementary education with kindergarten endorsement from Ball State University and elementary administrative certification from Indiana University. She co-authored the book “Math in a Snap” and has been a national staff development workshop presenter. Given that this will be a full-time administrative position, Debbie will not be teaching next year, but instead will have the opportunity to lead the division as a master teacher and to share her considerable experience with her colleagues. ogy and Environmental Science and Policy at Smith College; Ted Ownby, who has a joint appointment in History and Southern Studies, and is the Director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi; and Dr. Kathryn McKee, McMullan Associate Professor of Southern Studies and Associate Professor of English at the University of Mississippi. Their visit was made possible by the Bennett Fund, in support of the ongoing relationship between Park Tudor and Smith College.
New Spring Break Travel Opportunity to Cuba
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very special trip has been scheduled for Upper School students during part of the 2016 Spring Break. This is an extraordinary opportunity for students to experience the ‘re-opening’ of American relations with Cuba. The group will explore the city of Havana and other destinations across
• Upper School English teacher and Freshman Class Dean Ryan Martin became the Assistant Director of the Upper School, effective July 1, 2015. A Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude graduate of Wabash College with a graduate degree in English literature from Middlebury College, Ryan taught for five years at the Paideia School in Atlanta before coming to Park Tudor. He also taught at Culver Academies in Indiana and Christchurch School in Virginia. A world traveler and lover of culture and books, Ryan’s “summer jobs” have taken him to a New Zealand winery and a monastery in Australia. He also coaches baseball and basketball. Ryan will continue to teach Upper School English classes.
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the country. This trip offers the chance to experience and learn from a unique Latin American culture which is still caught in a time-warp of history, and also gives students the opportunity to practice Spanish language skills and study the arts and culture of Cuba. The itinerary includes the following destinations: Indianapolis to Miami, then to Havana, the Vinales Valley and then along the coast to Varadero and Matanzas and back to Indianapolis (via Miami). For additional information or a registration booklet, please contact Upper School social studies teacher Kathryn Lerch, klerch@parktudor. org, 415-2880.
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“Bridging Classroom and Community:” Community-Engaged Learning at Park Tudor
Park Tudor, Indianapolis, and global communities. Some examples include: • Habitat for Humanity – Since 1999, Park Tudor’s partnership with Habitat for Humanity allows students to gain experience in fundraising as well as project coordination, as they help to manage the school’s participation from start-to-finish.
key area of focus of the PT2020 Strategic Plan is Community, with the goal of preparing students to engage with the local and global community. As we begin to implement various action steps to accomplish this objective, during the 20142015 school year we formed a committee of faculty, staff, parents, and board members who worked since fall 2014 studying best practices from schools across the country and creating a framework for community service, service learning, sustainability and community-based learning experiences at Park Tudor. Co-chaired by Associate Head of School for Academic Affairs Peter Kraft and Indianapolis-based consultant Luana Nissan, the first step for the committee was to develop a “purpose and guiding principles” statement, outlining Park Tudor’s objectives and approach and aligning with the school’s mission, vision and core values. As Nissan explains, “It is crucial that we use a shared language across the school, focus on impactful student learning and mutually beneficial relationships with partners, and engage faculty and students in issues and experiences that call to them.” The committee’s resulting framework of “Community-Engaged Learning” (CEL), Kraft notes, “identifies a real need in the community and then connects that need explicitly to the curriculum.” Through an experiential project or initiative, students develop skills and draw on content learned in the classroom. In this way, CEL “bridges classroom and community” by examining issues like hunger, shelter, education and health while meeting curricular goals. “Community-Engaged Learning is also broad enough to encompass community service, service learning, and community-based learning experiences, which are all crucial to a well-rounded education.” The result is deep student learning that addresses authentic needs and issues in the
• Upper School Biology Students Help to Save Monarch Butterflies – Guided by faculty member Mark Dewart, Upper School biology students studied migratory monarch butterflies and the factors leading to their diminishing population. They then engaged the full Upper School community to help plant milkweed around the campus, with the hope of providing a place for monarch butterflies to feed as they make their yearly journey.
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• WaterWeek – Middle School students marked WaterWeek, designed to help enhance understanding of the importance of access to clean water in developing nations. In addition to activities designed to simulate some of the challenges faced by residents of developing countries in securing water, Middle School students designed several fundraising events that eventually raised enough water to fund a well. This fall, the new Humanities 9 (an integration of English I and World Civilizations I classes) that will examine “great cities” throughout history, culminating with a study of 20th and 21st century Indianapolis, will also undertake a CEL project. The project’s critical question will be: “What is a major problem / issue (or ‘authentic need’) facing Indianapolis and its citizens? And what can we do about it?” “This is what makes CEL so powerful: students take ownership of the learning,” said Mark Dewart. “CEL embeds service learning in the curriculum, which lets students see their knowledge at work.” While CEL is still in its infancy at Park Tudor, teachers from all four divisions recently discussed its potential applications at an all-school faculty meeting on April 14. And, for the 2015-2016 year, plans are already being made for a community-wide “CEL Service Day” as part of the larger Indianapolis “Indy Do Day” initiative. Faculty and staff will also participate in CEL
activities as part of their Professional Development day planned for October. The ultimate goal of all of this work, says Kraft, “is to look for connections within and between divisions and to help students make a real difference in the Indianapolis community...and the world.” Key Principles of CEL: • Student Growth: We believe the development of character and a focus on foundational skills are essential elements of a great education. Moreover, we believe that exceptional educators make learning authentic by utilizing rigorous experiential and interdisciplinary approaches to help students make connections and apply their knowledge and skills in the broader community. Skills like collaboration, problem identification and problem solving, creativity, and flexibility prepare students to thrive as citizens in our complex world. • Multiple Lenses: As a school community committed to the inherent value of all people, we believe that part of a great education is multiplying the lenses through which students view their world. Well-designed and intentional community engagement helps build empathy and enrich students’ broader understanding of themselves and others. Empathy and a global perspective are essential for students’ leadership development, civic engagement and care for their world. • Mutual Benefit: We believe that partnerships between schools and community organizations must meet real needs and be based on mutual benefit. Through partnerships with local and international organizations, school communities can work with a diverse group of people to address key issues and challenges of our time. We recognize that these partnerships must be financially and organizationally sustainable and built over time. • The Common Good: We believe schools advance the common good by helping their students, faculty, staff, families and alumni make connections and contributions to their community and understand better the pressing needs of the world.
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23 Inducted into Cum Laude Society
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members of the class of 2015 and two members of the class of 2016 were inducted into the Park Tudor chapter of the Cum Laude Society during a special assembly on Tuesday, April 14. Class of 2015 Inductees: Alexis Adams Phillip Barnhard Douglass Boshkoff Rachel Braly Laurel Fink Kevin Freije Brigitte Hodge Allison Irwin Ethan Jackson Matthew Kortepeter Courtney Lynn Priya Mirmira Matthew Muhoberac
The Artisan Honored with National Award
The 2014 issue of The Artisan has been
awarded the rank of Highest Award by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Program to Recognize Excellence in Student Literary Magazines. The Artisan was selected from the magazines rated superior in all areas. Of the 366 entries this year, only 30 earned the Highest Award. The Artisan was the only magazine in Indiana to receive this ranking. Congratulations to Artisan Advisor and Upper School English teacher Laura Gellin, Senior Editor Mattie Shepard, and Junior Editor Dan Fu. The following students worked on the 2014 issue: Taylor Byxbee, Amy Cohn, Joseph Komari, Katelynn Kyker, Elise Edgar, Chris Gregory, Angi Li, Alexandra Lombardo, Aleks Polit, Ruben Shuckit, Alec Stanley, Linda Tauscher, Michaela Tinkey, Alayna Weiss, DeForest Williamson, and Mia Zhao.
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Nathan Mytelka Theresa Odmark Emily Stark Michaela Tinkey Scott Thygesen Benjamin Klapper Anne Ullyot Cassidy Zimmerman
Class of 2016 Inductees: Margaret Kosten Angela Li
Seven Juniors Selected for IU Honors Program in Foreign Languages
activities and cultural excursions. Before departure, participants must sign an honor code contract that they will not use English for the duration of the program.
Seven Park Tudor juniors have been se-
lected by Indiana University to participate in the 2015 Indiana University Honors Program in Foreign Languages. The students will spend seven weeks this summer immersed in the language and culture of the countries listed. They will live with host families, attend weekday classes, and participate in a variety of extracurricular
The seven participating students are: Simon Hart (Saint Brieuc, France) Hadley Rankin (Brest, France) John Stout (Saumur, France) Anne McCarter (Leon, Spain) Charles Stewart (Oviedo, Spain) John Stewart (Vi単a del Mar, Chile) Justin Lueck (Hangzhou, China)
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Honors and awards Top Park Tudor Honors • Roderick Bowlby ’15 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 22. 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 and the community. Roderick was a student leader and co-chaired the Habitat for Humanity build in fall, 2014. • Nick Hornedo ’15 and Kate Kimbell ’15 were honored with The Fletcher, Rebecca and Margaret Hodges Awards, given annually to a male and female member of the senior class voted 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. • Ethan Jackson ’15 was honored with the Virginia E. Smith Highest Academic Award. Academics • Senior Michaela Tinkey was named a Semifinalist for the 2015 U.S. Presidential Scholars Program, by the Commission on Presidential Scholars. She was one of 12 semifinalists for the State of Indiana. • Senior Nathan Mytelka was named a 2015 Academic All-Star and attended the awards luncheon April 15 at the Indiana Roof with Larry Eckel, his college counselor, and Debbie Stuart Everett.
Larry Eckel, Nathan Mytelka and Debbie Stuart Everett
Roderick Bowlby and Dr. Matthew Miller.
Kate Kimbell, Nick Hornedo and Dr. Matthew Miller
• The Park Tudor Brain Game team finished another successful season under coach Jeff Johnson. The team ended the season tied for third with Fishers High School, securing a $2,500 donation from Westfield Insurance. Michaela Tinkey was Most Valuable Player, and Rishi Bolla was Rookie of the Year.
Brain Game team members:mMichelle Shen, Rena Li, Coach Jeff Johnson, Annie Dora, Allen Zhao, Hannah Resnick, Michaela Tinkey, Joe Lybik. Not pictured: Robert Myrehn, J.P. LaBarge, Rishi Bolla and Coach Tom Page
Service • Junior Nate Hopf-Nelson was recently recognized as a Gold Level recipient of The President’s Volunteer Service Award (PVSA). This is the highest and most prestigious award bestowed by the PVSA, a nationally recognized volunteer award program that encourages young citizens to live a life of service to others. Nate has been serving with Circle City Relief (CCR) since his freshman year. He received the bronze service award his freshman year and the silver service award his sophomore year. Over spring break, Nate received sponsorship to travel to New York City and work with New York City Relief, which serves the Bronx and Harlem. Nate’s experiences have allowed him to bring a new level of expertise and guidance to his local CCR organization. CCR is a Christian organization that emphasizes the importance of being a friend in need to the homeless and hurting in Indianapolis. Every Sunday, CCR provides pizza, soup, beverages, bike repair, bike give away, socks, winter clothing, and resources such as emergency shelter, food pantries, abuse counseling, addiction counseling, detox, and general help to the needy. Math and Science • Fifth grader Vanessa Xiao competed on April 25 in the “You Be the Chemist” competition state championship. She was the only fifth grader to compete at the state level. Vanessa moved on to the national competition in Philadelphia, where she was again the only fifth grader to compete. In preparation formthe competition, Vanessa worked with Upper School science teacher Marilyn Weiss reviewing high school level chemistry experiments and information, and taking online practice tests.
Vanessa Xiao and Marilyn Weiss
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• Seniors Zac Li and Alex Kortepeter recently presented their research poster titled “Solar Desalination” at the Indiana Academy of Sciences 130th Annual meeting. Zac and Alex designed a proof-of-concept prototype and shared their research findings with the undergraduate and graduate researchers from state universities and colleges. Additionally, Senior Michaela Tinkey’s research project, “Mending Mitochondria: Antioxidants Altering the Production of Free Radicals in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae,” recently concluded and was accepted to the 2015 IUPUI Research Day Poster Symposium. • The Robotics Club received a $250 grant from generationOn Indiana, Indiana Association of School Principals (IASP), and Indiana Middle Level Education Association (IMLEA), to support their service learning project with the Horizons Program at St. Richards. The grant will help to fund an Intro to Robotics program at Horizons. • Park Tudor qualified two teams to the American Computer Science League (ACSL) All-Stars contest which took place in Orlando, FL. More than 200 teams from the United States, Canada, Europe, Africa and Asia entered the 37th running of the ACSL contest and the top performing teams from four regular season contests were invited to the All-Stars contest. The team of Kendall Garner, Robert Gerdisch, Amanda Li, Angi Li and Nathan Mytelka placed 12th in the Senior division, and the team of Jeremy Klotz, Siddhu Peri, Michelle Shen, Chris Skalnik, Michelle Zhu and Allen Zhao placed 16th in the Intermediate division. Congratulations to both teams for their strong performance in the ACSL contest. • Senior Nathan Mytelka and freshman Michelle Shen qualified for the Math Olympiad test. Only the top 1% of the top 1% (approximately 250 of 350,000 students who try) make it to this level nationally, and the test is by invitation only. Congratulations to Nathan and Michelle!
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Fine Arts • Junior Mike McGill was selected by audition to participate in the annual Side-bySide concert with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. The spectacular concert featuring the 100+ piece orchestra of 55 students from 18 schools sitting alongside the professional musicians of the ISO was held March 4 after two months of intense weekly rehearsals on music of Beethoven, Smetana and Stravinsky. Mike earned the Principal Bass chair for his section. • Several Park Tudor students took home awards in the 2015 Indiana Crossroads Conference Art Competition: Ceramics: 2nd - Theresa Odmark 3rd - Kyla Ibsen Digital Media: 1st - Annie McCarter 2nd - Hadley Rankin Drawing: 2nd - Samantha Reese Honorable Mention - Samantha Reese Photography: 1st - Jenna Beagle 2nd - Annie Dora 3rd - Kiran Bohyer Printmaking: 1st - Margaret Johnston 2nd - Zachary Li Spelling Bee • Vanessa Xiao (grade 5) and Maria Grant (grade 8) competed in the Regional Spelling Bee at IUPUI on March 10. Competition was fierce among the 30 competitors; Maria made it to the 13th round, and Vanessa finished in third place overall.
Spring athletic update BOYS & GIRLS TRACK It was a record-breaking spring for two boys this spring. Seniors Marcus Downs and Logan Lowry broke school records in two separate field events. Logan broke the school Shot Put record with a toss of 52-3 - breaking his own school record. Marcus Downs shattered his own school record in the Discus with an impressive throw of 184-6, good enough for a thirdplace finish at the state meet in Bloomington. Both Logan and Marcus earned firstplace at the Indiana Crossroads Conference meet in their respective events. The boys team placed 9th at the North Central Regional. Evan Lee placed 2nd in the 800M Run (1:57.53) to qualify for a spot in the state meet. The boys and girls placed 3rd and 2nd, respectively, at the ICC meet. Individual conference champions include Bosi Mosongo in the High Jump, Evan Lee in the 400M Dash and High Jump, Brent Brimmage in the Long Jump, Logan Lowry in the Shot Put, Marcus Downs in the Discus, and Sofia Bergener, Jenna Beagle, Hannah Shafique and Jessica Palmer in the 4x800 Relay. The boys team set four conference meet records: Evan Lee in the 400M Dash and High Jump, Logan Lowry in the Shot Put, and Marcus Downs in the Discus. Lee’s High Jump of 6-06.25 is a new school record. BOYS GOLF The boys golf team finished with an impressive 7-2 dual match record to go along with their conference championship. Top scorers at the meet included Alex Honigford (80), Stephen Kocerha (81) and Ben Rhodehamel (82), earning each of them All Conference honors. In sectional play, the boys finished 4th with Stephen Kocerha advancing as an individual to regional play in the state tournament. In Marion County
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tournament play, the Panthers placed 4th out of 16 teams in the always difficult county meet. CREW Alex and Roddy Bowlby won the Midwest Jr. Men’s Pair, advancing to the US Rowing Nationals in Sarasota, Florida where they earned 4th place.
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Alex and Roddy Bowlby
GIRLS LACROSSE The girls lacrosse team made it to the state semifinals, falling to eventual state champion Cathedral. The girls had a strong 13-8 record this year and represented Park Tudor well in the state tournament. Maddie Allen and Sydney Allen were named to First Team All State, and Sydney received the Jackie Pitts Award. BOYS LACROSSE The boys lacrosse squad struggled with consistency at times during the season. With a good mix of veterans and youth, the team finished the season with a 6-12 record, eventually losing to Carmel in the opening round of the state tournament. The boys advanced to the tournament with an impressive win over Guerin Catholic. BASEBALL Courtney Whitehead’s squad battled with inconsistent performances on both the offensive and defensive ends of play this spring. The boys of the diamond grinded
their way to an 8-17 record bolstered by two late-season wins at the Carmel Invitational. In opening sectional play the boys of the diamond were victorious over Scecina with an impressive 12-9 win over the Crusaders. That win advanced the Panthers to the sectional title game where they fell short to Heritage Christian, 3-2, in a hard-fought 11-inning game. Seniors Evan Frank and Zac Li were named to the ICC All-Conference team. GIRLS TENNIS The girls tennis squad won the school’s 10th consecutive ICC conference championship en route to a 9-7 win-loss record. The girls defeated Pike in the sectional semifinals, advancing to the championship against Brebeuf where they fell short to the Braves, 3-2, in the final. Senior Brigitte Hodge advanced to the semistate round of the individual tournament where she fell short, losing to eventual state finalist Claire Reifeis from North Central.
ting and catching from freshman Jennifer Oberthur, the girls’ supporting cast provided enough good play to allow for a much stronger season than expected. In opening sectional play Park Tudor put a major scare into state-ranked and city champion Scecina. The Crusaders had to overcome an early Panther lead to squeeze out a 3-2 win. BOOSTER CLUB CROWN AWARDS Congratulations to the spring recipients of the Booster Club Crown Awards – Marcus Downs for boys track, and Sydney and Maddie Allen for girls lacrosse. ATHLETIC SIGNINGS Seniors Marcus Downs and Logan Lowry signed letters of intent to continue their track and field careers in college during a ceremony at Park Tudor on Thursday, May 21. Marcus will compete for Yale University, and Logan Lowry will join Indiana Wesleyan University’s track team.
SOFTBALL The girls started the season with six first-year players on an 11-person squad. However, with marked improvement and solid effort, the girls battled to a 6-11 record. With strong pitching from senior Rachel Hardacker, along with consistent bat-
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Clockwise from top left: JK student Lucas Certa washes his trike on JK Bike Day. Senior Alex Kortepeter and sophomore TyraRose Nibbs embrace as sophomores Kylie Clouse and Aino Rahkonen look on. Class of 2015 members Zac Li, Alayna Weiss, Jenee Young and Gabrielle Maramba at Commencement. JK students Ellie Rose Ford, Libby Groves, Cici Berry and Marta Visini at the Senior Serenade. Logan Mobasser paddles hard during the 8th Grade Boat Race.
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Clockwise from top left: The winning team in the 8th Grade Boat Race: Leo Helman, Neil Pettinga, Peter LaBarge, Henry Stewart and Elijah Sutton. JK student Charlie Lemen checks out Officer Myers’ patrol car during JK Bike Day. Logan Lowry, Nick Chun, Caven Montel and Eric Lopez celebrate their graduation. Sixth grader Edgar Sarratt III at the annual Memorial Day Assembly. Fourth graders Vivian Keller, Ava Killacky, Brooke Bir, Liviya Larman, Ellie Rogers and Hannah Loewen enjoy some sundaes.
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Innovators: Alums who are making their mark in technology By Lisa Hendrickson ’77
Park Tudor alumni are making names for themselves in the
world of technology. In this issue of the Phoenix, as well as in the upcoming fall issue, we will profile several alums who’ve gone high-tech, from some who are just starting their careers to one who’s worked in the field since nearly the beginning. John Atcheson ’77 Founder and CEO, Stuffstr Seattle, Washington
John Atcheson has spent the last 30 years pushing the boundaries of technology. From inventing the concept of “collaborative filtering” to founding an award-winning startup focused on increasing the reuse of unused items, the Seattle-based entrepreneur and inventor hasn’t stopped innovating. Atcheson double majored in economics and music at Brown University, then went on to earn his M.B.A. at Stanford, where his interest was in the field of renewable energy. His timing couldn’t have been worse. “I thought renewables were going to be the future,” he remembers, “but when I graduated, there was absolutely nothing going on. All of the funding was being slashed.” So, enamored with both computers and music (he sang in the Madrigals at Park Tudor), upon graduation he “hit the streets with my M.B.A. in hand” and ended up in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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That was 1987, and he was hired as the eighth employee and marketing director of a small company called Digidesign. Although you may not recognize its name, Digidesign created the homerecording software Pro Tools, which remains widely used today. Through that venture, Atcheson became connected with the folks at Apple, which at the time was expanding into the multimedia business. He took a job with Macromedia, the first company to develop multimedia software, and while there, founded a start-up called MusicNet. It was the first interactive music service. “It was bleeding edge, but not necessarily in a good way,” he says. Bleeding edge in a bad way because it was created preinternet, which meant sending music over slow-speed modems. Bleeding edge in a good way, because it was the first-ever use of collaborative filtering—that is, recommending selections to people based on their personal preferences. Think Pandora, Netflix, Amazon…. “Everything we did with MusicNet was paving new ground, and some of it became core elements of digital music,” he says. In fact, Atcheson and Stanford professor James R. Miller III were the co-inventors of collaborative filtering, patented in 1993. Unfortunately, record companies weren’t ready for it. Atcheson remembers going to meet with the CEO of a major record company and bringing along his (pre-laptop) computer: “The CEO said, ‘You can come in, but not that thing—no computer’s coming in my door.’” “The attitude of the industry was, things are good for us, we
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don’t want that digital stuff,” Atcheson says. That’s when he met John Doerr, senior partner of the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. The original investor in Lotus and Compaq, Doerr took an interest in MusicNet and became its lead investor. At about that same time, people in Silicon Valley started talking about a little thing called the “World Wide Web.” John Doerr “was the evangelist for the Internet,” says Atcheson. “He even came up with the whole concept of broadband.” It was a time of rapid change. “The business models were pivoting 180 degrees at a moment’s notice,” he says. “We were pioneering the first home delivery of music, but people didn’t feel comfortable putting their credit card numbers in the computer.” Eventually, he sold the core components of MusicNet to RealNetworks, the pioneer of streaming media, and ended up in Seattle, where he oversaw RealNetworks’ content offerings. When RealNetworks went public, Atcheson decided it was time to take some time off. “That really marked a whole transition point for me. I was burned out; I felt like I hadn’t spent enough time with my daughters.” He took Page and Laine (today 25 and 23) on a cross-country train trip and spent nine months exploring past interests. He joined the Seattle Symphony Chorale, became the bass section leader and joined the Seattle Symphony board. He was elected board chair of Sightline Institute, a think tank that researches environmental sustainability. That position started him thinking about the sharing economy. He returned to the Bay Area, where startups abounded. He consulted for the peer-to-peer car-sharing network Getaround, then worked to help coordinate regulatory-related strategies for Airbnb, Uber and Lyft.
Then along came the concept of Stuffstr, the startup he cofounded last year. “In America, 80 percent of the things we own are used less than once a month,” he says. “We’ve got about 7,000 dollars worth of unused stuff sitting in the American home. Twenty-four billion is spent on self-storage—that’s seven square feet for every man, woman and child in America. It’s unbelievably wasteful in terms of money and resources,” he says with the zeal of an evangelist. “Stuffstr is designed to fundamentally move the needle on that.” How does it work? Stuffstr partners with retailers to catalog your purchases on your smartphone. The password-protected system stores what you bought, how much you paid for it, the model number, and more. Then it tracks the resale value of the item. If you need to repair it, Stuffstr will find someone to fix it. If you want to resell it, Stuffstr will hook you up with a buyer. If you prefer to donate it, Stuffstr will connect you with a charity. “It makes you very aware of the value of your stuff and how that value’s changing all the time,” he says. “The path of least resistance becomes the path of maximizing the value. Our belief is that people will actually start recirculating things.” Others are believers, too. Some of the nation’s largest retailers soon will start piloting the system. Stuffstr, a legally recognized Public Benefit Corporation, has been named a member of the MacArthur Foundation’s Circular Economy 100, and was invited to present at the group’s conference in Copenhagen in April. In June, Stuffstr won the Target Corporation Award at the Sustainable Brands Innovation Open in San Diego. Atcheson sums up his passion for innovation: “For me, there’s nothing more fulfilling than going into a room with a huge white board and saying, ‘Here’s a big problem, now how do we address and solve it?’” Bob Markley ’00 3rd Dimension Industrial 3D Printing Indianapolis Bob Markley ’00 and his four-person team at 3rd Dimension Industrial 3D Printing are getting ready to send the fruits of their labors to the moon—the real moon, that is. Markley, an engineer who earned a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering technology from Purdue University and an M.B.A. from Butler, owns this startup— one of only a few in the country that specialize in 3D metal printing. The company creates lightweight made-to-order components for aerospace companies and several Fortune 100 companies. 3rd Dimension has just finished building a series of palmsized aluminum capsules that will land on the moon early next year as part of the Carnegie Mellon University Robotic Institute’s quest for the Google Lunar X Prize. A team of artists is creating the Moon Arts Ark, which contains elements representing the arts and humanities. Four “Ark” capsules created by 3rd Dimension and the elements stored within them will remain on the moon, and a duplicate set of four will be exhibited in Paris and 10 other European cities next year. Markley says competitors recommended 3rd Dimension for the project. “We’re being told we make some of the best parts in
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the world right now,” he adds. “The industry is still very, very young. We work together; it’s definitely growing and we’re all trying to get stronger.” “I don’t see us ever replacing traditional manufacturing, but I see us complementing it,” he says, noting that he sees the most promise in industries such as aviation, where the weight of components is an issue. In the office complex at 71st and Zionsville Roads in Indianapolis, three large self-enclosed 3D laser printers are humming away in a clean, well-lit room. The machines create components by spreading micro-thin layers of metal powder onto a template; a very fine laser then melts the powder. One set of components can take anywhere from five hours to ten days to complete. “We try to put as many parts on each build as we can,” says Markley, who has spent many nights sleeping on a futon in the office so he can watch over the machines while they’re operating. He credits his early career with leading him to the business opportunity. Markley was an IndyCar engineer for nearly a decade before moving on to Rolls Royce, and then General Motors, in Indianapolis. A few years ago, when he learned he was going to be transferred to Michigan, he and his wife, a veterinarian, decided
they didn’t want to move. “I put together a business plan, found a banker who would take it on, and away we went,” he says. “The skills I learned from racing definitely translated into this field,” he says. “In that industry, everybody’s improving and constantly pushing the boundaries.” Markley also values the long hours he spent working as a team member in Park Tudor’s Technical Theatre Department and the lessons he learned from Technical Theatre Director Rob Hueni. “I gained a lot of confidence through that program, of not being afraid to try something.” Markley’s business is still in the research and development phase; over the past two years he estimates he has built tens of thousands of test samples. So far, all of the company’s business has come via word of mouth, but he’s just hired a business development manager and soon plans to kick off a significant development phase. He credits his wife, Arielle, for supporting him as he builds the business. “There’s been a lot of sacrifice, both time and financially. Everything I’m making is going back into growing this business,” he says, adding, “We’re so far ahead of where I’ve had the business plan at this point—that’s a testament to her support.” And he credits his small team of employees, who all “have that same mentality of trying new things and an openness and willingness to learn.” Michael Harris ’07 Software Engineer, Palantir Palo Alto, CA
Bob Markley, standing next to a 3D metal printing machine, holds examples of his work. The capsule at left is the one going to the moon.
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You might not think of “big data” as helping to solve important world problems, but in Michael Harris’s world, it does. Harris is a software engineer at Palantir, which mines big data to help do such things as find abducted children, save women from sex traffickers, shut down massive fraud rings, and track and stop foodborne illnesses. “I’ve always wanted to work on problems that have a significant impact in the world,” says Harris, who graduated from Stanford University in 2010 (in three years, no less) with a B.S. in computer science. Harris has what he calls his “dream job,” working on Palantir’s Universal Data Pipeline project. Engineers consolidate customers’ data sources and integrate them into Palantir’s analysis platforms, helping to provide an overall “big picture” of a particular issue or challenge. He’s involved in design and planning work, along with writing, testing, documenting and releasing code. He also serves as a mentor to interns, is involved in recruiting, and at times serves as a technical adviser for other Palantir projects. Harris started working as an intern at the company while still at Stanford, then stayed on as a part-time employee until he completed his degree. “I really enjoy building things and solving problems, and software is something I enjoy particularly,” he says. “There’s also a huge need for software engineers, and Palantir has a pretty uniquely compelling mission that I’m really excited to be a part of.” With the industry changing so quickly, Harris admits that it’s challenging to keep up with innovations. He reads recent papers
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More Alumni Innovators • Dr. Yaw Anokwa ’99, who was profiled in the Summer 2010 issue of The Phoenix, was honored in May by the University of Washington with its Diamond Award for Distinguished Service.
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published by respected companies in the field, such as Google, Facebook and Twitter, and keeps track of popular software in the open source community, “especially those developed under respected names like Apache,” he says. Asked to predict what the technology landscape will look like ten years from now, Harris says, “Wearable technology is starting to pick up the pace a lot. Self-driving cars are on the horizon—I’ve seen several going about their business near the Google campus.” He says he wouldn’t be surprised if we see some radical changes to society in the next decade, but also “wouldn’t be surprised if some of these crazier ideas fizzle out or end up taking way longer than people are expecting, and we barely see any substantive change. Either way though, it’s a really cool time to be a part of the technology industry because there are some really huge things happening,” he says. As for where Park Tudor fits in his career trajectory, he adds, “The faculty at PT are phenomenal and prepared me incredibly well for Stanford,” Harris says. “Mr. Ritz in particular encouraged me in all the right ways to pursue computer science and gave me every opportunity to gain exposure to it…. Would I have landed on software engineering regardless? There’s a decent chance I would have, but PT definitely removed any obstacles that were in the way of me getting there.” Another PT alum, Michael Wintermeyer ’10 also works at Palantir.
While at the University of Washington, Anokwa and his colleagues created Open Data Kit (ODK)—free, open-source software that is used in connection with mobile phones to help medical and aid professionals collect and share information in underserved areas of the world. He is the co-founder and CEO of Nafundi, which makes ODK and similar technologies available wherever they may be needed. The award noted, “Six years after its release, ODK is now one of the most widely used tools for data collection. It has been deployed by tens of thousands of organizations to replace tens of millions of paper forms, in domains as varied as climate monitoring, microfinance, and public health. Its users include the Red Cross, the Jane Goodall Institute, the Carter Center, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and Google.” Anokwa also has been honored by the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the Tides Foundation. • Erin Hoffman ’11 soon will be headed to Anokwa’s alma mater, the University of Washington, to begin her Ph.D. studies in human-centered design and engineering. She graduated in May from Michigan State University with a degree in computer science. While there, Hoffman worked as a research assistant, developing campus navigation apps for blind students. During her college years, she also has worked as a web developer at Crowe Horwath in Indianapolis and as an Android developer at Facebook in Silicon Valley and New York City.
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“Millionaire’s Row”: Tudor Hall residence was born as a country estate By Lisa Hendrickson ’77
In the 1960s, Tudor Hall stood on a road once known as “Million-
aire’s Row” because of the grand estates built there in the earliest decades of the 20th century. Tudor Hall’s address, 3650 Cold Spring Road, originally belonged to the sumptuous 44-acre Sommers estate. Built for a cost of $1 million between 1922 and 1924, it was the home of businessman Charles Birk Sommers, his wife Leonore, and their two sons, Sheldon Charles and Richard. When the Sommers family sold the estate to Tudor Hall in 1958, the elegant mansion became a boarding residence for dozens of teenage girls. The Sommers house perches high on a hill, looking as if it came straight out of a children’s storybook. Designed in the English Cotswold style by Indianapolis architect Herbert Bass, its fieldstone walls, arched eyebrow dormers and curving “faux” thatched roof give the impression of a centuries-old country manor house. In fact, the Sommers estate is a prime example of the late19th and early 20th-century American Country House movement, and for that reason it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. The grounds, designed by noted Danish-born landscape architect Jens Jensen—father of the Prairie style of landscape design— included a Japanese garden with waterfall, a formal perennial garden, and a series of arched stone bridges that cross Crooked Creek, which winds through the property.
The amenities also included a clay tennis court, a swimming pool made of imported Italian tile, an adjacent stone bathhouse, and a miniature golf course. Sommers, who made his fortune in real estate and the early automobile industry, was a friend and business associate of James Allison, Carl Fisher and Frank Wheeler, three of the men who founded the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Stone bridges on the Sommers estate crossed Crooked Creek.
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Stewart Manor as it looks today.
In March 1911, Sommers bought six acres of land on the west side of Cold Spring Road for $17,000. At the same time, James Allison purchased an adjoining lot for $3,800. The Indianapolis Star noted, “Carl G. Fisher owns a tract of land adjoining Mr. Sommers’s land on the south. It is the intention of Messrs. Sommers, Allison and Fisher to build homes there.” They were joined on “Millionaire’s Row” by their colleague Wheeler. Although the others built their houses immediately, Sommers didn’t start construction of his estate until ten years later. Bass, Knowlton and Company designed both the Allison and Sommers residences (although Allison fired Bass before the interior of his own house was finished ). The Sommers family entertained frequently, and many wellknown guests came to visit. Some of the most famous ones—Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, Joseph Conrad, Luther Burbank, Orville Wright and James Whitcomb Riley—etched their names in a living room stained-glass window, reportedly using a diamond reserved especially for that purpose. The home’s dining room “was definitely worthy of a queen,” wrote the Sommers’s daughter-in-law Sher Lee Sommers, who noted that the Sommers held a luncheon for Queen Marie of Romania when she visited Indianapolis. “The wood carving, Oriental rug, silk tapestry, petit point chair seats, Venetian glass chandelier,
and oil paintings held up under the closest scrutiny,” she noted. The dining table, which seated 14, was outfitted with a fountain in its center. A garden room featured four landscape designs made of Rookwood tile and a bronze fountain. A basement room, dubbed “The Inn,” was styled in the manner of an English pub, complete with fireplace, hare-and-hound hunting motif, and wood-beamed ceiling. Also in the basement “was a wine cellar suitable for a restaurant,” remembered Sommers. The bathhouse next to the pool had dressing rooms whose glass-tiled walls were painted with “mermaids and flora and fauna” by Randolph Coates, an artist who also painted the official portraits of two Indiana governors. The three-story house was maintained by a staff of seven: a “chief houseman” and his second-in-command, a cook, nursemaid, laundress, head gardener and chauffeur. Sommers died in 1941, and his wife continued to live in the house until she sold it to Tudor Hall in 1958. It was renamed Stewart Manor in honor of former Headmistress I. Hilda Stewart. The carriage house, also remodeled as a dormitory, was named Allen House for Tudor Hall’s first headmistress, Fredonia Allen. When Tudor Hall merged with Park School in 1970 and moved to the present-day College Avenue campus, the estate was sold to
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The remnants of the bathhouse on the Sommers estate.
Indianapolis Public Schools for $1 million—its original construction cost. For nearly a decade, the Sommers mansion stood vacant. IPS began a three-year partial restoration in 2000. The IPS Cold Spring Academy, an environmental science magnet school, is located there and the grounds are used for student environmental education. Stewart Manor today is used as a meeting and office space.
Tudor Hall students in a dorm room at Stewart Manor
“Res” life in Stewart Manor
Nancy Dennis Barefoot ’68, a Tudor Hall boarding student from
Muncie, moved in to Stewart Manor in 1964, when she was 13. Freshmen and sophomores lived on the third floor—the former servants’ quarters. Boarders were called “res” students. “I came from a house that was very ‘mid-century modern,’ so this grand house was really very different. But there was a homey atmosphere to it. There was something very grand about going through that front door. “The living room had a great deal of dark wood with built-in bookcases, and an elaborate fireplace and piano. It had the original Oriental rug left by the Sommers family. To me the most interesting part of the room was the windows. There were some stainedglass panels that had a clear area on them, and when people were guests of the Sommers they would have them etch their names in the glass using a diamond. I always wondered where that diamond was. It was really a kind of contact with the past, and it gave you an idea of what it used to be like. “I’d go down to where the bathhouse had been and try to figure out what it had once looked like. The pool was filled in. There were little niches in the remaining bathhouse walls that had some tiles set into them, with something very nautical on them—mermaids and such—that you don’t expect to see in the middle of Indiana. “The headmistress, Alma Whitford, had the dining room made into her living quarters. When you went in there, it wasn’t for a good reason. Whenever I was in that room I was so scared that I didn’t notice much about it! My number-one memory of the whole place was the leadedglass windows. You could take the point of a compass and etch
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Tudor Hall students relax in Stewart Manor
your boyfriend’s initials in the soft lead, and of course I did, and when I went back years later to attend a science workshop I looked to see if it was still there, and it was!”
Alumni News
Alumni News
Summer 2015 Park Tudor School
Alumni Weekend
Members of the class of ’85 catch up. Left to right: Amy Hayes, Woody Street Gardner, Wendy Kaufman, Julie DeVoe, Sarah Wittenberg Robinson.
Randy Rogers ’64 and Alex Rogers ’61 at the Fifty Year Brunch.
Reid Searles ’06, Tony Holton ’06, Lacy Panyard, Zach Wills ’03, and Laura Wills at the Distinguished Alumni Dinner.
Left to right: Greg Dulin ’05, Spencer Summerville ’06, Matt Duncan ’02, JJ Fabris ’05, Lance Ladendorf ’05, and Andrew Daugherty’05.
Diann Gery Walker ’65, Susan Russell ’65, and Cathy Madden Turner ’65 look through their Tudor Hall yearbook.
Dr. Matthew D. Miller with Distingushed Alumnus Ed Harris ’60.
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Reunion Class Photos
Tudor Hall Class of 1950 Left to right: Virginia Wagoner Metro, Joan Wyatt Gerberding, Jean Stacy Bradford.
Park School Class of 1965 Left to right: Charlie Raiser, Richard “Sunny Jim” Hockert, John Carr, George Reynolds.
Tudor Hall and Park School Class of 1960 Front Row, l to r: Billy Currie, Doug Darbro, Fred Cotton Back Row l to r: Alma Taylor Lathrop, Carol Cornelius Hutton, Lynne Baron.
Tudor Hall Class of 1965 Front Row, l to r: Mary Wyatt Balbach, Cathy Madden Turner, Mary Holliday Rogers, Lesley Rothbard, Diana Chambers, Susan Russell, Joyce Rubin, Suzy Loonsten Reese, Charlotte Klamer, Mary Harris Dibble. Back Row, l to r: Lynda Berry, Susie Mayberry Mead, Joyce Garfield Nelson, Gail Gibson Alden, Diann Gery Walker, Nicki Mann, Myrta Pulliam, Marion Sweeney, Katie Mothershead Kruse, Beverly Rechtoris Hobbs, Betsy Moses, Ann Rust Neubauer.
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Tudor Hall Class of 1970 Front Row, l to r: Lisa Kirk Salazar, Janet Fry Schneider, Babby Hohlt Rajt, Tony Onstott. Back Row l to r: Sydney Goodrich Green, Cecilia Fowler, Julie Hollowell, Susan Stoops Watson, Debbie Benedict Eades, Claudia Covalt Auger.
Park Tudor Class of 1985 Front Row, l to r: Ann Smith, Julie DeVoe, Woody Street Gardner, Courtney O’Connor Purtee, Wendy Kaufman, Amy Hayes. Back Row, l to r: John Perine, JR Walsh, Jon Cotton, Dave Kimbell, Thomas Garner, Pete French, James Farrell.
Park Tudor Class of 1980 Front Row, l to r: Anna Welke Moiles, Cindy Mouser Shamo, Jeff Higgins, John Travis. Back row, l to r: Robert Hicks, Tom Pettinga, Brent Ramey, Brad Brueckmann, Tricia Caress McMath, Ruth Myrehn Brown.
Park Yudor Class of 1990 Front Row, l to r: Audrey Jay Jiricho, Heather Simons Hansen, Heather Stewart Shore, Heather Reilly Murphy, Heather Rubenstein Wandrei, Preston Breunig. Back Row, l to r: Chris Gallagher, Lori Bonner, Emily Arnold McKeon, Heather Ward Young, Laura Kivela Schroeder, Susan Baroncini-Moe.
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Park Tudor School Class of 1995 Front Row, l to r: Khary Morris, Jimmy Lewis, Emily Mayhill Shoop, Reena Patel, Alyssa Lennon Collova, Kevin McGarvey. Back Row, l to r: Bobby Bagley, Virginia Moore, Kelli Blankenbaker Scott, Cathy Feit Purciful, Kate Engle, Lindsay Elder Thornton, Kelly Sheridan Kenny, Catherine “Katie” Warner Blewitt, Matthew Aaegesan.
Park Tudor School Class of 2005 Front Row, l to r: Rod Roethke, Matthew Baldwin, Kandyce Carter Lykins, Greg Dulin, Casey Cooper, Melinda Bruner, Megan Hosein, Amanda Wessels Schutte. Middle Row, l to r: Rachel Gatewood, Austin Sweeney, Andrew Daugherty, Thornton Mountford, Courtney Dewart, Derrick Cranor, Kyle Bonham, Andrew Gillman, Grafton Day, Ayo Ositelu, Andrew Perez, Emily Hammock, Charles Lynn. Back Row, l to r: Michelle Marie Polanco, Sean Bryan, JJ Fabris, Ella Yung, Charles Johnson, Nicholas Ison, Zachary York, Amy Kuhn Lamar, David Braitman, Lance Ladendorf.
Park Tudor School Class of 2000 Front Row, l to r: Will Lawson, Monica Khurana, Stephanie Goodrid Lawson, Carolyn Edwards Fennimore, Anna Edwards, Crystal Weaver. Back Row, l to r: Kate Turner, Mary Cislak, Kasey Kruse, Ross Fleck, Matt Kleymeyer, Matt Bremner, Cyrus Hiatt.
Park Tudor School Class of 2010 Left to right: Adam Roth, Billy Beeson, Ellen Grein, Kishan Shah and Michael Wintermeyer
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Alumni Weekend 2016 – Save the Date
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ttention Classes of 1936, 1941, 1946, 1951, 1956, 1961, 1966, 1971, 1976, 1981, 1986, 1991, 1996, 2001, 2006, and 2011! Your reunion celebration will take place on April 29-30, 2016. 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 and social media. If the school does not have your email address, please forward to Gretchen Hueni at ghueni@parktudor.org. Not your reunion year? No problem – there are several activities planned throughout the weekend that appeal to all alumni, not only those celebrating an anniversary. Please join us!
Alumni Association Board of Directors welcomes new members
The
Park Tudor Alumni Association Board of Directors elected the following alumni to serve on the board starting in August 2015: Katie McKown Feldman ’03 Katelyn Miner Fisher ’04 Mallory Rider Inselberg ’98 Andy Marra ’06 Julianne Sicklesteel ’07 Officers for the 2015-2016 year include: President..................................Joe Hawkins ’96 Vice-President...........Beth Tolbert Johnson ’03 Secretary............................Matt Kleymeyer ’00 Treasurer................................. Tony Holton ’06 Past-President...... Lindsay Elder Thornton ’95 Board members are required to serve one two-year term (with the option of serving a second term), participate in monthly board meetings, serve on at least one alumni committee, be a dues-paying member of the Alumni Association, and support the school’s Annual Fund. The Park Tudor
Distinguished Alumni Awards Call for Nominations
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he Distinguished Alumni Awards Committee invites you to submit a nomination for the Distinguished Alumni Awards. You are encouraged to submit names of Park School, Tudor Hall and/or Park Tudor alumni who you feel merit consideration. Please consider for nomination: Name __________________________________________ Class Year _________ Area of endeavor in which nominee has distinguished himself/herself:
You may attach any other pertinent materials or information regarding your candidate(s). Nominator (optional) _________________________________ Class Year ______ Return this form by September 4, 2015 to: Development and Alumni Relations Office, Park Tudor School, 7200 N. College Ave., Indianapolis, IN 46240-3016 Alumni Board represents the diverse community of Park, Tudor Hall, and Park Tudor School alumni and carries out the mission and goals of the Alumni Association. Please contact Gretchen Hueni at ghueni@ parktudor.org 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.
the amount of the gift, but it is helpful in the school’s long-range planning.
New Members of the Endowment Society
*= current faculty/staff # = deceased
The Endowment Society recognizes our
Park Tudor family members who have notified us that their estate plans include a gift to the school. There may be others who have made such arrangements but have not told us about them. If you are one of these special people, please notify 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
Special thanks to the following new members: Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Byrnes (Rebecca*) Mr. and Mrs. Harry Green Dr. and Mrs. Chris Miyamoto (Chris ’88) Mrs. Natalie Griener Riddell ’45#
If you have any questions about the Endowment Society, please contact Gretchen Hueni at 317/ 415-2766, toll-free at 1-888782-5861 or ghueni@parktudor.org.
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Reunion Class Gifts Park School Class of 1935 50 percent participation Mr. Harold Cunning Jr. Tudor Hall Class of 1935 Still awaiting your participation! Park School Class of 1940 Still awaiting your participation! Tudor Hall Class of 1940 Still awaiting your participation! Park School Class of 1945 Still awaiting your participation! Tudor Hall Class of 1945 38 percent participation Mrs. Ann (Clark) Calkins Mrs. Nancy (Hare) Dunn Mrs. Martha (Hutchman) Jensen Park School Class of 1950 Still awaiting your participation! Tudor Hall Class of 1950 9 percent participation Dr. Brenda (Haram) Canedy Park School Class of 1955 42 percent participation Mr. J. Peter Frenzel III Mr. G. Carl Huber II Mr. Franklin Mead III Mr. Richard Pidgeon Mr. David Poston Tudor Hall Class of 1955 30 percent participation Mrs. Suzanne (Brown) Blakeman Mrs. Lucinda Lee Evans Mrs. Ann (Morrison) Goris Mrs. Margaret (Nessler) Huntsberry Mrs. Cynthia (Haram) Pidgeon Mrs. Priscilla (Brown) Ruddell Park School Class of 1960 90 percent participation Mr. Fredrick Cotton Dr. William Currie, Jr. Mr. Douglas Darbro Mr. Emerson Davis, Jr. Mr. Edward W. Harris III Dr. Alan Keller Mr. William Lynch Mr. Tom Sams Mr. Stephen Valinet
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Tudor Hall Class of 1960 17 percent participation Ms. Nancy Ayres Ms. Lynne Baron Mrs. Judy (Kothe) Birge Mrs. Carol (Cornelius) Hutton Park School Class of 1965 40 percent participation Mr. John Carr III Mr. William Myers Mr. Charles Raiser Mr. George Reynolds Mr. Tom Riddick Mr. Daniel Werbe Tudor Hall Class of 1965 44 percent participation Mrs. Gail (Gibson) Alden Mrs. Mary (Wyatt) Balbach Mrs. Beverly (Rechtoris) Hobbs Mrs. Katharine (Mothershead) Kruse Ms. Diana (Chambers) Leslie Mrs. Elizabeth “Nicki” (Funk) Mann Mrs. Susan (Russell) McConnell Mrs. Susie (Mayberry) Mead Mrs. Eleanor (Taylor) Miller Ms. Betsy Moses Mrs. Joyce (Garfield) Nelson Mrs. Lynda (Berry) O’Neal Ms. Myrta Pulliam Mrs. Suzy (Loonsten) Reese Mrs. Mary (Holliday) Rogers Miss Joyce Rubin Mrs. Lesley (Rothbard) Seitchick Ms. Marion Sweeney Mrs. Diann (Gery) Walker Park School Class of 1970 Still awaiting your participation! Tudor Hall Class of 1970 5 percent participation Mrs. Sydney (Goodrich) Green Park Tudor Class of 1975 15 percent participation Mr. Willliam Fosgate Ms. Amy Davis Mr. Lee Griffin Mrs. Valerie (Ballow) Hardeman Mr. Alexander Holliday III Ms. Joni Hughes Ms. Abigail Test Mrs. Kimberly (Ralph) Wethington
Park Tudor Class of 1980 16 percent participation Dr. David All DDS Mr. Craig Berkeley Mrs. Ruth (Myrehn) Brown Mr. Robert Hicks Mr. John Michael Mr. John Travis Mr. Joseph Williams Park Tudor Class of 1985 33 percent participation Mr. Jon Cotton Ms. Julia DeVoe Mr. Peter French Mrs. Anne Woodruff Street Gardner Mr. Thomas Garner Mr. August Hardee II Ms. Caroline (Jones) Hubbell Mr. David Kimbell Ms. Catherine LaCrosse Dr. John Lowe Jr. Dr. Laura McCord Mrs. Anne (Rogers) Mitchell CDR David R. Palmer Mr. John Perine Mr. Theodore “Tripp” Robinson Mr. Sean Smith Mr. Darron Stewart Park Tudor Class of 1990 22 percent participation Mr. Preston Breunig Jr. Mrs. Heather (Simons) Hansen Mr. Michael Levine Mrs. Emily (Arnold) Mckeon Mrs. Heather (Reilly) Murphy Mrs. Sandra (Alpert) Nachlis Ms. Cynthia Pugh Mrs. Laura (Kivela) Schroeder Mrs. Heather (Stewart) Shore Mr. Bryan Smith Park Tudor Class of 1995 30 percent participation Dr. Matthew Aagesen Mrs. Sarah (Spink) Benish Dr. Catherine (Warner) Blewitt Mr. James Combs Ms. Ayn Katherine Engle Mrs. Jordan (Paul) Fisch Mrs. Hillary (Lerch) Gibson Dr. Mark Gibson Mr. Shawn Graft Mr. Jackson W. Hazlewood III Mrs. Kimberley (Myers) Hewlett Mr. George Hicks Jr. Mrs. Kelly Anne Sheridan Kenny Mr. Kyler Nunery Mrs. Cathy (Feit) Purciful
Mrs. Elizabeth (Laughlin) Raymond Dr. Vani Sabesan Mrs. Kelli (Blankenbaker) Scott Mrs. Katharine Shoopman Smith Mr. Michael T. Smith Mr. Peter Ten Eyck Mrs. Lindsay (Elder) Thornton Mr. Alexander Weaver Park Tudor Class of 2000 13 percent participation Mr. Matt L. Bremner Dr. Anna Edwards Mrs. Carolyn (Edwards) Fennimore Mr. Ross Fleck Mr. Matt Kleymeyer Mrs. Stephanie Goodrid Lawson Mr. William V. Lawson IV Mr. Brian Tolbert Mrs. Kate (Lehman) Trumbull Ms. Crystal Weaver Park Tudor Class of 2005 16 percent participation Mr. Kyle Bonham Ms. Grafton Day Ms. Stefanie Dean Ms. Courtney Dewart Ms. Caitlin Drouin Ms. Helene Genetos Mr. Andrew Gillman Mrs. Emily Hammock Mr. Ken Hui Mr. Charles Johnson Ms. Anne Kruse Mr. Lance Ladendorf Mr. Ayotunde Ositelu Mr. Roderick Roethke Park Tudor Class of 2010 13 percent participation Mr. Richard Beaton Mr. Eric Bohn Mr. Brent E. Cleveland Mr. Jack Gilligan Ms. Ellen L. Grein Ms. Shreya Gulati Ms. Katharine Kulka Mr. William Haydon Osborne Mr. Derek C. Reinbold Mr. Adam Roth Mr. Kishan Shah Mr. Luke S. Tilmans Ms. Kristen H. Trimpe
Class Notes 1991
• Jen Bohler Johansen made her television debut in February with an appearance on NBC’s Chicago Fire. She played the mom of a child who is part of a fire investigation.
1996
• Brooke Steichen Barrow married Alexander Barrow in downtown Indianapolis on September 20, 2014. Park Tudor alumni in attendance were Ashley ’96 and Mike Harris ’96, Amber Muhs Tucker ’96, and Jimbo Steichen ’99. The couple currently lives in New York City.
2003
• Shauna Havercamp Dugandzic and her husband Andrew welcomed their first child, Kyla Grace, on April 27, 2015. They live in Celebration, FL, where Shauna works in advertising at The Walt Disney Company.
2005
• Ella Yung is currently in Chicago getting her doctorate in Psychology. She plans on focusing her work on PTSD and trauma.
2001
• Abigail Poyser and Anatoli Kouznetsov were married on November 29, 2014 at Christ Church Cathedral with the reception at The Columbia Club in Indianapolis. Park Tudor alumni included Patrick Poyser ’98, Kate Olivier Runge ’01, Susan Meshberger Lattuca ’01, Sam Rowe ’01, Megan Kuhn ’01 and Lindsay King ’01. Abby is an audiologist working in product management for Phonak, and Anatoli is an IT project manager. The two met while living in Washington, D.C. but have recently relocated to the Chicago area.
2011
• Heidi Brueckmann is officially committed to NYU for her master’s in Museum Studies. • Nolan Smith is headed to Seattle to work for Microsoft, analyzing data for companies around the U.S. During his final year at Vanderbilt, he had the opportunity to develop an app that studies how preschoolers learn while using touch screens. The project was a collaboration with a graduate student at Peabody College. In an interview with myVU, Nolan, a computer science major, said “I had to go back again and again and think about coding in ways I never had before.”
Ella Yung ’05
Nolan Smith ’11
Park Tudor alumni at the wedding of Abigail Poyser ’01 and Anatoli Kouznetsov. Left to right: Lindsay King ’01, Patrick Poyser ’98, Megan Kuhn ’01, Abigail Poyser ’01, Anatoli Kouznetstov, Sam Rowe ’01, Susan Meshberger Lattuca ’01, Kate Olivier Runge ’01.
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Marriages
• Judy Worrall Parsons ’66 to Alvin Parsons on December 13, 2014. • Brooke Steichen Barrow ’96 to Alexander Barrow on September 20, 2014. • Abigail Poyser ’01 to Anatoli Kouznetsov on November 29, 2014. • Grafton Day ’05 to Steve Balko on June 6, 2015.
• To Assistant Director of Communications Cassie Dull and her husband Chad on the birth of Gavin Parker Dull on February 21, 2015. • To Accounting Manager Amber Chance and her husband Alex Markov on the birth of Stanley Paul Markov on April 21, 2015. • To Upper School Science teacher Marilyn Weiss and her husband John Lisher on the birth of June Perry Lisher on May 30, 2015.
Deaths
• Elizabeth Anderson Ley ’41 on May 23, 2015. • Natalie Griener Riddell ’45 on April 5, 2015. • Valri Philpott Sandoe ’52 on March 8, 2015. • David V.A. Fauvre ’56 on March 9, 2015.
Judy Worrall Parsons ’66 and Alvin Parsons
• Diane Estelle Guingrich Lockhart ’63 on May 6, 2015.
Congratulations
• Tony Dezelan (non-grad 1994) on March 30, 2015.
• To Spencer Lerch ’94 and his wife Elizabeth and Upper School teacher Kathryn Lerch and her husband Keith on the birth of their daughter and granddaughter, Madeleine Elizabeth, on May 1, 2015.
• Former Tudor Hall teacher Kathryn “Kay” Miller on June 5, 2015.
(Births, Adoptions)
• To Whitney Ford Dick ’99 and her husband Eric on the birth of Tucker Ford Dick on January 22, 2015. • To Kasey Kruse Wakefield ’00 and her husband Josh on the birth of Emery Brooke Wakefield in February 2015. • To Shauna Havercamp Dugandzic ’03 and her husband Andrew on the birth of Kyla Grace Dugandzic on April 27, 2015. • To Beth Tolbert Johnson ’03 and her husband Ronan on the birth of James and Tess Johnson on April 6, 2015. • To Lauren Links ’04 and her husband Roy on the birth of Gabriel Blumenfeld on April 19, 2015.
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• Former first grade teacher Barbara Rominger on May 4, 2015.
Condolences
• To James James ’53, Jenifer James Foxworthy ’81, and James Foxworthy ’18 on the death of their son, brother and uncle, Andrew James. • To Sarah Ertel Hensley ’68 on the death of her mother, Maryann McElhany Ertel on April 15, 2015. • To Kate Sandoe ’77 and Evan Sandoe ’15 on the death of their mother and grandmother, Valri Philpot Sandoe on March 8, 2015.
• To Ann Smith ’85 and Janis SmithGomez ’85 on the death of their father, Dr. John Arthur Smith, on March 21, 2015. • To Sanford ’87, Thomas ’85, and Kendall Garner ’17 on the death of their father and grandfather, LaForrest Garner on April 9, 2015. • To Jodi Dezelan Perdue ’90 and former faculty members Joe and Cathy Dezelan and on the death of their brother and son, Tony Dezelan on March 30, 2015. • To Jennifer Wagner ’97, James Riley ’98 and Amy Riley ’99 on the death of their grandmother, Natalie Griener Riddell ’45 on April 5, 2015. • To Jessica ’07 and Paul Dugdale ’09 on the death of their mother, Sara Dugdale, on February 26, 2015. • To Kristen Rominger Bullock ’84, Lower School Director Mary McGonagle, Aidan ’18 and Charlie Rominger ’21 on the death of their mother, mother-in-law, and grandmother, Barbara Rominger, on May 4, 2015. • To Upper School English teacher Paul Hamer on the death of his mother-in-law, Joanne Munley, on April 1, 2015. • To music teacher Melanie Marshall on the death of her father, Bert C. Holmes, Jr., on April 24, 2015. • To Upper School Science teacher John Talbert on the death of his father, Dr. Robert Talbert, on April 4, 2015. • To Speech and Drama teacher Tam Tudor on the death of her father, Richard Edwin Tudor, on May 2, 2015. • To food service assistant Lynn Wardell on the death of her mother, Rodena Scott, on March 10, 2015.
Class Notes Summer 2015 Park Tudor School
Honorary and Memorial Gifts Received January 1, 2015 through June 15, 2015 Gifts in honor of … Alec J. Bloomfield ’19 Mr. and Mrs. Kenton Roush Mr. William L. Browning Mr. and Mrs. William E. Browning Ms. Abigail Buroker ’13 Reverend and Mrs. J. William Novak Ms. Olivia Buroker ’15 Reverend and Mrs. J. William Novak
Mr. Jonathan McDowell* ’02 Mr. David Quigley ’03 Mrs. Elise Marshall Ms. Susan Mark ’72 Gavin Murphy ’21 Anonymous Piper Murphy ’22 Anonymous Theresa Odmark ’15 Mr. and Mrs. Jim Shute
Class of 1960 Mr. and Mrs. Emerson F. Davis (Emerson ’60)
Natalie Odmark ’17 Mr. and Mrs. Jim Shute
Class of 1981 Mrs. Susan Beeman ’81
Mrs. Susan Poston ’56 Mr. and Mrs. William N. Wishard, III ’59
Class of 2005 Ms. Anne Kruse ’05
Mr. David S. Poston ’55 Mr. and Mrs. William N. Wishard, III ’59
Mr. Larry Eckel* Mr. J.J. Anagnostou ’03
Mr. Christopher Tucker ’04 Mr. Ben Shaw ’04
Mr. Jim Foxlow Mr. and Mrs. William N. Wishard, III ’59 Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Raiser ’65 Mr. and Mrs. James L. Worrall, Jr. ’61
Mr. Laurence K Treadwell Mr. William Hubbard ’04
Ms. Ruth Faris ’29 Mr. and Mrs. Keenan Fennimore (Carolyn Edwards ’00) Mr. Edward W. Harris, III ’60 Mr. and Mrs. Weber D. Donaldson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Petri (Dede Neal ’73) Mr. Hurst K. Groves ’59 Bud Harris Mr. Craig T. Jackson ’82 Mrs. Claire Wishard Hoppenworth ’88 Mr. and Mrs. William N. Wishard, III ’59 Mr. David A. Kivela Dr. Jill Denny ’94
Mr. Gordon D Wishard ’62 Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell Rex Hoppenworth (Claire Wishard ’88) Mr. and Mrs. William N. Wishard, III ’59 Mr. Gordon D Wishard, Jr. ’92 Mr. and Mrs. William N. Wishard, III ’59
Gifts in memory of… Mr. Lew Berkeley Mr. and Mrs. James L. Worrall, Jr. ’61 Dr. and Mrs. Alan B. Keller (Alan ’60) Mr. and Mrs. Gregory A. Hartmann (Greg ’79) Ms. Tessa E. Byers ’10 Ms. Ellen L. Grein ’10
Dr. David Darbro ’54 Dr. and Mrs. Douglas Darbro (Douglas ’60) Mr. Barow Davidian Ms. Abigail Test ’75 Mr. Tony Dezelan Ms. Carole Diane Roe Mrs. Deborah M. Dominguez Mrs. Donna O’Donnell Mr. Thomas Esterline ’57 Mr. William Esterline ’01 Mr. David V. A. Fauvre ’56 Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Smith (Becky Sharp ’57) Ms. Penny Landrigan ’57 Dr. Anne C. Hodges Garrison ’28 Mrs. and Mr. Rebecca G. Tracy (Becky Garrison ’52) Mr. Harvey Hudson III ’43 Mr. Jim Hudson Mr. Rob C. Hueni Mr. and Mrs. Chad Mitchell (Emily Brunette ’99) Mr. and Mrs. Chris Klocke (Kelly Marquart ’03) Mr. and Mrs. Christopher D. Comer (Chris ’94) Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Kenny (Kelly Sheridan ’95) Mr. August M. Hardee, II ’85 Mr. John T. Gilligan ’10 Mrs. Kimberly Hewlett ’95 Ms. Anne Kimsey ’03 Ms. Ella Freihofer ’13 Mr. and Mrs. James L. Worrall, Jr. ’61 Ms. Grace Barlow ’11 Andy James Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey W. Yingling (Jeff ’78)
Mrs. Lucinda Brown Lanman ’57 Mrs. Priscilla Ruddell ’55
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Class Notes Summer 2015 Park Tudor School
Honorary and Memorial Gifts Received January 1, 2015 through June 15, 2015 Mrs. Rosalie Lurvey Rothbard ’38 Mrs. Lesley Seitchick ’65 Mr. Ernest E. McGuire Mr. and Mrs. David N. Shane Mr. William J. Mead Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. O’Connor, Jr. Mr. Franklin B. Mead, III ’55 Mrs. Linda Hamilton McLaughlin ’43 Mr. and Mrs. Harry R. McLaughlin (Mac ’79; Margo Raikos ’81) Mr. H. Roll McLaughlin, FAIA Ms. Patricia Moore ’65 Ms. Marion Sweeney ’65 Mrs. Sallie Mink ’65 Ms. Marion Sweeney ’65 Mr. Andrew D. Ponader ’10 Ms. Ellen L. Grein ’10 Mrs. Valri Philpott Sandoe ’52 Mr. and Mrs. Philip A. Brooks (Claire Wilkinson ’52) Mr. and Mrs. Frank O’Brien (Dee DeMotte ’52) Mr. and Mrs. John Cole Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Pennington (M.C. Swartz ’52) Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tracy (Becky Garrison ’52) Mr. and Mrs. Theodore W. Ringer Mr. Richard D. Wood Mr. Richard H. Amling Mrs. Mary Sydney Matuska ’52 Mrs. Sally Glasel ’52 Mrs. Tobie Calkins ’52 Ms. Heather Kulwin ’92 Ms. Mary Martha Wright ’52 Ms. Rosanna Hall ’52 Mr. Baxter S. Rogers ’59 Colonel Torrence and Dr. Lynette Rogers (Torry ’56) Mr. Alexander Rogers ’61 Mr. and Mrs. William N. Wishard, III ’59
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Mr. Humam Sukapdjo Mr. Mike McCraw and Dr. Amye Sukapdjo ’87 Mr. Peter Stewart Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Teel ’61 Mr. Alexander M. Stewart Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Teel ’61 Mrs. Florence Stewart ’30 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Teel ’61 Mr. Stephen Sacher Mr. and Mrs. Joel Sacher Mrs. Judy Shive Anonymous Christopher Jacob Therber Mr. and Mrs. Kerk McKeon (Emily Arnold ’90) Miss Jane Trotter Mr. and Mrs. David J. Shumate
Thank a Teacher Mr. J. Michael Ayres* Mr. Nolan Smith ’11 Mr. and Mrs. Michael Massel (Michael ’07; Amanda Ranek ’06) Mrs. Karen Ayres* Mr. and Mrs. Michael Massel (Michael ’07; Amanda Ranek ’06) Mr. Mark Dewart* Ms. Emily Janin ’14 Mrs. Cynthia Eiteljorg* Mr. James Eiteljorg ’09 Mrs. Deborah Stuart Everett* ’69 Mr. Luke Thomas Robbins ’07 Mrs. Sylvia Fleck* Mr. and Mrs. Ross Fleck ’00
Mr. Jerry Grayson* Dr. and Mrs. Christopher Stack Ms. Laura Gellin* Mr. Jonathan Buckley ’11 Dr. Paul Hamer* Mr. Nolan Smith ’11 Dr. Eileen Janzen Mr. and Mrs. Eric Smith (Kathy Schmid ’86) Mr. David B. Malcom* Mr. and Mrs. Brendan Fitzpatrick (Alida Malcolm ’99) Ms. Diana Malcom ’93 Mrs. Lori Morales* Dr. Alfonso de Dios and Mrs. Raquel Molina Ms. Margo McAlear* Mr. Richard Ni ’11 Ms. Alexandra Dakich ’12 Ms. Alexandra Janin ’12 Mrs. Jennifer Nie* Indianapolis Garden Club Mr. Thomas Page* Mr. Evan Sumner ’14 Park Tudor Faculty Dr. and Mrs. Edward T. Fry Mr. Ryan Ritz* Mr. Nolan Smith ’11 Dr. Geoffrey Sharpless* Mr. Nolan Smith ’11 Mrs. Gaye Shula* Ms. Elizabeth Shula ’04 Ms. Lesley Sowers ’04 Ms. Jane Sidey* Ms. Donna Hopf Mrs. Heather Teets* Ms. Shreya Gulati ’10
Class Notes Summer 2015 Park Tudor School
Honorary and Memorial Gifts Received January 1, 2015 through June 15, 2015 Mrs. Janice L. Vote* Ms. Cassidy Laikin ’11 Ms. Emily Knapp ’11 Mr. John R Williams* Dr. and Mrs. Christopher Stack Mr. Dave Morrison and Ms. Margot McKinney ’79 *faculty
Gifts to the Jan Guffin Distinguished Teaching Chair Anonymous - 3 Mr. Iñaki Alanis-Cue ’03 Mr. Jeffrey Blickman ’04 Dan and Beth Bohn Ms. Emily Bohn ’12 Mr. Eric S. Bohn ’10 Mr. Gregory Daniel Bohn ’07 Mr. and Mrs. James Brainard Dr. and Mrs. Mark Cain Mr. and Mrs. John Compton Ms. Mary Crevey Ms. Grafton Day ’05 Dr. and Mrs. Frank M. Deane Mr. J. Russel Denton ’01 John and Ruth Denton Mr. Jeffrey T. Eaton and Mrs. Nancy B. Cunning Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Elder Mr. and Mrs. Blake Elder (Blake ’03) Mr. and Mrs. Frederick D. Emhardt (Fred ’78; Cynthia LaFollette ’79) Mr. and Mrs. John N. Failey Mr. Justin Farlow ’03
Mr. Jeremy Fazli ’01 Mr. and Mrs. John Fazli (John ’76) Michael and Kristin Fruehwald Dr. and Mrs. Edward T. Fry Philip and Dorothea Genetos Tom and Mary Grein Dr. Joel Hammond Mr. and Mrs. R. Dick Hamstra Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. Harris (Ed ’60) Mr. Michael Harris ’07 Mr. Jaskaran S. Heir ’07 Mr. Kevin Honigford and Ms. Kimberly Pohlman Mr. Frank Hrisomalos ’02 The Hubbard Family (Al and Kathy Hubbard, Kathryn Hubbard ’06, Sara E. Hubbard ’06, Will Hubbard ’04) Mr. Ken Hui ’05 Dr. Elise Hurrell ’03 Miss Jamie Elizabeth Hurrle ’07 Ms. Sara Johnson Bill Johnson and Karen Napier-Johnson Mr. Neb Malcolm and Ms. Alisa Judy-Malcolm ’98 Ms. Lee Keller ’09 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Keller Ms. Emily Knapp ’11 Ms. Laura Knapp ’02 Mr. Michael G. Knapp ’06 Peter and Barbara Knapp Dr. John Krol Mr. Lance Ladendorf ’05 Dr. Frederick Landis Mr. and Mrs. Kyle Lanham Mr. and Mrs. Jamie Lazin (Allison Blickman ’02) Mr. and Mrs. Eric A. Lee (Holly Kuhn ’77) Dr. and Mrs. Roger Lenke Dr. and Mrs. Anthony Lombardo Ms. Reilly Martin ’12
Drs. James McGill and Julie Fetters Dr. and Mrs. Edward D. Mihelich Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey A. Mossler (Jeff and Calise Mossler, Mr. Sam Anaokar ’97 and Dr. Jordan Mossler Anaokar ’97, Adrienne Lewis ’00, J. David Mossler ’04) Dr. and Mrs. Ryan D. Nagy (Katherine Deane ’98) Mr. Ayotunde Ositelu ’05 Ms. Madeline Patterson ’08 Ms. Carolyn Pearson Pearson ’03 Mr. and Mrs. Adam Perkins (Adam ’03) Mrs. Lindsay Winingham Pykosz ’03 Mr. John Rardon ’12 Mr. Michael Rardon ’08 Mr. Nicholas Reider ’03 Mr. Eric Sabandal ’09 Mr. Ronald G. Salatich and Mrs. Hilary Stout Salatich Mr. and Mrs. John B. Scofield Mr. and Mrs. Michael Shoff Mr. William Hackl Brainard ’07 and Mrs. Julianne Elizabeth Sicklesteel ’07 Mr. and Mrs. David Simon via the David and Jacqueline Simon Charitable Foundation Betsy and Jim Smitherman Mr. Alan Stautz ’14 Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Stautz Mr. Sidney Taurel James E. Thomas and Judith E. Dell’Aringa Elliott Thomasson ’07 Jeffrey and Benita Thomasson Mr. John R.Thornburgh, II ’06 Dr. William and Mrs. Mary Tierney Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin D. Trumbull (Kate Lehman ’00) Mr. William Kent Winingham ’08 Ms. Brooke Wright ’99
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