Peddie Chronicle Fall/Winter 2021 by The Peddie School

Peddie

FALL/WINTER 2021

CHRONICLE

Post-virtual

WHAT PEDDIE STUDENTS ARE SAYING ABOUT BEING BACK TO SCHOOL IN A COVID-19 WORLD

ThanksPEDDIE for the music and the memories ALUMNI SHARE THE TUNES THEY REMEMBER FROM THEIR TEEN DAYS

ARTS EXPANSION PROJECT

MICHAEL MCKITISH RETIRES

PEDDIE CHRONICLE FALL/WINTER 2021 VOL. 150, NO. 1

Editor: Carrie Harrington

Alumni

Bob Gersony ’63 dramatically influenced U.S. foreign policy for decades

Nicole Sin Quee ’89 does not brake

Ignacio Saturnino Molinet ’23 had a long-buried secret

Class Notes

Director of Strategic Marketing and Communications: Wendi Patella P’17 ’20 Contributors: Doug Mariboe ’69 P’10 ’14 Marisa Procopio ’87 Megan Sweeney Art Director: Brandon Detherage Photographers: Craig Dale Brandon Detherage Marisa Green Jim Inverso Andrea Kane Marc Onion Illustrators: Eric Nyquist Stef Wong Printing: J.S. McCarthy Printers The Peddie Chronicle is published twice a year by the Office of Strategic Marketing and Communications for alumni, families and friends of the school. The Peddie School 201 South Main Street Hightstown, NJ 08520-3349 Tel: (609) 944-7500 peddie.org/chronicle We welcome your input: editor@peddie.org

LETTER FROM THE HEAD OF SCHOOL

Recreating our joy After 18 long months, all Peddie students resumed in-person learning this fall, and gradually, over the summer, all employees returned to work on campus. As our community adapts to living, learning and working safely in a highly-fluid COVID reality, we are actively seeking out opportunities to celebrate the fun of being together again. In short, we are working on recreating our joy. We kicked off the school year with a boom — literally — with an extraordinary campus fireworks display and our inaugural Blue & Gold Games. Students are once again attending chapel in person, on a rotating schedule. Performing arts, clubs and activities have resumed and are as vibrant as ever. The return of fall interscholastic competitions brought our fields, tracks and courts alive, culminating in the return of our school’s all-time favorite tradition: Peddie-Blair Day. Overall, this fall brought high-decibel excitement as well as eagerly-anticipated reunions and new friendships. We know from our experiences over the last year and a half that Peddie must remain flexible and be ready to adjust at any time. We will continue to be guided by science to ensure the health and safety of our community. For now, every day suggests we are closer to routines we are used to, even as we know some COVID lessons will stick with us. We welcome both the familiar and the innovative! Ala Viva!

Peter A. Quinn P’15 ’18 ’21

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RECREATING OUR JOY

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RECREATING OUR JOY

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RECREATING OUR JOY

Over the summer, Peddie's Buildings and Grounds staff adopted a herd of goats as a green way to keep the grass on the solar panel field tidy and fertilize it at the same time.

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WE HAVE BIG PLANS FOR THIS YEAR, AND THE EXCITEMENT IS BUILDING.

Every dollar, large or small, moves us forward. Give to The Peddie Fund today at peddie.org/give or on Venmo @PeddieSchool

New teaching faculty join Peddie for the 2021–22 academic year From left: Jesse Facey (Spanish), Ami Shah (English), Julie Sheldon ’05 (Science), Matthew Brady (Mathematics), Desmond Frost (Physics), Siri Mellem (Physics), Christina Wang (Mathematics), Amandeep Kaur (Mathematics), Zach Ottati (English) and Morgan Spivey ’14 (History) Not pictured: Molly Kuribayashi (French) and Stephen Roca (Spanish)

Peddie board chair lays out vision for the future DOUG DAVIDSON ’64 SUCCEEDS ELIZABETH SILVERMAN P’03 ’10 Doug Davidson ’64 was elected to serve as chair of the Peddie Board of Trustees by the 33-member body this spring, following the tenure of Elizabeth Silverman P’03 ’10, who served six years in the role. Davidson has been a member of the board of trustees for nine years, during which he served on the Executive Committee, Finance Committee, Legal Committee and Investment Committee. He was chair of the Finance Committee for six years. “It is certainly a privilege and an honor that my fellow trustees have asked me to take on this important role,” said Davidson. “At the same time, I feel particularly challenged to build on the considerable accomplishments of my two immediate predecessors, Elizabeth Silverman and Chris Acito ’85. Between them, Chris and Elizabeth achieved great success in shaping the board’s governance structure, strategic priorities, cohesiveness and diversity.” Davidson said the board’s primary focus areas include the upcoming launch of the school’s largest capital campaign and fundraising for the arts center expansion project. “The ability to increase access through financial aid and support faculty programs [two pillars of Peddie’s strategic plan] is really dependent upon how successful we are with fundraising efforts,” said Davidson. The board will also be looking to refresh the strategic plan adopted in 2018 to reflect the school’s recent diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, and longterm educational, structural and financial impacts of the pandemic. “I think we’ve got a terrific strategic plan that was absolutely apropos for where we were in 2018,” he said. “But the world has seen a sea change — socially, pedagogically and economically — since then. George Chen, who chairs the strategic planning committee, and I have been talking about exploring those implications in depth and perhaps weaving them into a refresh.”

Davidson said that he also anticipates focusing on the school’s athletic programs and the “significant role they play in the overall student experience.” Head of School Peter Quinn P’15 ’18 ’21 praised Davidson as “a great leader and thinking partner to help guide Peddie as the school continues to pursue our 20-year strategic priorities, which include Peddie’s continuous program development, equity and inclusion, and key philanthropic initiatives. Doug will also want to focus on lessons we can take away from the pandemic.” Davidson holds a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service degree from Georgetown University and a Juris Doctor from The George Washington University Law School. Currently retired, Davidson is the former managing partner for multinational law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

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PEDDIE WELCOMES NEW MEMBERS TO ITS BOARD OF TRUSTEES

C ARLOS GUA JARDO P ’22

is the chief executive officer of Maynada Capital Advisors, LLC in Miami. Notable: Guajardo’s daughter is a senior at Peddie and three of his nephews are alumni.

TIMOTHY STARKE Y ’ 96

is the founder and managing partner of Starkey Financial Partners in Morristown, N.J. Notable: Starkey was captain of the boys’ tennis team when he was a Peddie student. A veteran reunion volunteer for his class, he is also a former member of the Peddie Leadership Council.

CHAVON T. SUT TON ’ 99

is a senior investment director in the Sustainable & Impact Investing Research Group at Cambridge Associates, conducting manager research and working with institutional clients to build sustainability and impact-focused portfolios. Notable: Sutton was one of Peddie’s first Annenberg Scholars. Last spring, she moderated “50 Years of Women at Peddie,” a conversation with Peddie alumnae of the 1970s.

ROBERT KUGLER ’68

is a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. He also serves as a judge on the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Notable: Kugler’s Peddie roommate was Dave Zenker ’68; their fathers Bob Zenker ’43 and George Kugler ’43 were also classmates.

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Beyond Imagination PEDDIE’S NEW ARTS COMPLEX PROMISES SPECTACULAR VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS FACILITIES FOR STUDENTS

Peddie’s reputation for excellence in the arts attracts talented students from around the world. Creative exuberance is at the heart of the Peddie experience — and so is the plan to keep that exuberance burning brighter every year. Every day, over 300 student-artists generate creative electricity with their voices, musical instruments, paint, clay, wood, film, paper and more. Swig Arts Center, built in 1989, is bursting at the seams. Peddie’s dreams for visual and performing arts programming have outgrown our space. “I am thrilled that after careful planning and in response to the phenomenal growth of the arts program, we are in the renovation and construction process for Swig,” said Head of School Peter Quinn P’15 ’18 ’21. “Improved and repurposed spaces will be complemented by an entirely new music hall, a visually and aurally spectacular addition that provides flexibility in performing arts scheduling. Every aspect of the arts program gets improved facilities in this.”

Artist rendering of the new arts complex

“This expansion is a sign of Peddie’s maturity and competitiveness and its leadership in independent school education,” said Advisory Trustee Anne Seltzer P’88. Seltzer has been encouraging the concept of growing Peddie’s arts program since the 1990s when she served as interim head of school and then director of development. “No longer are arts optional and outside the core curriculum. They now reflect Peddie’s belief that the arts play a central and permanent role in education — especially at the high school level.” Plans for the expanded arts facility also include a scenic/visual arts shop and an upgraded black-box theater/multi-purpose room, along with additional classrooms and soundproof practice studios.

“Peddie arts, particularly music, has experienced gradual and significant growth since the inception of an instrumental music program back in 1997–1998,” said Arts Department Chair and Director of Music Alan Michaels P’11 ’13 ’17. “The Peddie String Quartet enrolled in a Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society competition, and in April, was chosen as a finalist. This would have been unimaginable a few years ago. Our arts graduates are populating college programs around the country, and several are enjoying successful careers in the arts.” Construction on the arts complex began in May of this year and is expected to be completed by late August 2022.

These artist renderings show plans for the arts complex, including a new music hall (above) and improved and repurposed spaces. Naming opportunities for and within the new arts complex are still available; for more information, contact Assistant Head for Development Karyn Vella at kvella@peddie.org or (609) 944-7560.

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ASSISTANT HEAD FOR FINANCE AND OPERATIONS

Michael McKitish TO RETIRE

Sanjeev Puri succeeds McKitish

Michael McKitish stepped down as The Peddie School’s assistant head of school for finance and operations on September 1. McKitish remained at Peddie this fall to support his successor, Sanjeev Puri, in the job transition and oversee the arts center expansion. He will retire in December. “Peddie’s core values of respect, honesty, scholarship, balance and courage drew me to this wonderful place many years ago,” said McKitish. “The hallmarks of the highest level of citizenship and character, curiosity and excitement of Peddie students and employees make Peddie a special place in my heart.” McKitish said he is looking forward to spending more time with his family, including his two grandsons. As a longstanding member of Peddie’s senior management team over the last 14 years, McKitish has significantly impacted the school's strategic direction, growth and financial strength. He supervised a host of capital improvements, including the renovation of the athletic center, and the current construction of a new performing arts space and renovation of Swig Arts Center. McKitish also supervised the construction of Kaye and Green Dormitories and Armellino Quad, and renovations to the Caspersen Student Center. His influence has touched everyone in the Peddie community.

FOCUSED ON OUR MISSION

Mike made Peddie’s mission and philosophy a fulcrum on which to make financial decisions. Throughout the creation and management of the budget and his financial leadership of the school, he always focused on what served Peddie’s mission.

Peter Quinn P’15 ’18 ’21 Head of School

EMOTIONALLY PRESENT

CFOs are often thought of as emotionally distant money managers, but Mike always, always cared deeply for Peddie and for all of the people, students and adults who make Peddie extraordinary. He managed with compassion and empathy, and more often than anyone knows, he was there to help people when they were most in need. Peddie will long benefit from Mike's legacy. Catherine Rodrigue Associate Head of School

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WELCOME SANJEEV PURI P’25 Puri most recently served as the chief operating officer at Woodstock School in northern India. Before joining Woodstock School, Puri was based in California and worked for 15 years at Cognizant, an international management consulting firm. “There is much to be said about an institution that traces its roots back over 150 years and still holds on to the principles upon which it was built,” said Puri. “Peddie’s emphasis on a culture of kindness, acceptance, integrity, courage and leadership showcases a community where passions and aspirations are shared across the community and are demonstrated by word and example.”

PAVING THE WAY FOR EXCELLENCE

I had the good fortune to work closely with Mike on the arts expansion project, and each time we met, I came away having learned lessons about strategy, detail and paving the way for excellence. I concluded early in the planning stages that the project and I would be best served by simply following Mike’s masterful direction.

Puri earned a bachelor’s degree from G.B. Pant University and an MBA from the National Institute of Industrial Engineering, both in India. “It was an essential goal for me to find a person whose intellect, experience, management skills and moral compass would continue Peddie’s excellent management and stewardship philosophy and practices,” said Head of School Peter Quinn.

BASEBALL’S NO. 1 FAN

Mike served as the baseball program's No. 1 fan. If he wasn't at his desk or wearing a hard hat at a construction site, he could be found helping baseball players at the batting cage or practice mound behind our dugout. Here, the campus sage behaved like a kid, helping others play a kids' game. Peter McClellan ’90 P’19 ’21 ’25 Assistant Head for Student Life Assistant Baseball Coach

Alan Michaels P’11 ’13 ’17 Chair, Peddie Arts Department

OUR SILENT CHEERLEADER

We worked together to reimagine the food service department and, after much effort, brought food services up several notches. Throughout the process, Mike was supportive and always our biggest silent cheerleader. He would remind us that food services is the only department that gets evaluated every day, three times a day. He would check in with me every day and always had time to hear about the current status of the kitchen.

OUR MORAL COMPASS

Mike has been the mainstay of Peddie’s operational stability and financial health. He has a remarkable depth and breadth of experience and understanding, clear vision and attention to detail that has enabled him to keep his “eye on the prize” through the most difficult financial challenges — and with great success. Perhaps above all, Mike has brought his strong moral compass, sense of teamwork, high standards and unwavering determination and commitment to always do what is best for Peddie.

Robin Wojcik Director of Food Service

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Doug Davidson ’64 Chair, Peddie Board of Trustees

BOB GERSONY ’63 HOW A PEDDIE ALUMNUS DRAMATICALLY — AND ANONYMOUSLY — INFLUENCED U.S. FOREIGN POLICY OVER FOUR DECADES

Bob Gersony ’63 said his time at Peddie was short but impactful. After only one year in Hightstown, he was left with lifelong friends, a passion for reporting from his days on The Peddie News and a mentor relationship with English teacher E. Graham Ward that lasted for decades. Gersony, the subject of best-selling author Robert D. Kaplan’s recently published memoir, “The Good American,” served as a consultant for the federal government in more than 40 hot spots across the globe. Anywhere there was a humanitarian crisis — natural or human-caused — Gersony was there. On each mission, he interviewed hundreds of victims and survivors, sometimes for hours at a time. His meticulous notes were turned into confidential reports to the U.S. State Department that ultimately helped inform and influence foreign policy decisions. Kaplan’s book calls him “the U.S. government’s greatest humanitarian.” Gersony, self-described as a “simple field worker,” went into conflict areas that others were desperately trying to flee. Mozambique, Bosnia, Albania, Kosovo, Guatemala, Uganda, North Korea, Gaza and others. In all, he had 55 assignments over 40 years. Crisis after crisis, decade after decade, during the administrations of both Democratic and Republican presidents, Gersony’s work was highly valued. “I developed a way of asking chronological questions that didn’t involve influencing the answers,” Gersony said, adding that he always approached the interviewees with respect and deference. “They were the ones who were experts on the topic. Many of them couldn’t write, but they were experts in what they had seen.” Gersony said he is confident the stories of those he interviewed had an effect in Washington. “Their

views informed the highest levels,” he said. “There is no conflict between good national security and good humanitarian policy.”

A YEAR AT PEDDIE Gersony, raised in New York City before coming to Peddie in his junior year, said he had a reading problem that he tackled later in life, which made Peddie challenging. Ward, Gersony said, was the first teacher to tell him he was a good writer and a good thinker. “He was encouraging in a very quiet way. He would invite me over to his room, and we would sit and talk for an hour. Those talks meant a great deal to me,” Gersony said nearly 60 years later. “I felt like I was no one, and he made me feel like a valuable person who had something to contribute.” “Decades later, I would come back from an assignment, and I would phone (Ward) or visit him. He was interested in the work I was doing. He would read my reports, and we would discuss them,” Gersony said. “He was a mentor way beyond my years at Peddie.” Likewise, he said, friends that he made in 1961 remain a part of his life today. “Even though some of them I haven’t been in touch with for decades, when I resumed contact with them after this book was published, it was as if we were still at Peddie and no time had passed at all,” he said. He met some of those friends while working on The Peddie News, where Terry Christensen ’62 took him under his wing. “Terry was a very thoughtful person with a very good character,” Gersony recalled. “He was a person who encouraged me along.”

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It was his work at The Peddie News, he said, where he developed his style of interviewing and reporting factually without judgment. “Peddie did more to prepare me than any other part of my education,” he said. “Peddie is considered a college prep school, but it helped me prepare for my life, which was different from most of my classmates.”

A CAREER IN HUMANITY Gersony’s year at Peddie would be his last formal schooling. Eventually, he began working in the commodity trade with his father. He found it profitable, but not satisfying. All the while, Ward continued to mentor him.

Three years after leaving Peddie and in the midst of the Vietnam War, Gersony joined the Army. An excellent typist, he was a company clerk for a medical evacuation division in Vietnam. Upon his discharge from the Army with a Bronze Star, he was sitting in on (but not officially enrolled in) sociology classes at Long Island University. A professor leading a group of students to Guatemala needed an assistant to help him advance the trip. Gersony was recruited to go along. He arrived eager to learn Spanish. “I was sitting in the park next to some young kid, and I got into a conversation with him in rudimentary Spanish,” Gersony recalled. The boy, Luis, earned 50 cents per week working in a garage. “I offered him a

“THERE IS NO CONFLICT BETWEEN GOOD NATIONAL SECURITY AND GOOD HUMANITARIAN POLICY.” little bit more to work with me 12 hours a day, seven days a week, and all we did was speak Spanish. He was an extremely intelligent guy.” Gersony decided to remain in Guatemala. Eventually, so many Americans asked him to recruit other Spanish tutors for them that he founded a network of 150 fulltime teachers in three Guatemalan cities. It grew into a Spanish teaching center throughout Latin America. On February 3, 1976, Gersony traveled to Mexico City for a meeting with the Ford Foundation. Hours later, an earthquake struck Guatemala. More than 23,000 people died, and another 75,000 were injured. He returned to Guatemala to work on the reconstruction and was soon asked to take over the U.S. aid program. It would be the first of 55 foreign assignments on behalf of the U.S. government. Gersony’s work often intersected with foreign service officers, local embassy staff and aid workers. “But the most important people were the 8,200 ordinary victims of conflict and natural catastrophe who stopped what they were doing to speak to me for an hour or two,” he said.

Bob Gersony ’63 at his home in Great Falls, Virginia, in 2020. (Photo by Elizabeth Gersony)

He learned the importance of good listening from his mentor at Peddie.

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“THE SMARTEST PERSON WHO EVER GOT BAD GRADES.” “In a way, what I do is what Ward did with me. Ward gave me confidence. He spent time with me, and he listened to me,” Gersony said. “That’s what I do with people who don’t expect to be listened to and don’t have confidence and have no idea what life has in store for them.” Gersony said it is critical to pay close attention to every word that his interviewees say. “I think they are appreciative to unburden themselves of the terrible things they have witnessed,” he said. “People who look at my career always comment on the security dangers I was exposed to, but the greatest dangers didn’t come from security. It came from internalizing and absorbing the extreme violence and inhumanity that we humans are capable of inflicting on each other.” He made sure his senses were never dulled to it. “When you hear each individual person recount their story, you cannot abstract their experience into statistics,” he said. “Each person’s account resides inside of you permanently and cumulatively.” Still, Gersony signed on 55 times. “What keeps you going is that you are able to use the expertise from those 8,200 people to dramatically improve their situation and in some cases end mass murder and brutality,” he said.

Paul Irwin ’63, one of the lifelong friends Gersony made at Peddie, called his classmate “the smartest person who ever got bad grades.” Irwin said the best description of Gersony comes from a famous Theodore Roosevelt speech, “Citizenship in a Republic,” also known as “the man in the arena.” “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

“The Good American: The Epic Life of Bob Gersony, the U.S. Government’s Great Humanitarian” by Robert D. Kaplan (Random House)

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Pelu Tran ’06 and Leon Bergen Ph.D. ’05 THESE PEDDIE ALUMNI ARE USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO SAVE LIVES

Pelu Tran ’06

Leon Bergen, Ph.D. ’05

Ferrum Health was born in 2017 at a Peddie gathering in San Francisco. Healthcare technology entrepreneur Pelu Tran ’06 had an idea to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to reduce medical errors in hospitals. University of California San Diego Assistant Professor Leon Bergen, Ph.D. ’05, an expert in natural language processing, a branch of computer science that gives computers the ability to understand language in the way that humans do, was uniquely capable of making Tran’s idea a reality. The two connected at the gathering, and soon after, Tran brought Bergen on board to launch Ferrum Health.

They began by standardizing lung cancer care. In the first 90 days, Ferrum Health’s technology reviewed over 10,000 CT scans containing lung tissue — 83 of which had discrepancies requiring further review or intervention by doctors. The results were encouraging, and their impact was almost immediate. “I’ve always been about impact,” said Tran. “If I had wanted to make a lot of money, I wouldn’t be in healthcare, and Leon wouldn’t have gone into academia.”

Ferrum Health’s technology can be seen in action at Sutter Health, a not-for-profit network of doctors and hospitals in Northern California. When they first became a customer of Ferrum, Sutter had a question: How could Ferrum help them provide equitable care across diverse communities, despite discrepancies in funding and resources?

Ferrum is currently working with leading health systems across the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Asia. According to their website, clinicians can use their AI platform in oncology, orthopedics, cardiovascular and breast care. The company has repeatedly noted that AI is a tool that helps reduce the workload of clinicians but will not replace them.

“The answer was technology,” said Tran. “Let’s use AI machine learning to analyze and review all the decisions being made and ensure that these patients are receiving the same quality of care across the organization.”

“Finding medical errors is such a transparently good mission,” added Bergen. “We’re going to be saving people’s lives. It’s very hard to find companies with missions that are easier to get behind than helping hospitals, helping patients and catching cancers early.”

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NICOLE SIN QUEE ’89 DOES NOT BRAKE

She’s a star athlete, a champion for children of color and Triathlete magazine’s cover contest winner When Nicole Sin Quee ’89 signed up for her first triathlon, she wasn’t seeking a lifetime of athletic excellence.

Amherst College, Sin Quee’s other alma mater, had a triathlon tradition. Winners were named “Athlete of the Week” in the student newspaper and “Bob’s Player of the Week'' at a local barbecue joint. “I wanted to be Bob’s Player of the Week,” Sin Quee said. “Fame and fortune, not so much.”

The youngest of six daughters born to Jamaican-Chinese parents, Sin Quee was raised in Trenton, N.J., after she emigrated from Jamaica when she was eight years old. Sin Quee is from an athletic family; her uncles and cousins were on Jamaica’s national badminton team. And she was a member of the track and field team at Peddie. But Sin Quee’s passion for multisport competition did not truly ignite until she discovered mountain biking on the trails around Amherst College. Her fellow mountain bikers at Amherst gave her a tip: Don’t use your brakes when going downhill. “I would fly down hills like I had nothing to live for, and it was freeing and scary and so much fun.” Though she added, “It's not true that you can't use your brakes. Those guys were just mean.” But Sin Quee was fast and fearless on her bike. She signed up for the relay triathlon alongside two other women and also decided to take on the individual event. It was not a great start: Sin Quee was the last one in the pool in the swimming event. Still, she kept her resolve. “I thought to myself, ‘The bike is yours. Just go past everybody.’ And that's what I did. “I ended up winning.” Sin Quee was victorious in both the individual event and the relay. Today, she views the race as an opening chapter. “It was an accomplishment,” she said, “but that’s not the end. Whenever I do my

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“MAYBE lifelong learner.”

races, I think to myself, ‘This is not the end.’ I want to be a lifelong athlete. I want to be a

Sin Quee’s relentless pursuit of self-improvement — and the support of her husband and coach Jonathan Cane — has propelled her to the heights of multisport athletics. She recently placed top 3 in her age group at six national and world championship duathlons and triathlons. She is the reigning Off-Road Triathlon National Champion (50-54 age group), and won the Duathlon National Championship (40-44 age group) in 2012, just six months after her son, Simon, was born. When she’s not racing or teaching mathematics at Riverdale Country Day in New York City, Sin Quee is working to help grow minority participation in triathlons. Last summer, she and her husband ran a triathlon camp for middle school students, particularly young girls of color.

WE'RE ALL

At their camp, Sin Quee and Cane give campers a strong foundation in the sport, but they also teach them that a triathlete isn’t someone who wakes up at the crack of dawn every day to train, or a person with a perfect six-pack, or a person who can afford thousands of dollars in equipment and training. “To know what a triathlete looks like,” Sin Quee said, “look in the mirror.” “Maybe we're all Olympians,” she added. “We just haven't found our sport. I think the more things we're exposed to, the more likely it is that we either find what we're good at or we learn to see our better selves in that journey.” Along with her athletic pursuits, Sin Quee brings this philosophy to parenting and her classroom at Riverdale. “You are here for you,” she tells her students. “You're not here for your parents or because you have to build the next generation. You're not here for me. You're here for you to find your best self.”

OLYMPIANS.”

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Ignacio Saturnino Molinet ’23 was almost a forgotten footnote in professional football history

Proof of his pioneer status lay on the scrap pile until his granddaughter intervened

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n 1927, Ignacio Saturnino Molinet ’23 became the first Hispanic player ever to compete in an NFL game, a fact that remained a long-buried secret for 73 years ... until his football contract resurfaced in a trash bag of unwanted family memorabilia. Born in Chaparra, Cuba, on November 30, 1904, Molinet grew up on his family’s sugar plantation. He enrolled at Peddie in 1918 and became a threesport stalwart in football, basketball and baseball. Nicknamed “Molly” or “Big Molly,” he played for two of Peddie’s most revered Hall of Fame coaches, Earl C. MacArthur (football) and John D. Plant (basketball). Molinet’s 5-foot-11, 195-pound frame was the ideal size for a tackle, and he used his mobility and strength to help Peddie football shut out Blair 28–0 in the 1922 fall classic. As captain of the basketball team, “Molly” fittingly capped off his career by netting the winning field goal in the closing seconds to capture the coveted state title for the fourth year in a row over St. Benedict’s. He was a workhorse on the baseball mound, and when he did not pitch, he roamed the outfield and crushed opposing pitching. Molinet attended Cornell University, where he excelled in football and basketball. On November 25, 1926, he scored the only touchdown against the University of Pennsylvania in a game that ended in a 10–10 tie, as the Cornell Big Red went 6-1-1 that season. The game at Franklin Field attracted more than 80,000 fans and, at that time, was the largest crowd to witness a football game in the East.

him a football contract with the burgeoning NFL. The contract was dated July 20, 1927, and paid $50 per game and up to $50 each week for practices attended. Records show that Molinet played nine games in his lone NFL season and scored a single touchdown with 125 yards of total offense. He retired and returned to Cornell to earn his degree, followed by a successful career as a mechanical engineer. Up until 2000, fullback/punter Jesse Rodriguez, originally from Spain, was credited with being the first Hispanic player in the NFL when he made his debut in 1929 for the Buffalo Bisons. And for decades, historians had associated Molinet with French roots.

“Molinet, the team’s leading ground gainer, made a wonderful catch of a long pass just before he scored the touchdown in the first quarter,” wrote The New York Times for the game recap. “The ball was heaved 40 yards but traveled in an arc high enough to give three Penn men time to get under it, but Molinet took it from them all by a great leap. In scoring the touchdown, the big Cuban added a little comedy to his driving power when he wrestled with himself on the ground in his hurry to cross seven yards remaining between himself and the goal after he had bucked his way through the line.”

As fate came calling, Molinet’s granddaughter Heidi Cadwell traveled to Florida to visit her grandmother. Her aunts had cleaned the house and filled plastic bags with family records they believed were safe for disposal. Cadwell sifted through the piles and stashed away potentially interesting memorabilia to review when she returned home to New Hampshire. Besides photos of “Pops” on the plantation in Cuba, she unfolded a piece of paper, faded by time, confirming he played in the NFL before Rodriguez. Caldwell called the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, and they accepted the donation with great interest.

Tragically, both of Molinet’s parents died following his junior year at Cornell. Molinet returned home to Cuba until the Frankford Yellow Jackets, a Philadelphia-based team, came calling and offered

Today, Ignacio Molinet’s contract is prominently displayed at the Pro Football Hall of Fame, an appropriate tribute to a man whose trailblazing run in professional football was almost forgotten.

Opposite: Ignacio Saturnino Molinet ’23 was a halfback with the 1927 Frankford Yellow Jackets. Above: Molinet's football contract resurfaced in 2001 in a trash bag of unwanted family memorabilia. (Images provided by the Pro Football Hall of Fame) 25 FALL/WINTER 2021

Post-virtual WHAT PEDDIE STUDENTS ARE SAYING ABOUT BEING BACK TO SCHOOL IN A COVID-19 WORLD

his fall, for the first time in 18 months, Peddie’s entire student population resumed in-person learning. High vaccination rates among community members allowed the school to feel safe within the state’s health and safety mandates. But as the COVID-19 Delta variant continued to spread across the country, mask mandates and social distancing requirements remained in place. Still, after more than a year of hybrid learning, it was the most “normal” campus felt in a while.

The Peddie Chronicle spoke to a dozen students about returning to campus, or in some cases coming to campus for the first time, after months of remote and hybrid learning. Here are their thoughts on the first entirely in-person semester in a year and a half.

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Grace Edelstein ’23 BOARDING STUDENT • HOMETOWN: YARDLEY, PA.

On being at Peddie: “While I spent my fall and spring terms on campus last year, I definitely feel the positive energy shift now that our entire community is back together. Our reorientation week was the perfect start to my junior year, which, fingers crossed, will be my first full school year at Peddie. “Whether it’s having a full bus headed over to the boathouse for crew practice, chatting in lines at the dining hall, sharing a table with someone in class, bonding over dorm activities, enjoying the hustle of busy hallway transitions between classes or gathering for a full-school ‘Ala Viva,’ these small, but impactful, moments with the community are what I am most looking forward to this year.”

“The community is everything I wanted.”

Yanelly Caro-DeLeon ’25

BOARDING STUDENT • HOMETOWN: TRENTON, N.J.

On being at Peddie: “Coming from a school with a tight and warm community, I was honestly scared. I wasn't sure who I was gonna meet, who would be my roommate, how my teachers would be. But all those worries went away after coming here. I have many friends, I love my teachers and my classes, I have fun with sports and the community is everything I wanted. “I'm looking forward to my Chinese language class and taking part in the Freshman Musical with friends.”

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Jackson Boone ’24

DAY STUDENT • HOMETOWN: LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J.

On being at Peddie: “I feel happy that I am attending school in person without having to leave every other week, and I find it helpful to have a scheduled day.”

“I am looking forward to our community events where the whole school can come together.”

Leena Mirchandani ’25 DAY STUDENT • HOMETOWN: WALL, N.J.

On being at Peddie: “I first visited Peddie as a seventh-grader and felt it was meant to be. From the moment I stepped on campus, I dreamt of being a Peddie student: walking on the beautiful campus surrounded by the historic, red-brick buildings, hearing the stories of teachers, classmates and peers resound through chapel, and cheering ‘Ala Viva.’ “Now, as a new student, it still feels surreal to call Peddie my school. I am looking forward to our community events where the whole school can come together. Performing in the Freshman Musical, pursuing my passion for playing the cello and playing tennis are some of the activities that I am very excited about!”

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Ryan Rong ’24

BOARDING STUDENT • HOMETOWN: BEIJING, CHINA

On being at Peddie: “Campus life will definitely be a lot different from last year. We will have more Falcons, more events and more fun [Rong was learning remotely for his first two semesters last year.]. We already had a wonderful week of orientation that ended splendidly with the Blue & Gold Games, which makes me thrilled to start a new year at Peddie.”

Brooke Gomez ’24

BOARDING STUDENT • HOMETOWN: BRONX, N.Y.

On being at Peddie: “Being back at school is really exciting. Having everyone on the Peddie campus isn't something that I got to experience last year, and it's so nice to finally see my upperclassmen friends in the hallways instead of on Zoom or at practice. I'm looking forward to being able to participate in Peddie traditions, such as Blair Day, and getting to know more of the upperclassmen and the freshmen.”

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Luke Treese ’23

DAY STUDENT • HOMETOWN: HIGHTSTOWN, N.J. On being at Peddie: “I am super excited to be back. Even though I was in person as much as possible last year, everything felt distant. Already though, I feel a greater sense of community.

“We missed our fall season last year, so I am excited about cross country meets and Blair Day. And I am especially looking forward to the baseball season in the spring. I am a little bit nervous but excited about the academic side. I am taking some hard courses and am nervous about managing all that time, but it makes it definitely feel like I am back at school.”

Kate Guittari ’22

BOARDING STUDENT • HOMETOWN: GLEN RIDGE, N.J.

On being at Peddie: “In only a few weeks, I can see that the liveliness and cohesiveness on campus are much restored from past years. I am grateful for being able to reconnect with friends and teachers in person, especially since this will be my final year at Peddie. I hadn’t truly realized how much I missed in-person classroom discussions, field hockey games, dorm programming and arts performances that aren’t viewed from my computer screen. With this in mind, my goal for this year is not to take a single moment for granted.”

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Anushka Poddar ’24 DAY STUDENT • HOMETOWN: PRINCETON, N.J.

On being at Peddie: “It’s exciting to be back at school! I finally get to experience normal Peddie activities and traditions that we couldn’t do last year, and I’m really enjoying the little things like eating dinner with my friends and my [crew] team. “For academics, it’s definitely more tiring being at school full time, but I’d much rather be here and with my friends than alone in my room at home, and I’m really enjoying the new classes I’ve chosen. Inperson visual arts was one of my favorite classes last year, and I can’t wait to get back to it, as well as having another great crew season!”

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Caleb Solidum ’23

DAY STUDENT • HOMETOWN: LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J.

On being at Peddie: “Coming back to school this year felt different: a mixture of good and weird. I went to school in person all of last year. The first week of pre-season [cross country] and orientation had more energy than the whole of last year combined. It was refreshing to see all of us unmasked: going down the water slides, walking to our mock classes and practicing with the team. “The students that were away all year were greatly missed, and they brought back the spirit that we missed last year. Because of COVID, I felt that Peddie's life and spirit were put on hold. Overall, this year can be considered a wild card that I'm excited to play.”

Zoe Chao ’23

BOARDING STUDENT • HOMETOWN: TUSTIN, CALIF. On being at Peddie: “It feels surreal to be in an environment surrounded by kids my age again [Chao was remote all of last year.]. After almost two years, the moment I stepped on campus felt like a dream — especially seeing the white chapel against the backdrop of the blue sky spotted with white clouds. I definitely felt my stomach turn over a few times, but I was still filled with this buzzing excitement to see my friends, teachers and finally be at Peddie. “This may sound a bit cliche, but I felt a sense of belonging. As if the entire Peddie community was saying, ‘Welcome back!’ I have built a home here, and I am excited to be back and finally live in it.”

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“The moment I stepped on campus felt like a dream.”

Tanat Chavapokin ’22

BOARDING STUDENT • HOMETOWN: BANGKOK, THAILAND On being at Peddie: “It feels weird to see so many people on campus, in classrooms and in the dining hall. I love how students get to sit around a round table for English and history classes. “I look forward to acting in my second play at Peddie and working with such passionate peers. I look forward to doing in-person labs for chemistry and physics and working at the whiteboard for math. It feels great to be back!”

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Music is a time machine.

Happy or sad, silly or contemplative, melodic or electrifying, the tunes we remember from our teen days all strike the same note: They bring us right back to Peddie.

Gene Scanlan ’60

“Summertime Blues” (Eddie Cochran), “Mule Skinner Blues” (The Fendermen), “Poor Little Fool” and “Lonesome Town” (Ricky Nelson) It was the spring of 1960 at Peddie. Graduation was not far away, and I was living with “the other Gene” Martin, on the first floor of Coleman, first room to the right and next to Jay Cooley ’60 and “The Bull” Bob Torres ’60. Days were sunny and warm, and sometimes time seemed to slow down. One of the newest facilities on campus was actually one of the oldest – the Longstreet Library, completed in 1890. The former library, just replaced by the new Annenberg Library, now housed a student canteen. Ten years later, it would be the site for a student takeover and protest about issues such as dress codes, disciplinary procedures and the student constitution. But in 1960, it was just a place to hang out, get a Coke, take a break from the Slater System (the school’s food service) meals and play the jukebox. I would often go there in the afternoon when it was almost empty, get my Coke and select some songs. “Summertime Blues” by proto-rocker Eddie Cochran was a favorite, as was “Mule Skinner Blues,” a strange song by The Fendermen and Ricky Nelson’s “Poor Little Fool” and “Lonesome Town.” Maybe my mind was elsewhere.

Mary Stella ’75

Jim Croce, The Beatles, Elvis Presley I was a big Jim Croce fan, and remember I was in my room in Avery when I heard the news of his fatal plane crash. I also listened a lot to The Beatles and Elvis Presley!

Robert Berman ’59

“The Great Pretender” and “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes” (The Platters), “All of You” (Cole Porter), “Blue Suede Shoes” and “Hound Dog” (Elvis Presley), “Cry” (Johnnie Ray & The Four Lads) I remember hearing the Lester Lanin Orchestra at the junior and senior proms.

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Ken Seyffer ’39

Benny Goodman, Carnegie Hall concert

Every night, when Duncan Talbot ’40 and I would be studying in our room, I would always have a book in front of my radio, so I could put Goodman on softly, at 9:30, so no one but me could hear. One night our proctor came in, stood right next to my desk and talked to me. He knew, and I was shaking. He never said a word, but I never did it again.

Barbarajean (Grundlock) Fountoulakis ’05 “Clocks” (Coldplay)

It was my senior year, and we were at Community Meeting. Chris Ransom ’06 and his band were on stage. It may have been a bit for Blair Week. During my time there, if there was music to be played, Chris Ransom and his band were there for it, rocking out. I had just started talking to this sophomore, Nick Fountoulakis ’07. You see where this is going, right? I thought he was cute, and he was in Chris’ band, which was even cooler! There was some time to waste on stage, and to fill the void, Nick started playing “Clocks” by Coldplay on the piano. I’m telling you, that is the moment I fell in love with that kid. That moment is imprinted in my brain forever. Anytime I hear that song, it brings me back to that day in Community Meeting, sitting in the theater watching him play. Peddie has this way of bringing people together as a community that’s really something special. We all feel connected. Not only that, but it brought me to my future husband and father of my children. Thank you, Peddie!

B.J. Bedford Miller ’90

“Beaches” soundtrack (Bette Midler), “Welcome to the Jungle” (Guns N’ Roses), “Kokomo” (The Beach Boys) “Beaches” soundtrack in Avery. “Welcome to the Jungle,” swimmers. And oh Lord, every time I hear “Kokomo,” it makes me think of doing dry-land training in the wrestling room in the wee hours of the morning.

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Julie Saker Schlegel ’90

“Cheeseburger in Paradise” (Jimmy Buffett), They Might Be Giants, Violent Femmes, “Cherish” (Madonna) I remember “Cheeseburger in Paradise” dance parties in Kassia Switlik Bukosky’s ’88 dorm room in Coleman my freshman year (’86–’87) and a lot of They Might Be Giants and Violent Femmes from the Trask years. I also distinctly remember MTV playing Madonna’s “Cherish” video often and the girls’ dorm being rather transfixed by the male college swimmers frolicking in the California surf as “mermen.”

Doug Stuart ’76

“Ramblin’ Man” (The Allman Brothers) My first year at Peddie, I lived in Wilson Hall (RIP), third floor south. Our hall monitor, a junior, was a gifted guitarist who played the Allman Brothers (and others) over and over, and then replicated the guitar riffs. You’d think this would be annoying, but I actually found it comforting. Later that year, the guys in Latin 2 began this odd tradition of listening to Edgar Winters’ “Frankenstein” before each quiz or test. Later at Peddie, I grew to love choral music (Vivaldi’s “Gloria”) and opera, but those guitar riffs still haunt my memories.

Jon Sprout ’70

A concert by a Middlebury College a capella group I don’t remember the songs nor the performers’ names. But once upon a time, I sat as a student in Geiger-Reeves Hall while an a capella group performed a few songs that forever changed my life. I remember this experience so vividly that I can still see the view from where I sat. That performance awakened something inside of me I never knew existed. It was as though those singers and their songs swept my entire life into a new dimension. From that performance onward, music has been something extraordinary and personal for me. Middlebury was my first college choice because of those singers. Years later, after having forged a career writing, performing and recording songs, I returned to Peddie to perform on the same stage. I shared this story with the audience, hoping I could facilitate the cycle of inspiration.

To hear the songs in this story, check out our “Music & Memories” Spotify playlist!

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Kenneth Patchen ’63

“Now The Day is Over” (Sabine Baring-Gould) Peddie was founded in 1864, one year before the Civil War ended. In 1865, English Anglican priest Sabine BaringGould, who wrote “Onward Christian Soldiers,” composed the single song that to this day in 2021 is that which I most associate with my years at The Peddie School, “Now the Day is Over.” It is a song virtually as old as the school. I graduated in 1963, and during my years at Peddie, the school came together on Sunday evening in the chapel for a Vespers service, just to sing hymns. School chaplain Harold Stoddard stood in the pulpit and pointed to students who called out the number of the hymn to be sung, about six hymns per session. One of the most frequently selected songs in the year was “Now the Day is Over.” It was wonderful. At no other time in my years there did I feel as connected to The Peddie School experience as I did while we sang that song together. I loved lots of music in those days — Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Buddy Holly, The Everly Brothers, The Kingston Trio, Duke Ellington. I am not a religious person, so I’ve never heard the hymn since I left the school. I’m 76 now, and often in a quiet moment at bedtime, I will sing the first verse in my head: “Now the day is over/Night is drawing nigh/Shadows of the evening/Steal across the sky.”

Declan Mulligan ’14

The early 2010s electronic dance music movement Whenever I listen to an artist, track or collection of artists from this specific genre and time, I am blasted right back to walking across the quad for class with my headphones in, laughing with friends on the way to Wawa or intense moments of motivation in the locker rooms. It’s aging contemporarily, yet it’s easy to identify with a specific sound within the genre that would indicate a special moment in time in 2009–2014. I will listen to some old albums such as Anjunadeep 05 and artists such as the late Avicii and Swedish House Mafia, which swept the Class of 2014 into a severaltrimesters-long obsession. Good times.

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Lauren Schnipper ’97 and Sara Chancellor ’97 “Better Man” (Pearl Jam)

Lauren Schnipper Rausch ’97 and Sara Chancellor Case ’97 were Peddie roommates for three years. Lauren attests to going through a phase when she was “upset about a boy,” and the only song she wanted to listen to was “Better Man.” Sara: She played the song on repeat in our room in Avery so many times it’s permanently burned into my mind. I think it was during your platform sneaker time. Lauren: I had a lot of platform sneakers. Sara: The irony was, I was probably the bigger Pearl Jam fan. Lauren: Okay … ? Sara: I have a more diverse perspective on the album. Schnipper was pretty much “Better Man” all the time. Lauren: It’s a really good song. Sara: I think I might have initially thought that it was a good song. Lauren: I think it was junior year because I know the boy I was upset about. I’m not mentioning his name. Sara: I can guess, but I’ll keep that in the cone of silence. Editor: What is it about the song that you like so much? Lauren: I mean, I LOVE Eddie Vedder. It’s just … his voice. Editor: What do you think when you hear the song now? Lauren: Love it still. Sara (laughing): Hate it still. I absolutely hate it still.

David Samuelson ’81 “Close to the Edge” (Yes)

We lived in Rivenburg in 1980. One of our classmates went to a Yes concert and took a lot of pictures, which he turned into slides. We got our hands on a slide projector, cranked the album and watched the slides using the house across the street as our screen. Those were our Yes shows.

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Richard Hutchinson ’71 “Tiny Bubbles” (Don Ho)

The old canteen in Longstreet Hall had a jukebox, whose selections were controlled by I don’t know who. Most were fine, but somehow this song got onto it, and someone played it ALL THE TIME.

Kieran Beach ’15

“My Time of Day” (“Guys and Dolls” soundtrack) I was working in set crew for the theater, and “Guys and Dolls” was one of the first large productions I participated in. For some reason, the music in “My Time of Day” always resonated with me. It is a song of courting, but also a way of sharing a private life ... and in that intimacy and vulnerability the song really shines as a favorite of mine. Now that I am older (not much, but I did find a gray hair yesterday), I can also appreciate the sense of being starstruck when falling in love, and the bewilderment of suddenly finding someone you want to keep talking to until the sun comes up. I remember painting the sets with neon-colored black-light paint, working in the sound booth and installing the spiral staircase we got from Long Island. At the moment, I am in Colombia, it is almost 1 a.m., and I just went for a walk in the rain by some palm trees and watched the street dogs run about. Like in the song, I guess this has always been my time of day too, strolling by the lampposts after hours.

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L.A. Martin ’02

“Here Comes the Sun” (The Beatles) I remember when George Harrison died during my senior year. We played “Here Comes the Sun” on repeat out of the dorm window into center campus all day.

Rebecca Seman ’14 “Let’s Go” (Matt and Kim)

Just thinking of this song reminds me of Peddie! It makes me nostalgic for senior year because it would play as we walked into Community Meeting (I believe Megan Mooney ’14 and Patrick Creamer ’14 were the ones responsible for this choice). The song is so uplifting and positive and would always put me in a good mood, no matter the kind of day I was having.

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Erika LaRocca ’98 “Ironic” (Alanis Morissette)

Erika: Mr. Hill sang a spoof on “Ironic.” Former English teacher Bill Hill: “Ironic” was part of the hosting job (Peter) Quinn and I did for a Falcon Follies (the annual talent show). We took popular/well-known songs to the audience at the time and read them as if they were serious, well-written poems/verses. In addition to “Ironic,” I recall doing “Bohemian Rhapsody” (head-banging included, à la “Wayne’s World”) and “Peaches” (The Presidents of the United States of America). We spaced the readings out over the course of the show. I’m thinking I probably sang/yelled the chorus to “Ironic.” Quinn and I had a lot of fun doing those readings as we hosted. Head of School (and former English teacher) Peter Quinn: Bill’s memory has always been and will always be better than mine. I remember that I have never performed with someone who made me look that good ... and he’s always the better performer. He’s just a very generous partner. We did a rendition of “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” in the old dining hall at the peak of lunch. My own contribution elicited this comment from the inimitable Bill McMann: “Hey, P.Q. — what were you, the dead Supreme?” Bill Hill: Peter’s being modest: Best Improv Partner Ever. And willing to do anything, just go with it, no matter where the moment took us. Quinn and I lip-synched “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” with the one and only Crystal Oliver ’88. We were the stiff-arms-and-legs back-up to her vibrant, classy, shimmery lead singer. It had been a rough week at school, so we performed at lunch to try to lift spirits, however briefly.

Guilia Marolda ’18 “Livin’ On A Prayer” (Bon Jovi)

This song reminds me of one of my all-time favorite Peddie memories. For Blair Week 2018, me, Cristian Rodriguez ’18, Ethan Govea ’19, Dan Funderbirk ’19, Victor Cappuzzo ’19 and Winston Luchs ’19 put together a band to perform at both Community Meeting and Blue and Gold Chapel. “Livin’ On A Prayer” was our Community Meeting performance, and I still have vivid memories of waiting behind the drawn curtain, hearing our classmates scream out in excitement as the lights dimmed and the music started. We were all decked out in our Decades Day outfits, and the energy during the performance was electrifying. Hearing that song takes me back to the excitement of that week, and to a performance I won’t soon forget.

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