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SEATTLE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL MAGAZINE

volunteer ROSE BOYLE

AND THE CAPITOL HILL CARPOOL

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DEAR SCDS FAMILIES AND FRIENDS,

“Always leave the campsite in better shape than you found it.” CHARLES P. ERDMANN

SEATTLE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL MAGAZINE

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EDITOR Joan Hudson DESIGN/PRODUCTION Christa Fleming Design COVER SCDS (now alum) parent Rose Boyle posing in front of their “student mover” with all the kids in the Capitol Hill carpool

KINETICS is produced by the SCDS Development Department for its current and former families and friends. Inquiries may be sent to: joanhudson@seattlecountryday.org THE SCDS MISSION

Inspiring gifted children to reach their potential through inquiry, curiosity, and wonder.

DIVERSITY STATEMENT

SCDS actively seeks to increase the breadth of our entire community: the gifted children at the center of a dynamic learning process, their families, and the school’s faculty, staff, and Board of Trustees. We aspire to include a wide variety of backgrounds and perspectives; to foster an understanding and acceptance of differences; and to cultivate diverse thinking critical for creative problem solving.

NON-DISCRIMINATION STATEMENT

Seattle Country Day School strives to maintain a diverse school community. The school does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, creed, national or ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, or disability in administration of its educational policies, admission, financial aid, or any other schooladministered programs.

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My first summer after college graduation, as part of my training and mentorship as a wilderness canoe camp counselor on the border of Minnesota and Ontario, I heard those words of wisdom from the camp’s founder and director.

THE QUOTE IMPARTS KEY THEMES OF STEWARDSHIP:

• We are part of something larger than ourselves.

•W e are temporary but important stakeholders of an entity that will be passed on to others.

•D uring our time of oversight or use, preserve, protect, and enhance the entity for the next users, just as others did before us, to ensure longevity.

•Q uietly celebrate, appreciate, and cherish the time and impact of the resource in your midst.

The role of stewardship at Seattle Country Day School is found throughout the campus. SCDS just completed a $1.8 million gymnasium project. To support the school’s program, facilities and their upkeep are crucial. Too much postponement of capital or maintenance needs — “kicking the can down the road” — can put a growing and unfair burden on the next generation.

Stewardship motivates the board of trustees and other school volunteers to serve and contribute to SCDS. The board literally holds SCDS “in trust,” duty-bound in their roles to keep the big picture and long-term health of the school always in mind.

Last year, the board spent considerable time researching and gathering input from all school constituencies for a new strategic plan that will be shared with the school community in early October. The plan creates goals and priorities to advance our school over the next five years.

The spirit of stewardship was evident during a memorial celebration of first SCDS director Lucile Beckman, who died last January. This summer, SCDS was honored to host the Beckman Family’s program which recalled Lucile’s contributions and influence. Lucile’s leadership and commitment in SCDS’s early years established a clear mission, program, and learning culture for staff and students that continues today. SCDS is her legacy and gift to us.

As many of you may recall, during 2006 – 2007, our campus experienced a complete transformation. A $15 million project was completed which improved all parts of the school and included a new middle school. This summer, SCDS refinanced its long-term tax-exempt bond debt which pays for part of this work. Think of this debt as a modest and affordable mortgage with reasonable and predictable terms. Yet in paying for this comprehensive campus enhancement project, SCDS also used some school reserves built slowly from past years and raised over $4 million in a capital campaign. Carrying a mortgage into the future can be prudent and speaks to intergenerational equity. In our case, families who attend SCDS, now and in the future, pay a share of the facility’s cost as a small part of annual tuition. Stewardship informs such decision-making by the board of trustees.

Whether a wilderness campsite or an independent school, stakeholders are encouraged to appreciate the past, contribute to the present, and protect the future of a communal asset. Thank you for your stewardship of Seattle Country Day School!

Michael G. Murphy HEAD OF SCHOOL

“ I know why I’m here,” SAID SCDS PARENT MIKE BOYLE FROM THE SPEAKER’S PODIUM AT THE SCHOOL’S LEADERSHIP DINNER LAST SPRING.

“ I’m the warm up for the main act: Rose Boyle.”

SCDS honored parents Rose and Mike Boyle for their 17 years of volunteer service during the time their 3 children, Lizzie, Connor, and Kieran, progressed though the school. Together, the Boyles were leading donors and co-chairs of the “A Place to Grow” campaign, making our campus renovation and middle school building a reality. Separately, Mike’s volunteer passion was coaching boys’ basketball, and just some of Rose’s roles have included Auction Chair, Parent Council President, Board Member, Board President, and Carpool Master Scheduler!

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That evening, Mike spoke of Rose’s ongoing fight against stage 4 lung cancer, and of a quiet moment where Rose reflected that “Country Day has been at the center of our lives for so long.”

We couldn’t agree more with Mike when he said, “Rose has put an enormous amount of time, effort, and thought into making the school and its community a better place.”

With a new school year underway and volunteer opportunities abounding, we’ve excerpted Mike and Rose’s reflections on volunteering the evening of the Leadership Dinner, and fellow parents’ comments on the importance of Mike and Rose.

The Boyle’s impact is best summed up by parent Lisa Carroll who said, “Rose and Mike, thank you both for leading by example, with humility and confidence. You encourage us to give, to get involved. Thank you for your incredible generosity, your strength, your graciousness, and for always being at the top of your game, in the board room or on the basketball court. Thank you for inspiring us to be our best.”

The most important lesson of volunteering is that we do it for the children. We do it, no doubt, to contribute positively to the children’s experiences at SCDS. But it’s also true that we receive gifts in return, gifts of connectedness, friendship, insight, compassion, and greater understanding of personality, intelligence, and human nature.

—ROSE BOYLE The winning-record 8th grade boys’ team, with Coach Boyle on the right, and SCDS Athletic Director Chuck Lintz on the left.

ON COACHING So what did I get out of volunteering?

In 1995, I was a kindergarten class rep, but I already had too many meetings in my day job as a CPA and attorney!

As a coach, I got to share my passion for basketball with a bunch of great kids. It kept me young at heart, but mostly, I got to have a lot of fun. Volunteering this way meant that I spent more time with my kids and watched them grow up a little more closely. I got to know their friends, the parents of their friends, and got to feel like a part of the community. Coaching meant I got to go a little crazy, yelling, imploring, and doing whatever it would take to help the boys do their best. My 87-year old mother would come to some of the games and apparently at one game she said, “Who is doing all that shouting?” I want to say thanks to SCDS for allowing me this great opportunity. It’s probably the most rewarding thing I have done in my life.

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Rose seen here in 2006 with her “A Place to Grow” Co-Chair Leslie Magid Higgins, and L-R, Don Carlson, architect; Frank Firmani, Board Member; Michael Murphy, Head of School; Craig McKibben, Board Member

ON AUCTIONS Volunteering has returned to me much more than I ever would have predicted. One of the first volunteer jobs I had was to work on the SCDS Auction from 1995 to 2006. In the 90’s, the auction organization was not nearly as developed as it is today. In one of those early years, we had a consultant who we let go two months before the auction! She had entered no data at all. Along with my co-chair (we thought this would be a cushy job, serving merely as figureheads), we took over event planning, data, and finances. All the volunteers knocked themselves out to get this event produced, and we did a pretty good job of raising funds for the school.

The lessons I learned from that experience: 1) Don’t ever be afraid to try something new. You’ll learn on the job. 2) Delegate! We should have brought more volunteers on board. They would have learned on the job, as we did.

Outcome measurement, or impact assessment, as applied to nonprofits, has grown in sophistication and impact over the last three decades or so. There are sound reasons, including that donors want to know that their contribution will have an impact. I keep it in mind in any nonprofit work I do. When someone recently asked where I learned to do outcome assessment, I answered that it was partly my background in science, but it was also by learning how to audit auctions.

ON GOVERNANCE Governance is the sum of activities most closely related to protecting the vision, mission, and core values of the organization. The board’s primary role is to govern, by activities such as behaving as an advocate for the organization, making sure that the organization is staying true to its mission, protecting the organization by overseeing the legal and fiscal activities, and contributing advice, talent, and resources. This work is not directly with the children at all, but it affects them nonetheless. The healthier the school, the happier the child, I hope.

One of the most important things I’ve learned is how to convey what’s important to me while maintaining respect for someone else’s responsibilities and authority. I often ask myself, “If roles were reversed, how would I want to be presented with this person’s concern?”

ON CHAIRING THE “A PLACE TO GROW” CAPITAL CAMPAIGN I had never worked for a fundraising campaign and had no relevant experience, so they made me chair! We had a goal of $4M and raised $4.5M. I learned that asking for money is easy if you’re passionate about the cause. EASY. I am very proud that we, all of us together, could provide this environment for SCDS students and our entire community. I really cannot believe that I was on this board for this project, all the way from the strategic plan to the finished construction. I was very lucky to get this experience. I guess I would do some things differently now with more experience, but really not much, because I relied on knowledgeable board members, staff, consultants, and volunteers.

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A Segment of Rose’s Carpool Schedule

Rose has calculated that out of a potential 29,430 “no carpool” number of trips since 1995, the Capitol Hill Carpool has saved 21,560 trips!

ON CARPOOLING I know that many people like the time spent in their cars with their children, and I understand that, but I love carpooling. Living near three schools myself, I like saving trips to our school. I like hearing the conversations between girls and boys and kids of different ages. They learn to get along with kids they don’t see much at school.

ON SCDS KIDS Even though I knew this is a school for gifted children, an experience [of working with 1st graders on an auction project that involved writing and drawing] made me realize that a lot of gifted kids don’t “have it easy.” This was one of several experiences that introduced me to the idea of complex facets of intelligence. I started looking at my own children and other children differently. In other volunteer work with the children, like field trips, 3rd grade editor, lunch service, carpool, literature circle and book club, I noticed more and more how different these kids are from each other.

I have come to the view that adults need to meet the child where the child is, at the moment. It does no good to guide a child from the top of the mountain if he’s at the bottom; he can’t hear you. We have to go down to where he is and guide him. Just like the 1st grade boy who needed to stretch his penmanship a bit at a time, some kids will need to take smaller steps on their developmental path. When we walk with them, eventually, they’ll make it on their own.

Volunteering has returned to me much more than I ever would have predicted.

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Rose & Mike Boyle, seated, center, at the 2012 Leadership Dinner.

Their sons, Kieran and Connor, front. Back row L-R, Scott Zorn, Carolyn Lathrop, Colleen Zorn, Lisa Carroll, Dana Swenson, Rob Malinowski, Hans-Peter Kiem

COACHING WITH MIKE — ROB MALINOWSKI It was a privilege to coach with Mike Boyle for 5 years. Three things come to mind when I think about him as a coach: vision, passion, dedication. He saw what the rest of us didn’t in these boys, set goals, and took us all along. Before agreeing to a job offer, he made it clear that he needed the time to coach at practices and games, as a condition. He spent untold hours at practice, during breaks, and at open gym all last summer for the incoming 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. He not only gave each boy a copy of the book Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court, he took the time to write a personal message inside to each boy.

NORDIC SKIING WITH ROSE — DANA SWENSON One day Rose and I had just bought tickets at Hyak, which entitled us to a chairlift ride to the upper trails. I was heading toward the lift when Rose asked, “do you want to take the lift or ski up?” Of course as a downhill skier, the thought of skiing uphill never occurred to me, but I could tell, she really wanted to ski up the mountain, so that is what we did. This just highlights her incredible energy and enthusiasm. She just doesn’t do things the easy way! A few weeks ago a group of us skied at Cabin Creek. We passed a sign that said “short cut,” and Rose admonished, “We cannot take the short cut,” and added, “there are no short cuts in life.”

ROSE AND CARPOOLING — COLLEEN ZORN Rose organized a spreadsheet managing 3 cars filled with 16 SCDS students that leave our neighborhood each morning, 1 or 2 cars as needed that return from SCDS at the normal dismissal time, and another car returning post-activities.

She sends out a schedule for the entire year, followed up by schedules for the semester, the season, the month and the week. She continually updates the current week as changes happen. As the owners of one of the highest capacity cars, Rose and Mike will drive carpool even if a Boyle child does not need a ride — simply to cut down on the amount of cars going to and from school. At one point, in addition to calculating all of these schedules, Rose also kept a running tally on “how many rides saved” for that school year.

Rose may appear calm, cool and collected on the surface, but underneath she has a touch of a competitive streak. So occasionally I need to drive carpool just to challenge her reputation as the most skilled driver on Capitol Hill.

One morning while driving to school, Connor looked at me and said, “I think you might be the only person who can beat my mom to school. I’d like to see you two race.”

RECRUITED BY ROSE — LISA CARROLL I have Rose to thank (some would say blame) for getting me hooked on auctions. In fact, [they] became a sort of calling for me for the next 10 years. Who knew? Rose did. Rose is a leader. She motivates you. She brings out talents and interests in you that even YOU didn’t know you had. Rose educates you.

She challenges you. She inspires you to get involved. When it came time to my joining the SCDS board, I’m certain Rose had a strong hand in that as well. She was the first and only person I’ve seen at a board meeting to whip out a copy of Robert’s Rules of Order!

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Ellie Peterson, Amy Cofelt, Jackie Bradley, and Dan Sweeney at the 2012 NAIS national conference.

SEL BEYOND

Bullying Prevention Social Emotional Learning TO

WHAT IS SEL?

The process through which children learn to recognize and manage emotions, care about others, make good decisions, behave ethically and responsibly, develop positive relationships and avoid negative behaviors.

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BY DAN SWEENEY, INTERMEDIATE AND MIDDLE SCHOOL HEAD

When I came to SCDS two years ago, I was impressed by the school’s commitment to educating the whole child. It was remarkable to me how quickly Lower School Head Jackie Bradley and her committee were able to develop such a thoughtful bully prevention policy that started us down the road to where we are today with Social and Emotional Learning (SEL). Earlier this year, Jackie, science teacher Ellie Peterson, school counselor Amy Colfelt, and I spoke at the National Association of Independent Schools conference to a packed room of educators who came to hear our story, and how we accomplished so much in so little time.

It’s an impressive story because it’s bringing our whole community together — teachers, administrators, students, and parents — all around the idea of Social and Emotional Learning.

As I have said many times this year to both parents and children: The world that our students will inherit does not yet exist. And for me the central question that continues to come to the forefront of my mind is how do we prepare a child for the unknown?

Any student can benefit from SEL. Gifted students in particular, who are often abstracted and intense, need active involvement in SEL in order to negotiate the personal side of intelligence. They have easy intellectual discussions about friendship and leadership, but five seconds later they can’t apply what they have learned in groups with their peers. They need to build a reliable foundation on which to mature, as well as be able to connect deeply and meaningfully with the curriculum, themselves, and others.

I believe that the Social Emotional Learning we are infusing into our already rich curriculum will only help students to further navigate this unfamiliar world. Amy Colfelt and I were fortunate to attend the SEL Institute at the Nueva School last summer. And I can say as someone who does not impress easily, I was blown away by my experience.

It was one of the best professional development experiences of my life. This team of SEL experts has now been consulting here on our campus with the faculty and students and has led to some pretty powerful moments. It certainly is an exciting and energizing time to be at SCDS with such a strong team of people who are truly committed to SEL and to educating our children to the fullest.

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What Teachers Say About

SEL:

“ They’re growing up in a world where they’re going to need some explicitly taught skills that remind them to keep a sense of self and relationships with others that are not just based on technology.”

WE GET SEL! Facilitators Janice Toben, Rush Sabiston Frank, and Nick Haisman (6th, 7th, and 8th from left in second row) of the Institute for SEL, pictured with SCDS faculty after intensive SEL training earlier this year.

—ERIN WALSH, 2ND GRADE

“ To talk about social emotional issues, there is a tangible sense of relief in the [3rd grade] classroom that they’re even allowed to talk about them.”

—MARK HOLTZEN, 3RD GRADE

“ Progress [for a student] can mean erasing the answer you’re completely committed to, admitting it won’t work, backing up and taking off in a different direction.”

—JANE HESSLEIN, 5TH GRADE HUMANITIES

“ Middle school students have such a range of emotions that if they can have a safe place here at school where every teacher in some way, shape, or form can address their emotional learning, it proves to them that they’re doing okay.”

—SHILOH GREENHAW, GRADE 6-8 P.E.

Follow the link for a video with more teacher comments about SEL: seattlecountryday.org/ learning_socialemotional.html

SCDS HOSTS SEL CONFERENCE In August, SCDS hosted The Seattle Institute for SEL on our campus. It brought together 60 educators from around the country for four days of inspirational and informative workshops about Social and Emotional Learning. Above, most of the participants gathered for an end of the day reflection.

FACULTY TO PRESENT AT UPCOMING GIFTED CONFERENCE 3rd grade teacher Duffy Lord, 5th grade humanities teacher Jane Hesslein, school counselor Amy Colfelt, and Intermediate and Middle School Division Head Dan Sweeney have been accepted to speak on SEL at the National Association for Gifted Children Conference in Denver this fall. The title of their session is Grit, Mindset, and Neural Plasticity: Inquiry Based Social and Emotional Learning.

What SEL Is/Isn’t:

ISN’T: Therapy Critical Disciplinary Touchy-Feely

IS: Facilitated Constructive Problem-Solving Skills for Success in Living

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COMMUNITY STORIES

JOURNEY father TO HER

SCDS music teacher Sue Ellis was just a little girl in 1959. On June 26th of that year, her mother took her to a dental appointment. Sue recalls the dentist looking at her teeth and then giving her a toy. Afterwards, back in the car and heading for home, her mother turned on the radio. And life changed forever.

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SCDS music teacher Sue Ellis

As Sue recalls it, “the announcer was relaying the mundane news of the day. Until one piece that was ominously different. An airplane had crashed outside Milan, Italy. It was a TWA plane.” Sue’s father, Frank Ellis, was a TWA pilot. A phone call soon confirmed her mother’s foreboding. Twelve minutes after takeoff, the crew of flight 891 reported the aircraft was climbing through 10,000 feet. A few minutes later, lightning caused a structural failure and the aircraft broke up in mid-air before crashing. All 70 people on board were killed. It was the first fatal aviation accident involving a Lockheed Starliner.

It was also the worst air crash of 1959.

Growing up, it was just the three of them: Sue, her sister Kathy, and their widowed mom.

Following in her mother’s footsteps Sue became a teacher. Her sister Kathy, like their father, chose work in the airlines. Sue says, “Most people dread turning 30, but I couldn’t wait. My 29th year was filled with associations of my father’s death. Being superstitious, I neither wanted to fly on June 26th, nor visit Italy.” Occasionally she and her sister searched the internet for bits of information.

They would “stumble upon a sentence or two in an aviation history book or a site that listed air disasters.” But nothing prepared them for the flood of information when they went online in early July of 2009, just after the 50th anniversary of the event. Far from being an obscure aviation footnote, Flight 891 was a richly remembered and memorialized part of the history of Olgiate Olona, the town where the plane crashed in a field. Sue and Kathy connected with a journalist, Alberto Columbo, who had written two books about the air disaster, and so began an unexpected chapter of life for the sisters.

On June 26, 2010, Sue and Kathy arrived in Olgiate Olona to attend a ceremony for the 51tst anniversary of the crash. (Their mother had died in 2006.) Alberto and his wife Anna were their hosts. Sue reports being “so moved just seeing so many people there honoring the victims. Strangers all, yet ‘la famila’.” Prior to the ceremony, they met many townspeople who had actually been at the crash site: the Red Cross volunteer who was the first to call for aid, the fire marshal who stood on the burning fuselage in hopes of recovering survivors, and the gentleman who placed a small object in Sue’s hand—“a piece of the plane that didn’t burn,” he said.

Each kindness towards us filled us with so much love and beautiful memories of our father.

The ceremony began at 5:33 p.m., the time of the crash.

The church bell rang 70 times, once for each person lost. The names of the victims were read, as well as an ecumenical international prayer. The mayor spoke of Sue and Kathy in his speech. Students in the town read poems, a special plaque was unveiled, and children placed beautiful flowers nearby. Reflecting on the experience that brought new life out of tragedy, Sue said, “There were so many photographs and hugs and doublekisses! I was struck by how ‘right’ everything was; that I was meant to be there. It was the closest I’ve ever felt to my father. Each kindness towards us filled us with so much love and beautiful memories of him. We were never able to make our own memories of our father, and this handful of days created a lifetime of connections to him.”

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AROUND THE

SCHOOL

2012 SCDS Board of Trustees

CELEBRATION FOR LUCILLE BECKMAN Lucile Beckman, SCDS’s first Head of School, passed away earlier this year.

Her family held a celebration of her life on the SCDS campus this summer.

Pictured above are technology teacher Lisa Lewis (L), with Rose Smith, Lucile’s long time assistant. At left, Sally Jewel, SCDS alumna and CEO of REI, Inc., and her husband, Warren, with teacher Sally Bauer.

SCDS said goodbye in June to longtime Board Members Karim Lessard ‘85 and Stan McCammon, and also to Pey-Lin Carroll. We welcomed new Board Members Annika Andrews, Joanna Black, Janet Angell Frink, and Natalie Stephens.

Front row L to R: Janet Angell Frink, Joanna Black, Rudy Gadre, Joe Hunter, Nancy Senseney Back row L to R: Michael Murphy ex-officio, Annika Andrews, Len Jordan (Vice President), Anne Schaefer (President), Mitch Kent, Lisa Carroll (Secretary), Frank Woodruff (Treasurer), Natalie Stephens, Chris Tessin, Mike Nesteroff Not pictured: Ramona Emerson, Sandi Wollum, Scott Zorn

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ULTIMATE WINNERS 2012 was a great year for Ultimate at SCDS. At the 2012 Spring Reign Tournament, The SCDS grades 7-8 Blue Team emerged as Tournament Champions in the Middle School “A” Division, beating Charles Wright Academy in the finals. They also took 1st place in the DiscNW League Championships in the “A” Division, beating Asa Mercer by a score of 7 to 4.

And They’re Off! The SCDS Class of 2012 is off to high school: The Bush School (4) Davidson Academy, Nevada (1) Lakeside School (7) The Northwest School (1) The Overlake School (1) University Prep (2) Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences (4) Holy Names (3) Seattle Preparatory School (3) Ingraham High ( 1) Roosevelt High (1)

Head of School Michael Murphy awards diploma to Logan Brennan ’12.

DIY PUBLISHERS SCDS 3rd grade teacher Mark Holtzen, and 4th grade math teacher Quinn Thomsen, have gone the DIY route and published their own books.

Mark’s book, “The Pig War,” can be found on Amazon. Quinn’s Book “I Hate the Times Table,” recently received Kickstarter funding and will be published this fall.

ROBYN FILIMAUA Over the summer, SCDS kindergarten teacher and volleyball enthusiast Robyn Filimaua passed her International Referee Certification Course in the Dominican Republic

with flying colors from the Federation Internationale de Volleyball. Robyn, who has coached and refereed volleyball for many years, is now the only international referee in the western U.S. Her closest fellow-refs are in Texas and the east coast. Robyn, pictured 3rd from left, accepting her certification.

GREEN TRANSPORTATION During “Healthy Transportation Habits” Week at SCDS last May, our community explored greener ways of getting to and from school. The stats tell the story: 197 bike rides by 48 students and 9 faculty/staff, 233 walk trips by 48 students and 2 faculty/staff, 78 eastside bus trips by 18 students,

23 public bus trips by 6 students and 1 staff, and 664 carpool trips! This event was organized by the SCDS Parent Council Sustainability Committee.

AUCTION/ANNUAL FUND The 2011-12 THE SCDS ANNUAL school year saw 2012 FUND 2011unprecedented support from the SCDS community.

The Annual Fund, Power to Our People! brought in $407,473 and the Auction, All the World’s a Stage, raised $513,233. Combined, that is $920,706 to support the people and programs of SCDS! Thanks to our generous community, and special thanks to our Annual Fund Chairs, Elle Lyons and Greg Jones, and our Auction Chairs, Stacy Post and Linda Potter for their tremendous efforts.

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CLASS

NOTES SYLVIA BARGELLINI ’05 is in her senior year at Arizona State University studying Industrial Design, and double majoring in Design Management. She started school in August, and reported temperatures of 115 degrees!

MORIEL BEHAR ’08 grew up doing theatre and decided to

pursue a musical theatre program in college. She spent her senior year at Lakeside School flying around the country to audition for many schools’ MT programs. She said, “It was certainly very stressful, not only because of the auditions themselves, but because I was spending multiple days a month in airports while keeping up with my schoolwork. Thankfully, it was all worth it in the end. I’m going to be a New York University student starting this fall!”

BRIAN BURNAP ’04 is studying civil engineering and pure

mathematics at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.

NORA NICHOLS CARR ’00 graduated with a B.A. in Sociology

from the University of Washington in 2009, but went back for her second degree in the BSN program at the University of Washington. She is on track to become an RN in the fall of 2013.

REBECCA CLINTON ’95 graduated from MIT in 2003,

Georgetown Medical school in 2007, and is a recent graduate from her orthopaedic surgery residency at University of Maryland. She moved from Baltimore to Dallas with her husband, Tyler Pepple, their nine month old daughter, Madelyne, and dog, Lewis. She begins her fellowship in pediatric orthopaedics at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children in Dallas, will finish in August of 2013, and hopes to move back to the Northwest.

NATHAN CUMMINGS ’10 and BEN KADIE ’09 were among a

small group of Washington State winners of the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, the nation’s largest program of recognition for creative teens.

Nathan won a gold medal for his flash fiction work “Conjoined,” and Ben was awarded a silver medal for his film “Alone Together.”

DAVID FOLEY ’90 is currently Chief Engineer at Substantial, a software product development company located on Capitol Hill in Seattle. He’s also playing drums with Hypatia Lake. They released their 4th full-length album, “Ouroboros” last fall.

CELESTE GREEN ’08 will be attending the Rhode Island School

of Design this coming fall, studying Industrial Design. Her sister LYDIA GREEN ’06 will be a junior at the University of Chicago

and recently returned from spending the summer in Beijing doing study abroad.

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SHARE YOUR STORIES! UPDATE YOUR INFO! SCDS wants to hear from our alums! If you have news to share about yourself or a former SCDS student, or if you have email / snail mail address changes, please contact us: 206-691-2620 or patsycadwell@seattlecountryday.org.

ELIANA HECHTER ‘01 just began a new job as a postdoc in the

math department at UC Berkeley, where she does research on mathematical genetics. She’s also teaching an upper-division topics course fall semester. She’s enjoying being back on the West Coast and living in San Francisco.

MATTHEW KAPLAN ‘02 graduated from King’s College London last year and is currently working on a masters in Imperial and Commonwealth History at the University of Oxford.

ERIC KENNEDY ‘94 moved to San Francisco to launch an

iPad app to give individual investors access to the same tools professional investors use to analyze public companies. His app (chartinsight.com) displays fundamental data such as Earnings Per Share, Book Value, Return on Capital, and many other financial metrics that are normally buried in SEC filings.

RYAN KUPYN ‘08 will be studying economics and international relations at the University of Southern California.

SARAH LEUNG ‘90 and husband David Wilson are thrilled for son Zachary to start Kindergarten this fall as an SCDS Wildcat, class of 2021!

ALINA MARSHALL ’08 headed off this fall to the University of

California San Diego to study marine biology and fence on their NCAA team.

DAVID MCKEE ’83 is President and Chief Investment Officer of

his own Registered Investment Advisory firm in Fairfax, VA. He has four boys (13, 11, 9 & 5) and lives in Centreville, VA with his wife of 16 years, Melissa.

PAIGE PAULI ’00 reports that she and KIAN MINTZ-WOO, OMAR HASSAM, NABILA WALJI, BETH MYNAR, AARON ROSE, SAM FISHER, all from the class of 2000, met up in August for

a reunion at the Paragon on Queen Anne, followed by a show at the Tractor Tavern in Ballard. They had a great time! But can you believe they didn’t take a photo?

CINDY PAYSER ’82 lives in St Louis, but she and her husband spend summers in Seattle. She has worked in environmental and civil engineering for 20 years, and recently started writing on the side. Cindy says, “I mention this because while a student at SCDS I won the school writing contest, and I still have the Webster’s Dictionary I won as the prize! My writing was published for the first time in Stone Soup magazine through the encouragement of an SCDS teacher.”

STEPHANIE PRESTON ’97 is working toward her doctorate in

clinical psychology at Pacific University’s School of Professional Psychology. Her dissertation is on raising awareness of subtle prejudice, and she is the president of her school’s chapter of Psychology Students for Social Responsibility. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her partner of 4 years.

LINDSEY ROSS ’96 (left) just bought her

first house in SE Portland!

ZOEY SALSBURY ‘11 went to summer debate camp for 3 weeks at Whitman College in Walla Walla, where she learned about different philosophers and argumentation styles. She placed 4th at the camp tournament. Zoey looks forward to starting back up at high school in September.

MALAIKA SCHWARTZ ‘01 is pursuing her MPH in Epidemiology and hopes to use her degree in public health to help reduce disparities in health care for vulnerable populations. She is currently working as a Fogarty Leadership Fellow in Peru, where she is researching the use of pharmacy information to improve public health surveillance coverage in the event of an epidemic.

In her free time she enjoys aikido, singing, tossing a disc around, and doing art in many mediums.

PETER SCHWARTZ ’09 is a senior at Lakeside High School and has

just completed a 175 hour summer drawing and painting program at Gage Academy on Capitol Hill. Some of his art was recently displayed at SAM as part of a youth exhibition.

EMILY SINGER ’01 is currently working as a Research Scientist at

a small pharmaceutical startup in San Francisco called CleanWell.

She is developing all-natural environmentally-friendly antimicrobial personal care products and is also working on the development of a clinical agent to treat infections such as pediatric impetigo and MRSA. She plans to attend medical school this year.

Allison (Doyle) Bass ’91 and Dr. Noelle (Husen ) Larson ’91, with a time capsule that the SCDS 7th graders put together for the 25th anniversary auction in 1989. Allison delivered the time capsule to SCDS social studies teacher Mary Lowry.

ZAHLEN TITCOMB ’96 and his 4 siblings continue to chug

along on their two companies, Five Bamboo and Five Ultimate. Five Ultimate was recently featured in an article in the Seattle Times (seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/ businesstechnology/2018828599_fiveultimate02.html).

Zahlen says, “This is particularly exciting to us because it not only says neat things about us, but it doesn’t downplay the sport [of Ultimate] the way a lot of press does.” He adds, “And to think that it was at SCDS where the ‘quirky family’ first got hooked on Ultimate!”

BETSY WADE ’08 attends Barnard College of Columbia University

and adores being in New York. She spends her free time exploring the city.

JOSH WEINER ‘99 joined McKinsey & Company to learn the world

of business as a management consultant after attending Stanford.

He left to join another McKinsey alum who founded a cocoa company in Central America. As COO he oversaw production in Nicaragua and Honduras. He left the world of chocolate to go to Boston in 2010, where he is now with Summit Partners, a venture capital and private equity firm.

Mark Mockett, Anna White, and Anna Thompson, all from the Class of 2000, met up at the Holy Names vs.

Lakeside school regatta last spring.

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Kinesis comes from the Greek word for motion, and “kinetics” is used in the vernacular to describe mechanics associated with the forces that cause motions of bodies. At SCDS, we’re all about energy and active learning. Every day, SCDS teachers engage students’ minds and bodies through inquiry-based teaching.

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During “The Places You’ll Go with a Good Book” summer reading promotion, students sent photos to Librarian Debbie Pearson of themselves reading, along with what they were reading, and where they were reading it! Pictured above, a group of SCDS students in our northwest backyard at Deception Pass, but Debbie received photos as high as 10,000ft. at Mt. Haleakala, Hawaii, and as far away as Venice, Italy.