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TRUSTEES Katharine duP. Gahaan H. Hickman Rowland, Jr. '58 President

Allen B. Morgan, Jr. '61 Vice President, pro tempore

Caroline duP. Prickett Secretary

Henry H. Silliman, Jr. Treasurer

Stephen L. Billhardt '83 Robert B. Blum, Sr. Trustee Emeritus Neil W. Brayton Parent Trustee Randolph W. Brinton '64 William H. Brownlee '44 Trustee Emeritus John S. Cook'45 Alumni Term Trustee Robert G. Gahagan Raymond P. Genereaux Michael K. Gewirz '81 Francis Giammattei, Jr. '47 Edward H. Hammond, Jr. '60 Maureen K. Harrington Henry N. Herndon, Jr. '48 Trustee Emeritus Thomas H. Hooper, El 71 Philip C. Keevil Jennifer M. Kern '83 Alumnae Term Trustee Catherine E. Kinsey Parent Trustee

Carey McDaniel Koppenhaver '90 Alumnae Term Trustee Walter J. Laird, Jr. Trustee Emeritus Cynthia Primo Martin

ST. ANDREW'S M A G A Z I N E

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EDITOR David G.W. Scott CLASS NOTES EDITOR Fran Holveck COPY EDITOR Christina Bielaszka-DuVernay

Everett R. McNair '73 William T. Murray, HI '50 Steven B. Pfeiffer William M. Pope, Jr.'61

CONTRIBUTORS Ches Baum '36 Don Blake

Daniel T. Roach, Jr. Headmaster

Allison Brayton '97

Winthrop deV. Schwab '36 Trustee Emeritus

Peter Megargee Brown '40

John D. Showell IV '68 Alumni Corporation President

Eric Crossan Ed Geisweidt

J. Kent Sweezey '70 Patricia Warner Parent Trustee

Mary Megargee Jim Perry '46

Michael J.Whalen'84

Chesa Profaci '80

Wayne P. Wright Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Delaware

Loudon Wainwright III '65

ALUMNI CORPORATION Anne Rhodes Amos '78

J. Michael Kadick '75

R. Stewart Barroll '72

Charles E. M. Kolb '69 Carey McDaniel Koppenhaver '90

William C. Bean '72

Robert D. Owens '83

E. Buck Brinton, Jr. '61

Jehu D. Quillin '56

Robert D. Colburn '80, Secretar

W. Barrett Register '51

Lawrance M. Court '62

Andrew L. Seymour '82

Mary Blair Dunton '87

Robert J. Shank'57

Charlie Welling '45

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FEATURES 14

lENTS

AN AMAZING EYE FOR DETAIL Jim Perry '46 offers an appreciation for William H. Whyte '35.

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ON THE WATER For many St. Andreans, water is a way of life. On historic sailing vessels or sleek, high-tech yachts, alums are riding the wind and the waves.

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THE CREATIVE LIFE AT ST. ANDREW'S Whether it's painting, pottery or poetry, the faculty at St. Andrew's are at work in the creative arts.

DEPARTMENTS 2

HEADMASTER'S NOTE

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LETTERS

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UP FRONT

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FROM FOUNDERS' HALL

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CARDINAL POINTS

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ALUMNI NEWS

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CLASS NOTES

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THE COLUMN

ON THE COYER Heidi Pearce '00 dribbles toward the basket in a game against Tatnall School.

Mary Megargee photographed Persistence, owned by Tyler Johnson 76.

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HEADMASTER'S NOTE The Triple-Threat Faculty

M

y seventh-grade English teacher was also my seventh- and eighth-grade baseball coach. As we batted each inning, he would slowly take off his tattered black spikes, lie down in front of our modest bench, chew slowly on a blade of grass and urge us to prolong the innings he spent so casually in the sun. During practices in the cold weather of early March and April, he delighted in throwing knuckleballs that tore the bats from our hands. He loved the game of baseball and the glorious late days of spring.

Mr. Ohler was a great English teacher—gruff, creative, exacting and passionate. He was also a wonderful baseball, football and hockey coach. All in all, he was a perfect middle school educator, for he connected with us precisely because his teaching and coaching complemented one another so perfectly.

The triple-threat teacher was, is and always will be the foundation of a great school faculty. Traditionally, the term described someone who combined the roles of teacher, athletic coach and dorm parent. Today, the triple-threat teacher may combine teaching and dorm parenting with leadership in the arts or in community service. But the concept confirms that a boarding school teacher is both versatile and generous with his or her skills, time and energy, for a person who teaches, leads students in co-curricular activities and parents a dormitory immerses himself or herself into the very heart of a boarding school. This model must remain the foundation of the St. Andrew's faculty year after year.

Why is the triple-threat model so powerful and important to the culture of a boarding school? Let me offer at least three answers to this question.

First, versatile teachers, coaches and dorm parents connect with students in all kinds of natural and spontaneous ways. Such a teacher's view of an individual student is informed by an understanding of the whole student and, just as importantly, a student's view of a teacher becomes more complete. As we change roles during the course of the day and night, opportunities emerge for connections, conversations and instruction. Students may begin to love literature, history or math because they admire and trust a teacher whom they know from athletics, the arts or residential life. I worked as hard as I could for Mr. Ohler precisely because I knew him so well and respected him so much.

Secondly, triple-threat teachers develop a mature, comprehensive perspective on their work. The coach whose first priority is teaching remembers to keep the excitement of athletic competition in perspective. The teacher-coach is less likely to lose focus on the time spent and purpose of athletic competition than the coach whose job and identity are wrapped up in his or her role as a coach. Sports Illustrated

writer E. M. Swift captured the essence of the teacher-coach concept when he described his days as a student at Hotchkiss: College coaches are professionals. That is what they do for a living. Their self-esteem rises and falls with the records of their teams. . . . My coaches at Hotchkiss by contrast made their living by teaching. They were good teachers and, generally speaking, had lots of self-esteem.

Coaching was something they did in their spare time. They took it seriously and coached to win, but they had the games in perspective, which strangely made them better coaches.

Thirdly, schools like St. Andrew's derive their power and inspiration by striving toward a broad educational mission, impossible to restrict to the boundaries of a classroom, locker room or dormitory. The St. Andrew's experience is one that at its best is complete and integrated. All we do each day is important, and all that teachers do morning, noon and night contributes to our identity as a school of faith and learning.

Let me end with two brief portraits of triple-threat teachers at St. Andrew's today. Ann Chilton teaches two sections of United States history, serves as a college counselor, coaches varsity field hockey, squash and lacrosse, and supervises a V Form girls' dormitory. She also advises a group of seven students. She brings the same sense of care, professionalism and perspective to her various roles within the School.

Brad Bates chairs our History Department, teaches three history sections, coaches soccer and women's crew and supervises a V Form boys' dormitory. He has made exciting innovations in the curriculum of our U.S. history program, and his leadership of our crew teams has been brilliant each year. His students and athletes respect him for his dedication, commitment and support of their efforts.

Our faculty remain St. Andrew's greatest resource, precisely because their commitment to the life of the School is so versatile and complete. I thank Ann, Brad and the entire faculty for many roles filled so very well.

Headmaster

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LETTERS HINNANT'S WORK NOT FORGOTTEN Dear Ches: I wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed the article on Bill Hinnant. My wife, Battle, and I recently saw the preBroadway show You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown at the Playhouse. After the show, we talked with the young man who played Snoopy. I mentioned that I went to school with and knew Bill Hinnant, who played the original Snoopy.

"Oh, yes," he said, "I studied movies of the production and especially went over and over Hinnant's Snoopy. I learned a lot from him."

The show opened recently on Broadway and hopefully the man playing Snoopy will get good reviews. But even if he doesn't, Bill Hinnant's talents will have been appreciated and studied years after his death.

Robert H. Robinson '55 Georgetown, Del. Editor's Note: Roger Bart has been nominated for a Tony Award as Best Featured Actor for his performance as Snoopy.

MAGAZINE ARTICLES WERE A TREAT To the Editor: I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed reading your Winter 1998 issue. Usually, I put the magazine aside for later, but two items in the Table of Contents were so attractive I felt compelled to read them right away.

The first was the piece by John Seabrook '76 offering an inside glimpse into The New Yorker. I know a little about magazine journalism, because I've taught it at a local college, so I can say for sure that article was special.

To read a first-person account of the inner workings of a front-line magazine like The New Yorker, and to read it in my alumni magazine, was a real treat.

The second was the travel piece by Jeff Lilley '82. It was fascinating to read a first-person account of a journalist who spent three months visiting monasteries on a bicycle while traveling alone in France. Twenty years ago, I, too,

visited monasteries on a solo bike tour of France! I thought for sure no one else was as weird as I am. Now I know I have company. (Actually, if Jeff's weird, then I'm weirder, because I spent six months and also visited monasteries in Italy and Greece.)

I've sent Jeff an e-mail suggesting we get together some time. That contact would never have been made without your editing, and that's got to make someone in the alumni office happy.

Thanks again for a great read. I look forward to more of what you publish.

Don Harting '74 Liverpool, N.Y.

SCHOOL COMMUNITY THANKED To the St. Andrew's faculty, staff, students, alumni and other SAS friends: I would like to thank the entire SAS community for your continual love and support in the days following the tragic death of my husband. Your kind words and gestures are helping me cope with this very difficult time in my life. I can't imagine dealing with this ordeal without the type of care and daily concern you all give to my family and me. It will be a long, painful journey through my grief, but I am sure with your help I will find the resiliency to endure. Hopefully, someday, I will look back and see the confidence I've gained by living through one of life's harshest experiences. Your love and support will give me the strength to make it through my journey. Ryan, Derek and I want to thank you once again for all you have done and continue to do for us.

With my deepest gratitude and love, DyAnn Miller Middletown, Del. Editor's Note: Richard Stow's obituary notice and a eulogy written by Headmaster Tad Roach appear in the In Memory section on p. 48.

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UP FRONT Polar Bears make plunge for Special Olympics

PHOTO BY LYNNECASWELL

The Polar Bears took an icy dip to raise money for Special Olympics Delaware. They are (I to r): Ed Reynolds '02, Rob Previti '02, James Dolan '02, Ulf Gehrmann '00, Anne Caswell '99, Angela Caswell '99, Leslie Hirsh '00, Nick Conell '00, Alex Boer '00 and Ozzie Cuervo '99.

Roach and Stegeman travel to Trinity College Tad Roach and Bob Stegeman attended a symposium at Trinity College that explored the challenges and responsibilities facing liberal arts institutions in the coming century.

The conference was especially lively and informative, and it pulled together a wide variety of perspectives.

Among the featured speakers were Murray Gell-Mann, physicist and head of the Santa Fe Institute; Orlando Patterson, sociologist at Harvard; Louis Menand, English professor at CUNY; Robert Brustein, director of the American Repertory Theater at Harvard; and Paul Goldberger, architecture critic and contributing editor at The New Yor&er.

"The future of St. Andrew's and similar schools is intimately linked with developments at the college level," Dean of Faculty Bob Stegeman said, "and this conference was a great help in thinking about how to anticipate the future."

Math students score in top one percent Three St. Andrew's students received mathematics awards for their high scores on the American High School Mathematics Exam. Mark Phillips '99, Yi Liu '01 and Chloe Taft '01 took the extremely rigorous 90-minute, 30-question exam on February 14, 1999.

Phillips is a repeat winner, having won an award in 1997.

A total of 46 St. Andrew's math students participated in the 50th annual exam, which is sponsored by the Mathematical Association of America and 11 other national math societies. The exam recognizes the top high school mathematics students in the United States.

"Although our students are not able to participate in 'Math League' or similar math clubs that would help prepare them for such competitions," Mathematics Chair Dave DeSalvo said, "our scores indicate that St. Andrew's students compare favorably with other schools in the region."

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For some strange reason, jumping into really cold water has a special appeal for Nick Conell '00. As a member of the St. Andrew's School Polar Bear Club, he gets to do that plenty, but this winter Nick and some of his friends made a jump that made a difference.

Ten St. Andrew's students swam in the icy Atlantic and raised over $1,100 to benefit Special Olympics Delaware.

"Here was an opportunity to jump into colder water with a bigger group of people," Nick said.

This is the second time Nick has traveled to Rehoboth Beach in early February to chill his bones. But this year's jump was personal.

"The Special Olympics has taken on a new meaning for me this year because I've been working with Adaptive PE on campus," Nick said. "That first-hand experience helps me understand the benefits of the jump. That pushed me to make a bigger fund drive."

Adaptive PE is a program in which mentally and physically handicapped children in the Middletown area swim in the Raymond P. Genereaux Aquatic Center pool with the assistance of students and faculty.

Nick's goal was to raise more money than last year.

"If you make it a point, people around here try to help you reach your goals," he said. "That was the largest contributing factor to the success of our fund-raising efforts."

Nearly 1,000 people participated in the second annual Polar Bear Plunge, raising $150,000 for Special Olympics Delaware.

Also participating from St. Andrew's were Angela Caswell '99, Anne Caswell '99, Ozzie Cuervo '99, Alex Baer '00, Ulf Gehrmann '00, Leslie Hirsh '00, James Dolan '02, Rob Previti '02 and Ed Reynolds '02.

Ken Warner helps music department Ken Warner juggled many musical responsibilities as he filled in for Larry Walker. Warner conducted the Jazz and Concert Bands and taught the instrument lessons and the Studio Arts music classes.

He received his B.A. in music education from the University of Delaware and a master's degree in education from Michigan State University. He has been studying the organ with Arts Department Chair Marc Cheban since 1990.

Warner's daughter, Meredith Ann, graduated from St. Andrew's in 1991.

"He literally saved the day," Cheban said. "Ken was willing to help out from one day to the next. He also added a sectional schedule to get ready for Arts Weekend. He was in it for the kids. He's done a high service to this community."

10th anniversary of Dead Poets Society celebrated It was ten years ago that Disney Productions swooped into Middletown and onto campus, bringing a taste of Hollywood to Noxontown Pond. Incredible to many who were involved in filming the movie, a decade has come and gone.

St. Andrew's hosted a 10th anniversary screening of Dead Poets Society at The Everett Theatre in April to relive the memories of those dramatic days in the winter of 1988.

"I thought this would be an excellent way to revive the type

Welch is flying again of community spirit that was present during the filming of the movie," Director of Communications David Scott said.

St. Andrew's students attended the screening on Friday night. Earlier in the week, former chaplain Simon Mein and actor Jonas Stiklorius talked about playing minor roles in the movie. Filming took place during the winter term to take advantage of the empty campus during Thanksgiving and Christmas breaks.

The $1,000 that was raised from the 10th anniversary screening benefited the Middletown Boys and Girls Club and The Everett Theatre Restoration Fund.

In addition to the three weekend shows, a young actors' workshop with Theater Program Director Ann McTaggart '86 took place on Saturday morning.

The Everett Theatre, a 76-year-old former vaudeville theater seating over 400 people, was the setting for the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream that precipitated the climax of Dead Poets Society.

Vestry Auction raises nearly $6,000 for St. Mark's The Student Vestry Auction raised nearly $6,000 to send to St. Mark's College in South Africa. The festive event had an undercurrent of generosity. Each dollar raised means the possibility that one more student might get a scholarship to St. Mark's College in Jane Furse, South Africa.

The auction was started more than 15 years ago by thenChaplain Simon Mein and has grown in scope over the years. In addition to dinners at faculty houses and trips to town, this year's auctioned items included bags of ties donated by history teacher Bob Stegeman, who will retire at the end of the year. Other gifts included a surfing trip, a box of goodies from parents and original artwork by students and teachers.

Associate Chaplain Louise Howlett said the auction and the Turkey Trot are the only Student Vestry fundraisers.

The rest of the year, the Vestry promotes giving for giving's sake.

"There is a double generosity going on at this event," she said. "There are the people who buy and the people who give the items to be auctioned. It's a way of celebrating our gifts to one another and celebrating our lives together."

Faculty members attend conference for people of color Ana Ramirez and Heather Williams '92 attended the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) 1998 People of Color Conference, which was held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 11-14.

NAIS holds the annual conference to help schools achieve the goal of becoming diverse, multicultural organizations.

The sessions that Ramirez and Williams attended explored practical strategies for overcoming challenges facing people of color in independent schools.

Keynote speaker Julia Alvarez, author of In the Time of Butterflies, gave an inspirational talk that touched on her struggles, failures and successes as a minority in the United States.

"She was a river of wisdom," Ramirez said. "Her words of encouragement floated in that evening's ballroom and settled in our minds and memories."

W

e all know Chuck Yeager, the swaggering West Virginian who led America into the sonic age, grew famous from the bestselling book The Right Stuff and then starred in battery commercials. But who is George Welch? Al Blackburn's new book, Aces Wild: The Race for Mach 1, tells Welch's story and the highaltitude duel between the public hero and the slope-shouldered Wilmingtonian. Blackburn's main claim: Welch, not Yeager, was the first to break through the "sonic wall," which he did in a North American Aviation XP-86 two weeks before Yeager did in the U.S. government's multimillion dollar X-l rocket ship.

Welch was a native of Delaware.

Born on May 18, 1918, the son of George Louis Schwartz and Julia George Welch '37 Welch Schwartz, Welch took his mother's name at St. Andrew's.

He graduated from the School in 1937. His senior classmates voted him the "laziest" member of the class, but he was an excellent student of physics and chemistry. He attended Purdue University for two years and was then accepted into the Army's aviation cadet program. He won his wings early in 1941 and was assigned to the 47th Fighter Squadron at Wheeler Field on the island of Oahu.

Welch wasn't only a test pilot bent on speed. He was a courageous and decorated World War II flying ace. He was one of a handful of pilots to get airborne during the attack on Pearl Harbor. He fought the Japanese on three different flights on the "day that will live in infamy," recording four official victories. Welch received the military's second highest honor: the Distinguished Service Cross.

Stationed in New Guinea, Welch continued his outstanding military service (despite his penchant for bailing out of inferior P-39s). When his tour of duty in the Pacific War was ended by a debilitating case of malaria, Welch had flown 348 missions and shot down 16 enemy planes.

The beige sands and blue skies at Edwards Air Force Base are a long way from Delaware. From that clear air one loud ba-boom rocked the desert on October 1, 1947. Blackburn asserts that barrier-busting sound came from the XP-86 fighter plane flown by Welch as he went faster than any man before and lived to tell about it.

But he didn't tell much. Decades of governmental secrecy and the ascension of Chuck Yeager into the hall of heroes have buried Welch's accomplishment. He died in 1954 at the age of 36 while testing "the upper right corner," where speed, aerodynamic stability and peak maneuvering stress define an aircraft's limit.

Much of Aces Wild has a frontier feel, and Blackburn proves an excellent guide. He was also a test pilot for North American and flew with both Welch and Yeager. Aces Wild criticizes Tom Wolfe's widely popular The Right Stuff, which treats those test pilots as characters in a fictionalized narrative.

Welch never sold his soul. He soared. Maybe he didn't fit the hero's mold, maybe he lacked star-appeal. But he had the kind of bravery any of us would like to call our own.

Aces Wild: The Race for Mach 1 is available for $24.95 from Scholarly Resources Inc. Call (800) 772-8937.

ST. ANDREW'S MAGAZINE 5

FROM FOUNDERS' HALL Baum: Continuity at St. Andrew's

By Loudon Wainwright III '65

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bout a year and a half ago, I received a letter asking for a donation to the St. Andrew's School Alumni Fund. I'm somewhat loath to admit, particularly in these pages, that I rarely respond to such requests for money. Instead, I usually rustle up one of my many convenient excuses, a few of which are "I can't be bothered," "I really can't afford it" and the old standby, "They misunderstood me when I was there." Then I crumple up the correspondence and the envelope it came in and chuck it all into the wastepaper basket where it joins the latest news and promises from any number of frequent-flier and long-distance outfits.

However, this particular letter was different. It was addressed to the Class of 1965 as a whole; and though it concerned itself with our particularly dismal philanthropical efforts over the years, it was not a harangue but instead a skillful and firm exhortation written with humor and heart 6 SPRING 1999

and just a smidgen of gentle sarcasm. I was surprised and delighted to discover that the author of the letter was Chester Baum '36, an illustrious alumnus of the School and a teacher there for many years. In fact, he taught me V Form English way back in 1963-64. I hadn't seen or heard from Mr. Baum in over 30 years, but I pulled open my desk drawer and fished out the checkbook.

A few weeks later, Ches wrote me a personal letter of thanks that was full of interesting recollections, astute observations and some extremely kind words about myself and about my father (SAS '42).

Over the next twelve months or so, we managed to stay in touch with letters and phone calls. The opportunity for us to actually meet again arose when I was booked to perform at a little club called the Ram's Head Tavern in Annapolis, an hour or so from Ches's home in Oxford, Md. Arrangements were made, and a table for eight was procured for Ches, his wife, Phebe, their sons, Price Baum and Willy Smith '69, and some friends. On the night of the show, despite my 30 years of show-biz experience, I was as nervous as, well, a schoolboy.

Speaking of schoolboys, allow me to digress for a few sentences. The next time you visit St. Andrew's, take a walk over to the old gym. Inside, as I'm sure you know, are photographs of the School's past athletic teams. I don't want you to look at yourself way back when. Instead, I want you to go back in time, almost to the beginning of the School itself, back to 1932. You'll find a picture of a group of boy wrestlers wearing dark tights and useless-looking knee pads.

They're standing in a line arranged by weight class, bodies in profile, heads turned toward the camera. With them, in street clothes, at one end of the line and a head taller than the tallest boy is their coach. He is the fierce and martiallooking William "Bull" Cameron, the man for whom the gym is named.

Now I want you to look down to the other end of the line to the youngest and shortest boy. He's sporting a crew cut and scowling at the camera. The name of this grumpy little mat urchin is Chester Baum. If you like, you can follow the pubescent's progress over the next few years in the photos of young wrestlers and football players. In 1936, he disappears, having graduated and gone off to college (Haverford). But he returns to the gym walls again in the late '40s. Now he's a coach himself, dressed in a jacket and tie—a young man standing with boy athletes. His countenance is still serious, the no-nonsense crew cut remains.

Now, let's go from Middletown back to Annapolis, fast forwarding to January 8, 1999. It's showtime at Ye Olde Ram's Head. Making my way to the stage, I stopped at the Baum table. Chester rose and we shook hands and clapped eyes on each other for the first time since 1965. Ches looked extremely vigorous and well. Yesteryear's crew cut had sprouted out into something rather modish and he had a huge, eye-crinkling, toothy grin plastered onto his face. This

Faculty news Mathematics Department Chair Dave DeSalvo attended workshops with math teachers Hardy Gieske '92 and Dominick Talvacchio in Basking Ridge, N.J., in November.

DeSalvo and Gieske attended sessions on what's new in AP Calculus, while Talvacchio went to sessions on the latest trends in AP Statistics.

In addition, Talvacchio attended in January a two-day Math Specialty Workshop in Philadelphia, Pa., that concentrated on AP Statistics. terrific smile had always been the scowler's secret and most powerful weapon. As for the show, I recall it went well.

Certainly the highlight was when I introduced my former mentor and his family to the rest of those assembled. Ches stood up to acknowledge the audience's ovation, beaming out at them like a human lighthouse. Folks, you should have been there.

Chester Baum turned 80 this year, and to commemorate this great occasion accolades and thanks from friends, colleagues and alumni from around the country and world poured in.

Though he retired from teaching and left St. Andrew's in 1970, he's back now part-time serving as the St. Andrew's historian. If you start back in 1932 with the photograph of the young wrestler, you realize the man is a living throughline, having been involved with the SAS family as student, faculty member and, now, tribal elder.

During one of our recent phone conversations, Ches and I were talking about the night I introduced him at the Ram's Head, and I made a rather lame joke, something to do with the Andy Warhol maxim about fifteen minutes of fame. I said Ches deserved to have forty-five minutes. Ches, referring I think to the length of all those hundreds of English classes he taught at St. Andrew's, quickly came back with, "That's all I ever got."

Below, the wrestling team gives a stern face. That's Ches Baum far left and William "Bull" Cameron far right.

History and English teacher Eddie Chang '83 attended the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in Boston.

Panel topics ranged from the physiognomy of sages in ancient China to the politics of Noh theatre in medieval Japan. Chang said it was an "intellectual smorgasbord." He hopes to incorporate the provocative research into his East Asian history course at St. Andrew's.

Director of Communications David Scott completed a webmaster certificate program at the University of Delaware. He also participated in the Educational Talent Search Program at Delaware Tech, a federally funded program designed to help middle and high school students identify and reach their academic and career goals. He spoke as a panelist to more than 150 students and addressed the questions of students who are interested in a career in communications.

Ceramic arts teacher Lee Leal attended the National Council for the Education of the Ceramic Arts in Columbus, Ohio, over spring break. The keynote speaker was J. Kirk T. Varnedoe '63, curator of Modern Painting and Sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, who spoke about the method Jackson Pollock used to create his paintings. Lee listened to lectures on technology, creative styles and classroom instruction. He said the many gallery exhibitions featured national and international ceramic artists.

CARDINAL POINTS three-pointers and handled the ball well at point guard.

LeMar McLean '00 and Kodi Shay '00 were the team's best defenders.

Rue said Graham Worth '01 proved to be an excellent ball handler and the team's top rebounder.

Girls' swimming takes third place in states

Chris Owens '99 drives to the basket against Tower Hill.

Boys7 basketball ends season with string of wins The boys' basketball team finished its season winning four of the last five games, including wins over Wilmington Friends, 58-50, and Rising Sun High School (Md.), 54-49.

The team wound up third in the Independent Conference with a 4-4 record and was the only Conference team to beat Friends other than Sanford.

Despite a midseason funk in which they lost seven games in a row, the boys finished 10-11 and qualified for the state boys' basketball tournament for the second consecutive season. Scheduling conflicts made it impossible for the team to compete in the tournament, but Coach Bobby Rue was proud of his team's perseverance.

"We had one starter who returned from last year's team," Rue said. "We improved a tremendous amount."

Led all season by Sulaiman Jenkins '99, the team got key contributions late in the year. Chris Owens '99 became a scoring threat inside, while Dave Sykes '99 hit important 8 SPRING 1999

The St. Andrew's girls' swimming team had its best finish ever in the state meet, placing third behind the powerhouse programs of St. Mark's and Newark High. St. Mark's has almost as many girls in the swimming program as St. Andrew's has in attendance and Newark High has nearly 2,000 students.

With just 24 swimmers and divers, St. Andrew's finished easily in third place, well ahead of the rest of the crowd.

"This was the best showing we've ever had," said Coach Lundy Smith, Delaware's Girls' Coach of the Year. "Our third-place finish shocked a lot of people. It was a real group effort."

Relay teams led the way to points for St. Andrew's. The 200 Free relay team of Anne Barber '00, Jessi Walter '99 (First Team All-State), Sarah Marvel '99 (Honorable Mention All-State) and Lindsay Payne '01 (Second Team All-State) placed second to St. Mark's and broke the existing state record in a second-place finish. They also posted an All-American time. The same team placed second in the 200 Medley with a time of 1:52.13.

Jessi placed second in the 50 Free and fourth in the 100 Back, establishing School records in both races. Sarah finished eighth in the 100 Back and 200 Free, in which she set a School record of 1:59.63.

"Our third-place finish shocked a lot of people/' Lundy Smith Coach, Girls' Swimming Team

Lindsay broke a School record and set an All-American time by placing fourth in the 100 Breast (1:07.35). She also placed seventh in the 50 Free. Anne took thirteenth in the 100 Free and fourteenth in the 50 Free.

Also winning points in the pool were Laura Zarchin '99, Lacy Caruthers '00, and the 400 Free relay team of Laura, Caylei Fujas '99, Emily Zazulia '02 and Lindsey Noe '01, which Coach Smith called "the biggest surprise of the meet."

St. Andrew's girls broke the state record in the 200 Free relay and recorded an Ail-American time. Jessi Walter '99 (back left), Lindsay Payne '01, Anne Barber '00 and Sarah Marvel '99 receive their medals at the state meet.

The St. Andrew's divers won more points than any team in the state (26). Led by Melissa Calder '01, who finished third, the team displayed its depth as Jessie Wieland '99 placed tenth and Anne Farland '01 placed fourteenth.

Smith said the reason for the success was simple.

"Our seniors led by example. They were incredibly hardworking," he said. "This team was really dedicated. There are no slackers in this group."

The third-place finish was also the highest finish by a down-state team in the history of the state swimming meet.

Wrestling team has strong finish The young and inexperienced St. Andrew's wrestling team won its last two dual meets of the season, proving the predictions of Coach Don Duffy that the future looks bright for the team.

"We'll have 14 kids returning," Duffy said. "This is a good group of guys coming back. They are going to be pretty good next year and the following year, really good."

Duffy said that next year's team should reap the benefit of this year's senior leadership. Nick McDonough, Jonathan Downs and Nate Gray set the tone for serious work in the wrestling room.

Nick was undefeated in dual meets after recovering from a back injury that prevented him from wrestling last year.

He won the Bo Manor Invitational and the D.I.S.C. championship, and he placed second at the state-qualifying tournament. Nick placed fifth overall in the state of Delaware at 152 pounds, traditionally one of the toughest weight classes.

"Nick was an awesome, disciplined driller," Duffy said.

"He was in excellent shape and his technique was extremely good. He never lost his concentration."

Duffy said the top five wrestlers in Nick's class were all

equally talented and any one of them could have been champion, including Nick. He finished with a 23-3 record.

Jonathan finished the season with a 13-13 record. He placed third at the D.I.S.C. championship and fourth at the state qualifier.

"He came in as an inexperienced freshman," Duffy said.

"He has worked hard these last three years and it really paid off."

Duffy said Dave Patterson '00 was hampered by a knee injury that didn't allow him to reach his potential this season. Dave managed to return for a second-place finish at the D.I.S.C. championship, but he reaggravated the injury and did not wrestle in the state tournament.

Dave will be co-captain of next year's team with Nick Conell '00.

Boys7 swimming makes highest finish ever With its ninth-place showing, the boys' swimming team completed its best season in the history of the School.

"We had great individual swims at the state meet," Coach Lundy Smith said. "We were ranked in the top five all season in dual meets. As small as we are, to finish in the top ten in the state is really an accomplishment."

The relay teams garnered the points for St. Andrew's. The 4 x 100 Free relay team of Chris Moneta '99 (Second Team All-State), Stephen Comstock '99, Doug Brayton '00 (Second Team All-State) and Joey Hickman '00 won the first medal in School history with their third-place finish. The

Charles Biddle-Snead '02 is one of the improving St. Andrew's wrestlers.

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Jessi Walter '99 All-Stater Four Times

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hen Jessi Walter arrived at St. Andrew's School four years ago, the girls' swimming team had just won its first Independent Conference title, but just barely.

Since then, Jessi has led the team to four straight D.I.S.C. championships, widening the margin of victory each year. She has been selected to the FirstTeam All-State for four years in a row—the first St. Andrean to accomplish that feat. This year, she led the team to a third-place finish in the state meet.

"She never lost a race in the D.I.S.C. championships," Coach Jessi Walter receives her second Lundy Smith said. "She is dediplace medal for the 50 Free at the cated to everything she does, but Delaware state swimming meet. she's also balanced academically, socially, athletically."

Smith noted that Jessi broke School records on 49 separate occasions. Many times, she chipped away at her own times.

She holds eight School records and two pool records.

"Breaking records that many times shows that she kept swimming well," Smith said. "Whenever another team came to our pool, she pushed herself."

Smith said her 100 Back time (0:59.62) would probably stand for some time and her 200 Free Relay time (1:40.54) will be tough to beat. This year, Jessi is an Academic All-American and is planning to attend Harvard University. She has two swimming times that are under consideration for an AllAmerican standard.

"She was the MVP of our team for four years in a row," Smith said. "She improved every year. She is very competitive and she never freezes up. When a race meant something, she really performed."

All of these accomplishments and accolades come to a swimmer who competes only four months of the year; the other high school swimmers are in the pool year round.

But Jessi was also a member of the girls' crew that won the Henley Regatta in 1997 and last year's Stotesbury and Scholastic Regattas.

Smith said her college coaches will be getting a swimmer who has amazing potential for growth and improvement.

"It was impossible for her to fully actualize her swimming potential in the St. Andrew's environment because of the short season," Smith said. "In my opinion, she is an untapped talent." same team set a School record in the 200 Free relay (1:30.75), finishing fourth.

Doug set a School record in the 100 Free (0:48.94), finishing fourth, and he placed eighth in the 50 Free. Chris took seventh in the 50 Free and set a School record (0:56.55) with his eighth-place finish in the 100 Fly. Rob Baldwin '99 set School records in the 200 Free (1:54.77) and 500 Free (5:21.64). The 200 Medley relay team of Rob, Ryan Connell '99, Rob Ward '99 and Henry Palmer '02 placed sixteenth.

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Co-captain Robin Juliano '99 hits a backhand during a girls' squash match.

Jennings Snider '01 turned in a great performance in diving and was the surprise of the meet, according to Coach Smith. His tenth-place finish gave the team valuable points in the standings.

Girls7 squash finishes second at Mid-Atlantics Despite the disappointment of its narrow defeat by Mercersburg in the Mid-Atlantic Championships in late February, the girls' squash team was proud of its secondplace showing.

"We improved constantly from day one," Coach Hardy Gieske '92 said. "It was non-stop improvement. Everyone on this team was supportive of each other, and they were also intense competitors."

In the complicated scoring system of the Mid-Atlantics, Helen Smith '99 and Robin Juliano '99 captured individual championships in the winner's bracket, scoring important points for the team. Lisa Pilkington '99 won the title in the consolation bracket.

Both Susan Clarkson '00 and Maggie Smith '01 placed second in the winner's bracket. Because No. 2 player Caroline Salas '00 was unable to play, most of the team played one seed higher than usual. Susan pushed her match to a fifth game before losing 9-5.

The team finished with a 3-4 record.

Gieske said his team drew the praise of Bryn Mawr School parents in their late-season meeting and at the MidAtlantics.

"The Bryn Mawr parents said our players were the most polite, gracious, intense and fun," Gieske said. "They were just good competitors all around."

Other members of the team included Sally Flippin '99, Jodi Brauner '99, Tatiana Auguste '99, Dominique Fontanilla '99 and Ashleigh Pattee '02.

Girls7 basketball ties for second in Conference After five of the team's top six players graduated, the girls' basketball team appeared to have an uphill struggle to top last season's 14-7 record.

The girls promptly and consistently played their way to a 13-4 record and shared second place in the Independent Conference with Sanford School.

"We had several players this year who consider basketball their first sport," Coach Kyla Terhune said. "This team

had amazing mental focus. They did everything I asked them to do, and they executed changes in the strategy beautifully."

Elizabeth Ross '01, a unanimous All-Conference FirstTeam selection, led the team with 14.5 ppg. and averaged more than ten rebounds per game.

Heidi Pearce '00 was selected to the All-Conference Second Team. She averaged 6.9 ppg. Liz Grant '00 and Emily Pfeiffer '00 were named to the Honorable Mention team.

Terhune said that the three seniors—Bernadette Devine, P.J. Bugg and Lindsay Lowa—set the tone for leadership on the team. She added that every player on the team was a leader at some point whether through their hustle in practice, verbal encouragement or general positive attitude.

She also said that the future of the team looks bright with this year's strong performances by Ashley Bergland '00, Alex Pfeiffer '02 and Ingrid Fogle '00.

Boys7 squash battles Mercersburg to the finish It was only fitting that Charlie Leonard '99 was the last person on the court for the boys' squash team. Leonard, the team's No. 1 player who had led an inexperienced St. Andrew's team all season, faced Mercersburg's top player in the last individual match. Leonard trailed 1-2, but turned it on to win 3-2.

"It was an emotional match," Coach Rob Fogelman '91 said. "Technically, the match was over because we were down 3-1 at that point, but Charlie didn't know that. He played like he was playing to win the match."

Despite the loss to Mercersburg and the seventh-place finish at Mid-Atlantic, Fogelman sees a bright future for St. Andrew's squash.

"I expect the squash program to continue to blossom here/7 Rob Fogelman '91 Coach, Boys' Squash

"We had a lot of kids sign up for squash this year and the new courts are a phenomenal facility," he said. "I expect the squash program to continue to blossom here."

Fogelman said this year's team had a strong core of athletes, even if many of them had little court experience.

But as the season progressed, each player improved dramatically, culminating in the near upset of Mercersburg.

Sulaiman Jenkins '99 makes SAS history

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e finished second in the state in scoring. He scored more points than anyone in St. Andrew's history. He scored more three-pointers than anyone in School history. He had the highest points per game average.

How did he do it? By chucking everything but the kitchen sink at the backboard, blindfolded, hoping a couple of shots would go in?

Hardly.

Sulaiman Jenkins '99 made St. Andrew's basketball scoring history while hitting an incredible 49 percent of his shots in his senior season.

When you think about standing nearly 20 feet from the basket, you'd be happy to make one out of four, if you're really good. Inside the paint, one for three sounds about right. And that's when you're alone and the only distraction is the empty echo of the ball slapping the hardwood floor.

Suli shot nearly 50 percent with two, sometimes three, defenders hanging all over him. He had 56 three-pointers for the season—at least one in every game.

On the night he broke 1,000 points, the Rising Sun coach was heard yelling from the bench, "When No. 22 gets the ball, tripleteam him. I don't care if he passes, don't let him shoot."

The coach was right. But even if he shot and missed this time, he was going to make it the next.

Off the court, Suli is modest, reserved—but one senses the steel that makes him such a serious student and focused athlete.

He wears No. 22 because he says he's one less than No. 23, Michael Jordan.

Not at St. Andrew's. Here, Sulaiman Jenkins is No. 1.

Praising his seniors, Fogelman said he couldn't imagine working with a better group of guys. Mark Phillips, Drew Heckman, Colin Heinle, Dan Mones and Cody Pietras led the team in conditioning and drilling all season.

Charlie received the Most Valuable Player Award, and Jeff Wieland '01 and Ted Unger '02 shared the Most Improved Player honor.

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ALUMNI NEWS Business is booming Andy Florance '82 grows RIG into industry leader

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n an office suite where rest room keys are attached to diskettes, where sensors unlock the main door, where high-speed computers and imposing monitors consume space on every desk, Andrew C. Florance '82 stands sentinel.

The chief executive officer of Realty Information Group (RIG), Florance has spent the larger part of the past ten years nurturing this now-public company in Bethesda, Md. RIG is an online service providing information on about 40 percent of all commercial buildings in the United States.

Through software products such as Costar, RIG enables real estate brokers, banks and the government to track about 7.5 billion square feet in cities across the United States in acute detail, says Florance. Everything from floor plans, to annual building revenue, to the date the lease expires on a specific office suite, is accessible via RIG's software systems.

Within one to two years, says Florance, RIG hopes to warehouse such detailed information on all commercial buildings in America.

But even now, before RIG's photographers and researchers catalog each building in every major American city, this young firm is well ahead of the competition.

"There is no company we're aware of that is nearly of this size or scope," Florance said. "We're really the national system."

Expanding the company should prove a less formidable task than getting it started was. Florance's approach to cataloging commercial real estate on the Internet and making important information readily available took time and money. At 22, Florance had an ample supply of the former.

Upon graduating from Princeton University in 1986, he devoted himself completely to this "lark." Within six months he was able to move out of his parents' basement, and it was not long before he convinced two investors in his hometown of Washington, D.C., to bankroll him. With the $5 million investment they afforded him, Florance was able to grow his budding business.

As his project grew, Florance set his sights on New York, leaving behind the security of D.C. "That was the hardest thing we ever did: going into the middle of Manhattan and trying to tell the people who owned all the real estate there that this is how we're going to do it now." Especially with a bare-bones introduction that went something like: "Hi, I'm Andy. I'm 25 years old.

And I think the way you've been conducting commercial real estate for the last 150 years is inefficient."

But this entrepreneur is not easily intimidated. He pursued his dream by focusing on growth rather than on the final product.

"I was very naive when I started out. You look at it initially as being your own little experiment, and then one day you look up and it has implications for hundreds of people's lives," he said.

So in the eleven short years since RIG was founded, things have changed a little. Florance no longer relies on his older sister to enter data and his brother-in-law to help with marketing. Instead, RIG's staff of more than 200 employees has assumed these responsibilities, in addition to researching and photographing buildings and writing software and news wires. RIG continues to recruit aggressively, hiring

BY A L L I S O N B R A Y T O N '97 12 SPRING 1999

Members of the Class of 1964 celebrated with Dennis Blair at Quarters "A," Naval Station Pearl Harbor, following the Change of Command Ceremony in which Admiral Blair became Commander in Chief of the Pacific Command. Above (I to r): Curt Coward, Dennis Blair, John Parrish and Warren Hoffecker in festive attire in Hawaii.

Blair leads U.S. Pacific Command new employees at a rate of approximately 40 per month, said Florance. In the Bethesda office, a conference room has been turned into a makeshift office space for trainees. This testifies to RIG's rapid expansion.

Because his company is technology-based, being a CEO, says Florance, is much like being a headmaster.

Florance not only deals with all the fluctuations of the company, but also those fluctuations of his employees.

Though Florance acknowledged this entails a certain loss of privacy, it's a price he's willing to pay.

Forsaking a different kind of privacy, RIG went public on July 1, 1998. An "absolutely grueling" task with "unreal" amounts of paperwork, becoming a public company was taxing, admitted Florance, who clocked 100-hour weeks and traveled 15 days of the month. But the timing couldn't have been better, he said.

The company is now worth $80-100 million on any given day—proof that writing software tends to be more lucrative than washing dishes. But Florance has known this since the summer after his sophomore year at St. Andrew's when he lived in his sister's beach house and washed dishes at five dollars an hour.

Florance's "lark" is now a thriving and successful business. One that allows a person to tour Manhattan from Bethesda, one that merits the respect of other young entrepreneurs and encourages them to seek advice from this 34-year-old sage, one that is captained

by Florance's youthful enthusiasm and guided from one broken skyline to the next.

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dmiral Dennis C. Blair '64 has been named Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Command. In a ceremony on February 20, 1999, Blair was sworn in as the leader of the oldest and largest of the United States unified commands.

Prior to assuming this new position, Blair served as director of the Joint Staff. Before that, he was the associate director of Central Intelligence for Military Support. He also served as commander, Cruiser Destroyer Group FIVE, in the U.S. Pacific Fleet from August 1993 to March 1995.

Blair was commanding officer of Naval Station Pearl Harbor in 1989-90. He served on guided missile destroyers in both the Atlantic and Pacific fleets. He served as executive officer on the USS Berkeley (DDG 15) and commanded the USS Cochrane (DD 21), which was deployed in Japan.

Blair served as a National Security Council staff member for Western Europe and as executive assistant to the commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet.

A 1968 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Blair attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, where he earned a master's degree in modern history and languages from Worcester College in 1971. He served as a White House Fellow from August 1975 to September 1976 and also as a Chief of Naval Operations Fellow in the Strategic Studies Group in 1986-87.

His personal decorations include the Defense Distinguished Service Medal with two oak leaf clusters, Defense Superior Service Medal and Legion of Merit with three gold stars.

Blair and his wife, Diane, have two children, Duncan and Pamela.

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An Amazing Eye for Detail An Appreciation for William H. Whyte '35 BY

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olly Whyte was my stepbrother, my friend and my role model. If it weren't for Holly's going to Fortune magazine and becoming a journalist, I would never have thought of becoming a journalist myself. I spent 50 years working for newspapers because of Holly Whyte.

These last two or three years, when Holly's health was in decline, I helped him with his memoirs. With the guidance of his wife, Jenny Bell, I tracked down old letters and rummaged through his papers at the Marine Corps' historical division in Washington. In the process, I relived some of the wonderful stories I've heard Holly tell for almost 60 years.

Holly was full of surprises. Looking at him wearing what appeared to be the same Brooks Brothers and J. Press clothes he wore when he was at Princeton (maybe even at SAS—we dressed more conservatively in the really old days), you never would have guessed that lurking inside was one of the great original, unconventional thinkers of our time. We know he was a graceful and penetrating writer. He was also the best reporter I have ever known. He had this uncanny ability to get to the heart of things. Just look at any of his books— The Organization Man, The Last Landscape, City. These are reporting books, and no one has ever done them better.

He also was a joy to be around. The saying "Never a dull moment" comes to mind. After my mother, Margaret, and his father, Holly Sr., were married, we settled down in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia. Before he went off to war, and after he came back, Holly was a regular visitor at 513 East Gravers Lane. During the Christmas holidays, he would show up with not one but two bottles of Chateau d'Yquem. Greater love hath no stepbrother.

When he was writing The Organization Man, his most popular book (it has sold more than a million copies), all of us, Holly, Holly Sr., my mother, my wife, Peggy, and I— would sit around the dining room table at Gravers Lane and talk about it for hours. I even did a little research for him, checking out the ownership of window air conditioners (see page 315 for the details). It was Holly's contention that word of mouth, from neighbor to neighbor, was what moved household items from being luxuries to necessities. I checked out the pattern of air conditioner ownership along several blocks of row houses and drew a map showing which houses had the units and which houses didn't. Holly was a stickler for accuracy; he went back and checked me out. "You missed one at No. 635," he told me later.

Holly didn't believe in half-measures. He didn't become just interested in wines, he became an expert. It was the same with hi-fi equipment. Once, for a year or more, he thought he had discovered a system to beat the stock market. He would arrive at Gravers Lane with his leather attache case filled with hundreds of hand-drawn charts and graphs, meaningless to everyone but Holly.

PERRY

'46

Holly—let's admit it—was a ham. He loved to give speeches; he loved even more to get standing ovations. His daughter, Alexandra Whyte Sperber, remembered at his memorial service those evenings when he would come home, rub his hands together and announce it was "happy hour." That meant, she said, that he'd had a standing ovation. She then asked us all to give Holly one last standing ovation.

Holly was, in the best sense, a gentleman. He was fair and honorable. He was also the most honest man I have ever known. At the memorial service, Paul Goldberger said Holly could have made lots of money by hiring himself out as a consultant to big developers. He thought that was wrong.

We remember him as the quintessential New Yorker, the champion of lively streets and big, teeming cities. But he was born in little West Chester, Pennsylvania, population 13,000. You could buy a nice three-course dinner at the Mansion House hotel for 50 cents. But because of its stillpowerful Quaker tradition, you couldn't go to the movies on Sunday.

"We had gangs in West Chester," Holly wrote in his memoirs. "My cousin, Alec Hemphill ['40], led the dreaded East End gang. They had twenty Daisy and Benjamin air rifles and even a single-shot .22 to our gang's miserable collection of six Daisys and Benjamins. We called ourselves, without much imagination, The Club,' and we thought we were safe in our own tunnel system, essentially a trench covered over with several sheets of galvanized iron. Alec's gang never penetrated the trench, but they did something a lot worse. One day they simply tore up the whole area, breaking windows in the house and an arc-light street lamp at the corner. We were so appalled we fled in mass confusion. "'Bandits Raid Whyte Home,' a headline the next day in the Daily Local News said. 'Prominent Attorney's Son Ring Leader.' Alec, of course, was the prominent attorney's son."

A year or two later, Alec went off to St. Andrew's. "He was no student," Holly wrote, "and performed so poorly that his only chance of getting into the University of Pennsylvania was to pass a special course in English composition. I helped in his preparation, and it was an interesting challenge. Out of nowhere he would draw on some hidden literary wellspring, often involving the coining of words never heard before. His favorite phase was 'mistuous innuendo.' What did it mean? 'It means,' he would say, 'what I mean it to mean.' It's hard to stay mad at someone who writes and thinks like that."

Alec did manage to get into Penn. He was promptly elected president of the freshman class. He went to law school, too, and in time he became Philadelphia's city controller, an elective job. He married the lovely Jean Calves, and they had eight children—three attended St. Andrew's, and two ST. ANDREW'S MAGAZINE 15

He was also the best reporter I have ever known.

worked at the School. Alec died in 1986.

Holly vacationed in summertime at his Grandmother Price's rambling old house at Wellfleet, on Cape Cod, picking ripe blueberries, swimming in the ponds and the ocean and observing his Uncle Joe, a rogue but a wonderful character.

Holly liked characters, no doubt because he was one himself.

Uncle Joe pretty much took the cake in the character line.

Uncle Joe tended to collect things—other people's things.

He would come up to Holly and one of Holly's friends visiting from West Chester and ask, "Would thee and thy little friend like to clean the house?" The house, almost inevitably, belonged to someone else.

Uncle Joe never had a real job, and he had no visible means of support. But one summer, probably 1931 or 1932, Uncle Joe turned up with a new sailboat and a new automobile.

Holly was puzzled. How could he pay for a boat and a car?

Then, one clear night in August, Holly and a friend decided they would camp out on the lonely north shore inside the hull of an old wrecked schooner. Grandmother Price was away in Hyannis and so the coast was clear.

"It was the kind of night that turns teenaged boys into mature philosophers," Holly wrote, "and so Norbert and I talked at some length about what was out there beyond the stars."

He and Norbert were just settling down for the night, Holly said, "when the unmistakable sound of oarlocks alerted us to the fact a dory was being beached nearby.

Bootleggers! Now we were really scared. A truck pulled up on the beach, and we saw three men unloading what appeared to be cases of whiskey from the boat and putting them in the back of the truck."

And, yes, one of them looked very familiar. It was Uncle Joe, and Holly didn't have to wonder anymore about where the money was coming from.

Holly arrived at St. Andrew's in 1930. He was followed by his brother Bob '41 and then by me. Holly served for many years on the Board of Trustees. He went from SAS to Princeton, and after his graduation he joined a management training program for the Vicks Company, scouring the hollows of West Virginia and Kentucky for general stores where he could sell the proprietors about three times as much Vicks VapoRub as they really needed.

He joined the Marines in 1941, long before Pearl Harbor.

His time in the Marine Corps, and especially the harrowing four months he spent on Guadalcanal, is the core of the memoirs he finished not many months before his death.

The first day at officers' training school at Quantico, Va., his drill instructor, Sergeant Catalano, called the roll. "Whyte," he said, "W. Hollingsworth the Third." Long pause. "Jesus, what a moniker." Not long after that, Holly shortened the name to William H. Whyte Jr., and when his father, Holly Sr., died in 1958, two years after the publication of The Organization Man, he became, simply, William H. Whyte.

Upon graduation, Holly, a 23-year-old second lieutenant, was assigned to the Third Battalion, First Marines, First Marine Division—the "Old Breed," the best outfit in the Marine Corps. His commanding officer was William F. "Wild Bill" McKelvy, a character who would fascinate Holly for almost 60 years.

I've mentioned Holly's amazing eye for detail. Well, that included reading maps. Holly could read maps like most of us read road signs. McKelvy, a veteran of the banana wars in Honduras and Nicaragua, couldn't read maps at all. When they landed on the north shore of Guadalcanal on August 7, 1942, the only map the Marines had was something drawn from memory by a few civilians who had visited Guadalcanal before the war. McKelvy and his Third Battalion were under 16 SPRING 1999

Top: (I to r) Holly with Ches Bourn and Walden Pell at the Headmaster's House. Above: The Intelligence Section, Third Battalion, First Marines after four months on Guadalcanal. Holly is front row, center, with mustache.

Right: Holly after graduating from officer's candidate school before leaving for duty in World War II.

orders to march south a mile or two and secure a high point called Mt. Austen.

"We would know we were getting close when we came to the Lunga River," Holly wrote. "Towards dusk we began to hear rippling water, and soon we reached a river bank. McKelvy had no doubt this was the Lunga, and that we had reached our destination. I told him, no, sir, it's a sluggish little stream called the Ilu." "Jesus wept!" McKelvy shouted—he began most of his sentences with "Jesus wept"—"of course it's the Lunga, Whyte, and no damn lieutenant is going to tell me it isn't."

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Well, of course, Holly was right and McKelvy was wrong.

It wasn't long before the Marines secured the Japanese airfield. It wasn't long, either, before McKelvy secured for his own personal use most of the Japanese whiskey and saki stored at that airfield. For the rest of the campaign, McKelvy was never exactly drunk, but neither was he exactly sober.

Holly and the rest of the officers would gather in their camp in the evening, during the frequent lulls in the fighting, and drink cocktails made of medicinal alcohol and canned grapefruit juice. Holly, the man who treasured the perfect dry martini, said the combination was palatable.

McKelvy would never join them, but would drink through the evening with his favorite sergeant. Inevitably, when the bibulous evening was drawing to a close, the two of them would break into song. It was always "Come, Josephine, in My Flying Machine."

Those nights when there was no fighting, Holly would retire to his tent, and sleep in his cot between white sheets he had brought with him all the way from New Zealand. The sheets alone made him a legend in the Marine Corps.

But, of course, there was fighting. Holly was the battalion intelligence officer, and part of his job was leading patrols behind the enemy lines. One day Holly took out one patrol and his good friend, Ramrod Taylor, took out another. They were looking for three or four Japanese 37-millimeter cannons that were proving to be a nuisance. They found the first gun, untended, just where they thought it would be, and removed the firing mechanism. Taylor found another gun.

While removing that firing mechanism, he was spotted by the Japanese gun crew having lunch down in a little hollow. He waved cheerily at them and went about his business.

McKelvy insisted the next day that Holly and Taylor take their patrols out again and retrace the same routes. Holly and Taylor argued this was a foolish and dangerous thing to do, but McKelvy insisted. Holly realized that he was walking into an ambush and managed to extricate his patrol and get back to his own lines. Taylor wasn't so lucky. When he came under heavy fire, he told the other members of the patrol to make a fast retreat. He stayed behind with his sub-machine gun and held the Japanese off until his men reached safety.

Then his position was overrun, and he was killed.

McKelvy was always reluctant to recommend his own men for decorations. But Holly made a point of it, and Ramrod Taylor was awarded the Navy Cross, posthumously.

Holly took part in regular battles, too. In one of them, the night of October 22, the Japanese attacked the part of the defense perimeter held by the Third Battalion. It was the only charge the Japanese made in the whole campaign that was led by tanks. Holly watched as Marine gunners destroyed the tanks; he took part in the fighting that wiped out the Japanese troops who forded the river behind the tanks.

The Marines were finally relieved by Army troops and sent back to Australia to recuperate. Most of them were sick, and Holly was very sick with a particularly severe case of malaria that lingered for years. Back in this country, he lectured at the Marine Corps' elite Staff and Command School in Quantico about the fighting qualities of the Japanese soldier.

Not surprisingly, he quickly became the Marines' leading expert on the subject. He wrote a number of articles for the Marine Corps Gazette based on those lectures. After his discharge, he took his clippings to Fortune magazine—that's all he had—and they gave him a job.

James Michener once wrote these words: They will live a long time, these men of the South Pacific. They had an American quality. They, like their victories, will be remembered as long as our generation lives. After that, like the men of the Confederacy, they will become strangers. Longer and longer shadows will obscure them, until their Guadalcanal sounds distant on the ear like Shiloh and Valley Forge.

Holly never thought it was such a big deal. "So we were heroes," he wrote, "and in time we would become legends.

But what we remembered most is that we had done our job."

• Jim Perry '46 is a former Washington correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. See further tributes to Holly on page 48.

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On the Water For many water is < On hist vessels or sleek, high-tech yachts, alums are riding the wind and the waves,

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is only fitting, after all, that so many St. Andrew's alumni have been passionate mariners. St. Andrew, the School's namesake, was a fisherman, and one reason Felix A. duPont chose to found the School here was because Noxontown Pond is a navigable body of water, one that has nurtured generations of rowers, sailors and fishermen. Tyler Johnson '76, Bill Wrightson '52 and Carlos Echeverria '48 are but three SAS alums who have honored tradition while welcoming innovation as

they sailed the waters.

Tucked away in one of Tyler Johnson's barns awaiting her next regatta is a log canoe named Persistence. Recognized by the National Historic Register, she is one of fewer than thirty log canoes still racing out of a fleet that once boasted around 6,000 boats.

Don't let the name mislead you: a log canoe is not a six-foot boat propelled by paddles. The wooden log canoe, unique to the Chesapeake Bay, has a hull made of five hollowed-out logs and can reach up to 70 feet tall when rigged with a

1,400-square-foot sail. It is streamlined yet top-heavy and it is not uncommon to see one of these graceful towers suddenly topple over.

The only way to keep these boats upright in strong air is to send crew members out on hiking boards that extend ten feet off the side of the boat, where they often look as if they are playing a precarious game of see-saw. Capsizing presents certain dangers to the crew (with falling hiking boards not the least of these dangers), but it also affects the boat's standing in the race series.

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w of Persistence rides home after a tditg race.

PERSISTENCE PHOTOS BY MARY MEGARGEE

The insult added to the physical and competitive injuries of a downed boat is that the crew has the tedious task of unrigging the partially submerged boatâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; often in jellyfish-infested waters. And if they are set to race again that day or the next, they have to set up the fifty-foot mast and rig the boat again on the land.

With her foremast and mainmast at rest in Johnson's barn, Persistence is peaceful, mindful that she is out of her element. But once launched in July at the start of the twelve-weekend season, moving toward the starting line on one of Maryland's Eastern Shore rivers, Persistence lives up to her name as she strives to claim her piece of the prize from the competitive log canoe fleet.

Persistence has not always been in tip-top racing condition. Built around 1895 on Tilghman Island, she was a working boat until the 1960s, a fast ferry for oysters from the oyster bars to the buy boats. She raced for a few years for Sidney Dickson '56 and after that she was sold and retired. Johnson found her forgotten in a field, rotting.

Johnson transported the boat to Philadelphia where she was stored in a paper factory for eight months to dry out before the actual restoration could begin at the Philadelphia Independence Seaport Museum. It took six more months for a master carpenter, Johnson and ten volunteers to complete the restoration.

When she came to the Museum for 20 SPRING 1999

repairs, Persistence was "complete rot," Johnson says. At one point the whole stern of the boat fell off. She only had one full rib in her hull, her sails were tattered by ratholes and an old engine shaft was found plugged with oilsoaked rags. An eight-foot section of the hull had to be replaced, and quarterinch veneers of cedar were used to seal the boat, which was then covered by a thin layer of fiberglass. A new fifty-foot mast and centerboard with a six-foot draft were constructed. Sections of the boat were recut to fit the new pieces.

Restoring the boat to working condition was a laborious prospect, but persistence has paid off for Johnson. In her first season three years ago, Persistence was an upstart among the Eastern Shore

It took six more months for a master carpenter, Johnson and ten volunteers to complete the restoration.

fleet of racing canoes. Johnson says the competitors on some of the other canoes have objected to a few of the design innovations the Johnson crew devised, especially after the summer of 1997 when she was poised to take the High Point before a broken bowsprit dashed her chances.

Last season, persistence and teamwork paid off once again when Persistence stormed the fleet, capturing the High Point trophy with a splendid finish record. It is rumored that this year some log canoe owners have adapted some of Persistence's design advancesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; including the centerboard dimensions, ballast weight, rot removal and plank replacement schedules.

As helmsman, Johnson pilots the majestic log canoe. He makes tactical decisions by gauging the wind blowing on the back of his neck and by taking guidance from his sister, who calls puffs from the outrigger, a seat that extends several feet off the back of the boat.

Manning the reinvigorated vessel is largely a family effort. In a typical crew of what Johnson refers to as a "nineman orchestra," he sails with several of his relatives, including his brother and sister (co-owners and restorers of the boat), a brother-in-law and occasionally his 17-year-old daughter. His 11-yearold son has served as bailboy.

For Johnson, log canoe racing brings together history and innovation, experience and adventure.

rawling the waters of America's largest estuarine bay, Bill Wrightson '52 commands the vessel Nathan of Dorchester. A denizen of Chesapeake waters, Nathan is a skipjack, just like those once used to dredge oysters.

She was built by the non-profit Dorchester Skipjack Committee in 1995. Twelve volunteers assisted one master shipwright in building the skipjack. Because Nathan carries passengers, there is one significant addition in her design that is not found on traditional skipjacks. Most skipjacks are powered by a pushboat called a yawl (not to be confused with the yachts of the same name), but for obvious safety reasons, Coast Guard regulations required that this public, for-hire skipjack be equipped with an inboard motor.

Rather than engage in the ecologically problematic oyster industry, Nathan educates and entertains. Bill

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When she's not educating, Nathan is entertaining.

Wrightson, a real estate broker by profession, has had his captain's papers for five years and has been skippering Nathan in the four years since the boat was built. On recreational trips Wrightson needs a crew of only two to manage the vessel, but for educational trips takes additional crew. With his master's license, Wrightson can take up to 28 passengers on the boat.

Nathan offers ecology-based cruises.

While onboard students engage in a variety of activities, such as dredging for benthic fauna (bottom-dwelling sealife) and taking water samples to measure water turbidity (the cloudiness of the water caused by sediment and other particles). Through such activities, children learn first-hand about the delicate and intricate ecology of the Chesapeake Bay. When she's not educating, Nathan is entertaining. Nathan has an engage-

ment almost every weekend of the summer to take passengers on pleasure cruises on the Chesapeake Bay. From the deck of the busy workboat, passengers can watch a fleet of racing log canoes, a sight long-familiar on Chesapeake waters. Wrightson also races Nathan competitively against authentic skipjacks in wooden sailboat races.

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arlos Echeverria '48 is a world-class sailor who is an active member of the New York Yacht Club and the Royal Ocean Racing Club.

His career and sailing history unfold like a combination travel/adventure story. An article in Yachting magazine confirms all of this with pictures of a recent circumnavigation of Cape Horn on a 52-foot sloop and a cruise of the Beagle Channel with his Hollywood sailor friends, producer Roger Gimbel and directors Billy Graham and Frazer Heston.

The dawn of the Yacht Club-on-the-Noxontown ooking out on Noxontown Pond one desultory late winter day, "Moose" MacDonald '45 thought that the School's inland racing scows looked more like "scows" than racing boats. Moose, a quiet but large soul in all respects, raised the issue of the dilapidated boats with several masters, Mr. Voorhees particularly.

Surprisingly, "The Powers That Be" at SAS agreed that the School's four inland racing scows were in terrible shape and "that something must be done!" Mr. Voorhees accepted responsibility for doing "something."

Moose and his roommate, "Zoom" Welling '45, aware of the outcome of the Masters' Meeting, volunteered to enlist a limited number of students into a "yacht club" that would address the decrepit sailboat problem.

The St. Andrew's Yacht Club-onthe-Noxontown was formed in early spring 1944 with Moose as commodore and Zoom as vice com-

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modore. Concerned that too many classmates might want to join, Moose and Zoom, with a copy of Chapman's Piloting, Seamanship and Small Boat Handling at hand, prepared an entrance exam that a skipper of an America's Cup challenger would struggle to pass. They then invited interested students to join. As they felt they could make only two of the scows pond-ready by hard work and scavenging, they limited the membership to a dozen boysâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;all, as it turned out, good friends of the commodore and vice commodore.

The next significant move, now that the members were scraping and fixing two scows, was to acquire embossed St. Andrew's Yacht Club-on-theNoxontown stationery. Letterhead in hand, the two commodores wrote letters to yachting supply houses and anyone else who might be able to help, suggesting that this impoverished yacht club could use a little help in keeping their inland racing scows

racing! Their biggest success was acquiring several hundred feet of 3/8 inch Manila line and a dozen club burgees sporting the red cross of St. Andrew's on a white background.

There is no record of the club entering local races on Silver Lake or even holding its own on Noxontown Pond. One does recollect that a "Blessing of the Fleet" was discussed with the Reverends Hawkins and Wilson but was not considered worthy of proposing to "The Powers That Be." It's probably just as well, as the winds on Noxontown were so variable it would have been difficult to get two scows going in the same direction at the same time.

The highlight of the club's activities occurred during the Spring Dance in 1944 when some fortunate young ladies attending the dance weekend did get a taste of yachting on the Noxontown, memories of which we suspect were as short-lived as was the existence of The St. Andrew's Yacht Club-on-the-Noxontown. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Charlie Welling '45 ST. ANDREW'S MAGAZINE 21

Nathan of Dorchester, a skipjack, sails throughout the summer educating passengers about the ecology of the Chesapeake Bay. His connection to the water has extended from his being a member of the St. Andrew's National Rowing Championship crew and skipper for St. Andrew's entry in the Interscholastic Regatta at Annapolis to his work as CEO of Carlos Yachts and a senior broker in association with the website www.yachtstore.com, recently discussed in Forbes magazine (April 15, 1999).

While at St. Andrew's, Carlos was awarded the Henry Prize as Outstanding Athlete, and he credits SAS for cultivating his interest in competition, which has served him in more than just a recreational capacity. His life of boating and competitive sailing has proved to be a way of mixing business with pleasure.

Carlos's father held a Ph.D. from M.I.T. and was a respected naval architect who was head of shipping for the Mexican government and achieved particular recognition for his designs of oil tankers and the two Argentine battleships built at Bethlehem Shipyard. He encouraged his sons to take up yacht racing. Carlos's brother, Edward '43, was a member of the SAS championship crew, an intercollegiate sailing champion and a world-class sailor who cruised his allteak, Alden-designed yacht from India to the Caribbean.

Carlos graduated from Tufts University with a B.A. in liberal arts.

While still a student, he was a member of the 1951 World Champion crew in 22 SPRING 1999

the Lightning class, a victory that propelled him into his first ocean race, St. Petersburg-Havana. He served as watch captain on the Alden cutter Wicked Witch, with the entire crew under age 20. An instrument failure caused him to rely only on a sextant, dead reckoning and smell in reaching Havana Harbor, where he was awarded third place in his class. Many invitations followed to race

An instrument failure caused him to rely only on a sextant, dead reckoning and smell to reach Havana Harbor. in the SORC, Havana and Bermuda Races.

After graduating from Tufts, Carlos became owner and manager of a 1,200acre cattle ranch. His father was brought up on a large ranch in Mexico

and as it turned out, Carlos's ranch was located in Montezuma, Georgia (not Mexico), and named San Carlos Ranch.

He raced small boats in Georgia and competed in ocean races. In 1955, he teamed up with Gene Walet, a two-time Olympic sailor from the Southern Yacht Club in New Orleans, to win the Olympic Dragon Trials in Puget Sound and the 1955 Pan American Lightning Championship in Buenos Aires. In 1956, Carlos sold the ranch and entered Wharton's M.B.A. program. He left Wharton to participate in the Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. This was a highlight of his sailing history and an event that would furnish many exciting opportunities.

After the Olympics, Carlos returned to Hawaii, where he was offered the position of executive trainee for the large conglomerate American Factors. After six months' training, Carlos returned to Wharton.

During his final year, he drew on his summer experience as a yacht underwriter at Chubb and Sons in New York City to write a thesis on yacht insurance rating.

But the Olympic torch burned again for Carlos. He left Wharton to become project manager for the construction of the 5.5-meter Aries designed by Olin Stephens for the 1960 Olympic Trials.

Aries was the first to finish of the American-designed and -built boats and was chosen to compete for the coveted Gold Cup in Marstrand, Sweden. As a

Persistence was previously owned and skippered by Sidney Dickson '56. She was built in the nineteenth century as a sailing craft, converted to power early in this century and eventually allowed to fall into disrepair, from which Sid restored her and then converted her back to sail in 1966, naming her Persistence. In 1968 he won the Log Canoe High Point Trophy with her. Her successor, The Spirit of Wye

syndicate owner, Carlos took Aries to Marstrand and finished second to Sweden.

Yacht racing was very rewarding, but Carlos chose to pursue a position in the marine field as a yacht broker. In 1961, he was hired by the New York office of Northrop and Johnson, where he remained until 1969. He left to be at the helm of his own yacht brokerage company, Carlos Yachts, of which he is CEO and owner. He conducts sales and charters of power and sailing yachts.

One significant sale was that of Bolero, the famous 73-foot yawl that was the flagship of the New York Yacht Club.

He was aboard her when she won the Around Grenada Race in 1970.

While CEO of Carlos Yachts, Carlos was associated for 15 years with the prestigious yacht design and brokerage firm of Sparkman and Stephens. In March of 1989, he was offered the position of managing director of Solidmark, N.A., and established a new yacht brokerage office at the North Cove megayacht harbor at Battery Park City. He represented Solidmark at various megayacht shows and handled the charters for the J-class sloop Shamrock to promote the Newport Museum of Yachting. In 1992, Carlos was aboard Esmeralda, the 370-foot-long, 165foot-tall, four-masted barkentine, for an entire week during the tall ships parade.

Carlos, a former president of the Yacht Architects and Brokers Association, is again CEO of Carlos

Town, Sid built himself.

The process of building the log canoe was captured on videotape, which forms part of the exhibit at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md. In The Spirit of Wye Town, he won the High Point Trophy again in 1978, making him the first skipper to win the trophy first in a canoe he had restored himself and then in one he had built from scratch. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Ches Baum '36

Yachts and the senior broker associated with the website www.yachtstore.com, which offers access to a worldwide fleet of 650 charter yachts. Carlos says clients wishing to charter a yacht are presented with an exhaustive array of possibilities. The yachts for which Carlos negotiates contracts range from 40 to 384 feet and have staffs as large as 60. They can include such amenities as those offered by the 188-foot Princess Tanya: a pool, sauna, beauty parlor, gymnasium, gourmet cuisine, a pianist

and violinist.

Sure, the Princess Tanya is a long way from a canoe or a shell on Noxontown Pond, but there is something that draws us all to water.

Whether it's the Chesapeake Bay or the Atlantic Ocean, the wind and the waves play a part in the lives of countless St. Andrew's alumni. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Christina Bielaszka-DuVernay, Chesa Profaci '80 and Ed Geisiveidt contributed to this article.

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The Creative Life at 5t. Andrew's 5choo Whether it's painting, pottery or poetry, St. Andrew's faculty members are at work in the creative arts.

By Christina Bielaszka-DuVernay

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11 good teachers are creative in that they constantly refine and expand their engagement in the subject they teach—whether it be in the sciences, the humanities or the arts—as they lead students in a discovery of their own potential. Indeed, such creativity is at the heart of the apprenticeship model St. Andrew's fosters. A number of St. Andrew's faculty, however, are creative artists in their own right. The poetry and fiction they write and the art they create give definition and expression to their lives and complement their performance in the classroom. Here's a look at a few of them.

Edmond Yi-teh Chang '83 has achieved particular recognition for his poetry. Three of his poems (including "Bamboo Elegies," an excerpt from which accompanies this article) were included in The Open Boat: Poems from Asian-America, published by Anchor-Doubleday in 1993. Currently a member of the English and History Departments, Chang was Poet-in-Residence at St. Andrew's in 1987-88.

"I happened upon poetry in a most accidental manner," Chang says. In his senior year at Tufts, Chang had wanted to take a course in contemporary poetry from the celebrated poet Philip Levine, but found it conflicted with his soccer schedule— he was captain of the team and knew he couldn't skip practice to take the course. Levine suggested that Chang consider instead enrolling in the writing workshop he was offering and asked him to bring in some of his poetry.

"I didn't tell him that I'd never written a poem in my life," Chang says. "In the span of one night I wrote three poems. I took them in to him, and on the spot he said, 'These are terrible.' But there were one or two lines he really liked. He said they almost reminded him of Tu Fu, the great Tang poet."

"He's a very generous person," Chang adds, "like his poetry."

Chang enrolled in the course and became consumed with poetry. "During soccer games, I would find myself thinking about a line in my

poems or composing lines during the game," he says. "This didn't sit very well with my coach, but that was the kind of passion ignited that fall term."

Such passion fired work that earned Chang the American Academy of Poets Prize at Tufts and won him the honor of representing Tufts at a reading sponsored by Grolier Bookstore, the poetry epicenter of Boston. With Levine's support, he was awarded a highly competitive scholarship to the University of Iowa Writing Program, but deferred accepting it to study with Garrett Hongo and Edward I would find Hirsch at the University of Houston, where his myself work was supported by a Mitchell Scholarship. thinking Hongo is, like Hirsch, one of the leading poetabout a line ry teachers in the country, and it was he who edited the anthology in my poems that published Chang's work. or composing "It was a very formative year for my poetry. lines during Being in a writing program for the first time the game. and having teachers like Hongo really pushed my work," Chang says.

Hongo's emphasis on ''emotional amplitude" became a key point of Chang's poetics. At Iowa Chang found another excellent teacher in Jorie Graham. "Her poetics could not be more different from my own," Chang remarks, "but she tried to strengthen my poems on their own terms—that's a sign of a good teacher."

After receiving his M.F.A. in 1991, Chang began work toward the Ph.D. in comparative literature at the University of California at San Diego. He won a Fulbright Research Grant to study in Taiwan in 1995-96 and then two ST. ANDREW'S MAGAZINE 25

scholarships from U.C. San Diego to support work on his dissertation. During these years he could not devote much time to his poetry, nor has he been able to do so this year at St. Andrew's, but he hopes in coming summers to return to his craft. "It's something that I think about constantly," says Chang. "I have this whole reservoir of poetry that I would like to write."

The "poetry bug" bit math and creative writing teacher Dominick Talvacchio, he says, in his freshman year at Davidson College, where he double-majored in English and mathematics. He published his work in Hobart Park, Davidson's literary magazine, throughout his college career and edited the journal in his senior year. He also contributed frequently to the Davidsonian and Libertas, Davidson's newspaper and magazine respectively.

He describes his style at this time as "Eliot meets Einstein." For Talvacchio, poetry and mathematics are intimately linked. "In math you use symbols to convey abstractions and you have to be precise," he explains. "This rigor comes over into my writing; I am always reminded that having an eye for detail is not enoughâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; you've got to have the discipline to say exactly what you mean and vice versa."

His poem "The Equation of the Parts," from its title on, reflects the degree to which mathematics has informed his poetics: In your half-asleep comings and goings it does and it does not occur to you that the brass chime is nothing more and nothing less than the wind which stirs it.

And when you know that you have and have not seen the truth and you ask me what it means I say that remembering is nothing more and nothing less than forgetting to forget.

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Talvacchio is now particularly interested in both metamathematicsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;"math referring to itself"â&#x20AC;&#x201D;and metafiction.

He's teaching this spring a senior seminar in creative writing that has students composing poetry, fiction and drama.

In addition to working on a novel, Talvacchio is collaborating with his college roommate, an artist and illustrator, on a children's book.

Another member of the Mathematics Department at St. Andrew's is a working writer. After graduating from St. Andrew's in 1992, Hardy Gieske cruised the Atlantic with his parents on a sailboat for more than a year. It was during a big storm off the Maine coast that he felt compelled to begin his first poem. "I felt pulled along by something that wasn't myself," he says. "I wrote all night. It was a moment of revelation."

John McGiff's series on the barns near his home captures the color and light of St. Andrew's. Below left, Lee Leal brings contemporary design to the traditional mask.

Below is a selection from a story

by Hardy Gieske '92.

From Absorption by

Hardy Gieske He tossed the tissue over the side of the sink, and among the mooing of horns and the squeaking of brakes seven floors down, heard it make a soft thud in the waste can.

He was pleased by all of this and wondered how he could be so lucky; to have tossed the tissue with such uncalculated precision that it would float directly into the can; for the sound from the street to have abated for a split second so that he could hear the tissue land and thus not have to

Gieske majored in both math and English at Duke University, where he took several writing classes, including a graduate course with the well-known novelist Reynolds Price.

"He was a tough one," comments Gieske. "Early in the course he read aloud from each student's work and then crumpled up the manuscript and tossed it into the trash can." Gieske found a more effective teacher in Joe Ashby Porter, who has received national recognition for both his fiction and his critical work on Shakespeare. Porter became Gieske's mentor and helped him grow as writer. Gieske's literary career at Duke was capped by his being awarded the Anne Flexner Award for Creative Writing in his senior year.

Gieske, like Talvacchio, sees a link between writing and math. "Creative writing and creative problem-solving are much the same," Gieske notes. "In both you have to find

check beneath the sink; to have a warm bathroom of his own, full of tissue, where he could enjoy these private moments in his underwear; to know that there was a blueberry muffin and a mug of steaming coffee waiting for him in the kitchen; to have an embedded image of his wife walking down one of Jefferson Hospital's long, sterile corridors carrying a swaddled newborn infant, her white stockings hissing in symphony with her soundless footfalls, opening a door to a huddled young couple, anxious to the point of fright, and allowing them to gaze together upon their first child who still screamed at the amount of joy and love and white light thrust in his face.

how to get an idea down on paper." He laughs ruefully as he adds, "The difference, though, is that revision can hurt a story much more than it can damage a mathematical solution."

Gieske continues to write new stories and revise older ones, such as "Absorption," excerpted in the box above.

Lee Leal, who teaches pottery and photography, has always known he wanted to work in the arts. "I was a kid who drew in the dirt, made golf courses out of cardboard boxes. I like taking the clay and making it into something personal and expressive."

In his graduate work at the University of Delaware, Leal majored in ceramics and minored in sculpture. "I'm more than a functional potter," he says. "I treat clay as a sculptural medium." His master's thesis at U.D., Kaktus Review, ST. ANDREW'S MAGAZINE 27

Bamboo Elegies One

He stops to rest, points to an aging bamboo near us, says my character must resemble its uprightness.

Not the oak's confusion.

Not the willow's grief. Not even the pine.

I sense only its coldness.

This stillness is eerie.

I hear no birds, no cicadas up here, no wind rustling the blades of leaves. The mist trapped in the ravines flows all around me. The air feels cool even in mid-summer.

Only the dew inching down the spine of bamboo interrupts this world.

Across the strait, hundreds were killed in Beijing. No bamboo will weep for the spring dead.

There is no salt in the dew, and this silence is no vigil they hold.

He tells me a young stem will shoot to full height then simply turn pale and grow wider the rest of its life.

They must have believed they could have reached the River of Heaven.

What can outgrow the mist?

I run my hands along the smooth cold bark, to wipe off dew and faint chalk.

Tu Fu, when they assigned you to a minor post at the prime of your life, how did you face failure on your walks in the Szechuan groves?

On clear mornings you took long walks in that deep bamboo.

Did you envy the finer silk other officials wore, robes woven by peasants who lost their sons in the long wars on the frontier?

Did the leak in your roof

featured brightly colored, fanciful cactuses and a series of photographs.

It was exhibited at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, only one of the many venues in which his work has been shown.

Leal recently attended the National Conference for the Education of the Ceramic Arts, an annual event he's gone to for a number of years.

"It's a great place to pick up ideas—new techniques, new glaze formulations, teaching tips—and just see what's being done out there," he says. "I always find myself enthused to come back here and take my own work and that of my students in new directions. When my students see me doing something different, it expands their conception of what you can do with the clay."

Such inspiration runs in the other direction, too. "Sometimes I have a student whose work is really taking off, and it inspires me to stretch and experiment. In photography, for instance, it was a student at another school who taught me how to solarize images. It's a great technique, especially with photos having a lot of contrast. I have my students here do it."

Inspiration sometimes comes from unlikely sources. "There was this dog that chased me," Leal says. "When I would be in a room with the dog and his owner, I could pet him and he'd be fine, but whenever he saw me outside he'd come right at me, teeth bared and ready for business." This dog spawned a whole pack of fierce ceramic canines that glower amid the pots and cactuses in Leal's studio.

Art teacher John McGiff is currently the recipient of a Delaware State Council on the Arts Individual Fellowship and recently put together an exhibition that opened in May in connection with his grant. The one-man show in the State Building featured three large nudes, two paintings portraying figures in perilous flight and a folding screen with a harbor scene used as a prop in one of the paintings.

McGiff's work is motivated, first and foremost, "by the pleasure of looking," he says. "To have the license to look at something for a really long time, to try to figure it out visually, to understand it— there's a lot of pleasure in that, but there's also a real challenge in trying to articulate something that's infinitely complex." An important influence on his work has been Matisse, especially his sense of color. "In Matisse's work I'm just captivated by the intoxication of looking, the absolute pleasure of being alive and sentient," he says.

Bellini's and Titian's work has inspired McGiff's painting of Arcadian landscapes. "Their work conveys a feeling of the senses just replete with pleasure," McGiff observes. "They both portray the 28 SPRING 19

make you bitter when it rained, or the constant shortage of rice make you curse heaven for the nine mouths you fed each long night with your shame?

How could one simply lie in a bamboo grove, lose oneself in beauty?

so he'd never forget.

I've searched my body for a similar vow.

There's not a single character on the pale skin of my body. No trace of a promise on my small arms or concealed between my toes.

I'd shave my head, check

Am I in your grove?

Teach me how to mourn for them if you are here.

Maybe you were lost again among them in the square that night.

What distance is between us? The hours I watched them dying.

The centuries you wept.

the globe of my scalp, if I believed someone had etched my calling there.

My birthmarks mean nothing.

Why did I ask uncle to bring me here?

The dense mist shrouds the bamboo. The dew draws lines in the chalk on the bark.

It was a lie to claim I wanted to be with them.

What is my cause anyway?

Even in his youth, Yuei Fei made a vow to save China.

His mother stitched his promise on his bare back with her needle

Is there no salt in the bamboo's cold dew? Are the hollow stems not filled with answers I need?

The mist hides my path. The absence of birds makes me nervous.

He has since moved on. I think I hear him calling from higher up.

—Edmond Yi-teh Chang

human figure as the quintessence of beauty in landscapes that just go on and on and on into the distance."

After receiving his "A" levels in art, English literature and history while a student at Bancroft's School in Essex, England, McGiff entered the renowned arts program at the State University of New York at Purchase. He graduated with a B.F.A. in 1984, earning the Dean's Commendation for Painting and Drawing.

"The paintings I did in my first undergraduate years were just terrible," McGiff says with a laugh, "but I remember such a thrill of accomplishment that I could make a teacup or an apple look round—I felt I was conquering the world.

There's something about the ability to recreate space and light in a way that resounds and snaps and carries the eye in that's just so compelling to me."

McGiff's teachers at SUNY Purchase were all working artists, many of whom lived and exhibited in New York City. One who particularly influenced and inspired him was Sewell Silman, who had worked with Josef Albers at Yale; Albers was a member of the Bauhaus group and had known Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky. "Silman, like Albers, had an amazing appreciation for visual artifacts," McGiff notes. "He had amassed a remarkably diverse collection of crafted objects, particularly Pre-Colombian textiles and sculptures, and he was able to communicate the incredible integrity that went into the making of this work."

Silman took up a post at the University of Pennsylvania, where McGiff continued to work with him while studying for his M.F.A., which he received in 1989. At Penn, McGiff was Silman's teaching assistant and took a color class from him based on the color theory of Albers.

McGiff's appreciation and use of color continued to expand under the tutelage of Neil Kosh, his colleague and mentor at Temple University, where McGiff taught for seven years. "Kosh taught me how to use warm and cool colors to model forms. He also taught me how to teach, how to use writing exercises and readings to lead students to connect art with other disciplines."

St. Andrew's is a great place, McGiff observes, to get students to make such connections. "Because students get such a solid grounding in a variety of subjects here, I can talk to them about literature, about physics, about music, and they see how these disciplines relate to the visual arts and how an understanding of them can make them better artists." McGiff sometimes has students act out paintings in the theater. "In front of a projection of a painting the students arrange themselves in a similar tableau. This is a great exercise to give them a sense of composition and gesture—they feel the relationships among the different figures in the work."

In June, McGiff is leading a trip to Italy in which students will have plenty of opportunity to enrich their appreciation of art as they tour Rome, Venice, Florence, Sienna, Padua and Assisi. "We're going to be going from seven in the morning till nine at night, seeing everything we can." The guiding spirit of the trip could well be a figure McGiff much admires, the polymath Leon Battista Alberti, whose device was a winged eye with the motto "Quid turn"—"What's next?"

"He was the first Renaissance man, before Leonardo," McGiff says. "He was a lawyer, mathematician, musician, and architect; he translated Brunelleschi's ideas on perspective into terms that were applicable to artists and directly influenced Donatello and Masaccio. He was reputed to be able to do a backflip ten feet high. I think it's great for the kids to learn of such enthusiasm for life, such energy in responding to it."

For McGiff, art is essentially a language, one that can be learned, explored and used effectively by almost anyone.

"I really try to convince my students that they can make as sophisticated a statement in paint as they can in the spoken language. I want to communicate the joy of responding to the world, of using the language of art as a vehicle with which to engage themselves in the world."

Above all, McGiff states, "my goal is to instill in them the faculty of seeing, and of analyzing and expressing what they see."

In saying this, McGiff articulated the purpose of St. Andrew's and all the men and women here who creatively teach, coach and otherwise mentor its students.

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Above left: Another rough and tumble day of work at Turner Broadcasting for Ted Cotsen '91 (center). This picture was taken as part of a photo shoot for an article on the marketing behind World Class Wrestling.

Above: Louise Nomer '80 and her horse Dude trail ride in Texas.

Left: In attendance at the wedding of Marlies Patzman '89 and Kyle Lissack were, I to r: Mike Pogue '87, Chauncy Gardener '89, Beth Stephens '96, Tom Stephens '97, Amy Wilson '89, Tracey Fudge '87, Heather Patzman McAvoy '86, Rick Patzman '88, Marlies and Kyle, Jerome Ranawake '89, Elizabeth Baxter '88, Art Butcher '88, Tom Stephens 70, Emilie Sinkler '89 and Lee McGill '89. Not pictured: Tomas Puky '89.

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Frank Townsend Hollylot 12744 Old Bridge Road Ocean City, MD 21842 Frank Hawkins 7 Chadwick Terrace Easton, MD 21601

Marie and Stan Felver are doing well in California. Stan is proud of the fact that Andy Sherwood, son of Granville (former SAS teacher), dedicated two songs to him with lyrics by Emily Dickinson, a favorite poet of Andy's and Stan's. www.standrews-de.org 30 SPRING 1999

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Ches Baum 107A Willows Avenue Oxford, MD 21654

The tribal elder of the Alumni House, Ches Baum, faithfully submitted the following notes: George Cumpston occasionally breaks his Swansboro, N.C., silence to give us some news of his activities. This time, as do most of us who see more heritage than future in our lives, he has reported on doings arising from ancestor worship (and I use the term in its best sense).

The Tideland News on July 1, 1998, under the headline "Ringing Bells Send Message About Meaning of July 4," described how George had persuaded four area churches in 1997 to ring their bells 13

times at exactly 2:00 p.m. to mark the exact time the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776. This observance was named "Let Freedom Ring" back in 1963 when the Sons of the American Revolution instituted the practice, which then and now is marked in Philadelphia by having three children tap out the message on the Liberty Bell. George had involved four churches in the Swansboro area in 1997 but expected seven to take part in 1998.

The Tideland News wrote: "Cumpston has a special link to those events which founded the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;he is the great, great, great-grandson of Samuel Washington, the brother of President George Washington.

Two more of his ancestors, George Ross and Richard Henry Lee, signed the Declaration. ..."

Accompanying the story was a picture of George holding up a plaque with the

A Tribute to Powell Pierpoint '40

T Washington coat of arms. St. Andreans of George Cumpston's era will recall that the initials "S.W." in his middle name stood for Steptoe Washington.

On last February 20, George and his wife, Eileen, along with Findley Burns '35, attended a luncheon meeting of the North Carolina Society of the Sons of the Revolution at the University Club in Raleigh to celebrate George Washington's birthday.

In an extended postscript, George, who is currently serving a three-year term on the board of the Sons of the Revolution in the State of North Carolina, describes an activity of that organization that deserves to be reported in full in George's unedited words: "Having met certain interested people through the Sons last year, I was invited to lay a wreath on the Patriot Monument located at the National Park's Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge. This was a very early battle in the Revolution where the Patriots ripped the Boards off the bridge, greased the beams and ripped hell out of the Scottish troops coming through from Fayetteville to Fort Brunswick in hopes of keeping open the supply route of naval stores for the British Navy (Feb. 27-28, 1778).

"There is also a monument to the loyalists, so a very dignified Scots lady escorted by men in kilts placed the wreath on their monument and gave me very dirty looks.

"I am not on the program next weekend [February 1999] but have been assured I am being held in reserve for Year 2001."

I've abandoned the clumsy convention of calling myself "your agent" and even the editorial "we" in favor of the first-person singular pronoun. A class note about myself: In enjoying George Cumpston's notes about his "interaction" (as we say nowadays) with his forebears, I was put in mind of how W.B. Yeats in "Sailing to Byzantium" described past, present and future as " . . . what is past, or passing, or to come." I was asked to read on St. Patrick's Day some Irish poetry to people of my age, who are often preoccupied with what is past, indignant at the speed at which what is passing is passing, and not much enthralled by what is to come.

Knowing that on St. Paddy's Day all my compeers in the community center would have to sing bad Irish poetry, I read them some poetry by Yeats, the best Irish poet— some say the best poet in English of the 20th century.

What reawakened my interest in the poetry by Yeats? I am currently reading W.B. Yeats: A Life, written by R.F. Foster '67 and published recently to great critical acclaim by Oxford University Press. I surely recommend it to you along with a biography of the novelist Walker Percy, Pilgrim Among the Ruins, by another member of the Class of 1967, Jay Tolson. I presume you have all heard of the Pulitzer Prizewinning biography of Jackson Pollock, coauthored by Stephen Naif eh '70. Most of you will remember Andrew Turnbull '38,

he death of our friend and classmate Powell Pierpoint, on November 17, 1998, is a great loss to his family, his friends and the community.

I first met Powell when he ambled into the Class of 1940—a year late, full of stunning erudition and confidence as he quickly took his place as the class authority on most subjects no matter how arcane.

Powell, who soon became known as "Pop," was—throughout a brilliant life and career—a top scholar and contemporary philosopher. He was celebrated for his pithy, witty anecdotes, his grasp of complex issues, his integrity, debating skills, athletic prowess (particularly baseball), his self-discipline and longtime willingness to go the extra mile to serve the public interest in a wide variety of ways.

Born in Philadelphia, brought up in Pittsburgh, Powell made a strong mark at St. Andrew's before entering Yale University, then active duty in the Navy, returning to go on to high performance at Yale Law School (where we were roommates), before joining the distin-

who wrote a life of and edited the letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, who (Fitzgerald as quoted by Turnbull) "remembered a fellow named Pell at Princeton."

A Christmas letter from Mary and Sid Whelen to Ed Hammond '60 tells of the good year they had in '98. Their family is doing well and the farm "continues on from season to season." They are still doing volunteer work at their local natural history museum.

Mary and Sid say their most exciting activity was in August when they traveled to Australia to visit a friend who lives in Canberra. They all went on excursions through the country—Sydney, Brisbane and Darwin. They adjusted to the metric system, left-hand driving, Aussie talk and having the sunny side of the house on the north side. They went east of Darwin to Kakadu, a vast area where the state is trying to preserve a whole river basin that drains north. Then they flew to Ayers Rock (Uluru), a geological phenomenon that the tourist industry began early on to exploit.

From there they went to Alice Springs to a dry cattle station with a 30-foot windmill (that measurement refers to the fan, not the tower). "These places used to be isolated beyond words," they said, "but road improvements have changed that. They now use motorbikes to herd stock."

"We took the Ghan train south through a rare rain to Coober Pedy," the letter continued, "where we stayed in an underground hotel. Opals are the big game here.

The mines are shallow and can be made into homes—or hotels." Mary and Sid also flew to Adelaide and went on to Kangaroo

guished firm of Hughes Hubbard & Reed in New York, specializing in litigation and antitrust.

Powell excelled at what he chose to do. As an assistant United States attorney in New York, he distinguished himself prosecuting and convicting the most notorious racketeers, such as Frank Costello. He was a highly regarded general counsel of the Department of the Army, director and president of the Legal Aid Society of New York, chairman of the New York City Board of Ethics and fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and Special Master of Appellate Division, First Department, during his last seven years—active and serving until the end.

Powell Pierpoint lived life with purpose and magnificent skill. From an early age, Pop Pierpoint displayed rare intellectual and moral depth. His achievements and friendships were appreciated and will not be forgotten.

He leaves a charming daughter, Harriett Powell Bos of Charlotte, N.C., and three grandchildren, Pier, Abby and Evan. We will always remember Powell Pierpoint.

—Peter Megargee Brown '40

Island, flew to Christchurch on the South Island of New Zealand, went to Invernary Station (a sheep and cattle operation on the Canterbury Plain), then took a bus along the Southern Alps to Queenstown and on to Milford Sound. They flew to Rotorua on North Island, where they "attended a Maori function, rubbed noses and saw geysers and hot mud pools." They were most impressed by the orchards of Monterey Pines that are grown for lumber.

Finally, the Whelens took the train to Aukland and then emplaned for Los Angeles. "The flight home was not exciting," said Sid. "At one point I went up to the cockpit and talked to the two young pilots who were letting the plane fly itself, which was gaining altitude as the heavy fuel was consumed. I asked for their fourstriper, and they said, 'Oh, he's asleep in there.' That's the way to fly!"

Gus Trippe 420 Panorama Drive Hemet, CA 92543 Nancy and Gus Trippe had a great year in California. They are "still playing golf, doing volunteer work, and aging nicely (which is better than the alternative)."

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'43 '44 Charlie Wingate '77, Matthew Ruggiero '79 and Bill Brownlee '44 chat at the Washington, D.C., MetroStop.

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Buzz Speakman Box 148 Smyrna, DE 19977

Caroline and Bill Cory visited Betty and Dave Harris in California before the holidays, during a trip to Monterey to see Bill's sister, Jean.

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Frank Williams P. O. Box 263 St. Michael's, MD 21663

60TH REUNION Ken Ervin is restoring a J-3 Cub in his garage and his remark was, "I hope to live long enough to finish it and fly it."

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Bill Sibert 2028 Albert Circle Wilmington, NC 28403

Best wishes to Peter Torrey and Ann L. Robertson, who were married on September 26, 1998.

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Jon Wilford Slippers Cove, P.O. Box 953 Easton, MD 21601

Art Dodge was elected trustee of the UCC Theological Seminary. He retired after 20 years as officer/director of SOS Children's Villages. He's still on duty eight hours a day as a research consultant "but misses the energy lost to age."

In a long Christmas letter to Jon Wilford, Jack Hanahan speaks of much good works in and about his alma mater, Belmont Abbey College, near his summer mountain home. As he puts it, "I move down life's path, ever conscious of my limitations and keeping my eyes on the ground and not on the horizon." Jack is diabetic and wheelchair-bound but, according to Jon, seems very active.

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Jon also reports that Peg and Pete Nalle are well and traveling as usual. They spent Christmas in Melbourne, Fla., with their son and his family.

Vee and Jim Thomas have both retired from teaching. In June 1998, they spent three weeks in England and are now traveling many miles in the U.S. keeping up with their far-flung children, grandchildren and even one great-grandchild.

Tony Parrish's wife, Anne, keeps in touch with Jon Wilford to offer some input. While her son John '64 was in Honolulu to attend Dennis Blair's '64 change-of-command ceremony, he called Luz and Dunnie Shannon and had a nice talk. Dunnie is fine, but Luz is on kidney dialysis.

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Alumni Office St. Andrew's School 350 Noxontown Road Middletoum, DE 19709-1605

"Now in my 76th year, and reflecting on the important events in my life, my five years at SAS (1937-42) STAND OUT!" states Tom Saunders. "Thank you, St. Andrew's."

Morgan MacDonald 931 Brittany Hills Drive Dayton, OH 45459 Bill Brownlee 3606 Shepherd Street Chevy Chase, MD 20815

55TH REUNION Henry Parker is chairman of Parker Associates, international insurance/reinsurance consultants. He had retired in January 1992 as senior vice president and managing director of Chubb & Son Inc., of Warren, N.J., having built and managed Chubb's International Division for 30 years.

Henry currently serves as a director of the National Foreign Trade Council. He is founder and immediate past chairman of the International Committee of the American Insurance Association and a founder and past chairman of the International Insurance Council of the United States. He is a board member of the Industry Sector Advisory Committee on Services (ISAC) of the United States Department of Commerce. He is a past member of the Governor's Commission on International Trade of the State of New Jersey.

Henry's note reads: "The things that really count these days are our three grandchildren and three step-grandchildren and sailing with them on board our Bristol sloop, Members, up the Connecticut and New England coastline. My wife of 41 years, Audrey, enjoys sailing with the families as much as I do. Hopefully, some of the grandchildren will be interested in exploring SAS in future years."

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Gattie Jones 193 Lynn Avenue Shreveport, LA 71105

Marty and Gattie Jones continue to have a full schedule lined up for 1999. In

GET CONNECTED If you would like to connect with SAS alums on the Internet, please check the SAS website for e-mail addresses, which are updated on a regular basis. E-mail addresses will not be published for alumni in the Class Notes Section of the Magazine, so please make sure to contact the Alumni Office or the webmaster to have your e-mail address listed.

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March, Gattie was preparing for the '45 e-mail group, which was to convene on the Gulf Coast of Alabama in April for The Synod in the Sand II. He and Marty were off on a trip to France in May to celebrate their No. 3 child's 40th birthday. Then the Joneses plan to gather in August for their first family reunion. In November, Gattie will join The Golden Eagles of Auburn, Class of 1949, to celebrate their 50th Reunion.

'46

Lu Campbell Campbell Rappold & Yurasits 1033 S. Cedar Crest Blvd.

Allentown, PA 18103 Class Correspondent: Ken Van Dyke 347 Declaration Lane Christiansburg, VA 24073

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Frank Giammattei 1 Briars Lane Wilmington, DE 19807 Bill McDowell 39 W. Highland Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19118

Jim Stokes is "still gardening and traveling during the winter."

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Sky Smith 658 Ohio Street Buffalo, NY 14203

Photographer David Massey displayed his talent in two books published with Ashraf Azzouz about domestic architecture in Tunisia: Maisons de Hammamet and Maisons de Sidi Bou Said.

Herb "Doc" Vogel is living at the Wintergreen Resort in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

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Class Agent Wanted

50TH REUNION

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Stu Bracken 1401 Rose Valley Way Ambler, PA 19002 Barry Register 65 East 96th Street, Apt. 6B New York, NY 10128

Tom Osborn writes: "Finally 3/4 retiredâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;son is taking over the business.

This gave me time for three trips to Europe last year to visit ailing in-laws and friends, one week in Kauai and a week in Victoria/Seattle. Still visit friends and customers in San Francisco and Tahoe."

Hall Downes is partially retired from Oregon Health Sciences University, where he is a professor in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology. "The extra time gives me an opportunity," says Hall, "to spend more time with two lovely granddaughters (ages 1 and 5) and a variety of long-neglected hobbies."

Dick Corbin retired and moved to his farm 50 miles south of Atlanta.

In Wilmington, Del., Mac McDermott retired from private practice July 1, 1998, and now works two days a week as a preceptor for the medical students and residents at the Christiana Medical Center. As of June 1, 1999, he and Gail will be permanent residents of Rehoboth Beach. Mac offers, "Classmates: Please come see us when in the area."

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Ted Hill 217 Pheasant Run Drive Paoli, PA 19301 Class Correspondent: Herndon Werth 434 East 58th Street, 6A New York, NY 10022

Dave Jenkins ("The Ref") refereed basketball for more than 30 years at the high school level. "But," says Dave, "this year I had some back problems and have been limited. I will return!"

Dr. Bill Howard, physician for the U.S. National Rugby Team, hosts The Sports Doc on WJFK Radio (1300 AM) every Saturday morning. During the hour-long show, Bill answers questions about all kinds of injuries. In an article in The Baltimore Messenger (March 25, 1999), radio producer Gary Stein explains that Bill "has a way of getting his point across with such clarity and humor." Bill, a general surgeon, has been director of the Union Memorial Sports Medicine Center since 1979 and, being an athlete himself, has probably had any injury that a listener calls about.

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Tom Oliphant 425 Acacia Drive Sedona, AZ 86336 Church Hutton 4216 Holborn Avenue Annandale, VA 22003-3733

45TH REUNION Clem Crowe is currently president of Southern Adirondack Library System

Peter Torrey '40 and Ann L Robertson were married i September.

Board of Trustees and has been a member of the Cambridge Public Library Board of Trustees since 1972.

Church Hutton reports the following: George Baxter continues to be active as senior vice president of The Chicago Corporation from offices near Trenton.

Although he stepped down from the SAS Board of Trustees years ago, he remains on the SAS Finance Committee. He deserves enormous credit for his work over the past 20 years in helping build the SAS endowment to its present level.

George represented the Class of '54 at a beautiful funeral service held on December 6, 1998, for our former sacred studies teacher, Jim "Straight Arrow" Reynolds, in Chesapeake City, Md. Jim died a few days earlier during preparations for a heart operation.

Church represented the Class at a similar memorial service in the SAS Chapel on December 10, 1998, for the son of Simon and Nan Mein, leading members of the School faculty for many years. Andrew Mein, a brilliant and much loved young man, grew up there and graduated in the Class of '90. His loss is a blow to the entire SAS community.

At an SAS leadership conference in the fall, Church initiated a plan to send a copy of a videotape made of the School two years ago to each graduate (you should have it by now). He reports that his son, Richard '01 (16), is doing well as a IV Former.

After spending the summer in California visiting their son Peter '83 and exploring 14 national parks in the West and Southwest, Judy and Walt Liefeld returned to Delaware for November and

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December to be campground hosts at Killens Pond State Park near Felton, Del. In January, they "snowbirded" south to be hosts at Big Lagoon State Recreation Area outside Pensacola until April.

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Steve Baldwin 110RiversideDrive, Apt. 12-F

New York, NY 10024

Both Battle (a judge of Family Court) and Rob Robinson retired last year. Robert retired with "an absurd, but humorous, mixup." He called an 800 number to set up an appointment with the local Social Security Office, but accidentally contacted a counselor for people with dysfunctional sex problems. The problem was that neither he nor the counselor ("Just call me Glen, Robert.") realized the intentions of the other. Glen thought that when Robert said he was 62, retiring and wanted to receive Social Security, he was saying in effect that he was going through a change of life. Why else would he be calling a counselor? Robert, of course, thought he was calling for the reason he was calling and that was to apply for Social Security.

Fortunately, after they set up an appointment, Glen asked Robert if he could ask a few personal questions "to break the ice."

Glen started asking questions, personal questions . . . really personal questions.

And it wasn't long before Robert became aware that this wasn't the Social Security Office, or if it were, it was different from what he had been led to expect.

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Bill Cox 25 Hyde Park Circle Denver, CO 80209-3534

Pat Hayman was named District Court judge in Princess Anne, Md. Now out of the motel business, J.D. Quillin collects old cars and fixes them up.

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Bob Shank 3894 Red Lion Road BearyDE 19701 Class Correspondent: George Brakeley 138 East Avenue New Canaan, CT 06840-5612

Mike Quillin reports that, after 43 years in the motel business, he and brother J.D. '56 sold all of their motels in Ocean City, Md. J.D. is keeping busy collecting old cars and fixing them up. Mike has opened a new office in West Ocean City. He says he has an office, a secretary and his first computer and is busy trying to figure something profitable to do with it all! He and J.D. recently bought a new crew four for SAS. 34 SPRING 1999

Mike's son, Dave '82, and wife Kim had a "big" girl, Lila, on February 13, 1999: 8 pounds 15 ounces.

George Brakeley's daughter, Kristin, and Cyril (Skip) Fox III will be married in June 1999 in New Canaan. Kristin is employed as director of high school programs for The Princeton Review in Pittsburgh, and Skip is a structural engineer, employed by LDA Companies of Pittsburgh.

Les Fairfield says he and Lynn have so much to be grateful for, which includes their family and friends. Katie, their eldest, lives with her husband, Andrew, and two boys (3 and 1) in Elkhart, Ind., where Andrew is pastor of a Mennonite church.

Son Jono works for World Vision in Pittsburgh in their gifts-in-kind program, busy sending containers of clothes, books and pharmaceuticals all over the world. He continues to work on his bachelor's degree at night and to pastor a Baptist youth group. Nate and Holly have a little girl (the first granddaughter), Linnea Jayne, born August 19. They have been living near Les and Lynn in Pittsburgh, but J&L Specialty Steel could be sending Nate somewhere else in the future. Matt graduated from Wheaton College last May, with a fellowship in the art department for the present academic year. He's very active in the Church of the Resurrection near Wheaton and continues to love being in the Chicago area.

Les adds: "Lynn continues to teach English and lots besides at Geneva College, while I'm carrying on at Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry (teaching, for example, Patristics, Church of England and American Christianity). We had a very happy time last July, leading a study-tour on Celtic Christianity in the British Isles.

The Lord appointed good weather as we needed it, including a stunningly beautiful day on lona. We also had a couple of weeks at the cottage in Nova Scotia, where we slept and walked, listened to the surf and watched the sunsets. One of the things for which we thank the Lord is all the beauty which He let us see this past year."

For Lucy and Tom Rightmyer, 1998 was "a year of travel and challenge." Tom continues to help the national Episcopal Church General Board of Examining Chaplains write, administer and evaluate an examination for people seeking ordination. After the Santa Barbara Readers' Meeting, he enjoyed a visit with his aunt Dorothy Redfern. Tom is also part-time priest at Good Shepherd, Ridgeway, N.C., and from April through November was part-time interim assistant at Holy Innocents', Henderson, N.C., while they sought a rector.

Tom is still collecting information for a biographical directory of the Church of England clergy in America before 1785. In the fall he began serving as a leader of the 15-year-old youth group at St. Philip's, where he is a volunteer priest. He, Sarai

and two other adults plan to take 15 of these young people to Rome, Assisi and Florence in June. He is also active on church and historical e-mail lists.

Lucy continues leadership training opportunities with the Dances of Universal Peace. She regularly leads a monthly dance and has introduced the dances to a number of classes, workshops and organizations.

She went to the Aramaic/Desert Wisdom camp in Quebec in August, as well as several weekend dance camps in Virginia and North Carolina.

She also resumed her job (after several months of transition) as financial officer for the Resource Center for Women and Ministry in the South, working about 25 hours a month with RCWMS director Jeanette Stokes, a wonderful friend and colleague. In March, she attended Labyrinth Facilitator Training with Lauren Artress, and has been presenting workshops using the canvas Chartres labyrinth replica she helped create in 1997.

In early summer, Lucy and Tom had two glorious weeks at Hiram Blake and visited friends in Maine. In September, they spent a physically demanding and spiritually illuminating week on the island of lona, in western Scotland, with a dance camp focusing on the Aramaic Lord's Prayer. They took a few days before lona to tour ruins of Irish monasteries and prehistoric sites.

Daughter Sarai spent her Guilford College spring semester living at Ezra Pound's daughter's castle in northern Italy, then traveled in central Europe and Ireland.

She and Lucy spent two weeks together, touring Paris and the Riviera before joining a walking tour in Provence in early June.

Sarai went to summer school and back to part-time work at The Shipping Connection in Greensboro. She will complete her junior year with December exams.

Son Dallas was living and working in Knoxville, then moved recently to Blowing Rock, N.C.

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Jerry Wigglesworth 115 North Delaware Ave. Manhattan, KS 66502

Marcia and Dave Hindle started the new year in 1998 living with Marcia's sister, Jane, in Amesbury, Mass., since they had sold their home in Merrimac in June 1997. They lived at their island home on Lake Winnipesaukie, N.H., until the ice and snow sent them to Jane's from Christmas 1997 through February 13, 1998, when they moved to Newmarket, Mass. They love their new home and the waterfront estuary in which they are an integral part.

Dave was not in the best of health after his hereditary polycystic kidney disease started leading to renal failure. During the spring of 1998, Marcia began screening in order to donate one of her kidneys to Dave.

Ultimately, the surgery took place at the

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University of Maryland in Baltimore on July 29. They are both doing well, and Dave feels and acts ten years younger. Dave notes, "The value of Marcia's gift is immeasurable. It has had a dramatic effect on our future together!" Also, Marcia and Dave were grateful for the support of their children, Jill '93, Mike '88 and Desh '85, and friends.

On December 31, 1998, Dave retired as CEO of Family Bank after 34 years. He will continue to work for the bank's holding company for a year and fully retire at the end of 1999.

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Andy Adams 2201 S. Arlington Ridge Rd. Arlington, VA 22202-2122

40TH REUNION Carl Bear

P.O. Box 682 Bozeman, MT 59771-0682 Howard Snyder 330 Laurel Lane Haverford, PA 19041

Kip Muir writes: "On January 22, 1999, our city of Clarksville, Tenn., was hit hard by a tornado, which did great damage to the community and to Austin Peay State University. The fine old building housing the history department lost much of its roof and many of its windows. It was then soaked thoroughly by the accompanying rains. Since then, faculty offices have been relocated; classes are underway in a variety of temporary locations. It's a tough way to start the year, but quite amazingly no one was killed or even hurt."

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John Craighill 2700 Windswept Lane Annapolis, MD 21401 Class Agent Wanted Class Correspondents: Bill Pfeifer 126 Cedar croft Road Kennett Square, PA 19348-2421 John Schoonover 54 Rockford Road Wilmington, DE 19806

Homecoming Saturday, September 25

hether it's a Chiquita banana ship arriving at the Port of Wilmington from Central America or a Swedish oil tanker with a two-million-barrel ^^^^^ _ H _ delivery for Sun Oil in Marcus Hook, ^L^^^^JjJfcj the task is always the same for the Aâ&#x20AC;˘ staff of Wilmington Tug Inc. Guiding vessels safely and steadily to dockside, and leading them away again unharmed, has been the firm's mission and niche for about three decades.

Wilmington Tug, the only tugboat company based at Wilmington's bustling port, docks and undocks about 850 ships a year along the Delaware River from Delaware City, Del., up to Fort Mifflin and Westville, Gloucester County. The company's president, Hickman Rowland, directs about one-third of the ships in himself.

"This business operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year," said Rowland, after returning home at 10:30 p.m. from an extra-busy day of handling ships last week.

He was due to meet another ship at 4:30 a.m. the next morning. "I get jealous when I drive by hardware stores with signs that say 'Closed.'"

Since coming onboard in 1971, Rowland has seen the company's fleet of tugboats grow from one to five, the staff increase from two to 17, and annual revenues rise from $30,000 to $2.5 million.

His father, Harry H. Rowland, now 85, was a career river pilot who bought the company's first tugboat in 1965.

The senior Rowland thought it would be fun to dock ships on the side, said son Hickman, 58, who worked six years as an investment banker in Philadelphia and lived two years in Australia before deciding to join his father in 1971.

The new father-son team immediately ordered the construction of a second tugboat to keep up with increasing traffic at the Port of Wilmington. The new boat was named Carey, after Hickman Rowland's bride, whom he met in Australia.

Meanwhile, one tropical-fruit company after another began establishing import bases at the port, and the Rowlands won docking rights for such companies as Dole, Chiquita and Trabana, and, by the mid-1970s, for automotive companies such as Fiat and Volkswagen.

"Wilmington became a primary port," said Hickman Rowland. "In a sense, we piggy-backed on the success of the port." â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Clair Furia Smith Editor's Note: This piece was excerpted from an article in The Philadelphia Inquirer on February 8, 1999. Photo by Tim Shaffer.

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Curt Coward 2087 Hunters Crest Way Vienna, VA 22181-2841 Billy Paul 1540 Pikeland Road Chester Springs, PA 19425

35TH REUNION Curt Coward reports: I had breakfast with Curt Snyder in Washington recently.

Curt is working with the Library of Congress on behalf of his client, the Packard Foundation, with respect to developing an archive facility near Culpepper, Va. Al Day confirmed that he plans to attend the 35th Reunion and urges the rest of the class to make a commitment.

John Parrish, Warren Hoffecker and I had the honor to attend the Change of

Command Ceremony on February 20 in which Dennis Blair became Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Command ('CINCPAC') with direct responsibility for the operations of over 300,000 personnel of all services in more than 100 million square miles of the earth's surface. Secretary of Defense William Cohen and Hawaii Senator Daniel Inouye spoke glowingly of Dennis, who responded with characteristic insight and humility. There was a terrific party at Dennis's new quarters that evening, and John and Warren stayed on to provide CINCPAC with a free tennis lesson on Sunday.

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Mike Baker's 10th Street Grill was the scene of the Washington, D.C., MetroStop. John Court '92, Ty Jones '92, Bill Brownlee '44 and Larry Court '62 enjoyed good food and conversation.

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Volker Hoffmann is the senior partner of the law firm Hoffman & Knierim in Mainz, Germany. He works as a defense counsel in white-collar crime cases. He also joined the legal team for GM and Opel in the case against Lopez and Volkswagen and did all the internal investigation in that very large case of business espionage. Volker is also working for Merrill Lynch on a criminal case of tax evasion. He defended successfully the chairman of Thyssen AG in a white-collar crime case. Contact Volker by e-mail at: Hoffmann-Bingen@t-online.de Walter Harrison is a litigator in private practice. In addition, he is sole proprietor of Attorneys' Valuation Service, which provides computer-generated support services to domestic relations attorneys utilizing a computer program entirely written by Walt. It calculates the present value of pension and profit-sharing plans.

John Reeve has begun teaching in addition to his duties with Reeve & Associates.

He is lecturing at both M.I.T. and Massachusetts Maritime Academy. He says it's like playing football on the varsity and the Acheans at the same time.

Kathleen and Steve Richardson are busy raising their infant daughter, Katie, in beautiful Charlottesville, Va. Mark Dryden is working with the White Plains Child Care Association and directs the St. Bart's daycare center.

Cliff Nuttall is the headmaster of the SusQ-Cyber Charter School in central Pennsylvania, which currently serves 70 students. The school is a public charter 36 SPRING 1999

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In January, preparations were being made for the life story of Jack the Dripper, as depicted in Steven Naifeh's 1989 Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Jackson Pollock: An American Saga (written with Gregory White Smith), to appear on the big screen.

Actor Ed Harris will direct and star as the hard-living artist from Wyoming; Debra Winger was mentioned for the part of Lee Krasner, Pollock's wife. The independent production was to begin filming in March.

The out-of-print book was reissued in September by Woodward-White, Inc., to coincide with the Museum of Modern Art's retrospective on the artist, which traveled to the Tate in London in March.

Sandy Hazlett has been working for Eaton Corporation for 22 years and travels to 36 countries. "The only way to find me anymore," says Sandy, "is by e-mail (sandyhazlett@eaton.com). I currently reside in Singapore and manage hydraulic sales for the Pacific Rim.

all pile in the car each morning," says Andy. "I drop them off and then go to work in the building next door, so I am very fortunate, indeed, to be able to see them regularly throughout the day. Our weekends are filled with hockey and baseball, where I have taken on a coaching assignment this spring. Some of you may remember that I grew up in Chaumont, N.Y., a small town in upstate New York.

My parents are gone now, but I managed to keep their house by the lake and spend three weeks there each summer. Gib Metcalf and his gang are renting it for a week this summer, so we should be able to cross paths at some point."

Geoff Milner writes: "My company, American Power Conversion Corporation, has a factory in Denmark. It used to be called Silcon A/S, and it manufactures large uninterruptible power supplies which are typically used to protect large computers or datacenters. There is a chance that I may travel there later this year, so please forward me any contact information you have for our old classmate, Bjarne Strikert.

"I am still slaving away as in-house counsel at APCC here in Rhode Island. Son Andrew (8) achieved his Wolf badge and son Garrett (5) looks forward to Tiger Cubs next year. I am still serving at the altar at my church, and my wife, Leslie, and I teach first- and second-grade Sunday school there. Leslie is on the Vestry, so I shine in reflected glory."

Cato Carpenter is still in Baltimore and working at BT Alex Brown, which will merge with Deutsche Bank of Frankfurt this summer. He is a lay chalicist at the nearby Church of the Redeemer.

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Andy Hamlin is in his seventh year as director of development at Princeton Day School, a K-12 coed school of 875 on the outskirts of Princeton, which his children attend. Kathleen is the associate dean of students at Princeton. They live in Pennington, N.J., with their three children: Emily (13), Charlie (11) and Sam (9). "We

Hickory, NC 28601 Last June, Vic Mickunas returned to SAS for the first time since the '70s. He brought his April bride, Amy, to attend his 25th Reunion. We look forward to seeing them both on campus in the future and wish them a belated Happy Anniversary.

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25TH REUNION In February, Steve Amos led a group of 15 high school students from schools

Diamond State Masters Regatta around Vermont on a trip to Costa Rica.

This was the third year in a repeating series of four student ecology workshops he created through the Fairbanks Museum to highlight the ecology of Latin America.

Trip locations include Costa Rica (rain forests and cloud forests), Peru (Amazon River and rain forest), Belize (rain forest and coral reef) and Venezuela (tropical savannas and the Andes Mountains).

"After eight years of handling not only curatorial but also marketing duties," writes Steve, "the Museum has rewarded me by hiring a full-time marketing person, allowing me to concentrate solely on natural science issues. I curate collections and exhibits, teach science programs to elementary and middle school children and, with the board's blessing, am now gearing up a major travel program for the Museum's members and GQ public.

Besides the student ecology workshops departing each February, I will be offering adults trips: Iceland (July 2000), Tracking Cats in Belize (March 2001), Galapagos Islands and Ecuadorian Andes (April 2003), Amazon River Cruise and Macchu Pichu (March 2004), and will retrace my steps through Patagonia (November 2001), as detailed in last winter's St. Andrew's Magazine. Would love for SAS alumni to participate!

"I plan to make it for the 25th Reunion in June. In the meantime, I would love to hear from classmates. My new e-mail is: steve.amos@conriver.net."

Chuck Olson has a new website address and would enjoy hearing from fellow St. Andreans: http://www.charlesolson.com.

Riley and Pete Miller's second child, Anna, was born on May 15, 1998, and joins brother Teddy (3). Pete is an assistant professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins.

He is looking forward to the reunion in June.

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Bob Ruggiero resides in New York state with his wife and two daughters (3 and 7) and a son due this spring.

The Wilmington Rowing Center hosts The Eighth Annual Diamond State Masters Regatta on Sunday, July 25, 1999, on Noxontown Pond.

Over 500 men and women Masters rowers will compete in 66 races from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Athletes from all over the East Coast participate in this prestigious regatta featuring the "Dead Poets" Trophy.

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| ^7f\ Mike Berrigan I M 7908 Fairoaks Court I >/ Pleasanton, CA 94588-3607 20TH REUNION Kevin Kuehlwein is trying to broaden his classical music tastes. He's been enjoying opera and chamber music increasingly with his partner, John. "It was thrilling to see Sir Simon Rattle conduct the Sibelius 5th Symphony here in Philly [in January]," writes Kevin. "I'm also practicing my German again with the help of tapes and computer tools. Any alum who's an intermediate German speaker who wants to practice via occasional e-mail, please contact me."

Betsy Beard Stillings is out west in Seattle with her husband, John, and their two sons, Evan (6) and Logan (4). Betsy works fulltime as a pharmacist in a large hospital, dealing mostly with investigational drugs.

"We provide services to a cancer research center," explains Betsy, "so most of what I do relates to oncology and bone-marrow transplant. It keeps me busy. Thankfully, I have a stay-home dad as a husband."

Allen Jarmon has been selling real estate for the last ten years in the Rehoboth Beach area. "I fled Berlin a year after graduating," states Allen. "Life is good here."

Mary Beth and Chris Marsh are living in Maryland and would like to buy a house. They both work in the network and desktop computer support field.

Chris Leone is doing fine in Fall River, Mass., "the Czech Republic of the state."

He writes, "Jocelyne and I live in a church, which we are renovating. The main section will hold our studios and workshop, and a small addition (1950s?) is our living space.

"I am teaching again at Bristol College.

This semester I am again teaching threedimensional design. I stopped teaching art history, because I got very tired of it. It is not a class for someone with virtually no short-term memory. I am also teaching at the Museum School in Boston. My students are mainly grad students and are great. It is a sculpture course, and we talk about many things; and I do studio visits in the afternoon to discuss their work with them. It is indeed refreshing to work with grad students for a change.

"Jocelyne and I went to Winnipeg for the holidays to see her family. We got the chance to see one of the World Junior Hockey Championship Games, which was great. I played hockey when I was smaller and then in college. It seems to be the only sport that I am still interested in. It was cold there (-30 degrees Celsius), but it was great fun. I seem to enjoy the extreme cold (better than hot) for me.

"My work has been slow lately because of the renovations to the house. Our studio is filled with contractors' stuff and an inchthick layer of dust. I have sent out some proposals to galleries here and in Canada and am waiting for responses. We will see.

"I haven't heard from many people.

Gary Zanes is happy and living in Taos, N.M." Ron Tostevin lives and works in Aruba.

Kim Wilkerson Ramsay writes: "I am still down on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. I'm a single mom of Shelby, a 10-year-old 'ball of fire.' Being a single mom is quite an adventure.... I always did things the 'hard' way! After 15 years of working at our local trauma center in Salisbury, I began a new career last May as the school nurse in our local elementary school. I went from assisting in open-heart surgery to taking care of 400 kids! Talk about a change. I am truly enjoying the change, and I have the same time off that Shelby does, so I'm not missing out on the next 5-6 years, which I'm sure will prove to be trying ones. She's just like her mom, so ST. ANDREW'S MAGAZINE 37

you have a feeling what I'm in for! She's already expressed a desire to attend St. Andrew's. I'm not sure if the place can survive another 'Kim.' It would be difficult for her to be awayâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;maybe I could become St. Andrew's School nurse! Well, I look forward to seeing you all in June. Shelby and I will definitely be there!"

Matthew Ruggiero writes: "I have become a vegetarian and practice yoga daily. I teach English as a second language to foreign children in Montgomery County Public Schools in Silver Spring, Md. I take life one day at a time.

"I was very saddened to learn of the tragic passing of the Meins' son, Andrew. I fondly remember the young rosy-cheeked Andrew during my days at SAS, curiously walking around campus. My prayers are with them.

"I visited South America for the first time last April and spent time with an old college friend in Ecuador. Traveling definitely broadens one's horizons. It did wonders for my Spanish, which I was speaking and thinking 24 hours a day."

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Rob Colburn 18 Judson Street, #12B Edison, NJ 08837

Louise Nomer loves trailriding on her horse Dude in Abilene, Texas. Louise, her three horses, dog and a gooseneck trailer with living quarters regularly enjoy the Southwest together.

Susan Liefeld and Anthony E. Tresselt were married on March 21, 1998, at Old St. Anne's Church in Middletown, Del., and moved into their home in Pomeroy, Pa. Susan is employed at Mobil Oil in Malvern, Pa., and works part-time toward a master's degree in instructional design at Penn State.

Tim Hanna and his wife, Kathleen, along with big brother Ryan (4), are proud to announce the birth of their newest addition, Andrew William Hanna. He arrived on November 3, 1998, at 9:05 p.m. All are doing well and continue to reside in Hampton Bays, Long Island, N.Y. Bill Barnett '54 sent a note that daughter Carson Barnett Dubensky and husband Tom live in Piedmont, Calif., with their two sons, Walt and Sam. Carson is in law school, and Tom is a research scientist.

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Eric Ellisen 111 Downs Avenue Stamford, CT 06902

Christopher Rhodes lives in Royersford, Pa., and works as a network analyst for a computer hardware and software support company. Chris writes: "I am the father of a six-year-old girl. I am currently working on obtaining my private pilot's certificate. I 38 SPRING 1999

would love to hear from any of my old classmates (crhodes435@msn.com)."

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Paul Eichler 866 Monroe Terrace Dover, DE 19904

Stacy and J.W. Clements "remain active in Swarthmore, Pa., with Logan (7), Hart (4) and Luke (2). Ballet, gymnastics, Brownies, swimming, soccer and Indian Princesses occupy the girls while Luke has many playmates including Ellie Stief, daughter of Chris and Hally Mason Stief, who are also residents of Swarthmore."

J.W. looks forward to more Philly Metro Stops.

Kim and Dave Quillin are the proud parents of daughter Lila, born on February 13, 1999, weighing 8 pounds 15 ounces.

They are doing fine in Berkeley, Calif., but plan to move back to Ocean City, Md., where Dave will open his own architectural firm.

Kevin Grandfield had a wonderful time on his recent sojourn through Eastern Europe and Italy. "I visited Graz in Austria, Budapest, Slovakia, Krakow (and Auschwitz, an overwhelming experience)," he wrote, "then the usual Italian tour: Milan, Venice, Florence, Sienna, Rome, the Amalfi Coast, Capri and Sicily. In Sicily, I stopped to visit Geoff Garner and his lovely wife, Mary, and their children, Madeline and Adele. They were very gracious hosts.

Geoff is stationed there as a lawyer in the U.S. Navy assigned to a NATO base near Taormina.

"In a maneuver much like the late-night shenanigans that go on at SAS, Geoff and I one night absconded with posters from a circus passing through town billed (in English) as 'The Crazy Super Show.'" Their "trophies" were displayed on Geoff's garage wall.

Matt Renner's update reads: "I have been living in Murnau, Germany, with my little family (girlfriend, kid and dog) for two years. It is a nice mid-sized town south of Munich and just about touches the Alps.

I love it! I work in Munich as product marketing manager for FORCE Computers, a subsidiary of Solectron (stock: SLR), that designs and manufactures computers for

industrial and telecom embedded applicationsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a brilliant business to be in. It is exciting because we participate in all the exciting changes of these days: mobile communications and the impact of the Internet."

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Boo Percy Sargent 17 Notch Road West Simsbury, CT 06092

In March 1998, Andrew Lief eld accepted a position as PC Network Administrator at Soundings Publishing Company in Essex, Conn.

As of November 1998, Peter Liefeld became a senior analyst in the Human Resources Information Systems Department of Seagate Technology in Scotts Valley, Calif.

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Mary Ashton Roberts 12712 CoeurDuMonde Apt. G St. Louis, MO 63146

15TH REUNION For the past two years, Jason Walker has been working for America Online in Los Angeles as a senior editor. He finds it much less stressful than his former career of producing TV talk shows like The Maury Povich Show, The Vicki Lawrence Show and The Leeza Gibbons Show.

At Christmas, Jason caught up with Brad Hamilton and his wife, Tracy. Brad was on his way to see Lita and Mike Loessner and Phil Oeschle for New Year's Eve in Rehoboth Beach where Mike has a beach house. Jason inquires: "Is anyone out in Los Angeles? My e-mail address is: dclaJASON@aol.com."

Sandy McCauley and Andrew Sirk made their own fireworks happen as they were married on July 4, 1998, in Chicago.

After traveling for four weeks in Europe, Sandy and Andrew returned to their home (and two dogs, Fenway and MacKenzie) in Atlanta, Ga. Attending the wedding from SAS were Katie Magill Krapes '83, Debbie Kingsley Taminger and Mary Ashton Roberts. Nada Saliba Hart gave birth to her second son, Bradley, days after Sandy's wedding and was not able to attend. Sandy

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Shari and Al Rayne's son, Peyton Daniel, was born on July 29, 1998.

Pier Friend and Sara Kettler were married on October 3, 1998.

On December 27, 1998, Whitney and Mike Whalen announced the arrival of their daughter, Julia Joan, who weighed 7 pounds, 10 ounces. On February 23, 1999, Mike's latest solo piano collection, The Softest Touch, was released in the stores. It is described by EverSound as "a jewel of a recording from a musical story-telling master. Romantic, melodic and emotionally captivating, the award-winning television and film composer Michael Whalen shows us the more intimate and personal side of his music." Upcoming releases are: The Shadows of October (chamber) due out June 14, 1999, and Naive Light (ambient/electronic), August 1999.

Peter and Stephanie Jones Ahl had their second son, William McClure, on January 22, 1999, weighing in at 8 pounds 12 ounces. Will joins his two-year-old brother, Grayson.

Matt Gurin states: "Getting over the 'hump' with the toddler years. Tom is 3 and Elizabeth is 4-1/2. Both are at a great Montessori school, and my wife, Audra, is looking to get back into teaching science in a local private school. I continue to hone my consulting skills at Hay Group Management Consultants (in my ninth year there!)."

Greg Shivery writes: "I've been married for six years to my wonderful wife, Gina, and we have two incredible blonde-haired, blue-eyed girls, Kelsey (4) and Kylie (2). I am currently a program supervisor for an alternative education program that services the six school districts in New Castle County, Del., and will complete my master's degree in special education by the end of this summer."

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Desh Hindle and Phuong Tran were married in Arvada, Colo., on September 27, 1998. They live in Putnam, Conn., which is halfway between Desh's job in Boston and Phuong's job outside of Hartford.

Ian Montgomery was ordained to The Sacred Order of Priests in Christ's Holy Catholic Church on December 19, 1998, at The Church of St. George's-by-the-River in Rumson, NJ.

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Amy Barto 29 Carson Street Phoenixville, PA 19460

"Life is good here at Peddie," writes Brian Kotz. "In addition to the responsibil-

ities germane to teaching at a boarding school, I decided to have a little more fun with things this winter. I rejoined our student-faculty Shakespeare troupe, and we performed Love's Labour's Lost to strong reviews. I also had a guest performance with our faculty band. Preparations and rehearsal for both occupied much of my free time."

Marie Nash and Stuart Hardy (a fellow UNC med student) were married on October 17, 1998. In attendance were: Louisa Potter '85 and Graham Houghton '85. Marie is taking a year out of UNC Medical School to get an M.P.H. (Master's in Public Health) and will go through the residency match with her husband in 2000.

Laurence Sawyer graduated from Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine in May 1999, and will start a one-year internship at South Shore Animal Hospital in July.

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Sandy McCauley '84 was pleased to have schoolmates help her celebrate her wedding; I to r: Katie Magill Krapes '83, Debbie Kingsley Taminger '84, Sandy, and Mary Ashton Roberts '84.

Greg Doyle 108 Earlington Road Havertown, PA 19083 Jennifer Hurtt Mullins 28 McCarter Avenue Fair Haven, NJ 07704

Kevin Grandfield '82 visited the Garners in Sicily.

From I to r, Mary, Madeline, Geoff '82, Adele and Kevin.

Class Correspondent: Elizabeth Baxter 102 W. 80th Street, Apt. 24 New York, NY 10024 EBaxterl23@aol.com Cori del Sobral and Robert St. Jacques were married on October 10, 1998, at the Secret Harbor Resort in St. Thomas, USVI. The happy couple currently resides in New Orleans where Cori is in her second year of business school at Tulane and Bob is a labor attorney with a local firm.

Caroline and Karsten Robbins are living in Boston while Karsten pursues a management degree at Babson College.

Kevin Grandfield '82 and Geoff Garner '82 pose in front of the trophies they "picked up" in Sicily.

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Ross and Parrish, children of Rob and Alice Duffee Coneybeer '88.

Rick Patzman put his acting career on hold and spent the fall traveling around Australia and New Zealand with world traveler extraordinaire Mac Butcher (brother of Art Butcher and Liz Butcher Baird 5 84). Rick did manage to make it home in time for his sister Marlies's '89 wedding in San Francisco. Rick started business school at Columbia University in January.

Scott Hacking was sorry to miss the tenyear reunion and sends everyone his best.

He is living in Arizona while taking postbac biology courses and contemplating medical school. "Dr. Hacking" does have a certain ring to it.

Susan Stoops's ascent of K2 was cut short when her sherpa became violently ill after eating an entire bottle of Tang orange drink. Susan vows to try again next summer. In the meantime, she is enjoying life as a corporate lawyer in Richmond, Va. Petra Lewis is finishing up at Columbia Journalism School and working on getting a novel published.

On another literary note, Lisa Pamintuan returned to New York City and was last heard to be working on starting a magazine.

Laurie Farr is enjoying life as a school psychologist in the great north woods of New Hampshire.

When Brandon Mathews returned from Germany, he brought with him a delightful bride-to-be and an extensive collection of lederhosen.

Eric Lombardini is enjoying his second year of veterinary school and was sorry to miss the reunion.

Peter O'Brien was lucky enough to be sitting in Row 42, Seat 28 and catch Mark McGuire's 58th home run of the season.

Way to go, Pete!

Mary Chilton has started her own landscape architecture firm in California.

While it is six months since the Chairman of the Board checked out, Oliver Wilcox is still pretty shook up about Frank Sinatra's moving onto that big board room in the sky, but Ollie is managing to stay busy and get out of the house almost every day.

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horticulture in May 1998. During the summer, she traveled in Kenya with NOLS, hiking with Masaii Africans and sailing on dhows—ancient sailboats. In October, she became the conservatory supervisor for the horticulture department of Bellagio Resort in Nevada. "The conservatory plants and design change four times a year with the help of 120 people working around the clock for four days," states Beth. "Monthly color changes are made with flowering plants to change the theme. I supervise 20 employees on a daily basis to maintain the plants and plan the change-outs."

Catherine and Mike Hindle are living in Brooklyn, N.Y. Mike works for a cabinet and furniture maker, and Catherine is with an architectural firm. They are both artists and spend their free time painting.

After Denise Stroud arrived in Germany and met her friend Sven Adolph's family, she wrote: "Well, getting started was probably the worst of it. I was working right up to the end and really hadn't given myself much time to pack and clean out the apartment, etc. Worst still, I had the poor luck to be hungover and sick from the flu right up to the end. I ended up sleeping 3-4 hours every night and running hot and cold sweats, everything. Yet, me being me, I of course didn't ask for anyone's help, just did it all myself, even ended up shanghaiing a neighbor to help me lug huge boxes to be shipped (several of which were even too big to send, but I'll spare you that nightmare).

All in all, I pulled it off (well, most of it anyway) and made my flight on time.

"On the trip over, I got to sit next to some really loud Russian guys, with offensive English words all over their jackets and briefcases. . . . what a treat! I only got to spend one night in Vienna before we took off for the holidays to Sven's family. They live in Konstance, which is on the Bodensee Lake in the south of Germany. We drove for eight hours, just in time to arrive for

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dinner. We had a real traditional German dinner, with Sauerbraten (literally 'sour roast,' but it was really good) and knodel (a bit like stuffing dumplings) and, of course, lots of Schnapps (serious German liquor!).

"Sven's mother said that I was flat and skinny (highpoint of the meal) but meant it in the nicest way possible. Sven's dad is an amazing sculptor; he has the most amazing hand-carved Madonna and child sculptures just hanging all around. They look like they should be in a church somewhere.

"After dinner, I made out like a fat rat with the yuletide donations. I got some books, frilly ceramics (which I later 're-distributed'), and his mom packed our goody bags with lots of Linzer Torte, quince jam and Christmas cookies dipped in chocolate.

At this point, I was even ready to forget the 'flat' comment. . . . almost.

"We stayed a few nights at Sven's brother's house in the next town over. He and his wife both speak (passable) English and have much more modern plumbing. The state of one's plumbing and electrical wiring has become a far greater concern than I could ever have imagined. Never again will I take for granted endless hot water, warm bathrooms and kitchens, rooms where you can use every feature on every appliance simultaneously, or even continuously lighted hallways. God bless America, a land where comfort and endless consumption are a divine right!

"We toured Reichenau, which is a little island in the middle of the Bodensee, near Konstanz. It struck me as a lot like a German Martha's Vineyard. In the warmer months, it's very touristy, with lots of quaint, charming village atmosphere, all yours, for a price. . . . Very pretty. The only difference is it's in Europe, so the old churches are 1100 and 1200 years old, sitting on ruins of even older structures.

Sven's parents and brother got married at the 1200-year-old church.

"As a day trip, we drove to Zurich, Switzerland, to scout out our next possible home. Zurich was rather more 'diverse' than either Vienna or Bodensee, which was a nice change. It's a beautiful city if you've got a few Swiss francs for the lovely trinkets on the Bahnhof Strasse, Zurich's answer to Fifth Avenue or Rodeo Drive.

The street stops dead at the most scenic little lake I've ever seen in the middle of a city.

Very cute. The panhandlers were very creative. One guy painted himself gold all over and posed as a statue, and another played the Alpine horn, a monstrosity of an instrument—easily 15 feet long—which sounds like the mating call of some indigenous, love-struck Alpine Big Foot. After the eight-hour drive back to Vienna, I had another day to catch my breath before our next trip for New Year's, which I shall save for another report. I even got to IKEA (yeah!) to further decorate the apartment, which already looks like a textbook study of mid-century furniture design.

"Auf Wiedersehen!"

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Susan Willock 301 Spring Hill Farm Circle

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10TH REUNION Marlies Patzman and Kyle Lewis Lissack were joined in holy matrimony on November 21, 1998, in Grace Cathedral, San Francisco. Since the wedding, Marlies has decided to leave her position as the head pastry chef at the Fog City Diner to start her own company, City Celebrations, a wedding consulting and event coordination service in the Bay Area.

Jerome Ranawake announced his engagement to Becky Scott, a friend of Marlies's from the University of Pennsylvania. They plan to be married this spring in New York City.

Shannon and Adam Stegeman welcomed their daughter, Emma Winifred, who was born on February 23, 1999, weighing 8 pounds 5 ounces.

Allison Hamilton and Jeff Rohe were married on October 24, 1998, in Easton, Md. After getting his master's in public administration from the University of South Carolina while working in a law firm as a paralegal, Wade Cooper decided to stick with what he knew best . . . arguing.

"I am a first-year law student at USC Law and loving every minute of it," claims Wade. "Class of 2001 has a special ring to it." He adds, "The only alum I seem to run into on a regular basis is Tim Ortman. Tim and I share a love of recording live music and always seem to find each other at Widespread Panic shows. I worked for the band for a few years and now am able to just relax at shows and be a fan."

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Jennifer Boynton enjoys reading about her classmates.

Since Mike Fallaw has never written to the Magazine, he would like to recap some of the events in his life during the past nine years. "I graduated from Davidson College, N.C., in '95 with a B.A. in history. Since

Kim Egan '88, Corinna Calhoun '89, Howie Moorin '89 and Headmaster Tad Roach at the March MetroStop in Washington, D.C.

then, I have lived in many different states doing everything from landscaping to painting and other such manual labor.

"After hiking large stretches of the Appalachian Trail, I ended up in the Bozeman/Big Sky area of Montana. I lived in a wall tent deep in the wilderness with a few other friends for about nine months and enjoyed the life of a ski bum at Big Sky Resort. Luckily, I narrowly missed being mauled by a grizzly sow and its cub that two of my friends met one night (they were miraculously not seriously hurt).

"Next, I took a break to lead a military coup in a small third-world country, which will remain nameless; but that didn't work out so I returned to the paradise of Montana, where I can do the things I love, such as long-distance hiking and skiing.

"I started as an Americorp member in October 1998 here in Hamilton, Mont., which is a little town in the Bitterroot Valley south of Missoula. My service includes coordinating volunteers for a small non-profit organization for programs such as mentoring teens in the juvenile court system and doing community service projects with them as well as fun outdoor trips such as hiking, rafting, snowshoeing,

etc. Also, I help with an after-school arts program, which is crucial here since most of the public schools don't have full-time art teachers. Another aspect is setting up environmental education field trips for school kids at many of the nearby lakes, wildlife refuges and mountain areas. I will be serving until the end of July and then may move back to the Bozeman area.

"Hope everyone is well. Hopefully, I will see many of you at the ten-year reunion next summer, unless, of course, the Y2K crisis reduces us to barbaric looters living in chaos. My e-mail is downhome@bitterroot.com. I would love to hear from any St. Andreans."

Tim Gibb enjoys life in Mexico and is looking to buy a taco stand. He doesn't think he'll be able to make it to the 10th Reunion "being as the peso doesn't hold well to the dollar. Best wishes to all."

In February, Mike O'Connell wrote: "I was at a bar a few months ago when a friend introduced me to Katy Fischer '91.

After a short time, we realized that we, in fact, had gone to a prom together at St. Andrew's and knew each other pretty well.

Though I hadn't run into her before, it turns out that we share quite a few friends. She

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Mac and Carter Meyer Wilcox will graduate from Thunderbird in August after spending the summer semester in China.

They hope to be in New York in the fall.

Liz Dunton has a summer internship with Goldman Sachs in New York.

'91 A group photo at the wedding of Allison Hamilton '89 and Jeff Rohe; I to r: Gus Kreuzkamp, Kristen Zilling Kreuzkamp '89, Bill Brownlee '44, Jeff Rohe, Allison Hamilton-Rohe, Catherine Soles '89, Elizabeth Hammond Pyle '89, Susan Willock '89 and James Borghardt '89. had been in Chicago for two years getting her master's in fine arts from the School of the Art Institute. She graduated in May and is now a graphic designer for an art magazine and shows her drawings at local galleries. I've been in Chicago since I finished school in '94.1 play in a rock-and-roll band and design and make furniture for a living.

I have a recording studio where I record local bands, as well as my own. I live in a large space in a scenic part of the city and I welcome any visitors. Chicago is a great town, and I know how to paint it red."

While living in New York City - and going to school part-time, Ridie Lazar is the director of middle and high school admissions (grades 5-12) at Little Red School House in Greenwich Village. "It is a small school (440 in grades K-12)," says Ridie, "and the opposite of Kentâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;it's a very liberal, progressive school. It has been interesting and quite a change!" Ridie had just finished her busy season in March and was looking forward to coming to SAS the weekend of April 17 for the crew races and the ten-year anniversary screening of Dead Poets Society.

Emma Winifred, daughter of Shannon and Adam Stegeman Amy (Goldsworthy) Fawcett visited '89.

Cyre (Boggs) Mooney in Florida at Christmastime, who has a physical therapy business with her husband, Blaise. Amy heard from Claire Hall, who is engaged to be married this summer to Chris Ried in Atlanta. Amy started working part-time doing accounting for a non-profit organization in Alexandria. Her daughter, Greer, turned one year old on December 29.

Webb Armentrout 228 Otterbein Street Baltimore, MD 21230

Ted Cotsen works at TBS Marketing, where he is in charge of marketing and advertising for WCW (World Championship Wrestling) and several other programs. "It's a fun job," says Ted, "and offers countless creative possibilities."

'92

Joy McGrath 193 S. Main Street Smyrna, DE 19977

Joy McGrath suggests: "If you would like to keep even more up-to-date with your '92 classmates, please drop me a line at joy@post.harvard.edu, and I will sign you up for the Class of 1992 list serve and website! So far 36 members of our class are on the group e-mail list and web page, which delivers timely updates about St. Andrew's and the goings-on of 1992ers!

The web page is a handy directory of class members who are on-line."

Joy caught up with some classmates and gathered the following notes: Libby Moore is Harvard University's new choral administrator and is very excited about it. Libby also reports that she and Cy Philpott got together for the Super Bowl. She also had a great time when she saw Jenny Hughes a few weeks later. Jenny is leaving Boston and starting an M.F.A. at Iowa in the fall.

Anne Bond Archie writes: "I've been out of touch for a while mainly because I've been playing 'musical cities' in my third year of medical school. Supposedly, I am currently a student at UNC-Chapel Hill medical school. The only problem is that I haven't actually lived in Chapel Hill since August and won't live there again until June. It's an odd life changing cities every couple of months, but it's been great getting out of Chapel Hill where I've been for

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build a resource network of professionals Mike O'Connell '90 and Katy Fischer '91 shared a night on the town together.

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for advice and opportunities for St. Andreansâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;both alums and students?

Please contact Chesa at (302) 378-9511 ext. 260.

the past six years. For the most part, except for the pain of constantly living out of your car and suitcase, it's been fun. I'm currently in Charlotte and will be in Wilmington in April and May—not a bad time of the year to be there. Third-year medical school, in general, makes the first two years really worth it—it's an awesome time and experience, and I've truly enjoyed it, despite the hours. It teaches you up front what being a doctor is about and, thank goodness, more times than not, I love it! Since I can remember, I'd always thought I'd become a pediatrician; but right now, it looks like I'm steering towards ob/gyn, which most of my friends have a hard time understanding! I still have a couple more rotations to go, but this field seems to excite me the most—definitely different from pediatrics!

"I'm actually taking a year off next year and will go to Lyon, France, in September for eight months to work with a doctor there. I'll be doing hemophilia B gene therapy research and clinical work.

Although I'm a little nervous about the whole experience, including my rusty French, I can't wait to be back in Europe for one more visit before I settle down into a residency, which I think will be somewhere in the southeast.

"But anyway, if anyone's planning to be in Europe next year, definitely let me know—I'm basically on my own schedule there and would love to visit/tour anytime

An Insider's View of Boarding School Life Alumni Children in the 8th and 9th grades are invited to an Overnight Campus Visit.

Homecoming Weekend — Friday, September 24 Attend Friday evening dinner with students, stay overnight in the dorms, go to Saturday morning classes and Homecoming games. Saturday morning, Director of Admission Louisa Zendt will meet with alumni families to explain the application process, testing and financial aid.

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and anywhere."

Thatcher Brinton is living in Baltimore and learning his father's sign-making business.

Stephane Erard is back in Venezuela

and working for a chocolate company.

Hugh Cameron is expecting Baby No. 1 later this year! Until then, he is deployed as a barrister for the Australian Navy. More details when the little one arrives.

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hope to expand the SAS Alumni/ae website by encouraging classes to set up their own websites (photos, reminiscences, etc.) which are special to their years.

The Class of '82 has a good one. Look it up at http://www.psybeast.com/SAS/index.html.

Interested? Contact: Andy Seymour '82 at SAS82@psybeast.com Rob Colburn '80 at r.colburn@ieee.org.

Web Pages are run!

Or contact the St. Andrew's School Development Office for more information at (302) 378-9511, Ext. 260.

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Class Correspondent: Keri Brenner 25 Moore Road Bronxville, NY 10708

Megan Peters '93, Carolyn Wirth '93 and Elizabeth Reynolds '93 at the Washington, D.C., MetroStop.

Class of 1996 members Taylor Horner, Lindsay Allen, Megan Bozick, Kate Harrington and Mary Nicklin got together at the Head of the Charles last fall.

Frank Crawley 1730 Picadilly Lane Raleigh, NC 27608 fwcrawle@unity.ncsu.edu

Jill Hindle graduated from Middlebury College at the end of January 1998. She stayed in Vermont to complete her acting obligations and then set off on a nine-week tour of the country. She accompanied her parents to Baltimore to be with them during and after her father's kidney transplant from her mother. She is now working for an engineering firm in Eliot, Maine, but hopes to find a job with a publishing company.

Meg Musser's new company, a technology consulting firm, is called Design Strategy Corporation. Her position is as a sales/marketing associate.

Carolyn Wirth lives in Washington, D.C., where she teaches second grade and is working toward a master's in elementary education. Megan Peters and Elizabeth Reynolds are also in the area, so they often get together and reminisce. "We've been talking about a young alum party," says Carolyn, "so let us know if you're in the

'94

Anne Keller 16 W. Highland Ave., 1st Fl.

Philadelphia, PA 19118 Class Correspondent: Dionne Thomas 87-85 191st Street Holliswood, NY 11423

St. Andrew's athletes triumph! John Craighill '97 and Mike Cordeiro '98 met on the soccer field this fall when Gettysburg played against Hopkins. Hopkins won, 2-0, that day, but both teams went on to have successful seasons that took them to the NCAA playoffs.

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5TH REUNION Megan Forney is working as a community health volunteer with the Peace Corps in Nicaragua, where she hopes to use her nursing skills. "Finally," says Megan, "my Spanish classes with Senor Joven and Mel Bride are paying off, since I am living with a family who doesn't speak any English, and I am doing fine. I'll be down here until April 2001 at least, so unfortunately I am going to miss the reunion. Hello to everyone."

Cosmo Fattizzo writes: "Recently, I moved to Manhattan and have officially started my life as a starving actor (it's highly underrated). I have accepted an off-offBroadway role in an original production called Romeo & Juliet: Tribal. During the days, I have been working part-time at the McGraw-Hill Companies and freelancing as a production assistant on commercial, movie and music video shoots to make ends meet. I continue to search for a larger

apartment with two of my middle school friends. Now convinced that New York is the center of the universe, I have seen Andrew Sykes '95 in passing, hung out with Will McCormack '92 and have kept close ties with James Nelson and Joe Frazier and have spoken, intermittently, with Eva Sayre '97. All my love and best wishes to everyone, especially Mr. Cheban, Mrs. McTaggart and the entire theater ensemble. Break a leg."

Anne Keller writes: "I am getting married June 19, 1999, in Philadelphia! As of these 'notes,' I will be through my first year of law school!"

Patricia Evans graduated in May 1998 from Davidson with a degree in English, which she is "using ferociously (ha!) in [her] work as a youth director at a church in Tuscaloosa, Ala." She writes: "I am eagerly anticipating Reunion 1999 and hope to see some classmates there! It'll also be interesting to see Middletown and all of the new establishments I've heard about from more recent SAS graduates."

James Neal is flying the T-45 Strike Training Jet for the 22nd Training Squadron Golden Eagles in Texas. "I will be flying here until I finish my aircraft carrier qualifications and weapons training," writes James, "and I will receive my wings next February."

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Andrew Sykes 1111 Park Avenue New York, NY 10128-1234

Alice Palmer, a senior art major at Bates College, was named to the dean's list as a result of her scholastic standing during the first semester of the 1998-99 academic year. She is a member of the varsity swimming team and participated in Peak's Day 1995, an anniversary celebration of the Bates Outing Club.

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Brianne McCarthy 25933 Fox Grape Road Greensboro, MD 21639 Doris Short 261 Concord Drive Pottstown, PA 19464

Allison Thomas had a great winter in New Hampshire and looked forward to spring break when she would travel to Manila with Habitat for Humanity. Her summer plans are to work as a camp counselor in Russia.

Reg Hargrove is "doing great at Texasâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Austin's a pretty fun place."

Kate Harrington had a great fall semester at Middlebury and wonderful skiing during January. In February, she went to spend a semester in Nepal. She lived in Kathmandu for a month and trekked in the

Himalayas the rest of the time.

Now a junior geology major, Brian Wright once again sang tenor with the Whitman College Chorale during the annual fall "Sampler" concert on October 23, 1998. The performance presented a preview of the fall concert season, blending student vocal and instrumental talents.

Edward Hammond '86, Elizabeth Hammond '89, Sarah Hammond '92, Alfred Rayne '84 and Elizabeth Baxter '88.

Michael Everhart 198 College Hill Road Clinton, NY 13323

'98

Will Robinson S^ ^J vJ / 420 Delaware Street >/ / New Castle, DE 19720 Anne Riley 1435 N. Greenbay Road Lake Forest, IL 60045 Megan Wright Denison University Slayter Box 2376 Granville, OH 43023 John Craighill was offered a presidential appointment to the Naval Academy for the Class of 2003. He accepted and will start his Plebe Summer on July 1.

George Hutton is doing well at Trinity.

He and the varsity heavyweight crew are going to the Henley Royal Regatta in England this summer, and he "will take any SAS alum out to lunch who shows up and roots for Trinity. So," encourages George, "come on over to good ol' Britain."

Katy Wafle is doing well in California.

Her news: "I'm engaged to be married this coming summer—just kidding! Surprised you, didn't I? I've decided to be a women's studies major with a concentration in literature and am hoping to study abroad next year. Miss you all."

Payne Miller's note reads: "After spending the first semester at home, I am now back at Georgetown University. As usual, the D.C. area seems to be a watering hole for SAS graduates. Nearly every weekend there is at least one person visiting who is in some way, shape or form connected to St. Andrew's. Myself and other G'towners Meredith Blake, Kate Keeley, Sarah Siebert and Talley Smith '98 have been fortunate enough to host our friends and visitors from various SAS classes such as Meg Alexander, George Hutton, Morgan Foster, John Craighill, Katy Wafle, Rob Willey, Jamie Granum '98, Nelson Keyser '98, Casey Chopek '98, Jamie Carrington '98, Meghan Keeley '99 and Susan Clarkson '00. If anyone reading this is in the area, you definitely have a place to stay!"

Ed Hammond '60 reports that Lindsay Dormer, a sophomore at Middlebury, will be a Hutsperson at Greenleaf Hut, Presidential Range, White Mountains, N.H., for the AMC this summer. This is a real honor— only the toughest can handle it. She's a former Eastern Shore Mountain Goat. Former Goats include: Ed, Brendan Conway '86, Scott Hacking '88, Clair Colburn '87,

and exciting news is that I'm training to run a marathon with Team in Training, a program with the Leukemia Society of America (May 23). I'll be traveling to San Diego for the Rock 'N' Roll Marathon.

Wish me luck!"

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IN MEMORY William H. Whyte '35 olly, the author who defined corporate conformity and warned against its growth in the classic book The Organization Man, died on January 12, 1999, at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan. He was 81 and lived in Manhattan.

Holly was born on October 1, 1917, in West Chester, Pa., in the bucolic Brandywine Valley, where his father was a railroad executive. After attending St. Andrew's, he went on to Princeton and graduated in 1939. He then attended the Vick School of Applied Merchandising as preparation for a junior executive position with the Vick Chemical Company.

World War II intervened, and he enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1941. He was discharged in 1945 with the rank of captain, and eight months later he joined the editorial staff of Fortune. He became managing editor of the magazine and held that post until he left in 1958 "to devote his time to understanding how man might best deal with living spaces, both urban and rural."

To his many friends and admirers, Holly was a remarkable journalist who saw things so clearly and described them so memorably that the world became a more livable place once he had written about it. In 1956, he wrote a bestseller, The Organization Man. He used his new fame and the rest of his life to write four books (Cluster Development, 1964; The Last Landscape, 1968; The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, 1980; and City, 1989) that strengthened cities and landscapes by showing people how to look again at places that were being neglected and needed attention.

Among his many accomplishments, Holly completed numerous studies on conservation, acted as a consultant on many building and zoning proposals and was named a Distinguished Professor at Hunter College of the City University of New York.

Holly was a trustee of the Conservation Foundation and was active in the Municipal Art Society, the Hudson River Valley Commission and President Lyndon Johnson's Task Force on Natural Beauty.

He is survived by his wife, Jenny Bell, at home; a daughter, Alexandra; and a granddaughter, Madeleine Sperber, both of Boston.

gained him fame and influence even greater than what came to him as the writer of this seminal text. What was unique with respect to his fame and influence on governments, city planners, architects and others was his focus on people. He humanized cities, city parks, suburbs and planned towns (such as Reston, Va., and Columbia, Md.) and made them livable and workable.

The Times obituary said, "He insisted that the best way to deal with undesirables was not to bring in more police officers but to make the area in question as attractive to other people as possible." One product of his 16 years' research into urban planning was the book The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (1980), which was later made into a video. He identified three ingredients necessary to create thriving, vibrant urban locales: places to sit down, water (whether it be water from an open hydrant, an example of which he filmed in Harlem, or waterfalls, for creating so-called "white noise") and food.

He'd been quite ill and frail in the last decade. The last time I spent any time with him was at a dinner party given by a mutual friend for him, Jenny Bell and me. He was so weak that he couldn't walk a block to get a taxi. Despite his frailty, Holly remained devoted to SAS as a trustee emeritus.

In the mid-eighties, there was a reception at the New York Yacht Club that he attended only brieflyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;just long enough to speak about SAS and the reason for the reception, which was our Capital Fund Drive.

Holly had a wonderful sense of humor. In the video adaptation of The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces Holly commented on the "ballet" of people meeting and saying good-bye in public spaces, for example on the steps leading down into the Citibank lower plaza and subway entrance (which he pointed out was the most intensely used spot by pedestrians in Manhattanâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;not Bloomingdale's 59th Street corner, cited in The Times obituary). Holly's dry wit is evident in his focus on the "ballet" of a Manhattan character he dubbed "Mr. McGoo," who made a daily practice of directing traffic at various intersections in midtown Manhattan.

Herndon Werth '52 writes: I believe that Holly is St. Andrew's School's most prominent alumnus. The extent of his international standing and influence (from Europe across the U.S.A. to Asia, where he was a consultant for urban planning in Tokyo) was suggested by the size of the obituary, with photo, accorded to him by The New York Times. The Organization Man (1956) has proved one of the most influential works of sociology this century and established his reputation. It might be said, however, that his work as an urbanologist

The Rev. Wesley H. Martin, 67, of Beaufort, S.C., died on January 27, 1999, at his residence.

Wes was born March 29, 1931, in Brooklyn, a son of Joseph Wesley Martin and Mary Ardella Smith Martin, but spent most of his early boyhood in Bermuda. He was a graduate of the University of Virginia and the Philadelphia Divinity School. He was a U.S. Army veteran of the Korean War. He served seven Episcopal parishes in New York state and New Jersey prior to his retirement to Beaufort. He recently served as a supply pastor for churches in South

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Wesley H. Martin '49

Carolina. He was a past commander of American Legion Post No. 331 in Stoneharbor, NJ. Surviving are his wife, Virginia Shaw Martin of Beaufort; a son, Joseph Gregory Martin of Washington Depot, Conn.; and two sisters, Elizabeth Goguen of Ocean City, Md., and Susanne Fowlkes of Richmond, Va. Classmate Barney Megargee writes: "Last fall, I had occasion to visit with Wes Martin in bucolic Beaufort, S.C. Our paths hadn't crossed in some 50 years, but it wasn't long before we were yacking away a la Common Room. Wes had ministered to many Episcopal parishes in central New York State and then transferred to a parish in Stone Harbor, N.J., right on the coast. He loved it there and stayed on some 16 years until his official retirement. In Beaufort, he was still tending to three or four outlying parishes and involved with many people. Bermuda lost a good man to the U.S.A.; now we've lost a sturdy, brave soul of our own!"

Daniel R. Luke '52 We recently learned that Dan died but have no other information at this time.

Rodger C. Mailing '62 Rodger died from complications of long-term diabetes on September 14, 1998. He was a resident of Elkview, W.V. Rodger graduated from Syracuse University with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1968. He was a professional engineer registered in both West Virginia and Virginia. As an employee of the Division of Highways, he designed West Virginia's interstate tower lighting system and served as construction supervisor on one of the final three segments of 1-79. At Buchart-Horn Consultants, he designed and oversaw construction on boat-train shipping facilities in Newport News and a waterslide park in Williamsburg, Va. He also worked on West Virginia's South Branch Valley Railroad and State Rail headquarters, an electrified deer fence, moveable walkways and more Yeager Airport improvements. At Woolpert Consultants, Rodger designed a segment of upgraded Appalachian Corridor L and numerous municipal treatment facilities.

A long-time member of the West Virginia Symphony Chorus and the Charleston Civic Chorus, he was also active in Clendenin's Local School Improvement Council and West Virginia Public Radio as treasurer of its Friends Board.

Son of the late Rev. G. Clayton and Jessie Phy Melling, he was preceded in death by his daughter, Jennifer. He is survived by wife Carol, son Cameron, daughter Allyson, brothers Wesley and John, sister Sarah, and several nieces and nephews.

Classmate John Craighill writes: "Several of [the Class] had the opportunity to see Rodger and his family at our 35th Reunion in 1997 and at several previous reunions.

Rodger's health had been deteriorating for some time, and he had been blind for several years; his mobility had suffered from amputations of both feet because of his diabetes.

Yet, he showed up and participated in many Class functions. Rodger was a great supporter of the Class of '62 and St. Andrew's School over the years. Our sympathy and prayers go to his wife, son and daughter."

Laurie W. Moss After a courageous struggle with cancer, Laurie, 52, died at home in Andover, Mass., on January 14, 1999.

Laurie worked as assistant director of the Foreign Language Learning Center at Phillips Academy. She graduated from Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Conn., and from Pine Manor College.

Laurie was a devoted wife and mother who took great pleasure in the life and accomplishments of her family. She was an enthusiastic and loyal spectator at all her children's many sporting events, from soccer in the fall, to ice hockey in the winter, to lacrosse in the spring. Her oldest daughter, Laurie, is a teacher of children with autism at the May Institute in Braintree, Mass. Sarah, her youngest, is a senior history major at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y. Laurie had an enormous capacity for making and nurturing close friendships. She remembered every birthday and important date with a card or letter. She loved having friends and family over for parties and celebrations. She had a warm, boisterous laugh and managed always to see the bright side of life. Her friends and family provided a vital support network for her during her long illness.

Laurie and her husband, Bob, moved to Andover in 1984.

They met in France in 1966 when they were both studying abroad and were married in June 1971. France had a special significance for them and they had a joyous sabbatical year in Aix-en-Provence in 1982-83. They also enjoyed spending summers and vacations in Chatham, Mass. Bob teaches French and coaches crew at Phillips.

While at St. Andrew's, Laurie worked in the Alumni Office and helped coach field hockey. Bob taught French and was the assistant director of admissions, a dorm parent (including H Corridor, now Moss Hall, named for his father, who was headmaster 1958-76), and a coach for boys' cross-country and girls' crew.

Laurie is survived by her husband, Bob; two daughters, Laurie and Sarah; parents, Walter and Mary Watson of Boston; two sisters, Burrill Haskell of Bedford, N.Y, and Eleanor Kinsella of Dover, Mass.; and a brother, Walter Watson III, of Baton Rouge, La. ST. ANDREW'S MAGAZINE 47

Richard B. Stow Rick, 50, died at his home in Lewes.

He was a senior bioscientist in the pharmaceutical division of Zeneca Inc., Wilmington, Del., for 20 years. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Delaware in 1983. He served as a Navy paramedic with the Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. A soccer coach for eight years, he was commissioner for the MOT Soccer Club and volunteered with the MOT Little League. He was an active volunteer with Tri-State Bird Rescue for three years and for other nature organizations.

He attended St. Andrew's School Chapel.

Rick is survived by his wife of 15 years, DyAnn Lynn Miller, co-director of Residential Life and coordinator of the Counseling Program at St. Andrew's, at home; two sons, Ryan Miller Stow and Derek Miller Stow, both at home; mother and stepfather, Mary Stow McCutchan and Herbert McCutchan of Wilmington; brother, Frederic S. Stow of Las Vegas; and sisters, Susan S. Bebon of Princeton, N.J., and Martha H. Stow of Hockessin, Del. The following eulogy was delivered by Headmaster Tad Roach at the memorial service for Rick: In his recent book, Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom writes: As long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love that we had, we can die without ever really going away. All the love you created is still there. All the memories are still there. You live onâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here.

I speak for the entire St. Andrew's community this morning in expressing our collective sadness and grief at the death of Rick Stow. Over the past 14 years, DyAnn and Rick have together provided a crucial sanctuary and home for students at St. Andrew's. Because DyAnn is a wonderfully compassionate counselor, her home was always open to our students morning, noon and night. Rick was an essential part of the culture of that home because he was always patient, kind and generous with his own time, and because he always graciously understood when it was necessary for DyAnn to work with a student. Counselors work day and night; spouses of counselors, spouses of boarding school teachers, are saints. Rick Stow was.

St. Andrew's senior Robin Juliano '99 wrote this week: When I think of Mr. Stow, I immediately think of sitting in the Miller apartment on a cold winter term night. He and Ms. Miller would open their house to all of us on K dorm to sit by the fire and drink hot chocolate and just slow down for a few moments.

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Perhaps what Rick taught us most was an approach to life that is patient, loving, kind and gentle. His friend Dave DeSalvo described him as a man who loved gardening, who shared produce willingly, openly, lovingly; as a man who shared his humanity with his wife, children, soccer players, friends; as a man who loved the outdoors; as a man who was, in essence, a teacher of science, of soccer, of nature, of parenting, of life.

Perhaps it was Rick's knowledge and experience of war that led him to a mature, calm perspective on all issues. As a medic in Vietnam he learned about life in its most drastic, elementary termsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;he learned to particularly appreciate the calm and beauty that came with peace and marriage and family.

Last year, I approached Rick to ask him if he was planning to be at commencement on Memorial Day. He gave me a surprised look. He was heading for Lewes with his children as quickly as he could, but when he heard that DyAnn was to receive a special Headmaster's Award, he immediately smiled and said he would be happy to be there. He marveled at his wife's capacity for love, for empathy, for sympathy. He loved and admired DyAnn with all his heart.

Rick made every child feel unique, special, treasured. I had the chance to coach soccer with Rick when Ryan and my son played together on the same team years ago. What a perfectly gentle and reassuring way he had with children.

He celebrated the young player who chose to pick daisies on the field as enthusiastically as the highest scorer. What a wonderful, refreshing philosophy of sport and life he taught his players and their parents.

But obviously Rick's love for his two boys was particularly passionate and devoted. He was a wonderful father. He was a great listener, teacher and role model. All of us have seen Rick in the multiple roles of fatherhood: calming a crying infant, pitching baseball after baseball to Ryan, creating a golf course for the kids in the backyard, kicking a soccer ball around, and, of course, playing the impartial arbiter when disagreements arose. I know he would appreciate this community's collective love and responsibility for the care and nurturing of his two sons. I know the St. Andrew's community will not disappoint him.

Men like Rick create a sense of hope, momentum, perspective and optimism in the communities in which they live. Their lives transcend their days, for they make those they leave behind more patient, kind, understanding and human. Rick, Dave DeSalvo said, never said a negative thing about anybody. He was always glad to see you. He paid attention to people. He listened. Rick lived as if he understood intuitively what the American poet William Carlos Williams meant when he wrote, "It is not necessary for us to leap at each other."

May we here in this chapel emulate these virtues. May we today give thanks for the life of Rick Stow, and pray for, support and love his family.

A Heron Moment

By David G.W. Scott, Editor he Column" is a new feature in the and snare a fish with its sharp talons as if there was St. Andrew's Magazine. St. Andreans only one fish and the water was not a dark, impenehave contributed feature articles and trable surface. profiles that have enriched the magaA few days ago while hurrying to Amos Hall, I zine's pages, but I found myself want- was stopped along the driveway behind Founders' ing a more personal, intimate voice from the alumni Hall by a blue heron. At the risk of being spotted by body in these pages. the wandering eyes of students on the language corWhen the idea for "The Column" first struck ridor, I watched the clumsy-looking bird fish off the me—it's not a pioneering one, The New Yorker, dock in Washburn Cove. Sometimes they step out of Sports Illustrated and Smithsonian have long since the rat race of waterweeds and marsh grass to enjoy beaten us to it—I tried to imagine what I could have the easy pickings off the dock. written if my high school had asked me to write as I stole a minute that day observing something prean alum. At first, I sought to explore the historic. The heron remained still for a essence of who I was then, what I had long time, its blue-gray feathers blending learned in those four years and how much with the blue, weathered boards of the I had changed. But I knew that sort of dock. Even as seagulls whirled above it memoir would be too long—I would need and a campus dog barked in the distance, to be more specific. I decided what I needthe heron had sights set on something I ed to do was to illuminate one resonant could not see. The water was brown and moment. gray. Small crests lifted by the wind caught The natural beauty that surrounds St. a bit of blue sky. All seemed slow, changeAndrew's School, that reaches into its less, predictable. classrooms and dorms and colors the lives Then the heron crouched, knees angling lived here, is a wonderful catalyst for such backward, the oblong cavity of its body moments. I have found that working at lowering, its neck straightening from a St. Andrew's School has returned me to smooth "S" into a dangerously sharp club. my youth. Not because of the students, Nothing on the surface of the water had but because of the fields, the pond, the changed as far as I could tell, but down foxes and the birds. Since moving away there the feeding event was about to hapfrom my hometown along the pen. The heron is one of nature's best fishConnecticut River in New Hampshire, I ermen. I was about to find out why. I di Jn'i have lived in cities and suburbs of cities— look away because I knew it would be Philadelphia, Boston, Greensboro. My over in a flash—and it was. friends still living in those metropolitan Easing forward precariously, the heron areas often ask me what it's like to work suddenly plunged into the water, flapped at St. Andrew's, but there is usually little twice and returned to the dock with a fish time to answer. Our busy lives force us sideways in its long, scissored beak. It into quick exchanges, force us to limit our ^ — f l i p p e d the fish around and swallowed it peripheral vision, to interrupt memories. I whole, throat swelling with the heft of the would like "The Column" to be the place fish. In several seconds, the lump was where vision is wide and deep, where gone, and the heron resumed its lazy stride memories flow like water. up the dock. As I turned again to Amos Hall, my If I had time to tell my friends about the way St. own stride was quicker as if to make up for having Andrew's and its physical surroundings affects me, I allowed time to stand wonderfully, resonantly still. might start in autumn with the snow geese creating I want "The Column" to provide us the space to a traffic jam over the athletic fields. Their cackles share memories that speak to us all. I hope that it will and honks fill the horizon. The afternoon sun catch- allow us more meaningful exchanges and the time to es them exploding up from the stubbled cornfields. focus on what may seem peripheral. "The Column" Their brilliant silver forms—a blur of black and should become a collection of moments—funny, sad, white feathers—shimmer. Even as they ravage the reflective—that together evoke the wonder and comcrop fields, they are a stunning sight. I might tell my plexity of these strange and beautiful days. friends about the day last winter when I watched a bald eagle perch in the oak tree behind the house on Editor's Note: If you are a member of the St. Andrew's Alumni Point. And then I saw it fall from the tree, community and would like to have an essay considered as silent as a shadow, swoop down over the Pond for "The Column/' call (302) 378-9511, Ext. 259.

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