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Magazine of The Episcopal Academy
SUMMER 2012 }
Contents { Connections SUMMER
News
20 Class of ’62 Reunion Wrap-Up 22 Reunion Weekend 2012 24 Alumni@EA 27 Athletics@EA 30 On Campus 33 Parents of Alumni 34 Classnotes 56 Milestones
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Features
1 Message from the Head of School 3 Ham Clark Announces Departure
5 Expanding Boundaries Through Inspired Teaching 1 0 Faculty Memories 1 3 An Appreciation of Meg Hollinger, Hon. 14 Scholars Lunch 1 6 Haiti: Serving Those Most In Need 1 8 Why We Support The Annual Fund
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Message from the Greville Haslam
Head of School Ham Clark, Hon. (front at right) with (l to r) Steve Muir, Hon., Marc Eripret, and Tim Gavin, Hon. in Haiti. See page 16 for more on this trip.
At Episcopal, every one of our Stripes is important, but this month I
want to focus on “Generosity” and it’s role at EA. A week ago Ceci and I hosted a dinner that was auctioned off at the annual Starfest gala that made me better appreciate the generous spirit of so many people in our community. First, there were all the volunteer parents who worked so hard to put the Starfest auction together, to raise money to support your children and our school. Second, there were the many people who attended the auction and contributed over $200,000 to advance the unique mission of an EA education. In the particular case of the dinner at our house, there were the generous parents who bid on the dinner and invited their friends to share in the fun. Moore Brothers and Pete Mandeville, the brother of our sorely missed colleague, Marc, provided an exceptional wine tasting from their discerning lists of worldclass wines. A delicious dinner for more than 20 lucky diners was supplied by Jack Francis Catering and the live entertainment was handled by our faculty band, “Flash Mob”— consisting of Middle School psychologist, Marc Tannenbaum, Upper School physics teacher, Brian McDermott, Upper School English and history teacher, Rob Maier, and Dean of Faculty and Upper School English teacher, Doug Parsons.
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own spring break vacation time to travel to Haiti to arrange a service partnership and future EA student visits to a Haitian school. Upper School history teacher, Kris Aldridge, 4th grade teacher, Silvia Davis, Middle School history teacher, Mark Luff, Hon., and the previously mentioned Doug Parsons are giving up hours of their time to serve on the search committee for our new head to help ensure that we have a strong new leader for Episcopal. More than 100 teachers and staff members have given up countless hours serving on Strategic Planning and other committees over the past three years; others have chaperoned dances and field trips; and others have worked late into the night providing logistical and operational support to major events like Haverford/AIS Weekend and Reunion Weekend. The list could go on and on, but the point is that at Episcopal we are privileged to have so many talented parents and employees who work together and give of themselves to support young people in ways seen and, “More than 100 teachers and staff members have given most often, unseen. up countless hours serving on Strategic Planning and You may not realize it, but nearly other committees over the past three years; others all our employees have chaperoned dances and field trips; and others voluntarily support the Annual have worked late into the night providing logistical and Fund just like our operational support to major events like Haverford/AIS parents, graduates, and friends. There Weekend and Reunion Weekend.” is no question that financial support of EA is critical, but group of teachers, coaches, and support staff, and they so is the gift of time, of mentorship, and of service to are constantly going above and beyond for their stuothers. dents and their school. Director of Community Service, One cannot possibly know each instance of Susan Swanson, 2nd grade teacher, Betsy Welch, and support, sacrifice, cooperation, and generosity that hapMiddle School Spanish teacher, Melissa Goins lead pens every single day on this campus, but I do know our community service efforts and give up a great deal that this generosity of spirit makes us the great school of their free time to encourage student service and to we are and I am grateful to everyone for the varied gifts better our community and reach out to others with they provide to Episcopal. This is not just a school or their generosity. Upper School Spanish teacher David a place of employment. It is a community. And a truly Dwyer spent this past year driving our students to the wonderful one at that. University City Hospitality Coalition (UCHC) to serve the hungry and afterwards took our students to dinner as a group each week. Lower School Chaplain, Tim Gavin, Hon., World Languages chair, Marc Eripret, and Facilities Manager, Steve Muir, Hon., gave up their Episcopal is all about caring people who go out of their way to support each other and the school community at large. Parents have busy lives outside of Episcopal yet sacrifice their time and talents to provide every student better opportunities. Faculty members are equally busy teaching, coaching, and supporting your children, but still give up their free time for the good of the school. On this particular night, the members of “Flash Mob” gave hours of their own time to play music (which had to be rehearsed for weeks in advance) they thought the guests would enjoy, and to set up, entertain, and take down the masses of equipment necessary for any band’s performance. Rob Maier happily did all of this knowing that he was going to be on the Schuylkill River for 10 hours the following day, coaching our crews on the river. I point out Rob and his band mates, but this type of commitment from our teachers and staff is the norm at EA and not the exception. We assemble the finest
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Ham Clark Announces Departure From EA in 2013 Scan the QR code Below to Watch a video of clark’s message.
Clark, who took the Greville Haslam Head of School position in July of 2002, will leave Episcopal at the completion of the 2012-2013 school year. He served as Episcopal’s 10th Head of School.
In a joint Middle and Upper School Chapel
on March 6th, Greville Haslam Head of School, Ham Clark, Hon., announced that he will step down as Episcopal’s 10th Head of School at the conclusion of the 2012-2013 school year. A video of Clark’s message can be viewed by following the QR code on this page. Clark told students in Chapel: “Ever since I arrived 10 years ago, I have been asking you to take some risks, to try some new things. I hope I have continued to challenge you as individuals to whom so much has been given, to think about what is required of you, what you can give back to a world that so desperately needs your good hearts and minds. So having told you to take some risks and to test your comfort zones, it seems that it is now time for me to follow that same advice. It is time for me to take on some new responsibilities and to see more of the world, and >>> SU M M ER 2 0 1 2 / / 3
accordingly, I announce today that next year will be my last at Episcopal and that I will leave this great community in June of 2013.” Clark took over leadership of The Episcopal Academy in July of 2002, following long-time Head of School, Jay Crawford ’57. Under his leadership, Episcopal has focused on strengthening its already very strong academic program, increasing its diversity and accessibility to all boys and girls, incorporating experiential learning and global education into EA’s curriculum, focusing on character education and service to others, and finding and retaining the very best teachers. However, Clark’s biggest legacy will undoubtedly include the relocation of Episcopal to Newtown Square and the completion of the $100 million Ever Episcopal Capital Campaign that made it possible. “No one has worked more tirelessly and selflessly for Episcopal than Ham,” said Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Gary Madeira ’72. “He has overseen one of the most prosperous and historic decades in Episcopal’s rich history, and his legacy at Episcopal will undoubtedly include our move and the completion of the Ever Episcopal Campaign. It’s hard to remember what monumental tasks both of these projects were because they both went so smoothly under his leadership.” Ed Vick ’62, a member of the Board of Trustees and Co-Chair of the 2010 Strategic Plan for Episcopal, noted: “My guess is that no other Head in the long history of Episcopal has accomplished so much in such a short time for us and for our kids as Ham Clark. Our collective achievements under his leadership will certainly go down in Episcopal’s rich history as some of our greatest.” A number of farewell events will be scheduled during the 2012-2013 school year and details of those events will follow. / / / / / / / / / /
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Expanding Boundaries Through Inspired Teaching Provide even the best teachers with the opportunity to hone their craft, nurture their passions, and ignite their creativity, and the results can be a transformational experience for both their students and themselves. By Lini S. Kadaba
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“We hire great people who are great teachers, but to keep them at the top of their game, we have to invest in their continuing development.” —Head of School, Ham Clark
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When Silvia Sollenberger Davis and three other fourth-grade teachers at the Episcopal Academy attended a workshop on the Great Books program, they returned full of classroom ideas and, more important, the enthusiasm to implement fresh strategies. “We left feeling so energized and excited about it,” she says of the two-day program in Princeton, N.J., that Lower School head Andrea Danial first suggested. “It has really transformed our curriculum by turning the perspective to be more student-centered.” In 2010, the teachers piloted Great Books in their classrooms and its philosophy of shared inquiry with the short stories “Thank You, Ma’am” by Langston Hughes, “The Gold Coin” by Alma Flor Ada and a Chinese folktale. Rather than teacher-directed lectures, open-ended questions allow students to lead the discussion of the story, book-club style. Since then, more teachers have attended the workshop, more stories have been added to lesson plans, and inferential dialogue has extended throughout the Lower School and into other subject areas, including math and social studies. It all started, says Davis, with “one little seed.” That’s the beauty of professional development. A workshop, a speaker, a conference, or experience plants an idea that grows into a better way to help students learn in the classroom. With that goal in mind, Episcopal continues to invest in exposing its faculty to as many educational opportunities as possible, both on and off campus. As part of the implementation of the 2010 Strategic Plan, it has added resources to this high-priority goal and made it one of the three beneficiaries of its upcoming endowment campaign. “We hire great people who are great teachers, but to keep them at the top of their game, we have to invest in their continued development,” says the Greville Haslam Head of School, Ham Clark. “For example, unless a modern language teacher gets to regularly spend some time in countries where that language is spoken, the teacher will lose their fluency and knowledge of the culture. Likewise, unless a teacher has the chance to attend regional or national conferences on their subject, they will fall behind. We cannot be the great school we want to be, unless we have sufficient funds to annually provide opportunities for our faculty to
“I’m not happy staying the same year after year,” says first-grade teacher Jen Lutz (shown above with her class).
get off campus and challenge themselves with continuing education.” What better way to support art teacher Janet Cusack’s murals project with students, Clark asks, than to send her to Ravenna, Italy, for a mural workshop with an Italian master and other muralists from around the world? What better way to help a history teacher bring World War I to life than to send her to Europe? What better way to help Episcopal teachers focus on experiential education than to send them to the Educators’ Initiative at North Carolina Outward Bound? Episcopal has made all of the above possible. Such efforts are supported through its $200,000 professional development budget that includes contributions from numerous named endowed funds. Another $50,000 supports the school’s innovative, in-house Mastership Professional Development Program, launched in the 2010-11 academic year. About one-third of the faculty pursue funded experiences in a given year, according to Dr. Cathy Hall, EA’s Academic Dean who oversees professional development. Still, EA’s peer schools are devoting even more dollars toward bolstering teacher knowledge banks and skills. According to recent data from the Joint Research Project Organization (JRPO), a national consortium of 51 co-ed independent day schools with similar demographics, Episcopal allots slightly less than $1,000 per full-time teacher on professional development—a figure that puts it at the low end among its peer institutions. By comparison, Germantown Academy and the Haverford School spend nearly double that amount on their teachers. “Through an upcoming endowment campaign,” Clark says, “we hope to be able to assist more of our teachers each year and ensure that no one ever stops learning at Episcopal.”
Reshaping a Curriculum
For the last two summers, Angela Miklavcic, who teaches AP chemistry and chemistry, has spent an intense week on campus creating a new curriculum or reshaping an existing
Chaplain Jim Squire, Hon., traveled to the Middle East in 2010. His studies at St. George’s College in Jerusalem and living quarters in the Palestinian section of the city “were a model for how experiential learning should be done.”
one. She applied and received compensation for her efforts through the Class of 1944 Faculty Enrichment Fund. Last year, Miklavcic pulled together material for a new course: “Honors Chemistry.” She scoured the Internet for “new problems and challenges to push the students and to augment the regular curriculum,” she says. The summer before, Miklavcic researched a “flipped classroom,” a concept growing in popularity that she based off of work by two Colorado teachers. In the flipped classroom, AP chemistry students complete exercises and problems in class—the type of work traditionally assigned as homework. “This was a way to do hard problems in the classroom while I was present,” says Miklavcic. Meanwhile at home, students watch a videotaped, five-minute lecture of Miklavcic explaining new material and key concepts—the type of instruction that traditionally occurs in the classroom. She makes the videos with screencapture technology that combines both audio and video of her at work on a chemistry problem. “If you missed class, you didn’t miss the content piece,” she says. The opportunity to reflect about curriculum in an indepth, focused way has been “huge,” says Miklavcic, who also completed her master’s degree with support from Episcopal. “It’s a recognition that you’re doing this work.” To view some of the more innovative projects Episcopal teachers are working on, click on the QR code below or visit http://www.episcopalacademy.org/academics/innovation-atea/index.aspx. Scan the QR code At right to view innovative projects at EA.
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We are… The Mastership 9 Teachers Teaching Teachers For other faculty, professional development occurs right on campus, often through speakers and The 2012 Mastership Professional Development Program participants. The group includes faculty members from all three units, senior administrators, recent hires, and veteran teachers. educators brought to the school. Increasingly, faculty are applying for Episcopal’s in-house, innovative Mastership Program. For the first half of the school year, participants (either teachers, administrators, or departEpiscopal prides itself on letting faculty members take the ment chairs) assess their strengths and weaknesses, taking lead on ways to broaden their skills—rather than school the Myers-Briggs personality test, hearing candid feedback directives imposing an agenda. from peers and supervisors on, for example, teaching style, “Our mindset is very different,” Hall says. “We reguevaluating communications skills, and more. The second larly push teachers to come up with creative and innovative half pinpoints ways to improve skills. ideas and ways they can push themselves. At most schools, “This program is supposed to be entirely experiential,” teachers do something that administrators want.” says Tracie Lee, Coordinator of Faculty Recruitment and Many teachers travel—and use those experiences to the Mastership Program. That means participants learn enliven their curriculum. Rev. Jim Squire, Hon., Upper through hands-on, interactive experiences. “They are in a School Chaplain and Chair of the Religion Department, relot of situations that push them out of their comfort zones. cently traveled to the Middle East through a grant from the From August to December, it’s introspective. The whole secCrawford Hill Fund for Faculty Enrichment where he took ond semester, we want you to show us what you do, reflect a course at St. George’s College in Jerusalem on “Jesus and on it, and improve it.” the Bible.” As part of the class, he spent time in prayer and On any given Wednesday from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., spiritual development as well as made trips to sites associa visitor might find the Mastership group role-playing how ated with the life of Jesus. to handle those difficult conversations with faculty, parents, “To stand in the Upper Room where Jesus had the Last or students. The participants might write a haiku to learn to Supper was deeply moving,” he says. “We also walked the communicate with brevity. They might paint a still life, each same roads that we know Jesus walked as described in the seeing the study from a different spot in the room—or difbiblical narrative.” Because St. George’s had oversubscribed ferent perspective—to better understand point of view. another course, Rev. Squire and others taking “Jesus and The sessions are taught by EA faculty, including Directhe Bible” resided at a hotel in the Palestinian section of the tor of Support Services, Paul Anderson, the Howard E. city. “Living there was just as important an education as Morgan Chair of Creative Writing, Chris McCreary, Upper what we received within the walls of the college or on any School drama teacher, Dan Clay, and all three unit heads. trip to a biblical site,” he says. “We heard the call to worField trips are taken to the Head of School’s house for ocship from the mosque day and night. We experienced the casional guest speakers or seminars, a Board of Trustees tension between the Palestinians and Israelis first hand.” meeting, and each other’s classrooms for more peer evaluaRev. Squire related many of his experiences to EA tion and feedback. students through Chapel Talks. He also teaches “Ethics” in Middle School history teacher Doug Borgerson was Upper School, and his first-hand experience with social jusaccepted into the program during its pilot year in 2011. tice issues in the Middle East has helped inform classroom “It helped me figure out what I want to do,” he says. As a discussions. result of the experience, he sought an administrative oppor“We had a lecture from a rabbi who had spent most of tunity in athletics with “more confidence and direction” and his life in Jerusalem,” he says. “The next evening, we had was successful in becoming Middle School Athletic Director. a lecture by a communications officer for the PLO. Each One of the hallmarks of the program, he says, is the had a polar opposite view of the history of the area and the chance to spend time with a variety of colleagues and present day issues. The whole experience at the college and administrators—not an easy feat during the normal, jambeyond was a model for how experiential learning should packed day of classes, extracurriculars and athletics. “We as be done.”
Freedom to Explore
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a group got to meet all kinds of people. What sets it apart is the ability to reflect,” he adds. The program carves out time for the members to bounce around ideas in a safe space facilitated by an outside counselor. Borgerson also has taken advantage of two diversity conferences. Both helped him return to school a “much better educator,” he says. For example, a session on racism within Israel helped to bolster a history unit on the ArabIsraeli conflict. “I’m always interested in growing to be the best teacher, coach, administrator,” he says. “It all comes back to the kids.” Certainly, that has been the case for Davis, the fourthgrade teacher. In addition to the Great Books program, she also signed on to be a trainer for Singapore Math, a new curriculum in Lower School. Through that, Davis travels around the country over the summer, visiting schools and training teachers in Singapore Math and its concrete, handson approach. She particularly enjoys meeting other teachers. “We work with children all day,” says Davis, also the Lower School math coordinator. “We’re a profession just like doctors and lawyers but we don’t have time to be with
Lower School teachers (l to r) Grace Na, Jenn Tierney ’91, and Jen Lutz took part in the North Carolina Outward Bound Educators’ Initiative.
other professionals during that time. It’s nice to sit back and be able to reflect on your craft. Hopefully, we’re all learners and modeling that.” And for some, the further they go, the deeper that reflection becomes. That’s what Jen Lutz, a first-grade teacher, did at the Educators’ Initiative at North Carolina Outward Bound, where she spent six days hiking, camping, and mastering wilderness survival skills with other schoolteachers. Over the past three years, more than 10 Episcopal teachers have attended the program. Lutz brought home a toolkit rich in collaboration, problem solving, and hands-on learning—all critical to her first-grade classroom and “really the building blocks for Middle School and Upper School,” she says. She also credits Episcopal for regularly carving out time during the day for her to meet with other EA teachers who have attended the initiative—an ongoing way to compare notes and discuss best practices. Lutz says the experience, more than any other professional development program she has attended, has changed the way she teaches. “Six and seven-year-olds are constantly asking questions. Is this right? What do I do?” In North Carolina, the facilitator seldom provided specific directions, but rather challenged the teachers to offer their own solutions. Lutz does the same with her students. “Instead of telling them the answer, I give them some options, give them more responsibility to figure out problems,” she says. For a research project on continents, Lutz did not assign the typical report she would have in the past. Instead, students brainstormed different ways to tell about a place they might visit. The students settled on postcards, designing their own, and writing descriptive “wish you were here” messages about different locales. “The opportunities provided for us are just endless,” Lutz says. “There’s always room for learning. Everything is constantly changing. There’s always research on better ways to do things.” With that in mind, she is looking out for her next professional development opportunity—perhaps the Lucy Calkins Reading and Writing Project at Columbia University’s Teachers College. “I’m not happy,” she says, echoing the sentiments of her Episcopal colleagues, “staying the same year after year.” / / / / / / / / / / Lini S. Kadaba is an EA parent and writer based in Newtown Square, PA. She last wrote for Connections on Episcopal’s Chapel Program.
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Reflectio
Faculty
Greville Haslam
Greville Haslam, Headmaster By H. Alan Hume, M.D. ’44 Your note in the most recent Connections caught my eye. “Who among the faculty made a difference in your life?” The big three during my years at Episcopal were Greville Haslam, Bill Ortlepp, and Kim Balsley. One unforgettable encounter occurred in June 1946. So here is a vignette about The Duke. After serving two years in the Navy, I stopped in Mr. Haslam’s office to ask his help in charting my future. He said, “Well young man what have you learned during the past two years?” I foolishly said, “Two things sir – I’ve learned how to drink beer without getting drunk and …” The Duke’s eyes rolled up as he shook his head in disbelief and I knew I’d gone too far. I quickly said, “I’ve learned that without a college education I’m going nowhere! Please help me.” He gave me a quizzical look, picked up the phone, and dialed a number. I only heard one side of the ensuing conversation. “Get me Mac, this is Greville Haslam.’ ‘Mac, I’ve got a 19-year-old rebellious adolescent in my office who is still wet behind the ears.” “If he ever gets his act together he will do you proud.” I said, “Who was that and what did he say?” The Duke replied, “That was Archibald MacIntosh at Haverford College. He said you are to come to his office right now and if he likes the cut of your jib you will be a freshman at Haverford.” Two hours later, after a lot of conversation and very little paperwork, I was enrolled as a first-year day student at Haverford. Forty-five years later I discovered that Mac became an Episcopal Academy Trustee in 1943 and he and
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Richard P. Boekenkamp, Ph.D. the Duke did this sort of “horse trading” about students all the time. Years after this meeting I ran into The Duke on the Merion Campus. He asked me what I was doing and I said, “Well, I’m now an Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania.” He smiled and said, “So nice to see that you finally got your act together.” What a memory—I truly loved that man.
Richard P. Boekenkamp, Ph.D., Hon., Chair of the Science Department By George W. Lilley Jr. ’61 Aside from family, I think Richard Boekenkamp had a very big influence on my getting through Episcopal and into Ursinus College and subsequently into Student Personnel Administration at The Ohio State University. In my student days, Mr. Boekenkamp was the chair of EA’s Science Department. In the II Form, I had biology, in the V Form I had physics, and in the VI Form I had chemistry. He taught chemistry. I don’t recall how or when we first connected other than I am sure it was at his initiation over my poor grades. The “guidance counselor” was Rev. James McDowell, the Chaplain. He and Mr. Boekenkamp were good friends and I suspect Rev. McDowell might have mentioned my situation. It was probably in the V Form that he was helping me with encouragement. During my VI Form, he was the “guidance counselor” and responsible for helping my class with applying to college. He accompanied me on my interview with the Director of Admissions at Ursinus College. Hal Fullam, Stu Glasby, and Sam Walker were also admitted to Ursinus that year. According to the Admission’s Director, we were the first EA students to go to Ursinus. I know it was through his constant attention and
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Kennith R. Balsley support that I made it through EA. He was the one person I felt able to confide in. As a demonstration of his interest in my welfare, after the faculty meeting where the faculty met to decide on who would graduate, he drove to my house to give me the good news and then sat and visited. While at Ursinus, I kept in touch occasionally with Dr. Boekenkamp. I decided to pursue a Master’s degree and he put me in touch with the Higher Education Department at The Ohio State University. He was enrolled in Ohio State’s Ph.D. geology program. Our tenure there overlapped for two or three quarters. Dr. Boekenkamp left Episcopal to teach at Widener College in Chester. He also taught part-time at Ursinus College. He died in January 2007. I had lunch with him a couple of times, the last being in the fall of 2006. I regret his passing but am very happy to have had the opportunity to express my appreciation for all that he did to support and further my educational and occupational career. Truly he went above the call by insuring my academic success at Episcopal and after.
Kennith R. Balsley, English Teacher By Paul Blocklyn ’67 I wasn’t a particularly outstanding student at Episcopal, but I was good enough to stay in Section One for most of my four years in Upper School. That’s how I came to be in Kennith R. Balsley’s Section One English class in the academic year of 1965-66, Mr. Balsley’s last year at Episcopal. I was 16 years old in 1965, and like most 16-year-olds I was ready to conquer the world. What I wasn’t ready for was Mr. Balsley’s unconventional method of teaching.
John Plant That method—and there was a method to the madness—was more easily described than analyzed. The best description I’ve heard came from the parent of one of Mr. Balsley’s students: “That man doesn’t teach Shakespeare— he teaches Balsley.” Mr. Balsley would typically stand in front of the class and stare straight ahead, not making eye contact with the students. That meant that he was preparing to deliver one of his zingers, statements that might sound outrageous but that were actually designed to make you think. One such statement was, “I have no assurance that I’m going to make it home tonight.” That pronouncement shocked me into an awareness that life, the quotidian existence that I took for granted, could be snuffed out at any time. Another statement was, “Everyone is insane.” At first that sounded ridiculous: How could the world be one vast mental institution? It was only after I thought about it for a while that I realized what he meant: that every person on earth has his or her own distorted vision of reality, and that we are all essentially participants in our own solitary, solipsistic dreams. How many statements can you remember a teacher making nearly 50 years after he or she made them? And yet I can remember these. Mr. Balsley knew the value of silence, and he would often remain silent for a moment or two after delivering one of his bombshells, waiting for the smoke to clear. Then he would use the statement to ease the class into a discussion of literature and life (or, if you prefer, a discussion of Balsley). For just as certainly as John Irving created a “World According to Garp,” there was also a World According to Balsley.
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“I regret his passing but am very happy to have had the opportunity to express my appreciation for all that he did to support and further my educational and occupational career.” —George Lilley ’61 about Dr. Richard Boekenkamp
regional theater in Rose Valley, to see a performance of Edward Albee’s one-act play The Sandbox. Albee is now recognized as a Grand Old Man of the American Theater, but at the time he was still regarded as a bit of an upstart. During intermission, I was milling around in the lobby with the rest of the audience when I ran into Mr. Balsley, who was attending the play with his wife. We exchanged a few pleasantries. Then I said, “Actually, Mr. Balsley, I’m a little surprised to see you here. I didn’t know you were a fan of Edward Albee.” Mr. Balsley smiled indulgently. “I am,” he replied, “but I think he upsets my wife a little.” Before retiring in 2006, Paul Blocklyn ’67 was Editorial Manager for Financial Institutions at Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services in New York City. He has been a writer, editor, and teacher of writing for more than 30 years.
John Plant, Classics Teacher That world—and for that year, it was my world as well—included not only Shakespeare (Mr. Balsley had seen Hamlet performed more than thirty times) but also S.I. Hayakawa, the renowned semanticist who warned against confusing words with things. An entire generation of Episcopal students must remember the dictum “Cow 1 is not Cow 2,” even if they no longer remember what it’s supposed to mean. In addition to Hamlet and Hayakawa, we were introduced to Hawthorne, Hardy, and Conrad, to Yeats and Frost and Eliot. Legend has it that when T.S. Eliot died on January 4, 1965, Mr. Balsley marked the occasion by wearing a black armband. My education under Mr. Balsley’s tutelage continued long after he left Episcopal in the spring of 1966. We exchanged letters—he always signed his “K.R.B.”—and on several occasions I was a guest in his home in Glen Mills for, as he put it, “a dialogue or monologue.” He continued to counsel me about life, learning, and even love, talking me through my first romantic obsession and subsequent heartbreak. Mr. Balsley wasn’t afraid to challenge certain established icons in the literary canon. He didn’t think much of Walt Whitman, whose powerful imagery he acknowledged but whose lack of respect for rhyme and meter moved him to quote the old Robert Frost chestnut, “Writing free verse is like playing tennis without a net.” And he couldn’t understand why so many critics and readers made such a fuss over a writer named Ernest Hemingway. But Balsley was no literary stuffed shirt. When the Theatre of the Living Arts presented Rochelle Owens’ notorious avant garde play Beclch in Philadelphia, he went to see it and urged others to do likewise. Some years after I’d graduated from Episcopal, I remember going to Hedgerow Theatre, the wonderful old
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By Ted Coxe ’81 John Plant taught classics at EA for a long time. When I took his III Form (9th grade) third-year Latin class in 1977 – ’78, he seemed quite old to my classmates and me. His British accent was still thick after years of living in the U.S., and he taught a difficult subject with humor. He would tell stories in class beginning with, “During the War, I was stationed in Injia.” In my case, when I mistranslated, which was usual, he would say, “Mr. Coxe. You are an ijit. Why are you an ijit?” It seemed that Mr. Plant was too old at that time to coach anything. Perhaps he would have if EA had offered cricket or rugby. Nonetheless, he frequently attended on-campus games. One would see him standing on the sidelines, often alone, using an umbrella as a walking stick, dapper and vocal in support of the home team and individual players. At the end of my III Form year, my parents planned to take me to Europe to fetch a sister of mine who had been spending her junior year studying in Vienna. Our departure was scheduled before my last exam, which was Latin. Mr. Plant agreed to waive my final exam, once he learned that my parents and I would spend the first part of our trip in his home country of England! In my VI Form (senior) year, I was cast in the role of the Artful Dodger in the Domino Club’s spring production of Oliver! The director, John Muir, suggested that I ask Mr. Plant to teach me how to deliver my lines in authentic cockney, which he could speak very well. We met in his office several times over the ensuing weeks. As with Latin, Mr. Plant taught dialect quite effectively, for I received several compliments on my accent from audience members. John Plant was a dedicated teacher and an asset to Episcopal for many years. He was a kind man whom I remember fondly. / / / / / / / / / /
An Appreciation of Meg Hollinger, Hon.
After more than 20 years
in the Development Office at Episcopal, and a relationship that stretches back to 1971, Meg Hollinger, Hon. announced her retirement this spring. A beloved member of the community, Meg will be sorely missed but her impact on EA will be felt for generations to come. Meg Hollinger first came to EA in 1971-72 as assistant to Henry Poor in the Development Office to help defray the cost of law school. A talented actor, singer, and performer, she left EA to form a dinner theater production company (CMAJAR) and produced and performed in shows throughout the area for several years. After serving as Development Director at Notre Dame Academy (her alma mater 1960) and the Philadelphia Drama Guild, she became the Director of Development at The Episcopal Academy in 1991. During her tenure, the Advocate Council, the 1785 Bowl, Regional Alumni Boards, and Reunion Weekend were initiated and a protocol to advance Planned Giving were established. Meg has built deep, lasting relationships with many loyal, generous financial supporters of the school. She was a prime mover for many strategic planning sessions, which culminated in the courageous and ambitious effort to relocate to Newtown Square. As one Trustee reported, Meg had three very strong opinions: the endowment was insufficient for an institution with the prestige, stature, and ambitions of EA; the culture of giving among alumni had to be developed and nurtured; and the board needed a broader, national perspective. Meg has been so successful with a number of our old guard that she was named an honorary member of the Class of 1940 and the Class of 1944. Although Meg’s official tenure at Episcopal is coming to an end, she has left an indelible mark on this institution and she will continue to be such a valued member of our community.
A Wonderful Chapel Program On Saturday, May 5th, during Alumni Weekend, a number of Meg’s closest friends honored her service at Episcopal in a Chapel program. An introduction by the Greville Haslam Head of School, Ham Clark, and remembrances by former Head of School, Jay Crawford ’57, Bruce Bennett ’57, and Sam Chew ’60, were the highlight. The full program can be viewed online by visiting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ast8aOKqVko or by following the QR code below.
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Scho On April 19th, Episcopal hosted the eighth annual Scholars Luncheon. Always a special event, student recipients of named scholarships had the opportunity to meet donors and thank them in person for their generosity. Meagan Berry ’09 spoke eloquently about her experience as a student at EA and the importance of giving back. Meagan was a recipient of financial aid while at Episcopal, and at her graduation on June 11, 2009, the Meagan K. Berry ’09 Scholarship was established “to honor Meagan’s positive attitude, her quest for excellence, and her courage which distinguishes her amongst the very best of the graduates of The Episcopal Academy.” Meagan was introduced by Buck Buckley ’78 who read remarks prepared by his father, Walter Buckley ’55. Grace Austin ’12 and Dick Koelle ’60
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holars Luncheon The speech made by Meagan Berry ’09 at the 2012 Scholars Luncheon: Good afternoon, and thank you to everyone who is here today, scholars and donors alike. Also, thank you to the Alumni Department for asking me to speak today; I am extremely honored by the opportunity. When I came to EA in 2006, I was very nervous. It was the first huge change in my life that involved a completely new school, new classes, new people, new sports, new friends, and more. I very quickly learned that I had made the right decision and that I was in a truly special place. My mom remembers me saying after only one week that “I [was] so happy to be in a place where everyone wanted to see you succeed.” Very early into my freshman year at EA, I was beginning to understand the opportunities that being at EA and being the recipient of a Buckley Scholarship would give me. My mind was spinning. My mom tells a story about how I came home from school one of my first days and said, “After I graduate from college I hope I’m successful so I can come back to EA and help more kids like me attend school here.” I wanted to be able to influence and assist students in the same way I had been. Honestly, I thought it would be a goal I was able to achieve later in my life after a significant amount of time away from EA and even away from college. I never believed I would receive the opportunity to have a Meagan K. Berry Scholarship senior year of high school. I’ll never forget the day I found out about the scholarship. My mom was picking me up from school and as I got in the car she handed me a handwritten letter from an Episcopal alum. I couldn’t really read the handwriting that well, but as I continued in the letter I was beginning to get an idea of what he was saying. I asked my mom to pull over and handed her the letter.
Cappy Markle ’61, Samuel Niu ’15, Marty Snyder ’61
She began to read, “I would like to provide a deserving individual who lacks the means with the opportunity to attend the Episcopal Academy on a Meagan K. Berry Scholarship.” Let me tell you how glad I was that we had pulled over. I had never felt such an amazing feeling of accomplishment: I had achieved my goal, which I had assumed would take me a lifetime to reach, before I was even an Episcopal Academy alumna. It is so exciting to be able to give back to students what EA has given to me. EA has been such a driving force in my life. Coming to EA molded me into the well-rounded student, athlete, and person that I am today. My experiences at Episcopal like my service trips to the Oglala Lakota Reservations, my trip abroad to Turkey, and rowing opportunities on the Schuylkill and in Tennessee, and Henley, England led me to Cornell University, where I found the School of Hotel Administration, which is setting me up for an amazing career in the food and restaurant industry. And I know I’m not the only one who has received this much benefit from the benefactors at our alma mater; I know that every person that has sat in this room, every person that is here now, and all of the students yet to come are on paths towards achieving so much. Towards succeeding throughout their time at EA, throughout college, and beyond. All of this has been made possible by all of you, the benefactors and donors that allow students like us to be more than we ever dreamed. So, here’s to the donors who give us the opportunity to achieve more than we ever thought possible, and here’s to the scholars who make us so proud to award you your scholarships.
Tom Zug ’64 with students Chester Thai ’14, Shreya Reddy ’13, Meredith Manley ’14
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Serving Those Most in Need
By Marc Eripret, Chair of the World Languages Department
This past March, four Episcopal
faculty and staff members—including the Greville Haslam Head of School, Ham Clark, Hon.—traveled to Cerca, Haiti to begin a relationship with sister school St. Mark’s. The hope is that this partnership, initiated through the National Association of Episcopal Schools, will allow EA students and faculty members alike to help the students of St. Mark’s begin the long journey to promise and self-reliance through service work and support. On March 28th, the Greville Haslam Head of School, Ham Clark, Hon., Lower School Chaplain, Tim Gavin, Hon., Maintenance Manager, Steve Muir, Hon. and I left EA’s campus at 5:00 a.m. on our way to JFK to board a plane that would take us to the capital city of Haiti, Port au Prince. Only a few hours later, we were already experiencing the muggy weather on the tarmac of the airport named after the leader of the Haitian revolution, Toussaint Louverture. The original terminal is still under construction after the 7.0 magnitude earthquake in 2010. Outside of the airport, we met with Rev. Roger Bowen, who is the liaison between Episcopal schools in Haiti and Episcopal schools in the United States. As we were leaving the capital city, signs of destruction and numerous tent cities were still visible more than two years after the catastrophic earthquake. One of the poorest countries in the world, the average annual income in Haiti is $100 per
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year. Unemployment is at about 90%, with most people making a living through subsistence farming in eroded, depleted soil. Electricity is a rare commodity, as are paved roads. Medical care is hard to find, and so is clean water—the high infant and child mortality rate is largely due to diseases borne by contaminated drinking water. The average life expectancy is below 50
“Give me a fish and I eat for a day. Teach me to fish and I eat for a lifetime.” years of age. Once we left Port-Au-Prince, we met with Père Jeannot, our host who is in charge of 16 different churches in the Cerca district. The Episcopal Diocese of Haiti is the largest diocese in the Episcopal Church, with 86,760 members reported in 2010. The following day, around noon, we drove an hour to meet with members of Père Jeannot’s community who would accompany us to Cerca. After about four hours of extremely grueling hiking (for
me anyway) that included walking, crossing a river in dugout canoes and a four-mile climb on a very steep rocky path, we finally made it to Cerca. Tim Gavin had made it first about 45 minutes before all of us and he was warmly welcomed as the first ever Caucasian man that the kids had seen. We were exhausted but the last few hundred yards had reminded me of a Tour de France stage when people are cheering and clapping for the bikers. A group of students and teachers were waiting for Steve Muir and me just before the last curve leading to the village. Their encouragements gave us the energy needed to finish our hike. We spent the night there talking to people, playing and dancing with kids, teaching French and learning Creole. The distribution of blow-up balloons and glow sticks started a small riot amongst the kids but it was very humbling and rewarding to see happy people despite the fact that they do not have much. The school grounds have no water, no electricity, and no bathrooms. The classrooms walls are three cinder blocks high and the roofs are made with palm leaves. The next day we had numerous conversations with our partners on how we could best help them and we attended mass after observing classes. We were given eggs, yams, bananas, and baskets as generous gifts and a mark of very high honor. The following morning we began the long trip home. We went to Palm Sunday Mass at the Holy Trinity Cathedral, which has been destroyed six times, most recently during the 2010 earthquake. Now only a shell, it was known for its interior murals, which depicted various stories from the Bible using only people of black African heritage. The murals were painted by some of the best-known Haitian painters of the
20th century, and the cathedral’s organ, which was believed to be one of the largest in the Caribbean region, was smashed by collapsing debris in the earthquake. As you read this, our next group is already making plans to return to Haiti. Our first project will be to build benches for their classrooms and church and to set-up and prepare for the next project—to build an addition to the church in order for the kids to have a roof during class time while their regular classrooms will be completed. Make sure to mark your calendars for November, when we will have the honor and the privilege to host Père Jeannot in our own class of 1944 Chapel. I am convinced that you will find his message powerful and humble at the same time. Our goal is not to help the people of Cerca. Our goal is to help them help themselves. Haiti is begging for self reliance. The Haitian people are brave and talented, but they need help rebuilding their lives and homes. I have never seen happier people than the Haitian people. They do not have anything and still, they do not complain. It’s a wakeup call for me every time I go. We should think about the Chinese proverb when we talk about our Haiti project: “Give me a fish and I eat for a day. Teach me to fish and I eat for a lifetime.” We should also include Haiti’s motto that is on their flag: “L’union fait la force.” Unity is strength.
You Can Help…
Students in their makeshift classroom at St. Mark’s School in Cerca, Haiti
Marc Eripret, Chair of the World Languages Department, and Lower School Chaplain, Tim Gavin (far left) handing out cards made by EA’s Lower School students.
If you would like to find out more about EA’s partnership with St. Mark’s School in Haiti, contact Marc Eripret, Chair of the World Languages Department, at eripret@episcopalacademy.org or call 484-424-1765.
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A Testimonial:
Why We Support the Annual Fund 2012-2013 Annual Fund Parent Chairs, Gary & Rita Tuma P ’18, ’20
We accepted the invitation
to Chair the Parent Annual Fund because we believe in the extraordinary education our children receive and future generations will receive at Episcopal. As parents, we feel very strongly about giving back via the Annual Fund. Our support is a sign of our appreciation for the exceptional experiences that happen in and out of the classroom every day. The Annual Fund accounts for 6% of EA’s operating budget annually. These funds contribute significantly to the program offerings that set Episcopal apart from other schools. When our daughter, Olivia, boarded the bus for the 6th grade trip to Williamsburg she was embarking on so much more than an average field trip. What she learned intellectually, socially, and individually from that experience was nothing short of remarkable. Jackson had a similar experience on the 4th grade trip to Cape Henlopen earlier in the fall. It is in these moments, combined with dynamic classroom learning, that Episcopal students are molded into confident life-long learners and future leaders.
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Being Annual Fund volunteers has given us a behind the scenes understanding of all that goes into the Episcopal experience and has enhanced our appreciation for the phenomenal faculty, who thrive in our state-of-the-art facilities. Our role as volunteers has also afforded us the opportunity to meet families from other grades and divisions that we would not have met outside our children’s class activities. We, as a family, have gained so much from being a part of the Episcopal community. Supporting the Annual Fund is one way we can teach our children about the importance of giving back to a school that has given so much to our family. Participation at any level shows ones pride and vested commitment to the lasting value of an Episcopal Academy education. We hope you will join us in making the Annual Fund a priority to ensure the continued success of the Episcopal experience.
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A New Arts Award and A New Awards Selection Committee Are Established The Awards Dinner
in November 2013 will welcome the awarding of the inaugural Alumni Award for Achievement in the Arts. Also, an Awards Selection Committee has been created and has begun reviewing potential nominees for the 2013 recipients of the five currently existing alumni awards. Both of these innovations were generated and recommended through the implementation of the Goal #8 of the new Strategic Plan adopted by the Board of Trustees in 2010: “We will work to better harness the invaluable resource they (the alumni) represent.” The Alumni Award for Achievement in the Arts and the formation of the Awards Selection Committee were approved by the Board of Managers at its March 2012 meeting. Arts Award It is well known that the EA community has a number of individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary accomplishments in the Arts. Thus, the inauguration of this award will be presented: “To an alumnus or alumna, graduate or non-graduate or honorary alumnus or alumna of The Episcopal Academy who has demonstrated outstanding achievement in the Arts, including, but not limited to the fields of music, dance, writing, production, architecture, or other visual or oral arts.” Potential nominees will be presented to the Awards Selection Committee by the Arts Committee whose charge is to evaluate potential nominees. Chair of the Arts Committee:
Mary French, Hon., past Chair of Arts Department Other committee members are: Joe Buches, Hon., Chair of Music and Choral Director Matt Clayton ’98 Susan Coote, Current Parent Bob Cronin, Hon., Former Chair of Theater Lori Reed, Chair of Theater and Dance Phil Spear, Hon., Former Chair of English Department David Sigel, Chair of Visual Arts Bill Rapp ’56 Awards Selection Committee The EA community is also blessed with numerous deserving candidates for the currently existing awards: Distinguished Alumni; Distinguished Service; Community Service; Young Alumni; and Alumni Spirit. The Awards Selection Committee, on a biennial basis, will review the credentials of any nominee for an award and then recommend the recipients to the Board of Managers for its approval.
The members of the Awards Selection Committee are: Alumni Director:
Bruce Konopka bkonopka@episcopalacademy.org a faculty member:
Sarah Baker ’01 sperkins@episcopalacademy.org a retired faculty member:
Robert Bishop ’58 bishopr@episcopalacademy.org one member each from the two immediate 50th Reunion Classes:
Laird Evans ’62 flairdevans@gmail.com Jim Rooks ’63 jim.rooks@poundinstitute.org one member each from the two immediate 25th Reunion Classes:
Andrew Brenner ’87 abrenner@pantheon-tech.com Kim (Zinman) Richter ’88 kimnrichter@yahoo.com a member of the Board of Managers Nominating Committee:
Ashley Lunkenheimer ’92 alunkenheimer@gmail.com Chair of the Awards Dinner Committee:
Bill Rapp ’56 typple6@comcast.net
Please use the e-mail addresses listed for the committee members to nominate candidates for each award. For a description of each award (except “Arts”) and past recipients go to www.episcopalacademy.org. Click on the heading “Alumni,” then on the drop-down “Alumni Society,” and finally on “Awards.” To use the nomination form simply click on that title, complete the form, and send it to any of the selection committee members via e-mail (Mary French via e-mail at maryfrench60@gmail.com for “Arts”). A “narrative” approach to submitting a nomination may alternatively be used. Everyone within the EA community certainly knows someone deserving of one or more of these awards, so please start submitting your nominations!
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Alumni Reunion
Class of ’62
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1. Ed Vick giving the 50th reunion address at the Alumni and Upper School Chapel Service.
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2. Peter Truitt and Theresa Fulton, trying out the “ball seats” that are used in the Lower School. 3. The Greville Haslam Head of School Ham Clark, Hon., was made an honorary member of the Class of ’62 by Laird Evans, who represented the whole class. 4. EA’s four third-grade classes pose with their 50th Reunion pen pals from the Class of 1962. In February, the students wrote letters to the Alumni inviting them back to campus for their 50th reunion. Letter topics included classroom projects, favorite EA activities and even an example of Singapore Math. Twenty-six alumni responded with a written letter, and students and alumni alike enjoyed the chance to meet their pen pals on May 4. 5. Some of the class of ’62 with the ’62 banner just before the Chapel program on Saturday night. 6. Tom Martin, Cy Allen, Willy Osburn, Biff Wetherill and Charlie Ogelsby ’63 7. The class gift being presented to The Greville Haslam Head of School, Ham Clark, Hon. by Tom Gouge, Laird Evans, Jeff Kennedy, and Rick Shaw. 8. Class picture
Twenty-nine members
of the Class of 1962 attended some or all of the reunion events during Alumni Weekend on May 4th and 5th. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed the rich array of events held on EA’s new campus. Below is an excerpt from a letter to the Class of 1962 from Rick Shaw, Jeff Kennedy, Tom Gouge, John Hodge, and Laird Evans after their successful reunion. Excerpt from Class of 1962 letter: Frankly, the events of the weekend reinforced our pride in EA and its
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evolved strategies over the years to nurture the teaching/learning process. We want to thank all of you for making our reunion weekend quite remarkable. If you were not able to attend, we missed you. We enjoyed the many opportunities to reunite with each other, to name a few: • The opening gathering at John and Mary Hodge’s home in Devon • The first opportunity for many of us to tour the remarkable new Episcopal campus in Newtown Square
• The Upper School and Alumni Chapel Service during which Ed Vick was the keynote speaker • The seminar conducted by students and faculty members from the Lower School describing a few examples of inspirational teaching • The tour of the magnificent nearby Chanticleer Gardens • The opportunities to visit and attend classes, workshops, and sporting events • The 50th Reunion celebration dinner with Ham Clark
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• The Memorial Chapel service during which we remembered our classmates who have died • The Class of 1962 roundtable discussion • The All-Alumni Chapel Program and cocktail party followed by our Saturday night class dinner Thanks especially to those many of you who contributed to the Class Fund and/or to the EA Annual Fund during FY12. Nearly all of you who attended the reunion (and a number
who were unable to attend) made contributions, and our class legacy is assured. We want to recognize and congratulate our newest class member, Ham Clark, Hon., the Greville Haslam Head of School, who immediately after we made him an Honorary member of the class made a donation to the Class Fund. The academic opportunities at Episcopal are extensive and will be enhanced by our Endowed Fund for Inspirational Teaching. We were
delighted to meet several members of the talented teaching staff and learn firsthand that our fund matches perfectly with the current innovative practices in place including experiential learning and creative teamwork. Again, it was great to see so many of you. We hope we can all build on the renewed contacts and friendships we made during the Alumni Weekend.
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2012
Reunion Weekend
Francis Forbes ’37 Charlie Hargens ’37 and Carolyn Jaeger
Classes of ’37, 75th Reunion and ’42, 70th Reunion
Class of ’62, 50th Reunion
Class of ’57, 55th Reunion
Class of ’77, 35th Reunion
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Class of ’82, 30th Reunion
Class of ’52, 60th Reunion
Class of ’47, 65th Reunion
Class of ’67, 45th Reunion Class of ’72, 40th Reunion
Class of ’92, 20th Reunion
Class of ‘87, 25th Reunion
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The 2nd Annual Richard G. Crockett ’82 Memorial Alumni Golf Outing
The 2nd Annual
Richard G. Crockett ’82 Memorial Alumni Golf Outing went off without a hitch on Monday, May 14th. Despite overcast skies and an ominous forecast from the “experts,” the rain held off, and the course at White Manor provided a great backdrop for the event. We had a total of 13 foursomes participating with the group of Ed Jones ’87, Jay Bomberger ’79, David Grau ’93, and Will Forbes, technical services coordinator, taking this year’s top honors. Thank you to all those who helped make this outing so successful. It always takes a team effort to put one of these events together, and this year’s group was superb. We look forward to seeing you all again next year.
David Grau ’93, Jay Bomberger ’79, Will Forbes, and Ed Jones ’87 won the golf outing top honor.
Sam Allen, Ed Palmer, Paul McAlaine, and Birch Clothier ’54
Eric Mallory, Andrew Crockett ’01, Max Crockett ’07, and Dave Crockett ’75 Board of Managers in attendance at the golf outing were, (l to r): Ed Spofford ’77, David Grau ’93, co-chair of the golf committee, Ed Jones ’87, Board of Managers President, and co-chair of the golf outing, Chip French ’73, Vince Powers ’84, Board of Managers Vice President.
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College Day, January 3, 2012 1949 Football Team Honored The 1949 football team was inducted into the Athletic Hall of Fame in November 2011. Those attending the dinner were (l to r): George Swan ’50, Roger Pitkin ’50, Al Schaefer ’50, Jack Kistler ’50, John Rettew ’50, Mike Shouvlin ’50, Chuck Chadwick ’50, and Bob Gerhardt ’52.
Haley Habenicht ’11 telling a funny story about life in college.
Camp Pendleton Regional Event
Abby Kloppenberg ’09, Marina Floratos ’09, Dylan Mullen ’09, Andrew Espe ’09, and Olivia Mullen ’09.
Peter Hresko ’93, Greg Tondreau ’72, Jonathan Richter ’84, Rick ’63 and Paulette Katzenbach, and Tami and Col. Nick Marano ’81 pose with M-16 shooting instructors at an alumni gathering at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, in Southern California in February 2012. Base Commander Col. Marano generously hosted the event.
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Career Day April 2, 2012
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Seniors in the Finance/ Venture Capital Session with Speakers: Alison Murray ’02, David Reape ’80, and Fred Dittmann ’71.
Career Day Speakers (l to r): Vince Powers ’84, Kathy Reape, CP, David Reape ’80, Fred Dittmann ’71, John Nickolas, CP, Allison Murray ’04, Ralph Sando ’89, Bill Tierney ’03, Kevin Dugan ’02, Anna (Morgan) Cassidy ’94, Chair of the Career Day Committee, and Pete Duncan ’53, Career Day Committee.
Harrison McCormick ’12, John Nickolas ’12, John Nickolas, Keynote Speaker, Tim Longen ’12, and Jack Dordelman ’12. Seniors in the Law/Government Session with Speakers, Adam Barrist ’94, Perry de Marco ’94, and Anna (Morgan) Cassidy ’94, Chair of the Career Day Committee.
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Athletics@EA
Girls’ Varsity 8 and Girls Quad Win Inter-Ac Championship; Boys’ Varsity 4 Wins Gold at the 2012 City Championship Regatta The Episcopal Academy
Girls Varsity 8 (Cluny McPherson, Belle Kielty, Jordan Marinchak, Alexis Hawkins, Christine Davis, Robyn Farrell, Maggie Familetti, Tricia Tyson, and coxswain Allison Jacoby) won the Inter-Ac Championship Regatta on Sunday, May 13th. The Girls Varsity 8 beat out the second place Agnes Irwin boat by more than 16 seconds. The Girls Quad (Cluny McPherson, Belle Kielty, Robyn Farrell, and Jordan Marinchak) also took first place in their race finishing four seconds ahead of the Penn Charter boat. Meanwhile, the boys’ Varsity 4 (Nick Mead, James Konopka, Ben Pusey, Paul Pratt, and coxswain Jill Barton) won gold at the City Championship Regatta on the Schuylkill River on Sunday, May 6, 2012. The winning boat finished more than four seconds ahead of the second place boat and beat out 15 other boats in the fast and competitive race.
The City Champion boys’ Varsity 4, (l to r) Paul Pratt, Ben Pusey, Jill Barton, James Konopka, and Nick Mead, and second place Girls’ Varsity Quad, Jordan Marinchak, Robyn Farrell, Belle Kielty, and Cluny McPherson.
The girls’ Inter-Ac champion Varsity 8 (l to r): Allison Jacoby, Cluny McPherson, Belle Kielty, Jordan Marinchak, Alexis Hawkins, Christine Davis, Robyn Farrell, Maggie Familetti, and Tricia Tyson.
Boys Squash Takes 4th Consecutive National Title The EA Boys Varsity squash team won the High
School National Championship for the 4th year in a row, defeating a strong Brunswick (Conn.) team in the finals in New Haven this past March. The team soundly defeated Chestnut Hill Academy in the semi-finals 6-1. The EA girls also had a strong performance, taking 4th place after winning a close quarterfinals match and losing to the ultimate champions (Greenwich Academy) in the national semifinals. In Division III action, the EA boys’ second team took second place. In Girls Division IV, the EA girls’ second team took first place.
The 2012 National Champion boys’ squash team.
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EA Swimming Has Banner Weekend at Easterns EA’s boys’ and girls’ swimming had the best
The 2012 girls’ swim team.
finishes in school history at the Eastern Interscholastic Championships this past March. The girls’ team took second, while the boys’ team finished 10th. Two-time Daily Times Swimmer of the Year Emily Baturka took gold in the 100 backstroke and the 50 free and the girls’ medley relay also took gold, knocking off favored Germantown Academy. Freshman Josh Owsiany defended his diving championship and numerous other boys and girls swimmers had notable weekends as well. “This is the best moment not only in my career, but in the school’s career,” head coach Brian Kline told the Delaware County Daily Times. “The feeling is unmatched. I can’t even express how I’m feeling. I’m so proud of all of them.”
The 2012 boys’ swim team.
Girls’ Track Takes 2nd at Inter-Ac Championships The girls’ track team
placed 2nd at the Inter-Ac Championships held at Germantown Academy on May 12th. The team scored in 14 out of 15 events for a grand total of 115 points. Eighteen of EA’s athletes scored at the event. Junior Keri Boyce lead an EA 1-2-3 sweep (with freshman Leighann Adelizzi and junior Kelly Szafara) of the 400m with a time of 60.22. Sophomore Gianna Pileggi won the shot put with a throw of 30’ 8.25”. The 2012 girls’ track team.
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EA Beats Haverford 15-11 and Claims Inter-Ac Invitational Tournament Title On May 24th
Episcopal Academy came back to defeat their in-league rival, The Haverford School, at Cabrini College’s Edith Robb Dixon Field to claim the Inter-Ac Invitational Tournament title — the first in the EA program history.
scan the QR code to Read the story in the Daily Times.
Girls’ Lacrosse Takes Share of Inter-Ac Title; Takes PAISAA Title Since 2000, Program has secured at least a portion of 12 of the last 13 Inter-Ac Championships
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accomplished half of its goal with a 20-8 victory over Baldwin on May 15th. The victory gave EA a share of the Inter-Ac League girls’ lacrosse title. The team split the season series with Notre Dame, finishing 11-1 in the InterAc and 15-6 overall. The team then met Notre Dame again in the PAISAA title game where they won 9-7.
The 2012 girls’ lacrosse team.
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Scan the QR code above to watch the Venturi video.
Honoring Robert Venturi ’44: A Student, An Architect and 2 Chapels The Crawford
Campus Center Gallery hosted the exhibit “A Student, An Architect and 2 Chapels; Robert Venturi and Episcopal Academy’s Class of 1944 Chapel” this spring. Worldrenowned architect Robert Venturi graduated from The Episcopal Academy in 1944. His graduate thesis at Princeton, in the 1950’s, was a Chapel for The Episcopal Academy. More than 60 years later, Bob and his wife Denise Scott Brown designed the Chapel for the new campus. Venturi is the founding principal of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, and one of the major figures in the architecture of the 20th century. Together with his wife and partner, Denise Scott Brown, he helped to shape the way that architects, planners, and students experience and think about architecture and the American-built environment. Their buildings, planning, theoretical writings, and teaching have contributed to the expansion of discourse. Venturi was awarded the Pritzker Prize in Architecture in 1991 and he was awarded the Rome Prize Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome in 1954, where he studied and toured Europe for two years. At the gallery opening, coordinated by EA parent, Susan Coote, a video produced by Courtney Brinkerhoff-Rau and Rob Parker, which captures the design process of the Class of 1944 Chapel and Bob’s vision for the building, was screened. You can watch the video by using the QR code above or by following this link: http://vimeo.com/38369471. 30 / / C o n n e c t i o n s
Lower School Students Celebrate Earth Day As part of
the Lower School celebration of Earth Day, Jen Lutz’s 1st grade class and Jenn Tierney’s 3rd grade class spent time with Joe Bayer, the school’s horticulturalist. Bayer taught the classes about the plants and trees that are native to the Episcopal Academy campus. He was a wealth of information for the students about invasive and non-invasive plants and the Episcopal Academy climate and environment. The children had many questions about not only the plants and trees, but also about their effect on the insects and wildlife, as well.
EA Students Take Medals at PA Junior Academy of Science (PJAS) Regional and State Meets National Merit Scholarship winners Coleen Flynn (at left) and Jill Barton.
National Merit Scholarship winner Faith Stewart.
Nine Named National Merit Scholarship Finalists; Three Named Winners Episcopal Academy seniors
Jill Barton, Colleen Flynn, and Faith Stewart have been selected as National Merit Scholarship winners as announced by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC). They are among the 2,500 Merit Scholar designees chosen from a talent pool of more than 15,000 outstanding Finalists in the 2012 National Merit Scholar Program. EA is also thrilled to note that in addition to the three winners, the following seniors were named finalists: Sam Lawlor, Colleen McNally, Kira Nakahara, Brendan McManus, Margaret Familetti, and Charles Kinzig.
This year, five EA students achieved
success at the PJAS regional competition level. In the competition, students design and execute their own unique experiment. The analyzed results are then compiled and presented in various formats. Juniors Shreya Reddy and Stacey Sloate, as well as senior Patricia Tyson, received first place awards. Reddy won further distinction by receiving a perfect score, a rare honor bestowed on a student with an advanced project and flawless presentation before PJAS judges. Sloate’s project on how to best optimize bacterial expression of a fusion protein and Reddy’s project on crystallization of lysozyme were entered into the national Google science fair competition, which is decided in late May. Additionally, juniors Chester Thai and Emily Yi earned second place in PJAS. Reddy also attended the PJAS state meet at Penn State University in midMay and won a first place with a perfect score competing against a thousand Pennsylvania students. She was also recognized in the PJAS Student Talent Search for her outstanding research. Junior Shreya Reddy, who took first place at the PJAS State Meet in May.
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Episcopal’s Robotics Participates in Region Championship The Episcopal Robotics Team took part in
the Mid-Atlantic Robotics FRC Region Championship at Temple University’s Liacouras Center in mid-April. The team entered the championship with quarterfinal finishes in two district competitions and the New York City Regional. The fifty-four teams competing at the championship had six weeks to build and program their robots to play this year’s game, Rebound Rumble, a modified version of basketball.
The 2011-2012 EA Robotics Team. Back Row (l to r): Matt Fabius, Elizabeth Capper, Jon Barr, Karan Singh, Taylor Greenwood, Ian Mathisen, Matt Robinson, Max Ott, Gabby Donatucci, Chris Whalen, Hewan Tilahun, Michele Herzog, and Clellie Merchant. Front Row (l to r): John Tyson, Ed Costantini, and Bella Yu. Missing from the photo: Michael Pettit.
Requesting Any Archival
Glee Club Recordings… We are seeking any and all archival Glee Club recordings, which has been spurred on by a request for a recording of “Gaudeamus Igitur.” If you have any recordings that you’re willing to share with EA’s official archive, please contact librarian and archivist, Cassie Keith, at 484-424-1535 or ckeith@episcopalacademy.org.
Parents of EA Networks Initiative Coming this fall…
The EA Networks Initiative is developing a network of parents and alumni willing to provide guidance, support, and connections to EA students and young alumni. These connections would provide additional resources in the search for meaningful senior projects, college selection, internships, and career placement. Students, parents, and alumni of all ages are invited to join in and access the power of the EA Community by participating in the Network Initiative. Share your knowledge, experience, and advice about your college, career, and access to opportunities. Stay tuned for more information and please save Friday evening, October 12th, to launch EA Networks and access the power of community.
Parents of Alumni Joanne Welsh P ’72; Sally and Tony Jannetta P ’82 ’84 ’86
Greg and Diane Hillyard P ’05 ’08; Lindsay and Ted Leisenring ’72 P ’04
J.B. Doherty P ’95; Brian Kelly P ’03; Debbie and Jim Zug ’58 P ’85
Asuka Nakahara P ’06 ’08 ’12; Carter Learnard, Director of Annual Giving
Avery Galleries Hosts PAL Spring Fling Ham and Ceci
Clark greeted 60 parents of alumni for cocktails at the Avery Galleries in Bryn Mawr on Friday, April 13, 2012. PALs Burn and Susan Oberwager P ’88 ’91 ’93 ’02 and Richard Rossello P ’00 generously donated their beautiful gallery as the venue for this year’s Spring Fling. Ham spoke about his recent community service trip to Haiti, and cited highlights of the academic year, especially the Robotics Team’s recent competition at the regional championships. Ham introduced Carter Learnard, Episcopal’s new Director of the Annual Giving and thanked the parents of alumni for their continued, loyal support to the school.
The EAPA PAL committee hosted several successful events this past year: cross-country walks, EA-HaverfordAIS Weekend Gathering, Christmas Tree Lighting and Caroling, book discussion with local author, Barbara Clement, film/discussion night at BMFI, and cooking lesson and lunch at Wayne Art Center. In 2012/13, the committee prepares a special networking initiative of support services for Upper School students and young alumni that will link interested parents and alumni willing to provide guidance, support, and connections for those preparing to enter the job market. 2012/13 co-chairs are Jill Durovsik P ’09 ’12 and Diane Hillyard P ’05 ’08.
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ClassNotes Edited by the Alumni Office Please take a moment to send us information for the next issue of Connections. We love to hear from you, and we are all interested in what you are doing with your life. Please send information (including photos) to Nancy Taylor, Hon., Alumni Secretary, at taylor@episcopalacademy.org or Bruce Konopka, Director of Alumni, at bkonopka@episcopalacademy.org. To reach the Alumni Office, please call 484-424-1784.
Class of ’37 Alumni Reunion Weekend Wrap-up, May 4 & 5, 2012, 75th Reunion Three from the Class of 1937 celebrated their 75th Reunion on the new campus. Kingsley Weston, Charles Hargens, and Francis Forbes made it in person to various events. Marcellus (Bud) Heppe, Jack Spangler, and Edmund Thayer were unable to attend for health reasons. We wish them well.
Class Agent Needed Please send us your news and notes!
Frances Coxe Forbes returned to Episcopal Academy to tour the Newtown Square campus with his grand-nephew EA’s Technical Services Coordinator Will Forbes last fall. During World War II, Frank was a member of the Flying Tigers and, in October of 1943, was shot down over China. For four weeks, he was considered missing and presumed dead. Because of this, his mother, Daisy Coxe Wright Forbes, dedicated a cross to Episcopal in his memory with the inscription, “In Memorium Dierum, October 1721-1943, Lt. Frances Coxe Forbes, U.S. A.A. F.” This cross is used during Middle School Chapel. The Forbes family later dedicated another cross to Daisy with the following inscription, “To the Glory of God, And to the Loving Memory of, Daisy Coxe Wright Forbes, 8/19/88-7/17/46.” This cross is used during Lower School Chapel. Frank Forbes is currently retired and resides in Paoli, PA. During Chapel on February 1, Will Forbes presented the story of his great-uncle Frances Coxe Forbes. Many of “Uncle” Frank’s family members were in the audience, including his son, Tench Coxe Forbes ’76 and family friend, Prent Howe ’76.
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1932 Class Agent Needed Please send us your news and notes!
1933 Class Agent: Bart Linvill Please send us your news and notes!
Save the date 80th Reunion May 3 & 4, 2013
1934 Class Agent Needed Please send us your news and notes!
1935 Class Agent Needed Please send us your news and notes!
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Save the Date 75th Reunion May 3 & 4, 2013
1939 Class Agent: Heyward Wharton
Tom Copper wrote a book in 2010— called “A Logical Approach to Obtain Miracles”. In the book Tom, who will be 93 in August, emphasizes the applicable Bible verses that help the seeker progress, from stage to stage, to the goal of achieving miracles. In addition he gives presentations and demonstrates miracle(s).
1940 Class Agent: Jack Hopkins Please send us your news and notes!
1941 Class Agent Needed Please send us your news and notes!
1942 Class Agent: Woody Woodring Class of ’42 Alumni Reunion Weekend Wrap-up, May 4 & 5, 2012 70th Reunion Seven members of our class attended this happy, memory-filled occasion on Alumni Weekend at the magnificent new campus that some were experiencing for the first time. On Satuday afternoon, we attended the celebrating classes gathering in the Chapel for nostalgic talks and entertainment, highlighted by a special tribute to retiring Development icon Meg Hollinger. All classes then joined in a cocktail reception followed by separate dinner sites for each celebrating class. Our class included Tom Hewson and Betsy,
Jim Grosholz, Paul Kitchen, Wally Littlewood, Fred Weston (with brother
Kingsley, Class of ’37, also celebrating a big one), Woody Woodring and Jean, Don van Roden and Joanne. Alan Lukens, Ted Shakespeare and Jack Susskind were scheduled to join us but minor illnesses intervened. There was no shortage of memories in our assemblage of veterans who reminisced at length about the old school campus (mainly three converted mansions), the great faculty, and the friendships we’ll always cherish
1943 Class Agent: Joe Gordon Please send us your news and notes!
Save the Date 70th Reunion May 3 & 4, 2013
1944 Class Agent: Doug Raymond Please send us your news and notes!
1945 Class Agent Needed Please send us your news and notes!
1946 Class Agent: Winkie Bennett
Winkie Bennett reports the following news:
Dave Forrest looks forward to staying
try to stop by when he visits from Bethel, CT.
Ralph Knode reports he is ready to reinstitute his exercise program after a winter lay off and looks forward to the 2016 reunion. Ted Trump promises to send Winkie a recipe for an anchovy martini.
John Walton reports all is well at Cathedral Village. His two daughters are working at Germantown Academy (teaching and Director of Admissions). John himself remains on the Board at G.A. His wife, Cornelia, who graduated from Springside, notes its merger with Chestnut Hill Academy.
Andy Warren’s wife, Joan, says that Andy is better after treatment for a back problem.
Henry Kaltenthaler lives in Missouri and his wife, Margaret, volunteers at the University City Zoo. Hap Aller will be heading to Maine soon for the summer with his wife, Caroline.
Whiteman. On Saturday, to round up a day full of events, a splendid outdoor cocktail reception was held at the Dixon Athletic Center, followed by our Class Reunion Dinner at the Crawford Campus Center, where we were joined by John and Natalie Hume, John and Natalie Montgomery, and Ken and Joanne Tunnell—and a fine time was had by all, remaking old friendships and recalling old memories. Fondly, Dick Henderson
1948 Class Agent: Dick Schneider
Save the Date 65th Reunion May 3 & 4, 2013 Betty and Hobey Henderson continue their gypsy-like life by returning to
Foster Jack used to be a pheasant and goose hunter in Pennsylvania and Maryland but now settles for trap and skeet shooting near his home in Milton, PA.
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in Avalon, NJ for a few weeks each summer. He enjoys the Italian food, i.e. hoagies and pizza, that excels over that in North Carolina.
Class Agent: Brooks Keffer
We are sorry to hear of the passing of Paul Ingersoll who attended EA till Upper School and recently has been very active in our class alumni affairs.
Friday evening, May 4, after a full day of activities such as the Alumni Chapel service, Campus Tours, and Alumni luncheon, our class met at Ella’s American Bistro in Wayne to informally celebrate our class’s 65th Reunion.
Ted Jones was sorry to miss the 65th Reunion. He and his wife, June, will
Those attending were Woozy Supplee, Dick and Alisan Henderson, Brooks and Grace Keffer, and Roger and M.J.
Class of ’47 Alumni Reunion Weekend Wrap-Up May 4 & 5, 2012 65th Reunion
beautiful (but miserably legislated) Arizona from Colorado, to which we repaired “to be closer to the ‘Kids.’” Bad idea! But this is where our friends are and our many volunteer activities. Betty sets the lead by volunteering much time with Verde Valley Caregivers. When last living in Arizona in the ‘90s, I founded the Arizona Foundation for Contemporary Theology —a 501-C-3, which brings progressive
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ClassNotes and highly regarded theologians to conservative Arizona to try to pry open a few of the many closed minds found in these-here parts. That group is still charging along in Phoenix (see www. azfct.org), but my role has shrunken to “Founder Emeritus.” Recently we have become strong “secular humanists.” In that light, we have joined the small Sedona Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. That association has led to my helping organize a new Meetup group called the “Sedona/ Verde Valley Secular Freethinkers” (see www.meetup.com/SedonaFreethinkers/). You can guess from the title that Betty and I have evolved into strong secularists, which makes us quite uncomfortable with the religionbased legislation coming out of the AZ legislature these days. We’re doing our best to fight that trend, which is leading AZ, unfortunately, into a form of theocracy that we vociferously oppose. Though I can definitely be classified as an Old Codger, I’m too old to lose much sleep over the current state of public affairs. Such is life! Wish I could attend more Class functions, but our occasional journeys east (to Maine, for instance) are always in the summer in order to escape Arizona’s famous “dry heat.” Best wishes to all my Episcopal classmates! Such wonderful memories!
Hobey Henderson 1948 The Rev. Edwin Sumer writes: “In my retirement here at Heath Village, NJ, I have a life of ministry and music. I substitute for active clergy in Faith Chapel, and I provide memorial services for deceased residents, as needed. I play the organ for hymns and popular songs for parties. The residents are gracious and appreciative. I enjoy a meaningful life. Thanks be to God!”
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Henry Ruth, who helped lead the Watergate Prosecution, passed away on March 16, 2012 in Tucson, AZ.
(www.wipfandstock.com) and, in a few weeks, should also be available on Kindle and Ingram.
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Class Agents: Jim Blatchford and Stan Miller
Class Agent Needed Please send us your news and notes!
Britt Murdoch writes: “Recently
Walter Bortz reports that he has
returned from Tarpon fishing in the 10,000 islands, near Marco Island, FL with sons Britton H. Murdoch, ’75, Carter W. Murdoch, ’82, and wives and some grandsons and granddaughter, including CJ Murdoch ’07. All caught Tarpoon and enjoyed BethAnn and Carter’s hospitality!”
leveraged his EA diploma to becoming a professor of medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. He
Floyd Woodcock recently sold his home in La Quinta, CA and moved to an apartment in Marina del Rey, CA, which is in Los Angeles, near LAX. “It’s more convenient and lots cooler! I’m now sharing an apartment with my daughter, Barbara, and granddaughter, Isabella. Hopefully, this will be better for me and helpful for my daughter.”
1950 Class Agent: John Rettew
Richard Hiers just received the first copy of his new book, Women’s Rights and the Bible: Implications for Christian Ethics and Social Policy. It is published by Wipf and Stock / Pickwick (Eugene, Oregon, 2012). Among other comments on the back cover, the following is a good summary: “In this volume Richard Hiers challenges the popular assumption that the Bible has a low view of women and that biblical law either ignores women or requires them to be subject and subservient to their men. He does so by identifying and carefully examining hundreds of biblical texts and allowing them to speak for themselves.” The book is available now from the publisher
is a geriatrician, having had medical oversight over thousands of neighbors and colleagues. Walter has written 150 scientific articles, eight books and has served as president of the American Geriatrics Society. Now 82 years old, he is planning his 42nd consecutive annual marathon along with his wife of 60 years, Ruth Anne. Wally has a Web site: www.walterbortz.com.
1952 Class Agent: Craig TenBroeck Class of ’52 Alumni Reunion Weekend Wrap-up, May 4 & 5, 2012 60th Reunion The Class of 1952 experienced a new bond of friendship as we were reminded of our Episcopal Academy exploits both good and bad. This was helped along by the extensive collection of undergraduate photographs that had been taken and preserved by Dave Fricke, a
classmate. Nothing sparks fond memories faster than 100 plus photos of old men as boys. The stage was set Friday night when we gathered at the home of classmate Jim Siegel and his wife, Pat. The Siegels arranged a lavish event with cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, and a superb dinner featuring tenderloin and salmon. Those in attendance included, Barclay and Muriel Beahm, Bill and Margie Brown, Ray Green with his son-inlaw, Chuck Hein, John and Susan Haines, Bill and Ann Latimer, Barry Plotts, Al and Carolyn Skyberg, the Siegels and Bob Gerhardt. Saturday was time to pursue the programs provided by Episcopal. Some took tours and most enjoyed a tasty lunch at the cafeteria on campus. A few of us had the opportunity to visit our longtime class correspondent, Craig TenBroeck at Dunwoody Community. Craig is recovering from some health problems, but he and his wife, Jill, welcomed our visit and were pleased to hear about all the Class of ’52 festivities. In the evening, we gathered again on campus where the school had arranged for the Kentucky Derby to be shown on television while we sipped cocktails. Dinner followed with delicious food and endless stories. We sent greetings to Ben Bell, who expects to regain mobility in the near future. There were several other classmates who wanted to attend the reunion but had to pass due to health issues or conflict of schedules. We missed you all. Bob Gerhardt
1953 Class Agent: Pete Duncan
Save the Date 60th Reunion May 3 & 4, 2013
Message from Pete Duncan: When the most recent EA class, the Class of ‘62, experienced its 50th Anniversary, I was helping out in the Chapel and listening to them as they shared memories from their student days at EA. It brought back many of my memories when the Class of ’53 met for its 50th. For my many years as Class Agent, I have had the opportunity to reach out to my class members, encouraging them to support EA fund drives. Some years we did better than others, but we’ll keep up the effort. One of the high points for me is that it gives us the opportunity to chat. I think it’s important to keep in touch. We’ll continue to do this, and I hope our class will continue to remember the wonderful years we had at EA— and they know I’ll be in touch with them when it’s time to raise funds for the school that was so important to us. Oh, and, of course, when our “business” is over, once again we’ll be able to chat. I really look forward to those times!
Dick Behr reports: “An addition to our family occurred with a greatgrandson, Rylan, born September 15, 2011. His mother is married to an Army serviceman who is in training with his next assignment, uncertain at present. Rylan is a welcome addition to our nine grandchildren, the oldest of whom turned 28 recently. Golf has taken a back seat to tennis these days, playing at least twice a week throughout the year. I would heartily recommend a trip to the Maritime Provinces (Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick), which we took last August. A trip on a small ship to the Great Lakes is planned in August. Finally, Joan and I enjoy our summers at our home in Cape May, NJ. Tennis is our big activity there as well as the theater and relaxing on the beach.”
1954 Class Agent: Bill Sykes Please send us your news and notes!
1955 Class Agent: David McMullin
George Challis reports from Florida: “Went to Sarasota to a lunch sponsored by a PA organization that was attended by 340 other people from PA who are members of the same organization. We have about 30 different 18 hole golf courses really, really close to Vero Beach, and summer is open so my handicap really goes up. The weather is not bad, 85 degrees, but low humididty and a nice breeze. Was walking through the club one day and did see a young lady from the class of 2012 with an EA shirt on. Small World, Life is great. LIFE IS GREAT!”
1956 Class Agent: Bill Rapp Please send us your news and notes!
1957 Class Agents: John Clendenning, Howard Morgan, and Carl Deutsch 55th Reunion – May 4 & 5, 2012 Encapsulation and Summary! May 10th, 2012 It was a great weekend for those attending…and those not in attendance must have had their ears burning! We missed you all, and the 60th is looming around the corner! Friday evening was the Watson Soiree with about 24 attending. Ross and Ann Watson rolled out a sumptuous catered meal in Ross’ studio. The highlights of the evening were toasts
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ClassNotes given by Charlie Grigg and Toby Rankin, who earlier that day were humbled by John Clendenning’s bigger-than-life golf game on Merion’s West course. This was Charlie’s first visit to the new campus where many attended the Saturday Chapel Service honoring Meg Hollinger, Hon. (Mrs. Episcopal) for her many years of dedicated service to E.A. We were treated at meal’s end to a song by Dr. Thorne Sparkman, (I think it was from Tom Lear’s Bawdy Backroom Ballads) as we all cheered him on, verse by verse! Joe and Ann Armstrong were there on Friday eve, and we had an opportunity to get updated on his recent fishing conquests. It was coincidental that recently Howard and Betsy Morgan connected with an old friend in Vero Beach whose brother-in-law is Tim Stevens, our classmate through 7th grade! Tim had dropped us a very nice note of congrats on the 55th and asked to be remembered to Joe, Ray Munder, Sandy McCurdy, Jay Crawford, and others. Tim, a retired U.S. Army Green Beret, is living in Alaska and making a new career of teaching hunting, fishing, and wildlife preservation to young people. Joe and Sandy have already been in contact with him. Peter Arrison wins the Poster Boy award of the 55th. He and Elaine journeyed from Connecticut where he has made a miraculous recovery from several setbacks of recent years. They look great! Bruce Bennett came in on Saturday to give an “Ode” to Meg Hollinger at the Chapel service. Bonnie could not accompany him as she was busied at her official duties as the mayor of Aurora, N.Y. As always, Bruce gave his eloquent poetic presentation. Bob Bright was in Saturday from Rochester, where he has recently wrapped up a term
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as “Sports Bar owner.” He is splitting time between there and Baltimore where his daughter resides. John and Carolyn Clendenning saw the entire weekend activities to the end. John’s retirement is something always in the future as he keeps selling pipe and playing golf! Does pretty good at both! Joe Colen and Mary made the weekend festivities, coming from their farm in Chestertown, MD. Although a few health issues have set them back, they look real good and are in great spirits! It would not be a weekend with Jay and Rosemary Crawford @ EA! Can you believe he has been retired as headmaster for 10 years? Episcopal is now looking for a new headmaster, and when we suggested Jay might apply, we did not get a positive response! A rare and much anticipated appearance by none other than 5-star chef and most-honored chef Carl Deutsch was rewarded at the Morgans’ Sunday brunch. It was great to catch up with Carl in his semi-retirement and hear more about his Honorarium from the National Council of Chefs. Jackson (Weatherby Tarbell) Kennedy and Patricia also appeared Sunday. Jack lives in nearby Tom’s River, NJ and we hope to see more of him @ EA functions! Joe Little gets the furthest distance traveled award as he blew in from Pasadena, California and added his usual joviality to the weekends’ activities. Ray Munder was trying to set up a weight loss contest between Joe and Chef Deutsch but got no takers. Sandy McCurdy, (alias The Right Reverend Alexander) or as he is known to our grandson; “God! Santa Claus’ best friend!” attributable to his flowing white robes worn in baptismal proceedings, made Sunday brunch as well as Saturday dinner with Patsy, always a delight! Jill and Ray Munder, always spry, but having given up golf,
were on hand through the weekend, providing housing for Joe Little. Peter and Reggie Pakradooni also made the whole weekend. Though impeded by a bad back, Peter gets around real well. It was great to see Toby Rankin and Charlie Grigg as they were batching it for a day’s visit and had to return Saturday evening. Dave Prewitt, leaving us for Culver Academy after 6th grade has regrouped with our class and his wife. He and wife, Joan, always add warmth and fun to the festivities. Bob and Melissa Reed; a real pleasure to have them in from Atlanta, where they now live, have tired of the S.Florida scene! Bob, looking every bit the TYCOON that he is had some great reunion stories. While Thorne and Marbie Sparkman made Friday dinner, we missed them at later weekend events. Thorne is still going strong as a Senior man at Jefferson Hospital. Mary Anne and Jay Stetzer had to duck out on Sunday as they were attending their first grandchild’s baptism; a much treasured moment! Andy Supplee was around for the weekend and added a great many interesting stories of his youth and years at Episcopal! Thanks Andy! Sorry that Jeff Worden was unable to make it, but was suffering from a bacterial infection picked up on a recent hospital visit. We understand he is better now! Likewise, Gil Parker with the Shingles and Freddie Mathews making “Spring Roundup.” When I say, “We missed you” we really mean “You missed us!” You all must plan on the 60th in 2017. We have this party thing fine-tuned. The support given the class by the Alumni Department is outstanding as is their follow-up. Regards to all, Howard Morgan, John Clendenning and all the rest.
From Robert Reed: “The most current Academy related event was our 55th reunion. Melissa and I were there to share fellowship with a number of my classmates, which was great fun. It was also our first opportunity to see the new campus, and we were surely impressed. Ideally located, thoughtfully laid out and designed and obviously functional, our school is well positioned for the future. Our family news is our daughter, Meredith, is expecting a Park Service in the maintenance of three overlooks in the Smart View and Shortt’s Knob area. Our children and grandchildren assist us, and I have included a picture of myself with my son and his children.” Pictured with David are his son and grandchildren.
Bix Bush writes: “I have retired from second little girl, and we will spend the month of September in NYC to welcome and help with this new arrival. She will be our third grandchild. Shown above is a picture of Meredith, Pete and Eva Meyers in Atlanta celebrating Melissa’s birthday.”
1958 Class Agent: Bob Bishop Please send us your news and notes!
Save the Date 55th Reunion May 3 & 4, 2013
1959 Class Agent: Lowrey Heaver
David Pillsbury reports “My wife Suzanne and I are members of the Friends of the Blue Ridge Parkway, and I volunteered last year to participate in their Adopt-an-Overlook program. I am responsible to assist the National
coaching basketball as of this year. It was time, but I really enjoyed my run of 40 plus years at various schools. Wife, Lee, is busy taking care of various grandchildren after an incredible career of coaching and Athletic Directoring at Wilmington Friends School. She has been inducted into the Delaware lacrosse Hall of Fame, Ursinus College Athletic Hall of Fame, as well as the Agnes Irwin Athletic Hall of Fame. Thankfully our three kids have taken after her. Rick, Kelly, and Nari are all teachers and have coached at various times. Nari played hockey and lacrosse at the University of Delaware and was 1st team All American her senior year in lacrosse. She captained both teams her junior and senior year and was voted the female athlete of the year at the U of D and induction into the Athletic Hall of Fame at Delaware followed soon thereafter. Kelly played lacrosse at Towson University and was voted MVP for the old ECAC, while leading the nation in assists her senior
year as a co-captain of the team. Rick also went to Towson University and played soccer, starting for three-anda-half years, from there he was drafted by the Baltimore indoor professional team and played with them for three years. He now officiates high school soccer and basketball. The three kids have given us eight incredible grandchildren. All of them visit us at our house in Maine during the summer months we spend there. Brother-in-law “Goose” Clement ’61 and family live next door in Maine, which makes the summer go by way too fast. Classmate Joe Elliott makes an annual visit to the Clements during the summer. As you can see all is good in Delaware and Maine.”
1960 Class Agent: Maurice Heckscher
Maurice Heckscher and his wife Donna spent two glorious days at
Morrie Heckscher ’58 welcomed the EA 4th grade students and took them on a tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
the Augusta National, GA this past February, playing golf with classmate George David and his fiancée, Wendy Tuoton. “We played 63 holes on the most famous course in the world and stayed two nights in the Butler Cabin! It was truly a once-in-a-lifetime experience for us; and believe it or not, on the first day, I birdied the first hole (and then tripled the second)!”
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ClassNotes 1961 Class Agent: Cappy Markle Please send us your news and notes!
1962 Class Agent Needed Please send us your news and notes!
1963 Class Agents: Drew Jackson and Norm Cocke Reunion Committee – Co-chairs, Norm Cocke and Jim Rooks.
Save the Date 50th Reunion May 3 & 4, 2013 Jim Rooks reports; “The Class is looking forward to a great 50th Anniversary Reunion on May 3-4, 2013. Co-chairs Norm Cocke and Jim Rooks have started the planning, and the reunion team has been joined by
Drew Jackson, Charlie Ogelsby, Ben Foster, Corky Hart, Curt Lauber, Chris Raker, Bill Richards, Lloyd Sammons, Bill Spellman, and Rick Tilghman. More information about the reunion will be available throughout the year on the EA Web site, in the Class of 1963 “Internet Scrapbook,” http:// picasaweb.google.com/1785ea1963, and in other communications to the class. Please email Jim at jim.rooks@ poundinstitute.org to let him know if you plan to attend, and start thinking about what to write for your biography in the Reunion edition of the Class of 1963 Tabula!” On January 23, 2012, Paul Stetzer spoke at Dartmouth College as part of a panel on “Dartmouth Alumni of the Civil Rights Movement.” Paul was one of four Dartmouth men who participated in the “Freedom Summer”
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voter registration efforts in Mississippi in the summer of 1964.
Bill Richards has joined the Board of The Cerebral Palsy Research Foundation, whose Chariman is Mr. Paul Volcker. He has also joined the President’s Advisory Council of The Cary Institute (Environmental Research) in Millbrook, New York. This summer he will attend the U.S. Naval War College Strategy Forum in Newport, Rhode Island (not bad for a former Army Officer)! He and his wife Daphne plan to be at our home in Antibes, France over the summer should any classmates be on the Cote D’Azur. Recently we received a note from
Peter Park, who was with the class for 10 years, starting in Wetherill House. Peter works at the U.S. European Command’s Joint Intelligence Operrations Center, Europe, at Royal Air Force Molesworth. He sent a picture of himself and his wife Joy strolling on London’s Hampstead Heath. Peter and Joy plan to retire in Australia.
Tony Geyelin sent a picture of himself, Corky Hart, and Tom Bispham at the rehearsal dinner for the wedding of Corky Hart’s son, Lewis Justice Hart, III, to Louise French McCready, in Lexington, KY, in May.
for the National Book Award (NBA), the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Smith is the author of five other volumes of poetry, including The Other Lover (University of Chicago Press, 2000), which was a finalist for both the NBA and Pulitzer Prize.
1965 Class Agent: Loyd Pakradooni
Ralph and Janie Pitman are happily anticipating the birth of their third grandchild in May, 2012. Ralph recently completed training as a consultant in youth program quality intervention offered by the Weikart Center for Youth Program Quality. He is the founder of The Q Team (www.theQTeamcleveland. com), which is an adult/youth partnership to provide program feedback through the eyes of youth.
Richard Newbold is still very active in diverse businesses and financing worldwide and still resides in Philadelphia.
1966 Class Agents: Steve Dittmann and Richard Smith Please send us your news and notes!
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Class Agent: Tom Zug
Note from Craig Laird: Dear Classmates, on May 5, 2012, nineteen of us returned for our 45th reunion at EA.
Bruce Smith, professor of English in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, has won the William Carlos Williams Award, presented by the Poetry Society of America (PSA). The critically-acclaimed poet was nominated on the merit of his latest book, Devotions (University of Chicago Press, 2011). The same collection has also led to his being named a finalist
The school did a great job providing a myriad of activities on Saturday, 5/5, including tours of the new campus, opportunities to see some key athletic contests, a children’s art workshop, a talk by Cas Holloway ’92
Alumni Class Agent Program Update on managing New York City, classes led by EA faculty, and an All-Alumni Chapel Program, at which Larry Light talked about how Ken Balsley and Bob Lee taught him how to be a writer, followed by a brief reading from his latest book, Taming the Beast. The day was capped with a cocktail reception for all alums and their spouses and then class dinners set up in a variety of locations around the campus. Our class gathered in the second-floor hallway in the Crawford Campus Center, which has a scenic view of the campus core. Nineteen of us gathered there, many of us with spouses or significant others, and we were joined by faculty great Carl Denlinger, Hon. Included in our dinner group were Alan Beller (Received the Distinguished Alumnus Award, November 2011), Jon Butler,
Peter Chance, Steve Demorest, Paul DeOrsay, Keath Fetter, Steve Hollis, Hayward Hulick, Craig Laird, Larry Light, Cy MacKinney, Alan McIlvain, Tony Morris, Valle Schloesser, Jay Shotel, Lee Strickler, Ted Voorhees and Bert Whetstone. I hope more of us will be able to gather at our 50th Reunion in the Spring, 2017. In the meantime, may we all and our families continue to enjoy life and thrive!
Lee Strickler writes that he has been married to his EA prom date for 37 years and they now have an 18-month-old granddaughter, Maggie Lutze, who resides in Westwood, MA. His daughter, Meg, attended Tufts University, married a Boston Red Sox fan, and only returns to visit. Maggie was with Lee for a week in early May, and it was great fun. Dr. Bert Whetstone, enjoyed the 45th reunion with many classmates
and especially sharing the news of his (501c3) Excell Foundation where he and Debby Orsini teach teambuilding, leadership, and language skills in the developing world. Over the past five years, they traveled to Madagascar, Morocco, Macedonia, India, and Jordan to teach more than 300 young adult leaders to develop teams to tackle community service projects in their hometowns. Bert invites his classmates to donate to this non-profit Excell Foundation! And he looks forward to meeting more frequently than every five years with his classmates.
Christy Bell writes “Hated to miss the reunion, but pledge to give more to Episcopal and make all the next gatherings. The flood of e-mail traffic and the reports from the reunion had to tug at the heartiest of souls. Officially retiring from Horizon BCBS NJ in July and moving to Southport, N.C. After July, there will be four golf courses, the beach, and all ’67 are invited and welcome to come down. May marks the completion of grad school for all three daughters. A nurse practitioner at Duke, a forensic chemist in a NC crime lab, and a fluid mechanics engineer (job offers here are encouraged and appreciated). Sue and I will join two-thirds of the children and the only grandson in NC. The major fun item to report is working with the Duke University School of Nursing to help create a national, one-of-a-kind advanced nursing program, called “Population Care Coordinators,” who help primary care doctors transform their practices into Patient Centered Medical Homes. The first class just graduated, and I think the program is going to become a game changer for doctors and patients.”
The Alumni & Development Office is always looking for interested alumni to serve as Class Agents. Class Agents receive “insider information” about programs, sports, clubs, and classes and are responsible for sharing the details with classmates. Additionally, Class Agents are expected to encourage classmates to make a gift to the Annual Fund. Our goal is to strengthen the alumni connection with the life of the school, and we need Class Agents to help. If you are interested in serving as a Class Agent for your class, please contact Stephanie Ottone, Development Officer, at: sottone@episcopalacademy.org or 484-424-1782.
1968 Class Agent: Robert Mayock
Save the Date 45th Reunion May 3 & 4, 2013 ’68ers Rick Crecraft, Bob Mayock,
Mark Hofmaier, Drew Schmidt, Jay Brown, Lee Coogan, Jay Branegan, and Lee Coogan will be enjoying a long weekend this summer in Fayetteville, WV for some mountain climbing and river rafting on the New River. Should be fun!
Mark Hofmaier writes that his son, Luke, graduates from college this May and his daughter is already “graduated” and embarked on a successful modeling and acting career! His business coaching career is burgeoning with new clients every month. Looks like the ’68ers are planning another adventure, this time to the white water rapids of rural West Virginia—hello Deliverance!
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ClassNotes “In January, Jay Branegan and his wife, Stefania, went on an Antarctic cruise. They flew to Buenos Aires, then to Tierra del Fuego, where they boarded the National Geographic Explorer for a nine-day expedition to the Antarctic peninsula, making it as far south as the Antarctic circle. ‘We saw lots and lots of penguins, albatrosses, whales, seals, as well as spectacular icebergs and glaciers,’ Jay said. In February, Jay gave the Miner Merrick lecture at EA. In April, Jay and Stefania hiked along a portion of the Appalachian Trail with Andrew Dayton, who lives near Harpers Ferry, WV, and Medford J. (Jay) Brown, who drove down from the Philadelphia area for the hike. Jay reports his future is now a bit clouded: his boss at the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Richard G. Lugar of Indiana, one of the most respected and longest-serving politicians in Washington, was defeated in the Republican primary in May, meaning he will have to leave office at the end of this term.”
1969 Class Agent Needed Please send us your news and notes!
1970 Class Agents: John Dautrich and Ron Rothrock Please send us your news and notes!
1971 Class Agent: Jim Amsterdam Please send us your news and notes!
1972 Class Agents: Payne Kilbourn, Betsy Marshall, Tom Mascioli, and John Senior
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Class of ’72 Alumni Reunion Weekend Wrap-up, May 4 & 5, 2012 40th Reunion The 40th reunion committee, comprised of Ed Payne Kilbourn,
Betsy Marshall, Tom Mascioli, and John O. Senior, started working with Kathleen Cannon and Stephanie Ottone from the Alumni Office in October 2011, making plans and trying to contact classmates, encouraging them to attend the reunion events held on May 4th and 5th. The number of participants at the 40th was smaller than the now legendary 30th but much larger than the 35th, and the school did a very nice job with the reunion weekend activities held on the remarkable new campus in Newtown Square. For those who have not yet visited, it is certainly something to see. Darrel Francis visited the campus on Friday, but needed to attend a family wedding on Saturday. On Friday evening, John Senior and his wife, Nancy Kimmons, hosted a small informal gathering that included Melissa and Steve Lewicki, Julianne Whitehead and Rob Manganaro Morris, Jeff Schaefer, and Gil Stevens, and our reunion’s winner of the longest-distance-traveled-toattend award Chis Istrati, who flew in earlier that same day from his State Department posting in Paraguay. On Saturday, a number of class members participated in some of the organized on-campus events during the day, and many attended the All-Alumni Chapel Program that included a wellreceived performance of the evocative “Only Remembered” led by John Senior (guitar) and Nancy Kimmons (accordion) and joined by lead tenor Max Birtcil and the harmonies of Rob Morris and Chris Istrati. Cathy and Henry Nassau, Rob Fisher, and Macke Raymond stayed for the the
All-Alumni Cocktail Reception but departed before 7:00 pm when the classes all relocated for their individual dinners. The Class of ’72 reconvened in the Crawford Campus Center’s Sherrerd Board Room for a group photo and the unveiling of their new class Athletic Shield, designed by John Senior and fabricated with the support of Bruce Konopka and the Alumni Office to replace the long-lost original and finally fill the waiting space on the shield wall in the Dixon Athletic Center. After the photos were taken, Nancy Kimmons and John Senior somewhat reluctantly departed to perform again at their retiring pastor’s recognition ceremony where Scott Schumacker was serving as MC, but rejoined the festivities later in the evening. The class dinner that followed was attended by Rex Anderson, Rob Bell and his friend Kim, Chris Istrati and his sister Vanessa, Nancy and Joe Kelly, Payne Kilbourn, Nikolya and Mark LeFevre, Ted Leisenring, Melissa and
Steve Lewicki, Dan Lundquist, Betsy Marshall, Tom Mascioli, Julianne Whitehead and Rob Morris, Tom Quinn, and Jeff Schaefer. The group also enjoyed an extended visit with Greville Haslam Head of School, Ham Clark, Hon. and Director of Alumni, Bruce Konopka toward the end of the dinner. Tom Mascioli organized and generously hosted an after party on The Porch at Lamb’s Tavern in Springfield, PA and was joined there by quite a few intrepid souls from the dinner as well as Rob “Dusty” DeLong, Chuck Taylor, and Rob Williams. A box of fine cigars added aromatically to the lively conversations that continued until after midnight. All agreed that the reunion was a welcome opportunity to once again enjoy the engaging company of our classmates and friends, and that we
should get together again soon. Stay tuned. Visit the class Web site at www.ea72.org for more information.
1973 Class Agents: Rex Gary and Jerry Holleran Please send us your news and notes!
Save the Date 40th Reunion May 3 & 4, 2013
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exactly 11,111 days (digital anniversary). Doug reports that they are really empty nesters now since their youngest child, Joel, graduates on June 17 with a B.S. in Urban Planning (with a focus in sustainable development) and is moving back east to NYC to earn an M.S. at Parsons New School in their brand-new “Design and Urban Ecologies.”
Class Agent Needed Please send us your news and notes!
1978
Alec Andrews reports “I continue as Partner-In-Charge of the Columbus, OH office of Ulmer & Berne LLP, a 180+ lawyer firm, with a practice focused on business litigation and product liability defense. I became a certified fire and explosion investigator in 2011 because of all of the fire litigation I work on arising out of product failures. Married 31 years now. Our son, Alex, completed grad school at Carnegie Mellon and now works in the production department at SyFy Channel in LA. Our daughter, Ariel, is in the same grad program, and will be moving to LA this summer for her final year. My wife, Julie, and I live on a 38-acre farm outside Columbus, OH with an assortment of four-legged creatures.”
Class Agent: Jim Borum
Save the Date 35th Reunion May 3 & 4, 2013 Mario Mascioli has been Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Channels at SpeechCycle, Inc., a leading provider of Software-as-aService solutions based in New York City, for more than two years. Mario and team have grown the Company successfully and as a result it was recently acquired by Synchronoss Technologies.
1979 Class Agents: Ned Lee and Chris Young
1975
Alan R. Huffman reports “After
Class Agent: Jim Cooke Please send us your news and notes!
selling my company to a private equity group in 2011, I have assumed the role of Chief Technology Officer for the expanded company which is now called Sigma3 Integrated Reservoir Solutions (www.sigmacubed.com). We completed three more acquisitions in early 2012, and we are now busy with the integration process for the new business lines. Beverly continues to
Class Agent Needed
Doug Stein has been living in Portland, OR since 2003 with his wife Susan. On May 29 they will have been married
William Lloyd and his wife, Meg, recently celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary with a trip to Spain to visit their youngest child who has been
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Class Agent: John Spofford
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work by my side as our Manager of Human Resources. I am still traveling extensively internationally and trying to squeeze in as much golf as possible when time permits.”
studying in Zaragoza for a year. All four of their children were able to get time off from school and work to celebrate the occasion.
Jim Young and Michele have had a second child, Campbell, born on February 23, 2011.
1980 Class Agent: David Reape
Col. Nicholas F. Marano was honored at a Camp Pendleton ceremony in April after being base commander for nearly three years. Nick is now retiring from the military after having overseen more than $3 billion in work on the base. He will continue to live in Southern California, enjoying civilian life.
1981 Class Agent: Ben Thompson
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ClassNotes Marty Korman, is living in Woodside, CA with his wife Liz, daughter Hayley, 15, and son Sam,13. Marty heads the mergers and acquisitions and private equity practices at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati, Silicon Valley’s premier law firm, representing some of the technology industry’s most innovative companies, including Google, Electronic Arts, and a number of exciting startups.
1982 Class Agents: Jim Farrell, and Brooke McMullin Class of ’82 Alumni Reunion Weekend Wrap-up, May 4 & 5, 2012 30th Reunion What a great Reunion! It is always nice catching up with everyone every five years and our class always rallies to make the most of a party. A few guys were still up after 3:00 a.m. We are lucky to be a part of a class that takes such pride in our school and the memories of our past. We had 43 guys at Mrs. Bagnell’s house—an awesome turnout. Once again we set a fundraising goal and we accomplished it. I believe Rich Crockett was with us on Saturday night. April Crockett’s favorite horse “I’ll have another” won the Kentucky Derby on Saturday night, as our class watched the race together at the new campus. Richard orchestrated that win—the name of the horse says it all. After we celebrated the win with April, we were able to present the Crockett family with plaques with the inscription of the new award—The Richard Guild Crockett Award. The award reads: “Presented to the senior male athlete who has earned a varsity letter in at least three sports who in the opinion of the athletic association
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best exemplifies the following qualities: team spirit, humor, compassion and selflessness.” I know April was touched, as were other members of the Crockett family that were with us. The Reunion Committee thanks everyone for their generous support of Episcopal and the endowment of this new award. Thanks to all members of the class that have already sent in their contributions. The pledges are due by June 30th so please try to make your contributions by then. There is still time to make a contribution and increase our class participation percentage. We were the leading class in terms of class participation when we left on Saturday night, but that could change between now and the 30th. Take care and go EA!
1983 Class Agent: Jamie Hole Please send us your news and notes!
Save the Date 30th Reunion May 3 & 4, 2013
1984 Class Agents: Bill Keffer and Karl Mayro
Lee Allman, David Bradley, David Lorry, and Vince Powers joined 30,000 of their closest friends in the 33rd Broad Street Run.
Chris Giles recently joined the advancement office as the Director of Major Gifts at Cate School in Carpinteria, CA. This summer Chris’s wife, Amy, will join Anne Hall, Hon. in the College Guidance Office at Cate.
Vince Powers recently launched a new firm, Powers Brand Communications LLC, which provides public relations and communications counsel and services to small businesses, emerging growth companies, and non-profits.
David Bradley continues his work as a theater director, arts educator and consultant in Philadelphia and beyond. He’s a co-founder and leader of the non-profit LiveConnections, dedicated to connecting all kinds of people through all kinds of music, creating cross-genre programs for kids and adults at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia and Wilmington (and he’s joined on the board by Tony Brown ’71). A long-time company member at People’s Light and Theatre, he directed Of Mice and Men there earlier this year, and just returned from directing The Miracle Worker at Indiana Rep in Indianapolis. In the coming year, David’s engaged in creating theater projects with the National Constitution Center, Philadelphia Young Playwrights, the Institute for Disabilities at Temple, and People’s Light.
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David Lorry played on the US
Class Agent: John Susanin
masters soccer team at the 2011 Pan American Maccabi Games held in Sao Paulo, Brazil in December 2011.
Michael Tierney has joined the Board
Greg Jannetta was selected for a TIM Ideas Top Performer Awards for his TOP yielding investment ideas regarding the telecommunications sector in 2011, beating out 2,300 sales people at 285 firms.
of Trustees of Neumann University and was recently voted to be the Chairman of the Board of The Philadelphia Charity Ball, which has several EA alums on it. Chris LeVine ’75 was a past Chair.
John Yoo has recently published
and carry the torch forward for our children, friends, and peers. Though a small representation of the class could make the events this Alumni weekend of 2012, the spirit of our fellow classmates, near and far, present and deceased were felt strongly—and the ties that bind our class together are unbreakable and unmatched.
another book through Oxford University Press. The book is titled Taming Globalization: International Law, the US Constitution, and the New World Order.
1986 Class Agent: Karen Marston
Andrew Brenner
Greg Johnson reports the following: “Still living in Devon with Laurie and my three kids, Lindsay, 13, Lauren, 11, and Michael, 5. I continue to manage ACE’s global Sarbanes-Oxley (“SOX”) financial compliance initiative in Philadelphia. Was able to get a work trip to London in April to assist our UK colleagues with some efficiences with their SOX process. Lindsay’s soccer team (FC Delco) was selected to play with 19 other teams from around the country in the Manchester United Premier Cup at Nike’s headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon over Memorial Day weekend. The winner of this tournament will represent the US in the Gothia Cup (an international tournament) in Gothenberg, Sweden over the summer. Lauren was selected to play up a year for the Phantastix lacrosse program, and she is very excited to be playing for this program. Mikey is busy terrorizing his older sisters.”
Marnie Schneider reports “My Mom, Susan Spencer is now the owner of a new sports talk show on KDWN in Las Vegas. It’s two hours daily from 10 AM to 12 Noon PST! The host of the show Nick Bonsanto, was an ESPN host in Tennessee that she brought to Las Vegas. Nick has been a SPORTS radio host since he was 18...30 years ago! He knows his stuff! “Not Just Sports” runs weekdays from 10:00 a.m. PST to 12:00 p.m. PST and is available via live stream and on a KDWN app every day: www.kdwn.com. Listen in and
Marnie Schneider’s ’86, mother, Susan Spencer, is now the owner of a new sports talk show, “Not Just Sports,” on KDWN in Las Vegas.
let me know what think, and please give me any suggestions, ideas and comments you have…be nice please, I’m very sensitive and protective of my Mom!! AND do me a HUGE FAVOR and spread the word!!!”
1987 Class Agents: Andrew Brenner and Ed Jones Class of ’87 Alumni Reunion Weekend Wrap-up, May 4 & 5, 2012 25th Reunion Seeing the teachers such as Bob
’58 and Sally Bishop, Hon., Rev. Squire, Hon., The Haleys, Hon. the Doughertys, Lin Carpenter, Hon., The Shafers, Hon., Jay Crawford ’57 and others made the evening special and complete—and through the theme of Esse Quam Videri—our class was indelibly influenced by these teachers and coaches – who still to this day, 25 years later, cast a long shadow of influence and mentorship to the class of 1987 that continues to this very day. These were (and are) the examples by which we live our lives
Donal Spence McGay, PhD, teaches Latin and sometimes ancient Greek at Radnor High School, and is an adjunct faculty member in the Classics Department at Villanova University, where his wife Dr. Valentina DeNardis is an assistant professor. Their son, Nikander, just turned six, and enjoys baseball, soccer and taking nature walks. Like his ancient namesake, Nikander also shows a preliminary interest in herpetology.
1988 Class Agent: Kim (Zinman) Richter
Stephen Rothenberg and his wife Karen, are thrilled to announce the birth of their son, Calvin Thomas Rothenberg, on May 2, 2012. He joins big sister, Jane, age 5, and big brother, Jacob, born on November 11, 2009. They remain in the Boston area where Mike continues his work as a cancer researcher and medical oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Karen works as a cardiologist specializing in electrophysiology.
Robert Morris is with the SETI Institute in Mountain View, CA. He is a Scientific Programmer for the Kepler Space Telescope mission (http://kepler. nasa.gov/) at NASA Ames Research Center, developing algorithms and software to search for signatures of habitable extrasolar planets.
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ClassNotes Andrew Snyder and his wife, Gayle,
Tiziana Auteri-Simpson reports that
Robert Milbourne reports: “I joined
have one child, Julia, born on January 18, 2008.
“Talia Grace Simpson was born June, 18, 2011. Her big brother Alexander (now 5 years old) is thrilled to have his little sister as are Andrew and I.”
Norton Rose just under two years ago as a partner in their corporate team in Australia, with a primary focus on mining and natural resources transactions internationally. Australia has become one of the world leading centers for the industry, and Brisbane, a small city in Queensland, has become home to many of the world’s leading mining and natural resources firms. My wife, Claudia, and I have settled into life in Australia, and we have kept our three boys in the local Anglican Church Boys Grammar School—called “Churchie.” I continue to travel for work—China, Europe, and South America mostly, but have begun taking the family on trips— to Indonesia for two weeks this year, and then back to the US and Brazil over Christmas for four weeks. We are now planning our next trip to southern Italy, where I was an exchange student in year 11 at Episcopal. If anyone has a chance to come through Australia please do look us up. Brisbane is a wonderful place to visit. “
1989 Class Agent: Becky (White) Kreutz
Matthew Asbell is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of his employer, Ladas & Parry LLP, an international intellectual property boutique law firm. Matthew recently presented a program on protecting trademarks used on social media Web sites for the New York State Bar Association, Business Law Section, at the Harvard Club in New York City, and he moderated a similar panel of inhouse attorneys from The Walt Disney Company, Macy’s, Reckitt Benckiser (Lysol, Mucinex, etc), and SVP Worldwide (Singer Sewing Machines) for the American Bar Association Section of Intellectual Property Law in Washington, D.C. earlier in the year. He also recently moderated a panel of in-house counsel from Stuart Weitzman, Reckitt Benckiser, and Leviton Manufacting Co., on CostEfficient International IP Protection for the American Bar Association Section of International Law in New York City
Bobby Clark ’90 and his wife Sarah welcomed son Booker Clark into their lives on 7/20/01. He loves his new bib.
Amanda Lamb has recently become the Public Relations Director for 02 Media, Inc. in Pompano Beach FL. They produce several shows for Lifetime Television such as “Designing Spaces” and “The Balancing Act.”
1990 Class Agent: Lori (Hood) Sanders and Kristin McIlhenney
Harper Dimmerman’s debut novel, Justice Hunter will be published in mass-market paperback later this month, after breaking onto the Amazon Kindle Hot New Release List on April 27. Justice Hunter is the first installment in a series of legal thrillers set in the City of Brotherly Love, devoted to the precarious exploits of the dashing and cerebral attorney Hunter Gray.
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1992 1991 Class Agents: Joe Bongiovanni and Holly (Sando) Rieck
Matt Michael recently argued a case before the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Personally, he received recognition from the President as a “Drum Major for Service” for efforts associated with helping the homeless.
Class Agents: Charley French and Ashley Lunkenheimer Class of ’92 Alumni Reunion Weekend Wrap-Up, May 4 & 5, 2012 20th Reunion From Vermont to Virginia, from New Jersey to Ohio, from Boston, LA, Chicago, New York and London—the Class of 1992 gathered together on
EA’s campus to celebrate the 20 years since our graduation! We had close to 25 classmates in attendance—many of whom started the day listening to fellow 1992 grad Cas Holloway’s keynote address. We shared pictures of children and congratulated a few that are expecting. We laughed and joked and had a great time all the way until the end. Afterwards, we regrouped at a local bar, joined by other 1992 graduates from Agnes Irwin, Haverford, Shipley, and Baldwin. We are all looking forward to our 25th!
Services at the Wharton School. He serves as co-chair on the team organizing the yearly Wharton Web Conference, which will be featuring Apple Computer co-founder Steve Wozniak as keynote, on July 10, 2012.
1993 Class Agent: Dave Grau
Jeff Greco ’93 with his daughter Isabella, with her EA sweater on. They
Billy Dougherty Billy Dougherty reports “Thank you so much for the EA sweaters! As a new
are standing in front of a picture of Jeff’s brother, Joe ’90, who passed away in 1998.
Stefan Slowinski and his wife Gisela
father, I often think about the traits that the stripes represent and ask myself how I will be able to help them develop that type of character. My best answer so far is to lead by example. My son, Curran, and my daughter, Emma, are 19-month-old twins—and look good in EA Blue! My wife, Courtney, and I are doing well, living in Malvern, PA. The twins keep us on our toes. I am Vice President of Airmatic, Inc.—an industrial distributor specializing in bulk materials handling equipment.”
Timothy Allen is serving as IT Director of Wharton Research Data
of America’s top young trial attorneys and is by invitation only. Their Top 40 Under 40 award recognizes attorneys that specialize in the areas of civil plaintiff or criminal defense law and is restricted to only 40 attorneys per state per year.
Sam French reports “As you may know, I’ve been living and working in Kabul for the past four years, running my company Development Pictures— www.developmentpictures.com. I have also founded a non-profit with a few colleagues called the Afghan Film Project, dedicated to training Afghan filmmakers and fostering Afghanistan’s film industry. We have recently completed a narrative fiction film called “Buzkashi Boys,” shot entirely on location in Kabul with a mixed Western and Afghan crew. The film premiered on April 24th at the Beijing International Film Festival, and we will be screening at numerous festivals throughout the year. Please find more information and
had their second daughter, Nicole, in December. Stefan and his family still live in London. After 10 years working for the French bank Societe Generale, Stefan has recently left to start his own investment firm focused on investing in companies based in emerging markets.
1994 Class Agents: Tema (Fallahnejad) Burkey, Anna (Morgan) Cassidy, Coryell (McIlvain) Urban, and Sarah (Glick) Johnson
Adam Barrist, a partner at Deeb Blum Murphy Frishberg & Markovich law firm in Center City, was selected for the National Trial Lawyers Association Top 40-Under 40, based on his work with catastrophic injury cases. The National Trial Lawyers Association is comprised
Sam French ’94 has founded a non-profit with a few colleagues call the Afghan Film Project. Sam recently completed a narrative fiction film called “Buzkashi Boys,” shot entirely on location in Kabul with a mixed Western and Afghan crew.
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ClassNotes view the trailer here: www.buzkashiboys.com. We are still in need of further funding to get the film seen as widely as possible and continue our mission of training our Afghan filmmakers. There is a Paypal link on the Web site for people to donate if they wish. Synopsis: Buzkashi Boys is a unique narrative short film shot entirely on location in Afghanistan, offering a rare glimpse at another side of this war-torn country. Set against the backdrop of Buzkashi, a brutal game of horse polo played with a dead goat instead of a ball, the film follows two best friends, a street urchin and a blacksmith’s son, who struggle to reconcile dreams with duty as they make their way to manhood.
Best, Sam” Todd Saylor reports: “I received the latest Connections, thanks once again!
be awesome! I will keep you posted. I recently saw the equinox events at Chichen Itza and Dzibilchaltun down here. On March 21st and Sept 21st every year you can witness 2 events at these Mayan Ruin sites. The serpent decent and the rising sun through the door of the temple of the dolls. See link for more info and my pics attached. Still single, no kids or wife quite yet. You can look me up on facebook, Yucatan Todd. Saludos, Todd
1995 Class Agents: Brooke (Doherty) Horgan and Katie Kurz
Elizabeth Shaw is enjoying living in New York City and working as a fundraising consultant for non-profits. She’s always interested in getting back in touch with fellow EA grads via Facebook. She often sees Karen (Flaherty) Laakmann who also lives and works in New York. Mike McKeon was married to Jennifer Snyder on March 3, 2012. Mike and Jenn live in Ardmore, PA, and he works as an attorney at the Philadelphia office of the law firm of Lavin, O’Neil, Ricci, Cedrone & DiSpio.
Terri (Noone) and Dan Kessler ’94 had a baby girl, born on April 22, 2012, weighing in at 7 lbs. and 14 oz. Her name is Maeve Noone Kessler.
1996 Class Agent Needed
Brooke (Hassett) Stinner and her husband, Chad, have had their first child, Tegan Claire Hassett Stinner on May 12, 2012 in Durham, NC. Proud grandmom is Linda Hassett, Hon., current lower school librarian.
Well, I am pretty much up to the same things, running the real estate company down here and my bar in Mahahual. We are getting ready for the big date, December 21, 2012, as the tourism is expected to be HUGE down here. I am planning a tour of the Yucatan for one month before the date (November 21stDecember 21st). We are going to visit all of the Major Mayan sites and conclude in Chichen itza for the celebration on December 21st. We are going to post daily pics and info about the tour, it will
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James Graham Evans models his EA sweater (first child of Jamie Evans and his wife, Kimberly). Graham was born on January 3, 2012.
Scott Reynolds and his wife Gisela have had a second child, Sean Timothy born on August 10, 2011.
EA alums in attendance at the wedding were (l to r): first row, Mike McKeon ’96, Atlee Harvey ’44, and Kevin McKeon ’99. Second row, Anthony Ciariello ’96, Jamie Barrett ’96, Tim Wright ’96, and Matt Michael ’91
1997 Class Agent: Julie (Manser) Ganz
Class of ’97 Alumni Reunion Weekend Wrap-Up, May 4 & 5, 2012 15th Reunion The Class of 1997 had a strong turnout for our 15th reunion! Close to 20 classmates attended the event, which was held on Episcopal’s campus. We had a great time catching up on each other’s lives, and reminiscing about our experiences at EA. Afterwards, many of us met up again at the home of one of our classmates to continue the festivities and celebration. It was a wonderful night and we look forward to our 20th! Kellen (Heckscher) Vengels
Bradd Haley ’97 was married to Emily Robinson on June 11, 2012. In
St. Andrew’s Episcopal School. My main responsibilities will be overseeing student discipline and academics, managing professional development and teacher evaluation program. I will be responsible for handling communications between teachers, parents, and learning specialists, while ensuring consistency. In addition, I will teach a Lower School Language Arts class, mentor new teachers, facilitate division meetings, and maintain communications between the lower and upper campuses on issues of student discipline and academic progress. I am thrilled to begin this summer and set to work on fulfilling the vision and mission of St. Andrews’!”
Kristen (Kraus) Anch ’97, Jessica (Walls) Beers’97, and Kristen Rhoers ’97 at their 15th Reunion.
Grant Pollux Towles, son of Madeleine Delson ’97 and her husband, Kevin Towles, proudly wearing his EA
Jessica Beers ran the Philly Half Marathon in September, for Team in Training, to support Steve’s recovery from Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Jess was a top five fundraiser in PA for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Steve is doing well and feeling good. attendance were (l to r): Steve Muir, Hon., Joy Muir, Justin Hopkins with daughter Lucy, Jordan Love, Madeleine Delson, Samantha Delson ’03. In the back row: Anne (Putnam) Argue ’96, Rosemary Crawford, Megan (Haley) Noller ’93, Phoebe (McDermott) Schuh ’96, Omar McNeill ’85, Len Haley, Hon., Kit Noller, Edna Haley, Hon., Bradd Haley, Emily (Robinson) Haley, Paul O’Connor , Jay Crawford, ’57, Mike Leeds, John Bullen, Michael Haley ’92, Michelle Alfano, Hon., Tony Alfano, and James Casey.
Jordan Love reports: “I am about to embark on a new stage in my career in education. I am leaving my full time classroom position in Kindergarten at Norwood School to become the Assistant Head of Lower School at
sweater on a trip to the Great Wall in February 2012. Madeleine is hoping he’ll be EA 2030.
1998 Jess (Walls) Beers ’97 and Steve Beers ’93 after they recently ran the Philly half marathon for the LLS.
Candice (Stack) Whitten and her husband Travis have had their first child, Paige Virginia Whitten, born on September 12, 2011.
Class Agent: Rob Melchionni
Chris Fallon and his wife Kelli have had their first child, Caroline Susan Fallon, born on May 10, 2012.
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ClassNotes John Frazier and Rebecca Hoggan were married August 19, 2006. They now have two children, John, age 3
Tara (Carella) Waters and her husband James have had their first child, Jackson Kendrick Waters, born on June 11, 2011 in Honolulu, HI. Matt Haldeman was married to Lindsay Steinmetz on October 15, 2011. Lexi (Krotec) Peskin and her husband Aaron have had their first child, Charlotte Temple Peskin born on February 17, 2012.
and Cora Rebecca born on February 29, 2012. Read about his exciting career here www.frazierbandmusic. com/about.
Katie Harmer was married to John Leubecker on October 22, 2011.
CJ Walsh ’98 and Michael Walsh ’00 at a benefit for LIVESTRONG. They have met some very interesting people along the way. ESPN Sportscenter anchor and cancer survivor, Stuart Scott, and master distiller and cancer survivor, Lincoln Henderson.
Attendees at the wedding included (l to r): Sarah Keim ’98, Tara (Carella) Waters ’98, Ursula MacMullan ’98, Jenna (Mariano) Griffith ’98.
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Thanks for thinking of the Walsh Brothers for Connections. CJ Walsh and Michael Walsh ’00 have raised more than $114,000 (from 2006 through today) for LIVESTRONG, which serves people affected by cancer and empowers communities to support cancer survivors in their area. Along the way, we’ve met some very cool people, including ESPN Sportscenter anchor and cancer survivor Stuart Scott and master distiller and cancer survivor Lincoln Henderson, better known as the brain behind Woodford Reserve and Angel’s Envy bourbons. We also will have an EA alumni photo with at least a half-dozen alumni after our annual Radnor Hunt Tailgate benefitting LIVESTRONG on Saturday, May 19th.
EA alumni get a surprise visit from Santa. L to R; Tom Melvin, Sarah (West) Ulmer, Dave Rooklin, Santa Claus – Tri Sprit letter winner class of ’98, John Salvucci, and Madeleine Delson ’97.
1999 Class Agents: Andrew Addis and Catherine (Hunt) Ryan
Mike Good was married to Jocelyn Brown on July 2, 2011. Those in
attendance were: Rob Good ’96,
Tom Good ’02, Dan Connelly, Mark Dugan, Paul Nolen, Kyle Dahl, Austin Frieman, Catherine (Hunt) Ryan, Lauren Owens ’04, Benji Nero, Brian Kline (EA teacher), Quincy Hyson (EA teacher), and Lou Merlini.
Patrick O’Neill recently sold his bar in Vail, Colorado. He and his wife have decided to take the next year off from their busy lives and volunteer for “English Rocks,” a non-profit that teaches English to African refugees using the power of contemporary American rock music. Patrick is excited to finally combine his two loves: listening to Nickelback and helping the disadvantaged. Justin Alfano, Lieutenant in the United States Navy, was married to Kylie
Jeff Porter is working as an
Samir Patel got married on September
account executive for the New York Interconnect. He recently moved up to Mt. Vernon, NY from Brooklyn.
18, 2010 and now lives in Boston. He is also working on a PhD in Environmental Sciences at Drexel University. Samir is working on researching the at-sea behavior of loggerhead turtles in Mediterranean Sea using satellite telemetry.
Jen (Watters) Bergman and her husband Jeremy recently had a baby girl, Lucy Virginia, born on May 3, 2012. Lucy weighed in at 8 lbs, 13 ozs.
2000 Class Agents: Kimmy Gardner and Jack Meyers
Guðmundur Philip Haraldsson joined Cecilia Collins and Haraldur Guðmundsson in Swendon, England, on January 17, 2012. Haraldur will return to work shortly as a commodity trader after a sabbatical year of travel and paternity leave. Cecilia is on maternity leave from a PhD in Archaeology. Guðmundur Philip’s (Gummi) interests include food, clean diapers, and soft blankets.
Mike McGuiness is living in Rehoboth Beach, DE and working as a River Pilot on the Delaware River.
Kimmy Gardner reports “We recently Thomson at the United States Naval Academy Chapel in Annapolis, MD on April 14, 2012. A reception followed at the Officers Club at the Academy. EA alums in attendance were: Michele
Alfano, Hon., Devin Alfano ’03, Christa (Clarke) Bialka, Casey Halpern, MD, Madeline Saggiomo ’08, Angela Saggiomo ’12, Lt. David Shaw, Len Haley, Hon., Edna Haley, Hon., and Jordan Glick. The couple resides in Anacortes, Washington.
relocated to the Washington, DC area as my husband took a role in West Virginia with an oil/gas company, Energy Corporation of America. We live in Arlington, VA however, he commutes on the weekends back to Arlington while he maintains a place in West Virginia during the week. I was lucky enough that Bloomberg needed an HR person to help with our new business Bloomberg Government so I am still an HR Generalist for Bloomberg in the DC area.”
Ruth Kelley is living in Society Hill and working at her parents’ architecture firm, MGA Partners Architects. She plans to attend Pratt’s Graduate Program in Interior Design in the fall and move back to New York City.
Mark Kendall’s film, “La Camioneta” had its world premiere in March as an Official Selection at the 2012 SXSW Film Festival in Austin TX. Mark wants to send a thanks to everyone who has made it a point to tell their friends and family about the film, tweeted about the film, or liked the Facebook page. All these things have been instrumental in helping him spread the word and the value of that can really not be overemphasized.
2002 Class Agents: Kevin Dugan and Tim Mahoney
Ploypan Thongpradit was married to Hans E. Jensen on September 9, 2010.
2001 Class Agents: Evan Coughenour, Drew Crockett, Sarah Baker, and Pete Tedesco
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ClassNotes 2003 Class Agent: Julia Crawford
Diana (Hirtle) Wilson received her Masters degree in English Education from Columbia University’s Teacher College and is now finishing her second year teaching 7th grade English and Social Studies at The Dwight School in New York City.
Julia (Burns) Irwin and her husband Aren have had their first child, Sebi
Barton Irwin, born on April 14, 2012 in Albuquerque, NM.
spent five years working in investment banking in New York City.
David Turner graduated in May 2012, from The Wharton School with an MBA in Finance and Real Estate.
2004 Class Agents: Nick Brown and Michael Ciccotti
Andrew Chipego graduated from Saint Joseph’s University in December ’11, receiving the award for excellence by the Psychology department. Shortly after graduation, I spent the better part of January traveling down the coast of China, working my way slowly from Beijing to Hong Kong. It was quite a humbling and awe-inspiring journey. Once I returned from my travels, I accepted a position at SEI Investments in Oaks, PA where I work as an internal
Caroline D’Angelo recently graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Master of Environmental Studies program. She was awarded the Society of Women Environmental Professionals Graduate Scholarship and Penn’s Dean’s Scholar award, as well as a fellowship from Oikos International for environmental journalism. She started “wH2O: The Journal of Gender & Water at Penn,” an open-access academic journal on global gender and water issues, which is available at http://wh2ojournal. com/current-issue. The journal is now accepting submissions for the second issue and welcomes submission inquiries.
Martha Kelley is thrilled to be returning to Philadelphia this year to earn her MBA at Wharton. After graduating from Princeton in 2007, she
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account executive in the advisor network. SEI was on the Philadelphia Business Magazine’s list of best places to work in the Philadelphia area.
Frances Fox graduated on May 9th at Radio City Music Hall with her Masters in Architecture from Pratt Institute. She graduated in the top 10% of her class with an award for Academic Excellence. This May also marked the opening of the University Medical Center of Princeton in
Plainsboro in which Frances assisted on the architectural detailing of the chapel space. She designed the altar table and a bead curtain that hangs behind the altar. She hand strung the 115,000-piece bead curtain and installed it herself. This is her first fully realized architectural project. Shown with Frances are her brothers Charlie Fox ’13 (left) and Blair Fox ’07 (right).
at the Hillyard’s home. Ali and Perrin met at Washington and Lee University. Currently, the couple is in graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania, Ali at the School of Dental Medicine and Perrin at the Wharton School.
John Kamfonas is travelling to India Steve Muir, Hon. reports that his daughter, Heather Muir ’04, got engaged to Jake McKeon ’02. They will be married November 10, 2012. Many of their EA classmates will be in the bridal party and in attendance.
2005 Class Agents: Nick Morris and Packy McCormick
Ali Hillyard was married to Perrin Walker Monroe on May 12, 2012,
this summer to conduct a residency at the Bangalore School of Music where he will be giving solo piano performances around town as well as classes and lessons to the students studying at the school. In addition to sharing his own music background, he will have the opportunity to interact with Indian musicians and learn more about the musical traditions of India. This cross cultural exchange is his first international project towards community outreach and enrichment through musical performance and education. Since Bangalore School of Music can’t fund this residency alone he has set up a fundraising page on Rockethub.com. The Web site is www. rockethub.com/projects/6485-musicaljourney-to-india-a-cultural-exchange
2006 Class Agents: Allie Fitzpatrick and Kelsey Reinhard
Zach Morse reports: “I graduated from Princeton in June 2010 with a BA in Geosciences. I moved to Manhattan after graduation and started work as a Corporate Legal Assistant in one the M&A groups at Cravath, Swaine, & Moore LLP. Last winter, I changed paths slightly and joined Archstone Partners, an institutional fund of hedge funds, as a Research Associate in Manhattan.”
Eva Kohn reports: “I recently started a L to R; Spencer Hoffman ’05, Madeline Lurio ’05, Bridget Henwood ’05, Liz Brennan ’05, Ali, Woodie Hillyard ’08, Fran Nassau ’08, and Kimberly Kirkpatrick ’08.
Sports Management division which represents NBA, MLB Players, and recently expanded to the NFL with Andrew Luck. I work directly for Arn Tellem, who leads this division and hope to stay with this company for many years and eventually become a certified sports agent with my own group of clients. LA has been great, and it is a dream to be this close to a beach every day.”
Rob McCallion recently got engaged to Audrey Hansen.
Rob (shown left) couldn’t pass up this opportunity to share some good news with Sam Daley (shown right). Both former members of the vestry, they went on to graduate from Artillery School at Fort Sill, Oklahoma together on February 14th (Sam placed 4th out of 134). They both took different paths to reach the same place in the service of our country. Rob is a graduate of West Point, where he was a standout lacrosse player. Sam graduated from Colgate and was a member of their elite male singing group.
2007 Class Agents: Rahul Jha, Shane Isdaner, Annie Spofford, and Megan McFarland
new job in Los Angeles at Wasserman Media Group. I work in their Team
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ClassNotes Yasha Shahidi writes: “I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania last spring with the Class of 2011. I received a BA in philosophy and a minor in political science, which was in essence the pre-law curriculum. In addition to this, during my time at Penn I spent a total of one year in China (Shanghai); first as a student where I studied Mandarin and international law, then as law clerk for a Chinese law firm in Shanghai the following summer. I am now enrolled in Rutgers Law School for the fall of 2012 where I plan to study international law.” Andi Fieger is currently a project manager with Tombolo Interactive, a small start-up company located in Boulder, Colorado. She works with clients in the gaming and interactive industry.
2008
Alejandro Rettig y Martinez was named to the 2011 Philadelphia Inquirer/Philly-SIDA Academic AllArea Men’s Soccer Team. He was also named to the All-Centennial Conference second team and Centennial academic honor roll for the third time in his career.
Zander Lee graduated from Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service with a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service concentrating in international security studies. He is currently exploring job opportunities in different areas and is working part-time in Washington, DC at National Security Associates Worldwide.
2009 Class Agents: Erin Flynn, Bob Wassell, and Caroline Hanamirian
Class Agent: Blake Shafer
Monique Andes is the Marketing Coordinator for Philadelphia law firm, Zarwin, Baum. DeVito, Kaplan, Schaer, & Toddy, P.C. In her second year of coordination efforts for the firm’s annual Zarwin Hub March Madness Event, 2,000 guests were in attendance helping to raise $25,000 and collecting 507 pounds of food for Philabundance, the region’s largest hunger relief organization.
Blake Shafer spent another semester in China with a Middlebury College Program but was back at Bates College for the winter semester. Had a great time visiting fellow ’08 alum Mia Kent in St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland over the spring break. Will be working at Camp Susquehannock this summer in Brackney, PA with EA ’08 alums John Lloyd, Michael Whalen, and Charles Hong.
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RS game. Our friend Marina Floratos, who was in our graduating class came up to see us perform!
In April, Dylan and Olivia Mullen sang the National Anthem at the Boston Celtics game, in July at the Boston Red Sox game, and on New Years Day 2012, they sang the National Anthem at the Miami Dolphins/NY Jets game in Miami! Dylan has been abroad in Rome for the semester, so they are looking forward to their first performance together in months (and biggest live audience)! Olivia attached a picture of Dylan (left) and Olivia (right) in our Red Sox shirts on the day of the
Sarah Coote has been studying painting at the Rhode Island School of Design for the past three years, along with further studies in printmaking, glass, and photography. In her spare time she has done numerous commissioned portraits of family pets and individuals which can be seen on her Web site www.sarahcoote. carbonmade.com. Her main Web site with recent paintings is www. sarahcoote.com. See the picture of one of her more recent paintings, part of the series “an Intellectual and Secular Collection” Oil on Canvas, 50”x50”.
2010 Class Agents: Jake Butts and Kirsten Petrocelli
Bruce Leto released his debut classical piano CD: “Bruce Leto: Schubert to Scarlatti.” (http://www. cdbaby.com/artist/BruceLeto). It is also released on Apple iTunes as well and was offered radio promotion in the US and Canada by Phoenix Classical Records.
Mac Lee just completed his second year at Bates College and will be spending next semester in Prague, Czech Republic studying international politics through Charles University.
2011 Class Agents: Jimmy McEntee and Haley Habenicht
Ned Dana recently returned from a performance tour and community service trip with his college a capella group, Yale Out of the Blue, teaching singing to children in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Ned plans to spend time this summer composing and performing along with EA alumni Kyle Henson, Ben Chung, and Chris Paterno and their band, Runaway Youth.
Runaway Youth members (l to r): Ben Chung ’11, Kyle Henson ’11, Ned Dana ’11, and Chris Paterno ’11.
Amanda Chikowski, rowing in the varsity eight for Bucknell, was the only freshman named to the All-Patriot League Team in the first boat.
Paul Riley, President of the Student Council ’10–’11, was elected by the entire student body to serve as a U-Councilor on the Council of the Princeton University Community (CPUC). The CPUC is a component of Princeton’s Undergraduate Student Government.
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Milestones Marriages/Unions Mike McKeon ’96 to Jennifer Snyder 3/3/2012
Bradd Haley ’97 to Emily Robinson 6/11/2011
John Frazier ’97 to Rebecca Hoggans 9/19/2008
Matt Haldeman ’98 to Lindsay Steinmetz 10/15/2011
Stefan Slowinski ’93 & Gisela Slowinski Nicole Slowinski 12/13/2011
Nathan P. Stauffer, Jr. ’35
Perry de Marco ’94 &
6/12/2010
Kristen de Marco Perry de Marco, III 5/29/2011
Harry G. Toland ’40
Carrie (Long) Greenfield ’95 & Jeffrey Greenfield Samuel Baker Greenfield 3/7/2012
Scott Reynolds ’96 & Aimee Reynolds
11/28/2011
Stuart B. Clark, Jr. ’40
1/31/2012
Gardiner Rogers ’41 3/30/3012
Theodore V. Enslin ’42
Sean Timothy Reynolds 8/10/2011
11/21/2011
Brendan Devlin ’97 & Liz Devlin
Jacques H. Houdry ’43
Ella Rose Devlin 2/20/2012
2/6/2012
Justin Hopkins ’97 &
Charles Scott Venable, Jr. ’43 11/17/2011
7/2/2011
Stephanie Hopkins Kaelah Hopkins 10/7/2002 Marabel Hopkins 7/13/2007 Lucie Hopkins 6/9/2010
Ali Hillyard ’05 to
Chris Fallon ’98 & Kelli Fallon
Andrew Rogers ’98 to Jessica L. Wittebols 9/16/2011
Justin Alfano ’99 to Kylie Thomson 4/14/2012
Mike Good ’99 to Jocelyn Brown
Perrin Walker Monroe 5/12/2012
Caroline Susan Fallon 5/10/2012
Births
John Frazier age 3 Cora Rebecca Frazier 2/29/2012
Jim Young ’79 & Michele Young
John Frazier ’98 & Rebecca Frazier
James Thorington, II ’45 2/12/2012
James D. Geary ’47 11/9/2011
William J. McCarter ’47 4/21/2011
Henry S. Ruth, Jr. ’48
Colby Hall ’98 & Ben Heller
3/16/2012
David Colgate Heller 3/30/2012
Henry H. Sherk ’48
Enzo Franklin Royce Fedele 3/26/2012
Lexi (Krotec) Peskin ’98 &
4/9/2012
Andrew Snyder ’88 & Gayle Snyder
Aaron Peskin Charlotte Temple Peskin 2/17/2012
Sanford D. Beecher, Jr. ’50
Jen (Watters) Bergman ’99 &
James R. Leo ’52
Campbell Young 2/23/2011
Stephen Fedele ’87 & Cathy Fedele
Julia Snyder 1/18/2008
Stephen Rothenberg ’88 & Karen Rothenberg Jacob Rothenberg 11/11/2009 Calvin Thomas Rothenberg 5/2/2012
Dan Kessler ’94 & Teri (Noone) Kessler ’95 Maeve Noone Kessler 4/22/2012
Betsy (Williams) Moore ’93 & Tom Moore Eleanor Grace Moore 2/13/2012
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Jeremy Bregman Lucy Virginia Bergman 5/3/2012
Julie (Burns) Irwin ’03 & Aren Irwin Sebi Barton Irwin 4/14/2012
Deaths
4/23/2012
12/14/2011
John LaCour Ashburner ’56 2/19/2012
Sumner R. Ziegra, Jr. ’68 5/12/2010
William Forbes ’33
Andrew Seitel ’82
9/15/2011
1/26/2009
James C. Carey ’34
Joseph J. Coffey ’87
4/11/2012
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