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Board of Trustees Thomas C. Barry P’01,’03,’05 John Coumantaros ’80, P’16 Ian R. Desai ’00 Thomas J. Edelman ’69, P’06,’07 William R. Elfers ’67, Vice President John E. Ellis III ’74 Lawrence Flinn, Jr. ’53
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Howard C. Bissell ’55, P’82
Katheryn Allen Berlandi ’88 Ex-Officio
John R. Chandler, Jr. ’53, P’82,’85,’87, GP’10
William J. Benedict Jr. ’70, P’08, ’10
Frederick Frank ’50, P’12
Miriam Beveridge ’86
David L. Luke III ’41
Adam Casella ’06
Dr. Robert A. Oden, Jr. P’97
Robert V. Chartener ’76
Francis T. Vincent, Jr. ’56, P’85
Caldwell Hart ’87, P’16
Arthur W. White P’71,’74, GP’08,’11
Keith Holmes ’77 Bernice Leung Lin ’88
Diana Gomez ’76, P’11,’12
Alessandra H. Nicolas ’95
Sean M. Gorman ’72, Secretary
Nichole R. Phillips ’89
Edward Greenberg ’55 Kevin M. Hicks, Ex Officio Elizabeth Gardner Hines ’93 Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet ’85 Eleanor Green Long ’76 Forrest E. Mars, Jr. ’49, P’77,’82 GP’09,’09,’11,’11,’14, Vice President Christopher H. Meledandri ’77, Vice President Kendra S. O’Donnell Jean Weinberg Rose ’80, President Roger K. Smith ’78, P’08 Jane Sommers-Kelly ’81
Alumni Association Board of Governors
For more information please contact: Megan Denault ’03, Associate Director of Alumni Relations, at (860) 435-3114 or mdenault@hotchkiss.org. You may also visit www.hotchkiss.org/alumni and click on Events & Reunions.
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Vice Presidents Christina M. Bechhold ’03
Carolyn H. Toolan ’97
Michael G.T. Thompson ’66 Stephanie Bowling Zeigler ’84 Ex-Officio
Keith E. Bernard Jr. ’95, Chair, Alumni of Color Committee Patricia Barlerin Farman-Farmaian ’85, Chair, Gender Committee
John L. Thornton ’72, P’10,’11,’16, Officer-at-Large
Thomas R. Seidenstein ’91 Chair, Alumni Services Committee
Stephanie Bowling Ziegler ’84
Casey H. Reid ’01 David Sei-ngee Tan ’91
Quinn Fionda ’91, Chair, Communications Committee
Daniel Wilner '03
Hullihen (Chip) D. Quarrier III ’90
President Edward J. Greenberg ’55
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William B. Tyree ’81, P’14, Treasurer
Daniel N. Pullman ’76, P’14 Ex-Officio
George A. Takoudes ’87, Chair, Nominating Committee Douglas Campbell III, ’71, P’01, Secretary and Chair, Nominating Subcommittee for Membership
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Our pages in this issue are replete with the stories of Hotchkiss people, present and past. Here you will find the heroic Dr. Charles Snead Houston ’31; former faculty member Walter J. Crain, Jr., honored with a named scholarship; coaching great Nels Corey P’71,’72; enthusiastic advocate for Residential Life Chris Redlich ’68; and author Tom Reiss ’82, our first 21st-century recipient of the Pulitzer Prize. In their examples we see a commitment to Hotchkiss ideals through the generations.
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Divya Symmers Communications Writer
By Kevin Hicks: Excerpts from Chapel Talks and Recent Programs at Hotchkiss
WRITERS AND CONTRIBUTORS
Joan Baldwin P’04 Robin Chandler ’87 Kevin M. Hicks Henry McNulty John H. Reaves ’74 and Rear Admiral Len Hering Alexander D. Stuart ’68 Divya Symmers Brenda Underwood
The Hotchkiss School does not discriminate on the basis of age, sex, religion, race, color, sexual orientation, or national orientation in the administration of its educational policies, athletics, or other school-administered programs, or in the administration of its hiring and employment practices. Hotchkiss Magazine is produced by the Office of Communications for alumni, parents, and friends of the School. Letters and comments are welcome. Please send inquiries and comments to: Roberta Jenckes, The Hotchkiss School, 11 Interlaken Road, Lakeville, CT 060392141, email to rjenckes@hotchkiss.org, or telephone 860-435-3122.
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THE HEAD OF SCHOOL'S ADDRESS AT THE FIRST AUDITORIUM
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SIXTY YEARS AGO THIS PAST AUGUST, DR. CHARLES SNEAD HOUSTON ’31 LED THE FIFTH ATTEMPT EVER TO CLIMB KARAKORAM, also known as K2—at 28,251 feet, the planet’s second highest mountain, and arguably its deadliest. Traveling light, and trapped for ten days about 3000 feet short of the summit by a violent and unrelenting storm, Dr. Houston’s team was eventually forced to retreat under conditions made even more difficult by one climber’s incapacitation owing to blood clots and the threat of embolism. Though not one of them believed Art Gilkey would survive, they did not discuss his probable fate, or give voice to how their own chances for survival were imperiled by his condition. Using an improvised stretcher to carry him, this “brotherhood of the rope” began its desperate descent with the storm still raging and the risk of avalanche increasing by the hour. As they traversed a slope just 1000 feet below their high camp, one climber’s misstep initiated a mass tumble that peeled the team from the icy face one by one. Pete Schoenig, the last climber in line, somehow managed to belay all five others using his ice axe, thus saving them from a fatal plunge. Gilkey perished soon afterwards: the debate continues as to whether he was swept into an abyss by an avalanche, or committed suicide in order to save his friends from further risk. All of the other climbers, however, survived the grueling descent,
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which took another five frost-bitten days. The Third American Karakoram Expedition did not reach its goal, and cost one life, yet remains “a symbol of all that is best in mountaineering” to cognoscenti because of the remarkable courage and unselfishness with which its members met their misfortune. In the words of Reinhold Messner, the world’s greatest climber: “They were decent. They were strong. And they failed in the most beautiful way you can imagine.” Though Dr. Houston took Gilkey’s death hard, and never again participated in any technical climbs, he transferred his yearning for “unknown regions beyond the rim of experience” to an exemplary life of service and scholarship. Among the first to investigate the physiological effects of high altitude, he also contributed to designs for an artificial heart, was the first director of the Peace Corps for India, and wrote or co-wrote a number of books—including an account of his test on K2 that is revered as a classic text of mountaineering literature. He passed away in 2009 at the age of 96. This summer, as I read the riveting account of the expedition that Dr. Houston helped write— K2, The Savage Mountain (1954)—I couldn’t help but imagine him during his student days: sitting in Chapel, listening to Headmaster George Van Santvoord ’08 extol the School’s four core values—intelligence, discipline, curiosity, and fidelity; standing on the track, being coached by Otto Monahan to brook “no boasting or gloating in victory and no excuses or ABOVE: Kevin Hicks alibis in defeat.” It is easy to associate his exposure to these teachers and their crisp maxims with the spirit he displayed years later on Karakoram. I soon found myself reflecting on all that has transpired here since 1931—primarily in terms of the composition of the student body, our school culture, and the nature of teaching and learning—and the education that the School now offers its novice climbers. The place has changed in profound ways, as has the world. We know that certain of these emendments have led a few people to conclude, even as they grant the ineluctability of evolution, that the Hotchkiss they cherished as students no longer exists. Others, for reasons no less deeply felt, yearn for even swifter and more decisive transformation. Such microcli-
mates of sentiment are natural and common features of schools fortunate enough to have lasted for a century and more. It is, in this sense, not easy for a school and its students to have a lifelong relationship, especially when the school declines—admirably—to vend the fantasy that it stands still, even as its students grow up. Like any relationship, it takes work and patience on all sides, and a motivation that runs deeper than mere nostalgia. The Third American Karakoram Expedition remains on my mind not just because this past August we marked its sixtieth anniversary, and not just because Dr. Houston graduated from ABOVE: Charles Snead Hotchkiss—though the happy convenience of Houston, photo from those two facts is undeniable. As our academ- the 1931 Mischianza ic year moves into high gear, and my first year as Head of School begins, I am frankly eager for the warm reassurance of stories in which decent people face their challenges together. It’s a cliché because it’s true: in the face of adversity, we do well to concentrate on the values that unite us. No less so than in Dr. Houston’s day, noble and deserving students come to Hotchkiss from across the nation and around the world to learn what they must do and how to do it. The School remains a place where they discover that wisdom and character are realized in action. And, though many alumni may hold that “the Duke” and “Monnie” are among those enshrined on the School’s theoretical Rushmore, and can neither be imitated nor surpassed—and they may well be right on that!—we are nonetheless still blessed with fine teachers who take their craft seriously, mind the perpetual gap between reality and aspiration, and every day lean bravely into the always dynamic tension between tradition and innovation. For me, Dr. Houston’s story merits our attention because it encourages us to believe that a “K2 moment” is coming that we will recognize as our own if we have prepared ourselves for it; a moment in which we may be called upon to be brave, constant, and temperate, and to offer others whatever protection we can muster. We are made strong, after all, by what we give to others, and by what we sacrifice in order to live well with one another. We are made strong by our respect for others, and by our compassion. A life lived in this spirit is likely to be a worthy one; a school community invested in this faith is likely to be one in which most, if not all, thrive. Here at Hotchkiss, the field is still tilled by teachers who believe in students sometimes before the students believe in themselves, and the harvest of their labor is still realized in all corners of the globe, often in ways that could not have been predicted in someone’s Prep year. In 2013—as in 1931, and as in perpetuity if we work hard and together—a Hotchkiss education remains an authentic way to discover the world and contribute to its transformation, for others’ benefit as well as one’s own.
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EXCERPTS FROM CHAPEL TALKS AND RECENT PROGRAMS AT HOTCHKISS
BY DR. KEVIN M. HICKS
Well, the first thing is to make sure that the journey you’re calling yours really is. Sometimes it’s not. When I was twelve or thirteen, school got harder, and I started to earn better results than some of my friends. Someone—probably a well-intentioned teacher—then did me the “favor” of saying something like “You know, if you keep this up, you might be able to go to Stanford.” I’m pretty sure I spent the next few years of my life not trying to look better than everyone else, but rather trying to look like all the other kids who were being told they might get to go to Stanford. Thus, even as my teachers went on and on about “excellence” and “creativity,” I learned how to do tricks for biscuits. It took getting knocked off those rails for a little while for me to learn that once you stop trying to look right, you can start looking like yourself. “On Finding Your Calling,” Chapel Talk, September 2011
When I lived in New Haven, on Sundays when the weather was good, I would sometimes ride my bike up to Guilford and back. It’s about a fiftymile ride, and lovely once you reach Route 146, which runs along the shoreline. At some point, a fellow bicyclist would pass me. It was often some version of a guy, around fifty years old and really fit, mounted on an $8000 carbon-frame bike and dressed in European spandex, like he had taken a wrong turn near Dijon and become separated from the pele-
ton. It never seemed to fail that, as he passed me, I would sense in his carriage and deportment an irrepressible air of victory. “Yes!” I could almost hear him saying to himself. “I just beat that guy!” Meaning me. Now, isn’t this a curious thing? Two riders depart from different locations at different times, riding for different purposes on different routes of different lengths, and simply because one rider happens to pass another at the one moment these two rides converge, that passing rider thinks he’s won something, and the passed rider, unless he is mindful, may just as easily assume that he’s lost something. Lunacy, of course, and yet every year, here atop this beautiful hill in the Northwest Corner, about 600 rides happen to converge: different people, each on his or her own journey; some of them spending their days locked in one of two convictions: either that they are ahead or that they are behind. Ahead or behind what, exactly? Would that we could dispel both convictions right now, simply by pronouncing the unassailable truth: “You are on your own ride.” “Power With, Power Within,” Chapel Talk, October 2012
ABOVE: At the first Auditorium of the 2013-14 school year, Head of School Kevin Hicks speaks to assembled students, faculty, and staff.
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LEFT: “We can celebrate and draw upon the spirit of those who have preceded us—to the pews in this Chapel …” Kevin Hicks, Chapel Talk, April 2011 plain sight—that is truly worthy of our patient faith in the possibility of an excellence that is as authentic as it is inclusive. “On Finding Your Calling,” Chapel Talk, September 2011
Friends tease me when I say it, but I believe that physical spaces— classrooms in the Main Building, the darkroom, the VS common room, Sprole Field—have something very much like memory. What we do while in these spaces helps to define them, which is why we must always try to invest them with our best selves. Those who follow us here will know us by what we have done—if not personally, then intuitively, energetically. And if we approach such places with lucidity and stillness, free of the delusion that the world began with us, we can celebrate and draw upon the spirit of those who have preceded us—to the pews in this Chapel; to the seats in Walker Auditorium; to a particular memorial bench perfectly placed between the jungle gym of our early childhood and the horizon towards which we must lean. This is most often invisible history, and a thoroughly faith-based initiative, rooted in the strength of one’s imagination and sympathy, and here it stretches back 120 years. “The One You Feed,” Chapel Talk, April 2011
Some of you may recall that in Book 3 of the Aeneid, the gods that Anchises salvaged as Troy fell come to his son Aeneas in a dream. As Aeneas shares their oracular counsel, Anchises concludes that his interpretation of Apollo’s earlier command for the Trojans “to seek out their ancient mother”—which he had assumed to be a reference to Crete, a place where they have found nothing but travail—was incorrect; that the Trojans’ true destiny actually awaits them in Italy—their “ancient mother” by a different bloodline. “Let us yield to Phoebus,” Anchises announces, “and pursue a better course.” In selecting that line as the School’s motto in 1891, our first headmaster, Edward Coy, translated it as “Let growing wisdom guide us to better ways”—an admirable sentiment, in and of itself. What is lost, though, in removing the line from its literary context is how elegantly our motto captures the eternal risk of interpretation; the equally timeless transfer of knowledge and authority from one generation to the next; and the epic hero’s distinctive capacity—reflecting with humility upon newly acquired information, be it sacred or profane—to redirect a journey exercising a voice uninflected by either shame or anxiety. Reading the motto in this light, we discover a moral—long hidden in
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What if, in the end, after a long life, the content of our character will be calculated as the sum total of the best and worst we have ever done? Were that the case for sure, what would I do but try to author, as often as is possible, my best self on the blank page of each day? And how else would I respond to the errors I may make today but with redoubled efforts to write more cleanly and to better effect tomorrow? Now, as I say that, here’s something to keep in mind. We don’t always get to choose how we are held accountable for our bad decisions, or how others interpret our behavior. So it’s probably wise to have some sort of ritual that each morning precedes the taking of the pen in hand, something that alerts us to the importance of writing ourselves as well as we can in the moment we’re doing so, because nothing will be erased, and not everything will be received as we intend it for it to be. “The Rock in the River is the River Also,” Chapel Talk, March 2012
In recent years, most good schools have become alert to the need to teach and hone their students’ critical thinking skills, and alert, too, to the urgency of demonstrating their success in metric terms. Hotchkiss has always believed that to properly equip its students as critical thinkers—to teach them to read, write, listen, speak, research, and calculate—is to help them resist the tyranny of received ideas, and so be able to see and act effectively upon the need for change wherever it is rightly perceived.
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To do this healthily and authentically, a school must align its curriculum with opportunities for students to develop a fine and mindful character; an evolving set of fundamental skills; and an intuitive, open-hearted understanding of how to productively and peacefully engage with parents, peers, teachers, other adults, and the school—as well as civil society and the natural world. But here’s the challenge. Critical thinking skills are viscous and volatile in their early expression. Developing them can be a messy business. As a teacher, I always thought that I was inching towards success when my students pushed back on an assignment that they thought was asking them to do nothing more than color within the lines. Too often and at too many schools, students are rewarded simply for doing what they intuit is being asked of them, and teachers’ expectations (of process, as well as outcome) are informed by assumptions that are ultimately congruent with their students’ assumptions. It is in everyone’s best interest to create and sustain an environment that draws us into the kind of consistent, creative self-scrutiny that disrupts the invisible economy by which obedience is inadvertently privileged over daring. This is hard work, both philosophically and practically. And as much as anything, it describes the challenge we’ve all undertaken in coming to Hotchkiss. Address to Cum Laude Inductees, May 2013
To give a significant portion of one’s life to a school—to offer daily the colossal, unique energy that Plato had in mind when, in The Republic, he describes teaching as “the art of turning the soul”—this is both an act of courage and a testament of faith in the power of institutions to do good. The debt we incur to such mentors can and must be calculated, but can never be repaid, at least not directly. We meet our obligations to these people only by extending ourselves in patience and generosity to someone else—just as they, in helping us as they have, are working off their own debts to teachers long-gone. Remarks in Honor of Teachers Celebrating 25 Years of Service to Hotchkiss, May 2013
I want to conclude with a passage from a little known book—Nothing Personal by James Baldwin (1964). Baldwin, one of America’s fine postwar writers, happened to be black and gay at a time when just one of those descriptors was sufficient to relegate a person to marginality at best, and physical peril at worst. That fact, which one might say is at once immaterial and central in a uniquely American way, combines with the clarity and intelligence of the following passage to remind us all of the rewards that attend learning how to speak our truth as well as we listen to truths offered by others. “Nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling
to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.” Remarks on MLK Day and the Inauguration, January 2013
For more than 120 years, this is where the future has come to rehearse: in classrooms and common rooms; in labs and on stages; on grass and wood, in water and on ice; on the lake and rivers and now on the Farm; using hearts, minds, and hands. To come here in any capacity has always been to challenge others, be challenged by others, and to challenge oneself: to define and pursue excellence free of perfectionism; to dream big and master the art of the possible; to learn how to work well alone and together. I am dedicated to the School’s central proposition: “that education is the means by which we both discover our world and contribute to its transformation, and that one’s education is best pursued in the company of others, for others’ benefit as well as one’s own.” In that spirit, I will add this: the living of one’s life is meant to be a joyous experience, especially for those who live in and around schools. That doesn’t mean that we are always joyous, or that things always go our way. We know that isn’t so, just as we know that the truest tests of character come when we face hard times, and the curriculum of those struggles—up to a point—gives this School its enduring value. That said, if we take mindful account of our own human ecology, and move at a pace and with a purpose that respects the dignity of all souls, we will be happy and whole more often than we are not, we will reap as much as we give, and we will serve as honorable stewards of an enterprise that was here before we were and will remain after we’re gone. Remarks on Accepting Appointment as Head of School, December 2012
ABOVE: Students and faculty members listen to Hicks during Convocation in the Katherine M. Elfers Hall of the Esther Eastman Music Center.
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THE RESIDENTIAL LIFE INITIATIVE ENSURING THE BEST OF BOARDING SCHOOL LIFE FOR OUR STUDENTS | BY ROBERTA JENCKES
Hotchkiss students learn about themselves, others, and the world in every moment of every day. Because we are a boarding school, our students’ education isn’t limited to what they discover in our classrooms. In the dormitories, especially, we expect that our students will learn how to live purposefully, demonstrate respect for others, and seek support from mentors and caring adults. “The ‘central value proposition’ of a boarding school must be the quality and integrity of its community life,” says Head of School Kevin Hicks. “This commitment informs our approach to residential life and, more specifically, our approach to housing students, as well as teachers and their families.” The multi-year Residential Life Initiative continues to bring needed improvements to our older dorms – Coy, Tinker, Buehler, and Memorial Halls. The Initiative also includes the decommissioning, in 2014, of Bissell Hall and the building of its replacement, a new 60-bed dormitory being designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects
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AND THE NEW REDLICH HALL of New York. The firm’s founder and senior partner, Robert A.M. Stern, is Dean of the Yale School of Architecture. Stern Architects also designed Flinn Hall and Edelman Hall, which occupy the same quad on which the new dorm will be located. This new dormitory, scheduled to open for students in September 2016, will be named Redlich, honoring donor Chris Redlich ’68 of Hillsborough, CA. In making the gift, Mr. Redlich spoke eloquently of the importance of providing top-quality, modern living spaces to Hotchkiss faculty members and their families. His support of this goal through his gift will strengthen the School’s ability to attract and retain great teachers. And Stern Architects’ design for the new residence hall shows every indication of living up to the promise of first-rate accommodations for students and superb lifestyle housing for the dorm faculty living there. Says Dean of Residential Life Jen Craig P’15, “Redlich’s communal and private spaces; its size, lighting elements, windows, and setting; and the housing options that the dorm will provide for both single and double rooms for boarding and day students – all of these design elements intentionally and positively impact the life skills that students gain through living and working here at Hotchkiss.”
ABOVE: Redlich Hall, the ground floor; rendering by Robert A.M. Stern Architects
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Redlich’s four faculty residences will accommodate growing families while also offering single teachers and couples comfortable and generous living spaces. These apartments will encourage interaction and communication between students and their dorm faculty while also taking into account faculty accessibility and family privacy.
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ABOVE: At Opening Days, a new friendship starts with finding one’s way around campus. BELOW RIGHT: In the dorm, there’s always time for sharing online journeys.
The planning involved in the various phases of the Residential Life Initiative has been intensive. Early work on renovations to the School’s older dorms revealed the need for Bissell, now nearing 120 years of age, to come down. While inspection verified that the building is sound, it shows the effects of more than a century of use and multiple renovations, and its layout of faculty apartments on separate floors from students is unlike that of other dorms, where faculty apartments open directly onto a dormitory floor. Once Bissell’s outmoded situation was determined, Residential Life planners turned their attention to discussing options for campus housing during the construction of the new dorm. According to Assistant Head of School Josh Hahn, chair of the Master Planning Committee, members of several campus and trustee groups contributed to the discussion of the options. An architect was invited to study different sites for temporary housing on School properties and make recommendations; students from Design classes spoke at length with the architects, contributing their ideas; and in all, the committee considered about 25 options. Ultimately, it was decided that some faculty dorm apartments in Flinn, Edelman, and Watson dormitories could be temporarily converted to student rooms. This approach would keep faculty-student ratios in line with existing limits. The remaining 10-12 students will be housed, along with dorm faculty, in renovated dormitory structures within two current faculty homes. One is the Larsen House, now occupied by Chris and Caroline Burchfield and their family, and the other is Cleaveland Cottage, located at the corner of Routes 112 and 41 and formerly occupied by Lou and Kathy Pressman. Cleaveland Cottage, which dates to the 18th century, is undergoing extensive renovation to transform it into a top-of-the-line small dorm for students during the construction period. After Redlich is completed, it will be used as a home for a faculty family.
CELEBRATING BISSELL Not to be forgotten in all the planning for future students’ housing, Bissell Hall is being celebrated throughout the 2013-2014 school year. The commemoration began at Reunion in June, when alumni reminiscences were recorded on video, and will continue with programs involving alumni and current students throughout the year. On its opening in 1894, Bissell provided 50 new beds and faculty cottages in a location linked to Main. The name honors its donor, Maria Bissell Hotchkiss, and the yellow brick is the same as that of the original Main, produced in Perth Amboy, NJ, and doubtless transported by Hudson River barge and by rail across Dutchess County to Lakeville.
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In the 1930s, Bissell housed staff members. Later, in the 1970s, facing an expanded coeducational enrollment, the trustees decided to re-commission Bissell as a dormitory. In 1973, the building was completely gutted and refitted by architect Evans Woollen ’45, with rooms for 59 students and three new faculty apartments. For almost four decades, it has been home to Hotchkiss girls, except for the 1974-75 school year, when a select number of boys had the privilege to live there. The stories of girls’ (and a few boys’) lives in Bissell Hall are being welcomed and collected, along with those of former resident faculty, and along with stories of a resident ghost (said to be a kindly woman). These pieces of Hotchkiss history will be shared with the Hotchkiss Archives. A timeline for Bissell Hall has been created and is available online (www.hotchkiss.org/archives). Caroline Sallee Reilly ’87, director of alumni relations and former Bissell resident, is spearheading the celebratory program; alumni with history or anecdotes to share are welcome to send them to her at creilly@hotchkiss.org.
ABOVE: Senior Associate Director of Admission Amanda Bohnsack, with students in her dorm
MISSION OF THE RESIDENTIAL LIFE PROGRAM Our dormitories are places of shelter, safety, rest, study, spontaneous fun, and leisure. They are also places where our students must learn to mature intellectually, emotionally, and physically, and to live healthily, happily, and effectively with others in order to prepare for, most imminently, the greater liberty of college life. Residential life at Hotchkiss provides a social context for and complement to the broader educational purposes of the School. As a boarding school, our commitment to and investment in the quality of residential life must be paramount. We seek to offer to our students an experience of community designed to prepare them for college life by training them to: • Learn to live with people they don’t know, may not understand, and didn’t choose; • Manage their time, energy, and liberty; • Practice empathy and integrity; • Understand the relationship between self and other; • Negotiate, transform, and learn from conflict or adversity; • Engage with and solicit help from adults; • Learn how and when to be self-reliant; • Share; • Build and enjoy meaningful friendships. We believe that these skills will enhance our students’ personal and public lives in college dorms, professional communities, neighborhoods, and with eventual partners and families of their own. To this end, all aspects of residential life will be evaluated in terms of social psychology and adolescent neuroscience research, and be designed intentionally for the wellbeing of all, and not necessarily for the exclusive comfort of one.
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MAN OF HISTORY: TOM REISS ’82 | BY DIVYA SYMMERS The Shed at The Mount, Edith Wharton’s former home in Lenox, Massachusetts, filled up quickly on a summer afternoon as a packed audience gathered to hear Tom Reiss, the 2013 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for biography, talk about his book, The Black Count. A riveting tale about the father of 19th-century author Alexandre Dumas, who in real life lived the derring-do stories his son immortalized in The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers, The Black Count is rich with detail and diamond-sharp slivers of illuminating research. In August, it also received the PEN Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for biography, and if there were a prize for the book most likely to keep you enthralled on a desert island, it would probably win that, too. Who knew, for instance, that Dumas pére’s father was the son of an African slave from Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) and a renegade French aristocrat, and was sold into slavery for two years by his own father? Or that this dashingly handsome biracial hero of the French Revolution would languish in prison, and saddest of all, end up erased from history, thanks to a fellow-general named Bonaparte? Or even that, more than 200 years ago, in the early days of the French Republic there existed a short but glorious epoch when all men truly were equal? “The life of this man, General Alex Dumas, was really one of the most incredible underdog stories of all time. It’s also the most incredible unknown African-American story of all time – unknown because here’s a guy who begins life as a slave, he’s 16 when his father sells him as a slave, and has risen, by the time he’s 30, to the rank of the equivalent of a four-star general in the French army,” Reiss explained. “No black officer achieved a similar rank in a white Western army until Colin Powell in our own time.” Standing behind the podium in a short-sleeved shirt and khaki pants, Tom Reiss, Hotchkiss Class of 1982, has the kind of energetic good looks unexpected in someone who spends years sifting through dusty archives for fragile letters covered with spidery handwriting. A historian and journalist (The Black Count is his third book, and he also writes for The New Yorker), he’s been a huge fan of the novels of Alexandre Dumas since childhood, especially The Count of Monte Cristo, “the most popular book among prisoners in many countries, the ultimate story of overcoming the worst circumstances and never giving up hope.” By the time he was 12 or 13, Tom had read everything he could get his hands on, including the 10-volume memoir Dumas wrote at the age of 45. Despite its length, Tom loved it, especially the first volume, which runs for 200 pages before reaching the author’s birth date and tells the amazing story of his father, General Alexandre Dumas. “It was clear to me that this was like reading about d’Artagnan, Porthos, Athos, and Edmond Dantes all rolled into one person, all set during the French Revolution, with serious politics and history as back-
ground,” he said at The Mount. One especially vivid scene in the memoir was unforgettable and decades later helped inspire Tom to recreate the lost general’s story: the night in 1806 when young Alexandre’s father died of stomach cancer, the result of poisoning while in a dungeon in Italy. This, too, would impel the son to recreate his father’s forgotten life in fiction. “There is something so moving about the way that the novelist Dumas remembers his father. He had been one of the greatest heroes of France. He had led 53,000 French troops through the Alps, at 14,000 feet, on a glacier, to fight the Austrians – and ten years later, he cannot even receive a military pension.” There was a worn French copy of Le Comte de Monte Cristo on the family bookshelf when Tom was growing up, a 1938 Hachette edition that had belonged to his mother as a child. Born in France to refugee F a l l
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parents who died in a concentration camp, she survived World War II in hiding and was later placed in an orphanage. The book came in a care package, and she was swept away by the story, but the orphanage had a strict curfew and it was taken away when she was caught reading after dark. Happily, her uncle – who brought her to the United States – bought her the exact same edition, and along with other books by Dumas, it filled Tom’s childhood with spectacular deeds performed in the face of great odds. The Reiss family first lived on the northwest tip of Manhattan, in Washington Heights, but when he and his brother were very young, they moved to Texas, where his father served as an air force neurosurgeon and his mother was a psychiatrist. Tom was still in grade school when they moved east again, to the Springfield, Massachusetts, area, where by his own account he got into a lot of fights. “I showed up feeling like a double outsider, a kid from New York with a Texas accent, and everybody wanted to fight with me,” he remembers. “By the time I got to high school, I was a kind of rebel-without-a cause kid, a perennial outsider, looking to live on the edge.” Hotchkiss in 1980 was a whole different world, he says, and entering as a lower mid he was bemused at first by the lingering preppie culture of the era. But, he confesses, “It was a great experience at that age, and it helped me to get used to seeing anybody’s point of view, which is still what I use as a biographer.”
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As an upper mid, and definitely not a jock (he ran track and loved throwing discus but says he wasn’t very good), Tom and some friends decided to start a newspaper about sports, called The Hotchkiss Press, inspired partly by his admiration for Hemingway, partly because the other campus publications were over-staffed. “Rather than competing against this incredible scrum of people who wanted to write for the two existing school papers about all the same things, I found a different topic. It was far from being my ideal topic, but I discovered that everything is interesting. And to me, that’s the great skill you learn as a writer.” He chose Jack Kerouac, for whom he’d developed an adolescent affinity, as the subject of his Teagle essay. But less than a week before the essay was due, he woke up one morning and decided he didn’t like Kerouac after all. In fact, he was bored with him, though he still found the beatnik lifestyle inspiring. “He became somebody whose lifestyle overtook his writing and destroyed it. I guess he became too much of a drunk and his view of himself too grandiose. I really loved Jack Kerouac until I stopped loving him.” Throwing out everything he’d written about Kerouac and the Beats, he confessed his dilemma to his English teacher, John Bowen, “a wonderful man, with spectacles and a small peering face that seemed to be looking out on the 1980s with the gaze of someone from the 1930s or 1940s.” “Mr. Reiss, this is very interesting,” said Mr. Bowen, “but am I incorrect in assuming your class is handing in their Teagles at the end of this week?” Tom laughs and remembers, “He looked at me with this quizzical expression. It was very open-ended and very elegant. As opposed to saying something like, ‘you’re going to flunk out,’ he just left it in my hands.” Looking around for a new topic, Tom quickly opted for Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes, finding everything he could by or about him in the Edsel Ford Memorial Library, and setting up his desk in the Dana common room; even going so far as to tell dorm mates they weren’t allowed to watch TV for the next 72 hours. “Somehow everybody seemed to think it was really cool that I was going to write my Teagle essay in 72 hours, with no sleep. They were like, ‘Oh, Reiss is crazy!’ It took more than 72 hours but I never left that common room. It was my greatest fellowship experience at Hotchkiss: All the kids in the dorm brought me food. I even talked one guy into schlepping books for me to and from the library. I think they thought it was kind of romantic – here’s this guy typing away on one of those continuous rolls of paper, like Kerouac, who of course by then I’d rejected.” The resulting essay, “The Blues and Langston Hughes,” was the first time he felt he’d written something that captured the viewpoint of a figure from another time, someone he admired and wanted to write about. “I really felt like I had put myself in his head,” Tom says. “I also think it was almost a week late, but I finally handed it in to Mr. Bowen, who was not famously flexible; he was sort of old-school. But he read it, and then he told me that, even though it was not correct that I’d done it at the last moment or handed it in late, it was the best thing I’d ever shown him.” Lou Pressman, his philosophy teacher and advisor, was also “enormously important to him,” Tom says today, and so was Julia Wu, who taught a class in Japanese history, “one of the first history classes that I got very excited about. I was so interested that Far East Asian Studies
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became the first of my many different majors at Harvard.” “Tom was an extraordinary student,” remembers Julia Wu Trethaway, instructor in history, who was still Miss Wu in those days. “He asked a lot of questions regarding the different cultures – Asia versus the West – and his questions were incisive and deep.” School Chaplain Lou Pressman, too, has vivid memories of Tom’s “wonderfully restless curiosity,” and is unsurprised by his former student’s success as a historian and biographer. “If you would have asked me what he’s going to go on and do in life I would have said I have no idea, but I know it will be charting his own path. Tom was wonderfully exciting to teach, because he wasn’t going to accept anybody’s conclusions, whether it was an eminent philosopher’s or his teacher’s. He really was somebody who thought for himself. And when you look at his books, the most recent one, the Dumas book, his first one, the skinhead book, and his second, The Orientalist, which is wonderful, you can see that they’re all the products of that kind of mind.”
DEATHBED NOTEBOOKS, A VAULT, AND A VERY LONG LUNCH After winning the Prize in Philosophy & Religion at Hotchkiss, Tom embarked on a rotating series of majors at Harvard, including Asian studies, art history, philosophy, and history. He didn’t like the way history was taught there and finally decided on English, although even English “was way more interesting in Mr. Bowen’s class than it ever was at Harvard.” He graduated in 1986 and, with a friend, started an industrial film business in Boston. Surprisingly, they made money. He decided to use some of it to see what it was like living in Texas as an adult and applied to the University of Houston’s creative writing program, so he could study with Donald Barthelme, whose work he greatly admired. When Barthelme died not long after he got there, Tom went to Germany, former home of his father’s family and a place he had always longed to see for himself. He learned German fluently enough to interview residents of Berlin, Dresden, and Leipzig during the months following the fall of the Berlin Wall and got his first big writing break covering neo-Nazi riots in Dresden for The Wall Street Journal. He also became fascinated with Ingo Hasselbach, the leader of the East German neo-Nazis, whose violence and racism seemed, at least in part, a reaction against his father, a die-hard Communist and the head of youth radio in the former East Germany; hating anything to do with Communism, Hasselbach had rebelled first by becoming a hippie, then a punk, and then a far-right skinhead, after spending time locked in a prison cell with Dresden’s former Gestapo chief. By the time Tom met him, Hasselbach had renounced violence and racism and gone on the run from former comrades. He and Tom holed up in a safe house in Sweden, where six weeks of interviews became the English-language version of his life, a tale of extreme teenage rebellion in the midst of cultural displacement (Fuhrer-Ex: Memories of a Former Neo-Nazi; Random House, 1996). The book led to Tom’s first (jointbylined) article in The New Yorker (“How Nazis are Made”). Three years later, a visit with Hotchkiss classmate Amir Farman-Farma, then living in Baku, Azerbaijan, would lead to his second (“The Man From the East”). Officially under contract to write about the 1990s oil boom in Baku for Condé Nast Traveler, Tom remembers lying on his old friend’s couch overlooking the Caspian Sea and reading Ali and Nino, a roman-
tic, out-of-print novel about the love between a Muslim boy and a Christian girl. Set in the city before World War I, it painted a lush picture of what had been a tolerant crossroads of Europe and Asia, where Parisian-style mansions stood alongside Zoroastrian temples, and the largest mosque was a copy of the casino in Monte Carlo. Intrigued by the mysteriously hidden identity of the book’s pseudonymous author, Kurban Said, Tom spent the next six years traveling across 10 countries, scouring castle archives and secret police files, in order to unearth the truth: Said was actually one of two pen names for Lev Nussimbaum, a prolific author and son of a wealthy Jewish oil baron in Baku, who had fled the Russian Revolution by camel caravan in 1918 while still a teenager, reinvented himself as a Muslim prince in Nazi-controlled Europe, and – on the run from the Gestapo and an ex-wife in Hollywood – had died at 36, in the seaside Italian village of Positano. Tom’s subsequent 2005 book, The Orientalist (short-listed for the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize) seems conjured from a series of fortuitous events, including the discovery of Lev’s long-lost deathbed diaries. Similar luck and timing came into play with The Black Count, which took another seven years to research, as he retraced General Alex Dumas’s steps from Haiti to France to Egypt and back. In early 2007, Tom arrived in the French town of Villers-Cotterets, where the general had lived and died and where his papers were kept in a vault. The vault’s key belonged to a local museum director who, in a “most unfortunate” turn of events, as the deputy mayor informed him, had died two weeks earlier. The upshot involved long discussions about France’s cultural heritage and at least one wine-soaked lunch, culminating in the hire of a talented locksmith and “seven or eight feet of battered folders, boxes, parchments, and onionskin documents [and] two hours to photograph whatever I could.” This trove also included the manuscript written by the general about his ordeals in prison, a document that directly inspired The Count of Monte Cristo. Thousands of other documents from the 1790s survived
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in French military archives and told more of the remarkable story of a man “who was essentially the Audie Murphy of the French Revolution. “When I started exploring his life, it opened up this moment in history when African-Americans reached a pinnacle of importance and power in white society, in what was the first integrated society at the end of the 18th century, ironically in a country that also had the world’s most important slave empire. Yet it was this society, not the U.S. or England, which decided to end slavery: The French Revolution unilaterally ended slavery, even if briefly, about 70 years before Abraham Lincoln’s emancipation proclamation.” In all three books, Tom grapples with the moral and spiritual implications of outsiders trying to define themselves in the face of dramatic social and cultural change. In doing so, he never lets himself forget his family’s experiences during and after the Holocaust: how regular people living in what they considered the center of world civilization, people with significant lives – doctors, social workers, dress designers, pillars of the community – can find themselves destroyed by a knock on the door. “If there’s a common thread,” he says, “it’s that people are displaced and buffeted by history. It’s a tsunami that sweeps people aside.” Alex Dumas, a true believer in the French Revolution’s liberté, egalité, fraternité, had incredible physical and moral courage. Well over six feet tall, he also seemed larger than life, which didn’t sit well with the future Emperor of France. As Tom relates, an unpublished memoir by Napoleon’s physician, penned during an ill-conceived invasion of Egypt, described how, “among the Muslims, men from every class who were able to catch sight of General Bonaparte were struck by how short and how skinny he was. The one, among our generals, whose appearance struck them [more]…was the General-in-chief of the cavalry, Dumas. Man of color, and by his figure looking like a centaur, when they saw him ride his horse over the trenches… all of them believed that he was the leader of the expedition.” Neither the general’s son, the novelist Alexandre Dumas, nor his grandson, Alexandre Dumas fils, who wrote the novel on which Verdi’s La Traviata is based, were ever able to get him reinstated to his proper place in history. He was literally erased, even from official paintings. “The only official recognition was a statue erected a little more than a hundred years after he died, thanks to a small group of subscribers,
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ABOVE: Tom Reiss (left) and friend Mike Neff, in their senior Misch photo, which was taken in Mike’s room after it was destroyed by fire on May 4, 1982.
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THE CALL THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING Perhaps because of The Black Count, General Dumas will again become a hero of France, Tom mused toward the end of his talk last summer, as The Mount’s tall pines – planted a century earlier by Edith Wharton, another Pulitzer Prize winner – helped block an early evening rainfall. Surprised to learn that he is the fourth Hotchkiss alumnus to win a Pulitzer [the others are Archibald MacLeish and Douglas Stuart Moore, both from the Class of 1911, and John Hersey ’32], Tom smiled when reminded that School records show he wanted to be either a writer or a psychologist. “I think I was also voted the one most likely to find himself. Me and Dave Latham.” Today he has two daughters and lives in New York City, and doesn’t consider himself a typical biographer: “My goal has always been to write a book that is going to last and make an impact on people. A book that, on the one hand, a kid like I was could discover in a library 50 years from now and it could change his life.” Curiosity about other people, the ability to use one life as a window into another time and culture and open up a historical moment – all these are attributes for success, he believes. Still, he never in a million years expected to win a Pulitzer. He got the news at his dentist’s office, where he’d gone that Monday in April after suffering all weekend with a toothache. His phone rang and rang, and finally, he answered; it was his agent and publisher. A minute later, his dentist was passing a piece of paper under his nose for an autograph and declaring that not only was Tom’s dental work free that day, but also it would be free in the future for any other lucky patient who won a Pulitzer while sitting in his chair. Tom laughs and says: “It never remotely crossed my mind that I was even in the running. It was very much like when I won the philosophy prize at Hotchkiss. I remember hearing my name being called. And then the people sitting on either side of me in Auditorium were nudging me, saying, “Reiss, Reiss – that’s you!”
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In the summer of 2012, Priyanka Sekhar ’13, along with eight other Hotchkiss students, spent time at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, working in the laboratory of a professor who was conducting studies on fabricating skin tissue. The research introduced Priyanka to 3D printing. Eager to learn more, she followed up the summer experience with a yearlong senior project, building her own 3D printer. What exactly is a 3D printer? Just as an inkjet printer sprays ink onto a page with hundreds of microscopic nozzles smaller than a human hair, the 3D printer sprays material, layer upon layer, ultimately building up a three-dimensional structure. Building the printer proved to be an enormous challenge. Using a kit from bitsandbites.com, which arrives unassembled and includes hundreds of pieces and over 100 pages of instructions, Priyanka did the work of wiring, alignment, micro switches, motors, and frame construction. But, by assembling the printer and calibrating it herself, she gained knowledge of how a 3D printer works. “Assembling the parts of the 3D printer required skill to use design and construc-
ABOVE: Priyanka Sekhar ’13 looks over the 3D printer she assembled and calibrated.
tion tools,” said Instructor in Physics Anju Taneja, Priyanka’s advisor. “But the biggest challenge was to align the axis and troubleshoot the electrical circuit in order to get a decent printout. Priyanka’s focus and attention to detail came in handy.” Successful completion of the project sparked her desire for more study. “It’s a young technology, and not all the problems have been solved,” said Priyanka, now a freshman at Princeton. “There’s still room to figure out how to make it faster, more efficient, and more easily controlled. As yet, there’s no overarching guide on how to fix issues.” FOR THE FIRST TIME, DESIGNING AND MAKING CLOTHING
In the closing days of the spring term, passersby in the hallway of Main Building found their attention drawn to a stunning red silk gown on display in the foyer of the Edsel Ford Memorial Library. Wow! Talk about impact! The dress and several other garments, all similarly luxurious and stunning, were made by – another surprise – a senior boy. Faris Mourad ’13 completely stepped outside his comfort zone with his independent study designing and making women’s clothing. The project began with his college applications. “Art and Architecture programs at colleges require a portfolio and an extra evaluation,” he explains. “One of the ‘extra evaluations’ was to represent one thing in three different ways. So I decided to represent light/eyesight – I drew an eyeball, with a lady as the shiny part on the pupil. I drew so many female figures, until I decided to go 3D, and so forth. And that is how it all led to making women’s clothing,” Faris says. A native of Lebanon, Faris admires the work of Lebanese designer Elie Saab. “I
ABOVE: Faris Mourad ’13, in the Edsel Ford Memorial Library, with one of his designs
watched his 2012-2013 Winter collection and got inspired. I used the same fabric for my project. Ms. Wynn (Emma Wynn, Instructor in Religion and Humanities) lent me her sewing machine and taught me everything. She helped me with my first piece, and I did the rest on my own.” From his Hotchkiss classes, Faris drew for inspiration on his architecture class with Instructor in Art Brad Faus, who advised his independent study. “Faris has the ability to make things happen,” says Faus. “He imagined, researched, and completed an engaging line of evening wear. Along the way he sought expert advice, learned technical skills, and welcomed critique.” Now at Parsons The New School for Design, Faris is weighing his choice of major. “I am hesitating between Architecture and Fashion Design,” he says. The students’ summer study at RPI and Priyanka’s study and 3D printer kit were funded by The Grainger Initiative for Excellence in Mathematics and the Sciences at The Hotchkiss School. Read about students’ projects in science, technology, and mathematics in the student publication No Limits. HTTP://ISSUU.COM/HOTCHKISSNOLIMITS/DOCS/NO_LIMITS_FALL_WINTER_2012
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Hotchkiss faculty members are supported in their further study at all times. The summer gives special opportunities for extended study and travel; here are two examples of teachers’ field study from the summer of 2013.
WILLIAM FENTON INSTRUCTOR IN PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY
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number this summer as a volunteer at Bryce, helping visitors use telescopes to explore objects in space. The School paid for his travel and some living expenses for the Fenton family. “The program at Bryce is an excellent one,” he says. “There are lots of telescopes, and lots of volunteers who come and help out on a nightly basis, as well as those who stay for a longer period of time, like me. They give us a little camp-
site, and I love the idea of astronomy outreach.” Bill, who has been interested in physics and astronomy since his teenage years, graduated from Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, and fell in love twice: First with the natural beauty of the area, and then with his wife Lisa, a native of the state. When he was a college undergraduate, Bill supported his education by working in
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the school’s planetarium, doing lectures, and holding what he calls “star parties – a lot like what I’ll be doing in Bryce.” When he went to graduate school at Dartmouth, he also focused on astronomy. “I liked it,” he says, “but I liked teaching more.” On his trip to the West, he’ll be bringing the School's 10-inch Meade LX200. “Using it under the clear, dark skies of southern Utah,” he says, “it was like having a brand new instrument.” With the telescope, “in a dark site like Bryce, on a clear night, you can see thousands of galaxies,” Bill says. One thing it isn’t likely to be used for is moongazing, he says: “It’s almost too much for looking at the moon; not only does it magnify, it also gathers light. So imagine if the pupil in your eye were 16 inches wide – the light of the moon would blind you. This big scope is good for looking at planets or at other deep-sky objects like stars in the process of being born or dying – those are very interesting.”
In Lakeville, where Bill says “the light pollution is pretty minimal,” the astronomy elective he teaches is always full. He often takes advantage of clear nights to set up telescopes for the class; “We tend to look at the bigger, brighter stuff,” he says. “We have examined Saturn and Jupiter, and some very bright galaxies.” He is helping to design and construct a small observatory, with a roll-back roof, near Dana Dorm. “It will be wonderful,” Bill says, “because you can leave the telescopes set up, and go out for an hour or two without having an hour setup and takedown every time.” After his three weeks at Bryce Canyon National Park, he attended a physics teachers’ conference in Portland, Ore. The family then traveled to Zion National Park, where once again Bill volunteered with the telescope. “There’s no organized program like the one at Bryce, so I was just on my own helping others see the night sky,” he says.
OPPOSITE: Inspiration Point - Bryce Canyon National Park TOP: This is a 30-second exposure over The Watchman at Zion National Park. The constellation Scorpius and the Milky Way are prominent. ABOVE: Using the Solar Hydrogen Alpha telescope owned by the National Park Service, you can make out prominences on the Sun that are larger than the size of the Earth.
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ANA GABELA INSTRUCTOR IN CHEMISTRY AND BIOLOGY
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nstructor in chemistry and biology Ana Gabela says, “I’m from the tropics. I can tell you about rain forests and about the Galapagos Islands. But the cold stuff? Not yet.” That all changed this summer when Ana, taking advantage of the offer of a three-week fellowship made to the School by Mead Treadwell ’74 P ’15, traveled to Alaska to study glaciers and other coldweather environmental concerns. Her study of conservation issues in Alaska was only one of the summer projects of the globe-hopping teacher. The daughter of Chilean parents, Ana was born and raised in Ecuador, attending American international schools (resulting, among other things, in her flawless, unaccented English). After earning a B.S. in science from Davidson College in North Carolina, she taught for a year at a boarding school, then did research in the Galapagos for a master’s degree. “My lab focused on song evolution,” she says. “I was with a team of Canadian and Belgian scientists working on songs and the molecular aspects of Darwin’s finches,” a group of about 15 species of birds found only in the Galapagos. “My personal project was the abundance, and the species richness, of birds on the islands as you got further and further away from towns,” she explains. “I caught birds, measured them, banded them, to see where you would find the largest numbers of birds and the most species. Supposedly, in the ‘real world,’ in civilization, birds are attracted to peri-urban areas – areas that are not totally civilized. So you’ll find more birds in these areas than you will in the wild, where resources are more spread out. In cities there are relatively few
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species, but the ones you do find are there in great numbers – lots of pigeons, lots of sparrows – but not a big diversity.” In the Galapagos, she says, “we are so far away from the mainland – 700 miles – that we don’t have the normal urban birds. What we have are the cool, awesome birds that people go to the Galapagos to see.” After earning her master’s degree in zoology from UMass Amherst, she spent more than two years in Hawaii as the state’s avian disease coordinator. “I mostly worked with bird flu and west Nile virus,” she explains. “The state of Hawaii has a lot of species, only found there, that are endangered – so they spend a lot of money on conservation. They are very worried about any diseases from the mainland, because their birds evolved separately from mainland birds. They don’t have the same resistance.” This summer Ana also was invited to attend the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference in Scotland, part of the global series sponsored by the Sapling Foundation. “The conference features people on the cutting
edge of their fields – no matter what they study – talking to a general audience for 18 minutes,” she says. “I was a TED fellow in 2009, speaking about my work in the Galapagos.” After Scotland, she spent some time in Chile, where her parents now live. Then it was off to Alaska, where Mead Treadwell is Lieutenant Governor. “He must know everyone in the state!” Ana says. “When I told him what I wanted to do, he sent me a list of all the scientists, and all the parks, and all the people he had contact with.” Physics instructor Jesse Young, who chairs Hotchkiss’s Science Department, says Mead “has been great about keeping students and faculty involved. Environmental studies are a vital part of Hotchkiss’s core curriculum, and his participation has been an important contribution to making sure our courses reflect reallife issues.” Ana agrees wholeheartedly. “Every time I teach,” she says, “I use examples from my life.”
OPPOSITE AND TOP: Ana Gabela, photographed during her years as Hawaii’s avian disease coordinator ABOVE: Gabela has done research in the Galapagos and, this summer, in Alaska.
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Two faculty members receive named chairs Instructor in Mathematics Marta Eso has been awarded the Arthur W. White Chair and Instructor in Classics Richard Davis, the Peter J. Sharp ’48 Chair. The term chairs are held for five years. D R . E S O joined the Hotchkiss faculty in 2002,
teaching upper-level math courses. Since that time she has taught most of the math curriculum, as well as electives in Number Theory, Cryptography, and Discrete Mathematics. She coaches the Math Team and serves as faculty advisor to the Math Club. Dr. Eso holds an M.S. degree in mathematics and teacher certification from Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest, Hungary, and she earned a Ph.D. in Operations Research from Cornell University. Before coming to Hotchkiss, Dr. Eso was a postdoctoral associate at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY. She and her husband, Laszlo Ladanyi, live in Van Santvoord Dorm with their two children.
MERRILEE MARDON APPOINTED
Marta Eso
errilee Mardon has been named Associate Dean of Academic Life. Her appointment was announced this summer. Mardon joined Hotchkiss in 2008 as instructor in economics and has taught AP Economics, Gender and Development, and Development in Latin America during these years. Her research interests are in Gender and Development, Latin America, Brazil, Rural Development, Household and Family Economics, Collective Action, Social Norms and Property Rights. She graduated from Smith College, with majors in Economics and German Language & Literature, and earned a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. After her graduation from Smith, she held a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship in Germany. Prior to coming to Hotchkiss, she taught at Connecticut College. There, she was visiting lecturer in the economics department, then visiting assistant professor, and finally Vandana Shiva Assistant Professor in the departments of Economics and Gender and Women’s Studies. Earlier, she taught economics courses at the University of Massachusetts Amherst as a graduate student. At Hotchkiss she has served on the Gender Issues Committee and the Committee for Teaching and Learning. She and her husband have two children.
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R I C H A R D D A V I S earned a B.A. at Vanderbilt University and an M.A. at the University of North Carolina. A member of the Hotchkiss faculty since 2006, he teaches Greek, Latin, and Classical Literature and served as Head of the Department from 2008-2013. His academic interests include classical civilization and literature, Medieval and Renaissance Latin, and the pedagogies of intercultural competence. He has studied in Italy, Greece, and Turkey in pursuit of his research interests, and he led students on a tour of Greece in 2010. He coaches JV and Varsity Sailing. Davis also advises the Classics Club and has served on a number of school committees dealing with global and intercultural matters. Davis and his wife Jessica have a daughter, Caroline.
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HELLEN HOM-DIAMOND NAMED CHIEF COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER Hellen Hom-Diamond has joined Hotchkiss as the School’s Chief Communications Officer. She oversees the communications staff and serves as a member of the School Leadership Team. Most recently Director of Campus Communications at Yale University, Hom-Diamond brings more than 20 years of experience in strategic communications, media relations, digital design, and branding. Before joining the Office of Public Affairs and Communications at Yale in 2008, she was for nine years Director of Online Communications for the UCLA Alumni Association. She earned her B.A. at Columbia University. Reporting directly to the Head of School, and working closely with many others throughout the communMerrilee mardon ity, Hellen will develop and implement a comprehensive communications strategy. She will align and strengthen our internal and external practices, and help ensure the consistency, accuracy, and crispness of Hellen Hom-Diamond our engagement with prospective students and their families, alumni, foundations, our neighbors in the Northwest Corner, and all other constituencies upon whom our success depends.
HOTCHKISS HONG KONG CHALLENGE SCHOLARSHIP LAUNCH
STUDENTS WIN STATE AND NATIONAL ART AWARDS SEVERAL STUDENTS WON STATE AND NATIONAL MEDALS IN THE SCHOLASTIC ART AWARDS OF 2013.
AMANDA
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Monday, June 10, 2013 marked the launch dinner in Hong Kong of the Hotchkiss Hong Kong Challenge Scholarship. The dinner at the Conrad Hotel was hosted by Daryl Ng ’96. Close to 40 alumni, current and past parents, as well as Chief Advancement Officer Joe Flynn and Director of Asia Relations Robert Barker, attended the dinner. The guest speaker was Robert Eu ’81. The Challenge Scholarship aims to raise US$1.5 million to fully endow a scholarship at Hotchkiss for a needy and talented Hong Kong student. The Challenge Scholarship fundraising effort is co-chaired by Leigh Tung Chow ’89 and Pamela Tung ’93. This fundraising effort is also fully endorsed by the Hotchkiss representatives in Hong Kong, Andy Tung ’83 and Rulin Tung P’13. Shown at the event are: Leigh Tung Chou, Andy Tung, Robert Barker, Harriet Tung P’89, ’93, Robert Eu, and Pamela Tung.
HOME A GOLD KEY, SAMANTHA GLASS ’14 WAS AWARDED GOLD AND SILVER KEYS, AND MEGAN LEE ’13 AND SARAH RIFKIN ’13 EARNED SILVER
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The School’s Central Heating Facility has captured two outstanding awards, adding to the wide recognition it has already received. The Connecticut Green Building Council chose the Hotchkiss biomass facility for its Alexion Award of Excellence. BELOW: The central heating facility at night BOTTOM: The building works as a classroom for students and visitors.
This is the highest honor given for “Green Architecture” in each state. And, the facility, which heats the entire campus by burning sustainably harvested woodchips from local suppliers, won an Honor Award from both The American Institute of Architects New England and AIA Connecticut, the highest honors they bestow. The most recent and unquestionably most visible element in the School’s “green” building program, the 16,500-square-foot heating facility aligns with Hotchkiss’s commitment to become a carbon-neutral campus by 2020. It merges beautifully with the surrounding landscape, with its low profile and the sloped green roof. Constructed wetlands, called bioswales and rain gardens, enhance the ecosystem at the site as part of the landscape design. The biomass heating facility, one of three LEED-certified plants in the country, went into use one year ago, in September 2012. The locally sourced woodchips replace the approximately 342,000 gallons of imported fuel oil that the School would have used this year. According to Director of Environmental Initiatives Joshua Hahn, the cost savings to the School are impressive. The School spent $851,749 on oil in fiscal year 2012 (ending June 30, 2012), but only $357,363 on woodchips in fiscal year 2013. The “Cost Savings Realized” amount is $494,386. Additionally, without the biomass facility, the School would have had to buy 341,689 gallons of oil this year—with oil at $3.32 per gallon, this would have meant spending a total of $1,132,802. Instead, Hotchkiss will spend only $234,677. The “Cost Avoidance” in dollars projected to be saved at the end of this year is $898,125.
PHOTOGRAPHY ©DAVID SUNDBERG/ESTO
The plant also has cut overall emissions, most dramatically sulfur dioxide, by more than 90 percent. The building also is designed to do double duty as an ancillary classroom, with a mezzanine that affords a view of the plant in operation and that houses an exhibit about the biomass process. Area students and numerous groups of municipal administrators and interested citizens have toured the facility since its opening.
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The facility’s notable green roof, serpentine-shaped, is planted with sedum for both aesthetic value, allowing the building to blend with the surroundings, and ecological value, by capturing more than half the storm water that falls on it and protecting nearby wetlands from the associated erosion and pollution. Jefferson B. Riley, FAIA, of Centerbrook Architects led the design team for the three-year project, and van Zelm Engineers of Farmington, CT, oversaw the engineering.
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G.O.
PAYING IT FORWARD:
The Greater Opportunity Program Celebrates 50 Years | By Joan Baldwin P’04
‘‘
These are good KIDS…WHO HAVE NOT BEEN AWAKENED TO
WHAT THEY CAN BECOME. IF YOU TELL THEM THEY COULD BE ANY-
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THING…THEY STARE AT YOU AS IF YOU HAD SAID THEY COULD…FLY.
THE DINING ROOM ON THE GROUND FLOOR OF MONAHAN FAIRLY BUZZED WITH CONVERSATION AND EMOTION ON JULY 20.
DESPITE THE HOT, HUMID AIR OUTSIDE AND AN EVER-PRESENT THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS, INSIDE THE SOUNDS OF DINNER FOR A CROWD COMPETED WITH APPLAUSE, A FEW TEARS, AND MUCH LAUGHTER.
TOP: Peter Rogers '73, right, with Walter Crain ABOVE: At the dinner former G.O. students shared memories and expressed their appreciation for the program.
The evening capped an anniversary weekend that brought together 84 former students, as well as some faculty and proctors from Hotchkiss’ fabled Greater Opportunity (G.O.) program and culminated with the announcement of the Walter J. Crain Jr. P’86,’89 Scholarship and a message of commendation from Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy. The brainchild of A. William “Bill” Olsen, Jr. ’39 and his wife Jean, G.O. offered some 250 boys from cities in Connecticut and New York a summer enrichment program focused on reading, writing, and mathematics. But if the comments from its graduates this July are any evidence, ultimately it offered the kind of life-changing experience that many schools dream about. The G.O. program took root in the summer of 1963, when Headmaster Bill Olsen and his wife, Jean spent a few days on the Connecticut shore. Despite the pressures of running a school, both Olsens were acutely aware of the cultural and political changes happening beyond the Northwest Corner. During their vacation, the Olsens had dinner with John Blum, Yale University history professor and a Hotchkiss trustee. Blum challenged them both, suggesting that Hotchkiss with all its resources had yet to fulfill its promise on the national stage. In an interview with Ernest Kolowrat ’52, author of Hotchkiss: A Chronicle of an American School, Jean Olsen remembered the conversation: “As Bill and I drove home, we agreed we weren’t doing enough with our lives beyond running the School and helping to build the endowment fund.” She continued, “Billy is a completely unprejudiced man, and not a fearful man. He saw there was a chance, and he was going to take it.”
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LEFT: Seeing former G.O. Director the Rev. David Kern was a high point for many.
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Three men MADE A BIG
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At the October board meeting, Olsen laid the groundwork for change. He suggested that the School’s longtime summer school needed new direction, writing, “For this reason I would like to have a careful survey of our summer school program with the thought of changing its emphasis and possibly coming up with a program which can have greater significance than our present program and which can also make a greater positive contribution to the total national educational scene.” With the board’s blessing and support, Olsen applied for and received a $165,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to underwrite the new program. Coincidentally that spring Hotchkiss teacher Alan Haas had corresponded with his former Wesleyan roommate, Andrew Mason. Mason, who had become an Episcopal priest, told Haas he was living in the benign island of Hotchkiss, and asked him whether he shouldn’t be doing more. The two agreed to an exchange, bringing teens from St. Ann’s Church in the South Bronx to Lakeville, and from Lakeville to the South Bronx. Reminiscing at this July’s anniversary, Haas described the event as a cross-cultural experience during which the boys bonded instantly and completely. The twin weekends could have been a footnote in each boy’s personal history except for the fact that when the Bronx group came to Lakeville, the Rev. David Kern came, too. He met Bill Olsen. The rest, as they say, is history. Olsen hired Kern to head his fledgling G.O. program. When Kern protested, saying he knew nothing about boarding schools, Olsen responded that he could teach Kern school business easier than he could teach his faculty what Kern knew about social justice and the South Bronx. The deal was sealed. The Rev. Kern moved to Lakeville in July of 1964 with his wife Peggy and children, to launch the Greater Opportunity program. Almost immediately both The Record and The Lakeville Journal interviewed him. In fact, throughout its first three years the G.O. Program attracted enormous publicity, with feature-length articles appearing in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Lakeville Journal, Brooklyn Heights Press, Hotchkiss Bulletin, and Amsterdam News. Between 1964 and 1973 the G.O program educated some 250 boys from New York City, New Haven, Bridgeport, and later exclusively from Hartford. A 1969 report on its college placement program showed that of the original 100 students, 82 went to college, with many receiving financial aid. Thirteen of the
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RIGHT: Former G.O. participants reconnected at programs during the day and at Saturday evening’s dinner.
original group were admitted to independent schools; of that group, 11 graduated, and five attended Ivy League schools. Several G.O. graduates from those years enrolled at Hotchkiss. Today in their fifties and sixties, the men are teachers, ministers, businessmen, bishops, counselors, lawyers, and more. As part of their anniversary celebration, they were asked to speak about what G.O. meant to them. Several words came up again and again: hope, discipline, direction, and gratitude. James Miller, G.O. Class of 1968, said that G.O. gave him the opportunity to lead a rich life, teaching him that the world was bigger than the eight-block radius of his Hartford neighborhood. Many of the G.O. graduates are still friends, and more than a few stayed in touch with Father Kern over the last 50 years. Richard Staples ’74 P’10,’12, who moved from the G.O. program to Hotchkiss and whose two daughters are alumnae, put it this way: “Three men made a big difference for all of us Father Kern, Art Eddy, and Walter Crain. All of us faced the big challenge of whether we had what it takes. Coming to Hotchkiss I learned I have it in spades.” Staples added that seeing Walter Crain here at Hotchkiss let him know that if Crain could make it here, he could too, concluding, “Sometimes you never know how a seed grows and proliferates.” Sixty percent of G.O.’s original students were black and 20percent Puerto Rican. The remaining boys were described as “whites of other national origins.” In a 1964 interview in The Lakeville Journal Kern said, “These are good kids, bright kids who have not been awakened to what they can become. If you tell them they could be anything they want to be when they grow up, they stare at you as if you had said they could take off from a windowsill and fly.” G.O. graduate Evans Jacobs remembered his first meeting with Kern. Called to the principal’s office in seventh grade, he thought, ‘What did I do now?’ He sat down and in walked David Kern, complete with clerical collar. “Then I really thought ‘what did I do now?’” Jacobs quipped. He remembers Kern telling him “Come with me if you want to live.” Jacobs went, and he has lived differently ever since, a life that included college, law school, and building a non-profit. Academically the G.O. Program gave students a firm grounding in English and mathematics in addition to concentrating on study skills. More than a few reunion attendees mentioned G.O.’s book-a-day policy in its English classes with several graduates recalling that reading a book’s first and last chapters was
not enough to participate in class discussion. In addition, there were art classes interspersed with traditional sports, in combination with outdoor education where students learned to conquer obstacles by hiking, climbing, and swimming. G.O. students were also exposed to a wealth of experiences. They attended church and synagogue with “adopted” families from Salisbury and Lakeville; they went to Tanglewood, plays and opera in New York City; and during the summer of 1967, they travelled to Quebec to go to the World’s Fair. Then there were the mundane things. George Earl Johnson described himself as a wet-nosed and non-educated boy when he arrived on campus, but like his fellow alums, he was changed by G.O. And, he says, it was at G.O. that he learned it is possible to eat chicken with a knife and fork and still take all the meat off the bone. The G.O. Program utilized 20 proctors, more than half of whom were Hotchkiss students and alumni. Each proctor was assigned five students. Proctors worked in pairs with teams of 10 students, each named after a Native American tribe. After morn-
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ing classes and lunch, students completed chores such as cleaning classrooms, picking up paper in dormitories, or sweeping dorm hallways. With chores finished, boys went to sports where proctors acted as instructors and team captains. When the Rockefeller funding ceased, G.O. continued with a grant from the Connecticut Office of Education. This meant that the program confined itself to Hartford high schools. Its goals remained the same: “to provide 100 eighth-grade boys with individual programs of remediation designed to produce academic records for college admission; to produce in each boy a belief and a knowledge that he could complete a rigorous college preparatory program; to provide a vehicle which will demonstrate that the strength of a private school can effectively extend and supplement existing public school services.” No one thing brought the program to an end. Instead a confluence of factors—the departure of Kern, uncertain funding, and societal changes, both inside and outside the School community, contributed to the program’s end in August 1973. It could be argued, however, that G.O. set the stage for the School’s present-day alliances and affiliations with more than a dozen organizations, including A Better Chance and Prep for Prep, which provide students of color access to educational and career opportunities. Keith Price, a G.O. graduate from Windsor, CT, summed up the collective experience when he shared a memory of visiting Father Kern some years ago. After dinner, as the two sat smoking cigars, Keith asked Kern how he could ever repay him. There was a long silence. Kern puffed contentedly before saying, “What I did for you, do for someone else.” ABOVE: Retired faculty member and G.O. honoree Walter Crain, with his children, from left, Adrienne Dedjinou ’89, Roger Crain ’86, and Walter J. “Jay” Crain III
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A highlight of Saturday evening’s celebratory dinner, and of the G.O. reunion, was the announcement of the Walter J. Crain Jr. P’86,’89 Scholarship. Walter Crain, who retired from the Hotchkiss faculty in 2003, was introduced to the School in the summer of 1965, when he came here from New York City to work as a member of the G.O. faculty. By 1970, he had begun teaching full-time at Hotchkiss, ultimately serving more than three decades as an instructor of mathematics and a coach, and for many years as dean of students. The scholarship in his honor was initiated by the Alumni Association Board of Governors’ Alumni of Color Committee. Alumni, faculty members, parents, and friends contributed to establish this scholarship. In her remarks at the dinner, Hotchkiss Trustee Eleanor Green Long’76 said this of her former teacher and mentor: “I came to Hotchkiss in 1974 from the rural South, ill-prepared for the rigorous math curriculum at the School. Good fortune landed me in Walter’s math class and placed me in Walter’s advisory. Being taught by Walter Crain is like receiving the keys to a long-forgotten safe deposit box. His patient explanations unlock potential that students don’t even know they possess. “I’ll never forget the advice and encouragement Walter gave me. ‘You’ve got this. You’ve proved you can do it. Now be calm and be careful.’ He told me that before numerous quizzes and exams. He told me that again before the dreaded SAT, where I promptly entered all the math answers in the English section and all the English answers in the math section. When I told him what I’d done, he smiled, calmly shook his head and said, ‘You weren’t calm. You weren’t careful.’ But Walter still believed in me. And he has believed in the kids he has mentored his entire adult life. “When someone cares and takes the time to show you a path forward, you can go a long way in this life. The G.O. program is a shining example of that truth.” As a certificate read at the time of the announcement notes, the Walter Crain Scholarship “serves as a lasting tribute to his shining example of quiet strength, courage, and commitment.” To see a video of the dinner and the presentations, go to www.hotchkiss.org/abouthotchkiss/hotchkiss-today/GOReunion/index.aspx.
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ANNUAL REPORT of GIVING 2012-2013
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Dear Members of the Hotchkiss Community,
This Annual Report of Giving is a celebration of the impact you have on the School. Last year, The Hotchkiss Fund provided 13% of the School’s operating budget. By joining together, 3,924 donors contributed a record $5.87 million to The Hotchkiss Fund – the largest gift the School received last year. Without the Fund, therefore, fewer financial aid students would be admitted, faculty and staff members’ salaries would be lower, and students would have fewer resources at their disposal, whether it be travel opportunities, digital subscriptions, or team uniforms. Hotchkiss would remain a strong school, but the special edge of excellence that is evident across campus would be diminished. In addition to The Hotchkiss Fund, gifts were received for key priorities including: • $6.3 million for permanent endowment • $5.1 million for the creation and renovation of facilities for living and learning • $4.5 million for current-use and endowed financial aid The breadth and depth of this support from our alumni, parents, and friends are an extraordinary endorsement of the vision and the strength of Hotchkiss. Even as we celebrate the scope of this philanthropic affirmation of the School, we remain mindful of our responsibility to realize the promise behind these investments. As members of the Board of Trustees, we are honored indeed to serve you and our School, and we look forward to our continued partnership as we work together to steward this incredible legacy that means so much to us all. With sincere gratitude,
Jean Weinberg Rose ’80 President Board of Trustees
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REPORT OF GIFTS JULY 1, 2012 - JUNE 30, 2013
22%
24%
5%
13%
20%
The Hotchkiss Fund
$5,869,630
Restricted Current Use
$1,477,105
Restricted Endowment
$3,448,715
Unrestricted Endowment
$2,849,503
Gifts Pending Designation
$1,401,005
Property, Plant, and Equipment
$5,540,271
Deferred Gifts at Present Value
$6,501,784
Total Gifts 5%
$27,088,013
11%
GIVING SOCIETIES JULY 1, 2012 – JUNE 30, 2013 ALL CASH GIFTS TO THE SCHOOL
GIFT LEVEL
DONORS
THE HOTCHKISS FUND
TOTAL GIVEN
44
$ 2,012,719
$15,821,945
42
$ 802,186
$ 1,138,456
114
$ 1,005,868
$ 1,369,347
138
$
657,302
$
747,585
244
$
537,685
$
599,699
19
$
12,175
$
12,425
16
$
12,912
$
14,012
$ 828,783
$
883,748
Head of School’s Council $50,000 or more
Leadership Council $25,000 - $49,999
St. Luke’s Society $10,000 – $24,999
Maria Hotchkiss Society $5,000 - $9,999
The 1891 Society $1,891 - $4,999
We are grateful that our donors understand the School’s needs and the level of support required to maintain the exceptional quality of a Hotchkiss education.
The School derives much of its strength from a long and healthy tradition of philanthropy.
Olympians (1-5 years out) $250 - $4,999
Pythians (6-10 years out) $500 - $4,999
Blue & White Society up to $1,890
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THE HOTCHKISS FUND OVERVIEW OF RESULTS Highlights and Achievements The 2012-2013 Hotchkiss Fund raised $5,869,630 – the highest total in the School’s annual giving history. Alumni giving reached an all-time high of $4,060,420, and parents set new records in both dollars and participation, raising $1,468,293 from 84 percent of the current parents. We owe these extraordinary results to the hard work of our volunteers. Their commitment sustains and strengthens Hotchkiss year after year and is one of the School’s most valuable assets. Our sincere thanks go out to them and to our alumni, parents, grandparents, and friends for their steadfast and generous support of Hotchkiss.
Unrestricted gifts to The Hotchkiss Fund go directly into the operating budget and have an immediate impact on Hotchkiss and its students and faculty. These flexible funds allow the School to realize its highest priorities, respond to unexpected challenges, and support a financial aid program that makes a Hotchkiss education possible for all students.
DONORS
DOLLARS
2,993
$ 4,060,420
Current Parents
444
$ 1,468,293
$5,869,630
Parents of Alumni
280
$
184,370
(New Record)
Current Grandparents
43
$
42,458
Individuals, Corporations, Foundations, and Organizations
164
$
114,089
Alumni
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We are also grateful to the truly exceptional leadership of Tom Quinn ’71, P’15,’17, president of The Hotchkiss Fund, and Jan and Stefan Ford P’11,’13, co-chairs of The Hotchkiss Parent Fund, whose terms have concluded. They will be hard acts to follow, but we are excited by the years of fundraising and board experience Stephanie Bowling Zeigler ’84 and Julie and Doug Ostrover P’16 will bring with their leadership for the next two years.
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3,924
Total Raised
Alumni Participation
37%
$ 5,869,630
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THE HOTCHKISS FUND GIVING HISTORY FISCAL YEAR
THF DOLLARS
2008
$4,491,905
2009
$4,035,255
2010
$4,040,335
2011
$4,662,874
2012
$4,902,994
2013
$5,869,630
Under Tom’s leadership, the Fund increased by over 25%, from $4,662,874 in 2011 to $5,869,630 in 2013. Alumni dollars increased 37%, and alumni donors increased 3% over this two-year period. We extend our sincere thanks to Tom for his longterm commitment to Hotchkiss and his dedication to The Hotchkiss Fund. It must run in the family, as Tom’s father, a long-standing class agent, received the Armitage Award in 1991.
The Class of 2012 had the second highest number of donors of all classes this year, with 80 class members contributing to The Hotchkiss Fund.
Classes
Donors 1978 2012 2008 1993 1988
123 80 74 74 70
Participation
Dollars
1949 1936 1939 1953 1978
1978 1953 1981 1949 1983
100% 100% 88% 86% 86%
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Thomas S. Quinn ’71, P’15,’17 is the recipient of the Thomas W. Armitage ’25 Award, given annually to a member of the Hotchkiss Alumni body for distinguished service to The Hotchkiss Fund. President of The Hotchkiss Fund since 2011, Tom previously served as a volunteer on the Coeducation Committee, the Board of Governors, and as a reunion agent.
Class of 2012 received the Cullinan Challenge Award for the highest participation (45%) among the youngest 15 classes.
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THE HOTCHKISS PARENT FUND OVERVIEW OF RESULTS
Highlights The Hotchkiss Parent Fund achieved record-breaking results this year, thanks to the extraordinary leadership of our co-chairs, Jan and Stefan Ford P’11,’13, and the many Parent Fund volunteers. The Parent Fund raised $1,468,293 – an increase of 13% over the previous year. Even more importantly, parent participation rose from 79% last year to an impressive 84% this year. The School is exceedingly grateful to every single donor.
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Special thanks go to our current parents in China, who achieved 100% participation in the Parent Fund for the first time! These results truly indicate the strong sense of community shared by the Hotchkiss family around the world. Thank you, one and all, for your generous and thoughtful support.
DOLLARS
DONORS
PARTICIPATION
2013
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$1,468,293
2014
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95%
2016
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75
86%
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$ 1,468,293
444
84%
These numbers do not reflect gifts from parents who are also Hotchkiss alumni. Alumni parents are included in the alumni category.
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2008
69%
2009
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2010
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2011
76%
2012
79%
2013
84%
Jae Shim and Stephanie Min P’13 are our honored recipients of the McKee Award this year. Named in honor of Hugh and Judy McKee P’78,’80,’84,’89 in recognition of their tireless work for The Hotchkiss Fund, this award is presented annually for distinguished service to The Hotchkiss Parent Fund. During their four years as Parent Fund volunteers, Jae and Stephanie have obtained record-breaking levels of participation from parents in South Korea. In addition, they have helped build a strong sense of community with regular Hotchkiss events for parents in Seoul and have supported the School in many different ways. We are very grateful to Jae and Stephanie for all of their contributions to Hotchkiss and congratulate their son Hughbo ’13 on his graduation!
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THE TOWN HILL SOCIETY The Town Hill Society, established in 1994, ensures that Hotchkiss will be well-positioned to educate future generations of students. This sense of legacy is a powerful and admirable spirit that connects one generation to another, preserving the past while steadfastly building an even more relevant future. From the beginning, Hotchkiss’s tradition of excellence has relied greatly on alumni and friends who have provided for the School in their estate plans. We are deeply indebted to the 479 Town Hill Society members who have demonstrated their unwavering confidence in and support for Hotchkiss. We are very fortunate to report that in fiscal year 2012-13, Hotchkiss received $6,501,784 (present value) in new irrevocable estate commitments and $3,859,357 in realized planned gifts. The Society also welcomed five new members. These resources provide critical support for the School’s efforts to maintain the high-caliber student experience that Hotchkiss has offered since its inception. We are profoundly grateful to all of our alumni, parents, and friends whose generosity helps Hotchkiss to thrive.
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TEACHER TO TEACHER The Teacher to Teacher program, which began in the summer of 2012, brings Hotchkiss teachers to rural China to teach English to Chinese teachers and to provide them with a curriculum for teaching English in their classrooms. “It also extends the rural teachers’ range of cultural knowledge and vision, giving them a glimpse of the world outside their zone of familiarity,” explains Jean Yu, Director of Hotchkiss’s Chinese Language and Culture program, who conceived of the initiative. Teacher to Teacher was funded in its first year by Hotchkiss parents living in various cities such as Shanghai, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Beijing, Shenyang, and Hong Kong and by the School itself. Now, thanks to the generosity of Ming Yen Teresa Yang P’16, other funding has been made available: The Yang Foundation Teaching Fund, an arm of the Esquel-Y.L. Yang Education Foundation Ltd., has pledged a four-year grant to the program. “Tessie Yang visited Hotchkiss last fall for Parents Weekend, and I met with her,” explains Robert Barker, Director of Asia Relations. “The Yang Foundation is very involved in educational projects in China in a variety of ways and places, and she found the work of Teacher to Teacher very compelling. It’s also somewhat different from other
projects the foundation is involved in.” Last year, Hotchkiss faculty members Jean Yu, Manjula Salomon, Stuart Salomon, Charles Iannuzzi, and Nathan Seidenberg taught 200 middle-and elementary-school teachers in the rural areas outside Tianjin, the huge seaport in northeastern China. “We discussed how we conduct our classes, our curriculum, our pedagogy – they were interested in every detail,” says Stuart Salomon. “It was very clear to all of us just how much China values teachers and teaching.” The Chinese people “enjoy the educational experience,” he says. “They can sit for a lecture the way we go to the movies. When our sessions were over, the teachers treated us like stars, wanting to thank us and have their pictures taken with us. I felt like Elvis Presley.” The 2013 program was located in another area near Tianjin called Baodi, near Wuqing. “There is no other school we are aware of in North America that is involved in this sort of public purpose project,” Barker noted. “Bringing English to rural teachers in China is something that otherwise would not happen. And Hotchkiss is leading the way; there is no one else doing this. The Esquel-Yang Foundation can be very proud of its support.”
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KEEPING THE SCHOOL AT THE FOREFRONT OF SECONDARY EDUCATION
Hotchkiss’s curriculum is ever-changing – and having the right resources to support new initiatives can be a challenge. That’s why the three funds established by Richard Hatch ’37 are so important in keeping the School at the forefront of secondary education. Mr. Hatch was a lifelong supporter of Hotchkiss, particularly the Edsel Ford Memorial Library. In 1985, he established the Margaret and Harold Hatch Fund in American History in memory of his parents, a gift which has allowed the School to buy many print resources through the years. All first- and second-year Hotchkiss students are required to write papers on various events in American history, and the fund provides invaluable support for their research. “The Hatch Fund gives us great access to both digital and print resources,” says Librarian Barbara Doyle-Wilch, who recently retired. “For example, it has helped us acquire materials that let students understand how to create a context for the time they are studying, and also for the skills required in using primary resources.” Some of these materials are books on local history published by the Salisbury Association. The Hatch Fund also pays for subscriptions to Cambridge Histories Online, American National Biography Online, the Encyclopedia of African American History, and other Internet-based resources. “It has let Hotchkiss develop
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students who are able to recognize reliable and relevant information,” says Doyle-Wilch, “and who experience the fun in researching an event or time in U.S. history.” Mr. Hatch, who died at age 91 in 2009, also provided for Hotchkiss in his will. With support for the Library through his bequest, the School established separate funds for library renovation and for general support of library services. The Richard L. Hatch ’37 Library Renovation Fund has allowed the School to open a new media center; to reconfigure the checkout desk to make it more inviting; and to re-carpet the Library. “We also purchased some tables and chairs to allow students to work together with their laptop computers,” Doyle-Wilch says. “Now that all Hotchkiss students will have laptops, more such areas are necessary – they don’t go to computer stations any more.” The Richard L. Hatch ’37 Endowed Library Fund supports the Library staff, including providing funds for professional development. “That way,” says Doyle-Wilch, “the staff is secure in their knowledge of the current information technologies.” When Mr. Hatch died, he was described by his hometown newspaper as a “generous philanthropist” who “left a vast legacy.” Nowhere is that more evident than at Hotchkiss, where his gifts continue to enrich the experience of new generations of students.
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478 alumni returned to campus – a new attendance record! Reunion Records The following classes set records during this reunion year The Class of 2008 5th Reunion attendance record: 112 5th Reunion Hotchkiss Fund giving record: $12,115 The Class of 2003 10th Reunion participation record: 39%
The Class of 1978 35th Reunion attendance record: 60 35th Reunion Hotchkiss Fund giving record: $595,524 35th Reunion participation record: 86% Total Reunion giving: $1,624,346 The Class of 1953 60th Reunion Hotchkiss Fund giving record: $585,573 1953 will be celebrating its 60th Reunion in Lakeville October 25-27 Total Reunion giving: $1,121,708.
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A TALE OF TWO CLASSES The Class of 1953 has always contributed significantly to the health and well-being of Hotchkiss. With seven class members having served as trustees and one as headmaster, the class’s leadership has been extraordinary. Their 60th Reunion fundraising effort was no exception. 1953 set out this year with two goals in mind — to recognize all that Hotchkiss did to shape their lives and to distinguish their class in a very special way. With similar spirit, as the Class of 1978 approached its 35th Reunion in June, their reunion committee set its sights on breaking three records: participation in a 35th Reunion campaign (72%), the total amount given to The Hotchkiss Fund for a 35th Reunion ($158,715), and the highest dollar amount raised in a single year for The Hotchkiss Fund ($332,484), a record held by the Class of 1977. Ambitious goals, but given 1978’s strength and spirit, the class agents believed their class could reach them. “We encourage each of you to stretch your support and consider a gift beyond your usual giving level,” lead agent Ty de Cordova urged his classmates. What came as a surprise to both the Classes of 1978 and 1953 was a truly generous 60th Reunion gift from Adrienne and John Mars ’53 of one million dollars, $500,000 of which was allocated to 1953’s Hotchkiss Fund Class Gift. John and Adrienne requested that their gift be used as a “challenge” for the Class of 1953. Little did they know it would also serve as a “challenge” for the Class of 1978.
With the bar raised, the challenge was on! But 1978 had some ammunition of its own. A member of the class made a gift of $100,000 and challenged several other classmates to contribute $150,000 more in a matching gift offer – contingent on 1978’s setting a new 35th Reunion participation record of over 100 donors. Thanks to the tenacious efforts of the reunion agents and a strong sense of class community and connectedness, 1978 succeeded in reaching all its goals: a record 86% class participation in a 35th Reunion campaign; a record 123 donors; and a record 35th Reunion gift of $595,524, the highest amount ever raised by a class in a single year for The Hotchkiss Fund. Not ones to settle for breaking three records, the Class of 1978 also set a new 35th Reunion attendance record with 60 members of the class returning to campus. In keeping with their long leadership tradition, members of the Class of 1953 also had a record-breaking year. With an identical 86-percent participation rate, the class set a new 60th Reunion record by raising $585,573. These two classes have once again demonstrated the exceptional commitment and engagement of Hotchkiss alumni. The whole School, but especially its students and faculty, sincerely thank John and Adrienne Mars, the reunion volunteers and members of the Class of 1953, and the reunion volunteers and members of the Class of 1978, for their extraordinary generosity and leadership.
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Bob Bryan ’45 attended Hotchkiss on a partial scholarship, then went on to earn degrees from Yale and M.I.T. He was always close to the School; when he and his wife, Barbara, were married in 1950, they even took a detour from their honeymoon to visit former Headmaster George Van Santvoord. Bob became a successful community-planning specialist with clients in Connecticut and New York. Sadly, Bob died in 1996, a year after his 50th Reunion. Several years later, when his wife, Barbara, executed a new will, she included a provision to establish a scholarship fund at the School that was so influential in their lives. “Hotchkiss meant a lot to Bob,” she explained. “He was able to attend Hotchkiss because of the financial aid he received. It gives me great pleasure to make possible the same opportunity for other students.” Barbara died in 2012, and soon thereafter the Robert S. Bryan ’45 Scholarship Fund was established, as planned, through funds received from her estate. Today, thanks to the generosity of generations of alumni, friends, and current supporters of the School, 35 percent of students receive financial assistance. “This vital recruitment tool creates the opportunity for gifted students from around the country, and the globe, to benefit from the dynamic educational programs offered,” explains Jane Reynolds, dean of admission and financial aid.
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“Our need-based support makes a Hotchkiss education within reach for those who are admitted,” she notes, “but, unfortunately, we are not able to fund all of the deserving students in our applicant pool. Supporting the growth of our scholarship funds at Hotchkiss can help to make accessible one of the most prized secondary school programs in the country. The pool of students attracted to Hotchkiss is robust and talented and represents families across the economic spectrum. Similar to Bob Bryan, current students on financial assistance are successful and contributing members of the community, who go on to distinguish themselves and their School.” Since the establishment of the School in 1891, generous alumni, faculty, parents, and friends have created scholarships to ensure that deserving students have the opportunity to attend Hotchkiss. Today, there are more than 200 named scholarships that have directly assisted approximately 4,000 students over the last 122 years. Several of those scholarships, such as the ones made possible by the Bryans, were created by or in honor of those whose Hotchkiss education was made possible by others.
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CLASS GIVING SUMMARY RESULTS JULY 1, 2012 - JUNE 30, 2013 • ALL CASH GIFTS TO THE SCHOOL
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PARTICIPATION
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D OL L A R S
$97,729 $88,020 $16,119 $43,856 $124,117 $595,524 $89,387 $121,837 $171,586 $95,380 $132,748 $53,995 $81,965 $57,868 $56,942 $116,759 $58,182 $41,196 $36,025 $24,588 $20,710 $8,904 $12,561 $19,662 $10,305 $20,510 $6,780 $11,110 $5,790 $6,043 $10,193 $8,403 $2,418 $5,559 $2,241 $12,115 $5,475 $1,681 $3,796 $3,815
36 38 41 52 45 123 46 38 52 42 57 40 51 54 56 71 57 50 55 34 74 33 43 63 40 31 33 45 32 39 64 60 51 59 49 74 48 40 47 81
$196,429 $89,220 $16,445 $53,921 $529,562 $824,346 $98,587 $200,057 $228,130 $110,480 $175,348 $1,557,495 $114,766 $58,908 $63,042 $123,459 $60,419 $41,196 $39,217 $27,188 $20,710 $10,204 $14,861 $32,562 $10,505 $20,510 $6,805 $11,410 $5,990 $6,043 $10,473 $9,303 $2,418 $5,559 $2,241 $12,140 $5,725 $1,756 $3,796 $4,040
1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 (75th) 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 (70th) 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 (65th) 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 (60th) 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 (55th) 1959 1960 1961 1962* 1963** (50th) 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 (45th) 1969 1970 1971 1972 *
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75% 50% 50% 75% 100% 25% 62% 88% 15% 44% 54% 55% 69% 41% 38% 67% 44% 100% 56% 42% 40% 86% 53% 72% 41% 62% 70% 38% 51% 33% 48%
$10,648 $427 $1,840 $29,988 $5,759 $1,291 $30,149 $4,038 $4,000 $11,150 $13,725 $10,395 $18,098 $5,750 $7,175 $13,774 $19,427 $163,943 $32,774 $14,670 $11,039 $585,573 $16,354 $44,505 $18,427 $26,017 $61,554 $28,780 $93,004 $9,831 $26,121
3 $10,648 1 $427 4 $1,840 9 $29,988 5 $5,759 7 $2,986,580 10 $292,083 15 $5,838 2 $4,000 9 $16,250 16 $176,386 14 $171,035 23 $40,698 18 $355,060 15 $25,844 40 $38,774 23 $29,427 50 $1,603,085 30 $119,349 26 $15,770 22 $11,239 50 $1,115,823 33 $33,008 38 $44,505 31 $104,491 44 $46,317 47 $190,258 35 $157,973 34 $118,055 30 $15,331 38 $26,121
33% 49% 33% 35% 24% 48% 68% 44% 39%
$38,840 $30,073 $24,026 $54,012 $45,224 $57,940 $23,962 $48,120 $72,115
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$41,507 $70,158 $24,026 $69,812 $2,745,224 $269,239 $23,962 $50,120 $162,115
The Class of 1962 celebrated its 50th reunion in October 2012. This comprehensive total reflects gifts and pledges to The Hotchkiss Fund, restricted funds, and planned gifts raised throughout the class’s reunion campaign.
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1973 (40th) 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 (35th) 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 (30th) 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 (25th) 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 (20th) 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 (15th) 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 (10th) 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 (5th) 2009 2010 2011 2012
38% 35% 35% 43% 30% 86% 29% 27% 34% 28% 42% 27% 35% 33% 38% 46% 38% 38% 36% 24% 45% 21% 25% 40% 24% 20% 19% 27% 22% 25% 39% 34% 30% 37% 26% 39% 26% 23% 26% 45%
** Members of the Class of 1963 will celebrate their 50th reunion this October. Their 50th reunion totals will be included in the 2013–2014 Annual Report of Giving.
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Best • Mrs. Miriam Gelber Beveridge • Mr. Chutinant Bhirombhakdi • Mr. George D. • Mr. Thomas P. Blagden Jr. • Dr. Robert J. Blankfein • Mr. Alexander M. Blanton Jr. • Mr. Ivan L. Blinoff • Mr. George W. Blossom III *d • Mr. John R. H. Blum • Dr. Jonathan D. Root and Ms. Betsy Blumenthal • Mr. an Mrs. Matthew G. Boyse • Ms. Natalie R. Boyse • Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Bradford III • Ms. Jennifer E. Bragg • Mr. and Mrs. Elon Brathwaite • Ms. Shannon N. Brathwaite • Mr. David H. C. Brigstocke • Ms. Emily A. Brigs Lindsey D. Bruett • Dr. Jennifer Sturges Bryan • Mr. William L. Bryan Jr. • Mr. Erik J. Brzozowski • Ms. Elizabeth L. H. Bubriski • Dr. Jessica L. Buicko • Mr. Joseph D. D. Buicko • Mr. and Mrs. Suravut Bulakul • Mr. Sirin S. B Ball Burkert • Dr. and Mrs. Eric J. Bush • Mrs. Daphne Murray Butler • Ms. Sally Marcella Butler • Mrs. Kate Loetell Buyuk • Mr. Stephen F. Byrns • Mr. Patrick B. Cacchio • Mr. Jian Zhang and Ms. Xuefen Cai • Mr. Daniel Deirdre Morton Carr • Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Carroll • Ms. Felicia Carter • Mr. Adam E. Casella • Mr. Christopher G. Casler • Mr. James T. Chamness Jr. • Ms. Elizabeth Chandler • Mr. John R. Chandler Jr. • Dr. Weije Cheon • Mr. Charles H. Collins and Ms. Anne C. Childs • Mr. Blair Childs Jr. • Mrs. Sarah Duxbury Chin • Mr. Danny Tsui-Yuen Chiu • Mr. Anseop Choi and Ms. Gabjoo Chae • Mr. Young Kweon Lee and Mrs. Young Jin and Mrs. Robert H. Clymer III • Mr. Robert M. Cohen and Ms. Xiahong Zhong • Ms. Taylor E. Cole • Mr. and Mrs. John L. Coleman • Mr. Michael R. Collette • Mr. William E. Collin • Mr. Charles H. Collins and Ms. Anne C E. P. Conyngham • Mr. Conor W. Cook • Ms. Haley K. Cook • Mr. Jonathan T. Cook • Mr. Julian L. Coolidge • Mr. William P. Copenhaver II • Mr. Christopher H. Corcoran • Ms. Katonah D. Coster • Ms. Elizabeth Cot Dalrymple • Mr. Richard L. Dana • Ms. Laura A. D’Anca • Ms. Emily V. D’Antonio • Mr. Noah J. 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The current economic climate certainly challenges the fiscal management of the School’s budget. However, as always, the School takes great pride in being careful stewards of its funds. The 2012-13 operating budget was $42.8 million dollars. Charitable giving allows Hotchkiss to continue to provide an outstanding education.
Percentage of Total Revenues
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Percentage of Total Expenditures
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Salaries, Wages, and Stipends
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Authorized Endowment Utilization
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All Benefits
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The Hotchkiss Fund
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Plant Operations
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Restricted Current Use Gifts
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Other General Institutional
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Fees and Other
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Plant Capital and Special Items
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Auxiliary Enterprises
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Student Support
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Legal, Insurance, and Other Professional Services
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Interest on Debt
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Memories of Nels
A tribute to former coach and athletic director C. Nels Corey P’71,’72 (1915-2013) BY ALEXANDER D. STUART ’68
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We were in the midst of a scrimmage in preparation
for the big game against Taft or Choate. First I heard the whistle stopping play, then his voice exploding across Baker Field like a thunderclap, with a few biblical references to amplify the impact:
ALL PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
“Stuart, you’re up like a lighthouse!” he said, his familiar Maine inflections ricocheting in my ears. He was right, of course, and as a defensive tackle, the upright position made me much easier to block out of the play. Chastened, I hunkered down to a more appropriate silhouette, and the scrimmage continued without further lighthouse references. The gridiron memories and many more surged back when I heard that Nels Corey, one of the major figures in Hotchkiss sports history, had died in August at age 98. I did the math. In the fall of 1965, when he walked into the lecture hall at the old Dana Science building to meet his first football team, I was a 15year-old Lower Mid, and he was 50. The upperclassmen were coming off of several losing seasons; Hotchkiss had not won a single game the year before. I was a newbie hoping to find a place on the team. All of us were curious to hear what this legendary Bowdoin player and coach had to say. He seemed friendly, even gentle, with a wide smile that obscured an underlying intensity that we didn’t notice at first. Then we did.
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He drove us hard, right from the start. Sweaty two-a-day practices in the week before classes started, hill-climbs up the ninth hole of the adjacent golf course—usually on all fours in “crabbing position,” laps around Baker Field, full-contact scrimmages after exhausting pre-scrimmage drills for the linemen down on Little Baker with Blair Torrey, then wind sprints to conclude the day. The beginning of the academic year brought welcome relief from the two-a-day grind. I was not old enough or wise enough to appreciate the art of what he was doing, of what he was instilling in each of us. I just
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knew—we all knew—that we didn’t want to disappoint Coach Corey. So we overlooked our aching muscles and kept working. As that first season progressed, the realization dawned: we were pretty good. We narrowly lost our first game to Suffield, then won the rest. In fact, we won the league championship that year. The tough conditioning clearly helped. Doug Greenwood ’69, has vivid memories of Nels’ second season. He was a Lower Mid and had arrived back for the early week of practice feeling reasonably fit. Perhaps not. The first day of camp, a scorching hot one, we were all
required to run a mile, with something like a seven-minute maximum. As Greenwood recalls, he cramped up in the heat and “crawled across the finish line, crushed,” in perhaps 12 minutes. “Hell’s Bells,” an exasperated Nels bellowed, his face reddening. “What kind of a football team are we going to have if we can’t even run!” Another good one, as it turns out. We won the league championship that season, too, and did it again the next year. He was a master motivator. “Of all the coaches I had, he could fire me up like no one else,” says Dave Holahan ’67. He has vivid memories of practice leading up to the Choate game, one of our two biggest rivals and a team that we hadn’t beaten in years. They had a PG halfback who had built himself quite a reputation in the local press— he’d been reading his “clippin’s,” as Nels used to say derisively about anyone who was getting big-headed. Dave Holahan again: “Nels insisted, and I will remember these words to the end of days, that the Choate halfback ‘thought he was God’s gift to football.’ He fairly spat it out. I wasn’t sure how Nels knew this was so, or what that meant exactly, but I knew blasphemy was somehow involved.” To the shock of the Choate crowd, which was driven to silence by our performance, Hotchkiss won going away. It was a major upset. Showering after the game with teammates, and the Choate players, too (in the days of gang showers), Holahan remembers thinking, “ ‘How was this possible?’ You could tell they thought the same thing, looking at us. It was possible because of Nels Corey.” Less observed by all of us as he ran us up and down the field in practice, was that Nels was a real strategist who prepared relentlessly
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for each game. We were incredibly well coached. In those pre-Internet, pre-YouTube days, he made sure to secure film of each upcoming opponent. He must have studied it for hours, for on Tuesdays, when we had fullcontact scrimmages, the second team would run plays favored by the upcoming opponent’s offense against the first team defense. He wrote the plays out on manila folders that he showed to both sides of the line. We watched game film after practice on Mondays, a squirming, hide-under-the-desk moment for any of us with visible failings the camera had caught. I had plenty of them (“You’re up like a lighthouse again!”), but I wasn’t alone. “JESUS CHRIST, Joe, you’ve got to tail the tackle,” he would tell our fullback, Joe Hillhouse ’69, meaning that he needed to follow his lineman’s block through the hole, which Joe mostly did—just not at that moment. Such preparation was unusual for the time. Doug Greenwood has reflected a lot about this over the years: “I thought then, and still think now, that at our level, Nels was equivalent to Bear Bryant and Vince Lombardi. He was that good.” I don’t think anyone from my era would disagree. Here’s an example. In the fall of 1966, our first game was once again Suffield Academy. We were at home, and it was pouring rain. The conditions were terrible. Hotchkiss won the toss and chose to receive. It was wellknown in coaching circles that Nels typically preferred his teams not to pass until the running game had been established between the tackles, the “three yards and a cloud of dust” approach that Lombardi favored, or a spray of mud in this case. So what did Nels do on the very first play? He called for our quarterback, Bob Bayless (who later backed up the legendary Brian Dowling at Yale) to go long. Despite the sloppy conditions, Bayless pitched a towering pass to Dave Holahan over the middle, and he went 60 yards for the score. As Tom Lescault ’70 recalls, “I couldn’t even see Holahan down the field when he caught the
LEFT: Watching a acrosse game BELOW: Nels, with sons Jeff ’72 and Charlie ’71, who helped him coach during his final season as lacrosse coach
ball. It was raining that hard.” Suffield was crushed, and we won big that day. Who would have thought that a conservative coach from Maine would call a 60-yard pass play in the pouring rain? That was Nels, the master strategist. Our relationship with Nels was not strictly business. When all the drills of the day were done, the wind sprints completed, he switched gears completely. “He could have been chewing on me up and down the football field,” recalls Jon Sprole ’73. “Then he’d be laughing and cracking jokes on the way to the locker room. The onfield intensity was nothing personal—it was just about the
team.” He had a wry, sly sense of humor, and there was nothing better than to see his craggy face creased with a smile, or to hear that laugh, somehow also infused with his Maine accent. I remember the sound to this day even if I can’t describe it. In the spring of 1966, the call went out from Mr. Corey to join Hotchkiss’ first-ever lacrosse team. I signed up. Precious few of us had ever held a stick in our hands. It showed in our first practices. But Nels was patient and persistent. He hammered home the message that fundamentals mattered. Crisp passing, getting more ground balls than the other guy, tough-minded defense… he coached the F a l l
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whole package. We drilled and drilled, although the wattage burned a bit less brightly from the coach—he was markedly more relaxed than on the football field—perhaps because he knew that most of us had no idea what we’re doing. Nevertheless, we got better, notching winning records two out of the next three years. “He made us trust ourselves to achieve what we didn’t think we could,” says Tom Lescault, who played both football and lacrosse under Coach Corey. By my Senior year, we had placed three players on the All-New England or AllWestern New England lacrosse teams. In 1970, four years after lacrosse started at Hotchkiss, Nels coached the team to an undefeated record (12-0) and the New England Championship—an astonishing accomplishment in such a short time. Two years later he did it again, an undefeated season and the New England championship. There has not been an undefeated lacrosse team in the fortyone years since then. The years rolled by, and I lost touch with
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Nels until I heard that he was about to retire after coaching his last lacrosse game in the spring of 1980. The word went forth, and a huge group of us returned from all over the country, like the swallows to Capistrano. We cheered the team’s every move—I frankly can’t remember whether Hotchkiss won or lost—then gathered to reminisce with the Coach in the Boathouse by the lake. Although among ourselves we had always called him Nels, that night, just past age 30, I finally managed to call him that to his face for the first time. He was relaxed, warm and generous with his comments, touching each of us across generations of players with memories of our particular team, football or lacrosse, with laughter about our foibles and joy in our triumphs. He seemed to remember every game of each team he had coached. He connected with us in the most personal way, and for a moment, we shed whatever we were in our lives—writers, lawyers, teachers, businessmen, doctors, musicians and anything else—
and returned to a time when we were young and impressionable, when Coach Corey made a difference in our lives. That evening left an indelible impact on all of us. So did Nels. SANDY STUART PLAYED ON NELS COREY'S FIRST FOOTBALL AND LACROSSE TEAMS IN THE MID-1960S. A FORMER EDITOR AT FORTUNE MAGAZINE, HE LIVES IN LAKE FOREST, IL, WHERE HE RUNS A SMALL PRIVATE INVESTMENT FIRM.
A memorial service for C. Nels Corey P’71,’72, Athletic Director at Hotchkiss 1965-1980, is planned by his family for 2 p.m. Saturday, June 14, during Reunion weekend. Nels’s former players from all class years are especially invited. An obituary for Mr. Corey appears in the In Memoriam section on page 90. BELOW: The undefeated 1970 lacrosse team triumphantly carries Coach Corey from the field after the win over Loomis, sealing the championship.
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The 2012-2013 Athletics Year in Review COMPILED BY DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS ROBIN CHANDLER ’87
Fall Season Wrap-Up: V A R S I T Y BOYS CROSS COUNTRY:
WATER POLO:
VOLLEYBALL: 5-3
GIRLS CROSS COUNTRY: 4-2
2nd in Founders League 7th in New Englands
FOOTBALL: BOYS SOCCER:
14-1-0
New England Class A Champions Finalists Western New England Champions Founders League Champions #1 Ranking in N.E. Tournament (Quarterfinals: Hotchkiss 2, Andover 1) (Semifinals: Hotchkiss 2, Choate 0) (Finals: Hotchkiss 1, Greenwich 2 OT)
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2-6 9-5-2
New England Tournament (#5) (Quarterfinals: Hotchkiss 1, Kent 2) GIRLS SOCCER:
10-7
New England Class A Champions Finalists #6 Ranking in N.E. Tournament (Quarterfinals: Hotchkiss 3, Taft 1) (Semifinals: Hotchkiss 3, SPS 1) (Finals: Hotchkiss 2, Choate 3)
2nd in Founders League 10th at New Englands
FIELD HOCKEY:
1-9
11-4-2
New England Tournament (#3) (Quarterfinals: Hotchkiss 1, Westminster 0 OT) (Semifinals: Hotchkiss 0, Brooks 2)
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JV BOYS CROSS COUNTRY:
5-3
JV GIRLS CROSS COUNTRY:
5-1
JV FIELD HOCKEY:
7-0
THIRDS FIELD HOCKEY:
6-2-1
JV FOOTBALL:
2-3
JV BOYS SOCCER:
7-3-2
BOYS THIRDS SOCCER:
5-6-0
JV GIRLS SOCCER:
5-3-2
GIRLS THIRDS SOCCER:
1-5
JV VOLLEYBALL:
9-4
BELOW: The 31 students who played on three varsity teams in 2012-2013
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Winter Season Wrap-Up:
WRESTLING:
12-3
15th in New England Angus Cowell ’14 New England Champion
V A R S I T Y BOYS BASKETBALL:
10-8
GIRLS BASKETBALL:
New England Tournament Quarterfinals: #8 Hotchkiss vs. #1 Exeter Hotchkiss 54, Exeter 68
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BOYS JV BASKETBALL:
6-7
BOYS THIRDS BASKETBALL:
2-9
8-8
GIRLS JV BASKETBALL:
10-2
Founders League Co-Champions
GIRLS THIRDS BASKETBALL:
2-3
BOYS JV HOCKEY:
6-6
GIRLS JV HOCKEY:
2-8
BOYS JV SQUASH:
3-7
GIRLS JV SQUASH:
1-10
BOYS HOCKEY:
6-20
GIRLS HOCKEY:
10-9-2
BOYS SQUASH:
13-4
Founders League Co-Champions 4th in New England Class A GIRLS SQUASH:
V A R S I T Y
4-6
3rd in New England Class B BOYS SWIMMING:
4-4
4th at Founders League Championship, 7th at New England New School Records: Jack McCarthy ’13, Founders League Champion in Diving (4th straight year. School Record: Jack McCarthy '13 broke the School diving record on 2/16/13 when he earned 316.60 points. The old record set in 1995 was held by Matt Smith. Jack also broke the pool record of 294.30 points set by a Westminster diver in 2006) GIRLS SWIMMING:
2-6
3rd at Founders League Championship, 6th at New England New School Records: 50-yard freestyle: Kaitlyn McCaw ’15, 23.88 seconds. Previous record was 24.43 held by Amanda Carlson ’93, set in 1993. 100 Butterfly: Kaitlyn McCaw’s time of 57.64 broke Charlotte Leib’s 2009 record of 59.40. 200-yard freestyle relay: McCaw, Grace Scott ’13, Binx Saunders ’13, Alexandra Dolido '14, 1:41.04 seconds. Previous record was 1:43.12, held by C. Green, E. Fisher, C. Leib, K. Komninos, set in 2007.
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TOP: Boys Squash, Founders League co-champions ABOVE: Girls Basketball, Founders League co-champions
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Spring Season Wrap-Up: V A R S I T Y
BOYS TRACK:
2nd in Founders League, 4th in NE GIRLS TRACK:
BASEBALL:
7-9
BOYS GOLF:
13-5-1
ULTIMATE FRISBEE:
16-10
2nd at NEPSUL CT All-State Team
6-8
3rd in Founders League
5-0
Founders League Champions, 2nd in NE
7th in Founders League, 7th at KIT GIRLS GOLF:
6-1
GIRLS WATER POLO:
0-3
A N D
BOYS LACROSSE:
5-10
GIRLS LACROSSE:
11-1
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Founders League Champions Western New England Champions
JV BASEBALL:
5-5
BOYS JV GOLF:
5-3-1
BOYS JV LACROSSE:
5-5
GIRLS JV LACROSSE:
6-3
GIRLS THIRDS LACROSSE:
1-5-1
BOYS JV TENNIS:
7-1
GIRLS JV TENNIS:
4-3
BOYS THIRDS TENNIS:
4-3
GIRLS THIRDS TENNIS:
1-3
SAILING:
14-2
3rd at National Fleet Racing Championship 3rd at NE Fleet & NE Team Racing Championship 3rd at Connecticut Championship SOFTBALL:
3-11
BOYS TENNIS:
10-5
New England Tournament Finalists Quarterfinals: Hotchkiss 4, Exeter 2 Semifinals: Hotchkiss 5, Taft 2 Finals: Hotchkiss 2, Andover 4 GIRLS TENNIS:
V A R S I T Y
T H I R D S
11-1
Kent Invitational Champions Founders League Champions NE Class A Champions Quarterfinals: Hotchkiss 7, Kent 1 Semifinals: Hotchkiss 7, Groton 1 Finals: Hotchkiss 7, Andover 2
TOP: Girls Varsity Tennis, Founders League champions ABOVE: Girls Track, Founders League champions
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An option for the energy crisis: Add a carbon pollution disposal fee BY JOHN H. REAVES ’74 AND REAR ADMIRAL LEN HERING
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With President Obama’s June directive that the Environmental Protection Agency draft regulations to reduce power plant emissions, industry might consider supporting a broader, more effective approach.
First, let’s acknowledge the reality of climate change. It’s manifesting everywhere (8-inch sea rise; ice caps and glaciers receding; warming, acidifying oceans; storms on steroids). Ninetyseven percent of climatologists conclude fossil fuels cause global warming, according to a study by Dr. James Powell of the National Science Board. Most oil and gas experts know these truths, as do our military and national security officials. The latter have expressed concerns that climate change will flood populated coastal areas, undermine food supplies, and cause mass migrations of refugees, all of which would destabilize the world. Climatologists say we are heading there without major greenhouse gas reductions. Leaders in industry and government hold an awesome responsibility for our future. Will they rise to the occasion? Several major oil companies have expressed concern about climate change and have embarked on developing renewable energy. Unfortunately, most have retrenched considerably because renewables are less profitable than fossil fuels, which don’t include the full cost of greenhouse gas pollution. We have a herculean problem, and profit margins cannot be the deciding factor. Industry can help by telling Congress climate change is serious and calling on lawmakers to level the field for clean energy with a fair price on carbon. Most industry leaders believe greenhouse gas pollution should not be free. ExxonMobil’s CEO, Rex Tillerson, expressly supports a carbon
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tax. Expecting a price on carbon, many companies already discount the value of their reserves. Here’s an option: Start adding a carbon pollution disposal fee to fossil fuels by roughly $15/ton each year (about 15 cents per gallon of gasoline). Everyone then has skin in the game. Economists and businesses like the predictability. The free market will innovate. Make the fee “revenue-neutral” — keep government hands off and return all fees to households to offset the burden. ExxonMobil supports a “revenue-neutral carbon tax mechanism.” Rebate fees to U.S. companies for exports to countries without the fee. Tack our fees on imports if the exporting nation lacks the same, compelling other countries to join. The disposal fee is simple to implement: collect at the wellhead, mine, and port of entry. The fee will exponentially accelerate the development of non-carbon energy in the United States by making it more price-competitive. A disposal fee invites an orderly transition and would enhance our world competitiveness. Renewables are a tiny percentage of our current energy mix, but in 20 years they could be substantial, helping buffer price spikes in fossil fuels. While some still attest climate has always changed, civilization was built in the past 10,000 years in relative climate calm, mostly in coastal areas. But today’s rate of warming of atmosphere and oceans is unprecedented. Most greenhouse gases last decades to centuries in the atmosphere. It is urgent we correct course and diversify before the stage is set too far. It will be
impossible to adapt to upheavals that will occur with the major climate change predicted with business as usual. The common understanding that industry fuels lives to a better future is at odds with the slow-motion staging of major, intractable climate change that will prove disastrous to 7 billion-plus people. It’s time to place strong policy into action. Like insurance, hedging risk and diversifying assets now are critical. What will it take for industry leaders to act courageously and make a real difference? Industry’s expertise and scale can be a substantial part of the solution. Our military — already making major strides in reducing fossil fuel use — will be supportive. With a predictable, rising disposal fee, and removal of tax rules that incentivize fossil fuel development, clean energy will become more profitable and affordable. While a disposal fee is not the only solution, it could be an integral piece. With consistent resolve and policies, today’s uneven puzzle can line up with broader world involvement in solutions. When investors know the future is in renewables, there will be breakthroughs we cannot imagine. The above was published in the San Diego Union-Tribune on September 12, 2013. John H. Reaves’74 is a lawyer based in San Diego and was a founding director of the Citizens Climate Lobby. Rear Admiral Len Hering (U.S. Navy, retired) is recognized for his efforts in sustainability and is currently the California Center for Sustainable Energy’s executive director.
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Board of Trustees Thomas C. Barry P’01,’03,’05 John Coumantaros ’80, P’16 Ian R. Desai ’00 Thomas J. Edelman ’69, P’06,’07 William R. Elfers ’67, Vice President John E. Ellis III ’74 Lawrence Flinn, Jr. ’53
EMERITI
Lance K. Beizer ’56
Howard C. Bissell ’55, P’82
Katheryn Allen Berlandi ’88 Ex-Officio
John R. Chandler, Jr. ’53, P’82,’85,’87, GP’10
William J. Benedict Jr. ’70, P’08, ’10
Frederick Frank ’50, P’12
Miriam Beveridge ’86
David L. Luke III ’41
Adam Casella ’06
Dr. Robert A. Oden, Jr. P’97
Robert V. Chartener ’76
Francis T. Vincent, Jr. ’56, P’85
Caldwell Hart ’87, P’16
Arthur W. White P’71,’74, GP’08,’11
Keith Holmes ’77 Bernice Leung Lin ’88
Diana Gomez ’76, P’11,’12
Alessandra H. Nicolas ’95
Sean M. Gorman ’72, Secretary
Nichole R. Phillips ’89
Edward Greenberg ’55 Kevin M. Hicks, Ex Officio Elizabeth Gardner Hines ’93 Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet ’85 Eleanor Green Long ’76 Forrest E. Mars, Jr. ’49, P’77,’82 GP’09,’09,’11,’11,’14, Vice President Christopher H. Meledandri ’77, Vice President Kendra S. O’Donnell Jean Weinberg Rose ’80, President Roger K. Smith ’78, P’08 Jane Sommers-Kelly ’81
Alumni Association Board of Governors
For more information please contact: Megan Denault ’03, Associate Director of Alumni Relations, at (860) 435-3114 or mdenault@hotchkiss.org. You may also visit www.hotchkiss.org/alumni and click on Events & Reunions.
Bryan A. Small ’03
Vice Presidents Christina M. Bechhold ’03
Carolyn H. Toolan ’97
Michael G.T. Thompson ’66 Stephanie Bowling Zeigler ’84 Ex-Officio
Keith E. Bernard Jr. ’95, Chair, Alumni of Color Committee Patricia Barlerin Farman-Farmaian ’85, Chair, Gender Committee
John L. Thornton ’72, P’10,’11,’16, Officer-at-Large
Thomas R. Seidenstein ’91 Chair, Alumni Services Committee
Stephanie Bowling Ziegler ’84
Casey H. Reid ’01 David Sei-ngee Tan ’91
Quinn Fionda ’91, Chair, Communications Committee
Daniel Wilner '03
Hullihen (Chip) D. Quarrier III ’90
President Edward J. Greenberg ’55
Marjo Talbott
William B. Tyree ’81, P’14, Treasurer
Daniel N. Pullman ’76, P’14 Ex-Officio
George A. Takoudes ’87, Chair, Nominating Committee Douglas Campbell III, ’71, P’01, Secretary and Chair, Nominating Subcommittee for Membership
June 13-15, 2014
September 26-28, 2014
Classes of 1934, 1939, 1944, 1954, 1959, 1969, 1974, 1979, 1984, 1989, 1994, 1999, 2004, 2009
Class of 1964 - 50th Reunion Class of 1949 - 65th Reunion Photo by Anne Day P’09,’11,’13