Hotchkiss Magazine Summer 2018 by The Hotchkiss School

Summer 2018

Board of Trustees (as of July 1, 2018) Charles Ayres ’77, P’22

Thomas Quinn ’71, P’15,’17,’19

Craig Bradley, Head of School

Christopher Redlich Jr. ’68

Howard Bissell ’55, P’82

Robert Chartener ’76, P’18, Vice President

Jean Weinberg Rose ’80, P’18, President

John Coumantaros ’80, P’16,’19 Elizabeth Ford P’11,’13

Thomas Seidenstein ’91 President, Alumni Association

John Chandler Jr. ’53, P’82,’85,’87, GP’10,’14,’16,’22

Robert Gould ’77

Roger Smith ’78, P’08, Secretary

William Elfers ’67

John Grube ’65, P’00

Timothy Sullivan ’81

Frederick Frank ’50, P’12

Elizabeth Hines ’93

Rhonda Trotter ’79

Robert Oden Jr. P’97

Bernice Leung Lin ’88

Rebecca van der Bogert

John Thornton ’72, P’10,’11,’16

Raymond McGuire ’75, Vice President

Gwyn Williams ’84, P’17, ’19, President, The Hotchkiss Fund

Francis Vincent Jr. ’56, P’85

Kendra O’Donnell Carlos Peréz ’81

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Thomas Edelman ’69, P’06,’07

Arthur White P’71,’74, GP’08,’11

Daniel Wilner ’03 David Wyshner ’85, Treasurer

Alumni Association Board of Governors (as of July 1, 2018) Natalie Boyse ’09

Annika Lescott ’06

Blake Ruddock ’12

EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS

Sirin Bulakul ’06

Barrett Lester ’81

William Sandberg ’65

Craig Bradley, Head of School

Rafe Carbonell ’93

Nicholas Moore ’71, P’89,’01,’06

Thomas Seidenstein ’91, President

Weijen Chang ’86, P’22

Adam Sharp ’96

Nathalie Pierrepont Danilovich ’03 VP and Chair, Gender Committee

Paul Mutter ’87 VP and Chair, Nominating Committee for Awards

Katheryn Allen Berlandi ’88, P’19 Past President, Alumni Association

Marita Bell Fairbanks ’84

Steve O’Brien ’62, P’87,’01, GP’17

Sheria Smith ’01 VP and Chair, Alumni of Color Committee

Carlos Garcia ’77

Emily Pressman ’98

Richard Staples ’74, P’10,’12

Peter Gifford ’93

Thomas Terbell ’95

Brooke Harlow ’92

Chip Quarrier ’90 VP and Co-chair, Alumni Services and Communications Committee

Caldwell Hart ’87, P’16,’20 Secretary and Chair, Nominating Committee for Membership

Charlotte Dillon Ross ’10 VP and Co-chair, Alumni Services and Communications Committee

Edward Greenberg ’55 Past President, Alumni Association Jean Weinberg Rose ’80, P’18 President, Board of Trustees

CLASS OF 2018 PHOTO BY BRIAN WILCOX

Gwyn Williams ’84, P’17,’19 President, The Hotchkiss Fund

COVER PHOTOGRAPH BY WENDY CARLSON

Summer 2018

HEAD OF SCHOOL

Craig W. Bradley CHIEF COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER

Hellen Hom-Diamond P’20

EDITOR

Wendy Carlson MAGAZINE DESIGNER

Julie Hammill WRITER

Chelsea Edgar ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS

Danielle Sinclair VIDEOGRAPHER AND DIGITAL MEDIA SPECIALIST

Tyler Wosleger WEBSITE AND DESIGN MANAGER

Margaret Szubra CONTRIBUTORS

David Holahan ’67, Roberta Jenckes, and Roger Wistar

F E AT U R E S

8 Hotchkiss Celebrates its 126th Graduating Class 14 The Fighting Young(ish) Priest Who Can Talk

to the Kids: 2017-18 Alumni Award Recipient Scotty McLennan ’66

24 Hotchkiss Honors Three Retiring Faculty 31 Passing the Torch

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, members of the faculty and staff, and friends of the School. Letters and comments are welcome. Please send inquiries and comments to: The Hotchkiss School, 11 Interlaken Road, Lakeville, CT 060392141, email magazine@hotchkiss.org, or phone 860-435-3122.

34 New Yorker Cartoonist Peter Arno ’22 38 Humorist Henry Alford ’80 Talks About His Latest

Tome, Hotchkiss Highlights, and a Naked Lunch

D E PA RT M E N T S

4 Campus Connection 41 Class Notes

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1, I had the privilege of gr anting diplomas to the 172 members of the Class of 2018. As has been the custom for the past few years, the seniors gathered the night before Commencement in the student center to reflect collectively on their experiences at Hotchkiss. Many expressed love for one another and their deep appreciation for their time at Hotchkiss, including the sense of living in “the Hotchkiss bubble;” others offered candid testimonies about the personal challenges they faced during their Hotchkiss years. Their honesty, compassion, and respect for one another strike me as characteristic of the Hotchkiss community. In his commencement address, longtime Instructor in History Tom Drake described the life of Wanda Landowska (1879-1959), a renowned Polish-French harpsichordist who escaped Nazi-occupied Paris to settle in Lakeville, where she spent the rest of her life. For Landowska, Lakeville was a stark contrast from the war-torn Europe from which she fled — a calm, tranquil environment in which she could practice and record much of Bach’s work for harpsichord. Like Landowska, generations of Hotchkiss students and teachers have found Lakeville to be an enabling environment for learning and good work. Happily, this town and region have not changed much over the years. Tom Drake’s Commencement address included this statement to seniors: “Your capacity to give back to others depends on the opportunity to

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refine your talents, and we now celebrate the accomplishments that you have made under the sheltering influence of this chrysalis of our construction.” Tom Drake’s line, “the sheltering influence of this chrysalis of our construction,” captures the essential premise of a boarding school education at Hotchkiss. Largely protected from the external environment (notwithstanding universal smartphones and social media fixation), our students are safe to develop their minds and talents as they grow into young adulthood. Those seniors who expressed gratitude for “the Hotchkiss bubble” during the meeting the evening before Commencement were effectively praising this sheltering chrysalis of our

“Your capacity to give back to others depends on the opportunity to refine your talents, and we now celebrate the accomplishments that you have made under the sheltering influence of this chrysalis of our construction.” – Tom Drake, 2018 Commencement Address construction for providing the support, structure, and safety as they prepare to fly. The new mission statement and values of our learning community developed by the Mission Statement Task Force, chaired by trustee Liz Hines ’93 and faculty members Richard Davis and Letty Roberts in 201617, includes the sentence: “We believe that a healthy and inclusive learning community nourishes students physically, emotionally, and intellectually; fosters joy in learning and living with others; and ensures that all feel safe, seen, and supported.” The Board of Trustees’ 2017 approval of the mission statement and values of our learning community led us to the next step, which was to develop a set of strategic priorities to guide the choices we will make as we shape the School’s course over the coming decade. Throughout the past year, the Board, faculty, students, and staff have participated in a series of discussions to determine the most important strategic choices we need to make to assure that Hotchkiss continues to achieve its mission: to inspire a diverse range of students who are committed to the betterment of self and society, and to cultivate in them at the highest standards of excellence imagination and intellect, openness and personal integrity, empathy and responsible citizenship that they may discover and fulfill their potential as individuals fully engaged in our world. As part of this process, we engaged a research company, Stamats, to assess the public perception of Hotchkiss and to better understand how effectively we are representing the Hotchkiss experience on the website and through other media. Stamats collected data from 1,700 alumni, faculty, staff, current students, and prospective students and families. We were heartened by the overwhelmingly positive content and tone of the Stamats findings. For instance, 93 percent of current students said they would recommend Hotchkiss to students considering boarding school. Among Hotchkiss’s greatest

strengths — the ones that distinguish us as one of the top schools in the country — were the quality of our faculty as teachers and mentors, excellence of college preparation and matriculation at the most selective universities, the academic strength of the student body, the quality of our campus and facilities, and the safety of the campus. The research also illuminated two areas where Hotchkiss is perceived as relatively less strong: perceived affordability and overall inclusivity and quality of residential and community life. These findings align with and confirm our sense of where we need to improve. As we move into more detailed planning, these two areas of improvement will be the focus of our work: affordability in terms of the availability of financial aid and

building community. We know that students learn and grow well when they feel a sense of belonging and a spirit of community. This is related to Tom Drake’s concept of a chrysalis. We are committed to taking the steps necessary to assure that those most able to contribute to and benefit from this learning community will have the means to attend, and that all students feel “safe, seen, and supported.” My colleagues and I are grateful to all those in the Hotchkiss family who contributed to this process. Your feedback, ideas, and insights have directly influenced our thinking and planning, and we look forward to your continued engagement as we move forward. Moniti meliora sequamur.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Alumni Respond to Investigation Update Dear Editor: We are a group of concerned Hotchkiss alumni responding to the Board of Trustees’ update on the Investigation into Sexual Misconduct that appeared in the Alumni Magazine (Winter/Spring 2018).

“Boys of Memorial Hall” Brings Back Memories I read with great interest the article on the “Boys of Memorial Hall” [Winter/Spring 2018], partly because the first to die was Charles Fleischmann, a distant cousin. I did not know the history of those who had perished and never saw the plaque on the wall in Memorial. I attended Hotchkiss from 1941-44 and missed my senior year because of the draft. Hotchkiss ran a summer senior year for those students — about 20 of us. I graduated in August, enlisted in the Navy in September, and was called to active duty in November. I wonder if there is a plaque or other memorial for those who perished in WWII. Gustav Fleischmann ’45 Editor’s Note: The School has a memorial in the Chapel listing the names of all alumni who died in U.S. conflicts from World War I up to and including the Vietnam War.

We want to hear from you! Send your comments on this issue to magazine@hotchkiss.org.

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Unfortunately, the notice in the magazine parallels other communications from the school which (a) have been limited in their disclosure, and/or (b) have failed to include critical information regarding the investigation (e.g., how to participate in the investigation). As a result, we urge greater transparency in all School and Board of Trustees communications going forward, including that future information related to the investigation be more detailed and more faithfully disseminated to the entire Hotchkiss community. Anyone from the Hotchkiss community who (1) experienced sexual abuse or misconduct as a student, (2) witnessed or was aware of abuse or misconduct, or (3) knows someone who did, we encourage you to participate in this investigation. The original investigation began almost two years ago. Allison O’Neil, a partner at Locke Lord LLP, was recently hired to continue working on the investigation into sexual abuse and misconduct. We urge all concerned alumni to contact her as soon as possible. Her contact information is as follows: Allison.ONeil@lockelord.com; Direct line: 617-239-0729. Thank you. Chris Brooks ’83 Ed Bryan ’83 Jennifer Bryan ’79 Martha Bryan ’77 Dan Buckstaff ’84 Kathleen Buckstaff ’84 Kelley Busby ’85 Scott Busby ’77 John Carter ’76 Robert Collier ’78 Ursula Connolly ’83 Louise Eastman ’84 Carolyn Eaton ’77 Alfred Ferguson ’83 Anne van Beuren Francis ’83 Eric Frothingham ’77 Beecher Grogan ’86 Emily Hall ’85

Jean Henry ’83 Angela Lewis Houle ’83 Sarah Judd ’83 Alissa Keny-Guyer ’77 Laura Kirk ’76 Alyssa Kolowrat ’84 Rachel Kueny ’83 David Latham ’82 Cynthia Leslie-Bole ’78 Charlie Lord ’83 Deirdre Lord ’85 Tim Lord ’83 Miranda Massie ’84 Edward Mattes ’75 Hilary Mullins ’80 Kristen C. Mullins ’83 John Nussbaum ’76 Anne Owen Armfield ’77

Charles D. Owen III ’78 P’02,’04,’07 Sara LeBlond Petrovek ’78 Alexandra Pisco ’84 Dan Pullman ’76 Laurie Robinson ’79 Chris Shea ’77 David Simpson ’74 Margaret Simpson ’77 Margaret Jackson Smith ’80 Lisa Suits ’78 Dorothy Thorne-Thomsen ’77 David R. Townsend ’77 Fred Wacker ’77 Heidi H. Wasch ’80 Peter Winther ’83

Four New Trustees Begin Their Term July 1 Nisa Leung Lin ’88 is a managing partner of Qiming Venture Partners, leading its health care investments. Qiming Venture Partners currently manages over $4 billion in assets and investments in over 250 companies. Named Venture Capital Professional of the Year by Asian Venture Capital Journal in 2017, she currently sits on the boards of numerous companies, including Gan & Lee Pharmaceutical, Nurotron, Venus MedTech, Goodwill Information Technology, dMed, LIH Rehabilitation, CanSino Biotechnology, and New Horizon. Leung earned her B.S. from Cornell University and her MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She is currently a visiting lecturer at Harvard Law School, a founding member and vice chair of PhIRDA Investment Committee, advisor of Our Hong Kong Foundation, council member of HKUST Business School, and a member of the board of the Hong Kong Palace Museum. “Hotchkiss helped me become more independent and compassionate and to learn about and appreciate the diversity around us. Mr. Bolmer taught me how to overcome hurdles and built my confidence in math and science, which ultimately led me to building a good foundation in my interests and career,” Leung says. Her two brothers, Jeffrey Leung ’99 and Erik Leung ’94, also are alumni.

Carlos Pérez ’81 is a senior managing director at Quadrant Capital Advisors, Inc., in New York. A member of the board of Bavaria S.A., Colombia’s largest brewing company, he also serves on the board of Valorem, which manages a diverse portfolio of industrial and media assets in Latin America. He is also a director of Caracol TV, Colombia’s leading broadcaster; El Espectador, a daily newspaper; and Cine Colombia, a major film distribution and movie theater company. Earlier in his career, he worked as an investment banker at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York and S.G. Warburg & Co. in London. He also serves on the board of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the Queen Sophia Spanish Institute, and the Fundación Cardio-Infantil. He received a B.A. from Harvard College with a concentration in government and economics and an M. Phil. degree in economics and politics from Cambridge University. Pérez, his wife, Ana María, and their children, Andrés and Daniela, live in New York. Hotchkiss was “an eye-opening and life-changing experience” for him. “I learned the basics of writing, speaking, and thinking logically and effectively, preparing me well for my future academic and business endeavors. On the

soccer field, I learned the importance of teamwork and training hard. Most importantly, I made some lifelong friendships that have sustained and enriched me,” he says.

Tim Sullivan ’81 served as the president and chief executive officer of Ancestry.com from 2005 to 2017 and now serves as the company’s chairman. Under his leadership, Ancestry.com grew into a leading online service and redefined how millions of people understand their family origins. In 2012, Ancestry.com launched AncestryDNA, which has quickly become the world’s largest consumer genomics database. Prior to joining Ancestry, he was chief operating officer and then president and CEO of Match.com. He also served as vice president of e-commerce for Ticketmaster Online-Citysearch, Inc. and vice president and managing director of Buena Vista Home Entertainment Asia Pacific, part of the Walt Disney Company. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.S. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a Morehead Scholar and graduated with honors. He also serves as a trustee for the Morehead-Cain Foundation. He and his wife, Jane, live in Park City, Utah. “Hotchkiss has had a profound impact on me,” he says. “I have so many foundational memories from Hotchkiss, not just about how to study and apply myself academically, but also how to stretch myself, how to try new things, and how to grow.”

Rhonda Trotter ’79, a partner in Arnold & Porter, is an intellectual property and commercial litigator, representing clients in telecommunications, entertainment, financial services, and transportation. She earned a B.A. from Stanford University and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to law school, she worked for California Tomorrow, an organization focused on the public policy aspects of the changing racial and ethnic demographics of the state. Trotter serves on the national board of A Better Chance, Inc., which recruited her to attend Hotchkiss. Of Hotchkiss, she says: “As a kid from inner city public schools in Los Angeles, Hotchkiss was a very challenging environment for me. But I grew in ways I did not even realize until many years later. Most of all, Hotchkiss built in me a sense of confidence that has served me well.” She lives in Los Angeles with her partner, Terry, and their pit bull.

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A Message from the Board of Trustees ROBERT CHARTENER ’76, P’18

In early May, the trustees met in Lakeville for board and committee meetings to discuss the following:

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Strategic Planning – The strategic design process began in the summer of 2017, and the plan continues to be refined. Affordability has emerged as a top priority, and several other initiatives fall under the broad heading of strengthening Hotchkiss as a student-centered community. With respect to access and affordability, raising endowment for financial aid is emerging as a likely capital objective. Developing a “whole school curriculum” for students will include enhancements to advising and the academic program, changes to athletics and other co-curricular offerings, improvements to residential life, and taking better advantage of Hotchkiss’s location and natural surroundings. Community spaces will also be a priority; the renovation of older dorms and the refreshment and expansion of the Dining Hall are under consideration. The process should be completed this year, and details about the plan will be posted on the Hotchkiss website. Admission Report – Erby Mitchell, the dean of admission and financial aid, noted that Hotchkiss will enroll approximately 600 students in the fall of 2018 as part of its plan

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to reduce the number of students from 626 in 2016-17 to 585 in 2019-20 and beyond. Hotchkiss received 1,895 applications (up from 1,861 last year), and the admit rate was 18 percent (19 percent last year), making it one of the most selective admission cycles in the last five years. The yield on admitted students declined to 46 percent (from 49 percent last year). Despite a 5.7 percent increase in financial aid per student in 201819, Hotchkiss has not grown financial aid as rapidly as some of its peer schools, and Mr. Mitchell noted that this may have adversely affected the yield rate. He is identifying and addressing the various factors that influence decisions by accepted students. College Placement – Director of College Advising Rick Hazelton reported that many of the nation’s colleges received record numbers of applications and reduced their acceptance rates this year. At Hotchkiss, a record 86 percent of the senior class applied early, and 63 percent of the class received an early acceptance. Colleges with more than five matriculants from the class of 2018 are Cornell (10), Georgetown (9), Harvard (8), NYU (7), Chicago (6), Columbia (6), and Princeton (6). Trends that Mr. Hazelton noted include burgeoning waiting lists (sometimes well in excess of the expected enrollment), an institutional priority at top

colleges to admit first-generation and lowincome students, and the diminishing value of legacy status. Investigation into Sexual Misconduct in the School’s Past – Subsequent to the

trustees’ January meeting, the School retained Allison O’Neil of Locke Lord LLC as the independent investigator, and she can be reached by email at hotchkissinvestigation@lockelord.com, or by phone at (800) 403-7138. Alumni who live abroad can reach Ms. O’Neil at (617) 239-0729. Information about the investigation, counselling support for alumni survivors, and programs relating to student safety today is available on the Hotchkiss website by following the link on the homepage. The trustees reiterated their commitment to releasing the investigator’s report when it is completed. Trustee Matters – Sean Gorman ’72 retired

as a trustee and as secretary, having served in both roles since 2002. Roger Smith ’78, P’08, a trustee since 2010, was elected secretary. Four new trustees were elected to the board and are profiled on the opposite page. Jeannie Rose ’80, P’18, agreed to the board’s request to extend her role as president through the upcoming academic year but will step down in June 2019.

2018 senior awards On Thursday, May 31, Head of School Craig W. Bradley, Class Dean Christy Cooper, Athletics Directors Danny Smith and Robin Chandler, as well as academic department heads presented School awards to the Class of 2018. Among the recipients are the following:

The Arts THE ELLEN R. TORREY DANCE PRIZE

Sanghyun (Chris) Park and June Perteet THE PETER D’ALBERT ’70 MEMORIAL ART AWARD

Katherine Hileman

THE JOHN HAMMOND ’29 MUSIC AWARD

Christine Deng, Sumin Goh, and Sarah Du THE SARAH T. CRAIG ’95 MEMORIAL PRIZE

Lawren Gregory

Modern and Classical Languages THE SENIOR GREEK PRIZE

Chloe Powell

THE SENIOR LATIN PRIZE

Chloe Powell

THE KING TAK LAM CHINESE PRIZE

Emma Knight

DEMARAY PRIZE

THE EDWARD KOHNE KLINGELHOFER JR. ’43 AWARD

Amanda Kang

THE THOMAS P. BLAGDEN ’29 AWARD

EMERSON BIGELOW ’13 AND JOHN EMERSON BIGELOW ’44 PRIZE FOR CONVERSATIONAL FRENCH

Samuel Suslavich Lauren Lam

SENIOR ARCHITECTURE AWARD

Krishna Sivakumar

Olivia Gee

THE THOMAS HUNTINGTON CHAPPELL ’24 PRIZE

Grace Bristow and Paola Karapataki THE TEAGLE ESSAY PRIZE

Sage Molasky

Humanities and Social Sciences THE EDWARD B. PRESTON ’79 MEMORIAL PRIZE

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Sanghyun (Chris) Park

THE SENIOR PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION PRIZE

Dean Parenteau

THE FIRST SCHOLAR PRIZE

Chloe Powell

THE HEAD OF SCHOOL PRIZE

Emma Knight

THE FRANK A. SPROLE ’38 SOCIAL SERVICE PRIZE

Natalie Yang and Harry Tower

Major School Prizes THE WALTER CLEVELAND ALLEN, JR. ’32 PRIZE

Courtney Breen, Annabelle Burns, Robert Doar, and Aadi Kulkarni THE CENTENNIAL PRIZE

THE CHARLES E. BERRY GERMAN PRIZE

Grace Bristow, Justin Ghaeli, Emily Rose, and Natalie Yang

THE SENIOR SPANISH PRIZE

THE FACULTY PRIZE

Charlotte Somerville

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Jack Lewis and Jay Lee

Mathematics and Computer Science

Tatr (Pete) Assakul, Daekwon Blair, Joseph Chlapowski, Anna Connell, Jaida Cowan, Claire Jennings, Mark Mahoney, Subin Park, Jayla-Whitney Spidell, Samuel Suslavich, and Henry Wilmot

THE GEORGE NORTON STONE SENIOR MATH PRIZE

THE CHARLES E. LORD PRIZE

THE SENIOR COMPUTER SCIENCE PRIZE

THE ALBERT WILLIAM OLSEN ’13 PRIZE

Seouk Jun (Daniel) Kim

Jay Lee, Elizabeth Ostermeyer, Dean Parenteau, and June Perteet

Science

THE CHARLES DENTON TREADWAY ’14 MEMORIAL PRIZE

Elizabeth Ostermeyer

THE ROBERT B. FLINT ’23 SCIENCE PRIZE

Chris Comfort, Lawren Gregory, Isabelle Haberstock, and Sanghyun Park

Emma Knight and Saylor Willauer

Christine Deng

THE VAN SANTVOORD ’08 ENVIRONMENTAL PRIZE

Luke Harrington

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Hotchkiss Celebrates its 126th Graduating Class

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gathered in Elfers Hall for Commencement while underclassmen, faculty, and staff watched the ceremony in Walker Auditorium on livestream. Instructor in History Tom Drake, who also serves as director of the Center for Global Understanding and Independent Thinking, gave the commencement address, citing harpsichordist and former Lakeville resident Wanda Landowska as an example of profound dedication to the fullest expression of one’s talents. In her recording of Scarlatti’s sonata in D major, the sound of explosions and artillery fire can be heard in the background as the Nazis began their invasion of Paris. Unfazed, Landowska played on. “She went on, with undiminished attention to her craft,” Drake said. “It’s a pretty daunting example, and while we hope that no such threat challenges the exercise of your talents, we still expect you to exercise them, no matter what intrudes.”

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fickle forecast and a last-minute decision to move the Commencement ceremony indoors didn’t dampen the spirits of Hotchkiss’s 172 graduating seniors. The graduation festivities kicked off in the evening on May 31 with the senior recital and awards ceremony, then continued on June 1 with the Baccalaureate Ceremony in the Chapel, where members of the Class of 2018 shared reflections on the lessons they’ve learned at Hotchkiss. This year, retiring Chaplain and Instructor in Philosophy and Religion Lou Pressman offered seniors some parting wisdom: “You will have power and privilege disproportionate to your numbers. As you go off from here with your gifts, to whom will you pay attention? Whose potential will you recognize?” Following the Baccalaureate Ceremony — and a minor delay as the rest of the proceedings were moved inside — seniors and their families

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New Appointments Richard Davis has been appointed associate dean of faculty. Davis came to Hotchkiss in 2006 as an instructor in Latin and Greek and has served as head of the Classical and Modern Languages Department, as well as secretary to the faculty and a duty dean. He earned an M.S. in education in 2016 from the University of Pennsylvania. Mike Eckert will serve as the first director of the Class of 1964 Teaching and Learning Center. Since 2013, Eckert has taught history in the Humanities Program as well as AP U.S. History. He has served as both associate dean of academic life and as interim dean of academic life. Eckert earned his B.A. at Harvard and his master’s in education leadership at Teachers College, Columbia University. As director, he will continue to lead the summer faculty symposium and work with the study skills coordinator. Jared Hall has been appointed dean of academic life. An instructor in the Humanities and Social Science Department at Hotchkiss since 2015, Hall has served as a mentor to new faculty members, participated in student travel programs in Asia, and arranged faculty colloquia. Previously, he was assistant dean at the Peking University High School-Dalton Academy in Beijing. He earned his B.A. in history from American University and his M.A. in history from the George Washington University. Merrilee Mardon, dean of faculty, has been appointed associate head of school. She will retain the dean of faculty role while taking on a larger leadership position. A graduate of Smith College, Mardon earned her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and taught economics and gender and women’s studies at Connecticut College before joining the Hotchkiss faculty in 2008. Rachel Myers has been appointed the inaugural director of diversity and inclusion. Myers will be involved in the recruitment and retention of faculty and continue to serve alongside Head of School Craig Bradley as the co-chair of the Council on Diversity and Inclusion. Myers joined the faculty as an English instructor in 2014. She earned her Ph.D. in African American and African studies from Michigan State University and her B.A. from Binghamton University, where she majored in Africana studies. Paul Oberto has been named director of the Class of 2017 EFX Lab. Oberto, an instructor in biology and chemistry and holder of the William Elfers ’37 Chair, joined the Hotchkiss faculty in 2000. He earned a B.A. at Hamilton College and M.S. at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Oberto was named co-head of the Science Department in 2006 and was appointed associate dean of faculty in 2012. He developed the School’s applied scientific research course through the Grainger Initiative for Excellence in Mathematics and the Sciences. 10

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All-Gender Housing Option To Be Offered in the Fall For the vast majority of Hotchkiss students, single-gender dormitories are and will continue to be the appropriate housing arrangement. However, a small number of students who are gender non-conforming or transgender need greater privacy than what single-sex dorms can offer, and the School is committed to accommodating them and assuring their privacy and well-being.1 Following a year-long study by a faculty working group charged with better understanding the needs of students who are transgender or gender non-conforming, the School has decided to pilot an all-gender housing option in Watson Dorm, beginning this fall. This idea was endorsed by the Board of Trustees. To gauge interest, the School surveyed all students in March. Of the 556 responses, 31 percent reported that they are “open to allgender housing,” and seven percent indicated that they “need/want all-gender housing.” In May, students were given an opportunity to select the option in the annual housing questionnaire. Students were not required to identify as gender non-conforming or transgender to live in this housing. Every student who elected this option was strongly encouraged to speak with their parents about gender identity and expression before confirming their choice. The results of the housing application process will determine the number of rooms in Watson that will be designated for all-gender housing this fall. Members of the faculty and staff have participated in training about gender nonconforming youth and how best to create an inclusive learning and living environment that enables all students to feel safe, seen, and supported. More substantial, ongoing training of the dorm faculty and proctors will take place during the summer and fall. 1 According to a 2017 study by the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law, 0.7 percent of surveyed American youth (ages 13 to 17) identify as transgender.

Visitors 2018 Beal Lecturer: Ambassador Nicholas Burns

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mbassador Nicholas Burns, the 2018 Beal Lecturer, addressed the School community in Elfers Hall on April 30. Burns, currently a professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, served for 27 years as a U.S. Foreign Service Officer. His roles included undersecretary of state, ambassador to NATO, and ambassador to Greece under President George W. Bush. He also served as State Department spokesman in the Clinton administration and was the director of Soviet affairs under President George H.W. Bush. Among other accomplishments, Burns led successful negotiations to achieve new agreements with India in civil nuclear energy, negotiated a $30-billion long-term military assistance agreement with Israel, and, as undersecretary of state, served as the chief U.S. negotiator on Iran’s nuclear program. Burns’s address to Hotchkiss students centered on the challenges facing the next generation of world leaders, including climate change, pandemics, and cyber security. He exhorted students to look outward and embrace their role as global citizens. He also emphasized the need for transnational cooperation and maintaining ties with other countries. “We don’t need to make ourselves great again,” Burns said, a nod to President Trump’s popular refrain. “We need to look out, be faithful to our friends and allies.” The Beal Lecture series, coordinated by Instructor in English, History, and Russian Keith Moon, was established in 1983 in honor of Thaddeus R. (Ted) Beal Jr. ’35 by his friend, classmate, and former trustee John Shedd Reed. It was Mr. Reed’s belief that the Hotchkiss community would benefit from exposure to visiting speakers addressing current issues of national and/or global concern.

Artists-in-Residence

Gala Narezo introduced humanities students to mindfulness as a method to help them in the process of creating art during her residency April 16-20. Narezo, who focuses on the intersection of art, social engagement, and reflective practices, used the Tremaine Art Gallery as a studio. Gala Narezo: Voice/Time, her installation in the Tremaine in April, explored the role of voice in the creative process through a chronological selection of her work over the last 20 years. In her photography and collaborations, Gala specializes in creating platforms for social issues using design thinking and storytelling.

T. Klacsmann ’01’s solo show, Ex Animo, was exhibited in the Tremaine Art Gallery in May. During his residency in late May, Klacsmann visited classes and worked with students in the print studio. His own work involves painstaking carvings in wood or linoleum. Some of the resulting relief prints are further developed with paint, ink, and colored pencil to become mixedmedia collages or parts of room-scale installations; other prints are scanned and layered to become digital collages.

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The Poet’s Path: Lambert Lecturer Don Share’s Journey

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style. At Hotchkiss, he read an excerpt of “At Seventeen,” a moving take on his attempt to lose his Southern accent when he showed up in New York for college. ... Despite the Columbia curriculum I turned book-smart, but stayed Manhattan dumb Till I tore down, plank-by-plank, the lank and haul, The trill that was not Trilling, the occasional y’all Of a lazy-built, leaky drawl.... This was my first adult choice. I unboarded the home that was in my voice... Today, Share said his work is mostly in service of other poets. At Poetry magazine, he and Christina Pugh, a consulting editor, read more than 150,000 submissions a year (only one percent are accepted). In the process, he seeks to identify emerging authors, especially those adept at giving voice to those whose voices are rarely heard. He read poems by two African American poets: “alternate names for black boys” by Denez Smith and “Cardi B Tells Me about

Myself ” by Eboni Hogan. Share said he’s often asked if anyone reads poetry anymore and why we still need it. “We’ve always needed poetry,” he said. “Even if it all vanished right now, poetry would come back in a minute. There would be people reading and writing it all over again. We seem to be wired for it. Maybe it’s our early experience of being read stories and nursery rhymes and lullabies. But poems can also express things in a way that nothing else can. It gives us an emotional vocabulary,” he said. “If you’re open to it, poetry is everywhere,” he added. “It’s as if poems will find you when you need them.” The Lambert Fund, established in 1981 by Paul C. Lambert ’46 and his wife, Mary, in memory of their son, Christopher ’76, who died of cancer in 1979. It was the Lamberts’ wish that the funds be used to provide a stipend for writers of prose and poetry to visit the School twice each year to work with the students in the English department and offer an evening reading for the community at large.

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rowing up in Memphis in the late ’60s, Don Share was a self-described rabble-rouser. He was often sent to the school library for punishment, where he read his way through the shelves. In the process, he discovered a passion for poetry and a wanderlust that eventually lured him to New York City at age 17. Share, this year’s Lambert Lecturer, addressed the Hotchkiss community in Elfers Hall on April 10. He spoke about his journey as a poet and his role at Poetry magazine, where he is editor-in-chief and co-host of the magazine’s podcast. Previously, Share was curator of the Poetry Room at Harvard University, where he also taught and served as poetry editor of the Harvard Review. He is the author of numerous books, including Wishbone (2012), Squandermania (2007), and Union (2002). His translation work includes Field Guide: Poems by Dario Jaramillo Agudelo (2012), Miguel Hernández (2013), and I Have Lots of Heart: Selected Poems by Miguel Hernández (1998), which won Share the Times Literary Supplement Translation Prize and the Premio Valle Inclán for translation from the UK Society of Authors. After meeting Beat poet Allen Ginsberg at a reading in Memphis, Share knew he wanted to be in New York, but at 17, he didn’t know how to get there. His grades were poor, and his high school counselor told him not to bother applying to college. But he decided he’d try and wrote a killer essay, which got him into Columbia. Two years later, he transferred to Brown (“It was coed, and Columbia was not at that time, and I could design my own major,” he said.) But he never looked up Ginsberg. “I was too shy,” he said. Still, the encounter gave him the impetus to pursue his own writing: at Columbia, he began to develop a visually rich, lyrical, and, at times, comic

Judge Peter Hall ’66 Addresses the National Gun Debate

eter Hall ’66, a judge in the second circuit of the United States Court of Appeals, spoke during an All-School assembly on April 20 about the interpretation of the Second Amendment in the current debate over firearms legislation. His presentation took place the evening after the National Walkout, during which Hotchkiss students joined thousands of other high schoolers across the country to mark the 19th anniversary of the tragic shooting at Columbine. Hall noted District of Columbia v. Heller, a 2008 case in which the U.S. Appeals Court for the District of Columbia Circuit overturned a 30-year-old law that forbade almost all D.C. residents from owning handguns. At the core of that case, and the ongoing gun control debate, was the meaning of the Second Amendment. Opponents of gun control contend that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual’s right to have firearms; gun control supporters interpret the amendment as a collective right of the states to maintain militias. Hall also served as an assistant United States attorney and was later promoted to

first assistant U.S. attorney, serving as second-in-command in the office. During his time as an assistant United States attorney, Hall prosecuted numerous firearm violations,

including United States v. Billy Ang, a case that tried a member of a Chinese gang in New York who traveled to Vermont in an attempt to bring back handguns to fuel gang wars. Later, Hall worked at a private law firm, which he started with a group of attorneys in Rutland, VT. During this time, he also served as president of the Vermont Bar Association. In October 2001, he left private practice to become the United States attorney for Vermont, a position he held until he was appointed a judge in the second circuit of the United States Court of Appeals. Hall stressed the importance of student involvement in the gun control debate, comparing it to the role of college activists during the Vietnam War. The shooting at Kent State in 1970, in which four students were killed by the Ohio National Guard during an anti-war protest, became a watershed moment, he explained. “Almost every university and college, groups of conservatives and liberals, came together around the issue of the war.”

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t started with a casual conversation at Mohawk Mountain back in 2009 about how to motivate their classmates for a 30th Reunion gift, according to Henry Labalme ’80 and James Hunt ’80. The two classmates helped lead the effort for the 35th Reunion gift — the School’s first solar panel installation at the Grange at Fairfield Farm. “We missed that initial milestone by a few years, but by the time the 35th reunion rolled around, we had secured a solar grant from the State [of CT] and raised an additional $30,000 to deploy the School’s first solar electric generating plant,” said Labalme. The School also thanks other members of the Class of 1980 for their contributions: Peter Beshar, Blair Carleton, Mike Collette, David Dove, Carl Goodnow, Brenda Grassey, Kate Kressmann-Kehoe, Cat Greenberg London, and Jonathan Montgomery.

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The Fighting Young(ish) Priest Who Can Talk to the Kids: 2017-18 Alumni Award Recipient Scotty McLennan ’66 BY CHELSEA EDGAR

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ooner or later, everyone comes through my door with a question about the meaning of life,” says Scotty McLennan ’66, the 2017-18 Alumni Award recipient. McLennan, a Unitarian Universalist minister, has been a chaplain at both Tufts and Stanford, where he also served as dean of religious life. Currently, he lectures at the Stanford Graduate School of Business about the intersection of work and spirituality. Outside of academia, McLennan is known for his doppelgänger in the Doonesbury comic series, the Reverend Scot Sloan, a character once described by Look magazine as “the fighting young priest who can talk to the kids.” The same could be said of McLennan, who spoke to students about the revolutionary times they live in and how they can be a force for positive change when he came to campus to accept the Alumni Award on May 11. Before his visit to the School, Hotchkiss Magazine sat down with McLennan in his office at Stanford to talk about his spiritual musings at Hotchkiss, his summer with a Hindu priest, and why there’s no such thing as a religion of one. How did you ultimately circle back to religion?

How did it feel to be immersed in two basically opposite pursuits?

I grew up in a conservative Presbyterian church in Lake Forest, IL. When I came to Hotchkiss, I started reading about the religions of the world, and I’d submit these little essays to my English teacher, Tom McGraw, on the sly, because it wasn’t really cool to be into religion in my day at Hotchkiss. Ironically, as I studied all these different religions, I would keep coming back to my own Christian roots, then my Protestant roots, and then, finally, my Presbyterian roots. So my first response was to kind of say, “Well, I guess I really am a Presbyterian Christian. It makes the most sense.” But after another few weeks, I was like, “It actually makes no sense at all.” What’s this notion of predestination? And those so-called acts of God — earthquakes, cleft palates, all the horrible stuff. What kind of God is that? So finally, I said, “I’m out.”

I left Hotchkiss as an atheist. Within my first year at Yale, I discovered “a seminar for friendly disbelievers,” which was led by the chaplain [William Sloane Coffin]. That’s where I began to discover that there was a liberal and progressive Christianity that made more sense to me. But I also discovered Eastern religions, and I spent the summer after my freshman year living with a Hindu priest in India, which catapulted me into a whole different way of thinking about religion. All my life, I’d planned to be a lawyer, but I became more and more interested in religion and ultimately decided to go to law school and divinity school at the same time.

They were very much opposites. The joke was that at the law school, if you wanted to talk about justice, they’d say, “We do what the courts say, not some kind of ethereal justice. Go to divinity school.” And at the divinity school, they’d say, “We’re here to talk about love and grace. Go to law school.” So it was definitely two different ways of approaching things.

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How did those two disciplines inform your career? After law school, I started the Unitarian Universalist Legal Ministry in a low-income neighborhood in Boston. The idea was to see people’s legal problems in light of their whole situation. So instead of the surgical approach a traditional lawyer might take, I tried look at my clients in the broadest possible way — how might their cases get

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What were your feelings on faith and religion during your time at Hotchkiss?

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contextualized in their lives and in the larger society? How can we do self-help with people rather than simply leading them through the court system? Later, I taught courses in law and religion at Tufts, and I always noted to my students that all of the first-year law courses are based on canon law, which ultimately has religious underpinnings. And you can’t do religion very well without understanding the justice component — what happens to people in the real world? How are they hurting? How are they oppressed? What did Jesus say to the poor, to the sick?

Your college roommate was Garry Trudeau, creator of the comic strip Doonesbury, which features a Reverend Scot Sloan, modeled after you. How similar are you and Sloan? Well, I’m grateful to have been made into a lifelong joke. Scot Sloan was a progressive, politically engaged, liberal Protestant Christian, so I certainly identify with that part. But Garry also makes that character naive and simplistic, and it’s not always a particularly flattering depiction of Protestant ministers trying to change the world. So he does a lot of things I wouldn’t do, but he also does things that I’m proud to say the church should stand for.

own spiritual pursuits, but to act on that spirituality in the world, to join coalitions of justice and equality. But a lot of people — most people in the world, in fact — grow up in religious environments, where it’s just natural to go to mosque or the church or the temple in your neighborhood. So I think institutional religion is here, whether we like it or not. It’s the water that we swim in. At Stanford, you lecture about the intersection of spirituality and business. How can religion and spirituality be positive forces in the workplace?

I teach a class called “Finding Spiritual Meaning at Work: Business Exemplars,” where I bring in CEOs who are somehow engaged in a religious or spiritual tradition According to Pew, today’s young people — Buddhist, Hindu, Protestant, Catholic, are the least religiously affiliated Mormon, Muslim, Jewish, all backgrounds demographic in history. Do you think — and have them describe how they’ve that organized religion has a place in the tried to integrate that with their business secular modern world? life, which is often not easy. The idea of The arrogance that I have of sitting in finding happiness and fulfillment in the a chaplain’s office is that sooner or later, workplace is becoming increasingly big in everyone comes through the door with a business literature, and there’s a lot of stuff question about the meaning of life, what out there about the role of meditation in the really matters, whether there’s any life after workplace and compassionate management. death. People will say they’re spiritual, but And it’s relevant on the individual level, too: not religious, and institutional religion is the how do you find moments in your day to problem: it’s perverted the pure messages, just step back and reflect so you can be more it’s very divisive, it leads to holy wars and effective in your work? pogroms and holocausts. However, a lot of people who say they’re spiritual and not What would you tell Hotchkiss students religious are ultimately trying to find a way about doing good in the world? to join with other people who feel that It’s a wonderful, diverse, fascinating way, to have some rituals around the birth place. You need to keep your eyes and ears of their children, when they get married, open and really listen to other people who when someone dies, when they’re in crisis. are trying to find meaning and purpose, Ironically, at those times, you come to what ultimately matters. There are many institutional religion as the repository of different meanings and traditions out there, wisdom and certain traditions — like yoga and ultimately, we need to do it together, or meditation or prayer. At the end of the because otherwise, we’ll blow this planet up. day, we don’t find it satisfactory just to be

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Hotchkiss Marks 22nd Annual Eco Day

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he School celebrated its 22nd annual Eco Day on April 24, a day of community outreach and outdoor service projects that underscores Hotchkiss’s commitment to environmental stewardship. In the morning, students gathered in Walker Auditorium to listen to keynote speaker Miranda Massie ’84, founder of the country’s first climate museum — named, appropriately, The Climate Museum — in New York City. In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, Massie, a former civil rights lawyer, felt compelled to bring climate change to the forefront of public consciousness. In 2015, she established The Climate Museum as a non-profit and hired a board of directors. While The Climate Museum still lacks a permanent home, Massie is focused on building public interest by installing temporary exhibits around New York City to help make climate change part of everyday conversation. Massie showed students a behind-thescenes look at the museum’s first exhibit, an installation at the Parsons School of Design that merged film, photography, and painting

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in an exploration of ice core science, a way of measuring changes in the earth’s climate over millennia through the study of a glacier’s layers. The ultimate goal of these exhibits, Massie explained, is to inspire creativity in the face of today’s most pressing challenge: the impact of climate change on the world’s most vulnerable populations. “I first came into this work through social inequality,” she said. “There is no greater multiplier and intensifier of inequality in this country than climate change. We face an enormous challenge as human beings that is not distributed equally by race or by class.” She urged students to fight against that

inequality by getting involved in public efforts to address climate change — including The Climate Museum’s Youth Advisory Council, which will allow students to play a greater role in the development of museum exhibits and outreach projects — and, above all, to make talking about climate change a daily habit. “It can feel overwhelming to talk about, but by talking about it, we come to realize that everything is possible,” she said. Following Massie’s talk and an outdoor lunch served on Bissell Common, students and their advisors divided into teams to work on service projects on and around campus. Some groups picked up trash along the road in neighboring towns, on the shoreline at the Hotchkiss Beach, on nearby trails, and at Salmon Kill stream; others got their hands dirty at Fairfield Farm, pulling up fence posts, clearing brush and barbed wire, and constructing fencing and wooden tent platforms. Inside the Mary M. Graf Barn at the Farm, students spent the afternoon packing about 10,000 individual meals for Rise Against Hunger, a nonprofit that delivers food to underdeveloped countries.

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WHAT’S NEW IN THE CLASS OF 2017 EFX LAB? BY HELLEN HOM-DIAMOND P’20

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ranslating a concept into reality can be messy. What looks good on paper might not work in three dimensions: the math can be flawed, or the building materials may not possess the right physical properties. In spite of a student’s best efforts, the prototype just might fail. But that’s all part of the design process. Since its opening last fall, the Class of 2017 EFX Lab (Engineering, Fabrication, Exploration) has provided students with a space where they can get hands-on experience in turning an idea into a tangible reality. “You get the idea of constant revision, of getting to a solution. That’s the point of the EFX Lab: it allows you the space to rebuild, fix, change, and modify,” said Eric Stone, instructor in mathematics, whose uses the lab for several of his classes. For Instructor in Physics and Robotics Sam Golini, the lab is his classroom, where his students can see their ideas take shape. During the spring semester, two teams from his class designed solutions aimed at helping residents of Cape Town, currently in the midst of a severe drought, transport water from collection points, which are often miles from their homes. One team first tried making a poncho that could be used to hold water containers; when that didn’t work, they designed a backpack out of light, inexpensive, durable parachute cloth. The other team built a wagon using cardboard, which would be simple to distribute and assemble. Their biggest challenge was finding a way to waterproof the cardboard and make it strong enough

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to support several five-gallon plastic water containers. “It’s really cool to think that some cardboard wagon that I made could potentially be used in Cape Town to help people,” said Lucy Donovan ’18. Stone and Tiffany Lim, another math instructor, used the lab to help put complex math equations and quadratic forms, like parabolas, to the test. Students in their Algebra 2 class built catapults, using calculations to come up with a design that would allow them to successfully launch a marble through a hoop. One group used the lab’s 3-D printer to produce a small, hand-held cannon, using springs to release and propel the marble. The lab’s centerpiece, the Leung Prototyping Studio, houses a CNC router, a large-format laser cutter, chop saw, band saws, and drills. The 3,136-foot-lab is designed to accommodate both individual and class projects, with movable work furniture, retractable glass doors, wallsized whiteboards, and large work tables. Students can transform their ideas into tangible objects, like drones, skateboards, and musical instruments. In Anju Taneja’s AP Physics class, students played “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” on musical instruments they built in the lab using 3-D printer-generated pieces, circuitry kits, and cardboard. Photography and art students have used the lab for independent projects, ranging from building a custom computer for digital image rendering and laser-cut wood sculptures. And in co-curriculars like robotics, students work individually and in groups developing longterm projects, like a water filtration system. Upper mid Alex Kulicki has even bigger plans: he’s building an electric car. If all goes well, he might race it against other electric cars at the nearby Lime Rock Park racetrack in Salisbury, CT.

Watch a video of the EFX Lab in action: www.hotchkiss.org/EFX

James Lewitt ’18, Volunteer EMT, Awarded Service Medal James Lewitt ’18 received the Round Square King Constantine Community Service Medal at Hotchkiss. Lewitt was recognized during an All-School assembly on May 15 for his dedication and service to the local community as a member of the Salisbury Volunteer Ambulance Service (SVAS), which has served the local region for more than 45 years. A trained EMT and the youngest member of the corps, Lewitt responded to more than 100 calls during his senior year at Hotchkiss. “This experience has helped me learn about being on a team. When I’m out on a call, I don’t feel like a Hotchkiss student; I feel like a member of the community,” said Lewitt. In a sense, Lewitt led a double life at Hotchkiss. “My main priority was being a student, but getting out into the community as an EMT was really important to me. Some days we’d have no calls, other times we’re quite busy.” Lewitt kept a pager and a radio in his dorm room and received special permission from the School to have a car on campus. In the ambulance, “the first thing I do is to make the patient comfortable,” he said. Dr. Jared Zelman P’04, a fellow member of the SVAS, commented on Lewitt’s humility and commitment to helping others: “James Lewitt independently developed an interest in pre-hospital medicine, took an EMT course, spent a summer in California working as an EMT, and then asked if he could bring that skill to The Hotchkiss School and Lakeville. Because of the trust that he had earned as a student at Hotchkiss, he was granted permission to have a car on campus and serve on SVAS. This year, he was granted membership. He has gone on over 100 calls, taking many difficult calls in the middle of the night. His involvement has led to lives being saved. He is actively providing a valuable service to the community outside of his school. He provides youthful exuberance without fanfare to the culture of the organization. He helps other students with their EMR course and has assisted in school-related EMS calls. More importantly, James provides his skill with calmness, gentleness, and warmth.” The King Constantine Medal is awarded to a member of the community who, according to faculty and peers, has exemplified a strong spirit of service and devotional work for the common cause. This international award may be awarded to any member of the community from each Round Square member school. Hotchkiss is one of 15 U.S. member schools and the only Round Square member from the Eight Schools Association. James Lewitt was featured as one of our #HeyBearcats on Instagram. Follow @hotchkissschool to see more profiles of our community members. S u m m e r

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Bicycles Are a Powerful Tool for Change 2018 Community Service Award Recipients Stan Day ’76 and F.K. Day ’78 Stan Day, left, with brother F.K. Day

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Stan Day ’76 and F.K. Day ’78 were honored during an All-School assembly on April 27 for their global effort to provide bicycles to people living in underdeveloped countries.

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n 1987, the Day brothers founded SRAM, the second largest manufacturer of bicycle parts in the world, employing more than 3,000 people. In 2008, the brothers used their expertise to establish the SRAM Cycling Fund, which promotes safety and better access through the construction of bicycle lanes and trails. More recently, the brothers have focused their efforts on World Bicycle Relief (WBR), a nonprofit that delivers bicycles to rural areas in countries that lack adequate public transportation. Most bicycles available in those regions, where roads tend to be unpaved or nonexistent, last only a few months. So the Day brothers designed and manufactured the Buffalo bicycle, a sturdy, low-maintenance bike tailored to withstand rough riding conditions. To date, the organization has delivered almost 400,000 Buffalo bicycles to Colombia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, and other countries. In presenting the brothers with the Community Service Award, Paul Mutter ’87, chair of The Hotchkiss School Alumni Association Board of Governors Nominating Committee, said service to others is a “common bond that has united every generation of Hotchkiss students, beginning

with the founding of the St. Luke’s Society 126 years ago.” Two members of the Hotchkiss Mountain Bike team, Alex Takoudes ’20 and Jack Wolf ’19, introduced Stan and F.K. The students explained that in remote areas, a bicycle can drastically reduce travel time: every 10 miles traveled on a bicycle saves three hours of walking time. Bicycles are not only faster modes of transportation, they allow access to education and healthcare and boost the economy. More than 126,000 children ride Buffalo bikes to school each morning, and more than 138,000 healthcare workers use the bikes to more effectively cover their area. Farmers can also carry five times as many goods on these bikes, increasing daily deliveries by as much as 25 percent. Natalie Yang ’18 and Alisa Ghura ’19, who are both active in the St. Luke’s Society, moderated a Q&A session during the ceremony. The students asked the brothers how their experiences at Hotchkiss inspired them. Stan, who earned his B.S. in business at Tulane University and his M.B.A. at Kellogg Graduate School of Management, said Hotchkiss provided him with a solid academic foundation. But, more importantly, it instilled in him a strong sense of integrity and a

commitment to hard work. F.K., who attended Hotchkiss as a prep before transferring to the South Kent School, studied economics at Wayne State University and attended Tulane University, where he earned an honorary degree. “Modern-day Hotchkiss and South Kent reflect what I believe to be the best of what modern education, technology, innovation, and experiential learning can instill in a student,” F.K. said. The qualities he developed in boarding school, including perseverance and the ability to trust his instincts, he said, both proved essential to the success of WBR. The Day family has always been drawn to business and entrepreneurial endeavors. “It was the conversation at the dining room table. We had an idea of the long term, a complete commitment to integrity, and a view that one has to earn success through hard work,” Stan said. Stan serves as president, CEO, and chairman of the board at SRAM and as a director on the board of WBR. F.K. serves as executive vice president of SRAM, CEO of WBR, and as a director on the board of SRAM.

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After Three Decades of Teaching at Hotchkiss, There’s Still More to Learn: J. Bradley Faus P’10, 2017-18 Lufkin Prize Recipient

Hotchkiss honored this academic year’s Lufkin Prize recipient, Art Instructor and Visual Art Program Director J. Bradley Faus, in an All-School assembly on April 20. Head of School Craig Bradley praised Faus’s dedication to the arts at Hotchkiss and to supporting students in every aspect of their lives.

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students at the time,” notes Faus. “I chaired the committee to research and address that situation. The School was also less diverse back then, and our curriculum was largely driven by media and technique.” Since then, he says, the growing diversity of the student body and faculty, as well as the advent of the Humanities Program, have had a positive impact on the School’s art program. “Our curriculum is more conceptually driven today and embraces themes and content across the disciplines,” he explains. In his Lufkin acceptance speech, Faus spoke about the importance of continually striving for improvement in his work and learning from his students’ feedback. “I don’t always get it right — the way I hoped, planned, or imagined a class, an assignment sequence; or an interaction with a student or colleague may go wrong,” he said. “Acknowledging what could have been done more successfully sets me on the next path.” During the award ceremony, Faus invited students Elizabeth Ostermeyer ’18, Hannah Lothian ’19, Abigail Hillebrecht ’19, and Bobby Doar ’18 to the stage. Each one spoke about Faus’s impact — as a teacher, a lacrosse coach,

and an advisor — on their Hotchkiss experience. As a prep, Doar signed up for an art class to fulfill a Humanities requirement, expecting to “check the box and get it over with.” But Faus pushed him to have confidence in himself and take ownership of his work, helping Doar discover a love of art that he didn’t know he had. “A good teacher deepens and strengthens a student’s existing interest in a topic,” Doar said. “But a great teacher ignites passion where there was none before.” These days, Faus continues to practice his own art at R&F Studios in Kingston, NY, where he works with encaustic, a mixture of beeswax and oil paint. “I do my best to spend my summers working in the studio and becoming a student once again,” he says. “This experience, in turn, fuels my work at Hotchkiss through the school year.” The Lufkin Prize is given annually to a faculty member who makes a significant contribution to character development within the Hotchkiss community and serves as a role model for students. Dan Lufkin ’49, who established the prize in 2006, presented Faus with the award.

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ver the years, he’s been a passionate advocate for the arts and the integrity of the Hotchkiss education,” Bradley said. “Mr. Faus has played all the roles a faculty member can play with a deep integrity and commitment to our students.” And, he added, “if you spot something lovely and well-designed on this campus, chances are good that Mr. Faus was involved in the process.” Faus’s own passion for making art began at a young age. His parents owned an art gallery, framing, and supply store; as a boy, he would often travel to artist’s studios with his mother as she negotiated exhibitions and selected work. The support of encouraging, influential teachers also played a role in his decision to pursue art later on. At Kenyon College, where he earned his bachelor’s degree, he studied art with a focus in pre-architecture; as a graduate student at Rhode Island School of Design, he concentrated on studio art. After a stint teaching at the Tilton School in Tilton, NH, Faus came to Hotchkiss in 1987 as the chair of the art department, a visual arts instructor, and co-director of what was then called the Hotchkiss Gallery, now the Tremaine Art Gallery. “There was no arts requirement for

“A good teacher deepens and strengthens a student’s existing interest in a topic. But a great teacher ignites passion where there was none before.” – Bobby Doar ’18

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Hotchkiss Honors Three Retiring Faculty Lou Pressman P’98,

Instructor in Philosophy and Religion and Keeper of the Golden Sneakers BY ROBERTA JENCKES

The objects in Lou Pressman’s office all add up: the framed portrait of the Danish existentialist Søren Kierkegaard, front and center; a colorful banner, given by visiting Tibetan Buddhist monks; the Hotchkiss-issue laptop open on his desk. But the screaming gold sneakers mounted like trophies — what are those?

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t. Luke’s Society won the Golden Sneaker Award for the last three years for the number of people the students registered for the Crop Walk fundraiser for hunger relief,” Pressman explains. As the advisor to St. Luke’s, he became the caretaker of the prize sneakers. “I like their lack of pretension,” he says with a smile. His office is a snapshot of the heart and soul of a philosopher firmly grounded in the social tumult of the 1960s and ’70s, when Pressman was a student — first at Exeter, then at Yale, where the chaplain at the time was the legendary activist William Sloane Coffin. A native of Freeport, NY, Pressman earned his B.A. at Yale in religious studies, with a special interest in theology, philosophy of religion, and ethics. He worked as a graduate and teaching assistant for professors at Yale, developing and teaching his own courses there and at Albertus Magnus College. Ultimately, he realized, “I had to choose what filled me with the greatest joy and satisfaction: I really enjoyed working with kids.” He began teaching philosophy and religion courses at Hotchkiss in 1980 and, throughout

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his 38-year tenure, has served as the School’s chaplain. He was awarded the title of Independence Foundation Chair #1 in 1993. He and his wife, Kathy, began their Hotchkiss days in Bissell Hall with their daughter, Emily, of the Class of 1998, and a dachshund named Digger. Most recently, the Pressman family lived in the newly renovated Baechle/Ayres House, which has just three student bedrooms. “Each year, those six or seven girls, and Kathy and I, soon felt that we shared a real family life. They filled the place with energy, sass, joy, and gracious appreciation of Kathy’s cooking.” When Pressman arrived at Hotchkiss, Chapel was held for 10 minutes, two days a week, and included a hymn, a responsive reading, and the chaplain’s reflections. That changed during his tenure. Chapel is now 20 minutes, once a week, and features a themed talk by the chaplain, a faculty or staff member, a student, or a guest. Sometimes, the time is devoted to music or a performance. “Chapel is a generously open space for students to share. I always tell them, ‘The best Chapels are when you folks speak —

powerfully, authentically, seriously — about your experiences, your lives.’” Beyond Chapel, the dorm, and the classroom, he is remembered by generations of students as a caring advisor. Rue Richey ’89 says, “As a Pressman advisee, you always felt loved and nourished; his teasing humor was like a warm blanket. When I was leaving school for a weekend during my senior year, Mr. Pressman once wrote a note on a dining hall napkin and paper-clipped it to my coat, instructing that I wasn’t to remove the note until I returned safely to Lakeville Sunday night. The note said: ‘My name is Rue Richey. If I am lost, please call my advisor.’ “While Mr. Pressman, advisor, didn’t want me to get lost in the tangible world, Mr. Pressman, instructor, encouraged me to lose myself in the world of ideas. His classes were always challenging, compelling you to examine closely held beliefs.” Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tom Reiss ’82, P’20, says of him, “Mr. Pressman was the most important and inspiring teacher for me at Hotchkiss and, in fact, anywhere. He brought us a passion for ideas and

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argumentation that was like what I’d always imagined school should be like but had never quite found up to that point. He encouraged me to take myself seriously in the best possible way, to wrestle with fundamental questions. … I am happy to say I have never quite gotten his voice out of my head.” In recent years, Pressman’s teaching has included prep and lower mid Humanities philosophy and religion courses, as well as electives in environmental ethics, biomedical and biotechnological ethics, international affairs and ethics, the Holocaust, and a course titled “Fundamental Questions of Philosophy.” In retirement, he looks forward to “expanded opportunities to pursue my research interests in these areas in which I have taught.”

For 36 years, up to his sabbatical in 2016-2017, he also served as an advisor to various School programs encouraging student voluntarism: the St. Luke’s Society, the leading club devoted to service, as old as the School itself; the Bow Tie Bowl, the annual academic competition that is also a fundraiser supporting local and international needs; the Blood Drive; the Crop Walk in the fall to aid hunger relief; a clothing drive for homeless people in New Haven; and numerous spontaneous fund drives over the years for specific emergencies, local and international. In all of these efforts, Pressman energetically steers the credit for their success to the students. “I am there to advise, support, encourage,” he says. “I’m so proud of what the students

accomplish, but they’re in charge. They’re the ones truly entitled to take pride in the difference they make for others’ lives.” Says Pressman, “The tests of my usefulness as a teacher are two. First, do the students I’ve worked with go on to be generous, critical thinkers? Are they ready to learn from views very different from theirs, and to consider the possibility that their own convictions may be incomplete or even mistaken? And second, do they recognize, as fully their equals, people who have had fewer opportunities than they, or who may, in some respects, have less developed talents? If they leave here with those habits of mind and heart — boy, oh boy, was it worth it!”

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Betsy Beck P’04,’06,’09:

Encouraging Students to Own Their Passions, and Keep Cool BY ROBERTA JENCKES

Over the three-plus decades Betsy Beck has worked in the College Advising Office, she not only guided her advisees through what is an inherently stress-inducing process, but also helped them learn more about themselves along the way.

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ask students what they’ve particularly liked in their classes, what they’ve really enjoyed doing,” she says. “If a student says, ‘I liked working closely with the teacher,’ then that leads me to think of colleges where they are most likely to have that kind of experience.” Former advisees attribute part of their success in navigating the college process to Beck’s generous and outgoing nature — and her interest in them as people. “I don’t remember the exact words Mrs. Beck said to me during my time applying to colleges, but I will never forget how she made me feel,” said Joanna Zelman ’04. “She made me realize that every person is valuable in a unique way they should be proud of. She’s honest and still finds the good in everyone. She encouraged us to own our passions. During a time that could’ve been one of the most stressful periods of my life, Mrs. Beck taught me how to live — do your best at the things you enjoy, and forget the stuff you can’t control.” Beck, who used to be a teacher herself, has a keen sense of what students experience when looking ahead to college. A German major at Williams College, Beck began her career in education at Pomfret School before being hired by Hotchkiss to work in admission, teach

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German, and coach. In that first year, she and her husband, Mike, lived in Bissell. Then, the family moved to Buehler, where she served as dorm head. In 1985, she moved to the College Advising Office. From 1988 to 1991, she took a leave after the birth of their second child, and the family moved to Sharon. After three years, she was rehired to teach and work in College Advising. She served as the office’s director and co-director for 15 years; eventually, she became senior associate director, her role until her retirement in June. Although Beck grew up in Chappaqua, NY, and lived for a while in Boston and upper Michigan, the Northwest Corner had her heart. She first discovered her future home long before she came to work at Hotchkiss in 1983. “I went to Camp Sloane in Lakeville every summer, and I loved it. It just always felt like home to me here,” she says. Throughout her time in the College Advising Office, Beck has worked to make the college application process less stressful for students and parents. “We can expect a certain amount of stress, but as adults and as institutions, we can also work with students to balance that and navigate it rather than succumbing to it. And that has been at the heart of my work with students and families. I have taken to asking

“For more than 30 years, she has shown up as a teacher, advisor, counselor, coach and community member. Need a thirds coach at the last minute? She’s there. Got a student in crisis on a Sunday afternoon? She’s jumping in the car and heading to campus.” – Sam Prouty, former colleague

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students to tell me how ‘calm’ they are rather than how ‘stressed’ they are.” Former colleague Sam Prouty, who taught English and worked in College Advising, said at Beck’s retirement dinner in May: “If I had to distill Betsy’s specialness into three basic life lessons, they would be: show up; find the inner light in each person; and be real. For more than 30 years, she has shown up as a teacher, advisor, counselor, coach and community member. Need a thirds coach at the last minute? She’s there. Got a student in crisis on a Sunday afternoon? She’s jumping in the car and heading to campus. “She builds people up and helps them to be their best selves — traits that have made her a stellar college counselor. Being a college counselor is not about ‘helping kids get into college;’ it’s really about meeting young people where they are on their journeys, helping them to figure out their complex inner workings,

needs, dreams, desires, and limitations, and then helping them march forward into an exciting and scary unknown,” Prouty said. For many years, Beck gave her time and leadership to the Independent School Gender Project (ISGP) summer conferences, which have been held at Hotchkiss. Founded in 1997 by a group of women from independent schools, the ISGP seeks to help independent schools advance dialogue about gender and equity at work, school, and beyond. She kept track of all the details, schedules, and day-to-day minutiae of a three-day event for 200 women and girls that included workshops, keynote speakers, entertainment, housing, meals, activities, and more. Former colleague Nancy Gaynor remembers: “Betsy embraced her role with the ISGP summer conferences at Hotchkiss with enthusiasm, creativity, and commitment. She hired, organized, and ran the group of student helpers, transforming them into a team that

was absolutely vital to the success of the conferences. Part of the strength in Betsy’s leadership lies in her ability to make it about having fun and building a team.” In retirement, Beck has other teams waiting in the wings for her. At the Salisbury Congregational Church, where she has been involved in working with youth groups, teaching Sunday School, performing with two choirs, and serving as a deacon, she expects to do more. “Next year I will also be stepping into the role of ‘moderator,’” she says, adding it will be “an exciting and interesting challenge.” She and her husband, Mike, are looking forward to time with their infant grandson and their grown children — Owen ’04, Anna ’06, and Jeffrey ’09 — and visiting family in upper Michigan.

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Alice Sarkissian-Wolf:

After 26 Years, a Dance Instructor Takes Her Final Bow BY WENDY CARLSON

It was a chance conversation more than 25 years ago that led Alice Sarkissian-Wolf to Hotchkiss.

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she spent her early childhood in Tehran, Iran, where her father, an engineer, owned a studio that dubbed American and foreign films into Farsi. Her mother was a dress pattern-maker for the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s second wife, Queen Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary. In 1958, when she was five, her father moved the family to Paris, then to New York, and finally to Pasadena, CA, where Sarkissian-Wolf spent most of her youth. There, her mother, tired of her watching her daughter dancing in the kitchen, finally enrolled her in ballet with the Pasadena Dance Theater. At UCLA, Sarkissian-Wolf blossomed as a modern dancer, studying the techniques of Merce Cunningham, Martha Graham, Jose Limon, and Lester Horton. After earning a B.A. and M.A. in dance, she performed with numerous companies, including Janet Rosten and Dancers, the Prohosky-Yewell Dance Company, and the Seminole Dance Company. At Hotchkiss, she created a modern dance program based on the Horton and Limon Technique and offered ballet classes that followed the standards set by the Royal Ballet Academy. She launched an artist residency program that brought in professional dancers and choreographers to teach master classes and create commissioned work, and she organized performances at Hotchkiss by renowned dance companies, including Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the Martha Graham Dance Company, Aszure Barton & Artists, Jane Comfort and Company, and Alex Atzewi Dancers.

Fifteen years ago, she developed the Florence Summer Dance program, a threeweek intensive in which students work with renowned international faculty. In 2011, she started the Hotchkiss Dance Company as a co-curricular option, giving intermediate and advanced dance students an opportunity to work with professional artists and learn commissioned work. During her 26 years at Hotchkiss, she created more than 90 pieces that have been performed by her students. Sarkissian-Wolf dedicated many hours of her personal time to build a program that attracted both new and more experienced dancers. But, she concedes, most of her star students have gone on to become doctors, lawyers, and engineers rather than professional dancers. “If you could make a good living dancing, I’d have many more students dancing professionally right now,” she says. But to her students, even those who haven’t pursued dance as a career, Sarkissian-Wolf has been far more than an instructor; she has been a mentor and an inspiration. “The dance program at Hotchkiss helped shape who I am today,” says Elisa Xu ’17, a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is majoring in art history. Xu arrived at Hotchkiss without any previous dance experience and enrolled in a class on a whim. “Never did I think that the class would lead me to join the Hotchkiss Dance Company as a lower mid, take me to Italy for a dance intensive for two summers in a row, and allow me to meet some of my best friends who would

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ack then, she and her former husband owned a restaurant in Cornwall, CT, where they had attracted a following of artists and glitterati: Carly Simon, Paul Newman and his wife, Joanne Woodward, and Michael J. Fox, to name a few. In the fold was also Instructor in Jazz Guitar Michael Musillami, who told Sarkissian-Wolf one evening about an opening for a part-time dance instructor at Hotchkiss. She had her hands full running the restaurant and caring for twin toddlers, but dance had always been her true passion. She applied for the job, and, in 1992, she started what would be a 26-year tenure teaching dance at Hotchkiss. From the beginning, Sarkissian-Wolf wanted to create a modern dance program that would be a point of pride for the School and a visible part of the arts program. But the job was challenging from day one. “For all intents and purposes, the dance program was dormant at that time,” recalls Sarkissian-Wolf. Ellen Torrey, wife of longtime English Instructor Blair Torrey, had started the dance program in 1972, when the School was still all-male, and had directed it for 20 years before retiring. When Sarkissian-Wolf took the reins, the dance studio shared a cramped space with the Black Box Theatre in what is now the Class of 1964 Teaching and Learning Center. (In 1995, when the Tremaine Art Gallery was installed, the studio and theatre moved into larger quarters adjacent to the Cullman Art Wing.) Sarkissian-Wolf’s own love of dance began at an early age. Born to Persian-Armenian parents,

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“Under Mrs. Wolf’s instruction, I was both humbled and grateful to have learned to dance and develop a love for dance.” – Elisa Xu ’17 define my Hotchkiss experience,” says Xu. “She pushed her dancers to never settle, constantly reminding us to find artistry in technique as well as control in expression. Under Mrs. Wolf ’s instruction, I was both humbled and grateful to have learned to dance and develop a love for dance.” Like Xu, Emma Knight ’18 says her involvement with the dance program has led to lasting friendships. “Together, we have formed a dance community whose dedication to the art has impacted Hotchkiss as a whole,” says Knight. Adds classmate June Perteet: “In all my four years at Hotchkiss, my escape has always been the dance studio. It served as my safe haven, enabling me to destress and forget about daily pressures.” In the end, Sarkissian-Wolf’s greatest contribution to her students is a far less tangible one. When students learn the art of dance, she says, it “empowers and affirms their sense of self, and it can be a transformative life experience.” “I teach dance in such a way that each student has a broader perception of what they are doing, being fully committed in the moment, allowing risk and self-discovery, of finding out how far they can go in physical complexity and emotional depth. Through dance, they explore their own physical prowess. They learn about space, how to use it and how to move through it — and, of course, they gain confidence. These are lessons they carry throughout their lives.”

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TH E TORCH Three legendary coaches reflect on a life spent inspiring young people BY ROGER WISTAR PHOTO BY WENDY CARLSON

obin Chandler ’87, John Cooper P’08, ’11, and Chris Burchfield P’08,’10,’18 share nearly 75 combined seasons of head

coaching experience, along with a long list of league titles and championships. Yet, as they step down from the head coaching positions that made them icons, their enduring legacy is not in victories or trophies, but in their lasting influence on a generation of Hotchkiss students, on and off the field.

“Coaching for me is not solely the pursuit of X’s and O’s,” said Burchfield, also an instructor in English, who stepped down last May after 25 years as the head varsity lacrosse coach. “It’s as important for me to teach that, but also to help kids come to understand themselves when they compete — how to deal graciously with a win, and how to handle failure.” Cooper, a math instructor, will return to the rink next year as an assistant coach of girls varsity ice hockey after nearly 20 years at the helm. His daughter, Corey Cooper ’08, will succeed him as the new head coach. For Cooper, or “Coops,” as he’s known, watching his players develop, as athletes and as people, has been the most satisfying part of being a coach. “Getting to know the players when they’re exploring prep schools, working

with them when they’re students here, and then the two-way loyalty that follows when they move on — all those stages are compelling,” he said. Chandler, who is also co-director of the athletics program, will hand over the reins next year to current assistant coach Kait Leonard ’06. After 21 years at the helm, Chandler, also known as “Chan,” says that coaching has given her an opportunity to give back to her players the encouragement she received. “The confidence that I gained on the athletic field when I was at Hotchkiss was really important to me,” said Chandler. “I want to give that feeling to my kids wherever and whenever I can.” Despite coaching different sports, all three share essential qualities and

philosophies that have made them role models: care and respect for their players, confidence and belief in their teams, and the ability to stay calm under pressure. “Because of Chan’s ability to bond with everyone who plays for her, we all have a deep trust and respect for her,” said Emma Smith ’18, who played goalie for Chandler this season. “Her dedication inspires us.” For Myriam Skodock ’17, who plays varsity field hockey at Colby College, even

“ Every single practice and game with Coach Burchfield created memories that will last forever.” – Scott Hooper ’14

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“ With Chan, everyone wants to play for the girl on their left and their right rather than the scoreboard – and with that mentality, the scoreboard usually takes care of itself.” – Olivia Parsons ’18

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One of the ways that all three coaches developed confidence in their players was to counter negative results with relentless positivity and compassion. “Even if you made a mistake, Coach Burchfield always remained positive,” said Scott Hooper ’14, current captain of the University of Virginia men’s lacrosse team. “He would help you learn from those mistakes in a constructive way.” Burchfield noted that it took time to hone that approach. “I got better at it,” he said. “I just swore that I wouldn’t allow my own insecurities to affect the team. I knew that the team would respond to how adults act on the sidelines.” Chandler agreed. “When you present on the sideline as frenzied or frantic, that’s how your players play. If you present calm and confident, they’ll play that way, too,” she said.

For Cooper, his demeanor on the ice is a natural extension of his approach to teaching. “He’s the same way in the classroom,” said assistant coach Nat White. “He manages to keep things in perspective.” There are myriad stories about Cooper’s unconventional coaching messages, which many of his players have distilled into a lexicon known as “Coops Quotes” — maxims like “pressure is a privilege,” and, of course, the donut story. As Cooper tells it, the team was struggling to score and needed to take better shots. Casting about in the locker room before a practice, he unearthed a chocolate donut from an earlier post-game treat and a bottle of mustard from another meal. Seizing on the combination, he brought both up to the rink and announced to the team, “Ladies, we’ve got to put some mustard on our shots!” Then

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one year in the program had an indelible impact. “It is like she can read your mind and know exactly what every individual player on the team needs in order to be successful and happy,” she said. On and off the rink, Cooper’s players recieve equal attention. “From the moment I set foot in Lakeville until the time I left, John Cooper never once let me slip through the cracks,” said Keira Goin ’13, who played at Utica and is now a coach herself. “He makes each person feel important.” For Burchfield, that respect extends to the playing field. “He understands that lacrosse is fundamentally a player’s game and is comfortable ceding control to the team,” said assistant coach Steve McKibben P’22, who previously had been a head coach at Taft and had squared off against Burchfield. “It’s their game.”

“Coops constantly reminds us about the importance of working hard and doing your best on and off the ice.” – Stephanie O’Brien ’18

he covered the donut in a layer of mustard and consumed it in front of the girls. “It was nothing big, but evidently, it got their attention,” he said, adding, with a wry smile, “It tasted glorious.” Players have a slightly different recollection. “I heard that he actually threw up afterwards because it tasted so bad, but needless to say, we got the picture,” said Kelsie Fralick ’11, who played goalie for Boston Pride in the country’s first official women’s hockey league. All three coaches are quick to credit the mentorship they received as players and as coaches. For Cooper, much of that influence came from two figures: his father, who coached the ice hockey program at TrinityPawling, where he grew up; and Bernie McKinnon, with whom Cooper coached at his alma mater, St. Lawrence. “They were masters of the collective

— getting a group to play as one for each other,” said Cooper. For Chandler, a pivotal early influence was her field hockey coach at Hotchkiss, Kelly Stone, who gave Chandler the support she needed to take her game to the next level. After concluding a stellar athletic career at Dartmouth, Chandler returned to Hotchkiss to work alongside Stone as an assistant coach. “My prep year, when I made the team, the way she spoke to me and coached me gave me confidence I wouldn’t have otherwise had. I was able to play at a higher level because I knew she believed in me and my abilities.” All three coaching careers have been intertwined, as well, with Cooper and Chandler working together for two decades in the rink, and Burchfield and Cooper coaching lacrosse together for just as long.

The three even coached girls’ hockey together for two seasons. “I don’t think I coach a day where I don’t hear Robin’s or Burchy’s voice in some way,” said Cooper. “That’s where it’s an ongoing education.” When they look back on their careers, all three say that their fondest memories are the moments of connection they experienced through their sports. “What I’m going to remember the most is the people—parents, players, alumni— how we tried to connect them all,” said Burchfield. “My own family was involved. Players and their families are involved. Now, as alums, they come back for alumni games. I feel really privileged to have been a part of that.”

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NEW YORKER CARTOONIST PETER ARNO ’22 BON VIVANT AND WITTY OBSERVER OF A BYGONE ERA Over the span of his 48-year career, artist Peter Arno contributed 99 covers and hundreds of cartoons to The New Yorker. Long considered the magazine’s greatest artist, Arno had his humble beginnings at Hotchkiss. BY WENDY CARLSON

e was born Curtis Arnoux Peters Jr. on Jan. 8, 1904, in New York City, but the world would come know him as Peter Arno. His pen name, in bold cursive, anchored the lower-righthand corner of his cartoons in The New Yorker. Arno had just started working for the fledgling magazine at age 25, when he changed his name, turning his surname into his first name, minus the “s,” and using his middle name, minus the “x,” as his last name. His strained relationship with his father likely led to the change: Curtis Arnoux Peters, a New York Superior Court justice, vehemently deplored the idea of his son’s becoming an artist. By all accounts, Arno’s father was strict at best and severe at worst, spanking Arno when he asked for seconds at dinner and boxing his ears for using cuss words in his jokes. Arno dealt with his father’s harshness through humor. “The shyness and unsureness induced by father’s brutality were overcome by this means,” Arno wrote in his unfinished memoir. Growing up on Central Park West and attending the posh Berkeley-Irving School, Arno seemed destined to follow in his father’s footsteps. But at Hotchkiss, no longer under his father’s thumb, Arno the artist emerged.

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Although he had tried, unsuccessfully, to get his work accepted by magazines from the age of 12, his first published drawings appeared in the 1920 Misch. The loose penand-ink style and wit that would characterize his New Yorker cartoons were apparent in his early art, which he signed “C. J. Peters Jr..” His first illustration for the Misch demonstrated a cartoonish flair: a member of the Hotchkiss Debating Union sitting atop a lectern, about to make a point by slamming his right fist into his left open palm, his face grotesquely contorted with rage. At the time, Hotchkiss lacked an accredited art program. But Arno’s classmates and teachers were quick to notice his talent, and he soon became everyone’s go-to artist, designing posters for the school prom and other events. Not surprisingly, Arno’s impromptu sketching occasionally got him into trouble. Instead of taking notes during Latin, Arno sketched the instructor, who kicked him out of class. Those types of rebellious acts elevated his standing among his peers, but news of his antics reached his father in the form of letters from Headmaster Huber Buehler. In those days, misbehaving students were often pulled from their dormitories and sequestered at the headmaster’s house. “It seems to me that Peter was living at the master’s house half of the time in his first year,” recalled one of his classmates in Michael Maslin’s biography, Peter Arno: The Mad,

Mad World of The New Yorker’s Greatest Cartoonist. In his senior year, Arno was voted “Worst with the Faculty.” Meanwhile, his relationship with his father reached a breaking point when Arno learned his father was having an affair with a woman in her mid-twenties, an act that, to Arno,“represented an evil that entered his home and destroyed it.” Yet Arno continued to thrive at Hotchkiss, where he made honors and joined the hockey team and the society orchestra. In his senior year,

when he became art editor of the Misch, his illustrations dominated the yearbook. Despite his lackluster grades, Buehler wrote him a recommendation to Yale. There, Arno easily found his niche. He became a pianist for the Yale Collegians, a band that performed at society parties and speakeasies. He continued drawing, submitting cartoons for the Yale Record, the campus humor magazine. Both pursuits only further infuriated his father, but when Arno purposely snubbed him and his new wife at a theater gathering, his father cut him off financially, forcing him to drop out of Yale after his freshman year. The senior Curtis wrote his son, “you insulted my wife and myself by refusing to walk with us during the intermission….Under the circumstances, and wholly by reason of your actions, I shall expect you as soon as possible to make other arrangements and get your money either from your own efforts or from those with whom you care to associate more.” Undeterred, Arno moved back to Manhattan and worked for a short time as an illustrator for a silent film company and as a mural painter and a musician, playing with shimmy queen Gilda Gray at her club, Piccadilly Rendezvous. He continued submitting his drawings to publications, including Life, without success. Then, in 1925, a new magazine, The New Yorker was

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“MY IDEA OF LUXURY USED TO BE A HIGH PENTHOUSE AND TWENTY-FIVE TAILORED SUITS. NOW IN THE COUNTRY, WITH THE CITY PENTHOUSE A SHABBY SUBSTITUTE, MY IDEA OF LUXURY IS HAVING THREE PENCIL-SHARPENERS IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE HOUSE.”

striving to brand itself as the publication of New York cultural life. Among Arno’s submissions to the magazine was a pen-andink drawing of a man in a top-hat and a well-dressed woman crossing a city block. Something about it caught the attention of the editors, and Arno received his first paycheck of $30. Not long after, Arno was dubbed The New Yorker’s “pathfinder artist” by the magazine’s first editor, Harold Ross. His cartoons stood out for their irreverent, often racy observations of New York society life and for their punchy one-line captions, often referred to as “the overheard remark.” A 2016 Vanity Fair article best described the artist’s cutting style: “He drew America’s ruling class as unpleasant, unlikable, sometimes awful people, reducing them to pompous, often sexually avaricious, arrogant boobs — not as a class-warrior but as an insider, as one of them.” “The whole idea of The New Yorker as a sophisticated young person’s magazine,

full of drinking and sex and good times, all lubricity that of a lovesick cow.” came from Arno. It was one of those things “The so-called playboys of today are a people grabbed hold of in the hinterlands drab, polyglot group,” he wrote. and said, ‘Yes, this is what New York is like. In 1951, Arno moved from his apartment It was a fairytale.”’ on West 54th Street in Manhattan to Arno himself was part of the fairytale. a farm in Port Chester, NY, where, he Handsome and always impeccably dressed, liked to tell people, he lived in “a state of he fit easily into the social scene and expensive dishevelment.” He spent the last soon married a young debutant, Lois few decades of his life in seclusion, enjoying Long. Maslin wrote that Arno and Long music, guns, sports cars, and drawing, personified what people thought The New making contact with the outside world only Yorker was: “Long, all of 23, covered nightlife once a week, when he telephoned the art in her ‘Tables for Two’ column under the director of the magazine. Reflecting on his pseudonym ‘Lipstick.’ Tall, lanky, a Vassar life then, Arno wrote: “My idea of luxury grad with bobbed hair and a wicked sense used to be a high penthouse and twenty-five of humor, she was a minister’s daughter to tailored suits. Now in the country, with the Arno’s judge’s son, and she matched him city penthouse a shabby substitute, my idea as a hell-raiser.” When he wasn’t out all of luxury is having three pencil-sharpeners night drinking and carousing, Arno worked in different parts of the house.” incessantly. His motivation to succeed Decades of drinking and smoking took turned him from “an unknown, unpublished a toll Arno’s health, and in the 1960s, he wannabe cartoonist to being the one artist on battled emphysema and lung cancer. In the The New Yorker roster whose work was his final years, he was put on an oxygen being hailed as the harbinger of sea change tank. Up until the week of his death, he in American modern satire,” Maslin wrote. continued to contribute regularly to The He focused on the “cafe society,” which he New Yorker. He died on Feb. 22, 1968, at both relished and disdained. age 64. His simple granite tombstone bears In the 1930s, by now divorced from his bold signature, Peter Arno. Next to it, Long and a father, he married Brenda Diana in parentheses, is his given name: Curtis Duff Frazier, the original celebutante, who Arnoux Peters Jr. was half his age. The irony of marrying a woman half his age after disowning his father for doing the same seems to have been lost on Arno, who had established a reputation for dating young models and actresses. He never made amends with the senior Arnoux, who died in 1933, leaving Arno $20,000, a pittance of his fortune. Years later, Arno wrote in his memoir notes: “The greatest favor he did me was not to leave me a sizable inheritance. I was a little sore about it at the time. But the years have proved that a lot of money would probably have destroyed the incentive to work.” After World War II, Arno witnessed a change in New York society life. In a 1950 article he penned for Cosmopolitan magazine, “Where’s My Sugar Daddy Now?”, he lamented that society had lost “the type of elderly gallant, often bumbling and befuddled, At Hotchkiss, Arno won first prize in a poster and usually in a state of goggle-eye contest advertising the School dance. S u m m e r

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Humorist Henry Alford ’80

Talks About His Latest Tome, Hotchkiss Highlights, and a Naked Lunch BY WENDY CARLSON

UMORIST HENRY ALFORD is the author of the recently

released book, And Then We Danced, a cultural history of dance filled with self-deprecating anecdotes of Alford’s often hilarious experiences. For the last two decades, he has written for the The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and The New York Times. His books include a guide to modern-day manners, Would It Kill You To Stop Doing That?; a book about the wisdom of people over the age of 70, How to Live: A Search for Wisdom from Old People (While They are Still on This Earth); a humor collection, Municipal Bondage; and an account of his attempts to become a working actor, Big Kiss, which won a Thurber Prize for American Humor. Hotchkiss Magazine spoke with Alford about how dance has influenced his life, how his struggles and insecurities shaped his sense of humor, and, of course, his latest moves.

When did you first start writing humor? How did you know it was your calling? Age six: I named my dog Lucy after my beloved Lucille Ball. (Thank God I didn’t call her Ball. She would have been totally traumatized. “Ball! Ball! Come here, Ball!”) Age 11: two friends and I wrote a variety show, fueled by our obsession with The Carol Burnett Show. Age 24: burned out from working as a casting assistant in the film industry, I started bombard-mailing my unsolicited short humor pieces to unsuspecting publications, eventually selling one to the satirical magazine Spy. You wrote about your time at Hotchkiss in the book. How did your years at the School shape you as a writer and humorist? I was lucky because a lot of my classmates (Carl Sprague, Heidi Wasch, Esther Pica, Barney Finucane, Jennifer Grumhaus, Thornton Matheson, Jane Sullivan, and Will McMillan, to name only a few) were pretty spectacularly witty. And sophisticated! I felt like an Amish boy who’d washed ashore in a Preston Sturges comedy. I remember staring at Jane’s leg in the Dining Hall at dinner one

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night: she’d taken a ballpoint pen and written on her calf: “Dry and hairy leg.” One year, Carl and Barney tried to dissolve the student council. Both of these things sound like things I would do now as writing assignments.

In And Then We Danced, you recount the anxieties and struggles of your adolescence, part of which was grappling with your sexual orientation. At Hotchkiss, you wrote about bopping around to the Rolling Stones and KC and the Sunshine Band at dances, where “there was a higher incidence of nonconformists to rally around.” Still, going to the Dining Hall was a daily nightmare for you. How did your sense of humor evolve in response to those anxieties? It wasn’t funny to me at the time! That’s adolescence for you. I would glom onto the tail ends of groups entering the Dining Hall so it’d look like I was “with” them. This bit of desperation struck me as amusing only years later; as James Thurber once wrote, “Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.” Writing humor professionally trains you to get faster and faster at reaching the tranquility stage. Also, let’s not overlook the fact that I got kicked out senior year. That emotional chaos and embarrassment took a long time to tranquilize. You have a penchant for disco. Can you relate your first experience in Studio 54 with your Hotchkiss classmates? We thought we’d never get in. People who, over time, got turned down by Studio 54’s bouncer: Mick Jagger, Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton. But my classmate Carl Sprague somehow had access to a limo, so about 10 of us Hotchkissers piled into it. We were all in formal attire, and Carl is blonde and 6’1”— we probably looked like the Norwegian cast of The Sound of Music. But, glamour-wise, I think the limo put us over the top: the bouncer took one look

at us and waved us on in. Shazam. I don’t honestly remember much about the rest of the evening, but I will now blurt a series of evocative phrases in the manner of a tone poem. Shimmery miasma. Pulsing sweat gland. Vinyl jodhpurs. What’s a favorite dance you learned while writing your most recent book, and which move do you secretly wish you could master? My jam is contact improvisation, which is a kind of modern dance. If you’ve seen Pilobolus, that’s basically what it looks like. In my third contact improv class, a youngish dude put my left hip bone up on his shoulder and then carried me across the room like an exciting, possibly flambéed entree. Cowabunga! I mean, I’m 56. I thought my flambéed entree days were over. As for dance moves I wish I could master: there’s a big, swooping leap in ballet called a barrel turn. That’s my fantasy dance move. And, as with most of my fantasies, I’m quite certain that, were it to come true, all of my problems in life would evaporate. As an investigative humorist, writing first-person experiences, you’ve had some wild exploits: wearing a solar-powered jacket for three weeks, inviting a health inspector to your kitchen when you were serving lunch to friends, walking the streets of New York in pajamas, trying to get hired as an earlobe model. Anything that didn’t work out? One time, GQ told me to call the artist Christo’s office to see if he would wrap me. How his wife screamed at me! Her fury practically melted my phone.

dI “Whenever I tell Americans that Greg an ‘Really?!’ went to the nudist restaurant, they say, ople, or ‘Why?!’ But whenever I tell French pe they ask, ‘How was the food?’”

One of your columns for The New Yorker’s “Talk of the Town” was about going to a nudist restaurant in Paris. How did that idea come about? My boyfriend and I had already bought our tickets to Paris for the week of Christmas. I’d read online somewhere that Paris’s first nudist restaurant was opening. I was so baffled by the concept that I figured we had to try it. It sounded like the ultimate fishout-of-water story. Also, the freelance writer in me thought: tax deduction! So we went. (The waiters are clothed; the seat covers are washed after each seating. The only scary part was entering the room naked. Once you’re seated, it takes you about 10 minutes to atomically re-assemble all the particles in your brain. But soon enough, you find yourself asking, “Am I comfortable enough to walk this old jalopy across the room to the bathroom?” ) Whenever I tell Americans that Greg and I went to the nudist restaurant, they say, “Really?!” or “Why?!” But whenever I tell French people, they ask, “How was the food?” So what’s your next big adventure? I’m writing a quiz show for my family to play on my mother’s 90th birthday. All the questions are about her 90 years on the planet — like, bizarrely, she recently posted on Facebook about Super Mario Brothers breakfast cereal. I’m calling the quiz “How Well Do We Really Know This Woman?” Your love of waffles has caused small children to call you Henry Alfun. Hotchkiss now has a waffle maker that students can use. Does that tempt you to come back and brave the Dining Hall? I’ve used one of these at hotels! So fun! It had to happen, right? I mean, first we had personal pan pizza, then salad got all personal. And now waffles want to get personal with us. It might be enough to get me back in that dining hall.

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Messages from the Alumni Association 2018 Day of Service Highlights

More than 225 alumni, parents, family members, and friends participated in the eighth annual Day of Service on May 19 in 16 cities around the world. Twenty-three alumni volunteers led our extended community in teaching, planting trees and crops, sorting donations, painting walls, mucking stalls, learning about invasive plant species, and preparing food, to name just a few of the projects. Thank you to all for continuing the Hotchkiss tradition of giving back.

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Be an Advisor! Our alumni network is a valuable resource. The Hotchkiss Alumni Career Network allows users to tap into this network, pairing advisors with advice seekers. This network allows advisors to choose the services they would like to offer (i.e., career conversations, resume critiques, or mock interviews), and advice seekers can search for alumni in many fields. Signing up is fast and easy at www.hotchkiss.firsthand.co. Questions? Email Gail Massey in the Alumni Office: gmassey@hotchkiss.org

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Inspired Wanderer, Wharf Rat, and Wild Canoeist BY WENDY CARLSON

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the Throgs Neck Bridge and on a deserted island in Jamaica Bay, not far from La Guardia. Paddling under the airport runway during that hurricane, he says, was one of the highlights of his canoeing career. A pack of reporters, photographers, and TV crews followed the paddlers in a tug. Sports Illustrated dispatched a writer, Coles Phinizy, who penned this description of Stookey: “Of the wild and half-wild creatures we have met so far, the most intriguing is our expedition leader, John Stookey. He is an inspired wanderer, endowed with the curiosity of a wharf rat and the sort of unquenchable zest that made Franklin D. Roosevelt a constant winner. When all hell is breaking loose, Stookey often has a thin cigar in his mouth, canted upward in the fashion Roosevelt used to cock his cigarette holder.” Fittingly, during Hurricane Doria, Stookey’s mantra was: “There is nothing quite as dull as when things are routinely bad. It is far better if things are really awful.” He stayed true to it

in many of his subsequent adventures. A few years after the New York expedition, Stookey spent 10 days paddling across Florida through the Okefenokee Swamp and the Suwannee River as alligators crisscrossed the waterways. Another year, on a trip down narrow stretches of the Edisto in South Carolina, he kept his eyes peeled for water moccasins, which could drop from overhanging branches. He once spent 30 days rowing a scull from Key West to the Georgia border. On another occasion, he spent 10 days cross-country skiing down the frozen Allagash River, which stretches for 65 miles through northern Maine and drains into a remote wilderness north of Mount Katahdin. His longest canoe trip was the Northern Forest Canoe Trail, a 740-mile water trail from Old Forge, NY, to Fort Kent, ME, officially the longest inland water trail in the nation. For his 85th birthday, he paddled solo down the entire 350-mile length of the Erie Canal — against the current.

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or nearly his entire adult life, John Stookey has spent much of his free time on the water, mostly in a canoe. He learned to paddle in summer camp as a kid, and it became his singular passion in adulthood, especially when he began taking canoe trips with his wife, Katherine, in the Temagami wilderness of northeastern Ontario. Those early paddles whet his appetite for more adventurous trips, despite experiencing one of the scariest moments he’s ever had on the water: while canoeing with his wife, he tipped over in a pool just above a perilous waterfall and dislocated his shoulder. He managed to pull the canoe to shore, where he popped his shoulder back into place and resumed paddling. “I was a little sore, but I was just glad we didn’t go over that waterfall,” he says matter-of-factly. That near-disaster prepared him for his wildest expedition, a five-day, 80-mile trip within the New York City waterfront in 1971. He and five other canoeists put in on the Hutchinson River near the northern limits of the city, armed with a tear-gas device, because in predawn in that part of the Bronx, they didn’t know who or what they might meet. (As it turned out, the only creature they ran into was a rat.) Stookey paddled a vintage Old Town, an 18-foot wooden canoe his father purchased in 1936. A few days into the trip, they learned Hurricane Doria was on its way. As if paddling through torrential rain and winds weren’t challenging enough, Stookey and his fellow canoeists decided they’d camp under

Stookey paddling with his daughter on the Thames in London

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Stookey on Twin Lakes in Salisbury, CT

At 89, Stookey still likes a challenge, though his trips have become more civilized in recent years. In 2015, he paddled the length of the Thames from its source in the Cotswolds through London and into Greenwich. In 2016, he broke his leg when he stumbled on the dock after pulling his canoe out. The injury confined him to his home rowing machine for most of the year. To make up for lost time, the following year he paddled solo for 40 days, 440 miles from Montreal to New York City. This September, he’s paddling with another canoeist the entire width of Sweden on the Gota Kanal (“a mere 141 miles of waterway,” he says). To gear up for that, he is joining a group kayaking trip on the Saguenay River in Québec in July. As a student at Hotchkiss, Stookey’s wanderlust got him into hot water. When he was a lower mid, he was caught paddling

a canoe on Lake Wononscopomuc at night. Headmaster George Van Santvoord — although an avid outdoorsman himself — took no pity on the repeat offender. “You see, it wasn’t my first time,” says Stookey. After attending another school for a year, Stookey returned to Hotchkiss his senior year and graduated with his class. He earned a B.A. in history at Amherst College, and a B.S. in industrial engineering at Columbia. He rose to become the chairman, president, and CEO of National Distillers and Chemical Corp. (now Quantum Chemical Corporation), and in 1995, he became chairman of Suburban Propane Partners, Ltd., where he is currently a director. Now, when he paddles by himself, he still hitchhikes back to his van, but he carries two signs with him: “Elderly Canoeist Ahead” and “Seeks Ride to Car.” Years ago, he traded

in the Old Town for a lightweight Kevlar model. He used to smoke one cigar per day. That stopped 25 years ago on a canoe trip in the Adirondacks, when he left his cigars behind because there was a “lady” along. On that first evening, he bunked with a friend who had smoked a cigar after dinner, which permanently cured him of the desire to smoke. “His breath was so foul that I thought, ‘I can’t be doing that to my wife,’ and quit on the spot, and have not smoked since,” he says. Most days, Stookey can be found gliding down a river or lake, quietly exploring the world. In Salisbury, where he keeps a single scull at Twin Lakes, he shoves off at dawn. “I love that time of day, the mist rising off the water, the early morning quiet. Solitude,” he says, “is a precious commodity in today’s world.”

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writes, “Nothing astounding new to report, except that I am still here at age 93. We swim often and find lots to do maintaining home and health. This past winter on Cape Cod was kind of rough, with several northeast storms and temps in the 30’s, even toward the end of April!”

CLASS AGENT: Bob Royle

43 CLASS AND REUNION AGENT: Len Marshall M I C H A E L H A L L writes, “For better or for worse, I live far off in Texas and have reached a time of life when travel is difficult. I will not be attending the Reunion, but the lovely photograph of the [Goodbody Terrace] brought on a wave of nostalgia and some reflection on my long association with Hotchkiss, which b egan 117 years ago, when my father, Walter Phelps Hall, graduated in the Class of 1901. Although I did not know it at the time, he introduced me, but a toddler, to Headmaster George Van Santvoord. I came to know him as ‘the Duke’ when I arrived as a student in 1941. I graduated with my class in 1943, and we scattered, mostly to the Ivies, in time to squeeze in a semester or two before the War scooped us up. My father taught history at Princeton for many years. When he retired in 1952, the Hotchkiss Alumni Association presented him with the Alumni Award. That large commemorative silver platter has been with me ever since his death in 1962. The formative years at Hotchkiss created a large reservoir of memories that has never been very far out of mind in the years afterward. The photograph in the Reunion announcement reminds me of the magnificence of mid-summer in Lakeville, and brings many memories tumbling into mind.”

CLASS AGENT: Alan Kirk

D A V E S T E F F E N writes, “At 65, I had spent 40 years practicing law and doing law-related

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writes from Florida: “I feel fortunate to be in good health as I find myself, at 90, the only surviving member of my generation. I keep active on the board of my condominium, traveling with Alexandra (in her 70s and in good health), and spending summers in our newly acquired home in the North Carolina mountains, at an altitude of 4,000 feet. I have given up tennis due to injury concerns and took up croquette three years ago, and have progressed to the point of winning the club championships — all ages — the last two years at our local Indian Creek Country Club. Alexandra enjoys the sport, and as a team, we do pretty well in competition around Florida and North Carolina. I say this because I think that at our ages, the most important thing is quality of life. We do what the medical people tell us to do, take our medications as instructed, and drink only wine. Neither of us has ever been the victim of smoking.”

CLASS AGENT: Blair Childs

work, mostly in San Francisco. By then, I thought I had seen a good cross section of the problems people face. Boy, was I wrong! In retirement, I wanted to spend as much time as I could out of doors. (The beautiful setting at Hotchkiss was no doubt one of the reasons why I wanted to do this; too much work inside was another.) I did some kayaking and lots of hiking with friends, but soon settled into birding. This brought travel to many places and lots of friendly people. California, Florida, and Arizona are particularly good places to go. I also wrote a few articles for fellow birders, and in the process, found out that birds have their ups and downs, just like the rest of us. The idea of being ‘free as a bird’ is often a myth for birds as well as for us. Solving problems for others, or trying to do so, has tended to be what has come my way. It will come as a surprise to no one that those I have worked on in retirement have been as difficult as the legal ones I encountered earlier. To be honest, I had zero expectations about living this long — threescore and 10 sounded good enough to me. Without the love and support of my wife, Liz, it never would have happened. I am grateful for the extra years that so many of the people I have known well over the decades also have had the good fortune to enjoy.”

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reports that he is officially retiring as the class scribe. He hopes

another classmate will take over the task. Any takers? “P E T E R L I M B U R G , will you pick up the baton?” he writes. Earlier in the year, P E T E R reported on his grandchildren: “Our oldest granddaughter, now married, is working as a digital librarian for the EPA in Philadelphia. Our transgender grandson is doing well in his welding course and is active in the New Mexico Gay Men’s Chorus, in which he has become a featured soloist and dancer. Our youngest grandchild began college last August at the University of Colorado, Denver. I wrote to him about some of my hilarious college experiences, including games of pool with Bow-Wow Osborne and the epic bottle-throwing battle between Fruitcake Fred and a student in the adjacent dorm.”

CLASS AGENTS: Hank Duckham, Hank Hamlin, and John Schullinger

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is rallying the troops for the upcoming Reunion in the fall of 2019. He writes, “I wish I could think of something new that’s happened to the Class of ’49, but I guess at our age, the less news, the better; as Brutus answered Cicero, ‘Nothing you’d want to hear.’ But we are, in fact, looking forward to our 70th Reunion next year. Valerie and P E T E R B U L K E L E Y are already starting to talk it up.”

CLASS AGENT: Bob Blankfein

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reports that he has fully recovered from a heart operation, regaining a semblance of fitness and returning to tennis. He has been a ham radio operator for 70 years, and he now provides communications in emergencies occurring in northern Arizona, where he lives in Prescott. His “giving back” includes serving on boards of community organizations and being a Class Agent. He needs email addresses for all classmates so everyone can stay in touch: “Send your email

address and what you are up to, including giving-back activities, to peterg@verite.com,” he writes. J O H N F R E N C H and his wife, Carole, were co-chairs at the 2018 Gala Evening of Young Concert Artists at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center in May. Peter Gelb, general manager of the Metropolitan Opera, was the distinguished honoree.

CLASS AGENT: Julian Coolidge

53 CLASS AND REUNION AGENTS: Rusty Chandler, Larry Flinn, Jay Lehr, Phil Pillsbury, Don Streett, and Ernie Wasserman J AY L E H R

hopes to be able to ride his unicycle for the 20th consecutive year in Princeton University’s Annual Alumni Parade in June 2018. He worries not about hurting himself falling, but that some of the 24,000 parade viewers would be sad to see an 82-yearold spread across the pavement.

“Aging is not for sissies,” says M I K E F O S T E R . “But I seem to be in better shape than most.”

51 Peter Gelb, general manager of the Metropolitan Opera, with event co-chairs, John French III and his wife, Carole, at the 2018 Gala Evening of Young Concert Artists at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center

D O N S T R E E T T writes to remind classmates of the 65th Reunion on Sept. 28 and 29. The dollar-for-dollar challenge is up to $200,000 from an anonymous classmate for the Class of 1953 Scholarship Fund.

In a tribute to B U C K Y B U S H , who passed away on Feb. 28, 2018, F A Y V I N C E N T writes: “To me, he was always ‘Heavy Heavy,’ because that was what he was called by our fellow roughnecks when he and I worked in the Texas oil field the summer before we went to college. He stood 6’5” and weighed about 285 pounds; I was called ‘Big ‘Un’ at 6’2’’ and only 225 pounds. His formal name was William Henry Trotter Bush, but he was always ‘Bucky’ to family and friends. He was the son of a senator (Prescott S. Bush), the brother of a president (George H.W. Bush), and the uncle of another president (George W. Bush). He was also a delightful fellow and my close friend. His death has left a large hole in my universe. He was a loyal and noble soul who understood friendship.”

53 David Bentley wrote: “This photo was taken just before Bucky died. How he will be missed! In Hobe Sound, FL, Buck was master of ceremonies for two days of dinners and championship ‘golf’ croquet.” From left to right: Fred Ernst (croquet coach and referee), Dave Bentley, Judy Bentley, Buck Bush (hors de combat), Sandy McMillan, Mimi McMillan, Elie Ernst, Allison Durfee, John Ziegler, Rue Ziegler, John O’Keefe, Carlos Betancourt, Joe Hixon, and Renate Nixon.

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CLASS AGENTS: Al Ferguson and Cal Heminway C A L H E M I N W A Y reports, “We caught up with B I L L C L A R K at his winter headquarters in Tucson. The Clarks alternate between warmth and offspring there and in Orono, ME, where he had his ophthalmology practice and raised kids. Bill notes, with regard to his (our) advancing age, that he can still remember his name without being prompted, and that he was a bit surprised to be asked by some enthusiast to make a donation in his own memory! The Clarks are signed up for a river cruise from Saint Petersburg to Moscow and back sometime this summer. A L G R E E N B E R G is enjoying his retirement and considering a return to our 65th next year. S T E V E H A M L I N reports from Canandaigua that he’s busy getting rid of ‘stuff,’ such as his collection of 143 scale miniature cars, which are going to the New York Museum of Transportation. The collection is significant in that it is comprised of over 100 brands that have disappeared during our lifetimes — think Plymouth, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Cord, etc. The museum, which Steve had a hand in creating, has its own RR line and is located in Rush, just south of Rochester, NY. Train and transportation buffs, take note! Barb and S O A P Y W I L L I A M S continue to enjoy their access to Smith’s low-impact facilities in Northampton as he recovers from recent rotator cuff repair. Fay and N E D ( M O N T Y ) F A W C E T T are active and well in Blue Bell, PA, where he sings in the choir and keeps tabs on a couple of partially fledged grandkids. They’re interested in downsizing their real estate but are apparently having trouble finding a buyer who appreciates its true value. He has been able to make contact with P E T E E R B E periodically. Ned spends six months of every year on Nantucket and delights in the reality of restricted access to off-island transportation during the tourist season. He also claims to break 100 ‘regularly’ and is partial to a nip of scotch when he finds it. This writer (C A L H E M I N W A Y ) had some coronary arteries rearranged a few years ago, with good results. However, Sue is now dealing with Parkinson’s, which has altered my priorities a bit. We are sad to report news of J O B E M E R S O N ’ S recent death.” F R I T Z V O H R writes, “Pat and I are still in Florida, and I am practicing medicine in the correctional world part time. The effects

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of the methamphetamine-opioid-cocaine epidemic and lack of available mental health care amongst the incarcerated continue to surprise me. Let’s hope that long-fought-for improvements in the criminal justice system aren’t lost. Robert, our border collie, is busy in sheep-herding school, and we are taking off this summer to escape the south Florida heat and drive across the country in our RV, visiting our scattered kids and grandkids.”

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and Dusty Reeder D U S T Y R E E D E R writes, “I was delighted to receive A L L E N B L A G D E N ’ S book, Marking the Moment. He was featured in the recent issue of Hotchkiss Magazine, and I give his book the highest recommendation. If you have not seen it, you should, and every classmate should own one; it is a magnificent collection of a life’s work, beautifully presented, and is available on Amazon. The introduction is written by a grade school friend of mine, John Wilmerding. John is well

known in the art world, and the introduction is a scholarly piece on the history of American art. In Allen’s words, ‘The artist can only try to imitate and, at best, capture the essence of things seen. At least, it is to stand in awe, at best, to be part of time.’ As an architect, I can relate to those words as well.”

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was formally inducted into the National Academy of Sciences in April.

CLASS AGENT: Nathaniel Floyd BILL HUBBARD

writes, “Had a lively lunch recently with J O H N B R A D L E Y in which we lamented the state of the country. Does anyone vet Trump’s appointments? Seems like there’s some dereliction there. And am I the only one submitting class notes? It’s pretty lonely. Would love to have some company. Otherwise, all is well, with occasional minor health issues. Looking forward to doing the Newport-Bermuda Race in June.”

CLASS AGENT: Bill Hobbs

58 A mini reunion at the home of Tim and Joan Litle in North Palm Beach, FL, left to right: Roy Chapin, Terry Guylay, Wes Guylay, Mac McCormack, Joan Litle, Mary McCormack, Ralph Watson and Ann Jeffery

George Longstreth III ’57, P’82,’85,’96, GP’21

Surgeon, Humanitarian, and Now a Novelist BY DAVID HOLAHAN ’67

or someone who confesses to having been “terrible at English” while at Hotchkiss, George B. Longstreth III has come a long way. Now retired from a career in medicine, he is the author of You Call Me Roc, a partially autobiographical novel about his days as a surgeon in Bridgeport, CT, at the height of the city’s cocaine war. As an on-call trauma surgeon from 1986 to 1999 at Bridgeport Hospital, he frequently operated on victims of drug trafficking. During that violent period, cocaine was the disco era’s drug of choice and Wall Street’s drug of power; emergency room patients ran the gamut from poor city dwellers to wealthy suburbanites. “We would have one shooting victim at the hospital every night, sometimes two or three,” Longstreth recalled. “It was driving us attending physicians nuts, but the residents were getting great Vietnam-type training.” Back then, Bridgeport was a distribution hub for drug shipments from South America. As demand surged, several hundred kilos of cocaine began arriving on a weekly cargo ship loaded with bananas. But kilos were routinely getting past inspections and drug-sniffing police dogs for reasons that Longstreth reveals in his novel. During his more than 40 years of practicing medicine, Longstreth occasionally took notes on the characters he encountered. The protagonist of You Call Me Roc was a charismatic 23-year-old drug dealer whose street name was Ready Roc. Longstreth met Roc for the first time in the ER as the dealer lay on a gurney, suffering from three bullet wounds. Longstreth writes: “I went over to introduce myself and I said, ‘Malcolm Jones, I have to operate on you tonight.’ And he looked at me with absolute teeth-gritting hate and said, ‘You call me Roc, (incestuous expletive deleted).’” Remarkably, these two polar opposites would grow to respect one another when Roc, who ended up needing a second operation, became a private patient of Longstreth’s. In the novel and in real life, Longstreth tried to steer Roc onto the straight and narrow. “Roc was very intelligent, and he had a terrific personality as well as leadership skills,” he said. “He would have been a great entrepreneur if he had been born under different circumstances. But he couldn’t go straight. He felt too much responsibility toward his ‘street family.’ There were too many people depending on him.” Before Longstreth began writing about the cocaine underworld of

Bridgeport, he used his limited spare time to provide medical care to patients in developing countries, including Ecuador and Haiti. After he retired from his practice in 1999, he and wife, Betsy, started and ran a free surgical clinic in Khammam, India, and organized annual visits from volunteer medical teams. In addition to fundraising for the clinic, Longstreth spent several weeks a year on site, performing surgeries, consulting with local doctors, and teaching a support staff. Writing has become sort of a second career for Longstreth, who splits his time between Savannah, GA, and Kennebunkport, ME. He is already working on his second novel, about a mafia don who survived an assassination attempt. It turns out that the shaky English student — who, to be fair, excelled in math and science—is writing for another compelling reason. “I’m doing it because it’s fun,” he said. One might suspect that a surgeon who has spent his professional life healing people would imbue his fiction with an uplifting moral. But Longstreth demurs; he says he simply depicts the reality he experienced and leaves the rest up to the reader. As for what happened to Roc, Longstreth says, you’ll have read the book. For an autographed first-edition of You Call Me Roc, email Longstreth at bblgbl@gmail.com or go to Lulu.com/books, or Amazon.com.

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Alvin (Mike) Fargo and wife, Sara, on a trip to Norway last summer

CLASS AGENTS: Dave Egan and Jim MacIver LEONARD PACK

writes, “As part of its ‘Modern Matinee’ series this spring, New York’s Museum of Modern Art presented several films directed by H.C. Potter, E A R L P O T T E R ’ S father. I met Earl and Deborah at the April 13 showing of The Cowboy and the Lady, starring a young Gary Cooper and Merle Oberon. The nearly full house of film enthusiasts included Susanne and J E F F M I L L E R . The picture, from 1938, was stylish, heartwarming, and delightful. H.C. Potter is well known for Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948) and Hellzapoppin (1941), but I learned that he directed some 20 feature films, and before that, in 1927, he co-founded the Hampton Players, one of America’s first summer theater groups, and had several successes on Broadway. After the film ended, Earl went up on stage and answered questions from a MoMA film curator and the audience about his father and his work. I had not seen Earl or Jeff since our 50th Reunion in 2011, and it was wonderful to reconnect with them.”

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M I K E FA R G O

writes, “I am still teaching part time at a local private high school. The students are great, and it is refreshing being around youth these days. Sara is actively engaged as a college counselor and loves being around young people, as well. We spend a lot of time with grandchildren, as we are very lucky to have them all close by. We are both grateful to be in good health and still active. We recently returned from a skiing vacation with our family.”

NORM URMY

writes, “Had lunch with L A R R Y last month here in Nashville, where he stopped off to have his 1950’s Telecaster guitar valued by George Gruhn. As for me, I continue to enjoy my retirement, guitarbuilding, and family (kids and grandkids), most of whom are here in the Nashville area. For you fly-fishers out there, check out my little booklet, Fly-Fishing Truths or Are They Lies, available at Amazon; if you don’t laugh, I’ll refund your money. And if you’re in the area, give me a call.” STONE

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writes, “Worked on the Street for 20 years, then worked overseas. Currently living in Texas.”

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Detchon, Roger Liddell, and John Sallee D O U G R AY M O N D

writes, “I joined a motorcycle adventure ride in Colombia in February. The roads were rougher than I expected, leading to several crashes, but I was only bruised. I was greatly impressed by the gorgeous jungle and Andes landscapes, exotic fruits to taste, and wonderfully friendly people.”

Joan and V I C T O R A S H E took a cruise on the Rhine in April from Basel, Switzerland, to Amsterdam. Victor and his brother, L A W R E N C E A S H E ’ 5 8 , are going with wives to Costa Rica and Panama in December 2018. Victor visited the Falkland Islands and South Georgia in March and heads to Ethiopia in October, all destinations on his bucket list. R O N G I D W I T Z continues his civic involvement in Chicago. He is the Midwest chairman of business executives for National Security, chairman-emeritus of Boys and Girls Clubs of America, and sits on boards of three museums and the local opera company. He is also running a couple super PACs supporting Republican candidates. His son Alex lives in Sydney, Australia, and he and his wife are expecting their first child in May; son Scott lives in Chicago and works for a large real estate developer.

CLASS AGENTS: Bob Graffagnino and Jody Nachman

CLASS AGENTS: Bill Fusco, Bill Sandberg, Jerry Sprole,

and Kip Witter ALAN YORKER

writes, “I have just retired from a 45-year career in mental health institutional affiliation. I have served as a psychotherapist at the Georgia State University Clinical Psychology Training Clinic, the Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute of the University of California, San Francisco, Grady Memorial Hospital, the Link Counseling Center, the Pershing Point Psychotherapy Center, Emory University, and the Talbott Recovery Campus. I now plan to have my own one-day-a-week private practice here in Decatur to keep the brain cells from crusting over, but mostly, I look forward to more travel with Janie, spending more time with my three granddaughters, who have a

sibling on the way later this year, and enjoying my membership in Rotary and the Robert Burns Society of Atlanta. We’re off to Scotland in late April and have planned a cruise to the St. Lawrence Seaway in September with fellow members of the World Ship Society. Life has been and is good.”

B I L L W O O D R O W writes, “Son Thomas wrote, directed, and produced his first feature film, We’ve Forgotten Everything We Ever Knew, distributed by Orchard in November 2017. The sci-fi mystery features Doug Jones, star of The Shape of Water, and is now available on Amazon and iTunes.” JOHN BOAK

writes, “In February, I finished an oil painting that I began last year, called ‘Shimokitazawa.’ The image is derived from an entertainment district in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan, one of a series of my paintings that depict urban streetscapes at night.”

CLASS AGENTS: Steve Kirmse, Barry Svigals, Michael Thompson, and Dusty Tuttle CHRIS MEYER

and his wife, Mary, were shown around Sydney, Australia, by P E T E R A X E L R O D , who lives in Brisbane and has married an Aussie. Apart from a brief meeting in New York two years ago, it had been 50 years since they last caught up. Both assert that neither looks his age. Sydney weather cooperated, and they took the ferry out to Manly, where Chris dipped his toes in the Pacific and, remarkably, was neither attacked by a shark nor carried out to sea by a rip tide. Peter then took them to Newtown, the hip suburb with bookstores alternating with coffee shops and astrologers on the main street. Speaking of bookstores: Chris found a book (Blur) he had authored 20 years ago and signed it for the highly bemused proprietor, but expressed shock they didn’t have his newer book, Standing on the Sun. Pete says he is happy to assist any other classmates planning a visit down under. R O B D U R K E E writes from Pawling, NY, that a dastardly tick bite suffered last July caused a nastier case of Lyme disease. The affliction ended 2017-2018 soccer/basketball coaching assignments at a nearby day school. Thankfully, Rob’s devotion to stringent, FDAapproved, “clean living” protocols, combined with myriad acts of spiritual rejuvenation, will allow a return to coaching in September.

“Shimokitazawa” by John Boak is one of a series of paintings depicting Japanese urban streetscapes at night.

Doctors indicate that he can expect, once again, to prowl about the pitch with the grace and guile of a teenage panther, albeit with much muted velocity. After flying below the radar for many years, M I T C H H O B I S H writes: “I continue my 32-year-long stint as a self-employed ‘consulting synthesist,’ working with clients ranging from one-person start-ups to nationalsized aerospace contractors, with stops in between for companies of all sizes, university clients, and many federal alphabet-soup agencies — most notably, NASA — in several capacities. The work deals with strategic planning, technical communications, and education across many scientific and technical discipline areas — far beyond those of my doctorate in biochemistry from Johns Hopkins University. For the past couple of years, I’ve added to the mix the role of executive director of the National Space Grant Foundation, a 501(c)3 organization facilitating STEM education nationwide. Fun and frustration are frequently found. On the personal side, Jan (my bride of just over 35 years) and I have two grandchildren, who are growing far faster than biology should allow. We’ve been in southwest Montana for about 17 years. The place is clearly not for everyone (it’s big, dark, and still largely empty), but we enjoy it, despite the need to drag the place kicking and screaming into the 20th (yes, 20th) century. As we practice the art of living, the location helps keep the ‘world [that is] too much with us’ at bay, as I am a card-carrying curmudgeon and hermit when not traveling for work. Still, S u m m e r

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writes that it has been a productive pleasure serving as a member of the Alumni Association’s Board of Governors for the past six years. Michael’s final board meeting took place May 11-12, concurrent with classmate S C O T T Y M C L E N N A N ’ S celebration as the 2017-18 Alumni Award recipient. Michael also wants to salute the fine leadership of Head of School Craig Bradley. J O H N L O N G S T R E T H writes, “Carolyn and I continue to live in Inverness, CA, overlooking Tomales Bay, about 25 miles, as the crow flies, northwest of San Francisco. We really love it, being nature nerds, as we are surrounded by the Point Reyes National Seashore. We are active on several non-profit boards and volunteer for the Seashore. Our older son (age 41) got married last September. He is a landscape painter. His wife, whom we love, is a filmmaker and director with two full-length films at Sundance. They live in Los Angeles. Our younger boy (36) is a musician and also in LA. His band is the Dirty Projectors — you won’t have heard of them, but ask your 30-somethings. He’s getting married to a great gal this September. I try to stay off the streets and out of trouble by fooling around with nature photography, something I’ve been doing for nearly 30 years. If you’re bored, check out my website: www.johnlongstrethphoto.com. In January, J O H N L E V I N was visiting family nearby, so we had a most pleasant, although rainy and foggy, day out here in West Marin. If any classmates are in the area, give me a call, or email john.longstreth@gmail.com.” G E O R G E D A Y writes from the San Francisco suburbs that after 25-plus years as a deal lawyer leasing commercial aircraft, railcars, etc., he’s semi-retired, working part time, and devoting more time and energy to family (both in Europe and the U.S.), drumming with two bands (a blues trio and a cover band), and occasionally racing his Spec Miata. Current mantra: “May you stay forever young.” P A U L C E R U Z Z I writes, “I am still keeping busy as a curator at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington. I may retire soon, or maybe not. My health is OK, but every morning I seem to wake up with some body parts either breaking (in need of

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duct tape) or rusty (in need of WD-40). I like to spend long weekends and summer vacations in the nearby ‘Radio Quiet Zone’ of West Virginia, where cell phones and other radio transmissions are heavily restricted to prevent interference with the local radio astronomy facilities. Ahh, paradise! Great to see classmates at the 50th reunion.” K E R R Y D O U G L A S writes, “Spent time in Hawaii with my first (and only so far) grandson, Bryson Douglas Baird, and his mom, Annie, while Bryson’s dad continues his research on marine mammals on Lanai and Maui. I get in the ocean as much as I can and still do some surfing and mountain biking. I continue to keep in touch with L I N D L E Y M O R T O N in Portland, OR, when visiting my other daughter, Maneena, who lives there and teaches yoga and is involved with counseling. My son, Daniel, is following his dream in the fine arts field.” J A Y C L A S G E N S writes, “At year-end 2017, I retired after 35 years as a financial planner, most recently with the Galileo Planning Group, a firm I founded. It was a job I loved. The firm is based on the San Francisco peninsula, but my clients were all over the U.S., with the greatest concentrations in the Pacific Northwest and southern California. That is why my homes are in Portland, OR, and Rancho Mirage, CA. My partners wined and dined my wife, Nataly, and me for a fall weekend in Napa to honor the retirement. As a gift, they gave me a 200 year-old copy of Boswell’s Life of Johnson. (I focused on 18th-century English literature at Yale, particularly Johnson.) The timing, though, was spooky. We all left Sunday morning, just hours before the devastating fires began there. So, I am now in my first year of retirement. By happy chance, a number of family events are easing the transition. Once Nataly returns from her annual visit with her mother in Ukraine, we’ll be quite busy. A niece is getting married in San Francisco early in May, we are celebrating my 70th birthday in New York later that month, there is a memorial for my uncle in Maine in June, a nephew’s wedding is planned in Cincinnati in September, and the whole family will gather for Thanksgiving in Boulder. Nataly and I also are spending a week at the Stanford Sierra Camp this summer, and we head to Hawaii in the fall.”

PHIL PECK

writes that he and Sandy remain, happily, in Concord, MA. He is still working, but some expression of retirement beckons from the near horizon. Phil’s son has returned to the Boston area and is doing graduate work in music therapy at nearby Lesley University. He enjoys writing and performing songs as often as gigs permit. Phil’s cancer experience is ongoing, and seemingly well-managed. Knock on wood.

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reports, “I am still in London, 39 years into an assignment that was meant to last no more than two years. Three years ago, I decided to have a go on my own and started a small business company with a partner to introduce a mostly small Canadian resource company to institutional investors around Europe. I have two grown kids from a previous marriage and a three-year old son, who lives with his mother in Oxford. I spend all weekends there. I work in London most of the week and would very much like to see any classmates who come through. I did get together with a few classmates: W E B E R , S V I G A L S , and D E T C H O N , which was great fun. Even after 31 years, my accent hasn’t changed, and we do get back to the U.S. at least two or three times a year.” From D U S T Y T U T T L E : “Olivia and I have permanently moved to Naples, FL, where we had a wonderful Easter week with our five grandchildren.” JOE HORNBLOWER

writes from Riviera, TX, where he just purchased a new bull. It is one year old and weighs 1,260 pounds, a Santa Gertrudis-Red Angus mix. The bull was raised on the King Ranch with 75 brothers and male cousins. “In bovine years, my bull is the equivalent of a Hotchkiss lower mid. Accordingly, he arrives at my ranch as if released from an all-male boarding school into a single-customer Club Med, staffed by 20 experienced cows, and five frisky, albeit inexperienced heifers. Life is good.”

S T E V E K I R M S E writes that life has been pretty good for a fellow from Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ, meaning “babbling brook” in an ancient Algonquin dialect. “Happy to report that Barbara and I have two grandchildren already graduated from college,” he writes. “Wow, guess we really are that old!”

W A LT B R O W E R

writes from Birmingham, AL, that after moving to Alabama in 2008 — where his family has lived for seven generations — the thought of making the 16-hour, 1,061-mile trek back to Lakeville has proven daunting, despite brother-in-law G U Y N I C H O L L S and P A U L C E R U Z Z I ’ S onslaught of encouraging words. Walt confessed that his love of baseball has been significantly diminished since the 1994 MLB strike. He finds today’s game too long and too slow. A lifelong New York Yankees fan, he could not identify any of today’s roster. Recently, Walt had the misfortune of being bitten by a brown recluse spider, suffering a large necrotic blister on his hip. The attending physician announced that it was the most severe spider bite he had ever seen. Knowing that the attending physician was the younger brother of the late, great Yankees announcer Mel Allen, Walt exclaimed, “How about that!!!” Walt’s primary care physician, Dr. Jonathan Southworth, is the great-grandson of the St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame manager, Billy Southworth. Accordingly, Walt is in good hands.

REEVE KELSEY

writes, “Amazing to think that our Class will be turning 70 this year. Time surely flies when you are having fun. I am well into my 20th and final year as an Ohio Common Pleas judge. It has been a greatly rewarding and enriching job. In 2019, I will be looking forward to spending more time with my three daughters and six grandchildren in Washington, D.C., and Salt Lake City.”

J I M W E B E R writes, “I have been threatening to release my first autobiography for countless years, The Making and Unmaking of a Surgeon. The time has come. It is said to read like a cross between the script of a film noir and the fourth draft of a ‘dogwoire.’ There is a commingling of poetic dialogue, travelogue, pedagogue, and even a mention of Prague’s many synagogues. It delivers both humor and sadness, and, more importantly, demonstrates the rigors of Bob Hawkins-esque grammatical correctness. I am still in robust negotiations with the National Association of Booksellers (Irvington, NY) for the most favorable distribution/promotion support. Sadly, my compelling tome may not be available in your local bookstore before Christmas — that is, if you even still have such a retail entity. Like so many of us, all our most poignant hopes and dreams hinge on Amazon’s inclination to deliver.”

PETE HALL

writes, “Had the privilege of speaking with the assembled Hotchkiss student body on the evening of April 20 as part of the School’s participation in the National Walkout. My audience was fully engaged and informed about the issues at the core of the day’s activities. My conversation with many of the students continued well into the evening, until they had to report back to their dorms at 10 p.m. No question but that we can be very proud of those who are following behind us some 50-plus years later.”

J E F F P H I L L I P S writes that he and Susan enjoyed a wonderful trip to Paris this past March, where they savored two magnificent dinners with T Y T U T T L E and his wife, Claire. It was their first mini-reunion in more than 50 years. S A M H O W E reports that he has surrendered his retirement status to work with a small software firm, BlackBirdConnect LLC, based in Hancock, NH. He will be connecting the firm’s fundraising programs with development offices at independent schools and colleges.

What’s Going On in Your Life? Submit a class note and photos to magazine@hotchkiss.org by September 15 for the Fall issue.

CLASS AGENTS: Eric Bruenner and Mark Pierce TED MORTON

sends word that he has received The Tax Fighter Award, given by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, to recognize Canadians who have made an outstanding contribution to the cause of taxpayer emancipation. This award has been given to lawmakers, media personalities, academics, and average citizens who have stood out and stood up in fighting for limited and accountable government. Based out of the University of Calgary, their work has provided intellectual ammunition for the limited government movement in Canada. Moreover, many Calgary School students have gone on to play important leadership roles in the fight for a freer country.

R I C K M I C H A E L S O N is the 2018 recipient of the George McMath Historic Preservation Award. Given by the University of Oregon, it is the most prestigious historic preservation award in Oregon. Michaelson has been instrumental in the rehabilitation and reuse of more than 50 historic houses and commercial properties, 40 of which are in the Northwest District of Portland. He was an advisor on Portland’s 1980 Comprehensive Plan and

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67 Members of the Class of 1967 gathered for a mini reunion at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on May 12. Back row, left to right: John Luke, Mark Pierce, John Burke, Mike Cook, Bill Elfers, Eric Bruenner, Dave Covey, Pat Ferriere ,Chris Strong, and Ted Swift. Seated, left to right: Bonnie Covey, Kathleen Luke, Kristin Pierce, Georgi Bruenner, Susan Ferriere, Becky Swift, and Barbara Strong

“What I realized is that we don’t need more buildings in this country. Building new ones is really a waste of resources and not very ecologically sound,” Michaelson says. “I come from a family that moved to Long Island in the 1640s, so I have a long history of living in older buildings and enjoying them. I think the biggest motivation for me is that it’s challenging and it’s fun. I never really knew that this was going to be a career that I’d make. It was just one project at a time, until suddenly I realized I’d been doing it for 40 years!” B I L L E L F E R S writes, “On March 24 and 25, nine members of the class gathered in Vero Beach, FL, for two days of golf and a delightful dinner hosted by Kathleen and J O H N L U K E at their new house there. An excellent time was had by all!”

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CLASS AND REUNION AGENTS: John Enteman, Bill McMorran, Peter Perakos, Cameron Smith, John Titcomb, and Tom Warrington

Classmates gathered at Vero Beach, FL for golf and dinner hosted by John and Kathleen Luke. From left to right: Demetrie Comnas, Parker Barnes, John Luke, Bill Elfers, Arch Arnold, Brendan Harrington (in rear), Chip Chamness, Neil Wallace, and Christopher Casler.

68 Class of 1968: Know who these two guys are? Find out at the 50th!

J O H N G AY

writes that he is retired and living with his wife, Lori, in Chapel Hill, NC. “Our daughter, Adelaide, graduated from Lawrenceville in 2008, went to Yale for a year and transferred to the University of North Carolina to pursue soccer. She is a goalkeeper. UNC won the Division 1 College Cup her senior year (2012). She won the inaugural NWSL title in 2013 with the Portland Thorns, has played professionally in Sweden and Iceland, and is currently rostered with the Seattle Reign of the NWSL. Hoping to come to the Reunion this year.”

TIM BAKER SHUTT

has postponed retirement and signed up for one more year teaching at Kenyon College in Gambier, OH.

BILL MCMORRAN

writes, “Excitement is building for our 50th Reunion, Sept. 28-30 in Lakeville! The Planning Committee of Messrs. ENTEMAN, PERAKOS, CAMERON SMITH,

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T I T C O M B and W A R R I N G T O N and I are working hard to make our 50th a truly memorable event. We will be rolling out a series of emails and updates to keep you informed about the weekend as plans come together. One thing we are shooting for is complete takeover of the Wake Robin Inn. At this writing, we are about four rooms short, so make your reservations! Here’s an early list of who’s planning to be there: B O O T H , B R I M , C A R Y, E N T E M A N , G A T E S , H A R R I N G T O N , H I T C H C O C K , L U Z Z AT T O , M A RT I N , MCMORRAN, PERAKOS, PORTMANN, PRUDDEN, REDLICH, SMITH, C., SMITH, G . , S N O W D E N , S T U A R T, T I T C O M B , WALKER, WARRINGTON, WENK, WILLIAMS

and W I N S H I P . We hope you’ll be there as well, and we can save all of our good class notes stories until then!”

CLASS AGENT: Tom Keating ALLEN MORTON

writes, “I am pleased to report that my granddaughter, Morgan Carr, daughter of D E I R D R E M O R T O N C A R R ’ 9 4 , and great-granddaughter of my father, W A R R E N M O R T O N ’ 4 2 , will be entering Hotchkiss as a lower mid next fall. Morgan will be the 13th Morton to attend Hotchkiss and the first of her generation. Hopefully, more will be coming!”

CLASS AGENTS: Bill Benedict, Bob Clymer, Parky Conyngham, Mark Hinckley, Tom Randt, Jorge Rodriguez, and Will Smart

69 Reunited at Mountain Lake, FL. Left to right: John McClure, Alan Morton, Tom Keating, and Ed Swift, who lives in Mountain Lake.

CLASS AGENTS: Doug Campbell, Ace Crary, Andy Cushman, Richard Dana, and Nick Moore

CLASS AGENTS: Dave Balderston and Michael Gourlay ERIK LAZAR

continues to enjoy life in London, where he recently became a “true Brit” citizen after 17 years in the UK. Erik is founding director of Transatlantic Law International, a global legal service provider for multinationals and growing companies in over 95 countries, with over 105 affiliate law firms worldwide working on a single service platform. Brexit has complicated life in Britain, and not for the better, Erik says, but at least more people are getting involved in politics and their communities as a result. He continues to support Friends of

Jon Low, Alex Mason, Joe Atterbury, and Joe Standart gathered for a March weekend in Jupiter, FL.

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rehabilitation efforts. MASON REES

Left: Kevin Baines and Peter Storer got together in LA for an awards ceremony, where Peter was made a Society of Motion Pictures and Television Engineers Fellow.

and G E O R G E H U B B A R D were seen playing in the member/guest golf tournament at Yeamans Hall in Charleston this past April. They will not be doing it for a living any time soon, but a good time was had by all.

PETER STORER

Below: Kate Lintel, daughter of Al Lintel ’73, will be joining the Cleveland Clinic as a first year resident in OB-GYN in July.

and K E V I N B A I N E S got together in Los Angeles for an awards ceremony, where Peter was made a Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers fellow. Kevin had also just completed a major milestone at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory with the end of the Cassini Mission. They celebrated by spending the day flying together in Kevin’s Cirrus around the Los Angeles basin. They plan another longer trip this summer, flying Peter’s Cirrus to Alaska and back.

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Peter Rogers, and Jon Sprole AL LINTEL

writes that his daughter, Kate, will be joining the Cleveland Clinic as a first year resident in OB-GYN this coming July.

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William Tifft and wife, Ellen, have been traveling the country in their Airstream.

writes, “I am looking forward to seeing classmates at our 45th. Ellen and I are finishing our second year of traveling the country in our Airstream. It has been a wonderful way to see a substantial part of our very, very large and beautiful country, as well as a good way to generally avoid New England winters.”

CLASS AGENTS: Charlie Denault and Penn Hulburd

CLASS AGENTS: Tom Davidson, Dan Dranginis, Michael Gillis, and Larry Ross

CLASS AGENTS: Denise Arcand McClintic and Blake Wilkes J I M H A R T Z E L L writes, “We’ve moved to Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain (Basque country), where I’ve taken up a postdoctoral researcher position at the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain, and Language. Recently, I published a blog piece in Scientific American

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that has made me and my co-authors famous in India. Hope you’re all doing well. If you’re in our (new) neighborhood, drop me a line — the pintxos (a.k.a. tapas) are pretty good here.” JOHN DANAHER

writes, “My daughter, Kate, will be entering the class of 2022 this fall at Hotchkiss. She will be graduating from Lake Forest Country Day School this spring. Her visits to the campus have allowed me to reconnect with B O B C H A R T E N E R and T I N A T E S T . Bob and Tina have been instrumental in making Kate feel welcome and convincing her that Hotchkiss is the school for her. Through Kate’s visits, I have also had the opportunity to meet the Head of School Craig Bradley and the Director of Admission Erby Mitchell, and am very impressed with the direction and leadership of the School.”

76 78 Chris Baldwin ’76 with his family and his brother, Philip Baldwin ’78, in Sharon, CT, last summer

C H R I S B A L D W I N writes, “I attended a Hotchkiss Coast to Coast event in April and was happy to run into S T E V E S O C O L O F ’ 7 8 , meet Associate Director of Alumni Relations Patty O’Connor, and hear from Instructor in English Charlie Frankenbach about what’s happening at the School. Last summer at the Sharon Playhouse, I had a nice chat with Walter Crain’s two sons. My family enjoys getting together with Carolyn Demaray from time to time.”

CLASS AGENTS: Bill Collin, Andy Luke, Chris Meledandri, Cindy Schmidt Softy, Simon Strong, and Allison Sirkin Woolston SUZY FORTGANG

writes, “During my stay at Hotchkiss, I realized how magnetic the woods, lakes, and outdoors are for me (a big change from NYC). I have since visited Fairfield Farm — what a gift it is to the Hotchkiss community!”

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Gilliland, Doug Landau, Chris Simonds, Roger Smith, and Scott Sullivan J O N A N D E R S O N recently started a new company, Fiber Broadband Consulting, LLC. He is working with a rural electric cooperative in central Virginia on a five-year project to build a 4,600-mile, fiber-to-the-home network in 14 counties and bring gigabit Internet access and broadband services to residents of these underserved areas. He also is working

55 60 77 79 80 90 From left to right: Jose Hixon ’77, Tim Hixon ’55, Alexandra Taylor Hixon ’80, Frank Foster ’79, Bryan Simpson ’60, and Timo Hixon ’90 at a family gathering last December.

with electric co-ops in Virginia, Maryland, and across the U.S. to share service delivery resources in rural areas and collaborate on operational best practices. WIZ LIPPINCOTT

writes that her son, Josh Rosen, was the #10 NFL draft pick for the Arizona Cardinals this May.

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writes, “Finished teaching for the American Association for Justice, a webinar for bike crash litigators, and the Virginia Trial Lawyers on ‘Black Boxes You Wear: Trying Cases in the Age of Fitbits, Apple Watches, Garmin & Other Wearable Technology.’ (It’s like CSI!) As soon as my civics/Constitutional law teaching gig ends S u m m e r

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CLASS AGENTS: Seth Krosner and Tom Tyree

78 Doug Landau (holding plaque) with eighth-graders at Rachel Carson Middle School, Herndon, VA, where Landau is a volunteer. The students were runners up in the “We the People” Civics & Constitutional Law National Championships.

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Since receiving the Hotchkiss Community Service Award in 2013, B E T H W A I T K U S has expanded the Insight Garden Program from one small garden program at San Quentin Prison in California to a non-profit organization serving eight additional prisons in California (including prisons for youth, women, and people with emotional/physical disabilities). IGP has also expanded to the Midwest and has a re-entry program in NYC. Insight Garden, which transforms prisoners’ lives through connection to nature, works at the intersection of environmental, social, and criminal justice. Beth received the 2018 Governor’s Environmental & Economic Leadership Award (California’s most prestigious environmental award), as well as the George Award and Waves of Service Award from Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business. Beth is a 2004 graduate of the Graziadio’s M.S. in Organization Development Program. S E T H K R O S N E R and Phil Johnson enjoyed a great spring vacation sailing down the Danube for their 25th anniversary.

Wiz Lippincott ’78, with daughter, Beatrice Rosen ’12, Lydia Rosen, and son, Josh Rosen, who was drafted #10 to the Arizona Cardinals.

in May (we won states and regionals again to qualify for Nationals for the fifth year in a row!), I will resume my ‘Lids on the Kids’ brain injury prevention and free bike helmet distribution program to the students of local public schools for the 10th straight year. After schools let out, I will be ramping up training in earnest with the Bantam (CT) Oneglia and other multisport groups as a

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member of TeamUSA to return to the World Championships as a sprint dualthalete and compete in August at the sprint Triathlon National Championships. I am hoping to win my age group again in the Virginia and Maryland Triathlon Super Series (full disclosure, my law firm is also a long-time sponsor), as well as races around the Northwest Corner of CT, Delaware, and elsewhere

CLASS AGENTS: Wendy Tanner Bermingham, Bill Boscow, Mike Collette, Erik Gaull, Jennifer Mugler Peterson, Tom Philip, and Wendy Weil Rush C H R I S S I E H U N E K E K R E M E R writes, “J E N N I F E R L I T T L E C A S E was kind enough to welcome a group of us to her beautiful home in Sun Valley for a terrific weekend of reconnecting. W E N D Y T A N N E R B E R M I N G H A M came in from Denver, R I T A B O Y L E from Los Angeles, L I Z F O R D Y C E B A R R E T T from Florida, J E A N N I E W E I N B E R G R O S E from Connecticut, B L A I R C A R L E T O N from Seattle, and I from the SF Bay area. Great to connect with each other and catch up on many years of life news!”

Alex Golby ’85

Examining Life’s Big Questions, with Surgical Precision BY CHELSEA EDGAR

lex Golby has always been fascinated by the human mind — both the brain itself and the elusive web of neural activity that creates consciousness. From an early age, she knew she wanted to be a doctor, but while she was a student at Hotchkiss, she discovered another passion: philosophy. Under the guidance of Instructor in Philosophy and Religion Lou Pressman, she began to hone the intellectual discipline that would eventually lead her to become a neurosurgeon. After graduating from Hotchkiss, Golby earned her B.A. at Yale, where she balanced her pre-med requirements with a combined major in physics and philosophy. In those two disciplines, Golby found a common thread: a rigorous, methodical way of examining life’s biggest questions. “Both physics and philosophy examine the metaphysical questions of what and who we are in a precise, exacting way,” she says. “And what I do now, as a brain surgeon, is a combination of very concrete, rigorous application of knowledge that interfaces directly with those questions.” Throughout college, Golby thought she might want to become a psychiatrist. But after her first neurosurgery rotation as a medical student at Stanford, she started to think about changing course. The hours were grueling, the cases were complex, and the margin for error was zero, yet Golby found it captivating. “I remember coming home late at night after a shift and thinking, ‘This is the most insane job,’” she says. “And then, I was like, ‘This is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen.’” Golby did her residency in neurosurgery at Stanford, the third woman to be trained in the history of the department. (“Back then, that was pretty progressive,’’ she says.) During residency, Golby worked with psychologist John Gabrieli, who pioneered the use of functional MRI (fMRI), an imaging technique that measures brain activity by detecting changes in blood flow associated with neural activity, in the field of cognitive neuroscience. Golby recognized the enormous potential of fMRI as a diagnostic and surgical tool. When she was tapped by Brigham and Women’s hospital for her chief resident year, she continued to explore the use of fMRI to map a patient’s brain, helping surgeons operate with greater precision and efficiency. Today, she’s the director of image-guided neurosurgery at Brigham and Women’s, where she oversees the use of new technologies in the treatment of brain tumors.

Golby also holds the Haley Distinguished Chair in the Neurosciences at Brigham and Women’s and is a full professor of neurosurgery and radiology at Harvard Medical School, where she has an opportunity to mentor young women. While women make up just about half of all medical school graduates in the country, a gender gap persists in neurosurgery: only one in 20 neurosurgeons is female, and less than 20 percent of women are full professors of neurosurgery, like Golby. As the only woman with children on Harvard’s neurosurgery faculty, Golby recognizes the challenges of balancing a career in academic medicine with the demands of raising a family. (She’s the mother of two boys, ages 10 and 12.) True to her roots as a philosophy major, Golby tries to keep the bigger picture in mind when considering how to address the needs of each patient. Her lab, the Golby Lab (named for her), uses several novel brain-mapping techniques to better understand the physiological workings of memory and other higher-level brain activity. In brain surgery, every incision has the potential to affect a vast number of functions — vision, hearing, language — and even neurosurgeons don’t fully understand how every part of the brain works together. “The brain can actually move as we’re operating on it,” she says. “During the procedure, it can be hard to differentiate tumor from brain, especially tumors that are embedded within the tissue. Millimeters matter, and the cost of being overly aggressive is profound.” Golby has seen tremendous advances in technology that have improved the outlook for even the most complicated cases. But there’s one question in cognitive science that Golby feels no closer to answering: what, exactly, is consciousness? “If you had asked me that as an upper mid, I would have been able to tell you,” she quips. “But the more I learn, the less certain I am.”

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79 Beth Waitkus received the 2018 Governor’s Environmental & Economic Leadership Award and the George Award and Waves of Service Award from Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business.

80 A mini reunion at Jennifer Little Case’s home in Sun Valley: Wendy Tanner Bermingham from Denver, Rita Boyle from Los Angeles, Liz Fordyce Barrett from Florida, Jeannie Weinberg Rose from Connecticut, Blair Carleton from Seattle, Jennifer from Philadelphia, and Chrisse Kremer Huneke from the SF Bay Area.

John Lambert and Joe Solomon sported their matching helmets skiing at Telluride.

80 81 82 Multi-class, mini-reunion, from left to right: Rena Longstreth Hedeman ’82, Chase Reynolds Ewald ’81, Jane Hotchkiss Gordy ’80, and (not pictured) Gib Carey ’81 met in Concord, MA, earlier this year.

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CLASS AGENTS: Sheila Ball Burkert, Gib Carey, Bill Gates, Ellis Ketcham Johnson, Henry Robinson, Becky Stebbins, and Bill Tyree

C H A S E R E Y N O L D S E W A L D writes, “A recent mid-winter, multi-class mini-reunion found RENA LONGSTRETH HEDEMAN ’82, JANE H O T C H K I S S G O R D Y ’ 8 0 , G I B C A R E Y, and me together in Concord, MA. Mini-reunions can happen anytime, anywhere, and we’re hoping to start a trend! Most of us hadn’t seen each other in years, but with friendships formed at Hotchkiss, the decades seem mere moments.” JOHN LAMBERT

and J O E S O L O M O N sported their matching helmets when John came out to Telluride for a visit. Afterwards, they tore up the bunny slopes.

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Rich D’Albert, and Nao Matsukata JANI DENLER BERGAN

was recently promoted to associate director, editorial, at W2O, a public relations/communications agency in San Francisco, where she has worked for the last 13 years. 2018 marks Jani’s 30th year working in healthcare communications, where she provides strategic counsel and writing/editing support to biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and medical device companies.

83 CLASS AND REUNION AGENTS: Andrew Carey, Nikki Williams Dietrich, Biffy Roraback Fowler, Charlie Lord, Randall Mays, Matt Meade, and Jonathan Ross RACHEL KUENY

writes, “I had lunch with and L A U R A R E E D S C H U L K I N D in NYC in November. Had a fabulous time catching up and comparing notes about life! Can’t wait to do it again.” DEIRDRE LORD ’85

M A T T M E A D E competed at the US Masters National Swimming Championships in Indianapolis, IN, in May. He placed second in the country in the 1650 freestyle in the Men’s 50-54 age group. He writes, “A long way from the days of swimming for Coach Coughlin with classmates E R I C D ’ A R B E L O F F, B R A N T L E Y D E T T M E R , J O N R O S S and A L E X H A N S O N !”

CLASS AGENTS: Charlotte Cudlip Bartol, Larry Pratt,

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Tony Stedman and Tom Wallack take in a NY Islanders game at The Barclay’s Center last February.

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In St. Louis for a squash tournament, A L I S O N and C H R I S T O P H E R I L L I C K , and their four sons, Thor, Cyrus, Kit and Dwyer, visited N A N C Y R E Y N O L D S and D W Y E R B R O W N and their two sons, Anson and Graham. The whole group took in a St. Louis Blues game together.

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L A W R E N C E C O L L I N S sends this dispatch from France: “Things are going well in the crazy world of rock and roll over here in France. We released our 12th album on May 30, Alive & Flying Part III, that was recorded on tour last fall, a mix of original and cover songs, including a tribute to the late great Tom Petty. Our album will be on Spotify, Deezer, iTunes, and all other kinds of hip modern platforms that I barely understand, under the name Lawrence Collins Band. I’m also finishing up my first book, a modernday fable based on the adventures of one of my cats, Kiwi’s Way, in collaboration with an artist friend of mine, Audrey Roue, who is hard at work finishing over 40 illustrations. No idea how I’ll publish the baby yet, but it’s been a blast writing it. Been getting sporadic updates and news from the Argentinian/ Brazilian madman, A N D Y H A H N , who is well and loving life in South America, and is as shocked as I am that our kids have grown up so fast. Also had a great time hanging out with A N D R E W H E D L E Y this year, whose son, Jack, is a rising rugby star who spent more than one evening partying in the Irish pub where I play here in Bordeaux. Thinking lovingly of

Rachel Kueny ’83 at lunch with Deirdre Lord ’85 and Laura (Reed) Schulkind ’83 in NYC in November.

84 Karl Saliter has been living part time in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, for the past eight years. He continues his work in comedy and variety arts, and has been making palm trees in metal. S u m m e r

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In St. Louis for a squash tournament, Alison Ambach Illick ’86 and Christopher Illick ’85, and their four sons, Thor, Cyrus, Kit and Dwyer, visited Nancy Reynolds ’85 and Dwyer Brown ’85 and their two sons, Anson and Graham.

85 Nathalie Warriner Herrman and Shannon Bayles Poynter had a whirlwind reunion in New Mexico, sharing hiking adventures in the high desert.

86 Rebecca Allen Ehrhardt and Julie Thompson Robison skiing at Mount Sunapee

those beautiful spring days around the lake at Hotchkiss. Seems like it was just yesterday we were all dreaming about a Headmaster’s Holiday... or wondering when prep raid was going to come about (right, J U S T I N K I N G ?) If you’re swinging by Bordeaux, let’s have a glass of wine together!” N AT H A L I E WA R R I N E R H E R R M A N

and S H A N N O N B A Y L E S P O Y N T E R had a whirlwind reunion in New Mexico, sharing hiking adventures in the high desert. Nathalie moved to Santa Fe last summer, and Shannon moved to Taos two years ago, after launching her kids and selling her farm in Oregon. After

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finding each other in February, they took every opportunity to meet before Nathalie returned to Virginia at the end of April. During their toobrief re-connection, Nathalie’s dad died suddenly and unexpectedly of a heart attack, Shannon’s husband was car-jacked at gunpoint in Mexico, and the two of them together survived a minitornado that tore the roof off of a building a mere 50 feet away from where they stood, and threatened to sweep them up in it. Needless to say, their friendship is stronger than ever. Nathalie has returned to Virginia to be closer to family, and Shannon has two Airbnb locations. Look her up if you’re ever in Taos!

CLASS AGENTS: Justin Abelow, Miriam Gelber Beveridge, Weijen Chang, Derek Dietrich, Andrew Gale, Buhl Hudson, Alison Ambach Illick, Kurt Liebich, Becky Markus McIntosh, Cece Luthi Powell, and Nian Lee Wilder

In St. Louis for a squash tournament, A L I S O N and C H R I S T O P H E R I L L I C K ’ 8 5 , and their four sons, Thor, Cyrus, Kit and Dwyer, visited N A N C Y R E Y N O L D S ’ 8 5 and D W Y E R B R O W N ’ 8 5 and their two sons, Anson and Graham. The whole group took in a St. Louis Blues game together. AMBACH ILLICK

REBECCA ALLEN EHRHARDT

and J U L I E went skiing at Mount Sunapee this winter. Friends since babyhood, Hotchkiss was Julie and Becca’s chance to be classmates, and they both feel very grateful for that. Becca’s daughter Ruthie, a Hotchkiss upper mid, is having that same wonderful experience with her cousins, Amelia and Eloise Berlandi (upper mid and prep, respectively), daughters of K A T I E A L L E N BERLANDI ’88. THOMPSON ROBISON

J U S T I N A B E L O W writes, “I attended Taft Day this year with my 11-year old daughter, Libby, who had so much fun that she has (a) made me promise to take her to all future Taft Days and (b) begun talking trash (of the gentle, 11-year old variety) to random strangers she passes on the street who have the misfortune of wearing Taft paraphernalia. Every trip to the corner store has become somewhat fraught as a result.” J O H N B A N K S writes, “After 25 years with A.G. Edwards/Wells Fargo Advisors, I’m excited to have moved my wealth management practice to Raymond James. Still based in Rochester and Martha’s Vineyard.”

CLASS AGENTS: Daphne Murray Butler, Deborah Hordon,

Hilary Deckoff Langworthy, Paul Mutter, Susan Green Roberson, Ray Strong, and Jeff Williamson JACK HERNDON

sent word that he got together with classmates H O L L A N D G O S S L Y N C H , A N D R E A C R O W , and M A U D E K E B B O N in San Francisco. “Look us up if you’re coming out West!” he writes.

88 CLASS AND REUNION AGENTS: Katie Allen Berlandi, Tom Davidson, Leslie DeBauge, Mark Geall, Meg Thomas Konkel, Nisa Leung Lin, Jen Appleyard Martin, Carter Neild, Steve Newman, Matt Poggi, Greta Moore Scott, and John Tortorella H AV I L A N D S TA G G E R S

writes, “In August, my family will be moving to Baku, Azerbaijan. My husband and I will be teaching at The International School of Azerbaijan, and our son will be starting 10th grade. If you find yourself in the Caucasus region, be sure to look us up.”

CLASS AGENTS: Liza Reeder Carey, Alice Gouge, Katy Anderson Gray, Matt Lenehan, Colin Pennycooke, Jon Prather, Rue Richey, Lisi Miller Vincent, Sarah Virden, and Clara Rankin Williams C H R I S C H I V V I S writes, “On April 16, I joined the National Intelligence Council as the National Intelligence Officer for Europe, in which capacity I will be the U.S. Intelligence Community’s senior expert on European issues.”

CLASS AGENTS: Jasen Adams, Thad Constantine, Kate McCleary, Chip Quarrier, and Derek Rogers

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Alexis Bryant La Broi, Karriem Lateef, Cari Berlage Lodge, Marnie Virden McNany, Clarke Miller, Nicole Morrison, Philip Pillsbury, Tom Seidenstein, and Marcy Denault Wemple I N G R I D M I C H E L S E N M I L L E R writes, “My husband, Tim, and I (and our 14-year-old pug, Ethel) are still based in Seattle, WA, but I’ve started a job at a travel startup in San Francisco (Tripping.com — a vacation rental search engine) about a year ago, so I get to be in San Francisco two weeks out of every month. It’s been so fun to see two of my most favorite Hotchkiss people, C A R O L I N E B A R L E R I N and R U E R I C H E Y ’ 8 9 , when I’m there! Hope I can connect with even more Bay Area Hotchkiss people soon.”

CLASS AGENTS: Emmett Berg, Sarah Duxbury Chin, Philip Gale, Norm Hetrick, Aaron Oberman, Allison Pell, and Elizabeth Newman Smyth

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Alicea, Brendan Behlke, Ellie Peters Bergquist, Rafe Carbonell, Amanda Carlson, Laura D’Anca, Jenn Feeley Hyzer, Peter Gifford, Liz Hines, Kara Marchant Hooper, Erica Johnson, Maureen Marsh, Mo O’Donnell, and Pepper Riley

CLASS AGENTS: Deirdre Morton Carr, Margaretta Robertson Hershey, Amy Liu, Robin Meyersiek, Colm Singleton, and Rob Witherwax

96 Alison Silberman and her husband, Russ Dudley, welcomed their daughter, Roberta Austin Dudley, on Nov. 28, 2017.

CLASS AGENTS: Mo Cronin, Liam Dohn, Deirdre Hughes, Alessandra Nicolas, Ethan Oberman, Kathleen Donnelly Renouf, Tom Terbell, and Andy Torrant A I D A F E R R E R L E I S E N R I N G , a partner with the New York law firm Barket Marion Epstein & Kearon, LLP, has created and developed a docuseries about innocent people on death row called The Last Defense, which she executiveproduced with Academy Award-winning actress Viola Davis. The seven-episode series will air on ABC starting June 12.

CLASS AGENTS: Will Copenhaver, Carolina Espinal de Carulla, Janie Fleming Fransson, Sarah Hall, Biz Morris, Paul Nitze, Matt Oberman, Javier Rodriguez, Adam Sharp, Wade Tornyos, and Will Woodbridge A L I S O N S I L B E R M A N writes, “My husband, Russ Dudley, and I are thrilled to welcome our daughter, Roberta Austin Dudley, to the world. Bertie was born Nov. 28, 2017, and is a happy and healthy little girl.”

CLASS AGENTS: Tim Donza, Casey Copenhaver Fraise, Rob Hill, Bill Lane, Keltie Donelan McDonald, James Moorhead, Kim Mimnaugh Sillman, John Stewart, and Kate Allen Tholking K A T Y B R A U N S C R I V E N E R and her husband, Ryan, welcomed a daughter, Lucy Gray Scrivener, into the world on Jan. 29, 2018.

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97 Katy Braun Scrivener and her husband, Ryan, welcomed daughter, Lucy Gray Scrivener, into the world on Jan. 29, 2018.

CLASS AGENTS: Jonathan Hill, Andrew Kryzak, Casey

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Helming, Chris Looney, Jonill Mayer, Emily Pressman, and Kate Calise Strotmeyer G A B E P O L S K Y , the writer, producer, and director of the documentary Red Army, has a new movie coming out later this year: In Search of Greatness, produced in partnership with IMG Films. The film explores the true nature and nurture of the greatest athletes of all time. Through a series of intimate conversations and captivating footage, Polsky leads viewers on an entertaining, thrilling, and inspiring personal journey. The film explores everything from upbringing, coaching, and genetics, to creativity, psychology, and philosophy, featuring original interviews with iconic athletes Wayne Gretzky, Pelé, and Jerry Rice, as well as renowned thought leaders Sir Ken Robinson and David Epstein.

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now an M.D., has been hanging out at her parents’ house enjoying the cool spring days. Her sister, K A T E B E L M O N T ’ 9 8 , occasionally comes up from the city for some fresh air.

CHARLIE EBERSOL,

who directed a documentary on the XFL, which aired last year as part of ESPN’s 30 for 30 series, is starting his own league, the Alliance of American Football, according to ESPN. The 10-week season is set to start Feb. 9, 2019, a week after Super Bowl LIII.

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was an artist-in-residence at Hotchkiss in May. His solo show Ex Animo, a series of collage relief prints, was on exhibit in the Tremaine Art Gallery through June 2.

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and her husband, David Bleitner, welcomed their daughter, Bryce Hope Reid-Bleitner to the world on April 2, 2018. Bryce is particularly loved by her big brother, Oliver, age 2.

CLASS AGENTS: Kyle Boynton, Courtney Quick Burdette, Emily Bohan Hyland, Molly Shanley Labella, Sarah Armstrong Moffet, and Beth Schmidt

Bennett Rathbun and his wife, Amanda, welcomed their son, Davis Eastman Rathbun, born March 23, 2018.

03 CLASS AND REUNION AGENTS: Alex Bierce, Nathalie Pierrepont Danilovich, Megan Denault, James Eberhart, Lauren Gold, Caroline LaMotte, Rauly Ramirez, Christina Bechhold Russ, Lindsay Failing Sinex, and Stephanie Xethalis Stamas B E N N E T T R AT H B U N

and his wife, Amanda, are proud to announce the birth of their son, Davis Eastman Rathbun. Davis joined the Rathbun family on March 23, 2018, and is looking forward to meeting everyone at Reunion this summer.

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and his wife, Kelly, are thrilled to welcome their daughter, Lindsay Cannell McCoy, born April 13.

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book, Camp Austen: My Life an an Accidental Jane Austen Superfan, was recently released. He lives in southern California, where he is the senior editor at Pacific Standard magazine.

Natasha LaBranche ’06 married Brandon Goodwyn in Ravello, Italy on June 16, 2017. Chloe LaBranche ’07 was maid of honor; classmates Liza Daigh, Lizzie Edelman, and Ashley Ludlow were bridesmaids. Also in attendance were classmates: Joey Rault, Jamie Sterne, Sammy (Nick) Darsie, Tori Pierce, Hester Hodde, Eleanor Edelman ’07, Thomas Edelman ’69, and Christina Sachs Phillips.

CLASS AGENTS: Matt Boller, Lindsey Bruett, Mike Cacchio, Christina Claudio, Conor Cook, Trip Cowin, Brian Fenty, Will Holliday, Vicky Pool Holm, Jay Mills, Rowan Morris, and Cara Seabury Radzins

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CLASS AGENTS: Misha Belikov, Henry Blackford, Adam Casella, Krishna Delahunty Nirmel, Lizzie Edelman, Anna Simonds Glennon, David Keating, Nika Lescott, Lindsay Luke, Daniel Nassar, and Haley Cook Sonneland M A R I A A N D E R S O N ’s

short story, “Cougar,” was chosen by Roxane Gay to appear in Best American Stories 2018. The story originally appeared in the Iowa Review. Anderson is currently a ski instructor in Bozeman, MT,

06 Henry Blackford and his wife, Marguerite (DeClue) Blackford, welcomed a baby boy, Jackson Calvert Blackford, on March 17, 2018.

Tommy Schanzer married Manali Patel in Jaipur, India on Dec. 29, 2018.

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married Brian Davis on the Amalfi Coast in August 2017 at Villa Cimbrone in Ravello, Italy. Several Bearcats gathered to celebrate the nuptials, including G A V I N C A R S O N , C A T E C A R U S O , ANDREW CUSHMAN, LINCOLN FORAN,

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TOMMY SCHANZER

writes, “On Dec. 29, 2017, I married Manali Patel in Jaipur, India. The wedding was attended by a few of my classmates, who gave a speech — D AV I D K E AT I N G , A D A M C A S E L L A , AV E RY B R O O K S , and W E L L E S B O R I E . P E T E R S C H A N Z E R ’ 0 9 was also in attendance.”

CLASS AGENTS: Abel Acuna, Kate Balderston, Dana Bohan, Ellie Edelman, Caroline Emch, Andrew Irving, Alex Korey, Liz Krane, Bart Marchant, Alex Rogers, and TT Sitterley

A group of ’07 Angelenos caught up over dinner at R Y A N R O G E R S W O O D B U R Y ’ S house in March. W I L L V O N M E I S T E R , TA M M A S W I L N E R , B R I A N L A M , K AT E B A L D E R S T O N , and H E A T H E R W A R B U R T O N were all in attendance. MICHAEL CHEN

writes, “In San Francisco, I am volunteering for London Breed’s mayoral campaign for the June election. I am a volunteer in local politics with Yes In My Backyard (YIMBY), a political group advocating for building more homes. I’ve been chatting with D O U G M C P H E R S O N ’ 0 5 about urban housing policy.” LEWIS LASKIN

04 05 07 08 09 Bearcats at the Detroit Red Wings vs. LA Kings game. From left to right: Saskia Penfold ’19, Jake Thomas ’19, Matt Zenteno ’05, Michael Wu ’08, John Norris ’05, Molly Reed ’08, Nikki Than ’08, Nick Campbell ’08, Heidi Peterson ’08, Luke Aronson ’07, Pete Massar ’08, and Torrey Mitchell ’04 of the LA Kings. Not pictured: Luke Glendening ’08, of the Detroit Red Wings.

is in Baltimore, working in

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08 CLASS AND REUNION AGENTS: Dana Brisbane, Alexandra Burchfield, Alexander Douglas, Z’hara Green, Aleca Hughes, Meg Jones, Taylor Kenyon, Lizzie Langer, Daniel Lippman, Clark Maturo, Greg Maxson, Emily Myerson, Lule Rault, Molly Reed, and Michael Wu MEGAN JONES

married Charles Margiotta at Green Valley Ranch in Whitefish, MT, on Sept. 16, 2017. Alumni in attendance included K Y L E O ’ K E E F E ’ 0 9 , L A U R A

ARMSTRONG ’04, JANE KRAUSE, DANA BRISBANE, ALI ARMSTRONG ’07, OLIVIA LANGE, SARAH BLAGDEN, LUCY JACKSON,

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has started a job with ProPublica, reporting on healthcare issues.

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completed his first 100K ultra race this past April in southern Utah, just outside of Zion National Park. Weather

04 07 08 09 Megan Jones Margiotta ’08 married Charles Margiotta at Green Valley Ranch in Whitefish, MO, on Sept. 16, 2017. Bearcats in attendance from left to right: Kyle O’Keefe ’09, Laura Armstrong ’04, Jane Krause ’08, Dana Brisbane 08, Megan Jones Margiotta ’08, Ali Armstrong ’07, Olivia Lange ’08, Sarah Blagden ’08, Lucy Jackson ’08, and Taylor Kenyon ’08.

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Justin Portes completed his first 100K ultra race in April in Southern Utah, just outside of Zion National Park.

conditions were not ideal to start, the course was much harder than anticipated, and to top it all off, he ended up running an additional four miles after getting lost after dark. But, he says, “the base goal was simply to complete the race, and I had an absolute blast out there on the beautiful course!” He plans on running a 50-miler in late fall, followed by a 100-miler in 2019.

CLASS AGENTS: Natalie Boyse, Cameron Hough, Annie Keating, Kevin Powers, Henry Ross, Sarah Scott, and Jiezhen Wu JESSE GLICKER

and O L I V I A C H E N ’ 1 2 both work at the International Energy Agency based in Paris, France. Olivia and Jesse first met in Memo in 2008. They recently ran into each other at the office and now get together for Hotchkiss lunches in Paris! Olivia is a modeller on the world energy outlook team, and Jesse is an analyst on the energy efficiency team.

09 12 Olivia Chen ’12 and Jessica Glicker ’09 both work at the International Energy Agency based in Paris.

CLASS AGENTS: Pierson Fowler, Heather Krieger, Teddy Mackenzie, Shintaro Matsui, and Charlotte Dillon Ross C O LY E R W O O L S T O N recently completed his first of a two-year master of environmental management program at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment, where he is concentrating on marine conservation and policy. Colyer will spend his summer interning with NRDC’s Oceans Program in San Francisco and working on issues such as illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing and the potential establishment of future marine protected areas off the coast of California, as well as assisting the NRDC’s Oceans Program in their preparation for the 2018 Global Climate Action Summit.

CLASS AGENTS: Will Boscow, Shannon Brathwaite, Emmy Brigstocke, Chloe Field, Kelsie Fralick, Liza Johnson, Taylor Peterson, Abby Rogers, Isabella Steyer, and Annie Wymard

CLASS AGENTS: Dylan Alles, Jay Anderson, Whitney Gulden, Kei Helm, Kevin Herrera, Stephen Langer, Alexa Nikolova, and Blake Ruddock OLIVIA CHEN

and J E S S E G L I C K E R ’ 0 9 both work at the International Energy Agency based in Paris, France. Olivia and Jesse first met in Memo in 2008. They recently ran into each other at the office and now get together for

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Hotchkiss lunches in Paris! Olivia is a modeller on the world energy outlook team, and Jesse is an analyst on the energy efficiency team.

13 CLASS AND REUNION AGENTS: Daniel Camilletti, Addison Haxo, Christian Lange, Catriona Leckie, Charlotte McCary, and Noelle Wyman

CLASS AGENTS: Amro Arqoub, Emilie Bae, Meghana Koduru, George Lampe, Isabel Reed, Eva Warren, and Kiki Warren CONNOR ROTH

and S E B A S T I A N met on the ice in Sheffield, England, for the British Universities Ice Hockey Association league title, representing Oxford and St. Andrews, respectively. While St. Andrews won this game, Oxford took revenge a week later by winning the national championship. Both Roth and Grunebaum were four-year hockey players while at Hotchkiss as well as in university. Despite both earning All-Star nods during their collegiate careers, this was the first game in which they faced off against each other. L U K E T H O M P S O N ’ 1 7 also played for St. Andrews. GRUNEBAUM

15 16 17 At the Young Alumni Dinner for Johns Hopkins University students, pictured from left to right: Chloe Otterson ’17, Jack Otterson ’17, Clark Otterson ’17, Della Xu ’15, Stephen Brao ’15, and Sage Otterson ’16

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Dwyer, Liam Fleming, Seabelo John, Walker Jordan, Casey Kemper, Avery Klinger, Ben MacShane, Justine McCarthy Potter, Hafsa Moinuddin, Cam Pal, Jade Pinero, Olivia Ryder, Emily von Weise, and Jake Yoon

CLASS AGENTS: Nicholas Bermingham, Amelia Cao, Julia Chen, Stephanie de Lesseps, Cahleb Derry, Sumner Erbe, Normandie Essig, Kanika Gupta, Jack Kagan, Brooke Lummis, Stella McKew, Erin Mirkovic, Stephen Moon, Teni Odugbesan, Jack Patterson, Naomy Pedroza, Marco Quaroni, Jonvi Rollins, Harlan Schade, Allie Shuldman, Anne Elizabeth Sidamon-Eristoff, Sam Sitinas, Camila Toro, Turner White, and Hannah Xu

Connor Roth and Sebastian Grunebaum met on the ice in Sheffield, England for the British Universities Ice Hockey Association’s league title, representing Oxford and St. Andrews, respectively.

CLASS AGENTS: Carly Berry, Aaron Casella, Cecily Craighead, Neil Dabholkar, Hannah Frater, Sarah Glasfeld, Allie Hubbard-Gourlay, Jelani HutchinsBelgrave, Alyssa Iferenta, Kira Johnson, Christian Kohlmeyer, Corbin Kucera, Sally Kuehn, Kanghee Lee, Canning Malkin, Fin Ong, Pallavi Pemmireddy, Aba Sam, George Sidamon-Eristoff, Katie Smith, Annabel von Weise, Arielle Warren, and Sophie Wilder

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What It Means to Be Black in This Sport AS TOLD TO EDITOR MATT DASILVA

This article first appeared in the April edition of US Lacrosse Magazine and is published with permission.

his is a predominantly white sport, and I do stand out based on the color of my skin. One piece of wisdom that I’ve derived from my Cornell experience is to make it about the sport, make it about the team and make it about nothing else. Coming off of my sophomore year, I had a really strong year and was fortunate to have

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been awarded a lot of accolades. I knew people were now looking at me. I was going to be a name on people’s scouting reports. But then I also started to think about what I really look like, particularly in juxtaposition with my teammates and competitors. I rarely come in contact with an opponent who looks like me. I put a lot of pressure on myself. People are watching me not only because I had a strong season, but because of the color of my skin. I

don’t want to give them a reason to spew any negativity towards me. There was one game in particular where my mom and my younger brother were in the stands. They set up an indirect. It might have been a questionable foul, but it was an opportunity for me to score, so I didn’t really care. I nailed it. We went up. After I scored the goal, my mom and my younger brother overheard a parent on

“I’m sure you’ve seen that a lot of black lacrosse players tend to be on the defensive end. It does send a message about how we ended up here. Was it solely because we were athletic? Or was it because of the entire package? I’d argue it’s the entire package, but perception is everything in life.”

the opposing side call me a cheater and a [N-word]. My brother, who was seven at the time, was so disturbed by the comment, he went up to the parent and said, “My sister’s not a cheater.” My mom pulled him away and told him, “That’s not your fight.” Although she was beside herself with anger, she didn’t want a little black boy looking like the aggressor in the situation. That’s the stuff your average white family wouldn’t have to deal with watching a lacrosse game. Going into my junior year, when I struggled with what it means to be black in this sport, I played a lot of defense that year. It continued to chip away at my mental game. It was almost like a demotion. In my coaches’ eyes, it was really a promotion — an opportunity to really hone in on an innate skill I have of being really athletic and having good feet. But because of these experiences and the way I perceived black female lacrosse players in the past, I thought this was a demotion. I’m sure you’ve seen that a lot of black lacrosse players tend to be on the defensive end. It does send a message about how we ended up here. Was it solely because we were athletic? Or was it because of the entire package? I’d argue it’s the entire package, but perception is everything in life. I have amazing teammates. I’ve always had amazing teammates wherever I’ve gone. They’ve always been extremely accepting of me, and I consider them all my best friends. But there are certain topics that I can’t necessarily lean on them for support or for empathy, because it’s

something that they’ve never had to live through and it’s something that they don’t particularly understand. Sometimes it’s a look. Sometimes it’s the way someone says something to you. My teammates have been extremely inclusive and accepting. I don’t sense that my blackness is something people see first in me before they see my character and my personality and who I really am, but there are certain issues or certain obstacles that I’ve had to overcome that I know a lot of them can’t relate to. They’ve never had that interference with racial friction in their lives. You know how the N-word is used in rap songs? And my team, we like to dance. We always have songs like that in our locker room. There was a point I had to start telling people not to say the N-word, even though it just happened to be a part of the song. At the end of the day, you need to understand the connotation of the words that you’re saying and your audiences. It’s a word even I feel uncomfortable using. I’ve never had to live through the true meaning of that word, and therefore I don’t feel worthy of saying it. A lot of people that do use the N-word in these songs are justified in the way that they use them. When you have people saying it even innocently, taking on the vernacular, it can be really offensive. In addition to being the only black person on my team, it also gave me a platform to educate the people around me about what is acceptable and what isn’t. These are all really good people. I’ve become a lot more comfortable talking about this with people who don’t

look like me. Race has bifurcated a lot of communities. You get a lot of people who are not only intimidated or angered by the conversation, but you also get a lot of people who assume they won’t find common ground. Having often been in situations where I am the only black person in the room, I can sit in the middle and almost be a mediator for this conversation, because it needs to happen. We’ve got to resolve our racial issues if we want to progress as a nation. That’s something I want to see over my lifetime. I’ll be working at J.P. Morgan next year doing sales and trading. It’s actually a very athletic environment — a lot of acting and reacting. There are a lot of athletes on the desk. We have a couple of former lacrosse players. There are three former NFL players on my desk. Particularly as it relates to this conversation about race, there are 15 people on the desk. There’s one woman, there’s one black male, and I’m the perfect intersection. So once again, I’m going to show up, look around and I’m going to be the only person on my desk who looks like me. I’m going to draw from my experiences at Cornell. It really shouldn’t be something that matters. It shouldn’t have something to do with the way you perform at your job. And you know what? Being the only black person in the room, sometimes it’s kind of fun. I’m embracing it.

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RICHARD KNIGHT “DICK” LEBLOND II, age 96, died on Oct. 26, 2017, in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL. Born in Cincinnati, OH, on Nov. 16, 1920, the oldest child of Harold and Loretto Conroy LeBlond, he attended Hotchkiss from 1936-1937. He graduated from Princeton University in 1944 and went onto graduate studies in business at Columbia University and Harvard University. After moving to New York, he joined the New York Trust Company in 1948, which merged with Chemical Bank in 1959, the predecessor of what became JP Morgan Chase & Co. He rose to the position of vice chairman and was a member of the board of directors. He retired in 1985. He served in the U.S. Army during WWII as a forward artillery observer in the Philippines. He is survived by Sally, his wife of 68 years; 10 children, including Sara LeBlond Petrovek ’78; 31 grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren. His great-niece, Emilie L. Wilson, is a member of the Class of 1998. His zest for life was unrivaled, as were his sense of humor, kindness, and respect for others. His love for the game of golf was genuine and unlimited. When asked how many golf club memberships he enjoyed, his standard reply, with a twinkle in his eye, was, “Domestic or international?” He served as president of the Father & Son Golf Association and the Robert T. Jones Jr. Memorial Scholarship Fund. He was a powerful example to his family and all those with whom he came into contact.

F R A N K H E R B E R T B R O W N E L L I I I died peacefully at home with loved ones on Oct. 21, 2017, at age 95. Born on Sept. 20, 1922, in New York City, he moved in the mid1920s to Seattle, where he enjoyed an active childhood full of newspapers, books, trips to the family home on Bainbridge Island, and boating on Puget Sound. His love of reading began as a child, and books were his constant companion throughout his life. He attended Hotchkiss from 1939-1940 and served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific Theater during the Second World War. In the course of operating counter-radar machines, he gained an interest in mathematics that set him on the path for his life and career. He earned degrees and won math awards at Yale University and the School for Advanced Study at Princeton University, where he crossed

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paths with Einstein and Oppenheimer. He met his wife, Gloria Collins, attending folk dances in Princeton; they married in 1950 and moved to Bainbridge Island, where they raised five daughters. Mr. Brownell spent his academic career as a mathematician at the University of Washington, retiring in 1987, but remaining an active researcher: his last 30 years were spent working on a new proof for the unmapped mathematics that could explain the “Lamb shift,” in which subatomic particles jump locations unpredictably. With his second wife, Catherine Noonan, he enjoyed travel, sailing, opera, and their shared sense of humor. He was a devoted father and grandfather, sharing especially his love of reading; many of his family’s fondest memories revolve around him reading aloud of stories ranging from The Wizard of Oz to Treasure Island to Winnie the Pooh. He was preceded in death by his daughter Lissy, his son-in-law John Cameron, his second wife, Catherine, and his first wife, Gloria. He is survived by his sisters Phyllis and Betty; daughters Basilia, Susan, Jennifer, and Francine; and five grandchildren, as well as stepchildren and grandchildren.

LT. C O L . U S A F ( R E T. ) J O H N A L E X A N D E R “ J A C K ” M A R T I N died at his home in Moneta, VA, on Nov. 20, 2017. He was 92. Born in Mt. Vernon, NY, he was the son of the Dr. James Joseph Martin and Marian Stone Martin. After graduating from Hotchkiss, he entered the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and graduated in 1946. Lt. Col. Martin served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korea and Vietnam conflicts. He retired after 24 years of service. He was the recipient of numerous awards during his career, including twice being awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, which is presented for “heroism or extraordinary achievement while participating in an aerial flight”; and he received 11 clusters of the air medal. Jack loved his family and enjoyed spending time with them on family vacations at the lake, holidays, and weekend visits. In 1978 he and his wife, Shirley, moved to Smith Mountain Lake in Virginia, where they enjoyed many cherished moments. An avid fisherman, he spent time on the lake with his fishing buddies, and he was a dedicated New York Yankees fan. He also enjoyed golfing,

reading, and traveling. He was preceded in death by his loving wife, Shirley Timberlake Martin, and by a daughter, a daughter-inlaw, and a sister. He is survived by his four children, two grandchildren, one greatgrandchild, two nephews and a niece, as well as numerous other family and friends.

W I L L I A M R E N W I C K C A M P B E L L died on April 1, 2018, in Richmond, VA. He was 90. A man fiercely curious about the world around him, he was distinguished for his wit, his love of the English language, his appreciation of music, and his encyclopedic knowledge of roller coasters. Born in Bellavista, Peru, on May 4, 1927, he was the son of Ilka and Douglas Campbell, Class of 1913, a World War I flying ace. He spent his early years in Peru, where his father managed sugar plantations for W.R. Grace and Co., until the family’s return to the U.S. in 1931. He attended Hotchkiss from 194145 and graduated from Princeton University. After service in the Navy, he spent much of his career at Arrow Development Co., a company that designed, built, and installed roller coasters at theme parks in the U.S. and abroad, becoming the company’s president. In retirement, he volunteered at organizations in California and Virginia. In Inverness, CA, he was elected in 1987 to serve on the Inverness Public Utility District and re-elected every four years until his resignation in 2003. In 2004, he traveled across the country from his home in California to marry Ann Sheldon Taylor, a dear friend of his beloved first wife, Ruth Sykes Campbell, who had died in 1999. He and Ruth Campbell had three children who survive him: Catherine, Colin, and Kenneth; and a grandson, Roscoe. He is also survived by a brother, Douglas; stepmother, Virginia Campbell; and three step-siblings. A sister, Elizabeth, preceded him in death. His deceased uncles, Kenneth and Wallace, were alumni of the Classes of 1917 and 1912, respectively. His deceased brother-in-law, Edward Sykes, was a member of the Class of 1943. J A M E S W A LT O N “ J I M ” H E R R I N G of Beaufort, SC, died on March 4, 2018. He was 90. Born in Madrid, Spain, to Marguerite and H. Walton Herring, he was raised in Chicago and New Canaan, CT. He attended Hotchkiss from 1944-1945, earned a B.A.

from Yale in 1950, and an M.B.A. from Harvard in 1953. He was a veteran. He met his wife, Phyllis, in Boston, and they went on to lead a creative life together. Mr. Herring was a marketing innovator, invigorated by challenge. He established and became president of the nonprofit Gifts-in-Kind Clearing House, which distributed equipment and materials to hundreds of organizations. In one 11-year period, the organization distributed some $35 million in surplus materials and equipment to schools, colleges, and other social service agencies. He worked at General Electric, Texize, and ARCO. His unusual projects included: housing in Alaska, land developments, and marketing concepts for the Roman Baths in England. He and his wife retired to Summerville and then to Beaufort, SC, spending summers in Bath, England, and the Isle of Procida, Italy. Jim was fun, humorous, and non-conforming. He produced several plays, wrote children’s books and delighted in storytelling. In 2012, he reported in the Class Notes for ’45 that his play, 80th Reunion, had been produced twice in the summer of 2011. He noted two of his plays had been produced when he was a student at Yale and wrote, “If you want to complete something, keep at it. Don’t give up too soon.” He taught his own story-writing program to public school children and always encouraged young people to pursue education and to dream. In his late 80s he volunteered at the St. Helena’s Treasure House, continuing his passion for discovering antiques and fundraising. He delighted in watching sunsets over the marsh from his garden. He is survived by Phyllis, his wife of 63 years, his sister, three daughters, five granddaughters, and one grandson. P E Y T O N H O G E M E A D of Farmington, CT, died May 3, 2018, of complications from Alzheimer’s disease/vascular dementia. At his side during his final days were his wife, Mimi, and his four children. Born in Hartford, CT, on Sept. 7, 1927, Dr. Mead was the son of the late Cary Hoge Mead and George Jackson Mead, developer of the Wasp airplane engine and co-founder of Pratt & Whitney Aircraft in East Hartford. He attended Hotchkiss from 1942 until his graduation in 1945, married Sally Noyes in 1949, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Williams College in 1950. Upon his graduation in 1954 from Columbia University, College of Physicians & Surgeons,

one of the doctors described him as a “careful worker, conscientious, reliable,” words that capture not only his professional credo but also his method in everything, from planning a hike to always carrying an index card on which he listed his daily docket. After his internship and residency at Hartford Hospital and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, he became a board-certified surgeon and opened a private practice at Hartford Hospital. In 1964, he served two months on the hospital ship HOPE in Guinea, West Africa, using his surgical skills to help patients in dire need of medical care. After retiring from private practice in 1976, he worked as an occupational physician at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft and Bristol Hospital. A devoted outdoorsman, he skied Tuckerman’s Ravine on Mt. Washington and other slopes in New England, out west, and abroad; he continued to downhill ski into his late 70s. In 1987, he spent a month trekking in Nepal, which included climbing to and from the Annapurna Base Camp. His other passion involved all things aeronautical, the result of having grown up in a house where aviation pioneers like Lindbergh, Sikorsky, and Boeing were guests. Drafted into the Army in 1946, he volunteered for paratroop training and served for 16 months in the 501st Parachute Infantry Battalion. Later in life, he piloted a small plane of his own that he used to explore New England. In 1992, he married Marjorie (“Mimi”) Patterson, and they settled in Farmington. He is survived by his wife, four children, five grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren; his brother, Jack; three stepchildren and five step-grandchildren. Two brothers-in-law are Hotchkiss alumni: James Patterson III ’52 and David Patterson ’55. He was predeceased by three siblings: Mary, Charles, and William (“Bill”), Hotchkiss Class of ’56. W I L L I A M “ B I L L” H A R O L D M U L L I N S

died in 2018 at age 92. Born to Esther and Frederick Mullins, Class of 1908, he attended Hotchkiss from 1941-44, but left school before graduating. He joined the Merchant Marines and became a radio operator. He then attended Yale, dabbling in several fields of study before realizing that he wanted to be an elementary school teacher. Luckily for thousands of children, he followed his dreams. After earning a master’s degree at Harvard, he continued his study with two teachers at the University of Iowa. At the urging of his professors, he went on to pursue

a Ph.D. in education while teaching sixth grade at the University Lab School. After earning his doctorate, he began teaching at The University of Minnesota and then at the University of Iowa. At a conference in Chicago, he and a colleague met two educators from Antioch College. They were looking for two superior teachers at The Antioch School, a small, private school with an emphasis on outdoor play time, cooperation, a child-centered curriculum, and respect for all. Mr. Mullins and his colleague took to their work at Antioch with joy and vigor. He embraced folk dancing, the Unitarian Fellowship, barbershop quartet, and gardening. Those left to remember and cherish Bill are his wife of 60 years, Shirley Strohm Mullins; two daughters and two sons; several grandchildren, nieces and nephews; and many friends.

R O B E R T R I C H M O N D K E N Y O N , age 88, died Feb. 9, 2018, at his home in Kenilworth, IL. He was born in Chicago, IL, to Richmond “Steve” Wallace Kenyon and Emily Worth Foresman. He attended Hotchkiss from 1944-45. After attending Trinity College, where he was a Delta Kappa Epsilon, he spent most of his career in the printing business as executive vice president of Poole Bros. Printing, president of Newman/Rudolph, and executive vice president of Sleepeck Printing Company. Always an athlete, he continued participating in sports throughout his life, not only in competition but also as a coach of football, basketball, and baseball. This past fall, he had entered his 17th year of coaching and supporting Kenilworth Rebels Football. He also was a loyal sports fan, not missing a Chicago Bears game as a season ticket-holder for 60 years. He was most dedicated to his own grandchildren, attending their activities with the same enthusiasm. An accomplished long-distance runner, he was one of the best in his age group with a sub-three-hour marathon. Dedicated to his community, he served as president of the Kenilworth Club and treasurer of the Kenilworth Historical Society. He was a talented drummer who played in bands and marched each year in the local Memorial Day parade. His genuine character and loyal nature will not be forgotten. He was preceded in death by his brother Hugh Foresman Kenyon. He is

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of Lenox, MA, died unexpectedly on his way to a Yale hockey game in New Haven, CT, on Feb. 23, 2018. He was 89. Born in Pittsfield, MA, he was the son of Elizabeth Dutton Kittredge and Charles Kittredge, Class of 1912. He attended Hotchkiss from 1944-1947 and earned a B.A. from Yale University in 1951. After serving in the Counter Intelligence Corps of the U.S. Army, he went to work for Rising Paper Company, followed by Strathmore Paper Company. In 1971, he joined the family business, Crane and Company. Mr. Kittredge was vice president of Paper Manufacturing and Engineering and managed U.S. Currency operations, retiring in 1994 after 22 years. A distinguished community leader in the Berkshires throughout his life, he served on numerous local boards, chairing many of them. Among them were the Boys and Girls Club of Pittsfield, Berkshire Health Care Systems, Berkshire Bank, Dalton Community Recreation Association, Hancock Shaker Village, and Berkshire County Red Cross. A lifelong singer with a strong bass voice, he belonged to the Yale 1951 Whiffenpoofs and sang in the Oratorio Choir at The First Church of Christ Congregational in Pittsfield and for nine summers in The Berkshire Choral Festival. An avid sports enthusiast who enjoyed ice hockey, tennis, and golf, he also loved skiing and sailing. He is survived by his wife, Judith Hill Kittredge; his three children and four grandchildren; and his brother, Frank Kittredge ’48. His nephew, John Kittredge ’76, and great-niece, Eliza Little ’00, are Hotchkiss alumni. He was predeceased by his first wife, Martha Jane Furey Kittredge; his brothers, Charles and Gilbert; and a cousin, Christopher M. Crane ’56.

E D W A R D S . “ N E D ” B O N N I E , a nationally renowned equine attorney and horseman, died on March 17, 2018, in Louisville, KY. He was 88. A Kentuckian by birth, he attended Hotchkiss from 1945 until his graduation in 1948. He then earned B.A. and L.L.B. degrees from Yale University. His professional

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career was driven by a lifelong commitment to justice and fairness and a love of horses. Mr. Bonnie was retired of counsel to Frost Brown Todd, a regional law firm he helped establish. He concentrated his practice in the area of equine law and was responsible for the prosecution and/or defense of over 1,000 medication rule violation cases in the horse business. He gained national recognition as the young attorney representing “Dancer’s Image” owner Peter Fuller in the 1968 Kentucky Derby drug scandal that cost “Dancer’s Image” the coveted Derby Trophy. He continued to be an outspoken advocate for modern equine drug testing and drug research in Kentucky and nationally. His commitment to fair play and a level playing field for all participants in equine events was paramount. His concern for the welfare of the horse and rider was the motivation for his many recommended rule changes, which were often adopted, leading to safer equine sports. He wrote numerous articles on drug testing, procedural due process requirements, and administering drug rules. Among his many accolades, Ned, along with his wife Nina, received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the United States Equestrian Foundation; in 2016, he was inducted into the American College of Equine Attorneys Hall of Fame. A committed conservationist, he was central to setting up the Harrods Creek Land Trust and later Oldham Ahead. After his marriage to Nina Winthrop in 1962, the couple moved to Stonelea Farm in Prospect, KY. There, he trained steeplechase horses, while Nina developed a top-class string of show hunters. He rode steeplechase horses into his late 50s and had numerous winners in competitions. A seasoned foxhunter, he was Master of Long Run Hounds from 1988 to 2014. In his Misch II profile, he described his life as “a partnership of man and horse.” He is survived by Nina, his sons, Shelby Bonnie ’82 and Robert, and four grandchildren. His father, Sevier, was a member of the Class of 1911 and his brother Sevier, Class of 1945; and his cousins, now deceased, were Homer Franklin ’47, Douglas McKellar ’35, and Robert McKellar ’32.

died at age 86 on April 8, 2018. Born in New Haven, CT, in 1931 to Orrill and Donald F. Bradley ’25,

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he was the eldest of five sons. He attended Hotchkiss from 1945-49 and Yale University, then received his medical degree from The New York Medical College in 1957. Following a one-year internship at Waterbury Hospital, he served as a Captain in the U.S. Army in Germany and Italy. After a surgical residency at Buffalo General Hospital, he began private practice as a general surgeon at Hartford Hospital in 1966, retiring in 1997. But retirement didn’t quite take, so he went back to his life’s work and began a 19-year career in occupational medicine, retiring in 2016 from St. Francis Hospital. Dr. Bradley served as a trustee of the Hartford Medical Society and was a member of the Connecticut Medical Society, the Hartford County Medical Association, and the Beaumont Medical History Club at Yale. While in medical school, he met his wife, Barbara Burke, in New York City, where she was attending nursing school. They married in 1956, and by 1969, when the family included their three sons, they had settled in West Hartford. Medicine was not just his job; it was his calling. He loved his patients and they loved him back; some became his friends for life. In addition to his love of medicine and family, he was an avid pen and clock collector, history buff, voracious reader, and world traveler. He leaves behind his devoted wife, Barbara; three sons and eight grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. He is also survived by his four brothers, Thompson Bradley ’52, Edward Mix Bradley ’54, Orrin Bradley, and Nicholas Bradley.

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died on Jan. 31, 2018, at Regency Park Oak Knoll Retirement Home, where he had lived since 2014. Born in Los Angeles, CA, on Nov. 5, 1932, he was the youngest of the three children of Howard and Hortense (McLaughlin) Cunningham. During World War II, Howard rejoined the U.S. Navy, and the family moved to the North Island Naval Air Station in Coronado. After the war, the Cunninghams moved back to Pasadena, and David attended Flintridge Preparatory School before attending Hotchkiss from 1947-1951. He then studied at the University of California at Berkeley, where he earned a B.A. in 1955 and joined Alpha Delta Phi. In 1956, he went to work for his father’s real estate development business, Cunningham Company, Inc., where

he would spend the rest of his career. He had a lifelong fascination with the sky and the sea. An enthusiastic swimmer, he continued his love of the sea as skipper and owner of both sail and power boats. He was both a licensed pilot of small planes and gliders and an amateur student of astronomy. Popular and sociable, he was a member of The Valley Hunt Club, the Newport Harbor Yacht Club, and the Bohemian Club. Predeceased by his brother, Howard, and sister, Marie Jones, Mr. Cunningham is survived by seven children, including Alexandra Hixon Ballard ’80. W I L L I A M J . “ B I L L” F R A Z I E R J R .

died on Jan. 27, 2018, at home, surrounded by his family. Born on Dec. 1, 1932, he was raised in Chicago and attended Hotchkiss from 1949 until his graduation in 1951. He earned his B.A. degree in 1955 from Brown University, where he was a member of the crew team and Beta Theta Pi. After service in the Navy on a destroyer based in Japan, in 1960 he earned his M.B.A. at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He and his wife, Jane, moved to Darien in 1970, and raised their three children while he worked in finance for more than 20 years in New York City. He ended his career at Lummis & Co in New Canaan, CT, where he had the pleasure of working with a talented group of young colleagues. Service to the community played a major role in his life. He gave tirelessly to others through worthy causes as leader of the RCIA program at St. John’s Parish, Eucharistic Minister at Atria Darien for more than 20 years, referee for Youth Hockey until his retirement at age 82, and captain of a Senior Men’s Tennis teams at The Middlesex Club. Mr. Frazier was predeceased by his parents, William Frazier and Dorothy Conger, and his brother, Douglas Frazier. A devoted husband, father, grandfather, and friend, he is survived by his wife, Jane Grathwohl Frazier, of Darien; his two daughters and one son; four grandsons; and brother, Roderick McNealy.

H E N R Y F. G . “ H A R R Y ” W E Y I I I of Hingham, MA, died suddenly from an accident on Feb. 22, 2018, at the age of 84. Born in New York City and raised in Rye, NY, he was a graduate of Hotchkiss and Colby College, where he played hockey and was a member of DKE fraternity. After

college, he served as an officer in the U.S. Air Force. He began his long insurance career at Chubb and Son before joining Alexander and Alexander. In 1972, he came to Boston to head Alexander and Alexander’s satellite office as a senior vice president. His career also took him, for a brief time, to Australia. He also served as the president of the National Association of Insurance Brokers. As a member of the Hingham Harbor Development Committee, he spearheaded the development of Whitney Wharf. He served on the Town of Hingham Insurance Committee and Pension Board. He was a member of Hingham Yacht Club and Cohasset Golf Club. An avid skier, tennis player, golfer and sailor, he shared his love of Maine and sailing with his family and friends, spending summers in Southport, ME. He lived and loved beyond capacity and gave himself totally to life. He is survived by his loving wife of 61 years, Lyn (Marilyn Brooks) Wey, and three daughters. He leaves behind his adored seven grandchildren; a brother, Thomas Wey ’58 of Larchmont, NY; and many loving nephews. He was predeceased by his parents, Henry and Elizabeth Wey, and his brother, Peter ’55.

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died on Jan. 13, 2018, at age 82. He loved nothing more than a good story and great conversation; he spoke with great pride of his time at Hotchkiss from 1949-1953 and subsequently, his years at Williams College. One of his accomplishments at Williams was translating Aeschylus’ play, Seven Against Thebes, into English verse. He enrolled in architecture school at USC, but his future career in architecture was derailed when his stint as a copy boy at the L.A. Times became a full-time job writing sports, and then eventually, news. He moved to the East Coast to work in marketing with the Head Ski Company and attended the Grenoble Winter Olympics in France in 1968. A few years later, when Head Ski Company moved to Boulder, CO, Mr. Erickson followed. He became the executive director of the US Ski Association and later worked for the Molnar Ski Company. He returned to the East Coast in 1979, working for Butterfly Originals, Inc. representing Charles Schultz’s Peanuts gang. Marketing management supervision positions followed, where he oversaw clients as diverse

as Dow Jones News Retrieval, Bryn Mawr Hospital, Campbell’s Soup, and Dupont. Later, he worked for the Masterminds Agency in new media marketing and management solutions. Along with his devotion to his family, he loved sports, especially football and Formula One racing. He was predeceased by his parents, Elmer Erickson and Edith Williams Erickson, and brother, Jon. He is survived by his wife of 52 years, Julie Ellison Erickson, a daughter, two grandsons, and two sisters-in-law. A cousin, Ronald Vaill, was a member of the Class of 1964.

JOB LYMAN EMERSON , husband of Kathryn L. Murdoch of Wenham, MA, died on Aug. 19, 2017, in his home following his extended illness. Born in New York City on July 1, 1936, he was the son of Martha (Payne) Emerson and Edward Emerson, Class of 1919. He entered Hotchkiss in 1951 as a lower mid and was active from the start in athletics and the Hotchkiss Dramatic Association, and then with the Glee Club. His lifelong love of music and the stage was evident to all who came in contact with him. He was vice president of the Glee Club in his senior year at Hotchkiss and also sang with other a cappella groups. At Yale, he was equally committed to his singing efforts, both to the Glee Club, rising to become its president, and the Spizzwinks. He graduated from Yale in 1958 with a B.S. degree in industrial administration. He served in the National Guard and worked for Hartford National Bank from 19591980. He was a vice president of Davidson Company and worked from 1982-1991 at Commonwealth Mortgage Company. For many years, he enjoyed being part of the Simsbury Light Opera Company’s Gilbert and Sullivan productions and was involved with the Producing Guild as an actor and member of the board of directors. He also regularly participated in Steve Hamlin’s Canandaigua benefit productions. In addition to his wife, Kathryn, he is survived by two sons, a daughter, and six grandchildren. He was predeceased by his brothers Edward Emerson and Christy “Chris” Emerson ’49, and sister, Sheila Sadler. Other Hotchkiss relatives, also deceased, include his cousin, Andrew Emerson ’52, uncles Gilbert Emerson ’20 and Christy Payne ’22, and grandfather, Edward Emerson, Class of 1894.

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died on Jan. 3, 2018. Born on April 26, 1937, in Adams, MA, he attended Hotchkiss from 19531955. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Yale University in 1959 and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia. A longtime Bayonne, NJ, resident, he was an antiques dealer for Bob West Antiques for more than 40 years. In his Misch II Profile, he remembered an assignment in Robert Hawkins’s English class, near the end of the school year, to memorize Macbeth’s famous speech, “To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow…” and “to transcribe it in class under the Hawk’s ever-watchful eye.” Mr. Bratton said it was “a memory, among so many others of Hotchkiss that fill me with pleasure and gratitude.” He is survived by his friend and companion, Robert West.

WILLIAM HENRY TROTTER “BUCKY” B U S H died at age 79 on Feb. 28, 2018, at his home in West Palm Beach, FL. The brother of President George H.W. Bush, uncle of President George W. Bush, and son of Sen. Prescott S. Bush, Bucky Bush was also active in Republican politics. Born in Greenwich, CT, on July 14, 1938, he was the youngest of five children of Prescott Bush, a Wall Street investment banker who served as a Republican senator from Connecticut from 1952 to 1963, and the former Dorothy Walker. He attended Hotchkiss from 1952 to 1956. After his graduation in 1956, he received a B.A. degree from Yale University in 1960. In 2004, he chaired his nephew’s presidential re-election campaign in Missouri. He used to babysit the 43rd President of the United States. Mr. Bush was chairman of Bush O’Donnell Investment Advisers in St. Louis, which he helped to found in 1986. Prior to that, he was president of Boatmen’s National Bank of St. Louis. He also served on the boards of corporations and foundations, including WellPoint Inc., now Anthem, the parent company of multiple Blue Cross and Blue Shield health insurers. His wife, the former Patricia Redfearn, whom he married in 1959, died in 2015. They had two children. His brother, Jonathan, is a member of the Class of 1949; other family members who are Hotchkiss alumni include his nephews, Timothy Dana ’87 and Christopher Dana ’93. His classmate and

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close friend, Francis “Fay” Vincent, wrote this about him: “As I approach 80 and confront the loss of an old friend like Buck, I am left with the memories that only he and I shared. Now those tiny moments are left in my memory bank, where they can no longer be summoned up to be special reminders of what he and I alone could recall. It is those unique memories old friends use to bind themselves together as life slides away. Now old ‘HeavyHeavy’ is dead, yet he will not be forgotten as my mind rummages through those times we shared trying to reconnect with the misty images of times past. They are past, but cannot be gone while I remain sitting here in my chair, smiling as he sings softly in the evening light.” J O N A T H A N B . O ’ B R I E N of Providence, RI, and Westport, MA, died on March 22, 2018, after a short illness. The beloved former head of St. Andrew’s School in Middletown, DE, he touched the hearts of his family and friends with his warmth and spirit, integrity and compassion, just as he touched the lives of his colleagues and generations of students. Born in New York City on April 21, 1938, to Donal C. and Constance B. O’Brien, he attended the Buckley School and New Canaan Country School before attending Hotchkiss from 1952 to 1956. He graduated from Williams College in 1960 and Columbia University Law School in 1963. He joined the firm of Robinson, Robinson & Cole in Hartford after law school and then in 1966 left the law to teach at Westminster School in Simsbury, CT. After serving there as an English teacher, coach, and then, assistant headmaster, in 1977 he was appointed head of St. Andrew’s School. He served in that post for two decades; his successor, Tad Roach, wrote of him: “St. Andrew’s changed forever when a brilliant young headmaster arrived with an enthusiasm, zest, and vision that would lift the school … The O’Brien vision involved linking the school’s tradition and promise of academic excellence with a spirit of human kindness, respect, teamwork, and collaboration.” Retiring in 1997, Mr. O’Brien took up oil painting and served as a founding board member of Our Sisters’ School in New Bedford, MA, and as a trustee at Friends Academy in Dartmouth, MA. He is survived by Joan Dominick O’Brien, to whom he was married for 59 years, and three daughters, whom he adored: Jennifer “Jen” O’Brien ’79, Margaret

O’Brien, and Elizabeth Berl. In addition, he is survived by five grandchildren and a brother, Stephen (Steve) O’Brien ’62, P’87,’01, GP’17. He was predeceased by his brothers, Donal “Don” O’Brien Jr. ’52, P’76, GP’09,’10, and C. David “Dave” O’Brien ’54. A number of other family members are Hotchkiss alumni: a niece, Amanda O’Brien ’01; nephews Donal “Don” O’Brien III ’76, P’09,’10 and Stephen “Steve” O’Brien Jr. ’87; great-niece Elinore “Ellie” O’Brien ’10 and great-nephews, Donal “Donny” O’Brien ’09 and Jack Snow ’17. Two cousins, William “Bill” O’Brien ’53 and Henry O’Brien ’48, predeceased him. LAWRENCE KEITH WALLS

of Key Largo, FL, died on Feb. 22, 2018. Born on April 1, 1937, in Fulton, NY, he was the son of the late Roy and Lenore (Mohney) Walls and was raised in Fairfield, CT. He attended Hotchkiss from 1953 until his graduation in 1956 and then went on to Brown University, where he was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity. He proudly served his country as a member of the National Guard. Through positions with Burlington Industries, Celanese, and WarnerLambert corporations, Mr. Walls had the opportunity to see a great deal of the world, including much of Africa, the Middle East, and the Caribbean. He greatly loved living in the Keys and never wanted to leave “The Rock.” He is survived by his children Laura, Christian, Peter, and David; six grandchildren; two great-granddaughters; a sister, Linda Sember; and several nieces and nephews. He was recently predeceased by his beloved wife, Barbara Ann Walls.

P R E S T O N H U G H M A N N of Novi, MI, died peacefully on Feb. 1, 2018, after battling cancer for a year and a half. Formerly of Brown City and Lapeer, MI, Mr. Mann spent his childhood with his brother Jay in the woods and fields near his family home in Metamora, MI. Born on Oct. 9, 1942, he attended Kingsbury Country Day School in Oxford, MI, Hotchkiss from 1956-59, and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. An avid sportsman who enjoyed bird hunting, fishing, and sailing, he had many friends and adventures. His father, Preston Mann, founded Hunters Creek Club in Metamora, a nationally famed pheasant preserve and dogtraining facility. Following his father’s lead, Mr. Mann made a name for himself training

bird dogs and appearing on public television’s “Michigan Outdoors” at his hunting preserve Farmland Pheasant Hunters in Brown City, MI, which he founded in 1986. In his later years, he enjoyed travelling to Alaska with his wife, captaining several sailing trips on his boat Meloura to the Georgian Bay, sharing pointers with his three grandchildren on many exciting fishing trips, and improving his golf game as a member of the City of Novi’s 55-plus Golf League. Recently, he enjoyed many leisurely visits with family and friends. He was preceded in death by his father, Preston Mann and his mother, Lucinda “Mickey” Caples. He leaves behind his wife, Sarah “Terry” Mann; a daughter and son; three grandchildren; stepmother, Mary Ann Mann; two brothers and a sister.

H E N R Y B . S E T H N E S S , a longtime resident of Short Hills, NJ, passed away at St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, NJ, on Feb. 28, 2018. He was 61. Mr. Sethness was born in Chicago, IL, to the late Charles H. and Mary Sethness. He grew up spending his summers at Duck Lake, in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, where he learned to fish and waterski and developed a lifelong appreciation for the outdoors. He graduated from Kenyon College with a B.A. in English. Mr. Sethness was a devoted Hotchkiss alumnus. As a student, he served as a class proctor. For nearly 40 years, he served as a Class Agent and was an avid fundraiser

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for the School. He had recently retired as president of Sethness Products Company, a fifth-generation company established by his great-grandfather in Chicago in 1880. During his 39-year career, he was instrumental in advancing the company into the international market, helping to establish plants in India, China, and France. He took great pride in Sethness Products, and in particular the talented and dedicated men and women who worked for the company. Mr. Sethness was a member of the Short Hills Club in Short Hills, NJ, and the Baker Hill Golf Club in Newbury, NH. He was an avid runner and once completed the Chicago Marathon. He was accomplished at racquet sports and skiing, and loved reading, especially books on history. Mr. Sethness’s greatest love was his family; he was happiest when he was with them. A devoted father, he attended every recital, school play, game, and graduation. His big laugh and zest for life will be deeply missed. Mr. Sethness is survived by his beloved wife of 30 years, Holly M. Sethness; his loving daughters, Ashley Gosnell and Ellie and Charlotte Sethness; and three siblings: Mary Arnold, Charles B. Sethness, and Daniel B. Sethness. He also leaves behind many nieces, nephews, grandnieces, and grandnephews — and, last but not least, his two rescue dogs, Alice and Millie.

JAMES EVANS SIMPSON, JR.

passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on Feb. 27, 2018, at age 57 in Larchmont, NY. Born on Jan. 28, 1961, in Birmingham, AL, he was the son of James Evans Simpson Sr. and Sandra Stingily Simpson. He attended Hotchkiss from 1976 to 1979 and graduated from Vanderbilt University with a degree in history in 1983. Mr. Simpson was a gifted and accomplished architect who received his master’s degree in architecture from Columbia University. He worked with Walter Chatham Architects in New York City for many years and then opened his own practice. Most importantly, Mr. Evans was a wonderful and devoted father to his sons, Forrest and Peter, and loving husband to his wife, Jill. He was a great friend to many people, a talented cook, a determined tennis player, and a natural debater. He loved sailing on his boat Ostara, cooking for family and friends, playing with his dog, Lola, engaging in intellectual and political debates

on important issues, rooting for the Crimson Tide, rafting in Montana, hosting parties and family get-togethers, and spending time with his children. His ideas were profound, but his loves were simple — his family and friends. He will be profoundly missed. Mr. Simpson is survived by his sons, Forrest and Peter; his wife, Jill Kirchner Simpson; his mother, Sandra; and his brother, Karl.

P A T R I C K J O S E P H M A R T I N , 47, of Lexington, MA, and formerly of Thomaston, CT, died on March 20, 2018, at his home after a brief illness. The ninth child of Judge Luke F. Martin and Judge Rosemary Lyons Martin of Thomaston, CT, he was predeceased by his father and a sister, Mary Martin Isabelle. Born in Waterbury, CT, on Nov. 18, 1970, he attended Thomaston schools and then Hotchkiss from 1984 until his graduation in 1988. He subsequently received a B.S.E. in computer science and a B.A. in linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania. At Penn, he was a member of the Mask and Wig Club. Mr. Martin was chief technology officer at Connance in Waltham, MA, where he led development, engineering and technical operations. Over the course of his 25-year career, he served as the CTO or chief architect at leading technology companies, both large and small. He coached and actively supported his daughters in their athletic and musical pursuits and was an avid cyclist and pilot. He loved the Red Sox and all things Boston. In 1982, Mr. Martin was one of Hartford Hospital’s first pediatric kidney transplant recipients. He had a second transplant in 1997 at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He is survived by his loving wife, Katie Field; his daughters, Mackenzie and Caroline; his mother; his three sisters, and four brothers, including Timothy Martin ’68 of Philadelphia, PA, Luke Martin ’70 of Cheshire, CT, and Sean Martin ’76 of Weston, CT. He is also survived by 30 nieces and nephews, including William L. Martin ’04 and Anne C. Martin ’09, and his faithful dog Cleo.

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True Colors After a one-year hiatus, the Color Run returned to campus on May 19. The 5K footrace, in which runners are sprayed with pastel-colored corn starch, is a worldwide event aimed at promoting a healthy lifestyle. Stephanie de Lesseps ’16 started the first color run on campus in 2015, partnering with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a biomedical research and educational nonprofit in Cold Spring, NY. This year, St. Luke’s took over the event with help from Blue and White Society, raising more than $2,500 for the laboratory’s autism research. Photo by Jiahua Chen ’20

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