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FEATURES The fall of SAC Capital by Sheelah Kolhatkar
48 BRAIN WORKOUT
The new exercise craze is all in your mind by Bonnie Adler
62 HUMANITY FIRST
When an Afghan student from Trinity College studies abroad, will she be able to return? by Elizabeth Titus
72 ATTENTION SPAN SHRINKAGE
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84 TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCE
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Living up to Greenwich standards, not the poor’s by Angelica Grace Baker
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182 IN THE DRIVER’S SEAT
130 RURAL PALATES
184 GENERATIONS
Beanie Babies: from rare collectibles to worthless by David Legault
140 ROOM WITH A VIEW
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152 LIKE A ROLLING STONE
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156 BUYING AND SELLING
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158 CURATOR’S CORNER Halston Style at Nassau County Museum of Art
162 FROM THE SIDELINES The Story of the Belmont Dynasty by Carly Silver
164 LOOKBOOK
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166 PHILANTHROPY
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168 STATE OF MIND
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172 SPEAKER’S CORNER Editing Emma Lazarus by Joel J. Greenwald
174 GREEN ROOM
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178 HISTORY MAKERS
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Everything We Love Is Locked Under Glass “PRINCESS,” the commemorative Princess Diana Beanie Baby bear, first edition, royal violet with lace around her throat, a white rose over her heart, currently lists on eBay for upwards of three-hundred fifty-thousand dollars. There are 4664 beans inside of Millennium, a Beanie Baby bear of identical size and shape to Princess, though Millennium boasts violet fur with a golden necklace, a globe embossed directly on her chest, the rays of the sun eclipsed behind it, the number 2000 printed in yellow below it all. I know the number of beans because I’ve counted them individually, taken the three hours needed to sort them into a glass mason jar as I separated translucent spheres from cotton stuffing, making check marks for every hundred beans for fear of losing count. I am not sure where this impulse comes from: my need to quantify, to know something’s value based on the sum of its parts. Assuming all Beanie Baby bears are created equal, we can calculate that a Princess Diana Bear costs roughly seventy-five dollars per plastic bean. A coworker of mine claims to have paid for his daughter’s college education entirely through the buying and selling of Beanie Babies. The same man I’ve witnessed pull an incredibly rare thousand-dollar book out of a recycling Dumpster, a man who claims to know the age and condition of a book based entirely on touch. A man who dedicated his life to the collection of rare and precious things. The trick is to see the value before anyone else, to give them what they want before they come to their senses. Punchers, a bright red lobster with a misprinted name tag, sells for $3800; a wingless version of Quackers the duck is listed for $1200. “Tabasco” the bull saw an extremely limited release due to a copyright infringement case, though “Snort,” an identical version with a different name tag, continued to sell at inflated costs due to strong resemblance to the Chicago Bulls mascot in the midst of the team’s second three-peat. Standing in a Hallmark store in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, I overhear a man who is buying out the store before making the seven-hour drive to Chicago, where he plans to sell his collection of Snorts at thirty times his purchasing cost. I am standing in the Delta Plaza Mall, the mall of my childhood and the only major retail outlet for miles. Here, my mother would drive me to the monthly trading card and Beanie Baby expo: entire businesses devoted to the buying, selling, and trading of collectibles, the main thoroughfare of our mall transformed into a bazaar where our favorite players and rare dolls could be found. Where I would spend entire paper route checks on boxes of unopened basketball cards, on copies of Beckett magazines with the values of different
players and print series listed. Where I once witnessed an adult man intimidate and pressure a young child into a Beanie Baby trade, the lack of morals flagrant in his pursuit of a complete collection, of unimaginable wealth. A man from St. Louis Park, Minnesota, was sentenced to one and a half years in prison for smuggling counterfeit Beanie Babies into the United States with the intent of selling them online. He was also fined 150,000 thousand dollars, or the equivalent of 39 Punchers, or 2005 beans from a Princess Diana Bear. In 1996, McDonald’s began selling Teenie Beanies with their Happy Meals, miniatures of miniatures, and the promotion was so wildly successful that the dolls sold out almost immediately. It became increasingly difficult to get your hands on Patti the Platypus, Chops the Lamb, or even Pinky the Flamingo. A 52-year-old woman from Green Bay, Wisconsin, is cited for disorderly conduct
ASSUMING ALL BEANIE BABY BEARS ARE CREATED EQUAL, WE CAN CALCULATE THAT A PRINCESS DIANA BEAR COSTS ROUGHLY SEVENTYFIVE DOLLARS PER PLASTIC BEAN. after punching another woman in the back of the head, a fight breaking out in the line for the newest shipment Because of this fight, as well as the many other instances of civil unrest resulting from the high demand, McDonald’s limited purchases to two Beanies per family, and perhaps when McDonald’s began telling us that enough is enough, that we needed to slow down, consume less, perhaps we should have taken
stock of the severity of our problems. And yet, there we were, sending our children into separate lines, pretending we did not know each other before meeting back at our cars to eat our way through so many meals, through the mountains of nuggets and fries all limp, glowing with paper bag sheen. St. Louis Park is also the location of my current job, a used book store that also deals heavily in collectibles: in autographs and first editions and leather-bound editions as early as the 1600’s. In order to find these treasures, I must first sift through an obscene amount of junk. I find myself measuring my work in terms
of the sheer amounts of trash. In the tons of books I have poured into Dumpsters for recycling, for the mountains of CD’s and DVD’s I have smashed against the walls of our unfinished basement. Bronty, the Brontosaurus, first edition, is given to me one Christmas at my grandmother’s house in a time before inflated values, before the idea of collecting these toys has entered anyone’s mind. And Bronty is a toy, but I am eleven years old—too old to have any use or entertainment from a small stuffed dinosaur—and so Bronty is buried in a storage bin at my parent’s house until many years later, when I notice the values listed W E STO N MA G A Z I N E G ROUP.COM
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in Mary Beth’s Bean Bag World Magazine and attempt to excavate Bronty from these archaeological layers of tchotchkes and, shit, Bronty’s original cardboard tag, the TY logo, shaped like a heart—opening up like a valentine to tell me his name, his birthday, his relevant biographical information—has somehow gotten ripped from the red plastic barb protruding from his leg. The red barb itself a rarity, replaced in later editions by a semi-translucent white, yet without his tag Bronty is without value; he goes back into the storage bin for another hundred years. It is something we must explain—far too often—to our customers: the importance of condition to the collectible market. A dust jacket free of cracks or chips, a tightly held binding, illustrations so well-preserved that the ink still transfers to your hands upon touch. There is something to do with newness, with purity, that gives inherent pleasure on a biological level. My infant daughter has many toys, yet all she wants is tags. My daughter seeks them out, works her way around her toys until finding a label or set of washing instructions, taking the waxy material into her mouth—it is a special kind of fabric that is not soft and somehow resistant to moisture, more plastic than cloth, yet clearly woven. What is it about the tag that sticks out in a child’s mind: Is it the texture? The contrast? What is it about the tag that sticks with us as adults: Is it the idea of keeping something intact, unblemished; of being the first to encounter something, to claim it as our own? From spending so much time in the collectible world, I can tell you that condition and scarcity matter so much that the more valuable an item becomes, the less likely it is to ever be used. The line between “rare and valuable” and “I’m throwing this in a Dumpster the moment you leave the store” is nearly imperceptible. I believe the most necessary trait of a collector is a healthy respect for impracticality. I find myself pulled to the power of the tag, to the power of marking something new. To the pull that creates a paparazzi that ends in a hideous car wreck. 26
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FROM SPENDING SO MUCH TIME IN THE COLLECTIBLE WORLD, I CAN TELL YOU THAT CONDITION AND SCARCITY MATTER SO MUCH THAT THE MORE VALUABLE AN ITEM BECOMES, THE LESS LIKELY IT IS TO EVER BE USED. The same pull that takes that accident and turns it into the largest-selling single in the history of music. Into a three-hundred fifty thousand dollar Beanie Baby. The same impulse, that—years later, after the market completely crashes, after the thousands we spent on plush dolls and trading cards are now completely worthless, after the expos and magazines and even the mall itself has become a dying, forgotten thing—will have us wondering what collective madness went through us. And we likely will never find answers to questions such as these. Perhaps it has to do with external value: with finding our worth outside of ourselves, inside a beautiful thing, hidden under glass. Perhaps it has to do with my latest walk through the corridors of the Delta Plaza Mall in a state of loneliness, of incalculable loss. Every chain barricade dropped over a vacant storefront; every wall glowing bright and new under the absence of a long-posted sign; every darkened reminder of what used to be an arcade or a food court or merely the place where my friends and I could actually be ourselves; nearly every reminder gone, replaced with empty space. Only the sounds of a constructionthemed gumball machine echo through these halls; the candy inside as old as my memories of this place.
What choice do I have? I will buy one of these ancient gumballs and I will chew it till it’s gone. It will taste like nostalgia, chalky & sweet. Like a fabric tag soaked with spit, smooth inside my mouth. It will taste of the hundreds of basketball cards I can never throw away because I understand both their lack of value and also how much I spent to possess them, their worth only mattering to me. It will taste of the death of the trading card, of the death of physical mediums. Of the death of Mary Beth’s Bean Bag World, selling over 400,000 copies every month until the day its publisher filed for bankruptcy. Of the death of the magazine, of the novel, of all things collectible. Of the death of my co-worker, who left this job abruptly, who no one knew was sick until after he was gone, who’s secrecy and privacy left us without a proper chance to grieve—to know what it is to say goodbye. To tell him thanks. And I will walk through this mall like the valley of the shadow of death, and I will fear no evil for thou art with me. A candle in the goddamn wind. And a mint-condition Bronty now sells for less than ten dollars. And the amount something costs is not always equal to what anyone is willing to spend. And why is it that now that they are worthless, my impulse is to seek out these Beanie Babies, to buy them all? Regardless of the reason I will keep looking for the unwanted, the unloved. Here I will find a joy in the prizes most easily sought, a wonder for that which I can, finally, count among my own. --David LeGault’s work appears in Passages North, The Sonora Review, The Seneca Review, DIAGRAM, Fourth Genre, Ninth Letter, and Black Warrior Review, among others. He currently lives with his family in Prague. Excerpted from David LeGault’s book One Million Maniacs: Beanie Babies, Killer Cars and The Power of Collecting, a candid and often very funny look at how we all search for value amidst life’s trash and chaos. The excerpted essay originally appeared in The Sonora Review.
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Wall Street titan named Raj Rajaratnam. Kang had been practically living in the wire room ever since, gathering evidence for a massive insider trading case. He wasn’t in securities crime just to bust the seedy, small-time frauds he’d been working on for the previous two years. He wanted to take down someone big—someone like Raj—a significant player in the financial world. The fifty-year-old co-founder of the Galleon Group, a $7 billion hedge fund, Rajaratnam was one of the more high-profile traders on Wall Street. Partly this was due to his size. Raj was obese and flamboyant, a man of outsize appetites. He liked to eat, and he liked to spend money, flying seventy of his friends to Kenya for a birthday safari and paying $250,000 for a Super Bowl party on Star Island in Biscayne Bay. Raj cut a stark contrast to Kang, the disciplined child of Korean immigrants, who was built like a block of concrete with black buzz-cut hair. Where Rajaratnam lived to schmooze and trade and brag about his exceptional skill at every opportunity, Kang was a quiet, tireless worker who spoke only when absolutely necessary. Even his closest colleagues at the Bureau hardly knew anything about him. Six days after that phone call, Kang watched as Akamai announced to the world that its next earnings release was going to be a disappointment. Its stock dropped from $31.25 to $23.34 overnight. Raj, who was short 875,000 shares, made over $5 million in a week. The woman who gave him the tip, a trader named Danielle Chiesi, made $2.5 million. Kang wanted to know where she had gotten such valuable intelligence about what Akamai was going to do, so he subpoenaed her phone records. He could see, looking over her call logs, that she had spoken to a senior executive at Akamai just before she passed the information on to Raj. “You did it in such a classy way,” Rajaratnam told Chiesi afterward, when he called to thank her for the tip. “The way you worked the relationship.” Chiesi sighed. “It’s a conquest.” Rajaratnam had been caught on tape doing something that was clearly illegal: getting confidential, inside information about Akamai, trading on it, and making a profit. There was no code or innuendo. All the pieces were laid out perfectly, ready to go into a criminal complaint: The call came on the night of July 24; Raj shorted 138,550 shares the next day, betting that the stock was going to go down, and he kept shorting more until the news came out on July 30. Based on that evidence alone, one of the most successful traders on Wall Street was probably going to jail. Kang could feel himself growing excited. If Raj and Chiesi were trading on inside information so casually and openly, there had to be others doing it, too. Rajaratnam’s phone line was usually busiest in the morning, right around the time the market opened, and Kang made a point to get in early and listen. Raj would call his friends and acquaintances, casting around for dirt. Some of the people he exchanged information with were former classmates from Wharton who were now out in the world running technology companies or hedge funds. Many of them were on his payroll. Kang watched as Raj collected information about upcoming earnings announcements and takeover offers that hadn’t yet been disclosed and used it to make millions of dollars trading stocks. Within a few months, Kang had wires going on Rajaratnam’s friends, too. 38
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He and the other FBI agents on wire detail were shocked by what they were hearing. Was this normal behavior on Wall Street? Was inside information that easy to get? They had become accustomed to finding corruption in the financial industry, but these interactions were so blatant, so obviously illegal, and seemed to extend in every direction. Each time they discovered one insider trading circle, it would overlap with another, and they’d have a whole new list of suspects to go after. The problem was bigger than Raj. It was a large, complicated network. As the agents listened and studied phone records and interview notes, one hedge fund kept coming up: SAC Capital Advisors. Kang decided to look into it. The sign for the Embassy Suites in South San Francisco loomed overhead as B. J. Kang steered the midsize rental car out of the parking lot and drove south, toward Cupertino, pulling up about forty minutes later in front of a three-bedroom house on a quiet street. He and his partner, who was sitting silently next to him, had spent a good part of the previous night rehearsing the different scenarios that might take place once they arrived at their destination and knocked on the door. What if the person they were looking for wasn’t home? What if he told them to go screw themselves? What if he had a gun? It was unlikely, but they had to be ready for every possibility. It was April 1, 2009, and the sun was setting. Kang and the other agent—Tom Zukauskas, whom Kang referred to as his “wingman”— exited the car and strode up the front walk. They knocked on the door. A dark-haired man appeared. “Ali Far?” Kang said. The man nodded, confused. Kang reached into his jacket and produced a badge, which he held up in front of the man’s face. “My name is B. J. Kang. I’m with the FBI. We’re here to talk about insider trading.” He paused for a moment or two to let that sink in. Kang explained that Far was in a difficult position because of some of the things he had done, but there might be a solution. Kang and Far could help each other. Far’s wife, two daughters, mother, and mother-in-law cowered in the background, watching with alarm. “We know you used to work for Raj Rajaratnam at Galleon and that you’ve been trading on inside information,” Kang said. “We have you on tape.” Tape? Kang then played an audio recording in which Far could be heard giving inside information about a semiconductor company to Rajaratnam. As the recording played, Far was speechless. Far had left Galleon in 2008 to start his own hedge fund with his friend Richard Choo-Beng Lee, who was known as “C.B.” by virtually everyone. Lee was a technology analyst who had previously worked at SAC Capital. Kang hoped that Far and Lee would lead him closer to SAC, which was one of the biggest hedge funds in the world. Kang had been learning more and more about the fund and its mysterious founder, Steven Cohen, hearing from other traders on Wall Street that Cohen was “always on the right side” of every trade—something that seemed, at least on the surface, to be impossible. No one in the industry understood how Cohen made so much money so consistently; his competitors were envious— and suspicious. Taking skills they’d developed at Galleon and SAC, Far and Lee had marketed their own fund, called Spherix Capital,
to potential investors partly by advertising the access they had to executives at technology companies and the valuable information they could get as a result of those relationships. Kang knew all of this. He liked to say that he understood the difference between “the dirty, important hedge funds,” the “dirty hedge funds you didn’t need to waste time on,” and the “not important hedge funds.” He had argued to his FBI colleagues that they should push their investigation beyond Raj Rajaratnam and Galleon to bigger and more powerful targets like Cohen. Kang thought that Far and Lee, who were well connected and seemed to be getting inside information directly from company employees, were from the first group, worth going after on their own. But to Kang, they were also a path to something bigger. All Kang had to do was convince them to flip. Kang believed that Far, in particular, fit the profile of a potential FBI cooperator very well. He seemed like a nice person who would want to do what was best for his family. “Do you really want to put your kids through this?” Kang asked. He told Far to think carefully about his offer, as it was the best one he was going to get—definitely more appealing than going to jail. If he didn’t do the right thing, the next time FBI agents showed up at his house, it would be to arrest him. “Don’t tell anyone about this,” Kang added, before saying goodbye. “We’ll be watching, and we’ll find out if you do.” The agents walked back to their car. That night, Far was in distress. He couldn’t sleep. Despite Kang’s warning, Far placed a call to his partner, C. B. Lee. The voicemail answered. “The FBI just showed up at my house,” Far said, then abruptly hung up. It was critical to the FBI that word of the investigation and the wiretaps not leak into the hedge fund community. Kang had to talk to C. B. Lee as soon as possible in order to try to contain the disclosure. Lee lived with his mother just twenty minutes from Far, and two days later Kang went to see him. As soon as Lee answered the door, Kang told him that he knew he had been insider trading at Spherix. At first, Lee refused to answer any of the FBI’s questions. But by the end of their conversation, Kang felt confident that he would cooperate. “We are going to help each other,” Kang told him. “You’re doing the right thing.” The telephone rang inside Steven Cohen’s offices at SAC Capital. It was C. B. Lee on the line. He and Cohen hadn’t spoken in a while. “Hey, Steve, we had to shut our fund down,” Lee told Cohen, trying to sound calm. He explained that he and Ali Far weren’t getting along because they couldn’t agree on how to share their profits. “I’d love to work with you again,” Lee said. He tried to bring up memories of all the money they had made together years ago when Lee worked for Cohen. Lee suggested an arrangement whereby he would come back as a consultant to Cohen and they would split the profits if Lee provided good information. He listed several technology companies and bragged about his ability to get the secret internal numbers at all of them. “I know people,” Lee said. “I have people in sales and finance at Nvidia who keep me up on quarterly earnings, and I have a contact at Taiwan Semiconductor who gives me wafer data.” Cohen was intrigued. Lee had been one of his highest-performing
analysts, someone who could be relied on to bring in moneymaking trading ideas, until he left SAC in 2004. Lee’s research was so good that Cohen and one of his portfolio managers used to fight over it. But Cohen wasn’t naïve. He wanted to be careful. “I don’t want to get into it on the phone,” he said. He was interested enough, though, that he had his head of recruiting call Lee back and talk to him about the logistics of returning to work at SAC. The two men spoke several times. A couple of weeks later, Cohen mentioned to one of his research traders that he was thinking of rehiring C. B. Lee. The trader shuddered, but he didn’t say anything. He had just heard some gossip about Lee from a friend who worked at Galleon, Rajaratnam’s fund. The rumor was that federal agents had recently visited Lee and Far’s hedge fund. “I don’t know what’s going on there,” the Galleon trader had said when he mentioned it during a group dinner in Manhattan three days earlier. “It’s weird.” The next morning, the research trader leaned over to Cohen and
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summoned up all his courage. He had no idea how his volatile boss might react to what he was about to say. “This might be totally off base,” he said, “but there’s a rumor that the Feds were in C.B.’s office. You might want to take a closer look at it.” “You mean the SEC?” Cohen said. “No,” the trader answered. “The FBI.” Cohen grabbed the phone and dialed the number of a friend of his, a former SAC portfolio manager who was close to Lee. “I heard C.B. might be cooperating with the Feds,” Cohen told him. “We heard he’s wearing a wire.” It sounded like there might be a federal investigation of the hedge fund industry going on. Who knew where it might lead? 40
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“Be careful.” It would be an investigation unlike any other in the history of Wall Street, a decadelong, multiagency government crackdown on insider trading focused almost entirely on hedge funds. It began with Raj Rajaratnam and the Galleon Group and quickly expanded to ensnare corporate executives, lawyers, scientists, traders, and analysts across dozens of companies. Its ultimate target was Steven Cohen, the billionaire founder of SAC Capital Advisors, possibly the most powerful hedge fund firm the industry had ever seen. In 1992, the year Cohen started SAC, the average person had only the faintest idea of what a hedge fund was. Most funds like his began as tiny, informal operations founded by eccentric traders whose financial ambition couldn’t be satisfied by even the mightiest investment banks on Wall Street. They had little patience for corporate culture and no interest in negotiating over their bonuses each year. Many of them wore jeans and flip-flops to work. Their aversion to the big banks and brokerage firms was a source of pride. Hedge funds were conceived as a small, almost boutique service, as vehicles for wealthy people to diversify their investments and produce steady, moderate returns that were insulated from swings in the stock market. The idea behind them was simple: A fund manager would identify the best companies and buy their shares while selling short the stock of ones that weren’t likely to do well. Shorting is a bet against a stock on the expectation that it will go down, and the practice opened up new opportunities to sophisticated investors. The process involves borrowing a stock (for a fee), selling it in the market, and then, if all goes well, buying the shares back at a lower price and using them to repay the loan. In a good market, when most stocks are going up, the gains on the longs eclipse the losses from the shorts; in a bad market, the shorts make money to help offset the losses on the longs. Being long some stocks and short others meant that you were “hedged.” This strategy could be applied to other financial instruments in addition to stocks, such as bonds and options and futures, in any market in the world. The losses on a short position are potentially limitless if a security keeps rising, so it’s considered a high-risk activity. That, combined with the fact that many hedge funds employed leverage, or borrowed money, to trade with as they pursued different strategies in different markets around the globe, led regulators to decree that only the most sophisticated investors should be investing in them. Hedge funds would be allowed to try to make money almost any way they wanted, and charge whatever fees they liked, as long as they limited their investors to the wealthy, who, in theory at least, could afford to lose whatever money they put in. For years hedge funds existed largely separate from Wall Street’s operatic boom-bust cycles, but by the mid-2000s they’d moved to the center of the industry. Some started producing enormous profits each year. Over time, the name hedge fund lost any connection to the careful strategy that had given such funds their name and came to stand, instead, for unregulated investment firms that essentially did whatever they wanted. Though they became known for employing leverage and taking risk, the defining attribute of most hedge funds was the enormous amounts of money the people running them were taking in: The fees they charged were generous, typically a “management fee” of 2 percent of assets and
a “performance fee” of 20 percent of the profits each year. Before earning anything for his or her investors, the manager of a $2 billion fund would be positioned to make $40 million in fees just to keep the place running. By 2007, hedge fund founders like Paul Tudor Jones and Ken Griffin were managing multibillion-dollar pools of money, building twenty-thousand- square-foot palaces to live in, and traveling on $50 million private jets. To work at a hedge fund was a liberating experience for a certain kind of trader, a chance to test one’s skills against the market and, in the process, become spectacularly rich. Hedge fund jobs became the most coveted in finance. The immense fortunes they promised made a more traditional Wall Street career—climbing the hierarchy at an established investment bank such as Bear Stearns or Morgan Stanley— look far less interesting. In 2006, the same year that Lloyd Blankfein, the CEO of Goldman Sachs, was paid $54 million—causing outrage in some circles— the lowest-paid person on the list of the twentyfive highest-paid hedge fund managers made $240 million. The top three made more than a billion dollars each. Cohen was number five that year, at $900 million. By 2015, hedge funds controlled almost $3 trillion in assets around the world and were a driving force behind the extreme wealth disequilibrium of the early twenty-first century. The hedge fund moguls didn’t lay railroads, build factories, or invent lifesaving medicines or technologies. They made their billions through speculation, by placing bets in the market that turned out to be right more often than wrong. And for this, they have gained not only extreme personal wealth but also formidable influence throughout society, in politics, education, the arts, professional sports—anywhere they choose to direct their attention and resources. They manage a significant amount of the money in pension and endowment funds and have so much influence in the market that CEOs of public companies have no choice but to pay attention to them, focusing on short-term stock performance to keep their hedge fund shareholders happy. Most of these hedge fund traders don’t think of themselves as “owners” of companies or even as long-term investors. They are interested in buying in, making a profit, and selling out. If there was one person who personified the rise of hedge funds, and the way they transformed Wall Street, it was Steven Cohen. He was an enigmatic figure, even to those in his own industry, but his average returns of 30 percent a year for twenty years were legendary. What was especially intriguing about him was that his performance wasn’t based on any well-understood strategy, unlike other prominent investors such as George Soros or Paul Tudor Jones; he wasn’t famous for betting on global economic trends or predicting the decline of the housing market. Cohen simply seemed to have an intuitive sense for how markets moved, and he entered the industry at precisely the moment when society reoriented itself to reward that skill above almost all others. He traded in and out of stocks in rapid-fire fashion, dozens of them in a single day. Young traders longed to work for him and rich investors begged to put their money in his hands. By 2012, SAC had become one of the world’s most profitable investment funds, managing $15 billion. On Wall Street, “Stevie,” as Cohen was known, was like a god. Word quickly spread about this new way to become wildly rich, and thousands of new hedge funds opened up, all staffed
with aggressive traders looking for investments to exploit. As the competition became more intense and the potential money to be made ballooned, hedge fund traders started going to extreme lengths to gain an advantage in the market, hiring scientists, mathematicians, economists, and shrinks. They laid cable close to stock exchanges so that their trades could be executed nanoseconds faster and employed engineers and coders to make their computers as powerful as those at the Pentagon. They paid soccer moms to walk the aisles at Walmart and report back on what was selling. They studied satellite images of parking lots and took CEOs out to extravagant dinners, digging for information. They did all this because they knew how difficult it is to beat the market, day after day, week after week, year after year. Hedge funds are always trying to find what traders call “edge”— information that gives them an advantage over other investors. At a certain point, this quest for edge inevitably bumps up against, and then crosses, a line: advance knowledge of a company’s earnings, word that a chipmaker will get a takeover offer next week, an early look at drug trial results. This kind of information—proprietary, nonpublic, and certain to move markets—is known on Wall Street as “black edge,” and it’s the most valuable information of all. Trading on it is also usually illegal. When one trader was asked if he knew of any fund that didn’t traffic in inside information, he said: “No, they would never survive.” In this way, black edge is like doping in elite-level cycling or steroids in professional baseball. Once the top cyclists and home-run hitters started doing it, you either went along with them or you lost. And just as in cycling and baseball, the reckoning on Wall Street eventually came. In 2006, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office declared they were going to go after black edge, and before long their search led them to Cohen. Whatever it was that everyone was doing, they realized, he was clearly the best at it. This book is a detective story set in the back rooms of office parks and the trading floors of Wall Street. It’s about FBI agents who followed hunches and set up wiretaps, flipping witnesses and working their way up the hierarchy until they reached the guys in charge. It’s about idealistic government prosecutors facing slick defense lawyers making twenty-five times as much money a year. It’s about young traders smashing their hard drives with hammers, shredding files, and turning on their closest friends to stay out of jail. It’s about how hedge funds like SAC were carefully structured so that the people at the top were protected from the questionable dealings of the employees below. It’s also about Steve Cohen, his dizzying ride to the pinnacle of Wall Street, and his epic fight to stay there. --SHEELAH KOLHATKAR is a staff writer at The New Yorker and a former hedge fund analyst who understands the industry from the inside. She has extensive media experience and has appeared on CNBC, BloombergTelevision, Charlie Rose, PBS NewsHour, CBS, NPR, as well as numerous podcasts and live conferences. Her writing has appeared in Bloomberg Businessweek, New York Magazine, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and other publications.
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BRAIN FITNESS IT’S ALL IN YOUR MIND
FROZEN IN MID-SENTENCE, YOU FORGET A NAME. WITH YOUR PEN POISED OVER
A CHECK, YOU CANNOT RECALL THE DATE. YOU’VE GONE INTO THE KITCHEN, BUT YOU CAN NO LONGER REMEMBER WHAT FOR. AND WHERE IS THAT DAMNED CELL PHONE? ARE YOU ONE OF THE WORRIED WELL? MANY OF US ARE ANXIOUS TO LIVE A LONG LIFE, BUT FEARFUL OF OUR POTENTIAL FOR THE HUMILIATION AND DEBILITATION OF DEMENTIA. WHAT TO DO? SHOULD YOU TRY A COMPUTER GAME? MAGNESIUM TABLETS? A WEEK AT AN EXPENSIVE BRAIN TRAINING CENTER? BRAIN FITNESS IS THE NEW BUZZWORD AND WEALTHY AGING BABY BOOMERS ARE EAGER TO BUY A HEALTHIER BRAIN.
Here are a few examples: Biocybernaut’s Alpha Brain Wave Training To Reverse Brain Aging. Trainings led by Dr. James V. Hardt, Founder and President of Biocybernaut, are $24,998 per person, which includes the 7-Day Premium Double Training package. How about a $10,000 week at California’s Cal-a-Vie Spa with Dr. Cynthia Green teaching the science of memory improvement and brain fitness.
MIND OVER MATTER–THE BRAIN IS ALWAYS CHANGING
We do not have to be passive about brain health as we age. Indeed it is entirely possible to create new brain cells that enhance brain function to prevent, reduce or postpone memory loss in most people. It is also possible to destroy brain matter, and reduce your memory function, attention span and clarity. Memory is stored in a region of the brain called the hippocampus. Located in the temporal lobe, the hippocampus has NO MAGIC BULLET BY BONNIE ADLER weight and heft. It can grow and conversely, it can There is no pill that exists, no tactical brain exercise, shrink. Aging can be a factor in the reduction of no magic herb or single cure for forgetfulness or its dreaded daft the size of the hippocampus, which can affect the formation of new cousin, dementia. The causes of memory loss are so varied and memories and the retention of old ones. The brain is resourceful complex that there is no one size fits all cure. And even though though. New neurons are created by the brain in a complex system research is ongoing, the problem is getting ever more significant of chemical and electrical networks as we learn or experience because dementia is a disease of old age, and a great percentage of something new. How best to nurture this neuronal growth over a the population, the baby-boomers, are aging and living longer than lifetime is the challenge. ever before.
WHAT IS NORMAL?
First of all, it is important to distinguish between what is normal and what is not. It is normal to forget the names of people in your life, especially if you can recall certain traits of the person, hair color, the context in which you know them, where they live, etc. It is not normal to fail to recall the person once the name is mentioned and facts about them are supplied for further recall. It is normal to misplace your keys or cell phone, but it is not normal to repeatedly place them in odd places like the refrigerator or oven. It is normal to need reminders about appointments or what day it is. It’s not normal to forget how to find your way home.
SIMPLY PUT, WHAT IS BEST FOR YOUR BRAIN IS THE SAME AS WHAT IS BEST FOR YOUR HEART
It appears that the very same things doctors recommend for a healthy, fit body are essential for brain health as well. A healthy lifestyle which includes exercise, good diet, a good night’s sleep, an active social life and a desire to learn new things are emerging as the best tools in the arsenal to maintain brain health.
EXERCISE IS KEY
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“The brain is like a muscle,” says Dr. Jonathan Lieff, a graduate of Yale College and Harvard Medical School. He is a practicing psychiatrist, with specialties in geriatric psychiatry and neuropsychiatry and writes a blog called Searching for the Mind. “An active brain builds new circuits. Like any other part of the body, a brain that is exercised, like muscles, will grow as well, no matter how old you are.” “After a bout of exercise the brain has a window of time in which it can create new circuits and grow, an event known as neuroplasticity.” Neuroplasticity is a term that expresses the brain’s ability to change and grow. “Elderly people can indeed build their brains. It’s called wisdom. It is true that the elderly become slower at name recognition or may have word retrieval issues. But word finding problems do not affect judgment. The elderly brain in active, educated people does not decrease unless there are diseases. Those can take a horrible toll on memory.” However, even though it would be a medical triumph to find the cure for Alzheimer’s and age related memory loss, research scientists and the best medical minds agree: There are emerging general guidelines for the worried well. Dr. Christopher Van Dyck, Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology and Neuroscience and Director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Unit at Yale University also endorses cardiac fitness as a contributor to brain function. “Most of the evidence suggests that cardiac fitness is good for your brain. And aerobic exercise is at the top of the list. What’s good for your heart is good for your brain.” For those sticklers who want to know which type of exercise is best, research is still divided. There are those in the camp that say rigorous endurance exercise like long-distance running or cycling long distances three to four times a week is best for the brain, others who believe that high intensity cardiovascular exercise several times a week will do the trick and others, in the gentler, kindlier and most reasonable camp simply advise regular exercise, giving a nod to the fact that vigorous exercise is great, moderate exercise also wonderful, but just getting up and taking a walk several times a week is far better than nothing at all. Other studies also show that weight training and balance training also contribute to brain health. Dr. P. Murali Doraiswamy, a psychiatry professor at Duke University Medical Center, suggests that keeping your body weight, blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar in the normal range is a powerful bulwark against dementia. He says regular aerobic activities, such as walking, can reduce risk for dementia by keeping the brain’s blood vessels healthy, boosting nerve growth chemicals and slowing age-related brain shrinkage.
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SLEEP ALSO HAS A CRITICAL ROLE IN BRAIN HEALTH
Some surprising research results show that the practice of yoga and meditation can also help to improve mental clarity or delay memory loss. Dr. Doraiswamy says, “Meditation can improve blood flow, reduce stress, improve concentration and attention, enhance growth factors and reduce isolation. At the cellular level, meditation reduces inflammation and oxidative stress, reduces stress hormones and increases brain growth factors and cellular longevity. So the rationale is strong but what is missing is a controlled clinical trial to test its effects as a preventive strategy.”
According to Dr. Lieff, “Sleep is more important than people think. It is vital for memory enhancement. When you learn something that involves making new cells in the brain the information is processed and stored and solidified during sleep. It is not yet clear how that happens, but it definitely happens. Also, during sleep, the brain cleans itself. It rids itself of toxins and processes circulating chemicals necessary for brain health. It is a time for solidifying new things learned during the day.” Even napping is lauded as a way to increase brain function. 50
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Keeping your mind stimulated is another crucial way to maintain brain health. It should come as no surprise that doing the same thing every day, while comforting for many, can make it harder to learn new things. Experts suggest that active socialization, making new friends, trying new activities, traveling to new places and a passion for learning helps the brain stay healthy by reducing the risk of eroding brain tissue, and by helping the brain to develop what is called a greater cognitive reserve as a buffer against dementia. Dr. Lieff emphasizes that activities must be meaningful to enhance cognitive function. Dr. Van Dyck agrees. “Don’t learn Mandarin unless you really want to.” Dr. Oliver Sacks, a highly respected neurologist and best-selling author who died in 2015, studied compromising memory losses of all kinds. He wrote about the surprises and quirks of the human brain in his many fascinating books (including The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat) and was portrayed by actor Robin Williams in the 1990 film “Awakenings,” which also starred Robert De Niro as a patient with a brain disease called encephalitis (also known as sleeping sickness) and was based on Sacks’ 1973 memoir of the same name. Sacks concluded, “Whether it is by learning a new language, traveling to a new place, developing a passion for beekeeping or simply thinking about an old problem in a new way, all of us can find ways to stimulate our brains to grow, in the coming year and those to follow. Just as physical activity is essential to maintaining a healthy body, challenging one’s brain, keeping it active, engaged, flexible and playful, is not only fun. It is essential to cognitive fitness.” Some experts even go so far as to suggest that an unchallenged brain, dulled by routine tasks, can be awakened and strengthened by changing one’s routines, like brushing your teeth with your non-dominant hand, wearing your watch upside down, reading a book out loud, taking a different route home, walking through the supermarket from the opposite direction, using all one’s senses at once in a garden or a market. In short, a regular routine of “mixing it up” will wake up and recharge a sedentary brain.
DIET, OF COURSE, IS KEY
Here again, what’s good for the heart is good for the brain. Foods high in saturated fat and sodium clog the arteries and reduce essential blood flow to the brain. The Mediterranean diet, replete with fruits, vegetables, legumes, saturated fats, lean protein, and fish is recommended. Sugar and carbohydrates, red meat and excessive alcohol should be limited.
EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN
WHAT DOESN’T WORK
“Brain training,” at first touted by software companies like Lumosity, BrainHQ and CogMed as a great way to remain sharp as a tack, has been widely discredited by the scientific research community. Claims by the software companies included promises to increase IQ, improve memory and attention; strengthen logical thinking (called fluid intelligence) all in a matter of relatively short order. Despite the fact that consumers are spending what is now billions of dollars a year on software-based brain games, there remains no evidence that beyond a certain skill level in the particular game itself, there is any substantive boost to memory and attention. In fact, Lumosity was slapped with a $2 million fine by the Federal Trade Commission which charged that the company deceived customers with unfounded claims that its games can help users perform better at work, school and reduce or delay cognitive impairment associated with age. A December 2016 article in Scientific American condemned the concept as a pipe dream. Signed by 70 of the world’s leading cognitive psychologists and neuroscientists, a statement released by the Stanford University Center of Longevity and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin minces no
or mental, had to be significant enough to cause palpable emotional or physical discomfort – deep fatigue or real frustration. In other words, you have to do it till it hurts to gain a brain benefit. That’s another reason why playing a game like Sudoku doesn’t help. It’s just too easy, and not of any particular importance to most people.
DEMENTIA
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A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE WHICH INCLUDES EXERCISE, GOOD DIET, A GOOD NIGHT’S SLEEP, AN ACTIVE SOCIAL LIFE AND A DESIRE TO LEARN NEW THINGS ARE EMERGING AS THE BEST TOOLS IN THE ARSENAL TO MAINTAIN BRAIN HEALTH.
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heightened risk, and they are frequently the caregivers for men who have been diagnosed with the disease as well. Shriver encourages, “Follow your own gut if you think something is wrong. Memory loss is not just stress or a normal part of aging.” The older we get, the greater the risk for Alzheimer’s. Research now shows that mild cognitive impairment, a fluid stage that is a precursor to Alzheimer’s disease, can be altered by behavior and medication. The symptoms of mild cognitive impairment include forgetfulness, especially of important events, loss of train of thought or thread of a conversation, trouble finding your way around familiar environments, impulsive behavior or poor judgment. It can also be accompanied by depression and irritability. The strongest risk factors for mild cognitive impairment are the same as those for Alzheimer’s: increasing age and having a specific form of a gene known as APOE-e4, which is linked with Alzheimer’s disease.
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SABIRA (FAR LEFT) AND HER FAMILY IN KABUL. THEY ARE HAZARA, AN ETHNIC MINORITY, AND THUS THE ASIAN FEATURES. CONSIDERED UGLY IN THE PASHTUN MAJORITY COUNTRY. SABIRA WAS CALLED FLAT NOSE.
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imagine a more bizarre combination, the Italians and the Afghans, neither noted for reason or efficiency in such matters. I also wondered, but did not share this with Sabira, whether the Italians were wary of an Afghan woman coming to Italy, given the fact that they have been overwhelmed with refugees. Would they fear that she would seek asylum in Italy? This would not have been unusual, as millions of Afghans have done this. Sabira has relatives in Norway, Australia, Iran, the Netherlands, the U.S. and Germany. Just weeks before she left for Rome, she connected with cousins who had somehow landed in Colorado. Many have been translators for the U.S. in Afghanistan, and their lives became so dangerous that they had to flee. With her appointment to pick up her visa at the Italian Embassy the morning of her departure for Rome, it was a nail biter of a week. Would she or would she not get to Rome? And if not, how would she get a room at her college and enroll in courses that were closed? As we prepared for her trip, we went to the Bank of America to get her a credit card. I was shocked by the amount of money she had in her account, several thousand dollars. She managed to do this because of her earnings as a Residential Advisor and her summer earnings. Two summers ago, she worked at a camp for kids with cancer founded by the late Paul Newman. A young woman who had lived in a crowded tent in a hostile environment in Pakistan was now caring for kids with life-threatening illnesses! Last summer, she worked for the Aspen Institute in Washington, DC. She called home to tell her family she was about to go to Rome, and I could not imagine what they made of this. They had been to two countries, their own and Pakistan. Her mother was illiterate, while her father had studied engineering in college in Kabul. Following the U.S. arrival after 9-11, the father had several years of a decent income as he worked on road construction for NGOs. In recent years, with the withdrawal of Coalition troops, he worked at low-paying jobs. The total family income was $200 a month, $2,400 a year. With six children, three of them in the U.S., they lived in a home with several generations of family members. The mother did nothing but cook and clean, and Sabira worried about her health. And
now, they had agreed to send their son to the U.S. for school. How painful this must be. And yet, how courageous these parents are, willing to sacrifice so their children can get an education. All three sisters plan to return home, believing that it is their generation that can save their war-weary country. Sabira had told me that with the bitterly
me. Because a group of committed, globallyminded activists for social justice are helping this Afghan man’s children, he decided he had to repay this debt. Not to America. And not really to us. It is a debt to humanity. Indeed, a way of saying, “Humanity First!” Postscript: After a few tense days following the chaos of the ban, I wanted Sabira to return to the U.S. Trinity College was also concerned, and initially, they told her they could not guarantee her re-entry on May 9 and she should return to Hartford, where they’d help her get back into classes. Then, a few days later, they came up with another plan: if there were any issues about returning safely, she could finish her final year at one of the college’s campuses in Europe – Paris, Vienna, or Rome. Amazing that this wonderful college is so supportive! She is a Dean’s List student, and they are completely committed to her. This helped ease my mind. So Sabira has stayed, and she will return to the U.S. in May since her country is not on the list of banned countries. She has loved her time in Europe and will visit relatives from Afghanistan in Vienna and Oslo. She has never met them, since they fled their country decades ago, as millions did.
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cold winters in Kabul, people were left to burn whatever wood they could find, leaving the air thick with pollution. Yet, when several cousins from Ghazni Province arrived, the family welcomed them. Ghazni is one of the most dangerous places in Afghanistan, with the Taliban very present and schools closed. “How can your parents afford to feed more people?” I asked Sabira. “They find a way,” she replied. “My father told me that since all of you in America are feeding and caring for three of his children, it is the least he can do.” In the age of America First, this stunned
TOP TO BOTTOM: THE 3 GIRLS AT THE RICHTER HOUSE IN WESTON. LEFT TO RIGHT, ZOHRA, NAHIDA, SABIRA; SABIRA (RIGHT) AND FRIEND VISIT PARIS DURING STUDY ABROAD; AT VARIOUS PREP SCHOOLS SUCH AS LOOMIS AND GEORGE SCHOOL.
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antique maps, diaries and indentures. True to their upbringing to challenge limitations or perhaps just expand definitions, my son and daughter affirmatively checked the box “Other.” But back to my apotheosis. It took place at a stately, black tie dinner in 2011 hosted by the New-York Historical Society (NYHS) at which a real historian, Ron Chernow, was being honored. During the cocktail hour, we all inhaled rarified tidbits of 18th and 19th century-centric conversation more rapidly than mini-crab cakes. Hundreds of people were packed into a votive-lit, marble hall that glittered with intellectual capital. We were there to show our support
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of the organization’s mission to be “a national forum for the discussion of issues surrounding the making and meaning of history.” Serendipity and thirst from talking too much, and perhaps a bit of nerves, eventually led me to the bar where
I met another real, credentialed historian, journalist, and presidential speechwriter, Ted Widmer. At that time, Widmer was the Director of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. He stood out without embarrassment or apology among the tuxedos in a natty tweed blazer and tie. But I recognized him for curating a brilliant and addictive Civil War blog that examined one of our country’s deepest, unhealed wounds. Created to commemorate the 150th anniversary of America’s bloodiest homeland conflict, Disunion was a provocative digital journal that allowed readers like myself to view the war through a 21st century stereoscope, day by day, as it unfolded. The site deservedly racked up impressive awards for its accessibility and innovative commentary including “Best History Website.” In addition to Widmer, this daily forum launched by The New York Times included a host of collaborative voices, acclaimed male and female authors, essayists and scholars like Adam Goodheart, Louis P. Masur, Harold Holzer, Susan Schulten, Elizabeth Varon and documentary filmmaker Ken Burns to name but a few. Like everyone’s favorite professor, Widmer was instantly approachable and answered my barrage of eager questions with grace, patience and a good dose of humor. Our discussion hopscotched as lively discourse is wont to do: he weighed in on the challenges and opportunities that come with writing a blog; we touched on his newer, augmented impressions of Lincoln, then stepped back in time to the Quasi Wars and the Haitian revolution and briefly discussed the Transatlantic slave trade that had set the stage for the “War of the Rebellion;” W E STO N MA G A Z I N E G R OUP.COM
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laterally, we changed topics to the origins of baseball – in interviews, I later discovered, Widmer has said that his love of old baseball cards may have first triggered his penchant for history. Without boasting, he shared with me how he made “above the fold” history when he discovered the earliest box score and newspaper account of a baseball game played in New York City – October 21, 1845 at Elysian Fields. The find was made while he was a student at Harvard researching his doctoral dissertation in the NYHS archives. Talk about research rapture! Widmer and I exchanged cards and I encouraged him to visit Rye to see the place that had ignited my own interest in American history. We made our way into an august hall and sat at our respective tables, introducing ourselves to new companions. Moments later our names were announced in the same list of historians present that evening. I was simultaneously startled, secretly thrilled, honored, humbled and finally very selfconscious. Everyone at my table and surrounding tables turned around to give me the up-down. The people at my table looked at me with a mixture of reappraisal and some arched, over-thebifocals skepticism. A few averted their heads and gazed longingly at the other tables anchored by authentic salt-and-pepper haired laureates, not some fortyish autodidact who was obsessed with studying John Jay, the Ringo of the Founding Fathers. Perhaps my FOUNDING FATHERS IN NEW-YORK doubt was internally generated, for HISTORICAL SOCIETY ATRIUM INCLUDING A BUST OF JOHN JAY ABOVE A PAINTING after a pause the gentleman to my OF GEORGE WASHINGTON left leaned in and said, “I would love to hear about your research.” Later that evening I thanked my NYHS and swooned over primary documents; hosts for their encouragement. Their I’ve made similar pilgrimages all over the Klingenstein Library houses an outstanding country from Cooperstown to Ann Arbor. archive of Jay related manuscripts; all have But I have also relied on “vetted” digital been graciously laid out by archivists on platforms and academic subscription polished wood tables for my study on any services; article collections like JSTOR and number of occasions. Here armed only particularly New York History, a publication with a camera and a pencil I have pored of the nearly 120 year old New York State 86
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Historical Association (NYSHA) recently dissolved this April (sad sigh). The ability to access these troves from my office, home computer or even my phone and minimize the number of planes, trains and automobile research trips I had to make cannot be underappreciated. But just as the internet has given both knowledge seekers and providers information with Elon Musk Hyperloop speed, it has also made the quest for truth more complicated, sometimes even adversarial, and created new consequences. When asked in an interview by Sarah Kidwell for Brown University “how the availability of digitized source material has changed the process for historians,” Widmer answered both critically and optimistically, “It has made the research easier — vastly so, because certain visionary libraries like the Library of Congress* have put everything online. But it has also made it more overwhelming, because so much is available that it increases the responsibility to sift it and to make sure it’s accurate. There’s a lot of possibility for inaccuracy when dealing with such a glut. And we do not want to be dishonest writing about Lincoln. Still, the positives outweigh the negatives by a wide margin. Like every other form of information, history is speeding up.” So how do we keep up? Since its launch in 2001, Wikipedia, the tempting siren of information, has added to the many positives and negatives – it has been revolutionary and controversial. Though statistics are as fluid as the site itself, it has had millions of users but only a fraction have become editors or “Wikipedians” who help submit and monitor content for accuracy, much like the peer review process of academics and historians. Why do we care? As a mercurial, open-sourced site, Wikipedia, and the public it serves, benefit from collaborative voices. Wikipedia editors are volunteers.
But because these self-identified authorities are anonymous, their credentials, motives and biases are less transparent and difficult to evaluate. On the plus side, an editor’s articles can provide just enough basics for an average reader to kick start their own investigation; conversely, the WikiSphere which is self-defined as “the power of mankind networked” can be like Westworld; some editors possessively patrol and protect their content from change, engage in “edit
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would be contesting whether or not John Jay had done more for our country than Peyton Randolph or John Dickinson, both amazing patriots, but still not of the caliber of Jay or even Hamilton and Adams who were also underrepresented on the page. (I added their images too as well as one of Jefferson from WikiCommons – the article already featured images of Franklin, Washington and Madison). I chose to give Jay a little more credit for negotiating the
purports to outline some very critical steps and requirements for becoming a historian: “It means that you need to be ready to go to a monastery in the middle of nowhere, without a single English speaker in sight. It means you need to be prepared to eat a lot of weird foods and look happy about it, because passing might offend your guests.” Maybe, but not always. Seriously, we need and deserve individuals of every race and gender to record and interpret our shared
But just as the internet has given both knowledge seekers and providers information with Elon Musk Hyperloop speed, it has also made the quest for truth more complicated, sometimes even adversarial, and created new consequences.
wars” and speedily redact the new guy or girl out of web existence. The further discouraging truth is that statistically the newbie trying to break the glass monitor and add new information or correct deficiencies is male rather than female. Wikipedia itself admits that the number of women contributors and editors might be as low as 8.5%. The consequences of figures like that are obvious and sobering – when it comes to entries, women of significant achievement in any and every arena – science, art, literature, politics, social justice, history, you name it – are drastically underrepresented in this predominantly male, virtual domain. How are people reacting to this? In March 2015, Architexx launched a pilot edit-a-thon on International Women’s Day to help change the numbers and add more online entries about professional women architects. I could not resist signing up. But despite my having terrific mentors and linking copious citations to my very first article, I was still challenged with repeated and anonymous reverts and deletions. Fortunately more senior editors intervened and helped defend my new entry. In the ensuing two years, I accrued 200 edits and qualified as a Novice Editor or Burba (“recruit” in Venetian). I became more comfortable and felt part of a community. Until this March, when I attempted to add a fact and a picture of John Jay to an article I came across titled “Founding Fathers of the United States.” I never dreamt that I
Treaty of Paris with Adams and Franklin. But apparently that did not pass muster for a highly decorated male editor (editors can self-identify gender, and, based on activities, editors can be awarded a slew of special merit badges like “Barnstar medals” that have a decidedly military look). “Brow56” (not his real username) kept deleting all my posts over and over. Again I sought out help from fellow editors. When last I checked Jay was holding steady but the images of Jefferson and Adams had been deleted again. Arggh! I have to assume that Jefferson scholar Annette Gordon-Reed and Adams biographer David McCullough are not Wikipedia editors. So what do we do about it? “In April 2012, Justin Knapp became the first single contributor to make over one million edits to Wikipedia. Jimmy Wales congratulated Knapp for his work and presented him with the site’s Special Barnstar medal and the Golden Wiki award for his achievement. Wales also declared that 20 April would be “Justin Knapp Day.” Having made history, appropriately, Justin has his own Wikipedia page although according to Wikipedia, “Service awards do not indicate any level of authority whatsoever; ‘master’ editors are not bestowed with more authority, through this award, than ‘novice’ editors.” We don’t want to discourage the Justins of the world but we need to encourage more Janes. It also wouldn’t hurt to edit the current wikiHow page on how to become a historian. I didn’t know how to react to this page that
experiences whether they write about men or women, become historians or Wikipedians or both. The pursuit of truth demands it – the consequences of failing are too great. Fortunately we are gaining ground. Coinciding with the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage, the opening of a new Center for Women at the New-York Historical Society will be an epic step in addressing gender disparity in the field of history. According to NYHS, the space will be “the country’s first permanent, public exhibition and educational center dedicated to women’s history. It will highlight the significance of women’s history to the study of the American past and demonstrate how women across the spectrum of race, class, and culture exercised power and brought about change even before they could access the ballot box.” Will it deserve and get its own Wikipedia article? You bet it will. *Ted Widmer was appointed Director of the John W. Kluge Center at The Library of Congress on October 3, 2016. “The Library of Congress is the world’s largest library, offering access to the creative record of the United States – and extensive materials from around the world – both on site and online. It is the main research arm of the U.S. Congress and the home of the U.S. Copyright Office.” --Suzanne Clary is President of the Jay Heritage Center. She is working on getting a Grognard Extraordinaire badge on Wikipedia. Grognard means grumbler in French and was Napoleon’s pet name for his Old Guard.
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n the waning light of the predinner hour, Mina Dawes sat across the table from Isabel, desperate to keep their conversation aloft. During the silences her gaze wandered out over Isabel’s pool, its surface entirely untroubled beneath the late-afternoon sun. A pitcher of lemonade sat between them. Isabel’s girl had brought it out within moments of Mina’s arrival, placing it on an engraved tray that sat on the glass-topped table. Basil leaves floated just beneath the ice cubes, which was a classic Isabel touch. Every accent astonishingly simple: fluted calla lilies or random groupings of branches and vines thrown together in tall glass bottles, say, rather than the eruption and ostentation of actual centerpieces. Basil in the goddamn lemonade, Mina thought. She’d have to tell Tom tonight. He didn’t like to be reminded of how much time she spent with Isabel, but he could usually be appeased with one of these finicky little details. That is, if he came home. He’d been on the couch in his office every night for the past week. “It’s always so lovely out here this time of day,” Mina tried. Isabel nodded behind her sunglasses. Mina sighed and looked off toward the guesthouse, the thick tree line at the back of the property. When Bob and Isabel had settled in Greenwich for good, knocking down the old gray-roofed colonial and its accompanying stone wall, building up the property so that it loomed above the road below, everyone assumed their plan was a compound. Why else tear down that charming, quaint little slice of Connecticut history unless to replace it with something splashy? A palace for Bob? He’d just been named CEO; he was getting written up in all the city papers. But everyone had underestimated, of course, just who exactly Bob D’Amico had married. Isabel Berkeley, the only Berkeley woman to decline a Yale acceptance since the school had first invited them in. Isabel Berkeley, whose idea of an appropriate vacation home was the white house with its green shutters on Shelter Island, shielded from the road only by a thick copse of trees. Where the upstairs guest shower leaked and the proprietors of all three bakeries on the main road in town had known her family’s name the whole time she’d been alive. Mina had seen photos of some of this, and intuited the rest; she’d never been invited out to Shelter. Isabel’s second home—well, third, if you counted the house in Sun Valley, but they were almost never there so Mina usually didn’t even think of it—was not for entertaining. As far as Mina could tell, Bob was the only person without Berkeley blood who had set foot in the place, at least for the past few decades. Mina remembered the party Isabel threw that first spring here at the new house, the guests wandering the grounds. The collective expelling of breath had been almost audible. She herself had explored a little, smiling at the cater waiters in that way she could never help, which surely inspired in them nothing but dripping contempt. She’d touched her fingertips to the different bespoke and reclaimed pieces of gorgeous furniture tucked into every nook, in every hallway, and she’d W E STO N MA G A Z I N E G ROUP.COM
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felt something almost like pride. Of all the women out here, Mina had known that this one was the real deal, and Isabel in turn had chosen Mina to draw closer. Isabel wanted the other women to see this, too, to know that she saw them. How deeply they’d bought into all of it when they chose their husbands. Whereas her house was simple, elegant. It didn’t cram anything down your throat. You had to know the world would accept you nonetheless, before you could cast it off, was the difference. You couldn’t possibly have the same attitude when your entire life came to you through your husband’s success. But of course Mina never said any such thing to Isabel. She preferred to keep it to herself, and imagine that Isabel would know just what she meant. Toward the end of that party, Isabel had kicked her heels to the floor by the stage and Bob had twirled her around the draining dance floor, her hair slowly coming loose from its chignon. Mina remembered the lavender-blue color of Isabel’s dress, the hem puddling on the dance floor, the smudges of dirt visible at its very edges. That was the first time Mina had seen it, between them: that nothing about the way Isabel looked at him was performance. That his was the only opinion that would ever set Isabel’s stomach on edge. Bob had all the qualities Isabel adored in her father, her own family, despite his naked hunger, his bulging eyes when he was angry. He was her best rebellion, a way to throw everyone off balance without having to jettison anything she didn’t know how to live without. No, in the end they built the house and a small guesthouse, redid the old tennis court and glammed up the pool, but most of the property was left somewhat wild by Greenwich standards. You had the impression that if you wandered to the edge of the lawn, you might take the step over the line, enter the woods, and find yourself lost. And the house had been dwarfed, really, in recent years, by the newer ones. Twenty, thirty, even forty thousand square feet, some of them! Ice rinks, bowling alleys. Tacky was not really a word Mina was permitted to say out loud, not when she was talking to anyone in Greenwich, and so it was one she threw around often and with abandon in the privacy of her own head. It was starting to seem like Bob might be the last holdout. Even the men who weren’t like him, who were third-generation Wall Streeters, even those men were falling under the recent Greenwich spell. Ordering new construction that would sprawl out across the old land like an unruly teenage boy trashing a tasteful living room. Mina turned back to the table, to Isabel’s drawn face and large sunglasses, and poured herself another glass of lemonade. “You know that new bakery had to close, already, did you see? That little jewel-box place on the Avenue, with the macarons? Lasted all of about six months,” Mina tried again. Isabel nodded behind her sunglasses, and they both sipped. Lily (yes, yes, she could pretend that she didn’t, but she knew the girl’s name perfectly well) had left them to their lemonade twenty minutes ago, during which time Mina had tried and failed to engage Isabel in any sort of small talk. She’d even confided in her about Jaime, whose roommate at Andover had been discovered concealing some troubling habits, doing things like slicing up her ankles with nail scissors. It was a horrifying turn of events, but one that had left Jaime with an enormous dorm room to herself 106
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for the remainder of her junior year. Mina decided to return the conversation to their daughters. “It’s hard, no? Sixteen isn’t so young, but it’s hard to internalize that. That it’s no longer in her best interest for me to drive up there and curl up with her on her bed and let her cry. You know, she was drawn to this girl, who turned out to be smashingly unstable, and now she has to suffer those consequences. Consequences are what we’re supposed to teach them, right? So they don’t just sink into all of this for the rest of their lives?” She cast one hand through the air, including the house and the pool and the glimmering slope of the lawn in the gesture. “Well, you know what I’m talking about. Madison’s a sophomore, I’m sure you feel it, too.” Isabel responded with a smile, if it could even be classified as such. Her skin looked like such a porcelain teacup that upon close inspection would yield up its faint web of cracks. This impression was troubling all on its own. Mina had known Isabel for years, since the girls were small—although the girls had never been friends, not by their own choice. But Mina would say that she was as close to Isabel, certainly, as anyone else in town. Yet each time she came into this house she fought the fear that something was awry on her own person. Lipstick gathering and mixing with spit at the corners of her mouth, her blowout beginning to frizz with sweat just where her temple met her ear. Because Isabel projected not perfection so much as uniformity. Her body, her hair, her tawny skin and the deceptive, unguarded clarity of her large blue eyes—it all met the eye like some sort of rivetless instrument. You couldn’t see the joints, the creases, the tiny flaws that must be visible each morning before she was offered up to the outside world. Believe me, Mina, Tom always said. Nothing going
YOU HAD THE IMPRESSION THAT IF YOU WANDERED TO THE EDGE OF THE LAWN, YOU MIGHT TAKE THE STEP OVER THE LINE, ENTER THE WOODS, AND FIND YOURSELF LOST. beneath the waist. Beneath the neck! Bob can keep her. And then he’d smack Mina’s ass and grab her, exposing the soft part of her neck so that he could kiss her there. The sorts of unapologetic intimacies you were supposed to have to have the freedom to enjoy when you’d shipped your daughter off to boarding school. Of course Tom would want to sleep with Isabel, in a world without consequence. This was not even a question. But really he was talking about her posture, about the way she held herself apart even when she was sitting in her own living room, as though the pool and the cars and probably the house in Sun Valley and definitely the jet—as though they all stank, ever so slightly, of something unsavory. What he meant was that he preferred his own wife, plucked from one of the lesser districts of Long Island and touched up and reprogrammed for Greenwich life and the occasional appearance in Manhattan. He preferred Mina, a woman reconstituted just like most of the other wives, to someone whose opinion might actually make his palms sweat.
She tried not to let these things bother her. Isabel was her best friend. “Look,” she said, “I fold, okay? I didn’t come over to congratulate myself on the fact that my daughter’s healthier than her neurotic roommate. I came to see if you need anything.” “We’re fine, Mina. Truly.” “Isabel, I don’t know much, but I do know that Tom has been working—so far as I can tell—quite literally around the clock for a week. So I assume Bob has been in hell.” Isabel laughed: a small, bitter sound. “That seems a safe assumption, yes.” “Have you spoken to him today?” “No.” “Well, how did he sound yesterday?” “You’d have to ask someone who spoke to him yesterday, Min.” “You two didn’t talk?” “Well, he’s got his secretary—I don’t know—running interference, so I haven’t had the opportunity.” “I’m sure she doesn’t mean it,” Mina said, shivering at the scorn in Isabel’s voice, as if she herself were the secretary in question. “I’m sure she’s just frightened.” “That assumes she even knows where he is at any given moment,” Isabel said. “For all I know he’s in some bunker somewhere. She might not even actually be lying.” “You really think it’s that bad?” With a quick, unexpected motion, Isabel removed her sunglasses and tossed them down, letting them clatter on the table. “What are we doing here, Mina? I assume you’ve been watching all the same cable news shows I’ve been watching. I’m sure you have every single piece of information I have, so why are you even asking me the questions? Hasn’t everyone already decided?”
They sat in silence and Mina watched one single basil leaf, now fully drenched, begin its fluttering descent to the bottom of her glass. “I didn’t know that,” she said. “I wasn’t being insincere. I didn’t know you hadn’t heard from him.” “Well,” Isabel said, fanning her hands out in an inclusive, welcoming gesture that encompassed the pool and the entire deck around them, even the woods at their backs. “Now you know.” “You know,” Mina began, cautious, “that this is all mysterious to me. I understand that Weiss is in trouble. But if anyone can power through that, it’s Bob, right? What does he say about it?” “You’re not listening to me. I don’t know. He hasn’t told me anything.” “I don’t mean this week. I mean what has he been saying. The summer, and everything.” Isabel looked at her, her eyes settling on Mina’s face as if she’d just noticed there was a second person at the table. “Mina,” she said, “my husband has not, in any significant way, told me anything about his bank for months and months. I swear to you.” The late-summer humidity hung in the air beyond the house, a palpable weight pressing down on the afternoon. Somewhere, beyond the trees, Mina heard an industrial lawn mower. She imagined it moving across an indulgent expanse of green, leaving neat trails of exposed, cut grass in its wake. This was the sound of the afternoon, one of the sounds that, together, mapped her adult life as a wife, a mother, a woman inside her house in Connecticut. A woman waiting for her family to come home. --Angelica Baker was born and raised in Los Angeles. She received her BA from Yale University and her MFA from Columbia University. She now lives in Brooklyn.
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establishment. Greer Peaches Frederick’s bar and restaurant on the first floor of a handsome 1905 brownstone serves “classic pub fare with a southern flare.” Upstairs, the “juke joint” in the second floor loft and outdoor rooftop deck features great local bands, a full bar and room for dancing. Available for private parties. Start your meal with Carolina pig tails, fried green tomatoes, pickled deviled eggs, or redneck charcuterie. You can balance that out with an excellent chopped kale salad with charred corn, beets and a housemade green goddess dressing. Moving on, roll up your sleeves for Panhandle shrimp ‘n’ grits with Andouille sausage and okra; an enormous pork shank over black eyed peas, with pickled veg and onion jam; or the not-to-be missed bucket o’chicken pickle-brined fried chicken with cornbread, coleslaw, collard greens and mac ‘n cheese (for 2; comes regular or “Nashville Hot”). Finish with a wonderful, not too sweet deconstructed peach cobbler. Carefully crafted specialty cocktails include the Peaches’ Painkiller: white rum, coconut cream, charred pineapple puree, fresh OJ, and nutmeg; the Flaming Dr. Pepper Shooter: Bacardi 151, Luxardo Amaretto, Thimble Island Lager; and for those who like their martinis dry, the Spicy Okratini: Oola Aloo vodka, dirty okra juice, pickled okra. Happy hour Monday – Saturday 4-7pm; Ladies 130
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Specialty cocktails using fresh juices and housemade infusions, over 200 wines by the bottle, and 20 outstanding wines offered by the glass make up an extensive beverage list. Pranzo veloce (quick lunch) weekdays includes soup of the day or mixed green salad plus main plate. Lunch and dinner daily, Brunch Saturday and Sunday. 3 Big Shop Lane, Ridgefield. 203/438-5352 TerraSoleRidgefield.com
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Also in Ridgefield, the downtown Village Tavern is a cozy local hangout for a short list of well prepared starters, salads, mains and pastas, and a much longer list of “incredible beers,” “intriguing wines,” and “unique authentic cocktails.” The last are sorted into three categories: circa American Prohibition, Turn of the Century, and Modern Day. Intrepid imbibers or those with a very particular taste can go for the “Bespoke Option,” which allows the capable bartenders to custom craft a singular cocktail to your own specifications. Lots of bitters, fresh infusions, fruit juices and exotic liqueurs on hand, so sky’s the limit.
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B.GOOD Fairfield, CT real.food.fast. The tagline of the health-minded b.good restaurant group just about sums it up. Seasonal dishes inspired by locally available harvests comprise the bulk of what the short order kitchen offers, supplemented by some favorites like all natural burgers and shakes. B.GOOD
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Amis Restaurant. A Roman style trattoria from the Philadelphia-based Vetri Family of Restaurants (now owned by URBN, the group that owns Anthropologie & Urban Outfitters), Amis offers antipasti, pastas, seafood and meat. Il Quinto Quarto – literally the fifth quarter – is comprised of two dishes not usually found on local menus: sweetbreads and veal tongue. Anthropologie has moved into an enormous, emporium-like space next door, and Urban Outfitters lies across Church Lane, so you can make any visit an URBN consumer fest. Open daily for lunch and dinner. 1 Church Lane, Westport. 203/514-4906 amistrattoria.com
Enormous kale & grain bowls, salads, and smoothies satisfy the yoga-leggings-clad lunch crowd. But local craft beers, hard cider, and sustainable farm wines make this a go to place for a relaxed and adult dinner too. All dishes are marked if gluten-free, dairy-free, antibioticfree, or vegetarian, and there are plenty of each to choose from. Choices are quickly prepared, and geared to those pursuing “clean eating” – being mindful of the food’s pathway between its origin and your plate. Most of the ingredients at b.good are whole foods, or “real” foods — those that are un- or minimally processed, refined, and handled. Doubters should try the hand cut French fries – quickly blanched in oil and then baked, and the West-side turkey burger served with avocado, cilantro, fresh salsa and chipotle purée, for a meat and potatoes meal that’s satisfying and delicious yet more healthy than the norm. Open for lunch and dinner daily. Let them bring real food to you with their catering services. 1460 Post Road, Fairfield. 203/292-8970 bgood.com
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he local bookshop is the heart and soul of a community– each one unique, each one filled with local characters, legendary stories, surprising quirks, and comfortable charm. As readers, we cherish them as sanctuaries for learning and dreaming. Bookstores are emotional places both for their patrons and for the employees. They are built on the sweat and tears of hardworking people, each bookshelf lined with the lifework of hundreds of artists. Each of those books represent endless hours of grind and toil. Often the bookstore owner and employees are also writers. Is there a space with more fulfilled or unfulfilled dreams? The bookstore is also a hangout, a place of solace, a community center, and a venue of cultural entertainment. There are many who absolutely live for bookstores and even those who aspire to live in a bookstore, with some bookstores providing a place to sleep in exchange for work. What other type of store does that? The relationship between bookstores and their customers is giveand-take, reliant on loyalty and generosity. Customers work on the honor system and should be applauded–bookstores can be taken advantage of, dispensing free expertise and human contact only to have their place of business used as a catalog for online shopping,
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or a library, or simply a restroom. Bookshop owners and employees are a very patient group. This book is intended to be a celebration of independent stores everywhere and all those who love books. It was an honor to create this collection of illustrations. While I was unable to include every great shop in this volume–my apologies to those I didn’t get to yet– I’d like to think this book is about all bookstores, to all bookstore owners and employees, past and present. This is for anybody who ever dreamed of living in a bookstore. --Bob Eckstein is an illustrator, writer, and cartoonist. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal among other publications. He is also known as the world’s leading snowman expert and is the author of the holiday classic The History of the Snowman. He lives in New York City. bobeckstein.com REPRINTED FROM FOOTNOTES FROM THE WORLD’S GREATEST BOOKSTORES: TRUE TALES AND LOST MOMENTS FROM BOOK BUYERS, BOOKSELLERS, AND BOOK LOVERS. COPYRIGHT © 2016 BY BOB ECKSTEIN. PUBLISHED BY CLARKSON POTTER/ PUBLISHERS, AN IMPRINT OF THE CROWN PUBLISHING GROUP, A DIVISION OF PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE LLC.
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Books of Wonder’s claim to fame is that it was the model for the bookstore in the 1997 film You’ve Got Mail. Nora and Delia Ephron, who wrote the film, were both longtime customers and friends of the store—and Meg Ryan spent a day working at the shop to prepare for her role in the film. In 1985, Books of Wonder established a joint imprint with William Morrow and Company, publishing its own children’s books. Its standing-room-only events have included celebrated authors like J. K. Rowling, Madeleine L’Engle, Maurice Sendak, and Eric Carle.
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One of the world’s largest sellers of sci-fi and comics, Forbidden Planet has been in business since 1978 and now has thirty stores worldwide. It started in London where there are now nine locations and the flagship megastore, which is a city landmark. The New York City location is the city’s only branch, making it an important source of sci-fi literature and a tourist attraction.
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RIZZOLI BOOKSTORE N E W YO R K C I T Y 1 9 6 4 TO P R E S E N T
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Strand Book Store, legendary home of eighteen miles of books, has been open since 1927, the last standing store of “Book Row,� which dates back to 1890. Many book lovers have had their weddings at the Strand. Someone even once proposed to his girlfriend by placing clues throughout the store as a scavenger hunt, utilizing its famously dark mysterious depths.
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DISCOVER THE WONDERS OF EUROPE ON A SELF-DRIVE ADVENTURE TOURING EUROPE BY CAR IS ONE OF THE BEST WAYS TO ENJOY THIS STORIED CONTINENT. THERE ARE MANY IDYLLIC ROUTES POSSIBLE, WE HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE MOST POPULAR DRIVES TO INSPIRE YOUR NEXT TRIP. AMALFI COAST DRIVE
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Italy’s Amalfi Coast is one of the most popular driving destinations in the world, and for good reason. Follow the shoreline from Sorrento to Salerno, Italy as you navigate a route recognized as one of the best coastal drives in the world.
FAIRY TALE ROAD (GERMANY) If you were raised on the tales of the Brothers Grimm, then the Fairy Tale Road (Marchenstrasse) in Germany will likely be the ideal driving excursion for you. This scenic route through Germany’s gorgeous countryside will take you back to those imaginative days of gingerbread houses, sleepy Bavarian villages, and deep, dark forests. The road runs for a total distance of more than 370 miles, and at every stop along the way, you’ll feel as though you’re in another world entirely – one in which towering cathedrals and magical castles are almost exclusively the norm.
A82 ROAD (SCOTLAND) Pick up your rental car in Glasgow and follow the scenic A82 Road toward Fort William and Inverness, Scotland. On this drive you’ll trace the shores of LOCH NESS Loch Lomond and Loch Ness. Don’t forget your camera – it’s gorgeous from start to finish. ATLANTIC ROAD
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GOLDEN CIRCLE (ICELAND) The Golden Circle trail is the ultimate way to see the very best of Iceland, including its exceptional waterfalls, national parks, and impressive landscapes. A trip around Iceland is ideal for any visitors to this vibrant island nation, including first-time travelers. The roads on the Golden Circle are extremely well maintained, and it’s a pleasure to drive at your own pace. By renting a car in Reykjavik you have the freedom to enjoy your own Golden Circle Tour and stop whenever and wherever you want.
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GRIMSEL PASS (SWITZERLAND) With an elevation of more than 7,100 feet, the winding road through Switzerland’s Grimsel Pass is one of the highest in the Alps. While driving this route you’ll enjoy stunning views, hairpin turns and very little traffic. With beauty around every corner, it is hard to make a wrong decision where to explore in Europe. Be sure to consult those with experience traveling the continent for advice on the must-see stops and tips for securing the right size and style rental car for your trip. Tips for planning your trip can be found at autoeurope.com/go/plan-a-trip-to-europe GRIMSEL PASS
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SUN, SURF AND SOLITUDE: FRENCH LEAVE ON ELEUTHERA BY BARRY HIMMEL AND ELISE BLACK
FOUNDED IN 1648 by a group of Puritans fleeing Bermuda and seeking religious freedom, Eleuthera is the Caribbean’s bestkept secret. The birthplace of the Bahamas was aptly named from the Greek word “eleuthero” or “eleuther” which translates to “free” or “freedom.” This pristine island measures 110 miles long and at points, barely one mile wide and features pink sand beaches, turquoise water, ancient coral reefs, rocky cliffs and expanses of undeveloped beauty. This idyllic gem is no secret to celebrities and regular folk who go there to chill, commune with nature, enjoy local music, food, and water sports and appreciate the low-key vibe. As if to punctuate the point, Lenny Kravitz, a resident and local fixture, passed us twice on his bike while driving from the airport. Upon arriving at the French Leave, a recently launched addition to Marriott’s Autograph Collection Hotels, we took in the luxurious yet casual setting on Cupid’s Cay equipped with two mega yacht slips. The resort is comprised of twelve seafront cottages designed with updated British
Colonial interiors, luxury linens and top of the line kitchens. Each cottage comes with a golf cart and in-room iPad to facilitate any request. A freshwater pool, fitness center, covered outdoor pavilion, as well as one of the island’s best restaurants, “1648,” with the friendliest staff all contribute to a truly stress-free getaway. Eleuthera is clearly not a
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a 50-minute couple’s massage with champagne and a fruit platter served on the pier with the Jamaican sunset as the perfect backdrop. Round Hill has further introduced an ‘All About Me’ Tweens-Teens Spa Menu for children 12-16 years, including massages, facials, manicures and pedicures, make-up, and hair services. To ensure that the family spends quality time together, the Weekly Villa Hideaway encapsulates warm Jamaican hospitality and provides guests with a unique private experience. This special offer presents guests with accommodation in one of the property’s 27 secluded villas nestled within the resort. ROUND HILL HOTEL AND VILLAS ROUND HILL HOTEL AND Guests can choose between four villa VILLAS INTRODUCES options – from two to six bedrooms – ‘FAMILYMOONS’ each villa has its own dedicated staff, In line with the growing trend for newlyweds including a cook and a housekeeper. to take their children on honeymoon or Over a seven-night stay, guests will “familymoon,” luxurious 5-star resort Round enjoy daily breakfast and afternoon Hill Hotel and Villas in Jamaica offers the tea, as well as two four-course dinners perfect mix of family and romantic experiences. from Round Hill’s Executive Chef The resort’s award-winning kids’ club program Maginley’s menu. In addition to the and special spa activities will keep children resort’s two restaurants, there are and teens amused while parents unwind also private dining options for with luxurious spa treatments and couples and families such as a romantic dinners. Families can create romantic gazebo dinner or a long-lasting memories together with memorable family beachside the Weekly Villa Hideaway and array of dinner, which offers a customisland activities that can be organized by designed menu to suit all the resort. preferences. The Pineapple Kids’ Club and 7-Up For those looking to explore Club will keep children (aged between the island during their stay, 3-12 years) entertained with a range of the resort’s concierge is on ROUND HILL HOTEL AND VILLAS activities including: basketball, arts and hand to book a range of family crafts and drama. Children and teens also have the opportunity to excursions in the local area including rainforest and waterfall tours, learn Yodanga – a unique blend of Jamaican style dance moves that visits to historical sites and more. Travel dates for Round Hill Hotel flow into yoga postures. The daily programs are designed so that and Villas’ Weekly Villa Hideaway range from now until December each child is able to properly express each of their strengths under 17, 2017. Rates start at $5,969/approx. and blackout dates apply. For the watchful eye of the resort’s trained staff. reservations and more information, please call 1 (800) 972-2159 or Newlyweds can unwind with Round Hill’s spa ‘Sunset Package’, visit roundhill.com 154
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traditions to guide you through “Journey to are the very bodies of water that give the Meet Your Power Animal” and “Luminous town its name. Carrying on a centuries-old Healing Ceremony.” healing legacy is the Gideon Putnam Hotel, After limbering up at one of two nearby whose holistic approach puts it head and swimming pools or on the tennis courts, shoulders above its neighbors. This resort head on over to the Roosevelt Baths and Spa, is not just a hotel; it’s an experience in pure a hop and a skip away from the hotel. At this indulgence. Named for the early American visionary who helped turn Saratoga into a destination town, the 82-year-old manse gracefully balances a storied reputation with innovation. In fact, a planned 18-month-renovation will see its classic ballroom receive a makeover, making this alreadypopular venue for weddings and other celebrations an even more desirable location. Don’t miss one of the Gideon Putnam’s daily workshops on healing techniques for body and soul. They are led by Nini Gridley, who teaches “Bach Flowers to the Rescue” and a yoga and meditation class, and Shari Meg Parslow, a health practitioner who utilizes THE GIDEON PUTNAM her skills in ancient wisdom
curative sanctuary, expert aestheticians utilize Saratoga’s spring water in treatments that will beautify you from the inside out. Although they offer a bevy of treatments, we suggest that you opt for a mineral bath and massage. You’ll start by soaking in mineral water, which fizzes about you delightfully, making you feel as if you’re reclining in a tub filled with the finest champagne. After taking your fill of the healing waters, settle onto a table so that a skilled masseuse can tackle your knottiest knots with a Roosevelt Signature Massage. By the time your treatment is done, your limbs will be so loose, you’ll have to slither out of the spa. It’s no coincidence that a hotel aimed at wellness is located within the verdant Saratoga Spa State Park, a twothousand-plus-acre National Historic Landmark, which also includes local highlight Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC). In the summer of 2017, under the guidance of new president and CEO Elizabeth Sobol, SPAC will host the New York City Ballet and the Philadelphia Orchestra, as well as pop acts, courtesy of Live Nation. Whether you want to spend a day at the boutiques downtown, indulge in relaxation, or play the ponies at the track, the Gideon Putnam’s uberconvenient shuttle is at your service. The obliging and incredibly helpful staff will take you where you need to go all day long, from the sales pavilion—if you decide to purchase a Thoroughbred racehorse, you might need to rest your arm after a fierce bidding war—to the Gideon Putnam and back again. Hungry after a long day on your feet? Eating at Putnam’s Restaurant is the perfect way to cap off a busy Saratoga summer day. But if you’re lucky enough to be there on a weekend, make sure to reserve a spot at the hotel’s renowned Sunday Brunch, a brilliant buffet that includes breakfast classics and new dishes alike – you’ll be stuffed to the brim before you know it. Book your stay at gideonputnam.com
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t was winter 2011; I was sitting alone in my home in Connecticut. Both my children were in college miles away. Two feet of snow had already fallen, and it wasn’t stopping any time soon. I opened the door to walk my dogs and the two of them sat in protest. They had had enough with the cold, and I realized that I had too. It was time for a permanent vacation. In choosing where to move, the choice was simple. Despite growing up and raising my children on the East Coast, Palm Beach had always been a welcome escape for my family. Whether to see family and friends, head to a world-renowned art show, manage family real estate, or watch my child play in a golf tournament, I was in the Palm Beach sun at least every month. Only in Florida could I wake up, have fresh squeezed Florida orange juice at breakfast, get a game of golf in and have my toes in the sand ALL YEAR round. The best part of moving to the Palm Beaches was that I didn’t have to give up my NYC lifestyle. The Kravis Center brings music and theater to the Palm Beaches, including many Broadway tours. Worth Avenue is known for its world class shopping where you can find anything from Jimmy Choo to Neiman Marcus to local Florida boutiques. The food is remarkable, with chefs from around the world opening restaurants right in the heart of Palm Beach. Not to mention, if I ever do get homesick for the Big Apple, I just book that 2½-hour flight from PBI to any of six airports in the tri-state. I can leave my beach haven in the morning and be in SoHo in time to meet some friends for lunch! Now allow me to let you in on a little known secret: Palm Beach is the ultimate summer oasis. Why stay in the humbled, concrete jungle 156
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the work of the American fashion designer Halston is on exhibit at Nassau County Museum of Art in Roslyn Harbor, New York through Sunday, July 9, 2017. Sponsored by “H Halston exclusively at Lord & Taylor” and occupying the entire Museum, the exhibition Halston Style is organized by Guest Curator Lesley Frowick, the designer’s niece and confidant. Focusing on the life and art of Roy Halston Frowick, better known as the self-crafted name of distinction, Halston, this exhibition includes more than 60 Halston fashions, juxtaposed with photographs, artwork, illustrations and accessories, as well as film and video documentation. Halston designed for many celebrated American women, among them First Ladies Jacqueline Kennedy and Betty Ford. He also was a favorite of several top actresses and performers, including Elizabeth Taylor and Lauren Bacall. But most notable was his close association with Liza Minnelli. Having designed the gown she wore when accepting the Oscar for Cabaret, he went on to design her costumes for film and stage, finally becoming Minnelli’s exclusive designer. For further information on programs that accompany the exhibition, please visit nassaumuseum.org/events
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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: HALSTON ORIGINAL, ULTRASUEDE SKIMP WITH RED BOBBY BRESLAU BAG, SPRING 1975. ILLUSTRATION BY JOE EULA; HALSTON ORIGINAL RED DRESS WITH JACKET, SPRING 1975. ILLUSTRATION BY JOE EULA; HALSTON LIMITED WARHOL FLOWER DRESS, FALL 1975. ILLUSTRATION BY STEPHEN SPROUSE; HALSTON’S MADISON AVENUE BOUTIQUE WINDOW DISPLAY OF THE DESIGNER’S BEST SELLING 1976 SAVAGE SUIT SWIMWEAR COLLECTION. PHOTO BY JERRY MELMED.
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From the Sidelines
By Carly Silver
Test of the Champion:
The Story of the Belmont Dynasty
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he grand old names of American Thoroughbred horse racing— Whitney, Phipps, DuPont, Mellon, and Widener—exude images of industry tycoons and lineages traceable to the Mayflower. But several of the most important equestrians of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries hailed from a clan far more blue-collar than blue-blooded. Meet the family Belmont, namesakes of Belmont Park in Elmont, New York, as well as the Belmont Stakes, the third jewel of the Triple Crown. The 149th running of the “Test of the Champion,” as the 1 ½-mile contest has been dubbed, takes place on June 10, 2017. The Belmonts’ origin story traces back more than 200 years, to the German town of Alzey. There, Simon Schönberg, a prominent Jewish citizen, and his wife, Fredericka, had a young child named August. Some sources claim their last name was Balmain, which was later Anglicized into “Belmont,” but “Schönberg” and “Belmont” both translate to “beautiful mountain” in English. Historian Bernard Livingston recounted in Their Turf: America’s Horsey Set and Its Princely Dynasties that August Belmont I began his career in finance essentially as an unpaid intern. At age fifteen, he started by sweeping the floors and taking out the trash for free at
the banking house of the famed Rothschild clan, allegedly his distant cousins. Young Schönberg worked his way up the corporate ladder so fast that it was rumored he was actually an illegitimate Rothschild, according to horseman Abram S. Hewitt in his Sire Lines. Regardless of the veracity of that claim, Schönberg became a nearinstant success; a few years after starting at Rothschild, he was negotiating finances with the Pope’s court. Schönberg acquired
lavish tastes as he traveled from Germany to Italy and Cuba, as sports historian Steven A. Riess observed in The Sport of Kings and the Kings of Crime. In 1837, he emigrated to the United States, formally changing his name, and became a mainstay on Wall Street as the Rothschilds’ stateside representative. Not long after, he created his own firm, August Belmont and Company. Despite the fact that he came up through the world-renowned Rothschild operation, Belmont was still an outsider in the AngloSaxon Protestant set of New York. Apparently, the ladies didn’t feel the same way as their fathers— eligible bachelor August received a limp after being injured in a duel over a woman. But the savvy financier took a page from medieval monarchs and bought himself some credibility amongst his new comrades by marrying into one of the most renowned American families. His bride of choice? Caroline Slidell Perry, daughter of Commodore Matthew C. Perry, a war hero who forced Japan to open itself to American trade in the 1850s. Caroline had blue American blood, while August had the funds her family coveted. In 1849, August and Caroline were married in an Episcopalian ceremony, and their reception included the cream of the social crop. The newlyweds began their married life in a stunning home on Eighteenth Street and Fifth Avenue. Their mansion boasted a magnificent ballroom, massive wine cellar, and its very own art gallery, Wayne Craven noted in Gilded Mansions: Grand Architecture and High Society. Soon, the Belmonts outshone the Astors. Belmont loved throwing costume balls, Stephen Birmingham wrote in “Our Crowd”: The Great Jewish Families of New York, dressing up as Napoleon or a French king. Birmingham reported that, when Belmont heard one guest was planning to attend a fête garbed as King Louis XV—Belmont’s own costume of choice—the host spent $10,000 on a stunning suit of gold-inlaid armor to outshine his rival. He hosted dinners for
TOP TO BOTTOM: NEW YORK ATTORNEY PAUL DRENNAN CRAVATH (1861-1940) (LEFT) WITH FINANCIER AUGUST BELMONT, JR. (1853-1924) PROBABLY AT A HORSE SHOW, POSSIBLY THE SADDLE HORSE SHOW ON BELMONT, LONG ISLAND, REPORTED IN THE NEW YORK TIMES ON MAY 30, 1912. (SOURCE: FLICKR COMMONS PROJECT, 2008) LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS DIVISION WASHINGTON, D.C.; AUGUST BELMONT (1813-1890) THE MIRIAM AND IRA D. WALLACH DIVISION OF ART, PRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS: PRINT
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two hundred, serving his guests the finest gourmet fare on gold place settings. Rumor had it that Belmont oversaw every detail of his hosting duties, down to selecting his wife’s attire and jewelry. Belmont’s other pastime was Thoroughbred horse racing. He helped form what became the sport’s unofficial governing body, the American Jockey Club (a predecessor to the modern Jockey Club). The AJC built a new racetrack called Jerome Park—in what is now the Bronx—which opened in 1866. Named for financier Leonard Jerome (whose daughter Jennie married a British aristocrat and gave birth to the future Sir Winston Churchill), this became the place to see and be seen in New York. At first, it was scandalous for women to attend a public horse race, but the tabloids of the day ate up every detail of what they wore. Belmont immersed himself in owning and breeding horses, as well as building the 1100-acre Nursery Stud in Babylon, Long Island. His stable set a record for the most prize money won in a single season in 1890. But his legacy had begun to yield fruit much earlier; in 1867, as president of Jerome Park, Belmont was honored with the inaugural running of the Belmont Stakes for three-year-olds. Only two years later, Fenian, a colt whom Belmont owned and bred, won his namesake race. The Belmont Stakes was run at Jerome Park until 1889, and then was transferred to Morris Park from 1900 to 1904. True to form for a queen consort, Caroline Perry Belmont delivered Christian heirs— three sons and a daughter—to her husband’s throne, according to Arne K. Lang in Sports Betting and Bookmaking: An American History. But it was his namesake, August Belmont II, who picked up his father’s business-savvy gauntlet and ran even farther with it. August II helped build the city’s subway system and the Cape Cod Canal, according to Brian J. Cudahy in A Century of Subways: Celebrating 100 Years of New York’s Underground Railways. In 1882, August assumed his father’s mantle as head of Nursery Stud, which he moved to Lexington, Kentucky. He later headed up the Jockey Club and became a fierce advocate for the continuation of racing when the Senate banned gambling. In 1905, the racing industry
paid the Belmont family the ultimate homage by building a new racetrack in Elmont, Long Island, and naming it for them. That year, the Belmont Stakes moved to its current home at Belmont Park; the track opened to great societal acclaim and a glowing reception in the media. Kimberly Gatto observed in Belmont Park: The Champion Track that antigambling legislation forced the track’s closure in 1911 and 1912. The course reopened to much fanfare in 1913, with more than double the expected visitors in attendance, racing
Belmont-bred Man o’ War. According to J. North Conway in The Cape Cod Canal: Breaking Through the Bared and Bended Arm, Belmont’s second wife, the much younger opera singer Eleanor Robson, was the one to name the handsome chestnut colt, born in 1917. Despite his advanced age, Belmont served in World War I; Eleanor, caring for his operation at home, named one of his horses after her soldier husband, dubbing him “My Man o’ War,” although the pronoun was later dropped.
historian Edward L. Bowen commented in Belmont Park: A Century of Champions. But Belmont II’s most profound impact upon the Turf came with astute purchases— two colts named Hastings and Rock Sand. Belmont found a gem in the ill-tempered but talented Hastings, who later captured the 1896 Belmont Stakes and became a leading sire. Hastings’s best son was Fair Play, who, for Belmont, performed just below championship level as a three-year-old in 1908. Like his own father, Fair Play stood out at stud, leading the national list three times. Not content with his already stellar stallion operation, in 1906, Belmont went across the pond to acquire Rock Sand, winner of the 1903 English Triple Crown. Back in Kentucky, Rock Sand became a good sire, but over time, his daughters became far more influential than his sons. Luckily for Belmont, the Rock Sand bloodline complemented Fair Play’s genetic potential beautifully; this cross produced standouts, like Jockey Club Gold Cup winner Chance Play, champion Mad Hatter, and 1924 Belmont Stakes victor Mad Play. But it was only when Fair Play was bred to fellow Belmont-bred Mahubah, a daughter of Rock Sand, that he sired arguably the greatest American racehorse ever—the
Unfortunately for Belmont, his determination to devote his attention to the war led him to sell all of his horses. At a 1918 yearling sale at Saratoga, Man o’ War fetched $5,000, far above the sale’s average price, and entered the stable of Samuel Riddle. That $5,000 ended up being a bargain, as Man o’ War won 20 of his 21 starts and sired 1938 Triple Crown winner War Admiral, among other influential horses. This year, the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington is conducting a year-long celebration of Man o’ War’s one hundredth birthday. The Belmonts’ prominence in the Thoroughbred world dwindled through the mid-twentieth century—that is, until August II’s grandson, August IV, came along. The last-named heir followed in his ancestors’ footprints by becoming a prominent banker and the chairman of the Jockey Club; he brought the family's success full circle when a horse he co-owned, Caveat, won the 1983 Belmont Stakes. --Carly Silver is an editor and journalist living in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Smithsonian, and Atlas Obscura, as well as Thoroughbred horse racing publications The Blood-Horse and The Thoroughbred Daily News.
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Einstein was a true genius. Over a century ago, this visionary transformed the future when his General Theory of Relativity was published in 1915. Three years later, Einstein cofounded a university in Jerusalem. Established 30 years before the Jewish state in the midst of World War I, The Hebrew University became a central pillar and silent engine behind Israel’s economic, social, and academic prowess and a potent force in the birth of a nation. The Hebrew University has produced one third of Israel’s prime ministers and presidents, 9 out of 12 Supreme Court justices, and 40% of the country’s civil scientific research. More importantly, the Hebrew University has brought important technologies to the world, like Mobileye, the anti-collision systems in cars; the leading cancer and Alzheimer drugs; and drip irrigation, conserving exorbitant amounts of water and improving crop yields globally. Einstein died in1955 while at Princeton, but his spirit remained in Jerusalem. Upon his passing, Einstein bestowed his estate and legacy to the Hebrew University. To honor
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Einstein’s legacy, the Canadian Friends up the best of the human spirit,” says of Hebrew University have embarked on Divon. “For example, think about all the a project to “find and empower the next young people who have great potential and generation of brilliant minds on the planet,” resourcefulness, but lack the resources to those who have the potential to become the actualize their potential. Maybe they don’t world’s next Einsteins. go to school, have a learning disability, Co-founded by Rami Kleinmann and or come from a challenging home Elan Divon, The Einstein Legacy Project environment. Our goal is to provide young (ELP) is being led by an international people who fall between the cracks with executive committee chaired by Canadian a platform for sharing their ideas, while philanthropist, Judy Tanenbaum, and Saban Entertainment’s cofounder and award-winning director and producer, Shuki Levy. Additional members include E! Entertainment founder, Larry Namer; European Space Agency Telecommunications Director, Amnon Ginati; acclaimed food blogger and culinary anthropologist, Tori Avey; along with a bevy of ambassadors, business leaders, and influencers TOP TO BOTTOM: from around the world. ELP CO-FOUNDER RAMI KLEINMANN (LEFT), ELP CO-CHAIR LEVY AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBER TORI AVEY “ELP is about working with SHUKI LEVY, CFHU CHAIRMAN MURRAY PALAY, ELP CO-FOUNDER the legacy of Einstein to shore ELAN DIVON; NEXT EINSTEIN AFRICA
signaling to them that they matter, their ideas matter, and that they can make a difference in our world.” One of the core ELP projects that gives young people such a platform is the Next Einstein Competition, now in its fourth year running and in partnership with the European Space Agency. The project,
which started as an online competition in North America, recently launched in South Africa and is catering to 10,000 students from 19 schools in under-served parts of the country. “Seeing the light and excitement in the eyes of the children participating in the project is priceless,” says Kleinmann. “We are planting seeds, and one day hope to look back and see a beautiful orchard of young people and their innovative ideas providing fruits to their communities.” Not surprisingly, ELP has already received requests from African, European, and Asian countries, hoping to adopt the program and bring opportunities and revitalization to their youth.
GENIUS 100 VISIONS: A PUBLISHING MILESTONE AND AN ART MASTERPIECE One of the most inventive and exciting ELP projects celebrating the centennial of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity is the world’s first 3D-printed book, Genius 100 Visions. Genius invites 100 of the world’s greatest leaders, influencers, and icons to share their wisdom and vision of the future in a book designed by renowned industrial artist, Ron Arad. The book will be printed in limited edition, with select copies already being reserved by museums and art institutions around the world.
of these brilliant minds, along with young Einsteins and dignitaries from around the world. Hosted in beautiful Old Montreal, the evening will be an incredible gathering of artists, scientists, innovators, and leaders from around the world. The dinner is being cochaired by business magnate and chairman of the Libra Group, George Logothetis, along with the lead astronaut of the Japanese Space Agency, Mr. Soichi Noguchi. Proceeds from the event will go toward building the Einstein Archives and Visitor Center in Jerusalem, and giving Einstein’s estate a permanent home—one that people of all ages will be able to enjoy and benefit from. A portion of proceeds will also go toward finding and supporting the world’s next brilliant minds through the Next Einstein competition.
YOUR CHANCE TO BE PART OF HISTORY To help support this vision, the Einstein Legacy Project is looking for the support and patronage of philanthropists like you. For an entry-level gift of $100,000 dollars, you could not only support one LEFT: ANDERSON COOPER, WHO HOSTED THE EINSTEIN of the most exciting global GALA IN TORONTO ON MAY 15 2016. ABOVE: RON ARAD AN GENIUS DEMO NOV 21 2016 philanthropic initiatives of our time, but also create a lasting The visionaries who’ve been home for Einstein’s legacy and provide vital hand-selected by the committee support and a dash of inspiration for future are as diverse as Einstein himself. Einsteins. From Nobel Prize laureates, to Benefits include: a limited edition the world’s leading scientists 3D-printed copy of the Genius book, and humanitarians, to important figures designed by renowned artist Ron Arad (a in the arts and literature, Genius has highly valued art piece), and a table for eight been thoughtfully outlined to showcase a at the Dinner of the Century. Additionally, collective vision of humanity and the far your name will be inscribed on the Wall reaches of human imagination and ingenuity. of Founders at the future Einstein Archives Contributors to Genius include: architect, and Visitors Center in Jerusalem and on the Frank Gehry; wellness and spiritual guru, Wall of Life at The Hebrew University as you Deepak Chopra; education expert, Sir Ken join an elite community of global leaders Robinson; journalist, Walter Isaacson; whose legacy will forever be tied to the great Cirque du Soleil founder, Guy Laliberte; Albert Einstein. Internet entrepreneur, Jeffrey Skoll; musical For more information and to become a phenom, Barbra Streisand; journalist, Founding Patron of the Einstein Legacy Walter Isaacson; chess grandmaster, Garry Project, please contact: Helen Hatzis at Kasparov, and many other luminaries. hhatzis@alberteinsteinfoudation.com Genius will be launched at the Dinner of (1) 416 508 5652 the Century on September 10, 2017—a starAdditionally, please visit studded event that will bring together many alberteinsteinfoundation.com
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y mom was so frustrated she brought me to a graveyard and dumped me on someone’s grave. I woke up to her screaming and crying saying, ‘This is what I have to get used to… a dead son.’” For Matt Czaplicki, this was the wakeup call he needed to truly commit to recovery from the drug and alcohol addiction that had plagued him for the better part of his adult life. Like many of today’s youth, Matt’s substance abuse issues began as a teenager – drinking with friends at parties, smoking marijuana casually. But it wasn’t long before he was thinking about it every day, regularly wondering, “When am I going to have another chance to get drunk?” Matt was a hard working student: he kept up good grades and even landed a scholarship to swim at a top public university. By the halfway point of his college career, grades and swimming hardly mattered. He was an alcoholic – drinking every day with no rest in between, gaining 50 pounds and eventually waking up every day at 4 A.M. to drink just to not feel sick in class. Over the course of 12 years, Matt went through multiple phases of drug addiction, starting with alcohol, which led to him using cocaine and painkillers when he reached his mid-20s. He ultimately transitioned to heroin and crack cocaine abuse. “My mother had developed a stress-related heart condition because of things I was doing, and I didn’t want her to die while I was struggling with addiction,” Matt explained. “Seeing her in physical and emotional pain at the gravesite… That’s when I decided my life needed to change.” Matt, now 35, was able to make that change with the help of Mountainside Treatment Center, a nationally acclaimed alcohol and drug addiction treatment center based in Canaan, Connecticut. “I had gone to four rehab centers before Mountainside. I was looking for a quick cure and 30 days in and out of rehab without fully committing myself to the journey. But at Mountainside, I quickly learned that that’s not the way this thing works, if you want to truly recover from this disease,” Matt reflects. “The staff at Mountainside advised me that I needed patience, I needed to want to do this, and I needed to change my entire lifestyle. It was the springboard 168
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I needed to alter the way I viewed addiction and recovery, which in turn helped me take those first steps towards my new life.” America’s opioid epidemic – and what we can do to fight it Matt’s story is one of many; addiction is devastating American communities at this time. • The National Survey of Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) reports that 21.5 million Americans aged 12 and older battled a substance abuse disorder in 2014. • The most recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicates that more people died from a drug overdose in 2014 than any other year on record. • According to the American Society of Addiction Medicine, drug overdose is the leading cause of accidental death in the US. More than 50,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2015, far surpassing the number of people who died in car crashes (37,000). At the center of these figures is opioid abuse. The crisis can be traced back to prescription painkillers being increasingly and regularly dispensed to patients in the 1990s and early 2000s. People got hooked. Some of those who grew dependent on pain pills ultimately turned to heroin – which is cheaper – to feed their addictions and sustain their highs. Today, the healthcare industry and governmental organizations have begun to monitor use more closely and to restrict the number of painkillers prescribed. State and federal governments have also cracked down on painkiller development and distribution. But the epidemic rages on: opioid pills are still accessible through prescription and continue to be sold on the street; heroin is also still readily available and inexpensive. “Opioid abuse is a foremost societal issue that all of us – patients, consumers, caregivers, healthcare providers – should be concerned about,” states Randall Dwenger, MD, Medical Director of Mountainside Treatment Center. “The statistics and the stories of Americans being ravaged by this disease are profoundly upsetting. And because the opioid crisis touches so many facets of our society, a many-pronged, holistic approach is needed to successfully address it.”
Combatting an epidemic with the right treatment Unfortunately, the epidemic of addiction and deaths involving opioids continues to worsen, breaking the hearts of families across America. Mothers, like Matt’s, watch their children struggle with a combination of drugs – often many types of opioids, or opioids and heroin mixed with alcohol consumption – but don’t know how to get their children the help they need. This can be attributed to a lack of awareness of or access to treatment programs or not recognizing that treatment is often a multi-step process: beginning with detox, then a residential stay with traditional and wellness-focused treatments, followed by outpatient activities and ongoing counseling and support. Mountainside aims to bridge that knowledge gap through its approach to treatment. “Mountainside has helped thousands of individuals, including Matt, facing opioid and heroin addiction succeed in recovery,” explains Dr. Dwenger. “Our holistic programming marries more traditional treatment paths with forward-looking mind body spirit offerings to help our clients heal their whole selves, from inside out.” Programming to heal the whole self Starting with a renowned Detox program, which provides 24-hour medical care in a state-of-the-art facility in this critical first stage of recovery, clients at Mountainside have the opportunity to explore the connection between mental, physical and spiritual well being. “It was really tough at first. I was still detoxing when I got there. I was sick and tired. When I finally came out of my bedroom and started talking to people, it was the attitude of the staff and the variety of the activities Mountainside offered that really helped me,” Matt shared. “I gravitated toward the Wellness programming, which helped me connect with my true self underneath these layers of addiction.” Mountainside’s innovative Wellness programing features Mind Body Spirit services, such as acupuncture, yoga, meditation, massage therapy, spiritual enhancement and positional therapy, which help clients redefine what it means to live a truly healthy life. Adventure Based Counseling also fits under the Wellness umbrella, helping clients go beyond perceived limitations. The program leverages the healing power of nature with guided hikes and walks on the scenic trails surrounding campus, a custom-built high ropes course, indoor and outdoor rock climbing walls, and a three-day wilderness excursion. “Mountainside helped me access a spirituality and inner peace that I rely on still to this day. It keeps me balanced and focused,” Matt recalled. In conjunction with these vital wellness programs, traditional treatments provide a strong foundation for a successful recovery. Clinical treatments, like group therapy and individual counseling with a team of licensed clinicians, are essential in helping clients overcome their addiction. It is crucial that clients learn about how the disease of addiction impacts the brain and body. Through lectures and group sessions, Mountainside emphasizes an educational
component that offers positive coping and relapse-prevention skills, self-care, and an understanding of addiction as a brain disease. Core to the Mountainside experience is Residential Treatment, which through a month-long onsite stay, gives clients access to the full suite of Mountainside’s addiction treatment services. During a residential stay, Mountainside’s multi-disciplinary team combines traditional treatments with evidence-based holistic practices for each client to help change their perceptions, behaviors and lifestyles. Clients are given the tools to establish a path to self-discovery and healing, and for relapse prevention and aftercare planning. Through an Outpatient alcohol and drug addiction treatment program, Mountainside helps clients achieve and maintain sobriety as they navigate everyday life. With counseling, psychiatric services, and holistic offerings, clients can strengthen recovery skills and overcome obstacles to sobriety. Clients can also access Medication Assisted Treatment through Mountainside’s Outpatient Services. As with Matt’s experience, addiction is a disease that affects the entire family, as it can result in the destruction of healthy family relationships. An important part of recovery is restoring those family bonds. Recognizing this, Mountainside’s Family Wellness programming integrates individual counseling with combined therapy sessions with family members to help clients understand how their addiction has affected their family unit. Mountainside’s programming is vast – but tailored. “Each client that walks through our doors is treated as an individual, and as a human being – not a nameless, faceless person with addiction. We treat them as we would want members of our own families treated. With that in mind, we sculpt our treatment plans around each of these individual’s needs, meeting them where they are and hearing what they need, and then edging them forward towards progress, as they become ready,” states Dr. Dwenger. A hopeful future Matt continues to thrive in his recovery. As a director in a construction management company, Matt gives back by helping reconstruct people’s homes after catastrophic events. “Addiction is a 24/7, 365-day, lifelong disease, and we must approach it as such. Getting patients to the right treatment is an important step in fighting this terrible opioid crisis,” Dr. Dwenger explains. “Remember, you can recover from this disease. You can get better. You can survive opioid addiction and live a healthy, happy life without limits.” “When you come to a place like Mountainside to treat your addiction, you are given a blueprint for how to survive this disease. And if you follow the blueprint with positive energy and true commitment, you will succeed,” adds Matt. “They give you the tools to change your life. And then it’s up to you to use them.” You can learn more about Mountainside and its addiction treatment programs at Mountainside.com. If you or someone you love needs help, contact the Mountainside team today at 1-855-246-2212.
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ou can go in now, miss,” the receptionist directed. Emma crossed the waiting room and entered the office. The Chairman of the American Committee motioned Emma to a chair across the desk from him. “Thank you for coming in today, Ms. Lazarus,” he began. “We’ve reviewed your submission and, frankly, we were quite taken with it. You’re a very talented young woman.” “Thank you very much, sir.” Emma’s cheeks reddened slightly with the compliment as she smiled, looking down at her hands in her lap. Rather than put her at ease, the flattery made her even more nervous. “We found your poem to be compassionate, imaginative, and, well, sparkling with a certain vitality. We’re really quite excited about it. The Committee suggested that I speak with you today to see if we could... fine tune it just a bit.” Emma looked up. While she may have been a bit embarrassed by the Chairman’s flattery, she was fiercely defensive about her work. “’Fine tune it’, sir?” “Maybe that’s not quite the best way to put it. Let’s take a look at it together, shall we? That’s probably the best way to get at it.” Emma was quite confused. She was led to believe that the American Committee had selected her poem as the winner. She thought that meeting with the Chairman was merely a formality. “Now, right from the first line, we see 172
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strength, leadership, charisma, compassion. All the characteristics we want to present. But, we’re just not sure we want to give the impression that all we want are the ‘tired’ and ‘poor’. You know what I mean? ‘Huddled masses’? ‘Wretched refuse? These are very strong images.” Emma was no longer sure whether her poem was being flattered or attacked. “I’m not quite sure I understand what you mean, sir.” “Let’s look at this next line. You’re talking about the ‘homeless’. You would have Miss Liberty say to all the countries of the world, ‘Send me all of your homeless people’!” “Yes, I would,” Emma said. “I mean, it’s a wonderfully humane thought, and all, but, let’s look at it from another perspective. Let’s say it’s a hundred years from now.” “A hundred years?” Emma repeated. “That’s right, a hundred years – give or take,” he continued. “Let’s take a little insignificant country... something small. Haiti! Let’s say that Haiti is having some internal political, social, financial problems. And, here’s Miss Liberty standing at the front door to the greatest country on the planet saying, ‘You have homeless people? Sure, send them all to me.’ You see what I mean, now?” “I’m sorry. I guess I’m still not quite clear...” was all the young poetess could manage. “Listen,” said the Chairman, “it’s a wonderful poem, and you’re a lovely and talented poet. But, what if the United States is having financial problems of our own?
What if there’s already a significant homeless population in our major cities? What are we supposed to do with more homeless people? And, you’re clearly saying, ‘send me the worst of what you have to offer’.” Emma nodded slowly in comprehension. “Could you maybe tone it down a little? Suggest we would also welcome middleand upper class suburban-types. Just for balance.” Emma considered the Chairman’s words carefully before responding. “Well, taking your example, if I may,” she began. “Let’s say that the situation is really bad in – where was that? Haiti? Let’s say that rebels have thrown out the democratically elected president, there’s martial law, high unemployment, political repression, all of it. Wouldn’t it be easier for the middle- and upper-classes to get to America than the poor, yearning to breathe free?” She has no idea what I’m talking about, he thought. This could take all night. “I think you’re getting way too caught up in this one example,” he began. “It’s not like a race to see who it would be easiest for. The point is that we’re talking about inviting people into the country who would contribute absolutely nothing! They’d get here, sign up for all the welfare and entitlement programs, social security...” “Social security?” Emma asked. “I’m getting ahead of myself. Anyway, the point is that all this homeless refuse could take limited jobs away from our people. We could have a problem with Vietnamese
“WE’RE JUST NOT SURE WE WANT TO GIVE THE IMPRESSION THAT ALL WE WANT ARE THE ‘TIRED’ AND ‘POOR’. ‘HUDDLED MASSES’? ‘WRETCHED REFUSE? THESE ARE VERY STRONG IMAGES.” immigrants, Mexicans... We just wouldn’t have room for everyone who’s looking for an easier, more democratic, freer way of life.” “I don’t know,” Emma said. “I thought this was supposed to symbolize a safe haven to the peoples of the world.” “And, it would!” he interrupted her. “But, we can’t just allow anyone to immigrate willy nilly. We’d have to arrange for some way to process them...”
“’Process them’?” It was Emma’s turn to interrupt. It was getting late. This was taking much longer than the Chairman had anticipated. Perhaps, no one would notice it, anyway. Or, maybe they just wouldn’t connect the Statue of Liberty with immigration policy. Well, he thought, let’s just hope that none of these homeless people get in touch with the ACLU to sue for fraud.
“You know, I’m sure it will be fine just the way it is. Thank you for coming in, Ms. Lazarus.” Emma smiled. This is what she expected. “Thank you,” she said, smiling, and left the Chairman’s office. --Joel Greenwald is the grandson of immigrants who originated from Hungary, Turkey, and Russia.
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Camera! Action! It’s hard to believe the Hamptons International Film Festival (HIFF) is celebrating a quarter century of showcasing great works in film. The eight-month celebration 25 Years: 25 Films poignantly kicked off this winter with a screening of “The Piano,” for which Jane Campion won a 1994 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. “The Piano” originally screened at Guild Hall in Easthampton in 1993, the year the festival began. Other screenings from the Hamptons to Montauk Point, Palm Beach, Los Angeles and Manhattan included: Oscar-winning documentary “Searching for Sugarman,” “Pollock,” “Diving Bell and Butterfly,” and two Oscar-winning documentaries: “Twenty feet from Stardom” and “Open Water,” that debuted at HIFF. In April, at Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theatre, Edie Falco was a guest
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for a Q&A following the 25 Years: 25 Films screening of “Judy Berlin” (HIFF 1999). Other films screened throughout the year were: “The Artist,” “SlumDog Millionaire,” “Still Alice,” “The Cove,” “Heavenly Creatures,” and “I Am Not Your Negro.” Weston Magazine Group caught up with HIFF’s Executive Director, Anne Chaisson, to discuss film. HIFF began back in 1992, with Joyce Robinson, a big time Hollywood casting executive. Chaisson explains that Robinson said, “We should start a film festival.” Robinson spoke with entertainment people in the area, specifically Toni Ross from Nick and Toni’s restaurant, and folks like Stuart Suna, owner of Silvercup Studios. Chaisson, who racked up her own producer credits with “Roger Dodger,” “P.S. Diggers” and “Rocksteady,” was hired as Executive Director of the Hamptons International Film Festival
in 2012. “We are an audience-driven, community event. The community supports and allows it to happen. Long Islanders are rabid arts lovers. This year we are giving an award to the All Access pass buyer who sees the most films,” says Chaisson. “We are the only film festival that screens this number of films at 13 venues across 45 miles within 5 days, with more than 200 volunteers and 80 staff orchestrating the festival,” Chaisson explains. HIFF has 30,000 attendees year-round, including 250 screenings, bringing 200 filmmakers from across the globe to the Hamptons every year. She adds, “And, we are the only event that happens out East simultaneously across Westhampton, Southampton, East Hampton and Sag Harbor.” As with many festivals, the concept is simple. Shoot a film and submit it to HIFF. Then, films are juried by world-class
filmmakers and industry professionals, who score movies from mid-February to midSeptember. They announce the honoree in April. Films are honored in narrative feature, documentary feature and short film competitions, including categories for both narratives and documentaries. These competitions include provocative premieres from new voices in filmmaking. The very intricately timed festival takes place Columbus Day Weekend every October.
screenwriter with major credit to her name working alongside Stephen Speilberg on such movies at “E.T.,” was created to benefit and enable female voices to be heard in film. Filmmaker Cathy Yan’s movie, “Dead Pigs,” which spotlights the insane speed at which China is changing and developing, was the inaugural recipient in 2016. “Now in its eighth year, the SummerDocs program has become one of the most anticipated and respected film events in the
offers many packages to view award-winning films from October 5 through 9. Be sure to visit their website hamptonsfilmfest.org Anyone who purchases an all-access pass gets a free 25th Anniversary Commemorative coffee table book. --Mary Ellen Walsh is an award winning journalist and fiction writer who has taught creative writing at various universities in the New York area.
HIFF is much more than just a major event. It is a haven for creative types. There are many signature programs: HIFF Competition, Conversations With, Films of Conflict & Resolution, Compassion Justice & Animal Rights, Air, Land & Sea, Views from Long Island, Variety: 10 Actors to Watch, Winick Talks At Rowdy Hall, and Screenplay Readings, all designed in and around film. “We are world-renowned for our conflict and resolution section.” Chaisson explains they aren’t doing their job if they don’t showcase differences. Film festivals strive to show audiences new perspectives. Other key programs include: Screenwriters Lab, 17 years strong, which happens every April in East Hampton where emerging screenwriters are matched with established writers and creative producers to help cultivate talent. This year’s master class was led by Michael J. Weber and was open to the public. The festival’s Artistic Director, David Nugent, says that many projects from this lab go on to be produced. In 2016, The Melissa Mathison Fund, named for the late
Hamptons summer calendar,” says Hamptons International Film Festival Co-Chairman and SummerDocs series presenter, Alec Baldwin. “We are proud to once again screen some of the best in documentary filmmaking to our audiences and provide an insightful look into the process in conversations with leading filmmakers.” Baldwin wrote the foreword to HIFF’s 25th Anniversary Commemorative coffee table book (Harper Collins) out this June. The book is filled with photos and essays highlighting 25 years of film. HIFF is also reaching out to young filmmakers through HIFF Jr., with both summer filmmaking camps and year-round curriculum in East End schools. “Students from John M. Marshal Elementary in East Hampton came to see short films during the festival in October. They then wrote, directed and shot their own short films. We hope to inspire the next generation of filmmakers by having an educational component,” states Chaisson. “That’s what it’s all about–inspiration.” Hamptons International Film Festival
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A Medal of Honor for Sargent William Shemin…
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am in the east room of the White House on June 2, 2015 for what is turning out to be the most amazing family reunion I could ever have imagined. At the podium, President Barack Obama is presenting the Medal of Honor to my 86 year-old cousin, Elsie Shemin-Roth, and her sister, Ina Bass, who are both daughters of Sargent William Shemin, a man who fought bravely in World War I almost a century earlier. This is an extremely rare posthumous presentation of the Medal of Honor, the military’s highest award for battlefield valor, in consideration of Sgt. Shemin’s “extraordinary heroism and selflessness, above and beyond the call of duty.” William Shemin, whom we knew in our family as Bill, was a younger first cousin to my grandmother (Leah Shemin). Leah—my father’s mother—and many of my Shemin relatives had their origins in a small town called Orsha in what is today Belarus. Around the turn of the 20th century this Russian town near the Dnieper River had a population of about 13,000—a little more than half of them Jewish. My grandmother’s branch of the family, and a whole generation of our forebears, including Bill Shemin’s parents, fled Tsarist pograms, famines, and a general lack of opportunity in Russia to come to America in the late 1800s and early 1900s. (If you’ve seen Fiddler on the Roof, you can imagine Orsha back then, even though Fiddler is set in Ukraine, a few hundred miles to the south). Like William Shemin, who was born in Bayonne, New Jersey in 1896, my father was a first generation American, born in the Bronx in 1915 to Russian immigrant parents. As my father made his way through high school, college, and law school, Bill Shemin would give him his first job working in the greenhouse Bill ran after he had returned from WW I, obtained a forestry degree at Syracuse University, and established his business growing trees, flowers and plants on Boston Post Road in the Bronx. In 1958, when my family, including my grandmother, were living in southern California, Bill Shemin traveled across the country to visit us. I remember as a five-year-old going to meet him for the first 178
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time at Union Station in downtown Los Angeles. Coming off the train with his wife Bertha, he seemed very old (of course he was then about the age I am now—early 60s—but as I said, I was five). He had the limp that came from his wartime injuries and the shrapnel he took in his leg. The “war to end all wars” had also left him deaf in one ear. He still talked about his 1918 experiences as if they were yesterday. And despite his injuries, his personal sacrifice, and all the death and destruction he had seen, he talked about the U.S. Army with the reverence of a true patriot. My vision of Bill Shemin is indelibly etched in the region of my brain where childhood memories are stored. As we gathered in the East Room of the White House, where so many important presidential statements have been made and so much history has occurred, my five-year-old first impressions flashed through my mind. My cousin Elsie worked for 15 years to arrive at this miraculous day in 2015. She proved the case that Sargent William Shemin, by all rights, should have received the Medal of Honor for his heroism in the trenches and killing fields under German gunfire during a
three-day battle in the Vesle River Valley near Bazoches, France in August, 1918. But because of the anti-Semitism that prevailed in the U.S. military at the time, this award eluded him. He received a Purple Heart and a Distinguished Service Cross, yet it was extremely difficult for a Jewish soldier from that era to receive a Medal of Honor. Elsie went through incredible hoops and obstacles to make her case, not to mention having to work her way around hundreds of bureaucrats and naysayers who told her at every step hers was an impossible undertaking. Amazingly, she even arranged for bipartisan legislation to be passed in Congress—in the form of a bill named for Sgt. Shemin—allowing the military to reopen cases from World War I to reconsider soldiers for the Medal of Honor if they had been passed over because of discrimination. And this in an era when hardly anything gets through the U.S. Congress on a bipartisan basis! Elsie has the magic touch—as well as her father’s determination and persistence to get the job done. Her passion to see justice done is contagious. Tears are welling up in my eyes as I listen to President Obama say: "Well, Elsie, as much as America meant to your father, he means even more to America. It takes our nation too long sometimes to say so – because Sergeant Shemin served at a time when the contributions and heroism of Jewish Americans in uniform were too often overlooked. But William Shemin saved American lives. He represented our nation with honor. And so, it is my privilege, on behalf of the American people, to make this right and finally award the Medal of Honor to Sergeant William Shemin." The President is thanking what he calls our “whole platoon of Shemins” (there are more than 60 of my Shemin relatives gathered for this occasion, including our then 26-year-old son, David Burstein) for turning out today. William Shemin has been a larger-than-life legend in our family for a long time. Now, the President of the United States is sharing his story with the nation, the world, and with history. President Obama and his speechwriters have distilled the essence of Sgt. Shemin’s story well: Growing up in Bayonne, New Jersey, William Shemin loved sports – football,
the war, and posters asked if he was tough enough, there was no question about it – he was going to serve. Too young to enlist? No problem. He puffed his chest and lied about his age. And that’s how William Shemin joined the 47th Infantry Regiment, 4th Division, and shipped out for France. On August 7th, 1918, on the Western Front, the Allies were hunkered down in one trench, the Germans in another, separated by about 150 yards of open space – just a football field and a half. But that open space was a bloodbath. Soldier after soldier ventured out, and soldier after soldier was mowed down. So those still in the trenches were left with a terrible choice: die trying to rescue your fellow soldier, or watch him die, knowing that part of you will die along with him. William Shemin couldn’t stand to watch.
TOP TO BOTTOM: SARGENT WILLIAM “BILL” SHEMIN, US ARMY OF OCCUPATION 4TH INFANTRY DIVISION, VALLENDAR (ON THE RHINE RIVER), GERMANY, MAY 1919. JULIE O’CONNOR PHOTO OF HISTORIC SHEMIN FAMILY PHOTO HENRY JOHNSON FOUGHT WITH THE 369TH INFANTRY, KNOWN AS THE HARLEM HELLFIGHTERS, ONE OF THE FIRST REGIMENTS TO LAND IN FRANCE. JULIE O’CONNOR PHOTO OF A PAUL THOMPSON PHOTOGRAPH FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHS AND PRINTS DIVISION, SCHOMBURG CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN BLACK CULTURE, THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
wrestling, boxing, swimming. If it required physical and mental toughness, and it made your heart pump, your muscles ache, he was all in. As a teenager, he even played semipro baseball. So when America entered
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The battle stretched on for days. Eventually, the platoon’s leadership broke down. Too many officers had become casualties. So William stepped up and took command. He reorganized the depleted squads. Every time there was a lull in combat, he led rescues of the wounded. As a lieutenant later described it, William was “cool, calm, intelligent, and personally utterly fearless.” When he came home, William went to school for forestry and began a nursery business in the Bronx. It was hard work, lots of physical labor – just like he liked it. He married a red-headed, blue-eyed woman named Bertha Schiffer, and they had three children who gave them 14 grandchildren. He bought a house upstate, where the grandkids spent their summers swimming and riding horses. He taught them how to salute. He taught them the correct way to raise the flag every morning and lower and fold it every night. He taught them how to be Americans. William stayed in touch with his fellow veterans, too. And when World War II came, William went and talked to the Army about signing up again. By then, his war injuries had given him a terrible limp. But he treated that limp just like he treated his age all those years ago – pay no attention to that, he said. He knew how to build roads, he knew camouflage – maybe there was a place for him in this war, too. To Bertha’s great relief, the Army said that the best thing William could do for his country was to keep running his business and take care of his family. Elsie has a theory about what drove her father to serve. He was the son of Russian immigrants, and he was devoted to his Jewish faith. “His family lived through the pogroms,” she says. “They saw towns destroyed and children killed. And then they came to America. And here they found a haven -- a home – success – and my father and his sister both went to college. All that, in one generation! That’s what America meant to him. And that’s why he’d do anything for this country.” The White House day is a great celebration of William Shemin, a step forward in the ongoing fight against anti-Semitism, and a wonderful occasion for our family. But given President Obama’s commitment to fighting discrimination on multiple fronts and to pursuing an inclusionary and diverse vision of America, our Jewish American family hero is sharing the spotlight on this day with Private 180
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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: FROM THE WILLIAM SHEMIN COLLECTION NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH MILITARY HISTORY PINNED DOWN NEAR THE VESLE RIVER (FRANCE) DURING EARLY AUGUST 1918, SHEMIN LEFT THE SAFETY OF HIS TRENCH ON THREE SEPARATE OCCASIONS, RISKING HEAVY ENEMY FIRE TO RESCUE WOUNDED SOLDIERS. WHEN HIS COMMANDING OFFICERS WERE KILLED OR INJURED, HE TOOK CONTROL OF HIS PLATOON UNTIL HE WAS INJURED ON AUGUST 9, 1918. HE RECEIVED THE MILITARY’S SECOND HIGHEST HONOR, THE DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CROSS, FOR HIS VALOR. PHOTO BY JULIE O’CONNOR TAKEN AT THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY, PHILADELPHIA SGT. HENRY JOHNSON OF THE 369TH INFANTRY REGIMENT FOUGHT BRAVELY DURING A WWI BATTLE IN FRANCE IN WHICH HE AND A FELLOW SOLDIER WERE BADLY OUTNUMBERED BY GERMAN SOLDIERS. JOHNSON BECAME ONE OF THE FIRST AMERICANS TO BE AWARDED THE FRENCH CROIX DE GUERRE, FRANCE’S HIGHEST AWARD FOR VALOR, ON FEB. 12, 1919. JOHNSON WAS POSTHUMOUSLY AWARDED THE PURPLE HEART IN 1996 AND THE DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CROSS IN 2002. PRESIDENT OBAMA AWARDED THE MEDAL OF HONOR POSTHUMOUSLY TO BOTH SGT. WILLIAM SHEMIN AND TO SGT. HENRY JOHNSON, FOR CONSPICUOUS GALLANTRY ACTIONS DURING WORLD WAR I ON 6/2/2015. (PHOTO: PUBLIC DOMAIN) SISTERS INA BASS AND ELSIE SHEMIN-ROTH CLASP HANDS AND ARE THRILLED TO RECEIVE OUR COUNTRY’S HIGHEST MILITARY AWARD, THE MEDAL OF HONOR, AS PRESIDENT OBAMA BESTOWS IT ON THEIR FATHER, SGT. WILLIAM SHEMIN POSTHUMOUSLY 97 YEARS AFTER WWI. TAKEN IN THE EAST ROOM OF THE WHITE HOUSE ON JUNE 2, 1915. PHOTO BY DAN BURSTEIN
Henry Johnson, an African-American soldier from the same era, who also performed notable acts of bravery in World War I, and was similarly passed over for the Medal of Honor owing to discrimination. The President makes the connection between the stories of William Shemin and Henry Johnson: Today, America honors two of her sons who served in World War I, nearly a century ago. These two soldiers were roughly the same age, dropped into the battlefields of France at roughly the same time. They both risked their own lives to save the lives of others. They both left us decades ago, before we could give them the full recognition that they deserved. But it’s never too late to say thank you. Today, we
present America’s highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, to Private Henry Johnson and Sergeant William Shemin. He goes on to explain Henry Johnson’s story from his enlistment in the all-Black 369th Infantry Regiment, known as The Harlem Hellfighters. At the time, our military was segregated. Most Black soldiers served in labor battalions, not combat units. But General Pershing sent the 369th to fight with the French Army, which accepted them as their own… And in the early hours of May 15, 1918, Henry Johnson became a legend. His battalion was in Northern France, tucked into a trench. Henry and another
soldier, Needham Roberts, stood sentry along No Man’s Land. In the pre-dawn, it was pitch black, and silent. And then – a click – the sound of wire cutters. A German raiding party – at least a dozen soldiers, maybe more – fired a hail of bullets. Henry fired back until his rifle was empty. Then he and Needham threw grenades. Both of them were hit. Needham lost consciousness. Two enemy soldiers began to carry him away while another provided cover, firing at Henry. But Henry refused to let them take his brother in arms. He shoved another magazine into his rifle. It jammed. He turned the gun around and swung it at one of the enemy, knocking him down. Then he grabbed the only weapon he had left – his Bolo knife – and went to rescue Needham. Henry took down one enemy soldier, then the other. The soldier he’d knocked down with his rifle recovered, and Henry was wounded again. But armed with just his knife, Henry took him down, too. And finally, reinforcements arrived and the last enemy soldier fled. As the sun rose, the scale of what happened became clear. In just a few minutes of fighting, two Americans had defeated an entire raiding party. And Henry Johnson saved his fellow soldier from being taken prisoner. Obama explains that even though former President Teddy Roosevelt wrote that Johnson was one of the bravest men in the war and France gave Johnson its highest award for valor, “his own nation didn’t award him anything… His injuries left him crippled. He couldn’t find work. His marriage fell apart. And in his early 30s, he passed away.” The Medal of Honor ceremony is an attempt to right that wrong posthumously, symbolically. My cousin Elsie has charged all of us in the extended Shemin clan with continuing to tell the story of her father, William Shemin, and linking it to the story of Henry Johnson (posthumously upgraded to Sargent Johnson), making the connection President Obama made that day in 2015 between two brave Americans way back in 1918 who were among the many war heroes never honored fully in their lifetimes because of religious and racial discrimination and bias. But Obama’s idea, like cousin Elsie’s, was a hopeful one – we can do better. Even if it takes a century, we can correct past mistakes, as long as we can face up to them and do the right thing.
A lot has happened since the White House ceremony in 2015. Last year we attended a ceremony at William Shemin’s gravesite at the Baron Hirsch cemetery on Staten Island where the Army unveiled a special Medal of Honor designation for his burial place. This was a powerful moment in its own right. Jim Pritchard, the son of one of the wounded men Bill Shemin physically dragged from the firing line to safety during the firefight in August of 1918, told the story of how every year at Thanksgiving his father used to say that if it hadn’t been for Bill’s courage and bravery, none of the further generations of Pritchards would be here today, because Jim’s father would have died right there and then in the German killing field. Then, David Frey from the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at West Point spoke about the challenges of combating antiSemitism in the modern world. In March of this year, we visited the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia – a museum affiliated with the Smithsonian – which had just opened a show entitled 1917: How One Year Changed the World. The show focused on three world-changing events of 1917 affecting America and the Jewish community – the entry of the United States into World War I, the Balfour Declaration (which laid the basis for England to begin to recognize the need for a Jewish homeland in the Middle East), and the shock of the 1917 Russian Revolution that overthrew the Tsar and ushered in the Soviet state. 1917 was also the year that William Shemin enlisted in the Army and went overseas to fight. As my wife and I toured the museum show, a surprising but warm feeling came over me as I looked at William Shemin’s memorabilia featured alongside major recognizable artifacts of world history. Here are the handwritten notes that became the Balfour Declaration. Over there is the original decoding of the German “Zimmerman Telegram,” used by the British to encourage Woodrow Wilson to enter WW I in alliance with the British. And here, in the center of the show, is Bill Shemin’s Army uniform, his wartime baseball spikes, his gas mask, his awards and decorations, and the Medal of Honor itself! A man I knew as a child, a man who is at the center of much legend and lore in our family, is now taking his place as a figure representative of some of
the larger trends that shaped the history of the modern era. It is March of 2017. I am telling the story of the White House Medal of Honor ceremony in 2015 to a friend I haven’t seen in a long time. I am explaining this unusual coming together of “a whole platoon of Shemins” and a group of people involved with keeping alive the traditions of the heroic all-Black regiment of WWI era, the Harlem Hellfighters. Many of us gathered there were descendants of Russian Jewish immigrants or African slaves. Obama spoke so movingly that day about how even though it took almost 100 years to properly recognize William Shemin and Henry Johnson, the great thing about America was that our democracy eventually corrects its mistakes. And as I told this story to my friend, I broke into tears all over again. Mostly because it is such a moving story to me about the beauty of American democracy and the American Dream, as well as the fact that I have such a close personal and family connection to the story. But I realize I am also shedding a tear in some measure because I am finding it hard to imagine a similar ceremony with similar meaning taking place in today’s White House, not even two years later. I think of the new battles we have in our times with anti-Semitism, racism, and hate and intolerance of all types. I am thinking of a growing wave of attacks on minorities and immigrants in America and troubling incidents around the world. And then I think of the courage of people like Bill Shemin, and his fearless daughter Elsie, and I think not only how proud I am to be related to them – but that somehow, it will be alright. Not without a fight – because that’s the essence of what their experience shows. But justice will prevail. Eventually. --Dan Burstein and Julie O’Connor live in Weston. Dan is a venture capitalist and the author of 14 books. Award-winning photographer Julie O’Connor created the first non-Western door poster with “Doors of Tibet” in 2003, which became the basis for her interest in doing her book, "Doors of Weston: 300 Years of Passageways in a Connecticut Town" published in partnership with the Weston Historical Society.
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here’s a problem with education in our country, and it has very little to do with schools themselves. Good intentions and best efforts aside, there is a persistent opportunity gap separating low-income students from their more fortunate peers. And it’s something all of us should be paying attention to. According to Lorna Smith, CEO of Westport, CT-based Horizons National, this gap in opportunity affects everyone. “It’s easy enough to think, ‘this isn’t my problem,’ but the fact is, limited opportunity for any of us means a limited future for all of us.” Statistics certainly support that perspective. Today, 51% of all public school students come from low-income families, and by the time those students arrive in kindergarten, they’re already months behind. It gets worse. Low-income students are six times more likely to drop out of high school, and fewer than one third of them will ever enroll in college. Without a college education or technical training, it’s harder than ever to find a path out of poverty. The cost to society can be measured in stagnant economic mobility – and 188
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an estimated $300 billion in lost wages, taxable income, plus health care, welfare, and incarceration costs. In the New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut area alone, there are too many jobs that go unfilled because there are too few people qualified to fill them. Why is this so? And why do we accept it? It happens over time, and the opportunity gap actually widens when school isn’t even in session. Most students slip a little during summer vacation, when it’s easy enough to forget some of the material they just learned. But for low-income kids, this “summer slide” is often profound, setting them back as much as three months by the time they get back to school in September. All summer long, children from low-income families aren’t going to camps, or to museums, or on family trips – in fact, some aren’t even getting the food, nutrition, and exercise they depend on during the school year. The cumulative effect, year after year, is troubling; by fifth grade, low-income students can be as much as two years behind their more fortunate peers. Is there a way to fix this? Educators, parents, students, and communities might envision something like the Horizons programs
run by Smith’s organization, Horizons National. In fact, trends in education – such as out-of-school-time learning, high-quality academics, social emotional learning, and long-term commitment – point directly to a solution like Horizons. But Smith wouldn’t call these trends; at Horizons, they’re more like proven steps to student success. And Horizons should know – it has decades of experience taking those steps. Horizons started in 1964 in New Canaan, Connecticut, and has been expanding nationally since 1995; last year, Horizons programs served over 4,600 students through 51 sites across 17 states. “Horizons is really a story about growth,” says Smith. “It’s about the growth of our students and their families – and their outlook on the future.” By any measure, Horizons students thrive. They improve their reading and math skills. They gain confidence. Most of all, they discover a new world of possibilities, things they never thought they could do or achieve. How does Horizons do it? Smith points to the Horizons model: long-term, in-depth, out-of-school-time instruction. “A successful adult is not a short-term proposition,” says Smith, “and a one-time intervention won’t fix the problem.” For students, Horizons begins in the early stages of their development – when they’re in Pre-K and kindergarten. Horizons commits to its students all the way through high school, providing a rare, long-term experience. “Our students and our teachers stay with us for years,” Smith notes, “we have an average student and teacher
retention of over 80% annually across the network.” Since lasting connections create the greatest impact, Horizons makes retention a priority; many families are involved for decades as younger siblings make their way through the program and graduates return to volunteer or teach at Horizons. So – isn’t this just summer school? Absolutely not. Horizons programs typically take place on the campuses of nearby independent schools, colleges, and universities – taking students out of their usual
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routine and helping them shape a path for their own education. Horizons students focus on reading and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math), and also participate in the arts, fitness, nutrition, and field trips. Through an in-depth, sixweek summer program, plus afterschool and weekend programs throughout the year, Horizons students (and teachers) experience the freedom of new ways of learning. And it’s an incredible return on the investment. Said one Bridgeport, CT public school teacher, “If I can get two or three Horizons students in my class during the school year, it improves everything for everybody. It changes the class dynamic, and it changes how all of my students think about themselves and about their future.” It should come as no surprise that Horizons high school students have a 99% graduation rate, compared to a much lower rate for their same-income peers. And 91% of them go on to college or other post-secondary education. What’s next for Horizons? Smith would like to see the Horizons model extend to as many students and families who need it, and plans are already underway to explore new ways of scaling up. A retrospective study, looking at multiple school districts whose students attend Horizons, is also getting underway, and the results should go a long way toward better understanding how and why Horizons works. Because Horizons programs are tuition-free, Horizons is funded almost entirely through private philanthropy. Behind every lowincome child who improves his or her reading and math skills, learns to swim, gains confidence, and discovers a whole new world of possibility through Horizons, there are donors who make it all possible. The opportunity gap is real. But luckily, so is Horizons, and the private resources it harnesses to help low-income students create community, continuity, and a way to envision, and pursue, a brighter future. You can learn more about Horizons and its programs, and how you can help, at horizonsnational.org W E STO N MA G A Z I N E G ROUP.COM
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SMITH COLLEGE PRECOLLEGE SUMMER PROGRAMS Northampton, MA
For talented young women entering grades 9, 10, 11 and 12 in fall 2017 RISD Smith College Precollege Summer programs offer intellectually Founded in 1877, Rhode Island School of Design (or “RIZ-dee” for the stimulating and unique opportunities for high school girls who wish acronym RISD) is one of the oldest and best-known colleges of art and design in the U.S. The college is located in Providence, Rhode Island, which offers its own vibrant art scene and is conveniently located between two other major cultural centers: Boston and New York. Students at RISD access the institution’s one-of-a-kind Edna W. Lawrence Nature Lab, RISD Museum featuring more than 86,000 works of fine and decorative art and the RISD Fleet Library, recently named by Travel + Leisure as one of America’s most beautiful college libraries. Pre-College Each summer, 400+ high school students from around the world come to RISD for a comprehensive introduction to the college art school experience. Definitely not an arts camp, the six-week residential Pre-College program is focused, serious and challenging. Students experience the core elements of a RISD education – critical thinking and artmaking – in foundation drawing and design courses, critical studies in art, and a concentration in one of 21 diverse majors. RISD Pre-College students have varied backgrounds and choose the program for many reasons: to find out if the arts is the right choice for them, to further pursue their art or to build their portfolio for college applications. Whatever the catalyst, students attending RISD Pre-College have one thing in common–they are passionate about to pursue their academic interests in the classroom and beyond. art and design and are seeking an incomparable arts education and Annually, these programs offer 250 young women the freedom to explore challenging and intriguing subjects, to strengthen their summer experience. precollege.risd.edu college applications, and to increase their exposure to the Smith Summer Studies RISD’s Summer Studies program in the visual arts and design undergraduate experience while living and studying with other encompasses a wide spectrum of interests to meet the needs of motivated and ambitious students from around the world. The beginning, intermediate and advanced students. Students from program offerings include Summer Science and Engineering, colleges and universities around the world, as well as art and design Women’s Writing, Discovering Women’s History, Field Studies for professionals interested in new creative experiences, are drawn to Sustainable Futures, and a College Admission Workshop. Each summer, Smith welcomes to these programs young women RISD’s vibrant artistic community. Scores of accomplished, award-winning artists, designers and from many nationalities and diverse racial and socio-economic educators – including members of RISD’s degree program faculty – backgrounds who together form an extraordinary intellectual teach in the summer programs. Courses include introductions to fine community. The learning environment is hands-on, collaborative, art fundamentals such as drawing and painting, as well as specialized exploratory, challenging and rich in role models. Professors who areas of study such as architecture and industrial design, or graphic are world-class scholars offer personal attention in the classroom design, as offered through the Summer Institute of Graphic Design while encouraging students’ interests and passions and helping them Studies. In addition, RISD Global Summer Programs offer travel develop new academic skills. Here young women are taken seriously and inspired to excel— learning opportunities for students interested in understanding the as scholars, scientists, leaders. role of art and design in various cultures. smith.edu/summer/contact.php Whether augmenting current college curriculum or broadening professional skills, RISD Summer Studies offers students a unique, intense and exceptional learning experience. risd.edu/summer Providence, RI
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Global citizenship & leadership programs in the developing world since 1993 Mapmakers once drew Dragons to represent lands unknown. Bold explorers who ventured beyond the map’s edge were said to go “where there be dragons”… Where There Be Dragons is the leader in cross-cultural education. We offer 4/6 week high school summer programs and 3 month Gap Year semester courses for students ages 15-22. On every course, a team of 3 experienced instructors guides students off the map’s edge to engage them in an intensive exploration of place and of self in 17 different countries around the world. We are dedicated to cross-cultural education because we believe that future leaders will be required to think beyond border and tribe when considering the affects of resource scarcity on a global community. Our summer and semester programs are designed to give young adults the cross-cultural competencies and self awareness to be active participants in this conversation. What makes a Dragons course different? A Dragons course is agile. We hire experts. With an average of 4+ years of in-country experience, Dragons Instructors are able to communicate in local dialects and offer expert excellent adult mentorship throughout the student experience. Cultural fluency allows instructor teams to manage responsive itineraries and capitalize on unexpected learning opportunities. A Dragons course is bold. We don’t charter buses and when possible we stay with families rather than in hotels. We believe that traveling “close to the ground” allows us to connect more intimately across cultures. We welcome a crowded public bus or an unexpected cup of tea as a learning opportunity. A Dragons course is instructor-driven. Individual instructor teams collaborate to design a customized course itinerary based on their personal in-country experience and the interests of their incoming student group. This offers students a unique voice in the course design process and it offers our instructors the opportunity to be creative as they execute their own vision. A Dragons course is not designed to be easy. It is designed to challenge every student and offer unique insights into the critical global issues of our time. Going ‘where there be dragons’ takes courage… we still go there. Will you? Toll Free: 1-800-982-9203 For more information: info@wheretherebedragons.com
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL SUMMER PROGRAMMES SUMMER PROGRAMMES FOR UNDERGRADUATES, GRADUATES AND ADULT LEARNERS
Over the centuries, the University of Cambridge has helped to shape and change the world through innovative ideas and groundbreaking discoveries: 96 of its affiliates have won Nobel Prizes. The University’s International Summer Programmes (9 July–19 August 2017) offer a heady mixture of tradition and innovation, as new and returning students absorb the atmosphere of this remarkable place, learning from some of its finest academics – and from each other. The programmes have a reputation for excellent teaching, fascinating courses, and intriguing lectures. Every year, graduates, © JAMESAPPLETON.CO.UK undergraduates and other adults of all ages and backgrounds bring their learning and life experience to the classroom. There is no shortage of new ideas and opinions. Over 170 courses make up our open-access programmes: Science, Literature, Shakespeare, Creative Writing, Ancient and Classical Worlds, History, Medieval Studies and Interdisciplinary. Some students stay for all six weeks, others just for one or two. The Interdisciplinary Programme comprises VALLEY FORGEthree MILITARY independent ACADEMY AND COLLEGEtwoweek terms, which allow for two-, four- and six-week study periods. You can focus on courses in the same discipline, or choose courses in different subject fields. The three-week English Law and Legal Methods Programme is primarily for lawyers and law students with no knowledge of the English legal system. Adding to the academic experience, you can choose to stay in one of four historic Cambridge Colleges. Each is different in character, but all offer a warm welcome and the opportunity to meet fellow students studying other subjects. Participants become familiar with Cambridge in a way that few are privileged to experience as they enjoy meals in magnificent dining halls and have time to discover a city that tourists seldom see. Long, light summer days provide opportunities to explore the beautiful Colleges, visit the many museums and art galleries, relax in a punt on the river, or share a traditional English tea in nearby Grantchester. In the evenings there are talks, concerts and ceilidhs (traditional folk dances). At weekends, you can join excursions to Shakespeare plays at Stratford-upon-Avon and the Globe Theatre, and visit Hampton Court Palace and other heritage sites. Our Programmes offer a rich and rewarding mix of range, teaching quality, academic rigour, accessibility, people and place. It all adds up to a winning combination of innovation and tradition: the best of both worlds. Apply online: ice.cam.ac.uk/intsummer or email intenq@ice.cam.ac.uk
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{ I N D EPE N D E N T S C H OO L G U I D E } THE COOPER UNION ALBERT NERKEN SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING SUMMER STEM PROGRAM New York, NY
New York City is positioning itself as a leader in engineering innovation and has seen a dramatic rise in tech startups in recent years. The Albert Nerken School of Engineering at the Cooper Union has been preparing high school students to pursue undergraduate careers in science, engineering, technology, and mathematics (STEM) fields for over 25 years. The Summer STEM Program is an intensive, six-week experience that immerses students in hands-on engineering design and problem-solving, thereby placing students on the right track for careers in technological innovation. Students work closely with Cooper Union instructors and teaching assistants at the forefront of engineering education. Projects range broadly and include robotics, digital fabrication, computer programming and app development, engineering entrepreneurship, biomedical and genetic engineering, improved urban infrastructure, and even racecar design. Faculty and teaching assistants from the departments of civil, chemical, electrical, and mechanical engineering provide students with foundational knowledge and expert guidance to address real-world problems in their respective disciplines of expertise. Students also attend workshops on oral presentation skills, technical writing, career counseling, and college admissions. They are given access to Cooper Union’s library resources, computer facilities, and laboratories to perform their research, design, analysis, and prototyping. Typically, projects include at least one field trip to a local museum, exhibition, or gallery to enhance the students’ experience. This program culminates with each group submitting a technical paper or comprehensive website summarizing their research and design, and presenting their work to an audience of invited guests. To recognize their successful completion of the program students will receive a certificate of achievement from the Albert Nerken School of Engineering. Program Timing: July 10th – August 17th, 9:30 am to 3:30 pm Monday-Thursday Location: The Cooper Union New Academic Building at 41 Cooper Square, New York, NY 10003 Eligibility: Current high school sophomores and juniors living and going to school in the Greater NYC area Find out more at: summer-stem.cooper.edu Contact us with questions: summerSTEM@cooper.edu
PRE-COLLEGE PROGRAMS AT BROWN UNIVERSITY: SUMMER 2017 Providence, RI
A True Residential College Experience Brown’s Pre-College Programs attract serious college-bound students from around the world. As a student, you’ll live in a Brown University residence hall, eat at a Brown dining hall, and join your fellow students on The College Green—just as you would if you were a Brown undergraduate. You will be surrounded by peers from diverse backgrounds and cultures—all sharing a passion for high-level academics and a desire to succeed at a selective institution like Brown BROWN UNIVERSITY MAIN GREEN PHOTO BY KARL DOMINEY
University. A student who completes a Pre-College course is better prepared, more confident, and better positioned to succeed during one of the biggest transitions of his or her life: the move to college. Brown University: 250 Years of Academic Excellence Brown is known in the Ivy League for an innovative open curriculum that challenges students to be actively engaged in their own intellectual development. Pre-College Programs are an opportunity to explore this stimulating learning environment. Academics are at the program’s core, with more than 300 courses in one- to seven-week sessions on campus, online and abroad. Dive deeper into a subject you love or a new area of learning you may never have considered. You will face exciting challenges and accomplish more than you can imagine. Come to Brown Pre-College Programs to experience college life, prepare for academic success, and make new friends from around the world. brown.edu/summer
{ I N D EPE N D E N T S C H OO L G U I D E } SUMMER PRE-COLLEGE PROGRAM AT WAGNER COLLEGE Staten Island, NY
Be Part of the City The Summer Pre-College Program at Wagner College invites ambitious high school sophomores, juniors, and seniors to become Wagner students for the summer with a unique opportunity to explore the greatest city in the world, New York City. If you are adventurous, highly motivated, and passionate about making a difference in the world, Wagner College is where you belong. As a Pre-College student, you will experience college-level academics in a small class setting. Our instructors are all experts in their fields and are fully committed to sharing their expertise, passion, and experience with all students. Ranging from one to three-week programs, each course will help you get a jump on your college education. The precollege program is designed to challenge your critical thinking and problem solving skills, both in the classroom and during exciting field trips. Rather than focusing on one subject, each academic program track is paired with a course in a different discipline. Programs Offered From July 10 to July 28, students will have an opportunity to earn up to 6 college credits in programs including Pre-Med and Science, Music Production, Filmmaking & Video Production, History of New York City, Musical Theatre and Stage Craft Intensive. Living at Wagner Residential students will have the added benefit of experiencing campus life as an independent student while forming new friendships. When not in class, you will be able to explore the vibrant New York City. In addition, you will have the opportunity to meet with college counselors who will help prepare you for the challenges of the college admission process. Dollar for dollar, the tuition for the Summer Pre-College Program is a substantial savings of more than half the regular cost of college credit courses at Wagner College and similar institutions. But the real value lies in the independence learned, confidence gained, and sense that you are on your way towards being college ready. The Wagner College Difference Immerse yourself in a curriculum incorporating both classroom and off-campus experiences that models the nationally-recognized undergraduate curriculum, The Wagner Plan for the Practical Liberal Arts, where “Learning by Doing” is the focus. It is the bridge that connects your experiences in class, across campus, and around New York City to your specific goals for tomorrow. For additional information, call 718-390-3221 Email lifelong-learning@wagner.edu wagner.edu/pre-college
BOSTON COLLEGE Chestnut Hill, MA
Boston College, the first institution of higher education to operate in the city of Boston, is today among the nation’s foremost universities, a leader in the liberal arts, scientific inquiry, and student formation. Grounded in the ideals that inspired our Jesuit founders, Boston College urges students to look inward but always to reach out—to develop their minds and talents to the fullest and use them in service to others. The Woods College of Advancing Studies The Woods College of Advancing Studies, which is located on Boston College’s beautiful Chestnut Hill campus, is expanding Boston College’s mission of education and social justice through unique undergraduate and graduate programs designed to accommodate non-traditional students and pre-college programs, which introduce high school students to scholarship and life as a college student. Founded in 1929 as the fourth school at Boston College, Woods College offers evening, Saturday, online, and hybrid online and on campus courses to 800 students each semester. The Boston College Experience for High School Students The Boston College Experience (BCE) run through the Woods College provides motivated high school students the opportunity to live and learn as students at Boston College. Through adherence to our Jesuit mission, our programs focus on exposing students to a rich and rewarding college experience through coursework, extracurricular activities and reflection. Built into the programs are activities that help to prepare students for their college search and the transition into college life. Summer 2017 Pre-college We have a variety of programs running six, three and two weeks in length. You may study subjects like forensic science, psychology, creative writing, math, and many more. Considering applying to Boston College? Try us out this summer and get a taste of life on the Heights! For details, and to apply, please visit our website: bc.edu/schools/summer/bce/
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{ I N D EPE N D E N T S C H OO L G U I D E } SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN SUMMER PROGRAMS Atlanta, Savannah, GA and Hong Kong
This summer, spark your imagination while exploring life as an art and design student with pre-college programs at SCAD, The University for Creative Careers. With remarkable resources and inspired settings, expert faculty and diverse locations in Atlanta, Hong Kong and Savannah, SCAD is the perfect place to create, learn and grow. SCAD Rising Star Open to rising high school seniors Ready for a firsthand SCAD student experience? This challenging five-week program awards college credit and enhances portfolios with university-level coursework. Participants enroll in two classes and receive individualized instruction from SCAD professors, preparing them for their college journeys. All SCAD Rising Star participants have access to cutting-edge academic resources. From classrooms and computer labs to studios and production suites, students develop and complete their assignments using state-of-the-art technology and materials. Residential program participants live alongside fellow artists in SCAD residence halls and partake in engaging activities each week to get to know their peers, explore SCAD and discover area attractions. Students may also take advantage of SCAD libraries, galleries, theaters and bookstores. For more information, visit scad.edu/rs Session dates: Atlanta: June 18–July 21, 2017 Hong Kong: June 25–July 28, 2017 / Savannah: June 18–July 21, 2017 SCAD Summer Seminars Open to rising high school sophomores, juniors and seniors Cultivate your creativity and meet peers from all over the world during weeklong art and design workshops. SCAD Summer Seminars participants choose two seminars (one in Hong Kong) from a host of disciplines, including animation, architecture, fashion, jewelry, photography and more, and create tangible work displayed in a closing exhibition. Workshops are taught by SCAD professors, alumni or select graduate students in small class sizes. Demonstrations, lectures, studio work and daily social and cultural activities provide an authentic experience of SCAD student life in the city. For more information, visit scad.edu/sss Session dates Atlanta: Session I: June 25–30, 2017 / Session II: July 9–14, 2017 Session III: July 23–28, 2017 Hong Kong (nonresidential only): Session I: July 3–7, 2017 Session II: July 17–21, 2017 / Session III: July 24–28, 2017 Savannah: Session I: June 25–30, 2017 / Session II: July 9–14, 2017 Session III: July 16–21, 2017 / Session IV: July 23–28, 2017 Session V: July 30–Aug. 4, 2017 Register for SCAD summer programs in Atlanta, Hong Kong and Savannah at scad.edu/summer For more information, call 912.525.5100 or 800.869.7223 and email admission@scad.edu 194
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SUMMER AT SARAH LAWRENCE Bronxville, NY
At Sarah Lawrence we believe in the power of exploration and reflection to open up new worlds. That’s why students come to our summer programs – to tap into a creative space that enables them to share a powerful story, through writing, film, or social justice activism. Each summer, over one hundred high school students come to Sarah Lawrence to experience rigorous academic and creative programs. Our immersive one-, three-, and five-week non-credit programs in filmmaking, creative writing and social justice activism represent the strengths and talents of our faculty, making the experience of study and creation at Sarah Lawrence accessible in the summer. The programs meet students at their current talent and skill level, helping them develop and grow through individualized attention and the creation of original work. Residential options give pre-college students a taste of living on a college campus, while non-residential options offer scheduling flexibility. Rooted in the Sarah Lawrence College tradition of one-on-one interaction, students meet individually with faculty to draw out their best, most authentic work. The Programs In partnership with the International Film Institute of New York, students in the Film Intensive spend five weeks creating an original film, learning the entire process of making a film, from screenwriting to editing. The curriculum fully engages participants from start to finish. Classes are designed to work closely together to ensure students are prepared to complete their films by the end of the program. Designed to give high school students an immersive experience of Sarah Lawrence, the Social Justice Intensive provides students theoretical, historical, and present day perspectives on issues such as class, gender, sexuality, and race. Students learn, discuss, and apply knowledge by creating their own social justice-oriented blogs and artwork. Bringing the best of Sarah Lawrence’s creative writing opportunities to high-schoolers, summer offers Writer’s Village, a writing program led by Sarah Lawrence’s celebrated writing faculty. Participants spend three weeks immersed in fiction and poetry workshops, readings, craft talks, and free writing periods that supplement learning. Original Work to Carry Forth Summer may fly by, but the experience of Sarah Lawrence stays with our students, giving each participant invaluable interpersonal connection to their faculty and peers, a creative outlet, and skills for self-expression that will prepare them for what’s next. Sarah Lawrence College Pre-College Programs Bronxville, New York SLC.EDU/ISG
{ I N D EPE N D E N T S C H OO L G U I D E } THE BOSTON LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE Wellesley, MA
The Boston Leadership Institute offers award-winning summer STEM research programs at the Dana Hall School, a premier private preparatory and boarding school located in Wellesley, MA. Students develop high-level research skills and subject matter expertise that strengthen credentials valuable for college admissions, interviews, and essays. High achieving 8th graders through rising high school seniors apply and undergo a selective admissions process. The Boston Leadership Institute was named among five top summer science programs in the country by New York Times subsidiary, about.com, in 2012 and was again included when the list was updated in 2015. The Boston Leadership Institute was named, Top 101 Best Summer Camp, appearing among three top academic summer programs on the 2013 list. Programs are led by teachers who hold major teaching awards, teach at top ranked schools, and/or hold advanced degrees from universities such as Yale, Harvard, and Princeton. Students take advantage of Boston’s prime location to visit premier research universities such as Harvard and MIT as well as world-renowned hospitals. Boston contains one of the world’s heaviest concentrations of leading biotech and pharmaceutical companies and students tour these as well. Graduates have been accepted by top universities all over the world, including Yale, Dartmouth, McGill, Tufts, Columbia, Michigan, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, and Cornell. Students from 35 states and 10 foreign countries enjoyed hands-on research programs last summer. Comparable numbers of males and females attend. Dana Hall is located in Wellesley, MA, one of Boston’s most affluent suburbs, and is a 7 minute walk to the commuter rail providing access to downtown Boston. Fully equipped science labs contain state-ofthe-art features. For students choosing to board, dormitories are air-conditioned and contain kitchens. The beautifully landscaped campus contains beautiful playing fields, tennis courts, and basketball courts. The indoor recreational complex contains a 21,000-square-foot gymnasium with two NCAA regulation-size basketball courts; a threelane, suspended indoor track; an Aquatics Center featuring a 25-yard, six-lane pool; squash courts; and a large exercise room with pond-views. Boarding students also enjoy weekend trips to Boston, the second most popular tourist destination in the country and a magnet for students. Three-week STEM research programs are offered in Applied Physics Research; Biological Research; Biomedical and Surgical Research; Biomedical Research: Contagious Disease; Biomedical Research: Genetics and Clinical Trials; Chemistry Research; Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry Research; Engineering Research; Marine Biology; Neuroscience Research; and STEM Entrepreneurship. Visit our website, bostonleadershipinstitute.com or call 617 283-4825.
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MULTICULTURALISM IN THE ARAB WORLD Forging Deep Bonds in Morocco By Aidana (high school student) On the last day of our week living with a host family in Ait Ouahi, Morocco, I walked with my homestay mother to the bus that would take us to Fez. During the walk, she took my hand, and in that moment everything was said through our interlaced fingers. I realized this was not a goodbye, but the beginning of a wonderful friendship. As we walked hand-in-hand, I heard some neighborhood children running behind us. The 15 other students and I had given them English lessons and they amazed me every day by picking up the language so quickly. Some of my favorite memories were playing silly games with them as their mothers
watched in amusement. My eyes filled with tears as we hugged and said our farewells. I took in the beauty of the village and realized just how much I was going to miss it. I’ll never forget the smell of hay and lavender in the wind, the bees buzzing through the tree branches, and the view of the moon and a million stars shining in the clear night sky. The Experiment in International Living has been the leader in cross-cultural education and experiential learning for high school students since 1932. The Experiment provides summer abroad programs for students who want to connect and engage meaningfully with the richness and complexities of another country. Participants explore the host country through hands-on experiences in local communities and through the lens of a specific theme. For more information visit Experiment.org
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FUEL YOUR SUMMER Summerfuel offers personalized adventures for students seeking a summer experience like no other. Our extensive range of programs encourages independence and friendship, striking the perfect balance between learning, exploration, and fun. We’re proud of our reputation for providing a high level of attention and care, for being pioneers in our field, and for finding exciting new ways to make each student’s summer unforgettable.
Summerfuel was founded with the goal of facilitating global understanding for high school students through unique educational summer programs. Today, our name has changed, but our mission has stayed the same. We continue to offer programs that emphasize cultural engagement, travel, exploration, recreation, language study, academic enrichment, social engagement, responsibility, independence and personal growth. Students who join our challenging pre-college programs at Tufts, Berkeley, Harvard, Stanford, Georgetown and Oxford or our authentic language and cultural immersion programs in France and Spain, develop essential skills that put them ahead of the game. All of our programs are designed to broaden academic and personal horizons, and we work thoughtfully to create opportunities for a truly diverse student population. We have been offering the best, most comprehensive student adventures since 1984, and we still know what students want from their summers today. Ultimately our programs prepare students for a successful high school to college transition. Our students learn to balance academic social and extracurricular commitments. They enter college better prepared to make the most of their experience. Equally, Summerfuel offers high school students a unique way of visiting Europe. Rather than a whirlwind visit to major tourist destinations, we give students the chance to settle into one country and study its culture, language, people and traditions as an insider – not as a tourist. We invite you to join us and find out why thousands of students rate their summer with Summerfuel as their most rewarding and influential. summerfuel.com
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COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY – SUMMER 2017 New York City, NY
Columbia University’s Summer Sessions offer the opportunity to take classes or begin a certificate program from across the University. Taught by world-class faculty, courses are available in over 50 subject areas, including Arts, Business, Chemistry, Computer Science, Economics, Human Rights, International Affairs, Mathematics, Prelaw, and Statistics. Summer is a terrific time to learn something new, advance careers, and meet like-minded people in the setting of one of the world’s most vibrant cities. Each summer, Columbia attracts students already enrolled in degree programs, individuals looking to improve their knowledge in anticipation of applying for higher education programs, professionals who want to move toward the next step in their career, and seeking personal enrichment through Post baccalaureate studies. Summer students have access to the state-of-the-art student center, gym and recreational facilities, as well as one of the most renowned library collections in the nation. The varying academic needs and backgrounds of students who attend the Summer Sessions make the community one of the most diverse and dynamic on campus. Advisers help students customize a summer plan of action, whether they have their goals lined up and need a few more courses to fulfill them, or they’re starting a new career and want to deepen their knowledge in a field. Taking advantage of the resources of one of the world’s most esteemed universities can help any student reach his or her next step. Columbia University’s Summer Session 1 runs from May 22– June 30, 2017, and Summer Session 2 from July 3–August 11, 2017.. To apply, see a complete summer calendar, and learn more about summer options at Columbia, visit sps.columbia.edu/ columbiasummer In addition to classes for visiting and returning students, Columbia University’s Summer Programs for High School Students offer highachieving students the opportunity to experience college life in the Ivy League while sampling the vibrancy of New York City as well as programs in Barcelona. All programs combine academic rigor and instructional excellence with lively extracurricular offerings and careful supervision and support. To learn more and apply, visit sps.columbia.edu/hsp17
{ I N D EPE N D E N T S C H OO L G U I D E } FORDHAM UNIVERSITY SUMMER SESSION Manhattan and the Bronx
More than 250 courses at two New York campuses, in Manhattan and the Bronx Fordham University invites visiting college students and rising high school seniors to catch up or get ahead this summer. Meet your goals with day and evening classes in two convenient locations, affordable tuition rates, and top-tier instruction. Because of Fordham’s strong academic reputation, credits usually transfer easily. Looking for work experience? Fordham’s Summer in the City Internship Program helps students secure New York internships, receive credit, and make the most of their positions with valuable career guidance. Need to fulfill pre-med requirements? Fordham’s extensive offerings in biology, chemistry, physics, and mathematics help you stay on track for graduate or medical school applications. Did you switch or add a major? Core and advanced classes in every discipline can help you catch up on requirements and graduate on time. Special programs include the five-week Musical Theatre Summer Intensive, offered by Fordham’s renowned theatre department. The program includes intensive training in musical theatre, vocal technique, dance, acting, and theatre games. Classwork is brought to life by weekly attendance of Broadway, off-Broadway, and off-off Broadway shows Highlights for summer 2017: Taught by the former ambassador of Iraq to the United Nations, T. Hamid al Bayati, a course titled U.N. and Political Leadership will give students an inside track to learning about diplomacy. For those considering a career in law, the Fordham Pre-Law Institute will cover the fundamentals of the U.S. legal system and help students prepare for the law school admission process. Pre-College Program Getting serious about applying to college? Consider the advantages of taking a class at Fordham this summer: You’ll earn transferable college credits, learn something new, strengthen your college applications, and gain real college experience in the classroom and beyond so you can choose the right school for you. This program is meant for the summer between junior and senior year of high school. Think Summer, Think Fordham. Call 718-817-4665 or visit fordham.edu/summer Fordham for High School Students Pre-College Program: July 5 –August 8, 2017 Manhattan, Bronx Make the most of the summer before your senior year: Earn college credit. Enroll in one of several exciting college courses and gain experience at a top-ranked research university close to home. Strengthen your college application with a proven record of your abilities. Learn more at fordham.edu/summer
TASIS SCHOOLS’ SUMMER PROGRAMS
Explore, Dream, and Discover First-hand travel experiences serve to enrich the education and the lives of students of all ages. Attending one of the TASIS Schools’ Summer Programs enables students to expand their horizons, explore areas of interest, and make friends from around the world. England For students ages 10-17, the TASIS England Summer Programs are widely recognized for the quality and strength of its academic, sports, and travel programs set within a caring and structured community with young people from over forty countries. The program includes enrichment and academic courses such as Geometry, Creative Drawing, Sketching & 3-D Design, Fashion & Textile Design, International Business, TV Production, Photography in London, Introduction to Robotics, and more. Sports such as horseback riding, waterskiing, golf, tennis, and gliding are an integral part of the program, along with weekend trips and excursions to places of interest including London, Windsor, Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, and Bath. Switzerland Summer Programs are offered in sunny southern Switzerland for children aged 4½–18. Each summer, students from more than 50 nations come to the picturesque TASIS campus—perched on a hillside with commanding views of palm trees, Lake Lugano, and the Swiss Alps—to enjoy intensive language programs in French, German, and Italian; robust offerings in visual and performing arts (including the production of three original musicals each session); a wide variety of outdoor adventures in the region’s mountains, lakes, and rivers; and convenient access to many of Europe’s most beautiful locations. Puerto Rico For students ages 12-18, the TASIS Dorado Summer Program offers tracks in Spanish Language and Culture or Marine Life and Environmental Studies. The program makes full use of the TASIS Dorado campus in the exclusive private community of Sabanera, Dorado and the nearby Dorado Beach Club, home to JeanMichel Cousteau’s Ambassadors of the Environment organization. The wide range of excursions and activities complement the academic program. Students discover the cultural heritage and natural beauty of Puerto Rico with visits to destinations such as Old San Juan and El Yunque Tropical Rainforest. France For students ages 13-18, Les Tapies Summer Art Programs offer a unique opportunity to study drawing, painting, architecture, photography, and art history in the South of France. The program is located in a beautifully restored 17th-century hamlet with spectacular views overlooking the Rhone Valley and the French Alps. The summer art workshops are located in the heart of Europe and offer exciting excursions to a variety of incredible destinations. tasissummer.org W E STO N MA G A Z I N E G ROUP.COM
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FORK UNION MILITARY ACADEMY
MARINE MILITARY ACADEMY
Nestled in the heart of central Virginia in a beautiful rural setting, Fork Union Military Academy is a unique sanctuary for learning and achievement. Founded in 1898, Fork Union has remained true to its mission for more than a century developing and inspiring young men in a demanding college preparatory environment, and challenging them to excel in the classroom, on the athletic fields, and in their daily lives. Fork Union Military Academy’s rigorous admission standards, high academic expectations, and focus on achievement help outstanding young men develop, compete, and accomplish even more than they thought possible. In our safe and structured academic environment, based on Christian values, young men develop the qualities of character, self-discipline, respect, and leadership essential for success in life. As a private school, we can structure our curriculum (such as our unique One Subject Plan for the Upper School) to meet the needs of our students. We can preserve our single-sex environment to remove social distractions that come with a coeducational school. We can acknowledge and honor the Christian values that provide the moral compass for our daily lives. As a boarding school, we can facilitate profound and long-lasting change in the life of a young man. Structure and discipline become the norms of his life, not merely the constraints he must put up with for the relatively few hours of his school day. Responsibility and respect for others are lessons learned 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at Fork Union-not just for a few hours on weekdays. Our success shows in the lives of our graduates, whether it is our 100% college acceptance rate, the hundreds of student-athletes who have gone on to play in college and at the professional level including two Heisman Trophy winners (Vinny Testaverde and Eddie George) and twelve NFL first-round draft picks, the more than three dozen seniors earning appointments to our nation’s top service academies in the past ten years, or well-known entrepreneurs like Kevin Plank, the founder of Under Armour. We invite you to learn more about Fork Union Military Academy and all we have to offer boys in grades 7 through 12 as well as our one-year postgraduate program. Find out how your son can graduate with a high school and an Associate’s Degree through our partnership with Richard Bland Community College. Visit us at forkunion.com or call us at 800-GO-2-FUMA (800-462-3862) to learn more.
Harlingen, TX
Marine Military Academy is a college-preparatory boarding school for young men in grades 8-12 with an optional post-graduate year. Since 1965, MMA is the only private school in the world based on the traditions and values of the U.S. Marine Corps. Located in Harlingen, Texas, MMA has been home to thousands of sons from across the world and is quarters to the historic Iwo Jima Monument. MMA’s purpose is to provide a comprehensive education and inspire positive academic, physical and moral growth in every boy. To achieve this, MMA provides a structured, disciplined and distraction-free setting for cadets to focus on their studies and acquire the inner tools for lifelong success. The proven educational model at MMA helps them earn higher grades, gain self-confidence and develop into leaders. MMA was founded by Capt William A. Gary, an Arizona rancher and retired Marine Corps reservist. In the early 1960s, Capt Gary wanted to send his son to a school that embraced the ideology of the Marine Corps. He believed that the Marine Corps’ concepts of leadership, discipline and moral values could be successfully applied to a college-preparatory education. Capt Gary could not find such a school, so in 1963 he recruited a group of prominent Marines to start one. Capt Gary and his supporters learned of a defunct Air Force base in Harlingen, Texas. The military base was used to train combat navigators during World War II. The Marines envisioned the base as a campus for an all-boys, military boarding school. Capt Gary and his team then began structuring the educational laboratory that would develop today’s young men into tomorrow’s leaders. On September 9, 1965, MMA opened its doors to 58 cadets; six would comprise the first graduating class of 1966. Today, MMA is home to hundreds of young men from around the globe and is among the world’s top boarding schools for adolescent males. MMA also offers a four-week, military adventure camp for school boys ages 12-18. MMA Summer Camp is highly physical and tightly structured. In 28 days, campers participate in more than 30 military challenges and sports — from archery to mud diving, from paintball to ziplining. MMA also offers a concurrent English immersion camp where boys learn English inside and outside the classroom. To learn more about MMA or MMA Summer Camp, visit MMA-TX.org or MMA-TX.org/SummerCamp You may also contact Admissions at (956) 423-6006 or admissions@MMA-TX.org
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DAY AND BOARDING SCHOOLS
There is a leader in you. Find him at Hargrave. As the only military school in Virginia to be named a National School of Character in 2016, Hargrave Military Academy is both a nationally and internationally-recognized premier college preparatory boarding school for boys from grade seven to postgraduate. Since 1909, the academy’s four pillars of academics, spiritual growth, character development, and athletics have served as the foundation for the institution’s success. Each pillar combines to form a complete and competitive individual who understands what it takes to succeed in today’s demanding, diverse society. Character traits for life that are instilled and discussed with Cadets include: trustworthiness, commitment, punctuality, respect, honesty and citizenship. The competition for college acceptance has never been tougher, and students and their parents are constantly searching for ways to give themselves an edge in the process. Attending a military boarding school not only sets your college application apart from the rest, but it also provides the foundation for success after college and into the future. The rigorous academic curriculum and low student to teacher ratios at boarding schools prepare students for success. The Association of Boarding Schools (TABS) reports that 87% of boarding school students report being very well prepared for college academically, which is a greater percentage than those who attend private day or public schools. Accredited by the Virginia Association of Independent Schools, and nationally-accredited by AdvancED, Hargrave provides a traditional classroom experience, as well as differentiated nontraditional learning. The Academy also provides opportunities for working with fellow students on teamwork projects and hands-on applications through the General Colin Powell Leadership and Ethics Program. This one of a kind multi-faceted program combines formal academic leadership studies with practical application. Students have abundant opportunity to work through a variety of moral and ethical leadership scenarios, placing the student in the shoes of the actual decision makers and leaders. The learning process is further enhanced with the incorporation of technology via the Technology Lab, allowing students to develop their computer skills as well as also offering the chance to work independently. The curriculum includes a foundation of courses that allow students to apply to small liberal arts colleges and state institutions, to highly-selective colleges and US Service Academies. At Hargrave Military Academy, a community of educators and hardworking professionals believe that academic excellence means so much more than simply having good grades. Hargrave Military Academ 200 Military Drive, Chatham, Virginia 24531 Main 434-432-2481 Hargrave.edu
RUMSEY HALL SCHOOL
Chatham, VA
Washington, CT
Mission: Rumsey Hall School is committed to a whole child approach to education and believes that teaching academics and teaching an attitude of mind are of equal importance. The School emphasizes effort as a criterion for success and is dedicated to helping each child develop toward his or her maximum stature as an educated person, a successful member of a family and a contributing member of a community. Rumsey Hall School is an independent, coed, junior boarding and day school for boys and girls in Kindergarten through 9th Grade. Situated in the foothills of Northwest Connecticut, the campus is surrounded by beautiful wooded hills and the scenic Bantam River. The 147-acre campus features a campus center, performing arts center, art gallery, indoor and outdoor tennis courts, a stateof-the-art hockey rink, 11 academic buildings, 6 athletic fields and 9 dormitories. Students represent 24 surrounding communities, 15 states, 15 countries and 2 US Territories. Rumsey approaches education as a thoughtful balance, providing the support, nurture and care that children need while presenting appropriate academic rigor. The curriculum teaches children to read, write and calculate proficiently in preparation for the challenges that await them in secondary school and college. Rumsey students learn to be organized, acquire knowledge, and apply these traits with a relentless creativity in their independent problem solving, while embracing the idea of “honor through effort.” Rumsey Hall’s Athletic Program is based on a philosophy of honor through effort with hard work and steady effort resulting in a long tradition of success. Every student is required to participate in each of the three sports’ seasons. The program offers competitive and non-competitive sports that begin in 5th Grade through 9th Grade with several levels of teams to accommodate varying levels of skill. The close relationships that develop between coaches and players are a special part of Rumsey Athletics, contributing to the Rumsey Spirit of the Blue Dog Teams. Rumsey Hall’s dedicated faculty serve as teachers, advisors, coaches and mentors, preparing students in many disciplines within small classes, through a rewarding academic and residential life program and a wide range of athletics and extracurricular activities in a family atmosphere. Since it’s inception, the School has retained its deep sense of camaraderie and school spirit, showing honesty, kindness and respect, good sportsmanship and good citizenship. Admission Contact: Ben Tuff, Director of Admission 860-868-0535, admiss@rumseyhall.org
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AVON OLD FARMS
The Gow School is a college-prep boarding and day school for students, grades 7-12, with dyslexia and similar language-based learning disabilities. Focusing on small class sizes, 3-7 students per class, and a low 4:1 student to faculty ratio, The Gow School offers a
Nestled among Cotswold-inspired architecture on 860 acres in the Farmington Valley, Avon Old Farms stands as the leader in preparing young men for higher education. The school’s founder, Theodate Pope Riddle, was one of America’s first, successful, female architects, and she serves as the cornerstone of our school’s motto, Aspirando et Perseverando – To Aspire and to Persevere. Mrs. Riddle’s fortitude and vision in 1927 created the groundwork for an institution that challenges boys in the pursuit of knowledge and self-improvement. Throughout this process, students find unwavering support and create fraternal bonds that will last a lifetime. At the core of the Avon Old Farms experience are dedicated and passionate teachers that understand the intricacy of educating boys. Teachers demonstrate expertise in their disciplines, and they also contextualize learning; this helps students to explore meaningful roles as men in today’s complex society. Small classes allow teachers to cater to the learning needs of each individual. As relational learners, boys derive tremendous benefit from faculty that serves as advisors, teachers, mentors, and coaches. Athletics is an honored tradition at Avon Old Farms where boys learn the value of teamwork, dedication, and sportsmanship. Experienced coaches, state of the art facilities, strong competition, and countless athletes at the collegiate and professional level shoulder our athletic program. Each year, Avon Old Farms competes as one of the best programs in the United States. Avon Old Farms possesses a top-tier curriculum in visual and performing arts. Our rich and varied programs provide many opportunities for boys to express themselves creatively. From our top choral group, the Riddlers, to our exquisite visual artists, students are consistently honored on local, regional, and national levels for their talent. Avon Old Farms is a special place for young men to explore drawing, painting, singing, or acting. The College Counseling Office is fully engaged with every student, which allows us to be one of the most successful college preparatory schools in single-sex education. We identify and facilitate the proper matches between Avon students and institutions of higher learning. The foundation of Avon Old Farms, and all that the school offers, will always be rooted in our core values of brotherhood, scholarship, integrity and sportsmanship; these lessons are fundamental to success at Avon and stay with our graduates for a lifetime. Avon Old Farms School: 500 Old Farms Road, Avon, CT 06001 800-464-2866 AvonOldFarms.com
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multisensory approach to teaching that enables dyslexic students to thrive. The Gow community has a sense of belonging, of equality, and of connection born on common trials and shared triumph. Gow has a start fast, finish strong mentality and students typically start to see progress soon after they step foot in our classrooms. Progress typically comes quickly, soon after they invest themselves in the program. At the School’s core is a structured program designed to help students navigate the academic day and a daily schedule designed to keep students busy. Between a packed class schedule, after-school sports, study hall and Saturday classes, there is little unprogrammed time. The School is settled on a 120 acre campus which gives our students plenty of room to learn and play. Boarding school life does not always allow lots of free time, but it has plenty of room for fun. It is precisely because students are so involved – playing sports, going on trips, and hanging out with each other – they get the most out of the rich residential experience. In July, the school’s co-ed summer program is five weeks of learning and fun for ages 8-16! The Gow School Summer Program is for students who have been experiencing academic difficulties, or have been diagnosed with dyslexia or specific learning disabilities. The Summer Program runs from the end of June to early August with morning academics, afternoon fun and games and weekend adventures! The Gow School Summer Program gives students academic tools and self-confidence they can take with them wherever they go; to the classroom and beyond. By combining a structured program and environment with flexibility, individualization, and room for fun, Gow provides a rich school experience that is precisely what dyslexic students need to learn and to enjoy learning. gow.org
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THE GOVERNOR’S ACADEMY
Founded in 1930, Forman School is a coeducational college preparatory school for grades 9-12 and PG exclusively dedicated to empowering bright students who learn differently. Forman’s expert faculty, with specific training in teaching students with learning differences, deliver unparalleled education for bright, academically motivated students with identified learning differences such as dyslexia, other language-based learning disabilities, executive function difficulties, or attention deficits. Forman develops the whole student, based on his or her unique learning profile, so that every graduate becomes an educated, confident, self-advocate throughout life. In a traditional boarding school setting, students are guided in learning strategies by specialists who are also coaches, mentors, and dorm parents. With a student-faculty ratio of 4:1, students move outside their comfort zone and explore new ideas with the support of others in this close-knit community. Forman’s 100% college placement rate reflects the reignited passion for learning our students experience at the School. Hailing from 23 states and 15 countries, the diverse community interacts closely in a familystyle atmosphere with an active student life program. On the School’s picturesque New England campus in Litchfield, Connecticut, Forman’s 210 students make use of the 125-acre grounds including four athletic fields, a gymnasium, rock climbing wall, state-of-the-art science center, Ingenuity Lab, and dormitories. A new Visual and Performing Arts Center is currently being built and will enhance Forman’s artistic opportunities beginning this fall. Forman’s Institute for Cognition and Learning is a leader in efforts to raise awareness about different learning styles and improve outcomes for students with learning differences. Through individual tutoring utilizing research-based strategies, each student is given the attention, skills, and confidence to succeed. As a one-to-one iPad school, students use assistive technology and apps for brainstorming, reading, and organization. Outside of the classroom, executive function skills are improved through lifestyle changes such as planning a routine in the morning, organizing dorm rooms, and initiating tasks like homework. Outside of the standard academic year, Forman also offers a four-week Summer Program for students who would benefit from an individualized approach to learning entering grades 7-11. Students attend classes and workshops, where they discover their learning styles, self-advocacy, research-proven strategies, and executive function skills. Afternoon activities include jewelry making, boat building, athletics, ropes course, theater, horseback riding, fishing, and more. Forman recognizes that learning is an active, dynamic process, and a multi-sensory approach is applied in the classroom. Learn more at formanschool.org
The oldest continuously operating boarding school in the United States. College preparatory, coed, grades 9-12, boarding and day. From our first headmaster in 1763 who encouraged students to study aloud rather than insisting on the traditional silence in the classroom, we’ve embraced change to remain relevant. Because this isn’t just about the next four years. It’s about the promise of what can happen after that. We’ve always wanted more for our students. Citizen leaders Accountability, responsibility, and cooperation form an unwritten curriculum at Governor’s that has produced generations of leaders. Our earliest graduates shaped a young nation. Today graduates continue to lead as CEOs, policymakers, engineers, entrepreneurs, physicians, teachers, scientists, and more. An environmental focus What does innovation mean at Governor’s? Fish radio frequency tags, for starters. Our Massachusetts location four miles from the Atlantic Ocean is a testing ground for environmental stewardship and research. A 5:1 student-faculty ratio Our faculty members are interesting, passionate people, including editors of award-winning journals, National Science Foundation grant recipients, nationally recognized artists, an Olympic rower, and a bestselling author. All are dedicated to bringing out the best in teenagers. Intellect We challenge each student to ponder, process, and shape the discourse in small, discussion-based classes. The academic program includes honors, advanced, and AP classes in all departments, as well as research partnerships with Harvard and MIT, demanding standards in writing and critical analysis, internships, and five languages to study. Creativity Outstanding facilities and an excellent faculty support a wide range of arts opportunities, from innovative freshman courses to advanced study in art and architecture, film and photography, ceramics, music, drama, technical theater and dance. Strength Governor’s athletic teams are known for their championship titles. Our facilities rival those at small colleges, and we’re home to some of the best athletes in Massachusetts, many of whom go on to nationally ranked college teams. A global view Governor’s invaluable global outlook inspires exchange and study abroad programs, course offerings and class activities. Motivated students from 23 states and 19 countries—two thirds boarders and one third day—form a unique synthesis of cultures in a small town setting. Helping young people discover who they are and who they could be is what we’re all about at Governor’s. Always has been. Always will be. Always Governor’s. Arrange a visit: 978.465.1763 or admissions@govsacademy.org 1 Elm Street, Byfield, MA 01922 thegovernorsacademy.org
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New York, NY/ Whippany, NJ/ Norwalk, CT
People don’t always learn in predictable ways, which is why Winston Preparatory School (WPS) is committed to reaching all kinds of learners. Students often come to one of our campuses in the tri‐state area after struggling in traditional school settings. Many of these students, ranging from fourth to twelfth grade (and their new Transitions program young adults!), have been diagnosed with learning disabilities such as dyslexia, executive functioning difficulties, ADHD, and nonverbal learning disorders. At WPS, the faculty assesses and understands students where they are, helps them advance at a meaningful pace, and teaches them to move forward independently. The research‐based education model used by the WPS faculty has been shown to profoundly expand the possibilities for students with learning disabilities. Providing a fundamental shift in the process of education at every level of the school organization, WPS faculty and leading educational experts have designed and implemented a model that reflects the best practices in the field, as well as research in learning, teaching, neuropsychology, and school climate. The results? Our specialized academic process typically results in more than 90 percent of WPS students being admitted to college. WPS’s mission is to “facilitate the independence and meaningful participation of students with specific learning disorders through a Continuous Feedback System that develops skill acquisition and the Qualities of a Sustainable and Independent Learner. WPS also seeks to influence the field of education with research and implementation models that achieve these ends, in this way.” This means that the leaders and faculty at WPS are working within a model that requires educators and students to assess, understand, and design curriculum (and all aspects of the school experience) based on individualized understanding, and to continually re‐evaluate the program. This model focuses not only on skill development, but also the development of characteristics that lead to independence such as resilience, self‐advocacy, and self‐ regulation. The science behind WPS is how we understand and help students. To help students with learning problems we must be experts in learning and cognition. We are also compelled to be active leaders in bridging the gap between research and practice. At WPS we research so that we can understand, we understand so that we can individualize each child’s school experience, and we do so in a way that makes this school all about them. As we understand them as individuals, they begin to feel understood–and this is where the Winston Prep magic begins. Please visit: winstonprep.edu to learn more and join us for an upcoming Open House.
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FUSION ACADEMY
Fusion Academy is a revolutionary private middle and high school where positive relationships unlock academic potential. We are a non-traditional community of learning with the smallest class size possible: one student and one teacher per classroom. This allows us to personalize and customize curriculum for each student’s unique strengths, interests, and learning style. We are also able to personalize scheduling; students may enroll at any time (even during the summer) and take classes at a time of day that works best for them. Our supportive staff and campus environment provide a safe space for students to flourish emotionally, socially, and academically. It includes a state-of-the-art recording studio and a mixed-media art studio for students to express their creativity. Our Homework Café® is where students complete all their homework before they leave for the day with help and supervision from a teacher. Classes are offered at three levels: essential, college prep, and honors. From algebra to yoga and everything in between, we have a wide variety of classes to choose from. Students can enroll full-time, take classes for credit, or utilize our tutoring services. In addition to academics, we partner with outside therapeutic professionals to support students’ emotional health and help foster a balanced life. While it’s impossible to put our students into categories, we generally serve students with the following backgrounds: ADHD, accelerated/gifted learners, dyslexia, mild learning differences, social challenges, school anxiety, or students with challenging schedules. Students who attend Fusion have one thing in common: traditional school isn’t working. Fusion has over 30 campuses across the country in California, Connecticut, Illinois, New Jersey, New York and Texas. This year we will also be opening schools in Washington D.C. and Virginia. To find your nearest campus, visit FusionAcademy.com/campuses. Chevie, a parent at our Dallas, TX campus, says “I’m so grateful for Fusion and what its done for my son. He suffers from anxiety and some learning differences… [The staff has] done an amazing job of getting to know him and teaching him in a way that engages him. The entire staff welcomes him and he finally feels like he fits in. He loves the one on one with the teachers and is able to learn at his pace. Fusion has saved his life and brought happiness back into his school world.” Connect with us at FusionAcademy.com to learn more.
{ I N D EPE N D E N T S C H OO L G U I D E } THE IDEAL SCHOOL OF MANHATTAN
FRENCH-AMERICAN SCHOOL
The IDEAL School of Manhattan is the only independent, inclusion school in NYC dedicated to creating a diverse community in kindergarten through grade twelve. IDEAL’s mission is to affirm and accept the full identities of all people, while inspiring academic excellence, creative leadership, and a desire to build a more just and equitable world. Experienced teachers challenge and inspire students to grow as individuals and leaders, in and out of the classroom. Within the context of collaborative and welcoming community and classrooms, the IDEAL education is tailored to each learner. By teaching in collaborative teams, keeping class sizes small, identifying each student’s learning style, differentiating instruction, and offering a range of classes as students progress through the program, creativity and critical thinking skills are fostered. A robust curriculum, focus on cooperative learning, unique enrichment programs, and partnerships with cultural institutions ensure a strong academic foundation. In Lower School, general educators and learning specialists coteach small classes, allowing exciting and differentiated lessons, providing flexible groupings, and guiding students to have fun while expressing themselves with confidence and clarity in our artsinfused, interdisciplinary curriculum. In Middle School, students gain confidence, take healthy risks, and develop academic skills through a core program that challenges and inspires each learner, including foundational to advanced classes with faculty that includes both learning specialists and general educators where appropriate. The High School gives students an opportunity to map a personalized academic program and goals with an advisor while participating in athletics and arts. The curriculum becomes more individualized with a range of foundational and advanced courses, and students participate in IDEAL’s three-year signature RISE Program, in which they study the challenges and opportunities of groups in NYC and pursue an internship and research project. IDEAL’s commitment to inspiring excellence in all students cultivates empathy and collaboration. With the confidence that comes from being known and celebrated, students not only strive for excellence in their own academic and personal pursuits, but they also support and cheer on their peers in their endeavors and accomplishments. Traditions such as Community Time and Upper School Advisory, in combination with our integrated social justice curriculum, teach students to work as a team and equip them with the skills to advocate for themselves and others. IDEAL nurtures kind and joyful students who are prepared to give back to the community and to be empathetic and thoughtful leaders in our 21st century society. TheIDEALSchool.org 314 W. 91st Street, NYC, 10024 (212) 769-1699
The French-American School of New York is the only school in the tristate area offering its students to prepare either for the International Baccalaureate (DP program) or for the French Baccalaureate, in addition to graduating them with a New York State High School Diploma. This international and bilingual school located in Westchester County, NY provides a global education to approximately 850 students in Nursery (3 years old) through Grade 12. The school boasts a bilingual immersion program in Nursery (3 years old) through Kindergarten, bringing children fluency in French and English. In grades 1 through 10, students follow a rigorous bilingual program which combines and exceeds the standards of official French and best-in-class American curricula. In grades 11 and 12, students have the option to take either the IB Diploma Program track taught in English or bilingually, or to continue with the French Baccalaureate track taught in French or bilingually. The strong Arts, Music and Athletics programs along with many clubs ensure a well-rounded education and encourage leadership. The community of teachers and students represents over 50 nationalities, and the fabric of the school is one of tolerance, acceptance, and appreciation of diversity. French and American school life traditions are mixed, creating a warm and engaging experience for the students. A strong Community Service program, international educational trips, and a team of counselors who interact daily with the students contribute to the development of balanced and caring individuals. FASNY’s mission to educate internationally minded students occurs within the context of a track record of academic excellence. Its average SAT scores are well above the national and independent schools average, and its French Baccalaureate results places it at the top of the FrenchAmerican schools in North America. Each year FASNY sends students to the best colleges and universities. Since its first graduating class in 2009, its acceptance list has included: Cambridge, Columbia, Harvard, Imperial College, London School of Economics, MIT, Oxford, Princeton, Sciences-Po, Stanford, UC Berkeley, University College London and Yale. FASNY is accredited by the International Baccalaureate Organization, the French Ministry of Education, and the New York State Association of Independent Schools. With campuses located in Westchester County, FASNY is just 20 miles north of Manhattan (35 minutes from Grand Central Station by train) and 9 miles south of Greenwich, Connecticut. fasny.org admissions@fasny.org (914) 250-0401
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Hopkins is an independent, coeducational day school of 714 students in grades 7-12. Located on a 108-acre campus overlooking New Haven, the School takes pride in its distinguished faculty and a dedicated staff. We define ourselves as a community of civility and learning, one that educates students from diverse backgrounds to a full measure of their talents and humanity. Together, we seek to: • develop in our young people the habits of mind of scholars as the foundation for a lifelong love of learning • foster the courage to live and think as distinct individuals who embrace their responsibilities in the larger world • expose every student to the deep satisfaction that derives from service to others • enlarge the educational experience to include the creative joy and aesthetic sensibility of the artist, and the vitality and competitive spirit of the athlete • provide, through the School’s advisers, the wisdom and goodwill necessary to guide our young people to confident self-reliance • nurture the development of character essential to leading a rich and purposeful life These tenets are made manifest in the daily life of the School and in the hopes and ambitions we share as an educational community. Taken as a whole, these values provide us both definition and direction as we strive to fulfill Hopkins’ mission. Hopkins School, 986 Forest Rd, New Haven, CT 06515 hopkins.edu
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The Beacon School is an individualized day school for intellectually curious students in grades 3-12. Centrally located in Stamford’s historic Hubbard Heights neighborhood, Beacon features an enriched educational program with small classes, a 4:1 studentteacher ratio, and an inspirational mission to help students “find their own light.” “Families come to Beacon because they are looking for a school where their child can truly thrive as an individual,” says Head of School John Manganiello. “From our personalized academic, enrichment, and support programs to our nurturing, studentcentered environment, we celebrate kids for who they are while challenging them to realize their full potential.” With endless opportunities to explore topics beyond the curriculum, engage in hands-on learning, and work creatively and collaboratively, Beacon can be a revelation for students who are disengaged or under challenged in traditional classrooms. Its academic model encompasses a range of needs to help students build skills while keeping even the most advanced learners challenged. Enrichment programs abound; students design their individualized schedules by selecting from a menu of activities to complement their core academics, including theater, robotics, creative writing, computer programming, scientific research, visual and performing arts, and much more. Faculty members are known for being enthusiastic mentors, combining subject expertise with a genuine enthusiasm for lifelong learning. Beacon welcomes students who break the mold, including those who need access to above-gradelevel material in areas of strength as well as targeted support programs in areas of weakness. One common focus is executive functions and study skills. According to Mr. Manganiello, “I meet many bright, curious students who love learning but struggle to plan, organize, and prioritize the countless tasks required in classrooms today. At Beacon, these students benefit from our unique combination of strengths-based education and skills-based coaching.” Accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Beacon prides itself on being a school where students are free to be themselves, take risks, and explore passions. Equal emphasis is placed on challenge, support, compassion, and the development of higher order thinking skills. Through responsive instruction in a community of inquisitive learners, Beacon students achieve academic excellence while following their own paths. The Beacon School 111 West North Street, Stamford, Connecticut (203) 200-7244 info@beacon-ct.org www.beacon-ct.org
{ I N D EPE N D E N T S C H OO L G U I D E } TRINITY-PAWLING SCHOOL Pawling, NY
The goal of a Trinity-Pawling education is to unlock the potential for greatness that exists in each boy. The School pursues this goal through a vigorous learning environment that emphasizes 21st century skills such as innovation, creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking. A commitment to experiential learning acknowledges the research that has proven to be successful for boys. The camaraderie of “brotherhood” is enhanced by educators and students who are dedicated to building a culture of excellence and honor. The Trinity-Pawling learning experience combines a timeless commitment to character with a dedication to prepare young men for an ever-changing world. Trinity-Pawling is located on 150 acres overlooking the Hudson River Valley, just 90 minutes north of New York City. The Campus includes turf and grass athletic fields, an all-weather track, tennis courts, squash courts, hockey rink, a contemporary art center with 400-seat theater, and a state-of-the-art science and technology wing of the academic building. A 20,000 square foot expansion to our current athletic facility is currently underway. Trinity-Pawling’s new Smith Field House is expected to open by the winter of 2017. With 90% of faculty living on campus, students learn and grow in a close-knit community. Students are guided by teachers who are also their coaches and dorm parents, establishing strong facultystudent collaboration and providing for 24/7 learning. TrinityPawling serves 300 boys in grades 7-12 and offers a postgraduate program. The School offers over 100 academic courses and 20 AP courses, competition in 13 New England Founders League sports, and a diverse menu of activities, clubs, and trips allowing students to explore many interests. Trinity-Pawling’s Center for Learning Achievement houses a number of support services to assist students in reaching their academic potential. Specific instructional programs are available for students who have language-based learning differences, and for students with executive function difficulties. Inspired by inquiry, our Learning Labs are the unofficial help desks of Trinity-Pawling. One of the School’s most distinctive attributes is the Effort System, which began 45 years ago. Each boy at Trinity-Pawling is assessed for the effort he devotes to a given endeavor: academics, athletics, dormitory responsibilities, civic engagement, attendance, and extracurricular programs. The learning objective inherent in this ethos of effort is to teach boys that the more they invest of themselves the greater their accomplishments will be. JP Burlington, Director of Admissions 845-855-4825 700 Route 22 Pawling, NY 12564 admissions@trinitypawling.org trinitypawling.org
HIGHER EDUCATION CLARK UNIVERSITY Worcester, MA
The college that changes lives – Founded in 1887, Clark is committed to scholarship and inquiry that address social and human imperatives on a global scale. Located in the heart of New England—Worcester, Massachusetts—Clark enrolls approximately 2,200 undergraduate and 1,100 graduate students and is featured in Loren Pope’s book, “Colleges That Change Lives.” Clark students are passionate about ideas, events and causes beyond themselves; they embrace issues and take action. They regard the status quo and say, “We can do better.” Transformative force in higher education – Clark has emerged as a leader in higher education. LEEP (Liberal Education and Effective Practice), our pioneering model of education, combines life-changing world and workplace experiences with a robust liberal arts curriculum. Through LEEP, you will confront complex problems, collaborate with faculty, learn directly from industry experts, and explore topics of global consequence. Internationally recognized for academics, entrepreneurship, and value – Recent rankings that acknowledge Clark’s growing reputation include U.S. News & World Report’s Best Colleges, #74 in National Universities; Forbes, #16 in America’s Most Entrepreneurial Universities; Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, #29 in Best Values in Private Colleges; and Princeton Review, #16 in Top Schools for Making an Impact. A dynamic community with global insight – You’ll be known by name and face, as the Clark student-to-faculty ratio is 10:1 and the average class size is 21 students. With approximately 900 international students, faculty members and scholars, from more than 80 countries, you will also encounter a variety of cultures, traditions, religions, political ideologies and people in the community. Some of the most popular majors at Clark are Psychology, Biology, Geography, International Development and Social Change, Political Science, and Business Management. Tuition-free Accelerated B.A./Master’s Degree Program – With its excellent graduate programs and research institutes, Clark University can offer you a unique cost-saving opportunity. If you work hard and meet the eligibility requirements, in five years you can earn both a bachelor’s and an accelerated master’s degree from one of 14 different programs with the fifth-year tuition-free. Make a difference in a world hungry for change – At Clark, you will develop creativity, adaptability, resilience, persistence, and more, which enable you to translate your passions and studies into a remarkable career and a purposeful life. You will graduate with the skills employer’s demand and the world needs, prepared to live the University’s motto: “Challenge Convention. Change Our World.” Clark University: 950 Main Street, Worcester, MA. 800/462-5275 or 508/793-7431 admissions@clarku.edu clarku.edu
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For more than 80 years, The Experiment has sent groups of young leaders abroad to build a deep understanding of critical global issues and foster cross-cultural relationships. The Experiment offers 33 programs in 25 countries, which feature themes including sustainability and the environment; arts and social change; language and cultural discovery; leadership training; and peace, politics and human rights.
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Gow is a college preparatory, boarding and day school, grades 7-12, for students with dyslexia and related language based learning disabilities. Gow provides the right environment and the right tools for dyslexic students to rethink the learning process and reinvent themselves. The Gow community has a sense of belonging, of equality, and of connection born through trials and shared triumphs. Come explore Gow.
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In the classroom, as well as outside, Avon Old Farms School inspires excellence. Avon Old Farms is a traditional boys school with both nationally recognized artists and athletes. The Avon experience is well-balanced. Young men feel comfortable to explore their ambitions in an inspiring environment. Learn more at www.avonoldfarms.com/admission or visit us during our
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Study at the University of Cambridge this summer Over the centuries, the University has helped to shape and change the world through groundbreaking ideas and extraordinary discoveries: 96 of its affiliates have won Nobel Prizes. Our open-access programmes reflect this mix of tradition and innovation. They are delivered at university level and geared towards undergraduates, graduates and other adults of all ages and backgrounds. Over 170 courses make up the programmes which run from one to six weeks and are taught by leading Cambridge academics and guest subject specialists. Classroom sessions are supplemented by themed plenary lectures, general-interest evening talks, visits and practicals. You can choose to stay in one of four historic Cambridge Colleges and get to know fellow students at meals in magnificent dining halls. A range of excursions and social activities will help you become familiar with Cambridge in a way that few are privilged to experience. Long summer days will allow time to explore the Colleges and vibrant city centre, relax in a punt on the river, enjoy a traditional English tea at Grantchester and attend concerts and ceilidhs. Why not join us this summer and become part of our truly international community?
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Precollege Programs for High School Girls Open to girls entering grades 9 through 12 in the fall of 2017.
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“I liked the ability to take my learning into my own hands. Getting to work at the college level and having access to Smith’s resources was really amazing.” —2016 summer student
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Smith College’s rigorous summer Precollege Programs give high school girls the freedom to explore challenging subjects—without the pressure of exams and grades. Here, professors who are world-class scholars offer personal attention in the classroom to college-bound girls while encouraging their interests and passions and helping them develop new academic skills. Smith Summer Precollege Programs 30 Belmont Ave., Room 201 Northampton, MA 01063 413-585-2165 or 413-585-4455 Fax 413-585-4344 Email: Summerprecollege@smith.edu
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SUMMER PROGRAMS SPEND YOUR SUMMER AT SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE Residential and commuter options available. HIGH SCHOOL SUMMER WRITING WORKSHOP
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Immerses high school students into the world of social justice activism. Students will learn about and perform activism through social media, visual art, performance, and creative writing. Examining current events will provide opportunity to dialog around diversity, race, gender, and other issues through an intersectional lens.
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Clark University alumnus Matt Goldman ’83, M.B.A. ’84, motivates himself with three words:
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MAKE IDEAS REAL. In 1987 that simple mission statement drove him to co-found Blue Man Group, whose raucous and wry stagecraft turned the troupe’s signature art into a cultural touchstone.
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>COMMUNITY ROOM< By Evan Lavender-Smith
How to Eat a Sunflower Seed —So first you bite it? —You have to bite it like this, between your back teeth. Position it longways with your tongue. —Like this? —That’s flatways. You have to get it like this with your tongue, so you can crack it down the faultline. Otherwise you’ll end up with a mouthful of husk shards. —Like this? —That’s flatways. You’ve got to prop it up with your tongue between your teeth like this. Get it longways. Crack it down the faultline. Like this. —How’d you do that? —I just told you, with my tongue. Once it’s cracked you’re going to want to use your tongue and teeth to separate the husk halves from the seed. Spit out husks like this. Chew. Swallow seed. —How’d you do that? —I just told you. Once you graduate from that you can start introducing multiple seeds into your mouth, keeping all but one on one side of your mouth, the storage side, transferring the one to be cracked to the other side, the dehusking side. Like this. —That many? Are you sure? —Transfer one over like this. Crack down the faultline like this. Separate husk halves with tongue and teeth. Spit husk like this. Chew. Swallow. Repeat. —Where’d you learn that? From YouTube? —No. Okay, you’re up. —Okay, here goes. —Just one to start. Longways, remember. That’s flatways. —Like this? —Crack down faultline. —Ugh. —Separate husk halves with tongue and teeth. Spit husk. Use your hand if you need to. —Ugh. Like this? —You got some on your nose. Wipe. —But there’s nothing left in my mouth. —Because you spit out the husk and seed together. Look. It’s in your hand. —Here. Give me one. —Here. Crack longways. —Okay. Ugh. —Separate husk from seed with tongue and teeth. —Like this? —Spit. Use your hand. —Ugh. —Use your hand if you need to. Look, you’ve got some on your nose. Wipe. —Where’s the seed? —You spit it out. 240
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—Okay. Ugh. Here. Give me one. —Here. Position longways. Crack. Separate husk. —It’s all over my mouth. —Then spit it out. You don’t want to swallow the husk. Look, you’ve got some on your nose. Wipe. I’ll get it. —Ugh. Dad. —Here. Longways. That’s flatways. —Ugh. —Crack. —Like this? —Look. You cracked it flatways now you’ve got husk shards all over your mouth. —Ugh. —Spit. Use your hand. —The whole thing? —Now wipe. I’ll get it. —Dad. Ugh. Here. —Longways. Crack. —Like this? —No. Spit. Use your hand. —Is there any on my nose? —Wipe. Use hand. I’ll get it. —This is hard. Ugh. Dad. Here. —You want to try again? —What if I just keep one in my mouth and not worry about the cracking? I could suck on it for a while then spit it out. The guys in the dugout will think I’m doing it right because they won’t check on the ground to see if there’s still a seed inside, will they? —No. —You think that’ll work? —Still husk shard on your nose. Wipe. I’ll get it. —Ugh. Dad. Don’t. Here. —One more? —Maybe I’ll practice just sucking on it. —Wipe. —It tastes gross. Ugh. —Spit it out. —Gross. Maybe I’ll just chew gum instead. Will you teach me how to blow a bubble? —No. --Evan Lavender-Smith is the author of From Old Notebooks (Dzanc Books), the editor-in-chief of Puerto del Sol, and the founding editor of Noemi Press. His writing has recently appeared in BOMB, The Offing, The Scofield, and The White Review. Evan teaches in the MFA program at New Mexico State University. “How to Eat a Sunflower Seed” originally appeared on Hobartpulp.com
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