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HE HITCHHIKER SAT IN MY BACKSEAT , AND ,

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I was sixteen, new to SAT prep, reported income, and the driver’s seat of a car. What I wasn’t new to was Fairfield, Connecticut—my hometown. And yet I found myself lost, roaming the windy, startlingly unfamiliar streets, no more than five miles from my house.

My friend and I were on our way to the Dogwood Festival, an annual fair at which area vendors gathered on a church green to sell homemade soaps, potted chrysanthemums, and organic dog treats. It doesn’t sound like the most stimulating weekend activity for a couple of teenagers, but this was a town whose young people frequently convened in empty fields to stare at one another and drink cheap beer, so at least that day’s field would have crafts to admire, and less puddles of vomit to sidestep.

The trick, it turned out, was getting there. I’d left the house assuming I knew the way. How could I not? What human of moderate intelligence couldn’t retrace a route taken at least a dozen times before? Even rats managed to navigate a maze if it yielded

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a cheese reward, and that’s regular store-bought Kraft cheddar. The Dogwood Festival hosted cheese artisans—I’m talking fresh chevre! But there I was, driving in circles.

This was an age before GPS’s, and when cell phones could only be used to call, text, or bludgeon home invaders. So when I saw a man on

long enough to consider many thoughts, the first being, Is this a big deal? I try to avoid being dramatic, and when you’re inside the moment, it’s often hard to measure significance.

It’s only later, when you’re chained up in an unfinished basement, that you realize, Yup, that was a big deal.

day party, I told a little white lie to spare the vagrant’s feelings.

“Actually, we have to stop and pick up a friend first, so you probably want to head there on your own,” I said, and sighed relief in the wake of my own socially conscious brilliance.

“Oh, I’ll come along. I don’t mind the

But then there were other possibilities to ponder, the least gruesome being auto theft, and after a month of driving our Chrysler Town and Country to school, I just couldn’t go back to taking the bus! the side of the road—a kind soul who could potentially point me in the right direction!—I was so relieved, I pulled over without minding his worn duffel bag or the fact that we were in the woods and there was no good reason to trust a man walking along the side of the road. And yet there I was, pulled up beside him, rolling down my window.

“Excuse me, sir. Do you know how to get to the Dogwood Festival?”

Now, this fair was a nice enough event, but Fairfield is a town of 60,000, and the Dogwood Festival wasn’t exactly its equivalent to New York City’s Puerto Rican Day Parade or Whoville’s Christmas. Sure, some people knew about it, and maybe a few even looked forward to it, but it’s not like a stranger taken at random would respond to my question with, “The Dogwood Festival? Golly, I surely do know the way! Let me draw you a map.” The more likely response would be, “The Dogwood Festival? Um, sounds familiar. I think my cousin’s neighbor bought his mom a plant for Mother’s Day there once.”

But this man—who in my exaggerated memory looked like a young Jerry Garcia, but in reality was likely cleaner, say an older John Lennon—looked at me and said, “Yes, that’s where I’m going.”

And then he was in my backseat, door shut behind him, and I can’t remember how he got from point A to point B. I turned and stared back at the stranger in my car for an uncomfortable amount of time,

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I then contemplated that the man could be good: a weary traveler, journeying from a far distance—Woodstock, New York would be a safe guesstimate—to haggle with the artists of New England over one of a kind stuff to keep in his duffel bag, like, say, a hand painted spoon rest.

Or perhaps he was a craftsman himself, eager to peddle the coasters he’d constructed from littered bottle caps. But then there were other possibilities to ponder, the least gruesome being auto theft, and after a month of driving our Chrysler Town and Country to school, I just couldn’t go back to taking the bus!

So at this point in my baffled stare, I arrived at the conclusion that I needed to remove this vagabond from my minivan. The question was, how?

An eject switch, a little red button beneath my dashboard illustrated with a stick figure flung from a vehicle, would have been the ideal solution. However, this was the year 2004, not an episode of Get Smart. Back to the drawing board. My next idea was a simple one: ask him to leave. But that felt rude, and I didn’t want to seem like some privileged white girl from the suburbs who thought she was too good to give a hobo a lift—we were going to the same place, for crying out loud! So, like I was taught to do when I didn’t want to go to a classmate’s birth-

stop,” he said.

“Oh you don’t mind the stop? That’s good, that’s good,” I said, my head bobbing as if trying to physically shake an excuse loose in my brain. “Well, here’s the thing though.

We may not even go to the festival. I was just asking directions out of curiosity. But what we’re doing is stopping at a friend’s house, and then, only at that point, are we going to decide. We may go, but we may not. And the second part, the part about not going, is a strong possibility. Getting stronger by the minute, actually. So just get out of my car because out of my car you can go to the festival and be out of my car.”

God bless the drifter, he did, and he took his dingy duffel bag with him. As I peeled away, I looked into my rearview mirror; the dust from my quick exodus settled and revealed a harmless nomad, shoulders rounded with fatigue, worn by his pilgrimage, just a guy hoping for a ride.

But at least he knew where he was going.

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The Next Chapter

by Carly Silver All My Childen’s Rebecca Budig at home in Weston

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In The Driver’s Seat

by Todd Brown Revving up in New Canaan

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by Robert Marrow High rollin’ recollections

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Rural Palates Dining out discoveries

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School Road High school thespians take the stage

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THERE’S A NEW DAYTIME DIVA IN TOWN

by Carly Silver

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he’s been arrested for pushing her lover’s girlfriend off a yacht, held a knife to her mother-in-law’s throat, and faked a suicide attempt. Watch out, Weston, CT–a ruthless and beguiling woman has moved to town. Well, not exactly... Actress Rebecca Budig (perhaps best known as scheming cosmetics executive Greenlee Smythe on the ABC soap opera All My Children) has relocated to Weston from Los Angeles to be with her husband, Time Warner exec Michael Benson. “Weston is amazing,” she says.

“We love it. We moved there about a little over a year ago.” She is in the process of renovating her 1760s farmhouse and appreciates Weston’s quiet outdoors, but likes being able to commute into New York. “I love the city and, now being in Weston, I love being able to come into the city for work and just be here for a little bit and then go back.”

But it’s New York City that calls for Budig’s soap-worthy smile, and she’s turning a new page as co-host of The Better Show on the Hallmark Channel. “Well, you know, I always did hosting on the side when I was acting. It was kind of my extra-money gig and so when they asked me to come on and audition with [co-host] J.D. [Roberto], I was like, ‘Oh, that’d be fun to do,’” she recalls. “I thought that I could host. I mean, I had done The View before, but this was very different.” The hosting gig didn’t initially come easy to her, but she’s now a pro. “He [J.D.] is very, very good at what he does and he really taught me a lot. So there was a learning curve, for sure. I remember my first week here; it was hard. I would go home and I’d say, ‘I don’t know if I can do this’ to my husband.”

As she learned more about The Better Show, Budig became one of its biggest fans. She appreciates the lifestyle tips the show offers viewers to improve every aspect of their day-to-day. “It really is a show about making your life better, tips, from cooking to health to kids’ safety–everything–and then we also get to talk to celebrities and we’re not trying to get dish and dirt and all that.” Budig’s most memorable guests range from Nashville star Connie Britton, whom she describes as “gorgeous, sweet, classy, cool,” to her ex-husband,

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former Bachelor Bob Guiney. Budig maintains an active friendship with Guiney and says, “He’s a great guy and I love him. We’re just not right to be married.”

In addition to The Better Show, Budig hosts HGTV’s Amazing Water Homes and has appeared on Castle and Blue Bloods. As she says, she’s still living “the life of an actor,” and communicates regularly with her fans.

Though she doesn’t personally use Facebook, Twitter has provided her with a platform to get people excited about upcoming projects. “So Twitter’s great because I can go on for a few minutes, I can relate to my fans or people out there who are following me, and it’s just a great, kind of quick way to communicate and feel like I’m in touch,” she says.

Thankfully, fans are able to distinguish her from her daytime alter ego.

“They still love the character and they miss the show, and I do too. And I loved my character,” Budig says. Negotiations for her to appear in the recent online reboot of All My Children fell flat, to fans’ disappointment.

Budig, who was shooting a pilot at the time, theorizes that the production company in charge of the revamped soap, Prospect Park, signed up people who could commit to the show regularly. In the end, she thinks

Prospect Park just wasn’t able to get every fan favorite back on-screen. She recalls, “What I think happened... I think they asked the people they were interested in having. And when people said, ‘Yes, I’ll do it,’ and they had a contract in hand, you know, you run out of money at a certain point.”

Budig preferred the ABC version to its online counterpart. “I watched the first one and it was just–it was different to me than the original All My Children, so I didn’t continue watching,” she says. She wishes that ABC had kept rights to All My Children and run the show on its own website.

Indeed, the cable show’s cliffhanger ending, which dovetailed into its online existence, wasn’t her cup of tea. “I wish that they had ended the [network] show,” she says. “I understand what they were trying to do. They were trying to keep the audience engaged to go online, but I feel like, since it was going into a different medium, I wish they had just wrapped up everyone’s storylines ‘cause I think it would have been nice to have a nice bow on it, and then start fresh.”

Now, about that pesky evil twin…

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TAKING IT TO THE STREETS, CAFFEINE AND CARBURETORS 2014

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t’s one of six Sunday mornings in New Canaan, Connecticut and the streets are filled with the most dynamic range of vintage and exotic sports cars and motorcycles to be found anywhere around.

Not only Concours cars and motorcycles gather, but also dad’s Mustang that is now his son’s or daughter’s, the ever-ongoing in various stages of restoration vehicle, a vintage Morgan that gets driven no matter what the weather, and you never know what else, unless you are there. This is the essence of what Caffeine and Carburetors is, no judging ever, all are welcome, plus a great cup of coffee. What had started out as an informal gathering of about 40 cars in front of Zumbach’s Coffee shop has organically taken on its own enthusiastic personality, growing to over 400 vehicles and thousands of spectators.

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for about four hours, to explore their passion. Whether you love Porsche, Ferrari, Corvettes, Aston Martin, old pickups, rat-rods or vintage motorcycles, you will not be disappointed.

The senior team of C&C is made up of Doug Zumbach, Peter Bush and me, Todd Brown. Peter is the voice during the event, enlightening all with his knowledge of what seems like every vehicle present. When he is not playing with cars, he is on the radio at 95.9Fox. Doug welcomes drivers with a smile and directs them in appreciating all that rolls. He roasts some of the best coffee around and loves to talk cars. And me, I own 109 Cheese and Wine in Ridgefield with my wife, and handle the marketing of C&C. All of us love vintage cars, great food, and the experience of a drive with family and friends almost to an unhealthy level, but I’m sure that’s why C&C works as well as it does.

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HARRY, THE DOLPHIN

by Robert Marrow

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y parents, Harry and Molly, lived in a pleasant apartment in Byram, CT, near where the Boston Post Road escapes the hubbub of Port Chester and begins its meander through Greenwich to Stamford and beyond. My father had been born on the Lower East Side to immigrant parents. His mother returned to Russia to rescue her son, David, who had not made it through Ellis Island (“cradle cap” kept him out of the United States). David was returned to the village ghetto accompanied by another unlucky relative who didn’t make it through. My grandmother later learned that her son had been abandoned and was begging in the streets.

My grandfather couldn’t care for the children left in New York when his wife returned to Russia. My father, Harry, was separated from his father and his sisters to be raised in various foster homes where his childhood was marked by poverty. Without an education he started as a milk man and managed to become the owner of several milk delivery businesses and a bottling plant in the Bronx.

Harry loved to gamble and at one time owned trotting horses that raced at Yonkers and Roosevelt Raceways. He played in high stakes gin games at country clubs in Westchester and Florida south of Palm Beach where my mother spent the winters at their golf club condominium.

My father commuted to his Bronx bottling plant every week, spending Fridays through Sundays in Florida.

When it came to casino gambling, Harry wasn’t a whale but he was a big fish, maybe a dolphin, big enough so the pit bosses from Atlantic City would call his office and talk to him like a friend, “Harry, we haven’t seen you in a while. How’s it going?” My father didn’t want to confess that he had abandoned Resorts for the Taj Mahal, or whatever, so he’d say, “I’ve been busy.”

Like most gamblers he would never tell the truth about his winnings or losses but I watched him at the craps tables and this is how he would play for about 4 or 5 hours every time a point was established.

• $200 on the line and the maximum behind the line, usually another $400 or $600.

• $100 “on the outside” which meant $100 on the 4, 5, 9 and 10.

• $300 on the 6 and 8.

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After the point was established the bet on that number came down (it was returned to him). So, he had $1,600 on the table every time a new point was established. My guess is he made or lost $25,000 to $50,000 on each visit to the casinos in Atlantic City.

Sometimes he would make a place next to him at the craps table and motion for me to join him. I wasn’t a real gambler like he was. I learned from my father that gamblers expect to win and they are shocked, sometimes irate when they lose. This anger can result in some erratic behavior when a superstition is violated, like when the dice knock over a pile of chips or hit someone’s hand who was placing a bet as they were thrown.

If he crapped-out when something like that happened, a tirade of quiet profanity would follow.

I, on the other hand, expected to lose. However, my father saw to it that I left a winner by placing substantial bets for me while I stood next to him playing minimum stakes with my own money. He would tell the croupier, “Three hundred on the six and three hundred on the eight, for him,” indicating me. It was hard to lose when I was with him.

Harry was transported from his milk bottling plant in the Bronx by casino limo or from LaGuardia in small casino airplanes to the Atlantic City Airport and from there to the hotel by limo. When he arrived with me or one of my brothers, and always with one or two friends from the milk business, he would be given a suite with two bathrooms, a Jacuzzi in one of them, and a bar stocked with four bottles of liquor (scotch, vodka, gin and bourbon) accompanied by small bottles of mixers and a large fruit basket in which two bottles of wine, one red and one white, were carefully placed.

Harry never used the suite except to wash his hands and face and use the bathroom before heading for the craps table. After an hour or two we would have lunch (comp’d), a massage, a shower and then a few more hours at the craps table before returning to the suite and leaving for home.

When he vacated the suite, he couldn’t bear to leave the liquor, the soda, the fruit and the wine – so we’d get a large plastic laundry bag and carefully fill it; heavy fruit basket at the bottom surrounded by the liquor bottles and then the soda bottles topped off with the shampoo, soap and even tissue boxes from the bath rooms. We dragged this heavy bag, like gypsies, through the hall to the elevator, through the lobby and out the front entrance to be lifted into the trunk of the waiting limo. Once, 15 minutes into the ride back to the Bronx, my brother, Norman, said to

my father, “Dad, you forgot to take the shampoo.” Harry replied, “Don’t worry; they’ll mail it to me.”

After many years of this routine Harry must have lost more than he should have, and decided that he couldn’t continue to play those high stakes. It would have been humiliating for him to continue going to Atlantic City and cut down on his bets, say from $100 on each number to $25 – so he decided to take his business to “the Indians” at Foxwoods in Connecticut. He didn’t want to create a high profile there so he never asked to be comp’d for a room or meals or anything. He quietly drove himself and his friends or sons to the casino in his own car, went to the tables and played about ¼ of the stakes he had bet at Atlantic City, won or lost and went home. The public bathrooms were fine.

About a year after this routine was established he got a call from Foxwoods. The floor manager wanted to know, “Mr. Marrow, are you ever going to use your Wampum?”

“What’s Wampum?”

“You know you’ve been ‘rated’ – Wampum is like dollars that you’ve accumulated and can use at our hotel, restaurants and stores.”

“How much do I have?”

“About $16,000.”

Harry wasn’t interested in using the Wampum himself, so he invited my mother and his daughters-in-law to splurge at the stores. As for my wife, Ellen, it was the first time in her life that she bought anything retail.

Harry continued to drive himself to Foxwoods for many years until he died long after he passed eighty years of age. He never talked about his gambling but sometimes at a family dinner after one of his trips to the casino one of us would ask, “How’d you do today, Dad?” The answer was always the same, “Broke even.”

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Rural Palates : reviews CASK REPUBLIC Stamford, CT A “Communal Tavern” flourishing in New Haven and now open in Stamford, Cask Republic offers up craft beers for serious aficionados with fine cuisine to match. Scores of both well-loved and rarely seen beers are offered, after careful selection, storage and explanation. With a list this long and unusual, the staff had better be well trained, and fortunately at Cask it is.

Don’t know your lagers, pilsners or bocks from pale ales, porters or stouts? Dive in after reviewing origin, alcohol content and flavor with a CASK REPUBLIC specialist. Don’t ask me how, but there are even gluten-free selections. The Cask cocktail list of other brown spirits with housemade infusions, simple syrups and botanicals is exceptional as well.

But Cask is not only a drinking establishment. Inventive bar snacks such as gorgonzola fondue with housemade chips; bacon popped and topped popcorn; and the “Flight of Fries”–three piles with a batch each topped with truffle oil, adobo, and Asian spices–stand up to the caliber of the beverages. Other light offerings range from boards with cheese and charcuterie, to wood fired pizzas, to small plates such as kale salad, curried chick pea fritters or smoked short rib meatballs. Continue your beer pairings over main plates: seared wild salmon with black bean risotto and shaved fennel; or grilled filet mignon with sweet potato hash in a cognac peppercorn demi glaze. Bar food? Hardly. And don’t miss the unbelievable good foie gras mac and cheese topped with crisp breadcrumbs.

The restaurant is welcoming, with dark wood paneling, fireplaces, armchairs, and a convivial bar. Open daily; check their calendar for special, beer-related events.

191 Summer Street, Stamford, CT. 203/348-2275; www.caskrepublic.com CASK REPUBLIC

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BODEGA TACO BAR Fairfield, CT Darien, CT What’s fun, casual and serves up funky new wave tacos and muchas tequilas? The Bodega Taco Bars, of course, in Fairfield and Darien, CT. You can practice your Spanish while reviewing the menu and selecting from Antojitos (“little cravings”) like tostadas de tuna tartar with avocado, cucumber and a ginger-sesame drizzle; or a special of the night like sweet corn esquites: grilled shrimp over a bed of fresh corn, grated hard cheese and a spicy chili dust. Chicken and waffles– now appearing on more and more local menus–shows up here in a version of “waffle tacos” with bits of fried chicken, corn salsita and chipotle honey between two mini waffles. Chilaquiles, from the brunch menu, is “peasant food at its best,” according to co-owner Michael Young, and we’d have to agree. This is a layered, lasagna-like dish of broken corn tortillas simmered in a red chile sauce with cheese, avocado cream and a poached egg on top.

Very rustic and highly satisfying.

Besides tacos, the restaurants offer a selection of tortas (sandwiches) ensaladas (salads) and platos (main plates) such as grilled hangar steak, braised short ribs, and seafood paella.

All dishes can and should be shared, to allow for a greater variety.

Got bacon? A lot of dishes here do. Such as the warm pineapple upside down cake with candied bacon and pineapple bits on top, or the Bloody Maria cocktail with a strip of bacon, whole green pepper and cilantro garnish. There is a selection of “Not-Tequila” for non-indulgers, beers, wines and other specialty cocktails.

The restaurants are narrow and tend to fill early, adding to the lively volume and youthful appeal.

Open for lunch, dinner and late night.

1700 Post Road, Fairfield, CT 203/292-9590 Also at 980 Post Road, Darien. www.bodegatacobar.com

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school road GREENWICH HIGH SCHOOL PRESENTS:

THREE SISTERS AND HEDDA GABLER

Directed by Richard Kohn

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THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE Directed by Dee Alexander Photos by Mary Bar

school road WESTON HIGH SCHOOL COMPANY PRESENTS:

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A BETTER CHANCE OF WESTPORT: WHERE DREAMS BECOME REALITY t’s a typical Tuesday night and eight teenage boys–not related–are sitting around a dining room table having dinner. They live in a house at the intersection of Cross Highway and North Avenue in Westport, CT. This house is different from other homes in Westport. The “parents” are actually a married couple who are the resident directors in the Glendarcy House. The boys are part of a very special program called A Better Chance of Westport. During the school year, this is their home just a few miles from the school they attend, Staples High School.

What is A Better Chance of Westport? It is one of the most exciting and proven academic support programs in the United States–focused on changing lives one young man at a time. The program, A Better Chance of Westport, is the local chapter of a national organization that was founded over 50 years ago to bring superior educational experiences and resources to talented minority youth.

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“I know my limits. I just don’t limit myself… I have made great friends, learned what it takes to be self-sufficient. I have worked hard to make my family proud and to remain worthy of being an A Better Chance scholar.”

–Rhyse SHS ‘13 Since opening its doors in 2002, Westport’s A Better Chance has graduated 14 young men from Staples High School, each going on to a prestigious four-year college including Cornell, Duke, Emory, Harvard and Tufts. Rhyse is a freshman at Carnegie Mellon University.

The mission of the A Better Chance organization is simple. It provides academically talented and motivated minority youth a chance to overcome daunting obstacles and change potential into achievement by giving them the tools through a better education and environment. The scholars hail from all over the United States. However, we know that too many academically promising children are relegated by circumstances out of their control to a life of daily struggle and inadequate educational resources. Even the most academically promising student can fail in this environment.

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sity of thought and experience to the school and town. The success of the scholars at Staples High School and beyond has been wonderful to witness. But even more heartwarming is the way the teachers, coaches, parents and especially the teenagers have opened their hearts to the scholars of A Better Chance.

Volunteers are extremely important to the organization. The Host Family program, an important link between the scholars and the local community, is one of the most rewarding experiences. Each scholar is welcomed into his host family’s home as a member of the family every Sunday and one weekend a month. Through Host Families, the scholars are given a “home away from home,” an opportunity to experience the community by participating in normal everyday family activities–from chores to social functions. This broadens the scholars’ experiences and often builds lasting relationships that become lifelong friendships.

Some of the other volunteer opportunities are driving scholars to and from activities, serving on a committee such as scholar services or fundraising or becoming a board member. Please go to www.abetterchanceofwestport.org for more information about this game-changing organization and how you can help.

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– Chukwuma SHS ‘11

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WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE 2014 SEASON Acclaimed playwrights Noël Coward, Ingmar Bergman, Alan Ayckbourn, and Lynn Nottage are featured in the theater’s 84th season, playing from April through October 2014.

The 2014 season begins with playwright Noël Coward’s “A Song at Twilight,” April 29–May 17, 2014. In this exquisite battle of wits, Noël Coward explores the nature of passion, the cruelty of love, and the price of hidden secrets.

A world premiere musical revue, “Sing for Your Shakespeare,” is the second production in its 2014 season, running June 3 – 22. Directed by Mark Lamos, and co-conceived by Lamos, Wayne Barker, and Deborah Grace Winer, the show is based on an original idea and production for 92nd Street Y’s Lyrics & LyricistsTM, New York, NY. “Nora,” Ingmar Bergman’s adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House,” translated into English

by Frederick J. Marker and Lisa-Lone Marker, runs July 15–August 2, 2014. A story of love, blackmail, and the little lies people tell, “Nora” is a sexy and stunning adaptation of one of Ibsen’s most psychologically penetrating works.

A comedy by Alan Ayckbourn, “Things We Do for Love,” runs August 19–September 6.

Replete with trademark Ayckbourn touches, this wickedly funny play questions just how sane anyone really is when it comes to love.

In her celebrated play “Intimate Apparel”, Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage weaves an intricate tapestry of the joys, sorrows, tragedy, and triumph of a gifted but lonely African American seamstress in early Twentieth-Century Manhattan. October 8-November 1.

Subscriptions are available and include significant savings, priority seating, free and easy ticket exchanges, and restaurant discounts. Flex passes are also available for those seeking a flexible subscription option. Single tickets also offered.

25 Powers Court, off Route 1, Westport, CT. Box office: 203/227-4177 toll-free: 1-888-927-7529 or online: www.westportplayhouse.org

LEFT: ROCKYLN, HOME OF EDWIN BINNEY (INVENTOR OF CRAYOLA CRAYONS) IN THE EARLY 1900S. FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE GREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

GREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY Enjoying the Country Life: Greenwich’s Great Estates Through August 31, 2014 By 1921 Greenwich, Connecticut had the highest per capita income in the country. How did a once quiet, rural, coastal community of farmers, shopkeepers and oystermen become an enclave for the rich and powerful that rivaled Newport, Rhode Island in wealth? This exhibition draws on the Greenwich Historical Society’s collection of clothing, photographs and objects to explore the era between 1880 and 1930—a period marked by unbridled spending by America’s elite to build estates of staggering proportions—and to examine how the transformation impacted the people and cultural landscape of the town to this day.

39 Strickland Street, Cos Cob, CT. 203/869-6899 www.greenwichhistory.org

CARRIAGE BARN ARTS CENTER New Canaan, CT ABSOLUT CUBA! Exhibition; A Night in Havana Gala; Steven Certilman Lecture Thursday, April 24 – Sunday, June 1, 2014 The Carriage Barn Arts Center is pleased to present Absolut Cuba!, EDUARDO MIGUEL ABELA TORRÁS an exhibition featurABSOLUT KUBA, 2004 ing works by emerg- LINOLEUM CUT, 45 X 22 CM ing and established Cuban artists. The show opens on Thursday, April 24 and highlights pieces from the private collection of Greenwich, CT resident, Steven Certilman.

The exhibition opening reception, which is open to the public, will be held on Sunday, April 27 from 3pm to 5pm.

Absolut Cuba! showcases a significant collection of contemporary Cuban art that Certilman has amassed over decades. An avid art collector,

he sources pieces directly from the artists during travels to Cuba and has dedicated himself to promoting the country’s emerging talent. The painting and sculpture in the show, curated by Certilman, explores Cuba’s heritage of diverse cultures including the concepts of political controversy, religion, spirituality and identity.

In conjunction with Absolut Cuba!, the Carriage Barn Arts Center will host its inaugural benefit, A Night in Havana. The gala takes place on Saturday, May 17 and event tickets are available for purchase online at carriagebarn.org.

On Saturday, May 10, Steven Certilman will offer a lecture that explores his Cuban experiences and highlights the recent explosion of artistic talent and creativity in the country.

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BALLET ETUDES COMPANY 25TH ANNIVERSARY GALA Westport Country Playhouse On March 15th, Ballet Etudes Company presented a diverse Triple Bill program including the virtuosity of Don Quixote, the fairytale magic of La Boutique Fantasque, and the delightful charm of Circus Polka (with permission of The Robbins Trust). Guest Artists included Yuriko Kajiya, Jared Matthews and Sterling Baca of American Ballet Theatre and Georgina Pazcoguin and Charles Askegard of New York City Ballet.

The Ballet Etudes Company includes advanced and pre-professional students, professional dancers and world-class guest artists from major ballet companies. They are located on Westport Avenue in Norwalk, CT. www.balletetudescompany.com

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three different events at the Weston High School Varsity Track: 100 meter sprint; 400 meter run; 1600 meter run. Free fun run youth T-shirts to all participants.

Early race packet pickup and in-person registration (late fees apply) are available Thursday May 22 and Friday May 23rd from 3pm to 6pm at Weston High School. Avoid the race day rush. www.weston5k.com

May 4, 2014 Second Annual Electric Car Rally in Connecticut The Rally begins and ends at the Westport Saugatuck Metro-North train depot. Registration will occur in front of the Steam Coffee Bar on the New Haven-bound side, next to the four EV Old Greenwich, CT charging stations. There will be a mid-rally stop- May 30, 2014 ping point at the Wilton GoGreen Festival, and 9:30 am until 2:00 pm a free public event at the finish in Westport. Rally registration begins at 9am and the rally starts at 10am. The public event will begin at 1pm, when the cars are expected to finish. The public will have an opportunity to speak with EV owners, learn about EV technology, visit sponsor tents, and enjoy snacks and drinks. www.westportelectriccarclub.com

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5K ROAD RACE AND WALK Weston, CT May 24, 2014 Weston High School, 115 School Road The Weston Memorial Day 5K Road Race and Walk is marking its 21st year as one of the premier 5K races in the state. The Weston race, featuring disposable ChronoTrack Bib-Tag Timing for the most accurate results, is a fast, rolling, scenic loop through residential and historic sections of bucolic Weston. Free race T-shirts to the first 500 registrants.

The race is Weston High School’s largest fundraiser, with funds going to current and future school enhancements and educational initiatives.

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Heart disease is still the No. 1 killer of women, taking the life of 1 in 3 women who die each year. This means women just like you–mothers, sisters, friends–are dying at the rate of one per minute, because they don’t know what you know: heart disease kills.

Take your seat at the table with dedicated women and men just like you. Hear their survivor stories, learn how heart disease affects a family and how you can help stop heart disease in our lifetime. Share the mission to fight the No.1 killer of women.

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2014 WESTPORT PRAXAIR BIKE MS presented by Louis Dreyfus Commodities Sunday, June 8, 2014 Start/Finish Location: Sherwood Island State Park, Sherwood Island Connector, Westport Registration Fee: $35 Fundraising Minimum: $125 Route Options: Kiddie, 10, 25, 50, 100 miles Age Minimum: Children under the age of 12 may only participate in the Kiddie ride.

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Bike MS will take you further than you’ve ever gone before. It’s not the miles that matter–it’s the unforgettable journey. Join an event that’s more than a ride–it’s anticipation, camaraderie, personal accomplishment, and the knowledge that you’re changing lives…

The routes feature rest stops every 10 to 15 miles, stocked with water, sports drinks, sandwiches, granola bars, gluten free snacks, and have rest rooms available. Mechanical support is also offered at each rest stop, and support vehicles on the course maintain contact with emergency vehicles and mechanical support throughout the ride.

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by Michael Gross

There being no fixed cast in America, as in the foreign states, we have established a certain style of living and expenditure, as a distinctive mark of social position.

–Sarah Gilman Young, European Models of Living, or, The Question of Apartment Houses (French Flats) 1881

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ifteen Central Park West is more than an apartment building. It is the most outrageously successful, insanely expensive, titanically tycoon-stuffed real estate development of the twenty-first century. Nicknamed Limestone Jesus by the shelter-porn merchants at the real estate blog Curbed, it represents the resurrection and the life of our era’s aristocracy of wealth.

This is the story of the property-lust-making building and the cohort that calls it their tower of power. They are the newest of new money, the men and women of today’s societal elite who are defining what it means to be rich. To some, they are the latest cyclical iteration of Society; to others, the latest nail in Society’s coffin. No longer dignified, unified, wellborn, or even well-bred, they enjoy unheard-of incomes and the most extraordinary standard of living in history because they control the engines of today’s unprecedented wealth: finance, technology, information, and entertainment. Today’s cutting-edge wealth creators profit from ideas more than products.

Sometimes they are people you barely know about. You don’t see them in public or read about them in the press. But whether they are figures of wide, popular renown such as Denzel Washington, NASCAR’s Jeff Gordon, and Sting—all 15CPW apartment owners—or the many lesser-known yet arguably more influential financiers, the residents of 15CPW are our latter-day priesthood of power, even as we worry what effect their use and abuse of that power is having on our world. For this moment, this house of outrageous fortune, 15CPW, is the temple of their secular religion.

FIFTEEN’S PUBLIC STORY began in fall 2005, when Daniel Loeb, who once described himself and his hedge-fund cronies to an old-school moneyman as “a bunch of scrappy guys… who enjoy outwitting pompous asses like yourself,” set an earlier Manhattan real estate WESTONMAGAZINEGROUP.COM

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record by dropping $45 million for his penthouse in what was then still a big hole in the ground. Approaching the apogee of the first financial bubble of the twenty-first century, Loeb’s purchase of a still-imaginary home was an apt symbol of a new-money culture unrestrained by any sense of limits, propriety, or recognizable reality, its wealth outweighing its lack of elegance and subtlety.

As it rose out of that hole over the next year and a half, Fifteen— it’s spelled out in the building’s custom-designed logo—was something completely different from the buildings before it. Like its logo, the neoclassical über-condo was a throwback to the golden age of Manhattan apartment houses, which are called prewars though they were mostly built between 1912 and 1930, as well as a gauntlet before the remains of what, for half a century, had passed as American Society. The success of 15CPW consecrated a new, somewhat suspect Super–Global Society. Like them or not, these are individuals who have only one thing in common—net worth—and have become the world’s new ruling class.

Typically in their first generation of wealth, they’ve made huge money in new ways. They organize their lives differently, have different standards, spend differently, and give back differently.

Just as apartments were offered for sale in September 2005, a Citigroup global-equity strategist, Ajay Kapur, coined the term plutonomy to describe nations and geopolitical blocs “where economic growth is powered by and largely consumed by the wealthy few.” Sixteenthcentury Spain, seventeenth-century Holland, the Gilded Age, and the Roaring Twenties were prior plutonomies driven by huge, interconnected economic, political, and commercial changes: disruptive

omies, but many do not, and for them, 15CPW serves as an insurance policy against the possibility that in their native lands, their luck might turn or their connections fail them. Far better to have assets in a country where the rule of law is secure and property rights respected. “If you buy here, it’s yours,” says an Indian-born banker who lives in 15CPW. “There are only two places that are safe havens like that, London and New York. The rest of the world is scary, unstable.”

But those emerging nations are hardly the only sources of today’s outrageous wealth. The reinterpretation and loosening of many Depressionera laws that restricted the activities of financial institutions beginning in the 1960s, and the deregulation of financial markets in the early 1980s, led in 1999 to the repeal of Glass-Steagall, the 1933 law separating investment and commercial banks, unleashing what Kapur calls a “massive premium,” a torrent of raw gains for a small few that inflated bankers’ wages, bonuses, and egos and led to the creation of too-big-to-fail financial institutions such as Citigroup, AIG, Bank of New York Mellon, Barclays, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, ING, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, and the Royal Bank of Scotland. Each is represented at 15CPW. Former executives of the defunct Lehman Brothers round out its financial cast.

An even larger cohort of 15CPW residents comes from the alternative-investment universe, where they’ve earned disproportionate incomes both by betting on markets and backing the entrepreneurs whose innovations drove the economy of the last three decades. The contours of alternative investments are often indistinct, as they are typically complex, hard to define, illiquid, and lightly regulated, if at all. But to gen-

SOME OWNERS COME FROM COUNTRIES WITH STABLE GOVERNMENTS AND ECONOMIES, BUT MANY DO NOT, AND FOR THEM, 15CPW SERVES AS AN INSURANCE POLICY AGAINST THE POSSIBILITY THAT IN THEIR NATIVE LANDS, THEIR LUCK MIGHT TURN OR THEIR CONNECTIONS FAIL THEM. technologies, financial innovation, capitalist-friendly governments operating under the rule of law, and “an international dimension” of ambitious immigrants or overseas adventurers. “Often these wealth waves involve great complexity, exploited best by the rich and educated of the time,” Kapur wrote.

Kapur’s plutonomists are defined by wealth, not nationality. But in the current day, the newest of the new rich come from emerging markets such as the so-called BRIC nations of Brazil, Russia, India, and China. All are well represented at 15CPW, where apartment owners include the operator of Moscow’s Domodedovo International Airport, the biggest developer in Beijing, and an associate of the Indian industrialist known as the richest man in Britain. Central and South Americans at 15CPW run industries ranging from banking to airports to natural cosmetics. Israel is particularly well represented, starting with the country’s richest brothers, Idan and Eyal Ofer, who come from the international shipping business, as do fellow owners from Greece, Norway, China, and Monaco.

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eralize, they are investment products designed for institutions and highnet-worth individuals that are not traditional cash, stocks, or bonds.

Hedge funds such as Daniel Loeb’s Third Point are alternatives, and so are private-equity, real estate, commodities, troubled-asset, biotech, and emerging-market funds.

Adding up the aggregate assets managed by the hedge funds and boutique investment firms whose executives own or rent 15CPW apartments is an inexact business, but combining their boasts with reported guesstimates yields a staggering number: about $437 billion. No wonder residents refer to it as Hedgie Hive.* *Among them are Titan Capital, Canyon Capital, SAC Capital, CCMP Capital, Duquesne Capital, Joho Capital, Kingdon Capital, Knighthead Capital, Millennium Capital, Point State Capital, Vedanta Capital, Kilmer Capital Partners, Meridian Capital Partners, Arts Capital Management, Goffe Capital Management, Davidson Kempner Capital Management, Och Ziff Capital Management, Capital Research and Management, Brevan Howard Asset Management, Citadel Asset Man-

agement, Marble Bar Asset Management, Visium Asset Management, Marathon Asset Management, Deerfield Management, RBC Wealth Management, Aurora Investment Management, Area Partners, Jana Partners, OpusPoint Partners, Realm Partners, D. E. Shaw, J. Goldman & Co., Urdang Real Estate Investment Advisors, Perella Weinberg, and JGP Gestão de Recursos of Rio de Janeiro.

That’s just the beginning.

These investment executives’ neighbors at 15CPW include executives and alumni of our era’s great innovators: tech giants such as Google (Omid Kordestani, a sales and marketing executive, paid about $30 million for a duplex next door to Sting’s), Garmin (Min Kao, the founder, has a half-floor penthouse), Intuit, and Yahoo! (Roberta Campbell, the ex-wife of the chairman of the accounting software company, lives next door to the search giant’s cofounder, Jerry Yang), and smaller, but still massively profitable enterprises engaged in hardware and software, advanced medicine, biotech, and biopharma.

By merging ideas and the means to communicate them, technology has also geometrically increased the audience for the information and entertainment industries. Thanks to the “audience magnification” brought about by globalization and instant distribution, Kapur says, “the monetization of talent is a lot bigger now, and talent creators get to keep a lot of that.” Thus, international celebrities such as Sting, Denzel, NASCAR’s Gordon, and NBC sportscaster Bob Costas, and renters Mark Wahlberg, Kelsey Grammer, and New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez, live at 15CPW alongside their titular bosses, infotainment moguls such as the writer-producer Norman Lear, Disney chairman

Israeli tank commander who bought the name Packard Bell out of bankruptcy and turned it into a thriving computer company before segueing into the hotel business with his purchase of the Beverly Hilton; Gerardo Capo, a Cuban émigré who became a controversial Miami developer; Marvin Shanken, the former investment banker who created the Wine Spectator and Cigar Aficionado magazines; and Jesse Itzler, who started his professional life as a Jewish rapper but segued into private aviation as a founder of Marquis Jets.

Compared to those “good buildings” of the East Side, precious little inherited wealth is at 15CPW. What there has been tends toward the untraditional, at least by the standards of Manhattan trophy apartment houses. James Kohlberg, whose father was a founder of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, the 1980s private-equity firm, and Andrea Kerzner, whose father Sol, a Russian Jew from Johannesburg, developed Sun City, Africa’s most famous resort complex, count as old money at 15CPW. Other heirs-in-residence have included Tyler Alexandra Gallagher Ellis, daughter of the late fashion designer Perry Ellis; Deborah Simon, daughter of a co-owner of shopping centers and the Indiana Pacers; Sultan Ahmed al-Qasimi, a crown prince of one of the United Arab Emirates; Caroline Lieberman, an heiress from a fashion and real estate fortune built by a Holocaust survivor in Sydney, Australia; and Ekaterina Rybolovleva, the elder daughter of the Russian potash oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev, who bought that $88 million apartment for her out of the goodness of his heart or, as his estranged wife has charged in their divorce, in order to shelter some of his multibillion-dollar fortune.

COMPARED TO THOSE “GOOD BUILDINGS” OF THE EAST SIDE, PRECIOUS LITTLE INHERITED WEALTH IS AT 15CPW. Alan Horn, NASCAR chairman Brian France, and Comcast’s Brian Roberts, Stephen Burke, and Edward Snider. They don’t need big names; their control of the pipes through which content is pumped made their fortunes.

There have also been more traditional wealthy types at Fifteen, including executives of the pharmaceutical giant Merck, Metlife, Princeton Information, Hearst Newspapers, and the big-four auditor Deloitte & Touche; the chairmen of legal giants such as Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft and Case & White; energy-company executives; brick-and-mortar retailers such as The Limited’s Leslie Wexner, Eric Smidt of Harbor Freight Tools, and Eugene Kahn, a former chairman of May Department stores; doctors, surgeons, and health-care executives ranging from a vice president of corporate affairs at Pfizer to the owner of a small but thriving chain of dental clinics; and a raft of real estate developers, operators, investors, and brokers.

Apartments at 15CPW initially sold for as little as $2 million, so the building also attracted comparatively small-change types: a TV writer, an editorial cartoonist, and myriad small businessmen and women.

Entrepreneurs-in-residence have included the owners of jewelry stores, Chinatown funeral homes and florists, a luxury travel agency, a metal framing and trucking group, several human resources companies, and two nutritional-supplement dealers, but also Beny Alagem, a onetime

As the Rybolovlev example shows, 15CPW apartments aren’t only homes; they’re “very expensive toys for plutonomists,” says Kapur.

“We underestimate how rich the very rich are. For them, the fraction they are spending is not that large. You and I show off our cars.

Global plutonomists need that apartment, the fine wine, the gold, the Degas,” to demonstrate who they are. Their toys also serve as banks, or what Kapur calls “a store of value.” Apartments at 15CPW are often second, third, or fifth homes, and they are not rented out to pay expenses; they sit empty for months at a time. When banks and politicians dilute currencies such as the dollar and the euro, hard assets “tend to do quite well,” says Kapur. “They hold their value in times of financial debasement.” And at 15CPW they appreciate.

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Copyright © 2014 by Idee Fixe Ltd. Reprinted by permission of Atria Books, a Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Michael Gross is the author of Unreal Estate, Rogues’ Gallery, 740 Park, and Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women. A contributing editor of Travel + Leisure, he created the blog Gripepad and has written for Vanity Fair, Esquire, GQ, New York, The New York Times, the Daily Beast, Newsweek, Huffington Post, and other publications.

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BY REV. JEFF GRANT thought I was lucky–one of the chosen. It was 1992; I was a young, successful corporate/real estate lawyer living in Rye, New York.

My law firm was located in Mamaroneck–about a mile from our home–and so was a restaurant I owned. I would soon be elected to the local school board. I drove a big BMW, my family vacationed four or five times a year. I thought I was bulletproof.

One day, while I was playing basketball with my biggest client, I ruptured my Achilles tendon. In the course of rehabilitating from the injury, I became addicted to prescription narcotics. I never meant for it to happen– but it did. For over ten years I took painkillers almost every single day. Day after day, little by little, they cut away at my soul and ate away at my judgment. If I’d had the ability to pull back and look at my life from a distance, I would have seen the compromises I was making–the physical changes, the mood and behavior issues and all the money problems. I was miserable even if I didn’t necessarily appear that way–my weight had ballooned up to 285 pounds. I was vomiting blood from anxiety. I was spending much more money than I was making. As I took more and more pills, I showed up for fewer and fewer client meetings.

One day, my office manager came to me and told me we weren’t going to make payroll that week. I didn’t understand how that could have been possible. I had been in business as a lawyer almost twenty years–and despite all the problems and all the madness, the firm had grown to become one of the most successful law practices in Westchester County. We were bringing in millions of dollars a year–but we were out of cash. I could have called a friend and asked for help–or called my bank–but the drugs wouldn’t let me focus. And that’s when I made my deal with the devil.

I told my office manager to borrow the money from the firm’s client escrow account. She asked me if I was sure that’s what I wanted to do, and I told her to do it. And with two keystrokes of a computer, my fate was sealed. Racked with shame and guilt, my painkiller use

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After Sept. 11th, I couldn’t think and couldn’t work–I had lost clients and staff. I was in this pit of denial and looking for a way out. There were commercials on TV and the radio offering low-interest loans under the SBA loan program for businesses that had been adversely affected by the tragedy. I called and they told me that I qualified for a 9/11 loan. But I was so desperate–and the pills were clouding my judgment so much–that I embellished my loan application to make sure I got the loan anyway. In a few weeks the loan came through and I thought I was on track to save my law firm. But it didn’t help–within a few very short months it became clear that I was going to lose my law license and was going to be disbarred from practicing law.

In July 2002, I had no more fight left in me; I called my ethics attorney and told him to resign my law license for me. That night, after my wife and kids went to sleep, I sat down in the big easy chair in our den and swallowed an entire bottle of the painkillers. I just wanted the pain and the madness to stop.

A few days later I checked into the Acute Care Unit of Silver Hill Hospital in New Canaan. There was no way of knowing then that instead of my life ending, a new life had begun. I made it through seven weeks of rehab and started the arduous journey on the road to recovery. I went to my first AA meeting the first night out of Silver Hill Hospital. I raised my hand and said, “My name is Jeff, I’m an alcoholic and a drug addict, and I need a sponsor.”

We moved to Greenwich about a year later–perhaps the wealthiest community in the country. I had lost my career, my money, I lost our home in foreclosure, and my marriage was soon to end. But I was staying sober.

One morning, after 20 months of sobriety, I received a call from the FBI. The agent told me that there was a warrant out for my arrest in connection with my fraudulent statements on the 9/11 loan. I made full restitution and was sentenced to eighteen months in Federal prison.

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HERE’S HOW THE designation process works in the Federal prison system– the day your name comes up you are designated by your security level, lowest to highest, and given a bed. I had a security level of “zero” – so I could have been designated to a camp anywhere within 500 miles of our apartment in Greenwich. But on the day I was designated there were no beds in camps in this area–so, I was designated to a Low Security Prison.

On the inside there was one former lawyer–that would be me–two former doctors, five former stockbrokers, and 1500 drug dealers.

On Easter Sunday 2006, I reported to Allenwood Low Security Corrections Institution in White Deer, Pennsylvania. A guard came out and I showed him my court orders–he did not seem happy about my coming in on Easter Sunday. As we went through the metal door he spun me around, held my hands behind my back and slapped handcuffs on them. I had been anticipating this moment for over a year and not once did I consider that I would have to be handcuffed. At that moment I had my first inkling of how little I knew about surviving in prison.

I was escorted to a bulletproof glass teller’s cage behind which was a guard who asked me for my “register number.” I had no idea what that was–I’d never heard that term before. He asked me for it again and when I didn’t know he came out and taped a number on my clothes. That was my Federal Bureau of Prisons register number, and it became my identity.

Next, I was brought to a section called R & D–Receiving & Discharge– and it felt very much like its title–a place for FedEx packages. I was processed and then told to strip naked. They took all my clothes and put them in a box to ship back home. While I was standing naked in this cold room, on a cold cement floor, a man entered who I would later learn was the Head Lieutenant. He basically ran the day-to-day operations of the prison.

He looked me up and down, and then asked me if I was the lawyer. I told him no, but that I used to be one. He seemed pleased with that answer.

He then told me that there were 1500 men on his compound, and I was to be the only lawyer. There were some jailhouse lawyers working out of the library. He told me that I’d have no problems on his compound if I stayed out of other people’s legal business and I took no money or favors from another inmate. He told me that I was a short-stayer and he suggested I just do my time and go home without a problem. He asked me what I thought of that? I was standing there naked. I told him that making a few dollars from other inmates was the last thing on my mind.

I was given an orange jumpsuit to put on, re-cuffed and marched across the compound to the SHU (Secure Housing Unit). It was a timehonored tradition at Allenwood to hoot and holler at new inductees as they were being led through the compound to the SHU on their first day. I certainly didn’t understand why people were hollering at me.

The guards never told me where I was going or why. When I got to the SHU, it looked like something out of the worst prison movie I had ever seen–dark and dimly lit, with rows of metal doors with tiny holes in them. I was put in a rubber lined holding cell, re-stripped and researched. I guess they were satisfied that I hadn’t picked up any weapons or contraband in the 300-foot walk from R & D. I was never told where I was or why I was there. I didn’t know if this was what the entire prison was like, if it was a holding area, or how long I would be there. Inside the cell was a narrow bunk bed–barely wide enough for a grown man’s shoulders–a combination toilet and sink, a desk and a chair. And there I met my first “cellie”–a black man, around 50 years old, with dreadlocks down to his waist. When I came in, he didn’t acknowledge my presence at all. He just pointed to the upper bunk. I understood–that was mine.

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His first words came about ten minutes later when he told me to move fast. The sound of a cart moving down the hall meant we had no time to lose. The slot on the metal cell door opened, and very quickly, four covered trays of food slid in through the slot. I understood what he meant by moving fast. If we didn’t catch the trays they would have dropped to the floor and the food would have spilled all over. He caught each tray and quickly handed them to me. I put them on the desk. We sat on the floor, dividing the dinner between us. I had already decided that I was going to lose the forty pounds I had put on in the months I was waiting to go to prison. I looked in the trays, and saw there was a little meat of some sort, and lots of bread, potatoes and rice. Starches were apparently the mainstay of the diet–I asked him if he wanted my potatoes and rice. We became friends in no time. His name was Raoul.

Almost everybody who came to Allenwood was first brought to the SHU, Raoul explained. There was no way to know how long I’d be in the SHU, but Raoul suspected that I wouldn’t have to wait long: first timer, middle age, and most importantly, white. I later learned that some inmates are kept in the SHU “waiting for a bed” thirty days or longer. I only had to wait 16 hours before I was released onto the compound. I was shoved out the door of the SHU without any other instructions than to report directly to the laundry. It was about nine o’clock in the morning, bright daylight, and my eyes were trying to readjust after having been in a dungeon for the past day or so.

I got to the laundry and knocked on the big metal industrial door– my big rap was much louder than I intended. The door opened a sliver and a head popped out to tell me that I would have to wait for “the move” before I could gain entry. I had no idea what that meant, but after the door closed there was no way that I was going to knock on that door again. In about fifteen minutes, a siren went off and people started scurrying around all over the place. This, I understood, was “the move.” The door popped open, I stepped inside and I was first in line.

I presented the clerk with the papers I had been given in the SHU– he sized me up for a uniform, t-shirts, shoes, a laundry bag, duffel, sheets, blanket, towels, a soap kit, and just about everything I would need to make my stay at Allenwood complete. Union A, Cube 25, Upper Bunk would be home for the next thirteen and a half months.

I WAS RELEASED from prison in 2007 and had to do a stint in a halfway house, home detention and then three years of Federal probation. I also had court ordered drug and alcohol counseling. It was my counselor–a former Catholic Priest turned drug counselor–who recommended to me that I rebuild my life through volunteerism. I called my old rehab, Silver Hill Hospital, and asked them if I could come interview for a volunteer position–they told me to come over that day. I fully disclosed everything that had happened in the past few years. I was nervous. I figured that if my own rehab wouldn’t take me for a volunteer job, who in the world would ever let me work for them?

Two hours later my phone rang and I was a recovery volunteer for Silver Hill Hospital. This led me to becoming a volunteer house manager at Liberation House in Stamford–a residential rehab where guys are sent instead of being sentenced to prison. Next was Family ReEntry, a nonprofit serving the ex-offender communities in Bridgeport and New Haven, the first organization that asked me to serve on its Board of Directors. The first project I worked on at Family ReEntry was with my girlfriend, Lynn Springer–who is now my wife; we converted a blighted inner-city block in Bridgeport into the largest privately owned public use park and garden in

the State of Connecticut. It is an oasis in the ‘hood–just beautiful.

All this time we were living in Greenwich and attending AA meetings–and I became known as the “prison guy.” I was sharing my journey–going to prison, surviving prison, and staying sober through the entire experience. Soon guys who had white-collar legal problems were seeking me out, and since then I’ve met with over one hundred men in various stages of going to or coming back from prison.

I had no idea that it was going to turn into a ministry–I was just putting one foot ahead of another. I went to Chris Tate, a Reverend at the Second Congregational Church which Lynn and I were attending in Greenwich, and told him that I was searching for something more meaningful. He recommended that I apply to seminary. I told him that I thought that was a little crazy–for one thing, I was a Jew (I’ve been baptized since). I asked him how I would ever get accepted to a seminary with my story? But, he told me that seminaries are in the redemption business and that I should apply. And I did. I was accepted to Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, the preeminent urban seminary in the world–and went to school there for the next three years, earning a Masters of Divinity.

A few months later, while still working with white-collar families in Greenwich and doing inner city reentry work in Bridgeport, I accepted an offer from Pastor Hopeton Scott at the First Baptist Church of Bridgeport to become Assoc. Minister and Director of Prison Ministries. From there, Lynn and I founded the Progressive Prison Project and the Innocent Spouse & Children Project, the first ministries in the United States created to support the families of people accused or convicted of white-collar and other nonviolent crimes. Christ Church Greenwich has become a second home for our prison ministries, and is important in our mission to foster communication between the inner city and white-collar communities suffering in silence.

We still spend the majority of our time in the inner city, but we find our work with white-collar families equally as important. These spouses and children are innocent victims in situations not of their own doing, where they have usually not been independently represented legally, and often been left penniless, homeless and shunned by their communities. For this new class of victims, we assemble teams of ministers, advocates, lawyers, counselors and other compassionate people to protect them and get them safely through to a new life in a new family dynamic on the other side of prison. As I see it, the biggest tragedy of all about white-collar and nonviolent crime is not how big the matter is, or sensationalized the headlines–it is in our failure to see it as a human story, with real people, real brokenness, and real families left behind.

I received a call from a former hedge funder I hadn’t seen in a couple of years. He looked like the weight of the world was off his shoulders; he’d lost thirty pounds, and had a smile ear to ear. He looked nothing like the guy I remembered. He told me that he had been to prison and wanted my help in finding a new career. Now, he’s in school to become a drug counselor.

Most white-collar criminals can’t go back to their old lives and careers, so what choice do they really have? Why not embrace a completely new life, with new options and new opportunities? The most fortunate are those who figure out that their attempts to solve problems in isolation did not work, and that they no longer have to go it alone.

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How to Survive in Prison If I had to choose one concept to remember in prison it would begin and end with respect. Respect in prison is a matter of learning what not to say. It can be an incredibly counterintuitive assignment for the types of people who become Wall Street executives. It is a reality check when they learn that nobody cares about what they have to say about anything, or that if they do it can be for the wrong reasons. In one case, a former hedge funder made the mistake of talking about the sale of his Hamptons property.

Visitors Here’s some advice on going to see an incarcerated loved one without getting turned away from the visiting room. If females are wearing undergarments with underwire bras, the metal detector will detect it. Anything metal could be perceived as a dangerous object and the wearer might be turned away. Conservative, appropriate dress is extremely important.

There’s also the drug scanner, which is used randomly and detects micro amounts of various forms of drugs. Visitors need to wear recently washed clothing. No touching money–money may contain trace residues of drugs. No eating breakfast at fast food restaurants.

Avoid contact with anything that has trace residues of drugs. When visiting a person in prison, sleep somewhere close by if you can, get washed up and go right to the correctional facility.

Release Maintenance of a solid long term address and home is important.

When it’s time to be released from prison, inmates must be released to a stable home. The problem is that life goes on for the family on the outside–perhaps the inmate gets divorced or the family moves out of state. Typically the inmate in prison isn’t in control of what happens on the outside. But, if there’s any ability to control a stable residence for as long as the inmate is in prison–perhaps an apartment–then he’s likely to have that place to come home to. This might ease the way for him to be eligible for early release. These are issues that can be considered in advance.

Have a Plan Before I went to prison I read everything and everybody I could get my hands on about the anatomy of a prison bid–Mandela, Bonheoffer, Solzhenitsyn, Frankl and Kafka. Those who successfully survived prison all seemed to agree that even in captivity they could manifest control over their bodies and attitudes–and in their ability to help others. So even before I went to prison, I decided that my plan would be a daily regimen of mind, body and spirit in helping others and myself. For my mind, I learned to play guitar–and took over 200 guitar lessons while I was in prison. For my body, I walked 14,000 laps around the track–the equivalent of walking across the United States from New York to Los Angeles in one year. And for my spirit, I read the Bible, went to religious services and communed with other suffering people in ways I had never before encountered. There was AA in prison too–and it was a gift to be able to keep my AA program going, giving the other inmates comfort that they could stay sober on the street as they taught me how to stay sober in prison.

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Alison Singer, a Westchester resident, is co-founder and president of Autism Science Foundation (ASF), a nonprofit organization located in New York City dedicated to funding research on autism. Singer also serves on the executive board of the Yale Child Study Center, the external advisory board of the Marcus Autism Center at Emory University, and on the external advisory board of the CDC’s Center for Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities. In addition, she chairs the International Society for Autism Research public relations committee, and is a member of the IMFAR program committee and community advisory committee. Singer was also appointed under both the Bush and Obama administrations to serve on the federal Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC), which writes an annual strategic plan to guide national spending on autism research and is currently the longest serving public member of IACC. Recently, Tom Fiffer, a friend of Singer’s and a fellow Yale alum, sat down with her to talk about ASF on the occasion of the organization’s fifth anniversary.

Q: What is ASF and what is the organization’s mission?

A: Our mission is simple: funding autism research. The attention focused on autism has exploded along with the increase in cases being diagnosed, and there are now more good research projects waiting to be funded than there are dollars to fund them. Fortunately, ASF is in a strong position. Since we started up in 2009, we have consistently increased our funding of research year after year, while both NIH and Autism Speaks have been decreasing their grant giving. ASF’s specific focus is on funding studies that provide the value of science to families who are dealing with the challenges of autism on a day-to-day basis.

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Q: What led you to start ASF? A: I have a teenage daughter and a brother with autism. Like any parent or sibling, I found that the world of autism is a foreign land until you have to enter it, and then you need to learn every square inch of the territory.

Q: But not everyone with a child or sibling with autism starts a nonprofit to address autism. What moved you to create an organization?

A: I have an MBA from Harvard and a business-oriented mind. The entrepreneur in me saw basic business skills missing from most of the nonprofits in this space. I wanted to start a foundation that would run like a business and use the tools I learned in business school and developed in my career in media to make a difference.

Q: So ASF is both a foundation and a “small business.”

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speaking, planning events, and of course reviewing grant applications from researchers. I also spend a great deal of time talking to families, helping them navigate the world they’ve entered, and enabling them to understand the importance of participating in research. I work with our board of directors on strategy and organizational development and with our staff–currently three full-time and one part-time employee–to ensure that we respond to the needs of all our constituents.

Q: What current projects is ASF funding?

A: One of our 2013 grants was a 3-Year Early Career Award to Jill Locke at the University of Pennsylvania. The title of the project is Multi-Site, Randomized, Controlled Implementation Trial of an EvidenceBased, Adult and Peer-Mediated Social Skills Intervention for Elementary School Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. It sounds complicated, but it’s basically about finding ways to help schools implement costeffective, sustainable programs to help children with autism manage the social impairments that affect them adversely in the school setting. All our grantees and their projects are listed on our website.

Q: What is your favorite thing about running ASF? A: The biggest charge I get out of my job is when I see our efforts leading to the use of knowledge gained through experience to help other families. Ultimately, we are a helping organization, whether through funding research that helps children with autism and their families, by informing people about that research, or by encouraging families to participate in research that will unlock new applications to make things easier for parents and children in the autism community.

Q: What is your least favorite thing about running ASF? A: That’s easy. Hands down, it’s asking for money. We have to keep the lights on, so I have to beg like all other heads of nonprofits. We do keep our overhead extremely low, and nearly all the money that comes in flows out through grants. We have the highest ratings from GuideStar, so that makes it easier to ask. We also have wonderful donors. I’m always amazed when I finally approach someone and ask for a donation and I’m met with, “What took you so long?”

Q: If you could change anything about the way our medical community or society at large approaches autism, what would it be?

A: It would be to have families focus strictly on evidence-based interventions instead of the newest, latest unproven techniques or “treatments.” I hate the way some purveyors of “cures” exploit people’s desperation and grief, and it’s heartbreaking to see parents shell out substantial or even huge sums of money on protocols with no scientific basis whatsoever. It’s understandable, because parents feel helpless and want to do something. I can’t emphasize this enough: the best way for parents to feel empowered and to help their children is to rely on research and only choose interventions that have withstood the rigor of clinical trials. Please quote me on that.

I CAN’T EMPHASIZE THIS ENOUGH: THE BEST WAY FOR PARENTS TO FEEL EMPOWERED AND TO HELP THEIR CHILDREN IS TO RELY ON RESEARCH AND ONLY CHOOSE INTERVENTIONS THAT HAVE WITHSTOOD THE RIGOR OF CLINICAL TRIALS.

Q: ASF is celebrating its 5th anniversary this year.

First of all, congratulations. Second, where do you see ASF heading over the next five years?

A: I see us continuing to grow. We’ve been increasing our funding 20% year over year, so we’ve more than doubled it since our inception, and I’d love to see us double again over the next five years. I know we can do it. We have devoted donors, we’re funding terrific research, and we’ve become the trusted brand for science-based strategies and applications, because we care what the science says.

Q: What is ASF doing to celebrate turning five?

A: Recently we held a whole day of events and festivities at the Yale Club of New York City. April is Autism Awareness Month, and we hosted a festive luncheon, followed by the autism community’s first TED-style conference, featuring talks from NIMH Director Dr. Thomas Insel, Dr. David Amaral, Dr. Joseph Buxbaum, Dr. David Mandell, Dr. NIMH DIRECTOR DR. TOM INSEL, NOBEL LAUREATE DR. ERIC KANDEL Paul Offit, Dr. Matt State, and other prominent scientists, AND ASF PRESIDENT ALISON SINGER IN as well as individuals with autism, including Paul Morris, an THE EAST ROOM OF THE WHITE HOUSE. adult on the autism spectrum. These TED-style talks were thoughtful, 15-minute distillations of critical issues in autism, and this event, geared toward all stakeholders, was our gift back to the autism community. Our speakers focused on the real issues facing families, such as gender differences in diagnosis and treatment, the value of genetics testing, the effectiveness of school-based interventions, and the challenges of finding meaningful employment.

The highlight of our celebration was our Fifth Anniversary Gala later that evening, during which we honored two leaders in autism science: Dr. Gerald Fischbach, Chief Science Officer of the Simons Foundation, and Dr. Paul Offit, Chief of Infectious Diseases at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and author of Autism’s False Prophets. Dr. Richard Besser, Chief Medical Correspondent for ABC News, served as emcee A: Yes, I guess you could say it was thrust upon me. for the evening, which featured a cocktail reception and dinner, as well Q: Do you ever miss TV news? as a silent auction and entertainment by teens and adults with autism, A: Yes! Every day. including singer Izzie Piwnicki and pianist Josh Frelich.

Q: Do you get to use your journalism skills at ASF? Proceeds from the day’s events benefited ASF’s pre- and postdoctoral A: Absolutely. I love being able to use my skills to help scientists fellowship programs, which support early career research conducted by learn to communicate better in their public speaking engagements the nation’s most promising young autism scientists. and media appearances, to teach them to speak in a way that is unQ: We were in college together at Yale more than 25 years ago. derstandable to a mass audience.

When you graduated, did you ever imagine you’d be heading Q: How can interested parents get involved with ASF, up a nonprofit that you founded? and how can scientists apply for grants?

A: No way. My dream was to be a television news journalist, and I got A: Here’s what we say on the Get Involved page of our website: started on it pretty fast. Out of college I went to work at NBC. Then Everyone can be part of autism science. It’s as easy as making a donaI went to business school to get better at my job. I soon rose to VP of tion, sharing an interesting article on Facebook, attending an event or Programming for Cable and Business Development at NBC. When my lending your voice to talk about how autism research makes an impact daughter was diagnosed with autism, I left journalism for a while, then on your family. Doing simple things everyday can help advance the returned and took a more manageable position, considering my family science of autism to find causes, treatments and cures. responsibilities, as Special Projects Producer for CNBC. I couldn’t stay away; I loved working in TV. Not long after my return, Bob Wright, For more information on Autism Science Foundation, please visit the who was then head of NBC, approached me to see if I would be willorganization’s website at www.autismsciencefoundation.com You can also keep up with the foundation’s news and events by following them ing to serve for three months as acting CEO of the organization he on Facebook at www.facebook.com/autismsciencefd founded, Autism Speaks. I agreed and spent the next four years there, first as acting CEO, then as executive vice president.

Thomas G. Fiffer is the Ethics Editor at The Good Men Project.

Q: So unlike many people who burn out in the for-profit world and make the shift to a nonprofit, your transition occurred in He posts regularly on his blog, Tom Aplomb, and serves as Editor of Westport’s HamletHub, a local online news and information service. a different way.

OUR SPEAKERS FOCUSED ON THE REAL ISSUES FACING FAMILIES, SUCH AS GENDER DIFFERENCES IN DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT, THE VALUE OF GENETICS TESTING, THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SCHOOL-BASED INTERVENTIONS, AND THE CHALLENGES OF FINDING MEANINGFUL EMPLOYMENT.

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ASSEMBLY by Andrea Stern THE CAMERA HAS ALWAYS BEEN MY EXCUSE TO STARE. IT GIVES ME A REASON TO ENTER AN otherwise closed and foreign world. Few words are spoken, but I like to imagine something has been exchanged or shared.

Costumes and rituals vary, but what inspires me to unpack my considerable load of equipment and start shooting is the same every time: it’s in the collective charge of young hearts beating toward what appears on the surface to be a shared goal or common purpose.

Children from the most gifted to the least equipped, participate in these specialized worlds complete with its own set of rules and rewards. Uniforms and costumes broadcast an escape from the ordinary. Boundaries between the imaginary and real-life are blurred, children experiment with new roles or characters with fresh abandon. Donning badges, swords, tulle, tiaras, spangles and make-up, children infuse these places with a magic and vitality their own.

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Slicing off the top of the world’s highest mountain and transposing its millions of tons of ancient rock from the Himalayas to the roof of a New York apartment building was a childhood dream of the flamboyant Bangalorean packaged-suttee mogul Sir Sith Ram Pramba. But unlike Sir Sith’s other childhood dreams —dating film actress Dame May Whitty, driving two racing cars at once, being voted King of the Gypsies —this one has come true.

Using more dynamite than was expended in the building of the Hoover Dam, the construction of Switzerland’s longest under-mountain tunnel, and World Wars I and II, Sir Sith’s thousand-man “Team

of Dreamers” engineers, stonemasons, and explosives experts applied almost surgical skills to cut Everest’s peak loose from the mountain below so evenly that the site was left as flat and smooth as a tabletop. Pramba doesn’t own what’s left of Everest, but the hyperimaginative Indian entrepreneur has plans to lease that site and thereupon establish the Himalayan Range’s first polo field, once such initial knots as below-zero temperatures, one-hundred-mile-anhour winds, the impossibility of ever growing grass, and hoisting delicate ponies twenty-two thousand feet up are unkinked.

But back to Everest-on-the-Avenue. At sunset on most days, Sir Sith’s guests gather on the terrace of an adjoining penthouse prior to their ascent, for cocktails and canapés and lectures on climbing etiquette by the Sherpa guides (“No snowball throwing please! Thank you for no spray-can graffiti!”), whose overland trek from Kathmandu to Manhattan has left them barely winded; in fact, they’re rarin’ to climb.

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the diminutive human packhorses hope to “clean up,” padding annual incomes that vary from one to two cents a year back home.

Environmental Hysteria does swirl around Sir Sith’s spectacular slab of rock. The sentimentalists carp about one of the world’s great natural monuments having been disfigured for the private pleasure of one selfish magnate. The ecology freaks cavil about the danger of rock slides pelting the street below with giant boulders. The fern-bar quiche-heads bemoan the spending of millions to soothe one man’s ego, while prairie dogs suffer from weasel-measles epidemics and Saturday mail delivery goes the way of hootenannies and the Yellow Pages. Will that soaring hunk of Himalayan rock attract vultures and cormorants and other winged vermin that skulk on giddy heights? Has anyone studied the likely climatological effects of a cloud-shrouded mountain peak looming above Manhattan? Is the city in for summer blizzards, gale-force winds, and a rash of falling frozen mountaineers?

Sir Sith Ram Pramba can only shrug while puffing on another Robusto—not so easy a gesture to pull off, actually; not with a brandy snifter in his other hand and a lady friend on his knee. “The rich are very different from you and you and you,” he observes, mischievously misquoting F. Scott Fitzgerald. “We have most of the fun. No, make that all of the fun.”

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Mountain climbers suffer superhuman privation for the prize of little more than a fleeting feeling of triumph at reaching the peak. That’s not enough for Sir Sith Ram Pramba’s ritzy Manhattan pals as they clamber on tiptoe up the transplanted cone of Mount Everest: awaiting them at the summit is Sir Sith’s personal valet, Mandrake, who mixes martinis and dishes out hors d’oeuvres. Now that’s more like it. Hit me again, Mandrake!

Getting back down Top o’ the World after cocktail hour is no breeze.

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suicidal plunge —is not an option. Does one turn and cautiously edge backward down the steep grade on all fours like a bear sliding down a tree trunk? Not only too slow, but too, too embarrassing.

Faithful Mandrake to the rescue. Moments after he autodials a number on his cell phone, hustling up the slope come a crew of Sherpas, who make quick work of hoisting the greenhorn climbers on their backs and sure-footedly half running downhill. And in moments, our grateful friends are milling about the “terrace firma,” knocking back fresh martinis and trading shivery tales of peril and final triumph. They have conquered mighty Everest, without spilling a drop.

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Dear Mr. Wilcox, I would like to let you know how your son Lee is progressing at the Tennis Academy. I’ve chosen to communicate by letter because I believe what we’re witnessing requires more than a casual phone call or email, as I suspect you will agree.

I should start by confessing that I did not at the outset peg Lee as a star player. Your son was a bit spacey, and antisocial really, whereas the main cadre of top players cling to one another like a pack of young wolves. Lee has a tendency to look away when you speak so that it appears he isn’t listening, though it has been my experience, as I’m sure it has been yours, that he’s heard every word. He has invariably incorporated what I’ve suggested into his game.

But by the second week I’d see him staying late in front of the backboard and hitting way into the night, and there again at dawn with a hopper of balls and the targets, practicing a thousand or more serves. And now, a month in, I can see just a little Becker in his volleys and a touch of Agassi in his returns. I do not use those terms lightly. In the last tournament Lee was made to play the fourth seed, a boy from Kentucky with a huge serve-and-volley game, and Lee destroyed him in straight sets—6-2, 6-2. He never brags about his accomplishments, but I figured Lee would have told you this; when I talked to him a few days afterward, though, I understood that he probably didn’t.

He said he hasn’t spoken to you in a while.

Lee won two other matches in that tournament, and when he finally lost, it was because of a broken string that forced him to borrow a racket. I plan to make a deal with Wilson so that Lee can begin to receive free equipment. I

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hope this will be an arrangement you will go along with. There is nothing you would need to do financially, but Lee would have to wear only Wilson clothes and use only Wilson rackets. In all other respects, I now think, he is ready for the responsibility such a deal would entail.

He still reads all the time when he isn’t practicing and I wonder if that’s what’s caused his eyes to deteriorate. Usually he wears his contacts when he’s playing but sometimes he wears those thick glasses which makes other kids poke fun at him, although to his credit he doesn’t seem to listen to them or care all that much.

I’m not sure he has any real friends here, other than a boy from the school our athletes attend who doesn’t play tennis, but who watches Lee play. This boy smokes cigarettes, which I certainly hope Lee does not do, because it would result in his suspension from the academy. So far, so good. There have been no issues with girls, although a few seem to be taking interest in him. I don’t think it would be all that bad for Lee to go on a date or two, but I have not spoken to him about it, and I imagine that’s more your territory than mine. I have caught Lee staring a few times at Vivi, the girl from Denmark, who is one of our best players, and is something to look at.

What is so remarkable about Lee is his ability to focus on a single task, so unusual for a boy his age, or for anyone at any age. The world recedes for Lee when he is on the court, and his face looks purposefully placid, like Borg’s or Lendl’s. It’s rather intimidating, really. And he has a terrific sense of balance. As he runs you can imagine him keeping a stack of books over his head and not spilling one. His racket speed has improved, as has his footwork. These

improvements are incremental, and barely detectable day to day, but I’m beginning to think he’ll be one of our top players by this spring.

It will be a different life for him, and perhaps for you, because I believe he will be traveling soon for tournaments, perhaps to the nationals. And I for one would like to be part of that.

I hope this is as exciting to you as it is to us at the Academy. We are expecting very big things from Lee. Sincerely yours, Maximillian Gross My Dear Mr. Wilcox, I fear you have been out of town and therefore unable to reply to my last letter, or else you’ve read it and may still respond. I wanted to fill you in on the progress since our last correspondence, if we can call it progress, and I think we can. Lee has been practicing even harder, sharpening his footwork and volleying.

It has gotten so that five boys can strike shots at him nearly simultaneously and he will cleanly volley all five balls back. He can retrieve the deepest lob after nearly touching the net, then sprint back for a drop shot on the opposite side of the court. The player who comes to mind when he does this is Wilander, or maybe Borg, whose fitness was legendary.

I have signed Lee up for a series of satellite tournaments, which will bring him in front of some significant crowds and provide us with a good testing ground. I very rarely tell a parent that their son or daughter has what it takes to make a living at our sport, but in Lee’s case it is becoming apparent to us all. Just last week a collegiate player from Florida Tech stopped by the Academy to train with Lee. At the end

Adapted from the story “Letters From the Academy” from STAY UP WITH ME

by Tom Barbash. Copyright © 2013 by Tom Barbash. Reprinted by permisson of Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

of the day they played a set and Lee thrashed him 6-1. It was only practice and the collegiate player, one of our alums, was somewhat out of shape, due to a month-long spell of mononucleosis. But the margin of victory was what sent shockwaves that night through the Academy dining room.

I am concerned because we have not received your check for the spring, and while I’m quite confident that Lee will qualify for a full scholarship, I would like to talk to you about this and other matters, preferably on the telephone so there can be some back and forth. It would be better still if you could make the trip down here and see what your son’s life is like.

The other day I observed Lee and the Danish girl sitting on the practice court bench after a long workout, the two of them quite sweaty and flush, and I saw the Danish girl several times touching Lee’s arm, and then resting her head on his shoulder. Again, I cannot be sure if there was anything significant going on, and nor would it be a problem, as the Danish girl is from a good family and is an extremely talented player ranked very high in Denmark. I only think that Lee would profit from some adult guidance on this matter.

There is a junior Davis Cup player coming to the Academy from Chile, a boy whose game harkens back to a young Yannick Noah, and I would like to have Lee play him in a match inside the newly refurbished Academy stadium.

The match will be videotaped, and we will post clips of the most exciting points on the Academy website provided it goes well and Lee is successful, as I’m quite certain he will be.

With warm regards and in distant partnership, Maximillian Gross Dear Mr. Wilcox, The match with Javier, the Chilean Junior, was more than my middle-aged heart could take. In the warm-ups Lee was relaxed, powdering his groundstrokes and crushing his overheads, and he took a 5-1 lead in the first set.

But after that he began to spray shots, and double fault, like a pitcher who mysteriously and suddenly loses control. I have seen this sort of meltdown eight or nine times, but it usually occurs for boys with more volatile temperaments than Lee’s. It might have served as a lesson had Lee in fact lost the match, but Javier had his own, more theatrical and sub-equatorial meltdown in the third set, and Lee won through attrition more than perseverance.

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who smokes went to the movie theater at the mall. I saw them buy two pretzels, a slushy, and a chicken sandwich of suspect pedigree.

They sat in the eighth row. I know this because I was in the fifteenth. It is not unusual for me to go to the movies, and I hadn’t intended to spy on them, but the movie was at a convenient time for me, and I planned to leave before the end of the film so as not to inhibit them on their afternoon escape.

There are no rules against seeing a movie on a Sunday, provided you make it back by dinner time, and provided you’ve played at least four hours and run three miles, which Lee had done. I heard Lee laugh several times during the movie, once at a very serious, and in fact poignant moment—a last conversation in a hospital ward between a husband and wife— and I’m quite sure he and the smoker were upsetting the family who sat in front of them.

Thank you for the quick note you sent, which I know was written during a particularly busy time for you. And in answer to your question, yes, there are several other coaches who work directly with Lee, and he is not being singled out for special treatment. But I must say that if he were it would be because he is not an ordinary adolescent, and not an ordinary talent.

This weekend we will go to Boca Raton for a tournament at the Escondido Club. They have not seeded Lee, and have no idea what they are about to see. I know that wherever Mrs. Wilcox is, and I choose not to believe the rumors, she is beaming with pride right now, as you in your own way must be. Lately in his forehand I am seeing a little of Jim Courier in the two years he won the French, and in his footwork I have noticed an aspect of Gustavo Kuerten. I believe too that the Danish girl is now in love with Lee, as I saw her leaving a note outside his door the other night. I admit I did lift the note and thought of opening it, but did not. I relate this to you to indicate that I do not want to get in the way of Lee and his friendships. I will write to you from the Escondido Club, undoubtedly with exciting news. There is a rumor that Sampras might stop in to watch a match or two. Wouldn’t that be something?

Yours, Maximillian Gross Dearest Mr. Wilcox, I am writing you from the veranda at the Escondido, which is filled with players and parents and coaches, much of South Florida’s

tennis aristocracy. Lee is one of four Academy players entered in the tournament, and from where I sit I can see him rallying with a junior player from Taiwan.

I’m happy to report that Pete Sampras is indeed staying at the Escondido, and was seen this morning at the breakfast buffet with his movie-star wife and their two sons. It is hard to see Sampras eating his eggs and oatmeal and sausages and not think of how many times on the brink of a Grand Slam he flamed out so impotently in the French. There is nothing sadder than seeing a big hitter stumble and struggle on slow clay.

As for our reason for being here, Lee did as well as we could have hoped. We played him up an age group, in the 18s, and he won his first three matches before losing to the second seed.

Sampras watched four or five games of Lee’s defeat, and said—these are his exact words— “This kid is pretty good.” I wish you could have been there to hear this, but I hope you can imagine yourself where I was, hearing such a career-making compliment!

You bet your f---ing ass, he is, I said, though it is far from my nature to use that sort of language, and certainly not in front of the greatest champion in our sport. I may have said some other things to the hotel staff there, who warned me to be quiet.

I was escorted to my room and asked to leave first thing in the morning. The f--- I will, I thought.

I watched the end of Lee’s match from my room. I thought the last match might go on forever. When he lost, Lee shook the other boy’s hand and then went down to the beach and watched the ocean for an hour or so. I joined him there, and brought him to one of the restaurants inside where I bought him a fish dinner, which he ate without a word.

“Would it be okay if I stopped playing for a while?” he asked me afterward.

“Why would you stop playing?”

“I feel tired,” he said.

“Are we talking a few days? A week?”

“I don’t know,” he said. “Maybe more than a week.”

“Whatever you need,” I said. And then he collapsed.

There was a doctor in the hotel who said it was simply heat exhaustion and cramps. They told him to rest with a cold washcloth on his forehead, and to drink electrolytes. At around eleven he went downstairs with the Danish girl.

They sat by the pool with their feet in the water.

I watched them for a while and then went to bed.

In the morning Lee was on the court, hit-

ting with Pete Sampras as though none of this had happened. I stood on the veranda with my suitcase packed, waiting for a taxi to come and take me to another hotel. Sampras kept staring over at me, unsmiling. May I say here that the champ has not aged terribly well? Not in his face anyhow. The sun has been particularly unkind to him, giving him the deep lines of an aging lifeguard. Nor has his hairline held up as he must have hoped.

When they’d concluded their workout, Sampras told me I should stay away from Lee and that Lee would be traveling with Pete as his practice partner.

My face felt hot, and my jaw tightened.

“But you don’t play tournaments anymore,” I said.

And he said, “I know a bad situation when I see one.”

An argument ensued, and I probably handled it badly, though I think the staff at the Escondido was equally to blame. As a result, my continued employment at the Academy is under discussion, and I have not seen or heard from Lee since then. While Pete Sampras is a well-known celebrity, I do not know if it is in your wishes for your son to be the hitting partner of a washed-up balding husband of a second-rate Hollywood starlet. I told him he would need your permission for us to let Lee go anywhere, and he said, “It’s been handled,” without explaining what that meant.

I believe great things are in the future for all of us provided we sort out these complications.

Would you be able to come soon to Florida, or might you be able to meet with me where you are to discuss strategies? If you hear from Lee, can you tell him that we still have work to do?

I am waiting for your reply, Maximilian Gross Venerable Mr. Wilcox, There is not much these days to say for loyalty, or for all the careers I’ve nurtured, or for the reputation I’ve developed over decades of playing and teaching and learning about the game. Around ten of the players stood up for me, as well as a few of the cafeteria staff, and Antonio from the pro shop. But then there were lies spoken by a few of the least reliable, those most likely to profit from my expulsion, those who would turn the academy into nothing more than a way station to the pros.

I saw Lee after he’d cleared out of his dormitory suite. I had the sinking feeling one has when one has been lied about. Neither of us

knew then about my impending dismissal, and I said nothing to him of my talk with the director. I gave him a signed copy of Brad Gilbert’s book on match strategy, and enough string to last him through the summer.

“Did you steal this?” he asked me.

“Of course not. It’s yours,” I said.

“I’m all set on equipment,” he said, the sky darkening. “But thanks for the book.”

On the title page I’d written a warning about Sampras that I now wished I could erase. Big serves are like big bustlines. Nice to look at, but no guarantee of a person’s character.

Nothing else was said, because it started to pour. I wondered what one does here–shake hands, embrace? In some measurable way my heart was breaking. We stood across from each other awkwardly and then he walked away.

The Danish girl has quit the academy, and has accompanied me on my trip north to see you. She is crazy about Lee, she says, and wants to meet you. I am devoting myself now to her training, and believe she has it in her to make a splash at the Australian this year. I am not fond of the way people look at us while we’re on the road, and so for now we are pretending to be father and daughter, like James Mason and Sue Lyon. There is nothing untoward about our interactions, though on one occasion, Vivi, frustrated I believe by her inability to contact Lee, pressed her not unremarkably soft lips against mine, something that startled me and that I told her definitively could not happen again.

Lee has been playing regional tournaments in California. I know this because I have a former player out there who has sent me emails about Lee’s results. While he is winning matches here and there, I have no doubt that his progress has stalled outside the academy, and I wonder whether Pete Sampras has the time to devote to him or whether he’s simply found a third-rate coach out there to feed Lee balls. I wonder if there’s a library out there, or anyone to go to the movies with. I wonder what happened to his friendship with the boy who smoked pipes, who I saw loitering around the academy for a week or two after Lee left. I wonder about Lee’s ability to so easily break his attachments, and whether that comes from the same place as your ability to end relationships with the women you have been with over the years, though I know I’m overstepping my ground here.

For the next week we will be staying at the Knights Inn in Kalamazoo, Michigan. There are courts nearby at the high school, and Vivi and I are out there training. Are you available

early next week? I would not mind at all making the trip to your house in Grosse Point.

With hopes of seeing you soon, Maximilian Gross Mr. Wilcox, I imagine you are surprised to see the postmark on the outside envelope. But yes, in point of fact, I find myself living productively and gainfully in Copenhagen, Denmark, thanks to the efforts of Vivi and her parents, the Ingebritzens. They have put me up in an apartment outside their indoor tennis club a mile or so from the great Tivoli Amusement Park. I am now coaching five young ladies and two young men, all of whom have some degree of talent, the best being Vivi. I read somewhere that you lived in this city for a year, and I wonder if there are any places you would have me go in my first months here. I did make it to your house, you know, though it must have been when you were in Los Angeles visiting with Lee and the Samprases.

Did they have you to their ugly house? As you requested, I will not write again or try to get in touch with you or Lee, but know that you will always be part of my neurochemistry, the part of me that sings and mourns and deeply understands.

I am taking a Danish immersion class at night, and now when I dream I dream in Danish. When I wake up in my Copenhagen apartment, under my cold cotton sheets, I sometimes feel touched by magic, as though nothing in my life can ever go wrong. Do you know this feeling? Did you feel it when you saw your son hitting peerless groundstrokes with the great Pete Sampras, and if you did, did you recognize the gift I’d given you?

Can we say that we are even?

Yours truly, Maximillian Gross

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He grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and now lives in Marin County, California.

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Frank Pepe was the prototypical Italian immigrant.

Poor and uneducated, he came to the United States in 1909 at age 16 with little more than his health and a strong work ethic. His first job was at a New Haven, CT factory until he returned to fight for his native Italy in World War I a few years later.

Back in the US after the war, he took a job at a local Wooster Street macaroni manufacturer. He then worked for a local bread bakery, also on Wooster St. On the side, Frank began baking his own bread and delivering it throughout the local community with a push cart. He had difficulty keeping track of business, though, because of his illiteracy. He soon abandoned his efforts at delivery. Instead, he made the decision to start a business where his customers would come to him, eliminating many of the bookkeeping and records issues.

In 1925, with his wife Filomena, a pivotal influence on his success due to her English proficiency, Frank started making a simple and humble product from their homeland–pizza. They offered only two types of pizzas: tomatoes with grated cheese, garlic, oregano and olive oil, and the other with anchovies. The Original Tomato Pie is still offered today at Pepe’s Pizzeria and anchovy is still available as a topping. It wasn’t for several years that additional toppings and cheeses were added to the creations.

For about 15 years, Pepe’s operated with only a small staff of close relatives. In 1937, Frank Pepe bought the building at 157 Wooster Street, and moved his pizzeria to what is now understood to be the “main” (but not the original) location. The original location continued as a pizzeria, called The Spot, but was operated by an unrelated family.

For years, Pepe’s flourished as a family-run pizzeria. In the late 1970s, Daughters Elizabeth and Serafina purchased the original bakery at 163 Wooster St. and re-opened Frank Pepe’s the Spot as an annex to the main building. In the early 1990s, Elizabeth and Serafina retired and the business was passed to their seven children–Anthony, Francis, Lisa, Bernadette, Genevieve, Jennifer and Gary–who still operate the business today and have overseen its expansion.

Gary Biamonte, one of those seven grandchildren who operate the business today, explains that he is proud of and honored by his opportunity to continue the Frank Pepe legacy. As the business has grown over the last two decades, the grandchildren have utilized the help of a consulting and management team to ensure their continued success and expansion. “We have a wonderful working relationship with the management team,” says Gary.

Pepe’s has received countless awards and commendations over the years, including the #1 White Clam pizza in America. The famous pie is made with fresh clams, grated cheese, olive oil, fresh garlic and oregano, but no

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tomato sauce. No words can sufficiently describe the taste of this unique pie.

Other awards include: 1999: James Beard Foundation’s list of “America’s Classics;” 2006: Acknowledged on the History Channel’s “American Eats” as the originator of New Haven style pizza in 1925; 2009: Named the “Best Pizza on Earth” by The Guardian; 2009: the tomato pizza named by GQ magazine the twelfth best pizza in the country; 2010: Inducted into the Connecticut Hospitality Hall of Fame; 2013: Voted best pizza in the state, in an article by Zagat naming the best pizza in each state.

Now with seven locations and almost 90 years of experience, ensuring the quality and consistency of the award-winning Pepe’s pizza is one of the most important jobs in the business. Gary’s main task on a daily basis is to ensure that all recipes and ingredients are being strictly adhered to. There is extensive training for the pizza chefs, and every restaurant uses the same recipes and products. This quality control hasn’t always been easy, though, Gary says. “When you are in business for almost 90 years, a lot of things change.” Gary’s job throughout the years has been to ensure that Pepe’s uses the best quality products to keep the integrity of the original recipe and pizza. “We have a great relationship with our suppliers and distributors; they get us whatever we need to make sure we put forth the best product for our customers.” This is important, especially when your business uses over 400,000 pounds of mozzarella cheese each year. When asked about what sets Pepe’s apart from other pizzerias, mainly the recipes and ingredients, Gary won’t let any secrets out of the bag. Pepe’s has been his full-time job since the age of 16, so he definitely has plenty of them to keep.

Plans for additional locations are in the works, as well. The group is looking to expand further throughout the northeast. “When customers walk into any one of our restaurants, they can expect great service and a topquality pizza in a family-friendly atmosphere that feels like home.” But don’t expect to just walk right in. If you plan on paying a visit to the original New Haven location, you can expect a decent wait in line; on any given day, customers could be in line for hours, in all types of weather. So you’d better get there early–especially if you plan on enjoying the white clam pie, which is equally infamous for selling out at some point during the course of the evening. And that is the best aspect of there being seven locations. Though you may not be lucky enough to get a seat in the original New Haven location, the Pepe’s experience can be enjoyed all over the state of Connecticut and even in New York. It is still recommended, however, that any fan of Pepe’s pay a visit to the New Haven location at least once. The wait is definitely worth it, and is undeniably a part of the experience. Who knows, you may even get to wait in line with one of the hundreds of celebrities who frequent the New Haven location when they are in the area. The history and nostalgia within those walls is truly unique, and all a part of the genuine Pepe’s experience. But if waiting in line for hours isn’t your thing, feel free to follow the lead of others, who take large pizzas home and freeze them so they can enjoy Pepe’s whenever they want to.

Gary and the rest of the Pepe’s family are excited for the future and continued success of their grandfather’s creation, and grateful to their patrons from Connecticut and beyond for their continued support.

Current Pepe’s locations: New Haven, Fairfield, Manchester, Danbury, West Hartford, and the Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, CT, as well as Yonkers, NY. Visit www.pepespizzeria.com for more information.

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This historic collection has traveled to museums and galleries across three continents since its inception in 1997, with works from The Art of Dr. Seuss now hanging in collections alongside Picasso, Chagall, Warhol, and other 20th century masters.

Ted Geisel asked his wife, Audrey, to wait until he was gone before bringing these artworks to the public. Secretly, he wanted to be recognized as a serious artist, but publicly, he was quick to describe his private works as “Midnight Paintings.” In her preface to the award-winning AFTER DARK IN THE PARK

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the founding of Rome as depicted throughout art history by Rubens, Picasso, and Giambologna, among other great masters. Martini Bird (30” x 21” unframed) — one of the eleven paintings in Dr. Seuss’s La Jolla Birdwomen series, created to gently spoof his chic neighbors.

After Dark in the Park (24” x 36” unframed) — although this 1933 painting was created four years before Dr. Seuss wrote his first children’s book, it foreshadows the birth of several of his famed characters. Cover Image: The Knotty Problem of Capitol Hill, Finding a Way to Raise Taxes Without Losing a Single Vote. This is one of over 400 WWII editorial cartoons created

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Bill Dreyer, Director/Curator of The Art of Dr. Seuss, points out the unique talent of the artist.

As children, we grew up on Dr. Seuss’s playful verse and zealous imagination. As adults, we realize that Theodor Seuss Geisel is not just an

important and innovative 20th-century painter, but one of the few artists working in any medium who knows how to make people happy while at the same time inspiring them to think.

Presented on these pages are three artworks from The Art of Dr. Seuss Collection. Abduction of the Sabine Woman (56” x 56” unframed) — this painting is Dr. Seuss’s 1931 version of

In the twenty-three years since Dr. Seuss passed away, his lasting legacy has become a vital component of our social and educational culture. His impact on the 20th and 21st century American art scene is profound. To celebrate the Good Doctor’s work, a tribute collection of bronze sculpture has been created by artist Leo Rijn to pay homage to Ted Geisel’s books, characters, and lasting messages. Rijn was also commissioned by Universal Studios to develop and oversee the working models for monumental Dr. Seuss sculptures and architecture at Seuss Landing in Orlando, Florida.

Sculptures from this collection have traveled to, or been permanently placed at, major public and private venues around the United States, including the world-famous San Diego Zoo, Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry, The William J. Clinton Presidential Center, The Children’s Museum of Houston, The Munroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, as well as public zoos, libraries, and botanical gardens.

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Dozens of tours are available; subjects, locations, and length vary. For the independent visitor, Central Park Conservancy has developed a host of self-guided tours that can be downloaded and printed, or accessed on most smartphones. Visit www.centralparknyc.org/tours for a complete list of Official Central Park Tours, both expert- and self-guided.

11TH ANNUAL GAMES FOR CHANGE FESTIVAL/ THE 2014 TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL® The 11th Annual Games for Change Festival takes place April 22-24, 2014 at the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts as part of the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), presented by AT&T. In addition, the Games for Change Arcade, which is open to the public, will be held at the TFF Family Festival Street Fair, taking place on Saturday, April 26.

Hosted and created by Games for Change, a non-profit that catalyzes social impact through digital games, the Games for Change Festival is the largest gaming event in New York City, and the leading international event uniting game creators with others who believe in the positive social impact of games.

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Tribeca Film Festival is among the best-known film festivals in the world, supporting and promoting both emerging and established directors to reach the broadest possible audience.

“Tribeca recognizes the transformative power of gaming that goes far beyond the traditional entertainment value of games. The impact and integration has been spreading rapidly across virtually all domains. Of particular interest is how gaming for the social good has scaled–from education to health care, from conflict resolution to religion,” says Craig Hatkoff, Co-Founder, TFF. “By partnering with Games for Change, we hope to bring together the most cutting-edge creators of games, educators, and the world’s greatest story-tellers. Together, they will present the latest innovations in gaming for the social good to even wider audiences. We look forward to further expanding our relationship with Games for Change in the future.” www.tribecafilm.com/gamesforchange

SPRING OPENINGS THE VELOCITY OF AUTUMN

Starring Estelle Parsons and Stephen Spinella The Velocity of Autumn opens April 21st at the Booth Theatre (222 West 45th Street) for a limited engagement, following a sold-out, critically acclaimed run at Washington, DC’s Arena Stage. Velocity of Autumn is a 90-minute powder keg dark comedy by Eric Coble that stars Academy Award-winner Estelle Parsons (Bonnie and Clyde, “Roseanne”) and two-time Tony Award-winner Stephen Spinella (Angels In America, Lincoln, “24”). The Velocity of Autumn marks the Broadway debuts of playwright Eric Coble and director Molly Smith. Tickets are available via www.Telecharge.com 212/239-6200 or 800/447-7400. www.VelocityOfAutumnBroadway.com

JAMES FRANCO AND CHRIS O’DOWD IN OF MICE AND MEN Tony Award-winning director Anna D. Shapiro’s new Broadway production of Of Mice and Men stars Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner James Franco, Chris O’Dowd, Leighton Meester and Tony Award winner Jim Norton.

Of Mice and Men opens Wednesday, April 16, 2014 at the Longacre Theatre (220 West 48th Street) in a strictly limited engagement through July 27, 2014. For tickets, visit the Longacre Theatre box office or www.Telecharge.com; 212-239-6200. www.ofmiceandmenonbroadway.com

THE REALISTIC JONESES Starring Toni Collette, Michael C. Hall, Tracy Letts, And Marisa Tomei Will Eno’s new American play comes to Broadway after a criticallyacclaimed run at the Yale Repertory Theatre. The Realistic Joneses stars Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winner, Academy Award and Tony

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CARAVAGGIO RESTAURANT The next time you find yourself on NYC’s Museum Mile, nourish your appetite as well as your artistic sensibility at Caravaggio. Located across the street from the Whitney Museum of Art, this neighborhood restaurant al-

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For dedicated vegans, vegetarians, gluten intolerant, etc., or those like me who have debated the benefits versus inconveniences, a slew of new health conscious and wildly delicious options in downtown Manhattan offer up a new world in food. So here’s my guide on what to try where, and of course sampling is encouraged.

HU Kitchen The grain free Hu bread, and the paleo muffins (which are made with coconut flour and coconut sugar) have a moist and tender consistency and are absolutely delicious. HU Café makes a divine cashew cream which they use in all sorts of concoctions, including a hearty vegan (no pasta) lasagna using a cashew cream béchamel that bakes into a cheese-like topping in the oven; as a drizzle over baked pineapple chunks; and as a topping in their mash bar make your own chia sundaes.

78 Fifth Ave, NYC. hukitchen.com Feel Foods I’m really digging the creative salad bar here with toppings like daily stews, broccoli creamed chicken, raw collard greens, crunchy sprinklings of crumbled almonds or cabbage chips and cilantro dressing, which can also be wrapped up in one of their sprouted crepes.

What makes Feel Foods a star are the desserts!

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Try the baked tofu sandwich with a side of the tahini dill dressing. Or anything with the tahini dill dressing actually. The macro plate is loaded with flavorful, lightly cooked vegetables, including a hefty pile of seaweed, kale, squash, and stewed beans. Be sure to try a side of salmon maize rice. Or you might have the inspired vegetable curry, which must be polished off with a spoon. The scones, muffins and oat cookies are gluten free, hardy, and only lightly sweetened. I only like to tell you about my favorites. :) souen.net

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These parties are all about stellar music and great vibes, in roving locations (Soho lofts, boutique hotels, and warehouses), for those who get down, but don’t make a mess. Find them on the web or Facebook to be added to their email list.

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Newport Folk Festival July 25th-27th Travel by land or by sea to picturesque Newport, Rhode Island for a weekend full of culture. Soak up music by the shore with the celebrated Newport mansions as a backdrop. Bring Core Pilates on Union Square My first class here felt like a guided medita- or rent a bike for some glorious rides. tion; as I followed the instructor’s voice, she www.newportfolk.org led us through the movements and articulated every minute feeling I had throughout the Jazz Age Lawn Party movements. With my eyes closed, completely First Weekend: June 14th & 15th focused on my own breathing, her narration Second Weekend: August 16th & 17th of sensation let my body know exactly how it Costumes and cocktails, and dancing, oh my. should feel falling into each position. A safe en- The Jazz Age Lawn party has cult appeal. Hop vironment for beginners. on the ferry from NYC with your guy or gal, 99 University Place, NYC. and a picnic blanket for whimsical afternoons 212/260-5464; corepilatesnyc.com on the green at Governors Island with the musical stylings of Michael Arnella and his Exhale Dreamland Orchestra.

Get fit, toned, and balanced with Pilates www.jazzagelawnparty.com and ballet inspired routines. The ladies at Exhale’s Core Fusion class are hardcore, and Governors Ball if you dedicate the time, you will be too. June 6th – 8th It can be overwhelming on day one when By this point, the Governors Ball music festikeeping up feels out of reach, but you can val needs little introduction. We’ve been there really feel the change each week, and I’ve since the “humble beginnings,” two stages on opposite ends of a massive field on Governors never felt stronger.

Island, NYC. Now, the Governors finds its Various locations throughout Manhattan. home on the much larger and more accomwww.exhalespa.com

modating Randall’s Island. Last year, masses of fans, undeterred by the elements, fully exposed to the rain and the blistering wind, celebrated for hours on end in a torrential downpour.

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Music Trentemoller From an oversized mahogany desk in Florida, via Skype, I chatted with heavily accented, Danish born musician, Anders Trentemoller (in Germany) about his unique musical style

like a soundtrack. The music has an organic feel so you can listen while relaxing by your home stereo, but the music also has crossover appeal for going out or listening to a live performance.

When you’re visiting New York and not performing, where might we find you?

I visit New York a lot, hang with friends in other bands, and I’ve had a good time at the Bowery Hotel.

How might you reply if you were issued an invitation to a dinner party the next time you were visiting NYC? It could be fun. I love good dinners and meeting new people. Could I bring my band members? A beautiful thing about touring is experiencing new things with your friends (band members).

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49 Howard Presents: The Art of Superstition In collaboration with 49 Howard Presents, SoHo NYC and Tribeca magazines teamed up with some downtown friends to throw down an epic night of art in a Soho loft setting. Avantgarde art generously on loan from Lower East Side-based Castle Fitzjohns gallery decked the halls, with a guest appearance by young Miami based sensation GG. French inspired cocktails were crafted by Chicane’s, with bubbly and a mulled wine not to be soon forgotten from visiting Connecticut Vineyard, Chamard (Clinton, CT). The evening’s heady sounds were thanks to DJs Matt FX and Hiyawatha of Tribes NYC, who kept people on their feet into the early hours.

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and his thoughts on NYC. It’s refreshing to hear a DJ/music producer these days wax on about the NYC punk scene as his inspiration and the “beautiful” aspects of touring in the same breath. Turn it up and get emotional; Trentemoller brings the euro, and makes Emo sound chic again. I like it a lot!

Nossa Mesa Supper Club at Louro It’s with great pleasure that I introduce you to Monday nights at Louro; where the tasting menu meets the communal table, fine dining takes on a theme, and BYOB means room for sharing. Rumor has it that on evenings when the menu showcases crowd favorites such as lobster, truffles, or uni, there are frequently some major vintages being passed around as diners play a bourgy game of “show and tell.” Chef David Santos is the real deal.

He’s a master at the fryer, and the type of chef whose menus have never not been seasonal.

He says one of the hardest parts of a seasonal

Five words to describe your music?

It’s hard to describe my music (agreed); melodic, melancholic, organic, with electronic and indie influence. Is that five words?

On his feelings towards NYC, where he has a sold out show in Brooklyn.

NYC has always been an inspiration, especially punk rock bands like the Velvet UnderLOURO ground and Talking Heads (puts his electroPHOTO BY ALICE GAO punk sound into perspective). Last year I had a sold out show at Webster Hall; that was a menu these days is matching what is actually lot of fun! in season with what people want that season.

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Cocktails are a nice balance of sweet and herbal, with special touches like an inside out lime floating atop holding an extra shot. Beautiful girls in exotic skirts are gracious servers and ready to share their full menu of individual portioned Indian fare.

Macao 338 East 92nd Street, New York, NY. My go to spot for upscale Asian food and cockwww.drunkenmunkeynyc.com tails on the border of Soho, Tribeca, and Chinatown. My perfect meal here is served with Pippali One travels to Curry Hill on a mission, simthe Dragon’s Milk cocktail.

Seared squid salad, Hakka BBQ noodles, ply, for the best Indian food. Pippali presents a modern preparation of regional Indian dishes and the African chicken.

Situated deep within this sultry oriental trade post of a Tribeca loft is one of my favorite lounge spots for late night cocktails. The ceiling is low and lit only by a yellow glow like candle light, reminiscent of another time and place. The DJs on weekends often favor deeper beats and moody yet groovy tunes. Watch out for the bartenders, who are very handsome, and will hit on you.

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Film Love & Air Sex Although not totally sure what to make of this one, it had us thoroughly entertained and LOL’ing throughout, while inducing several of those “WTF” expressions with some very unique scenes involving a very serious charades-style air sex competition.

Amour et Turbulences (Love is in the Air) Romantic French tale full of twists and turns, as a couple is reunited and reminisces about the destruction of their love when they find themselves seated next to each other on a crossAtlantic flight from NYC.

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It’s always been a culinary dream of mine to experience a seafood tower in Paris, and what could be more merveilleux than to be at Paris’ legendary brasserie, Café de La Paix, at the Intercontinental Paris Le Grand? Inaugurated on May 5th, 1862 by Empress Eugenie, Café de la Paix and The Intercontinental Paris Le Grand are an integral part of Paris history, older than the Eiffel Tower.

It is a memory I will never forget, like being in another era–dining on a red velvet banquette, looking out at the Paris Opera House.

To commence the “Plateau Prestige,” a multitude of instruments and tools, (à la oral surgeon’s tray) are aligned in preparation for the task at hand. The “Plateau Prestige” is presented with the flair and flourish of the court of Louis the XIV. After three hours, it was a thrilling exhaustion, like finishing the Seafood Tour de France. Maybe it was the wine, but I think the cupids on the gilded, frescoed ceiling were winking at me.

The Intercontinental Paris Le Grand is just that, a “Grand” hotel. One of the first luxury hotels built in Paris, the Paris Le Grand precedes the majestic Opera House, right next door. It embodies the glamour of centuries ago

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coupled with the buzz of contemporary Paris.

The location is convenient, a 10 minute walk to the Louvre, with a Metro stop right on the corner. The Club InterContinental offers a VIP lounge overlooking the Opera. It is open to the club’s guests and covers two levels where they can enjoy breakfast, cocktails or other refreshments depending on the time of day.

There’s a vibrant energy at the Paris Le Grand from the continual flow of international guests.

So much so that Café de La Paix’s glorious breakfast buffet includes a full Chinese buffet and a Japanese buffet. Through the lobby is La

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Verriere–an open “winter garden” venue with tables of tête-à-têtes meeting for café or cocktails. The hotel is so connected to the life of the city; it’s the site of important events and happenings like the Balmain Fashion Show, and a shared 152nd birthday celebration with the famed Ladurée pastry shop. Imagine the holiday season at the Paris Le Grand with a Christmas tree almost 15 feet high, made of 8,000 multi-colored Ladurée macarons! Magnifique!

2 Rue Scribe, Paris, France. www.paris.intercontinental.com www.cafedelapaix.fr

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Hotel La Trémoille It’s Designer Geometry in the 8th district in Paris.

Dior, Louis Vuitton, Prada, Gucci, Chanel and Lanvin form “The Golden Triangle” connecting the Champs Élysées, Avenue Montaigne and Avenue George V. At the center of the triangle on a quiet tree-lined street corner is Hotel La Trémoille.

Built in 1883 as a private residence, La Trémoille was transformed into a hotel in 1923 and is the epitome of an exclusive small boutique hotel.

The original Haussmann façade and wrought iron balconies give the exterior that “Welcome to Paris” signature. The hotel has 80 luxury guestrooms and 13 suites, some with their own private balconies. The sleep is luxurious at La Trémoille and guest baths feature a petite Molton Brown boutique with a multitude of body washes to sample: Paradisiac Pink Pepperpod, Warming Eucalyptus, and Recharge Black Pepper. The fitness center is located on the lower level and includes a cardio-training center; sauna; hydro-jet shower and two private massage and treatment rooms.

The hotel’s very own Louis² Restaurant and Louis² Bar & Lounge are not to be missed. The name “Louis²” was inspired by Louis II, Sire de la Trémoille, grand chevalier of the Renaissance and ambassador of the hotel. The ambiance is cozy, with a piano in the bar and plush seats by the fireplace and in private alcoves. The bar and lounge are perfect for a casual brasserie style lunch, business meeting or to meet for a drink. The restaurant is open everyday, all day – 11am to 11pm.

The menu is simple yet sophisticated. Try the Daurade Tartare laced with ginger; it’s exquisite!

There’s an art to creating a hotel atmosphere that strikes the perfect balance of elegant, casual and relaxing. The service is stellar and discreet; no wonder so many celebrities stay at La Trémoille. It’s a delight to call La Trémoille

home when you’re in Paris. Hotel Trémoille is a member of Preferred Hotels & Resorts.

14, rue de la Trémoille, Paris. www.hotel-tremoille.com

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Located in Belgravia, just behind Buckingham Palace, the Goring has been a favorite for royal guests since it opened in 1910. Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, stayed at the hotel the night before her wedding at Westminster Abbey. Ideally situated for Coronations, royal weddings, or simply a lovely London getaway, the Goring is an easy stroll to London’s Royal Parks, finest shops, theatres and restaurants.

Now in its second century, the Goring is the only five star luxury hotel in London owned and run by the family that built it. Jeremy Goring is the fourth generation Goring to head the hotel since his great-grandfather; Otto R. Goring founded the Goring in 1910. A statue of O. R. Goring welcomes guests in the lobby, and a fresh flower is placed in his buttonhole every morning, 365 days a year.

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The Goring THE GORING

I’ve developed a special affection for the Goring Hotel. Apparently, I’m not alone; it’s a favorite of the Queen’s. In 2013, her Majesty the Queen honored the Goring with a Royal Warrant for its outstanding hospitality. Considering it’s the first and only Royal Warrant the Queen has ever given to a hotel, imagine how exceptional the service is! Relais &

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The Garden Bar and the Lounge overlook the magnificent Goring garden. It’s the largest hotel garden in Central London, ideal for a garden party and a perfect setting for the quintessential English Afternoon Tea. The Goring was honored with the 2013 Top London Afternoon Tea Award by the UK Tea Guild. For very fine British fare, be sure to experience dinner at The Dining Room The Goring’s rooms and suites have recently been refurbished with elegant Gainsborough silks and many of the rooms overlook the garden. There are newly decorated inter-connecting family rooms with two bedrooms.

Children will love the Goring’s gift bag and special activities, a visit to the kitchen, filling their Goring Passport, selecting a story from the Goring Bedtime Story Library, and the private garden for outdoor play. Very British with a bit of whimsy, enjoy being treated like royalty at The Goring.

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The Soho Hotel This is a fantastic emporium of textures, textiles and eclectic design! The Soho Hotel, one of Tim and Kit Kemp’s Firmdale collection, is an exciting hotel to check out next time you’re in London.

Built in 2004, the Soho was the entertainment district’s first luxury hotel–set back on a quiet street, steps away from the neighborhood’s hip cafes, clubs, bars and restaurants.

The Soho Hotel has an unmistakable cool vibe from the moment you enter and encounter a 10-foot-high bronze Botero cat sculpture standing guard.

Each of the 91 bedrooms, suites, and apartments are individually designed with unique fabrics, trimmings and artwork. Love the drawing room and the library! It’s amazing how many details you’ll continue to discover during your stay. Have a look at the private event spaces; you’ll want to throw a party just to spend time in these rooms.

The center of the hotel’s energy is Refuel Restaurant & Bar, located in the lobby. Refuel tips its cap to the hotel’s prior life as a parking lot with a sensational mural of colorful cars on the road. No matter the time of day, Refuel is buzzing, serving truly fabulous fare. Want to spa? Soholistic on the lower level offers Temple Spa beauty therapies and a fully equipped gym. The Firmdale Hotels are renowned for their Film Club series and the Soho has two incredibly cool screening rooms. Can’t make it to London? Be sure to visit the Crosby Street hotel in NYC’s Soho. Experience dinner and a film at Crosby Street’s Film Club Series. Once you’ve stepped inside a Firmdale hotel, you’ll understand what the fuss is about.

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DUKES BAR WITH BAR MANAGER ALESSANDRO PALAZZI

“I’ve had some wobbles lately.” It was the most refined moment of bar room blues I’d ever heard.

Dukes was a favorite watering hole of James Bond author, Ian Fleming. The Fleming 89 is a rose infused martini, a toast to Ian Fleming’s favorite scent from London Parfumerier, Floris.

Observe as Alessandro sprays rose liquor from an antique perfume atomizer onto the frozen martini glass. It’s no wonder travelers from around the world come to Dukes Bar to experience the art of the martini.

Dukes London has held court in St. James for over 100 years. Hidden away on a side street, the hotel is renowned for its very British five star experience. Thirty-Six, under the toque of Michelinstarred chef Nigel Mendham, serves brilliant seasonal fare. Perfect for pre-theatre dinner and a spectacular tasting menu, the restaurant also serves breakfast, lunch and dinner.

After dinner, cigar lovers will be enthralled by the selection of fine cigars and Dukes’ exclusive cognac and cigar garden in which to savor the experience. A Member of Small Luxury Hotels of the World. www.slh.com St. James’s Place, London. www.dukeshotel.com

Dukes London The Royal Christening of HRH Prince George signaled it was high time for Dukes London to inaugurate a new martini in honor of the infant prince. After all, it’s not every day there’s a royal christening at St. James Palace. And when Dukes London adds a unique new martini to its historic martini bar, Londoners take notice.

“The Dukes Royal Prince Cup Cocktail” Hendrix gin, Rosehip cup bitter, Dubonnet (the Queen’s favorite tipple!) and a zest of organic orange.

Dukes’ martinis are legendary, prepared tableside as performance art. A 1908 wooden trolley cart laden with bottles of frozen gin, vodka, Dukes’ specially prepared Vermouth with all-English ingredients and organic lemons from Amalfi is helmed by Dukes bar manager, Alessandro Palazzi. It’s a martini experience for the purist, to be sipped slowly, without distraction of music, or interruption of food being served; just a few snacks, cocktails and conversation.

When the drink is strong, the British guard comes down. A guest was asked how life had been since his last visit to Dukes. He sipped his martini and in a melodious English accent confessed sadly,

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JOURNEY TO THE KINGDOM OF MOROCCO, KNOWN AS AL-MAGHRIB IN ARABIC, “THE LAND TO THE WEST.” A MODERATE ISLAMIC COUNTRY INHABITED BY ARABS THERMAE BATH SPA AND BERBERS, MOROCCO INVITES TOURISTS OF ALL NATIONALITIES TO EXPLORE ITS FASCINATING CULTURE, HISTORY AND CRAFTS, AS WELL AS A TOPOGRAPHY THAT RANGES FROM THE MOUNTAINS, TO THE DESERT TO THE SEA. Dar Ayniwen Villa Hotel

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Marrakech: Jnane Tamsna A fabulous riad (guest house) set on nine landscaped acres in the la Palmeraie section of Marrakech, Jnane Tamsna offers serene accommodations, fine cuisine and warm hospitality slightly removed from the bustling old city of Marrakech. 24 spacious guestrooms in 3 buildings are individually decorated with elegant furnishings and sophisticated fabrics, and laid out around courtyards and verandas with plenty of indoor and outdoor private space. Moorish architecture, Islamic art and design, combined with a nouvelle sensibility toward luxury and amenities set the tone for a chic and comfortable stay.

Themed suites–such as Casablanca, Calligraphy, and Persian–have in-room fireplaces and walk in closets, marble bathrooms, luxurious linens, and TV’s available upon request.

Nestled among the property’s lavender and olive trees, lemon groves and date palms, are five swimming pools and a tennis court. Acres of

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walled gardens include an organic vegetable garden and aromatic herb garden, whose produce is used in Jnane Tamsna’s excellent restaurant.

In a tranquil and understated dining room, guests start their day with an ample breakfast which incorporates Moroccan crepe, a selection of French croissants, seasonal fruits, yogurt, honey, preserves and made to order omelets. The restaurant offers a set lunch and dinner menu that changes daily, both in the candlelit dining room and at various lavish and stunning private outdoor dining alcoves. A blend of sophisticated Marrakech and European fare, the three-course menus incorporate many ingredients sourced from the hotel’s kitchen gardens or nearby souk in Marrakech. Cooking classes are available.

Ideal for families, couples, honeymooners and business travelers, Jnane Tamsna offers all the amenities and provisions necessary for a memorable stay. Baby sitting and conference services available. Douar Abiad, La Palmeraie, Marrakech. www.jnane.com

A stay at Dar Ayniwen is like a stay at an astonishing, indulgent, private Moroccan home. Which indeed Dar Ayniwen once was, before it opened its doors to a select few guests at its all-suite, luxury accommodations in the Marrakech Palmeraie.

Visitors are greeted with the customary glasses of hot, sweet mint tea upon arrival, as well as rosepetal strewn beds and baths when ushered to their rooms. Designed with antiques from around the world, valuable objets, stained glass, mother of pearl inlaid furnishings, hand cut mosaics and rich textiles abound throughout Dar Ayniwen’s salons, alcoves and guestrooms. Little details like a hat thrown on a coatrack, well-worn books left on a table, and an open backgammon set add to the air of authentic living.

An on-site Hammam, (spa) offers a traditional sauna, Oriental beauty treatments and massages, and an aromatic relaxation room. Outdoors, guests can enjoy a heated swimming pool year-round, extensive gardens, and a sophisticated aviary.

Open to Dar Ayniwen’s guests and to outside travelers, La Tente, the hotel’s restaurant, offers fine Moroccan dining in a stunning tented setting. Berber carpets, pillowed couches, candlelight and a crackling fireplace set the scene for wonderful meals in lush and exotic surroundings. Enjoy dishes such as wild quail in puff pastry with almonds and raisins, Rabbit Tajine with sweet prunes and foie gras, and Royal Couscous topped with Beef, Merguez sausage, and Spicy Mincemeat. Cooking courses are available.

Infused with Moorish hospitality and Orientalist décor, Dar Ayniwen allows guests to experience Moroccan living at its finest.

Tafrata - Palmeraie de Marrakech. www.dar-ayniwen.com

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High Atlas Mountains: Kasbah du Tubkal Imlil The Kasbah du Tubkal is a magnificent ecolodge, situated in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco at the base of the tallest mountain in North Africa. Once the summer retreat of an area feudal chief, the Kasbah has been painstakingly restored with traditional building techniques and materials to provide comfortable lodging with authentic local fare and

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attentive service in a spectacular setting. But don’t think just anybody can stay at this hotel, because there is an eye-opening, fifteen-minute hike up a winding trail behind a donkey carrying your luggage to arrive at the hotel’s main gate. If you’re capable of that, then do it, because the views, the experience, as well as the hiking, climbing and walking in the area are out of this world. The hills are dotted with simple Berger villages offering local wares, friendly people and trekking trails. When the muezzins call the faithful to prayer, the mountains echo.

If you’re staying in one of their suites you can expect a nice Berber salon with colorful couches, an ample bathroom, and a terrace overlooking the mountains. Dine by candlelight using wooden spoons and simple utensils on a set menu of bean

soup, tagine, and honey-infused desserts. The hotel amenities are wonderful, with offerings such as the Hammam, (steam bath), large rooftop terrace for lunch, and unlimited cups of Morocco’s Berber whiskey (mint tea). The Hammam, an important feature in Moroccan culture, is a steam/ washing room where you and your family can go and have a group bathe. In the Hammam you mix boiling water with cold to make it your desired temperature, then slowly cleanse yourself and each other with the luxuriant mountain water, Moroccan black soap, and exfoliation gloves.

Getting back to the most important experience of the hotel–the hiking trails–you can go for a thirty mile trek to the top of Tubkal, a ten-mile loop stopping in villages along the way, or a short, one-mile hike to an awesome rushing waterfall that provides a cool backdrop and chill place.

Imlil, Morocco. www.kasbahdutoubkal.com

Sahara Desert Ksar Bicha Merzouga

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Merzouga is a desert town with few amenities, but what it lacks in stores and restaurants it makes up for by being on the edge of the enthralling Sahara desert. Hotel Ksar Bicha, situated at the foot of the dunes, offers a fascinating selection of desert activities as well as a gracious hotel, dining room, and fashionably decorated swimming pool area. Fulfill every romanticized notion of trade routes of old, and ride camels into the desert to bivouc in a Berber tent. A camel trek of two hours into the desert brings you to a beautiful Berber campsite with full amenities, including a running water outhouse, kitchen, and tented rooms with thick blankets and heavy mattresses. In the campsite, a giant Berber rugged square is put down so you never have to walk on sand, and lights are put up sparingly so you can see the killer stars at night. Back at the hotel the next day, you can expect a full breakfast with mint tea, (obviously) housemade bread with amlou (almond butter with honey), and other authentic Moroccan delicacies. Enjoy a dip in the cooling waters of the pool and the warm breezes off the Sahara.

If camels aren’t your thing, take an excursion in open-topped 4 x 4’s. The desert also allows for sand boarding, which is like snow boarding but riding the dunes, and a traditional health treatment called sand bathing.

For the sand bathing, a hole is dug and allowed to heat up before a person is buried up to the neck with only their head showing; this treatment is believed to be beneficial for muscle pains, arthritis, joint disease and chronic illnesses. www.ksarbicha.com

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views of Providenciales’ beautiful sunsets.

Enjoy fun and exotic cocktails, as well as favorite frozen concoctions, at the poolside swim-up bar. (The Rum Bar features 40 different Caribbean rums.) The first pop-up restaurant in Turks & Caicos–Stix on Grace Bay beach–is ideal for those loathe to step away from the white tropical sands and the perfection of their deepening tan.

Anani Spa offers a full range of facials, massages and body treatments, as well as a glamorous spa tent for beachfront massages.

Now celebrating its 20th anniversary, Grace Bay Club opened as the first luxury all-oceanfront suite resort in Turks and Caicos, and today continues to be a premier destination for discerning visitors.

Check out their anniversary specials and more at www.gracebayresorts.com

Caribbean Food & Wine Festival Grace Bay Club Providenciales The wonderful Grace Bay Club on the island of Providenciales in the string of islands and keys called Turks and Caicos, is a haven, a resort, a chill getaway extraordinaire. Situated on 11 landscaped acres on the beautiful Grace Bay Beach and composed of three options – The Hotel, The Villas, and The Estate – Grace Bay Club is able to cater to guests with different prerequisites, all at the same time. All lodgings offer ocean front views and have access to the club’s spa, restaurants, shop and activities. Service is warm, attentive and capable; many accommodations come with a personal 24-hour concierge.

The adults-only Hotel offers a range of suites with up to 2,200 square feet of luxurious appointments and a private adults-only swimming pool. Each suite has at least one private balcony or patio, along with a kitchenette and twice-daily maid service.

The villas, replete with one to four bedrooms–each with an en-suite bathroom–are ideal for families, friends staying together, and multiple couples. Encompassing 600 square feet to 6,340 square feet of living space in four exclusive five-story buildings, the villas have full kitchens, dining areas, plush living rooms, ample private balconies, walk in closets, washer/dryers and twice-daily maid service.

The Estate at Grace Bay Club offers guests enhanced luxury, amenities and privacy. This is a collection of 22 custom-designed, elegant residences, each blending contemporary design

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with the distinctive charm of a beachfront location. The Estate includes exclusive facilities such as a poolside bar, poolside cabanas and lounges, a 25-meter lap pool, beach beds, a Jacuzzi, a kids’ splash pool and a welcome lounge,

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making it a true resort within a resort.

Anacaona is the resort’s gourmet, open-air restaurant, featuring European-Caribbean fusion cuisine focused on fresh ingredients, modern presentations and global influences. Anacaona welcomes guests 12 years of age and up.

Breakfast, lunch, complimentary afternoon tea, and casual dinners are served at the Grill Rouge, offering a wide variety of grilled seafood, meat and international bistro fare.

The Lounge is a contemporary and relaxed onthe-beach oasis. With plush outdoor seating, hanging lanterns and the Infiniti Bar–the longest beach bar in the Caribbean–The Lounge offers Caribbean-themed tapas, a selection of martinis and tropical cocktails, sophisticated world music and prime

Any time is a good time to visit Providenciales, Turks and Caicos, but for those who especially love food and wine, the island’s annual Caribbean Food & Wine Festival is a particularly awesome time to come. Enjoy a range of events held at various locations around the island, mingle with locals and the many ex-pats who call the island home, and delight in cuisine both locally sourced and globally influenced.

In 2014, the Annual Caribbean Food & Wine Festival takes place November 6 – 8.

Last year, participating chefs included Tiffany Derry, fan favorite from Season 7 of Bravo’s “Top Chef,” Xoliswa Ndoyiya, Nelson Mandela’s personal chef of more than 20 years, and NYC’s sweet-toothed Christina Tosi, of Momofuku Milk Bar. Wineries represented were Sonoma County’s St. Francis Winery & Vineyards, Tuck Beckstoffer Wines of Napa Valley, and South Africa’s recently launched House of Mandela wines.

Proposed venues for the 2014 events include The Regent Palms, the Beach House, The Lounge at Grace Bay Club, West Bay Club and other distinguished properties around the island. Guests will be guided on a culinary adventure around Providenciales during the annual Gourmet Safari progressive dinner, featuring five courses at different locations with wine pairings from noted vintners. The Island Street Food Fair on Grace Bay Road, showcasing the expert grilling and barbeque techniques of chefs from the island, culminates with a delicious and heated grill-off.

For advance tickets and additional information: www.caribbeanfoodandwinefestivaltci.com

THE WESTIN RIVERFRONT RESORT AND SPA at Beaver Creek Mountain Avon, CO There is something special about entering the warmly appointed lobby of the Westin Riverfront Resort and Spa. The stunning views of Vail Valley beckon for outdoors adventures.

Located at the base of Beaver Creek Mountain, the Westin is a resort for all seasons. In the warmer months, there’s an incredible array of activities and outdoor festivals to choose from: biking, hiking, fishing, horseback riding, white water rafting, hot air ballooning, tennis, swimming and mountain Jeep tours. You can also tee off at one of three local golf courses.

In the winter, you can head to the ski valet and hop into your heated boots. The gondola right out the back door whisks you directly to world class skiing at Beaver Creek Mountain. If you have forgotten anything, Beaver Creek Sports is on-site to help, and Vail Mountain is only a short ride away. Non-skiers have easy access to snowmobiling, ice skating, snowshoeing and family sleigh rides.

Guests can also choose to simply enjoy the indoor/outdoor pleasures of the resort: swim in the heated outdoor pool or relax in the three very inviting infinity hot tubs. The Westin’s Spa Anjali is a complete wellness center featuring 14 treatment rooms. Realign your mind and body with the Spa’s own ‘Himalayan Journey to Serenity’ Package.

There’s also a full service salon, lap pool, and a gym with state of the art fitness equipment, as well as Spin, Pilates and Yoga studios. Adjacent to the spa is the Howard Head Sports Medicine Clinic, renowned for its innovative physical therapy techniques. Guests can vacation and rehabilitate at the Westin Riverfront while recovering from surgery or injury.

While parents get some adult time, at the Westin Kids Club, children ages 5-12 explore and have fun in programs that highlight the area’s natural environment.

Enjoy a hearty breakfast served every morning at the Lift Cafe, meet friends for a glass of wine at the Lobby Wine Bar and enjoy Modern Mexican cuisine from award-winning Chef

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Accommodations range from spacious studio suites to plush three-bedroom condos. Many have private decks and stunning mountain views and all have Westin’s Heavenly Beds® that truly are.... heavenly.

There is even a heavenly dog bed available in this pet-friendly hotel. Whether you’re an outdoor adrenaline family or just looking for a relaxed couple’s getaway, check out www.westinriverfrontbeavercreek.com for year round resort deals and packages.

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The Resort at Paws Up

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he Resort at Paws Up is Montana’s premier luxury ranch resort situated in some of the most breathtaking country in the world. The Resort features a robust menu of wilderness adventures, gourmet dining, a spa and incredibly unique accommodations, which include 30 glamping (glamorous camping) tents.

The history of glamping at the Resort at Paws Up began with the development of Tent City, the original glamping site at the Ranch.

This initial campsite was located in a timbered enclave situated on the edge of a sprawling meadow just a stone’s throw from the legendary Blackfoot River and a historic rock outcropping discovered by Lewis & Clark. The site already had welcoming neighbors, including local wildlife and several birds of prey that included a permanent family of American bald eagles. The Bob Marshall Wilderness and the Continental Divide served as the breathtaking backdrop for this pristine and highly scenic Montana wilderness camp. Now, all that was needed was the perfect canvas compound.

Ultimately, six tents were built at Tent City and situated at least 50 feet apart (for privacy) in the timbered shade with good access to sunshine. Pathways with solar lighting were established to provide access for guests and staff.

In its first year, Tent City was extremely well received by guests, the press and the travel trade. It provided a high-end camping experience for guests that was then unique in the United States. Tent City took “glamping” to the highest level ever in North America.

As consumer demand significantly outpaced Paws Up’s supply of tents, additional camps were designed and built. In 2007, River Camp was built. In 2010 and 2011, Creekside Camp and Pinnacle Camp respectively were built.

Each new camp was built with a higher level of luxury and more amenities than the last.

In June of 2012, Moonlight Camp was introduced–replacing the original Tent City. The new camp included voluminous tents (four two-bedroom tents and two one-bedroom

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tents) approximately 50% larger in size. The original bathhouse was removed and was replaced by a spacious ensuite bathroom for each tent–featuring heated slate floors, glass shower enclosures, heated towel racks and vanities with double sinks. The old Dining Pavilion was replaced with a considerably larger tented Pavilion. The new Pavilion includes a lounge area, bar, larger deck and expanded pantry. The result is a totally contemporaneous glamping environment that, in 2012, received more guest compliments than Tent City, its predecessor.

Today, Paws Up’s luxury camping offering includes five camps and 30 tents, including the new Cliffside Camp and the newly renovated River Camp. Similar to African safaris, glamping at Paws Up brings guests closer to wildlife, and offers an intimate, unfiltered connection with the natural beauty of Montana, while providing the most luxurious comfort possible. As the leader of the North American glamping trend, Paws Up has truly created The American Safari.™ For reservations or more information, please call 877/630-6158 or visit www.pawsup.com

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Join us in May for spectacular Montana spring weather, lower rates and Montana Master Grillers – our Memorial Day weekend culinary event dedicated to the art of gourmet grilling.

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Telluride

EVERYONE has a good time when they come to Telluride–the people smiling the most are the ones who never left.

Upon first glance, visitors are immediately enchanted with the breathtaking setting of the historic Town of Telluride. The grand snowcapped peaks of the 14,000foot San Juan Mountains and imposing Box Canyon waterfalls ensnare the senses, while the warm embrace of the Telluride community welcomes you to paradise.

The over-a-century-old Town of Telluride is filled with colorful legends and Rocky Mountain spirit. Just six blocks wide and twelve blocks long, the National Historic District is a window into the town’s illustrious past with its colorful Victorian homes, clapboard storefronts and boutiques. Each summer the town plays host to such world-renowned events as the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Telluride Film Festival, and Telluride Blues & Brews Festival, just to name a few. And there’s plenty for the kids too – the Telluride community is extremely family focused. Telluride’s education system is nationally recognized as exemplary, with camps and extracurriculars from rock climbing and river rafting to theater and dance.

Telluride’s World-Class Ski Resort is a grandiose backdrop to the historic town, offering a genuine mountain experience for all levels of skiers, thanks to a mix of quality terrain on 2,000+ skiable acres. Even beginners and intermediate skiers can ride to the highest peaks and enjoy ter160

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rain and views typically reserved for experts. And forget crowds: the trails are never packed, and there is rarely a lift line. Telluride was recently named the #1 ski resort in North America by Condé Nast readers, as well as the #1 most scenic and #2 most charming resort in Ski Magazine.

Perched at 9,500 feet on the Telluride Ski Resort, Mountain Village exudes modern alpine elegance. Telluride and its sister town are linked via the only free gondola in North America, possibly the most picturesque 13-minute ride you will ever experience. Luxury hotels and condos, grand mountain residences, stylish boutiques, innovative dining, the world-class Spa at the Peaks Hotel and a championship golf course complement the historic charm of Telluride to create “the best of both worlds.”

Telluride, Mountain Village and their surrounding areas boast a desirable array of highend luxury and value-oriented properties–truly something for every budget. And unlike other high profile resorts, Telluride and Mountain Village both offer true ski-in/out condos and homes with grand views and sumptuous amenities. These sought after properties ensure time is spent on the slopes and trails, not getting there. Venturing further out of town, one can experience the ultimate in privacy and mountain living on 50 to 2,000 acre parcels with some of the most profound views in the west, and arguably the world.

All the big mountain views and luxuries aside, In Telluride, lifestyle is king.

And in the end that is what has turned visitor after visitor into locals. See what Telluride has to offer at www.searchtelluriderealestate.com with Telluride’s premier real estate boutique – Telluride Properties: 970/728-0808.

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Ptarmigan Sites 4 & 5 Ilium Valley These parcels enjoy over a half mile of river frontage.

An attractive post & beam home with 5 beds & 4.5 baths features excellent outdoor living spaces, big sun & great mountain views. Caretaker unit & 4-stall barn. Superb fishing, biking, & close access to thousands of USFS acres.

Dalwhinnie Ridgway A stunning family compound & horse ranch just 45 minutes from Telluride. Located on 60+ rare acres adjoining the Uncompahgre River, the property has verdant irrigated pastures. The elegant, yet rustic, 7,730 sq ft main house was expanded from a reclaimed historic barn.

Cassidy Ridge Mountain Village Cassidy Ridge towers over the Mountain Village with jaw dropping views. Crafted with the highest-end finishes and appliances, including plaster walls, steam showers, jetted tubs, sophisticated sound and lighting. Brand new construction offering the best value in the region.

101 Christina’s Way Aldasoro Ranch Adorned with mesquite floors, reclaimed trusses & native stone, this unique residence boasts flawless craftsmanship. Oversized windows frame exquisite mountain views. Two master suites feature stone fireplaces and elegant baths. Outdoor spa with indoor sauna.

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Discover Telluride NESTLED in the southwest corner of Colorado, amidst the glorified San Juan range of the Rocky

Mountains, the small town of Telluride distinguishes itself as one of the most breathtaking landscapes in the world. Although only inhabited by a little more than 2,400 people, the historic town is sought-after for its rare natural beauty, healthy recreational lifestyle, vibrant culture and annual festivals. Renowned as a No. 1 destination for skiing, Telluride and its surrounding neighbors enjoy more than just the wintry slopes. Every season offers endless opportunities to fulfill the need for adventure. “I became addicted to the lifestyle,” says George Harvey, our designated Market Expert for the Telluride region. “Most people come here the first time for the skiing and can’t leave when they discover the summers.” Harvey is the owner and broker of acclaimed real estate firm, The Harvey Team, and is assisted by his wife, Becky, with their boutique practice specializing in customized services for affluent buyers and sellers. Telluride regional real estate sales were steady in 2013, and a good supply of quality properties are still available for the discriminating buyer. For more information on the current market, look for their next report on www.TheHarveyTeam.net

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Owner/Broker, The Harvey Team.

P.O. Box 2283, Telluride, CO 81435. cell: 970-729-0111; e-fax: 970-728-5058 www.TheHarveyTeam.net

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Room A magnificent blend of bold, hand-crafted mountain architecture, refined finishes, awe-inspiring living spaces contemporary comforts, all slope side with enchanted forest-like private ski and trails to and from the residence. An exterior of Telluride Gold Stone, antique timbers and barn wood siding surround a motor court that welcomes guests and Four outdoor nestled amongst old growth spruce are located on secluded acres breathtaking views of the San Sophia Range. The main residence encompasses four luxurious master suites, fireplaces with carved wood and glazed stone surrounds, a three-sided mezzanine with sitting room, full laundry, elevator, home theater, billiard/game powder room and hall. A “library-breezeway” joins the main room with wet bar, dine-in wine residence to a two bedroom/two bath French country guest cottage. $9,950,000.

Watch a touching mini-movie shot in this magnificent mountainside retreat that shows you what it would be like to share this home with your family at www.TellurideBenchmarkManor.com.

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SuperSailYachts IT HAS BEEN SAID many times that to charter a super yacht is to embark on the most luxurious holiday.

SuperSailYachts enjoy arranging these unique, tailor-made and to the finest detail customized luxury lifestyle experiences.

Their charter managers take pride in securing the finest luxury yachts in existence today. A regular client stated: ‘’We use SuperSailYachts for all our yacht charter holidays and year after year we have always had an amazing experience, usually on different yachts and mostly in the Caribbean or the Mediterranean. This year we may go a bit further away, perhaps to Seychelles and the Maldives.’’

Luxury crewed yacht charter is arranged for many occasions and in many different scenarios. Families may want to spend the time together during Thanksgiving or New Year holidays while basking in the sun in the Virgin Islands or have an adventurous summer holiday surroundings in the most exciting global destinations. Team at on the water somewhere in SuperSailYachts, established in 2003, offer a wide variety of luxthe fabulous Mediterranean. ury yachts to choose from; thus matching your requirements in Businesses may want to have terms of budget, location, activities or number of cabins should a corporate hospitality at the be an enjoyable process. Charter Managers at SuperSailYachts F1 Monaco Grand Prix or have dozens of years of experience in doing so, and their team an exquisite entertainment of experts will ensure your charter will be professionally handled alongside celebrities during from the moment of enquiry to the moment you return back the Cannes Film Festival. home. The captain and crew, at times the owners themselves, Groups of friends on the will also be involved in making your ultimate charter holiday a other hand may want to complete success. have a distinguished fishing Charter Director, Eldin Basic says: ‘’We would be delighted and cruise in Alaska or an acgo overboard literally to ensure all requirements of our clients are tion packed sail in the Bamet. Our service is bespoke to each client and with the world’s hamas. Couples may desire best yachts available in many locations, your holidays are limited a romantic getaway or even only by yours and our combined imagination.’’ a honeymoon to the Indian With prices starting from as low as $20,000 USD’s per week Ocean, while a retired couand going all the way up to a cool $1 million USD’s, anyone can ple may want to invest part find their own super yacht. of their life savings into a holiday of a lifetime.

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DESTINATION WELLNESS

Costa Rica:

Quality Healthcare and Nature within your Reach COSTA RICA has merged as one of the most accessible, secure, innovative, and price-competitive destinations for travelers from the United States and Canada seeking world-class heath care. In recent years Guanacaste, the Northwest province with all it has to offer, has attracted tourists seeking outstanding medical and dental procedures.

The country ranks 36th out of 191 nations for its quality of health care systems.

Furthermore, three medical centers received Joint Commission International Accreditation. Several facilities are accredited under U.S. standards and the country seal of quality “PROMED” insuring foreign patients receive an excellent level of care.

Every year millions of people travel abroad looking for professional medical and dental services. Medical tourism is no longer just a means to save money on a plastic surgery procedure. For the uninsured and underinsured, it has become the only solution for all their health problems.

For years Costa Rica has had first class hospital facilities and a highly qualified, internationally trained, bilingual medical corps. The country’s strategic location, political and financial stability, good quality of life, and cutting edge medical technology, makes it one of the best countries to visit for medical tourism in the entire world. Its health conditions are the result of its government’s commitment to make health and education top priorities.

The health indexes for Costa Rica equal those found in the United States, and are, without a doubt, the best in Latin America. Life expectancy at 78 is the highest in the region, also equaling the life expectancy in the United States. Medical procedures in Costa Rica cost 30 to 70 percent less than the identical services in the States. In addition, should a rare medical issue occur, legal procedures exist to provide a means to arbitrate a reconciliation.

Finally, regions like Guanacaste offer the best place to recuperate.

Quiet hills, sunny beaches or magnificent volcanoes with their valuable thermal waters, are part of a unique environment blessed by Mother Nature where patients recover quickly in a pleasant environment.

For example, Nicoya Peninsula in Guanacaste lies in the center of one of the largest Blue Zones in the world, areas where people live the longest and have the highest quality of life. In Costa Rica’s Blue Zone, adults have the longest life expectancy due to the water quality, a healthful diet, and a slower pace of life.

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a wide range of ambulatory and hospitalization services thanks to its internationally trained professional staff and being guided by the experience of a Dallas based corporation.

Wellness retreats offer medical travelers, expatriates, and tourists in general many opportunities for meditation, yoga, massage, organic (not genetically modified) food, spring waters, thermal waters, mud baths, and more. These contribute to a healthy lifestyle and fast recovery from major illnesses or surgeries.

Linda Gray, owner/broker, Coldwell Banker Coast to Coast Properties, reports a rapidly growing trend in Costa Rica real estate investments featuring developments planned for retirement villages, health care facilities, recovery centers, hospice homes, relocation and wellness retreats. Contact her to assist you with finding your ideal accommodation.

Travel to Guanacaste is easy because the International Airport In Liberia has direct flights from the United States and Canada from these cities: Atlanta, Charlotte; Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Miami, Minneapolis, New York, Newark, and Toronto. A variety of accommodations exist from hotel chains to boutique inns and spa resorts. Visitors also may choose from a long list of medical and dental facilities that have served a local population of American Expatriates for years.

Without a doubt, the perfect combination between nature, technology and medical infrastructure makes Guanacaste a top destination for medical travelers. To date 48,000 patients with their companions, including some of the most renowned multinationals, have chosen Costa Rica as their first choice for medical and dental treatments because: “COSTA RICA CURES IT ALL!” For any additional information about accredited hospitals, certified doctors or any other aspects about medical tourism, contact Massimo Marinoni, Director of PROMED Guanacaste, at US 954-769-0288 or Costa Rica (506) 8824-6084 or by email guanacaste@promedcostarica.com Linda Gray, Owner/Broker, Coldwell Banker Coast to Coast Properties, Playas Del Coco; Toll free 1-877-589-0539, direct 011-506-2670-0805, or linda@coldwellbankercr.com

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Editor Helen Dunn Frame, author of Greek Ghosts; and Doctors, Dogs, and Pura Vida in Costa Rica lives and writes in Costa Rica.

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Find Health in Ecuador FOR MANY, the American Dream has moved south, nestled in the Andes Mountains, where retirees from across the United States are lured by affordable living, quality healthcare, and a burgeoning social scene that has made the wildest imaginations a rewarding reality.

Ecuador has an old world charm that few American were familiar with – until now. See what a little research can do? Those willing to put the time in, realize they don’t have to go that long a way to find Cuenca, the third-largest city in Ecuador and the capital of the Azuay

tions are also plentiful and inexpensive.”

Bloomberg.com ranks Ecuador among the top 20 nations in the world for healthcare efficiency, reporting a per capita annual cost of only $332. The United States, in comparison, ranks 45th at $8,608 per capita annually.

According to several studies, medicines are another bargain in Ecuador, some costing less than 10 percent of U.S. equivalents.

As an example, asthma inhalers that cost from $85-$250 in the United States can be purchased over-the-counter in Ecuador for $15-$35. Heart medications in Ecuador average 15-20 percent less than U.S. prices.

An American living in Cuenca can expect to pay just 7-15 percent of what they would in the United States for medical treatments. A heart bypass that would cost $130,000 in the United States will cost closer to $11,000 in Cuenca, and a hip replacement priced in the United States from $43,000-$51,000 will cost approximately $8,000.

Some specialized procedures include cardiology, cosmetic, dental and eye surgeries, gynecology, neurology and orthopedic surgery.

Not only expats and medical tourists from the United States benefit from the healthcare system. Ecuadorians living in the United States often return home – sometimes after many years – just to make use of the affordable healthcare that their native country offers to the rest of the world. As a result, “Find Health in Ecuador” has earned a reputaprovince where writers and poets have found inspiration among the tion as one of the most prominent medical tourism companies serving vast cafes and galleries tucked along the narrow cobblestone streets. the industry in Cuenca.

Rich history, first-class infrastructure and climate have attracted priFind Health in Ecuador, located in Cuenca, is a personalized medical marily North American retirees for years to Ecuador. The mayor of Cuenca told ABC News this year that approximately 4,000 Americans now live in the city of a half million.

No wonder International Living Magazine has declared Ecuador No. 1 out of the 22 best countries on its Annual Retirement Index for five years running, paving the way for the immigration population to find a niche and make a contribution to the community.

Retirees, locals and medical travelers benefit from Cuenca’s toprated healthcare facilities that offer medical procedures at one-tenth of the cost of those in the United States. In Cuenca, many of the doctors have received training in the United States, and offer personalized care – some even make house calls.

Affordable Healthcare The World Health Organization (WHO) ranked Ecuador as the 6th most improved healthcare system in the world.

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We approach our projects with a commitment to the values of superior service, excellence in workmanship, timely performance and execution … always with the highest level of integrity in the communities we serve.

We recently renovated the exterior of this Nantucket shingle style home in the Round Hill section of Greenwich including complete siding replacement with factory finished cedar shingles and a new Cedar Shake and Shingle Bureau® lifetime warrantied Anbrook pressure treated wood roof with a new 6” copper gutter system. On budget and on time to our client’s complete satisfaction. That’s what keeps our customers coming back to us.

Dedication. Accountability. Stephen C. Gidley, Inc. Serving Fairfield County for more than 45 years.

Stephen C. Gidley, Inc. 693 Post Road Darien, CT 06820

Design/Build Residential Remodeling. Contractor since 1968. Specializing in Painting, Roofing, and Home Remodeling.

Wood | Slate | Tile | Flat | Asphalt Shingle Roofing Repairs | New Installations

Call for a free estimate on your roof and exterior painting project in Greenwich (203) 622­9000 or Darien (203) 655­7018.

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We recently installed this premium grade Anbrook cedar roof for one of our clients in Greenwich backed by the Cedar Shake and Shingle Bureau’s® lifetime warranty. Here is what our client had to say after working with us: “It is comforting to know that in this questionable climate, especially in the construction business, that there are still people who care and take pride in what they do. You are unquestionably at the very top of that list … Thank you and your company for going the extra mile.” Very truly yours, Michael Dattilo Dedication. Accountability. Stephen C. Gidley, Inc. Serving Fairfield County for more than 45 years.

Stephen C. Gidley, Inc. 693 Post Road Darien, CT 06820

Design/Build Residential Remodeling. Contractor since 1968. Specializing in Painting, Roofing, and Home Remodeling.

Wood | Slate | Tile | Flat | Asphalt Shingle Roofing Repairs | New Installations

Call for a free estimate on your roof and exterior painting project in Greenwich (203) 622­9000, or Darien (203) 655­7018.

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NEW CEDAR SHAKE ROOF | North Street, Greenwich

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We approach our projects with a commitment to the values of superior service, excellence in workmanship, timely performance and execution … always with the highest level of integrity in the communities we serve.

Our expert roofing crew installed this magnificent 150+ square lifetime warrantied Western Red Cedar Shake roof over Cedar Breather® complete with 700 feet of 20 ounce soldered copper valley flashings, which received a lifetime warranty from the Cedar Shake and Shingle Bureau for our satisfied client.

When it comes time for you to select a building partner you can trust us to turn the dreams for your home into something beautiful you can be proud of for years to come. Our seasoned craftsmen love what they do and it shows through in their work. That’s what keeps our customers coming back to us.

Dedication. Accountability. Stephen C. Gidley, Inc. Serving Fairfield County for more than 45 years.

Call for a free estimate on your roof and exterior painting project in Greenwich (203) 622­9000, or Darien (203) 655­7018.

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Design/Build Residential Remodeling. Contractor since 1968. Specializing in Painting, Roofing, and Home Remodeling.

Wood | Slate | Tile | Flat | Asphalt Shingle Roofing Repairs | New Installations

Fully licensed and Insured.

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Master Wood Shingle CSSB Approved installer.

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NEW CEDAR SHAKE ROOF|Round Hill Road, Greenwich

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DARIEN Stephen C. Gidley, Inc. 693 Post Road Darien, CT 06820

Stephen Gidley, master wood roofing contractor, recently installed this beautiful pressure treated Certilast® wood roof on this magnificent back country Greenwich estate. The owners were so pleased with the results they hired him to paint the entire exterior as well, and now recommend his company to all their friends.

When it comes time for you to select a building partner you can trust us to turn the dreams for your home into something beautiful you can be proud of for years to come. Our seasoned craftsmen love what they do and it shows through in their work. That’s what keeps our customers coming back to us.

Dedication. Accountability. Stephen C. Gidley, Inc. Serving Fairfield County for more than 45 years.

Design/Build Residential Remodeling. Contractor since 1968. Specializing in Painting, Roofing, and Home Remodeling.

Wood | Slate | Tile | Flat | Asphalt Shingle Roofing Repairs | New Installations

Call for a free estimate on your roof and exterior painting project in Greenwich (203) 622­9000, or Darien (203) 655­7018.

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CONNECTICUT CAR BARN | home remodeling

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We approach each and every project with a commitment to the values of quality craftsmanship, superior service, timely performance and execution … always with the highest level of integrity in the communities we serve.

When one of our New Canaan clients who is a car enthusiast contracted our firm to design and build this magnificent "Car Barn" which included an interior virtual golf range and artists' studio, the project was recognized by Qualified Remodeler Magazine and garnered a national silver design award and a Connecticut Home Builders 2013 HOBI award for "Outstanding Accessory Building".

When it comes time for you to select a building partner you can trust us to turn the dreams for your home into something beautiful you can be proud of for years to come. Our seasoned craftsmen love what they do and it shows through in their work. That’s what keeps our customers coming back to us.

Stephen C. Gidley, Inc. 693 Post Road Darien, CT 06820

Design/Build Residential Remodeling. Contractor since 1968. Specializing in Painting, Roofing, and Home Remodeling.

Wood | Slate | Tile | Flat | Asphalt Shingle Roofing Repairs | New Installations

Dedication. Accountability. Stephen C. Gidley, Inc. Serving Fairfield County for more than 45 years.

Call for a free estimate: (203) 622­9000.

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Master Wood Shingle CSSB Approved installer.

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MAKING GOOD HOMES BETTER | home remodeling

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DARIEN Stephen C. Gidley, Inc. 693 Post Road Darien, CT 06820

We approach our projects with a commitment to the values of superior service, excellence in workmanship, timely performance and execution … always with the highest level of integrity in the communities we serve.

When it comes time for you to select an expert home remodeler you can trust us with your project so you will be proud of your home for years to come. We work with only the best suppliers and vendors to help ensure your home looks great and lasts for many sunsets to come. Our seasoned craftsmen love what they do and it shows through in their work. That’s what keeps our customers coming back to us.

Dedication. Accountability. Stephen C. Gidley, Inc. Serving Fairfield County for more than 45 years.

Call for a free estimate: (203) 622­9000.

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Design/Build Residential Remodeling. Contractor since 1968. Specializing in Painting, Roofing, and Home Remodeling.

Wood | Slate | Tile | Flat | Asphalt Shingle Roofing Repairs | New Installations

Fully licensed and Insured.

All work guaranteed in writing.

Master Wood Shingle CSSB Approved installer.

CT HIC.0500556

appraised & approved STEPHEN GIDLEY WINS TWO NATIONAL AND ONE STATE AWARD FOR HIS 3,000 SQ. FT. “CONNECTICUT CAR BARN” NEW CONSTRUCTION PROJECT.

Renowned Designer and Home Remodeler

Stephen C. Gidley, Inc. OVER FORTY SIX YEARS AGO, FAIRFIELD COUNTY HOME REMODELER STEPHEN GIDLEY BEGAN WITH A PASSION TO ACHIEVE EXCELLENCE, TO SURPASS THE REST, TO BUILD BETTER, MORE ENERGY EFFICIENT AND COST EFFECTIVE PROJECTS.

Stephen was recognized in 2000 by the National Council of Better Business Bureau’s Marketplace Ethics Award for his commitment

If you're looking for a home remodeler, call (203) 655­7018 for a free “One­on­One” consultation with Stephen Gidley.

to his customers.

Exceeding his customers' expectations has been his core commitment, which is why, forty­six years later, Stephen C. Gidley, Inc.’s business is stronger than ever. QR Magazine has ranked his company in the Top 500 remodelers nationwide for over 33 consecutive years and in 2012 ranked Gidley in the Top 200 exterior contractors nationwide.

As president of Stephen C. Gidley Inc., Stephen has successfully completed over 18,000 home improvement projects, throughout Fairfield County, from full green construction homes to minor repairs. The company offers residential "design and remodel" services by a top­quality staff of trade professionals who can expertly complete all types of home improvements.

Projects range from smaller repairs under $1000 to extensive remodeling and new home construction projects over $2 million. The company offers free consultations and cost estimates on all projects and no job is consid­ ered complete until the customer is satisfied.

Qualified Remodeler and Professional Remodeling Magazine both awarded a 2013 Silver Design Award for the “Connecticut Car Barn” and the NAHB­HBRA Home Builders and Remodelers Association of Connecticut gave it a HOBI award for “Outstanding New Accessory Building.” Our magnificent entry won the triple crown!

As builders go, Stephen C. Gidley Inc. is ahead of the curve and is constantly imple­ menting better ways to build with less impact on our planet. The company is a licensed lead abatement contractor and

STEPHEN C GIDLEY, PRESIDENT AND CEO GMB, CAPS, CGP, CGB, CGR, CPRC, CR. 693 POST ROAD, DARIEN, CT CELL: 203 223 7725 GREENWICH: 203 622 9000

is NAHB Green Certified. Stephen Gidley’s jobs are designed to universal sustainable standards and have garnered national recognition in green competition.

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DESIGNER’S EYE

LEICHT:

Introducing a New Era in Kitchen Design

SINCE OPENING its first showroom on Manhattan’s Upper West Side in 2011, LEICHT, Germany’s most popular luxury kitchen brand, has introduced a new era of design to the US market, offering consumers innovative, modern options at affordable price points. Founded in 1928, the company specializes in superior kitchen design using Leicht Kitchen Cabinets, offering nine price groups, a wide and varied selection of finishes, door styles and cabinet options, in addition to fast production and superior quality.

LEICHT is the leading premium kitchen brand in Germany and Switzerland today and the company is rapidly becoming one of the most popular modern kitchen brands in the US. “LEICHT offers the best packages all around,“ says Mayan Metzler, owner of LEICHT New York and a businessman with over ten years of interior design and kitchen and bathroom design experience. “That is what has made the company one of the number one brands in Europe.”

Now North Americans are joining the LEICHT fan club. “Consumers are attracted to our pricing flexibility, the finished variety of our products and our quick and accommodating production turnaround times,” Metzler says, explaining the design and service philosophy that makes LEICHT products so appealing to the contemporary lifestyle and demands of homeowners, architects and interior designers alike.

“Our clients appreciate the quality, appearance, and especially the technological advances in our product development. The LEICHT design team is constantly innovating.”

Over the years, the kitchen has become a main focal point for social activity in the home. How does LEICHT address this phenomenon in its design innovations? “Basically, we manufacture kitchens that don’t look so much like kitchens,” Metzler says. “LEICHT products look more like furniture. All of our appliances look like cabinets.”

Last year the company opened its third showroom in two years, a 5,000-square-foot space in Chelsea. Located on the second floor of a full-floor loft with 12-foot ceilings, it features eight full display kitchens. Its exhibition workspace, Architect’s Loft at LEICHT, is available to architects, designers and their clients and also doubles as a classroom for continuing education courses, offering full American Institute of Architects (AIA) certification through an unprecedented number of AIA accredited courses. The centrally located Chelsea store increases LEICHT’s visibility in the New York area and enhances the growing company’s ability to support its popularity in the trade community.

“LEICHT now has the most comprehensive showroom coverage in the New York area among European brands,” says Metzler. “Our philosophy of providing top quality products at better pricing is what makes LEICHT the number one premium kitchen brand in Germany and Switzerland, and has captured the attention of New York consumers.”

Welcome to the world of LEICHT. LEICHT operates three showrooms in the New York City area: at 2003 Broadway, on the Upper West Side; at 36 West 25th Street, 2nd Floor, in Chelsea; and at 200 East Main Street in Westchester, New York. For more information about LEICHT, please visit www.leichtnewyork.com

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IN GOOD SPIRITS

Aspall Cider House By Gregg Glaser CIDER IS HOT. Not “hot cider,” but sales of what’s known as “hard cider” — cider made the way it’s supposed to be enjoyed, with alcohol.

Ciders are flowing into the U.S. from the U.K., France, Spain and other countries, and there are many American craft cideries. Cider sales in the U.S. were up 80 percent last year.

The U.K. has been a cider making and drinking country for hundreds of years.

Some of the best ciders in the world come from there, and one of the best cider makers is Aspall Cider House.

The Chevallier family, owners of Aspall, have been making cyder (they spell it the Olde Englishe way) for eight generations, since 1728 when Clement Chevallier fermented his first batch of French Normandy-style cider in the English county of Suffolk. The family still produces cider using only the fresh juice of whole Suffolk apples and the philosophy championed by their founding ancestor, Clement Chevallier.

As the oldest direct-lineage cider maker in the U.K., the Chevalliers take pride in stating: “There are no hidden partners or parent companies, enabling Aspall to focus on making the best possible product without compromise. Truly family owned.”

These are indeed fine bragging rights, because the U.K. cider market is rife with mega-companies making highly sweetened ciders for the mass market. Aspall’s ciders are small-batch and artisanal.

The Chevalliers say that the best cider is made from a blend of three types of apples: “sweet” apples are the varieties you eat whole, “sharp” are cooking apples and “bittersweet” are apples that give tannin, bitterness and structure to cider. Aspall ciders are blends of these types of apples. The ciders are also gluten-free.

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Aspall Dry English Draft Cider (6.8% ABV) is pale gold in color with a delicate apple aroma. It’s dry, refreshing and considered an excellent aperitif somewhat reminiscent of brut Champagne.

Aspall Grand Cru English Draft Cider (6.8% ABV) is deep gold in color with a spicy and tart aroma, medium bodied, fruity and yet still dry. It’s an earthier country style of cider, almost wine-like.

Aspall Demi-Sec Cider (6.8% ABV) is gold in color with ripe apple and honey-ish aromas. It’s lightly sweet with a pleasant acidity giving way to a nice off-dry finish.

Aspall Perronelle’s Blush (5.7% ABV) is a deep blush color with a subtle blackberry aroma and a hint of traditional cider apple. It’s smooth, silky and refreshing, beautifully balancing sweetness and acidity with a lingering aftertaste of berries.

Aspall Cuveé Chevallier Cyder (11% ABV) is a double-fermented cider, similar to ciders produced at Aspall in the early 1900s.

It’s made with higher acidity apples whose flavors are like those of Champagne. This cider is gold in color with complex aromas, mediumbodied with dense apple flavor, a slight earthiness and subtle hints of pineapple.

Aspall Imperial English Draft Cider (8.2% ABV) is the newest cider, developed from a 90-year-old family recipe. Sixth generation member of the family, J.B. Chevallier, first made this cider in 1921 from a blend of bittersweet and culinary apples from a single harvest. Muscavado sugar is added to the fermentation. It’s a dark gold cider with a rounded, rich aroma that’s warm, medium sweet and mellow with a lingering fruit and oak finish.

Aspall John Barrington Still Cider (8.4% ABV) is an early 20th Century cider that’s mid- to pale straw in color with a flo-

ral green apple aroma, almost like Sauvignon Blanc. The palate is medium to full in body and dry with a balance of fresh apple acidity.

It has a slight petillant character.

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TRUULI PEAK VODKA Craft spirits–brewed in limited batches with high end ingredients–are big these days, and made in America Truuli Peak is a new one to try. From Alaska, and utilizing local grain, local honey and pure glacial water, this is rightly billed by the distillery as “Alaska in a bottle.” Crisp, smooth and with a hint of sweetness, Truuli is brewed in copper equipment, with less than 36,000 cases made in a year. Produced and bottled by BARE Distillery of Anchorage, Alaska. Rolling out now in area restaurants and package stores. $39. www.truulipeak.com

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DELICACIES Mrs. Prindable’s Handmade Confections Mrs. Prindable’s jumbo, hand dipped, caramel apples are a sticky, sweet, eye catching pleasure. Topped with premium ingredients such as chocolate, nuts, toffee and coconut. Available in gift boxes or as elaborate individual pieces, these highly decorated apples make wonderful gifts. Also ideal as party favors, centerpieces and Thinking of You treats. $22.95 and up. www.mrsprindables.com Pukka Teas Pukka Herbal Tea, the most popular herbal tea brand in the UK, brings the land of tea lovers’ favorites to our shores: Night Time tea, a natural aid to sleep made with organic oat flower, lavender and limeflower; Cleanse, organic nettle, fennel & peppermint tea; Revitalise, organic cinnamon, cardamom, and ginger tea; and Love tea, organic rose, chamomile and lavender. Or, try a selection with their Tempt Your Taste Buds organic tea variety pack.

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Salt Sisters Salt Sisters is a fun, new food line offering multiple savory, sweet and exotic spice mixtures to enliven your meals. Founded by Charmane Skillen and named after her four adorable daughters, Salt Sisters seasonings come in rubs, garnishes, dips and infusions. Not just salt-based, products also include raw cane sugar blends. All natural, unrefined and gluten-free. $6.25 –$16.25; 3oz – 8oz. www.saltsistersonline.com

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The new iCoffee machine uses a proprietary brewing technology that makes an excellent, rich, non-bitter cup of coffee. By utilizing steam jets inside the coffee brew basket that pre-steam the ground coffee and then stir the grounds throughout the brewing process, the machine is also very efficient and uses less

grounds per perfectly brewed cup. Suitable for home or office; plays a cheerful ditty when coffee is ready. Use with your favorite coffee blend for a smooth, flavorful cuppa. $169.95. Available at Bed Bath & Beyond, Sur la Table, on HSN, and at www.icoffee.com Vitamix Blender The new Vitamix 5200 is an incredible machine. In the professional world it is known as the Ferrari of blenders, so it’s more than capable in an every day household. This blender has two speed controllers; one is a high-speed mode, which can turn an apple into applesauce, pit and all. The second is a variable speed controller, which allows you to blend, mash, and crush. From soups to frozen desserts, nut butters to crepe batters, dips, doughs and spreads to smoothies, this machine does it all. $449; www.vitamix.com IR Thermometer Made by Extech Instruments, the 30:1 dual laser IR thermometer is more than up to par.

Ready for any situation its called upon, this laser thermometer really performs. Reads temperatures as hot as one thousand degrees Celsius, and as low as negative fifty degrees Celsius. Use this thermometer for an outdoor roast to keep meat juicy, tender, and succulent; in a wood burning brick oven, or for high or low temp crafts projects. But don’t think it’s slow at reading extremes; it can read any temperature in under one and a half seconds. $199; available online:extech.com

BATH, BODY, & GROOMING Yes To Say yes to Yes To, an up and comer in the field of personal hygiene. Yes To’s collection of body washes includes: Nourishing Carrot, Soothing Cucumber, Hydrating Blueberries, and Rejuvenating Grapefruit. These body washes leave you feeling clean, smooth, and absolutely delicious. Also in the Grapefruit line are color correcting creams that provide instant face coverage and protection with all natural pigments and SPF defense.

Body washes: $8.99. Color correcting cream $14.99. Available at www.yestocarrots.com

Soaps to Live By Soaps to Live By is a new line of soap; what makes them different from others is the inspirational message imprinted into the soap’s surface. Smell Good, Feel Good, Do Good, the company urges. Messages like “Joy,” “Hope,” ”Bliss,” and “Dream,” come in appealing, original scents such as Oatmeal Clove, Peppermint Rosemary, Orange Lime, and many others.

Handmade in the USA (Boulder, Colorado) of all natural, organic materials. $8 per bar, or 3 bar set for $20. Available at www.soapstoliveby.com D&G Cosmetics This Spring Dolce&Gabbana adds Perfection Veil Pressed Powder, a transparent finishing powder for natural-looking radiance to its ele-

gant line of transformative make up. Six shades, from Nude Ivory to Soft Sand, offer a flattering powder for any complexion. The lightweight formula brightens the skin while creating an even texture for a flawless appearance. $60. Finish with D&G’s Luminous Cheek Color for high definition coloring in a bold or subtle look. $45. Available at select Saks Fifth Avenue, Macy’s and Nordstrom locations, saksfifthavenue.com, and Sephora.com Sherry Ratay, Hair Colorist Sherry Ratay, an internationally acclaimed, award-winning celebrity hair colorist and Orlando, FL salon owner, brings her artistry to New York City. Empowered with 20 years of attention to tresses, Sherry shares her knowledge of color, styling tips and trends as part of “MAC,” Beth Minardi’s elite Minardi Artistic Colorists team. Like an artist who approaches

a portrait painting, Sherry analyzes her clients’ features, hair, skin, eyes, personality, and the proportions of their face to create the best results. Along with Alicia, her talented Creative Artistic Director, Sherry is working with clients–both new as well as long-standing–at the exquisite Julien Farel Salon on 5th Avenue.

With her expert approach, Sherry’s artistry creates beautiful, fresh results. www.julienfarel.com www.salonratay.com “Hair color is the ultimate beauty accessory” – Sherry Ratay

DÉCOR Le Barn You probably know Le Barn as “that unique antique shop on the historic estate in Stamford.”

However, did you know that they’re experienced decorators and can transform any room in your home into your own personal paradise?

Visit their website to see several fun features that you’ll really be inspired by. They’re constantly researching the latest trends and fashions in home design and began to notice that the furnishings and decorative items depicted in several stunning rooms they’d been admiring bore a striking resemblance to many of the antique pieces housed in their refurbished barns. That’s when their most recent blog, Rooms We Love, came to fruition. They decided to challenge themselves to recreate their own version of the room they loved using Le Barn’s huge collection of antique furniture and accent pieces.

Another one of their favorite blog features is called Color. Every few weeks, they meet with their designers to figure out what color has been trending. They give that color a quick therapy session and analyze what it means, where they’ve recently seen it in beautifully designed interior spaces, where it has been, and where it’s going.

They invite you to join in and take the Le Barn challenge. Visit their website to submit pictures of your own favorite room images, or suggest a color for analysis. They just might use your input for their next Rooms We Love or Color blog!

To read more of Rooms We Love, or submit an image of your own, visit www.lebarnantiques. com/rooms-we-love. Call 203/253-7286 to schedule a visit. They look forward to seeing you. www.lebarnantiques.com

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Think beyond the ordinary What’s here is unique in the country.

It’s about a sense of self and where you fit in the world.

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COURSES High school students or graduates may earn college credit in one or more courses alongside peers and undergraduates.

UVM offers on campus and online courses. Many entry-level courses are appropriate for high school students. The small class sizes are perfect for interacting with faculty. Course credits are transferable within UVM and other institutions.

Courses offered mid May - mid August Registration opens February 12

STUDY ABROAD UVM and University College Dublin offer a unique program for high school students to experience Ireland through faculty lead field trips, interactive workshops, and social activities all within the context of a 3 credit course. Students will challenge themselves academically and enjoy the vibrant student and cultural life in Dublin, a celebrated city.

Dublin, Ireland: July 10 - July 25, 2014 Online: July 28 - August 8, 2014

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UVM’s Summer Academy is the ideal way to get a head start on college. Made up of two weeks of on-campus learning and two weeks of online learning, students can complete a 3 credit course in one month. Tracks offered in business and economics, engineering and design, human health and medicine, environment and natural resources, and leadership and activism.

Academy students will have the option to live in UVM residence halls, supervised by trained staff, or they have the option of commuting to campus. Open to high school students who have completed their sophomore or junior year.

UVM students can’t say enough about Burlington, a small city that feels like a big one. Among its charms: a lively and culturally diverse scene, countless shops and restaurants for every taste, a thriving economy that offers internships and job possibilities, and an open attitude that makes students feel welcome.

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BY TOM PERROTTA

I WAS EIGHTEEN THAT FALL AND ALL MY FRIENDS WERE IN COLLEGE—EVAN AT HARVARD, LAUREN AT STANFORD (WE WERE STILL SCRATCHING OUR HEADS ABOUT THAT ONE), JOSH AT BOWDOIN, LILY AT NORTHWESTERN, CARLOS AT CORNELL. MY BEST FRIEND, JAKE, WAS HAVING THE TIME OF HIS LIFE AT WESLEYAN—HE KEPT INVITING ME DOWN TO HANG WITH HIS NEW ROOMMATES, BUT MY HEART WASN’T IN IT—AND MY EX-GIRLFRIEND, HEATHER, WAS CHILLING AT POMONA, RAVING ABOUT SUNNY CALIFORNIA IN HER STATUS UPDATES. THAT WAS MY HIGH SCHOOL POSSE IN A NUTSHELL. WE WERE THE AP KIDS, THE NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARS, THE SUMMER INTERNS, THE FUTURE LEADERS, THE GOOD EXAMPLES. WE ENROLLED IN SAT PREP CLASSES EVEN WHEN WE DIDN’T NEED TO, SHARED STUDY TIPS AND MNEMONIC DEVICES, TAUNTED ONE ANOTHER WITH SHAKESPEAREAN EPITHETS, AND MADE WITTY COMMENTS ABOUT THE PERIODIC TABLE. WE STAYED UP LATE GOING OVER OUR NOTES ONE LAST TIME, THREW PARTIES WHERE WE STUDIED TOGETHER FOR HISTORY FINALS. ON SATURDAY NIGHTS, INSTEAD OF GETTING DRUNK AND HOOKING UP, WE POPPED POPCORN AND WATCHED PIXAR MOVIES. IT WASN’T THAT WE WERE ANTI-FUN; WE’D JUST MADE A GROUP DECISION TO SAVE OURSELVES FOR COLLEGE. THE ONLY PROBLEM WAS, I DIDN’T GET INTO COLLEGE. 210

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I’d applied to twelve institutions of higher learning and got rejected outright by ten of them, including my safeties. I got wait-listed by two of my likelies, but neither one came through in the end. I got shut out, just like the kid in Accepted, except it was nothing like that, because he was a slacker and didn’t deserve to get in.

I totally deserved it. I mean, I got a combined 2230 on the SATs (super-scored, but still), and had a GPA of 3.8, all Honors and APs, top ten percent of my graduating class in one of the premier public high schools in the state. Student Council rep, stagehand for the musicals, helped start a recycling program in the cafeteria. I ran cross-country all four years, even though I hated every tedious mile. But I did it, just so I could list a varsity sport on my transcript. Every goddam miserable thing I ever did, every shortcut I avoided, every scrap of fun I missed out on, I did it just so I could get into a decent college.

And none of it mattered.

My guidance counselor insisted that it was just a freak occurrence, a perfect storm of bad luck and rotten demographics. A record year for applications, too many international students, preferences for minorities and athletes, a need for geographic diversity, blah blah blah. But come on, not to get in anywhere? Even when kids from my own high school From Nine Inches by Tom Perrotta.

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Where’s the fairness in that?

There was no logical way to explain it, but that didn’t stop people from trying. Maybe I was too well-rounded for my own good, or my recs were underwhelming; maybe my essay was pompous, or maybe it was pedestrian. Maybe I hadn’t done enough to set myself apart from the crowd, should have written about my lifelong passion for shoemaking, or my desire to someday design prosthetic limbs for transsexuals who’d stepped on landmines. Or maybe I’d just aimed a little too high, which was possibly true for Dartmouth and Brown, but those were my reaches, so that’s the whole point. But what about Connecticut College or George Washington? Was that really too much to ask?

April of senior year was such a nightmare. Everybody else was all excited, hugging one another and squealing with delight, the future unfolding before their eyes—Colgate! Hampshire! UVM! And then they’d notice me, and everything would get all awkward and quiet, almost like somebody in my family had died. People just kept moaning and shaking their heads, telling me how sorry they were, how unfair it was, a complete injustice that shook their faith in the entire system, and I kept telling them not to worry.

I’m on the Wait List at Duke and Grinnell, I’d say. I’m sure something will pan out.

According to my mother’s Monday-morning analysis, the fatal flaw in my otherwise excellent college application had been a lack of genuine humanitarian service. She was pretty sure the admissions officers had seen right through my meager list of good deeds—a Walk for Hunger here, some Toys for Tots there, a weekend with Habitat for Humanity, a handful of cans for the Food Drive.

“There was no follow-through,” she pointed out. “It was all for show, like you were just checking some boxes.”

“I was,” I said. “I thought that was the whole point.”

Unbeknownst to me, she started doing some research on the web, scouting out programs that offered young volunteers an opportunity to demonstrate their commitment to the less fortunate, putting their skills and ideals to the test in challenging third-world environments. She was especially impressed by an organization called Big Hearts International, whose mission was to connect college-age Americans with “the struggling but resilient children of sub-Saharan Africa.”

“Just think about it,” she told me. “This could be a real game-changer.”

“Africa’s pretty far away,” I reminded her. “And kinda dangerous.”

“It’s just for a few months, Donald. I really think you should consider it.”

I’d filled out the application in mid-May, when it became clear that I wasn’t going to be saved by the wait list at Duke or Grinnell. The way I figured it, my options were either Africa or community college, and I really couldn’t see myself at community college. By the time graduation rolled around, Big Hearts had already assigned me to an orphanage in Mityana, Uganda, not too far from the capital city, whose name I kept forgetting. Heather was almost as excited as my mom, clutching my arm, beaming at me like I was some kind of saint.

“This is my boyfriend, Donald,” she kept telling her relatives. “He’s going to Africa in September.”

That’s who I was for the rest of the summer, the Great Humanitarian and Intrepid World Explorer, Friend to the Struggling but Resilient Orphans. If nothing else, this identity got me through a lot of awkward situations, gave me something to contribute to what would otherwise

have been extremely painful conversations about distribution requirements, course schedules, Greek Life, and Facebook groups for admitted students. Jake bought me a pith helmet at a second hand-store, and I used to wear it when we went to the beach or the movies, sort of as a joke, but also as a badge of honor, a token of my good intentions.

I swear, I was all set to go. I updated my passport, got my shots, read a whole bunch of book about AIDS and genocide and colonialism, even drove to Connecticut to meet with a volunteer who’d just finished the program, this skinny, haunted-looking dude whose arms and legs were mottled with bug bites.

“It’s pretty freaky,” he said, scratching himself like a monkey. “You wouldn’t believe the poverty over there. But it’s like the most rewarding thing I’ve done in my entire life.”

The last two weeks of August were like one big going-away party, the population of well-wishers dwindling nightly until I was the only one left. I had a few days to finalize my packing and spend some quality time with my parents and little sister, who was starting her freshman

Maybe I was too well-rounded for my own good, or my recs were underwhelming; maybe my essay was pompous, or maybe it was pedestrian. year in high school. My mom baked a cake on my last night, and we sat around talking about what a great adventure I was embarking on, how I was going to learn some real-life lessons that couldn’t be taught in any ivory tower. Then I skyped with a bunch of my friends, and had a long goodbye talk with Heather, during which we both promised to be faithful during our separation. We’d had sex for the first time the night before she left, and we reminded each other how amazing it had been, and how we couldn’t wait to do it again over Christmas vacation.

“I love you,” she sniffled. “You take care of yourself, okay?”

“I’ll be fine,” I told her. “I’ll see you soon.”

That was it. I went to bed feeling brave and melancholy, ready for my big journey into the unknown. But when I woke up the next morning, I couldn’t move. I wasn’t sick; it just felt like my body had been sliced open and pumped full of wet cement.

“Come on, sweetheart,” my mother said from the doorway. “You don’t want to miss your plane.”

“I’m not going,” I said. “It’s not fair.”

She withdrew and my father appeared a few minutes later. He told me that I needed to get my ass moving, that I’d made a commitment, and damn well better stick to it. He said there were orphans in Uganda who were counting on me.

“F--- the orphans,” I said.

“What?” I could see how shocked he was. “What did you say?”

But by then I was crying too hard to repeat myself.

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INDEPENDENT SCHOOL GUIDE SUMMER PROGRAMS The Rosetta Institute San Jose, CA The Rosetta Institute is an independently funded biomedical research institute that offers summer workshops on molecular biology for high achieving high school students interested in pursuing a career in medicine or related fields, such as pharmacy, nursing, biomedical research or pharmaceutical development. Taught by professional scientists with advanced degrees, the two-week residential workshops (Molecular Biology of Cancer and Molecular Neuroscience) are held at the University of California-Berkeley, Yale University and the University of California-Los Angeles.

Through engaging lectures and hands-on laboratory classes, students learn normal molecular and cellular biology, and then learn how these normal processes are distorted during the development of cancer. The Molecular Neuroscience workshop is structured in a similar manner: lessons on normal molecular biology are used as a framework from which to understand the intricacies of normal and pathologic neurobiology at the molecular level.

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The laboratory portion of the workshops teaches real-world molecular biology techniques using authentic samples from research that is currently being conducted at the Institute. These exercises provide valuable job experience that can be used to secure popular and competitive research assistant positions that are available to pre-med students during their undergraduate studies. In addition, there are a limited number of positions available for former workshop attendees to conduct research at the Institute after the conclusion of the workshops. To conclude the workshops, the students conduct independent computer research on a gene of their choosing to determine the normal role of the gene and the role of the gene in the development of cancer or neurological disease, and then investigate how researchers use this information to target the gene therapeutically.

Students who attend our workshops make friends from around the nation and around the world…but these aren’t just friends in the traditional sense, they’re friends who share similar professional interests and goals who become personal and professional confidants throughout the undergraduate experience and beyond. In addition, our students get a feel for college dorm life in a safe environment and experience college-level curriculum in a low-stress environment. These experiences strengthen academic skills, and help to ease the transition from high school to college. Finally, we teach our students how to ask the important questions, and how to answer these questions in a systematic and scientific way. In other words, we teach problem solving, and that is a skill that will be valuable throughout their life, in any profession.

Questions? Contact the founder and CEO of the Rosetta Institute Ryan Holzer, PhD at info@rosettainstitute.org or 858-205-7479

UNIVERSITY OF DALLAS SUMMER PROGRAMS IN ROME

University of Dallas Summer Programs in Rome In the Alban Hills just South of Rome, amid olives trees, umbrella pines, and a vineyard, the University of Dallas has a campus where it offers two courses for college credit to qualified high school students, Latin in Rome and Shakespeare in Italy. Each course devotes mornings to visiting nearby sites connected with the books that the students are reading. Afternoons and evenings are for seminars, spent discussing and interpreting these books, as would be done in small classes at the college level. The intent is to give high school students a taste of what is to come, while reading works in the locations in which they were originally set, and consequently bringing them to life in a way that cannot be duplicated at home.

Latin in Rome is led by Dr. David Sweet, Chair of the Classics Department, with the assistance of other faculty and graduate students in Classics. The course reads selections from Cicero (Letters), Vergil (Georgics), Livy, Tacitus, Pliny, Suetonius, and Latin inscriptions, such as the Laudatio Turiae. Day trips are included to archaeological sites in the area of Rome, and on a five day trip to the Bay of Naples students visit Vesuvius, Pompeii, Oplontis, Sorrento, Capri, Cumae, Monte Cassino and Cicero’s home town, Arpinum, all the while reading Latin texts that illuminate these sites. Ariana McGinn, from NightingaleBamford School, recalls of her 2013 experience, “I thought I knew a lot of Latin but I couldn’t have imagined that I could learn so much more in three weeks and have such fun doing it.”

Shakespeare in Italy is led by Dr. Gregory Roper, Chair of the English Department, with the assistance of other faculty and graduate students in English. Shakespeare was fascinated by Italy, setting one-third of his plays there. A “Gulielmus Stratfordus” stayed at the English College in Rome in the 1580’s, during the period of Shakespeare’s youth, ‘the lost years,’ when there is no record of him in England. Following the young Shakespeare to Italy, students read three of his Italian plays, Julius Caesar, The Merchant of Venice, and The Taming of the Shrew. The emphasis is not only on enabling them to read with greater insight but also to become more polished writers, and a four day trip to Padua and Venice helps them envision the lively stage in which these plays were set.

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INDEPENDENT SCHOOL GUIDE Hartwick College’s Summer College for High School Students Oneonta, NY High school students can make great strides toward college and their future in just three weeks this summer. Hartwick College’s Summer College for High School Students is designed to give talented teens(ages 16 to 18) the opportunity to study with college professors, earn college credit, and enjoy an on-campus experience in the beautiful foothills of the Catskill Mountains. It will be an enriching, resume-building, and potentially life-changing summer experience.

Is your college-bound child considering a career in science or medicine? Summer study with Hartwick College Biology Professor AJ Russo with give her or him insight into groundbreaking research. Students in Russo’s Biology Research course will help design and conduct experiments using biomarkers to help better understand neurobehavioral disorders such as autism and ADHD. Dr. Russo is a noted expert in the field and editor of the journal HARTWICK COLLEGE Autism Insights.

Was your high schooler born to the stage? Then get him or her into Hartwick’s Performance Workshop course with Professor Malissa Kano-White. A professional director, playwright and theatre educator, Kano-White has worked across the country in theatre for young audiences.

Her Summer College students will perform their way through personal discovery, imagination, self-expression, and creative growth.

If your teenager loves to write, this is his or her chance to delve into the art and hone the craft. In the Hartwick Summer College course Introduction to Creative Writing with English Professor Brent Delanoy, your student will have opportunities to develop a portfolio of work that he or she will be proud to show prospective colleges. Delanoy is the winner of the 2008 A. E. Coppard Prize for his novella, Benediction.

Do you have a music lover in the family – as an instrumentalist, singer, or listener? If so, he or she will love Hartwick’s Dynamics of Music class with Dr. Jason Curley. Professor Curley is a professional musician (French horn) and conductor renowned for his dynamic approach to teaching and learning. The Director of Instrumental Music at Hartwick College, last year Curley served as Interim Director of the College Choir.

If art and technology fascinate your teen, she or he may be ready for Hartwick’s Summer College digital media course, Introduction to Animation & Video, with Professor Joseph Von Stengel. Students will explore the creative use of “time” through animation and video and learn to create and animate their own videos using Quicktime Pro, iMovie, and Final Cut Express. Von Stengel is the head of the Digital Art & Design area of Hartwick College’s Art and Art History Department.

Plan ahead and arrange to join your teenager at the end of their first college experience – at Student Showcase they will share what they’ve learned and how they’ve grown in just a few weeks at Hartwick College.

For further information contact: Rachel Stevenson Director of Summer College, Manager of Special Events 607.431.4022, summercollege@hartwick.edu www.hartwick.edu/summercollege

University of Vermont Burlington, VT This is your summer as a high school student… to experience college, get an academic edge, travel abroad – the list goes on.

College Courses Take one or more of the 100+ UVM courses offered at 50% off regular tuition rates while earning college credits. Vermont students may take one tuition-free course through the dual enrollment program. $10.00 comprehensive fee per credit applies.

Courses: mid-May through mid-August Summer Academy Learn with students from across the country – while earning college credit. Live on campus or commute from home. Students attend a credit course in a subject area of their choosing and enjoy afternoon admissions discussions, career panels, presentations, and visiting attractions around Vermont. Two weeks on-campus followed by two weeks online. Apply today!

Session I starts June 30 Session II starts July 14 Study Abroad Learn with other high school students in Dublin, Ireland exploring the history of this incredible country with UVM faculty while earning 3 college credits. Go on field trips and participate in interactive workshops in many of Dublin’s most popular museums and visitor attractions. Apply today!

In Country: July 10 – 25 Online: July 26 – August 8 www.uvm.edu/precollege

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INDEPENDENT SCHOOL GUIDE Pre-College Program at Skidmore College: Summer 2014 Saratoga Springs, NY Try college on before taking college on How can you anticipate what you haven’t yet experienced? Skidmore’s prestigious Pre-College Program in the Liberal and Studio Arts has been preparing talented high SKIDMORE COLLEGE school students for college success for more than forty years. Highachieving sophomores, juniors, and seniors from across the country and around the world travel to our Saratoga Springs campus each summer to take part in Skidmore’s five-week Pre-College Program. Students engage in college-level study in the liberal and studio arts amid a beautiful upstate New York campus setting.

Prepare for college success In Skidmore’s Pre-College Program, high school students earn college credit while studying alongside college students. They work with Skidmore’s nationally recognized faculty and visiting artists and enjoy access to the College’s state-of-the-art facilities and resources. Do your interests range from math to studio art, psychology to English, economics to religion? Skidmore’s unique curriculum allows students to take either two liberal arts courses, two studio art courses, or one of each. Choose a class in an area where your strengths lie, or delve into an unexplored subject to challenge your perceptions and discover new fields of knowledge.

Live and learn at Skidmore At Skidmore, high school students can imagine their futures while living together, cultivating new friendships, and discovering the right balance between work and fun. A carefully selected and trained residential staff lives with Pre-College students in their own private residence hall. The residential life program, designed to support and complement academic and artistic endeavors, ensures that students’ social lives are every bit as exhilarating as their intellectual lives.

Skidmore College is a highly selective, independent liberal arts college known for outstanding academics, a rich co-curricular life, and its historic resort town setting. On Skidmore’s lively summer campus Pre-College students not only learn together with high school peers and college students, but they also have the chance to meet visiting students and participants from other programs as well. They are invited to take active part in the special workshops, visiting artist lectures, and gallery talks sponsored by Skidmore’s Summer Studio Art Program and the nightly readings by renowned writers of the New York State Summer Writers Institute. Skidmore’s summer campus hosts many other concerts, lectures, events, and weekend activities, and just steps away is Saratoga Springs’ dynamic cultural and arts scene.

Find out for yourself why Skidmore Pre-College alumni describe the program as challenging, fun, enlightening, life-changing, mind-altering, motivational, experimental, adventurous, to name just a few. Come spend July with us and discover your future.

Skidmore Pre-College Program, Saratoga Springs, New York. www.skidmore.edu/precollege

Smith College Northampton, MA Smith precollege programs offer diverse programs for high school girls, who want to pursue their academic interests in and out of the classroom, strengthen their college applications and meet other motivated and ambitious college-bound young women. We offer two and four weeklong programs for rising 9th graders to rising seniors in high school.

All programs are residential, and students live in Smith’s beautiful houses, supervised by professional residential life staff.

Designed by Smith’s own professors and staff, the engaging curricula will give you a taste of Smith’s outstanding programs. Along with incorporating interactive components and challenging materials, your learning experience will earn you a recommendation from a Smith professor to use in your college application process.

Outside of the academic programs, we offer fun activities for our participants, including a talent show, bowling, open mic, and weekly movie nights, and much more!

The Smith College Summer Science and Engineering Program (SSEP) is a twenty-five-year-old program for young women interested in science—both biomedical and public health—and engineering, performing undergraduate level lab work.

Field Studies for Sustainable Futures is a program for the environmentally conscious woman. Participants in this program are given the opportunity to learn about sustainable living, SMITH COLLEGE environmental science and environmental policy in a hands-on, interactive, project-based manner.

Hidden Lives: Discovering Women’s History is a training ground for future women’s history buffs. This program explores 19th- and 20thcentury women’s history topics, in Smith’s world-renowned archive, and the life and times of renowned poet (and Smith student), Sylvia Plath.

Participants will gain archival research skills, while learning about both familiar and undiscovered heroes in women’s history.

Young Women’s Writing Workshop is a varied writing workshop that focuses on the following topic areas: poetry, creative fiction, and memoir, and playwriting, just to name a few. Participants are given the chance to work with published authors, lay the groundwork for a strong writing portfolio, and learn the steps involved in becoming a published writer.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, so applying before the deadline is suggested. SSEP applications are due April 11; all other programs are due May 1.

For more information, please contact the director of non-degree programs, Sarah Craig, by email, or phone: scraig@smith.edu or 413-585-2165.

We hope to see you in July!

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INDEPENDENT SCHOOL GUIDE Fordham University Summer Session More than 200 courses on three NY campuses: Bronx, Manhattan, Westchester Fordham University invites visiting college students and high school seniors to catch up or get ahead this summer. Achieve your academic goals with day and evening classes in three convenient locations, affordable tuition rates, and top-tier instruction for easy course transfer.

Trying to gain experience through an internship? Fordham’s Summer in the City Internship Program helps students to secure New York internships, receive credit, and make the most of their positions with valuable career guidance. Need to fulfill pre-med prerequisites? Fordham’s extensive offerings in biology, chemistry, physics, and mathematics allow students to stay on track for graduate or medical school applications. Did you switch or add a major? Core and advanced classes in every discipline help students to catch up on requirements so they can graduate on time.

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY Special programs include the Fordham Musical Theatre Summer Intensive, a five-week program offered by Fordham’s renowned theatre department for actors who want to pursue their passion in a city equally passionate about the craft—New York. The curriculum 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 theatre performances.

New this summer: a two-course sequence in Humanitarian Action.

Fordham has long been a world leader in the academic study of humanitarianism and in professionalizing aid work. Designed to give students a practical and theoretical introduction to humanitarian action, these courses are ideal for those who wish to pursue careers in international NGO work; healthcare, particularly global healthcare; international affairs, including the State Department, United Nations, and USAID; and human rights and international law.

Pre-College Program Getting serious about getting into college? Consider the advantages of taking a class at Fordham University this summer: Gain real college experience in the classroom and beyond so that you can choose the right school for you next year. Make contacts with students, professors, and administrators for advice and guidance. Earn transferable credits toward your college degree. Learn something new while strengthening your college applications. This program is for high school seniors with a GPA of 3.0 or higher.

Think Summer, Think Fordham.

To learn more, call 718-817-4665 or visit fordham.edu/summer

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Wesleyan University and Wesleyan Summer Session Middletown, CT Since 1831, Wesleyan University has provided an education characterized by boldness, rigor, and practical idealism. Wesleyan’s distinguished scholar-teachers work closely with students, supporting and encouraging fluidity among disciplines. Wesleyan Summer Session is a microcosm of this extraordinary experience; it is an immersive, concentrated form of study with full-credit courses taken in just five weeks. This rigorous intellectual atmosphere is enhanced by beautiful summer days and a serene campus, offering just the right level of activities outside the classroom. Located in the Connecticut River Valley in Middletown, Connecticut, summer at Wesleyan is incomparable. Wesleyan invites undergraduate students from other institutions and a small cohort of high school students to participate as well.

“It definitely prepared me for the college workload.”

– Forrest, Potomac School, Virginia.

Pre-College Study at Wesleyan Wesleyan Pre-College Study is an opportunity like no other, offering a college residential experience, faculty mentor, extracurricular opportunities, and two courses taken with Wesleyan Summer Session for full college credit. Residential Advisors plan activities exclusively for Pre-College students, and faculty mentors host discussions to address student questions about academics at the university level. High school students curious about the liberal arts experience - studying across disciplines, sharing knowledge, listening and learning from one another, ready access to faculty - can find out first-hand if it is the college environment they are looking for. Summer 2014 course offerings include WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY Global Hip Hop, International Politics, Biology, Calculus, Romantic Poetry, an archaeological dig, and more. Students may also choose non-residential study options in June and July.

“I got an idea of what college is really like, and what’s being expected of me. The professors are great… they’re approachable, amiable, and obviously very passionate.”

– Kaitlin, the Urban School of San Francisco Wesleyan Pre-College Online Students who attend sports camps, have family holidays, or other summer commitments, also have the opportunity to work closely with Wesleyan faculty through Wesleyan Pre-College Online. Exclusively for pre-college students, Wesleyan offers digital seminars with very low student to faculty ratio. Students make their own schedule and receive direct feedback from faculty and peers.

Learn more about these extraordinary opportunities at: wesleyan.edu/precollege Prospective students and parents are invited to call or email the Pre-College Admissions staff at 860-685-2005 or precollege@wesleyan.edu

INDEPENDENT SCHOOL GUIDE University of Cambridge International Summer Schools Cambridge, England Building on their 90th anniversary year, the programme for the 2014 University of Cambridge International Summer Schools gives you the opportunity to meet award-winning lecturers, stay in one of the historic Cambridge Colleges and enjoy a wide range of excursions and social activities.

At the core of the experience lies a vibrant and truly international community: some 60 UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE nationalities will be represented. Underpinning their offering is a network of gifted communicators – expert and enthusiastic teachers, who are dedicated to making their courses both academically rigorous and immensely enjoyable.

The programmes are delivered at university level and geared towards an adult audience of university undergraduate and graduate students, professionals and retired people.

Participants will have already undertaken at least a year of study at, or have graduated from, a university, or - in the case of other adults, will bring workplace or other professional experience to the programme.

This year the University of Cambridge International Summer Schools are offering new programmes devoted to Creative Writing and the Hanseatic League. There is a new structure for the Interdisciplinary Summer School, now in three two-week terms, which allows for two-, four- and six-week study periods. Within these programmes are new study paths of linked courses in philosophy, poetry, politics, history, archaeology, history of science and a plenary series which extends for the full six weeks. There are new plenary themes for all of the other programmes and a host of new courses and subject areas which include film studies, Greek heroes and international development.

In addition to the Interdisciplinary Summer Schools, there are specialist programmes which cover Ancient Empires, Science, Literature, History, Shakespeare, Medieval Studies, Creative Writing and the Hanseatic League. Participants can choose from nearly 200 courses, within the ten two-week programmes, enabling you to combine studies from different disciplines.

Few programmes offer such 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.

The University of Cambridge International Summer Schools’ programmes run between 6 July and 22 August 2014.

Apply online: www.ice.cam.ac.uk/intsummer or email us at intenq@ice.cam.ac.uk

The Summer Program At Cheshire Academy Cheshire, CT Running July 5-August 24 2014, students from around the world will gather at Cheshire Academy for a comprehensive summer experience.

Set in historic Cheshire, Connecticut, this 104-acre campus provides the ideal setting for academic enrichment and exciting extracurricular activities and is open to students entering grades 7-12.

• Focus on math and science skills in our accelerated academic sessions designed to take you further in classes like Chemistry, Algebra I and Algebra II. • Improve your English language skills through intensive ELL studies.

• Prepare for the college application process and hone your test-taking skills as part of our comprehensive SAT college prep program.

• Test your creativity and problem solving skills with educational challenges like our Crime Scene Investigation course.

• Our competitive Scholar Athlete Basketball Camp lets student athletes prepare academically and athletically.

• Engage in exciting Project-Based Learning courses that test your creativity and thinking skills.

• Reach new heights on our Ropes Challenge Course.

• Choose to live on campus, or commute from home.

Academic & Project-Based Learning Ready to advance your knowledge and challenge yourself academically? Then, Cheshire Academy’s Academic & Project-Based Learning Camp is the perfect fit for your needs. Our accelerated academic sessions offered in the morning will prepare you to take on your academic classes in the fall, providing you with skills, knowledge and confidence.

Switch gears for the afternoon and flex your creative muscles by engaging in one of our exciting project-based learning courses, or test your physical prowess with our athletics offerings.

Scholar Athlete Basketball Camp Cheshire Academy’s Scholar Athlete program combines rigorous academic challenges with best in-class basketball training that preps students for the academic year ahead. This year’s Scholar Athlete Basketball camp runs from July 5 through August 2, 2014.

In the morning, students flex mind muscles in CHESHIRE ACADEMY our accelerated academic classes. Choose from more than 10 accelerated academic courses, including ELL, SAT prep, math, science and more, that are designed to hone skills, advance knowledge, and increase confidence in young scholars.

In the afternoon, athletes are challenged to improve their basketball skills and gain exposure to college coaches. This elite, highly competitive program primes international and domestic studentathletes for their upcoming season and prepares them to become college prospects.

For more information on our summer programs, please visit: www.cheshireacademy.org/summer

INDEPENDENT SCHOOL GUIDE Eagle Hill School Greenwich, CT AT EAGLE HILL SCHOOL-GREENWICH, NEW SCIENCE WONDERS ENRICHMENT PROGRAM JOINS A ROSTER OF INNOVATIVE SUMMER PROGRAMMING FOR 2014 Eagle Hill School (EHS) is pleased to announce an additional offering to their already robust summer programming: the Science Wonders Enrichment Program for ages 9-12. Its goal is to provide an exciting and fun environment for students to learn about various science topics through engaging, hands-on activities. They’ll leave energized about science, armed with the projects and experiments they have completed. As an added bonus, the faculty will EAGLE HILL SCHOOL consist entirely of teachers from the full-time Science program at EHS. Students will be able to choose one of three options: Chemistry, where students will explore chemical reactions and much more as they build collaborative and laboratory skills; Physical Science, where the mysteries of physics and the laws of nature will be revealed with everything from magnets to rockets; and, Environmental Science, the exploration, observation, and learning of biology and ecology using the natural surroundings of Eagle Hill’s campus.

All classes will encourage group discussion, hypothesizing, and observation of the world around them. As one teacher explains, “A lot of science is about problem solving, and students use that knowledge every day.”

Still, the program aims to make learning fun. “Science at Eagle Hill is a fun, messy way to teach all kinds of skills,” says Program Director Ms. DiPalma. The program runs from 12:30-2:30 p.m., July 7-18, 2014.

The Summer Remedial Program has been in place for more than 30 years, and has become a top educational choice for students who need to access learning resources not available at their other school. At the heart of the program is an intense schedule of academic instruction based on diagnosed needs, taught primarily by Eagle Hill faculty members. From June 25 to August 2, the students spend four hours every weekday in classes that include a language tutorial plus four additional subject areas (e.g., mathematics, spelling, writing, oral language, study skills, literature).

The Summer Middle School Workshops for students entering grades six to nine are two-week long, two-hour morning classes that provide a combination of direct and individualized instruction plus group work in study skills, writing, mathematics, and summer reading comprehension. Many students attend simply to keep their skills sharp over the summer, especially those entering high school in the fall.

The Summer Extended Day Program provides a camp-like afternoon ideal for students, ages 6-12, who would benefit from an increased focus on social skills, or who wish to enjoy an afternoon of activities.

For more information on all of the summer programs, visit: www.eaglehillschool.org/summer-programs

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Hampshire College Amherst, MA HAMPSHIRE OFFERING INNOVATIVE SUMMER PROGRAMS Hampshire College is offering a variety of summer academic programs geared toward undergraduates, professionals and practitioners, advanced high school students, graduate students, and lifelong learners.

The summer programs are built on Hampshire’s innovative leadership in selected academic fields.

The four-week Creative Media Institute (July 13-Aug. 9) is a series of intensive screening seminars and creative labs led by a one-timeonly cast of visiting artists working in film, video, photography, and new media who will curate a film and video series, present new works, and advise and mentor students. Alongside famed documentarian and Hampshire alum Ken Burns, the Institute features filmmakers Brett Morgen, Ivy Meeropol, Robert Greene, and president of Imagine Entertainment, Erica Huggins, as visiting artists. The program points back to the summer institutes on film and photography that took place at Hampshire College from 1971 to 1981, when legendary artists such as Diane Arbus, Jerome Liebling, Hollis Frampton, Richard Leacock, and others screened works, mentored students, and experimented with new film technologies. Visit cmi.hampshire.edu for more info.

The Food, Farm, and Sustainability Institute (June 2 – July 11) is Hampshire’s flagship summer program, now in its third year. Participating students study sustainable agriculture from a variety of perspectives.

The program includes lots of hands-on learning activities: communal meal preparation, working with local farms, and enjoying the beauty of the Pioneer Valley in the summer while integrating theory with practice.

Visit ffs.hampshire.edu The Institute for Curatorial Practice (June 2-July 3) introduces students to conceiving, developing, and designing exhibitions, whether actual, digital, or imaginary. From the history of collections and curating to contemporary practice and new media platforms, the program provides behind the scenes access to local, nationally recognized museums, culminating in a group digital exhibition project. Visit curate.hampshire.edu The TESOL Teacher Training Course (June 2 – 27) provides a solid foundation for teaching English to speakers of other languages, designed for professionals and students, many of whom are interested in pursuing Fulbright and other international teaching fellowships. Visit tesol.hampshire.edu Designing Social Impact (two sessions: June 16-27 and June 30-July 11) is an entrepreneurial and design program for advanced high school juniors and seniors. Using the principles of design thinking, students will use rapidprototyping to build models of potential solutions for community-based challenges, then test them in the field. Visit design.hampshire.edu For more information, please email: summer@hampshire.edu or visit: summer.hampshire.edu

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INDEPENDENT SCHOOL GUIDE Pre-College Programs at Brown University: Summer 2014 Providence, RI A True Residential College Experience Summer@Brown attracts 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 University. A student who completes a Summer@Brown 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.

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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. Summer@Brown is an opportunity to explore this stimulating learning environment. Academics are at the program’s core, with more than 300 courses in one- to sevenweek 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 Summer@Brown to experience college life, prepare for academic success, and make new friends from around the world.

Brown University Continuing Education Providence, Rhode Island www.brown.edu/summer

George Washington University Washington, DC Putting knowledge into action, The George Washington University’s (GW) Pre-College program provides high school students hands-on learning opportunities inside and outside the classroom by taking advantage of GW’s strengths in research, diverse communities, a vast network in local and global partnerships, and service-learning initiatives.

Drawing from the rich resources of the University and Washington, D.C., students are engaged in programs at the center of the nation’s political, intellectual, and cultural activity. Students may enroll in non-credit or credit-bearing courses, which include co-curricular site visits around DC to enhance classroom learning in an applied context. Evenings also include activities such as movie nights, pool parties, and chaperoned excursions around the city. GW residence halls are staffed with resident advisors who provide guidance, supervision, intercultural and social programming, and who are on call to respond to emergencies.

The College Intensive program gives rising juniors and seniors the opportunity to earn college credit by engaging in challenging undergraduate coursework. These programs emphasize the academic rigors of college, but also the freedom and independence of college life. The 6-week session allows students to enroll in summer courses alongside GW undergraduates in over 20 introductory level courses taught by GW faculty in a wide variety of academic disciplines.

The non-credit Summer Immersion option is open to students in grades 9-11. Students live at the university’s Mount Vernon campus in Northwest DC. This two-week highly-structured program taught

by GW’s faculty provides interactive, non-graded experiential sessions that integrate lectures and seminars with applied activities and site visits. Students are able to expand and deepen their knowledge of a topic through collaborative learning and an exploration of the diverse intellectual and cultural resources of Washington, DC. Whether students are engaged in influential site visits to the US Capitol, or have front row access to guest speakers who influence the world, students are connected to a community of the next generation of global leaders and inspired to forge solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges. These are “only at GW” moments. http://precollege.gwu.edu GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

Program Dates: College Intensive • 6-Week Session: July 6 - August 15, 2014 • 3-Week Session: July 6 - July 25, 2014 • 1-Week Session: July 6 - July 11, 2014 • 6-Week Online Options • Session I: May 19 - June 27, 2014 • Session II: July 7 - August 15, 2014 Summer Immersion • Session I: July 13-25, 2014 • Session II: July 27-August 8, 2014

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INDEPENDENT SCHOOL GUIDE Junior Statesmen of America (JSA) Summer Programs

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If politics is your passion, JSA Summer Programs are the place for you Since 1941, the Junior Statesmen Foundation has been educating high school students about leadership and active civic engagement. With more than 75 years of experience in leadership development, alumni of JSA’s pre-college summer programs have gone on to distinguished careers as Cabinet Secretaries, White House staff, elected officials, educators and leaders in the world of finance.

JSA Summer Programs provide an outstanding and enriched learning environment where high-achieving high school students come together to create a unique and supportive academic village. Students from all over the world attend the programs and if politics is your passion, JSA Summer Programs are the place for you. The programs are structured to develop your knowledge of politics, leadership and history, your ability to speak and write persuasively and your appreciation for intellectual and ethical principles.

The academic coursework at JSA Summer Programs is augmented with interactive, student-run activities and simulations so that students graduate from the program with increased confidence, an expanded knowledge base and a heightened sense of civic responsibility. Students live in college dormitories, eat in dinning halls, and experience college life while making friends they will have for a lifetime.

JSA Summer Programs offer a wide variety of programs which include 3 to 4 week Summer School at some of the nation’s preeminent universities – Princeton, Stanford, Georgetown and the University of Virginia (UVA), as well as 3 to 4 day Summer Institutes which focus on today’s most important political issues. Additionally, in Presidential Election years, JSA conducts their Presidential Election Symposium, which offers students the opportunity to experience the excitement of the Democratic and Republican presidential nominating conventions.

For those students interested in an international study abroad experience, JSA has the JSA Diplomat Program, which is conducted in Beijing, China and offers students the opportunity to learn Mandarin Chinese, as well as taking a course in Chinese History and Culture and using Beijing, and trips to the historic cities of Xian and Shanghai, as well as to sites like the Forbidden City and the Great Wall as experiential supplements to their classroom coursework.

The JSA Summer School programs are academically rigorous and students complete a full semester’s worth of academic coursework. The College Board has certified JSA as an official provider of Advanced Placement courses and JSA Summer Schools offer a variety of AP courses such as AP U.S. History, AP U.S. Government & Politics and AP Macroeconomics. Additionally, students who may have previously completed these courses can take one of several college-level electives such as Honors International Relations, Media & Politics or Speech and Political Communication. A special Freshman Scholars Program at our JSA Summer School at Princeton offers recently graduated 8th graders to get an incredible jump-start on their high school career with special attention paid to study and writing skills while they undertake AP U.S. Government & Politics. The four-week JSA Summer School at UVA offers an in-depth study of AP U.S. History and offers students a chance to visit Jamestown, Williamsburg, Monticello and Montpelier to enhance their academic coursework.

For more information about JSA Summer Programs, please visit http://summer.jsa.org or call 800-317-9338.

Georgetown University Summer School Washington, D.C. Students from around the world are invited to spend their summer living and learning in the heart of Washington, D.C. at Georgetown University.

Georgetown Summer School provides students with a unique summer experience where they will learn from world-renowned faculty, expand their knowledge, and meet new people in the rich culture of the nation’s capital.

Open to visiting undergraduate and graduate students, Georgetown offers more than 250 courses in 35 subject areas, making it easy for students to get ahead, fulfill course requirements, or take classes just for fun.

Georgetown’s Summer School programs include: • Undergraduate Courses: Students can choose from more than 250 courses in 35 subjects, enjoying flexible schedules and small class sizes as they fulfill requirements and earn credit toward their degree.

• Graduate Courses: Georgetown’s intensive graduate level classes are offered in more than 50 courses, giving students the opportunity to explore subject areas of interest or get ahead on their studies.

• Community-Based Learning Courses: These experiential learning courses incorporate community service as part of the curriculum, giving students the opportunity to expand their knowledge while making an impact on the community.

• Language Institutes: Students can master their skills in reading, writing, listening, and speaking in Arabic & Persian, Spanish, French, or German through a combination of classroom learning and cultural experiences.

• Georgetown Downtown: Select undergraduate courses are now offered at Georgetown’s convenient Chinatown location during the Summer Cross Session. These classes meet two nights a week, offering an ideal schedule for students who are working or volunteering during the day.

Students accepted into Georgetown Summer School will build their own schedules, attend classes with peers from around the country, and earn credit from one of the nation’s most competitive universities. Outside of the classroom, students can explore the vibrant surroundings of D.C.—from museums and monuments, movies on the lawn, and baseball games to outdoor concerts and countless unique attractions.

Summer School 2014 Dates: PRE-SESSION: May 19–June 13 SESSION I: June 2–July 4 CROSS SESSION: June 2–July 25 SESSION II: July 7–August 8 With a blend of challenging academics, educational opportunities, and social activities, Georgetown Summer School offers students an enriching experience where they will expand their horizons both intellectually and culturally.

To learn more about Georgetown Summer School, including housing and dining options, scholarship opportunities, and application information: summerschool.georgetown.edu/dc2014

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INDEPENDENT SCHOOL GUIDE Experiment in International Living Extraordinary High School Summer Abroad Programs The Experiment in International Living provides 3-, 4-, and 5-week summer programs for high school students who want to connect deeply and engage meaningfully with the richness and complexities of another country.

Programs equip students not only with essential cultural and, in many cases, language skills, but also with a deeper awareness of and sensitivity to global issues shaping the diverse communities and regions we visit. Students explore the host country through hands-on experiences in local communities and through the lens of a specific theme: • The Arts • The Environment • Peace, Politics, and Human Rights • Sustainability and Food Systems • Cultural Discovery Experiment Groups Experiment groups are small, typically comprising 10–15 students who represent a range of backgrounds: small towns and large cities; urban and rural areas; and public, private, and home-school educational experiences.

SAINT MICHAEL’S COLLEGEabout the host culture, Experimenters learn about In addition to learning the diverse cultures and socioeconomic backgrounds that exist within the US and around the world.

“I was so impacted by the diversity and intelligence of my group. We learned so much from each other and genuinely cared about one another.”

—Lillian Hinshaw, Experimenter to China Summer 2013 Experiment Groups—At a Glance • Experimenters came from 37 US states.

• Experimenters came from 10 countries around the world: India, Israel, Kenya, Kuwait, Macedonia, Mexico, Nepal, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

• The average Experiment group had 14 students.

An 80-Plus-Year History of Leadership and Innovation The Experiment has been providing immersive experiential learning programs abroad since 1932. Each year, students come away from an Experiment program with invaluable new skills, connections, awareness, and knowledge that helps them to thrive—and lead—in diverse, intercultural environments.

Countless Experimenters have gone on to do extraordinary work in the world and attain important leadership positions in a diversity of fields and professions. http://www.experimentinternational.org/aboutus/history-and-experience/ Global Network and Family of Programs The Experiment in International Living is the founding program of World Learning, a nonprofit that advances leadership through education, exchange, and development programs in more than 60 countries. In addition to The Experiment, the World Learning family of programs includes SIT Study Abroad, SIT Graduate Institute, World Learning International Development Programs, and World Learning International Exchange Programs. www.experimentinternational.org experiment@worldlearning.org Phone: 800.345.2929, TTY: 802.258.3388 Fax: 802.258.3428 PO Box 676. 1 Kipling Road, Brattleboro, VT 05302 USA

Mercersburg Academy Mercersburg, PA At Mercersburg Academy, its not just camp, it’s a wide range of opportunities for learning, personal growth, and most importantly, fun. Nestled in the mountains of south-central Pennsylvania, the beautiful campus provides the perfect setting for participants to take part in an array of programs, ranging from the Adventure Camp series to various Enrichment, Arts and Sports Camps.

Mercersburg’s adventure camp takes kids ages 6-16 on a wild ride they will talk about for years. Variety is the spice of life, and at Adventure Camp, variety is an understatement. Camp adventures include trips to Hershey Park, white water rafting and a professional sports game. The camp’s unique structure provides just the right balance of enrichment challenges, sports, outdoor adventures, and fun trips to make every session wild, wonderful, and memorable.

Adventure camp is not all that is happening at Mercersburg. The young writers camp allows participants to build writing skills and unleash creativity in a unique environment of like-minded individuals with a passion for writing. This enrichment camp allows for young students to explore the beauty of poetic style and the power of their own voice on paper. Language is at the core of life and Mercersburg campers learn new and liberating ways to express themselves through the written word.

The summer theatre and dance workshops by Mercersburg Summer Programs allow students to improve their performing arts. A school that has helped to produce two Academy Award winners helps campers to explore and expand their interest in the many elements of theatre in one dynamic week that brings the stage and young people together. Young performers gain skills in improvisation, stage presence, body movement, vocal techniques, character development, ensemble work and problem solving. This unique experience exposes actors to the technical elements of lighting, sound, make-up and costume design.

Mercersburg’s Summer Dance Workshop is a dynamic one-week program that will inspire dancers to learn different movement styles as well as discovering their own. Campers will experience a range of multiple classes from ballet and contemporary to improvisation, yoga and choreography. Expert instruction combined with creative and innovative workshops will insure that dancers will leave Mercersburg’s state of the art Burgin Center with a renewed passion for dance.

On the sport side of summer camps, Mercersburg Swim Clinics are dedicated to improving campers’ technique and helping them to develop as a swimmer both inside and outside of the pool. Mercersburg Academy’s WHERE THERE BE DRAGONShas produced over 30 Olympians and brings a storied aquatics program tradition of excellence to their summer program. Clinic Director, Pete Williams, has been a part of four Olympic games as a swimmer, coach or official and brings a wealth of knowledge to the program.

For more information about Mercersburg Summer Programs, visit www.MercersburgSummer.com

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INDEPENDENT SCHOOL GUIDE Rhode Island School of Design Pre-College + Summer Studies Providence, RI RISD Founded in 1877, Rhode Island School of Design (or “RIZ-dee” for the acronym RISD) is recognized as the leading college of art and design in the US and one of the premier art and design schools worldwide.

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 remarkable resources including the one-of-a-kind Edna W. Lawrence Nature Lab, RISD Museum featuring more than 86,000 works of fine and decorative art ranging from ancient times to the present and the RISD Fleet Library, recently named by Travel + Leisure as one of America’s most beautiful libraries.

While the RISD campus offers a host of exceptional facilities, the most valuable advantage to students is access to the outstanding faculty and student body. RISD’s faculty are recognized as professional experts, as well as being exceptional educators.

Pre-College Each summer, 400+ high school students from around the world come to RISD to immerse themselves in a comprehensive introduction to the college art school experience. 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 focused concentration in one of 20 diverse majors. Throughout the program, students are expected to maintain a high level of initiative and responsibility regarding their work and behavior.

Students who come to RISD’s Pre-College program 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. Students attending RISD’s Pre-College program all have one thing in common – they are passionate about art and design and are seeking an incomparable arts education and summer experience. risd.edu/precollege Summer Studies RISD’s Summer Studies Program in the visual and liberal arts encompasses a wide spectrum of interests designed to meet the needs of beginning, intermediate and advanced students. Students from nearly 100 colleges and universities, as well as working professionals interested in new and refreshing creative experiences are drawn to RISD’s vibrant artistic community.

Scores of accomplished, award-winning artists, designers and educators – including members of RISD’s degree program faculty – teach in the summer programs. Courses include introductions to fine art fundamentals such as drawing and painting, as well as specialized areas of study such as architecture, industrial design and children’s book illustration. Students interested in a concentrated area of focus may choose to attend the Summer Institute for Graphic Design Studies (SIGDS) or the Textiles Summer Institute.

Whether augmenting current college curriculum, considering graduate studies or broadening professional skills, RISD Summer Studies offers students from around the world a unique, intense and exceptional learning experience. risd.edu/summer

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Pittsburgh, PA The University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) was established 28 years ago and the Summer Academy, in the Summer of 2009. This program was designed to promote engagement in cancer research and careers in the health sciences. We identify candidates based on personal characteristics, underrepresented in the biomedical sciences (minority and disadvantaged) high school students, and strategic international partnerships of the UPCI. Supported by the UPCI Director, Dr. Nancy Davidson, and grateful patient families, the program is partially funded by the National Cancer Institute CURE Program and the Doris Duke Foundation. Through continued collaborations with Pittsburgh Public Schools, Bayer Material Sciences, and partnerships with the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, Nazarbayev University, and the University’s Offices of Health Sciences Diversity and Science Education Outreach, students are immersed in science research learning experiences that include: 1) daily time in a selected mentor’s research laboratory 2) clinical cameos including visits with genetic counselors, trips to the operating room and genomics facility, zebrafish, and small animal facilities 3) field trips to the National Cancer Institute 4) weekly didactic sessions led by qualified faculty, graduate and medical students.

Scholars are placed in six well-established programs under the UPCI Summer Academy: The Cancer Biology (CB) Hillman Cancer Center site prepares scholars to further their studies in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) subjects.

The Magee Women’s Cancer Research Center (WCRC) site exposes scholars to various aspects of research in women’s health, with research projects and presentation centered around critical research projects in breast and ovarian cancer, and state-of-the-art technologies and approaches for the studies.

The Cancer Immunology (CI) site engages scholars in immunological research and prepares them for career opportunities in tumor immunology.

The Drug Discovery, Systems and Computational Biology (DiSCoBio) site introduces scholars to an array of computer-based research areas and related careers. Scholars gain a greater knowledge of the interplay between biology, genetics, and mathematics that allows for the modeling of various aspects of cancer biology and other complex diseases.

The Computer Science, Biology, and Biomedical Informatics (CoSBBI) site introduces scholars to different aspects of biomedical informatics, such as cognitive and translational informatics, and their uses in cancer research, detection and diagnosis, and treatment.

Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion (CHERP) site located in new quarters at the VA Hospital, engages scholars in cutting edge studies designed to discern the origins of and develop solutions for disparities in health care.

For more information, please contact: Megan M. Houlihan, Program Coordinator, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute.

150 Centre Ave., Suite 405, Pittsburgh, PA 15213.

Phone: 412-623-5977; Email: houlihanmm@upmc.edu

INDEPENDENT SCHOOL GUIDE Columbia University School of Continuing Education

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New York, NY The School of Continuing Education at Columbia University is a resource for those who wish to take their lives in new directions, with a mission to transform knowledge and understanding in service of the greater good.

Make the most of your summer by taking fascinating, challenging courses and certificate programs taught by Columbia’s distinguished faculty and visiting professors. Offering hundreds of courses throughout the Arts and Sciences, Columbia COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Summer Session courses extend and complement the academic year for Columbia and visiting students, and they open the intellectual and physical resources of the University to non-degree students seeking career and academic enrichment. Summer Session students matriculating at other universities can earn valuable credits that they can transfer to the home institutions.

The School also offers Summer High School Programs in New York, Barcelona and Jordan. The School of Continuing Education at Columbia University offers a pre-college program for students entering grades 9 through 12 and freshman year of college who are interested in intensive summer study. Now in its 25th year, Columbia University’s Summer Program for High School Students offers highly motivated students the opportunity of a lifetime: a world-class educational experience set in the most exciting city in the world.

The School offers thirteen applied master’s degrees in the established and emerging fields of Actuarial Science, Bioethics, Communications Practice, Construction Administration, Fundraising Management, Information and Knowledge Strategy, Landscape Design, Narrative Medicine, Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, Sports Management, Strategic Communications, Sustainability Management and Technology Management. Each program provides practical, professional education for students seeking demanding, focused training. Courses are taught by faculty and industry leaders who bring current perspectives into the classroom. Full- and part-time options vary by program.

The Postbaccalaureate Studies program at the School of Continuing Education offers university courses and certificate programs in over 50 subject areas for graduate school preparation, academic enrichment or career advancement. Working with advisers, each student develops a plan of study tailored to his or her background and academic goals.

Business courses and certificate programs are offered both on campus and online.

Though the offerings are diverse, they are unified by a mission to mount innovative instructional programs that meet Columbia’s standard of excellence, take good advantage of its resources, and produce positive educational outcomes for the members of the student body.

For information, go to www.ce.columbia.edu Email ce-info@columbia.edu or call (212) 854-9666

The German School of Connecticut Stamford and West Hartford, CT The German School of Connecticut (GSC), celebrating its 36th year, is enjoying another record enrollment of over 350 students for the 201314 school year. Founded in 1978, GSC is a Saturday school offering a two-track curriculum for non-native beginners, and native or near-fluent speakers. Classes are held on two campuses (Stamford and West Hartford), ranging from Pre-School through High School and Adult. Students learn German as a new, non-native language, others expanding their Muttersprache, while all celebrate German, Austrian and Swiss cultures.

Come visit us at our Open House!

You’re invited! Our Stamford campus (Rippowam Middle School at 381 High Ridge Rd.) is having an Open House on Saturday, May 17th from 1:00 – 2:30pm. Get acquainted with our school and community... you’ll find a friendly center with dedicated, professional teachers. Come early and enjoy our Spring Poetry Recital starting at 10:30, followed by our Spring Potluck Celebration featuring traditional German foods!

Many GSC students realize the advantage of studying one of Europe’s leading languages: Some plan to split their future studies between universities in the US and a German-speaking country, others study to gain a professional advantage. Certain high school students have the opportunity to take a special German language exam, which can fulfill the language requirement for direct entry at a German university. GSC introduced these “Sprachdiplom” examinations in the US in 1982, authorized by the German education authorities in Bonn. Students may also get credits from local high schools, and can prepare to take the AP German Exam to gain US college credit.

Studying German at GSC is fun! Adults enjoy the camaraderie and friendship among like-motivated class participants. Toddlers and elementary school children enjoy hands-on modern teaching, along with singing, playing and being with their friends. Middle school and high school students enjoy special projects and cultural events… and all students participate in the many traditional holiday celebrations.

GSC also embodies an international parent community: those from German speaking countries are joined by US and other international parents. All appreciate the services of the school, and the transnational atmosphere.

Classes are held from September to May. For further information regarding our Open House, enrollment or teaching, please visit: www.GermanSchoolCT.org or call Stamford at 203.548.0438, West Hartford at 860.404.8838.

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Pre-College Program at Skidmore College: Summer 2014 Saratoga Springs, NY Try college on before taking college on How can you anticipate what you haven’t yet experienced? Skidmore’s prestigious Pre-College Program in the Liberal and Studio Arts has been preparing talented high school students for college success for more than forty years. High-achieving sophomores, juniors, and seniors from across the country and around the world travel to our Saratoga Springs campus each summer to take part in Skidmore’s five-week Pre-College Program. Students engage in college-level study in the liberal and studio arts amid a beautiful upstate New York campus setting.

or one of each. Choose a class in an area where your strengths lie, or delve into an unexplored subject to challenge your perceptions and discover new fields of knowledge.

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At Skidmore, high school students can imagine their futures while living together, cultivating new friendships, and discovering the right balance between work and fun.

A carefully selected and trained residential staff lives with Pre-College students in their own private residence hall. The residential life program, designed to support and complement academic and artistic endeavors, ensures that students’ social lives are every bit as exhilarating as their intellectual lives.

In Skidmore’s Pre-College Program, high school students earn college credit while studying alongside college students. They work with Skidmore’s nationally recognized faculty and visiting artists and enjoy access to the College’s state-of-the-art facilities and resources. Do your interests range from math to studio art, psychology to English, economics to religion? Skidmore’s unique curriculum allows students to take either two liberal arts courses, two studio art courses,

Skidmore College is a highly selective, independent liberal arts college known for outstanding academics, a rich co-curricular life, and its historic resort town setting.

On Skidmore’s lively summer campus Pre-College students not only learn together with high school peers and college students, but have the chance to meet visiting students and participants from other programs as well. They are invited to take active part in the special workshops, visiting artist lectures,

and gallery talks sponsored by Skidmore’s Summer Studio Art Program and the nightly readings by renowned writers of the New York State Summer Writers Institute.

Skidmore’s summer campus hosts many other concerts, lectures, events, and weekend activities, and just off campus is downtown Saratoga Springs’ dynamic cultural and arts scene.

Find out for yourself why Skidmore Pre-College alumni describe the program as challenging, fun, enlightening, life-changing, mind-altering, motivational, experimental, adventurous, to name just a few. Come spend July with us and discover your future.

Skidmore Pre-College Program, Saratoga Springs, NY www.skidmore.edu/pre-college

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INDEPENDENT SCHOOL GUIDE BOARDING The Gow School South Wales, NY The Gow School is an internationally renowned boarding school located in South Wales, NY. Founded in 1926, it is the oldest college preparatory school in the country for students with dyslexia.

All students take an Orton-based phonics program called Reconstructive Language. In addition to small class sizes, the school offers a range of academic programs as well as art, drama and music. The school

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offers structured classes during the day, athletics in the afternoon and a study hall from 6:45-9:00pm.

The Reid Arts Center houses a theater, technology labs, art studios, music lab and TV studio. The Gow Center is equipped with basketball courts, tennis courts, large multipurpose room, squash courts, fitness center and student lounge. Our 10,000 sq. ft. dining hall was completed in 2009. Our newly renovated science and technology center is home to our robotics lab, which includes a Computer Numerical Control machine.

Gow has a selective admissions process and is dedicated to providing appropriate accommodations and remediation. Working closely with the school’s College Counseling Office, 100% of our graduates are accepted to and enrolled in a college or university.

The Gow School is committed to physical growth, fitness and athletic competition, believing that sports help to assure a well-rounded education. The athletic program emphasizes the values inherent in physical well-being, fitness, teamwork and competition. The school’s teams compete with nearby public and private independent schools.

Campus clubs, organizations and activities at Gow reflect the diverse interests of our students. Students are encouraged to add their talents to existing organizations and to initiate new ones. In addition to on campus activities, supervised travel enhances the student experience. Many courses incorporate field trips into the semester’s work, including visits to lectures, museums, plays and historical sites. Each Saturday evening, busses take many students to a local mall to shop and see a movie. Other activities include symphony and rock concerts, ethnic festivals, NHL Hockey games, NFL football games, skiing at local resorts, snow tubing, snowboarding, bowling, laser tag, sledding, NBA games in Toronto and NLL games.

In July, the school’s summer program is five weeks of learning and fun for ages 8-16. The staff is committed to creating a positive environment for all and strives to provide a successful experience for all students. The program includes classes in the morning, traditional camp activities in the afternoon and evenings and weekend trips. www.gow.org

Avon Old Farms School Avon, CT Since 1927, Avon Old Farms has been a leader in preparing young men for higher education, and the world. Avon is a dynamic community of learning with a rigorous curriculum anchored in the liberal arts. By understanding boys – and with appreciation for their sense of humor, their energy, and how they learn – we have created the kind of environment where our students are able to become their best selves.

Avon is conveniently located in the heart of the Farmington River Valley. Our founder, Theodate Pope Riddle, an accomplished American architect, created a campus with the feel of an English village on over 860 acres of Connecticut countryside. The Cotswold-inspired architecture reflects the traditional approach to education that is so successful here.

Avon’s teachers are experts in their fields who bring lessons to life and create compelling context for discussion. Creativity, innovation, and collaboration are taught by example through humor, inquiry, and debate. Small classes mean that every voice is heard and every question answered. At Avon we understand the importance of personal connection, especially during adolescence; this is why we have held strong to the model of a faculty member who advises, teaches, mentors, and coaches our boys.

Athletics is an honored tradition at Avon and, we believe, a valuable part of a complete education. Our athletic program is one of the best in the country and we attribute our success to experienced coaches, excellent facilities, strong competition, and an emphasis on things that matter most: teamwork, determination, and sportsmanship.

Another way Avon boys come together is through the arts. Our rich and varied programs in music and the visual and performing arts provide many opportunities for boys to express themselves creatively and form meaningful connections with peers. Our students have been honored locally, regionally, and nationally for their creative accomplishments. Most impressive, however, Avon is a place where you can draw, paint, play an instrument, sing or act AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL whether you have had years of experience or none.

As a college preparatory school, one of our goals is to identify and facilitate the right matches between Avon students and institutions of higher learning. Our boys typically begin the college counseling process during sophomore year, setting expectations and goals early so that by the time they are seniors, they are prepared to take the lead on this leg of their journey to adulthood.

Our core values of brotherhood, integrity, scholarship, and sportsmanship, are fundamental to life at Avon, and stay with our graduates for a lifetime.

Avon Old Farms School: 500 Old Farms Road, Avon, CT 06001.

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INDEPENDENT SCHOOL GUIDE Westover

The Ethel Walker School

Middlebury, CT Westover, a selective boarding school of 200 girls, grades 9 - 12, in Middlebury, CT, has students from 16 countries and 19 states. In addition to its rich and varied curriculum, Westover offers three specialized programs for those students with more concentrated interests.

• Brass City Ballet. As participants in this program, a joint venture between Westover and the Brass City Ballet, select students have the opportunity to study dance at one of the region’s leading dance schools.

Students audition in the fall of their entry year and take six dance classes a week in ballet, modern, and jazz.

Simsbury, CT The Ethel Walker School offers an invaluable learning experience for girls from middle school through their secondary school years, preparing students for an ever-changing world and workplace environment. The diverse community is composed of students from around the globe, faculty, and alumnae who are dedicated to scholarship, the arts, athletics, wellness and service. A strong emphasis is placed on global experience, service learning, and environmental sustainability. Girls learn to lead with integrity, confidence, courage, and conviction.

Academics: Walker’s integrates the arts into a challenging and engaging curriculum that focuses on opportunities for girls in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, with an emphasis on writing, including writing across the curriculum. Language instruction includes Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, and Latin. More than a third of classes are Honors and Advanced Placement classes. The close community of dedicated faculty members provides a nurturing and collaborative environment in which girls learn, stretch, and grow.

Technology: All students and faculty use iPads to effectively create a personalized learning experience. Walker’s also maintains a wireless campus, SMART board-equipped classrooms, multi-media learning and presentations tools, and a state-of-the-art library.

Athletics: Sports are a source of pride at Walker’s and instruct the lifelong

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• Manhattan School of Music. This joint program between the Manhattan School of Music Pre-College Division and Westover offers talented musicians and vocalists the opportunity to study music and play in an orchestra or ensemble at one of the country’s leading music schools. Students must complete a separate application and audition to be accepted into the program.

• WISE (Women in Science and Engineering). This advanced extracurricular program in conjunction with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) offers a variety of electives aimed at preparing students for careers in science or engineering. WISE graduates also receive special consideration for RPI’s engineering program.

In addition, Westover offers three signature programs that further reflect the School’s commitment to giving students opportunities to gain experience and knowledge in special areas of interest: • The Sonja Osborn Museum Studies Internship. The Museum Studies Internship, designed for students with interests and aptitude in the study of art history, consists of a ten-week program. The first eight weeks are spent at Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington, CT, the home designed and lived in by Theodate Pope Riddle, Westover’s architect.

The final two weeks are spent working on a project that investigates the historical ties between the museum and Westover.

• The Online School for Girls (OSG). Westover was one of four allgirls schools in 2009 to establish a consortium to offer online education for girls. Girls taking part in the program are offered courses taught by faculty members from the consortium over the Internet.

• Westover’s Summer Programs. The School’s residential one- or twoweek summer programs in the arts and academics are an extension of the Westover experience, allowing girls to benefit from courses taught

by Westover instructors while enjoying a range of summer activities.

For more information, or to arrange for a visit, contact Westover’s Office of Admission at 203-577-4521 or e-mail admission@westoverschool.org For more information about Westover, visit www.westoverschool.org 226

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skills of interdependent action, collaboration, and team spirit. The nationally acclaimed equestrian program is for girls of all ability levels; many compete locally, nationally, and internationally while others improve their skills as recreational riders. There is a new state-of-the-art turf and irrigated natural field complex. Recent championship teams include softball and golf.

Life at Walker’s: The joy of friendship is a fundamental principle at the School. Walker’s has a strong sense of spirit, togetherness, and camaraderie. Traditions tie generations of alumnae and current students together.

Myriad clubs, led by students and advised by faculty, cover many areas of interest. The campus – 300 acres of fields, forest, and trails – provides space for recreation, learning, and staying connected to nature.

The Power of an All-girls Education: Research shows that girls educated in a same-sex learning environment test higher, experience greater academic achievement, have better mathematics and computer skills, and exhibit greater civic and political engagement.

The Ethel Walker School: 230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, CT 06070 860/408-4467; www.ethelwalker.org

INDEPENDENT SCHOOL GUIDE Rock Point School

Chapel Hill – Chauncy Hall School

Burlington, VT Rock Point School is a small, supportive day and boarding school for high school students who have not found success in other more traditional school settings.

Rock Point is a place where young people who have found themselves off-track academically, socially, and personally are seen for who they are,

Waltham, MA At Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall School, a coeducational day and boarding school grounded in over 180 years of history, we remain dedicated to teaching the way our students learn. Students in grades 9-12 and postgraduate thrive in our college-preparatory curriculum where they find small class sizes, academic challenges and a tailored approach to learning necessary to be successful, innovative thinkers. Our students discover engaging classes, teachers, and peers, and actively contribute to a community that encourages participation in the arts, athletics and other extracurricular opportunities. Our rigorous curriculum challenges students, while instruction tailored to individual learning styles empowers our students to achieve their potential. Our multiple intelligences approach to teaching, along with support seamlessly integrated into the classroom, creates a transformational learning experience for students.

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take healthy risks, grow, find success, and discover their passion. Located in beautiful and culturally rich Burlington, VT, we offer high school students small, engaging classes, experiential learning, close relationships with staff, and ongoing opportunities to discover who they are.

Academically, we support a range of learning styles, and work with students to improve their organization, self-advocacy, and study skills. The academic program at Rock Point School is a college-preparatory program. Students take classes based on their grade level. The freshman and sophomore year curricula focus on the foundational skills that support more lengthy and intensive reading and writing assignments of the junior and senior years. Because classes are small in size (5-13 students), teachers come to know students’ strengths and needs well, and teachers work with students to challenge them at appropriate levels. One student’s assignment might be modified to reduce the length of a written piece, while another student’s assignment might be supplemented with additional reading and/or writing requirements.

In our dorm program, we encourage our students to have fun, laugh, try new things, make friends, and discover what excites them -- whether it be snowboarding, digital animation, or playing music.

Rock Point School is located on 125 acres of lake front property in beautiful Burlington, VT. Our students thrive in a unique environment that combines easy access to nature with a small, safe, fun city just down the road. We are proud to have been founded in 1928 with a mission to serve young people that remains strong to this day.

Contact information: 802-863-1104 x12 rockpointschool.org

We Teach the Way Students Learn: • An average class size of ten allows us to truly know our students • Dynamic 75 minute classes engage students in multiple ways of learning • Skills and Academic Support Program develops independent learners • Diverse population enriches the culture of our School • Co-curricular and arts programs inspire students to discover their passions • All CH-CH graduates enroll in college or university Teaching to Students’ Strengths The CH-CH community is committed to each student’s individual success and to understanding the unique ways in which each student learns. Our approach to education embodies the knowledge that students learn differently, exhibiting various academic strengths and areas which need more improvement. This requires varied, creative methods of instruction. An attentive, experienced faculty identifies ways to encourage each student to harness his or her strengths for continued progress, while devising strategies to engage students in learning methods that suit individual skills.

CH-CH classes are both active and challenging. For example, students in a Spanish class may study a song, use its lyrics to hone speaking skills and engage in group work to examine the piece’s cultural nuances. Then, they may CHAPEL HILL – CHAUNCY HALL SCHOOL create their own lyrics to the same tune, cementing their understanding of a particular set of vocabulary terms.

Our layered approach to instruction provides students with meaningful interactions and a deep understanding of academic material.

Visit www.chch.org for more information.

Located at 785 Beaver St., Waltham, MA 02452 If you would like an individual campus tour and school visit, please contact the Admissions Office.

Lisa Pelrine, Director of Admissions: 781-314-0800, admissions@chch.org

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INDEPENDENT SCHOOL GUIDE Florida Air Academy

Riverside Military Academy

Melbourne, FL Florida Air Academy is a co-ed, college-prep military school for young boys and girls in grades 6-12. The school is located in Melbourne, Florida in the heart of Florida’s Space Coast, just a few hours north of Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, West Palm Beach and Boca Raton. For 53 years, Florida Air Academy has developed young men and women who blend academic ability, integrity and good character, along with a knowledge of world cultures, into a powerful force—well prepared for future success, growth, and leadership.

The school offers Advanced Placement, Honors and traditional academic classes, and students can earn college credit through dual-enrollment.

With 100% college acceptance since 1978, F.A.A. provides a challenging academic program together with a structured environment that allows students to be successful in the classroom and well prepared for success in college and beyond. In the past three years, F.A.A. seniors have earned more than $4 million dollars in college scholarships and acceptances to top colleges and universities. For those students looking for Military Focus, F.A.A. has an active Air Force Junior ROTC program that has been an “Honor Unit” for a number of years—placing it in the top 20% of all AFJROTC units across the country.

Students originate from more than 20 countries, and the school’s academic program provides individualized instruction while celebrating the diversity of the student body through academic study. F.A.A. has successfully implemented a 1:1 Apple iPad Program, which provides technology-centered activities and real-world probFLORIDA AIR ACADEMY lem solving to engage and challenge students. Teachers also promote curiosity and learning in ways that reveal each student’s intellectual strengths, interests and passions.

Florida Air Academy recognizes that school is much more than just education—it’s about each child’s unique journey into adulthood. The strong academic program is enhanced with an established athletics program, forward-thinking elective courses, and fun extracurricular activities that can be tailored to a child’s interests and life dreams! The school is also located minutes away from the Melbourne International Airport, where students can gain the certified instruction and flying time needed to earn a pilot’s license prior to high-school graduation.

F.A.A. is a member of and accredited by the Florida Council of Independent Schools (FCIS) and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS). It is also a member of the Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA), and the Association of Military Schools and Colleges (AMCSUS).

For more information, visit: www.FLAIR.com or call (321) 723-3211.

Gainesville, GA Founded in 1907, Riverside Military Academy (RMA) offers a traditional, American-style education where personal values, honor, and love of country still matter. Riverside is not owned or operated by any particular religious denomination, but supports the spiritual and educational goals of all families.

RMA is first and foremost a college preparatory school. We offer high quality academRIVERSIDE MILITARY ACADEMY ics in a structured environment designed to meet the needs of boys in grades 7-12. The military setting adds structure, responsibility, accountability and yes, consequences when necessary. All contribute to a well-rounded young man. This environment works for those who have historically underachieved, who simply have not been able to manage their time, and who tend to procrastinate in every endeavor. The rigorous days at RMA are filled with academics, military activities, social activities, and athletics.

Over 70% of our faculty hold advanced degrees and encourage our cadets to develop the daily habits essential for success at home and in the workplace. These habits include organizational skills, time management, and the ability to manage stress through preparation and exercise.

Cadets of Riverside Military Academy benefit from a small class size and a 15:1 student teacher ratio. Our entire educational program centers around the way young men learn best.

Because Riverside believes that there is a strong connection between physical and mental development, extra-curricular activities, field trips, and outdoor activities play an important role in the daily lives of our cadets. The RMA program takes full advantage of its 206-acre campus, athletic facilities, and proximity to Lake Lanier which is located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Riverside’s college center assists cadets in preparing for and placing their college applications each year. The graduating class of 2014 consisted of 97 cadets who were admitted to over 90 universities including the U.S. Air Force Academy , and the U.S. Military Academy –West Point, and received over $4.1 million in collegiate scholarships.

Riverside Military Academy holds dual accreditation in SACS and SAIS. Located in Gainesville, Georgia, just one hour north of Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, Riverside is easily accessible to cadets and their families from around the world. In addition, RMA offers shuttle service to and from the airport for our cadets.

Riverside Military Academy’s comprehensive program of rigorous academics, athletics and leadership development sets the stage for a lifetime of success.

We invite you to learn more about Riverside Military Academy by visiting our web site at: www.riversidemilitary.com or call our admissions office at 877.MY.CADET.

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INDEPENDENT SCHOOL GUIDE UNIVERSITY Florida Institute of Technology Melbourne, FL Florida Tech is a national, doctoral-granting research university set just minutes from the beach in east central Florida. Known for its “High Tech with a Human Touch” approach, the university has been ranked a Top 200 World University by Times Higher Education and a Tier One Best National University by U.S. News & World Report.

Students from more than 100 countries around the world and all 50 United States choose Florida Tech. As a result, the university offers a vibrant and diverse environment. Florida Tech students are passionately focused on academics and building real-world career experience, but they are also serious about enjoying the Florida lifestyle and all the benefits of 300+ days of sunny weather annually.

The university offers more than 60 hands-on undergraduate degree programs through five colleges: engineering, science, aeronautics, psychology and liberal arts, and business. Popular majors include aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, computer science, marine biology and aviation management. New programs include biomedical engineering, entrepreneurship, prelaw, and sustainability studies.

All students, regardless of major, participate in undergraduate research, a career-oriented practicum, internship or co-op work experience, or some combination thereof. In addition, all students may elect FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OLIN PHYSICAL SCIENCES to participate in Florida Tech’s FastTrack accelerated master’s degree program. Through FastTrack, students have the ability to complete both a bachelor’s and master’s in as few as five years of fulltime study.

Outside of the classroom, Florida Tech students participate in 22 NCAA Division II men’s and women’s varsity sports, which include baseball, basketball, lacrosse and football. They also build skills, friendships and lasting memories in more than 100 student clubs and organizations, a wide array of intramural sports, and numerous music and performance ensembles.

Florida Tech’s campus features a lush, AAA-rated botanical garden and one of the largest research telescopes in Florida. A modern fitness facility, sparkling aquatic center, high-tech library and first-class dining hall are all within walking distance from the suite-style residence halls where the majority of new students live. Getting around often takes place via skateboard, bicycle, or one of Florida Tech’s signature open-air trolleys.

The university is located a short distance from downtown Melbourne—a historic main street full of shops and cafes—as well as the Melbourne International Airport and the Atlantic Ocean. The world famous Cocoa Beach is a 30-minute drive from campus while Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex and Orlando are both about an hour away. Students who visit campus are eligible to earn a Visit Grant worth up to $4,000 toward tuition.

Ask a Question: admission@fit.edu or (800) 888-4348 Get Admissions Info: fit.edu/prospective Find Your Major: fit.edu/programs

Quinnipiac University Graduate Programs North Haven, CT Making a world of difference. Making a different world.

It is an exciting time for graduate study at Quinnipiac University – with new QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY

programs, new facilities, and opportunities for collaborative learning. Named the top “up-and-coming” school with master’s programs in the Northern Region by U.S. News and World Report, Quinnipiac continues to grow as a great place for innovative graduate education and professional preparation.

The Center for Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences The university’s North Haven Campus was in the spotlight this year with the opening of the $100 million Center for Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, home to the Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine, the School of Health Sciences and the School of Nursing, and an array of graduate programs: Anesthesiologist Assistant, Cardiovascular Perfusion, Medical Laboratory Sciences, Nursing, Pathologists’ Assistant, Physician Assistant, Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy (online), Molecular and Cell Biology (Mount Carmel Campus), and Social Work (MSW), which welcomed its first class in the fall.

New opportunities – Nurse Anesthesia* and Nursing Leadership* The Center’s exceptional resources, which include a state-of-the art operating room with anesthesia equipment, will be a benefit to students in the Nurse Anesthesia* track, one of two new options within Quinnipiac’s Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program. The other new track, Nursing Leadership* (online-pending state approval), is ideal for nurse managers who want to master leadership principles and practices.

Professional study that leads the way: Law, Education and Business Quinnipiac’s outstanding School of Law joins the North Haven Campus in August, taking up residence in an impressive new Law Center.

Also based in North Haven is the School of Education, with stellar programs like the Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT), Sixth-year Diploma in Educational Leadership, and MS in Teacher Leadership (online).

There are great options for graduate study on Quinnipiac’s Mount Carmel Campus in Hamden, too. Quinnipiac’s AACSB-accredited School of Business offers the outstanding MBA program (on-campus, online and hybrid) with several specialized tracks and a focus on strategic decision-making, and the MS programs in Information Technology, Business Analytics and Organizational Leadership (all online).

Focus on Communications – Social Media and Sports Journalism And for media professionals, the Mount Carmel Campus is the destination for dynamic programs in the School of Communications, including the newest options: social media tracks in the MS in Public Relations and MS in Interactive Media (online) programs and a specialized track in sports journalism in the highly regarded MS in Journalism for students looking to hone their skills in that fast-paced field.

Quinnipiac University Graduate Admissions 275 Mount Carmel Avenue Hamden, CT 06518-1940 203-582-8672 or 800-462-1944 graduate@quinnipiac.edu www.quinnipiac.edu/gradprogram

INDEPENDENT SCHOOL GUIDE The Evergreen State College: Think Beyond the Ordinary Olympia, Washington While most colleges teach the same things in the same ways, Evergreen stands apart. We opened our doors in 1971, not 1791, and you’ll see the benefits in our innovative curriculum, student-driven academic pathways and focus on real learning.

The Evergreen Difference • Full-time, multi-quarter interdisciplinary programs, often team-taught • Coordinated schedules for homework, tests and field study • Narrative evaluations • Customized academic pathways • Individual and group learning contracts to tailor your education • Extraordinary 1,000-acre campus in the Pacific Northwest Other Good News • Princeton Review 378 Best Colleges • Fiske Guides “Best Buy” THE EVERGREEN • Sierra Magazine top green colleges STATE COLLEGE • High acceptance rate to graduate school Learning in Community, Making Connections – Imagine studying art, science, history, writing and sociology in one integrated program focused on a central theme. Many students take just one 16-credit, team-taught interdisciplinary program per quarter (instead of four or five disconnected classes), studying with the same students and faculty for up to a year. Check out our catalog to get a feel for the unique and intriguing interdisciplinary programs you’ll find at Evergreen: www.evergreen.edu/catalog Coordinated Studies – In a full-time interdisciplinary program, homework and tests for one subject don’t compete with another and you don’t have to miss other classes to take field trips, work at an internship, or study abroad.

Focus on Learning – Your faculty will give you feedback in a narrative evaluation instead of reducing your hard work down to a letter grade. The focus is on learning and collaboration – often in small seminar groups – not competition for grades. The absence of grades doesn’t mean an absence of high expectations. National studies show that Evergreen students read more, spend more time preparing for class and work more in teams than their peers.

More Flexibility – We don’t limit your options with formal majors. You can tailor your education to meet your needs and explore areas of interest without worrying that your credits won’t count toward graduation. Later in your studies, you can also design individual or group learning contracts to create customized learning opportunities.

Great Value – Evergreen is both a nationally acclaimed public liberal arts and sciences college and a Fiske Guides best buy. Our total cost of attendance for non-resident students is less than tuition alone at many private institutions. Depending on your need and/or academic qualifications, your actual cost could be even lower.

Living in the Pacific Northwest – Evergreen is located in Olympia, Washington’s capital city. Our 1,000-acre forested campus – a living laboratory and classroom – has a beach on Puget Sound, miles of trails, an organic farm, a Native American longhouse, and easy access to Olympia’s vibrant downtown. More opportunities for fun – the Pacific Ocean, Olympic and Mt. Rainier national parks, Mt. St. Helens, ski areas, and the urban scenes of Seattle and Portland, Oregon – are just an hour or two away.

Learn more at http://admissions.evergreen.edu/why 2700 Evergreen Parkway NW, Olympia, WA 98505. 360/867-6170.

DAY SCHOOLS Dwight-Englewood School Englewood, NJ “As a community of learners, Dwight-Englewood School strives to foster in each student a passion for life-long learning. We seek excellence, honor integrity, and embrace diversity in order to meet the challenges of a changing world and make it better.”

Dwight-Englewood (D-E) is a coeducational, independent school of approximately 900 students, serving a seamless education experience for students in preschool (age 3) through Grade 12. Comprised of three divisions – the Lower, Middle, and Upper Schools -- each with their own distinctive personality, D-E is the most ethnically-diverse school in Bergen County, with students who represent more than 80 communities in New Jersey and New York. The school is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools and the New Jersey Association of Independent Schools, and is a member of the National Association of Independent Schools.

D-E is located on a beautiful 40+ acre campus, just minutes from George Washington Bridge. As the area’s longest-established independent PreK through Grade 12 co-educational day school, our students take advantage of an unparalleled rich academic experience that is both traditional and innovative. We provide a rigorous college preparatory program rooted in the classical liberal arts while at the same time preparing students with 21st century skills they will need for their futures.

At Dwight-Englewood we all come to grow. We seek growth in respect, honesty, judgment, commitment, courage and community and expect each of us to work towards living these, our shared values. We believe that the opportunity to grow is a precious gift, one that brings out our best selves. Dwight-Englewood gives the highest quality preparation for college and university work while fostering independent thinking; the ability to solve problems; and the skills, tolerance, and integrity it takes to thrive in our multifaceted world.

Students thrive here in a variety of ways including the arts, athletics, leadership and service. In the tradition of the nation’s finest independent schools, we offer small classes and stimulating coursework that encourages students to take risks and to learn to pursue their passions. Beyond the words of our Mission Statement, which charge us to “meet the challenges of a changing world and make it better,” our Profile of a D-E Graduate speaks to how “our graduates will explore ideas critically, communicate effectively, and lead active intellectual lives.” In turn our Profile of a D-E Teacher speaks to how our faculty and staff together “engage in the full life of our school, educating, supporting, and knowing our students beyond their academic experience.”

We pride ourselves in having a friendly admissions team, eager to introduce you to our dynamic ‘community of learners’. Contact D-E Admissions today to arrange a visit to campus or to discuss your future at Dwight-Englewood.

Dwight-Englewood does not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, religion, age, national or ethnic origin, or sexual orientation in its admissions or employment, or in the administration of any of its programs.

Dwight-Englewood School 315 E. Palisade Avenue Englewood, NJ 07631 201-569-9500, ext. 3500 www.d-e.org

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Summer Rome Programs

Arete: An Introduction to the Classics (IRVING) Authors of essential texts of Western civilization – Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles, Shakespeare, Faulkner, O’Connor – will be your teachers over the course of 14 days as you live on our Irving campus. Students view films, visit celebrated art museums and attend Shakespeare in the Park. You will develop and hone reading and writing skills essential for the college classroom while making long and lasting friendships that inevitably develop in a learning community.

Undergraduate Summer in Rome The undergraduate Summer Rome Program is a month-long program for both UD and non-UD undergraduate students.

The program builds upon the two great pillars of UD: a commitment to the liberal arts and our Catholic identity. Students encounter and reflect upon some of the most profound texts, ideas and art of the church and Western culture while studying on the Eugene Constantin Rome campus at Due Santi.

Latin in Rome Latin in Rome seeks intermediate and advanced students of Latin who desire to refine and deepen their understanding of the language and the Romans who spoke it. Throughout the program, you will study passages from Cicero, Pliny, Virgil and Horace to enhance visits to sites in Rome and Naples. The program includes lectures by university faculty who have lived and taught in Rome, daily language tutorials and group discussions of texts, as well as visits to historical sites and museums. This 21-day program is not simply a summer tour, but a college-level Latin course.

Apply Now High School Programs Arete: An Introduction to the Classics Latin in Rome Shakespeare in Italy High School Program Application udallas.edu/summerprograms/apply

Undergraduate Course Offerings Catholic Faith and Culture Italian Liberal Arts Options Undergraduate Program Application udallas.edu/romeapp

About the University of Dallas

Shakespeare in Italy This 18-day program focuses on Shakespeare and the place that inspired him the most, Italy. You will study three of Shakespeare’s Italian plays (Julius Caesar, The Taming of the Shrew and The Merchant of Venice).

Additionally, you will tour Rome most mornings with faculty guides and take a trip to Venice and Padua. Unlike most study programs, your classroom is Rome, as well as the other cities and sites you visit. The program helps students prepare for college through small group discussions and writing tutorials; students emerge sharper readers and more polished writers.

The University of Dallas is dedicated to the pursuit of wisdom, of truth and of virtue as the proper and primary ends of education.

The university seeks to educate its students so they may develop the intellectual and moral virtues, prepare themselves for life and work in a problematic and changing world and become leaders able to act responsibly for their own good and for the good of their family, community, country and church.

The university has offered its Rome Program as a part of its undergraduate curriculum for more than 40 years. More than 7,000 undergraduates have spent an academic semester in Rome at the heart of our Western heritage. Programs in Rome are housed on our 12-acre campus, approximately 12 miles southeast of Rome.

For 20 years, we have offered mature high school students summer and study abroad opportunities modeled after our signature Rome Program. Each program provides college credit while students study with university professors on our campuses both in Irving, Texas, and Rome.

For More Information Discover more about any of our summer Rome programs.

Call 972-721-5181, email udsummer@udallas.edu or visit udallas.edu/travel.

Who starts college after the 10th or 11th grade?

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We offer a rigorous program in the liberal arts and sciences to younger students.

Most start here after 10th or 11th grade, and earn their BA by age 20. Early college and accelerated learning give our graduates a head start on lifelong achievement.

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Precollege Programs for High School Girls Summer at Smith

2014

American College Immersion Program July 6–August 2

Summer Science and Engineering Program July 6–August 2

Hidden Lives: Discovering Women’s History July 6 –19

Field Studies for Sustainable Futures July 6 –19

Young Women’s Writing Workshop July 6 –19

Five Programs. Limitless Ways to Explore the World. www.smith.edu/summer

OPEN TO GIRLS ENTERING GRADES 9 THROUGH 12 IN THE FALL OF 2014.

Smith College’s rigorous PRECOLLEGE SUMMER 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. HERE’S WHAT RECENT PARTICIPANTS SAID ABOUT THEIR SUMMER AT SMITH:

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Celebrating 50 Years of Excellence & Remarkable Growth

I N S P I R I N G M I N D S. U N L E A S H I N G H E A R T S .

As we look back on our first 50 years, Sacred Heart University celebrates an unparalleled momentum. We’ve become New England’s second-largest Catholic university, adding award-winning new facilities and relevant, engaging programs to meet the needs of our growing community.

The next half century will herald more rapid change—not just for us, but for all of higher

education. We look forward to meeting the exhilarating challenges of the global revolution in education with a continued dedication to innovation, not just in what we teach, but in how we teach it.

Through it all, our mission remains the same: to inspire minds and unleash hearts as we make a difference in the world, one student at a time.

If you’re a standout, you’ll fit right in.

Don’t just communicate ideas—experience them.

Don’t memorize a foreign language—think in one.

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Don’t analyze dreams—live them.

This is the very essence of the University of Chicago Summer Session. Where students are engaged at every level—intellectually, socially, personally, and professionally. Where you can benefit from the value of taking university courses in an accelerated, intensive format. Join us this summer for an extraordinary learning experience at the academic home to 85 Nobel laureates.

For students in high school, college, and beyond.

June 23–August 29, 2014, 3, 4, 5, and 6-week sessions.

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THE COOPER UNION

SIX WEEKS MONâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;THU | JULY 7-AUG 14 | 9:30-3:30 OPEN TO HIGH SCHOOL SOPHOMORES AND JUNIORS SPENDING THE SUMMER IN THE GREATER NYC AREA WE ARE LOOKING FOR HIGHLY MOTIVATED STUDENTS WHO HAVE A PASSION FOR LEARNING AND THE STEM FIELDS APPLICATION DEADLINE: FRIDAY MARCH 7, 2014

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The Albert Nerken School of Engineering at The Cooper Union has been preparing high school students to pursue undergraduate careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields for over 25 years. The Summer STEM Program is an intensive experience that immerses students in hands-on engineering design and problem-solving, thereby placing them on the right track for careers in technological innovation. Students work closely with Cooper Union faculty on projects ranging broadly from robotics, digital fabrication, computer programming and app development to biomedical and genetic engineering, improved urban infrastructure and even race car design.

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Vermont Summer Academy SUMMER ACADEMIC PROGRAMS FOR GRADES 8 - 12

Weekend Trips to NYC and Boston & Off-Campus Field Trips and Excursions

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Each student will get to pair their major with an elective of their choice:

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Acting Workshop

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Anatomy of an Eco-System: River and Stream

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Baking Pastries

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Submit your online Summer College Application today!

Deposit deadline for Summer College is May 15, 2014.

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At Quinnipiac University, our students are our main focus. It’s why we offer graduate degrees in fields ranging from business to health sciences. It’s also why Quinnipiac was ranked among the top master’s-level universities in the North

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To find out how Quinnipiac can help you succeed in your career, call 1-800-462-1944, e-mail graduate@quinnipiac.edu or visit www.quinnipiac.edu/gradprograms.

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SPECIALIST PROGRAMMES INCLUDE: Ancient Empires Literature Science History Creative Writing Shakespeare Medieval Studies Hanseatic League

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6th Annual University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute International Summer Academy • • • Academy Dates: June 17 - August 8, 2014 • • • Application Deadline: March 1, 2014 www.upci.upmc.edu/summeracademy The UPCI International Summer Academy is an 8-week program designed to prepare high school scholars to further their studies in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and pursue careers in scientific research and medicine. Our Academy comprises 7 Sites which focus on various types of cancers as well as different approaches to studying cancer and related diseases. Scholars are paired with a research mentor from 1 of the 7 Sites and spend the majority of their time (80%) working first-hand on a research project, which is specifically tailored to the scholar. All scholars present their work as both a research talk and poster at the end of the program. To complement the research training, the Academy also provides classroom instruction, research and career seminars, professional development opportunities, and a host of fun, social activities for our Scholars.

CB: The Cancer Biology Hillman Cancer Center Site on the Shadyside campus prepares scholars to further their studies in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) subjects and to consider careers in cancer care and research. Through immersion in our dedicated laboratories with qualified faculty mentors, students will increase their knowledge of (1) careers in cancer care and research, (2) education in cancer biology and therapeutic strategies, and (3) development of research and communication skills.

WCRC: The Magee Women’s Cancer Research Center Oakland campus site will expose scholars to various aspects of research in women’s health, with projects & presentations centered around breast & ovarian cancer, & state-of- the-art technologies & approaches, such as novel methods using tumor cell lines & animal models.

TI: The Tumor Immunology, Oakland campus site will expose high school students to immunological research and prepare them for career opportunities in tumor immunology. Scholars will work with a mentor in a laboratory to create a research project working with data analysis and experimental design. Scholars will explore the exciting biologic basis for novel therapies being developed in the immunotherapy of cancer.

CoSBBI: The Computer Sciences, Biology and Biomedical Informatics site on the Shadyside campus hosted by the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Pathology Informatics, will introduce students to the application of informatics to cancer research, detection and diagnosis, and treatment. This is done through teaching basic concepts in biology, statistics, programming, and bioinformatics tools, coverage of topics such as genomics, proteomics and decision modeling, and individual mentored research projects.

DiSCoBio: The Drug Discovery, Systems and Computational Biology Site on the Oakland campus provides immersive training and teaching in both the Computational and Experimental research and theories used to tackle cutting-edge questions in Cancer Biology, Drug Discovery, and related fields. Professional development and other enrichment activities prepare scholars for success in college and future careers in Science and Medicine.

CHERP: The Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion Site on the Oakland campus will engage scholars in novel studies designed to discern the origins of and develop solutions for disparities in health care.

CIO: Center for Integrated Oncology in Cologne/Bonn, Germany will focus on leukemias and lymphomas.

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by Gabi Coatsworth Setting: The waiting room of a group counseling practice.

Woman 1: Reading anything interesting?

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My ex-husband was a drunk.

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Woman1: (Smugly) I have a lesbian daughter and she and her partner have two children (pause) by the same donor.

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(Goes back to reading) Woman 1: Not only that, one of the children is ADHD. Woman 2: You have to be kidding!

All my children are ADHD. Woman 1: I have two bipolar sons, actually.

They’re lovely, but they can be trying.

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Woman 2: (continues as if she hasn’t heard) And the other’s a kleptomaniac. Constantly in and out of court.

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Woman 2: Oh. That’s nothing. My sister was arrested for dancing topless at the Democratic Convention in 1987. It was in all the papers.

Woman1: Really. (Thinks for a minute) I’ll see your topless sister and I’ll raise you a nephew who’s a psychopath.

Silence Woman 2: Are you trying to count the psychopath and the guy who’s in jail twice?

It’s the same nephew, I bet.

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But it still counts.

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Woman 1: My cousin’s a bed-wetter.

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Silence Woman 1: (resigned) Fair enough.

I guess you win.

Woman 2: (Magnanimous in victory) But I really liked your psychopath nephew.

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Woman 2: Oh, I’m not a patient. I’m here to interview for the position of psychologist.

I’m waiting to meet the head of the clinic.

Woman 1: Delighted to meet you. I’m the head of the clinic. And you’re going to fit in perfectly.

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Gabi Coatsworth is a writer and blogger whose work has been published in literary journals, online and in the anthology: Tangerine Tango: Women Writers Share Slices of Life.

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