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Celebrating 100 Years

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Century! You wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to miss this once in a lifetime event.

May 16, 2015

Cleveland Convention Center 6:00 pm | VIP Reception 7:00 pm | Dinner & Dancing 8:00 pm | Special Presentation

Tickets & sponsorship packages now available at www.hawken.edu/party

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Celebrating a Century of Annual Giving Leadership As we embark on the largest Capital Campaign in the School’s history, this is a pivotal time to not only maintain but strengthen Annual Fund support. Notable annual donations of Henry Sheffield and Frances P. Bolton during Hawken’s early years are just two examples of the significant role of annual philanthropic support during times of expansion. Stirn Hall will allow us to reach new heights and become stronger – allowing us to fulfill our mission through thoughtful, programmatic space. The health and success of our Annual Fund and our endowment during this time help keep tuition increases to a minimum, as they combine to provide the supplemental funds that bridge the gap between tuition revenue and non-campaign expenses that are vital to ensuring a successful school year. Your continued support and dedication to the 2014-2015 Annual Fund is important during this pivotal time. Together we can reach our goal of $1,500,000. Thank you! To make your gift or pledge, contact: Director of the Annual Fund, Andrea Hocevar (440.423.2966) or Director of Development, Kathleen Guzzi (440.423.2918) or use the giving envelope inside this magazine

2013-2014 Leadership Donors As an added benefit for those donors who have contributed $5,000 or more to last year’s Annual Fund, we pay tribute to the following group of distinguished individuals who have helped shape Hawken as a national leader in independent school education. Bolton Hall Associates Mr. Donald R. Allman ‘70 Mr. Robert J. Anslow, Jr. ‘77 Rick & Tamara Durn Doody Dan & Ellie Hurwitz Mr. Henri Pell Junod, Jr. ‘59 KeyBank Foundation Russ ‘64 & Connie Lincoln Ireland Hall Associates Anonymous Charles & Grosvie Cooley Mr. & Mrs. Raymond J. Durn Mr. Timothy M. George ‘70 Jeffrey L. & Amy F. * Green Chas ‘87 & Jennifer Grossman Mr. Mark A. Hale Jeff & Stacie Halpern Mr. Peter A. Horvitz ‘72 Stephanie Tolleson & Peter Johnson Jeff & Susan Lucier Tom ‘89 & Alissa Murphy The Thomas W. and Florence T. Murphy Fund of The New York Community Trust

C. G. Raible Educational Trust Dr. & Mrs. Ronald J. Ross Michael & Sarah ‘83 Shaulis Mr. Paul C. Shiverick ‘71 The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation Steven & Lauren Spilman Mr. S. Tucker Taft ‘70 Anthoni ‘71 & Susan Visconsi Mr. Dominic A. Visconsi, Jr. ‘77 Mr. Dominic A. Visconsi, Sr. Lincoln Hall Associates Himanshu & Leslie Amin Mr. & Mrs. John Burns Lynne Marcus Cohen ‘82 & Philip Cohen Richard & Robyn Fearon The Firman Fund Mr. Royal Firman III ‘66 Mr. Robert T. Gale ‘96 Mr. & Mrs. Larry Goldberg Andrew & Kim Greiff Bob ‘44 & Sally Gries Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Hardis

Paul & Michelle Harris George & Janice Hawwa Mr. Blake C. Kleinman ‘95 James ‘91 & Nicole Lincoln Eric & Julie Mangini Peter ‘77 & Susi ‘78 Meisel Mr. & Mrs. Stanley A. Meisel The Murch Foundation The C. G. Raible and C. R. Raible Fund Mr. William H. Roj & Ms. Mary Lynn Durham Mr. Ken R. Rosen Steven ‘84 & Ellen Ross Alan & Barbara Rosskamm

Scot & Traci Rourke Mr. John C. Schirm ‘01 Thomas & Ann Seabright The Sherwick Fund Mr. John Sherwin, Jr. ‘53 Mr. Carl E. Smith ‘74 Ms. Rena Souris Mr. & Mrs. Howard F. Stirn Michael Vogelbaum & Judy Rosman Barbara Brown & Steven Ward Michael ‘85 & Meredith ‘85 Weil Dr. Gordon C. Weir ‘55 Christopher & Krista Whipple Mr. Clifford A. White ‘78 * Deceased

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Celebrating 100 Years

Be sure to join us for the

Century! You wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to miss this once in a lifetime event.

May 16, 2015

Cleveland Convention Center 6:00 pm | VIP Reception 7:00 pm | Dinner & Dancing 8:00 pm | Special Presentation

Tickets & sponsorship packages now available at www.hawken.edu/party

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Get ready for the

The Centennial Year officially kicked off October 10 with our all-school 100 photograph, pep rally and picnic, alumni tailgate, and Homecoming game fireworks. So, now itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to start making plans for the Party of the Century! Please join the Hawken community to celebrate 100 years of Fair Play and the development of Character and Intellect. Cleveland Convention Center May 16, 2015 6:00 pm VIP Reception 7:00 pm Cocktails, Strolling Dinner and Dancing 8:00 pm Special Presentation

For ticket sales, please go to www.hawken.edu/party Special sponsorship packages are available now for those who would like to reserve a table for family or friends.

1. Join the entire Hawken community under one roof at the Party of the Century, a once in a lifetime event. 2. Be a part of my 25th Reunion while celebrating Hawken’s 100th! 3. Participate in Alumni Give Back day to engage with current students. 4. Have my child look into the future to see where life will take him/her by meeting recent Hawken grads. 5. Can’t wait to bring on the Battle Ball: Half-court…Foul line…Full court! 6. Tour the Gallery 100 art exhibit to see all the Roby Art Winners and be part of honoring George Roby. 7. Walk the halls of the Gates Mills campus one more time with old classmates before the construction crews move in. 8. Tell Peter Scott about the impact he made on my life. 9. Sit in the Chapel and reminisce with old friends about our Chapel Talks. 10. Check out these decade displays to see how Hawken is preserving our history. 11. Meet the parents of current Hawken students; meet our alumni. 12. Talk about great football plays in Hawken history with football coaches like Frank Brandt. 13. Reminisce about the Mummy Wrap. 14. Share memories about our Williamsburg trip. 15. Influence my child’s dreams by seeing all the wonderful things that their fellow Hawken students have accomplished. 16. Rekindle friendships from the past. 17. Make new friends. 18. Visit with faculty, old and new. 19. Take the fun we had at our 75th anniversary in 1990 to the next level! 20. Celebrate the successes of Hawken students, young and old. 21. Celebrate Hawken’s past, present, and future. 22. Dance the night away with the 18-piece Starlight Orchestra at the Party of the Century. 23. See all of Hawken’s great campuses. 24. Visit classrooms without having to take a test. 25. Experience another Outdoor Leadership adventure. 26. Be a part of such a big moment for the School; I don’t want to miss it! 27. Help usher in the School’s next century. 28. Practice French with Al MacCracken. 29. Reunite with former parents and grandparents. 30. See all the changes that have happened at the Lower and Middle School. 31. Celebrate 100 years of Fair Play. 32. Be a part of a very historic time at Hawken. 33. Review old declensions with Sterg Lazos and other Latin teachers. 34. Reflect on how the School has grown. 35. Support the School that supported me. 36. Be a part of the largest ever gathering of Hawks. 37. Help launch Hawken’s second century. 38. Get a copy of Hawken’s Commemorative Book. 39. See the new Convention Center at the Party of The Century. 40. Enjoy Cleveland and a weekend full of Hawken events. 41. Audit a class. 42. See how good you look compared to your classmates you haven’t seen in years. 43. Thank your old teachers in person! 44. Attend THE BEST party in Hawken’s history. 45. Be a part of history. 46. Feel the energy of a revitalized Cleveland! 47. Feel nostalgic. 48. Practice old spelling bee words with Anne Smith Wombwell deConingh. 49. Reconnect with other parents you haven’t seen in years. 50. Revisit our Red & Gray rivalry. 51. Take a walk in Poutasse Woods. 52. Reconnect with old teammates. 53. Revisit the stage where I made my debut. 54. See if the kitchen is serving Apple Brown Betty with hard sauce or maybe 2

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Shepherd’s Pie. 55. Keep bright the Red and Gray. 56. Sneak a peek at my old sweetheart(s)! 57. Show off your new spouse. 58. Visit my music teachers. 59. Catch up with Sheila Murphy Bridenstine and reminisce about the first year of co-education. 60. See that each generation did introduce a successor to a higher plane of life. 61. Witness the ways in which the better self has prevailed. 62. Celebrate 100; it only happens once. 63. Connect with students from different classes with whom you attended high school. 64. See teachers who helped mold me. 65. See how far Hawken has come and where the School is going in the future. 66. Congratulate Coaches Cliff Walton and Jerry Holtrey on their induction into the Hawken Athletic Hall of Fame. 67. Be surrounded by the loyal and supportive Hawken community. 68. Proudly support Hawken School. 69. See the 100 pieces of art created by current students at the Party of the Century! 70. Laugh with colleagues. 71. Eat cake! (We are having cake, right?) 72. See The Holtrey Swimming Hall. 73. Be proud of our awesome school . 74. See what masterpieces Denise Buckley is creating these days. 75. Relive great moments from the Party of the Century the morning after at the Lyndhurst campus at the pancake breakfast. 76. Eat at the White House. Gorge on crispitos. 77. See all of the cool Hawken memorabilia at the Party of the Century. 78. Become immersed in history, friends and faculty. 79. Be part of a milestone event. 80. Learn about the simply amazing and compelling story of Hawken’s first 100 years. 81. Relive Lower School memories with Pat Hosmer. 82. Join the Super Bowl of Hawken parties...it’s not the same if you hear about it from others or watch a video two years later. 83. Seriously, what could be more fun than this weekend?! 84. Reconnect with Hawken teachers, our quiet heroes for over 10 decades; it would mean the world to them. 85. Hear the pioneers of the Hawken “garage” bands from 1964-1968 who have agreed to come back and play nostalgic songs from the 60’s and later. They’re still going strong...are you? 86. Honor Mr. Hawken, who respectfully requests the pleasure of your company on May 16th, 2015. 87. See who can still do 100 “Holtrey specials” from the bench. 88. Try to figure out the new block class schedule at the Upper School. 89. Return those old library books you forgot to bring back years ago. 90. Put on white gloves and examine 100 year old artifacts! 91. Photo bomb Jeff Biggar’s pictures. You know he’ll bring his camera and he’s not afraid to use it. 92. Allow yourself to be moved. Hawken’s history and future trajectory are that powerful. 93. See one of the actual “Woodies” once used to transport Hawken students. 94. Ask Bob Timoteo about the early days of wrestling at Gates Mills. 95. Get inspired in the company of people of great character and intellect. 96. Watch people; it doesn’t get any better than this. 97. Know that with a name like “Party of the Century,” there’s not a single excuse to miss it! 98. Attend the 4-School alumni party at the Lyndhurst campus Friday night. 99. See how many classmates you actually recognize after all these years. 100. It’s now or never for the Party of the Century; you can’t wait another 100…. 3

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May 16, 2015 â&#x20AC;˘ Cleveland Convention Center In appreciation and acknowledgement of the impact that Hawken faculty and staff have made on the lives of so many students, we are inviting them to the Party of the Century as our guests. Therefore, a percentage of sponsorship dollars, premium and platinum tickets will go toward underwriting the attendance of those who have been the heart and soul of this school for so many years. Furthermore, in celebration of our Centennial, Hawken is undertaking several initiatives to preserve our rich history. These include an extensive archive project, acquisition and preservation of memorabilia, development of decade displays, publication of a commemorative coffee table book, and plans for housing and exhibiting our historical stories and artifacts for future generations. A portion of your sponsorship dollars will help fund these efforts as well. Thank you for your support of our faculty and preservation efforts, and for ensuring the success of this wonderful celebration!

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Ten event tickets at reserved table with name featured on table sign Ten tickets to the VIP reception (one hour before the doors open) Roundtrip car service for you and your party or complimentary valet parking Five copies of the Hawken 100 commemorative coffee table book Full page advertisement in the printed and electronic event programs Premier name recognition at the Party Four invitations to an exclusive Sneak Preview cocktail reception hosted by Stacie and Jeffrey Halpern â&#x20AC;&#x201C; April 2015 Donor acknowledgement in Hawken Annual Report 4

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LYNDHURST $10,000 ($8,250 tax deductible) Leadership Package Includes

Ten event tickets at reserved table with name featured on table sign Ten tickets to the VIP reception (one hour before the doors open) Roundtrip car service for you and your party or complimentary valet parking Five copies of the Hawken 100 commemorative coffee table book Full page ad in the printed and electronic programs Name recognition at the Party Two invitations to an exclusive Sneak Preview reception hosted by Stacie and Jeffrey Halpern â&#x20AC;&#x201C; April 2015 Donor acknowledgement in Hawken Annual Report

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($3,250 tax deductible) Package Includes Ten event tickets at reserved table with name featured on table sign Ten tickets to the VIP reception (one hour before the doors open) Complimentary valet parking Five copies of the Hawken 100 commemorative coffee table book Half page ad in the printed and electronic programs Name recognition at the Party Two invitations to exclusive Sneak Preview reception hosted by Stacie and Jeffrey Halpern â&#x20AC;&#x201C; April 2015 Donor acknowledgement in Hawken Annual Report

UNIVERSITY CIRCLE $2,500

($1,800 tax deductible) Package Includes Four event tickets at reserved table with name featured on table sign Four tickets to the VIP reception (one hour before the doors open) Complimentary valet parking Two copies of the Hawken 100 commemorative coffee table book Half page ad in the printed and electronic programs Name recognition at the Party Donor acknowledgement in Hawken Annual Report

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Centennial Celebration Weekend Overview May 15-17: The Grand Finale Hawken’s Party of the Century is the gem in a weekend of Centennial activities celebrating our first 100 years. Join alumni from all over the country, current and former faculty, administrators, and families for this once in a lifetime celebration May 15-17. Friday, May 15 Gates Mills, Lyndhurst, Cleveland • Alumni Give Back Day featuring classes taught by guest alumni at Gates Mills • Official Opening of Gallery 100 Art Exhibit featuring George Roby Award Winners and Senior Art Show in the AC Lobby • 50th Reunion Luncheon at the White House • 4-School Alumni Reception hosted at Lyndhurst • Individual Class Reunions around town Saturday, May 16 Gates Mills • Special Gates Mills campus tours and State of School address • Hawken alumni fair with select faculty • All school picnic • Hawken sports events showcased

• Alumni Battle Ball tournament in the gym • Gallery 100 Art Exhibit continues Cleveland Convention Center Hawken’s Party of the Century!

• Cocktails, Dinner, Dancing, and Special Program • Entertainment by world-class performers, Starlight Orchestra, and Hawken’s own Naughts, Nomads, and Fat City Summer Sausage

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Official launch of Hawken 100 commemorative coffee table book Complete showing of Hawken’s 100 Years of History decade displays White glove memorabilia showcase with Hawken student curators Student art show and music highlights

Sunday, May 17 Lyndhurst

• Pancake Breakfast with special guest chefs • Lower School music and art showcase • Tour Bolton, Lincoln & Hurwitz Halls, the Nido, and the Chapel for a final farewell of this historic weekend

Monday, May 18

• School closed for a day of rest and recovery!

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The Centennial Annual Fund

Celebrating Community Thank You for 100 Years of Support Hawken’s alumni participation is over 6 percentage points higher than our peers- a strong vote of confidence in our School.

Six percent of each Annual Fund gift is allocated to physical plant operations.

The Alumni Board reached 100% participation by Centennial Kick-Off Weekend on October 10!

Last year, Hawken raised $1,436,814 for our School. Thank you!

2014-2015 Annual Fund Goal: $1,500,000

Your Annual Fund Support Matters!

Young Alumni giving is important. Last year’s senior class made $5 pledges for each of their college years!

A majority of the Annual Fund (58%) supports the salaries and benefits for today’s talented faculty.

Each year, the Annual Fund supplies over $280,000 towards financial aid resources, helping make Hawken a leader in Ohio for K-12 independent schools.

James A. Hawken Society : Bolton Hall $25,000 + Ireland Hall $10,000 – $24,999 Lincoln Hall $5,000 – $9,999 White House $2,500 – $4,999 Other Giving Levels: 1915 Associates $1,000 – $2,499 Chapel Associates $500 – $999 Red & Gray Associates $250 – $499 Young Alumni Society: (alumni from the last 15 years) Fair Play Club $200 – $249 AffNo Club $100 – $199 Hawk Club $50 – $99 www.hawken.edu/givenow 7

Hawken Centennial From the Desk of D. Scott Looney A century of Hawken. That is, without question, something to celebrate. The summer issue of the Review featured an expose about my most deeply-rooted beliefs about education and about Hawken, entitled “The Future for Education: Why Hawken Has to Lead. “I hope you have had a chance to read it, and I continue to welcome your feedback. I came to Hawken in 2006 primarily because I am extremely hopeful about the future of education. Not just any education, but the kind of education that can be delivered only in a special kind of environment. I found Hawken to be just that rare place, a place with the right history and right potential. Of course I was not the first to discover this about our school. Hawken was founded to be an alternative to other schools, a place where teachers were encouraged to be creative and to experiment, so long as they put first and foremost their “obligation to the pupil to reach certain goals in the teaching process.” Throughout the last century, Hawken has been committed to research, innovation, reflection, questioning, evaluating, and taking chances. Some of Hawken’s original teachers left the comfort of secure positions in well-established schools to follow their gut, which was telling them that a very special sort of school was being formed. And they were right. No doubt there have been members of our community who have, in more recent years, reached beyond their comfort zones as new initiatives have been introduced: new programming, new buildings, new schedules, new approaches. Those who have embraced them understand that without some element of risk, progress is not possible. And they recognize that every initiative has been developed with one goal in mind: to move our program back to the “whole child” orientation that Mr. Hawken and the founders of Hawken School originally envisioned. There is still more work to be done, but we are forging a path to our future by putting the right programs and infra-structure in place, which will ironically connect us more authentically with our founder’s original intentions. Soon after my arrival on Hawken’s campus, I emphasized to our community that Hawken’s essence must not be taken for granted. Throughout the decades we have done better at some times than at others in remaining true to our original principles. There will always be forces – like state-mandated standardization, for example – that could potentially threaten our mission and our future. So it is essential that we remain vigilant and focused on our Purpose, Promises, and Principles. Only then can we ensure that our students continue to develop what the National Association of Independent Schools has identified as “the essential capacities for 21st century schools” – which, incidentally, resonate remarkably well with those underscored by our school’s founder a century ago. It is my hope that in recent months you have come to better understand and appreciate the many reasons we have to celebrate Hawken’s rich past. This issue of the Review offers further insights into Hawken’s past by highlighting selected treasures from Hawken’s archives along with an excerpt from our book about Hawken’s history, currently under production by Shock Design Company in Atlanta and to be presented at the Party of the Century in May. As you read through these pages and learn more about Hawken’s history, you will come to realize how important the resources of time, space, money, and people are in defining a school’s greatness – and how so many dedicated people, in particular, have enabled Hawken to survive and thrive during critical moments in our school’s and our nation’s history. Seventy-five years ago as Hawken was celebrating its 25th anniversary, James A. Hawken wrote a letter from his home in California to his former colleagues in Northeast Ohio that reads, in part: Dear Fannie, Mac, Mort, and Steve and you other Pioneers, It doesn’t seem possible that 25 years have passed since your daring act of faith in joining me. I can’t be with you at the ceremony on Sunday,… but remember you have kept the faith… and I hope they all make a fuss over you.” My love to all of you, Jim Hawken Now it is time to celebrate Hawken’s first 100 years, and as we do, I hope each of you will take time to honor all of the pioneers throughout the decades who have “kept the faith” in an approach to education that placed the highest value on character, intellect, fair play, the individual, and “a higher plane of life.” We owe them, as we do our current pioneers and benefactors, a deep debt of gratitude. There is indeed a lot to celebrate, and we intend to make a bit of a fuss. I hope you will join us, and that you will never take any of it for granted. 88

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2014-2015 Hawken School Board of Trustees

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Officers Charles P. Cooley, Chair Paul N. Harris, Vice Chair Daniel B. Hurwitz, Vice Chair Alan D. Rosskamm, Vice Chair Richard T. Marabito, Treasurer Janice W. Hawwa, Secretary Trustees Himanshu S. Amin Barbara Byrd-Bennett Tamara Durn Doody ’85 Richard H. Fearon Lauren Generette Floyd Hiroyuki Fujita Samuel P. Gerace Dan F. Grajzl Andrew S. Greiff Jennifer S. Grossman Blair K. Haas ’72 Stacie L. Halpern G. Russell Lincoln ’64 James “Deej” Lincoln ’91 Julie P. Mangini Steven M. Ross ’84 Ann T. Seabright Sonni K. Senkfor Debra Adams Simmons Lauren B. Spilman Anthoni Visconsi II ’71 Dominic A. Visconsi, Jr. ’77 Life Trustees Jeffrey M. Biggar ’68 Charles P. Bolton ’57 David A. Daberko Whitney Evans ’51 Leigh L. Fabens Sally L. Gries K.P. Horsburgh, Jr. ’65 Ralph T. King William C. McCoy, Jr. ’38 John Sherwin, Jr. ’53 Howard F. Stirn Visiting Committee of the Board of Trustees Jeffrey M. Biggar ’68, Chair Donald R. Allman ’70 Mary E. Amor ’83 Robert J. Anslow ’77 Laura Rosenfeld Barnes ’84 Todd A. Barrett ’83 Scott M. Beatty ’77 Kathleen Bole ’77 Dr. William E. Bruner II ’67 Dennis P. Fisco ’73 Timothy M. George ’70 Matthew R. Glass ’77 Dr. Todd R. W. Horn ’73 Peter A. Horvitz ’72 Charles N. Jordan, Jr. ’65 Henri Pell Junod, Jr. ’59 Roberta A. Kaplan ’84 William J. Lewis ’86 P. Jeffrey Lucier David A. McCreery ’81 David A. Powar ’84 Rodger S. Rickard Paul C. Shiverick ’71 Jonathan M. Silver ’75 Carl E. Smith ’74 Bradley A. Stirn ’68 S. Tucker Taft ’70 F. Jerome Tone ’73 School Community Representatives Lisa Bercu Levine ’85 Alumni Association President Shani Spiegle Parents’ Association President

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Head of School D. Scott Looney

Fea ture

Executive Assistant to the Head of School Emily R. Morton

Commemorating Hawken’s 100th Anniversary

Things Worth Remembering

HawkFest Weekend

Advancement Department Assistant Head of School for Advancement Stephanie A. Tolleson Director of Constituent Relations and Events Eleanor Hitchcock Anderson ’79 Database Manager Robin L. Baringer Director of Special Gifts Jeffrey M. Biggar, ‘68 Donor Relations Manager Lisa M. Brenner Assistant to the Directors of Advancement and Marketing Susan M. Daunch Director of Development & Campaign Coordinator Kathleen Z. Guzzi Director of the Annual Fund Andrea Hocevar ‘01 Administrative Assistant Liz Steward

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From the Desk of D. Scott Looney

From the Chapel to the White House

Latest Developments

From the Alumni Center

Faculty Footnotes

Class Notes

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In Memoriam

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Director of Alumni Engagement Mathew C. Young ‘83 Marketing Department Director of Strategic Marketing Gina Zeman Walter Electronic Communications Director Laura Lewis Kovac Editorial Director Lisa A. Lentz Graphic Designer Casey L. Zulandt Graphic Design Intern Sam M. Clyde ’10 Photography Jeffrey M. Biggar ‘68 Andrea Hocevar ‘01 Billy Howard Laura Lewis Kovac Kevin Reeves Michael R. Weil ‘85

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100 Anniversary th

When Hawken School celebrated its 75th anniversary, a group of dedicated volunteers created The Hawken Book, a detailed text documenting the School’s founding. To commemorate our 100th anniversary, we again turn to print with an illustrated book that captures the heart, soul, mind, and spirit of Hawken’s rich history from over a century ago to the present day.

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F R O M T H E A u T H O R S

t the beginning of 2014, we embarked on a journey that took us back in time one hundred years to a small house on Ansel Road in Cleveland, Ohio, where a young James A. Hawken and a small group of dedicated teachers opened a new school for boys. It would be unlike almost any other school in America, focusing on character, with a two word motto that was so powerful it has been instilled into successive generations of Hawken students and survives still as the School enters its second century: Fair Play. During a year of research we have explored this man and his school and found within both, inspiration for our work. Vision without resources is a dreamer’s world, and we were fascinated by both Henry Sheffield – James A. Hawken’s supporter throughout his life – and generation after generation of Cleveland’s most beloved families who supported by faith and finance, Hawken School. We explored them all, from past to present and found, beyond the boiler plate messaging that blends from school to school offering platitudes of excellence, a beating heart, which has survived wars, the Depression, recessions, the civil rights movement, and not to be underestimated, the counter cultural revolution of the 60s and 70s. Topping it off, this institution founded for the education and betterment of Cleveland boys even survived girls when in 1973 it admitted its first of the gender into Kindergarten, followed the next year by pioneering girls in Hawken’s Upper School, forever changing the School’s social dynamics. Not to put too light an emphasis on it, we have fallen in love with Hawken. Under Scott Looney’s leadership, the School has embraced its past in a forward-focused assault on conventional wisdom, returning to a model where “all reverence was due” the student and character trumps testing, preparing students not so much for college as for life. From experiential learning to senior projects, from service learning to outdoor leadership, students learn to embrace the world, acquiring empathy at the same time they cram for calculus. We have been moved by their stories and found that each word spoken was done so with intent, and beyond words, we have seen the mission of the School actively pursued by classroom teachers intent on honoring each individual child. Theater students cheered as much as athletes, and sometimes they are the same person. Hawken is a school where failure is accepted so long as it is in search of a greater method, a better truth, and deeper understanding. We have traveled the world documenting independent schools, colleges and universities. Hawken stands as a shining light, a model for what education once meant and should be again. Beyond memorization and the pressure of constant testing lies a space where true learning takes place. It is a collaborative effort and Hawken is a great partner in the endeavor. And it is still, like it was at the beginning, unlike almost any other school in the country. Thank you all for letting us be a part of your community, to witness the teachers, students, administrators, and staff who have come together over the past hundred years to keep the flame of James A. Hawken’s dream alive. Billy Howard and Laurie Shock

Cows in The Outfield By Billy Howard

here are moments in time that help us define who we are. Our response to times of crisis can be rote memorization of procedures, like fire fighters who counterintuitively rush into danger, having trained to overcome instinct with duty. But what of the citizen who chooses the same path? That is where heroism is discovered. This is the story of such a moment at Hawken, the peril students rushed to extinguish and, despite their efforts, the profound loss they felt when they failed. “April 13, 1977, the day that the barn burned down. We were all excited that there was some action on campus, and that class was momentarily halted…until the realization hit that it was something far more serious than a fleeting distraction. And moments later, I watched Hawken School come to action, with students doing anything and everything to help out. I remember a bunch of us running out to the woods to stamp out the brush fires. I also remember the intense heat! We sadly lost the barn that day, but I was left with a profound sense of the true community of Hawken!” Carolyn Bell Geldermann ’79

Tragedy and loss can bring a community together in ways not dissimilar to triumph, but perhaps more intimately and profoundly. The fire that destroyed the Hawken barn, a historical touchstone to the land Hawken’s Upper School was built on and a visual landmark dominating the entrance to the school, devastated the Hawken community and the heartfelt responses shared a voice of collective sorrow. From such moments, the spirit of a place defines itself and Affirmative No editor Bayard Brewin ’77 captured the essence of loss, and the depth of Hawken’s spirit, in his April 22, 1977 editorial, “Loss of a Friend.” “As I write these words, one of Hawken’s most treasured landmarks, and a symbol of the School’s community and social attitudes, lies in ash and smouldering gutted ruin,” he begins. The barn was “carried away on a strong spring breeze, only to be scattered over the Geauga countryside,” he wrote and then: “It is like a huge space has been stolen from the sky and only an empty void remains, sucking in the air around

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it.” Brewin watched as the fire slowly built and then “almost with vengeance, spurts of bloody flame fountain upward onto the roof, enveloping the eaves, washing slowly up the sides of the roof. It’s a blanket now, a glowing, heaving mass of fire, dripping off the roof and onto the sides, leaking and running over all it touches.” Leaving no doubt as to its fate: “The end was borne away by smoke and wind, settling far from its home. The barn has died, and no one could have stopped its final throes from leading to ultimate mortality.” Within the walls of a building, mortality resides and with it, death, inspiring Brewin to a more practical response: “Maybe at times like this we should take stock of all the things we cherish most and reaffirm our love and need for them while they are still able to receive our thanks.” With hints of Homer and the elegance of poetry, Brewin both mourned loss and challenged the community to live deeper, more empathetic lives. Prior to the great fire, the barn had been home to a unique program that was, at the time, the essence of Hawken’s spirit of

hands on learning, the Animal Husbandry Course. Students enrolling in the program were immersed in feeding, caring, and marketing feedlot beef cattle. It was a big commitment involving the lives of animals and once a student signed up for the course, they were not permitted to drop it at any time during the year. The course description in the 1973 school year catalog said it would “nurture the initiative and responsibility of each student involved.” Students would be responsible for feeding and watering the cattle twice a day, seven days a week, from the beginning to the end of the school year, including weekends and vacations. They would work with veterinarians as well as perform the more mundane tasks of caring for the animals. One such task would challenge the commitment of any student pondering the course: shoveling manure. In addition to an interest in the class, students would also have to provide proof of a recent tetanus shot. The Animal Husbandry Course began at the suggestion of students, and thirteen boys, six Black Angus cattle, and an Australian cattle dog named Minoy joined Charles Marsee, the head of the Upper School Science Department, in an experiment that merged both practical and theoretical education. Students would do “the hard and dirty work” of farming, according to Marsee, and be put into a real life situation, developing responsibility and decision-making skills: “Questions such as: When to feed? How much to feed? When to breed? When to sell? When to call the vet? And when to ask for help? are crucial.” Though the fire was the death knell for the barn, both the program and the cows continued into the following year until they finally met a match much hotter than flames: the consternation of then Upper School Director Ron Robinson.

After the fire, students campaigned to retain their hard won program and sprang to its defense in a letter to Headmaster Stenberg. They had already repaired fences, created a storage area, built a chute for vaccinations, and claimed: “Animal Husbandry seems to bring a sparkle to the eyes of many students.” Robinson would have none of it and in his memo to Stenberg refuted the bucolic pastiche the students had painted in their letter. Robinson noted that the animals had been sold and there were no faculty to teach the course and cited “the non-feeding of animals during vacation periods, the constant breakouts with faculty doing the chasing, and the continued damage to peripheral areas” all as reasons to discontinue the program. The ultimate indignity, he noted, was the softball team shoveling manure from the diamond before they could start its season. The bases were loaded, in other words, before anyone even got to bat. Robinson concluded: “We have no course, no cows, no teachers, insufficient control of the animals, and the need for higher investment of resources than the School can commit.” And thus, the cows were left to pasture on other, more distant fields, none of which involved a bat, ball, or bases to be run.

Bearing Witness By Billy Howard

Understanding a point in time in the life of a school requires a journey through history – of the school, the community and the people. Part of that history is the story of moments that stood out, glory on athletic fields, shifts in academic approaches, changing administrations, and successes in fund raising and the new buildings and programs that resulted. But an equally important part of that history are the memories of those who lived through them, the smallest moments, insignificant perhaps on a grand scale. But taken en masse, they describe as much as anything the heart of a school.

Dr. Scott R. Inkley ’36 “Fair Play is how you pattern your life and that you have an innate knowledge of what is right and wrong, and choose to do right.” That heart beats inside Scott Inkley ’36, the third oldest living alumnus as of this writing. His life is a tribute to James Hawken’s original vision and leaves a trail through a lifetime of achievement and service back into a classroom in the newly opened school building in Lyndhurst. Entering the third grade there was a new teacher, David Russell, and Inkley says the students “gave him a hard time, as kids would do. But he was a fine person.” At the end of the year, Russell gave each student a book, which he said would foretell his destiny. He gave young Scott a book on science. Looking back on his younger self, Inkley, who went on to a distinguished career in medicine, marveled at the prescience of a teacher who was simply following Hawken’s charge to know his students as individuals. But what Inkley credits with really opening up his life was Carl Holmes’ Friday morning electives. “You could choose music or a variety of different topics, and you spent Friday morning pursuing the ideas of whatever the topic was. And the topic that I chose was natural history.” His interest blossomed, and he told his teacher, Pat Bole, whose mother Roberta was one of the original supporters of the school. Bole was also the head of Mammalogy at the Museum of Natural History and asked Scott if he wanted a job. “I was twelve years old.” “My first job was getting a road kill opossum, which I think was sort of a test of my interest.” He proved his interest, and is still there as the longest serving trustee of the institution. “It had a major impact on my life; I can look back and see opportunities

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that presented themselves at Hawken and opened a whole life for me. That was Carl Holmes’s willingness to do something different, and life is full of opportunity if you seize it.” Inkley received a scholarship to Harvard, began a distinguished career in medicine, rising to become president of the University Hospitals of Cleveland, seizing every opportunity along the way, and tracing it all back to Hawken. And it started, he said, with a road-kill opossum. “It was a stairway; I had an opportunity.” Years later, Inkley would visit that third grade teacher whom the kids had made fun of as he was living his final years in a nursing home. A lifetime earlier the teacher made a prediction through the gift of a book, and his visitor was living proof that he had done as Hawken asked and truly known the child.

Jonathan L. “Jock” Collens ’31 “Fair Play in integrity.” Jock Collens has the distinction of being the second oldest living alumnus of Hawken School, sharing a birth year, and a centennial, with the school. Hawken himself arranged for Jock to have a scholarship so he could join his older brother Clarence ’28 who was already attending. Character cards written over eighty years ago remarkably captured the spirit that defined Jock throughout his life, leaving no doubt that James Hawken’s directive to know the individual child was taken not only with seriousness but also with skill. Clifford Bragdon, in describing his young charge, notes in 1931: “It is very difficult for me to tell whether or not Jock is a boy of great drive. His attitude, demeanor in class is deceptive. He frequently slouches and apparently dozes, and yet if he is asked a question, he shows that he has been paying attention

– and not only merely listening, but cogitating. “ Leaving Hawken for Shaker Heights High School after tenth grade, Collens was daydreaming in class when the teacher walked up beside his desk and abruptly asked him a question. “I woke up to the fact that the whole room was quiet, and I looked up and I gave the answer and the whole class burst out in applause.” This, he said, “was one of the great triumphs of my life.” Charles Stephens, in writing to Jock’s parents, made the interesting observation that Jock “was not a leader of his class, but they didn’t do anything unless he agrees.” A further revelation in Bragdon’s report notes that Jock possessed genuine interest, but not for the benefit of those in authority, leading his teacher to remark that he was “a much more profound thinker and feeler than he gives the impression of being.” A few years later as a student at Yale, Collens proved this lack of interest in impressing those in authority. He had a physics exam with five questions. He knew he needed a 60 to pass the course, sat down, answered the first three questions and left the room, confident of his knowledge and knowing it was all he needed to pass. Latin teacher John McCarthy found Collens “an interesting study,” concluding: “He is certainly not bottled lightning, but there is within – I now know – a very definite and finely wrought mechanism which like the hair-spring of a watch vibrates and trembles.” Teachers noticed the satisfaction he had when working with his hands at crafts or something as simple as the act of writing, a trait he carried and refined, single-handedly building a log cabin in his 80s. When asked how he did it, he replied: “You do that by cutting down one tree at a time.” Demurring that he was a lousy student, he says, “Somehow or other I have a B.S. from Yale and an LL.B from Harvard.” He began his career at the historic Sullivan & Cromwell law firm, where he met one of the senior partners, John Foster Dulles, a future secretary of state during the Eisenhower administration. World War II interrupted his career, and his service is chronicled in a feature article in

the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Brian Albrecht writes that Collens was perhaps “one of the most laidback, laconic and unflappable veterans to come out of that war.” He enlisted in the army, went through officer’s training, and boarded the Queen Mary, newly re-assigned as a troop ship. As a forward observer in France he was shot through the thigh by a German sniper. He “shrugs it off, saying he’s felt more pain from smashing his thumb with a hammer.” He returned and worked with Reliance Electric & Engineering Co. His father Clarence Sr. had been one of the company’s original founders and warned Jock against working for him, but his Yale advisors told him that was where the best jobs were, so he defied his father, retiring as a vice president after a thirty-five-year career. A character card in 1928 by Ross MacMahon sums it up this way: “Jock is a safe-anchor in a storm, a beacon in the night, an oasis in the desert. There is something tremendous about Jock. Jock has a mental and physical gait that is entirely his: it reminds one somewhat of the progress of a steamroller. In the thing that we call personality – the strength of the warp and woof of the texture – Jock ranks one hundred percent.”

Franklyn Judson ’31 “Fair Play is a statement of overall living with other people and what you do in life. It’s the one thing that has stuck with me for almost 100 years!” Franklyn Judson, the oldest living alumnus, joined his older brother Calvin at Hawken in 1924. His brother graduated in 1931, the last senior class before the school dropped junior and senior years as a cost cutting measure during the Depression, and sending Franklyn back to public school. Calvin was an outstanding athlete, according to Judson, an assessment backed up by accolades in the Red and Gray Book of 1931: Beneath a portrait not unlike a movie star promotional photo, his entry states that “it’s too bad this picture does not disclose the charming length of this gentleman; for indeed, the grace with which he controls his lengthy anatomy is one of his characteristics. ‘Cal’ could outrun Mercury, winged sandals and all – if he could find Mercury,” the annual gushed. “His swiftness combined with an artful sidestepping ability and mixed with a little luck, brought him into prominence as a basketball player,” it continued, its greatest reverence saved for baseball: “And does Cal hurl a mean ball? He can sizzle a speedy sphere over the plate that would make Babe Ruth shy.” Hyperbole kept at a maximum, of Cal it says, “He jumps like a pole-vaulter; but he doesn’t bother about the pole.” Perennially seconds late for class, he confessed that if he started earlier, he could get to school earlier, but that he could not start earlier. Calvin’s shadow loomed large over Franklyn, who claims to be “all the opposite things” of what his brother was. A bench warmer in athletics, when he was called to the plate during a baseball game because another student didn’t show up, he

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promptly knocked a foul ball through the window of the School, which happened to be behind him. He was, however, big for his age, and despite a lack of natural athletic skill, other students did not bully him, because, in his words, “they all honored size over brains!” He championed another new student who did become the focus of bullies, defending him, and then befriending him – Fair Play in action. He remembers being shocked to read a character card where Mr. Smeed expressed a high regard for his character, saying he was very sensitive and aware of things that kids his age weren’t aware of. Hawken prepared Judson for life, Judson said, making no claims to excelling during his time there, but discovering the benefits when he left for public school where “they all thought I was a genius!”’ It wouldn’t be the last time that adjective was used. After attending law school, he applied to the Securities and Exchange Commission. In recommending him for the post, the Law School Dean wrote a letter – with the word genius, again attached. A successful career with the SEC and then with a private company, which he took public, and winning a case before a federal judge were all part of a life, the preparation for which began at Hawken. The Depression hit the family hard, and it was decided only one brother would go to college. Franklyn spoke up. The bench warmer who had toiled in his brother’s shadow had gained a confidence, instilled by the encouragement of teachers and the preparation of a school where he became known not as the brother of a star athlete, but as Franklyn Judson: Genius. “I have so many memories of classes there where I was struggling to get through, and wondering if I’d ever make it, but I always did. And I always had a couple of friends among the faculty like Smeed who urged me to get on with what I was doing. Everything fell into place. I survived!”

ABOuT THE AuTHORS Laurie Shock

Billy Howard

President of Shock Design Books, Laurie Shock has designed over two hundred books, including A Century of Women and Isaac Asimov’s Library of the Universe. Her client and publisher collaboration list includes the American Cancer Society, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, The Carter Center, Zurich International School, Agnes Scott College, Discovery Books, and Oglethorpe University Museum of Art. Two of her fine art photography books were published accompanying exhibits at The High Museum of Art in Atlanta, and many of the books she has designed and produced have been published internationally.

Billy Howard is a commercial and documentary photographer and writer. His book Epitaphs for the Living: Words and Images in the Time of AIDS was the first full-length photography book documenting the AIDS pandemic. His work has been featured on CBS This Morning, Good Morning America, Frontline, and HBO, and has been exhibited in Milan, Italy with Vogue Italia and as part of the Smithsonian Institution’s Summer Folklife Festival. The opening ceremonies to the 1996 Summer Olympic Games featured his images in a tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and his photographs are in the collections of the Library of Congress, the High Museum of Art, the Carter Presidential Center, and the CDC.

In addition, she co-produced the traveling exhibit “Blind/ Sight: Conversations with the Visually Inspired” and has taught publishing workshops for Atlanta Celebrates Photography and at Serenbe Photography Center. Her book How to Publish Your Own Photography Book won a 2013 Gold Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) and two Gold International Book Awards. Her books have also won three Grand Gold CASE District III Awards, a Silver IPPY award, a Benjamin Franklin Gold Award, a Benjamin Franklin Silver Award, and a Bronze CASE Circle of Excellence Award.

Howard was a 2011-2012 Rosalynn Carter Fellow in Mental Health Journalism and serves on the Board of Atlanta Celebrates Photography. He has an honorary Doctor of Literature degree from St. Andrews University in North Carolina.The late actor and activist Christopher Reeve said of his work, “What Howard sees through his lens again and again is the amazing resiliency of the human spirit.”

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Centennial Time Capsule

It’s time for… The Centennial Time Capsule Project! Now that we have captured Hawken’s rich history in its first 100 years, it’s time to look ahead to our School’s next 100 years! What legacy do we want to leave? What artifacts will help tell our present story for future generations of Hawks? Help our AffNo staff collect ideas for items to be included in our Centennial time capsule. Any and all suggestions are welcomed. Please send your submissions to: affno@hawken.edu. 17

his collection of historical objects highlights some of the tangible reminders of Hawken Schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rich

past. Whether the items were discovered in the school archives or donated by friends of Hawken, each piece â&#x20AC;&#x201C; document, trinket, or treasure â&#x20AC;&#x201C; plays a part in a story that deserves to be told, celebrated, and remembered.

Things Worth Top Hat: This top hat, also shown on the cover of this Review, dating back to the early 1900s was presumably used by the ringmaster in the 1930s Hawken Circus productions and was found preserved in the archives in an elegant, custom leather trunk. Rumored to have once belonged to James Hawken, the hat was imported from Knox Fifth Avenue, New York and sold by The Halle Brothers department store in Cleveland.

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Fair Play Sign: According to faculty member Charles Stephens, Hawken’s original “rule book” consisted of only two words: Fair Play. In James A. Hawken’s day, when students violated the rule of Fair Play, the sign was removed from the classroom for a time. Hawken also set up a leadership context, where students would receive a card from both school and home when “he has obeyed promptly and cheerfully and played fair.” Hawken explained, “We are trying to teach the boy that it means little to play fair at the school if he bullies a younger brother or sister at home.” The “Better Self” Sign: Hawken’s original motto was originally articulated by one of Hawken’s mentors, John Lancaster Spaulding, a Catholic priest and founder of The Catholic University of America. In the late teens or early 20s, James Hawken commissioned Hawken art teacher Joseph Motto and Horace Carr of The Printing Press to design and print the Fair Play and the Better Self signs as you see them displayed today.

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Hawken School Enrollment, 1915-1916: The original 19 boys, listed alphabetically, spanned Grade 1 through Grade 4. The families of the original boys who had recruited James Hawken convinced other families to enroll in this new school that promised to provide an education different from any other in Cleveland.

“A Line A Day” Diary: This four-year diary spans 1912 to 1916 and was a gift to Alice Teagle, mother of original Hawken student John Teagle ’25, from her husband John. Mrs. Teagle’s entry for October 4, 1915 reads: “Hawken School started – John went – 16 boys in all – house on Ansel Rd. most attractive.” (It is believed that three additional boys joined soon thereafter to raise the total first-year enrollment to 19.) The diary was donated to Hawken by Robin Clements ’57, Alice Teagle’s grandson.

An Examination of Conscience: James Hawken prepared this booklet in 1916 for Hawken teachers, articulating his philosophy and approach to education and outlining expectations, duties, and responsibilities. Underscoring his strong belief that “the school exists for the boy,” Hawken presented a series of questions teachers were encouraged to consider with regard to their profession and their teaching methods. One such question reads, “Many hours of a boy’s priceless time are wasted by careless teaching. Do you waste the boys’ time? See to it that every minute in the school counts.”

James A. Hawken’s Watch: This watch is inscribed on the back: “JAH – 1920 - Lake George.” It was a gift to James Hawken from The Paulist Fathers, whom he met while studying to become a priest. The Paulist order, founded in 1858 and considered a very modernist and progressive Catholic order, gathered at their Lake George retreat center during the summers. James Hawken maintained ties with them – William Laurence Sullivan, in particular – even after he decided not to pursue the priesthood.

James A. Hawken’s Desk: This desk was given to the school by James Hawken Smeed ’43, Mr. Hawken’s great nephew and namesake. James Hawken was Mortimer Smeed’s uncle and therefore great uncle to Mr. Smeed’s son, James Hawken Smeed. The younger Mr. Smeed, who currently resides in Lyndhurst, shared with current Head of School Scott Looney that the desk had been his uncle Jim’s secretary. That secretary desk currently resides in the Head of School’s office on the Lyndhurst campus.

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1916-1917 School Bulletin: This bulletin identifies Hawken School’s original “raison d’etre” and guiding principles, daily schedule, rules, and other information that James A. Hawken deemed important and relevant. Included at the end of the booklet are quotations that convey and elucidate Hawken’s philosophy of and approach to education. One reads, “In the primary stage, up to the age of fourteen, the leading idea should be nutrition of feeling. Help the child to hear, to see and feel; to wonder, admire, and revere; to believe, hope, and love.” And another: “The work of education consists chiefly and essentially in training the pupil to behavior: not in the narrow sense of his manners, but in the very widest possible sense, including every sort of fit reaction on the circumstances into which he may find himself brought by the vicissitudes of life.”

1918 Christmas Party: Christmas was a special time in Hawken’s early years, as indicated by this Christmas Party program from 1918, which features 33 student performances including songs and readings. In 1919, a memo went home to the parents that read, “Mr. Hawken regrets that he cannot invite parents to join the boys and teachers at their Christmas celebration this year. It is his wish to make thee Christmas celebration at the school a time when the school and home, pupils, teachers and parents meet for the exchange of expressions of good will and cordial cooperation. This year, however, the school building is so limited that the custom of the past years will have to be set aside, but only this year.” The first Christmas Play was held in the barn at Ansel Road that year, and in 1920, it was presented at the Cleveland Playhouse, which was in a renovated church on Cedar Avenue. By 1922, the chapel stage at the Lyndhurst campus provided a permanent, proper venue for both players and audience.

Christmas Card: The boys created this Christmas card, circa 1930, in a small print shop on campus, which was apparently a hub of activity. The school bulletin from that era tells of the boyss making “personal gifts for mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers and teachers; they join a group of classmates who are engaged in making decorations for one of the class rooms; they repair class room furniture when it is necessary; they construct scenery for the e School plays and manufacture the properties which are needed; they paint, they hammer, they saw, they model in clay, they make linoleum and wood cuts for their own personal holiday greeting cards and for the School greeting cards and programs; they print programs and class room magazines; they construct traffic signs for the drives, and hurdles for the track.”

Character Card: James A. Hawken considered the effort to develop character as “the most important work of the teacher.” Teachers were expected to collect data for the character cards daily; these templates provided guidelines for their reports, which highlighted in great detail aspects of each boy’s character and personality. In a letter to a parent, Mrs. F. C. Herrick, dated June 30, 1919, James Hawken wrote, “To me the study of the boy’s character, the work of eliminating bad tendencies dencies and developing the good are the principal workk of Hawken School. In this work I realize that the school is hool is merely the agent of the home and consequentlyy our study of the boy and our work in the development ent of his character will obtain meager results without the sanction and assistance of the home.”

Fannie Luehrs’ Hymnal: Each student and faculty member had his or her initials printed on a personal hymn book used at morning and evening gatherings. The initials were printed in a small print shop on campus called “The Hawken Press.” After James Hawken’s death, Charles Stephens recollected in 1971 that the headmaster “considered the chapel service which he designed important…. He felt it brought the school family together for a quiet moment ‘at ‘ the beginning of this new day.’” Fannie Luehrs joined the t Hawken faculty to teach 1st grade in 1917 to replace tteachers who were called to serve in World War I. Revered aand beloved by all, she remained on the faculty until 1948.

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Lyndhurst Dedication: Hawken’s Lyndhurst campus opened on April 19, 1922 and was dedicated on June 15 of that same year. Sherman Hayden ’24, then a ninth grader and one of Hawken’s original students, gave the acceptance speech at the ceremony, acknowledging to all gathered, “We, the boys of Hawken School, are very happy to accept the great and beautiful gift just presented to us. We are glad to accept these fields in the open country – our playgrounds; where we shall have a baseball diamond, a ffootball field, a cinder track, a skating rink, and tennis courts; this building with its splendid gymnasium, shower baths, auditorium, common room, and class rooms. We greatly enjoy the adjacent woods, where the little fellows play Indians and hunt for hidden treasure; and where we all can find such treasure as pollywogs, birds’ nests, strange insects, and flowers. We appreciate these all the more because of the change from the overcrowded rooms and limited playground space of the old building on Ansel Road.” At the end of his speech, Sheman introduced speaker Dr. W.L. Sullivan, “the man who gave Mr. Hawken the impulse and the inspiration to become a teacher.”

Report of Class Work: Report cards were considered important but secondary to character cards. A catalogue from the 1930s reads, “The School judges a boy on his progress as a whole individual, on his growth in dependability, awareness, responsiveness, on the development of his will to make a conscious effort, to participate, to contribute generously of his energies and abilities.”

Fountain and Pan Statues: Hawken parent Sherman Strong Hayden gave the fountain to the School in 1924. The Red and Gray Book from 1925 described it as “a fine place for fish and turtles brought from the woods and store…. It has turned out to be a great gathering place and at most times during the day, a group of boys and teachers can be found near it.” Hayden commissioned Joseph Motto, one of the original faculty members at Hawken before becoming an internationally recognized sculptor, to create a bronze sculpture for the center of the fountain that was based on his original sculpture of a young boy holding a frog – a piece that was featured in a 2005 retrospective exhibit hosted by the Cleveland Arts Foundation titled Joseph Motto: A Jazz Age Journey from Cleveland to Florence. The statue at the Lyndhurst fountain has long and affectionately been referred to as “Pan.”

H Head Boy Book: The Head Boy from each year was honored by having his portrait b dis displayed sp in this leather-bound lea athe book. The tradition of H Head Boy began in 1923, with Jim Weirr ’24 selected as the first Head Boy. In 1948, Carl Carrl Holm Holmes, concerned that the distinction put put too much pressure on boys at too young youn ng an ag age, made a proposal to discontinue discont onttin the Head Boy tradition. tradition on. Charles Ch Bolton, Bo however, made a compelling argument argum to continue the tradition, which lasted until 1960.

Th Hawken Boy Statue: The Scu Sculpted by art teacher Jos Joseph Motto in 1928, the Hawken Boy statue de depicts the ideal Hawken bo who represents boy, the best of Hawken’s co commitment to “Fair Play” an one’s “better self.” and

Red and Gray 1924: This was the original title of Hawken’s yearbook, first published in 1924. This particular edition was dedicated to “our headmaster, Mr. James A. Hawken.” The Year Book Board wrote an introduction to this first edition, addressed to “students about to be released from the toils of another year,” sharing their hope that “as you peruse the pages of our production your faces may be crossed by a faint smile here, a gleam of interest there, perhaps a feeling of mild surprise in another place.” They also offered thanks to “the boys who have cudgeled their brains to get articles for the Red and Gray Book.”

1924 Calendar: This 1924 calendar was created in the School’s small print shop. The calendar features a photograph and a quotation for each month of the year. David Russell, former Hawken teacher, recalled, “The equipment was a hand press (Chandler and Price Pilot Press, chase about 8” x 10”!) There were several trays of movable type. Often the Lower School boys worked in the pressroom setting type and preparing the make up for the various jobs. The Press printed the Chronicle, the Christmas Programs (often in color), sometime a Christmas calendar, the programs for the circus, and other items.”

1926 Red and Gray Book: This edition of the yearbook is dedicated to Charles Stephens. The dedication reads, “We, the Year Book Board, on behalf of the school dedicate this Third Year Book to Mr. Charles R. Stephens, whose unfailing interest and tireless effort have contributed largely to the success of things in and about the school.” In this book was also an announcement that read, “Mr. Hawken, who returned to America last fall after a year’s absence spent in continental travel, has announced his retirement from active work in the school… The faculty and student body will deeply miss his personal guidance, which has been so important during the past years of our growth…. He leaves the headmastership to Mr. Carney, while he himself will be a member of the advisory board which he has organized to look after the future of the school.”

JAH Farewell Book: This beautifully hand-decorated book was presented to James A. Hawken on June 11, 1926 upon his retirement as headmaster of Hawken School. It was hand “engrossed” by Harold Franklin Smeed and reads, in part, “We feel that now at the end of the eleventh year of the School, it is fitting that we should try to express our loyalty to you and our appreciation of your years of service here, and we thank you for your gift to us of leadership and inspiration. We feel that the Hawken School is a tangible expression of your vision and we confidently believe that through the impulse you have given it will continue throughout many years its effort to contribute to greater Simplicity and Honesty of living, to greater Fairness and Independence of Spirit, and to greater Strength, Richness, and Freedom of Mind.” And in closing: “With every good wish to you we sign this document. Will you please consider it a symbol of our loyalty to you, of our pride in you, and of our affection for you.”

Dance Cards: These dance cards date back to the late 1920s and early 1930s. Hawken held its first dance in 1927; the Red and Gray Book from that year reads: “This year for the first time in the history of the school, dance was given by the boys….The gymnasium was most patriotically decorated with every size and description of flags, hanging from the ceiling an and walls. Curtains were hung beside the windows and all th the lights were turned out except four, which were lowered to a convenient height, and hung with streamers of red, white w and blue paper. One end of the gymnasium was se separated from the rest and arranged with rugs, chairs and couches for relaxing between dances. The orchestra orche played at the other end and the dancing was carried on in between.” Dance cards lost their popularity pop during the 1930s as etiquette practices became bec less rigid. However, phrases such as “My dance da card is full,” “Pencil me in,” and “Save the last dance d for me” remain in use today.

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Articles of Incorporation: Although James A. Hawken resigned as headmaster of Hawken School in 1926, he remained in the role of sole proprietor of the institution until June 19, 1929, when the Hawken School Corporation gained the legal rights to run the school. Those formulating the corporation and articulating the code of regulations included James Hawken, Henry Sheffield, Roberta Bole, Frances Bolton, Robert Vinson, Asa Shiverick, Roslyn Weir, and Sherman Hayden.

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Hawken Haw School Bulletin: This bulletin from 1933, which states that Hawken fro has distinguished itself by having small classes and â&#x20AC;&#x153;the right teachers, â&#x20AC;? includes class a scholarship application. During the a Great Depression, the School adopted Gre a counterintuitive strategy to boost enrollment: increasing scholarships e to attract new full-pay students who would improve enrollment figures and enrich the student body. It worked. In 1932-33, 33 of 75 students received scholarship assistance; by 1937, 39 out of 135 received scholarship assistance.

Victory Cup: This cup was first awarded in 1924 for an annual scholastic-athletic competition between the Red and Gray Societies. Between 1924 and1957, the Reds won 15 times and the Grays won 19 times.

Chronicle Cup: This cup was first awarded in 1930 for the annual rded in 1930 fo f r the annual Field Day Competition between the Vikings and Cyclops. Between kings and Cyclops. Between 1930 and 1960, the Cyclops won 11 times and the Vikings won mes and the Vikings won 20 times. Scott Inkley ‘36 recalls that the idea for Vikings and e idea fo f r Vikings and Cyclops was inspired by pictures drawn n on the basement walls of “Twelvetrees House,” where grades 3-6 were housed in 1929. were housed in 1929.

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Campus Map: This map of the Lyndhurst campus dates back to 1933. It highlights the tennis courts, where the boys also skated in the winter months, a “wet weather playground,” gardens, two baseball fields, a football field, and a running track. Also identified is an area marked “Property of C.C. Bolton,” which was later donated to the School, and “Woods,” now known as Poutasse Woods. The entire Lyndhurst property was a gift from the Bolton family.

Hawken Letters and Ribbons: These framed varsity letters and ribbons date back to the 1930s and reflect the increasing importance and success of athletics at Hawken. Hawken Gold Football: This 10K gold football on a chain belongs to Jonathan “Jock” Collens ‘31. His name is engraved on one side, and “Hawken 1930” is engraved on the other. Jock appears in the photograph of the 1929 football team in the back row, far right. His diary entry from four years earlier reflects his love of football and enthusiasm for the Red and Gray competitions.

Hawken Circus: The Hawken Circus drew crowds from 1931 to 1933 and again in 1935, until an influential trustee deemed the event “noneducational.” Colorful circus programs were created in Hawken’s print shop and typically highlighted ten acts that included a Grand Entry parade, sideshow people, a high wire feature, an equestrian number, an acrobatic act, and clowns. The Plain Dealer devoted an entire page to Hawken’s circus in their June 4, 1933 publication, featuring students’ recreations of some of the best elements of Barnum and Bailey’s show – snake charmer, cowboy, ringmaster, and acrobats.

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Prelude to Fame: A precursor of sorts to the current day Calliope, Prelude to Fame – a title coined by James Greene, who won the naming rights in a competition – is “a collection of the writings of the memberss of the Lower School Authors’ Club of Hawken School, South Euclid, Ohio.” The members of the club dedicated this first edition to Mr. Hayden, advisor to the club. The booklet contains a “Historical Foreword” by James Greene, club president, ent, who tells of the growth of the club since its inception in 1933. “Before you tackle these se marvelous masterpieces,” he wrote, “II think thin nk it best to tell you when, why and how the e Authors’ Club was fo fformed. rmed.”

Announcement of Carl Holmes’ Appointment: Carl Nestor Holmes is to date the longest tenured headmaster of Hawken School. He served from 1932 until 1955 and was beloved by the boys. Pictured here is Holmes with his faculty and staff. Back row L-R: David W. Russell, Elmer P. Sipple, Horace R. Aylard, Hiram C. Haydn II, Charles R. Stephens, A. Ross MacMahon, Robert S. Adams. Front row L-R: John McCarthy, Mrs. Robert S. Adams, Carl N. Holmes, unidentified.

Hawken Summer Schools and Day Camp Announcement and Souvenir Bat: Faculty member Elmer Sipple started the Hawken Day Camp in 1929-1930 to help support the school’s enrollment as well as his family. Looking back, Sipple explained in 1960 that he and faculty member David Russell had both married in 1929, and “our salaries of less than $3000 no longer seemed adequate. The fertilized egg, which was to become the Hawken Day Camp, was laid during that winter. After an unusually short gestation period, the camp was born in June of 1930.” The camp was considered to be “a fine contribution to the summer life of boys in the Cleveland suburbs.” In the late 1930s, the summer program also included Remedial Reading by Miss Benning and tutoring by Mr. Hayden. The signed souvenir bat from an unknown year is inscribed “Hawken Day Camp;” the signature is illegible.

Hawken Father’s Day: Father’s Day began during Carl Holmes’ tenure as part of an effort to promote Haw bonding between fathers and sons. Fathers would take time off from their work day to visit campus bond and join j the boys for chapel, lunch, and a father-son baseball competition. The news articles pictured here feature photographs from the early 1940s. One subtitle announces, “They Tie Boys for Four Innings here Befo Before Tossing in the Towel and Heading for the Liniment Bottle, f fo ” and the text reads, “The program of com competition between fathers and sons began with baseball and continued until the paters wilted.”

Hawken School Application: This application was submitted by George Humphrey ’57. In the early years of the School, there was no formal application process. A school bulletin from 1922 reads, “The school will accept any boy who is physically and mentally normal, who has no radical defects of character, who is amenable to discipline and whose home surroundings are in harmony with the ideals of the school as described in the school’s catalogue. Boys entering grades above the first grade are required to pass an entrance examination. Boys are received in the order of their application.” As the School grew and admissions became more competitive, the application process evolved.

Woodie from the 1940s: Students have been transported to Hawken School via a variety of methods throughout the School’s history. In the Ansel Road years, they walked or were driven by parents, nannies, or chauffeurs. With the arrival of the Lyndhurst campus, students took the interurban, which dropped them off one mile from the school building. When the interurban stopped running, the boys used the Cleveland bus system, which eliminated the long trek to and from the interurban stop. Beginning in the 1930s, students were driven to school in “woodie” station wagons driven by faculty members. This photograph pictures a “woodie” from the 1940s.

Hawken School Service List: In a letter from Mr. Ross MacMahon to the “Old Boys of Hawken” dated September 1, “Mac” explains that he was given the task of compiling “a complete list of all old Hawken boys in the armed forces of their country or its allies. This list,” he continued, “suitably inscribed, is to be given a permanent place in the commons room of the School along with a service record book to contain complete information concerning the war record of each old Hawken boy in the services.” The record of service pictured here dated 1941 provides information about Oliver Payne Bolton, who was stationed in Tennessee as a second lieutenant. The top of the form reads, “The Alumni Association and the School are sharing the expense of this questionnaire and are most anxious to put the information asked for below concerning old Hawken boys. Please don’t put this aside. It will take less than five minutes of your time to fill out and mail.” Currently, at the suggestion of Life Trustee Bill McCoy ’38, plans are underway to fulfill and complete this project to date: The Hawken Veterans Wall Project. Jeff Biggar ’68, also a Life Trustee, assembled a committee of alumni military veterans to plan how this concept can become a reality.

Memorial M i lS Service i P Program: On October 27, 1946, Hawken O O School held a memorial service to honor and remember Hawken alumni who were killed in World War II. Below the list of names in the program are the well-remembered words, “That the better self shall prevail and each generation shall introduce its successor to a higher plane of life.” The service included excerpts from the Gettysburg address, Shakespeare’s Henry V (Saint Crispin’s Day speech), the Bible, and poems by Shelley, Wordsworth, and T.S. Eliot.

The War Memorial Plaque that hangs in the Lyndhurst Chapel displays the photographs and names of the veterans and reads, “In memory of the Hawken boys who gave their lives in the Service of their country in World War II, 1939-1945.

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Commencement and Dedication of the Pews, 1952: The 1952 Commencement featured the dedication of the new chapel pews. Donated by the families of the Hawken boys who lost their lives in World War II, the new pews provided two sections of pews with a center aisle, whereas before there was only one. The program indicates that in addition to Commencement, there was a Lower School chapel service that included the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Passing of Classes,â&#x20AC;? book prizes, readings, prayers, and hymns.

Viking Ship: This ship was made by John B. Calfee, Jr. ’60 in 1952 in Charlie Poutasse’s woodshop class. A school catalogue from the 1930s identifies “the shop and the studio” as “two large and important rooms in the School that are centers of a ceaseless activity…. It is in these rooms that the boys develop their hobbies, that they learn the joy of constructing or creating for others as well as for themselves.”

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The Lower School Chronicle: The first issue of the Lower School Chronicle was published in March of 1930. David Russell recalled that it was originally “handset in type and printed on a hand press on colored poster paper.” He went on to recall the fun they had producing it: “When the upper school football team or baseball team would play off campus – usually Western Reserve Academy, the Chronicle reporter would be on the phone, print the headlines and the score and have the paper out when the team came home, especially if Ha Hawken was the winner…. Mort Smeed and I would often oft f en help the kids set the type…. There were messes and mixups, of course, ft like like any newspaper office!” The issue of the Lower School Chronicle any newspaper office!”The issue from 1952 1952 pictured here highlights a cartoon by Harvey pictured here hi Weir depic depicting Mr. Smeed falling into the fountain with the caption “Mr. Smeed’s Famous Last Words, “Hurry up, Chapel.” The accompanying article written by Bill Manuel ’57 reads, in part, “ That morning Mr. Smeed did not even come tto chapel. Why? In the court there is a fis fish pond. The fish pond was full of water. Yes, and so was Mr. Smeed.” The article Y Ye concludes: “Every now and then some con small boy falls into the fish pond, but this sma is th the first time in the history of Hawken Scho School that a faculty member has fallen in.”

Telegrams from Mrs. Bolton: Mrs. Frances P. Bolton, who has been referred to as Hawken’s “fairy godmother,” sent these telegrams to Dick Day and Mort Smeed from Washington D.C., expressing her regret for not being able to attend the end-of-year “Closing Ceremonies.” Mrs. Bolton, a highly revered woman and philanthropist who can be credited for Hawken’s survival during difficult times, was the first woman from Ohio elected to Congress and served in the House of Representatives for 28 years.

Circle W Campus: The article pictured from The Press Women’s Week is dated October 7, 1961 and announces the upcoming dedication of Hawken’s Circle W campus. Society Editor Marjorie Alge wrote that the campus had opened on September 11, 1961 to 70 boys, 46 in the ninth grade and 34 in the tenth grade. She also described a school building with five classrooms and three science labs, adding that a “modern library with alcoves for individual study is being completed.” In the meantime, she explained, the White House was serving as a temporary library as well as a dining facility: “In a wood-paneled drawing room where the late motor magnate Walter C. White entertained guests, boys eat luncheon under crystal chandeliers.” The stables, she also mentioned, had been transformed into an athletic facility. The barn, which burned down in 1977, was also home to Hawken’s Animal Husbandry course and the Ropes Course, part of the original Outdoor Leadership Program. original Outdoor Leadership Program. The painting of the barn pictured was created by Jill Benjamin, a friend of the created by Jill Benjamin, a friend of the Stenberg family. f mily. fa

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IInside nside Cover of Hymnal: Hymnals were used iin chapel throughout most of the School’s history, and each boy was assigned one. h Charles C Stephens described James Hawken’s original o reason for chapel time this way: “Far from f offending any sect or creed, it sought only o to nurture the altruistic impulses inherited in i some degree by every boy and help him to t be aware of the group of which he is a part; p to encourage him to be a man of good will. w ” Because Hawken does not maintain any a religious affiliation and has become increasingly i committed to diversity over the years, y the chapel service and hymnals have gradually g faded away; however the School’s original o commitment to developing people of character c and good will remains.

Hawken Accessories: Alumni continue to show their Hawken pride by donning a variety of Red and Gray accessories. The neckties pictured here have been collected over the years by Jeff Biggar ’68; the gold tie chain belongs to Sandy Vilas ’59; and the class ring and Hawken football sweater with the varsity letter belong to Birkett Gibson ’68. The two items from 1965 hold particularly fond memories because they mark the year the Hawken football team was undefeated. Shown here is the 1965 practice jersey worn by Birkett Gibson and the 1965 football tie clip belonged to Ham Biggar ’66, who punted barefoot for the undefeated team that year.

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Hawken Swim Cap: With the appearance of Jerry Holtrey on Hawken’s campus, the legendary Hawken swim team has become known as a formidable presence throughout the state of Ohio. This particular cap dates back to the late 90s or early 2000s, when the women’s team began their 16 year championship streak .

Hawken Baseball Cap: This baseball cap belonged to an unidentified Hawken baseball player and probably dates back to the 1940s or 1950s.

Hawken Football: Hawken first played University School in football in 1967. Pictured here is the game ball from Hawken’s first win against US in 1975 with a score of 33 to 7. Go Hawks!

The Hawk Mascot: The original Circle W students voted the Hawk the School’s mascot. Today the costumed Hawk appears at athletic events and was most recently applauded for its victory in the race against the Cleveland Indians’ Mustard, Ketchup, and Onion. With the resurgence of school spirit since the inception of “Friday Night Lights,” the Hawk has become a more familiar and welcome presence at sporting events. 44

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Letter Announcing Coeducation: This letter from Board President David R. Weir and Headmaster James B. Young dated May 18, 1973 announcing coeducation was addressed “To the Parents, Alumni, and Friends of Hawken School.” The letter acknowledges that while mergers with Laurel or Hathaway Brown had been considered, the trustees concluded that “it would be best for Hawken if the school undertook coeducation on its own.” The very first girls came to campus as kindergartners in 1973, with girls joining the upper School campus in the fall of 1974. Pictured from left to right above are the first girls to attend Hawken as kindergartners along with Charlie Poutasse: Kim Smith, Rosemary Tupta, Ellen Lader, Dorit Cohen, Julie Mann, Amy Farmer, and Stephanie Sogg, all members of the Class of ’86.

Athletic Programs from 1970 and 1975: The graphics on the cover of these fall athletic programs from 1970 and 1975 highlight the significant change that Hawken underwent in the 1970s: coeducation. In addition to highlighting the boys’ athletic teams, the 1975 version features photos of girls’ field hockey, volleyball, and tennis. Remaining true to the Hawken approach to education, then Athletic Director Thomas Bryan wrote in the introduction to the program, “Athletics are the only large-scale emotional laboratory in the school curriculum.”

S Summer Hummer Invitation 1977: This, an actual 45 RPM 1 record, is the invitation for the re JJune 4, 1977 Alumni Dinner, kknown as “Summer Hummer.” It ffeatured music by the band Fat fe City Summer Sausage. Originally C known k as The Nomads in the 1960s, 1 the band is scheduled to make an appearance at the Party m of the Century on May 16, 2015. o

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Hawken Auction Programs: The Hawken Auction began in 1982 to raise funds for faculty enrichment. The theme of the first auction was “Let’s Remember VE Day, 1945.” Funds raised from recent auctions, typically in the $200,000 range, support faculty professional development.

Hawken Antiques Show: The Hawken Antiques Show is a long-standing Hawken tradition that began in 1986. Each year since then it has drawn crowds on Memorial Day. Proceeds go toward restoring and maintaining the White House, which is registered in the National Register of Historic Places.

Hawken Quilt: This quilt that decorates a wall of the Lyndhurst dining room was a gift of Pat, Wayne, and Elizabeth ’84 Hosmer in 1989. Pat taught 3rd grade at Hawken for many years. The quilt, created by Edna E. Miller from Windsor, Ohio, features highlights of Hawken’s campuses including Bolton Hall, the Lyndhurst pool, the Chapel, the Barn, and the White House.

Quilt from the Kindergarten Quilt Project: The Quilt Project tradition was initiated by Mary Beth Hilborn when she came to Hawken as a kindergarten teacher in 1998. Each spring every child in Hawken’s kindergarten community chooses a fabric that represents him or her such as space, flowers, superheroes, cards, etc. With the help of an adult, the children cut the fabric into squares and apply their name to each square, making enough for each child in the class plus an extra one to be ultimately used for the classroom quilt. As the quilt squares are shared among classmates, each child arranges the squares in his/her own way – some patterns are random, some by color or pattern, and others by friendship or gender. After the children do the initial stitching, volunteers finish them. On the last day of kindergarten, the completed quilts are presented to the children. The quilt pictured here belongs to Lona Walter ’25.

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Hawken’s 75th Anniversary: Hawken’s 75th Anniversary celebration, chaired by Charles P. Bolton ’57, featured a special homecoming celebration; a Convocation Series that ran throughout the year and featured four speakers addressing the topic: “Celebrating Teachers and Teaching: Past and Present Accomplishments and Future Challenges;” and a weekend of celebrations in May that included a Saturday morning program highlighting alumni/teacher panels on the topic of “Celebrating Teachers and Teaching;” a special 75th anniversary dinner that evening at the Lyndhurst campus; and a luncheon program on Sunday at the White House, featuring special speaker and Harvard professor, The Reverend Peter J. Gomes.

The Hawken Medallion: Virginia L. Kennedy was the only person to ever receive this award, which ich was w presented to her on June 5, 1998. Gina became e affiliated affi ffiliated with Hawken in 1958 when she enrolled her sons Alexâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;64 64 and d Mark â&#x20AC;&#x2122;70 in the 4th and 2nd grades. Beginning as a school volunteer in the library and later the development office, she went on to chair the AFS foreign exchange program. In addition, she read to students, drove a bus, and regaled students with stories of her adventures. In the 1980s, Gina established the Kennedy Family Scholarship Fund, which awarded especially promising students whose enrollment at Hawken would not be possible without financial assistance. This Hawken Medallion is a remembrance of all that she has given to Hawken School.

Hawken Fellows Award: The Hawken Fellows was established in 1987 under the guidance of the Committee on Trustees. The Fellows Award is the most prestigious award Hawken bestows upon members of its community, in recognition of outstanding and exemplary service. All Hawken Fellows receive these smaller versions of the Hawk sculpture that resides in Ireland Hall. The plaque shown here was originally displayed by the original Hawken sculpture.

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Leaded Window Glass: These donor gifts were crafted using actual leaded glass from om the origi original windows at the Grie Gries Center, Hawken’s urban exten extension center in university Circle, center in university Ci which opened in 2010. R Renovations ti were made de to o the fo fformer rmer Mather Housee to accommodate classroom classroo om m and gathering space and to o meet code regulations.

Lincoln n Ha Hall Keychain: This keychain was a mement to g memento given to donors to the Lincoln Hall campaign n in 2006, the year Lincoln Hall opened.

Hurwitz Hall iGlobe: The new lobby of Hurwitz Hall, which opened in 2013, features Ohio’s first iGlobe, which projects high definition video images of Earth on an animated three dimensional spherical screen. The interactive iGlobe can be controlled using an iPad and presents real-time global weather data in readily understandable ways, enabling students to become actively engaged in science and climate studies.

Roby Art Award Winner: George Roby, long-time art teacher at Hawken, established the George Roby Art Award in 1996. The Eaton family increased this fund through contributions made in memory of Barbara Eaton, former parent, art studio volunteer, and supporter of the arts. In May as part of our Centennial Celebration, the winning works will be showcased together for the first time in the AC Lobby in an exhibition called Gallery 100. Plans are underway for a permanent exhibit space in Stirn Hall. The piece pictured here was created by Julie Dery ’00.

The AffNo: The first issue of The AffNo was distributed on March 21, 1962, mimeographed in blue ink. This photograph, whose lead article is entitled “Building on 100 Years,” shows how the paper has evolved visually into a much more highly produced, professional publication. It is now also available online.

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The Holtrey Swimming Hall: The Holtrey Swimming Hall, which opened in October 2014, celebrates Coach Jerry Holtrey’s “45 years of memories, records, and awards.” At the ribbon cutting ceremony, Scott Looney commented, “This Hall is a manifestation of Jerry’s legacy – the accolades, achievements, and most of all, the love and commitment he showed to his sport, his team, his school, and every one of the students he coached. The Holtrey Hall will forever be a reminder to future generations of Hawken students what it means and what it takes to be a true champion.”

Athletic Hall of Fame Pin: With a mission to “represent the best of the best studentdentathletes, coaches, and contributors who have significantly impacted Hawken’s athletic thletic programs and demonstrated the highest standards of character, leadership, sportsmanship rtsmansship and Fair Play,” Hawken School’s Athletic Hall of Fame opened in October 2014. Inaugural nauguraal inductees were recognized at halftime during the Homecoming football game and and were formally inducted the following night at a special recognition dinner. The Class of 2014 Athletic Hall of Fame Inductees includes Eric D. Hamilton ‘82, Jerry Holtrey, ey, Alyssa Kiel ‘05, O.J. McDuffie ‘88, Melanie Valerio ‘87, and Cliff Walton. Each inductee ee was presented with a Hawken Hall of Fame pin.

Stirn Hall Architectural Model: Hawken chose Westlake Reed Leskosky to design Stirn Hall because of the firmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s integrated design practice and its careful consideration of the natural beauty, historical roots, and progressive spirit of our campus. Like Hawken, the firm is deeply rooted in history with an eye toward innovation. This rendering is currently housed in the Cottage at the Gates Mills campus.

Plain Dealer Article, Stirn Hall: This article, announcing the Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s $8 million challenge grant and highlights the plans for Stirn Hall, appeared in the Plain Dealer on Sunday, December 15, 2013.

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Hawken 100 Decade Displays: A series of “decade displays” chronicling Hawken’s rich history are being created by Hawken staff members along with Communications Exhibits, Inc. and their Executive Vice President, Ann Esgar Conkle ’78, Executive Vice President. Each display contains memorabilia, photographs, and other historical treasures retrieved from Hawken’s archives or donated by friends of Hawken. Accompanying each display is an iPad that highlights each particular period in the history of the School. The displays are being unveiled over the course of the school year. Teachers and students on both campuses will have access to the displays to learn about their School’s history.

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hank you to the many alumni who donated “things worth remembering” for this feature article and for our decade boxes, which will be

presented as an entire series for the first time at the Party of the Century. Many thanks also to the staff members and interns for the hours spent researching, documenting, and photographing artifacts to help bring our history to life. We hope that these words and pictures have given you a glimpse into the essence of Hawken’s uniquely meaningful past and promising future.

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Hawken Celebrates Record Enrollment of 1,011 As Hawken began its Centennial year, the School welcomed 191 new families for a record enrollment of 1,011 students in grades Preschool-12. This is the 4th consecutive year that Hawken’s enrollment has exceeded records.

Increases occurred on both campuses, with heaviest growth in the Early Childhood program where a fourth section of Preschool and a third section of Prekindergarten were added. The School welcomed additional faculty to accommodate this growth in enrollment and to maintain Hawken’s low student-teacher ratio.

“The Woodstock of K-12 Education” In articles for Forbes.com and The Huffington Post, serial entrepreneur and educator Steve Blank called Hawken’s Educator’s Workshop for Entrepreneurial Studies “The Woodstock of K-12 Education.” In June, Doris Korda, Associate Head of School and Director of Entrepreneurial Studies, and Tim Desmond, Assistant Director of Entrepreneurial Studies, led an immersive workshop for 30 educators from 19 public and private schools, providing guidance and advice to participants who are interested in planning entrepreneurial courses. In his post Blank states, “The energy was off the charts. Every minute was filled with talk about how to build this new model of learning and how to encourage students to think creatively and analytically.” Blank has asked Hawken to return in June of 2015 when Korda and Desmond will offer both beginning and advanced workshops. 56

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Stirn Hall Architectural Firm Ranked #1 Architect, the magazine of the American Institute of Architects, ranked Westlake Reed Leskosky, designer of Hawken’s Stirn Hall, as the No. 1 architectural firm in the u.S. for design, business,

and sustainability. Hawken selected Cleveland-based Westlake Reed Leskosky as architects for the Gates Mills project after a nationwide contest.

Students in Myanmar Explore Culture, Religion, and Development Issues

In June, a group of Hawken students and two faculty members traveled to Southeast Asia for a three-week course called “Myanmar: Culture, Religion, and Development.” The program explored culturally and geographically diverse Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, through trekking, rural home stays, train and boat travel, service learning, and projects with youth around the country. In collaboration with host organizations, the students experienced societal and environmental challenges in this newly open country; they were also introduced to inspiring people, solutions, and efforts that creatively combat problems on the grassroots and national scale. The class was held in conjunction with Where There Be Dragons, a leader in cross-cultural and global citizenship experiential education in the developing world. An exhibit of Hawken and Myanmar student photography traveled from Yangon, Myanmar and was shown at the upper School from November 14 - December 19. 57

Student Successes 12 Named National Merit Semifinalists Congratulations to the following 12 seniors named semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program: Alexander Amin, Larry Fulton, Robert Gray, Emily Hedlund, Maddie Hengst, Alison Jin, James Li, Maureen Rakovec, Monica Sass, Matthew Thompson, Jonathan Vexler, and Jack Weisman. These students join a long tradition of Merit Scholar excellence and earn Hawken the distinction of having the highest number of National Merit Semifinalists amongst Cleveland area peer schools for the past 10 years. In addition, Larry Fulton was named a Semifinalist in the National Achievement Scholarship Competition, and Jonathan Vexler received an additional honor of being named a National Hispanic Recognition Scholar.

Student Elected “Governor;” Addresses Legislative Conference

Junior Presents Research at International Conference

In June, Larry Fulton ‘15 was sworn in as governor of the Buckeye Boys State program, a prestigious summer leadership and citizenship program sponsored by the American Legion. As a part of the dynamic program, students form political parties, campaign for office, and hold elections. Out of 1200 Boys State delegates in attendance, Larry won the honor of Governor.

In May, Kush Khosla ‘15 stood before an international medical science conference in Sweden to present research that could lead to new treatments for bacterial infections and cancer. Kush explained his findings, “The Effect of Neutral Spaces in a Markov Chain Model of Bacterial Evolution,” at the 9th European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology in Gothenburg, Sweden. His research, which expands work done for his STEMM project, was conducted with Daniel Nichol and Dr. Jacob Scott ‘94, both PhD candidates in mathematics at the university of Oxford in England. “I have been impressed by Kush’s willingness to push himself and use his creative talents to advance our work as an integral member of our research team,” Scott said. “I remain impressed by the way Hawken School encourages students to leverage their education in creative exploration of important topics.”

In September, at the invitation of Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge, Larry spoke at the Congressional Black Caucus Annual Legislative Conference in Washington, D.C. His topic, “A Prayer for the CBC,” was delivered at the Annual Prayer Breakfast before an audience of approximately 3,000 people that included Rep. Fudge, civil rights legend Rep. John Lewis, Rev. Jesse Jackson, and many other notable guests.

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Jane Esselstyn ‘83 and her mother Ann Crile Esselstyn have published The Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease Cookbook, which empowers readers to make their hearts healthier through cooking and eating plant-based meals. Wes Wilson ‘01 uses Ohio grown garlic to create gourmet garlic products for chefs to enjoy in their kitchens. Learn more at mincedmarket.com. Melissa Burovac ’90 writes about her world travels in Wandering, available from Amazon. “A truly enjoyable read about an amazing person traveling to amazing places,” writes one reader in a review of the book. Lauren Pacini ‘59 has released a photographic history of Cleveland’s historic St. Luke’s Hospital titled, “The Ever-Whirling Winds of Change,” and is donating a portion of the sale proceeds to Hawken School. For more information, visit artographypress.com/hawken.

Bioethecist and internist Dr. Barron Lerner ‘78 visited Cleveland in early June to promote his new book, The Good Doctor, where Lerner compares his father’s approach to medicine with the today’s bioethics.

Kindergarten Raises $1000 for Stadium Tour Provides Heifer International Memories for Students Last year, the Class of 2026 engaged in a year-long project to raise funds for the purchase of goats for families in need. Students learned about social justice through reading books such as “Beatrice’s Goat,” and collected money through doing chores and holding lemonade sales. The kindergartners raised just over $1000, which bought eight goats for families through Heifer International. Students enjoyed a culminating celebration where they met two goats that belong to Hawken parents James and Miriam Willis.

The Future for Education The Summer 2014 issue of the Hawken Review included an article by Head of School D. Scott Looney. His thought provoking essay was widely read and shared online and through social media. If you have not yet read “The Future for Education: Why Hawken Has to Lead,” visit issuu.com/hawkenschool/docs/thefutureofeducation.

In August, a week-long Passport class for ages 10-14 toured baseball stadiums in Philadelphia, Washington, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland. “The course offered campers the chance to catch Major League games in five different stadiums, and included campers documenting their journey,“ said Mark Nestor, Hawken’s Director of Auxiliary Programs. “It was an opportunity for young baseball fans to create a lifelong memory as they traveled to stadiums in the Mid-Atlantic area.”

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Hawken Inducts Six into Athletic Hall of Fame

Hawken honored the School’s first class of Athletic Hall of Fame inductees at a ceremony in October. n Jerry Holtrey Boys and Girls Swimming Coach, 1969-2014 A member of the Ohio High School Swimming Coaches Association Hall of Fame, the American Swimming Coaches Hall of Fame, and the Cleveland Sports Hall of Fame who has coached the Hawken girls and boys swim teams to 26 state titles, Jerry Holtrey steadfastly trained and supported scores of Hawken champions during his 45-year Hawken career. n Eric D. Hamilton ‘82 Football, Basketball, Track Three-sport varsity Old Board Award winner and Hawken Lifer, Eric Hamilton broke records and won state championships before going onto a four-year football scholarship and two NCAA Championships at Penn State.

Mark Shapiro, president of the Cleveland Indians and Hawken parent, served as the master of ceremonies at a dinner held at the Gates Mills Sports Complex to recognize the six inductees. Present to accept their awards and address the audience were Eric D. Hamilton ‘82, Jerry Holtrey, Alyssa Kiel ‘05, Melanie Valerio ‘87, and Cliff Walton. This first class of athletes and coaches – like those who will join them in years to come – were chosen for their “significant impact on Hawken’s athletic programs and demonstrated high standards of character, leadership, sportsmanship, and Fair Play.”

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Hours of research and fact checking went into the planning of Hawken’s Athletic Hall of Fame and the Holtrey Swimming Hall. Special thanks go to staff member Andrea Hocevar ’01, and Hawken interns Emeline Armitage ‘14, Bryce Lewis ‘14, Dalya Oprian ‘16, and Gabby Zuccaro ‘13.

n Melanie Valerio ‘87 Swimming A 1996 Olympic gold medalist, Melanie Valerio was a two-time state champion in the 200 free, held numerous school and state records, and earned an impressive 15 NCAA All-American honors swimming for the university of Virginia. n Alyssa Kiel ‘05 Swimming An Olympic trial qualifier and uS National Champion, Alyssa Kiel has garnered more state championships than any other Ohio high school swimmer and as a 500 meter freestyler, held the nation’s ninth fastest time and still holds the Hawken School, Holtrey Pool, and Ohio high school record. n Cliff Walton Football and Wrestling Coach, 1978-Present The long-time beloved football and wrestling coach at Hawken and the namesake of Walton Stadium, Cliff Walton has amassed over 200 Hawken football wins and continues to inspire truly exemplary sportsmanship and results both on and off the field. O.J. McDuffie ‘88 Football, Basketball, Baseball, Track After dominating in four sports during the three athletic seasons each year, and setting numerous and still-unbroken records throughout his Hawken career, O.J. McDuffie went on to play football at Penn State and was a leading wide receiver with the Miami Dolphins for eight seasons. 61

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Fall 2014 Season Highlights

Boys Soccer Girls Soccer Undefeated Girls soccer closed out its regular season undefeated at 13-0-2 and ranked #2 in the D-II State Coaches Poll. They won the Chagrin Valley Conference Championship outright with a 6-0 CVC record. The girls then won three playoff games, including winning the District Championship with a 2-1 overtime win over Gilmour Academy. They advanced to the Region Semifinals, where they lost to State-ranked (#6) Elyria Catholic (16-1-4) in a triple-overtime penalty shootout. The Hawks finished their season 16-1-2.

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The boys soccer team had a tough season as far as wins and losses go. The boys won their second round playoff game vs. Fuchs Mizrachi School, after a first-round bye. They lost in the District Semifinals to Kirtland HS.

Football After a promising 2-0 start, with wins over Fairport Harding and Lutheran West, the Hawks suffered a tough season with injuries and setbacks, finishing 2-8. However, Hawken football will return eleven juniors into the senior class, making the 2015 season one to look forward to. The boys finished their season on a high note, raising over $2,800 in a Lift-a-Thon for the JADE Foundation, a charity founded in memory of the late Jeffrey Alex Dobay ’08, Hawken football alumnus. The JADE Foundation provides entertainment and activities for patients in cancer centers at Cleveland area hospitals.

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Boys Golf Boys golf also had a season of injury and setbacks, with Charlie Hruby ’15, their #1 golfer, out for the season with injury. The team garnered only two wins with a very tough schedule, but finished 9th out of 16 teams at the Sectional Tournament. The bright spot was that team is young, showed consistent improvement, and looks to be back in contention for Conference and Sectional races next year.

Field Hockey Cross Country Boys and girls cross country made much progress through commitment and hard work this season, which was manifested by great results at the District Meet. The girls team placed 3rd overall, advancing them to the Regional Meet. The girls team then placed 10th out of 16 teams at Regionals. Julia Aliazzi ’18 finished 8th overall at Districts with a time of 20:48.90. The boys finished 6th at Districts, led by Al Shumyatcher ‘17, who placed 35th overall with a time of 18:56.94.

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Field hockey won its second-round playoff game in dramatic fashion. The Hawks had a first-round bye, then hosted Ottawa Hills, whom they tied 1-1 during the regular season. After regulation time ended 0-0, Elisabeth Blossom ‘16, named Player of the Week by the Plain Dealer, led a breakaway chance that Parker Selman ’15 finished for the game-winning, sudden-victory goal. The Hawks lost in the third round to eventual State Champion Shaker Heights HS.

Volleyball Girls volleyball won its first-round playoff volleyball match over Champion by scores of 25-11, 25-16, 25-14. The Hawks fell in the second round to Gilmour Academy, finishing their season at 11-14.

Girls varsity tennis finished their season as Chagrin Valley Conference Runner-up. Sydney Green ’15 (singles), and Nayana Ravishankar ‘16 and Luisa Schunk ’17 (doubles) advanced to the OHSAA State Tennis Tournament. Both Sydney and the doubles team lost in the first round in very competitive matches.

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Girls golf finished its season as Chagrin Valley Conference Runner-up. Isabella Joseph ’16 was the Conference Champion and MVP for the second straight year. Isabella also earned a trip to the D-II State Golf Tournament, where she shot 163 in 36 holes, placing her 16th out of 72 golfers at States. Isabella was named Plain Dealer Player of the Week.

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Holtrey Swimming Hall Dedicated at Gates Mills Preceding Hawken’s Athletic Hall of Fame Induction ceremony and dinner, the School unveiled Holtrey Swimming Hall, erected to document and honor the many accomplishments of Hawken’s swim program and its swimmers. Holtrey Swimming Hall, named in honor of Coach Jerry Holtrey and his 45 years coaching at Hawken School, includes four trophy cases, four school record boards, six large display boards, and six biography boards. The Swimming Hall consists of stories, quotes, events, and photos spanning from 1969 to the present, and is located in the hall outside Holtrey Pool where the current team practices and competes. Flanked by friends, family, and fans, Coach Holtrey cut the ribbon to the new Hall and was amazed and humbled by the care and detail taken in recognizing his legacy and the swimmers he trained.

Graduate’s Work Graces Swimming Hall Constructing a fitting tribute to Hawken’s storied swimming program could seem like a daunting task. But it was a task that 1978 graduate Ann Esgar Conkle was more than happy to be a part of. As executive vice president of sales for Communication Exhibits, Inc., in Canal Fulton, Ann was able to lend personal insights into designing and building showcases and displays to honor Hawken’s illustrious swim program. CEI, located in the tiny town of Canal Fulton, builds lobbies, exhibits and trade show booths for Fortune 500 companies. “We do all of the work in-house,” said Ann. We design it, engineer it, build it, and print the graphics. We also do installation when clients, like Hawken, are close by, and we crate and ship exhibits to clients all over the world.” Ann feels extremely lucky to have been able to combine two of her greatest passions in the making of the Holtrey Swimming Hall. “As a proud alumna I was so pleased when my company was chosen to design and create this experience honoring Jerry and all of Hawken’s amazing swimmers,” Ann said. 64

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Gries Center Hosts Art Exhibits Hawken and ARTneo, the museum of Northeast Ohio art and architecture, are collaborating on two exhibits at The Gries Center in honor of Hawken’s Centennial and ARTneo’s 30th anniversary. ARTneo was founded as the Cleveland Artists Foundation in 1984 by Cleveland-based artists, patrons, and collectors, including Founding Director Bill Scheele ’66. The organization has become the premier center for the art of Northeast Ohio, owing both to its significant collecting initiative, and to its commitment to creative exhibition planning and educational outreach. “Oppositions” was on view September-December and featured Cleveland portraits and landscapes from the time of Hawken School’s founding in 1915. Plans are underway for a second exhibit to open in January. If you’re in the university Circle area, be sure to drop by Hawken’s Gries Center at 10823 Magnolia Drive, Tuesdays, 3:30-5:30pm and by appointment.

Left: August F. Biehle, Untitled; Right: William Joseph Eastman, Green Poplars

Lower School Singers Selected for State Choir Nine Hawken Lower School students were selected for the Ohio Music Education Association’s first All-State Children’s Chorus. More than 165 applicants auditioned and 118 students were chosen for the selective choir, which performed at the campus of Capital University as the culminating event of the General Music Professional Development Day in October. Hawken PS-8 Performing Arts Chair Jodie Ricci was the chair for the statewide event. Congratulations to: Isabella de los angeles Driscole ‘23, Spencer Fisher ‘23, Christopher Gerace ‘22, Audrey Ours ‘23, Anna Patel ‘23, Anna Ricci ‘22, Kylie Soble ‘23, Taylor Sobol ‘22 and Ragen Stewart ‘22. 65

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Hawken Announces Gallery 100 All artists believe in the creative process. unlike the performing arts, visual art is a solitary endeavor, and the process is rarely shared publically. Each young artist responds to her or his environment, interprets it, and then produces a piece of artwork. While the process is important, the artwork is what the world sees.

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George Roby understood the importance of sharing one’s creations with the world when he established the George Roby Art Award in 1996. Contributions made in memory of Barbara Eaton, a former parent, longtime supporter of the arts, and volunteer in the art studio for many years, increased this fund. These efforts in support of the arts have given the department the ability to annually purchase artwork by students. The Roby Fund was established in the hope that these works would grace the halls and walls of classrooms and common spaces to showcase the talents of Hawken students publically. Now, with the plans for a new upper School building, this dream can be fulfilled.

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This May, during our Centennial celebration, the student works that have been purchased over the years will be exhibited together for the first time in the AC Lobby during an exhibition called Gallery 100. It is our hope that you will join us in the celebration of these students’ past accomplishments and our alumni’s achievements in the art field. The following graduates have been honored with the George Roby Art Award: Josh Pepper ‘96; Jordan Haas ‘97; Marco Rogers ’98; Ayse Ozsoyoglu Bricker ‘99; Julie Dery ‘00; Rachael Morrison ‘00; Arthi Sundaresh ‘01; Ian Morrison ‘02; Brad Rose ‘03; Adrian Negenborn ‘04; Patrick Gloeckner ‘05; Katarra Peterson ‘05; Caitlin Lucier ‘06; Abel Mills ‘07; Lauren Vandevier ‘08; Will Crownover ‘09; Ana Muschler ‘10; Natalie Rorick ‘10; Travis Reilly ‘11; Katelyn ursu ‘12; Charlie Benson ‘13; and Nora Eagan ‘14.

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The Gallery 100 will serve as a launching point for an annual event at Hawken, where an alumnus/a in the visual or performing arts will be invited to return to campus for a special event honoring his or her accomplishments and for the opportunity to engage with current students. Plans are also underway for the creation of a permanent exhibit space in the new academic building, where the works of featured artists and current students will be on display for our community and visitors. Abel Mills ‘07

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The Sheffield Society Since Hawken School’s inception in 1915, many alumni, parents, and friends have taken the concept of introducing the next generation to “a higher plane of life” to heart by including the School in their estate plans. Perhaps no one individual has made a more significant impact than Henry E. Sheffield, a prominent attorney and philanthropist who befriended founder James A. Hawken soon after the School was founded. One of the earliest Trustees of the School, Mr. Sheffield made numerous gifts over a span of nearly six decades. His first of many annual gifts to support operations was made in 1918; nearly 60 years later, upon his death, an estate gift was presented to the School. His lifetime giving has a present value in excess of $10 million. As such, we will honor Mr. Sheffield’s philanthropic legacy by renaming the planned giving society for him. The Sheffield Society, previously known as the Hawken Heritage Society, was formalized in the 1990s to recognize individuals who included Hawken School in their estate plans. Increasingly, alumni, parents, and friends use planned giving vehicles to add to gifts made to Hawken during their lifetime. A planned gift refers to any charitable gift, current or deferred, which is planned – usually with professional advice – to optimize the donor’s financial, tax, and estate plans. Anyone who notifies the School in writing that they have made a legacy commitment in the form of a bequest; a life income instrument; a beneficiary designation of a retirement plan or insurance policy; or other estate planning tool is granted membership in this Society. For more information about Hawken’s Sheffield Society, or to inform the School of a legacy commitment, please contact Jeffrey M. Biggar ’68, Life Trustee and Director of Special Gifts, at 440.423.2084 or biggar@hawken.edu.

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Old Guard Legacy Campaign As stewards of Hawken’s rich history, the Old Guard Alumni (classes 1924 to 1960) have a responsibility to remember and pay tribute to the individuals who led this institution in the early years. “When you ask any of the Old Guard alumni about their favorite memories of their days at Hawken,” says Morrie Everett ’56, “the common answer is their time spent in the Chapel. Twice a day we would assemble there and at the end of the day, we would file out of the Chapel and shake hands with the headmaster in his office. We want to honor these five stewards who, along with our great faculty, helped mold us into the men we became.” Old Guard Alumni are supporting Hawken’s Centennial through a special Old Guard Legacy Campaign to name the Chapel on the Lyndhurst Campus in honor of the first five headmasters: James Hawken, John Carney, Charles Stephens, Carl Holmes, and Richard Day. The phrase, “That each generation introduce its successor to a higher plane of life,” taught the alumni the importance of giving back to their communities. Co-chairs of the Old Guard Legacy Campaign, Bill McCoy ’38, Bob Page ’49, Morrie Everett ’56, Vin Fiordalis ’57 and John Calfee ‘60, have set their sights on raising $1 million for the naming right. Morrie ’56 and Diana Everett contributed a lead gift of $100,000 to launch the Campaign, and to date $266,000 has been raised toward this effort. Donors will have their names featured on a plaque to be hung by the Chapel, listing all supporters of this Campaign. Each donor who gives $10,000 or more will have his/her name engraved on an individual plaque to be placed at the end of one of the pews in the Chapel. For donors at the $100,000

Developments or higher level, there are special naming opportunities on the Lyndhurst Campus. Donors who allow their funds to be used for the Gates Mills Building Initiative will have their gift matched by the challenge grant issued by The Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation. This is a “once in a century” opportunity to honor our former headmasters. To contribute to the Old Guard Legacy Campaign, contact Jeffrey M. Biggar ’68, Life Trustee and Director of Special Gifts, at 440.423.2084.

Oak Tree Philanthropic Foundation Supports STEMM In three years, the trustees of the Oak Tree Philanthropic Foundation have awarded Hawken School with four grants to support the STEMM Research Program and the annual Dr. Robert Maciunas STEMM Research Symposium. With this investment, more Hawken students are experiencing impactful, real-world, hands-on learning opportunities in STEMM, a program of guided research in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, and Medicine. STEMM enables students to solve local and global community-based problems collaboratively with their peers, teachers, mentors, and community partners. upper School students present their projects before a panel of judges at the annual Symposium. Recent projects have included, “Colorimetric Detection of Human Papillomavirus Types 16 and 18 by DNA Hybridization with Oligonucleotide Functionalized Au Nanoparticles,” “Frequency-based calibration for vibration energy scavenging using PZT (Lead-Zirconate-Titanate) piezoelectric cantilevers,” and “Keeping calm: The effects of calcium channel blockers on preventing seizures and the development of epilepsy.” The late Dr. Robert J. Maciunas, father of Hawken graduates Nick ’04 and Joe ’10, was a surgeon and pioneer in the field of neurosurgery and deep-brain stimulation. He served as a mentor of a Hawken student, and was co-chair and cofounder of the STEMM Pathways Advisory Committee at the School. Dr. Maciunas originally proposed the creation of a student research symposium as part of the STEMM Program. To recognize his enthusiastic support of the research program at the School and his standard of excellence in science, Hawken named the research symposium for Dr. Maciunas.

2 Million MORE Reasons to Give: The Smith Challenge Thank you to the generous donors who have collectively contributed over $6 million to date toward the $8 million challenge grant issued by The Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation for the Gates Mills Building Initiative. We are excited that so many members of the Hawken community – parents, alumni, grandparents, and friends – have been inspired by the one-to-one matching grant and have stepped forward to help us meet the Smith Challenge. As a community, let us continue to build on this strong momentum. We encourage others to show their pride in Hawken and join us in this worthy effort to secure the additional matching funds. The Foundation has provided a tremendous incentive and a remarkable opportunity to our community to double the impact of its gift to the new facility. Pledges and gifts made to this project, including naming rights within the building and on the grounds, will qualify for the Foundation’s one-to-one match. To contribute to the Gates Mills Building Initiative, contact Director of Development, Kathleen Guzzi, at 440.423.2918.

Celebrating 100 Years The first day of school marked the beginning of a year of exciting celebrations in honor of Hawken’s Centennial. The Parents’ Association hosted “100 Cups of Coffee,” where parents gathered to visit with one another after dropping off their children at the Lyndhurst campus on opening day. The Parents’ Association also held the Lower School Parent Night After Party in Hurwitz Hall. Further adding to the spirit of the Centennial year, students, faculty, and staff each received a commemorative Centennial t-shirt from the Parents’ Association that was worn for the allschool Hawken 100 photo.

Latest Developments Lead Gift Launches Plans for Humanities Wing This fall, Hawken Head of School Scott Looney announced plans to name the new upper School Humanities wing in honor of two of Hawken’s most revered faculty. The wing, which currently houses Hawken’s science classrooms, will undergo an extensive renovation as part of the construction plan and will be christened the Peter Scott and John Tottenham Humanities Wing. Plans for the campaign were announced at a fall gathering of alumni and friends at the New York City home of Jonathan Friedland ’86 and Shaiza Rizavi and at the Alumni Winter Luncheon at Gates Mills in December. A lead gift from a donor enabled the School to launch this exciting project. This $1 million naming campaign will also include the opportunity for donors making gifts of $100,000 or more to name classrooms, office suites, and the east and north entries. Every gift (over $500) made to this campaign will be matched dollar for dollar by The Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation’s $8 million challenge to build Stirn Hall. The Peter Scott and John Tottenham Humanities Wing will include seven classrooms, three office suites, a Commons area, two breakout areas, and a conference room. The wing will be accessed directly through the east and north entries to Stirn Hall, two of the most highly trafficked entrances for students and faculty. Classrooms will line a central corridor. Those on the north side of the hallway will have a stunning view of the new Centennial Orchard, where 100 trees will be planted to commemorate Hawken’s 100th anniversary. Rooms on the south side of the hallway will enjoy natural light from the DaVinci Garden.

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His legacy at Hawken continues, as his classes, books, stories, and friendships remain an inspiration to Hawken students, faculty, and alumni. John Tottenham came to Hawken in 1979 from the university of Michigan. During his time on the faculty at Hawken, John designed the first Humanities program, coached freshman soccer, co-wrote Hawken’s style manual, and team-taught five different courses. In addition to inspiring a love of history in three decades of students, he spent countless hours documenting the life of the School with his camera. For more information, please contact Director of Development, Kathleen Guzzi, at 440.423.2918.

A veteran of the Vietnam War and a united States Army Officer from 1967-1971, Peter Scott joined the Hawken faculty as an English teacher in 1974. That same year he began his 25 years as head of the Outdoor Leadership Program. In addition to his role as an English teacher, Peter is a prolific writer and author.

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Class of 2014 Fellows Inducted At a reception in September, 25 individuals were inducted as Hawken Fellows. The Fellows distinction was created to honor alumni, parents, and friends who have demonstrated extraordinary service throughout their time at Hawken. It is the highest honor that Hawken bestows upon a member of its community. In 1989, the School welcomed its first group of Fellows in conjunction with Hawken’s 75th anniversary. Now, on the occasion of Hawken’s Centennial, we honor our newest class of Fellows: A special thank you to trustee Janice Hawwa n for spearheading the lovely event. Mauri Artz Charles P. Bolton ’57 Lynne Marcus Cohen ’82 Grosvie Cooley Amy F. Green* K. P. Horsburgh, Jr. ’65 Mike Iorio Peter Jacobson ’81 Gigi Kates Terri Kennedy Vicki K. Koeblitz Patricia L. Klevay Susi Yarus Meisel ’78

Bill Miller n Dee Dee Miller n Julie Raskind Peter Raskind Susan H. Remer Marla Esgar Robbins ’75 Alan Rosskamm n Sherri Routman Matthew A. Salerno ’92 Kitty Schirm Martin Schulz ’82 Lester Troyer *deceased

2013-2014 Annual Report Corrections

Hawken School values the philanthropic support of the community. We take great pride in accurately recognizing our donors for their generosity, but on occasion, errors occur. We acknowledge the following benefactors from the 2013-2014 fiscal year. The corrections below correspond with pages in the 2013-2014 Annual Report. PP 5 & 30: Oak Tree Philanthropic Foundation listed under Special and Restricted Giving P 12: Carl E. Smith ’74 listed as a Double Decade Leader to the Annual Fund

PP 23 & 25: Ms. Stephanie M. Doncevic listed under Class of 2015 and Class of 2021 P 29: Gift by Ms. Stephanie M. Doncevic In Memory of Myrtle S. Pickett and In Honor Of Katarina Doncevic ’15 and Danijela E. Doncevic ’21

Centennial Newsletter Corrections

Issue 3, P2: Bill Bruner’s name is missing from the article “We’re Putting the Band Back Together.” Bill was a founding member of the Naught’s and was lead guitar.

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HawkFest weekend with numerous spirited events on October 10 and 11. Hawken pride was at an all-time high as students, parents, alumni, faculty, and staff gathered to celebrate the momentus occasion.

Lower, Middle, and Upper School students and families packed the stands in Walton Stadium for an all-school community pep rally.

This memorable weekend was Hawken at its finest...

With special thanks to an anonymous donor, over 1,200 community members enjoyed a complimentary picnic dinner.

Fandannas were provided to HawkFest attendees. How do you wear YOUR Fandanna? Post your photos on social media and use #Hawken100.

The Upper School Pep Band jazzed the crowds at both the pep rally and the football game.

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Accompanied by Hawken’s Pep Band, the Lower School Choir sang the National Anthem prior to the football game.

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began on Friday morning with the gathering of kindergarten through 12th grade students, faculty, and staff on the Great Lawn at the Upper School for a 100 photograph. Later that afternoon, Walton Stadium burst at the seams with Hawken pride at the community-wide pep rally. Prior to the football game, alumni enjoyed one another’s company at the tailgate party while families Post-game fireworks kicked-off Hawken’s 100th anniversary with a bang.

and friends visited together at the picnic. Those in attendance received fandannas that were worn with great satisfaction during the football game. The day’s activities concluded with a magnificent display of post-game fireworks. On Saturday at the Lyndhurst campus, Lower School students were delighted to participate in the Fall Family Fair in the morning while Upper School students danced the evening away at the homecoming dance. The night was capped off with the induction of the inaugural class of the Athletic Hall of Fame inductees and the dedication of Holtrey Swimming Hall.

Fall Family Fair was a tremendous success due to the leadership of parent co-chairs Liisa Spaller and Tonya Thomas and their volunteer network.

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The Homecoming dance was held in Lincoln Lobby and featured a live band.

The 2014 Athletic Hall of Fame inductees, Cliff Walton, Melanie Valerio’87, Alyssa Kiel ’05, Eric Hamilton ’82, Jerry Holtrey, and O.J. McDuffie ’88 (not pictured), were honored during halftime.

The littlest Hawks enjoyed the inflatables during HawkFest.

Jerry Holtrey views the Holtrey Swimming Hall for the first time at its Grand Opening.

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Greetings Hawken Alumni, What a year we’re having! It has been great connecting with so many of you over the past months preparing for the events surrounding Hawken’s 100th birthday. This issue of the Review shares much of the momentum underway. As this is our Centennial Hawken Review, we invited class news from both odd and even year alumni and especially wanted to hear from Hawks who may have not contributed to Review notes recently. Many thanks to our dedicated Class Secretaries, who provided the outreach and editorial skills to produce an enjoyable read. We hope you use the stories and updates here to catch up with classmates and friends, supporting the lead-up to a tremendous Centennial Reunion Weekend in May. When you are finished reading the Class Notes, we encourage you to get a copy of All The Rest for your reading table. Edited by Peter Scott and released at last month’s Alumni Winter Luncheon, this collection of anecdotes, stories, memories, and reflections from Hawken alumni and teachers is a humorous and touching treasure of Hawken history – some known and some entirely revelatory. Visit the www.hawken.edu/alumni or give us a call to have your copy mailed out to you. We also encourage those of you planning to be on campus for Centennial Weekend to consider how you might participate in Alumni Give Back Day on May 15. This day of classes, workshops, and seminars starts the reunion weekend and will provide a meaningful way for alumni with talents and expertise to share in a compelling experience of being back on campus collaborating with faculty, staff, and students.

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Come Celebrate 100 Years of Fair Play with Classmates, Faculty, Staff, and Friends Friday, May 15 • Alumni Give Back Day: unique workshops, classes, and activities led by alumni for current students and faculty • Gallery100: Opening reception featuring Roby Prize winning alumni and senior artists, with a special tribute to George Roby • 4-School Alumni Reception: 6-8pm in Hurwitz Hall on the Lyndhurst Campus • Individual and Clustered Class Reunion Gatherings

Saturday, May 16 • Tours of the Gates Mills Campus with Head of School Scott Looney • Sporting Events at Gates Mills • Alumni Battle Ball and More • Centennial Party of the Century at the Cleveland Convention Center

Sunday, May 17 • Pancake Breakfast at Lyndhurst • Celebration of Art and Music

We hope to see you on campus soon – at the very latest on the weekend of May 15-17! All the best, and keep bright the Red and Gray!

Matthew Young ‘83 Director of Alumni Engagement

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The aura around Hawken’s Centennial celebration to date has been one of energy, camaraderie, and special spirit. HawkFest truly captured the sentiments that we are striving for in this unique year. Alumni were represented from the class of ’48 to the class of ’14, and it was fantastic to see everyone mingle and enjoy the festive atmosphere before the Hawks kicked off against Independence. The inaugural class of the Hawken Athletic Hall of Fame was inducted on Saturday evening, and it was a fitting end to the weekend’s activities. All of the honorees truly reflect Hawken’s motto either through their own accomplishments on and off their respective playing fields or as coaches who have impacted the character development of countless individuals. It was an honor to be present as Eric Hamilton ‘82, O.J. McDuffie ‘88, Melanie Valerio ‘87, Alyssa Kiel ‘05, Jerry Holtrey, and Cliff Walton were inducted. Our efforts as an Alumni Board throughout this year continue to focus on connecting with our current students to better understand how we can keep them engaged upon graduation and enhance the strong relationship with Hawken that they currently have. It is a treat to converse with them, hear of their exciting plans on the horizon, and ideally establish a foundation with them that continues once they leave Hawken. We also continue to focus on community outreach this year with a family volunteer effort at the Cleveland Food Bank. We believe it is important to positively impact the greater Cleveland community and be a good partner outside the grounds of Hawken – demonstrating to our current students who are so actively involved in community service that service is a core value of the Alumni Association. Much of our effort, of course, is directed to the Party of the Century and the Alumni Give Back Day, where we will have the distinct pleasure of listening, learning, and engaging with accomplished alumni who will give our students and the community the benefit of their unique knowledge and accomplishments. The efforts and energy going into the Centennial Weekend are tremendous and demonstrate the unique teamwork that exists in the Hawken community. Thank you in advance for your dedication and commitment. As an Alumni Board, we encourage all of you to make the effort to come to campus May 15-17, feel the palpable energy that exists with our current students and families, and reconnect with old classmates at an incredible celebration for the Party of the Century. Can’t wait to see you all there! Go Hawks!

Lisa Bercu Levine ‘85

2014-2015 Hawken Alumni Association Board President Lisa Bercu Levine ’85 Vice President Shaquira Johnson ’94 Secretary Robert W. Mallett, III ’93 Board Members Richard H. Bole ’60 Brooke M. Buckley ’94 Morris Everett, Jr. ’56 Davis A. Filippell ’08 H.W. Birkett Gibson ’68 Nina Fazio Greenberg ’96 David H. Gunning ’85 Glen M. Guyuron ‘98 Josiah A. Haas ’99 James L. Hardiman, Jr. ’93 Brian D. Horsburgh ’06 David R. Horowitz ’04 Arvin Jawa ’89 R. Kirk Lintern ’98 Alan L. MacCracken, III ’92 Susan Yarus Meisel ’78 Jeffrey B. Milbourn ’94 Lauren R. Pacini ’59 Robert T. Page ’49 Sean T. Peppard ’91 Alana A. Rezaee, Esq. ’97 Marla Esgar Robbins ’75 Matthew A. Salerno ’92 Noam M. Schafer ’02 Benjamin M. Vodila ’99 Senior Representatives Langston D. Burton ’15 Benjamin P. Garnitz ’15 Elizabeth A. Horsburgh ’15

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First Thursdays With Peter:

Unique Seminars for Hawken Alumni & Friends Peter Scott’s seminar series for alumni and friends at the Gries

Center has been a fantastic success this year. Although remaining classes this year are fully enrolled, those interested, near and far, are encouraged to join us via free live webinar. Details are available at www.hawken.edu/firstthursdays.

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All The Rest: A Collection of Anecdotes, Stories, Memories, and Reflections Offered by Hawken Alumni and Their Teachers Edited by Peter Scott

Thanks to all who came out for the Alumni Board sponsored family community service event at The Cleveland Food Bank in early November. Hawken’s crew of alumni, parent, and student volunteers inspected over 18,850 boxes of medicine for safe distribution to those in need throughout Northeast Ohio.

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n Snipe hunting at Lyndhurst and wood-paneled station wagon rides... n Undefeated championship seasons and disastrous defeats against rival teams... n Spectacular senior pranks and scandalous dress code controversy... Over 300 proud members of our Alumni Association responded to Peter Scott’s ungraded (yet greatly appreciated) homework assignment last year asking for your stories and memories. Get your copy today by visiting www.hawken.edu/alumni or contacting the Alumni Office. Here’s to a second century of Fair Play and fond memories! 80

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alumni Alumni Give Back Day May 15, 2015: Begin the Centennial Weekend back in the classroom… As a special component of the Centennial Weekend in May 2015, the Alumni Board is organizing an engaging day of workshops, classes, and activities led by alumni for current students and faculty. For more information or to participate, visit www.hawken.edu/alumnigiveback. Here are just a few of our featured participants:

Natalie Hawwa ‘00, USAID Dart Team Press Officer Hawken lifer Natalie Hawwa lives in Washington, DC and works as a Communications Outreach Specialist for the US Agency for International Development Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID-OFDA). While at Hawken, Natalie was a passionate student and leader on the Field Hockey team. She went on to complete her undergraduate degree in Journalism and Italian Area Studies at Southern Methodist University and her Masters in Middle East studies at the American University of Beirut, where she focused on Palestinian NGO’s impact on the Middle Eastern peace processes and served as a Graduate Assistant for the Center for Arab and Middle East Studies (CAMES). Natalie worked with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Lebanon before joining USAID and recently completed an assignment as a Press Officer for the Disaster Assistance Response Team on the ground addressing the Ebola outbreak in Monrovia, Liberia. Natalie will lead a journalism workshop entitled: Telling Stories of Doing Good: Reporting from the World’s Humanitarian Fronts. Ken Roby ’81, Blacksmith and Musician After graduating from Hawken School, attending Montana State University’s Farrier Science program and completing his bachelor’s degree from Kent State University, Ken established himself as a professional farrier. As his interest in ironwork grew, Ken retired from a fifteen-year career shoeing horses to concentrate on the art of blacksmithing in the early 1990s. His work is widely known throughout Northeast Ohio and beyond. Ken has sponsored a number of senior projects over the years, and looks forward to sharing not only his blacksmithing skills in May, but also leading an American string music workshop with Laura Lewis Kovac, a Hawken parent and Electronic Communications Director in the School’s Marketing Department. Laura and Ken are members of a local band called “Mr. Haney.”

Carrie Franklin Cordero ‘93, Director of National Security Studies, Georgetown University Carrie Franklin Cordero was an engaged Hawken student in the classroom, on the track, and on the field hockey field. Fast forward through a B.A. (magna cum laude) from Barnard, and a J.D. (cum laude) from the Washington College of Law at American University, Ms. Cordero is now a Washington lawyer who owns a law and advisory practice, and holds appointments at Georgetown Law as an Adjunct Professor and the law center’s first Director of National Security Studies. Ms. Cordero spent the first part of her career in public service, including as Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for National Security, Senior Associate General Counsel at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and Attorney Advisor in the U.S. Department of Justice, where she practiced before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. She also served as a Special Assistant United States Attorney in the Northern District of Texas. Ms. Cordero will lead a workshop addressing national security and surveillance in a post Snowden world. Rich Stoddart ‘81, Chief Executive Officer of Leo Burnett - North America Although Rich has not been back to Hawken for years, his work as an advertising and marketing leader is familiar to many. Under his leadership with Leo Burnett North America, Rich and his team have delivered some of the most effective and talked about campaigns for blue-chip clients including “Mayhem” for Allstate, “What Will You Gain When You Lose?” for Kellogg’s Special K, and “Mean Stinks” for Procter & Gamble’s Secret. Rich speaks and lectures frequently on a variety of topics related to marketing, advertising, and leadership and looks forward to being back on campus leading workshops on creative marketing and communications.

alumni New York City Alumni Gather for Special Announcement New York City alumni gathered at the home of Jonathan Friedland ’86 and Shaiza Rizavi in September to catch up with Hawken friends and former teachers, Peter Scott and John Tottenham, on a beautiful Manhattan evening. Scott Looney updated the group on school news and the remarkable support that alumni have pledged to the Gates Mills Stirn Hall Building Initiative. It was fitting to have Peter Scott and John Tottenham in attendance, as it was also announced that the newly renovated Humanities Wing within Stirn Hall will be named for Peter and John, honoring their collective 65+ years of teaching at Hawken. For information on how to support the Peter Scott and John Tottenham Humanities Wing, please contact Kathleen Guzzi at kguzz@hawken.edu.

Matthew Young ’83, Peter Scott, Jonathan Friedland ’86, John Tottenham, and Scott Looney

NYC Alumni Welcome Coach Walton for Sunday Football

Atlanta Area Alumni Gather to Celebrate HAWKen Pride

While a love of Browns football clearly helped build momentum, November’s alumni gathering in New York City with Coach Cliff Walton was really just all about camaraderie and school spirit. Many thanks to David McCreery ’81 and Brian Horsburgh ’06 for helping to bring over 50 alumni and friends together for an afternoon of football and good fun.

Randy ’70 and Nancy Rizor hosted a cocktail dinner buffet at their lovely home on November 18th in Atlanta. This was the first such alumni gathering in the area and was well attended by more than 20 energized alumni and friends. Special guests brought in by Randy and Nancy included a red tail hawk and a red shoulder hawk, both of whom reside comfortably at Calloway Gardens.

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As we went to press, final plans were being laid for what promised to be a memorable Alumni Winter Luncheon. This year’s luncheon included an announcement that the Humanities Wing at Gates Mills will be named for Peter Scott and John Tottenham, a release and signing of All The Rest, welcoming back 2014 Bolton Award recipient, Rebekah Russell ’14, and the presentation of the 2014 Distinguished Alumni Awards.

2014 Distinguished Alumni Award Recipients

K.P. Horsburgh, Jr. ’65 Carl N. Holmes Award

2015 Alumni Award Nominations Now Being Accepted

Hamilton F. Biggar III ’66 (deceased) Richard W. Day Award

Peter G. Jacobson ‘81 Fair Play Award

2014 Honorary Alumni Awards

Is there an alumnus/na that you would like to nominate for an alumni award? Criteria and nomination forms for the Carl N. Holmes, Richard W. Day, and Fair Play Awards may be found on the Alumni webpage, and nominations may be emailed to alumni@hawken.edu. Awards will be presented at the Annual Alumni Winter Luncheon in December. Nominations must be received by October 2, 2015 for consideration. Gail Holtz Lower School Teacher

Athletes Return for Sports Day

Sara O’Neill Sullivan ‘87, Anna Sullivan ‘18, and Laura O’Neill Bower ‘93 paused for a Hawken legacy photo following a bristling first-half on the field hockey pitch.

Gary Moses Football Coach

In early August, alumni from across the decades returned to the Gates Mills Campus for a day of friendly competition with current students, healthy exercise, good sportsmanship, and rousing school spirit.

The mighty alumni chartreuse team handily outscored tough competition from the brilliant orange and royal blue teams.

Gabby Zuccaro ‘13, Kennedy Clyde ‘12, and Lindsay Kutash ’14 enjoyed reuniting on the volleyball court.

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Football alumni began the weekend on a frosty morning reviving their traditional fall golf outing.

Alumni Tailgate: A record turnout of alumni spanning 50+ years of proud Hawken spirit combined to kick off the weekend with resounding school spirit and camaraderie. Many thanks to all who came out! During the day, students decorated four Suburbans for the tailgate (one for each house: Ansel, Bolton, Chester, and Mather). Tailgate fare was served out of the back of each beautiful rig, but in the end it was Ansel House who won the vote for best decorations. Lower School Teacher Liane Beier, Bill Forsythe ‘84, Beth Forsythe, and Arvin Jawa ‘89

Suburban Painting on the Great Lawn

Senior Alumni Board Representative Langston Burton ’15 (sporting a Fandanna) plays sax with the pep band.

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HawkFest100: A crisp autumn afternoon provided the perfect setting for Hawken football and community celebration.

Senior Alumni Board Representative Liz Horsburgh ’15 adds some spirit for Aaron Brandt ‘86

Andrea Hocevar ‘01 and Eleanor Hitchcock Anderson ‘79 consoling Onion, who had just lost to the Hawk!

Andy Clyde ‘77, Mary Toomey Clyde ‘79, and Al Klauss ‘66

Matthew Friedman ‘86, Tammy Durn Doody ’85, and Steve Senkfor ‘77

Sisters Ann Esgar Conkle ‘78 and Marla Esgar Robbins ‘75

Lisa Bercu Levine ‘85, Meredith Weil ‘85, and Sam Weil ‘13

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alumni Honoring Hawken’s Alumni Veterans As the Hawken community joins together to celebrate our first 100 years, the School would like to honor all of its alumni who have served in any of the military service branches (Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, and Coast Guard) along with those who served in the Merchant Marines. This idea was conceived by Life Trustee Bill McCoy ’38, who noted that while Hawken has a memorial plaque proudly displayed in the Chapel dedicated to the 12 Hawken boys who died in World War II, we have not honored all the men and women who, over many decades, served our country in some military capacity. With the imminent renovation of the academic buildings on the Gates Mills campus over the next two years, a dedicated space - possibly a hallway, a common area, or garden - could pay tribute to these men and women, along with a plaque or virtual roster of all those who served.

Life Trustee Jeff Biggar ’68 has assembled a committee of alumni military veterans to implement a plan for bringing this concept to fruition. He has also engaged the Alpha Company, a student-run organization at Hawken that raises money to send care packages to active service men and women around the globe, to assist in researching the Hawken archives so that a comprehensive list of all military veterans can be compiled. We are asking all alumni to let us know if they, or any other Hawken alumni they have been in contact with over the years, have ever served in any of the military branches listed above. If parents or grandparents know of alums who have served, please also share this with us. Contact Jeff Biggar ’68 at biggar@hawken.edu or call 440-423-2084.

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alumni THE COTTAGE STAFF would like to thank Jeff Biggar ’68 not only for his contributions to this magazine but for all he has done to support us, individually and as a team. Much more than a special gifts officer for Hawken’s Development Office, Jeff is our “go to guy” whenever we need information, photographs, perspective, humor, or a kind word. His willingness to take, edit, and catalogue a myriad of beautiful photographs; verify facts from any number of sources; and spend countless hours well into the evening and on weekends to support his beloved alma mater is unsurpassed. A quintessential gentleman, Jeff’s love for Hawken School shines through in all that he does. For his endless patience, thoughtfulness, and dedication, we offer Jeff our most sincere gratitude and appreciation.

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Jef eff ef ff Big ggar 50th Reunion Fiftieth Reunion for Class of ’65: In the fall of 1961, two classes of boys, totaling about 70 students, were sent from the Lyndhurst Campus to the recently purchased Circle W Farm to become the new high school for Hawken. The Class of 1964 was sent as rising sophomores, while the Class of 1965 entered as freshmen. These young men soon set on their way to establishing new order where none existed before; they chartered their own paths guided or otherwise by Messrs. Relic, Young, Rickard, Robey, Pickering, Bresnicky, and Farwell, as well as the lovely Miss Kast. Together they launched the The AffNo, the Onyx and The Phalanx. They fielded the first varsity athletic teams, endured early defeats with determination to do better and in 1962 beat University School for the first time when Marty Feller ignored Coach Relic’s sign to

bunt by powering a home run over the fences! And they found their way back into civilization where the girls of HB, Laurel, and Shaker awaited. These were demanding times and these young men were up to the challenges. They graduated and went on to some of the best colleges in America. They became the legends of the Circle W Campus. It is fitting that when they graduated in 1965, Hawken was celebrating its 50th Anniversary and now, 50 years later, as they gather to mark their 50th Reunion in May 2015, Hawken celebrates with them by marking its 100th Anniversary.

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Sue Berlin

Jesse Bernstein

Martha Brown

Since retiring in June of 2010, Sue has “been almost as busy as I was when I was working full time, but it’s all good “stuff” that I choose to do. I serve on the Community Advisory Boards of ideastream, the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women at CWRU (I was one of the planners of the Gloria Steinem event and was lucky enough to have dinner with her, which took place at CWRU in late September of 2014), and the Kelvin Smith Library at CWRU. Since last spring, I’ve been working part-time (including during the summer months) at Hawken’s Lyndhurst Library. And finally, I am heavily involved with CWRU’s Association of Continuing Education Senior Scholars’ program (and loving every minute of it!), working on planning our Senior Scholars’ classes and being a student in them as well. For fun I visit my sons in NYC relatively often, travel on occasion, enjoy theatre and film, and, of course, read lots of books! Retirement is great (the only thing I miss is the students, but, on occasion, I sometimes see them as well)!”

From Florida, Jesse writes, “At the moment, I am still teaching Chemistry, at Miami Country Day School, through the Advanced Placement level. I continue to present workshops to chemistry teachers at the local (now South Florida) level as well as nationally and internationally. Furthermore, I have been consulting for the College Board for the newly revised AP Chemistry curriculum. In my ‘spare time’ my wife, Sandy, and I continue to enjoy the beautiful South Florida weather. In addition, we get to visit our grandchildren; Elsie, mom and dad (Jennifer Bernstein ’99 and Peter Huy), who live on the west coast of South Florida; and Lily and Casey, mom and dad (Dennis Bernstein ’96), who live in a suburb of Cincinnati. Over the past four summers we have travelled to Italy, Greece, Israel, Alaska, and Las Vegas. Certainly, we have been busy. Retirement will be coming fairly soon; yea!” Jesse also said that he plans to attend the Centennial celebration in May along with other members of the Bernstein family.

Martha writes in: “Hawken at one Hundred Years!! And I got to share a few. I live now on Skidaway Island off Savannah at The Marshes where I still push literature in its book club, sit on the Council – and rock. So hope to return for the Centennial....maybe with Texas daughter Kane who was a Hawken grad, 1976, in one of the first classes that had girls.”

Upper School Librarian 1997-2010

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Middle School English teacher 1969-1988

Kathy Carr

Associate Director of Middle School Admissions 1989-2005

Bruce Carr

Director of the Upper School 1974-1983, 1988

The Carrs “retired a few years ago and now live in Lyndhurst, right across from the Lyndhurst campus! We enjoyed working at Maumee Valley Country Day School as the last lap in our careers and now are very happy to be back ‘home.’ We are so fortunate to have 3 of our 4 ‘children’ living close by...our daughter, who lives with her family in Virginia, has to keep reminding us of how great the weather is there! We have 2 wonderful grandsons and will be the grandparents of a new baby girl in

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Jesse Bernstein

January! Bruce is playing in a band, being a photographer, and just very much enjoying retirement. I feel the same and stay busy seeing friends, enjoying reading, and being active in my church. We both love being grandparents...it’s pretty wonderful. We see Hawken folks all the time now that we are back in Cleveland and of course are so happy that our family was a part of the school community for so many years.”

Ann Dawson

Lyndhurst Librarian 1979-1991

Ann retired to Berkeley, California with her husband, Ronald, fourteen years ago. She would love to hear from Hawken friends at rondawson@gmail.com.

Anne Smith Wombwell deConingh

Lower School English Teacher 1974-1999

Anne is “busier than ever with volunteer activities. In Chagrin Falls I continue as Chair of the Parks Commission, cochair of the Beautification Committee, Secretary for the Friends of the Chagrin Falls Library, and have made a few forays into political issues. At the Church of the Covenant in University Circle, I have been a Deacon, Sunday school rotation teacher, Covenant News proofreader, Lay Worship leader, and with others, decorator of the sanctuary for the holidays. Also I continue to participate in events for the Village Garden Club of Shaker Heights. Finally, Ted (Hawken ’44) and I have traveled a little more, including his 65th Phillips

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Exeter Academy reunion and a blissful vacation at Green Turtle Cay in Abaco, Bahamas. In Cleveland, we have been dazzled by the world’s largest outdoor chandelier at Playhouse Square where Ted is a life trustee. We are both looking forward to seeing long-time friends, faculty, and students during the upcoming Centennial celebrations!”

Jim Gross

Lower School English and History Teacher and Associate Director of Lower School Admission 1973-2004

Jim shares, “Since retiring in 2004 – can’t believe 10 years have gone by already! – I’ve kept busy doing things close to home. No exotic travel, just trips to visit family up in ‘Wonderful Wisconsin’ and lots of trips around Ohio. I am quite involved with West Shore Meals on Wheels, which serves the communities of Fairview Park, Rocky River, and Westlake. I serve on its Executive Board as Purchasing Agent. Sold my condo in 2006 and bought a midcentury ranch in Rocky River with my partner, George. It’s just the right size for the two of us and our basset hound, Winston. Relaxing involves reading, house projects, and yard work. Looking forward to seeing members of the old “4G Gang” and other Hawken friends in May at the Party of the Century.”

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Lynn Horton

Upper School Science Teacher 2002-2007

Since leaving Hawken and moving to Pittsburgh (yes she “remains a true Browns fan in the face of Steelerdom!”), Lynn has taught in a variety of venues. “First I was at Robert Morris University as an adjunct science teacher teaching pre-med courses and attempting to do a little bit of research on the side. When a full time job opened up at Winchester Thurston School (Gary Niels, former Head of the Upper School is Head of School there), I jumped at the chance to go back to teaching high school. I’ve been there now for 3+ years and am teaching chemistry, biology, and two new (to me) courses - AP Psychology and a research based course called ‘Citizen Scientist.’ The latter allows me to connect with researchers in Pittsburgh and elsewhere to bring research projects for high school students into the classroom. It is a quite an exciting course to be pioneering! Winchester Thurston has a similar program (called City as our Campus) to Hawken’s which includes a block schedule and community outreach. It is a thrill to participate in getting our students involved beyond the walls of our school. In conjunction with that, I was in charge of a program similar to

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Bright Horizons (run by the incredible Nadja Deighan) which involves our students working with an after school program in an urban school district as mentors to their students. Other than work, I have had such roles as Girl Scout leader, VP of our local soccer program, and marching band mom. Additionally, my two kids Rick (would have been Hawken class of ‘15) and Mo (‘19) are thriving while also holding true to their Cleveland roots. We’ve been back to visit Cleveland often, and they miss our Hawken family! Rick will be graduating this year and is looking at possibly meeting up with some old Hawken classmates at college! He has gotten involved in musicals and theater along with band, and Mo follows in her brother’s footsteps playing percussion and is currently obsessed with soccer. The kids and I do hope to make it back for the Centennial activities (WT just celebrated 125 two years ago) in May and look forward to getting more information on that.”

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Pat Hosmer

Third Grade Teacher 1970-1990

Pat (mother of Liz ’84) continues to volunteer at Geauga Hospital, Geauga Park system, and church. She has tutored a deaf man, an Iranian lady, and inmates at the Geauga Jail. She has handwritten hundreds of letters for Amnesty International, donated 120 pints of blood, and achieved her wishes to serve on a jury and work at the polls. In 2012, she was inducted into the Chagrin Falls High School Hall of Fame for community service, and in 2013, Pat and her husband Wayne celebrated their 50th anniversary.

Rosetta Pavlik

Assistant to the Middle School Director1988-2012

Rosetta is “living in Sagamore Hills now with the Cuyahoga National Park in my backyard. My family and I spend time hiking and biking in the Summit County MetroParks and the National Park. We enjoy going to Broadway plays and attending plays in Cleveland and Akron. I miss seeing my Hawken friends on a daily basis; however, I do get to see them when I get called in to substitute for my lovely replacement, Amy [Lee].”

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Dale Porter

Lower School Physical Education Teacher 1991-2004

Catherine McCants Porter

Upper School Math 1989-1993 Lower School 2004

After Hawken, Dale was the PE instructor and Aquatics Director at St. John’s Country Day School in Orange Park, FL between 2004-2010 and was the Head Swim Coach for the school and club team. Since 2010, he has been the head age group coach for the Bolles School Sharks. “My duties include coaching the middle school swimmers and administration of the age group program and its coaching staff. I’ve enjoyed giving back to the coaching community by presenting talks at the 2012 World, 2013 Legends of Texas, and soon-to-take-place 2014 World Swimming Coaches Clinics. It has been fun taking lessons learned from Jerry Holtrey and Rick Stacy to Jacksonville, FL. We are enjoying a great deal of success, earning USA

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Swimming’s Gold Medal status the past 4 years. Catherine spent a few years part time at St. John’s Country Day School in Orange Park, FL, and then taught two years at her high school alma mater, P.K. Yonge High School, Gainesville, FL. Catherine has taught high school math for Clay County Schools since 2008. We said goodbye to Maggie ’14 this year. She graduated from St. John’s Country Day School as a National Merit Scholar and elected to attend the University of Central Florida on a full academic scholarship. Jacob ’16 is thriving academically at Fleming Island High School in their AICE program (Cambridge). He enjoys participation within their music programs and swim team. Congratulations on your Centennial celebration. Hard work pays off. All four of us have fond memories of our time at Hawken. We value the foundations established and miss the people. Hawken has been good to the Porters.”

AnnElla Rasper

Lower School English and History Teacher1980-1996

Since retiring from teaching fourth grade at Hawken, AnnElla and her husband Dick “have been active in the children’s program and the pre-marital counseling ministries at our church. We are also active in the senior programs at the center in Chesterland. We have 10 grandchildren, nine of them are boys. I treasure my days of teaching at Hawken and the precious memories of all the wonderful children that came into my classroom. I will never forget those wonderful experiences.”

George Roby

recently at the Valley Art Center in Chagrin Falls and in 2015 will move to Lake Erie College and to the Hawken Upper School (March 30 to April 24). It will include public forums to talk about the show and Alzheimer’s disease (for both students and adults). Life is good.”

P.K. Saha

Upper School English and History Teacher1957-1962

After leaving Hawken, P.K. pursued a doctorate in English and linguistics and then taught at Case Western Reserve University for 30 years before retiring in 1994. He lives in Shaker Heights with his wife Ginger and maintains contact with former students from Hawken.

Chair of the Arts Department 1969-1996

George writes “After my wife Sue died of Alzheimer’s this spring, I am gradually getting back into the studio and making pots. It feels good. Also, we continue to move the exhibit ‘Art Interprets Alzheimer’s’ around northeast Ohio and Pennsylvania, hoping to increase awareness about this disease through art. The exhibit was

Hawken loves to hear from former faculty – please send news to Eleanor H. Anderson ’79 at eande@hawken.edu.

n Memoriam I R e m e m b e r i n g Fe l l o w A l u m n i , Fa c u l t y, S t a f f, Pa r e n t s , & Tr u s t e e s

Edward W. “Ted” Garfield, Jr. ’45 Passed away on July 21, 2014. Ted attended Hawken School in grades one through eight and then went to St. Paul’s School. He earned degrees from the University of Rochester and Baker University. He served in the United States Army from 1953 until 1955. In the 1950s, Ted was a teacher at Hawken School for one year. He was associated with several travel agencies, including Venture Travel, as a licensed travel agent. Ted was also the retired owner of Edward Garfield Insurance. In the civic community, Ted was active in the Fraternal Order of Eagles for more than 20 years. He served as secretary and president. Ted was preceded in death by his parents, Mary and James R. Garfield II, and his brother, James R. Garfield III. He is survived by his partner, Richard Lee Mesnick; siblings, Dana A. Garfield, Timothy D. Garfield, and Sally Garfield; and children, Edward Garfield III, Susan Hawley, Elizabeth Klanae, and Marjory Theobald. Robert L. Sterling, Jr. ’48 Passed away on September 22, 2014.

Melhado Flynn and Associates. He was active in the community and served on numerous boards, including Lennox Hill Hospital, The Norton Museum of Art, The Preservation Society, the Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach, and the Community Chest United Way of Palm Beach. He was on the International Advisory Board of the Museum of Modern Art (Modern Art Oxford) in Oxford, England.

Bo was preceded in death by his mother, Louinia Mae Whittlesey, and his sister, Robin Lee Whittlesey. He is survived by his brother, David W. Whittlesey ’64; children, Catherine W. Comstock and John W. Whittlesey; and three grandchildren.

Robert is survived by his wife, Joyce Lanier Milner Sterling; three sons, Robert Livingston Sterling, William Lee Sterling, and Cameron Platt Sterling; six grandchildren; a sister, Cynthia Cleminshaw; and nephew, Andrew Cleminshaw.

Charley attended Hawken in grades one through 12. While at the Upper School, he was a member of the soccer, tennis, and basketball teams. Charley served as captain of the basketball team during his senior year. He also participated in Glee Club, was a feature writer for the Onyx, and was president of Student Council. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University and a Certification in Elementary Education from SUNY New Paltz. Charley’s mother, Janet, worked in Hawken’s Lyndhurst Admission office from 1961 until 1981.

Robert H. “Bo” Whittlesey II ’60 Passed away on September 13, 2014. Bo attended Hawken School in kindergarten through grade nine. While a student at Hawken, he participated in choir and was the editor of the Lower and Primary School Hawken Journal. He graduated from University School. Bo received a B.A. from Case Western Reserve University and an M.B.A. from University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.

Robert attended Hawken School and University School. He was a graduate of The Gunnery, Brown University, and Columbia University Graduate School of Business. He served as an officer in the United States Naval Air Force.

He was employed in investment banking by Northwest Industries and LaSalle Partners. Bo was also managing director of Hargreaves and Company. He had an interest in medicine and later earned an M.S. in neurobiology and physiology from Northwestern University.

An investment company executive, Robert was employed as a manager and senior vice president of Shearson Lehman Brothers; a vice president of White, Weld and Company and JP Morgan Chase; and an executive vice president of

Bo’s passions were music and sailing. He sang with the Kenilworth Union Church choir and served as a supernumerary at the Lyric Opera. He also sailed in Chicago Yacht Club’s Race to Mackinac five times.

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Charles M. “Charley” Hoerr ’65 Passed away on November 9, 2014.

For 34 years, Charley was a member of the staff at the Children’s Center of New Paltz. He was a writer, musician, philosopher, and storyteller. Charley was preceded in death by his brother, Stanley O. Hoerr, Jr. ’56. He is survived by his sister, Joan Schilling; brother, Mark Hoerr; and many nephews and nieces. Richard R. White ’66 Passed away on November 2, 2014. Richard entered Hawken in 1960. As an upper school student he was a member of the chess club and participated in track, football, and wrestling. He was also manager of the football and wrestling teams. After

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attending Hanover College, he earned a Ph.D. from Washington University in Saint Louis. Richard began his profession as a pathologist in New York and Geneva. He and his wife, Josiane, moved to France where Richard worked for Solvay. He then became a health scientist consultant for French biotech and Swiss ophthalmology companies. He performed research on diseases of the eye. He was passionate about rowing and was a top-ranked world indoor rower. He was only one of five individuals to complete the round the world row. Richard is survived by his wife, Josiane, two sons, and a brother, David A. White ’65. Benton K. “Ben” Henkel ’85 Passed away on June 30, 2014. Ben attended Hawken School in grades four through 12. During his Upper School years, Ben was elected captain of both the football and baseball teams. He earned a B.A. from Cleveland State University. Ben pursued a career in social services. He was a recreation coordinator at the Cosgrove Center, an outreach coordinator at the Boys & Girls Club of Cleveland, and worked in Patient Services at the Cleveland Clinic. Ben enjoyed traveling to a variety of locations including Vail, Cheyenne, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Guaymas, Mexico. He had a strong interest in environmentalism and preservation. He developed a passion for the outdoors and enjoyed canoe trips in Canada. Building upon

his athleticism, Ben trained for and completed in two marathons, the CVS Marathon in Cleveland and the New York City Marathon. Ben is survived by his parents, Sally and Oliver “Pudge” Henkel, and his brothers, Peter Henkel ’82 and David Henkel ’88. Frank Stone Trautman Passed away on June 16, 2014. Frank was a member of the Hawken School faculty from 1962 until 1971. He attended Ohio University from 1941 to 1943 and was a member of the United States Army Reserves. Frank was called to active duty in 1942. He fought in the Battle of the Bulge in 1944 and his unit was captured. He was held as a POW in Stalag IX B Bad Orb until liberated by Allied Forces in the spring of 1945. Following his service to the country, Frank completed his education at Marietta College with a degree in petroleum engineering. He then went on to earn a master’s degree from Antioch College. Early in his career, Frank was a petroleum engineer. He discovered a passion for education and then taught math and science in both private and public schools systems, including Hawken School, Colorado Academy, Greenville Middle School, and Brush High School until retirement. He was a member of the Sons of American Revolution, Sons of Union Veterans and the Order of Cincinnatus. Frank is survived by his children, Susan Lee Trautman, Michael Stone Trautman ’72, and Jonathan Keener Trautman; and four grandchildren.

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100 Thoughts on Fair Play

In honor of Hawken’s Centennial, this issue of the Review features 100 samplings of what Fair Play means to members of our community. The responses, which came from various alumni, current and former parents, and current and former faculty members, are a testament to how James A. Hawken’s simple, two-word rule book has impacted their lives.

Fair plla ay a y Respecting the school: respecting our peers, our teachers, our coaches, the hallowed halls, and ourselves. – Meredith Allenick ’08 “Do unto others,” treat people with respect always. In the business world, make every deal “win-win” and have zero tolerance for bullying. – Don Allman ’70

Fair Play to me is the opportunity that everyone who attends Hawken has to achieve their goals. I think Hawken does a great job creating an environment that encourages student success without compromising any ethical or moral standards. The school achieves this by giving everyone the tools (caring teachers, up-to-date sports equipment, cutting edge technology, community outreach/contacts, etc.) that students need to reach their goals while at Hawken and beyond. It is then up to the student, how they chose to use those tools, to continue to provide opportunities for Fair Play and a higher plane of life to the next generation. – Nicole Berry ’12

community I remember being surprised to see our Hawken class ring featured Fair Play in larger letters and more visibly than the school name. Several of the class of 1964 suggested we really attended Fair Play High School! Fifty years later I vividly recall the motto. As a long term public and non-profit agency employee in Maine and Washington State, I want to believe that Fair Play helped guide ethical decision-making. – David Bittenbender ’64

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Doing the right thing without regard to personal gain or benefit. – Jeff Biggar ’68 To me, Fair Play means treating every person as a valuable member of this community. – Leslie Blum, Hawken parent

Fair Play means having outstanding character in order to create a better world. – Christina Brosovich ’14 Fair Play means making choices that may not always lead to the greatest immediate benefit, but instead consider the wider implications to your community. – Andrew Bruml ’04 Equitable or impartial treatment of others. Justice for all. – William E. Bruner ’67 Fair Play as a motto/mission statement is half as long as FedEx, two-thirds as long as Yale’s but 100% longer than Harvard’s. However, it is devilish because while most people have a pretty good understanding of what it means, until you think about it, you realize that its meaning is unique to each and every one of us. Only you know what it means to play fair in any given situation, either one you are observing or one in which you are participating. Thus, Fair Play becomes

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a personal guide, a lodestone, and that has been its special meaning to me in the 60 years since I first heard it. – John B. Calfee, Jr. ’60 Fair Play means using personal integrity in all life’s dealings and expecting the same from others. – Neil Clipsham ’56 Fair Play means putting your head down and working hard to be your best self without any excuses or shortcuts. Fair Play means possessing the skills to identify a problem and the bravery to be an agent of change in that situation. – Samantha Clyde ’10 Building a community of learners with respect for all. “Shall we, upon the footing of our land, Send fair play orders and make compromise [...]?” Shakespeare, King John, V, I. – Nadia Chowdhry, Hawken parent Doing the right thing when it may not be to your advantage and no one is watching you. – Andrew Cleminshaw Hawken faculty Fair Play means integrity. – Jock Collens ’31 - II

integrity To approach life in a reasonable and balanced way, with an equitable respect for diversity, differences and shared perspectives. – Douglas Cohen ’74 Fair Play calls to mind memories from a better day, and the reevaluation of morals and social mores that facilitate inculcation in a community, a loving and concerned community. After years of dealing with

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illness, the epiphany arose that Fair Play applies when walking those hallowed halls, composing an essay or piece of music, or just playing battleball at a summer camp. Fair Play means standing on even keel with one’s classmate and friend and addressing him or her as an equal. It follows that those relations between Hawks, old and new, are played out on even ground with the tradition and ethic of the scarlet and gray. Those fair afternoons in the fall are a far ways off from where I stand now, but I owe my academic and moral standing to Hawken. And having strayed too far from the belief “That the better self shall prevail, and each generation introduce its successor to a higher plane of life,” Fair Play, to me, represents recovery and reintroduction to a life of intellectual pursuit. – Timothy Cox ’02 Believing in equality and honesty in all aspects of one’s life. – Karen Warner Coyner ’83 Fair Play means the “Golden Rule.” We take care of each other and appreciate each other’s differences. It is the cornerstone of Hawken. It is not to be forgotten, but embraced! – Barb Dlugosz Hawken faculty and past parent Being kind and considerate of others at all times. – Eric E. Eglin ’91 Fair Play means letting everyone play. It does not matter how well they play. Just play fair. – Ben Elenin ‘22 That our volunteer time include ways to “level the playing field” for those less fortunate. For me this focus has been on public school education that has been significantly underfunded and not supported with needed volunteer involvement. – Whitney Evans ’51, Life Trustee

An equal playing field with all participants given the same opportunity to advance and succeed in any given activity or event. – Donald Fann, Hawken parent It is a spirit of honesty with one’s self and with the situation. It favors honesty over expedience. It is cooperative and seeks solutions in this spirit. It represents the honest, hard work that happens behind the scenes. And it translates into the ethical choices for our public and private choices. – David Farmer ’88 The ability to always be able to view the world from the eyes and perspective of those who one is engaged with in order to be balanced, engaged and reasonable. Being able to be opposed but engaging at the same time. – Dennis P. Fisco ’73 Have always revered this motto since it proffers the expectation of personal integrity but more importantly implies the need for a concern for others. One must not profit at the expense of others! – Charles A. Fitz-Gerald ’65 To me, Fair Play means engaging the world with both integrity and passion, two virtues I learned and cultivated during my 13 years at Hawken and will carry with me forever. – Aric Floyd ’14 High integrity, true empathy, and good karma. – Gioia Garden ’07 Treat others the way you want to be treated; then you cannot go wrong!! – Jackie Gillespie Hawken Former Faculty

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Conducting oneself with high character. Honest without hesitation, mannerly, and always trying your best. – Dan Grajzl, Hawken parent We are expected to add value to this world and expect the same of others around us. – Joshua Greene ’04

honesty Fair Play means to me that all of your interactions and transactions in life are conducted so that you would have no hesitation to their being made public in social media or on the front page. – Bob Gries ’44 “Fair Play” is the motto we tried to live by while at Hawken and we took with us when we graduated. Specifically, it means that we treat those that we encounter on a daily basis, whether in a personal or business setting, in a manner that is fair, nice, professional and courteous. – David H. Gunning II ’85 Fair Play is more than a slogan or pitch; it’s a call to action. To be kind, caring, and to act with integrity. Fair Play challenges each of us to think more and to be the best version of ourselves. Even 10+ years removed from my 13 years at Hawken, this is a message I still carry with me every day. – Hunter Haas ’02 Fair Play means that the entire community is welcomed and praised for being the individuals they are. Hawken students are taught to accept differences and strive in the arena (academic, athletic, social, and arts) that they are interested in. – Josiah Haas ‘99 Fair Play is the Hawken way, embodying respect and integrity for yourself, others, and the institution you represent. – Andrea Hocevar ’01

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Ethical behavior; veil of ignorance; Kant’s categorical imperative. – Frank Henry ’69 To me, it signifies that the rules and our behaviors, whatever they may be, are applied equally to all people where, given the advantage, we make the most of opportunities, but not at the expense of leaving the other person or the world worse off than before you encountered them. – David Hexter ’90 To me, Fair Play represents a yardstick that I should use to evaluate all actions I take in units of honesty, respect and compassion – Dick Hodges ’68 It means that Mr. Stevens is scolding us because we have not considered the fairness of our thoughts and actions before expressing or implementing them. – Frank Holden ’55 Fair Play means be fair to people and make sure you include people and no one feels sad. Don’t brag, and let people play with you. – Maeve Ialacci ’25 Honesty, and a way of doing things that differentiates students from all their other peers! – Peter Holmes, Hawken past parent To me, Fair Play is much like building character or appreciating nature. By this, I mean that it is an equal opportunity open invitation to all regardless of intellect, skill, class, achievement, or ability. It represents a relationship of trust, acceptance, and inclusivity. To me, Fair Play also stands for engagement and empowerment, as in “you cannot just be a bystander.” – Todd Horn ‘73 Fair Play, to me, is a conscience. It’s a gentle, persistent reminder that my actions must reflect the impact I wish to leave on others. In addition, this component of my character is exemplified in my intentions as well as my deeds.

Fair Play is greater than just me, and I come alive knowing I am contributing to a movement greater than myself. I have Hawken to thank for that greater understanding of my impact on our world. – Drew Horsburgh ’05 Living your life with honesty and integrity, no matter the consequences. – Peter Horvitz ’72 There are two main aspects to the way I think about Fair Play. The first is just the Golden Rule: Do unto others what you would have them do unto you. More simply stated, play nice. The second is that in any situation you would not mind if your actions were broadcast on television, tweeted to all your friends, published on the front page of the newspaper, and told to your mother and grandmother. In other words, we know what is right and fair in most situations, and Fair Play means taking those actions all the time, whether somebody is watching or not, whether we will “get caught” or not. – Steve Ingrassia, Hawken faculty Fair Play is how you pattern your life; you have an innate knowledge of what is right and wrong, and choose to do right. – Scott Inkley ’36 I was fortunate in that my parents instilled the virtues of Fair Play in me before Hawken. I can remember in my Hawken interview with Dick Day how he talked about how Fair Play was a core virtue at Hawken, and in my subsequent discussions with Pete Relic and other Hawken faculty and coaches, this concept was reinforced. I would like to think that even today Fair Play is a critical concept in my life experiences with family, friends and in my business practices. I feel fortunate to have this as an imprint on my life. – Charles N. Jordan ’65

dignity Participating in any school activity or extracurricular activity wherein all peers are treated with respect, dignity and with a duty of care towards one another. – Andrew Joyce, Hawken parent

ethics Fair Play is a statement of overall living with other people and what you do in life. It’s the one thing that has stuck with me for almost 100 years! – Frank Judson ’31 - II Hawken levels the playing field for its students and students level the playing field for all whom they meet – creating a “Fair Play” atmosphere. Hawken teachers work very hard to challenge each student in ways that lead to growth. Students may occasionally not like or be ready for advice offered by faculty or staff at a particular time or place, but each student should at least feel that the goal was to treat them fairly. In order to meet everyone’s needs in the classroom, extra time to work on basic concepts will be required for some, or for others, thinking outside the box and the lesson is heartily encouraged. Academics, extra help sessions, special interest activities and clubs, athletics, advisory programs, service opportunities, sit-down meetings with teachers – all work to promote success and to explore growing edges so everyone feels that he/ she has a fair chance at succeeding at Hawken. In return, our students become agents of growth and compassion as they interact with each other, with teachers, and with the community that surrounds Hawken. I have seen this time after time in middle school service projects, for example, where Hawken students have responded to community needs by educating themselves about societal challenges such as homelessness, poverty, natural disasters and environmental degradation, and then responded by taking action and “showing up” personally - visiting shelters, homes for the elderly, inner-city preschool programs, environmental clean-up sites, agencies for homeless families - and making a real difference. Students worked at leveling the playing field for others who were at a vulnerable time in their lives, who have been victims, who thought that others did not care, who thought that the local river would forever be lined with trash, who thought that they were forgotten. Our

students’ actions assured them that even if life had not seemed to be fair, we would work hard to change that perception – assuring them that we would be their friend, their surrogate big brother or sister, or perhaps simply a sign that the larger community had not forgotten about them. – Bob Kachurek Hawken faculty and past parent As a graduate of Hawken, I view Fair Play as an opportunity to keep the values that Hawken instilled in me with me through any trials I may face. Fair Play means treating everyone how you want to be treated and giving anyone an equal opportunity to succeed. In teaching undergraduate classes at Miami University, I have focused on treating each student equally, just as Hawken teachers did, and giving them all the resources to thrive. – Julia Kaesberg ’10 For me, Fair Play means using one or more principles consistently and without prejudice to guide ethical choices. Our society’s contemporary treatment of nonhuman animals on farms, in laboratories, for fur, for entertaining, and other human-centered purposes can only be defended by violating any principles of justice that we might claim to revere. These include the Golden Rule (do to others as we would like done to us), opposition to oppression and cruelty, and defense of the weak. I don’t see how we can inspire humanity to address pressing cultural, economic, and environmental concerns without a set of common values, but any value or values that might be proposed is fundamentally undermined by the unjust, massive mistreatment of nonhuman beings, for at least two reasons. First, tolerating (or even financially supporting) animal abuse makes a mockery of those principles. Second, it is easy to shift the arbitrary boundary between human and animal to human and “lower” human and then abuse those “lower” humans. – Stephen R. Kaufman, MD ’77

For me, Fair Play means looking at an issue from multiple perspectives in order to come to an understanding of what everybody needs, and why. – Sara Kelley-Mudie, Hawken faculty Fair Play means doing the Right Thing regardless of potentially harsh or challenging consequences. I’ve never defined it so succinctly but that’s what’s up, as noted by an old Fair Play article. – Christopher King ’83 The antithesis of “foul” play, Fair Play signifies strong character and integrity in all personal and professional pursuits. – Ben Kaufman ’98 Putting forward your own honest work and making sure that everyone around you is also able to put forward the best work too. – Maeve Kolk ’15 To me, Fair Play means caring about other people’s wants and desires along with your own. It is a principle that can guide you to the right course of action in both your personal and professional lives. – Michael Laks ’08

mindfulness Everyone is treated the same. – Angel Lawrence, Hawken parent Fair Play is the ability to thrive and compete at your highest level with those that challenge you and sharpen you as an individual. My classmates, teachers, and experiences at Hawken embodied this meaning, challenging me and sharpening me to allow my better self to prevail. – Sheronda M. Lawson ’02 Honoring the value of everyone as we co-create a more abundant future. – Jackie Acho LeMay Hawken parent

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Fair Play epitomizes Hawken and is one of its unique attributes. Integrity, a selfless, team-first mentality, and a great sense of camaraderie were just some of the intangibles that I took from my sports experience at Hawken and that exemplified Fair Play. – Lisa Bercu Levine ’85

equality FAIR PLAY is the best ever mission statement for a school. It is short and direct. It suggests that the give and take is important, that outcome is not primary, that life itself is a kind of elaborate game in which how we play is of daily and critical value. I love seeing it on the walls of the school now, just as I did when I was a student at Hawken myself. – Richard Lightbody ’65 Fair Play puts character in an actionable context. So simple and still so profound when you think about it during a single moment, day, or lifetime. – James “Deej” Lincoln ’91 Just because you have an advantage does not mean that you should enforce your will on the other person. – Kirk Lintern ’98 Giving your best in all you do, while adhering to your values and respecting others. – John Lis ’83

kindness A lot of us do the “right thing” because it is easy, or because it will mean recognition, or because it will not be detrimental to our own interest. True Fair Play means doing the right thing even when it is not to your immediate benefit, and even when you know no one is watching. – Neil Mehta, Hawken parent

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Recognizing and respecting the needs of the individual. – Kathie Mac Ewan Hawken faculty and past parent Honoring play and competition as a means of re-creation (becoming our better selves) and re-juvenation (made young and innocent again). Of course, there is no place or reason for unfairness if these are the goals of play and competition! – Dan Mesh, Hawken faculty I was fortunate to build a foundation for Fair Play while at Hawken, where Fair Play was encouraged and modeled through academics, athletics and social interaction. To me, Fair Play is about giving back, especially to those less fortunate. We are all extremely lucky to have been born in a prosperous time, in an era where free thought is encouraged and to families that supported the pursuit of higher education. Many of us give back through community involvement, through philanthropy, or even through spending a bit of extra time with family. I am grateful to have followed a career path in creating Trumpet Behavioral Health, which provides clinical services for individuals with autism and developmental disabilities. At TBH we live a life of Fair Play and provide assistance to families in need every day. When born with the gifts we have, it seems only Fair to provide some extra help to those that may not be so lucky. – Chris Miller ’89 Fair Play is treating people the way you would want to be treated if your roles were reversed. Fair play is one of the standards that a modern society should be judged upon, for without it decency and honesty are lost. – ML Miller, Hawken parent The ability of an individual to think and act from the perspective of another individual, which requires abilities such as mindfulness, emotional awareness, honesty, confidence, considerateness, empathy and moral courage. – Andrea & Patric Mueller Hawken parents Marc Mueller ’20

It means everyone is given a chance. – Jay Murphy Hawken parent Fair Play is doing the right thing regardless of whether it benefits you, or whether anyone else will ever know what you did. It’s treating others with respect above all else, even if they do not afford you that respect in return. Fair Play is working to make your better self prevail, regardless of the circumstances, and holding yourself accountable to that standard. Fair Play is having the courage to be honest, to stand up for your ideals, and to admit it when you are wrong. In short, living up to the spirit of Fair Play means demonstrating good character in everything you do. – Cecile Murray ’11

balance Opportunity for all.

– Paru Nanjundiah Hawken parent

To me, Fair Play is about the respect that I have for all individuals. No matter the race, gender, sexual orientation, etc., each human deserves equality. While this may seem simple, it is something that too many people neglect. I am thankful for the values Hawken, and its motto, has instilled in me. – Spencer Olson ’13 When somehow, kindness or understanding, wisdom or respect moderate and inform expectation, execution, and consequence in our relationships. – Penny Orr Hawken former faculty Integrity in all matters.

– Bob Page ‘49

Fair Play is understanding the balance of individual and community. Fair Play respects the fact that each individual needs to grow and prosper in life, in love, in relationships and in one’s career. Individual growth can coincide with the growth of the community as a whole. A crucial part of that is understanding when it’s time to step up to the plate in order to help others when they are falling behind. Achieve as a team or suffer the blow all alone. When we take what we need and share what we want, we all can achieve together as a team! – Skylor Powell ’05 Fair Play to me means that you don’t try to take advantage of anything or anyone. By abiding by Fair Play, we create a learning environment in which everyone has the chance to succeed and do great things. – Sam Rao ’15 Honoring the game by following the rules, respecting your opponents, playing your best, supporting your teammates, and leaving your regrets on the field of play. – Rodger Rickard Hawken former faculty Fair Play means paying attention to the whole and acting in service of wholeness and health. This includes integrating diverse parts, continually creating authentic ways of relating, and responding to feedback from the environment. The success of any organized unit, such as the Hawken community or the selves we bring forth into the world, requires Fair Play in order to evolve and thrive. Lisa Rome ’05 Fair Play means allowing all participants to reach their full potential, understanding and accepting that each participant’s potential can be different. – Kathleen Russell, Hawken parent

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As a teacher at Hawken, I am very grateful for the positive, inclusive, and affirming culture of our community. Hawken lives the motto Fair Play. When I enter the building each day, I experience smiling faces, warm greetings, and a friendly, supportive climate that characterizes the School. Above all, the spirit of Fair Play is evident in the respect among students, faculty, and staff where each person is a valued member of the community. Fair Play is embracing diversity, leading with empathy, acting with integrity, finding a passion, and making a difference.

Fair Play means that everyone (student and faculty) is given an equal opportunity to succeed. Hawken Middle School athletics exemplifies this concept with its no-cut policy and the fact that every child is encouraged to play a sport regardless of his/her previous experience or performance. The same is true in the classroom. Students are given the tools to succeed in tests and papers. Excellent opportunities for training allow the teachers as well to improve and succeed. – Melissa Schneider, Hawken parent

Fair Play is feeling safe in being yourself and knowing that all within the community stand by Hawken’s original goal -“That the better self shall prevail and each generation introduce its successor to a higher plane of life.” Finally, Fair Play gives every child the right to forward-focused preparation for the real world through the development of character and intellect. Fair Play is the Hawken experience! – Pam Richmann, Hawken faculty

For the past 18 years we’ve been simulating a mock court in our Hawken 7th grade classroom. For the past eight years we’ve had two incredible public servants preside over the court as our judges. Jeff Ehrbar is magistrate on the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court bench and a Hawken parent (Eli ‘18). The Honorable Kristin Sweeney is an elected judge for that same court. At the end of every proceeding with our 7th Graders Jeff and Kristin do a brilliant job of commenting on the performance of each student. It is done with such thoughtfulness and sincerity (and with no time to prepare), and I see each child glow with pride knowing they worked hard in a challenging exercise to do the best they could. I believe this is a sterling example of Fair Play, taking every opportunity to say to every student, every player, every person in our community - you did a really good job because you gave it your best effort! – Jim Scully Hawken faculty and parent

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Fair Play to me means doing what is true to your heart that will lead to the betterment of you and your peers. It’s a simple two word phrase that can pave the way for trusting and long-lasting relationships. – Ryan Sala ’11 The obvious: integrity, respect, play by the rules. The less-obvious: we are all given the same opportunities to succeed. – Matt Salerno ’92 Fair Play means recognizing the dignity inherent in every human and leading with equality. – Megan Saxelby Hawken former faculty

“Doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.” - C.S. Lewis – David Selman, Hawken parent Equal opportunity. – James Hawken Smeed ’43

It’s one of my central guiding principles right next to the Golden Rule. – Ted Schaefer ’67

The Golden Rule: in practice daily, in all situations. – Lilly Slater, Hawken parent

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empathy Behaving ethically. – Allison Snyder, Hawken parent To me, Fair Play means the unwavering commitment to doing the right thing no matter how compelling the case might be to do something else. It has empowered me to look beyond a rule book, the expeditious approach, and how things have always been done to seek the right solution for the right reasons. – Carl Smith ’74 I think that Fair Play means that everybody in the community is given opportunities to grow and learn, with the understanding that failing may be a possibility, but that the community will not shame someone for attempting, and successes can be spread throughout the community. It’s a cyclical phrase that I believe demonstrates Hawken’s commitment to opportunities for responsibility, knowledge, support, and growth within the community. – Emily Staufer ’15 In opening his new school on Ansel Road 100 years ago, James Hawken had eschewed any formal handbook of regulations for the faculty and students. Rather, he chose to have a “Fair Play” sign permanently displayed in each classroom. Given the enduring mandate of its founding Headmaster’s credo, was it not inevitable that Hawken School would later be the first private school in Cleveland to enroll and African-American student? That matriculation occurred three years before the 1963 founding of A Better Chance, the national program to introduce promising students of color to financial assistance opportunities in independent schools. – Doug Stenberg, Headmaster 1976-1991

At its most basic level, Fair Play means doing the right thing. Striving to be professionally courteous, to be civic minded, and treat others as you would like to be treated. Fair Play includes listening, teaching, mentoring, and advising when appropriate, but also advocating, in a respectful manner, when required. Fair Play should be an affirmation of one’s daily life rather than a mere ideal viewed in a picture frame hung on a classroom wall. – Rob Trattner ’85 Fair Play is living in a community where individuals are known and respected for the contributions they make to that community; while being challenged to grow and learn. The individual understands that they are responsible for knowing and respecting the contributions of the other members of the community. This occurs in the classroom, the playing field, and in interactions in and beyond the school itself. Fair Play is about deep, meaningful, and supportive relationships and the personal skills and understandings that make these relationships possible. – Kevin Sweeney, Hawken faculty Mutual Respect. – Lora Thompson, Hawken parent Performing an act or action because it is the right thing to do even if it may be disadvantageous to your own position. – Michael Stone Trautman ’72 It’s a way of life.

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Relying on your own strengths and inner talents to succeed, rather than allowing advantages provided by external circumstances to measure the value of your contribution. – Jodi Rosen Wine ’78 As a former Middle School Director at Hawken, I quickly learned that Fair Play meant that students receive what they need to be successful. This understanding challenges the contemporary belief that Fair Play means that everyone “gets the same thing.” The needs of students differ just as much as their native abilities differ from each other. During my tenure at Hawken, I came to realize that serving the needs of students meant providing them with ways to succeed that honored their

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individual talents and abilities. Hawken’s motto of Fair Play still, to this day, informs every decision I make as an administrator, parent, and human being. Sheepishly, I admit that on my last day at Hawken, I took the Fair Play sign that hung in my office with me. It now has a place of honor in our home in Cincinnati, reminding me (and my family) what matters most in life. For this, I will be forever grateful... – Bill Waskowitz Hawken former faculty

– Laurence Trotter ’02

Fair play, to me, means even footing for all, and respect for all involved. No advantage given, no disadvantage exploited, and common knowledge that you have just as much right as the next person to be there, to be heard, and to have the chance to succeed. – Christopher Washington ’89

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Every child on the team gets a chance to play no matter what. – Crysta Willis, Hawken parent

We become our best selves, as we better our world. – Jennifer Wenz ’08 Fair Play means that the adults in the Hawken community give the same level of respect and trust to their students as is given the other way around. – Isabella White ’15 To me, Fair Play means opportunity. The opportunity to participate in our community and find their “better selves.” – Chase Williams, Hawken faculty

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