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More than 300 parents, faculty, staff, and friends of Seattle Country Day School reserved their seats for our annual auction, A Night to Fly, on May 13. Our destination this year was a fun-filled evening in support of SCDS. This top-flight event was especially memorable for its venue, Seattle’s Museum of Flight. Guests could experience the flight simulators, explore the Museum as they browsed the silent auction items, or simply enjoy a cocktail in the Sky Lounge. At dinner, passengers moved upstairs where they were greeted by the flicker of landing lights and flight attendants. Auctioneer Larry Taylor brought his wonderful enthusiasm to the evening, helping SCDS raise over $200,000 including a recordbreaking amount in the Raise the Paddle for athletics. Soccer guru and well-known coach Peter Fewing spoke about the importance of athletics, and Captain Michael Murphy revealed our new mascot, the Wildcats! Bursting in from the sidelines, faculty member

CAPITAL CAMPAIGN NEWS

Construction Begins on A Place to Grow!

GET YOUR HARD HATS READY!

SCDS has chosen S.D. Deacon, a regional firm with local offices in Bellevue, as the general contractor for A Place to Grow. The building and renovation project will take approximately 15 months to complete.

Highlights include a new middle school building, a new on-campus drive, substantial improvements for traffic flow, and renovated space in existing buildings to better meet current program needs. As Kinetics was being prepared for the press, four school-owned houses were removed in order to prepare for the new driveway and turnaround which will be ready for the start of school this coming fall.

An aerial shot of volunteers setting up for the event in the Museum of Flight.

Winnie Young did a supersonic dance routine as a clever wildcat to energize the crowd. As the lights dimmed on the auction, passengers claimed their bags and said that they looked forward to flying these friendly skies again next year.

For more details on how to make a gift, please click on A Place to Grow on the lower left hand corner of the SCDS website at www.seattlecountryday.org.

ANNUAL FUND SUSTAINS PROGRAMS DURING CAPITAL CAMPAIGN

Go Wildcats! The Wildcat is the new mascot of SCDS as voted in by our community this spring.

Parent Council President and Auction Co-Chair Nancy Senseney enjoying the event.

Captain Michael Murphy prepares to ride off into the sunset after a lovely evening!

Alumni parent Gywn Fowler chats with SCDS’s first Head of School, Lucile Beckman.

Thank you Auction Ground Crew: AUCTION CO-CHAIRS:

Nancy Senseney and Beth Israel.

Renee Bang, Patti Burke, Lisa Carroll, Shelley Cross, Kristi Dwight, Deb Fandel, Sally Frankenberg, Janet Hanify, Nancy Hanneman, Paul Julin, Karen Kent, Bill Kuper, Debbie Medved, Tracy Robinson, Kimm Viebrock, Jeanette Villagran, and Ruth Warren.

The theme of the capital campaign is A Place to Grow, and that phrase is an apt description of Seattle Country Day School, where each day brings new discoveries in our labs, classrooms, and beyond. Every year, gifts to the Annual Fund support the costs of daily life at SCDS, including teacher salaries and materials. The library, always a center of activity at SCDS, is also a beneficiary of the Annual Fund. These funds go into the operating budget where they support library needs so that new books and videos can be added to the collection. (The library is also supported by the annual Book Fair).

TEAM LEADS:

POP

QUIZ:

Do you know how many items are in the SCDS library?

Librarian Debbie Pearson and Library Assistant Sue Brown shared with Kinetics books added since September:

Mummies: The Newest, Coolest, and Creepiest

by Shelley Tanaka: Mummy discoveries and how scientific advances help us learn about these ancient, preserved bodies.

I Know a Shy Fellow Who Swallowed a Cello

by Barbara S. Garriel: An adaptation of the folk rhyme featuring musical instruments.

Diego Rivera: Legendary Mexican Painter

by Laura Baskes Litwin: The life and career of the cubist painter and muralist.

Point Blank by Anthony Horowitz: Fourteen-year old Alex continues his work as a spy for the British MI6, investigating a school in the French Alps.

Molly Moon’s Hypnotic Time Travel Adventure

by Georgia Byng: Molly is hypnotized and transported to 19th century India where she meets a maharajah and former versions of herself.

ANSWER: 13,000 cataloged items including books, videos, audio books, and periodicals!

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class ERIC DAWES ‘71 writes, “I’ve been back in the Seattle area since 1975, and it doesn’t really seem like over four decades since I was looking up at the water fountain in the basement at St. Elizabeth’s Church in Burien. In fact, just a few weeks ago, I went back and reclaimed several memories from the original SCDS venue, and that was the first step in the effort to begin finding other classmates and staff from the 1960s! Hope to get in touch with all of you soon — and maybe even coax you into one of the informal SCDS reunions at the Nickerson St. Saloon! If you want to trade “howdy’s” before we have that chance, I’d love to catch up with you: dawes@cfmm.com.”

ANASTACIA (SIMS) DILLON ‘81 gave

birth to Julia Satsuki Dillon on December 31.

She was 8 pounds and 21 inches.

Her name means azalea in Japanese and is also an old-fashioned way to say “May,” which is the middle name of both Anastacia’s maternal grandmother and great-grandmother.

MAX ISRAEL ‘85 trained for 12 months

for the Ironman New Zealand Triathlon on March 4. When the swim competition was unexpectedly cancelled the day of the race due to high winds, he was able to arrange lastminute registration in the Ironman Arizona, which still required him to complete a 2.4-mile swim, 112mile bike race, and 26.2-mile marathon run. An additional step of Max’s endeavor was to collect pledges to the Ballard Food Bank where he serves as President of the Board of Directors.

TRINA LINDAL ‘86 graduated from St. Martin’s College and the Art Institute of Seattle, and lives in West Seattle with her dog, Leo, an Australian Shepherd.

She also regularly takes in foster dogs needing homes. She spends days working at the family business, and evenings

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ALUMNI HAPPY HOUR FEBRUARY 16, 2006

WHAT’S HAPPENING IN YOUR LIFE?

Share your news with the SCDS community! Contact Allison Bass at allisonbass@seattlecountryday.org or mail your latest news to 2619 4th Avenue N, Seattle, WA 98109.

and weekends either playing pool or working on her house.

LAUREN SELIG ‘90 and her husband

Back: Dave Foley ’89, Max Waugh ’90, Jason Vincion ’94, Jason Kroll ’92, Pro Roy ’83, Jason Froggatt ’83.

Front: Eric Dawes ’71, Wendy (Sunderland) McDermott ’85, Allison (Doyle) Bass ’91, Amy (Hintz) Ojendyk ’87; Cathy Saltwick ’85, Lisa (Wolfendale) Shook ’87.

Not pictured: Shira (Kost-Grant) Brewer ’94.

Erick will be returning to New Zealand for another year and plans to end up at a university somewhere.

Kyril Faenov welcomed Avery Madeleine Faenov on November 24, 2005 at 11:44 a.m.

She was 7.5 pounds and 19 inches. It was quite a Thanksgiving!

ANDREW NAHON ‘95 writes, “I’ve been

MICHAEL D’ANNUNZIO ‘92 is an

JESSICA EBBERSON ‘96 is in her first

attorney for the U.S. Army. Currently based out of Fort Bragg, North Carolina, he has deployed overseas multiple times. He received a Bronze Star in 2004.

ADRIEN FOWLER ‘92 lives in Berkeley, California and has a company that sells high-performance outerwear. She is also illustrating her first children’s book and welcomes mail and illustration projects at adrienalice@gmail.com. She and her fiancé Brandon Andre, professional photographer and outdoor guide with REI, are planning a wedding for this summer.

GREG FREIDMAN ‘92 writes, “I’m living

in Philadelphia, getting an MBA at Wharton, and I just got married in October to the woman of my dreams (my apologies to all SCDS alumni who were holding out for me). My wife is from Pennsylvania, but we have our eye on a move to Seattle in a couple of years.”

ERICK MATSEN ‘92 spent January to

April in Christchurch, New Zealand, working with a top-notch group in the Biomathematics Research Centre at the University of Canterbury. This spring, he returned to Harvard to defend his PhD thesis. He writes that “the official subject is math, but in practice I’m working somewhere between math, statistics, computer science, and biology. What’s fun is that I get to prove theorems and develop algorithms which actually can help biologists solve problems, such as quantifying the level of selection pressure on the flu virus.” After giving some talks and meeting with collaborators in both Boston and Berkeley, and spending the summer kayaking with friends,

living in Japan since graduating from Carleton College in 2004. I’m teaching at a junior high school in a small mountain town. I’m having a great time traveling around Asia and learning Japanese; I will probably stay another year and then come home.” year of medical school at University of Pennsylvania.

MARTA JOHNSON ‘96 spent four

months this winter backpacking across Europe, couchsurfing with strangers, and attending more than 35 operas in different cities including Vienna, Berlin, Helsinki, London, Prague, Munich, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Tallinn, and Istanbul. She writes, “The weather has been something to get used to, but I’m having a grand time seeing Europe, reconnecting with old friends, meeting new ones, warming up with various types of mulled wine, trying funky local foods (blood sausage, mare-milk chocolate, sautéd Rudolph with lingonberries...), sobering up on the grounds of Auschwitz/Birkenau, reading voraciously, and attending some truly spectacular (and some absolutely dreadful) opera productions.” Prior to her departure for Europe, she began studying German and pursuing theatre/opera work more seriously. Last summer, she worked on Seattle Opera’s production of Wagner’s “The Ring,” and she resumed work there in February as an assistant stage manager.

BEAU LEWIS ‘96 released a new full-

length album last summer titled The Sky Beneath: The Floor. The record was produced on his label, Sky Beneath Records (www.skybeneathrecords.com) and features artists from both coasts of the U.S. and four other countries.

ALEX RAINES ‘96 graduated from Whitman College in 2004 where he was a resident advisor, majored in biochemistry, biophysics, and molecular biology, and minored in music. His other activities included studying voice, piano,

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and composition, singing in the College Chorale, Opera Scenes, and Chamber Singers which toured in Italy, recording a CD with the men’s a cappella group, coaching a flag football team, and participating in numerous theater productions. His experiences there, as well as two summers working in a University of Washington research lab studying stem cell regeneration in the eye, and a summer at Princeton looking at stressed stem cells in the brain, inspired his decision to apply to medical school. In his search for the right program, he had a memorable one-on-one hour with James Watson of DNA fame, and finally decided on the MD/PhD program at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he is now in his second year of an 8-year program. This summer he will transition from medical school curriculum into graduate studies in neuroscience, and plans to focus on pediatric neurology as a medical specialty. He continues to play intramural sports and sing with local choirs.

EVAN WRIGHT ‘97 attends the

University of Rochester where he sings in the men’s a capella group The Midnight Ramblers. The Ramblers hit the Northwest over Spring Break this year, and one of the many stops on their school tour was Seattle Country Day School! Evan is shown left (second from right) performing for 2nd-5th graders.

BRENDAN MAHAN ‘98 graduated this

spring with a BA in economics from Western Washington University in the wonderful city of Bellingham. He applied to law school and has decided to accept the offer from Cornell Law School. He writes “I plan to become a civil rights attorney after receiving my JD (and paying off student loans).” He recently attended the annual YDWA (Young Democrats of Washington) Convention in Tacoma and is an active participant in Western’s local chapter, where he serves as an executive board member and as treasurer.

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JAMES EBBERSON ‘99 is a junior at

Middlebury where he plays on the rugby team and is majoring in English literature and skiing. He spent the most recent semester abroad in Scotland.

CHUN MENG NOLAN ‘99 is studying at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

She spent a recent holiday in Brussels visiting her cousin.

LUKE STEFURAK ‘99 spent a semester

abroad at the University of Melbourne where he ran into Sara Axelrod ‘99. He returned to Bucknell University where he is studying computer science.

JOSH WEINER ‘99, a junior at Stanford

University, recently returned from a fall term in Managua, Nicaragua, with the School of International Training (not affliated with Stanford). While there, he studied Spanish, history, politics, and economics. Over the final four weeks of the semester, he executed an independent study project focusing on the upcoming presidential elections of November 2006, interviewing presidential candidates and political activists. Upon his return to Stanford in January, he assumed the editor-in-chief post at The Stanford Progressive, a monthly political publication with a distribution of 4,000 (online edition available at progressive.stanford.edu).

He is kitchen manager for his 35-person co-op house on campus and is known for his succulant roast tenderloin. This summer, he plans to intern at the United Nations Development Programme in New York as part of the water governance team.

PAUL STROMBOM ‘00 rowed bow seat

in Brown University’s first freshman eightboat last year. His boat was undefeated during the regular dual season and went on to win the gold medal at the 2005 Eastern Sprints in May, defeating Princeton, Harvard, and Penn in the finals. He has continued rowing as a sophomore, on the varsity squad.

Eliana entered the University of Washington Early Entrance Program after nine years at SCDS. She is the 2nd youngest to ever win the scholarship, and plans to use the opportunity to pursue a DPhil in Mathematics when she enters Oxford this October, ultimately hoping to be a professor of math and implement changes in how math is taught at various levels.

During her career at UW, Eliana has studied cell division with a grant from the Vertical Integration of Research and Education in the Mathematical Sciences project, served as a research assistant at the Center for Cell Dynamics, was a teaching assistant for advanced calculus, and taught a math enrichment class at The Option Program at Seward, (TOPS), a kindergarten through 8th grade alternative school in the Seattle Public School District. Her senior thesis is in homological algebra.

Her other interests include creative writing and poetry, cooking, playing Ultimate Frisbee, and running.

BRAHM RIFINO ‘02 writes “I’ll be

graduating from South Eugene IHS in June. I’ll be attending the University of Oregon in the fall of 2006. I plan to study mechanical engineering. I’ve been having fun rock climbing and snow boarding here in Oregon. I have a parttime job as a cook at Ron’s Grill. Hope to see my old friends soon. You’re always welcome here.”

LAURA HAGEN ‘03, a junior at Seattle

Prep, was named a Seattle Times Athlete of the Week last fall for her contributions to the Panthers soccer team as team captain and midfielder.

She was a defensive leader and helped the team achieve a 15-3-3 record and place fourth in the Class 3A state playoffs. Laura was also selected to the Metro League Mountain Division First Team and Class 3A All-State First Team.

ELIANA HECHTER ‘01, senior math major at the University of Washington, was named a Rhodes Scholar last November. Eighty-five students were selected for the honor out of 903 applicants from 333 colleges and universities.

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» SPRING 2006 Kinetics Magazine Kinesis comes from the Greek word for motion, and “kinetics” is used in the vernacular to describe mechanics associated with the forces that cause motions of bodies. At SCDS, we’re all about energy and active learning. Every day, SCDS teachers engage students’ minds and bodies through inquiry-based teaching.

Kinetics is our school magazine, and the name reflects both our mission and the creativity within our classrooms. We hope you enjoy this issue and feel the palpable buzz of SCDS within these pages!

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Watch for more on the Voices Project in the fall issue of Kinetics!

This is the mantra of painter, author, and illustrator Max Grover. Max spent a full day with SCDS students this winter as part of the Voices Project. In this photo, he is creating a painting as part of an imaginative exercise with the 6th-grade class. The Voices Project, made possible in part by the Anniversary Arts Fund from the 2005 Auction, brought a variety of professionals to the SCDS campus this year.

In addition to Max Grover’s workshop, students participated in workshops with author and poet David Greenberg, Newberry Awardwinning author Karen Cushman, and theater professional Gillian Jorgensen. This unique curriculum project culminated in a day of celebration on May 19 where students shared their creative endeavors through performance, visual art, and readings.

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