Berkshire Bulletin 2009

FALL 2009

BERKSHIRE B U L L E T I N

OPENING SHOT

During his trip to Asia last year, Head of School Mike Maher was interviewed by the Maekyung, a Korean business newspaper. Among his points were that personal recommendations are as equally important as grades in determining which international students are accepted to American boarding schools; presence of and participation by students and faculty from various backgrounds, nationalities and cultures enable all students to think globally; that Berkshire’s Korean students distinguish themselves in math and science. (See the Bulletin’s own interview with Mr. Maher on page 29.)

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2 Under the Dome 12 Bears at Play 13

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Setting the Berkshire Model in Motion

24 Everybody’s Favorite Tree 26 The Taliban, Then and Now 29

Berkshire’s Twenty-First Century Man

34 Alumni in the News 36

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Honoring Through Illuminating

41 Graduation #102 42 Reunion Wrap-Up

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Alumni Authors

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Remembering 9/11, One Good Deed at a Time Student Voices Bygone Berkshire Class Notes Gallery Former Faculty and Staff News and Notes In Memoriam

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Annual Report of Giving

133 Myers Mystery Photo Contest On the cover: A light-painting of Glen Brook by DEAN CHAMBERLAIN ’73 .

HANS CARSTENSEN ’66

President, Board of Trustees Michael J. Maher Head of School John E. Ormiston Director of Development and Alumni Affairs KEIRA MCKENNA HOLBROUGH ’92

Director of Alumni Affairs/ Class Notes Editor C. TWIGGS MYERS HON. ’57

Archivist

Editor: James Harris Director of Communications jharris@berkshireschool.org Class notes: classnotes@berkshireschool.org All other alumni matters: shire@berkshireschool.org Proofreaders: Lucia Mulder, Susan Young Published once a year by Berkshire School’s Office of Development and Alumni Affairs. Third-class postage paid at Sheffield, MA.

Photo Credits: DEAN CHAMBERLAIN ’73, HAROLD CLAYTON ’73 , Brenda Colby, Sarah Edwards, Moritz Grosser ’11, James Harris, Dodie Kazajian, Lisa Lefkowitz Photography, Adam Lewis, TONY MANTHOS ’56, KRISTINA THAUTE MILLER ’97, Kathleen Rafiq, Kevin Sprague Design: Julie Hammill, Hammill Design, www.hammilldesign.com Printing: Quality Printing Company, Pittsfield, Massachusetts A note on the typography Please note that the names of living alumni are BOLD-FACED , those of deceased alumni are CAPITALIZED, and those of living former and current faculty and staff members and trustees are in upper and lower case and bold-faced.

For Parents of Alumni Only If this issue is addressed to your daughter/son who no longer maintains a permanent address at your home, please notify the Alumni Office with the correct mailing address. Email alumni@berkshireschool.org or phone 413-229-1240.

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And who shall lead them?

Members of the Berkshire School faculty for the 2009-10 school year

Front row, from left: Norm Merrill (Latin), Jeanne Merrill (library), JEN EDELMAN-CRINE ’79 (Student Health), Peter Kinne (science), Bill Gulotta (history), Amanda Morgan (science), Head of School Mike Maher, Jean Maher (Spanish), Jean Erick Joassaint (French, foreign language chair), Jesus Ibanez (Spanish) R. G. Mead (history), Anita Loose-Brown (science chair), Linda Bellizzi (English), James Harris (English), Pam Burns (technology).

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Second row, from left: Jane Piatelli (development and alumni), Kenley Brozman (director of counseling), Brian Lewton (athletic trainer), KRISTINA THAUTE MILLER ’97 (development and alumni), STUART MILLER ’97 (English), Lu Xu (Chinese), Lissa McGovern (English), Paul MacKenzie (history), Mark Wysocki (athletic trainer), Sherman Caldwell (French), Pat Bush (mathematics), A. J. Kohlhepp (English chair), Kelley Bogardus (English), Andrew Bogardus (director of admission), John Ormiston (director of development and alumni), Richard Giles (mathematics), Bill Clough (dean of faculty).

Third row, from left: Kurt Schleunes (mathematics chair), Dan Driscoll (director of athletics), Dory Driscoll (Kenefick Center for Learning coordinator), Katherine Simmons (Spanish), Andrea Davis Bowler (history), Mike Dalton (science), Frank Barros (science), Clive Davis (music), Peter Quilty (science, dean of students), Cheryl Geerhold (director of college counseling), Brad D’Arco (mathematics), Linda D’Arco (art), Cheng-Chia Wu (music), Carlos Berrendero (Spanish), Mery Tovar (Spanish), Bill Bullock (history), Nick White (history).

Fourth row, from left: Kate Garbutt (mathematics), Virginia Watkins (English), Nina Newman (French), Kevan Bowler (history), Emily Skipp (history), David Newman (history), Kat Gurley (dance), Stephanie Turner (science), Jasper Turner (mathematics, economics), Sylvia Gappa (mathematics), Jason Gappa (history), Ken Sperl (technology), Pieter Mulder (mathematics, dean of academic affairs), Lucia Mulder (director of marketing), Kristina Splawn (director, Kenefick Center for Learning), Clay Splawn (history chair), BEBE CLARK BULLOCK ‘86 (English).

Fifth row, from left: Jared Courtney (science), Maureen Courtney (science), Mike Kalin (history), Dary Dunham (English), Maura MacKenzie (director, SAT tutoring program), Ray Demartino (history), Laura Soden (mathematics), Steve Soden (art), Doug Brown (science), Mike Bjurlin (mathematics), Jon Moodey (English), Martina Moodey (Spanish), Dan Skoglund (history), Colin McNamara (English), Dan Spear (science), Paul Banevicius (arts chair).

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Belizzi, Gappa and Bowler is not a law firm.

Pro Vita!

Falconer Bob Hughes (parent of KEITH HUGHES ’88 and KRIS HUGHES ’90) was among those parents and alumni who participated last winter in ProVita, a week-long offering of classes outside the curriculum.

If you’d like to come back to Berkshire next March and share your knowledge of and love for your work, please contact David Newman at dnewman@berkshireschool.org

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They are three veteran faculty members who were rewarded for their efforts last spring. English teacher, Independent Study Program director, and past form dean Linda Bellizzi received the Class of 1957 Faculty Award in recognition of excellence in teaching and tenure of service, as exemplified by TWIGGS MYERS HON. ‘57 . Math and psychology teacher and girls’ varsity hockey coach Sylvia Gappa was the first recipient of the Kellogg-Silverman-Kontos Award, established last year by George J. Hoffman IV in honor of his friend PETER R. KELLOGG ’61 and recognizing a member of the Berkshire School community who demonstrates integrity, motivation, spirit, commitment to excellence, mentoring or guidance. History teacher and boys’ varsity lacrosse coach Kevan Bowler was named recipient of the C. Twiggs Myers Endowed Chair for Teaching Excellence, which recognizes and rewards dedication to the intellectual, moral and athletic development of Berkshire students. A new Myers Master is named every three years.

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Pictured with Head of School Mike Maher (far left) and Trustees President HANS CARSTENSEN ’66 (center) are Berkshire’s newest trustees: from left, Jin-Ho Kum, John E. Toffolon Jr., and KEITH REED ’68.

Meet the new (and relatively new) trustees Jane Chwick: Goldman Sach’s head of Technology for the Derivatives Trading businesses across the Securities Division and the head of Technology for Operations; named managing director in 2000 and partner in 2004…serves on the Technology Division’s Operating Committee and Risk Committee, the Securities Division Business Practices Committee and the ascend Advisory Committee…also the sponsor for the Women in Technology Diversity Network… earned an undergraduate degree from Queens College in 1982 and a graduate degree from St. John’s University in 1989…she and her husband, Michael, live in Purchase, New York, and are the parents of Ben ’10.

Keith Reed ’68: Former owner/president of PAW Distributors, a wholesale sporting goods company (1992-2004) and former vice president of merchandising, Herman’s World of Sporting Goods (1979-1991)... trustee and president of the Board, New Jersey Conservation Foundation…trustee of the Friends of the Jacobus Vanderveer House… MBA, Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management 1976; B.A., Lawrence University, 1972… he and his wife, Lisa, live in Far Hills, New Jersey, and are the parents of two grown children, Molly and William.

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Jin-Ho Kum: Held several positions in government of the Republic of Korea, including member of Parliament, minister of trade and industry, vice minister of trade and industry, and secretary-general to the Prime Minister…today is chairman of the International Trade & Business Institute and executive secretary of the Korea-U.S. Wisemen Council…recipient of the Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown (Belgium), the Order of Service Merit, Blue Stripes (Republic of Korea), King Grand Cross the Royal Order of the Polar Star (Sweden)…graduate of Seoul National University, its College of Law, and its Graduate School of Public Administration…honorary degree of doctorate in law from the University of Alaska…lives in Seoul…grandfather of Jae Young “Bradley” Keum ’12.

John E. Toffolon Jr.: Chairman of the Board, chairman of the audit committee, and member of the compensation committee of Cowen Group, Inc., a medium-sized investment banking firm in New York City…since May 2009 has served as a director of Westway Group, Inc., a leading provider of bulk liquid storage services, and serves as chairman of its audit committee and member of its compensation committee…. former CFO of Shermen WSC Acquisition Corp., CEO of Royster-Clark Inc., CFO for

New trustees Jane Chwick, and, pictured at the dedication of the Stewart Center last winter, Bob Crispin and Tom Steiner with wife Maureen.

Thomas D. Steiner: Managing partner of the management consulting firm Baldwin Bell Green and founder of Mitchell Madison Group, a global management consulting firm... former practicing lawyer and author of Technology and Banking: Creating Value and Destroying Profits, published by The Wall Street Journal (Dow-Jones Irwin)….honors graduate of Dartmouth College, holds a JD degree from Harvard Law School and an MBA degree from Harvard Business School, where he was a George F. Baker Scholar…lives in Longboat

Key, Florida, and Hillsdale, New York, with wife Maureen Ferguson Steiner, a realtor…the couple has three children: Elizabeth ’10 and twins James ’12 and Matthew ’12.

Robert W. Crispin: Retired in 2007, former chairman and CEO of ING Investment Management in New York City…before that was executive vice president and CFO of Unum Corporation, world leader in disability insurance…member of the boards of Sul America S.A., a Brazil-based insurance company, and Intact Financial Corporation…previously served on Berkshire’s board from 1997 to 2003…graduate of Wesleyan University (BA) and University of Connecticut (MBA)…he and his wife, Kathleen, live in Scarborough, Maine, and are the parents of three, including DEBBIE CRISPIN DURYEE ’92 and HEATHER CRISPIN POLK ’99.

The Berkshire School Bookstore,

then…

Back when hatchets were sold in the bookstore by Mr. Dean, students built their own cabins on the mountain. To see “Cabin Fever!”, a photo retrospective on cabins at Berkshire, visit the ‘Shire, Berkshire’s alumni Web site via berkshireschool.org

... and now.

Among the Bookstore’s newest offerings are these retro tie-dyed shirts, modeled here by flower-powered “fac brats” Jenny Quilty ‘11, Anna Driscoll ‘13, Addie Bullock ‘13, and Sam Maher ‘12.

Visit the Bookstore via berkshireschool.org

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Nomura Holding America, Inc., and CFO of First Boston Corporation…trustee fellow, Fordham University…founding member of the International Swaps Dealers Association…BS in finance, Fordham University College of Business Administration; MBA, Fordham Graduate School of Business…he and his wife, Joan, live in Bronxville, New York, and are the parents of Ashley ’11.

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Trustees, members of the Advisory Board, and faculty and staff met for drinks and dinner in the Great Room in Berkshire Hall on September 25, the evening before the Board’s annual fall meeting.

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Weil History Chair Bill Gulotta with Advisory Board member BURR DURYEE ’92.

Form dean and history teacher Bill Bullock (Addie ’13) with Advisory Board members and former classmates DAVID GEFKE and BOB THOMAS ‘79.

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Trustee ALICE EHRENCLOU COLE ’76 and science teacher Peter Kinne.

Trustee Ed Reger (Matt ’11, Julia ’13) with Jean Maher and trustee CHIP PERKINS ’73.

Trustee Margo Ward (Matt ’10) with Kristina Splawn, director of the Kenefick Center for Learning.

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Dean of Students Peter Quilty, now in his fifth year on the job, shepherds a flock of 145 new students during orientation.

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Berkshire parent Rick Lazio (Molly ’10), pictured here last spring at Berkshire with journalism students and history teacher Mike Kalin, announced his candidacy for the governorship of New York on September 22. The former U.S. Representative served four terms representing New York’s 2nd congressional district and was the Republican candidate for U.S. Senator from New York in the 2000 election, losing to now Secretary of State Hilary Clinton. He has taken leave of his position as executive vice president for J.P. Morgan Chase and Company.

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Muldoon and Mali

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Last spring, two prominent poets read from their works at Berkshire. Pulitzer Prize-winning Irish poet Paul Muldoon, the Howard G. G. Clark ‘21 Professor of Humanities at Princeton University and poetry editor of The New Yorker magazine, has been described by The Times Literary Supplement as “the most significant English-language poet born since the second World War” and by the Boston Sunday Globe as “without question one of the most inventive poets writing in English today.” He is pictured here with TESS HARDCASTLE ’06 , a senior at Kenyon College, and English department head A.J. Kohlhepp.

Teacher, poet and slam poetry performer Taylor Mali, who received an MA in English/Creative Writing from Kansas State University and studied drama with the Royal Shakespeare Academy at Oxford, performed on seven National Poetry Slam teams; four won the competition. He was also in the HBO production, “Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry,” which won a Peabody Award in 2003. He is pictured with Dr. Kohlhepp, Lexi Palladino ’11 of Litchfield, Connecticut, and Martha Hagerty ’11 of Queensbury, New York.

WHY BROWNLEE LEFT

THE CALL TO WHAT WE KNOW

by Paul Muldoon

by Taylor Mali

Why Brownlee left, and where he went, Is a mystery even now.

For if a man should have been content It was him; two acres of barley, One of potatoes, four bullocks, A milker, a slated farmhouse.

He was last seen going out to plough On a March morning, bright and early.

By noon Brownlee was famous; They had found all abandoned, with The last rig unbroken, his pair of black Horses, like man and wife, Shifting their weight from foot to Foot, and gazing into the future.

The last thing this world needs is another poem about flowers, the passing hours, or the demands of time, written in language no one understands, and doesn’t rhyme.

Every time I have turned to words and found or heard a truth I never knew I’d learned by heart, it was always proof I was a part of something bigger than myself, a communion of dark moonlight with night ground, or the union of a kiss forgiving only this:

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We the living delight in sound. © 2009 from The Last Time As We Are

—from Collected Poems

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“New faculty” seems a bit of a misnomer when referring to someone who has been a teacher and administrator for over four decades, but that’s what Dary Dunham is at Berkshire this year.

The longtime head of Indian Mountain School , a pre-K through 9th grade school in nearby Lakeville, Conn., is now a college counselor and English teacher here—and loving it. “I’m having the time of my life,” says Mr. Dunham, who holds a master’s degree in education from Boston University and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Dunham, who for the past two years was interim head at the Foote School in New Haven, Conn., is a former member of Berkshire’s Advisory Board and the search committee that “first discovered Mike Maher.” At Indian Mountain he oversaw Mike and Jean Maher’s two older children, both now at Berkshire. He and his wife, Laurie, have two sons, one the middle school head at Browning School and the other a brand manager for Dunkin’ Donuts.

What’s happening on campus while you’re reading this?

Get the latest scoop on Berkshire. Visit berkshireschool.org.

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This year’s legacies Standing, from left: Stephen Bell ’12 (father STUART BELL ’80 ), Geordie Beldock ’11 (father GREGG BELDOCK ’79 ), Keith Veronesi ’10 (father STEVE VERONESI ’80 ), Sam Smith (grandfather ED SHOTWELL ’51 ), Jackson Borwick ’13 (father JOHN BORWICK ’81 , mother INGRID VAN ZON ’83 ), Jack Hughes ’10 (grandfather former head of school Jim Moore), Tom Fahy ’12 (father TOM FAHY ’82 ), Meredith Fulco ’10 (father TIM FULCO ’78 ), Joel Halpern ’10 (father JON HALPERN ’81 ), David Watkins ’13 (father JOHN WATKINS ’73 ). Seated, from left: Lindsay Harnett (mother JENNIFER FOX HARNETT ’81 ), Marjorie Simpson ’10 (grandfather JAMES ANDERSON HON. ’80 ), Katherine Smyth (K ITTY F IS HER S MYTH ’74), Addie Bullock ’13 (BEBE CLARK BULLOCK ’86 ).

Chase Harnett ’13 (mother JENNIFER FOX HARNETT ’81 ).

Third-former Hannah Patzwahl, with mother NANCY KOSKEY PATZWAHL ’84 .

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The two synthetic turf fields on the southern side of the driveway were renamed the Beattie Fields this fall in memory of longtime football coach and music teacher Frank Beattie and his wife, Peg. Mr. Beattie coached and taught at Berkshire from 1926 to 1966. His former colleague, TWIGGS MYERS HON. ‘57, announced the name change at an all-school meeting. To read his remarks, visit the ’Shire, Berkshire's alumni Web site, via berkshireschool.org.

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Beattie Fields

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Here we go again!

Next spring, aeronautics—in the form of aviation science— will be offered at Berkshire School for the first time since the school's Education with Wings program during World War II. And to get it up and going, Berkshire is hosting a fly-in at the Great Barrington Airport. All alumni pilots welcome. Watch your email and Berkshire's Web site for details.

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Bears at Play

B E A R S AT P L AY

Kacey Bellamy as a junior at Berkshire (directly behind trophy) after the Bears won the Cushing Tournament in December 2004.

England Division I championship team. Lori Charpentier, her former coach at Berkshire and now the girls’ varsity hockey coach at Brooks Academy, recalls: “What made her rise to the top at Berkshire was her relentless work ethic, humility and ability to balanced the intensity with having fun.” Bells—the sister of ROB BELLAMY ’04 , now playing for the Philadelphia Phantoms of the American Hockey In late August former Berkshire and University of New Hampshire defenseman KACEY BELLAMY ’05 was selected to League—graduated last May from New Hampshire, where she majored in women’s studies. In November the team the 2009-10 U.S. Women’s Team, making her an odds-on favorite to represent the United States in the 2010 Olympic will play in a four-nation tournament in Finland against that country, Sweden and Canada. The 23-woman squad will be Games next February in Vancouver, Canada. A four-year student at Berkshire, “Bells” was a member of the 2003 New cut to 21 players in December.

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Meanwhile, former Berkshire lacrosse star PARKER MCKEE ’06 has been named to the 40-man training roster of the U.S. men’s national team.

Parker, a 6-foot-2, 200-pound long-stick midfielder from Old Greenwich, Conn., who just began his senior year at Duke, was the subject of a long cover story in New England Lacrosse Journal. According to the magazine, this fall he will compete in a series of three tryout weekends that will determine the final 23-man roster that will represent the United States in the FIL World Lacrosse Championships in Manchester, England, in July 2010. He is one of only two college players to have made the cut. In the article, Berkshire boys’ varsity lacrosse coach Kevin Bowler is quoted as saying of Parker, “He was open to any coaching suggestions I made, and his work ethic set him apart from many of the guys he played against.”

Follow former Bears at play on the ’Shire, Berkshire’s online alumni magazine, via berkshireschool.org.

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A C A D E M I C S AT B E R K S H I R E

Setting the Berkshire Model in motion No single topic excites Head of School Mike Maher more than the Berkshire Model, a set of new, existing or modified co-curricular learning programs that will all be set into orbit this year around the School’s traditional academic offerings.

The new or modified programs launched this year include the Center for Sustainability (formerly conservation), the Center for Philanthropy and Service Learning (formerly the Philanthropy Society), the Center for Global Learning, and the Center for Writing and Critical Thinking. They join the existing programs Pro Vita, Independent Study, Advanced Math/Science Research, the Ritt Kellogg Mountain Program, the Center for College Counseling, and the Barbara Kenefick Center for Learning.

The Bulletin asked the directors to assess their programs in their own words.

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Center for College Counseling Cheryl Geerhold, director

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Thanks to one of the lowest student-to-college counselor ratios of any of Berkshire’s peer schools, students here receive individualized attention and a well tailored college application strategy. In the Fifth Form SAT Tutorial Program, students work in groups of two to four based on individual learning profiles.

What qualifies you to head this program?

I’ve been doing college counseling at small, independent boarding schools since 1991.

Why do you think it’s important to Berkshire?

Is this a trick question? We are a college preparatory school. Every student goes to college and needs some assistance through the process.

What are your three top priorities?

Individual attention for every student. A diverse list of college matriculations that reflects the many interests of Berkshire School students. Parents and students who are satisfied with the college process as much as possible in a competitive college admission cycle.

What big idea have you contributed to the planning of the program?

The introduction of the February program for Junior Parents.

What would you like to see your program accomplish this year?

I want all seniors to get into a college they are happy with.

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Pro Vita Winter Session David Newman, director

For one week at the end of the third marking period, students and faculty pursue passions outside of the standard curriculum. Pro Vita classes are both academic and experiential in nature and are designed to foster curiosity and a love of learning.

What qualifies you to head this program?

Sixteen years of teaching and administrative experience coupled with a desire to help further develop programs essential to preparing our student body for the world that lies ahead of them.

Why do you think it’s important to Berkshire?

Pro Vita provides our students with opportunities to pursue interests that often relate to what is current in the outside world. It serves the school’s mission to provide students with the skills to be successful in life beyond school.

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What are your three top priorities?

To provide a myriad of opportunities that reflect the passions of our faculty while enticing students to take risks. To expand globally. To further the support of Pro Vita by tightening the connection with Berkshire alumni and friends.

What big idea have you contributed to the planning of the program?

As this is my first year as Director of Pro Vita Winter Session, I am in the process of filtering through many ideas. I feel very good about the proposed outreach programs that will, potentially, be taking our kids to different areas of the world.

What would you like to see your program accomplish this year?

I hope to enhance the existing program by providing travel possibilities that allow our students to immerse themselves in different cultures around the globe, simultaneously participating in programs that hold true to the school’s mission.

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Center for Sustainability Frank Barros, director

Through classes like Sustainability and Resource Management, Environmental Science, and various Forest Ecology electives, students apply critical knowledge to real-world solutions on the local and national level every day.

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What qualifies you to head this program?

Master of Forest Science degree from Yale University, director of the Ritt Kellogg Mountain Program for six years, programmer of sustainability efforts at Berkshire for the last four years.

Why do you think it’s important to Berkshire?

Dangers possessed by climate change….economic, cultural and environment well-being will be challenged…students need to be ready for these challenges….we have already been a pioneer among secondary schools in this realm…also gives students chance to make a difference right now.

What are your three top priorities?

I have nine, but the key one is our energy management plan: creating a net zero Green House Gas emissions (GHG) campus through energy efficiency, conservation, on-site generation and strategic procurement of clean and renewable energy.

What big idea have you contributed to the planning of the program?

Our student-run policy-making process, or maybe the assessment process that keeps us honest.

What would you like to see your program accomplish this year?

We have been practicing conservation since 2005. But I would like to have a comprehensive energy management plan, approved by the Board of Trustees, in place next May.

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Center for Philanthropy and Community Service Jane Piatelli, director

A core group of students in the Philanthropy Society leads over 85 peers in service-learning opportunities on campus and throughout Berkshire County, New York and Connecticut. These initiatives help students learn first-hand the difference they can make as individuals in the lives of others.

What qualifies you to head this program?

In my former roles as teacher and associate dean of students, I have led various community service endeavors. Volunteering has always been a priority for me and my family, and I have strong ties with organizations such as Literacy Volunteers of America, Ronald McDonald House, and our church.

Why do you think this program is important to today’s students?

I believe the students not only need, but want, the opportunity to contribute and serve others.

What are your three top priorities?

• Educate the community about the importance of giving back.

• Give individual students an opportunity to learn how to lead a philanthropic endeavor and then do it.

• Connect with and give back to the surrounding communities.

What big idea have you contributed to the planning of the program?

It has been important to blend community service, charitable giving and moral decision-making in order to help all students understand and practice philanthropy in the broadest sense.

What would you like to see your program accomplish this year?

Raise student awareness of the world outside Berkshire School, where even our humblest efforts can make a difference, no matter how small.

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Independent Study Program Linda Belizzi, director

The curriculum is student-designed and directed, and based on one-on-one work with a faculty mentor. The project often combines coursework with an internship at a local business or organization and culminates in a final presentation before the school community.

What qualifies you to head this program?

I have been an advisor for several independent study projects over my 22 years at Berkshire. As a former form dean, I have experience in helping students formulate courses of study to meet their academic goals and the ability to work with my colleagues and students’ parents. As a teacher, I have explored topics of interest to me, including Great Plains literature, Russian opera, and the American farm in United States history (above photo).

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Why do you think it’s important to Berkshire?

We pride ourselves in attracting a diverse group of students who work hard and then head off to various colleges and universities: there is no “typical” Berkshire student. We need to support interests that do not fit within our core curriculum and current elective courses.

Many independent study projects educate and inspire other students to think outside of their normal course work. And they make Berkshire a better place.

What are your three top priorities?

• Maintain and improve the rigor and scope of independent study projects • Expand the number of students involved in independent study; expand and support the advisor pool to include Berkshire adults who have not advised before as well as alumni or area volunteers who have expertise and desire to work with our students • Continue to celebrate the process as well as the results of independent studies, adding Web profiles or feature articles to the current Independent Study Night in May What big idea have you contributed to the planning of the program?

I would love to move the proposal process back to late spring for the upcoming year: a summer to think over one’s independent study should only make it better, and it would be great to have students begin their work on the first day of school instead of having to wait for approval of their proposal.

I hope to follow up with students, now in college, who completed independent studies here to see if they have continued with that inquiry at the next level. If current students can see a payoff down the road, they might be even more excited about studying independently while they are here.

What would you like to see your program accomplish this year?

The presentation night in May will be so full of student presenters that we’ll be talking about moving from the Great Room to the Stewart Center the following year.

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Center for Writing and Critical Thinking Virginia Watkins, director

To further develop their writing skills, students can not only fine-tune grammar and sentence structure, but also learn how to develop an argument, use evidence to support it, and write persuasively. Students work with faculty and peer mentors and participate in an annual Writers’ Festival in the spring.

What qualifies you to head this program?

I’ve worked one-on-one with students in a number of writing centers, beginning when I was in graduate school at Virginia Commonwealth University, where I received an MFA. At Berkshire, I also teach creative writing courses, focusing on the novel, scripts, and creative nonfiction. I love teaching writing; I love watching where students go with their writing. It’s exciting to me to see what connections they make, what connections they avoid. The ability to communicate through writing will benefit our students in more ways than we can now imagine, regardless of what they find themselves doing in the future.

Why do you think it’s important to Berkshire?

Berkshire has so many students who are interested in writing and who want to improve their basic skills – we had over 30 sixth-formers show up to hear a talk about writing for the college essay and over 20 third-formers attend a forum on how to compose a basic paragraph. They were listening and writing and talking about writing – this conversation, with such a large section of their peers, hasn’t before been available to our students. The Center is providing the space, the opportunities, and the expertise for all students to learn, experience, and become familiar with many different facets of writing.

What are your three top priorities?

• Making students aware of our availability and our offerings. I want them to know where we are, what we do, and how that process takes place.

• Filming the initial forums and posting them, as well as any handouts, on Berkshire’s Web site. These forums act as an opportunity for teachers interested in writing or critical thinking to share their expertise with a broader group than the students in their classes.

• Expanding our reading series. The opportunity for students to connect with professional writers, first in a classroom setting and then in an audience for a larger presentation, can have a profound effect, both personally and in terms of their writing. In conjunction with these events, the students will be presenting their own work in public forums throughout the second semester.

What big idea have you contributed to the planning of the program?

The forums. The student response, and the faculty presentations have been tremendous.

What would you like to see your program accomplish in its first year?

The Center should be an integral piece of every Berkshire student’s experience. I want the sixth-formers to leave campus after graduation feeling confident that their writing is strong and clear and that they can communicate in a convincing and persuasive manner.

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Ritt Kellogg Mountain Program Mike Dalton, director

The RKMP teaches students a greater respect for their natural resources through athletic challenges and leadership and character development skills.

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What qualifies you to head this program?

I’ve had years of experience working in programs similar to the RKMP. I picked up most of the basics by advancing through Scouting: eight summer camps, National Camp School, Eagle Scout, National Outdoor Leadership School, scoutmaster of Boy Scouts. At Salisbury School I took the entire sophomore class of 80 students on a camping trip in the Adirondacks; I also instructed outdoor skills at St. Andrew’s-Sewanee School.

I’ve been on the staff of the Pocono Environmental Education Center in Dingman’s Ferry, Penn., and a graduate teaching fellow at the NJ School of Conservation, Montclair State University. Of course, a love of the outdoors comes to mind as well.

Why do you think it’s important to Berkshire?

The RKMP provides students with many opportunities to get “on the mountain.” Every student should see the sunrise from South Pinnacle, swim in Guilder Pond, or just take a hike to find some peace and quiet from the hectic life on campus. The school is anchored at the base of the mountain, and whether students realize it or not, the mountain likely will have an impact on their lives, even if they never participate in RKMP. What are your three top priorities?

• Continue to provide safe, challenging experiences for students • Increase participation in RKMP activities • Develop new programs and opportunities for our students, such as building an Adirondack-style lean-to on the mountain or developing an accurate trail map of the mountain What big idea have you contributed to the planning of the program?

Membership on the task force last fall that came up with a plan that would get the entire Berkshire School community involved in mountain activities each year.

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The Barbara Kenefick Center for Learning Kristina Splawn, director

From organizational skills to subject-specific tutoring, the goal of the program is to assist students who are able to meet Berkshire’s high academic standards but who may require additional attention to develop the competencies that the curriculum demands.

What would you like to see your program accomplish this year?

• Increased awareness of, and enthusiasm for, the RKMP.= • Planning for the school-wide “mountain experience” complete with implementation to begin in the fall of ’10 • Clear hiking trails with safe bridges • Publication of a three-fold, accurate map of Berkshire’s mountain trails • Adirondack style lean-to construction under way • Development of an entry-level course for all participants in the RKMP • Faculty trained on the low and high elements of the challenge ropes course • RKMP faculty and select students recertified in wilderness first aid • Development of 5 and 10-year plans, which will attempt to address the future of this program • Implement a program that allows for surveying students for their interest(s) in the mountain program so that offerings can be properly staffed and funded • At least two or three RKMP-sponsored events for the entire school community For example: a “Pinnacle to Pinnacle” hike in the fall or participation in fly fishing derbies on local rivers • A better home found for the “mountain room”

What qualifies you to head this program?

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Why do you think it’s important to Berkshire?

To best support and accommodate our kids with individual learning differences and challenges and to be a resource to faculty.

What are your three top priorities?

• To support/accommodate students in their journey to become independent learners • To be a resource to Berkshire School faculty • To teach and train Berkshire School Learning Specialists What big idea have you contributed to the planning of the program?

We have had more open communication between Learning Specialists/Tutors and Teachers/Form Deans/Advisors What would you like to see your program accomplish in its first year?

My hope is that by next May our students will have demonstrated more independence and increased academic skills. Our wish is that every enrollee in The Kenefick Center makes progress towards meeting his or her individual goals, which are set during the first couple of weeks of school.

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The Advanced Math/Science Research Program Kurt Schleunes, director

In Berkshire’s signature Advanced Math/Science Research course, students partner with professional scientists who serve as mentors for original research projects. The course requires college-level, hands-on work.

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What qualifies you to head this program?

Masters in Mathematics and a minor in Chemistry, 27 years of teaching mathematics in high school and college, assisted with the research course at Marlborough School in Los Angeles.

Why do you think it’s important to Berkshire?

The course allows students to go off campus and do cutting-edge research in science in the top labs in the United States. Their mentors are top research professionals and the students write scientific papers based on their research. They also do PowerPoint presentations and poster presentations. It is important to Berkshire because it gives our students an opportunity to pursue study in the sciences that students at other schools only dream about.

What are your three top priorities?

The students do research, they write it up in scientific format, and they present and defend their work.

What big idea have you contributed to the planning of the program?

I planned and designed the entire program.

What would you like to see your program accomplish this year?

Well, this is its third year. This year we have four students entering the INTEL Science Talent Search Competition and twenty students in the program.

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Center for Global Learning Bill Clough, director

To prepare students to be members of the global community, Berkshire has begun to establish partnerships with schools in Jordan, Malawi and Costa Rica to provide opportunities for student and faculty exchanges, and will continue to partner with additional schools to equip students with an appreciation for other cultures.

What qualifies you to head this program?

I am not sure that I am any more qualified than anyone else. I have a Swedish mother; I lived abroad when I was young; I have been a part of hiring a number of international teachers—so I am familiar with the complexity of securing visas, and I am curious about the world. Maybe most importantly, I am good at getting things done.

Why do you think it’s important to Berkshire?

Building relationships with people and cultures that are different from our own expands our knowledge of others and ourselves. That last part is especially important. Stretching our way of thinking is really a gift we give to ourselves.

What are your three top priorities?

My main priority was recently realized. Last April a group of students and teachers from the Jubilee School in Amman, Jordan visited Berkshire. They stayed with host families, visited classes, participated in school life generally, and did some sightseeing in Boston, New York, and Williamstown. As we hoped would happen, we now have the opportunity to send our own delegation to visit The Jubilee School for ten days next March.

What would you like to see your program accomplish in its first year?

I would like to know that our visit to Jordan was as successful as their visit to Berkshire.

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From left: The silver maple this fall, one of the maple’s many gnarled burls, the shadows of early spring.

Everybody’s favorite tree

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The more showy sugar maples lining Berkshire’s driveway may collectively tug at the heartstrings, but it’s the massive silver maple standing watch over Buck Valley that takes big-tree-on-campus honors.

Generations of Berkshire students and faculty children have climbed it, drawn it, and marveled at its myriad trunks—although in truth the tree has only one, according to the aptly named school arborist Ron Yaple.

Mr. Yaple said the leaders—the portions of the tree rising from the fork just above ground level— began as sprouts emerging from the original stump.

“This is definitely a tree of note. Silver maples are typically planted as a single specimen,” he said. “A spread like this is very unusual. I’ve never seen anything like it.”

Mr. Yaple estimates the tree to be sixty feet tall, eighty feet wide, and eighty to one hundred years old—about half the life span of a silver maple, acer saccharinum to Linnaeus. But he cautions that the tree is showing signs of “a fair amount of decay,” and that many trees fall victim to structural failure rather than old age. So the tree gets plenty of special care from Race Mountain Tree Services, Mr. Yaple’s company, including consistent fertilizing, pruning, and reinforcing the tree by running cable from leader to leader.

Mr. Yaple says that for now, the biggest risk to the tree would be an early wet snow storm or a severe winter ice storm, which would place too much weight on the tree’s brittle branches. The result would be a dramatic loss in the amount of leaf area, or twigs; in scientific terms, the tree would be stressed by a reduction in photosynthate.

He said the root system could be three times the radius of the drip-line, the area from the trunk to the outer reaches of the branches. At the very least, Mr.Yale said that the tree’s root area “clearly consumes the bulk of the bank” and runs underneath the asphalt of the Memorial Hall parking lot, only twelve to sixteen inches beneath the surface.

Keeping those roots and the millions of root hairs they contain safe from harm will be the first order of business when Memorial is finally razed and the proposed new math and science building put up in its place.

Opposite page: Countless faculty children, including the current crop, haven’t been able to resist scaling the tree.

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The Taliban, then and now.

BY DON GOODRICH ’61

When the Taliban (Pashto for “student”) first emerged in Pakistan in the early 1990’s it was a religious movement of fewer than a hundred, mostly Afghan Pashtun refugees led by Mullah Omar. In the fall of 1996, the Taliban began domination of the warlords who had destroyed the country after the Soviets left in 1989. Kabul was in ruins, and it was every man for himself until the Taliban achieved domination and imposed Sharia Law. Soon, however, the civil mayhem of the early 1990’s was replaced with oppression and brutality of another kind that strangled the country until the Taliban was ousted in 2001. Since then, its name has been used by many: Those seeking a return to power in Afghanistan, some hiding or forced beneath its cover, some justifying criminality or claiming it as their own, and others manipulating it for power, profit or their larger geopolitical ends. What follows is an attempt to describe the lives of ordinary Afghans and their relationships with those we label ubiquitously “Taliban.”

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On April 15, 2005, I left my wife, Sally, at Kennedy Airport.

She had just passed through security headed toward her flight to Dubai and from there to Kabul, Afghanistan. She was going there to meet with and get to know better the Afghans who had been helping us build a school for girls in memory of our son who died aboard United Flight 175 when it was flown into the south tower of the World Trade Center. We had chosen Logar Province for the school because its people are Pashtun, members of the Afghan plurality in whose midst al Qaeda planned the attacks that killed our son. We wanted to learn how Osama bin Laden and his followers had come to be accepted there and to establish a different, more hopeful presence in the community.

I did not hear from Sally for four days. It was unsettling.

I slept little and fitfully. On the fifth day, I returned home from work to find the little red light on the answering service blinking at me. It was a message from Sally. Her voice was tremulous: so full of emotion – an almost euphoric joy – that she could hardly get her words out. Just what she said, I do not recall, but it was clear to me that she had found people of intelligence, warmth and kindness yearning for delivery from decades of war and destruction. She was tearfully happy and safe.

She returned to Afghanistan for September 11, 2005, and again in November of that year. Her primary source of security was Saraj Wardak, a village leader in Wardak province. He oversees an orphanage, a clinic and schools for both boys and girls there. He fought against the Russians and survived the years of internal conflict leading to the original Taliban control of his country. He is Pashtun and was a member of the Taliban when most Afghans accepted their presence in their lives as a better alternative to the incessant violence of the preceding years of civil strife. When these Taliban morphed into the Taliban exploited by Osama bin Laden, he repudiated them and was nearly assassinated by them as a result.

Sally spent time with the village leaders where the school was being built – the late Hajji Malik and Hajji Katel Khan.

She learned of the senseless murder of Katel Khan’s 22year-old son. He had asked for payment for fuel he had delivered to a vehicle at his father’s gas station and was shot dead. She felt a kinship with Katel Khan bound by common suffering. She was safe with him and Hajji Malik and has since often said, “They gave me back my life.”

She traveled around the country. She shopped for clothes and rugs on Chicken Street in Kabul and attended the dedication of a school north of there. She visited the homes of ordinary Afghans in Wardak, where she was fed their best foods and given gifts of their most precious things. She heard a universal call for the education of their children and listened to the expressions of hope for a prosperous future for their country.

In April 2006, I attended the dedication of the school in Logar with Sally. I listened to speeches given to the scores of men whose daughters were attending the school and heard (through translation) repeated references to September 11th and the role that education would play in bringing better lives to the children of those men. I met

Hajji Malik and Hajji Katel Khan, fifteen of whose daughters were attending the school. After the dedication, we walked through then unplanted fields to a guest house where we had tea with the Deputy Interior Minister – who had, without compensation, facilitated the construction of the school – the local Minister of Education and other village leaders.

After the school dedication, I too shopped on Chicken Street and later met Saraj in Wardak. When I asked him how he had spent his day, he smiled and said he had walked to the village below his house and had encountered some Taliban walking there, men with whom he had fought against the Russians and whom he had known when he was a member of the original Taliban. He told of greeting them as old comrades while letting them know by his body language that he was no longer one of them and was the Malik of villages at peace and intended they stay that way.

I witnessed all I had been told by Sally of the Afghan people: their courage, talent and humor and a wisdom born of the ever present frailty of their lives. I remember turning on the television when I got home and immediately turning it off. I could not watch and listen to the endless pleas for consumption of the frivolous interspersed with accounts of the peccadilloes of the rich and famous. It was simply too vapid after the strength of character I had just witnessed in Afghanistan.

Sally returned to Afghanistan several times after that, but

by November of last year she could no longer shop in Kabul or travel to Logar or Wardak. It was not safe: not just for her, but for any Afghan seen with her. She met with Hajji Malik and Hajji Katel Khan in Kabul. Katel Kahn told her that his son, Qudratullah, was studying English and that he wanted him to be educated in America.

Saraj, who also met her there, told her the Taliban then in Wardak were no longer indigenous villagers whose families were known to him. Some were ideological Taliban, many from Pakistan, others were foreign mercenary Taliban, some were feigned Taliban, too weak or scared to stand out as other than Taliban, and others were raw criminals, kidnapping, robbing and killing for profit in the name of the Taliban or for which the Taliban took credit. But, whatever their motives, all these men acting as Taliban now were opportunistic strangers to his villages in Wardak.

What few Afghan police were present in Logar and Wardak, indeed throughout Afghanistan, were ill-equipped, mostly illiterate, underpaid and all too often corrupt, many complicit with some variant of the Taliban. The indigenous people, most impoverished without electricity or other resources, were faced with the Hobson’s choice between association with foreigners (us) and a brutal response by the Taliban for having made that association, or association with the Taliban with the likely consequence of arrest, detention or worse by foreigners (us).

On March 17th this year, the compound occupied by Hajji Malik, Hajji Katel Khan and their extended families of more than eighty relatives was raided by United States and Afghan forces. Katel Khan and Hajji Malik’s son were taken and

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detained. We learned of this through Qudratullah on March in Afghanistan. And there will have to be a lot of them: 25th and by April 1st were in Kabul to find out what had many more than are there now. And those who do this happened. We met with Qudratullah and Hajji Malik that work cannot be all military personnel, though their presday. They did not know where Katel Khan and his nephew ence is vital. They are trained to kill, capture and detain were – two weeks after their detention – and were searching and more are needed to confront the increasing numbers of all over for them. We contacted our State Department, Taliban looking to again govern Afghanistan led by Mullah Embassy and Military, the Afghan Human Rights Omar and supported by al Qaeda, power hungry killers like Commission and others we had come to know in Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and foreign mercenaries. Capturing Afghanistan and discovered they were in Bargram, being held people like Hajji Katel Khan and his nephew is necessary, there because they were thought to be Taliban. We learned but detaining indefinitely, worse yet killing, people like that evidence was found in the compound of materials for them is not only not the answer, it is part of the problem. making improvised explosive devices, a land mine and other They could have been and still can be our allies. lethal weapons (most of which are common to all Afghans).

We need to provide resources – people and money – to Hajji Malik was adamant that neither he nor his relatives train police and help administer the justice system to weed were Taliban and repeated that he was our friend and that his out the criminals acting as Taliban and secure the safety of and his brother’s daughters and other village girls were still local populations. We need State Department, United attending the school we and they helped build in Logar.

Nations and humanitarian efforts to provide economic [Editor’s note: In early November 2009, shortly after this arti- opportunity and education to the weak, impoverished, illitcle was written, Hajji Malik died of a heart attack.] erate and starving Afghans who are the feigned Taliban and These men had survived and protected their villages dur- Taliban of necessity and we need to identify and support ing the Russian invasion, the internal conflict, the Taliban those of the original Taliban who want peaceful political years from 1996 to 2001 and the United States invasion, all solutions for their country. without taking up arms. Now they confronted the Taliban And if we don’t? The vast majority of Afghans who again. What they were (are) doing to protect themselves, want us to help them toward a better, more peaceful life their families and the villagers who rely upon them for their soon will be forced to make the only choice that will save safety we will never know. But when the horizon of hope their lives – a choice they will loathe and for having had to is days, not months or years and resources are de minimis, make it blame us – a choice that will return Afghanistan to choices are bad and few.

Mullah Omar, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Osama bin Laden and Before we left Afghanistan, an Associated Press photogratheir like. This we can not chance. It will imperil not only pher took some pictures of us. He had photographed Sally the safety of our country, but that of all societies that manwhen she was there in 2005. He spoke of the changes he age their affairs without violence. had seen in the faces of the Afghans he had photographed DON GOODRICH ’61 is a lawyer in Bennington, Vermont. since then – now tired, frightened, tense and hopeless.

He and his wife, Sally, are the parents of PETER GOODRICH ’85, We left Afghanistan on April 6th. Less than a week later an explosive device in an overturned truck near the school in Logar was detonated, killing fifteen young students, two of them girls on their way to the school we helped build. Are Hajji Katel Khan, Hajji Malik and their families Taliban?

Would they have been complicit in or allowed the murder of the children in their villages, children attending the school they helped build and attended by their own children? The answer is, “No.” So, who are the Taliban we are fighting in Afghanistan and who are we killing, frightening, imprisoning, detaining and alienating in that fight? The answers Mohibullah Amin, a fourth-former known to all here as Mobib, is the third Afghani student to attend to these questions – answers we Berkshire. His brother, MATI AMIN '08 , now attends Williams College, while MUSTAFA BASIJ-RASIKH desperately need – can only be '08 is at Bates College, the alma mater of PETER GOODRICH '85 . All three came to Berkshire thanks to the given by people on the ground Peter M. Goodrich Memorial Foundation and Berkshire's admission office.

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At his first graduation in 2005.

BERKSHIRE’S TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY MAN. After five years on the job, Head of School Mike Maher reflects on the past and looks toward the future.

Five years now. As a teacher, can you grade yourself on your performance so far?

I can put it a different way. I can say that the opportunity to lead Berkshire as it was presented to me five years ago surpassed my expectations, in the richness of the whole thing and the personal satisfaction and support I have felt by the Board and by the faculty and by our constituency.

If you had said to me five years ago, “Where would we be in five years?”, I don’t think I could have said we’d be where we are now, which makes me feel proud.

What are the reasons for that?

“BERKSHIRE HAS AN UNCOMMON KNACK FOR PRODUCING OUT-OF-THE-BOX THINKERS, COURAGEOUS THINKERS.”

When I look back on it, I underestimated the incredible opportunity of the Centennial as a moment in time to be able to galvanize the Berkshire constituency, a moment in time that was on the horizon when I got here that forced me to really understand the values of the school. I knew the celebration was coming up and I wanted to know what was in the bedrock of the place. I underestimated how all that exploration on the front end would serve me, not just in preparing for a celebration of the school’s history but in being able to lead the institution. Reshaping those core values in a modern context has been my simple approach since I’ve been here.

Speaking of the Centennial, you got to know the alumni body very fast. Your impressions?

I find our alumni to be incredibly refreshing. Our school has produced graduates who have more texture, for lack of a better term. Berkshire has an uncommon knack for producing out-of –thebox thinkers, courageous thinkers. I can’t pinpoint why that’s the case, except to say that the school’s mission fundamentally has always given people permission to explore things outside of the straightforward high-school education. That invites risk taking and creative thinking.

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Geography might have something to do with developing those kinds of thinkers, too.

Tons. One of the hugest changes in me personally was developing an appreciation for the natural setting in its own right, but also for the enormous impact it has on the school: the values, the curriculum, the recreational life, the spiritual feeling of the place. I didn’t realize when I got here how many opportunities there were to not just celebrate the Mountain, but to bring it into the fabric of the school and into the educational life of the kids.

Some accomplishments you’re proud of?

I’m very proud of the time I took with [senior master emeritus] Twiggs Myers and others to come understand the school because as I jumped into my job, it allowed me to form a vision based on its values. To step away from those values, to turn away from those values, would be to betray Berkshire. Any good school’s mission has to be timeless.

More than the new buildings and more than hiring people who really understand kids and who want to live and work with kids, I’m proud of my skills as a team builder. That’s my primary strength as a leader, getting the right collections of people with the right skills around the right tasks.

It’s what I enjoy. Ironically, my experience as a coach prepared me far more for what I do than my other experiences before I came to Berkshire.

“I LOVE THE FACT THAT EVERY FACULTY MEMBER AT BERKSHIRE, INCLUDING ME, HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO REALLY KNOW EVERY KID HERE...”

At breakfast this fall with all-school president Kit Landry ’10.

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You’re not a micro-manager.

What makes me excited is I get my inspiration for programmatic objectives and other things from a collective, interactive process. When I’m able to participate in those kind of discussions I feel well equipped to be able to chart a course for the school. Once that idea is developed in its infancy I love the process of turning it over to somebody and letting them have some real latitude to develop that idea in their vision. I went to Bill Clough and said we have to establish a partnership with a school on every continent and start in the Mideast. Help me take it from here.

We’re up 15 students, 371 to 386, from opening of school last year.

Good size?

I love the fact that every faculty member at Berkshire, including me, has the opportunity to really know every kid here, that no kid’s anonymous. I would resist making the school much larger.

The Maher family—Sam, Maddy, Mike, Jean and Isabelle—shortly after arriving at Berkshire in 2004.

“I CAME TO BELIEVE THAT SEAVER BUCK INTENDED THE SCHOOL IN 2009 TO HAVE INTERESTING LEARNING EXPERIENCES BEYOND THE CORE EXPERIENCE THAT WOULD SPEAK TO THE NEEDS OF THE TIMES.”

What about leadership?

It’s a subject I’m conflicted about: are leaders born or are they trained? I don’t know the answer to the question, but I do believe we need to do more intentionally to train student leaders. But I will also say we do so much indirectly on a daily basis to teach kids the principles of leadership and the curriculum that’s been created and the culture we’ve established and the things we make important every day. It’s more part of the fabric than an intentional program.

How did the Berkshire Learning for the 21st Century Model come to be?

It came out of those many conversations I had with Twiggs Myers at the beginning of my time here. It was interpreting in my own way the mission, coming to understand what he meant by “not just for school but for life.” Once I was grounded in all that I came to believe that Seaver Buck intended the school in 2009 to have interesting learning experiences beyond the core experience that would speak to the needs of the time. It crystallized when I visited a school in Cleveland that had its own visual representation. I learned from that visit how to articulate the program in visual terms.

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As we roll the model out, some programs will be farther ahead than others.

The 21st Century Model is an ideal, a work in progress. It represents the programs I believe we need to have in place to prepare kids for the world as it is today. They also serve as critical points of distinction.

What about the aviation course being offered next semester?

I want to learn how to fly. I’m experiencing this new-found passion the same way the kids are experiencing theirs every day here. My inspiration to learn how to fly didn’t come from learning about Education with Wings in 1945 or talking to the teacher about the program. It came from an interaction I had with one of the students who was flying in the program during Pro Vita week last winter. Listening to her tell about her experiences made me excited. I’m going up in the air in April.

Bring us up to date on the new math/science building.

From a facilities point of view, it’s my number-one priority this year and for the foreseeable future, and it’s essential if we’re to retain our competitive advantage in an environment that’s the most competitive in history. We are up against other schools that have that facility. But the biggest reason is that in order to succeed in the world they’re going to enter, our kids must be able to compete with kids from other countries who are very accomplished in math and science.

How close are we to raising the money?

I think we’re two-thirds of the way there, and I will be very disappointed if we don’t get that project moving in the next year or so.

You now have two children going to Berkshire. Does that make you see the school in a different way?

It makes me appreciate the school more. It’s a more complicated relationship for the faculty who have children here. All of us want to give our kids the space they need, but we can’t ignore the fact we’re going to school with them to some extent. And this dynamic is made more intense because of my job at the school. It’s something I’m conscious of and something I navigate every day. But when I look at that challenge versus the upside of being able to share the school with my family, the second far outweighs the first. I was thrilled Maddy chose Berkshire.

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What part of your job do you like the most?

The culture part. Almost every decision I make either directly or indirectly is about the school’s culture. When I sit down with a prospective employee, I’m trying to determine if they not only love kids but also share the kind of values people in this community share. You can find gifted teachers who love kids but who think about the world a lot differently than we do. When I’m sitting down with architects to ask about the next step in the campus master plan, I’m thinking about that in the context of what kind of community Seaver Buck would want. And, strangely enough, I enjoy the discipline part of my job a great deal, because I find those moments to be the greatest learning moments for kids. Remember, I’m an ex-dean of students, and while you can take the dean of students out of the dean of student’s office, you can’t take the dean out of the guy.

On the construction site of the Jackman L. Stewart Athletic Center.

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I’d be remiss if I didn’t say an unusually talented development office was part of it. But there’s something bigger beyond that. I think the school is doing a good job delivering on its promise. Its institutional integrity is high. And in the end, people will invest in integrity. Even in the darkest of times, parents will make an extra contribution if they feel their child is being cared for. And even in the darkest times, alumni will make an extra contribution if they think their school is walking the talk.

“I THINK THE SCHOOL IS DOING A GOOD JOB DELIVERING ON ITS PROMISE. ITS INSTITUTIONAL INTEGRITY IS HIGH. AND IN THE END, PEOPLE WILL INVEST IN INTEGRITY.”

How long do you see yourself at Berkshire?

I’ve never gone into any job with any other commitment but the long run. I’m a company guy. I see myself in this job as long as it’s gratifying and as long as I feel supported by the Board and as long as I earn that support. I’m not looking at it as a stepping stone to anything.

What do you see as your biggest challenges ahead?

Refining our Learning for the 21st Century Model and raising the resources to make it a reality. Getting the math and science building built. And making sure we’re investing more in our faculty than any other school our size. We have in our ranks at Berkshire right now a half-dozen people who will go on to be heads of school. That’s going to happen over some sensible period of time. If Berkshire School can be known as the place that develops leaders right here and elsewhere I think we will have done something very noble and good.

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UNDER THE DOME

Last year more money was raised in annual giving than in the history of Berkshire, in spite of the recession.

How do you explain that?

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If at first you don’t succeed, go organic.

BY KRISTINA THAUTE MILLER ’97 Friends, classmates, and colleagues ALEISHA CABANIOL GIBBONS ’97 and AMANDA WHEELER ’97.

First she tried a year of law school. Then two years teaching school. Then sales and marketing for another two years.

Finally, bingo! Berkshire Organics, her very own company.

ALEISHA CABANIOL GIBBONS ’97 grew up at Berkshire, the daughter of English teacher Ronn Cabaniol and librarian Susan Cabaniol and the sister of CHAD CABANIOL ’01.

A four-year student under the Mountain, she graduated from Roanoke College and then embarked on an odyssey that would lead her to a job she was truly passionate about.

A year and a half ago, Aleisha launched Berkshire Organics, local and organic food home-delivered to residents of Berkshire County. Eight vegetable and fruit variety baskets are offered for weekly or every-other-week delivery, priced from $32 to $52 depending on the size of the basket. Produce comes from a dozen local farms, and additional local and organic items such as meats, baked goods, cheeses, eggs, and soups, can be added to the basket. Aleisha says she is trying to make local and organic foods more affordable: in her storefront, produce is 25% off on Sunday and 40% off on Monday—not surprisingly, Monday is the busiest day in the store.

Berkshire Organics was originally run out of Aleisha’s home in Dalton, Mass. However, she soon outgrew that space and now has her own storefront and distribution center in the same town. Aleisha’s company now employs six people, including two fellow alums—husband BRIAN GIBBONS ’89

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and classmate AMANDA WHEELER ’97.

Her experience at Berkshire had an influence on her decision to start Berkshire Organics. A former varsity athlete in cross-country and track, Aleisha has always believed in keeping fit and eating healthy foods. In Peter Kinne’s environmental science course her senior year, she saw the John Robbins movie Diet for a New America and was deeply affected by its message. Aleisha also worked at two area restaurants, The Old Mill and Castle Street Café, throughout high school and college. The owners of both establishments use local, fresh ingredients for their dishes, which she says inspired her.

In its first year, Berkshire Organics went from 30 to 400 customers and was the subject of a long feature story in the Berkshire Eagle. More publicity followed: a “Best of the Berkshires” 2009 Reader Award, more newspaper stories and a news segment on an Albany, N.Y. television station plus mention on MarthaStewart.com.

Aleisha says she sees herself doing this for at least the next ten years, as there is “a real need for this business in the Berkshires. ” In short, it seems that Aleisha’s job searching days are well behind her. Contact Us About Kristina Thaute Miller ’97 is the director of annual giving at Berkshire School.

Next May, see something unusual at a Berkshire School Reunion...

students.

Starting with Reunion Weekend 2010, Berkshire alumni will gather under the Mountain while school is in session. So not only can you catch up with old classmates and teachers— you can also go to class in the morning and cheer for our students on the playing fields in the afternoon. If you’re a member of a class celebrating a reunion and you have not received a save-the-date postcard listing your accommodations, contact Keira McKenna Holbrough ’92 at 413-229-1309 or alumni@berkshireschool.org.

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MAY 14-16, 2010 Watch for the schedule in the ‘Shire.

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St. Peter’s Church, Rome

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One artist’s tribute to another in the forest night

BY DEAN CHAMBERLAIN ’73

There is a saying: “Love what is ahead by loving what has come before.” We who live honor those who have passed away by remembering, and in so doing, we immortalize the goodness that was their life.

The Class of ‘73 has lost several classmates: gifted photographer SING-SI SCHWARTZ, ROB BATCHELOR, HUGH BOYD, FLOYD JEFFERSON, AND NAT RUTTER, each of whose highly spirited lives, and now memories, will remain deeply imprinted in our hearts. It was Sing-Si’s passing in 2005 that sent the first real shock wave of mortality through our collective consciousness. During Centennial Weekend in May of 2008, we communally absorbed the depth of feeling of loss and became inspired to join together to honor Sing-Si. I’ve had some sudden life-expanding moments along my 30-plus year career path as a light-painter.

Those moments now include the making of “At Long Last, My First Light-Painting at Berkshire School,” created in the forest a few hundred yards above Godman dormitory, where 39 years earlier in this forest, and in the basement darkroom with Sing-Si Schwartz as my teacher, my life as a photographer began in earnest.

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The Mission.

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I’d been planning to arrive at Berkshire several days before the reunion to create a light-painting to honor the passing of Sing-Si as well as the continuing flourishing life of the Berkshire School community. For decades I dreamed of returning to paint light on Mt. Everett, to bring my series of forest light-paintings full circle back to the first and most intimately meaningful forest of my life, where the roots of my dreams reached deep.

When I arrived at Berkshire the day before beginning the first of two night sessions of photography, instinct led me instantly, with barely a glimpse of campus, to look for a composition up Glen Brook, where I rediscovered a uniquely picturesque ravine that had been imprinted in my visual memories of Mt. Everett’s infinite beauty—although I’d never photographed there, according to my photo archives. Every perspective inside this rogue ravine—from the very close-up, looking into the clear pools, to the rootto-rock clinging trees to more distant trees leading upwards and beyond—seemed a magical elfin domain, and seemed to be where Sing-Si wanted me to be.

This was to be a composition, but it was base camp for something deeper than photographing in solitude with nature.

Old friends were coming. It was a tribute.

I set up my equipment with a strong intention to make it count. After all, I hadn’t been here since 1973, and didn’t know if I’d ever return to paint light on this mountain, where my dreams of being an artist were born.

The approximate scene of the cover photo by day, sixteen months later with a regular digital camera.

The author (left) with fellow photographer MARK RICHARDSON ‘73 and sculptor HAROLD CLAYTON ‘73.

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“For decades I dreamed of returning to paint light on Mt. Everett, to bring my series of forest light-paintings full circle back to the first and most intimately meaningful forest of my life, where the roots of my dreams reached deep.”

The Method.

I call the photographic process I have practiced in all my work since 1977 “light painting.” Upon seeing my first light painting developed, I felt I’d discovered a new art form within photography proper. I’d been studying photography full-time at Rochester Institute of Technology rather uneventfully for over three years until this life-changing breakthrough For those unfamiliar with the process, I make light painting by placing my camera on a tripod, opening the lens shutter in total darkness and then, using a flashlight or other handheld portable light source, move around within the composition space slowly but surely illuminating, in great detail and often at close proximity, everything to be seen in the finished picture. This in turn is exposed on the film—literally painting with light through time and space. My lightpainting method for a large-scale composition like the one created at Berkshire is athletic and aerobically active; each time exposure for a light painting is more than a half-hour long and sometimes up to several hours long, during which time I am in constant motion with light in hand, painting the darkness.

Since I began light painting, I have used traditional cameras and film: a 35mm camera, then a 4”x5” view camera for the last few decades. Painting light with film is not like painting pigments on surfaces. Light painting is 100% mind’s-eye envisioning while painting the light because once the light is painted and exposed on film, that area returns to the darkness as if nothing had happened.

Only the film knows for sure. Every detail must be remembered. Exposures must be calculated by experience. It’s a practice demanding much faith in what the mind sees and remembers.

A few months before coming back to Berkshire, I started learning the basics of light painting with a digital camera and decided I would make this light painting at Berkshire using a super high-resolution digital camera in concert with a battery-charted, 17-inch laptop at the composition site. I was able to see the light painting on the screen after every exposure and to see if I’d missed anything before the session was finished—a decisive victory over the unavoidable time delays encountered when working with my beloved, soon-to-be-bygone silverhalide film. I could imagine that Sing-Si, who had dived deep into the digital photographic ocean, was guiding me once again.

First Night’s Session: May 14, 2008.

I met up with KEN GORDON ’73 , a fellow photographer and filmmaker, at the composition site. Ken had driven a couple of hours to join in this creative dialogue, sparked by his close personal and professional relationships with Sing-Si and Rob Batchelor and their mutual love for Berkshire. Ken wired me for sound and then filmed the night’s light-painting session for what would become a 22-minute documentary on my life as a light-painter aired on Ovation TV. Some hours passed as Ken and I let the world go and merged into the night, flashlight beams dancing from the water onto the rocky walls, flying through branches and beyond, when we heard approaching voices: English teacher Lisa Baez and Berkshire students JADE ZARZEKA ’08 and TUCKER WALSH ‘08. Ken and I offered flashlights so they could join in painting light, a growing band of illuminating elves, each finding illuminated surprises, tiny and tall, of forest and stream, lighting nature for the camera to record.

Second Night’s Session: May 15th, 2008. That afternoon, MARK RICHARDSON ’73, a graphic designer and fellow photographer, arrived to join in the ongoing light painting project. This was the first time

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Before the second night’s shoot, Mark Richardson sets up the tripod in Glenn Brook’s streambed, while Dean Chamberlain is at his laptop.

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Parc St. Cloud, Paris

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we’d ever creatively collaborated, and as we planned that night’s session, we talked easily, as if 35 years hadn’t gone by since we’d spent a few moments together. In 1972 at Berkshire, Mark had already become immersed in advanced 4”x 5” view-camera photography, creating beautiful nature studies on Mount Everett. I felt Mark had mystical leanings in his quiet, calm, devoted artfulness at Berkshire. From 1969 to 1973, while Sing-Si with his unbridled enthusiasm was teaching me the basics of photography, Mark unwittingly inspired in me an intimate, internal feel for the medium. I was very lucky to have these gifted people in my life at that time. As I’ve also said about Sing-Si, for all I know, if not for Mark’s influence I may have chosen a completely different path in life.

Soon our classmate, sculptor HAROLD CLAYTON ‘73 arrived; I was looking forward to having the great carver of stone sculpt light in the four-dimensions of the light painting experience, time being the fourth. Mark, Harold, and I were face-to-face for the first time in 35 years under dappled sunlight on the mountain we each knew and loved so dearly.

Once darkness fell, flashlight beams were dancing through and bouncing off the stream and our hollering voices were muffled by the series of waterfalls. Up to my hip boots in water mid-stream, I’d glance up and see their silhouettes shuttling across the moonlit sky, lighting branches and leaves, then turn back to my work, completely immersed in lighting pebbles under water. JERRY WEIL ‘73 , his son BEN WEIL ‘06 , and Ben’s friend Matt Kirby arrived. More flashlights were handed out and there were now seven of us shining lights into the forest fantastic.

For several hours the light beams flowed freely, splashing off rocky caverns and mossy walls, flying through the 50,000 cubic-feet-plus of stream and forest within the composition. What a rejuvenation it was, hovering and hollering with glee above our beloved school. I remember thinking that this priceless natural scene, preserved in its pristine primal perfection, continues to make Berkshire a dynamic and sublime atmosphere where imaginations can flourish.

A print edition of Dean Chamberlain’s light-painting of Glen Brook will be for sale to help raise funds for the Class of 1973’s gift to the school in honor of Sing-Si Schwartz. Details will be forthcoming on the ‘Shire, Berkshire’s alumni Web site.

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Dean Chamberlain’s light-paintings are grouped in five categories: figures, flowers, forests, portraits (as David Bowie, above, photographed in 1981), and sites (as Parc St. Cloud, Paris, above left). To see more of Dean’s work, visit www. deanchamberlain.com. His classmate Harold Clayton’s work can be seen at www.stonecarversguild.com

Graduation #102

was justly proud of his new diploma, but sister Gabby wasn’t that impressed.

JUSTIN HACKMAN ’09

UNDER THE DOME

CLARA JANE MURFEY ’09 , now at Hampshire College, with her parents, Marion and SKIP MURFEY ‘68 , and her grandmother, Jane McKay.

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Activist and philanthropist Susan M. Crown, pictured here with Head of School Mike Maher and Carmen Massimiano, the Sheriff of Berkshire County, gave the commencement address. She is the mother of NICK KUNKLER ’09, now a freshman at Northwestern University. For the text of Ms. Crown’s address, visit the search section of berkshireschool.org, type in the exact phrase “102nd Commencement.”

Three generations of Andersons at Bekrshire: ROBSON ANDERSON ‘09 , grandfather JAMES ANDERSON HON.’80 , and DAVIS ANDERSON ’68.

RELIVE GRADUATION! THERE ARE PLENTY MORE PHOTOS WHERE THESE CAME FROM. VISIT BERKHSIRESCHOOL.ORG, CLICK ON SEARCH, AND TYPE IN THE EXACT PHRASE “102ND COMMENCEMENT.” BERKSHIRE SCHOOL • FALL 2009

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Former Spanish teacher Nancy Duryee and Sage Dining Services cook Raul Gonzales.

Jean Maher with 1959 stalwarts JIM

PLATT

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CHRIS FLOWER.

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In the school archives beneath the Kellogg Center, JOHN HULL ’51 was shocked when he dipped into his student dossier.

AARON ROMANO-MEADE ‘99 escorted his mother, International Student Program Director Anna Romano, down the stairs to dinner.

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PAT MCCULLION ’99

with friend Jessica Smith.

Former winners of the Distinguished Alumni and Kellogg Volunteer of the Year awards gathered on the Great Room terrace in Berkshire Hall during Alumni Weekend ’09.

Seated, from left: TWIGGS MYERS HON. ’57 (1995 Honorary Distinguished Alumnus, 2000 Kellogg Volunteer), HAWLEY ROGERS ’56 (2004 Distinguished Alumnus), HANS CARSTENSEN ’66 (2009 Distinguished Alumnus). Standing, from left: former faculty Tom Dixon (2008 Kellogg Volunteer), DOUG HANSLIP ’79 (2004 Kellogg Volunteer), DAVID RONDEAU ’78 (2009 Kellogg Volunteer), former faculty ED HUNT ’61 (2006 Distinguished Alumnus), LEE WEIL ‘44C (1989 Distinguished Alumnus), E. MANDELL DE WINDT ’39 (1987 Distinguished Alumnus), former treasurer JIM BALCH ’51 (1993 Distinguished Alumnus), BRIAN FAHY ’82 (2002 Kellogg Volunteer), JIM HOOPER ’69 (2007 Kellogg Volunteer).

TASHA ALLYN GIVEN ’84

with Kelli Lizza, wife of classmate CARL LIZZA ’84.

HOLLY DEBOW ’84

and

ANTHONY ADDISON ’82

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Heady company

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Old Guard

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From left: SPARRY SPARKS ’49, ROLLIE SCHOPP ’49, GEORGE CHURCH ’48, KIM KIMBERLY ’47, BOB DOYLE ’49, HAWLEY ROGERS ’56.

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1959 Front row, from left: DICK ELIAS, DICK HOPPER, BILL TYNAN, SANDY ANCONA, JIM PLATT. Back row, from left: DAN DONALDSON, TOM THOMAS, BRUCE ROEHRIG, SANDY CREIGHTON, CARL ALBRIGHT, PERRY RIANHARD, JIM MONELL, PETER BROWNING.

1964 From left: PETER KENNARD, DAVE LANMAN, TOM LOTT. (Not pictured: Ken Morris, Bruce Keifner, Bob Beaumont, Cap Anderson, John Hendrie.)

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1969 Front row, from left: TODD DICKINSON, JOHN BORDEN, JIM HOPPER, JIM SHELDONDEAN, RICHARD MUHFELD . Back row, from left: RICHARD CLARK, CHRIS BELL, K. C. CLOW, GARY WRIGHT, JOHN HERMANS, GORDON HUNT, THROOP GEER. (Not pictured: Tom Pollak, Jack Weeks.)

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1974 From left: RUSS BURBANK, ART HAVEMEYER, DAVE WEISS, STEVE KIRSCHNER '75.

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1979 From left, ANDREA KRIDA GOFF, DAVID GEFKE, LIZ NOYES-SARGENT, DOUG HANSLIP, BOB THOMAS, DAVID LOCKE, GLENN CADMAN, HANNAH HULL, JIM IRWIN, JANET READRIDGELY. (Not pictured: Frannie

Fusco, Susie Norris-Epstein, Peter Vanden Broeck, Jack Benvent, Bob Cadogan, Andy Brooks, Mike Schopp.)

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1984 Front Row – Left to Right: LINDA HARKRADER POWERS, LAUREN HOPPER BEAULIEU, GRETCHEN HEMEON, ROB HUTTER, CARL LIZZA, KEVIN MCCULLOCH, BILL LAWRENCE, JAMIE WARD, GREG ROBERTS Back Row – Left to Right: HOLLY DEBOW, TINA SMITH NOVAK, GWYNNE COATES DEVEAU, ANDY MCGEE, JULIA POUNDS, JEFF MCLAUGHLIN, DEBBIE DRUCKER, MEGAN CANTINI SCHNURR, ENNIS BLOUNT BAKER, MIKE SULLIVAN, JEAN WOOLSEY BORGMAN, BOB MUELLER, CINDY STRINGHAMSMITH, KELLY MCINTYRE, CRAIG POWERS, TASHA ALLYN GIVEN.

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GARDENER, ANNIE TUTWEILER MACKENZIE, JEN POLLOCK, CHRIS KUNIN, KATHY ORLANDO, MILES FARREL, BRYCE FIFIELD, SEAN MCGILL. Middle row, from left: CHRISTIE BROFF KNECHT, CHRISTIE DUFAULT, MELISSA GLICK, SAM COOPER BREX, TRACY CARTWRIGHT, AMANDA FABIANTSAOUSIS, KRISTIN BROOKS, EMILY DEVOTI, MARY HERRINGTON YANCEY, KATIE OLSEN SMITH, SAMANTHA BURNS, ALLYSON LEVITT, MARGARET FLOOD VULLIEZ. Back row, from left: JON GRANT, CHARLIE KINSLEY, DAVE DUFAULT, MIKE WAGSTAFF, ANDREW ALLEN, DAVE WANAMAKER.

1994 From left: JEN HARVEY-MONTANO, JEREMY FREID, EMILY IVEY, JEFF FRANK, DAVE TAMBURELLI, DAVID FRIEND, JEN STRINGHAM GAUDRON, FRAN BLAIR, JEN LIZZA, JAMIE LEDDY GRAHAM, MATT LUSINS, JESSICA LEE GUTEN, MARY LEE METTEE, NORM MERRILL.

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Front row, from left: DAVE EVERETT ’00, PAT MCCULLION, SCOTT GORDON, AARON ROMANO-MEADE, TEYMOUR GOLSORKHI. Back row, from left: MICHAEL GUTENPLAN, GEORGE SCOVILLE, SARAH CUSHWA DIVINE, HEATHER CRISPIN POLK, ANNIE CORRAO ALLARDYCE, LIZ MATTES, EVIE ULLMAN, JULIAN DELACRUZ, ALEX CUTLER, JUSTIN ORGEL, ANDREW BOREK, SCOTT KANTOR, LIAM MILLHISER, STEVE DURYEE, AUBRY PARSONS, MIKE SMITH.

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2004 Front row, from left: MARKO NICHOLS-MARCY, JILL BOWRON, CRISTINA CAICEDO, KRAIG STRONG, CONNOR LINES, DUNCAN MACFARLANE, ZACH SPIELMAN. Back row, from left: BRIDGET KING, ISSA AZAT, FAYE ABRAMS, ZACH RYAN, LOUISA WUERTENBERGERWENZEL, EMILY FLAKE, MAXIMILIAN APEL, KATHRYN HOLLISTER, LEVI WADE, CARTER STERN, MIKE HARRISON.

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All Hans on Deck HANS CARSTENSEN ’66

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2009 Distinguished Alumni of the Year Award

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Chip Carstensen in 1966 with then-headmaster John Godman and fellow head prefect AL LAUBENSTEIN ’66.

He may be known as Hans Carstensen today. But during his four years in the Godman era here, he was Chip Carstensen, and he was everywhere: • • • • • •

Co-head prefect Student Council member Vice president of the Glee Club Assistant editor of the Trail Staff member of the Green and Gray Member of Greensleeves and the Dance Committee

In addition, because a bad back prevented him from participating in sports, Chip managed the varsity football, basketball and baseball teams. And in the senior poll, he received the most votes in the categories of “done most for Berkshire,” “most influential,” and “biggest drag with the faculty.”

It is no surprise, then, that Chip Carstensen won the

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Berkshire Cup at his graduation in 1966 and that John Godman enthusiastically recommended him for admission to Stanford University. Mr. Godman wrote Stanford: “Chip is an excellent organizer, speaks with force and poise, and can generally be expected to get things done with dispatch and without friction. His native intelligence and his skill in getting along with people suggest he will be a leader in the business world.”

Stanford admitted him and wasn’t disappointed. Eight years later Hans Carstensen left Palo Alto with a bachelor of science degree in political science and an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, with concentration in finance and organizational behavior.

Then Hans was off and running for Weyerhaeuser Company in Tacoma and Washington D.C. as financial analyst, special projects manager and government affairs manager—with a two-year leave of absence to work for

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Washington State Governor Dixie Lee Ray in the state’s Department of Social and Health Services.

In 1985 Hans then signed on with the GNA Corporation in Seattle, rising in the ranks to become senior vice president of this GE Capital Financial Services subsidiary.

In 1996 Hans crossed the country to Boston, where he became chairman, president and CEO of Avivia Life Insurance Company of America, the seventh largest insurance conglomerate in the world.

But the call of the West beckoned Hans and Terri back, and he became executive director of Premier Technology in Blackfoot, Idaho.

Along the way, Hans has given his time to such causes as Stanford University, the Seattle Zoo and the Seattle Repertory Theater. Today he and Terri are board members of the Sawtooth Society, dedicated to preserving 756,000 acres of the Sawtooth National Recreation Area in their beloved Idaho.

What has Hans Carstensen done for Berkshire School? For starters, he’s been class agent since the day he left campus. He joined the Board of Trustees in 1990 and helped steer the school through some very turbulent times.

In the fall of 2003, he became president of the Board just when it appeared calm had finally come.

But the very day after Hans presided over his first Board meeting, the man he had recently hired as head of school suddenly died. Thanks in part to Hans’s leadership and to interim head of school HAWLEY ROGERS ’56, Berkshire came through another storm.

So much for Hans’s time and energy on behalf of his school. He has also led by example by giving to many Berkshire causes:

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HANS CARSTENSON ’66 with Head of School Mike Maher and his new school chair.

• The Annual Fund • Funds honoring Frank and Peg Beattie, Tom Chaffee and Twiggs Myers Hon. ’57 • Three capital campaigns: Berkshire ’75, the Program for the Nineties, and Berkshire 2000 • Girls’ dormitories and the James C. Kellogg ’33 Alumni Center • Gifts in memory of Dave Barrett ’59, Ritt Kellogg ’85 and Larry Piatelli • And, as a member of the John Godman Society, Hans has remembered Berkshire in his estate plans Ladies and gentlemen, I don’t know about you, but I don’t need any more evidence. Hans, please come forward and accept this honor you so richly deserve: the 2009 Berkshire School Distinguished Alumni Award.

From remarks by Head of School Mike Maher, June 13, 2009

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The Kid Who Liked McKinley D AV I D R O N D E A U ’ 7 8

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2009 Kellogg Volunteer of the Year

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DAVID RONDEAU ’78 with the journalism class he visited at Berkshire last year, and accepting a school lamp from Head of School Mike Maher.

David Rondeau spent three years at Berkshire at the tail end of the wild and wooly seventies. And no one tells his story here more succinctly or colorfully than his college counselor, Petro Arango, who wrote the following in recommending David for college: “David Rondeau is a sort of miracle. When he first arrived at Berkshire he looked and acted like a mistreated puppy. My fear was that this delicate child, so fascinated by American history that he made a journey to Buffalo for a memorial service for William McKinley, would be battered, bullied, badgered into senseless submission. Somehow, miraculously, David was adopted by the roughest, biggest, ugliest gang on campus, and not only survived, but flourished. Today he is larger, considerably more sophisticated, a relaxed, very humorous, clever young man, liked and respected by both faculty and students.”

Indeed, at the end of his senior year here David Rondeau was on the student council, the dormitory committee, a disc jockey on WBSL, an accomplished singer, and editor in chief of the Green and Gray. At graduation, he won the Anna S. Barrasch Prize for unselfish interest in people and loyalty to Berkshire.

David went on to Lake Forest University, then served

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Merrill Lynch for over two decades. He now has his own investment firm, Southport Harbor Associates, in Southport, Connecticut.

But it is for his tireless work on behalf of Berkshire that we salute David today.

• He has served on the school’s Advisory Board since its infancy in 2000 and, as its chairman, has reformatted and reenergized the Board.

• His networking initiative, the Advisory Board Program, has resulted in several young Berkshire alumni getting invaluable experience in the workplace.

• David has also served on the Board of Trustees since 2005. He has been a loyal supporter of Berkshire School’s Annual Fund every year since 1986 and has given special gifts in honor of Twiggs Myers and in memory of Irene McDonald. And just last fall his gift made possible the restoration of the Fentress Reading Room, which was the school library when he was here.

For all these reasons and more, it is my great pleasure to name David T. Rondeau, Class of 1978 as the 2009 Kellogg Volunteer of the Year.

From remarks by Head of School Mike Maher, June 13, 2009

ALUMNI AUTHORS

Ex-Student Ex-cerpts

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Several more literati/alumni have recently published books, led by the most prominent of the bunch, art critic CALVIN TOMKINS ’43 . Lives of the Artists, a collection of profiles written for the New Yorker, appeared in October 2008 and was cited as one of the books of the year in the New York Times Book Review. Ironically, although he was a staff writer for Berkshire’s newspaper and editor of its literary magazine, Tad took no art courses while at Berkshire, and only one at Princeton. It was only when he was on the foreign affairs desk at Newsweek and asked to interview artist Marcel Duchamp that his interest in art was sparked.

Following are profiles of Calvin Tomkins and several other alumni authors: along with excerps of their latest works.

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ALUMNI AUTHORS

erkshire may not have a graduate who went on to the White House, the State House, or either house of Congress. But the school can claim its fair share of writers, including LUCIUS BEEBE ’21, a journalist and newspaper columnist whose books were primarily about railroading…. C.D.B. “COURTY” BRYAN ’54 , whose non-fiction book Friendly Fire was serialized in the New Yorker magazine and later made into an Emmy and Peabody Award winning movie starring Carol Burnett and Ned Beatty….JIM FERGUS ’68 , a Tom Chaffee acolyte whose One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd sold 500,000 copies in the United States and another 700,000 in France…LINCOLN KIRSTEIN ’26, better known as the co-founder (with George Balanchine) of the New York City Ballet, but the author of several books, including Mosaic, his memoir… VAN WYCK MASON ’20, a historian and pulp fiction writer who wrote a staggering 65 novels, several of them featuring his alter-ego, Captain Hugh North, a detective in Army intelligence… and poet BILL MATTHEWS ’61, another Tom Chaffee mentee whose collection Time & Money won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1996.

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CALVIN TOMKINS ’43 (right) in 1997 with artist Robert Rauschenberg.

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Calvin Tomkins ’43

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At Berkshire: Three-year student was editor of The Dome, wrote for the Green & Gray, played baseball and hockey, learned to ski…most memorable teachers were “Eipper and Stevens, no contest”…Can’t remember his favorite book in high school, “but I do recall getting so engrossed in Keats’ ‘The Eve of Saint Agnes’ that I smuggled it into Latin class and read it surreptitiously, with excitement maybe heightened by fear of being caught by Stevens. My big literary influence at Berkshire was Keats—hadn’t discovered Hemingway or Faulkner yet, and nobody mentioned them.”

After Berkshire: Received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University in 1948 and entered into a career in journalism, working first with Radio Free Europe from 1953 to 1957 and then, as a writer and editor, for Newsweek from 1957 to 1961, when he joined the The New Yorker as a regular staff writer…in 1980, appointed the magazine’s official art critic and wrote art reviews…Tomkins continues as a staff writer at The New Yorker today…his first published book was Intermission: A Novel but his ensuing books flowed directly from his work at The New Yorker, among them:The Lewis and Clark Trail; Eric Hoffer: An American Odyssey; several books on art and artists, including Duchamp: A Biography and Off the Wall: Robert Rauschenberg and the Art World of Our Time; and his most popular work, Living Well is the Best Revenge, a book on Gerald and Sara Murphy and the American Expatriate community in France between the World Wars. Lives of the Artists profiles modern artists Damien Hirst, Cindy Sherman, Julian Schnabel, James Turrell, Matthew Barney, Maurizio Cattelan, Jasper Johns, Jeff Koons and John Currin.

Publisher: Henry Holt and Company

The excerpt: Making art is both harder and easier than it used to be. The radical changes in art and society that were set in motion during the early years of the twentieth century gave rise to a new kind of artist, whose first obligation was to invent or discover a new self. Tradition, skill, rigorous training, formal knowledge: All the old requirements fell away or became optional. Art, it seemed, could be whatever artists decided it was, and there were no restrictions on the new methods and materials—from video and verbal constructs to raw nature and urban detritus—that they could use. The limitless freedom of the modern artist has been an unending burden. If art can be anything, where do you begin? from the Prologue

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Peter Post ’68

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At Berkshire: Four-year student who played soccer and tennis and did ski racing and recreational skiing…member of the Press Club…cites Bob Minnerly as “clearly the most memorable teacher I had at Berkshire”… favorite books in high school: Lord of the Rings series.

After Berkshire: Earned a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a master’s degree in fine art from Pratt Institute…is a director of the Emily Post Institute and author of five etiquette books, including The Etiquette Advantage in Business: Personal Skills for Professional Success, a completely revised and updated look at the world of business etiquette…as creator and primary presenter of the Emily Post Business Seminar series, leads business seminars for companies both in the United States and in Europe…other books are the New York Times bestseller Essential Manners for Men and Essential Manners for Couples… authors The Boston Sunday Globe’s weekly question-andPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers answer business etiquette advice column, “Etiquette at Work.” …one of Emily Post’s four great-grandchildren, he owns a marketing and Instead, we consciously slowed down. On the par-3 public relations agency…lives in Vermont with wife sixth, the manager came by in a cart. He stopped, and we Tricia…daughters Anna and Lizzie both work at the Emily chatted for a couple of minutes. On the sixth green, I Post Institute as well. looked back and saw that the single who had been catching us had stopped play and was headed for his car, so we took a couple of extra putts. On this crisp fall day, the view from The excerpt: on top of the hill at the eighth tee was spectacular, looking out to the ocean across a pond that sits just behind the Back Off and Enjoy the World Around You. eighth green. As we walked down the hill to the green, we noticed how the view changed with every step. We were My wife and I were playing a late-fall, nine-hole round at walking slowly, caught up in the beauty of the moment and a golf course on the Massachusetts coast. We felt like we place. Before we got to the green, the threesome in front had the course to ourselves. It was a beautiful day: blue of us was moving up the ninth hole. By the time we played skies, a light wind, the sun still warm on our backs. We nine, there was no waiting. weren’t trying to play fast, but on the fifth hole we started The best part of all was that, after having had a triple and a to catch up with a threesome of elderly gentlemen. We couple of doubles early on, I finished par, par, double par, par, knew one of them, and I suspect that if we’d shown any par. That’s about as good as it gets for me. Maybe slowing hint of impatience in our body language, they probably down and enjoying the experience helped me play better, too. would have let us through. If they had, we might have saved ten minutes by the end of the round.

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Max Wilk ’37

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At Berkshire: A threeyear student whose nickname was “Paté de Buerre”…was editor of the Green and Gray and, among other activities, was a member of the Glee Club, the Dramatic Club, and the Double Quartet. “What was there to remember? You hop, skip and get the hell out, go to college. Mr. Buck was a lovely man, a nice man. And how can you forget Eipper?”

After Berkshire: A 1941 Yale graduate…served in the U.S. Army as a member of the cast of Irving Berlin’s soldier show, “This Is the Army,” and later as a screenwriter of Air Force training films….went on to write for Broadway and then for live television, contributing to such programs as “Ford Television Theatre,” “Studio One” and “Philco Playhouse,” and supplying script material for comedians Ed Wynn,Victor Borge, Art Carney and Jonathan Winters…from his novel of the same title, he wrote the screenplay of the film Don’t Raise the Bridge, Lower the River, starring Jerry Lewis and Terry Thomas…in 1968 cowrote the book on which the screenplay for the film The Yellow Submarine was based… has also written numerous books on the history of American show business, including Schmucks with Underwoods, about Hollywood screenwriters in the 1930s and ‘40s…for over two decades, Max has been a story editor and dramaturge for the Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conferences in Waterford, Connecticut…an updated edition of “They’re Playing Our Song,” a collection of oral histories of American songwriters, was published last year. Upon its original publication in 1973, the book received the Deems Taylor ASCAP prize for best writing on American music…currently completing a history of Hollywood screenwriters entitled You Should Have Been There. I Was...widower with eight children and four grandchildren.

Everything starts from now. Recall—the greatest writings that have lived maybe now four hundred, five hundred years, the greatest dramas, the greatest things—those people had a recall. Writing is recall. You recall, and then you throw it away and then you write, but you must have some reference to the world, reference to something, respect for someone—you don’t have to be religious, but you have to know that it’s there. Look, my mother died in 1947 and my father died in 1951. I suppose it’s maybe every day, or every other day, that I recollect something in relationship to them, and there isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t tell some story about my father. Always very humorous. Some of it is very touching…so I am a human being.

“I have great respect for tradition. I know that Bach was marvelous. I know that Beethoven was rather a genius and Mozart was terribly talented, and I know that Ravel was something special, and I know those people, and every time I write I say, ‘So and so would have liked that music.’ I know who I am. I know where I am, all the time. But people today think they are making something new—and they are the most

The excerpt: (From the 1971 interview with the late Jules Styne, composer of the hit Broadway shows Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Bells are Ringing, Gypsy and Funny Girl, and the Oscarwinning song “Three Coins in a Fountain.”)

“The people in the arts today have lost one thing. And that goes back to basic roots. They have no tradition, they have no respect, therefore they have no reference.

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clichéd, the most conforming group I have ever met in my life. Along comes a show called Hair with girl nudes, so they make a hundred nude shows! And that is a generation?

Where is its originality? Now they have discovered God all over again. Jesus Christ Superstar. It’s been going on for years.

They have been singing that Biblical music since I was a kid in Chicago. Country music? By God, twenty-five years ago when I was writing pop songs I went across the country in a car and found out that in Texas they have got a different Hit Parade than in New York. Did I not write country music?

Did I not write and have hits with Gene Autrey at Republic

Studios? Why would Republic make a $220,000 Gene Autrey picture? Because they knew they would get $3,000,000 for every one, because they played it in Arizona, Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma. I never even came here. Later on, they heard of country music, they brought it here to the cities, there was a market for it. So all of a sudden we discover ‘country music,’ and that is all you will hear, country or rock music. They believe there’s a big explosion, that what they have written is original, when it really isn’t.”

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John Thompson ’68 At Berkshire: Three-year student, he played football, squash and tennis…sports editor of the Green and Gray and member of the Bridge Club….favorite book in high school: Huckleberry Finn….most memorable teacher: Tom Chafee.

After Berkshire: After graduating from Middlebury, spent 25 years as an investment banker in New York before retiring to write full time…lives with his wife, JULIA FORSTER ’78, and daughter, Liza, and divides his time between Charleston, South Carolina, and a mountain home in Hawley, Pennsylvania…actively involved in his local community: has chaired the board of one of the nation’s leading children’s hospitals and served as interim headmaster of a private school. A trustee emeritus of Berkshire and a founding trustee of the South Carolina division of Donors Choose, a charity selected by Amazon.com in 2005 as America’s Most Innovative Non-Profit...Armageddon Conspiracy, his first novel, was nominated for Best Fiction by the Southern Independent Booksellers and won the Independent Publishers Gold Medal for Best Thriller/Mystery/Suspense novel.

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Steve Albers had no idea it was his day to die. He simply knew his sales meeting had run late, and he needed to run like hell to catch the four-ten train. Another train left at five forty-five, but that wasn’t an option. Today was his daughter’s birthday, her sixteenth, and in addition to having planned a family celebration, Steve had an almost-new bright yellow Volkswagen Beetle hidden in his neighbor’s garage.

He generally disapproved of sixteen-year-olds having cars, but Kate was different—honor roll every semester of her life, state champion gymnast in her age group, and class president. She deserved something special, he thought, as he rushed from the elevator and trotted toward the revolving doors. Out on the crowded sidewalk he broke into an awkward run.

The sun had set, the cold wind was slicing through his muffler and gloves, and slicks of ice glinted from the sidewalk. He stepped around mobs of fellow commuters bundled in heavy coats, streaming warm breath into the air.

After a block, his heart pounded, and he slowed to a fast walk, vowing to lose some weight. After another block he came to the throng of people moving down the escalators into the underground warren of Penn Station and began to burrow his way through.

The air grew warmer as he descended, and the smells of car and bus exhaust and metallic tang of cold air quickly morphed to the stale, slightly urine smell of the station.

The jostling worsened in the long corridors that led to the commuter trains, and Steve shifted his focus, looking down for a dropped briefcase of some homeless person’s outstretched leg.

The stacked case of Coke nearly tripped him. Someone had left them carelessly placed outside a pizza kiosk, but he saw them at the last moment. He glanced up at the overhead clock. Four minutes after five. He was going to make it, just barely.

Exactly seventeen minutes earlier, in the drop-off area outside Penn Station’s other entrance, Yusuf ben Abu Sayeed had checked his watch then had stepped out of the taxi line, where he had been standing for the past five minutes.

He had tightened his muffler, raised the collar of his cashmere overcoat and walked away. Such a departure was unremarkable because cab waits often became infuriating, and the line had simply shifted forward. No one had given him a second glance.

Abu Sayeed’s exit had nothing to do with impatience but with the two men in Coca-Cola delivery uniforms who had just ascended the escalator and wheeled their empty hand truck around the corner of the building. He’d been waiting to spot them, and now he crossed Eighth Avenue, walked eastward, then entered the revolving doors of a large office tower. He unbuttoned his coat and loosened his muffler, entered an elevator and rode to the thirtieth floor.

There, like a man who had simply chosen the wrong floor, he stepped onto the next down elevator. Seconds later he

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exited the opposite side of the building where his rented limousine had been waiting at the curb for almost forty minutes.

As the driver hurried around the car and held the door, Abu Sayeed gave a wary sigh, as though exhausted from the last meeting of a long day. He slid onto his seat and checked that the glass privacy partition was up. His mind whirled with almost unbelievable possibilities as he glanced at the other passenger who had waited there the entire time. They were almost strangers, having met several months earlier in London, when the man had managed to contact him through an endless chain of intermediaries and make his extraordinary offer.

“Well?” the passenger asked, as the limo pulled into traffic. He had sandy hair going gray at the temples and blue eyes with a dangerous innocence.

“Your associates made their delivery,” Abu Sayeed answered.

The man removed a cell phone from the pocket of his suit coat. He held it for several thoughtful moments as their limo snaked its way through the uptown traffic.

Finally, he dialed a number then held the phone out to Abu Sayeed. “You have the honors.”

Abu Sayeed pushed the phone gently away. “I insist.”

The other’s mouth tightened. He gazed down for a time at the backlit screen and the waiting number. Finally he pushed the send button.

Instantaneously, another cell phone rang, this one buried in the three soda cases Steve Albers had just avoided. The ring triggered an electric charge to a small detonator, which in turn set off three pounds of embedded Semtex. The soda cans were packed with bolts and steel balls, and the explosion hurled them outward. The blast shattered bodies in an immediate radius. The shrapnel cut a much larger swath.

Over a mile away, the faint boom didn’t penetrate the limo’s soundproofing, but seconds later the first sirens sounded. Abu Sayeed closed his eyes, amazed at Allah’s beneficence. This act of retribution on American soil was excellent, but not the real reason for their meeting. His associate had arranged today’s explosion only to establish the seriousness of his intent.

“Well?” the man asked, as the sirens quickly grew to a massive din. “What do you think?”

Abu Sayeed look at this freshly scrubbed American who had just killed a number of his own countrymen. “You have impressed me.” He closed his eyes and nestled into the leather seat. There would be a flight to Paris and then several days of deliberation to make a final assessment about going forward. However, he was already sure. Allhah had placed this extraordinary opportunity in his lap. It would be a sin against God not to make use of it.

Susie Norris ’79

The excerpt: The ongoing population explosion means more people need more timber, more sugar cane, more rubber for tires, and more cattle for fast-food burgers than ever before. The rain forest jungles, sources for these needed products, at one time seemed limitless. Slash-and-burn techniques (burning huge plots of land, then converting them to farms) and monocropping (clearing, then installing single-crop plantations) developed as efficient means to employ land quickly and meet the world’s demands. These quick-clearing techniques provided landowners or rogue raiders very fast profits in very poor regions of Brazil and the Amazon jungles of Venezuela. But if you slash or burn down all the trees and develop the land for cattle grazing or single crops, the delicate nutrient system that spawned the original forest is damaged and the forest will not return until all the cattle and crops move on, and perhaps not at all. If and when it does return, it is degraded and may never be able to support its original diversity of flora and fauna. In short, these techniques are not sustainable.

The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations estimates that approximately 26 million acres of tropical forest were permanently destroyed each year in the period from 2000 to 2005, most of them in chocolate’s growing regions.

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At Berkshire: Four-year student was Drama Club President, played varsity soccer; wrote for the Green and Gray, and, not surprisingly, was in the cooking club… favorite book was Lord of the Flies…most memorable teachers: IRENE MCDONALD and Bayard Kellam.

After Berkshire: Earned a B.A. degree in English literature from Boston College and a Certificate in Professional Baking from Epicurean School of Culinary Arts and Barry Callebaut Chocolate Academy… was vice president of series television at Disney and held similar positions at Nickelodeon, CBS, NBC and Turner Network Television, and today produces television programming with her husband, TV writer Jacob Epstein…is a cookbook author, artisan chocolatier, pastry chef and TV producer. Her chocolate business, Happy Chocolates, was featured on Food Network.

She served as associate chef/instructor at California School of Culinary Arts (Le Cordon Bleu Program). She currently writes for Zester Daily (www.zesterdaily.com) and her next book is about vanilla...divides her time between Los Angeles, the Berkshires and her three teenage children.

Trees are one of the few resources we have to address global warming, and thus this level of deforestation is considered a crisis. The appetite for undeveloped rain forest land is still growing, just as the world needs the forest intact more than ever.

Chocolate is part of the solution. Because cacao trees grow best when all of the elements of the rain forest are together, they preserve the delicate rain forest ecosystem and exist harmoniously with other jungle crops. Cacao farming provides a cash crop for farmers without disturbing the jungle habitat.

Cacao trees have a lot of attitude—they only grow in a band of tropical countries 20 degrees north or south of the equator (specifically Brazil, Cameroon, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria, Indonesia, and Venezuela, plus a few others). They refuse to bear fruit anywhere else. They like other trees around to protect them from wind, and they are susceptible to devastating fungal infestations, such as witches broom and black pod, against which they have no defense. They are part of an extremely diverse rain forest ecosystem with three main layers in humid, rainy climates. The top layer is a canopy of hard woods and big trees called “mother trees” because they provide shade and nourishment for the layers below. Chocolate lives in the next layer down along with bananas, ferns, palms, and orchids. The third and lowest forest floor layer is deep with leaves, mulch, rotting fruit, sticks, and bugs such as the midge, a tiny gnatlike insect that pollinates cacao’s flowers and turns them into fruit-bearing pods. This bottom layer is also an essential fertilizer for cacao growth. So if you want to eat chocolate—and don’t we all?—you have to support all the bugs and trees and mulch and wildlife around the trees that make the harvest possible.You and your chocolate are locked together in a strategic green future.

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At Berkshire: A London-born four-year “island boy” from the Bahamas unfamiliar with football and ice hockey, he joined the crew team…credits David Beecher, his advisor, for helping him make it through….says “my desire to be a writer really started to blossom at Berkshire.”

After Berkshire: Attended Boston University and moved to New York and lived in Greenwich Village…“got to know Knopf editor Gordon Lish. He had been Raymond Carver’s editor and published Don DeLillo when he was at Esquire.

He became my mentor and taught me the craft. My first book, The Origins of Solitude, was published in the U.S. by a small press in 2005 and garnered some good reviews. My second, Thine is the Kingdom, was published at the end of 2008. It sold out nationwide in the Bahamas in nine days and got a lot of press. It was odd, people would come up to me in shops and in the street, people I’d never met, and they’d want to talk about how it touched them. It really hit a nerve.

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The excerpt: We don’t have the energy to feed all our hungers. We choose one and try to make it perfect. One thing to polish.

One thing to shine. A single path to keep to over the turmoil of years. That we have just this one choice is intimidating. Some never decide. The singer had chosen his path.

He knew who he was and I envied that. But once you begin to feed that lonely burn, it becomes law.

Later on that evening, he and I sat silently in the Bahama Room. Dock had said goodnight; Arial never returned.

Beyond the open French doors the palms swayed in black relief against the blue background of night. Clustered lights illuminated the view across the harbor. The lights of the hotels, the waterfront homes, the dock lights and navigation lights, all a multitude of color and luminosity, even so late it was quite a spectacle. To the east, where the harbor widened to the open sea, the moon, one night short of full, sat fat and salmon hued above the India ink waters.

I tried to be part of it. I was kicking back, a drink at hand, my bat wing bow tie pulled out so that the tongues hung loose. But the view did not move me as it once had.

My neck was tight, my bowels in a knot. Jacob sat brooding. The only sounds were of the chime of ice cubs on cut crystal and the hum of ceiling fans.

I wanted to tell Jacob how sorry I was about Arial. How awful it was for someone to run her over and not even help.

But I didn’t say anything for fear of appearing self-serving.

“You know,” he said at last, his voice surprisingly cracking. “I’ve never gone out fishin’ and come back skunked.”

He looked at me, unconsciously scratched a scab on his

elbow from his fall at the fish market.

Abruptly everything went dark, the table lamps in the Bahama Room went out, and the gleaming windows of the hotels and the bulkhead lights across the harbor went out.

Jacob disappeared. The view out the French doors collapsed into a void. The hum of the fans lowered in pitch as the blades slowed and came to a halt. Our world dissolved, every sight and sound manmade came to stop. For a moment I was lost, frozen in my seat, the leather my only contact.

“Is it too much to ask for to have electric power?” Jacob said, seemingly to himself.

I could make out his outline. He was sitting bolt upright in his chair. I felt his tension. He was ready to leap—but at what? Only the vanishing of things. He was already too late.

The things were gone.

“Hell,” he hissed and I heard him stand and stride out the open doors, down the piazza steps.

The view had changed. The red glow of the moon splintered across the wave caps. At the end of the garden, out in the water upon the bar, I could just make out the little fishing boat in the moonlight. The calls of nature had taken over, the soft call of insects and the surfing rustle of the palms.

Then the generator ignited and the lights came back on.

Jacob came back, and behind him I could see that the hotel generators were kicking in.

“Come on,” he said to me.

“What’s up?”

“We’re goin’ for a ride.”

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Literary ladies and ANDREA pictured here at Alumni Weekend ’09, have each been featured in former issues of the Berkshire Bulletin for their endeavors on behalf of English. A little catching up: When profiled in the Summer/Fall 1999 issue, ex-advertising copywriter Carolyn had just published her fifth children’s book (Don’t Need Friends). She has since authored seven more, including her most recent one, Henry and the Brazed Chicken Pirates. When she’s not writing, Carolyn— whose favorite novel at Berkshire was The Scarlet Letter and most memorable teacher Mr. Bellas (try making a connection there)—gives author talks to elementary schools all over the country. Visit her website, www.carolyncrimi.com; the bio alone (“All About Moi”) is worth the click.

Emily made the pages of the Fall 1995 Bulletin by virtue of having written a stage adaptation of The Turn of the Screw and then coming back to tell the students about it. Since then she has earned an MFA in Dramatic Writing from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York City, written eight plays, and co-founded The Brooklyn Rail, a monthly arts magazine of which she is now the theater editor. Her play Dirt was in development from 2004 to 2007 with Academy CAROLYN CRIMI ’78, EMILY DEVOTI ’89

KRIDA GOFF ’79 ,

Award nominee David Strathairn (Goodnight and Good Luck) and Tony Award winner Cherry Jones (Doubt) and workshopped last May by the National Theatre in London. Her two-act drama Milk will be produced off-Broadway next spring by New Georges. Emily is the Fall 2009 Guest Artist in Theatre Arts at Mt. Holyoke College.

“The Quietest Class Room in Providence” was the headline of the Winter/Spring 2002 Bulletin feature on Andrea, who still teaches English at Classical High School on Providence, Rhode Island’s South Side. Frustrated by kids having no time to read, Andrea embarked on a reading crusade, encouraging her kids to visit the school and local libraries, sponsoring bake sales, purchasing used books on her own and receiving over 900 books from the public via letters to the city’s newspapers.

A graduate of the University of Rhode Island and the Bread Loaf School of English and today in her twelfth year at the school, Andrea teaches ninth and eleventh grade English plus public speaking. Always the teacher, Andrea recommends some fruits of her last summer’s reading, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Prodigal Summer, and Three Cups of Tea, as well as what she calls “my favorite book of all time, Body and Soul by Frank Conroy.

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DAVID PAINE ’75 with Caroline Kennedy; with Senator Chuck

Schumer and MyGoodDeed co-founder Jay Winuk; and with fashion designers Joaquin Trias and Yigal Azrouel, IMG Fashion Senior Vice President Fern Mallis and designer Lubov Azria.

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Remembering 9/11, one good deed at a time.

It’s a story DAVID PAINE ’75 (who attended Berkshire as David Schmertz) often recounts. A Bostonarea woman lost her husband on 9/11. Upon learning of his death, one of her first thoughts was, “People will know it’s the widow’s house because the lawn won’t be mowed.” A stranger heard of her reaction and mowed her lawn for her every week—for the next seven years.

Thanks to David and his friend Jay Winuk, whose brother died rescuing others on 9/11, such good deeds will become a habit on every anniversary of that dreadful day. On September 9, President Obama officially proclaimed September 11 as a National Day of Service and Remembrance, following a law passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives last spring.

“September 11 should not only be a day for mourning—it should be a day to think about our neighbors, our community and our country. We can take a tragic day in our nation’s history and turn it into a force for good,” said U.S. Senator Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), who worked on the bill with fellow U.S. Senators the late Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Orin Hatch (R-Utah) and U.S. Representatives Peter King (R-N.Y.), Caroline McCarthy (D-N.Y.) and George Miller (D-Calif.).

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Passage of the legislation, a provision within the Edward M. Kennedy ServeAmerica Act, was an act David had long awaited and lobbied for. Like many Americans, he felt helpless as he stared at his TV at his house in Newport Beach, California, and saw the twin towers collapse. Then the Long Island, New York, native and avid Mets fan read that members of that team were donating one day’s payment to go toward relief efforts. He had an idea, and rushed to secure the Web domain names onedayspay.org, .net and .com.

Shortly after the attacks, David learned about Jay Winuk’s loss. The two had attended Union College and later worked together in New York City at the public relations firm of Burson-Marsteller.

“I wanted to leave him alone for a while, but after a few months I shared the idea of a national day of service with him,” David says. Jay liked the idea, which the two launched on the Web in time for the first anniversary of the attacks.

The new Web site urged people to do a good deed on the anniversary of 9/11, and before long, the name had changed to Mygooddeed.org. Today typing in MyGoodDeed.org takes you to 911dayofservice.org, an interactive site that has listed a full 1,000,000 entries by individuals sharing the good deeds they had done.

Corporations such as American Express, Sony, and the Jim Fassel Foundation have contributed to the organization’s programs, while Google, Yahoo and AOL are among those who have provided in-kind support.

A year ago David sold PainePR, an Orange County public relations firm with offices in San Francisco, Boston and New York, to devote himself to MyGoodDeed.org.

“It became clear to me that we were never going to get it to where it needed to be unless someone was dedicated to it fulltime,” he says, adding that his goal is to organize the largest day of service in America’s history on the tenth anniversary of 9/11.

Although he was only a two-year student at Berkshire, David—who changed his name from Schmertz to Paine after graduating from Union in 1979—has fond memories of the Mountain.

“It was a place of great warmth: People cared a tremendous amount about each other, and the faculty there loved teaching,” he says. “Berkshire was one of the most important experiences of my life.”

David played soccer, hockey and baseball at Berkshire, the latter due to the persistence of his coach.

“Like a lot of people at Berkshire, Tom Young never gave up on me, even though I was one “Like a lot of the worst second-basemen he of people at ever had. He turned me into a Berkshire, halfway decent fielder but was Tom Young never able to turn me into a never gave decent hitter. It was a great pleasure to be around a man who knew up on me.” how to push you but be compassionate at the same time.”

David added that then-headmaster Bob Minnerly—whose “High school seniors son SCOTT MINNERLY ’76 was a bringing lunch to close friend of David’s—was also a the local firehouse. major influence, someone who People putting “pushed me to achieve excellence.” quarters in expired At Union, where the 1970s were in full swing, the political parking meters. science major was editor of the A seven-year-old college’s newspaper, Concordiensis, helping her and, he recalls, “wrote one grandmother clean scathing editorial after another her house.” about the incompetence of the administration and how it should be overthrown.”

However, he soon joined the establishment at BursonMarsteller, then as today a giant in the PR field. In 1984 at a hotel opening for a client, he met a woman hired to do Marilyn Monroe impressions. “I fell madly in love with her even before she put on the wig,” he recalls. Today, he and Laney Paine have three children.

The first National Day of Service and Remembrance was a busy one for its co-creator. David began the day at fivethirty a.m. by gathering with Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, and 9/11 family members at Ground Zero for the start of the annual reading of the names. Traffic prevented him from ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange, so he headed for his next appointment at P.S. 76M in Harlem. There he joined 100 volunteers “in very bad weather” to read books to first and third graders.

His next stop was a press conference at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week at Bryant Park, where designers such as Donna Karan and Charlotte Ronson donated items from their Spring 2010 collection to be auctioned off on 9lldayofservice.org.

He concluded his day at the Beacon Theater in New York City, where My Good Deed co-hosted a commemoration of the first National Day of Service and Remembrance attended by two thousand 9/11 family members, first responders and volunteers. The event’s keynote speaker was Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Also on hand were Sen. Schumer, Caroline Kennedy and others.

Meanwhile, groups and individuals all across America spent the day as it is now intended. High school seniors bringing lunch to the local firehouse. People putting quarters in expired parking meters. A seven-year-old helping her grandmother clean her house. A student showing a new classmate around the school. David says that a good deed can be something as simple as parents making sure to look into their child’s eyes.

“There is an endless list of things we can do as individuals to make the world a better place and our lives more fulfilling,” he says. “We need to find ways to become more unified with each other, more tolerant of the differences we have. I think everyone’s born with the spirit of giving, and the closer we can align our lives to that spirit, the better our lives are going to be.”

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Growing up at Berkshire By

SAM HELLER ’09

I began my ninth grade year at a school in Lenox Massachusetts, a place I thought was right for me. I soon began to have misgivings about the school. There were ten kids in a grade, a limited number of people to interact with. I started to look at other schools. I went hiking with my parents at Jug End Trail and the trail came out on the Berkshire campus. Walking through campus to Route 41, I looked around at how beautiful it appeared. The brook, as it crashed down from the mountains and then slowed down and began to meander across the campus, was like a symbol of peace to me. This campus appeared to be an oasis in the middle of nowhere.

Coming out from behind the old Berkshire Hall, I noticed people enjoying the sun in Buck Valley and the light-hearted laughter that accompanied their mood. I was fascinated by the fact that people lived in this place in a harmonious and familial way that I had never experienced.

By the back entrance to Benson Commons, faculty children seemed to take joy in the simple act of climbing on the rock wall and jumping off. I remember thinking how the presence of children seemed to make the atmosphere of the place bubble with flamboyant happiness.

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The savory feeling of the aura from campus seeping through me was like biting into a caramel filled chocolate. It was intoxicating and invigorating. I was simply a star struck kid who had encountered something that had previously only existed in my fantastical readings of Harry Potter. Was it the potential for independence? I couldn’t be sure. But I knew that this was the place that I would go to school.

At Berkshire I realized growing up is a tedious and painful process. The most monumental part of becoming an adult is establishing your personality. On my arrival to Berkshire I was unsure of who I was and who I wanted to become. One Saturday night I was in the dorm for checkin and I was walking around trying to find someone to talk to. I walked by Mr. Fulton’s apartment and he greeted me with enthusiasm and warmth. I shyly entered his room and sat down next to one of the other four students there. I laughed and smiled as Mr. F told jokes and ribbed the older students. Every so often he would throw me a smile as if to reassure me that it was okay for me to remain silent.

Somehow the subject of a woman that Mr. F had dated came up and he told us how she was a psychic. They broke

“The key to moving past the indifference of people and finding people who care about you is in yourself. Part of growing up is realizing who you are as a person and accepting it.“

only be earned over a long period of time. As time passed at Berkshire I began to see it, feel it, believe it. Respect and trust are the easiest and most difficult thing to lose. It is unimaginably easy to lose the trust and respect of someone you value, and when you do it is torture: torture to know that even though you still trust and respect them, they no longer feel that way toward you. Berkshire helped me realize it is never advantageous to break a person’s trust because you risk losing it forever.

At Berkshire School each person finds people they love and people they hate. It is my opinion that it is better to be loved and hated than to have nobody care about your existence. The key to moving past the indifference of people and finding people who care about you is in yourself. Part of growing up is realizing who you are as a person and accepting it. If you remain true to yourself you will find people who are similar and who will respect your honesty and value your friendship. Not everyone can be smooth like James Bond or fly like 50 Cent, and during my time at Berkshire I have realized that only when people discover who they truly are will they be able to begin to change into what they want to be.

Wisdom and knowledge are two very different things.

Knowledge is something that can be applied to factual and tangible things. Knowledge can lead to success and is used to gain wisdom. Wisdom is what you gain through experiences and what a person needs to be happy and truly successful in all aspects of life. The knowledge that I have been given by my teachers and peers at Berkshire School has given me the key to unlock a chest of a small amount of wisdom. I will always be grateful to Berkshire School and the people here. Every one of them helped me to grow up and showed me certain things in life that must be learned, not taught. I am deeply indebted to those people that have made my experience at Berkshire a joy, and I will never be able to repay them.

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up because it became too personal for Mr. F to deal with; they both seemed to be able to “see” things about the other that they should not be able to, details that would not be known by any natural means.

What happened next still scares me to this day, and I am not sure if it was coincidence or fate. Mr. F offered to demonstrate his psychic ability to the few kids left in the room. I decided to go first. We sat in complete silence while Mr. F concentrated. I began to wonder what he was doing until he began to speak. It was as though I was flying through my own emotions and thoughts through his words.

He described my struggles as a young child and named several injuries that I had. He perfectly described my dog; when I later showed him a picture, he said it was the dog he had seen. He told me that I wanted to be an orthopedic surgeon (I had never spoken of this to him before.)

This encounter with Mr. F meant more to me than any other experience I have had with a teacher at Berkshire. I have thought back on his words during times of difficulty and felt as if they have helped to guide me toward my future. I truly believe that Mr. F did somehow see my past and future. I believe that all our thoughts exist in an alternate dimension that our senses cannot detect. It is said that humans only use a fraction of their brains; however I feel that this is simply because we do not know how to train the rest of it. Mr. F used either his extraordinary perception or an extrasensory gift to help me during a time when I was trying to find who I was, I will always be grateful to him.

In my three years at Berkshire School I have been exposed to a mass of personalities, persons, struggles, and thoughts and through this exposure some of these things have fused my personality. I have received the greatest education in the world at Berkshire School. I was not taught, I was enlightened. My experience at Berkshire has consisted of a series of revelations that have changed me to the core. The most important of these was about trust and respect. I came to Berkshire not understanding that trust and respect are things that cannot be bought. They are intangible feelings that can

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Mr. Buck tramples out the vintage N PA R E I R AT E THE

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December 1, 1939

My Dear Dr. Buck; Some ten days ago, my wife told me that this book was one of those that was required to be read, and reported on by students in S___’s class. Now my wife and I have both read the book, and concluded that the writer has added nothing to the value of the book, either from the viewpoint of choice of diction, style or plot in inserting passages and descriptions which no parent would read out loud to the young members of his family. My own conclusion was that in order to make appeal to readers who smack their lips over printed suggestiveness and who buy books only when they contain such, the writer could not resist the temptation to put some of this dope into his book.

Are there no novels printed, and accepted to-day as better literature from every point of view than Grapes of Wrath? And best sellers at that. What about “Escape?” Personally I think that the one who chose that book for boys to write a report about should be required to state in writing why he picked out this book. If he can not, or will not do so, you are justified in demanding that it be cut off the required list.

I might write a stronger letter as I think that a serious mistake has been made in picking out this book.

Truly yours, H.R. C____

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December 2, 1939

Dear Mr. Buck: In regard to Herr C__ ’s letter of December first about The Grapes of Wrath (I consider this an official letter, to be kept in your files if you wish): Mr. C___’s questions the decency of the book. He suggests that it is smutty. I can answer only that smutty minds will find smut anywhere. If his son read The Grapes of Wrath because it is smutty, I suggest that Mr. C___ look into his son’s own mind and thoughts. A dirty mind is a question of breeding, not of English teaching. And I can assure Mr. C___ that most of my boys who read The Grapes of Wrath do not read it for smut. They read to learn, to search for truth honestly, and to broaden their outlook. That they fulfill an English requirement in the meantime is very convenient for them.

Frankly I shall not enter into a detailed discussion of why I include the book on my list. Mr. C___ would be quite unable to appreciate it. Suffice it to say that I consider the book a worthy one—to put it mildly. To support my judgment, I might quote hundreds of sentences from the ablest critics in the land. For example, in the lead review in the April fifteenth number of the Saturday Review of Literature, Mr. George Stevens, the editor, says:

This high opinion is supported by papers such as the New York Times and the Herald-Tribune, not usually considered obscene or “yellow” sheets. Some critics, a bit extreme, have called it the finest novel that America has yet produced. I could go on, but I shall not.

In conclusion I shall say this. I know of no better way to make a boy read a book than to forbid him to. The Grapes of Wrath is a highly controversial, much-talked of book. The best way to handle it is to leave it frankly in the open. In that way normal boys will not suspect it is smutty any more than I did until I came in contact with Mr. C___’s remarkable mind. If his son is not mature enough to measure up to our senior reading, he is not mature enough to be in senior English. And that a man of Mr. C___’s stature should try to dictate to the Department of English at Berkshire School is preposterous. If I answered him directly, I feel I should be lowering the dignity of the school and my department.

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The unique quality of The Grapes of Wrath is an understanding of courage— courage seen with humor and bitterness and without a trace of sentimentality; courage that exists as the last affirmation of human dignity. To convey that understanding with passionate conviction, in human terms and also in terms of mature intelligence, so that we respond integrally and without reservation, is a very considerable thing for a novel do. That is what The Grapes of Wrath does.”

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Thank you for your patience with me.

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Dear Dr. C___:

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I have now read The Grapes of Wrath.

I have found this is a very consuming and very able human document. I have talked with many men, some of them close friends, who have traveled through that part of the southwest where the scene is laid. One of them spent months among the sharecroppers as, of course, did Mr. Steinbeck before he wrote his book. One of our Trustees, who has a seventeen-year-old boy in our Senior Class and whose business interests take him through the southwest yearly, has assured me that Steinbeck’s book gives a true picture of that tragic situation. He read the book when it first appeared and advised his son to read it. The literary critics throughout the country, as you no doubt know, have given it superlatively favorable comment. I have talked with many men in many walks of life— clergymen, lawyers, engineers, and businessmen—and their consensus of opinion is that The Grapes of Wrath is one of the great books of the past year. I am in complete agreement with them.

Personally, I found the coarseness of the book, to which you object, unpleasant but not unnecessary if Steinbeck is to give a true background for his book. I am reminded in this connection of a well-worn saying of St. Jerome—“If an offence come out of the truth, better is it that the offence come than the the truth be concealed.” I have no doubt that Steinbeck was honestly endeavoring to shock his readers into action. I hope he may.

I do not believe that its coarseness will coarsen any clean-minded young man. Any coarseness which may appear there will swiftly be forgotten, but I believe that no one who reads the book with serious purpose can ever forget the significance of the tragedy that Steinbeck has pictured, nor the miraculous characterizations such as “Casey,” and “Tom,” and “Ma.” Please believe me to be, Sincerely, Seaver Buck

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All aboard the Mahaiwe.

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A train buff then and now, the young TONY MANTHOS ’56 took this photo on “a wet, misty day before Christmas, 1953.” He adds: “The New Haven RR’s ‘Mahaiwe’ daily from Pittsfield to Grand Central, is about to stop at Sheffield.

The mail clerk has parked his sun-visored Ford with open trailer and put the mail sacks, covered by a tarp, on the express wagon which is positioned for quick transfer to the mail-bagged car on the rear of the train. The third car, with the clerestory roof, is the ancient dining car, seeing out its final years of service on this most obscure of named trains. Students in the know would sell us miniature bottles of sherry. These had to be consumed in the next 10 minutes before the train crossed into Connecticut, where the drinking age was higher.”

“Winter break, 1954. Students heading home cluster around Sheffield depot’s platform and driveway, seen from the north side, waiting for the New Haven RR’s daily train to Grand Central. The siding in the foreground and the platform are gone and the depot has been moved to private property in Ashley Falls.”

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CLASS NOTES

Class notes gallery

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Returning for a visit to the Mountain this fall were FARAH OSMAN NURSE ’86 , husband Paul and children Nathan and Samara. The welcoming committee included former faculty Susan Young and archivist TWIGGS MYERS HON. 57.

(rear right) came back to Berkshire this fall for the first time since graduating 25 years ago. On hand for the occasion were, from left, classmate NATE YOUNG ’84 , Hattie Young, Sophie Young, Matthew Baker and Morgan Baker.

DAVID BAKER ’84

and his son Fritz at Crystal Mountin in Washington’s Cascade Mountains last winter.

RICK PABST ’64

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writes of this photo of his classmates: “TONY and TOM ANDERSON in May, 1957, at the old shelter on Mt. Everett. That space is completely shaded by trees now.

Mac’s sister, Susan, turned up this photo.”

BRUCE SHIELDS ’57

WOODFIELD, MAC ODELL

Former Allen Theater headliner JENNIE BURKHARD JADOW ’95 (second from right), who just completed her fourth season with Shakespeare and Company, appeared at The Mount in Lenox, Massachusetts, with other members of the Wharton Salon in a dramatization of Edith Wharton’s short story “Xingu.” Jennie, who completed her master’s degree in Counseling/Dance Therapy last May, is senior education artist and actor with Shakespeare and Company. Throughout the year she is a director in the Fall Festival of Shakespeare, Director of Riotous Youth Summer Program, and, new this year, will be the director of Shakespeare in the Courts.

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CLASS NOTES

During Alumni Weekend 2009, Syracuse, N.Y., resident CHRIS BELL ’69 revealed that nine years ago, he met a Munchkin at the annual OzFest in nearby Chittenango, the birthplace of L. Frank Baum. And not just any Munchkin, but the coroner in the Wizard of Oz who, in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, sang those immortal words, As coroner, I must aver / I thoroughly examined her / And she’s not only merely dead / She’s really, most sincerely dead! In this photo snapped by Chris’s wife, Linda, the 6’, 6” Chris and the Munchkin, Meinhardt Raabe, are standing on the same level. According to Wikipedia, Raabe is the oldest surviving native of Munchkin Land.

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CLASS NOTES

Is it the Dirty Dozen minus two or the Magnificent Seven plus three? Everyone can agree it’s the Class of 1988. To find out where and why, visit the 1988 Class Notes section of the ‘Shire, Berkshire’s alumni Web page, via berkshireschool.org .

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“Hello, Dolly,” MICHAEL GUTENPLAN ’99 said to Carol Channing last spring. As if that weren’t enough, he then went to Phyllis Diller’s house. He explains: “Carol did a performance at the Magic Castle and my friend Ken came to LA to interview her, and Carol invited us to an art show at Phyllis Diller’s house for Phyllis’s paintings. She is quite the painter. Basically, we were allowed to roam her house while she signed books and such. This is a photo of the Phyllis Diller Wig Room. Notice the ceiling—it’s metallic zebra print! Wow!”

Class notes topple trees…. but not in the ‘Shire.

Nice old-friends shot of 1969 graduates STEVE THISTLE and JOHN HERMANS, last summer at Steve’s house in Cazadero, Calif.

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For the latest on what your classmates are up to, look for this button on the main page of Berkshire’s Web site: www.berkshireschool.org .

Former Faculty and Staff News and Notes

F O R M E R F A C U LT Y A N D S TA F F N E W S A N D N O T E S

Phil Jarvis, former interim head of school and dean of enrollment, was married to Jean Cardno, his New Zealand bride, on Vancouver Island in August. On hand were daughters MEGAN JARVIS ’97 of Toronto and CAITLIN JARVIS PREVIDI ’99 of Boston. Reports the groom: “It was a special time for two people who are blessed to have found each other after both experiencing loss and disappointment in their lives. I look forward to seeing Berkshire and introducing old friends to Jean next summer.”

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Alumni aren’t the only ones writing books these days (see page 51).

Longtime teacher and administrator John Toffey recently came out with Jack Toffey’s War, a memoir about the author’s wartime childhood in Ohio and his absent father’s exploits overseas. Mr. Toffey is also the author of A Woman Nobly Planned: Fact and Myth in the Legacy of Flora McDonald. His latest book is dedicated to the author’s late wife, Irene Tobin Toffey, who was an admissions officer at Berkshire, and to “the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Lt. Col. John J. Toffey Jr., who never got to know him.” Those grandchildren include JOHN TOFFEY V ’79, JOE TOFFEY ’80 and NED TOFFEY ’82.

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F O R M E R F A C U LT Y A N D S TA F F N E W S A N D N O T E S

Former dance teacher and activities director Whitney Gray dropped by campus recently with her boyfriend, Pierce Bello, to see Jane Piatelli. Whitney is now director of auxiliary programs at Langley High School in McClain, Virginia, while Pierce teaches English at the George C. Marshall High School in neighboring Falls Church.

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Former technology department head and computer science teacher Tad Walker married Season Petering on June 21 at the Swedenborgian Church of San Francisco. Tad, whose sister WENDY WALKER ‘94 toasted the couple at the wedding dinner, is an information technology manager for Greenpeace now: “I love it. We get to confront evil and be funny pains to polluters and world destroyers, and we get paid to do it. We recently won a big victory against Kimberly-Clark (Kleenex). So far I have been a polar bear, a portly tree (à la Lord of the Rings) and a whale. To get into character I’ve put on a few pounds! Season is a Waldorf teacher in Sonoma and we live in the Marina, next to Fort Mason, a block from the Bay.” BERKSHIRE SCHOOL • FALL 2009

David Carlos Pedraza, son of Abe and former annual fund director Debi Fries Pedraza, entered the world on August 15 at 9.97 pounds. Typical of his exact-minded mother not to round it off.

For more former faculty news, see the Former Faculty/Staff news tab on the ‘Shire, Berkshire’s Web site for alumni.

In Memoriam

Logging On for Rafe After the September 2008 logging accident that took the life of RAFE KOZAKA ’93 (below), owner of Kozaka Logging and Tree Services, his colleagues in the Berkshire County tree business created a parody calendar to raise funds for his infant daughter. One of them was Rafe’s schoolmate at Berkshire, WINTHROP BARRETT ’91 (right), or, in this case, Mr. July. The brainchild of treeman Cord Kenyan and local photographer Sarah Edwards, the calendar sold all 1,000 copies and, along with a silent auction and other donations, helped raise over $20,000 for Josephine Kozaka.

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Emmons “Put” Putnam, former longtime teacher, coach and director of admissions at Berkshire, died August 14, 2009, at the age of 85. He is pictured here at Berkshire with his wife, registrar Em Putnam, and son BRETT PUTNAM ’81.

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IN MEMORIAM

The stamp collector

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Ten years ago this month Donald Claridge Moore of the rather rarified atmosphere of Harvard.” (Of Mrs. Christal, Barry Class of 1958 died, broke and alone, on the streets of New Berkman recalls: “She would send him an allowance of $43 a York City. Berkshire didn’t receive the news until earlier this month, like clockwork. But she never came to see him.”) year, and many of his classmates are still stunned and saddened It would be almost five years after his graduation that by his death and the descent that preceded it.

Berkshire would hear again from Don Moore, in a letter to Mr. By all accounts, Don Moore was a likeable and fairly suc- Godman requesting a transcript—“It’s for the Navy.” The cessful student at Berkshire, a three-year student and one of return address was the Christals’ apartment on Madison Avenue.

44 members of his class. He stood out as a wrestler and an The return address of Don’s next letter to Mr. Godman one actor, and in the senior poll was voted as one of the class’s year later, in January 1964, wasn’t as exclusive. In the letter to “biggest thinkers.” his old headmaster, Don fills in some of the blanks, but with a BEN ROSIN ‘58 , who roomed with Don over the infirmention of his mother, adds to the mystery of his background. mary their senior year, remembers him as “a quiet, serious “I’m now once more back in the hospital. This makes guy with a nice sense of humor.” MATT MANSFIELD ’58, the sixth time now since I first got sick back in 1961.

Don’s roommate his sophomore year in Memorial, recalls “a That’s why I had to leave college. I’m now at Manhattan very down-to-earth guy—sort of a big farm boy at heart.

State Hospital on Wards Island, just outside of Manhattan, He was very dependable and worked hard at anything he set but a million miles from civilization. Yes, things have really his mind to.” been going not so good for me since I left Berkshire Classmate BARRY BERKMAN remembers someone else.

School. Now that I think back the three years at Berkshire “Don put enormous pressure on himself. He got up at five were not too bad, and only wish I had the chance to do every morning and studied, barely making it. It came very them over, but it’s too late for that now. hard to him, and he didn’t have a whole lot of friends.

“Don’t know why I’ve had so much trouble. Certainly, one But he made it into the University of Pennsylvania, a very does not deliberately try to make the worst of life. Maybe it’s difficult school without Berkshire’s structure.” the other way round—life tries to make the worst of you.

Among the documents in Don Moore’s Berkshire file is a Anyhow, I must have been born with one ‘mad gene’ in my college recommendation on his behalf to Penn from thenmakeup because I have certainly had my share of madness or headmaster John Godman, a man not frivolous about such folly. Do hope I can get out of this place soon so I can get on a duties. Good moral character? Yes. Personality: excellent. General plane and go back to the Bahamas. I was separated from my health: excellent. Study habits: excellent. Do you question his mother at the tender age of 4 or 5 years, and I would like to see emotional stability? No. Mr. Godman concluded: “Don is an her once more before she dies so she can ‘explain’ a few things extremely conscientious, industrious student with good abilities to me. I don’t think I have a chance if I stay here….Hope and a very pleasing personality.” everything is going well at Berkshire School. Truthfully, I feel Don Moore’s background remains mysterious. A personal ashamed to return there ever for a visit.” interview sheet dated August 1955 says merely, “Boy from Mr. Godman immediately replied: “I am distressed indeed Nassau, Bahamas—father and mother deceased. Stamp collector.” Don was the ward of his aunt by marriage, Molly Christal, and her husband, Henry, a radio executive whose offices were on Fifth Avenue in New York City. The Christals owned the 450-acre Hanover Hill Farms in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., where Don went to high school his ninth-grade year.

In a letter dated December, 1957, Mr. Godman thanks the Christals for “a handsome Christmas gift to Berkshire” of $1,000, and notes of Don: “He has received early acceptance to the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and seems very pleased with it. I am happy about it myself because Don has worked hard and surely deserves this chance in a fine university. I feel sure that he will like Penn….I was not, I add, too happy about his prospects in the Don Moore’s profile in the 1958 Trail.

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Don, “completely unrecognizable,” selling paperback books on the sidewalk.

“I was delighted to see him, and stayed in touch with him from that point on,” Barry says. “I would give him some money from time to time, buy him clothes, take him to dinner.” Also keeping in touch with Don at the time was another classmate, JERRY PURCELL , who recalls periodically sending Don stamps for his collection and “slipping a twenty in there.”

(According to Barry, Don kept his stamp collection, his one prized possession, in a safe deposit box.)

Barry says that Don was living in a single-room-only hotel on 87th and Broadway called the Belnord Hotel, today a discount hotel for the budget-minded traveler. “It was a nightmare: small and grim and dirty rooms, with only a bare mattress. Don lived there for many years.”

Barry had opportunities to see a side of Don he’d never seen at Berkshire. “He was on a combination of Prolixin and Riddilin, and when the dosage was off or he’d forget to take it, he would hear voices and go into absolute rages. They take him to the hospital and put him in a room with steel doors and those tiny wired windows.”

Both Barry and Jerry blame the Reagan administration for ordering the release of many of those involuntarily committed to mental institutions.

“They stopped the prescriptions and let them pour out onto the streets without a net,” says Jerry.

“The state hospitals were giving people like Don powerful anti-psychotic drugs—straight-jackets in the form of pills—and then releasing them. They were walking time bombs,” Barry says. “The problems arose when Don couldn’t get himself to maintain his regular regimen. He was assigned a social worker and a psychopharmacologist. But when he needed them the most—when he was in a funk and feeling bad—he couldn’t get a hold of himself to do anything, much less contact them.”

Yet Barry recalls sitting on a bench with Don and a homeless person approaching them. “Don gave him the little money he had,” Barry says. “If Don had three quarters he’d give two of them away. With all of his troubles, his heart was big enough to reach out to other unfortunates.”

For the last ten years of his life, Don Moore was “in a lot of pain,” says Barry. “For a while, he had a custodial job at a church. But toward the end he couldn’t get himself together to do that. He became very depressed. As he put it, ‘I’m waiting to die.’ He was eating spaghetti out of can, smoking three packs a day, gaining a lot of weight.”

Barry didn’t learn of Don’s death until well after the fact.

Barry says Don would call him on a regular basis. Then the phone calls stopped. Worried, Barry went to the Belnord, where one manager, then another, said they “thought” Don Moore had died. The exact date of his death—July 6, 1999— was confirmed only by the Social Security index. His burial place is unknown.

“Every once in a while, when we’d be sitting out on a bench on that Broadway median and he wasn’t sleeping, the conversation would harken back to Berkshire,” Barry says.

“There was clarity for him there, a time when his life was relatively lucid. They were his last years of light.”

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IN MEMORIAM

to learn that things have not gone well. I had known nothing about your sickness. I somehow thought you had gone into the Navy last year…I hope you are obtaining the kind of treatment you need and that you will soon be fully recovered. Be of stout heart.” At the same time, Mr. Godman wrote the Christals, asking to be briefed on the circumstances. No reply from the Christals can be found in Don’s file.

In the spring of 1965 Mr. Godman receives a short note from Don, with the return address being 1512 Overing Street, Bronx, N.Y.—today, the Overing House, an assisted living facility—asking for another transcript, this time for Bernard M. Baruch School of Business at the City College of New York.

Mr. Godman dutifully sends it: “It was good to hear from you and to learn of your plans to return to college.”

Almost four years go by before Mr. Godman hears again from his former charge in a letter dated 2/27/69, this time from 324 West 83rd Street, where today one-bedroom coops start at $2 million.

“Things are a little better for me. I feel somewhat bitter due to the fact that from the age of 21 to 30 (which should have been the happiest & most productive & also the most rewarding) I spent in mental hospitals, but I guess there is no use crying over spilled, spilled milk.” He then tells Mr. Godman that “I am going to see if I can get a degree as fast as possible. In other words, I am not going to spend the rest of my life going to schools. Through their Division of Vocational Rehabilitation, I hope to get some help from N. Y. State. But they take forever to do nothing for you. I would like to get out of N.Y.C. Are you able to suggest any summer programs any place nice?”

Mr. Godman replies, telling Don to “write again telling me in more detail your plans and career interests.” On August 11, 1970, Don writes again, this time from a room on West 76th Street, again asking for transcripts, for New York University and Pace College. Repeating his regrets, he writes: “I am feeling better these days. I really have gone through hell and suffered, but the worst part is the nine years I made no forward progress. As a matter of fact, I regressed. This is pure lost time from 1961 to 1970, and cannot be made up.”

But by that time John Godman had problems of his own, and was in fact no longer at Berkshire School; the trustees had requested his resignation in June. He ends the Moore-Godman correspondence simply: “I am sorry I will not get to see you, as I will be traveling abroad for the next year, but I wish you success in your future endeavors.”

According to Barry Berkman, things would get worse for Don Moore during the next two decades. Barry says that Don had joined the Navy, had a breakdown, and received a medical discharge, then “drifted from menial job to menial job.” In the early 1970s, Barry recalls, Don was sweeping floors at the Chess House on 101st and Broadway and living on disability benefits from Social Security.

The two fell out of touch for ten years, until one day in the mid-1980s. Barry was on the Upper West Side walking along the median that separates Broadway when he heard someone call his name.

“Hey, Bar, it’s me—Don.” Barry turned around and saw

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Following is a list of alumni and former faculty and staff members whose deaths have been reported in the last year.

Their obituaries appear in the Milestones/In Memoriam section of the ‘Shire, the alumni section of the school’s Web site (berkshireschool.org). To send obituaries or remembrances of classmates, please email bulletin@berkshireschool.org.

PHILIP C. WHITE ’31

WORTHINGTON COCKEY FLOWERS ’48

TODD STAFFORD '79

Chemist, Ford-appointee, sailor

Purchasing agent, gardener

Motorcyclist, Alpine skier

DAVIES GRATWICK ’32

SAMUEL S. STEVENS ’48

SCOTT KURTIS ’89

Family founded cancer institute

Syracuse grad who worked for Xerox

Avid guitar player who loved the road

EDGAR JEAN MARSTON JR. ’35

RANDOLPH ROGERS ’50

RAFE VINCENT KOZAKA ’93

WW II vet

Longtime 3M employee, member of famous 1948 football team

Logger whose love for nature began at Berkshire

ROBERT THURLOW VANDERBILT ’36

Owned bookshop in New York City

LEONARD “SHEP” PEMBROKE ’51

Lockheed Martin programmer

Former Faculty and Staff

ROBERT GORDON LESHER ’51

Zoltan “Zip” Zantay Former “King of the Cha Cha” taught music here from 1995-97

HERBERT HENRY FERRIS ’39

World War II vet and avid sailor

Publisher, ex-fighter pilot ANTHONY G. RUD ’39

Newspaperman who landed at Normandy

PETER PINKHAM ‘52

Had “wicked” sense of humor DONALD A. DEMPSEY ’41

Paper industry executive

A LINCOLN HOFFMAN III ’61

IN MEMORIAM

Banker and resort owner HARRY PETERSEN ‘43

Partner in Salomon Brothers

Harry C. Sheehy Jr. Taught English, Latin

ABBOTT CARSON COMBES IV ’64

Emmons Waldo Putnam Former Berkshire teacher, coach, and director of admissions

Natty copy editor for N.Y.Times Magazine NOBLE MACFARLANE '45

WW II vet, prominent pediatrician

EHRICK K. CARRAGAN ’66

Ruth K. Beers Former secretary at Berkshire

Designed homes on Vineyard and in VT A. CLIFFORD “TIP” DORSEL ’46

Air Force veteran, graphic designer

ANNE GOODWILLIE UNDERWOOD ‘74

Mary Sharpe Wetherill Longtime staff member, mother of alumnus

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SANFORD R. SISTARE ’46

Educator, PR man, girls’ hockey coach

CARLIN K. BILKEY ’77

Frederick Forbes Clark, Purple Heart winner

Loved the ocean WILLIAM FRIPP II ’46

Boston Globe reporter, oversaw cowboys

CHRISTOPHER K.P. AINSPAC ’78

Einar Aas Colorful skiing personality

Chef and motorcyclist

Annie Goodwillie Underwood ’74 1955-2009

“In those days with 300-plus boys and about 20 girls, it wasn’t easy to make friends with tall, willowy, blond female classmates.”

– JOE FUSCO ’73 “I even thought her name was cool: Annie Goodwillie, the perfect hippie name.”– KENT CHAMBERLAIN ’75. “An amazing soccer player— it was like watching a pro, she was that good.” – JAMIE BARTHOLOMAY NIEMIE ’73.

For more remembrances of Annie Goodwillie Underwood from those who shared the seventies with her at Berkshire, visit the ‘Shire, the Web site of Berkshire’s alumni, via berkshireschool.org.

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Want to know how worthwhile your contribution to Berkshire School was last year?

Then take a look at the faces within this Annual Report. You’ll see students happy to be living and learning together in such a magical setting. And believe it: those smiles wouldn’t be nearly as broad without your support. Because tuition alone cannot cover the cost of all that makes attending Berkshire School not merely an education, but also an experience.

Head of School Mike Maher and Foreign Language Chair Jean Erick Joassaint at Prize Night last May, when Mr. J. received the Seaver Buck Faculty Award for excellence in teaching.

From the Head of School What a year! When school opened last fall, the Berkshire School community was still giddy from the yearlong celebration of our Centennial and ecstatic over the beauty and functionality of the newly restored Berkshire Hall. Admission and annual giving numbers were up. And to keep the momentum going, we were set to launch the Hail Berkshire capital campaign.

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Suddenly the market plunged and doubt skyrocketed. In November I wrote to assure you that despite the uncertain economic climate, Berkshire School was on solid ground financially. But for all our planning and prudence, Berkshire was not immune to what the coming months would bring: a sizable decrease in the endowment and severe, often painful, budget cuts across the board.

As we tightened our belts we tightened our resolve that the kids would not suffer, that we would make good on the promise of a Berkshire education no matter what the circumstances. And so life for our students went on here as usual: they created, studied, and played hard, with much to show for it. And in May, as always, the seniors left the Mountain for some of America’s finest colleges and universities.

But here’s how history will record the school year 2008-09: amid the most dire times since the Depression, Berkshire parents, alumni and friends gave the School a record amount in annual giving—in fact, surpassing the $2 million mark in annual giving for the first time in Berkshire’s history. What a rousing endorsement of our mission, just when we needed it the most!

On behalf of all those who live and learn at Berkshire, Jean and I thank you for your belief in and support of our School. Please come to campus whenever possible and see the fruits of your generosity in action.

Michael J. Maher BERKSHIRE SCHOOL 2008-2009 ANNUAL REPORT OF GIVING

From the Board of Trustees

The Berkshire community gathered for two very special moments during the 2008-09 school year: the unveiling of the newly restored Berkshire Hall in September and, in January, the opening of the new Jackman L. Stewart Athletic Center. Anyone who was at either event will not soon forget it.

Between those two dates came an economic downturn of severe proportions. But while the school’s endowment fell 22%, we can take great pride in knowing that Berkshire is now stronger than ever. The dogged oversight and guidance of the Finance Committee of the Board combined with the determined efforts of everyone at the School to trim budgets and tightly control costs resulted in a leaner but still comprehensive operation on all levels.

Equally significant, your record generosity to the Annual Fund contributed almost 10% of our total operating budget. As a result—and most important of all—our students enjoyed every aspect of the Berkshire experience without any pause or disruption.

As a Board, we are deeply committed to our role as stewards of this School so dear to us all.

Likewise, the record support from the alumni, parents, and friends demonstrates that all of you also share in both the pride and responsibility that is critical to the current operation and future course of our School. Please know that your gift to Berkshire, no matter how large or how small, is taken equally seriously, and it is spent in the manner in which it was given.

Speaking for the entire Board, I join the others within these pages grateful for your unprecedented generosity in difficult times. All hail to Berkshire!

HANS CARSTENSEN’66

President, Board of Trustees

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From the Annual Fund Chairman I am inspired by this year’s fund results, and you should be as well.

The achievement of raising $2 million dollars—an 11.6% increase over last year’s record-setting mark—is wondrous to behold, especially so given the adverse economic environment that blankets the nation. It’s like setting a sailing record in the teeth of a gale.

An accomplishment of this scope reminds us yet again of how widespread and strong is the belief in Berkshire among both those who went to school here and those who send their children here today. Our warm thanks to all who participated in this campaign and contributed to this gratifying result.

We hope that more of you will come back to the school and see for yourselves the great things underway on campus.

STEVE NORMAN ’60

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Annual Fund Five-Year History

Total Giving Past Five Years

$2.5m

$50m

$45.7m

$0.5m

$1,797,096

$1,330,890

$1.0m

$1,199,117

$1.5m

$1,612,592

$2.0m

$2,005,772

$42.5m $40m

$30m

$28.8m $21.3m

$20m

$13.4m $10m

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Jonathan and Margo Ward with children Matthew ’10 and Mackenzie.

From the Chairs of the Parents’ Committee

Dear Fellow Berkshire Parents: It has been another banner year under the mountain. Because of the loyal and strong support of our parents, the Parents’ Annual Fund has reached another record high in 2008-09 in both giving and participation. Mike and Jean Maher continue to provide strong leadership and are able to move their vision forward because of your belief in Berkshire School.

We have thoroughly enjoyed working with the dedicated members of the Parents’ Committee and do appreciate their efforts in raising funds and gathering parent participation on behalf of our school. Their names can be found on page 112 of this Annual Report.

Thank you all for giving back to Berkshire. Let’s continue to support this special school in whose care we entrust our children.

Margo and Jonathan Ward (Matthew Ward ’10)

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Capital and Endowment Giving CAPITAL GIFTS

Anonymous ( 3 ) Mrs. Barbara S. C. Bullock ’86 and Mr. William C. Bullock FAC/ST Mr. Hans L. Carstensen III ’66 Mr. Kent S. Clow III ’69 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Crouse Mr. John H. Ellwood ’61 Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Mr. R. Jeffrey Follert ’73 Mrs. Tasha Allyn Given ’84 Mr. and Mrs. John R. Grace CP Harry Webster Walker, II Charitable Trust IAT Reinsurance Company, Ltd. Mr. Peter R. Kellogg ’61 PA Peter R. and Cynthia K. Kellogg Foundation Mr. David W. Locke ’79

Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Lockwood CP Mr. Matthew J. Mattson ’92 Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. W. McGraw ’70 PA Michael and Margaret Picotte Foundation Morse Hill Foundation Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Francis X. Nelson CP Mr. David M. Paine ’75 Mr. Gilman C. Perkins ’73 and Mrs. Deborah Hower-Perkins Mr. and Mrs. Michael B. Picotte CP Mr. and Mrs. William E. Raphael CP Mr. L. Keith Reed ’68 The Donald C. McGraw Foundation The Donnelley Foundation The Four Points Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Steven P. Veronesi ’80 CP Mr. Sydney R. Waldman ’77

BERKSHIRE SCHOOL 2008-2009 ANNUAL REPORT OF GIVING CP Current Parent

FAC/ST Faculty or Staff

GP Grandparent

PA Parent of Alumni

* Deceased

Mr. and Mrs. H. Webster Walker III ’73 PA Mr. and Mrs. John W. Watkins, Sr. ’73 PA

UNRESTRICTED ENDOWMENT

Mrs. Alice Ehrenclou Cole ’76 Mr. Gordon Crawford ’65 IAT Reinsurance Company, Ltd. Mr. Peter R. Kellogg ’61 PA

RESTRICTED ENDOWMENT

Bill Duryee Minority Scholarship Fund Mr. and Mrs. John E. Alden, Jr. FAC/ST

Mr. Peter H. Alford American Express Gift Matching Program Dr. Rhonda M. Bentley-Lewis ’86 Ms. Barbara M. Duryee Mrs. Nancy H. Duryee-Aas PA Mr. Donald P. Freedman Mr. W. Ross Hawkins and Mrs. Joyce M. Hawkins PA Mr. Sanford Hertz The I.W. Foundation Mr. Werner D. Kehl ’84 Mr. Peter J. Kinne and Mrs. Lynn Kinne PA FAC/ST Ms. Sarah A. Kinne ’08 Ms. Judith S. Levi and Mr. Mark Levi Mrs. Audrey J. May PA Ms. Laura R. Morgan Mr. Steven G. Sanders ’84 Mr. James C. Scala ’85 Mr. George T. Smith PA Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H.Young III PA

Mr. George F. Lapp ’65 Merrill Lynch & Co. Foundation, Inc. Edward and Jane Shotwell Endowed Chair of Leadership and Character Development Peter Kinne Enviornmental Education Fund Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Shotwell ’51 PA Eleanor Wallace Williamson Scholarship Mr. Kent S. Clow III ’69 Mr. John B. Hull III ’51 PA GP Class of 1979 Waldo C.M. Johnston Fund for Professional Development Mr. Benjamin C. Barrett ’79 Frank Beattie Endowment Mr. Hans L. Carstensen III ’66 Mr. Lloyd J. Gross ’37 Mr. James B. Platt ’59 The Platt Foundation, Inc.

Centennial Scholarship Fund Anonymous (1)

Hackman Endowment Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Hackman CP

Class of 1957 Faculty Fund Endowment

Irene McDonald Endowment for The Dramatic Arts Mr. and Mrs. John E. Alden, Jr. FAC/ST

Mr. Thomas B. Anderson ’57 Mr. Benjamin E. Billings, Jr. ’57 Mr. Richard L. Case ’57 Mr. James L. Cohen ’57 Mr. R. Kimbel Colket ’57 Mr. Walter S. Henrion ’57 Henrion Family Charitable Fund of The Dallas Foundation Mr. William Kirtz ’57 Mr. Robert L. Millham ’57 Mr. Francis H. Monahan ’57 Mr. C. Twiggs Myers Hon. ’57 FAC/ST Dr. Malcolm J. Odell, Jr. ’57 Mr. Bruce P. Shields ’57 PA Mr. Theodore G. Shrady ’57 Mr. Ernest A. Stagg ’57 Mr. Jeffry S. Wineman ’57 Wineman Family Foundation Mr. Donald W. Wood ’57 PA Class of 1961 Edward H. Hunt Scholarship Fund Mr. Michael F. Little ’61 David Shumway Barrett ’59 Memorial Prize for Perserverance Endowment Mrs. Ann B. Barrett PA Mr. Winthrop F. Barrett ’91 Barrett Tree Service, Inc. Mr. Hans L. Carstensen III ’66 Mr. W. Ross Hawkins and Mrs. Joyce M. Hawkins PA Larkin Farm, LLC Ms. Pamela K. McClelland Mr. James B. Platt ’59 Mr. Daniel C. Smiley ’59 The Platt Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H.Young III PA

James R. Stone Memorial Prize Mrs. Sally M. W. Stone PA Joan Williams Prize Endowment Dr. Norman W. Merrill and Mrs. Jeanne W. Merrill PA FAC/ST Class of 1961 John F. Godman Fund Mr. Luke J. Haran, Jr. ’61 Mr. Anthony C. J. Nuland ’61 Mr. James B. Platt ’59 The Platt Foundation, Inc. Barbara Kenefick Endowment Dalio Family Foundation Inc. Mr. Huntington Eldridge, Jr. CP Dr. and Mrs. Richard S. Feinstein PA Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Hunter IV PA Mr. Thomas R. Hunter ’05 Hunter Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Nelson S. Mead CP Mr. Alexei R. Nabarro ’01 Nelson Mead Fund Mr. and Mrs. John A. Stout CP Mr. and Mrs. James M. Sullivan The Buchanan Family Foundation

Mr. Anthony P. Addison ’82 American Express Gift Matching Program Mr. Hans L. Carstensen III ’66 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Fahy, Jr. ’82 CP Mr. William J. Grace, Jr. ’82 Merrill Lynch & Co. Foundation, Inc. Mr. James C. Scala ’85 Puth Endowment Mr. and Mrs. David W. Puth CP The Puth Family Foundation R. Bruce Morison ’61 Memorial Prize for Current Events and Political Science Fund Mr. and Mrs. G. William Helm, Jr. Mr. David R. McShane Mrs. Susan A. Morison Hon. ’61 Ms. Keri Reitman Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth J. Sutton The Samantha Fund of the Community Foundation of New Jersey Ritt Kellogg Mountain Program Fund American Express Gift Matching Program Mr. Matthew B. Brand ’88 Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Brand PA Mr. Hans L. Carstensen III ’66 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Donnelley II PA Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Fidelity Foundation Matching Gifts to Education Mr. Edward J. Foley III Mr. Thomas W. Funkhouser ’86 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gorman Mr. Michael D. Gutenplan ’99 Mr. Erik F. Herman ’85 Mr. Kenneth C. Hopper, Jr. ’83 Mr. and Mrs. Morris W. Kellogg Mr. David R. McShane Mr. Joshua M. Person ’93 Peter and Gail Salvatore Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Peter J. Salvatore Mr. James C. Scala ’85 The Donnelley Foundation The Samantha Fund of the Community Foundation of New Jersey Mr. and Mrs. Arthur E. Trotman Mr. Stephen K. Urner, Jr. ’55 Wicks Chapin Inc. (Foley Family Foundation) Mr. William B. Wigton ’65

Lyman Bullard Sr. ’40 Fund for Professional Development Mr. Lyman G. Bullard, Jr. ’73

Stephen V.R. Spaulding Scholarship Fund

Class of 1965 Peter Lance Anderson Memorial Scholarship Mr. Christopher M. Ames ’65 Mr. John P. Holton ’65

The Binny Fund for ASP Endowment Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H.Young III PA

Mr. Stephen V. R. Spaulding ’55

The James Demmert ’82 Endowed Fund

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Annual Fund Awards

Mr. James E. Demmert ’82 Main Street Research, LLC The Kris R. Hughes ’90 Memorial Scholarship Ms. Natalie Bradley Clarke ’90 Mr. Peter M. Brett ’90 Dodge & Cox Mr. and Mrs. H. Robert Hughes PA Ms. Patricia Hughes Mr. and Mrs. Christopher T.Vulliez ’90 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H.Young III PA

The Benson Cup In honor of Bruce Benson ’57.

Presented to the class with the highest dollar total to the Annual Fund.

Winner: Class Chair:

Class of 1961 Mr. Peter R. Kellogg

The Reed Cup (Top Dollars, 10 Youngest) In honor of L. Keith Reed ’68. Presented to the class among the 10 youngest with the highest dollar total to the Annual Fund.

Winner: Class Chair:

The Bullard Bowl (Top Percentage, All Classes) In honor of Lyman G. Bullard, Sr. and the Class of 1940. Presented to the class with the highest percentage of participation in the Annual Fund.

The Lawrence Thomas Piatelli Memorial Prize Mr. and Mrs. John E. Alden, Jr. FAC/ST Mr. Hans L. Carstensen III ’66 Mr. and Mrs. Kevin R. Conklin Mr. W. Ross Hawkins and Mrs. Joyce M. Hawkins PA Mr. and Mrs. David A. Kibbe Ms. Jane C. Piatelli CP PA FAC/ST Mr. John Riley

Winners:

1928, 1929

The Myers Bowl (Top Percentage, 10 Youngest) In honor of C.Twiggs Myers Hon.’57.

Presented to the class among the 10 youngest with the highest percentage of participation in the Annual Fund.

Winner: Class Chairs:

The Ralph Burrows Scholarship Mr. R. W. Burrows ’67 Burrows Little Falls Foundation

The Balch Plate (Top Performance, All Classes) In honor of James Balch ’51. Presented to the class with the best overall performance in the Annual Fund.

Thomas L. Chaffee Endowed English Chair

Winner: Class Chair:

Class of 1961 Mr. Peter R. Kellogg

Mr. Hans L. Carstensen III ’66

Class of 2001 Ms. Shannon M. Flynn

Class of 2008 Ms. Melissa Fogarty Ms. Erica Ginsberg

The Kellogg Plate (Top Performance, 10 Youngest) In memory of Peter R. “Ritt” Kellogg ’85 Presented to the class among the 10 youngest with the best performance in the Annual Fund.

Winner: Class Chair:

Class of 1999 Mr. Micheal D. Gutenplan

Van Nice Scholarship Endowment Mr. and Mrs. P. Errett Van Nice ’88 Van Nice Foundation

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Ms. K. Marcy Nolan Mr. Thomas J. Nolan, Jr. PA Mr. Thomas J. Nolan III ’67

William Brooks Nolan Memorial Fund Mr. Hans L. Carstensen III ’66

William Rotch Bullard Jr. Scholarship Endowment

$90m

$83.4m $84m $80m

Endowment Funds Ten Year History of Growth

$68.9m

$70m $60m

$57.9m

$50m

$44m $40m

$33.3m $34m

$48.8m

$35.6m $35.4m

$30m $20m $10m $0m 99-00

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01-02

02-03

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08-09

Giving Societies and Clubs Trustee’s Circle ($20,000+) Anonymous ( 2 ) Mr. Andrew D. Allen ’89 Arthur Kontos Foundation, Inc. Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, Inc. The Buchanan Family Foundation Mr. R. W. Burrows ’67 Burrows Little Falls Foundation Mr. Hans L. Carstensen III ’66 Jane and Michael A. Chwick CP The Clarence and Anne Dillon Dunwalke Trust Mr. Sanford L. Cluett, Jr. ’40 * Mr. Gordon Crawford ’65 The Donald C. McGraw Foundation Mr. Huntington Eldridge, Jr. CP Mr. John H. Ellwood ’61

Mr. and Ms. Mark E. Ferguson CP Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund The Four Points Family Foundation Mrs. Tasha Allyn Given ’84 Goldman Sachs Gives Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Hackman CP IAT Reinsurance Company, Ltd. Mr. Peter R. Kellogg ’61 PA Mr. James C. Kellogg Mr. Peter L. Kennard ’64 Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Kilmurray CP Mr. Arthur Kontos The Crown and Kunkler Families CP Mr. and Mrs. Robert Luckow The Luckow Family Foundation Dr. Wesley G. McCain and

Ms. Noreene Storrie CP Mr. and Mrs. Harvey McChesney, Jr. PA Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. W. McGraw ’70 PA Michael and Margaret Picotte Foundation Morse Hill Foundation Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Francis X. Nelson CP Mr. Stephen P. Norman ’60 Norman B. Williams Trust Mr. Gilman C. Perkins ’73 and Mrs. Deborah Hower-Perkins Peter R. and Cynthia K. Kellogg Foundation Mr. Thomas P. Peterffy CP Mr. and Mrs. Michael B. Picotte CP Mr. and Mrs. David W. Puth CP The Puth Family Foundation Mr. L. Keith Reed ’68

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FAC/ST Faculty or Staff

GP Grandparent

PA Parent of Alumni

* Deceased

Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Shotwell ’51 PA Mr. Thomas H. Shrager and Mrs. Angela V. Nalbantu-Shrager CP Mr. Thomas D. Steiner and Mrs. Maureen Ferguson Steiner CP Mr. and Mrs. John A. Stout CP Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program Mr. Jonathan P. Ward and Ms. Margo Montgomery Ward CP Mr. and Mrs. John W. Watkins, Sr. ’73 PA Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Wolf CP Dr. and Mrs. Hyung Jin Yoon CP

Seaver Buck Society ($5,000 - $9,999.99)

Leadership Society ($10,000 - $19,999.99)

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Anonymous ( 1 ) American Express Gift Matching Program The Bedminster Fund, Inc. Mr. Bruce D. Benson ’57 Mr. Matthew B. Brand ’88 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph G. Carson CP Mrs. Alice Ehrenclou Cole ’76 Mr. and Mrs. James J. Conway III CP Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Crispin PA The Dale and Deborah Ross Foundation Mr. E. Mandell de Windt ’39 PA GP Mr. R. Jeffrey Follert ’73 Mrs. Jane R. Grace and Mr. Robert M. Grace PA GP Mr. and Mrs. Jon L. Halpern ’81 CP Mr. and Mrs. Peter W. Henderson, Jr. CP PA Mr. Walter S. Henrion ’57 Henrion Family Charitable Fund of The Dallas Foundation Mr. Edmond B. Herrington ’61 PA Hewlett-Packard Company Mr. James E. Hooper ’69 J.C. Kellogg Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Louis M. Jacobs, Sr. CP Mr. Kirk Kellogg ’87 and Mrs. Megan Kellogg Mr. Jun Soo Kim and Mrs.Young Mi Kim CP Mr. Trevor Kong and Mrs. Ella Kong CP PA Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Kopel CP Ms. Daryl Kulok CP The Lila Gruber Research Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Nelson S. Mead CP Mr. Francis H. Monahan ’57 Mr. and Mrs. Latham W. Murfey III ’68 CP PA Mr. Williamson Murray ’59 Nelson Mead Fund The P. Bruce and Virginia Benson Foundation - A Mr. and Mrs. William E. Raphael CP Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Reger CP Ms. Catherine G. Roberts CP Mr. and Mrs. Roger D. Ross PA Sara Lee Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Schafer Schwab Charitable Fund Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan L. Stanley CP Titleserv of New Jersey, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. John E. Toffolon, Jr. CP USNY UD M Rovensky Foundation Mr. Hugh J. Weidinger ’60 PA The Honorable Leon J. Weil ’44C PA GP

Mr. and Mrs. William D. Birch The Castellano Family Castellano Family Foundation, Inc Clara L D Jeffery Charitable TR Mr. Kent S. Clow III ’69 Mr. John G. Cluett ’53 Mr. James E. Demmert ’82 Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation Ms.Victoria Nimick Enright ’83 Mr. and Mrs. Jerome T. Fadden CP Mr. and Mrs. Peter B. Fox CP Mr. and Mrs. John R. Grace CP Mr. and Mrs. James A. Harmon ’53 Mr. Erik F. Herman ’85 Mr. and Mrs. H. Robert Hughes PA Mr. John B. Hull III ’51 PA GP Ms. Cathy L. Jordan CP Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Jordan, Sr. PA GP Mr. and Mrs. Giles K. Kemp Mr. Stewart W. Kemp Mr. David W. Knowlton ’76 Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence S. Landry CP Mr. Soon Kyu Lee and Mrs. Mi Hyun Kim CP Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Maher CP FAC/ST Main Street Research, LLC Ms. Jane H. Mason CP Mr. and Mrs. D. Richard Masson PA Ms. Dale A. McDonald CP PA Mrs. Lara Schefler McLanahan ’86 Mr. C. Twiggs Myers Hon. ’57 FAC/ST Mr. James B. Platt ’59 The Platt Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Mario J. Procida CP R. T.Vanderbilt Trust Mr. and Mrs. William F. Reighley CP Richard K. and Shirley S. Hemingway Foundation Mr. Carl L. Rinaldi CP Sasco Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Keith M. Schappert PA Mr. Joseph F. Seigle ’01 Mr. Alexander E. Simpson ’47 Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Smith CP Mr. and Mrs. John H. Stookey Thomas J. Watson Foundation Mrs. Robin B. Tost PA Mr. Robert T.Vanderbilt ’36 * Mr. Thomas J. Watson III ’63

Mt. Everett Society ($2,500 - $4,999.99) Abby and George O’Neill Trust Mr. Anthony P. Addison ’82 Aerohive Networks Incorporated Mr. Davis G. Anderson ’68 CP Mr. and Mrs. Stephen W. Baird Mr. and Mrs. John R. Beaver CP Mr. and Mrs. Stuart M. Bell ’80 CP Dr. and Mrs. Dominick Benedetto CP Mr. Peter C. Browning ’59 Mrs. Barbara S. C. Bullock ’86 and Mr. William C. Bullock FAC/ST

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FAC/ST Faculty or Staff

GP Grandparent

PA Parent of Alumni

* Deceased

Mr. & Mrs. Christopher W. Carey CP Mr. Suk Whan Chang and Mrs. Hee Kyung Jo-Min CP Mr. and Mrs. William J. Charlton PA Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas J. Chirekos CP Mr. Sergio Copstein and Dr. Leda M. Alimena CP Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Corwin ’63 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Crouse Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Donnelley II PA The Donnelley Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Doyle, Sr. ’49 GP Eaton Corporation Mr. and Mrs. David B. Farrell CP PA Ms. Julia A. Forster ’78 Mr. and Mrs. H. Andrew Fox CP Mr. and Mrs. Rodney L. Goldstein PA Mr. and Mrs. Joseph D. Gubernick CP Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Guerrieri CP Mr. James L. Haskel ’86 Mr. and Mrs. James B. G. Hearty CP Mr. and Mrs. Mark W. Helderman PA Mr. Kuei Hsiang Huang and Mrs. Chao Jung Wu CP Mr. and Mrs. Jerald F. Irving CP James E. and Constance L. Bell Foundation Mr. R. Howard Johnston, Jr. ’37 Mr. Richard A. Johnston and Ms. Christina J. Hanley CP Mrs. Seung Hee Kim CP PA Mr. Chang Min Lee and Mrs. Sun Hee Park CP Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Lockwood CP Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Martinecz CP PA Merrill Lynch & Co. Foundation, Inc. Mrs. Katherine S. Mitchell and Mr. John D. Mitchell CP New York Life Foundation Mr. and Mrs. George D. O’Neill PA R & R Company The San Francisco Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Steven M. Ryan CP Mr. James C. Scala ’85 Mr. and Mrs. Jacob F. Schoellkopf V ’56 PA Mr. Roald M. Schopp ’49 PA Mr. Lionel A. Shaw ’85 Mr. Jianjun Shen and Ms. Shuhua Wang CP Mr. John E. Thompson, Jr. ’68 Ms. Amy E. Upjohn and Mr. Bradley E.VandenBerg CP Ms. Heather Steck Von Seggern ’85 Mr. and Mrs. Christopher T.Vulliez ’90 Mr. Julian R.Vulliez ’88 and Mrs. Margaret Flood Vulliez ’89 Mr. Geun Ig Yoo and Mrs. Jung Ae Kweon CP Mrs. Ann Zimmerli-Haskel ’86

South Pinnacle Society ($1,907 - $2,499.99) American Express PAC Match Mr. Thomas B. Anderson ’57 Bank of America Foundation Dr. Henry H. Bard, Jr. ’41 Mr. William J. Benedict, Jr. CP Mr. Andrew S. Berkman ’62 Black Rock Foundation

Mr. Francis A. Blair ’94 Mr. Murray G. Bodine ’74 Mr. Ramon D. Bordas and Mrs. Isabel Estany CP Mr. and Mrs. Brad W. Brinegar CP Mr. and Mrs. John P. Carey CP Mr. Richard L. Case ’57 Ms. Enid M. Collup Mrs. Carol Currier PA Mr. Alexander J. Cutler ’99 Dr. and Mrs. Neal R. Cutler PA Mr. and Mrs. John DiSantis PA Mr. Frederick S. Ford, Jr. ’43 Mr. Joseph M. Fusco ’75 and Ms. Karen Parker ’74 Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Gardella ’71 PA Mr. Luke J. Haran, Jr. ’61 Ms. Mimi Ramos Harney ’91 Harney & Sons Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Hoover CP Mr. and Mrs. Edwynn G. Houk CP Ms. Patricia Hughes Mr. and Mrs. Christian A. Lange PA The Larry and Jane Scheinfeld Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Lowell B. Mason, Jr. GP Mr. Joseph Middelburg CP Mr. T. Garrison Morfit, Jr. ’61 Mrs. Elyse Harney Morris ’83 Mr. Peter D. O’Hara ’60 Mr. James H. Powers ’65 Quality Printing, Inc. Mr. Alexander S. Reese PA Mr. and Mrs. A. Robert Roberto CP Mr. Herbert G. Roskind, Jr. ’53 Mr. and Mrs. Jon S. Saltzman PA Mr. and Mrs. Larry Scheinfeld PA Mr. Albert Shaw III ’47 Mrs. Alison L. Spear CP Mr. and Mrs. Steven P. Veronesi ’80 CP Mr. and Mrs. Michael C.Vessels CP Mr. John Y. G. Walker III ’72 Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Watson CP

Black Rock Club ($500 - $1,906.99) Anonymous ( 4 ) Mr. and Mrs. Tomas Albelin CP Mr. and Mrs. John E. Alden, Jr. FAC/ST Mr. and Mrs. Christopher H. Anderson CP ARJCO Foundation LTD Mrs. Michelle Edwards Arnold ’81 Mr. and Ms. Naoki Atsumi CP Dr. Armen T. Babigian and Dr. Laurie M. Slotnick CP PA The Bank of New York Mellon Mr. John L. Baum ’35 Mr. and Mrs. George T. Beebe ’61 PA Mr. and Mrs. Gregg H. Beldock ’79 CP Mr. and Mrs. Daniel P. Benfield CP Dr. Rhonda M. Bentley-Lewis ’86 Ms. Megan Steck Berg ’87 Mr. Benjamin E. Billings, Jr. ’57 Mr. Miles G. Blakeslee, Jr. ’48 PA Mr. Thomas E. Boehland ’81 Dr. and Mrs. Sidney T. Bogardus, Jr. CP Mr. William A. Borders III ’88 Mr. Jeffrey A. Borghesi ’69

Mr. Richard L. Bourbeau ’50 Ms. Natalie Bradley Clarke ’90 Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Brand PA Mr. James H. Brandi Branford Landing Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Peter H. Brown CP Ms. Susan Brown Mr. and Mrs. Gary M. Brown CP Mr. Warner L. J. Brown ’86 Mr. and Mrs. Robin B. Brownrigg CP Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Bullard PA Dr. Carol L. Buonomo and Mr. Thomas Buonomo PA Mrs. Pamela Burke PA Mr. and Mrs. Sean M. Burns CP C.M. Stauffer Insurance Agency Mr. L. Hayden Cadwallader ’75 Cain, Hibbard, & Myers, PC Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Campbell CP The Carroll and Percy Klingenstein Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Peter P. Case PA Mr. David J. Castellani Chevron Matching Gift Program Mr. Dean M. Cinkala ’80 Mr. William Clough and Mrs. Nannie Clough FAC/ST Mr. and Mrs. Joel Cohen PA Mr. James L. Cohen ’57 Mr. and Mrs. Mark B. Cohen PA Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Colbert, Jr. CP Mr. and Mrs. James P. Coleman CP Mr. Albert Cooper III ’59 Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Coven II GP Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Coven CP CR Secor, Inc. Mr. William B. Crane ’56 Mr. Lawrence G. Crawford ’69 Mr. G. Alexander Creighton ’59 Mr. Richard T. Cunniff, Jr. ’70 Dalio Family Foundation Inc. Mr. C. Russell de Burlo, Jr. Mr. Philip S. Deely ’65 Mr. Jeffrey W. Denker ’62 Mr. Phelps Dewey ’47 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Dixon Dodge & Cox Mr. F.A. Dubie Mr. Abram W. Duryee III ’92 Mrs. Deborah Crispin Duryee ’92 Mrs. Nancy H. Duryee-Aas PA Mr. and Mrs. William M. Dutcher ’59 Mr. John S. Edack ’72 The Edwynn Houk Gallery, Inc. Mr. David H. Ellsworth PA Mr. and Mrs. Michael L. Ettinger PA Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Fahy, Jr. ’82 CP Mr. Tikhon Y. Ferris CP Mr. Albert E. Ferro Mr. Patrick Ferro Mr. and Mrs. David P. Fialkow Fidelity Investments Mr. Robert B. Field, Jr. ’60 Mr. and Mrs. Carey D. Fiertz CP Ms. Rosemary G. Fitzgerald, Ph.D. ’82

FLM Graphics Mr. Christopher Flower ’59 Mr. Edward J. Foley III The Fredericka V. Slingerland Family Foundation Mr. John K. Fretz ’91 Mr. Benno Friedman and Ms. Stephanie A. Blumenthal CP PA Mr. and Mrs. Alexis D. Gahagan CP Mr. Oliver J. Geiger ’53 Mr. and Mrs. Anthony S. Giordano CP The Giordano Foundation, Inc. Mr. Alan N. Gnutti ’68 Mr. Donald W. Goodrich ’61 CP PA Mr. Daniel M. Goodyear ’56 PA Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gorman Mr. Leonard A. Grace ’61 Mr. and Mrs. Peter W. Gray PA Mr. and Mrs. Peter L. Greer CP Mr. and Mrs. Christian F. Groenli CP Mr. Ulrich H. Grosser and Mrs. Gabriele M. Nass-Grosser CP H.B. Fuller Company Foundation Dr. David J. Haidak ’61 Miss Sally Halliday PA Mr. and Mrs. S. Matthews V. Hamilton, Jr. PA Hamilton Family Foundation Mr. Morris C. Hancock ’70 Mr. and Mrs. F. Woodson Hancock III ’67 PA Mrs. Jennifer Fox Harnett ’81 and Mr. Andrew K. Harnett CP Mr. and Mrs. John W. Harnett GP Mr. Mark A. Harris CP Harris myCFO Foundation Harry Webster Walker, II Charitable Trust Mr. W. Ross Hawkins and Mrs. Joyce M. Hawkins PA Mr. and Mrs. John R. Hawkins CP Mr. Michael A. Herman ’82 Mr. and Mrs. Edward K. Heyes ’73 Mr. and Mrs. David G. Hibbs CP Mr. Ronald T. Hill CP Hooper Foundation Mr. Richard M. Hopper ’59 Mr. and Mrs. Douglas M. Horner, Sr. CP PA Ms. Penelope Hudnut FAC/ST The Honorable and Mrs. Andrew R. Humes CP Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Hunter IV PA Mr. Thomas R. Hunter ’05 Hunter Family Foundation The I.W. Foundation Mr. and Mrs. John W. Ingle, Jr. CP Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Irwin ’79 Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Jennings ’48 PA Mr. William M. Johnson, Jr. ’37 PA Mrs. Elissa Karasin-Samet and Mr. Michael Samet ’77 The Karen K and R. James Irwin Fund Mr. Robert R. Keegan ’90 Mr. and Mrs. Morris W. Kellogg Mr. Robert S. Kieve ’39 Kieve Foundation Mr. William F. Kimberly, Jr. ’47 Mr. Frederick P. King ’70 Mr. and Mrs. William A. King GP The Kirk and Megan Kellogg Foundation

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FAC/ST Faculty or Staff

GP Grandparent

PA Parent of Alumni

* Deceased

89

90

Mr. William Kirtz ’57 Mr. Edwin G. Klinck ’54 Mr. William P. Klingenstein ’61 Mr. Christopher S. Klingenstein ’94 Mr. and Mrs. James Klutznick PA Mrs. Monique Knowlton PA Mr. Hugh Knowlton, Jr. PA GP Mr. and Mrs. John A. Koskinen PA Mr. Edward D. Kratovil ’64 Mr. W. Bruce Kueffner ’64 Mr. Jeffrey P. LaBonte and Ms. Laurel J. Goss CP PA Mr. William L. Lafferty, Jr. ’49 Mr. H. Kirke Lathrop ’66 Mr. and Ms. Rick A. Lazio CP Mr. Choon-Taek Lee and Mrs. Myung Ah Yun CP Mr. James W. Leenhouts ’47 Mr. and Mrs. Roger J. Leifer PA Ms. Judith S. Levi and Mr. Mark Levi Mr. Mathew J. Levine and Dr. Sara R. Pasternak CP Mr. and Mrs. James K. Lieblich CP Mr. Michael F. Little ’61 Mr. David W. Locke ’79 Mr. James E. Lyle ’58 Mahaiwe Tent Mr. and Mrs. Roger Masciangelo GP Mr. William Mason CP Mr. George McCarthy Mr. Samuel A. McClung III ’38 Ms. Aramie Dimm McDonald ’93 Ms. Madeleine H. McGraw ’07 Mr. Zachary R. McIlmoyle ’06 Mr. and Mrs. C. Russell McKee PA Mr. James T. McKinley ’65 CP Mr. and Mrs. Hugh McMillan III CP Mr. David R. McShane Ms. Withrow W. Meeker GP Mrs. Maggie Ross Meiners ’90 Mr. Eric C. Mellinger ’84 Dr. Norman W. Merrill and Mrs. Jeanne W. Merrill PA FAC/ST Mr. Robert A. Milanese, Esq. Mr. Paul T. Miller and Ms. Andrea Milley PA Ms. Lisa M. Mingoia and Mr. Derek R. Cuma CP Mr. and Mrs. Mark P. Morgan CP Mrs. Susan A. Morison Hon. ’61 Mr. and Mrs. Eric R. Morrow CP Moser Pilon Nelson Architects Mr. and Mrs. Pieter Mulder FAC/ST Mr. Alexei R. Nabarro ’01 Mr. and Mrs. Kojiro Nakayama PA Mr.Yosuke Nakayama ’05 Mr. A. Stephen Nelson ’63 Mr. Charles W. Neuhauser ’70 New York Community Trust Mr. Samuel Q. Nichols ’58 PA Ms. K. Marcy Nolan Dr. and Mrs. Christophe P. Nomblot CP Mr. Anthony C. J. Nuland ’61 Ocean Reef Foundation Mr. Gerald B. O’Connor ’46 Lance and Patsy Odden Mr. David M. O’Neill ’74

Mrs. Evelyn M. O’Neill GP Mr. Michael F. O’Neill ’91 Mr. and Mrs. Philip V. Oppenheimer Orange County’s United Way Mr. John Ormiston FAC/ST Mr. Leigh W. Otzen ’94 Otzen Family Foundation Mr. Frederick L. Pabst ’64 Mr. David M. Paine ’75 Ms. Karen Parker ’74 Mr. Bradford E. Parker ’72 Mr. and Mrs. John F. Parsons CP Mr. Glenn R. Partridge ’72 Mr. Bailey W. Patrick Mr. R. Mark Patterson ’71 Mr. Barlow L. Peelle ’75 Peter and Gail Salvatore Foundation, Inc. The Philanthropic Collaborative Ms. Jane C. Piatelli CP PA FAC/ST Mrs. Beth M. Pierce and Mr. John F. Pierce CP Mr. and Mrs. Douglas W. Pierce PA Mr. F. Woodward Prosser ’29 Mr. Thomas R. Quick ’63 Mrs. John Shedd Reed PA Mr. Matthew Reger ’11 Mr. and Mrs. Mark L. Rhodes CP Mr. Perry D. Rianhard ’59 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Richardson CP Mr. Andrew S. Richardson ’78 Mr. Guy R. Riegel ’76 Mr. and Mrs. Troy D. Roe PA Mr. C. Bruce Roehrig ’59 Mr. and Mrs. Hawley Rogers ’56 Mr. David T. Rondeau ’78 Mr. Walter B. Rose ’65 PA Ms. Justine V. R. Russell Mr. Hilary F. Russell and Mrs. Jenny Russell PA Mr. and Mrs. Peter G. Russo CP Ruth B. Wood Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Peter J. Salvatore The Samantha Fund of the Community Foundation of New Jersey Dr. David W. Sauer ’54 Mr. and Mrs. James M. Scala PA Mr. Timothy P. Schieffelin ’73 Mr. and Mrs. William B. Schink CP Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Schopp ’79 Mr. William E. Schwaikert ’72 Ms. Alessandra A. Schwartz ’89 Mr. Thomas F. Seamans ’51 Ms. Trina Secor Mrs. Karen Schnurr Secrist ’83 Mr. and Ms. James P. Sheldon-Dean ’69 PA Mr. Bruce P. Shields ’57 PA Mr. Theodore G. Shrady ’57 Mr. and Mrs. Donald Slingerland PA Mr. Duncan R. Smith ’67 Mr. Stephen V. R. Spaulding ’55 Mr. H. Todd Spofford ’60 PA Mr. Charles E. Steber ’63 Mr. and Ms. John A. Stevens CP Reverend Caroline R. Stewart Mrs. Sally M. W. Stone PA Dr. Steven R. Strong ’58 Mr. Manson C. Surdam ’65

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FAC/ST Faculty or Staff

GP Grandparent

PA Parent of Alumni

* Deceased

Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Switlik PA Mr. Michael S. Sylvester Mr. Timothy T. Taussig ’75 Mrs. Kimberly Lewis Thomas ’80 Mr. Robert D. Thomas ’79 Mr. Robert T. Thompson ’72 Tortimaki Foundation TR Camp-Younts Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Daniel S. Turner PA United States Tobacco Mr. Stephen K. Urner, Jr. ’55 Valley Communications Systems, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. P. Errett Van Nice ’88 Van Nice Foundation Mr. and Mrs. John C. van Roden, Jr. PA The Family of Claude Vanden Broeck PA * Mr. Peter A.Vanden Broeck ’79 Mr. and Mrs. Eric Verbeeck GP Mr. Lance R.Vermeulen ’78 Vitreo-Retinal Associates of N.J., P.A. Ms. Tatum E.Vittengl ’96 Mr. John B. Wagner ’45 Mr. and Mrs. H. Webster Walker III ’73 PA Dr.Veit J. Wasserfuhr ’86 Dr. Philip C. White ’31 * Mr. Henry M. White, Jr. ’44C Wicks Chapin Inc. (Foley Family Foundation) Mr. R. Richard Wieland II ’63 Mr. William B. Wigton ’65 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Wilcock, Jr. CP John and Marcia Wilkinson PA Mr. Mark M. Willaman ’84 Mr. Jeffry S. Wineman ’57 Wineman Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. George Wood CP Mr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Wood, Jr. ’68 Mr. Robert M. Wood, Jr. ’67 Wood Family Foundation Mrs. Elizabeth Steck Wright ’90 Ms. Lisa A. Wright Mr. Peter V.Young ’54 PA Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H.Young III PA Mr. and Mrs. Gregory M. Zahn CP

Buck Valley Club ($250 - $499.99) Addison County Commission Sales, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew R. Ahrens CP Mr. Eugene L. Amber ’40 PA Mr. Charles P. Ancona ’59 Ms. Jackie S. Anderson CP Mr. Wayne W. Andrews ’75 Mr. and Mrs. John B. Baker PA Mr. Walter U. Baker ’74 Mr. and Mrs. James P. Balch ’51 PA Baltimore Community Foundation Mrs. Caroline Weil Barnett ’76 Mr. and Mrs. William G. Batcheller PA Mr. and Mrs. Clifford J. Benfield GP Ms. Abiola Benjamin CP Mr. Barry B. Berkman ’58 Ms. Aimee B. Blanchard ’86 Mr. Russell D. Boardman ’71 Mrs. Anne Hallowell King-Bodman ’90 Mr. John P. Bodman ’89

91

Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Bradley II PA Mrs. Mary M. Bradley PA Mr. Richard P. Breed III ’67 The Bridgewater Fund, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. David A. Brooks ’67 PA Mrs. Patricia Brooks PA Mrs. Joan S. Brooks PA GP Mr. Charles A. Brown ’91 Mr. Christopher J. Bruno ’84 Mr. Kenneth J. Burgess and Ms. Kim A. Kaznowski CP Mr. and Ms. Andrew F. Buteux PA Mr. Robert E. Cadogan, Jr. ’79 Mr. Christopher F. Calger ’83 Mr. Charles B. Catlin ’58 Mr. George Church III ’48 Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth E. Cline CP Mr. and Mrs. Andrew B. Congdon PA Ms. Lindsey F. Cook ’81 Mrs. Samantha Cooper Brex ’89 Mr. and Mrs. Saiid M. Daemi CP

Mr. and Mrs. E. Timothy Danahy III ’67 PA Ms. Maureen A. Danisi CP Ms. Hollis E. Davenport ’01 Mr. James L. Deming ’73 Mr. Morgan J. Dennehy ’85 Mr. Daniel R. Donaldson ’59 Mr. Robert A. Draizen ’80 Mr. Mark A. Eidlin ’84 Mr. Charles K. Elliott, Jr. ’50 PA Mr. and Mrs. William B. Elliott II PA Mr. Jerome C. Eppler ’42 Dr. and Mrs. Richard S. Feinstein PA Mr. Fred B. Finley ’64 PA First Capital Mortgage Group, LLC Mr. John L. Fletcher ’83 Mr. Kenneth Z. Fox ’60 Mr. and Mrs. William C. Fox GP Mr. Donald P. Freedman Mr. Jeremy A. Freid ’94 Dr. John H. Gardner ’49 Mr. David J. Gefke ’79

Mr. Paul F. Gilligan ’75 Ms. Barbara P. Gimbel GP Mr. Todd A. Gochman ’94 Mr. A. Drew Goldman ’89 Mr. Henry Goldman III ’51 Mr. Henry M. Goodyear, Jr. ’46 Mr. William J. Grace, Jr. ’82 Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Groom PA Dr. David M. Gross ’84 Mrs. Jessica Lee Guten ’94 Mr. Michael D. Gutenplan ’99 Mrs. Carolee R. Harrigan and Mr. Timothy J. Harrigan CP PA FAC/ST Mr. John N. Harris, Jr. ’82 Mr. and Mrs. Jonas E. Havens PA Mr. and Mrs. Walter N. Hawley Ms. K. Reagan Hecker ’84 Mrs. Whitley Bouma Herbert ’92 Mr. F. Robertson Hershey Mrs. Linda Matson Heyes ’73 Mr. Peter C. Hill and Ms. Tara M. Cafiero CP

BERKSHIRE SCHOOL 2008-2009 ANNUAL REPORT OF GIVING CP Current Parent

FAC/ST Faculty or Staff

GP Grandparent

PA Parent of Alumni

* Deceased

92

Ms. Keira McKenna Holbrough ’92 FAC/ST and Mr. Cory Holbrough FAC/ST Mrs. Ann J. Holmes and Mr. Peter Holmes PA Mr. R. Brad Howland ’81 Mr. Gordon L. Hunt ’69 Mr. John R. Hussey ’81 Mr. Robert P. Hutter ’84 Hutter Family Foundation Mr. William L. Jaques Jaques & Company, Inc. Mr. Paul D. Kaplan ’52 Mr. Werner D. Kehl ’84 Mr. Robert S. Killebrew III ’85 Mr. William B. King ’89 Kirk Miller Construction Mr. Walter D. Long, Jr. ’88 Mr. Samuel C. Martin ’66 Mr. Matthew J. Mattson ’92 Mr. Laurence G. Meads ’68 Mr. John K. Means ’71 Mr. and Mrs. Kirk Miller PA Mr. Robert L. Millham ’57 Dr. Timothy J. Moore PA Mr. Daniel K. Morris ’98 Mr. Kenneth D. Morris ’64 PA Mr. and Mrs. Peter L. Moseley, Sr. PA Mr. and Mrs. Neil E. Mueller GP Mrs. Harriet Blair Mulligan ’72 Mr. and Mrs. John T. Nakashige GP Mr. and Mrs. Michael M. M. Nakashige CP Lt. Col. and Mrs. Casey Neff PA Mr. and Mrs. Michael Nichols-Marcy PA Mr. Thomas J. Nolan III ’67 Ms. Susie H. Norris ’79 Mr. Mitchel G. Overbye ’79 Mrs. Nancy Koskey Patzwahl ’84 Mrs. Deborah Fries Pedraza Penn Virginia Corporation Mr. Joshua M. Person ’93 Ms. Lynette A. Prescott ’81 Mr. Jason C. Rano ’98 RBC Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Christopher A. Reichart ’98 Mr. Parker T. Rice ’02 Mr. Peter B. Richardson ’61 Mr. Thomas D. Richardson ’44C Mr. David B. Ring ’73 Ms. Margot T. Rose The Ruth H. and Warren A. Ellsworth Foundation Mr. Steven G. Sanders ’84 Mr. John Schofield ’44C Mr. Albert K. Sherman, Jr. ’62 Mr. Ronald C. Soldati Mr. Willard B. Soper II ’66 PA Ms. Juliet A. Sproul Cullen ’87 Ms. Deborah J. Srb CP Mr. and Mrs. Gerald H. Stephens GP Mrs. Elly Stewart PA Mrs. Carolyn Balch Streett ’83 Mr. William P. Stritzler ’56 Mrs. Tobey Dorschel Stultz ’93 Mr. Joseph H. Sugden, Jr. ’58 Mr. George E. Summers Mr. Paul J. Tao ’91 Ms. Margaret R. Taylor PA FAC/ST

Mr. Jonathan P. Thompson ’66 Mr. Alexander L. Thomson ’73 Mr. John A. Tompkins, Jr. ’69 Ms. Jennifer W. Tost ’90 Mr. Bradford S. Tripp ’52 Turtle Island Medical Associates, Inc. Mr. Frederick C. Twichell ’55 Mr. Dale A.Van Ort ’58 Mr. Lance M. Walsh ’75 Mrs. Mary C. Walsh PA Dr. John C. Weeks ’69 Ms. Lisa Weitzman and Mr. Russell Sherman Mr. and Mrs. John A. West PA Mr. Loren C. White, Jr. ’56 Mr. Jeffrey D. Whitestone ’70 Dr. and Mrs. Maurice G. Wiart PA Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Wisnowski CP Ms. Erin B.Yoffe ’97 Mr. Stephen J. Zuckerman ’61

Glen Brook Club ($100 - $249.99) Anonymous ( 4 ) ACE INA Foundation Dr. Robert L. Adeson ’48 Mr. Rodney W. Agar ’55 Mr. George F. Akel III ’87 Ms. Macy H. Allatt McGinness ’93 Mr. and Mrs. John L. Alper CP Mrs. Laura S. Altman and Mr. Richard Altman PA FAC/ST Mr. Christopher M. Ames ’65 Mr. Richard B. Armstrong ’79 Mr. and Mrs. Carl J. Ascenzo PA Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey H. Ashworth PA Mr. Severance Babcock ’63 Mr. and Mrs. John C. Baker PA Mr. and Mrs. Corey W. Ballaban PA Mr. Benjamin C. Barrett ’79 Mrs. Ann B. Barrett PA Mr. Winthrop F. Barrett ’91 Barrett Tree Service, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Barros CP FAC/ST Mr. Grant Bastarache and Mrs. Susan Turley CP Mr. Robert C. Beach ’59 Mr. Timothy F. Beard ’49 Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Becker PA Mr. Arthur W. Beckert ’69 Ms. Brooke T. Beebe ’00 Mr. Myron Beldock PA Mr. Christopher S. Bell ’69 Mrs. William J. Benedict GP Mr. and Mrs. Dennis W. Berg PA Berkshire County Floor Refinishing Mr. Charles W. Berl ’82 Mr. Bruce J. Berman ’64 Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Beucler CP Mrs. Charlotte K. Bianchi PA Mrs. Kelly E. Bitzonis PA Mr. W. Bradford Blaicher ’92 Mr. William D. Blanchard ’80 Mr. and Mrs. Douglas J. Blanchard PA Dr. Thomas M. Blum ’69 Mr. and Mrs. Roger A. Blumencranz PA Ms. Emily L. Boak ’99

BERKSHIRE SCHOOL 2008-2009 ANNUAL REPORT OF GIVING CP Current Parent

FAC/ST Faculty or Staff

GP Grandparent

PA Parent of Alumni

* Deceased

Mr. William B. Boardman ’50 Ms. Evelyn O. Bockbrader GP Mr. H. William Borntraeger III ’64 Mr. Eric H. Bowen ’65 Mr. and Mrs. Stephen M. Bowman CP Mr. Richard H. Bradley ’60 Mr. Christopher C. Brand ’85 Mr. and Mrs. Allan H. Bredenfoerder PA Mr. Martin F. Brennan CP Ms. Amy S. Brennan-Strack and Mr. Martin Strack CP Mr. James L. Brett ’95 Mr. Peter M. Brett ’90 Brewer Veterinary Clinic Ms. Kristi S. Broff Knecht ’89 Mr. Kevin J. Bruemmer ’71 Mr. Charles N. Brush ’65 Mrs. Martha H. Buckingham Dr. Albee L. Budnitz ’65 Mr. William R. Bullard II ’76 Mr. Lyman G. Bullard, Jr. ’73 Mr. Christopher J. Buonomo ’08 Mr. Russell L. Burbank ’74 Mr. John C. Burditt ’70 Ms. Samantha Burns ’89 Mr. Patrick E. Bursee ’08 Mrs. Patricia K. Bush and Mr. Richard R. Bush PA FAC/ST Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Byers GP Ms. Elizabeth Byrnes PA Ms. Agustina Campusano CP Mr. Jack S. Caplan ’51 Catamount Development Corporation Mr. and Mrs. Lo-Yi Chan Dr. and Mrs. Gerald T. Church ’69 Mrs. Lauren Okie Clark ’85 Mr. Daniel Clark-El CP Mr. and Mrs. H. Pier Clifford PA Mr. and Mrs. William P. Clough III Mr. Gregory S. Cluett ’39 Mrs. Annie Godfrey Clyne ’81 Mr. Peter D. Coddington ’64 Ms. Amanda Coenen-Morgan and Mr. Christopher J. Coenen CP PA FAC/ST Mr. Harry M. Cohen ’88 Mrs. Wende Cohen and Mr. Fredric W. Levin CP Ms. Barbara J. Colbert GP Mr. Leland M. Cole ’53 Mr. Richard M. Cole ’44C Mr. and Mrs. Timothy C. Coleman PA Mr. R. Kimbel Colket ’57 Mrs. Cheryl Vermeulen Collins ’74 Mr. Abbott C. Combes III PA Mr. and Mrs. Kevin R. Conklin Mr. and Mrs. John F. Consolini ’56 PA Mr. Thomas H. Conway ’57 Mr. Jonathan K. Cook ’62 Mr. and Mrs. John J. Cordier CP Mr. Thomas W. Corwin ’58 Ms. Katharine Cutler Coughlin ’90 Mrs. Judith A. Coulter GP Mr. Daniel C. M. Crabbe ’56 PA Mr. Daniel M. Crabbe ’81 Ms. Marjorie M. Crowley ’06 Mr. Matthew G. Crowson ’05

Mr. and Mrs. Brian P. Curtis PA Cutting Edge Hockey Mr. Jeffrey A. Daury, Jr. ’85 Mr. Benjamin Davenport ’49 Mr. Lawrence J. Davidson, Sr. ’45 Mr. Henry R. Davis III ’62 Mr. John M. Davis ’75 Mr. and Mrs. Jon T. Dayton CP Mr. William M. Dean ’40 PA Dr. and Mrs. Patrick A. DelGrande PA Mr. Brian J. Demers and Ms. Judith R. Safian CP Mr. Alexander G. Dick ’99 Dick Flood Educational Services, LLC Mr. Robert E. Dillon GP Mr. and Mrs. Timothy C. Dillon CP Mr. John B. Doan ’52 Mr. John W. Dolby ’59 Domaney’s Liquors Fine Foods, Inc. Mr. Ward J. Doonan ’75 Ms. Debra Drucker ’84 Dr. Joseph A. Duddy III ’79 Mr. David A. Dufault, Jr. ’89 Mr. P. Bayard duPont ’70 Mr. Peter B. Durkee ’71 Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Durocher CP Mr. Steven M. Duryee ’99 Mr. William L. Duschatko ’61 PA Dr. Russell R. Dutcher ’45 Ms. Janet E. Dyer and Dr. Charles E. Lucier CP Dr. Patricia M. Dyer PA Mr. David S. Edson ’60 Ms. Lola E. Edwards PA Mr. Peter J. Ehrlich ’86 Mr. and Mrs. Ashton G. Eldredge, Jr. PA Mr. Richard H. Elias ’59 Mr. and Mrs. Dean Ellerton ’81 Mrs. Karyn Smith Ellwood ’83 Mr.Victor Elting IV ’84 The Honorable Joseph A. Esquirol, Jr. ’50 Mr. Gordon R. Ewing, Jr. ’70 Mr. Scott M. Falso ’88 Fannie Mae SERVE Matching Gift Donations Mr. Miles F. Farrel ’89 Mr. Michael T. Fay ’83 Mr. and Mrs. Matthew G. Fee CP Dr. and Mrs. Robert C. Feher PA Mrs. Helen E. Ferguson GP Mrs. Molly Formel Ferguson ’99 Fidelity Foundation Matching Gifts to Education Mr. James L. Fiedler ’64 Mr. and Mrs. Alden L. Fiertz GP Mr. Peter S. Finlay ’43 Mr. Michael L. Fisher PA Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Flood, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Kevin J. Foss CP PA Mr. E. Haffner Fournier ’56 Mr. Ashley Fox ’85 Mr. George G. Francis ’60 Mr. and Mrs. Brad R. Freitag CP Mr. and Mrs. Jacob K. Frenkel GP Dr. Andrew M. Fried ’60 Mr. R. Robert Funderburg, Jr. ’80 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Funkhouser PA Mr. Thomas W. Funkhouser ’86 Mr. Anthony R. Gabriel GP

Ms. Lisa Gardner and Mr. Bret W. Gardner CP Mr. Michael E. Garrett ’83 Mr. Ray H. Garrison ’63 Mr. E. Throop Geer III ’69 Mr. and Mrs. William H. George PA Dr. Thomas H. Giddings ’30 Ms. Thea K. Gilbert ’03 Ms. Iris Gioia GP Mr. Aaron W. Godfrey PA Ms. Andrea Krida Goff ’79 Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell Goldberg CP Dr. and Mrs. Peter A. Goldberg PA Mr. and Mrs. Mauricio S. Gonzalez CP Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Grace CP Mr. J. Peter Gratiot ’39 PA Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Greenleaf CP Mrs. Estelle Greer GP Mr. and Mrs. John P. Grogan CP Mr. Lloyd J. Gross ’37 Mr. Jeffrey J. Gross ’76 Mr. Christopher L. Groves ’73 Mrs. Malika A. Hackett-Moore and Mr. Bennie F. Moore CP Mr. and Mrs. George A. Hagerty CP Mr. Ralph M. Hall ’57 Mr. Crawford C. Hamilton ’07 Ms. Kay Handman GP Mr. and Mrs. J. Arthur Hansen Mr. and Mrs. Mark E. Hansen PA Dr. Thomas M. Hanson ’61 Mr. and Mrs. Charles Harff GP Dr. Kristina M. Harff CP Ms. Amanda M. Harrington CP Mrs. Louise Ward Harris ’77 Mr. James K. Harris and Mrs. Deborah Harris CP PA FAC/ST Mr. David T. Harris, Jr. ’68 Mr. Edward B. Harris III ’85 Mr. Dirck D. Harrison ’44A The Hartford Insurance Group Mrs. Jennifer L. Harvey-Montano ’94 Dr. Marc H. Harwitt ’63 Mr. W. Scott Harwood ’82 Ms. Debra R. Haupt CP PA FAC/ST Mr. Patrick T. Healey ’65 Ms. Charlotte B. Heartt Mr. Craig Hecker ’45 Dr. and Mrs. Marc E. Heller CP Mr. and Mrs. G. William Helm, Jr. Ms. Julie A. Helmer-Shedden ’84 Mr. John R. Hendrie ’64 Mr. James C. Heneghan ’82 Mr. John L. Hermans ’69 PA Mr. Sanford Hertz Mr. and Mrs. John P. Hickey GP Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Holmes, Jr. PA Mr. John P. Holton ’65 Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Holtzman CP Mr. Kenneth C. Hopper, Jr. ’83 Mr. and Mrs. David E. Houseman PA Mr. Brian S. Howerton CP Mrs. A.R. Hoxton, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. James A. Hughes CP Mr. Joseph C. Hurlburt ’56 Mr. and Mrs. Peter K. Ibrahim PA

Mr. Peter C. Ince ’63 Mr. Nicholas B. Ingham ’91 Mr. Jeffrey F. Jacobs ’84 Dr. Phillip Jarvis PA Mrs. Paige Robertson Jasaitis ’91 Mr. Jonathan M. Jayson ’83 John E. Muhlfeld, Inc. DBA Newfield Builders CDR Henry O. Johnson ’73 Mr. Kenneth G. Johnston ’57 PA Mr.Vanderburgh Johnstone ’79 Mr. David C. Jones ’42 Mr. and Mrs. Hunter R. Judson ’74 Mr. Raymond Jungles PA Stephen and Christy Kaczmarek ’85 Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Kaier PA Ms. Gabrielle Kardon ’86 Mr. and Mrs. Andrew P. Kay, Sr. PA FAC/ST Mr.Bayard Kellam and Mrs. Suzanne Kellam PA Mr. Gordon B. Kellam ’97 Mr. Jay A. Keller ’58 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Kelley PA FAC/ST Mr. and Mrs. William J. Kelly III CP Mr. John P. Kendall ’73 Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth P. Kernodle CP Mr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Kerr CP Mr. and Mrs. David A. Kibbe Mrs. Garland Hill Kincaid ’85 Mr. and Mrs. Jackson T. King PA Mr. Travis R. Kline ’87 Mrs. Sheryl L. Knapp and Mr. Mark E. Knapp CP Dr. William E. Knight ’56 Mr. William S. Knowles ’34 Mr. Hugh G. Knowlton ’69 PA Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Koskey PA Ms. Elizabeth D. Kulas, Ph.D. ’86 Mr. Tomonari L. Kuromatsu ’98 Mr. and Mrs. John A. LaCasse PA Mr. Ramana Lagemann ’98 Mr. Marcus O. Landon ’41 Mr. George F. Lapp ’65 Larkin Farm, LLC Mr. Casey A. Larkins ’07 Laurel Hill Corp DBA The Days Inn Mr. and Mrs. David M. Leckie ’68 Lee Audio ’ N Security, Inc. Mr. and Ms. William J. Lees CP Mr. Glen A. Leibowitz ’83 Ms. Julie A. Lemire ’96 Mr. and Mrs. Ronald G. Leonard GP Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth P. Lesser PA Ms. Allison A. Letourneau ’07 Mr. and Mrs. Fredric W. Leukroth PA Mr. Henry R. Leuthy, Jr. ’62 Mrs. Gloria M. Levine GP Ms. Samantha L. Levitan ’05 Lignum Vitae, Inc. Mr. Connor M. Lines ’04 Mr. Ian G. Litmans ’89 Mr. and Mrs. William E. Locke PA Mr. Walter B. Long CP Mr. Christopher W. Long ’92 Mr. Thomas F. Lott ’64 LPL Financial Mr. Michael J. Lucey ’85 Mr. Joseph P. Luciani and

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Mrs. Carole A. Bertuzzi-Luciani CP PA Ms. Connie N. Lui ’92 Mr. Kevin Y. Lui ’89 Mr. Matthew R. Lusins ’94 Mrs. Sharon M. Lym PA Prof. and Mrs. Robert M. Macdonald GP Mr. and Mrs. W. Duncan Macfarlane ’78 PA MacFarlane Office Products, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Paul MacKenzie FAC/ST Mr. John A. Magee ’63 Mr. and Mrs. Richard Magenis Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Maher GP Dr. Stephen E. Malawista, M.D. ’50 Mr. William E. Maloney ’47 Mr. Matthew F. Mansfield ’58 Mr. E. Anthony Manthos ’56 Ms. Lisa M. Marchi CP Marsh & McLennan Co., Inc. Mr. Douglas G. Martin ’69 Mr. Marc A. Massaro ’98 Mr. Jeffrey A. Masters ’68 Mr. Graham Mathews ’66 Mr. David P. Matthews ’72 Mr. Allen A. Maxwell ’81 Mr. David P. McAdoo and Mrs. Denise Austin McAdoo ’67 Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. McAdoo PA GP Mr. David D. McChesney ’66 Mr. Dean C. McChesney ’67 Ms. Pamela K. McClelland Ms. Elizabeth A. McGovern and Mr. Mark E. McGovern CP FAC/ST Mr. and Mrs. Joseph K. McKay PA Mr. Edward J. McKenna ’91 Mr. and Mrs. Seamus McKeon ’69 PA Mr. Jeffrey D. McLaughlin ’84 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. McNally CP Mr. and Mrs. Willard C. McNitt III PA Mr. Bert B. Meek III ’69 Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan D. Meer Microsoft Matching Gifts Program Ms. Patricia A. Millard PA Mr. Stuart A. Miller ’97 FAC/ST and Mrs. Kristina Thaute Miller ’97 FAC/ST Dr. and Mrs. John M. Miller, Jr. PA Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Minnerly PA Mr. James W. Monell ’59 Ms. Tiffany S. Mooney CP FAC/ST Reverend and Mrs. James Moore CP Ms. Livia Curti Morjikian ’83 Ms. Jessica Morris ’97 Mr. and Mrs. F. Scott Morrison CP PA Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Morrison GP Mr. Peter L. Moseley, Jr. ’06 Mr. and Mrs. Frederick C. Mueller PA Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Muhlfeld ’69 PA Mr. Mark R. Murdock ’74 Mrs. Medea Ansari Myers ’92 Mrs. Lorna F. Mynott and Mr. Stephen A. Mynott CP Ms. Rebecca W. Neagle ’99 Mrs. Courtney Klopp Neifert ’90 Ms. Denise Nelson CP Dr. Peter B. Nelson ’65 Mr. Thomas J. Nolan, Jr. PA

Noreen Seabrook Marketing, Inc. Mr. Robert M. Norris and Ms. Barbara Bockbrader CP Mr. Ludlow F. North ’78 Mr. and Mrs. Gary Norwood GP Mr. and Mrs. P. Geoffrey Noyes PA Mr. John Nyombayire and Ms. Odette Mukabayija PA Mr. Thomas J. O’Connor ’89 Dr. Malcolm J. Odell, Jr. ’57 Mr. and Mrs. Elliott M. Ogden III ’68 PA Mr. John W. Oldham, Jr. ’60 Mr. James L. Olney ’83 Mr. Woodley B. Osborne ’56 Mr. Scott M. Pape ’76 Mr. and Mrs. Paul R. Parsons PA Dr. Pat J. Perkins CP Mr. Christopher T. Perry ’83 Mr. Frederick S. Peters ’28 Mr. John S. Phelan ’73 Mr. Christopher T. Phelan ’76 Philips PACE Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Piatelli, Sr. CP Mr. Thomas F. Pollak ’69 Ms. Jennifer D. Pool ’93 Mr. Todd J. Portnoff ’89 Mr. Frank T. J. Potash ’75 Mr. and Mrs. Laurence H. Pratt Printing Images Corp.

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Prockow PA The Prudential Foundation Mr. Ivar C. Quindsland, Jr. ’62 Mr. and Mrs. J. Sadler Ramsdell PA Ambassador and Mrs. Clark T. Randt, Jr. PA Mr. and Mrs. Seth C. Raynor CP Raynor Enterprises Mrs. Laura Neff Reaper ’83 Mrs. Charles H.G. Rees GP Dr. Angela DiStefano Reginelli ’86 Mrs. Jessie Leonard Reid ’77 Ms. Stephanie Resnick ’77 Ms.Vicki H. Richards CP Mr.Victor F. Ridder and Ms. Joannie Braden PA Mrs. Myra F. Riiska and Mr. Todd S. Riiska CP FAC/ST Mr. John Riley Ms. Catherine L. Rinaldi CP Ms. Natalie Dillon Rinaldi ’90 Mrs. Katherine D. Rines PA Risley Sports Photography Mr. and Mrs. Robert Rizzo CP Mr. John Robb ’89 Ms. Jennifer R. Roberts ’89 Mr. and Mrs. William Robertson IV PA Mr. MacGregor Robinson Mr. Randolph Rogers ’50 Mr. Benjamin C. Romer ’59 Mr. Richard H. Rose ’71 Mr. Benjamin J. Rosin ’58 Ms. Margaret E. Ross Richardson ’97 Mr. Lewis E. Sadler ’55 Sander & Ray Epstein Charitable Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Peter J. Scala CP PA Mr. and Mrs. Bradford J. Scheller ’74 CP Mr. Eric Schmidt ’60

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FAC/ST Faculty or Staff

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* Deceased

Dr. Robert A. Schor ’64 Mr. David M. Seager ’77 Mr. Brian T. Sells ’84 Ms. Bernadette L. Session PA Seward and Monde, CPA Mr. and Mrs. Philip N. Shapiro CP PA Mr. David B. Sheppard, Jr. ’85 Dr. Wade C. Sherbrooke ’59 Sherwin-Williams Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Paul R. Shrubb CP Mr. Allan K. Simpson ’53 Mr. and Mrs. Humphrey B. Simson PA GP Mr. Daniel C. Smiley ’59 Mr. Richard L. Smith ’52 Mr. and Mrs. Dale M. Smith FAC/ST Mr. and Mrs. Earle Smith III PA Dr. and Mrs. James L. Smythe PA Mr. Curt V. Solomon ’91 Mr. and Mrs. William F. Spalding ’65 PA Mr. Sparry W. Sparks ’49 Mr. Robert A. Spencer ’60 Mr. Matthew P. Sposito ’02 Mr. Oliver S. Springer ’88 Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm G. Spurling CP Mr. and Mrs. Christopher A. St. Germain CP Mr. Ernest A. Stagg ’57 Mr. and Mrs. Randy Staino PA Mr. Samuel Starkey Mr. William P. Steck ’93 Mrs. Jean M. Steiner GP Mrs. Cynthia A. Stringham-Smith ’84 Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Sullivan CP Mr. and Mrs. James M. Sullivan Mr. Michael J. Sullivan ’84 Mr. Andrew I. Sun and Ms. Alicia C. W. Wang CP Mr. John S. Sutphen ’37 Mr. Leonard G. Swartz ’50 Mr. Jason H. Swist ’03 Mr. Kevin M. Tarrant ’78 PA Mr. Thomas McK. Thomas ’59 Mr. David C. Thompson ’47 Tomich Landscape Design & Construction, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Torsilieri GP Mr. William C. Tost, Jr. PA Mr. and Mrs. Arthur E. Trotman Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Tufts PA Mr. John E. Turner ’69 Mr. William Tynan ’59 Dr. and Mrs. Sanford Ullman PA United Technologies Matching Gift & Volunteer Grant Programs Dr. Joseph Upton ’62 Mr. Jim W.Vahey ’51 Mr. and Mrs. Paul J.Vakos CP Mr. John C. van Roden III ’00 Mr. Gerard L.Vermilye, Jr. ’50 Mrs. Deborah Witsell Vivian ’77 Mr. and Mrs. David L.Von Trachtenberg CP Mr. Michael G. Wagstaff ’89 Ms. Jane B. Walker ’03 Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Wallace CP Mrs. Marlee Wallingford ’76 Mr. and Mrs. John C. Walsh GP Mr. James C. Ward ’84 Mr. John W. Watkins, Jr. ’06

Mr. James D. Watt, Jr. ’88 Mr. David A. Weeks ’83 Mr. Ralph R. Weichselbaum and Mrs. Donna L. Filippo CP Mr. and Mrs. Joel D. Weiner PA Mr. David M. Weiss ’74 Wellpoint Associate Giving Campaign Mr. R. Gordon Werner ’59 Mr. W. Chattin Wetherill ’63 Mr. and Mrs. Arnold A. Whitehouse, Jr. ’40 Mrs. Beatrice G. Whitney PA GP Dr. George E. Whitwell Mr. and Mrs. Landon H. Wickham, Sr. GP Dr. Geoffrey R. Wickwire ’65 Mr. Harrison C. Williams ’75 Mr. and Mrs. Henry H. Williams, Jr. ’43 Mr. Tony M. Williams ’01 Mr. and Mrs. David J. Wilson CP Mr. David K. Wilson, Jr. ’76 Mr. R. Heggie Wilson, Jr. ’73 Mr. Thomas P. Wolf ’44C Mr. and Mrs. Wade L. Wolfe CP Mr. Donald W. Wood ’57 PA Mr. Gary A. Wright ’69 Mr. and Mrs. Harvey B. Wright PA Dr. T. Alexander S. Wyeth ’73 Mr. and Mrs. Marc P. Wysocki FAC/ST Mrs. Mary Herrington Yancey ’89 Mr. and Mrs. Robert S.Young PA Mr. Bruce T.Young ’74 Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Ziefer CP Mr. Peter V. Zimmer ’64 Mr. Mark J. Zion ’83

Reunion Committees 50TH REUNION: CLASS OF 1959

20TH REUNION: CLASS OF 1989

Mr. Richard Elias, Chair Mr. Peter Browning Mr. Dick Hopper Mr. Jim Platt Mr. Perry Rianhard Mr. Dan Smiley

Ms. Margaret Flood Vulliez, Chair Ms. Samantha Cooper Brex Ms. Melissa Glick Ms. Anne Tutwiler MacKenzie Mr. Anthony Saxton Mr. Michael Wagstaff Ms. Jennifer Van Woert Tran

45TH REUNION: CLASS OF 1964

Mr. John Hendrie, Co-Chair Mr. Peter Kennard, Co-Chair

40TH REUNION: CLASS OF 1969

Mr. K.C. Clow, Chair Mr. John Hermans Mr. James Hooper Mr. Steve Morgan Mr. Richard Muhlfeld Mr. James Sheldon-Dean

15TH REUNION: CLASS OF 1994

Ms. Emily Ivey, Chair Ms. Jaime Leddy Graham Mr. Francis Blair Ms. Jennifer Harvey-Montano Mr. Jeremy Freid Mr. Christopher Klingenstein

10TH REUNION: CLASS OF 1999

Mr. Murray Bodine, Co-Chair Mr. David Weiss, Co-Chair

Mr. Scott Gordon, Co-Chair Mr. Michael Gutenplan, Co-Chair Mr. George Scoville Ms. Heather Crispin Polk Mr. Andrew Borek Ms. Emily Boak Mr. Steven Duryee

30TH REUNION: CLASS OF 1979

5TH REUNION: CLASS OF 2004

35TH REUNION: CLASS OF 1974

Mr. Robert Thomas, Chair Ms. Susie Norris-Epstein Ms. Elizabeth Noyes Sargent Mr. Jack Benvent Mr. David Gefke Mr. David Locke Mr. Peter Vanden Broeck

Mr. Carter Stern Mr. Jacob Nagy Ms. Abby Watson Mr. James Butler Ms. Jill Bowron Mr. Levi Wade

25TH REUNION: CLASS OF 1984

Ms. Tasha Given, Chair Mr. Victor Elting Ms. Nancy Koskey Patzwahl Mr. Peter Houston Mr. Mark Eidlin Ms. Gretchen Hemeon

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Ann Barrett, widow of DAVE BARRETT ’59 and mother of WINTHROP BARRETT ’91 and TRUMBELL BARRETT ’92, hosted a cocktail party for his classmates and their wives at her home in Sheffield during Alumni Weekend ’09. Mrs. Barrett, wearing a beige sweater and pearls, is in the middle of the photo.Also on hand was the ubiquitous TWIGGS MYERS HON. ’57 , far left.

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Thirty from Fifty-nine!

Golden reunion class celebrates with annual fund gift to Berkshire Twenty-one members of the Class of 1959 returned to campus for their fiftieth and liked what they saw. The class, led by reunion committee members PETER BROWNING, DICK ELIAS, DICK HOPPER, JIM PLATT, PERRY RIANHARD and DAN SMILEY, raised $30,000 for the school’s Annual Fund.

A few of their impressions of the weekend follow: Perry Rianhard: “Getting back together is what it’s all about. A lot of water over the dam in the last 50 years and no one cares—it’s all a level playing field, just great seeing everyone, and telling old war stories. Lots of laughs and good memories. (The bad ones we don’t talk about.)”

Sandy Creighton: “It’s been a mind-bending weekend and a real attitude change for our class—finally! One hundred years has really given this place traction; big time. Mike Maher is doing a terrific job leading this school to never before seen heights. I am grateful to have been able to

attend this weekend, to have seen the progress. I intend to return often to do what I can to help sustain the momentum.”

Dan Smiley: “We always knew that “pro schola” has been a major emphasis at Berkshire. It’s been wonderful this weekend to learn that “pro vita” is now given equal time!”

Bill Dutcher: “After 50 years, I drove up the driveway fearing some suburbia Berkshire. Rest assured, it did not confront me. What a tasteful elaboration of the ’undermountain’ theme. Well done! Today was like a psycho-therapy for this 67 year old!”

Peter Browning: “What a memorable experience. My first reunion and it couldn’t have been a better experience. The chance to reminisce with classmates while hearing from the Head of School Mike Maher and his team about the extraordinary growth—couldn’t be more impressed.”

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Stand up for your chair!

A whopping 91% of Berkshire’s Class Chairs, all of whom are listed below, set a good example by giving to the Annual Fund last year—the highest giving percentage of this category in the school’s history.

'30 Charles H. Delamater 186 Jerry Brown Road, Apt. 4403 Mystic, CT 06355 (860) 536-4199 chuckdelamater@aol.com

'39 Jay H. Rossbach 251 Dunbar Road Palm Beach, FL 33480-3714 (561) 832-7090

'45 Philip W. Goodspeed 3506 Eagle Bluff Drive NE Grand Rapids, MI 49525-4567 (616) 949-1949 pwgoodspeed@comcast.net

'46 Gerald B. O'Connor 975 South Windsor Street South Royalton,VT 05068 (802) 763-2774 gboconnor@valley.net

'47 William F. Kimberly 56 Lexington Avenue, Apt. #1 Buffalo, NY 14222-1808 (716) 883-5757 WKimberly@aol.com

'50

'61

'69

Charles K. Elliott 1928 Omni Blvd Mount Pleasant, SC 29466-8861 (843) 884-4782 chazel303@aol.com

Peter R. Kellogg 48 Wall Street, 30th Floor New York, NY 10005 pkellogg@iatre.com

Kent S. Clow PO Box 1216 114 Salisbury Road Sheffield, MA 01257-1216 (413) 717-2190 ksc3@msn.com

John B. Hull PO Box 549 3 Pleasant View Drive Great Barrington, MA 01230-0549 (413) 528-1528

John R. Hendrie 40 East Main Street Merrimac, MA 01860 (978) 346-4367 JRHendrie@aol.com

David W. Sauer 103 Silo Road Landrum, SC 29356 (864) 457-3193 stillpoint@windstream.net

'65

'55 Stephen V. Spaulding 947 Green Street, #2 San Francisco, CA 94133-3601 (415) 921-0564 rensf@yahoo.com

'48

'60

Robert W. Doyle 308 Norfolk Road Litchfield, CT 06759-2517 (860) 567-5529 robertwdoyle@hotmail.com

'64

'54

Alexander E. Simpson 605 Aldean Place Newport Beach, CA 92663-5408 (949) 646-8284 alnnan@roadrunner.com

'49

Ray H. Garrison 40 Joyce Street South Yarmouth, MA 02664-2939 (508) 398-9095 rbgarr1@verizon.net

John G. Cluett 1982 Gray Court The Villages, FL 32162 (859) 873-8022 jcluett@aol.com

'59

Stephen P. Norman 6 Highland Park Place Rye, NY 10580 (914) 967-7554 spnormanrye@yahoo.com

'60 H. Todd Spofford 1392 Pennsylvania Avenue Sanford, NC 27332 (919) 498-2151 tspofford@charter.net

Andrew S. Berkman 90 Riverside Drive, Apt. 4B New York, NY 10024 (212) 362-2404 aberkman@cpny.com

'63

'53

Richard H. Elias 39 Manfield Avenue Merrick, NY 11566-3915 (516) 623-5024 mardic68@hotmail.com

George Church 14 Easton Avenue Pittsfield, MA 01201 (413) 448-6199

'62

'51

James T. McKinley 827 Mediterranean Lane Redwood City, CA 94065-1761 (650) 430-8291 jim@jtmckinley.com

'66 Hans L. Carstensen PO Box 4846 2708 Wild Horse Ridge Pocatello, ID 83205-4846 carsthliii@worldnet.att.net

'67 F. Woodson Hancock 351 East 84th Street, Apt 3E New York, NY 10028-4455 (212) 288-3118 whancock3@aol.com

'68 L. Keith Reed PO Box 934 Far Hills, NJ 07931 (908) 234-0197 lkreed@eclipse.net

'70 Robert L. W. McGraw PO Box 873 Sheffield, MA 01257 (413) 229-7999 blackrockfarm@hotmail.com

'72 John Y. Walker 24 Winthrop Street Brooklyn, NY 11225 (718) 856-6575 jyg3@aol.com

'73 William J. Drake 103 Spencer Lane Sewickley, PA 15143-8725 bill@gmdadv.com (412) 334-6895

'74 Peter B. Griffin 94 Indian Rock Road New Canaan, CT 06840-3115 (203) 869-2770 peter.griffin@snet.net

'75 Joseph M. Fusco 1079 Leonello Avenue Los Altos, CA 94024-4914 (408) 206-2545 joe@techworkers.com

'76 Stephen H. Hassett 2513 Bridgeside Place Virginia Beach,VA 23455-1366 (757) 460-3938 stevenhass@aol.com

'79 Robert D. Thomas 809 Rivergate Place Alexandria,VA 22314 (703) 683-4733 rdt10@comcast.net

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'80 Steven P.Veronesi 202 Coldbrook Road South Glastonbury, CT 06073 (860) 633-2088 sveronesi@cox.net

'81 Sue Ann Stanton 488 Locust Street, #406 San Francisco, CA 94118 sasco@yahoo.com (415) 359-1077

'82 Anthony P. Addison 404 East 55th Street, Apt. 5A New York, NY 10022 anthony_addison@ml.com (917) 992-6248 Office: (212) 284-5902 Thomas B. Fahy 2315 Blood Brook Road Fairlee,VT 05045 (802) 333-4244 hfahy@netzero.com

'83 Karen Secrist 1479 Periwinkle Drive Boulder, CO 80304-1150 (303) 945-4210 ksecrist6@comcast.net

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'85 Lionel A. Shaw 2148 Filbert Street San Francisco, CA 94123-3413 (415) 921-2162 lionel_shaw@yahoo.com

'86 Rhonda M. Bentley-Lewis 31 Fuller Road Needham, MA 02492-4531 (617) 698-2774 rbentleylewis@partners.org

'88 Walter D. Long 7 Washington Place Helena, MT 59601 (406) 442-2389 walterdlong@gmail.com

'90 Natalie Bradley Clarke 390 First Avenue, Apt. #10-E New York, NY 10010-4935 (203) 915-6976 ninabclarke@gmail.com

matthew.g.crowson@gmail.com Natalie O. Rinaldi 12 East 86th Street, Apt. 1601 New York, NY 10028 (917) 538-1505 natrinald@gmail.com

'91 John K. Fretz 596 Valley Street Maplewood, NJ 07040-2616 (201) 659-4244 john@itoversee.com

'92 Abram W. Duryee, III 14 Wainwright Drive Cape Elizabeth, ME 04107-9689 (207) 899-2001 bduryee@clearpoint.com

'93

'97 Gordon B. Kellam 15675 Marcello Circle Naples, FL 34110-2835 (239) 514-1317 gordonkellam@yahoo.com

'98 Jason C. Rano 1543 6th Street NW apt 201 Washington, DC 20001-2486 (917) 838-9459 jayrano@yahoo.com

'99 Michael D. Gutenplan 1432 North Fairfax Avenue, #3 Los Angeles, CA 90046 (646) 241-9052 michaelgutenplan@aol.com

Ryan M. Farrell 606 Bearspaw Village Road Calgary Alberta T3L 2Pl, CANADA mryanfarrell@gmail.com

'06 Courtney J. Kollmer 38 Hampshire Drive Mendham, NJ 07945-2004 (973) 813-7314 ckollmer@hamilton.edu Emily K. Lichtenberg 16 Barnard Avenue Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 (845) 471-1386 emlichtenberg@vassar.edu

‘07

Tenley E. Reed 18 Adam and Eve Mews Kensington London W86UJ, ENGLAND +44-2079370319 tenley@mac.com

'00

'94

Shannon M. Flynn 7303 Allan Avenue Falls Church,VA 22046-2024 Shannismurf@hotmail.com

Allison A. Letourneau 917 Shawn Drive Kingston Nova Scotia B0P 1R0, CANADA aak23@unh.edu

'02

'08

Francis A. Blair 175 West 12th Street, Apt 18E New York, NY 10011-8205 (212) 686-3602 fblair@alumni.hamilton.edu

'95 Bradley P. Hunt 18 Pleasant Street #1 Marblehead, MA 01945-3432 (978) 548-7237 bradley_hunt1313@hotmail.com

'96 Katherine C. King 45 Seaview Avenue Marblehead, MA 01945-1731 (781) 631-5673 katiecking@yahoo.com Julie A. Lemire 517 Third Avenue #8 New York, NY 10016 (617) 491-6165 juleslemire@hotmail.com Tatum E.Vittengl 11 Grand View Ave #1 Somerville, MA 02143-1811 (518) 331-5855 tvittengl@yahoo.com

Brooke T. Beebe 3214 Katsos Ranch Road Unit D Vail, CO 81657-4627 Brookebeebe@gmail.com

‘01

Matthew P. Sposito 100 Surrey Lane Glastonbury, CT 06033-3259 (860) 368-2457 matthew.sposito@gmail.com

'03 Jane B. Walker 1601 Mosaic Way Smyrna, GA 30080 (772) 696-0855 jane.b.walker@gmail.com

'04 William C. Stern 150 Sabine Street, Apt #454 Houston, TX 77007 (713) 961-0040 wcstern1@gmail.com

'05 Matthew G. Crowson 26 Kimmins Court Kanata Ontario K2K 2M4, CANADA

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Casey A. Larkins 57 Echo Drive North Darien, CT 06820 (203) 359-4546 casey.larkins@gmail.com

Melissa M. Fogarty CMR #237 23 Romada Drive St. Lawrence University Canton, NY 13617 mmfoga08@stlawu.edu Erica Ginsberg 189 Central Avenue Dover, NH 03820 eginzie@gmail.com

'09 Gregory T. Piatelli 245 North Undermountain Road Sheffield, MA 01257 gpiatelli@gmail.com Molly L. Ryan 343 Eagleton Golf Drive Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33418 mryan@ut.edu

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Giving by Class CLASS OF 1928

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

CLASS OF 1930

$100.00 $100.00 $0.00 100%

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

CLASS OF 1934

$200.00 $200.00 $0.00 33%

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$200.00 $200.00 $0.00 33%

Mr. Frederick S. Peters

Dr. Thomas H. Giddings

Mr. William S. Knowles

CLASS OF 1929

CLASS OF 1931

CLASS OF 1935

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$500.00 $500.00 $0.00 100%

Mr. F. Woodward Prosser

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation: Dr. Philip C. White *

$200.00 $200.00 $0.00 50%

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$1,000.00 $1,000.00 $0.00 50%

Mr. John L. Baum

BERKSHIRE SCHOOL 2008-2009 ANNUAL REPORT OF GIVING

100

CLASS OF 1936

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

CLASS OF 1938

$5,000.00 $5,000.00 $0.00 33%

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

CLASS OF 1940

$500.00 $500.00 $0.00 50%

Mr. Robert T.Vanderbilt *

Mr. Samuel A. McClung III

CLASS OF 1937

CLASS OF 1939

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$4,250.00 $4,150.00 $100.00 83%

Mr. Lloyd J. Gross Mr. Henry R. Hoysradt Mr. William M. Johnson, Jr. Mr. R. Howard Johnston, Jr. Mr. John S. Sutphen

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$12,950.00 $12,950.00 $0.00 71%

Anonymous ( 1 ) Mr. Gregory S. Cluett Mr. E. Mandell de Windt Mr. J. Peter Gratiot Mr. Robert S. Kieve

BERKSHIRE SCHOOL 2008-2009 ANNUAL REPORT OF GIVING * Deceased

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$56,872.43 $56,872.43 $0.00 78%

Mr. Eugene L. Amber Mr. Sanford L. Cluett, Jr. * Mr. William M. Dean Mr. John B. Lesher Mr. I. Gordon Odell Mr. Charles H. Ray Mr. and Mrs. Arnold A. Whitehouse, Jr.

CLASS OF 1941

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$2,475.00 $2,475.00 $0.00 33%

Dr. Russell R. Dutcher Mr. Craig Hecker Mr. John B. Wagner

CLASS OF 1950

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$1,595.00 $1,595.00 $0.00 58%

CLASS OF 1946

Dr. Henry H. Bard, Jr. Mr. Marcus O. Landon Dr. Carroll W. Wonson

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

CLASS OF 1942

Mr. Henry M. Goodyear, Jr. Mr. Gerald B. O’Connor

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$350.00 $350.00 $0.00 25%

CLASS OF 1943

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

CLASS OF 1947

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

Mr. Jerome C. Eppler Mr. David C. Jones

$2,265.00 $2,265.00 $0.00 33%

Mr. Peter S. Finlay Mr. Frederick S. Ford, Jr. Capt. John E. Snyder Mr. Frederick O. Sumner Mr. and Mrs. Henry H. Williams, Jr.

$950.00 $950.00 $0.00 20%

$9,500.00 $9,500.00 $0.00 50%

Mr. L. Phillip Best, Jr. Mr. Phelps Dewey Mr. William F. Kimberly, Jr. Mr. James W. Leenhouts Mr. William E. Maloney Mr. William S. Newlin, Jr. Mr. Albert Shaw III Mr. Alexander E. Simpson Mr. David C. Thompson Brig. General Allan R. Zenowitz

CLASS OF 1948 CLASS OF 1944A

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$230.00 $230.00 $0.00 18%

Mr. Dirck D. Harrison Mr. James H. Smith

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$1,925.00 $1,925.00 $0.00 33%

Dr. Robert L. Adeson Mr. Miles G. Blakeslee, Jr. Mr. George Church III Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Jennings Mr. Eugene B. Winslow

CLASS OF 1944C

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$11,750.00 $11,750.00 $0.00 88%

Mr. Richard M. Cole Mr. Parker D. Handy Mr. Thomas D. Richardson Mr. John Schofield The Honorable Leon J. Weil Mr. Henry M. White, Jr. Mr. Thomas P. Wolf

CLASS OF 1945

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$1,400.00 $1,400.00 $0.00 29%

CLASS OF 1949

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$8,350.00 $8,350.00 $0.00 38%

Mr. Timothy F. Beard Mr. Benjamin Davenport Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Doyle, Sr. Dr. John H. Gardner Mr. Richard J. Kaplan Mr. William L. Lafferty, Jr. Mr. Roald M. Schopp Mr. Sparry W. Sparks

Mr. William B. Boardman Mr. Richard L. Bourbeau Mr. Wayne H. Carley, Jr. Mr. Charles K. Elliott, Jr. The Honorable Joseph A. Esquirol, Jr. Mr. Hugh B. Hessler, Jr. Dr. Stephen E. Malawista, M.D. Mr. Randolph Rogers Mr. Leonard G. Swartz Mr. Gerard L.Vermilye, Jr. Mr. Rudolph Welz

CLASS OF 1951

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$64,800.00 $4,300.00 $60,500.00 67%

Mr. and Mrs. James P. Balch Mr. Jack S. Caplan Mr. Alfred C. Clapp, Jr. Mr. Frederick R. Edington II Mr. Henry Goldman III Mr. John B. Hull III Mr. Thomas F. Seamans Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Shotwell Mr. Jim W.Vahey Mr. Robert L. Walsh

CLASS OF 1952

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$790.00 $790.00 $0.00 28%

Mr. John N. Dennis Mr. John B. Doan Mr. Paul D. Kaplan Mr. Richard L. Smith Mr. Bradford S. Tripp

CLASS OF 1953

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$14,975.00 $14,975.00 $0.00 38%

Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Berry Mr. John G. Cluett Mr. Leland M. Cole Mr. W. Preston Cooper Mr. Oliver J. Geiger Mr. and Mrs. James A. Harmon Mr. Herbert G. Roskind, Jr. Mr. Allan K. Simpson

Mr. Lawrence J. Davidson, Sr. BERKSHIRE SCHOOL 2008-2009 ANNUAL REPORT OF GIVING

101

CLASS OF 1954

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$2,860.00 $2,860.00 $0.00 25%

Mr. Charles C. Blaney II Mr. Courtlandt D. B. Bryan Mr. Richard M. Davis Colonel Bruce C. Francis Mr. Edwin G. Klinck Dr. David W. Sauer Mr. Peter V.Young

Mr. R. Kimbel Colket Mr. Thomas H. Conway Mr. Ralph M. Hall Mr. Walter S. Henrion Mr. Kenneth G. Johnston Mr. William Kirtz Mr. Robert L. Millham Mr. Francis H. Monahan Mr. C. Twiggs Myers Dr. Malcolm J. Odell, Jr. Mr. Bruce P. Shields Mr. Theodore G. Shrady Mr. Ernest A. Stagg Mr. Jeffry S. Wineman Mr. Donald W. Wood

CLASS OF 1955

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$1,505.00 $755.00 $750.00 20%

Mr. Rodney W. Agar Mr. Allan B. Bishop Mr. Lewis E. Sadler Mr. Stephen V. R. Spaulding Mr. David W. Thorp Mr. Frederick C. Twichell Mr. Stephen K. Urner, Jr.

CLASS OF 1956

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

102

$5,717.16 $5,717.16 $0.00 43%

Mr. Kirk S. Bennett Mr. Robert A. Cawood Mr. and Mrs. John F. Consolini Mr. Daniel C. M. Crabbe Mr. William B. Crane Mr. E. Haffner Fournier Mr. Daniel M. Goodyear Mr. Joseph C. Hurlburt Dr. William E. Knight Mr. Herbert G. Koehler Mr. E. Anthony Manthos Mr. Woodley B. Osborne Mr. and Mrs. Hawley Rogers Mr. and Mrs. Jacob F. Schoellkopf V Mr. William P. Stritzler Mr. Loren C. White, Jr.

CLASS OF 1957

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$46,063.77 $17,025.00 $29,038.77 65%

Mr. Thomas B. Anderson Mr. Bruce D. Benson Mr. Benjamin E. Billings, Jr. Ms. Molly Dean Bittner Mr. Richard L. Case Mr. James L. Cohen

CLASS OF 1958

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$3,700.00 $3,700.00 $0.00 33%

Mr. Barry B. Berkman Mr. William O. Blaney, Jr. Mr. Charles B. Catlin Mr. Thomas W. Corwin Mr. Robert J. Habacker Mr. Jay A. Keller Mr. James E. Lyle Mr. Matthew F. Mansfield Mr. Samuel Q. Nichols Mr. Benjamin J. Rosin Dr. Steven R. Strong Mr. Joseph H. Sugden, Jr. Mr. Dale A.Van Ort

CLASS OF 1959

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$30,050.00 $27,000.00 $3,050.00 62%

Anonymous ( 1 ) Mr. Charles P. Ancona Mr. Robert C. Beach Mr. Peter C. Browning Mr. Albert Cooper III Mr. G. Alexander Creighton Mr. John W. Dolby Mr. Daniel R. Donaldson Mr. and Mrs. William M. Dutcher Mr. Richard H. Elias Mr. Christopher Flower Mr. John C. Helming Mr. Richard M. Hopper Mr. James W. Monell Mr. Williamson Murray Mr. James B. Platt Mr. Perry D. Rianhard Mr. Daniel P. Richardson Mr. C. Bruce Roehrig Mr. Benjamin C. Romer Mr. F. Sherwood Rothe, Jr.

BERKSHIRE SCHOOL 2008-2009 ANNUAL REPORT OF GIVING

Dr. Wade C. Sherbrooke Mr. Daniel C. Smiley Mr. Thomas McK. Thomas Mr. William Tynan Mr. R. Gordon Werner

CLASS OF 1960

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$40,423.55 $40,423.55 $0.00 40%

Mr. Richard H. Bradley Mr. David S. Edson Mr. Robert B. Field, Jr. Mr. Kenneth Z. Fox Mr. George G. Francis Dr. Andrew M. Fried Mr. Stephen P. Norman Mr. Peter D. O’Hara Mr. John W. Oldham, Jr. Mr. Eric Schmidt Mr. Robert A. Spencer Mr. H. Todd Spofford Mr. Russell F. Strasburger, Jr. Mr. Hugh J. Weidinger

CLASS OF 1961

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$308,528.64 $260,028.64 $48,500.00 47%

Mr. and Mrs. George T. Beebe Mr. William L. Duschatko Mr. John H. Ellwood Mr. Donald W. Goodrich Mr. Leonard A. Grace Dr. David J. Haidak Dr. Thomas M. Hanson Mr. Luke J. Haran, Jr. Mr. Edmond B. Herrington Mr. Edward H. Hunt and Mrs. Frances M. T. Hunt Mr. Peter R. Kellogg Mr. William P. Klingenstein Dr. Jeri M. Langham Mr. Michael F. Little Mr. T. Garrison Morfit, Jr. Mr. Phillip A. Nelson Mr. Anthony C. J. Nuland Mr. Peter B. Richardson Mr. F. B. Wadelton III Mr. Stephen J. Zuckerman

CLASS OF 1962

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$3,214.00 $3,214.00 $0.00 33%

Mr. Andrew S. Berkman Mr. Jonathan K. Cook

Mr. Henry R. Davis III Mr. Delano de Windt II Mr. Jeffrey W. Denker Mr. Henry R. Leuthy, Jr. Mr. Stuart W. Marsh Mr. Alfred W. Popkess Mr. Ivar C. Quindsland, Jr. Mr. Albert K. Sherman, Jr. Dr. Joseph Upton

CLASS OF 1963

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$12,925.00 $12,925.00 $0.00 32%

Mr. Severance Babcock Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Corwin Mr. Ray H. Garrison Dr. Marc H. Harwitt Mr. Peter C. Ince Mr. John A. Magee Mr. A. Stephen Nelson Mr. Thomas R. Quick Mr. Charles E. Steber Mr. Thomas J. Watson III Mr. W. Chattin Wetherill Mr. R. Richard Wieland II Mr. William G. Wigglesworth

CLASS OF 1964

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$24,045.00 $24,045.00 $0.00 48%

Mr. Alden H. Anderson Dr. Michael W. Barclay, Jr. Mr. Robert E. Beaumont Mr. Bruce J. Berman Mr. H. William Borntraeger III Mr. Peter D. Coddington Mr. John P. Cox Mr. James L. Fiedler Mr. Fred B. Finley Mr. John R. Hendrie Mr. Peter L. Kennard Mr. Edward D. Kratovil Mr. W. Bruce Kueffner Mr. Thomas F. Lott Mr. Kenneth D. Morris Mr. Frederick L. Pabst Mr. and Mrs. Howard L. Reichart III Dr. Robert A. Schor Mr. Peter V. Zimmer

CLASS OF 1965

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$517,125.00 $16,325.00 $500,800.00 32%

Mr. Stephen W. Sawyer Mr. Duncan R. Smith Mr. Robert M. Wood, Jr.

CLASS OF 1968

Mr. Christopher M. Ames Mr. Eric H. Bowen Mr. John A. Brown, Jr. Mr. Charles N. Brush Dr. Albee L. Budnitz Mr. Gordon Crawford Mr. Philip S. Deely Mr. John P. Field Mr. Patrick T. Healey Mr. John P. Holton Mr. George F. Lapp Mr. James T. McKinley Mr. Paul B. Montana Dr. Peter B. Nelson Mr. James H. Powers Mr. Walter B. Rose Mr. George W. Ryerson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William F. Spalding Mr. Manson C. Surdam Dr. Geoffrey R. Wickwire Mr. William B. Wigton

CLASS OF 1966

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$53,570.00 $27,170.00 $26,400.00 17%

Mr. Hans L. Carstensen III Mr. Allan C. Eustis Mr. H. Kirke Lathrop Mr. Albert R. Laubenstein Mr. Samuel C. Martin Mr. Graham Mathews Mr. David D. McChesney Mr. Willard B. Soper II Mr. Jonathan P. Thompson

CLASS OF 1967

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$28,545.00 $4,295.00 $24,250.00 33%

Mr. David W. Adams Mr. Richard P. Breed III Mr. and Mrs. David A. Brooks Mr. R. W. Burrows Mr. and Mrs. E. Timothy Danahy III Mr. and Mrs. F. Woodson Hancock III Mr. David K. Hawkes Dr. Jeffrey P. Lake Mr. David P. McAdoo and Mrs. Denise Austin McAdoo Mr. Dean C. McChesney Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Mustard, Jr. Mr. Thomas J. Nolan III

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$106,442.22 $31,442.22 $75,000.00 22%

Mr. Davis G. Anderson Mr. Francis N. Bishop, Jr. Mr. David Connolly Mr. Alan N. Gnutti Mr. David T. Harris, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. David M. Leckie Mr. Jeffrey A. Masters Mr. Laurence G. Meads Mr. and Mrs. Latham W. Murfey III Mr. and Mrs. Elliott M. Ogden III Mr. L. Keith Reed Mr. John E. Thompson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Wood, Jr.

CLASS OF 1969

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$21,900.00 $20,900.00 $1,000.00 34%

Mr. Arthur W. Beckert Mr. Christopher S. Bell Dr. Thomas M. Blum Mr. Jeffrey A. Borghesi Dr. and Mrs. Gerald T. Church Mr. Kent S. Clow III Mr. Lawrence G. Crawford Mr. Todd W. Dickinson Mr. E. Throop Geer III Mr. John L. Hermans Mr. James E. Hooper Mr. Steven M. Hope Mr. Gordon L. Hunt Mr. Hugh G. Knowlton Mr. Douglas G. Martin Mr. and Mrs. Seamus McKeon Mr. Bert B. Meek III Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Muhlfeld Mr. Thomas F. Pollak Mr. and Ms. James P. Sheldon-Dean Mr. Douglas A. Sloan Mr. John A. Tompkins, Jr. Mr. John E. Turner Dr. John C. Weeks Mr. Gary A. Wright

BERKSHIRE SCHOOL 2008-2009 ANNUAL REPORT OF GIVING

103

CLASS OF 1970

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$55,705.00 $5,705.00 $50,000.00 19%

Mr. B. Theodore Batsch, Jr. Mr. S. Thompson Bolmer Mr. David J. Brisson Mr. John C. Burditt Mr. Richard T. Cunniff, Jr. Mr. P. Bayard duPont Mr. Gordon R. Ewing, Jr. Mr. Morris C. Hancock Mr. Frederick P. King Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. W. McGraw Mr. Charles W. Neuhauser Mr. William M. Shepard Mr. Jeffrey D. Whitestone

Mr. Lyman G. Bullard, Jr. Mr. Harold F. Clayton Mr. James L. Deming Mr. R. Jeffrey Follert Mr. Christopher L. Groves Mr. and Mrs. Edward K. Heyes Mrs. Linda Matson Heyes CDR Henry O. Johnson Mr. John P. Kendall Mr. Gilman C. Perkins and Mrs. Deborah Hower-Perkins Mr. John S. Phelan Mr. David B. Ring Mr. Timothy P. Schieffelin Mr. Alexander L. Thomson Mr. and Mrs. H. Webster Walker III Mr. and Mrs. John W. Watkins, Sr. Mr. R. Heggie Wilson, Jr. Dr. T. Alexander S. Wyeth CLASS OF 1974

CLASS OF 1971

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$3,465.00 $3,465.00 $0.00 15%

Mr. Russell D. Boardman Mr. Kevin J. Bruemmer Mr. Peter B. Durkee Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Gardella Mr. Thomas A. McGraw, Jr. Mr. John K. Means Mr. R. Mark Patterson Mr. Richard H. Rose Mr. William E. Schluter, Jr.

104

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$4,375.00 $4,375.00 $0.00 16%

Mr. Walter U. Baker Mr. Murray G. Bodine Mr. Russell L. Burbank Mrs. Cheryl Vermeulen Collins Mr. and Mrs. Hunter R. Judson Mr. Mark R. Murdock Mr. David M. O’Neill Ms. Karen Parker Ms. Christina M. Petersen Mr. and Mrs. Bradford J. Scheller Mr. David M. Weiss Mr. Bruce T.Young

CLASS OF 1976

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$19,262.76 $9,240.17 $10,022.59 19%

Mrs. Camille Howard Alberico Mrs. Caroline Weil Barnett Mr. William R. Bullard II Mrs. Alice Ehrenclou Cole Ms. Jean Pichey Fontaine Ms. Ellen Murphy Freeman Mr. Jeffrey J. Gross Mr. Stephen H. Hassett Mr. David W. Knowlton Ms. Robin MacAusland Mr. Scott M. Pape Mr. Christopher T. Phelan Mr. Guy R. Riegel Mrs. Marlee Wallingford Mr. Stephen L. Weiman Mr. David K. Wilson, Jr.

CLASS OF 1977

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$1,260.00 $1,210.00 $50.00 8%

Mrs. Louise Ward Harris Mr. and Mrs. James B. Heminway Mrs. Elissa Karasin-Samet and Mr. Michael Samet Mrs. Jessie Leonard Reid Ms. Stephanie Resnick Mr. David M. Seager Mrs. Deborah Witsell Vivian Mr. Sydney R. Waldman

CLASS OF 1972

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$5,850.00 $5,850.00 $0.00 19%

Anonymous ( 1 ) Mr. John S. Edack Mr. C. Nicholas Johnson Mr. David W. Kellogg Mr. David P. Matthews Mrs. Harriet Blair Mulligan Mr. Bradford E. Parker Mr. Glenn R. Partridge Mr. William E. Schwaikert Mr. Kurt W. Terwilliger Mr. Robert T. Thompson Mr. John Y. G. Walker III Dr. George E. Whitwell

CLASS OF 1973

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$87,404.84 $46,304.84 $41,100.00 20%

CLASS OF 1978

CLASS OF 1975

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$6,556.00 $5,556.00 $1,000.00 17%

Mr. Wayne W. Andrews Mr. Nathaniel F. Bruning Mr. L. Hayden Cadwallader Mr. James M. G. Cropsey Mr. John M. Davis Mr. Ward J. Doonan Mr. Joseph M. Fusco Mr. Paul F. Gilligan Mr. Frank M. Kirschner Mr. Jonathan R. Leet Mr. David M. Paine Mr. Barlow L. Peelle Mr. Frank T. J. Potash Mr. Timothy T. Taussig Mr. Kevin V. Walden Mr. Lance M. Walsh Mr. Stuart B. A. Webb Mr. Harrison C. Williams

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$4,175.00 $4,175.00 $0.00 13%

Mr. Christopher E. Durning Ms. Julia A. Forster Mr. Peter L. Hoffman Ms. Holly Murphy Kreisler Mr. and Mrs. W. Duncan Macfarlane Mr. Ludlow F. North Mr. Andrew S. Richardson Mr. David T. Rondeau Mr. Kevin M. Tarrant Mr. Lance R.Vermeulen Mr. Thaddeus B. Zmistowski

CLASS OF 1979

Anonymous ( 1 ) BERKSHIRE SCHOOL 2008-2009 ANNUAL REPORT OF GIVING

Class Gift Totals:

$6,740.00

Annual Giving: $6,040.00 Endowment/Capital: $700.00 Participation: 21%

Mr. Robert D. Thomas Mr. Peter A.Vanden Broeck

Annual Giving: $13,720.00 Endowment/Capital: $0.00 Participation: 16%

Mr. Richard B. Armstrong Mr. Benjamin C. Barrett Mr. and Mrs. Gregg H. Beldock Mrs. Laura DuVall Bush Mr. Robert E. Cadogan, Jr. Mr. Steven H. Conney Dr. Joseph A. Duddy III Mr. David J. Gefke Ms. Andrea Krida Goff Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Irwin Mr.Vanderburgh Johnstone Ms. Katherine Feuer Katzung Mr. David W. Locke Mr. Frederick E. McCullough Ms. Susie H. Norris Mr. Mitchel G. Overbye Ms. Janet A. Ridgely Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Schopp

CLASS OF 1980

Mrs. Michelle Edwards Arnold Mr. Thomas E. Boehland Mrs. Annie Godfrey Clyne Ms. Lindsey F. Cook Mr. Daniel M. Crabbe Ms. Carrel L. Crawford Mr. Dean Ellerton Mrs. Holly Harwood Ellerton Mr. and Mrs. Jon L. Halpern Mrs. Jennifer F. Harnett and Mr. Andrew K. Harnett Mr. R. Brad Howland Mr. John R. Hussey Mr. Jeffrey G. Johnson Mr. Allen A. Maxwell Mr. Buddy J. Ontra Ms. Lynette A. Prescott Mr. Michael Rodgers

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$7,719.00 $7,219.00 $500.00 8%

Mr. and Mrs. Stuart M. Bell Mr. William D. Blanchard Mr. Dean M. Cinkala Mr. Robert A. Draizen Mr. R. Robert Funderburg, Jr. Mrs. Cassaundra Smith Rainey Mrs. Kimberly Lewis Thomas Mr. and Mrs. Steven P. Veronesi

CLASS OF 1981

Class Gift Totals:

$13,720.00

BERKSHIRE SCHOOL 2008-2009 ANNUAL REPORT OF GIVING

Ms. Sue Ann Stanton

CLASS OF 1982

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$12,985.50 $6,532.00 $5,953.50 13%

Mr. Anthony P. Addison Mr. Charles W. Berl Mr. Thomas J. Boyd Mr. James E. Demmert Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Fahy, Jr. Ms. Rosemary G. Fitzgerald, Ph.D. Mr. William J. Grace, Jr. Mr. John N. Harris, Jr. Mr. W. Scott Harwood Mr. James C. Heneghan Mr. Michael A. Herman Mr. Howard B. Wallach

Ms. Julie A. Helmer-Shedden Ms. Gretchen C. Hemeon Mr. Robert P. Hutter Mr. Jeffrey F. Jacobs Mr. Christopher R. Jennings Mr. Werner D. Kehl Mr. David S. Loudon Mr. Kevin P. McCulloch Mr. Jeffrey D. McLaughlin Mr. Eric C. Mellinger Mr. Robert J. Mueller Ms. Tina Smith Novick Mrs. Nancy Koskey Patzwahl Ms. Linda Harkrader Powers Mr. Gregory L. Roberts Mr. Steven G. Sanders Mr. Brian T. Sells Ms. Celinda C. Shannon Mrs. Cynthia A. Stringham-Smith Mr. Michael J. Sullivan Mr. James C. Ward Mr. Mark M. Willaman

CLASS OF 1983

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

106

$8,636.04 $8,536.04 $100.00 19%

Mr. Christopher F. Calger Mr. John A. Cashman Mr. Kevin J. Dickie Mrs. Karyn Smith Ellwood Ms.Victoria Nimick Enright Mr. Michael T. Fay Mr. John L. Fletcher Mrs. Mariah Read Gaffigan Mr. Michael E. Garrett Mr. Kenneth C. Hopper, Jr. Mr. Jonathan M. Jayson Mr. Glen A. Leibowitz Ms. Livia Curti Morjikian Mr. James L. Olney Mr. Christopher T. Perry Mrs. Laura Neff Reaper Mrs. Karen Schnurr Secrist Mrs. Carolyn Balch Streett Mr. David A. Weeks Mr. Mark J. Zion

CLASS OF 1984

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$74,648.00 $23,930.00 $50,718.00 30%

Ms. Lauren Hopper Beaulieu Ms. Jean Woolsey Borgman Mr. Christopher J. Bruno Ms. Debra Drucker Mr. Mark A. Eidlin Mr.Victor Elting IV Mrs. Tasha Allyn Given Dr. David M. Gross Ms. K. Reagan Hecker

CLASS OF 1985

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$15,750.00 $13,250.00 $2,500.00 16%

Mr. Christopher C. Brand Mrs. Lauren Okie Clark Mr. Jeffrey A. Daury, Jr. Mr. Morgan J. Dennehy Mr. Ashley Fox Ms. Joan G. Fusco Mr. Edward B. Harris III Mr. Erik F. Herman Stephen and Christy Kaczmarek Mr. Robert S. Killebrew III Mrs. Garland Hill Kincaid Mr. Michael J. Lucey Mr. James C. Scala Mr. Lionel A. Shaw Mr. David B. Sheppard, Jr. Ms. Heather Steck Von Seggern CLASS OF 1986

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$9,385.00 $5,035.00 $4,350.00 14%

Dr. Rhonda M. Bentley-Lewis Ms. Aimee B. Blanchard Mr. Warner L. J. Brown Mrs. Barbara S. C. Bullock Mr. Peter J. Ehrlich Mr. Thomas W. Funkhouser Mr. James L. Haskel Ms. Gabrielle Kardon Ms. Elizabeth D. Kulas, Ph.D. Mrs. Lara Schefler McLanahan Mr. James D. Noyes Mrs. Jessica Sturchio Raymond

BERKSHIRE SCHOOL 2008-2009 ANNUAL REPORT OF GIVING

Dr. Angela DiStefano Reginelli Dr.Veit J. Wasserfuhr Mrs. Ann Zimmerli-Haskel

CLASS OF 1987

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$22,045.00 $22,045.00 $0.00 6%

Anonymous ( 1 ) Mr. George F. Akel III Ms. Megan Steck Berg Mrs. Laura Wolf Dysart Mr. C. Kirk Kellogg Mr. Travis R. Kline Mrs. Jennifer Nichols Reed Ms. Juliet A. Sproul Cullen

CLASS OF 1988

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$13,288.50 $11,288.50 $2,000.00 10%

Mr. William A. Borders III Mr. Matthew B. Brand Mr. Harry M. Cohen Mr. Scott M. Falso Mr. Walter D. Long, Jr. Mr. Oliver S. Springer Mr. and Mrs. P. Errett Van Nice Mr. Julian R.Vulliez Mrs. Serena Hopper Watkinson Mr. James D. Watt, Jr.

CLASS OF 1989

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$57,190.50 $57,190.50 $0.00 26%

Anonymous ( 1 ) Mr. Andrew D. Allen Mr. John P. Bodman Ms. Kristi S. Broff Knecht Ms. Samantha Burns Mrs. Samantha Cooper Brex Ms. Christie R. Dufault Mr. David A. Dufault, Jr. Ms. Amanda R. Fabian-Tsaousis Mr. Miles F. Farrel Mr. A. Drew Goldman Mr. William B. King Mr. Ian G. Litmans Mr. Kevin Y. Lui Ms. Anne Tutwiler MacKenzie Ms. Elizabeth Kline Murphy Mr. Thomas J. O’Connor Ms. Katherine L. Orlando Ms. Jennifer D. Pollock Mr. Todd J. Portnoff Mr. John Robb

Ms. Jennifer R. Roberts Ms. Alessandra A. Schwartz Ms. Katherine Olsen Smith Mrs. Jennifer Van Woert Tran Mrs. Margaret Flood Vulliez Mr. Michael G. Wagstaff Mrs. Mary Herrington Yancey

CLASS OF 1990

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$6,720.00 $5,520.00 $1,200.00 11%

Mrs. Anne Hallowell King-Bodman Ms. Natalie Bradley Clarke Mr. Peter M. Brett Ms. Katharine Cutler Coughlin Mr. and Mrs. D. Jeremy LaCasse Ms. Cheryl Connolly Lewis Mr. Christopher A. McKhann Mrs. Maggie Ross Meiners Mrs. Courtney Klopp Neifert Ms. Natalie Dillon Rinaldi Mrs. Hilary Dattel Rosenberg Ms. Jennifer W. Tost Mr. and Mrs. Christopher T.Vulliez Mrs. Elizabeth Steck Wright

CLASS OF 1991

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$2,200.00 $2,100.00 $100.00 7%

Mr. Winthrop F. Barrett Mr. Charles A. Brown Mr. John K. Fretz Mr. Nicholas B. Ingham Mrs. Paige Robertson Jasaitis Mr. Edward J. McKenna Mr. Michael F. O’Neill Mr. Curt V. Solomon Mr. Paul J. Tao

CLASS OF 1992

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$1,800.00 $1,550.00 $250.00 10%

Mr. Trumbull B. Barrett Mr. W. Bradford Blaicher Mr. Abram W. Duryee III Mrs. Deborah Crispin Duryee Mrs. Whitley Bouma Herbert Ms. Keira McKenna Holbrough Mr. Christopher W. Long Ms. Connie N. Lui Mr. Matthew J. Mattson Mrs. Medea Ansari Myers

CLASS OF 1997 CLASS OF 1993

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$2,425.00 $2,125.00 $300.00 7%

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$825.00 $825.00 $0.00 8%

Ms. Macy H. Allatt McGinness Mrs. Margaret H. Aspinwall Mr. Matthew D. Casey Ms. Aramie Dimm McDonald Mr. Joshua M. Person Ms. Jennifer D. Pool Mr. William P. Steck Mrs. Tobey Dorschel Stultz

Ms. Pia L. Dimm Mr. Gordon B. Kellam Mrs. Kristina Thaute Miller Mr. Stuart A. Miller Ms. Jessica Morris Ms. Margaret E. Ross Richardson Ms. Julie D. Rubinstein Mr. John M. Thatcher IV Ms. Erin B.Yoffe

CLASS OF 1994

CLASS OF 1998

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$3,215.00 $3,215.00 $0.00 13%

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$1,100.00 $1,100.00 $0.00 8%

Mr. Francis A. Blair Mr. Jeremy A. Freid Mr. David B. Friend Mrs. Jennifer Stringham Gaudron Mr. Todd A. Gochman Mrs. Jaime A. Graham Mrs. Jessica Lee Guten Mrs. Jennifer L. Harvey-Montano Mr. Christopher S. Klingenstein Mr. Matthew R. Lusins Mr. Norman W. Merrill II Ms. Jennifer Lizza O’Connor Mr. Leigh W. Otzen

Ms. Caroline V. Christen Mr. Tomonari L. Kuromatsu Mr. Ramana Lagemann Mr. Marc A. Massaro Mr. Daniel K. Morris Mr. Jason C. Rano Mr. and Mrs. Christopher A. Reichart

CLASS OF 1995

Ms. Emily L. Boak Mr. Andrew J. Borek Ms. Angela Greenlaw Brodeur Mr. Parker P. Case Mr. Alexander J. Cutler Mr. Alexander G. Dick Mr. Steven M. Duryee Mrs. Molly Formel Ferguson Ms. Alexandra Y. Gaudion Mr. Daniel S. Gulotta Mr. Michael D. Gutenplan Mr. Patrick L. McCullion Ms. Rebecca W. Neagle Mr. Justin E. Orgel Mrs. Heather Crispin Polk Mr. George S. Scoville III Mr. Alexander G. Winfield

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$245.00 $245.00 $0.00 5%

Mr. James L. Brett Mr. Brendan R. Fisher Mr. Spencer R. Henderson Ms. Tania H. Staykova Mr. Paul J. Theriault Cyn

CLASS OF 1996

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$1,060.00 $1,060.00 $0.00 6%

Mr. Clinton F. Evans Mr. Omar Ghaffar Mrs. Catherine Weidinger Gruhler Ms. Julie A. Lemire Mr. Carson D. Roy Ms. Tatum E.Vittengl

CLASS OF 1999

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$3,386.00 $3,361.00 $25.00 17%

CLASS OF 2000

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$299.50 $299.50 $0.00 8%

Ms. Brooke T. Beebe Mr. Ryan M. Brewer Mrs. Anna Donahue Fiske

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Ms. Gillian E. McDonald Ms. Rebecca L.K. Quarles Miss Sarah J. Scheinman Mr. John C. van Roden III Mrs. Kimberly Davidson Young

CLASS OF 2001

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$6,972.13 $5,972.13 $1,000.00 7%

Mr. Alex L. Barrett Ms. Hollis E. Davenport Mr. Peter T. Doss Ms. Shannon M. Flynn Mr. Alexei R. Nabarro Mr. Charles F. Plungis III Mr. Joseph F. Seigle Mr. Tony M. Williams

CLASS OF 2002

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$582.00 $582.00 $0.00 5%

Ms. Jaclyn E. Brander Mr. John-Paul L. Herdeg Ms. Jill K. Meyer Mr. Parker T. Rice Mr. Matthew P. Sposito

CLASS OF 2003

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$515.00 $515.00 $0.00 7%

Ms. Abigail M. Bullard Ms. Thea K. Gilbert

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Ms. Jennifer L. Purcell Mr. Robert Morgan Ralph Mr. Jason H. Swist Mr. Ernest Y. Tchoi Ms. Jane B. Walker

CLASS OF 2004

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$351.73 $351.73 $0.00 12%

Mr. James M. Butler Ms. Sarah J. Goldberg Mr. Michael T. Harrison Ms. Ryan T. Kelley Mr. Ryan C. Klein Ms. Chantal E. Kredentser Mr. Connor M. Lines Mr. William D. Macfarlane, Jr.

Mr. Rexford G. Moon IV Mr. Alexander D. Morley Mr. Marko Nichols-Marcy Mr. William C. Stern Ms. Ekaterina Valiotis

CLASS OF 2005

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$2,395.00 $1,395.00 $1,000.00 9%

Ms.Virginia M. Cannon Mr. Matthew G. Crowson Mr. Thomas R. Hunter Ms. Zoe A. Keve Mr. Shane G. Knapp Ms. Alexandra Lesser Ms. Samantha L. Levitan Mr.Yosuke Nakayama Mr. Daniel P. Staino Ms. Christine Y. Tchoi

CLASS OF 2006

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$1,545.00 $1,545.00 $0.00 10%

CLASS OF 2008

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$730.09 $705.09 $25.00 21%

Ms. Alexandra Altman Ms. Kathryn L. Anzalone Mr. Alexander Batcheller Mr. Zachary A. Bitzonis Mr. Christopher J. Buonomo Mr. Patrick E. Bursee Ms. Katherine F. Cahill Mr. Joseph E. Cohen Mr. Timothy E. Doerschuck Ms. Melissa M. Fogarty Mr. Benjamin H. Gilson Ms. Erica Ginsberg Ms. Michelle Helderman Mr. Justin Holmes Ms. Sarah A. Kinne Ms. Tammie Kong Ms. Samantha P. Macchi Mr. William L. Sainsbury Mr. Thomas M. Smythe Mr. Timothy D. Staino Mr. Taylor Stuart Ms. Abigail I. Tufts Mr. Douglas W.Yeaw

Mr. Ian A. Bishop Ms. Marjorie M. Crowley Mr. Christopher B. Garis Ms. Alexandra R. Hancock Ms. Alexandra Kelley Ms. Courtney J. Kollmer Mr. Zachary R. McIlmoyle Mr. Peter L. Moseley, Jr. Mr. Spencer L. Noyes Mr. Stephen W. Piatelli Mr. Henry S. Switlik Mr. John W. Watkins, Jr.

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CLASS OF 2007

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$1,770.00 $1,770.00 $0.00 11%

Mr. Matthew Altman Ms. Helen K. Goldstein Mr. Crawford C. Hamilton Ms. Katharine E. Hitchcock Ms. Katherine P. Kerwin Mr. Casey A. Larkins Ms. Erica Lesser Ms. Allison A. Letourneau Ms. Madeleine H. McGraw Mr. Holden A. Neff Ms. Elizabeth A. Scully Miss Elizabeth A. Spalding

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Senior Class Giving CLASS OF 2009

Class Gift Totals: Annual Giving: Endowment/Capital: Participation:

$1,594.55 $1,594.55 $0.00 76%

Mr. James R. Anderson In Memory of Mr. Lawrence T. Piatelli

Mr. Caleb S. E. Booth

Mr. Nag Kyun Chu

Ms. Kelly A. Brennan In Honor of Mrs. Linda D’Arco

Mr. George W. Connell

Ms. Kelsey K. Brown In Honor of Mrs. Kelley Bogardus

Mr. Tyler D. Corcoran In Honor of Mr. David Newman Mr. Jeconiah E. Cronze

Mr. Chia-Cheng Chang Ms. Alexandra N. Appel In Honor of Mr. Brian Lewton

Mr. Long D. Dang Ms.Yae Jin Cho Mr. Christopher M. Durocher

Ms. Caroline D. Benedetto

Ms. Chantal Choi In Honor of Mrs. Martina Moodey

Ms. Laura M. F. Bishop In Honor of Mrs. Julie Kelley BERKSHIRE SCHOOL 2008-2009 ANNUAL REPORT OF GIVING

Ms. Charlotte H. Fadden

Ms. Chelsea N. Fizell In Honor of Ms. Virginia Watkins

Ms. Jung Bin Lee In Honor of Mr. Jasper Turner

Ms. Ansley J. Flanagan In Honor of Mrs. Bebe Bullock ’86

Ms. Shiyi Liu In Honor of the Chamber Music Program and Mr. Daniel Yaverbaum

Mr. Michael M. Gardineer In Honor of Mr. Jasper Turner

Ms. Sydney P. Shapiro In Honor of Mr. Clay Splawn and Mrs. Kristina Splawn Mr. Matthew L. Spurling In Honor of his parents, Malcolm and Kathleen Spurling

Ms. Annette Lo Ms. Clara A. St. Germain

Ms. Madeline M. Geisler Mesevage Mr. David Grace In Honor of Mrs. Maureen Courtney

Ms. Alena J. Luciani In Honor of her brothers, Dante and Vince Luciani

Ms. Jennifer R. Stafford Ms. Anna M. Stein

Ms. Whitney F. MacKay Mr. Thomas Gutierrez In Honor of his grandmother, Nancy Reynolds Mr. Justin M. Hackman

Mr. George C. Martinecz In Honor of Mr. William Clough Mr. Cameron K. Miller In Honor of Ms. Wendy Stone

Mr. Matthew Haupt Mr. George G. Haydock III In Honor of Mr. Peter Kinne Mr. Nicholas T. Hazenberg In Honor of Mr. Stuart A. Miller ’97 Mr. Samuel J. Heller In Honor of Mr. Kurt Schleunes

Ms. Claire V. Stevens In Honor of Dr. Norman Merrill Mr. John A. Stout In Honor of Mr. Daniel Driscoll

Ms. Mika L. Nakashige

Mr. Zeke B. Testa In Honor of Ms. Wendy Stone

Mr. Tobias Nickel In Honor of Mr. William Bullock

Mr. Samuel Paul Torney In Honor of Mr. Michael Maher

Ms. Camille F. Nomblot

Ms. Kelly J. Wallace In Honor of Mrs. Sylvia Gappa

Mr. Cheuk Lun J. Or In Honor of his parents, Mr. Wing Kee Or and Mrs. Ka Yi Leung

Ms. Kristin S. Wolfe In Honor of Mr. William Gulotta

Mr. Richard Pallai In Honor of his father, Richard Pallai

Mr. Calvin S.Yoon In Honor of his mother, Mrs. Whan Lee Yoon

Mr. Colin W. Hill In Honor of Mr. Daniel Yaverbaum

Mr. William M. Peterffy

Mr. Joo Young Yoon

Mr. Andrew Hong

Ms.Veronica M. Peters

Ms. Kristen A. Zahn

Ms. Margot W. Horner

Mr. Gregory T. Piatelli

Mr.Young Jae Hue

Mr. Paul A. Piatelli

Mr. Nikolai W. Ingle

Ms. Nicole L. Picotte

Mr. Jeremiah J. Jemison In Honor of his uncle, Mark Kreps

Ms. Meagan E. Pratt

Ms. Allison B. Hibbs In Honor of Mrs. Kelley Bogardus

Mr. Klayton H. Johnson In Honor of Mrs. Jane Piatelli Ms. Shannon Kerr In Honor of Mrs. Kristina Splawn

Ms. Lauren A. Quilty In Honor of Ms. Sharon Wybrants Mr. Myles T. Quinn In Honor of the Wysocki Family Mr. Christopher L. Rinaldi

Mr. Sean D. Kilmurray Mr. Matthew J. Kopel Mr. Nicholas C. Kunkler

Ms. Averill L. Roberto In Honor of Mr. Kurt Schleunes Ms. Molly L. Ryan In Honor of Mrs. Jane Piatelli

Mr. Richard Lau Ms. Jieun Lee In Honor of Dr. Clive Davis and Dr. Tasia Wu

Mr. Kevin A. Scheller In Honor of Mr. James Harris Mr. Matthew A. Sewell

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Anonymous ( 1 ) Mr. Davis G. Anderson ’68 Ms. Jackie S. Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey S. Appel Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Barros FAC/ST Dr. and Mrs. Dominick Benedetto Mr. Martin F. Brennan Ms. Amy S. Brennan-Strack and Mr. Martin Strack Mr. and Mrs. Peter H. Brown Mr. and Mrs. Joseph G. Carson Mrs. Wende Cohen and Mr. Fredric W. Levin Mr. and Mrs. Ishmael N. Cronze Mrs. Mia J. Cunningham and Mr. David L. Cunningham Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Durocher Mr. and Mrs. Jerome T. Fadden Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Grace Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Hackman Ms. Debra R. Haupt PA FAC/ST Mr. and Mrs. Hein J. Hazenberg Dr. and Mrs. Marc E. Heller Mr. and Mrs. Peter W. Henderson, Jr. PA Mr. and Mrs. David G. Hibbs Mr. Ronald T. Hill Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Holtzman Mr. and Mrs. Douglas M. Horner, Sr. PA Mr. and Mrs. John W. Ingle, Jr. Mr. Ronald D. Jemison, Sr. Mr. Amadou T. Kane and Ms. Dieynaba Sy Mr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Kerr Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Kilmurray Mrs. Seung Hee Kim PA Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Kopel Mr. William C. Kunkler and Ms. Susan M. Crown Mr. Chang Min Lee and Mrs. Sun Hee Park Mr. Joseph P. Luciani and Mrs. Carole A. Bertuzzi-Luciani PA Ms. Lisa M. Marchi Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Martinecz PA Mr. and Mrs. D. Richard Masson Ms. Dale A. McDonald PA Mr. John H. Mesevage and Ms. Caroline C. Geisler Mr. and Mrs. Latham W. Murfey III ’68 PA Mr. and Mrs. Michael M. M. Nakashige Dr. and Mrs. Christophe P. Nomblot Dr. Pat J. Perkins Mr. Thomas P. Peterffy Ms. Jane C. Piatelli PA FAC/ST Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Piatelli, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Michael B. Picotte Mr. Carl L. Rinaldi Ms. Catherine L. Rinaldi Mr. and Mrs. Robert Rizzo Mr. and Mrs. A. Robert Roberto Mr. and Mrs. Bradford J. Scheller ’74 Mrs. Alison L. Spear Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm G. Spurling Mr. and Mrs. Christopher A. St. Germain Mr. and Ms. John A. Stevens

Mr. and Mrs. John A. Stout Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Torney Mr. and Mrs. David L.Von Trachtenberg Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Wallace Mr. Ralph R. Weichselbaum and Mrs. Donna L. Filippo Mr. and Mrs. Wade L. Wolfe Dr. and Mrs. Hyung Jin Yoon Mr. and Mrs. Gregory M. Zahn

CLASS OF 2010

Anonymous ( 3 ) Mr. and Mrs. Tomas Albelin Mr. and Mrs. Christopher H. Anderson Mr. and Ms. Naoki Atsumi Mr. Grant Bastarache and Mrs. Susan Turley Ms. Abiola Benjamin Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Beucler Mr. Ramon D. Bordas and Mrs. Isabel Estany Mr. and Mrs. Gary M. Brown Mr. and Mrs. Perry L. Brown Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Campbell Ms. Agustina Campusano Jane and Michael A. Chwick Ms. Amanda Coenen-Morgan and Mr. Christopher J. Coenen PA FAC/ST Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Colbert, Jr. Ms. Anne P. Conolly Mr. and Mrs. Saiid M. Daemi Ms. Janet E. Dyer and Dr. Charles E. Lucier Mr. Tikhon Y. Ferris Mr. and Mrs. Brad R. Freitag Ms. Lisa Gardner and Mr. Bret W. Gardner Mr. and Mrs. John B. Gimbel Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell Goldberg Mr. and Mrs. Mauricio S. Gonzalez Mr. and Mrs. Peter L. Greer Mr. and Mrs. Christian F. Groenli Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Guerrieri Mr. and Mrs. Jon L. Halpern ’81 Mrs. Jennifer F. Harnett ’81 and Mr. Andrew K. Harnett Mr. Mark A. Harris Mr. and Mrs. James B. G. Hearty Ms. Carolyn L. Hills The Honorable and Mrs. Andrew R. Humes Mr. Jun Soo Kim and Mrs.Young Mi Kim Mrs. Sheryl L. Knapp and Mr. Mark E. Knapp Ms. Ruth E. Kollmer PA Mr. Trevor Kong and Mrs. Ella Kong PA Mr. Jeffrey P. LaBonte and Ms. Laurel J. Goss PA Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence S. Landry Mr. and Ms. Rick A. Lazio Mr. Chang Min Lee and Mrs. Sun Hee Park Mr. Michael B. Lee and Ms. Lori J. Bashour PA Mr. and Ms. William J. Lees Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Lockwood Dr. Susan Long Mr. Walter B. Long

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Mr. Robert M. Markiewicz Ms. Jane H. Mason Mr. William Mason Dr. Wesley G. McCain and Ms. Noreene Storrie Ms. Elizabeth A. McGovern and Mr. Mark E. McGovern FAC/ST Mr. Joseph Middelburg Reverend and Mrs. James Moore Mr. and Mrs. F. Scott Morrison PA Mrs. Lorna F. Mynott and Mr. Stephen A. Mynott Ms. Denise Nelson Mr. Robert M. Norris and Ms. Barbara Bockbrader Mr. and Mrs. Christopher C. Perry Mr. and Mrs. Philip A. Phucas Mrs. Beth M. Pierce and Mr. John F. Pierce Mr. and Mrs. David W. Puth Mr. and Mrs. William E. Raphael Mr. and Mrs. William F. Reighley Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Richardson Mr. and Mrs. Philip N. Shapiro PA Mr. Jianjun Shen and Ms. Shuhua Wang Mr. Thomas H. Shrager and Mrs. Angela V. Nalbantu-Shrager Ms. Deborah J. Srb Mr. and Mrs. Christopher A. St. Germain Mr. Thomas D. Steiner and Mrs. Maureen Ferguson Steiner Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Sullivan Mr. Andrew I. Sun and Ms. Alicia C. W. Wang Ms. Amy E. Upjohn and Mr. Bradley E.VandenBerg Mr. and Mrs. Paul J.Vakos Mr. and Mrs. Steven P.Veronesi ’80 Mr. Jonathan P. Ward and Ms. Margo Montgomery Ward Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Watson Mr. and Mrs. David J. Wilson Mr. Geun Ig Yoo and Mrs. Jung Ae Kweon Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Ziefer

CLASS OF 2011

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew R. Ahrens Mr. and Mrs. John L. Alper Dr. Armen T. Babigian and Dr. Laurie M. Slotnick PA Mr. and Mrs. Gregg H. Beldock ’79 Mr. and Mrs. Daniel P. Benfield Mr. Neil M. Bernstein and Dr. Julie B. Schwartzbard Mr. and Mrs. Brad W. Brinegar Mr. Kenneth J. Burgess and Ms. Kim A. Kaznowski Mr. and Mrs. Sean M. Burns Mr. & Mrs. Christopher W. Carey Mr. and Mrs. John P. Carey Mr. and Mrs. Joseph G. Carson Mr. Suk Whan Chang and Mrs. Hee Kyung Jo-Min Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas J. Chirekos Mr. Daniel Clark-El

Mr. Sergio Copstein and Dr. Leda M. Alimena Mr. and Mrs. John J. Cordier Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Coven Ms. Maureen A. Danisi Mr. Brian J. Demers and Ms. Judith R. Safian Mr. Huntington Eldridge, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Michael L. Ettinger Mr. and Ms. Mark E. Ferguson Mr. and Mrs. Carey D. Fiertz Mr. and Mrs. Kevin J. Foss PA Mr. and Mrs. H. Andrew Fox Mr. and Mrs. Peter B. Fox Mr. Benno Friedman and Ms. Stephanie A. Blumenthal PA Mr. and Mrs. Anthony S. Giordano Mr. Ulrich H. Grosser and Mrs. Gabriele M. Nass-Grosser Mrs. Malika A. Hackett-Moore and Mr. Bennie F. Moore Mr. and Mrs. George A. Hagerty Dr. Kristina M. Harff Ms. Amanda M. Harrington Mr. James K. Harris and Mrs. Deborah Harris PA FAC/ST Mr. and Mrs. Peter W. Henderson, Jr. PA Mr. Peter C. Hill and Ms. Tara M. Cafiero Mr. and Mrs. Edwynn G. Houk Mr. Brian S. Howerton Mr. Kuei Hsiang Huang and Mrs. Chao Jung Wu Mr. and Mrs. James A. Hughes Mr. and Mrs. Jerald F. Irving Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Johnson Mr. Richard A. Johnston and Ms. Christina J. Hanley Ms. Cathy L. Jordan Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Jordan, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. William J. Kelly III Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth P. Kernodle Mr. Soon Kyu Lee and Mrs. Mi Hyun Kim Mr. Mathew J. Levine and Dr. Sara R. Pasternak Mr. and Mrs. James K. Lieblich Mr. and Mrs. Hugh McMillan III Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. McNally Mr. and Mrs. Nelson S. Mead Ms. Lisa M. Mingoia and Mr. Derek R. Cuma Mrs. Katherine S. Mitchell and Mr. John D. Mitchell Mr. and Mrs. Mark P. Morgan Mr. Felipe Ortiz-Monasterio and Mrs. Gabriela Borbolla PA Ms. Cynthia D. Payne Mr. and Mrs. Mario J. Procida Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Reger Ms.Vicki H. Richards Mr. and Mrs. Steven M. Ryan Mr. and Mrs. Peter J. Scala PA Mr. and Mrs. William B. Schink Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Schreck Mr. and Mrs. Paul R. Shrubb Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan L. Stanley Mr. and Mrs. John E. Toffolon, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Michael C.Vessels Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Wilson III Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Wolf Mr. and Mrs. Gregory M. Zahn

2008-2009 Parents’ Committee Chairs: Margo and Jon Ward (Matt ’10) Christopher & Cindy Carey (Sam ’11 & Caroline ’12) Joseph & Debra Carson (Brandon ’11) Mark Ferguson & Elizabeth Yntema (Edward ’11) Michael & Caroline Hackman (Justin ’09) James & Doris Hearty (Will ’10) Peter & B.J. Henderson (Shamus ’09 & Trevor ’12) Robert & Sarah Holtzman (Erick ’09) Lawrence & Antonette Landry (Kit ’10) Rick & Patricia Lazio (Molly ’10) Joseph & Michelle Martinecz (George ’09) Wesley McCain & Noreene Storrie (Malcolm ’10) Nelson & Betsy Mead (Lillian ’11) Frank & Tobey Nelson (Matthew ’12) Michael & Margi Picotte (Nicole ’09) Mario & Perri Procida (Michael ’11) David & Leslie Puth (Colin ’10 & Kira ’12) William & Joan Raphael (Sam ’10) Edward & Isabel Reger (Matt ’11) William & Laurie Reighley (Tyler ’10) Alma Ryan (Molly ’09) Thomas & Maureen Steiner (Lizzy ’10, James ’12 & Matt ’12) Amy Upjohn & Bradley VandenBerg (Charlie Brey ’10)

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CLASS OF 2012

Mr. and Mrs. John R. Beaver Mr. and Mrs. Stuart M. Bell ’80 Mr. William J. Benedict, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Sidney T. Bogardus, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Stephen M. Bowman Mr. and Mrs. Will M. Boyce Mr. and Mrs. Robin B. Brownrigg Mr. & Mrs. Christopher W. Carey Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth E. Cline Mr. and Mrs. James P. Coleman Mr. and Mrs. James J. Conway III Mr. and Mrs. Jon T. Dayton Mr. and Mrs. Timothy C. Dillon Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Fahy, Jr. ’82 Mr. and Mrs. David B. Farrell PA Mr. and Mrs. Matthew G. Fee Ms. Kathleen A. Floyd Mr. and Mrs. Alexis D. Gahagan Mr. Donald W. Goodrich ’61 PA Mrs. Jane R. Grace and Mr. Robert M. Grace Mr. and Mrs. John R. Grace Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Greenleaf Mr. and Mrs. John P. Grogan Mr. and Mrs. Joseph D. Gubernick Mrs. Carolee R. Harrigan and Mr. Timothy J. Harrigan PA FAC/ST Mr. and Mrs. John R. Hawkins Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Hoover The Honorable and Mrs. Andrew R. Humes

Mr. and Mrs. Louis M. Jacobs, Sr. Ms. Daryl Kulok Mr. Jeffrey P. LaBonte and Ms. Laurel J. Goss PA Mr. Choon-Taek Lee and Mrs. Myung Ah Yun Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Maher FAC/ST Mr. James T. McKinley ’65 Ms. Tiffany S. Mooney FAC/ST Dr. Timothy J. Moore Mr. and Mrs. Eric R. Morrow Mr. and Mrs. Francis X. Nelson Mr. and Mrs. John F. Parsons Mr. and Mrs. David W. Puth Mr. and Mrs. Seth C. Raynor Mr. and Mrs. Mark L. Rhodes Mrs. Myra F. Riiska and Mr. Todd S. Riiska FAC/ST Ms. Catherine G. Roberts Mr. and Mrs. Peter G. Russo Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Smith Mr. Thomas D. Steiner and Mrs. Maureen Ferguson Steiner Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Wilcock, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Wisnowski Mr. and Mrs. George Wood

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Ms. Immaculata Benedetto Mrs. William J. Benedict Mr. and Mrs. Clifford J. Benfield Ms. Evelyn O. Bockbrader Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Byers Ms. Barbara J. Colbert Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Coven II Mr. and Mrs. Bruce M. Dayton Mr. Robert E. Dillon Mrs. Helen E. Ferguson Mr. and Mrs. Alden L. Fiertz Mr. and Mrs. William C. Fox Mr. and Mrs. Jacob K. Frenkel Ms. Iris Gioia Mrs. Jane R. Grace and Mr. Robert M. Grace Mrs. Estelle Greer Ms. Kay Handman Mr. and Mrs. Charles Harff Mr. and Mrs. John W. Harnett Mr. and Mrs. John P. Hickey Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Jordan, Sr. Ms. Karolyn Kelly Mr. and Mrs. William A. King Mrs. Gloria M. Levine

Prof. and Mrs. Robert M. Macdonald Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Maher Mr. and Mrs. Roger Masciangelo Mr. and Mrs. Lowell B. Mason, Jr. Mrs. Gerald M. Mayer, Jr. Ms. Withrow W. Meeker Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Morrison Mr. and Mrs. Neil E. Mueller Mr. and Mrs. John T. Nakashige Mr. and Mrs. Gary Norwood Mrs. Evelyn M. O’Neill Mrs. Charlotte B. Patton Mr. and Mrs. Preston C. Raynor Mrs. Charles H.G. Rees Mr. and Mrs. H. Ward Reighley Mrs. Lois Safian Mr. and Mrs. Alvin M. Shapiro Mr. and Mrs. Allen R. Stalker Mrs. Jean M. Steiner Mr. and Mrs. Gerald H. Stephens Mr. and Mrs. Carl Torsilieri Mr. and Mrs. John C. Walsh Mr. and Mrs. Landon H. Wickham, Sr.

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Parents of Alumni Anonymous ( 4 ) Mrs. Laura S. Altman and Mr. Richard Altman FAC/ST Mr. Eugene L. Amber ’40 Mr. and Mrs. Stephen C. Anzalone Mr. and Mrs. Carl J. Ascenzo Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey H. Ashworth Dr. Armen T. Babigian and Dr. Laurie M. Slotnick CP Mr. and Mrs. John B. Baker Mr. and Mrs. James P. Balch ’51 Mr. and Mrs. Corey W. Ballaban Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Barnes Mrs. Ann B. Barrett Mr. and Mrs. William G. Batcheller Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Becker Mr. and Mrs. George T. Beebe ’61

Mr. Myron Beldock Mrs. Linda F. Bellizzi and Dr. John A. Bellizzi FAC/ST Mr. and Mrs. Dennis W. Berg Mrs. Charlotte K. Bianchi Mrs. Kelly E. Bitzonis Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Blair Mr. Miles G. Blakeslee, Jr. ’48 Mr. and Mrs. Douglas J. Blanchard Mr. and Mrs. Roger A. Blumencranz Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Bradley II Mrs. Mary M. Bradley Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Brand Mr. and Mrs. Allan H. Bredenfoerder Mr. and Mrs. David A. Brooks ’67 Mrs. Joan S. Brooks GP Mrs. Patricia Brooks

Mr. John A. Brown, Jr. ’65 Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Bullard Dr. Carol L. Buonomo and Mr. Thomas Buonomo Mrs. Pamela Burke Mrs. Patricia K. Bush and Mr. Richard R. Bush FAC/ST Mr. and Ms. Andrew F. Buteux Ms. Elizabeth Byrnes Mr. and Mrs. Peter P. Case Mrs. Sally Chamberlin Cook Mr. and Mrs. William J. Charlton Mr. Alfred C. Clapp, Jr. ’51 Mr. and Mrs. H. Pier Clifford Ms. Amanda Coenen-Morgan and Mr. Christopher J. Coenen CP Mr. and Mrs. Joel Cohen Mr. and Mrs. Mark B. Cohen

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Mr. and Mrs. Timothy C. Coleman Mr. Abbott C. Combes III Mr. and Mrs. Andrew B. Congdon Mr. and Mrs. John F. Consolini ’56 Mr. Daniel C. M. Crabbe ’56 Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Crispin Mrs. Carol Currier Mr. and Mrs. Brian P. Curtis Dr. and Mrs. Neal R. Cutler Mr. and Mrs. E. Timothy Danahy III ’67 Mr. E. Mandell de Windt ’39 Mr. William M. Dean ’40 Dr. and Mrs. Patrick A. DelGrande Mr. and Mrs. John DiSantis Ms. Diane H. Dodson Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Donnelley II Ms.Victoria Dougherty and Mr. John Myrick Mrs. Nancy H. Duryee-Aas Mr. William L. Duschatko ’61 Dr. Patricia M. Dyer Ms. Lola E. Edwards Ms. Silvia Eggenberger and Mr. Paul Hess FAC/ST Mr. and Mrs. Steve J. Eikenberry Mr. and Mrs. Ashton G. Eldredge, Jr. PA Mr. Charles K. Elliott, Jr. ’50 Mr. and Mrs. William B. Elliott II Mr. David H. Ellsworth Mr. and Mrs. Michael L. Ettinger Mr. and Mrs. David B. Farrell CP Dr. and Mrs. Robert C. Feher Dr. and Mrs. Richard S. Feinstein Mr. Fred B. Finley ’64 Mr. Michael L. Fisher Ms. Kathleen A. Floyd Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Fogarty FAC/ST Mr. and Mrs. Kevin J. Foss CP Dennis and Peggy Fowler Mrs. Carol B. Fox Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Fox Mr. Benno Friedman and Ms. Stephanie A. Blumenthal CP Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Funkhouser Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Gardella ’71 Ms. Arolyn M. Garnell Mr. and Mrs. William H. George Mr. and Mrs. John B. Gimbel Mr. Aaron W. Godfrey Dr. and Mrs. Peter A. Goldberg Mr. and Mrs. Rodney L. Goldstein Mr. Donald W. Goodrich ’61 CP Mr. Daniel M. Goodyear ’56 Mrs. Jane R. Grace and Mr. Robert M. Grace Mr. and Mrs. Donald R. Grant Mr. J. Peter Gratiot ’39 Mr. and Mrs. Peter W. Gray Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Groom Mr. and Mrs. William F. Gulotta FAC/ST Miss Sally Halliday Mr. and Mrs. S. Matthews V. Hamilton, Jr. Mr. Devens H. Hamlen Mrs. Margery M. Hamlen Mr. and Mrs. F. Woodson Hancock III ’67 Mr. and Mrs. Mark E. Hansen Mr. John P. Harkrader, Jr.

Mrs. Carolee R. Harrigan and Mr. Timothy J. Harrigan CP FAC/ST Mr. James K. Harris and Mrs. Deborah Harris CP FAC/ST Ms. Debra R. Haupt CP FAC/ST Mr. and Mrs. Jonas E. Havens Mr. W. Ross Hawkins and Mrs. Joyce M. Hawkins Mr. and Mrs. Mark W. Helderman Mr. and Mrs. James B. Heminway ’77 Mr. and Mrs. Peter W. Henderson, Jr. CP Mrs. Kay Herdeg Mr. John L. Hermans ’69 Mr. Edmond B. Herrington ’61 Mr. and Mrs. George Hirsch Mr. Timothy A. Hitchcock and Ms. Linda W. Creedon Mrs. Sharon K. Holladay Mrs. Ann J. Holmes and Mr. Peter Holmes Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Holmes, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas M. Horner, Sr. CP Mr. and Mrs. David E. Houseman Mr. and Mrs. H. Robert Hughes Mr. John B. Hull III ’51 GP Mr. and Mrs. William H. Hull Mr. Edward H. Hunt ’61 and Mrs. Frances M. T. Hunt Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Hunter IV Mr. and Mrs. Holcombe W. Hurd Mr. and Mrs. Peter K. Ibrahim Mr. and Mrs. Philip N. Israel, Jr. Dr. Phillip Jarvis Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Jennings ’48 Mr. William M. Johnson, Jr. ’37 Mr. Kenneth G. Johnston ’57 Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Jordan, Sr. Mr. Raymond Jungles Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Kaier Dr. and Mrs. Paul Kardon Mr. Peter M. Karic Mr. and Mrs. Andrew P. Kay, Sr. FAC/ST Mr. and Mrs. Fred J. Keen Mr. Bayard Kellam and Mrs. Suzanne Kellam Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Kelley FAC/ST Mrs. Julie A. Kelley and Mr. J. Michael Kelley FAC/ST Mr. Peter R. Kellogg ’61 Mrs. Seung Hee Kim CP Mr. and Mrs. Jackson T. King Mr. Peter J. Kinne and Mrs. Lynn Kinne FAC/ST Mr. and Mrs. James Klutznick Mr. Hugh Knowlton, Jr. GP Mrs. Monique Knowlton Ms. Ruth E. Kollmer CP Mr. Trevor Kong and Mrs. Ella Kong CP Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Koskey Mr. and Mrs. John A. Koskinen Mr. Hugh G. Knowlton ’69 Mr. Jeffrey P. LaBonte and Ms. Laurel J. Goss CP Mr. and Mrs. John A. LaCasse Mr. and Mrs. Christian A. Lange Mr. Michael B. Lee and Ms. Lori J. Bashour CP Mr. and Mrs. Roger J. Leifer Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth P. Lesser Mr. and Mrs. Fredric W. Leukroth Mr. and Mrs. William E. Locke

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Mr. Joseph P. Luciani and Mrs. Carole A. Bertuzzi-Luciani CP Mrs. Sharon M. Lym Mr. and Mrs. W. Duncan Macfarlane ’78 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Martinecz CP Mr. and Mrs. D. Richard Masson Mrs. Audrey J. May Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. McAdoo GP Mr. and Mrs. Harvey McChesney, Jr. Ms. Dale A. McDonald CP Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. W. McGraw ’70 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph K. McKay Mr. and Mrs. C. Russell McKee Mr. and Mrs. Seamus McKeon ’69 Mr. and Mrs. Willard C. McNitt III Mr. Robert G. Meade and Ms. Anna Romano FAC/ST Dr. Norman W. Merrill and Mrs. Jeanne W. Merrill FAC/ST Ms. Patricia A. Millard Dr. and Mrs. John M. Miller, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Kirk Miller Mr. Paul T. Miller and Ms. Andrea Milley Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Minnerly Dr. Timothy J. Moore Mr. Kenneth D. Morris ’64 Ms. Tina K. Morris Mr. and Mrs. F. Scott Morrison CP Mr. and Mrs. Peter L. Moseley, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Frederick C. Mueller Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Muhlfeld ’69 Mr. and Mrs. Latham W. Murfey III ’68 CP Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Mustard, Jr. ’67 Mr. and Mrs. John T. Myers II Mr. and Mrs. Kojiro Nakayama Lt. Col. and Mrs. Casey Neff Mr. Samuel Q. Nichols ’58 Mr. and Mrs. Michael Nichols-Marcy Mr. Thomas J. Nolan, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. P. Geoffrey Noyes Mr. John Nyombayire and Ms. Odette Mukabayija Mr. and Mrs. George D. O’Neill Mr. and Mrs. Elliott M. Ogden III ’68 Mr. Felipe Ortiz-Monasterio and Mrs. Gabriela Borbolla CP Dr. and Mrs. Daniel R. Palmateer Mr. John P. Paris Mr. and Mrs. Paul R. Parsons Dr. Warren Peascoe and Dr. Judith G. Peascoe Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Peters Ms. Jane C. Piatelli CP FAC/ST Mr. and Mrs. Douglas W. Pierce Mrs. Eileen K. Potash Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Prockow Mrs. Mary A. Putnam Mr. and Mrs. J. Sadler Ramsdell Ambassador and Mrs. Clark T. Randt, Jr. Mrs. John Shedd Reed Mr. Alexander S. Reese Mr. and Mrs. Howard L. Reichart III ’64 Mr.Victor F. Ridder and Ms. Joannie Braden Mrs. Katherine D. Rines Mrs. Sarah Robbins Evans Mr. and Mrs. William Robertson IV Mrs. Cynthia D. Rockwell

Mr. and Mrs. Troy D. Roe Mr. Walter B. Rose ’65 Ms. Elizabeth M. Ross Mr. and Mrs. Roger D. Ross Mr. Hilary F. Russell and Mrs. Jenny Russell Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Russell Mr. and Mrs. Jon S. Saltzman Mr. and Mrs. James M. Scala Mr. and Mrs. Peter J. Scala CP Mr. and Mrs. Keith M. Schappert Mr. and Mrs. Larry Scheinfeld Mr. and Mrs. Steven E. Schneider Mr. and Mrs. Jacob F. Schoellkopf V ’56 Mr. Roald M. Schopp ’49 Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Schreck Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Semelmacher Ms. Bernadette L. Session Mr. and Mrs. Philip N. Shapiro CP Mr. and Mrs. David L. Sheldon Mr. and Ms. James P. Sheldon-Dean ’69 Mr. Bruce P. Shields ’57 Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Shotwell ’51 Mr. and Mrs. Humphrey B. Simson GP Mr. and Mrs. Herman W. Sklarin Mr. and Mrs. Donald Slingerland Mr. and Mrs. Earle Smith III Mr. George T. Smith Dr. and Mrs. James L. Smythe Mr. Willard B. Soper II ’66 Mr. and Mrs. William F. Spalding ’65 Mr. H. Todd Spofford ’60 Mr. and Mrs. Randy Staino Mrs. Elly Stewart Mrs. Sally M. W. Stone Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Switlik Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Talbot III

Mr. Kevin M. Tarrant ’78 Ms. Margaret R. Taylor FAC/ST Ms. Dorothy Terino FAC/ST Mrs.Virginia W. Tompkins Mrs. Robin B. Tost Mr. William C. Tost, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Tufts Dr. and Mrs. Daniel S. Turner Dr. and Mrs. Sanford Ullman Mr. and Mrs. John C. van Roden, Jr. The Family of Claude Vanden Broeck * Mr. and Mrs. H. Webster Walker III ’73 Mrs. Mary C. Walsh Mr. and Mrs. John W. Watkins, Sr. ’73 Mr. Hugh J. Weidinger ’60 The Honorable Leon J. Weil ’44C Mr. and Mrs. Joel D. Weiner Mr. and Mrs. James T. Welch Mr. and Mrs. John A. West Mrs. W. Chattin Wetherill * Mrs. Beatrice G. Whitney GP Dr. and Mrs. Maurice G. Wiart John and Marcia Wilkinson Dr. Carroll W. Wonson ’41 Mr. Donald W. Wood ’57 Mr. and Mrs. Harvey B. Wright Mr. and Mrs. Weldon M.Yates Mr. Peter V.Young ’54 Mr. and Mrs. Robert S.Young Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H.Young III

Grandparents of Alumni Mrs. Joan S. Brooks PA Mrs. Judith A. Coulter Mr. E. Mandell de Windt ’39 Mr. and Mrs. William T. Doherty Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Doyle, Sr. ’49 Mr. Anthony R. Gabriel Ms. Barbara P. Gimbel Mr. John B. Hull III ’51 PA Mr. Hugh Knowlton, Jr. PA Mr. and Mrs. Ronald G. Leonard Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. McAdoo PA Mr. and Mrs. Humphrey B. Simson PA Mr. and Mrs. Eric Verbeeck The Honorable Leon J. Weil ’44C Mrs. Beatrice G. Whitney PA Dr. Carroll W. Wonson ’41

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Faculty & Staff Mr. and Mrs. John E. Alden, Jr. Mrs. Laura S. Altman and Mr. Richard Altman PA Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Barros CP Mrs. Linda F. Bellizzi and Dr. John A. Bellizzi PA Mrs. Barbara S. C. Bullock ’86 and Mr. William C. Bullock Mrs. Patricia K. Bush and Mr. Richard R. Bush PA Mr. William Clough and Mrs. Nannie Clough Ms. Amanda Coenen-Morgan and Mr. Christopher J. Coenen CP PA Ms. Coleen Cox Mrs. Susan A. Delmolino Ives and Mr. Keith T. Ives Ms. Silvia Eggenberger and Mr. Paul Hess PA Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Fogarty PA Mr. and Mrs. William F. Gulotta PA Mrs. Carolee R. Harrigan and Mr. Timothy J. Harrigan CP PA Mr. James K. Harris and Mrs. Deborah Harris CP PA

Ms. Debra R. Haupt CP PA Ms. Keira McKenna Holbrough ’92 and Mr. Cory Holbrough Ms. Penelope Hudnut Mr. and Mrs. Andrew P. Kay, Sr. PA Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Kelley PA Mrs. Julie A. Kelley and Mr. J. Michael Kelley PA Mr. Peter J. Kinne and Mrs. Lynn Kinne PA Mrs. Bonita J. Lovison and Mr. Richard L. Lovison Mr. and Mrs. Paul MacKenzie Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Maher CP Ms. Elizabeth A. McGovern and Mr. Mark E. McGovern CP Mr. Robert G. Meade and Ms. Anna Romano PA Dr. Norman W. Merrill and Mrs. Jeanne W. Merrill PA Mr. Stuart A. Miller ’97 and Mrs. Kristina Thaute Miller ’97 Ms. Tiffany S. Mooney CP

Mr. and Mrs. Pieter Mulder Mr. C. Twiggs Myers Hon. ’57 Mr. Devon R. O’Rourke ’02 and Mrs. Jacquelin A. O’Rourke Mr. John Ormiston Ms. Jane C. Piatelli CP PA Mrs. Myra F. Riiska and Mr. Todd S. Riiska CP Mr. and Mrs. Dale M. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Clay D. Splawn Ms. Margaret R. Taylor PA Ms. Dorothy Terino PA Ms. Sharon Wybrants Mr. and Mrs. Marc P. Wysocki

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Friends Anonymous ( 1 ) Addison County Commission Sales, Inc. Aerohive Networks Incorporated Mr. Peter H. Alford Mr. Richard R. Alford Alpine Meridian Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Stephen W. Baird Barrett Tree Service, Inc. Mr. William R. Bellas, Jr. Berkshire County Floor Refinishing Mr. and Mrs. William D. Birch Ms. Becka Bradley Mr. James H. Brandi Branford Landing Inc. Brewer Veterinary Clinic Ms. Susan Brown

Mrs. Martha H. Buckingham C.M. Stauffer Insurance Agency Cain, Hibbard, & Myers, PC Mr. David J. Castellani The Castellano Family Catamount Development Corporation Mr. and Mrs. Lo-Yi Chan Mr. and Mrs. William P. Clough III Ms. Enid M. Collup Mr. and Mrs. Kevin R. Conklin CR Secor, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Crouse Mr. Mark Culkin Mrs. Carol Currier Cutting Edge Hockey Laurel Hill Corp DBA The Days Inn

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Mr. C. Russell de Burlo, Jr. Dick Flood Educational Services, LLC Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Dixon Domaney’s Liquors Fine Foods, Inc. Mr. F.A. Dubie Ms. Barbara M. Duryee Mr. Albert E. Ferro Mr. Patrick Ferro Mr. and Mrs. David P. Fialkow Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Fiorillo First Capital Mortgage Group, LLC FLM Graphics Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Flood, Jr. Mr. Edward J. Foley III Mr. Donald P. Freedman Mr. and Mrs. John B. Gimbel

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gorman Mr. and Mrs. J. Arthur Hansen Harney & Sons Mr. and Mrs. Walter N. Hawley Ms. Charlotte B. Heartt Mr. and Mrs. G. William Helm, Jr. Mr. F. Robertson Hershey Mr. Sanford Hertz Mrs. A.R. Hoxton, Jr. Ms. Patricia Hughes Mr. William L. Jaques Jaques & Company, Inc. John E. Muhlfeld, Inc. DBA Newfield Builders Mr. James C. Kellogg Mr. and Mrs. Morris W. Kellogg Mr. and Mrs. Giles K. Kemp Mr. Stewart W. Kemp Mr. and Mrs. David A. Kibbe Kirk Miller Construction Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Klaus Mr. Arthur Kontos Mrs. Diana Fulford LaCasse Larkin Farm, LLC Law Office of Kurt Terwilliger Lee Audio ’ N Security, Inc. Ms. Judith S. Levi and Mr. Mark Levi Lignum Vitae, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Luckow MacFarlane Office Products, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Magenis Mahaiwe Tent Main Street Research, LLC Mr. George McCarthy

Ms. Pamela K. McClelland Mr. David R. McShane Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan D. Meer Mr. Robert A. Milanese, Esq. Ms. Laura R. Morgan Mrs. Susan A. Morison Hon. ’61 Moser Pilon Nelson Architects Ms. K. Marcy Nolan Noreen Seabrook Marketing, Inc. Norman B. Williams Trust Ms. Elsie A. Norton Lance and Patsy Odden Mr. and Mrs. Philip V. Oppenheimer Paris Chocolates, Inc. Mr. Bailey W. Patrick Mrs. Deborah Fries Pedraza Mr. John J. Perese and Ms. Maria Perese Pink Cloud Gallery Mr. and Mrs. Laurence H. Pratt Ms. Heather M. Prescott Mr. Eugene A. Pretnicki Printing Images Corp.

Quality Printing, Inc. R & R Company Raynor Enterprises Mr. Matthew Reger Ms. Keri Reitman Mr. John Riley Risley Sports Photography Mr. MacGregor Robinson Ms. Margot T. Rose Ms. Justine V. R. Russell Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Russo

Mr. and Mrs. Peter J. Salvatore Mr. Richard C. Sanford Mr. and Mrs. Daniel B. Schadler, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Schafer Ms. Trina Secor Seward and Monde, CPA Ms. Elizabeth T. Shaffer and The Tarquinio Family Ms. Sharon Shollenberger Mr. Ronald C. Soldati Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm G. Spurling Mr. Samuel Starkey Reverend Caroline R. Stewart Mr. and Mrs. John H. Stookey Mr. and Mrs. James M. Sullivan Mr. George E. Summers Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth J. Sutton Mr. Michael S. Sylvester The Bridgewater Fund, Inc. The Edwynn Houk Gallery, Inc. Titleserv of New Jersey, Inc. Tomich Landscape Design & Construction, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur E. Trotman Turtle Island Medical Associates, Inc. Valley Communications Systems, Inc. Vitreo-Retinal Associates of N.J., P.A. Ms. Lisa Weitzman and Mr. Russell Sherman Windflower Inn, Inc. Ms. Lisa A. Wright

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Gifts in Kind Mr. and Mrs. John E. Alden, Jr. FAC/ST Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Barros CP FAC/ST Ms. Susan Brown Ms. Amanda Coenen-Morgan and Mr. Christopher J. Coenen CP PA FAC/ST Ms. Coleen Cox FAC/ST Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Donnelley II PA Ms. Mimi Ramos Harney ’91 Harney & Sons Mr. James K. Harris and Mrs. Deborah Harris CP PA FAC/ST Ms. Debra R. Haupt CP PA FAC/ST Mr. W. Ross Hawkins PA Hewlett-Packard Company Ms. Keira McKenna Holbrough ’92 FAC/ST and Mr. Cory Holbrough FAC/ST

Mr. and Mrs. Edwynn G. Houk CP Mr. John B. Hull III ’51 PA GP Mr. Richard A. Johnston and Ms. Christina J. Hanley CP Mr. Robert R. Keegan ’90 Mrs. Julie A. Kelley and Mr. J. Michael Kelley PA FAC/ST Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Kopel CP Mrs. Bonita J. Lovison and Mr. Richard L. Lovison FAC/ST Mahaiwe Tent Mr. William Mason CP Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. W. McGraw ’70 PA Mr. Stuart A. Miller ’97 FAC/ST and Mrs. Kristina Thaute Miller ’97 FAC/ST Mrs. Elyse Harney Morris ’83

Mr. C. Twiggs Myers Hon. ’57 FAC/ST Mr. and Mrs. Francis X. Nelson CP Mr. Devon R. O’Rourke ’02 and Mrs. Jacquelin A. O’Rourke FAC/ST Ms. Jane C. Piatelli CP PA FAC/ST Mrs. Myra F. Riiska and Mr. Todd S. Riiska CP FAC/ST Mr. Hilary F. Russell and Mrs. Jenny Russell PA Mr. and Mrs. Dale M. Smith FAC/ST Mr. Ronald C. Soldati Ms. Margaret R. Taylor PA FAC/ST Mr. and Mrs. Marc P. Wysocki FAC/ST

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Participating Matching Gift Companies ACE INA Foundation American Express Gift Matching Program Bank of America Foundation The Boeing Company Chevron Matching Gift Program Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation Dodge & Cox Eaton Corporation Fannie Mae SERVE Matching Gift Donations Fidelity Foundation Matching Gifts to Education Fifth Third Bank The Hartford Insurance Group Marsh & McLennan Co., Inc. Merrill Lynch & Co. Foundation, Inc. Microsoft Matching Gifts Program New York Life Foundation

Penn Virginia Corporation Philips PACE The Prudential Foundation RBC Fouondation Saint-Gobain Corporation Foundation Sara Lee Foundation Sherwin-Williams Foundation The Bank of New York Mellon United States Tobacco United Technologies Matching Gift & Volunteer Grant Programs Wellpoint Associate Giving Campaign

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Memorial Gifts In Memory of Einar Aas, Irene Dailey and Florence J. Graham Mrs. Nancy H. Duryee-Aas PA In Memory of Dick Buckingham ’50 Mrs. Martha H. Buckingham In Memory of Stephanie Chevalier ’77 Mrs. Monique Knowlton PA New York Community Trust In Memory of Peter A. Culkin ’82 Mr. Mark Culkin In Memory of Chester Currier ’62 Ms. Enid M. Collup Mrs. Carol Currier PA In Memory of Delano and Ruth deWindt

In Memory of Anna Kakos Ms. Becka Bradley Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Fiorillo Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Klaus Ms. Elsie A. Norton Mr. John J. Perese and Ms. Maria Perese Mr. Eugene A. Pretnicki Printing Images Corp.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Russo Mr. and Mrs. Daniel B. Schadler, Sr. Ms. Elizabeth T. Shaffer and The Tarquinio Family Ms. Sharon Shollenberger In Memory of Ritt Kellogg ’85 Mr. Thomas W. Funkhouser ’86 Mr. and Mrs. Morris W. Kellogg Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gorman Mr. Edward J. Foley III Wicks Chapin Inc. (Foley Family Foundation)

Mrs. A.R. Hoxton, Jr. In Memory of Walter Kemp ’31 Mr. Stewart W. Kemp Mr. and Mrs. Giles K. Kemp

In Memory of Irene McDonald Mr. Michael D. Gutenplan ’99 Mrs. Deborah Fries Pedraza In Memory of Bruce Morison ’61 Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth J. Sutton In Memory of Dick Morton ’61 and Bruce Morison ’61 Mr. William P. Klingenstein ’61 The Carroll & Percy Klingenstein Foundation, Inc. In Memory of Larry Piatelli Mr. James R. Anderson ’09 In Memory of Sanford “Sandy” Sistare ’46 Mr. Henry M. Goodyear, Jr. ’46 In Memory of Jack Stewart Mr. Thomas A. McGraw, Jr. ’71 In Memory of Shawn Walsh ’71 Mr. John K. Means ’71

Honorary Gifts In Honor of Parker Case ’99 Mr. and Mrs. Peter P. Case PA Orange County’s United Way In Honor of the 15th Reunion of her daughter, Audrey Eford Griffin ’94 Mrs. Audrey J. May PA In Honor of Bill Gulotta Mr. Michael D. Gutenplan ’99

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In Honor of Barbara Kenefick Mrs. Bonita J. Lovison FAC/ST and Mr. Richard L. Lovison Mr. and Mrs. James M. Sullivan

In Honor of the birthday of her brother, William Brooks Nolan ’78, December 18

In Honor of Mike Maher and Tobey Nelson

Ms. K. Marcy Nolan

Mr. and Mrs. David P. Fialkow

In Honor of L. Keith Reed ’68 Mrs. John Shedd Reed PA

In Honor of The Maple Syrup Program In Honor of Chloe Guss ’03 Mr. Richard C. Sanford

In Honor of Bill Riley’s birthday Ms. Jane C. Piatelli CP PA FAC/ST

Mr. James B. Platt ’59 The Platt Foundation, Inc.

In Honor of Peter and Cynthia Kellogg Mr. and Mrs. William D. Birch In Honor of Peter Kellogg Ms. Justine V. R. Russell Mr. F. Robertson Hershey CR Secor, Inc. Ms. Trina Secor

In Honor of R.G. Meade Mr. Michael D. Gutenplan ’99 In Honor of Bob Minnerly Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Mustard, Jr. ’67 PA In Honor of C. Twiggs Myers Hon. ’57 Mr. Williamson Murray ’59

In Honor of Kristina Splawn, Marc Wysocki, Janet Bouteiller and Carolee Harrigan Ms. Jane C. Piatelli CP PA FAC/ST In Honor of Virginia Watkins and A.J. Kohlhepp Dr. Armen T. Babigian and Dr. Laurie M. Slotnick CP PA

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Named Endowed Funds Endowed funds are the very heart of Berkshire School’s giving program. They nurture and sustain students and faculty alike, as well as programs vital to the School. Berkshire School gratefully acknowledges the generous donors who have created and/or helped sustain the following funds.

THE ALIIS NON SIBI AWARD (2007)

Selected by members of the graduating class, the recipient of this award follows the motto “for others, not themselves.” This stipend recognizes a member of the faculty, who, through his or her love of teaching and abiding commitment to enriching the lives of students, embodies the ideals and spirit of an engaged and treasured member of both the faculty and, equally important, the Berkshire community.

ROBERT DAVIS ALLEN MEMORIAL FUND (1990)

Established by family and friends in memory of Robert Davis Allen ’40. Education and public

service were cornerstones of Mr. Allen’s life. In his memory, a scholarship is presented to a minority student who best exemplifies his high personal standards and concern for others. Mr. Allen was a mathematics teacher at Berkshire from 1943 to 1944 and president of Berkshire’s Board of Trustees from 1976 to 1980.

THE KELTS COLFAX BAKER SCHOLARSHIP FUND (1962)

Established through a bequest from Mrs. Gertrude K. Baker. This fund supports four returning students each year who have demonstrated a strong academic record. This endowment from Mrs.

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Baker is a memorial to her son, Kelts Colfax Baker, Jr. ’38, a flight lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Air Force who was killed in action in England in October 1944.

THE DWIGHT C. BAUM ’32 ENDOWED CHAIR OF SCIENCE (2000)

Established by Dwight “Bill” Baum, an alumnus from the Class of 1932, this Chair will salute teaching excellence in the physical sciences. Mr. Baum graduated from Cornell University with a degree in electrical engineering followed by an MBA from Harvard. Throughout his career as an investment banker, Mr. Baum has always treasured the

education he received from the study of the physical sciences in his high school years. As a philanthropist, one of his goals has been to introduce young students to serious, scientific investigation and to impart the sense of excitement that can come with such pursuits.

THE BINNY FUND FOR ACADEMIC SUPPORT PROGRAM (2007)

This fund, named after Robin Williams ’80, supports the academic tutoring program. It was established upon Binny’s untimely death through the generosity of the Class of 1980 and the Hirschfeld Family.

THE ARNOLD AND JEAN BURTON ENDOWMENT FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (1997)

professional development for faculty members who teach foreign languages at Berkshire.

Arnold Burton ’36 was the first European student to attend Berkshire, joining the student body for his senior year in September of 1935. As he has returned to Berkshire over the years, he has been enormously impressed with the changes that have taken place, and is pleased to know that the spirit set in the early days by Mr. Buck continues to be so faithfully pursued. In that spirit, he and his wife Jean have established this endowment to support faculty through graduate education and other programs of study so that Berkshire will continue to grow positively with the changes time brings.

CLASS OF ’56 50TH REUNION SCHOLARSHIP FUND (2007)

SEAVER BUCK FACULTY FUND (1988)

Established anonymously by a parent and supported by alumni and friends, this fund recognizes a Berkshire teacher “who has established a distinguished record in the classroom and has been noted for a willingness to help individual students realize their highest potential.” This annual honor carries with it a $1,000 cash award.

THE LYMAN BULLARD SR. ’40 FUND FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (2008)

Lyman Bullard Sr. matriculated at Harvard, enlisted in the U.S. Navy and had a long and distinguished career in industry. At Berkshire, he served as a Charter Trustee, Trustee and Advisory Board member, and was named Distinguished Alumnus of the Year in 1988. The endowment supports faculty professional development endeavors.

Established by family, friends and an estate gift from Waldo Johnston, this fund memorializes Lyman Greenleaf Bullard ’40 who followed in the footsteps of his father, William R. Bullard ’12, and, was in turn, followed by his sons Lyman G. Bullard, Jr. ’73 and William R. Bullard II ’76 as active and continuing members of the Berkshire School community.

CENTENNIAL SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWMENT (2008)

Established to provide financial aid for a student or students with demonstrated need.

THE CHASE HOUSE BEAUTIFICATION FUND (1995)

Established through an estate gift from Alice Ann Chase and supplemented by the family of James R. Anderson. This fund is used each year for the upkeep of Chase House, the residence that Art and Alice Ann Chase lived in for most of their years at Berkshire. In particular, the Chases will long be remembered for their gardens and love of flowers, a tradition that the school intends to maintain.

Chase House currently serves as the home of the Enrollment Office.

THE CLASS OF 1936 SCHOLARSHIP FUND (1996)

Established by the class on the occasion of their 60th Reunion. Income from this endowment is directed toward student financial aid and will be awarded to a returning student; naming him or her the Class of ’36 Scholar.

THE WILLIAM ROTCH BULLARD, JR. MEMORIAL FUND (1991)

THE CLASS OF 1940 50TH REUNION FUND (1990)

Established in memory of William R. Bullard ’44,

by Mary Bullard (wife of William R. Bullard ’44), Lyman G. Bullard Sr. ’40 (brother), Lyman Jr. ’73 (nephew), and William R. ’76 (nephew). The income from the endowment provides partial funding of an annual scholarship to a “fifth form student who demonstrates qualities of intelligence, independence, curiosity, sense of purpose and appreciation of nature, and a strong competence in the natural sciences.”

Established by the class in memory of deceased classmates and faculty of the Old Guard. Income from this endowment is directed toward student financial aid.

THE RALPH BURROWS SCHOLARSHIP (1994)

Established by former trustee R. William Burrows, Jr. ’67 as part of his commitment to global education and Berkshire School’s educational mission in the twenty-first century. The scholarship provides financial assistance for a student who is a resident of New York State to attend Berkshire.

THE CLASS OF 1944C SCHOLARSHIP FUND & MARION FOSTER AWARD (1994)

In commemoration of their fiftieth reunion “Del’s boys,” as they are proudly remembered, created a permanent fund in support of financial aid that would help future generations of students “be part of a boarding school tradition, experience the exhilaration that comes from great teachers and reside on a campus whose natural environment is spectacularly beautiful.” This prize is awarded in memory of Marion Foster, a social worker and special friend to the Class of 1944C. CLASS OF ’49 FACULTY DEVELOPMENT FUND (1999)

Established by members of the class in honor of their 50th Reunion, this endowment will fund

Established in honor of their classmate, Hawley Rogers, former interim Head of School and Advisory Board member, this scholarship will be awarded to a student whose family may suffer sudden financial hardship during the school year.

Support of that student will continue through the duration of his or her stay at Berkshire unless financial circumstances improve. If the criterion cannot be met in any given year, this scholarship will be utilized for general financial aid at Berkshire.

CLASS OF ’57 FACULTY FUND (2007)

Established by members of the class on the occasion of their 50th Reunion to pay tribute to C. Twiggs Myers H’57, their honorary classmate and legendary Berkshire teacher, coach, and mentor. Income from this endowment is given annually to a member of the faculty in recognition of excellence in teaching and tenure of service. The Class of 1957 imposes no conditions i.e., the stipend awarded is to be used at the discretion of the recipient.

CLASS OF 1961 JOHN F. GODMAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND (1985)

Established in memory of John F. Godman, Headmaster 1951-1970. Members of the class never forgot the positive impact that Mr. Godman had upon their lives and they have always been grateful for the scholarship money that made possible their Berkshire education. Their philosophy is quite simple: “Give back to the school what the school gave to you.” Income from this endowment provides partial funding for annual scholarships. Students chosen as Godman Scholars are recognized for “superior scholastic achievement and strong qualities of leadership in co-curricular activities.”

CLASS OF 1961 EDWARD H. HUNT SCHOLARSHIP FUND (2006)

Established by his classmates in honor of Edward H. Hunt ’61, whose career at Berkshire spanned 40 years and included many roles: teacher, coach, athletic director, alumni director, and author of the school’s history. Upon his retirement Mr. Hunt was named the School’s 2006 Distinguished Alumnus.

Income from this endowment is awarded annually to a student of integrity who displays a strong work ethic, has shown consistent academic achievement, and who contributes substantially to the extracurricular programs either through athletics or activities.

THE CLASS OF 1965 PETER LANCE ANDERSON MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP (1985)

Established as a 20th Reunion tribute by the Class of 1965 in memory of their classmate and friend, Peter Lance Anderson. The income from

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this endowment finances a scholarship that is awarded annually to “a student who has demonstrated qualities of leadership by his/her genuineness, loyalty and caring for those around him/her.” It is these same characteristics for which “P.L.” is fondly remembered.

THE CLASS OF 1968 DAVIS G. ANDERSON ’68 ENDOWED FUND (2003)

Established as a 35th reunion year tribute by members of the Class of 1968 to honor Davis G. Anderson ’68 for all his work on behalf of the entire school community through the years, from head prefect to president of the Board. The fund will serve as a testament in perpetuity to Davis G. Anderson’s deep dedication, unflinching selflessness and extraordinary service to Berkshire through sponsorship of the school’s Winter Carnival, an annual event undertaken by Berkshire’s prefects.

THE ALBERT R. CONNELLY SCHOLARSHIP FUND (1990)

Established by friends and family of Mr. Connelly, Class of 1925, in honor of Mr. Connelly’s selection as Berkshire’s Distinguished Alumnus of the Year.

Mr. Connelly was Editor-in-Chief of the Green and Gray and the school’s top scholar for four consecutive years. He went on to become an attorney and spent his career with the New York City firm of Cravath, Swaine and Moore. Income from this endowment supports an annual scholarship that recognizes academic and co-curricular achievement by a new entering student.

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Established through a bequest from Mrs. Anna M. Stein, mother of Norman Dickter, Class of 1948. The income from this endowment is used annually to purchase new books for the collection in Geier Library.

tial. The Duryee Scholar’s special talents and interests should also reflect Bill Duryee’s enthusiasm for, and pride in, high school athletics.

THE FENTRESS SABBATICAL PROGRAM (1980)

Established through a bequest from Tom Fentress ’48. Income from this endowment recognizes outstanding service by veteran teachers and offers them the chance for rejuvenation in their chosen field or some related academic discipline. The fund supports study and travel grants for faculty who have been at the school for seven years or longer.

Among the activities completed since 1980, the Fentress Sabbatical Fund has given a Berkshire teacher the opportunity to study battle sites of the Civil War and another to author a biography on the Scottish Jacobite heroine, Flora Macdonald.

THE E. E. FORD SCHOLARSHIP FUND (1982)

Established by a grant from the E. E. Ford Foundation in support of BERKSHIRE 75, the School’s first capital campaign. The gift was directed toward the School’s general Scholarship Fund and restricted to an entering Third Form student.

JOHN F. GODMAN FUND (1985)

Established by former Headmaster John Godman (1951-1970) through a bequest to Berkshire School. Throughout his 21 years as headmaster, Mr. Godman had always wanted to build an endowment that could maintain the beautiful campus that he was so instrumental in building.

However, the funding for major building projects along with significant annual operating costs did not permit such an initiative to get very far along.

What Mr. Godman could not do in his lifetime, he achieved after his death. Income from this endowment will be directed toward the maintenance, reconditioning and repair of campus buildings, athletic fields and recreational facilities.

THE THOMAS H. AND CYNTHIA W. DIXON FUND FOR PERFORMING AND FINE ARTS (1996)

THE WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST FUND FOR AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDENTS (1996)

Established in honor of teacher, administrator and Senior Master Thomas H. Dixon and his wife and former Music Department Head, Cynthia W. Dixon, for his thirty-five and her sixteen years of service to Berkshire School.

Over the years, the Dixons have continually found creative ways to express their interest in symphonic music and theater and in the process, enrich the lives of the entire school community.

It is intended that income from this endowment will bring to campus talented musicians, actors, lecturers and artists.

Established through a grant from the William R. Hearst Foundation in support of independent schools with “outstanding academic programs and a demonstrated track record of outreach to economically disadvantaged students.” This fund provides a partial scholarship to a member of the student body who strives for academic excellence and demonstrates the highest standard of character and integrity through his/her personal conduct.

THE BILL DURYEE MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND (1994)

Established by friends of Bill Duryee, an administrator, coach and teacher at Berkshire from 1971 to 1993. This memorial scholarship brings to the Berkshire School community a minority student from one of the nation’s inner cities who demonstrates strong academic skills and leadership poten-

THE KRIS R. HUGHES ’90 MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP (2003)

Established by family and friends in memory of Kris R. Hughes ’90. In addition to his talents as an outstanding hockey, baseball and football player, Kris was an avid nature lover and enjoyed fly-fishing and mountain climbing, among other outdoor sports. While at Berkshire, he was popular with his peers and served as a prefect his senior year. Kris was a prolific reader and took his academic endeavors very seriously. He val-

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ued his family and friends tremendously, and was always eager to share his knowledge and experiences with them. Kris made a conscious effort to make the most of his time at Berkshire, and took advantage of every opportunity to fulfill his potential here. The endowment will fund a scholarship in perpetuity, and will be awarded each year to the student who best exemplifies Kris’s broad range of interests, his loyalty to his friends, his love of athletics and of the natural environment, his belief in the value of hard work and true appreciation of the entire Berkshire experience.

THE KELTON JANSEN SCHOLARSHIP (1995)

Established by Kelton Jansen ’40 who always valued his education and never forgot that financial help from friends allowed him to attend Berkshire.

Income from this endowment funds a scholarship for a student who is hardworking, shows a serious attitude toward academics, is active in community service and has an enthusiasm for competitive athletics. Preference will be given to students from the states of Louisiana or Florida.

THE ALBERT KEEP ’24 SCHOLARSHIP (1976)

Established through a bequest from the estate of Albert Keep ’24, whose affection for the school led to his career at Berkshire as a teacher, coach, assistant headmaster and headmaster (1943). After the war, he returned to serve as a Trustee until his death in 1974. This scholarship is awarded each year to a Berkshire student based on academic performance and involvement in co-curricular activities.

KELLOGG-SILVERMAN-KONTOS FUND (2008)

Established by George J. Hoffman IV in honor of his friends Peter R. Kellogg ’61, Harvey Silverman and Arthur Kontos whose interest in humanity through their philanthropic endeavors to community and education serve as a shining example to others. This stipend recognizes a member of the Berkshire School community who demonstrates integrity, motivation, spirit, commitment to excellence, mentoring or guidance through small acts of caring, kind words or a listening ear; thus honoring the legacy of decency of these gentlemen who embrace all people equally.

THE KELLOGG VACATION FUND (1983)

Established by Betty Kellogg in memory of her late husband, James C. Kellogg III ’33, a past president of the Berkshire Board of Trustees. Annually, income from this endowment is awarded to two members of the Berkshire faculty and/or staff.

Created to recognize the strong work ethic of the Berkshire community, the criterion states, “this grant must be used by members of the Berkshire community in the pursuit of pleasure – something that is absolutely fun and relaxing.” Recipients and their families have responded with trips and adventures to locations throughout the United States and across the world.

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THE RITT KELLOGG MOUNTAIN PROGRAM FUND (1992)

This memorial fund, established by friends of Ritt ’85 and the Kellogg family, is a tribute to Ritt’s love for the outdoors. His affection for the Berkshire campus and the mountain that surrounds it inspires Berkshire students to study, respect and preserve their natural environment. The Mountain Program incorporates course offerings in English, science and environmental studies with outdoor activities such as rock climbing, canoeing, snowshoeing, survival skills and first aid training.

Income from the fund helps to cover program costs and the salary of the instructor.

THE WILLIAM R. KENAN, JR. ENDOWMENT FUND (1985)

Established through a matching/challenge grant from the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust. In

keeping with the educational objectives of the Foundation, the Kenan Trustees made a commitment to “support high quality and effective teaching at Berkshire School.”

THE BARBARA KENEFICK ENDOWMENT (2008)

Established to sustain the needs of the Barbara Kenefick Learning Center.

THE W. DUNCAN MACMILLAN ENDOWMENT FOR CLASSICAL LANGUAGES (1995)

Established by W. Duncan MacMillan ’49 to encourage a deeper appreciation for the classics and to enhance the teaching of foreign languages at Berkshire School. The MacMillan Endowment is the first step toward establishing a formal Language Center which will promote cooperation among regional private and public secondary schools in the use of new curricular materials and technology.

These funds also support a MacMillan Latin Prize and a MacMillan Latin Scholar.

THE IRENE MCDONALD ENDOWMENT FOR THE DRAMATIC ARTS (1996)

Established by parents of alumni and former students as a farewell tribute to Mrs. McDonald. The fund recognizes her passion and devotion in “teaching students how to act, to sing and to thoroughly enjoy the stage.” In her 20 years at Berkshire, she founded the drama club, directed over 40 musicals, half as many plays and conducted countless choral concerts. Income from this endowment supports various aspects of the School’s theatre program.

THE C. TWIGGS MYERS ENDOWED CHAIR FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE (1994)

This endowment was established by former students, parents and friends of history teacher, cross country coach and Senior Master, C. Twiggs Myers. The intention behind the Fund is to recog-

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nize and reward “dedication to the intellectual, moral and athletic development of Berkshire students.” Income from the fund will provide salary and administrative support in perpetuity. A new Myers Master will be named every three years.

READER’S DIGEST SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM (1973)

Established by a gift from the deWitt WallaceReader’s Digest Fund. Income from the endowment provides partial scholarships for academically qualified students from middle-income families.

Each year, several Berkshire students are recognized as Reader’s Digest Scholars.

JACOB F. SCHOELLKOPF IV SCHOLARSHIP FUND (1957) Established by J. F. Schoellkopf IV ’29 and J. F. Schoellkopf V ’56 through a trust to Berkshire School at the time of Berkshire’s 50th Anniversary.

Income from the endowment is directed toward student financial aid. Each year, a Schoellkopf Scholar is selected based on “selfless performance on behalf of Berkshire School.”

EDWARD AND JANE SHOTWELL ENDOWED CHAIR FOR LEADERSHIP AND CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT (1997)

Established by Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Shotwell ’51, the fund will support a teacher who will specialize in ethics, leadership and character development. This teacher will help integrate leadership and character development into all aspects of the Berkshire experience, to include a summer program for young boys and girls. The first of its kind among preparatory schools, this Chair emphasizes Berkshire’s unique programs for preparing its graduates not just for school, but for life.

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Established by the family of Stephen Van Rensselaer Spaulding, Jr. ’29 and Stephen Van Rensselaer Spaulding III ’55. The income from this endowment is directed toward student financial aid. Annually, a Spaulding Scholar is selected from the Fifth Form in recognition of that student’s qualities of citizenship, leadership, and scholarship.

THE GUEST SPEAKERS FUND (1986)

Established by a former member of the Board of Trustees to “supplement the education of Berkshire students.” Income from this endowment is used to bring guest speakers to campus who address the community on a variety of subjects including science, literature, art, music, politics and religion.

FRANK E. STEVENS FACULTY FUND (1981)

Established by the Berkshire School Board of Trustees in honor of Frank Stevens, a teacher of Latin and foreign language at Berkshire from 1921 to 1966. Income from this endowment is directed toward faculty enrichment and is a primary funding source for the School’s sabbatical program.

THE JONATHAN W. STROM PROGRAM FOR ASIAN STUDIES (1994)

This memorial fund was established by the friends and family of Jonathan W. Strom ’64, a Berkshire alumnus who lived and worked in the Far East as an investment banker. Through residential living and study abroad, the fund is designed to promote a wider understanding of Asian cultures and languages among the Berkshire faculty, and as a result, enhance the understanding of the problems, promises and needs that are emerging as American and Asian cultures intersect.

THE RICHARD P. AND JOY UNSWORTH ENDOWMENT FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (1995)

Established by former President of the Board of Trustees, Bruce D. Benson ’57, and his wife to recognize the service and dedication that Berkshire’s tenth headmaster and his wife brought to the School. The fund was later augmented by the entire Board as a special farewell tribute to the Unsworths upon the occasion of their retirement in 1996. Each year, interest from the fund supports the development of Berkshire faculty through graduate education and other programs of study.

THE VAN ZON SCHOLARS FUND (1991)

Established by Trustee and past parents Adrian and Gabriele van Zon, this endowment program provides scholarship assistance for a day student from the local community. As long-time residents of South Egremont whose three children each benefited greatly from their Berkshire education, the van Zons’ wished, in particular, to create this educational opportunity for families from Egremont or Sheffield. van Zon scholars demonstrate superior academic achievement, are involved with community service and are recognized as outstanding citizens.

THE FREDERICK RALL WALSH SR. AMERICAN HISTORY BOOK FUND (1990)

Established by Fred R. Walsh Jr. ’72 in memory of his father. This fund honors Mr. Walsh Sr. and also recognizes the “high caliber of teaching” that Mr. Walsh Jr. received during his two years at Berkshire. Annually, income from this fund is used to purchase texts on American History and augment the book collection in Geier Library.

LEON J. AND MABEL WEIL ENDOWED CHAIR OF HISTORY (1997)

Established by Lee ’44C and Mabel Weil, this Chair will salute teaching excellence in history. A trustee since 1978, parent of two alumni (Jerry ’73 and Cary ’76, grandparents of Ben Weil ’06) and the 1989 Distinguished Alumnus of the Year, investment banker Lee Weil ’44C has witnessed much of history firsthand. Barely seventeen at graduation, he learned to fly in the School’s wartime “Education with Wings” program, went on to serve in the U.S. Navy, and was honorably discharged after the Japanese surrender. In 1984,

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President Reagan appointed the Princeton graduate Ambassador to Nepal, a post he held for three years. In various volunteer and leadership roles, Lee has also helped Russia and Ukraine adjust to democratization and a free-market economy, and has overseen elections in Nepal and El Salvador.

THE WEIL FAMILY ENDOWMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE HUMANITIES (1994)

Established through a bequest from Lillian M. Rouse (past parent of Leon Weil ’44C, grandparent of Jerry ’73 and Cary Weil Barnett ’76, and greatgrandparent of Ben Weil ’06). This fund is used to enhance student programs in the fields of literature, art and music with emphasis on both written and oral communication skills. The Weil Endowment is also used to underwrite an annual school-wide competition in public speaking.

THE SIDNEY D. WEISNER SCHOLARSHIP (1994)

Established by Harrison Weisner ’75 in memory of his father. This scholarship is intended for a minority student “who has demonstrated educational ambition, superior academic promise, capacity to care for others, community involvement and leadership potential.” Special consideration is given to students from the greater New York City area.

THE WIGTON/KELLOGG ALUMNI SCHOLARSHIP (1988 AND AMENDED 2008)

Established by Bill Wigton ’65 and Peter Kellogg ’61, this endowment first and foremost supports a scholarship for the son or daughter of a Berkshire graduate. The fund is intended to help the children of alumni who have a lot to offer but who, for whatever reason, have never had a mix of opportunity and circumstance that enabled them to meet their true potential. Students receiving this award should take full advantage of Berkshire’s academic program, demonstrate a solid character and have a willingness to participate actively in cocurricular activities. The scholarship can be awarded to the same recipient in subsequent years while enrolled at Berkshire. Should Berkshire School be unable to award this scholarship to child of an alumnus/a, it will instead be awarded to a student who fulfills all other components of the indenture.

ELEANOR WALLACE WILLIAMSON SCHOLARSHIP (2008)

Established in honor of Eleanor Wallace Williamson, former director of athletic programs in the Great Barrington school system and the mother of John B. Hull ’51, grandmother of Forrest A. Hull ’77, Hannah L. Hull ’79, Bruce C. Hull ’81 and the great-grandmother of John W. Hull ’03 and William A. Hull ’06. The income from the endowment provides partial funding of an annual scholarship to be awarded first, to a member of the girls’ varsity hockey team, or, any girls’ varsity athletic team member, and, lastly, to any varsity athlete regardless of gender.

Named Endowed Prizes Endowed Prizes recognize and support excellence in Berkshire’s students and faculty.

THE ANNA S. BARRASCH PRIZE (1962)

Established by Barry ’58, Andrew ’62 and Deborah Berkman in memory of their grandmother, Anna S. Barrasch. The prize is awarded to a Sixth Form student “for his/her unselfish interest in people and sense of loyalty.” These same qualities were trademarks of Mrs. Barrasch.

THE DAVID SHUMWAY BARRETT ’59 MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR PERSEVERANCE (1999)

This endowment has been established in David Barrett’s memory by his family and friends to fund an award, in perpetuity, to recognize perseverance in both hockey and the classroom. The award will be made each year at Prize Night to a male and female student who reflect the same spirit, determination and drive that David displayed throughout his life, and whose character mirrors the values to which David held fast.

THE DWIGHT C. BAUM ’32 AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN CHEMISTRY (1997)

Established by Dwight “Bill” Baum, an alumnus from the Class of 1932. Mr. Baum graduated from Cornell University with a degree in electrical engineering followed by an MBA from Harvard. Throughout his career as an investment banker, Mr. Baum has always treasured the education he received from the study of the physical sciences in his high school years. As a philanthropist, one of his goals has been to introduce young students to serious, scientific investigation and to impart the sense of excitement that can come with such pursuits. The science award in his name is presented to the student, who in the opinion of the science faculty, best demonstrates this in his or her studies in the field of chemistry.

THE FRANK BEATTIE TROPHY (1966)

Established at the time of Frank Beattie’s retirement from Berkshire School after 40 years as a teacher of music and varsity track coach. The trophy is presented to the male athlete in the Fifth Form “who best exemplifies sportsmanship and proficiency in interscholastic athletics.” In 1994, the trophy was permanently endowed with a gift from Hans Carstensen ’66.

THE MARGARET V. BEATTIE PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE IN ART (1966)

Established in memory of Peg Beattie, following her death in 1965. Peg married Frank Beattie in 1927 and was a beloved member of the Berkshire community. For 40 years she participated in the life of the School, taking particular pleasure in helping students develop their talents in painting and drawing. The prize is awarded each year to the School’s outstanding art student.

In 1994, the prize was permanently endowed with a gift from Hans Carstensen ’66.

THE RICHARD T. BEEBE PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE IN PHYSICS (1995)

Established in honor of Dr. Richard T. Beebe ’20 by the Trustees of Berkshire School upon the occasion of Dr. Beebe’s selection as the School’s Distinguished Alumnus. Dr. Beebe was recognized for his 60-year career as a practicing physician and his status as Senior Physician with the Albany Medical College. The award in his name is presented annually to the School’s outstanding student who is studying physics.

THE CHAPLAIN’S CUP (1933)

The Chaplain’s Cup is engraved with “Esse Quam Videri” and is awarded to that Sixth Former who exemplifies the motto “to be rather than to seem to be.” The continuation of this award is made possible through the generosity of Herbert Davison, the 1934 recipient.

THE ARTHUR C. AND ALICE ANN CHASE COMMENDATION AWARDS (1994)

Established through the estate of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Chase, faculty members at Berkshire from 1937 to 1973. An award is presented to a member of the Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Form and recognizes students “who best exemplify the ideals of a good citizen in the school community and who, by their contributions, improve the quality of our common life and who demonstrate their pride in Berkshire School.”

THE ARTHUR C. CHASE POETRY PRIZE (1973)

Established at the time of Mr. Chase’s retirement from Berkshire School by Charles Tyler ’64, fellow alumni and friends. During his 35 years as an English teacher (1937-1973), Mr. Chase inspired in his students a lasting appreciation for literature. His special love was poetry. A collection of his own work, Steam from the Sap House, was published in 1990. An annual prize is awarded to “the Berkshire student who authors the best poem.”

JEANNETTE B. COOPER PRIZE (1995)

Established at the time of Jeannette Cooper’s retirement from Berkshire. During her sixteen years at the school Mrs. Cooper served in a number of capacities ranging from Dean of Students to Director of Athletics. She also coached several athletic teams and was especially instrumental in building the school’s field hockey program. The prize is awarded to “that woman in the fifth form who has contributed most to the life of the school through leadership and good citizenship while maintaining high scholastic standards.”

CUM LAUDE SOCIETY FUND IN MEMORY OF P. L. ANDERSON (1983)

Established by faculty members Tom and Cynthia Dixon in memory of their former student and close friend, P. L. Anderson ’65.

Income from this endowment provides a $2,000 cash award to “a Berkshire Sixth Former who best exemplifies the qualities of excellence in integrity and academic scholarship.”

THE DAVID CAMPBELL EIPPER CUP (1958)

Established by the Board of Trustees to honor Mr. Eipper, a teacher at Berkshire from 1910 to 1962, chairman of the Math Department and founder of the school’s Cum Laude chapter. The award was endowed in 1996 by C. Twiggs Myers.

THE JAMES A.D. GEIER ’44C PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (2004)

This prize was established in honor of James A.D. Geier ’44C by his classmates, family, and friends and is presented to an outstanding student of computer science. Mr. Geier, named Berkshire School’s 1994 Distinguished Alumnus, was a member of a prominent Berkshire School family and was known for his civic leadership as well as his business acumen. In his remembrance of Mr. Geier, classmate and friend Tom Wolf ’44C wrote, “Jim Geier was a friend for all ages; one we will always miss and never forget.”

THE WILLIAM F. GULOTTA PRIZE FOR HISTORY (1996)

Established by the Kendrick family (Charles, Suzanne and Catherine ’96) in recognition of “a Fourth Form student who displays curiosity, diligence and achievement in the study of history.”

The prize is named for Bill Gulotta, History Department chair and instructor of American Government, in recognition of his commitment to young people. The prize pays tribute to Mr. Gulotta who, through his skill and zeal in the classroom, as well as his sense of humor, provocatively engages the minds of his students, inspiring them to question, think and grow.

THE W. ROSS HAWKINS PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE IN MODERN WORLD HISTORY (1999)

This endowment was established by Dr. and Mrs. Neal P. Cutler, parents of Alex Cutler ’99, to honor W. Ross Hawkins’ distinguished career at Berkshire and to thank him in a tangible way for the role he plays in nurturing students as a teacher, coach and advisor. Ross embodies all the elements that comprise both a wonderful teacher and a dependable mentor, and understands the power of truly befriending a student. The endowment will fund a prize in perpetuity, which will be given at Prize

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Night to a student whose work in European history has been superlative.

THE MARGUERITE L. KREH AWARD (1985)

Established in memory of Mrs. Kreh in recognition of her 28 years of distinguished service (19571985) as the School’s Assistant Treasurer. An award is given annually to a female student of the Fifth Form who “by virtue of her integrity, persistence and industriousness toward her studies best exemplifies the loyalty and proud work ethic demonstrated by this special woman.”

THE ELAINE MANSELL AWARD (1994)

Established by friend and faculty colleague, C. Twiggs Myers, and Mrs. Mansell’s son, Parker Eldridge. In her “retirement” (while living in nearby Stephentown, NY), Madame Mansell taught French at Berkshire from 1976 to 1982. Prior to that she was an instructor for many years at Rye Country Day School in Rye, NY. Madame never took for granted the beautiful surroundings of the Berkshire Hills. In turn, this award is presented annually to “that student whose participation in the Ritt Kellogg Mountain Program demonstrates a reverence for life and a love and concern for the environment.”

THE WILLIAM P. MATTHEWS ’61 PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE IN CREATIVE WRITING (1998)

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This prize honors a man who Tom Chaffee, a legend at Berkshire in his own right, called the greatest writer he ever taught. Bill Matthews went on to earn degrees at Yale and UNCChapel Hill, and built a distinguished career teaching English. He was also a prolific poet, producing eleven collections of verse and winning the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1996 and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in 1997, shortly before his death. His mother, Mary E. Matthews, has established this endowment to fund a prize in perpetuity which will recognize the literary talent that continues to flow under the mountain, and which will honor Bill’s life, his spirit, and the school which meant so much to him. The award recipient will be the school’s best overall writer in both prose and poetry.

THE R. BRUCE MORISON ’61 PRIZE FOR CURRENT EVENTS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE (2004)

Established in memory of R. Bruce Morison ’61 by his friends and family to fund an award recognizing a student whose love of current events and the political process shines. The award is presented to a student whose curiosity and interest in the world is manifested in the study of a daily newspaper, political analysis in the media and by reading a learned biography. The endowment is named after a graduate whose love of politics and the news was perpetual, whose interest in current events unlimited, whose reading included only biography and non-fiction, and whose love of Berkshire was unbounded.

THE C. TWIGGS MYERS PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE IN AMERICAN HISTORY (1994)

Established by Myrtle Ann Mazzaferro, Berkshire’s registrar (1986-1996) and a friend of C. Twiggs Myers. The prize is awarded to the School’s top student in American History and recognizes former history department chairman, Civil War scholar and Senior Master C. Twiggs Myers who, for 42 years, brought his enthusiasm for, and knowledge of, American History to the Berkshire classroom.

WILLIAM BROOKS NOLAN MEMORIAL FUND (1983)

Established by Audrey K. Nolan in memory of her son, William, class of 1978. A senior prefect is selected for this award annually at Prize Night, one whose conscientious nature, courteous regard for others, academic achievement and competitive spirit, distinguish him or her as a respected student leader within the Berkshire School community.

THE GERALD O’CONNOR ’46 PRIZE IN JOURNALISM (1997)

Established by colleagues and friends at the Berkshire Eagle to promote an interest in the field of journalism and to recognize Mr. O’Connor’s longstanding career as a respected newspaper reporter. The prize is awarded to “that Berkshire student with the Green and Gray whose writing skills, integrity and industriousness set the standard for excellence in secondary school journalism.”

THE LAWRENCE THOMAS PIATELLI PRIZE (2004)

The Lawrence Thomas Piatelli Prize is awarded each year to that student whose work ethic, dedication to nobility and gracious living, competitive spirit and heart most closely resemble the actions of Mr. Piatelli during his remarkable life of service.

As Berkshire School’s thirteenth Head of School, Mr. Piatelli made a lasting impact during his brief tenure by invigorating the community with his commitment to excellence, leadership, and philosophy of gracious living.

THE PRINCETON CUP (1921)

One of the School’s oldest prizes. The Cup is awarded for diligence in studies and success in cocurricular activities. The prize was endowed in 1996 by C. Twiggs Myers, a graduate of Princeton.

THE WILLIAM STODDARD, JR. ’65 MEMORIAL PRIZE (2004)

This endowment has been established in memory of William Stoddard, Jr. by his family to recognize a student who has an outstanding record of academic success in the study of biology. The award will be given annually to a Sixth Form student who best reflects Will’s pursuit of academic excellence and interest in the biological sciences.

THE JAMES R. STONE MEMORIAL PRIZE (1982)

Established by the parents of Jim Stone ’82. In memory of Jim, an annual award is presented to a member of the Fifth Form “who displays a gen-

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erosity of spirit, a sense of humor and a courageous outlook on life despite difficult odds.”

THE LANCE TURNER ENGLISH PRIZE (1995)

Established in memory of Lance Turner ’84 by family, classmates and friends. Annually, this prize is awarded to a Third Form student who “writes the best essay during his or her first year at Berkshire.”

THE RICHARD P. UNSWORTH PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE IN CHINESE (1994)

Established by an anonymous donor to recognize Richard P. Unsworth’s role in establishing Chinese as an important part of the school’s curriculum during his tenure as Head of School. The prize is awarded to the student in Chinese “who demonstrates the greatest proficiency in the study of the Chinese language and culture.”

ERNEST L. WAKEFIELD MEMORIAL PRIZE (1956)

Established by Rowan Wakefield ’38 and Richard Wakefield ’40 and family in honor of their father Ernest Wakefield. The fund recognizes Mr. Wakefield’s 27 years as a teacher of math at Berkshire (1913-1940) and his deep admiration for music. Income from this fund is used to award an annual prize to “a Berkshire student for distinguished work in music theory or for a particular individual performance.”

JOAN WILLIAMS AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN FOURTH-FORM ENGLISH (1996)

This prize is awarded in the memory of Joan Williams to the sophomore student who has demonstrated excellence in all aspects of FourthForm English.

The John F. Godman Society To emphasize the importance of planned giving, in 1996 the Board of Trustees established the John F. Godman Society, named for the legendary headmaster who was responsible for nearly two decades of dramatic growth at Berkshire, and who provided for the School so magnanimously in his last will and testament. The School gratefully acknowledges the following individuals who made a provision for Berkshire School in their estate planning.

Anonymous (9) Rodney W. Agar ’55 *Vincent D. Andrus ’34 Mr. and Mrs. Andrew P. Ames ’59 Davis G. Anderson ’68 James R. Anderson, Jr., ’80H Jeffrey S. Appel John Bacon ’72 *Gertrude Baker Henry H. Bard ’41 Ann Barrett *Dwight C. Baum ’32 Joyce Bell Bruce D. Benson ’57 Mr. & Mrs. Allan B. Bishop ’55 Thomas B. Blair ’44C Mr. & Mrs. Charles Bradley *William Braun ’61 Franklin G. Brehmer, Jr. ’44 *Royal S. Brown ’42 *John R. Buckingham ’53 *John C. Campbell ’38 Hans L. Carstensen ’66 *Henry F. Cate, Jr. ’30 *Robert Chappell, Jr. ’31 Elfrida Chappell *Alice Ann Chase *Arthur Chase *George Church ’15 George Church III ’48 *Lee H. Clark, Jr., ’43 Mr. & Mrs. William S. Clark Kent Clow ’69 Sanford L. Cluett ’40 *Edward Cole ’23 *John M. Collins ’39 *Albert R. Connelly ’25 Mr. & Mrs. John F. Consolini ’56 *Elizabeth Corning Richard A. Corwin ’63 Daniel M. Crabbe ’56 Mr. & Mrs. Robert Crispin *Charles S. Davis ’34 *James Develin ’14 Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H. Dixon *Samuel A. Duncan ’16 William C. Duschatko ’61 *Evangeline Eckfeldt *David C. Eipper

*Fred Fairman ’32 *Adrian M. Farley, Jr., ’32 *Marian Feist *Calvin Fentress, Jr., ’26 *Thomas Fentress ’48 Julia Forster ’78 *Marion Foster Donald P. Freedman Mr. & Mrs. Russell F. Gee *John F. Godman Daniel M. Goodyear ’56 Helen J. Gordon Mr. and Mrs. Robert Grace Dr. and Mrs. Peter Gray Dr. David J. Haidak ’61 Ralph M. “Pete” Hall ’57 James A. Harmon ’53 *Harry Harper ’29 H. Donald Harvey ’54 Charlotte B. Heartt John C. Helming ’59 John F. Herger ’74 *Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Hunt ’33 Charles “Chip” Jamison Jr., ’66 Phillip J. Jarvis Thomas L. Jeffries ’56 Kenneth Johnston ’57 *Waldo C.M. Johnston *Albert Keep ’24 Mrs. Albert Keep *Elizabeth Kellogg Barbara Kenefick Peter L. Kennard ’64 Robert S. Kieve ’39 *Marjorie K. Kilpatrick James Kimberly ’58 *Clarence King *George Kirstein ’28 David Knowlton ’76 *Sidney Lanier ’20 Robert R. Law ’55 James Leenhouts ’47 Marjorie Leenhouts *Mr. & Mrs. Hugh C. Leighton ’30 Grant B. Linsky ’76 *W. Duncan MacMillan ’49 T. Garrison Morfit, Jr., ’61 *Julia C. Morrill *Teresa J. Morris

*Edward K. Morris ’14 Mr. & Mrs. Latham W. Murfey ’68 Robert M. Mustard, Jr., ’67 C. Twiggs Myers’57H *Audrey K. Nolan Stephen P. Norman ’60 *Charles E. O’Hara ’21 *Robert A. Powers ’36 *Edward G. Redfield ’14 Katherine Duff Rines Hawley Rogers ’56 David T. Rondeau ’78 Walter B. Rose ’65 Jay H. Rossbach ’39 *Lillian Rouse John Rusling III ’42 *Mrs. Bernard J. Salembier and family Keith M. Schappert Jacob F. Schoellkopf V ’56 *William Flagg Sherman ’14 Theodore Shrady ’57 Douglas A. Sloan ’69 Stephen V.R. Spaulding ’55 *Anna M. Stein *Frank Stevens *Bayard D. Stout ’30 *Dann P. Stringer ’57 *Jonathan Strom ’64 *Marjorie Sweet *Capt. Richard H. Tenney ’30 Terrie Terpenning-Miller ’79 John E. Thompson, Jr., ’68 Robert T. Thompson ’72 *Elizabeth M. Trowbridge *Thomas S. Trowbridge ’44 Frederick C. Twichell ’55 Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Unsworth Stephen K. Urner ’55 *A. Hoffman van Brunt ’29 Grant Van Sant ’55 Dr. Gabriele van Zon *Harrison Walker ’29 *Millicent Almy Warner Leon J. Weil ’44 Dr. Philip C. White ’31 Stephen Whitney ’65 Karen Wibrew ’87 & Michael Wanas *Norman B. Williams

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Trustees of Berkshire School 2008-2009 Hans L. Carstensen ’66, President President & Chief Executive Officer Aviva Life Insurance Co. North Quincy, Massachusetts

Stephen P. Norman ’60 Secretary & Corporate, Governance Officer American Express Foundation New York, New York

John H. Stookey President Landmark Volunteers Sheffield, Massachusetts

Roger H. Gordon PA,Vice President Managing Member Quarry Point Partners, LLC Chicago, Illinois

Lance R. Odden Managing Partner New Providence Asset Management New York, New York

John Stout CP Co-Principal Pointer Management Company Chattanooga, Tennessee

Lo-Yi Chan Architect, Chan FAIA New York, New York

Gilman C. Perkins ’73 President Perkins Fund Marketing, LLC Southport, Connecticut

Heather Steck Von Seggern ’85 College Counselor Saint Stephen’s Episcopal School Bradenton, Florida

Thomas Peterffy CP, PA Chairman & CEO Interactive Brokers Group LLC Greenwich, Connecticut

Margo Montgomery Ward CP Lake Forest, Ilinois

Jane Chwick CP Managing Director Goldman Sachs New York, New York Alice Ehrenclou Cole ’76 Managing Partner Essex Asset Management, LLC Vero Beach, Florida

Margaret L. Picotte CP Palm Beach, Florida

Robert W. Crispin PA Scarborough, Maine

Michael B. Picotte CP President and CEO Picotte Companies Palm Beach, Florida

John H. Ellwood ’61 Winnetka, Illinois

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Ronald J. Flury CP, PA Chairman Ecology Control Industries Torrance, California

Perri Stein Procida CP Managing Partner Wilshire Partners Greenwich, Connectiuct

James E. Hooper ’69 Dover, Massachusetts

David Puth CP Executive Vice President State Street Corporation Boston, Massachusetts

Peter R. Kellogg ’61 PA Chief Executive Officer IAT Reinsurance Company New York, New York

Edward A. Reger CP President Dentech Investments Ltd Barcelona, Spain

David W. Knowlton ’76 Managing Partner Watch Hill Partners LLC New York, New York

David T. Rondeau ’78 Principal Southport Harbor Associates, LLC Southport, Connecticut

William C. Kunkler CP Executive Vice President CC Industries, Inc. Chicago, Illinois

Keith M. Schappert PA Executive Vice President of the Americas Credit Suisse New York, New York

Michael J. Maher CP FAC/ST Head of School Berkshire School

Thomas Steiner CP Managing Partner Baldwin Bell Green Group New York, New York

C. Twiggs Myers Hon. ’57 PF Senior Master Emeritus Berkshire School

BERKSHIRE SCHOOL 2008-2009 ANNUAL REPORT OF GIVING CP Current Parent

FAC/ST Faculty or Staff

GP Grandparent

PA Parent of Alumni

John W. Watkins ’73 CP, PA Senior Credit Officer J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. New York, New York Trustees Emeriti Davis G. Anderson ’68 CP James R. Anderson, Jr. Hon. ’80 PA, GP Bruce D. Benson ’57 Mary M. Bradley PA E. Mandell de Windt ’39 PA, GP Helen J. Gordon PA Charlotte Beebe Heartt Hugh Knowlton, Jr. PA John E. Thompson ’68 Adrian van Zon PA Leon J. Weil ’44C PA, GP

Advisory Board David T. Rondeau ’78 Advisory Board Chair Southport Harbor Associates, LLC Southport, Connecticut Anthony P. Addison ’82 Merrill Lynch New York, New York Dr. Rhonda M. Bentley-Lewis ’86 Brigham and Women’s Hospital Boston, Massachusetts Thomas E. Boehland ’81 Citrus Systems, Inc. Hopkins, Minnesota William A. Borders, Jr. ’88 Juice Energy, Inc. Chicago, Illinois

C. Kirk Kellogg ’87 Kellogg Group, LLC New York, New York Peter R. Kellogg ’61 PA IAT Reinsurance Co. New York, New York John C. Kuhn ’82 HSBC New York, New York David W. Locke ’79 CBL & Associates Properties Waltham, Massachusetts Walter D. Long Jr. ’88 The Nature Conservancy Helena, Montana

Mary M. Bradley PA Hamden, Connecticut

Marc A. Massaro ’98 Interactive Brokers Greenwich, Connecticut

Christopher C. Brand ’85 Ecotrust Forest Management Portland, Oregon

James T. McKinley ’65 CP Endoshere, Inc. Redwood City, California

Matthew B. Brand ’88 La Jolla, California

Margaret Ross Meiners ’90 Maggie Meiners Photography Chicago, Illinois

Jeffrey W. Denker ’62 Interface Marketing Malibu, California Abram W. Duryee ’92 Clearpoint Portland, Maine Victoria N. Enright ’83 Legislative Reference Bureau Madison, Wisconsin Kate Fisher Fitzgerald ’90 Lake Forest, Illinois David J. Gefke ’79 First Capital Mortgage Group Boston, Massachusetts Scott M. Gordon ’99 Mid-Atlantic Freelance Alexandria,Virginia Michael Herman ’82 Pricewaterhouse Coopers Chicago, Illinois

Katherine D. Rines PA Bloomfield Hills, Michigan Anthony H. Saxton ’89 Terra Firma Capital Group, LLC Austin, Texas James C. Scala ’85 American Express New York, New York Lionel A. Shaw ’85 First Allied Securities San Francisco, California James P. Sheldon-Dean ’69 PA Lewis Creek Systems, LLC Charlotte,Vermont Robert D. Thomas ’79 Washington Speakers Bureau Alexandria,Virginia P. Errett Van Nice ’88 UBS Wilmette, Illinois Lance R.Vermeulen ’78 Lance Vermeulen Real Estate South Egremont, Massachusetts Ellen Walker PA Vero Beach, Florida

Daniel K. Morris ’98 Buffalo, New York Dr. G. Thomas Mullany, Jr. ’73 PA Great Barrington, Massachusetts

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James D. Watt ’88 Acton, Massachusetts

Latham W. Murfey III ’68 PA Murfey Asset Management Kirtland, Ohio C. Twiggs Myers Hon. ’57 Sheffield, Massachusetts Susie Norris ’79 Happy Chocolates Los Angeles, California Jason C. Rano ’98 Baltimore City Health Baltimore, Maryland Tenley E. Reed ’93 London, England

BERKSHIRE SCHOOL 2008-2009 ANNUAL REPORT OF GIVING CP Current Parent

FAC/ST Faculty or Staff

GP Grandparent

PA Parent of Alumni

He’s thinking about Berkshire today.

And planning for Berkshire tomorrow.

Peter Kennard, at Berkshire in 1964 (right) and today at home alongside the Konkapot River in Ashley Falls, Massachusetts.

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Meet PETER KENNARD, CLASS OF ’64: former Allen II proctor, shot putter, Green & Gray sports editor, Yale graduate, retired financier—and, let us not forget, a loyal supporter of his old school.

“I’ve always been a big believer in Berkshire School,” says Peter, a former trustee and longtime class agent. “It had an enormous impact on my personal development.”

And, so year after year, Peter contributes to the annual fund in order to help Berkshire meet its yearly operating costs. Like all other alumni who share his commitment, he understands that tuition alone cannot possibly cover the cost of a Berkshire School education.

Peter has also decided to help support Berkshire’s future needs as well by including the school in his estate planning. His gift will be added to the school’s endowment, and will be part of the foundation supporting future generations of Berkshire students. In making a bequest to Berkshire, Peter became a member of the John Godman Society, whose other members—listed on page 129 of this issue—are also providing critical support through bequests, trusts and other estate plans.

Chances are, Berkshire School had an enormous impact on your development, too, or that of your child. For more information on making a planned gift to Berkshire School, please contact John Ormiston, Director of Development and Alumni Affairs, at (413) 229-1237 or jormiston@berkshireschool.org To make an annual fund gift, please contact KRISTINA THAUTE MILLER ’97 at (413) 299-1223 or kmiller@berkshireschool.org.

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Berkshire School Archives C. TWIGGS MYERS, PROPRIETOR

Martians? Bears? Boys?

These girls are running from someone or something. Be the first to tell Mr. Myers who, why, what and when, and win an item of your choice from the Berkshire School Bookstore.

E-mail answers to bulletin@berkshireschool.org or write: Myers Mystery Contest, Berkshire Bulletin, Berkshire School, Sheffield MA 01257

AND LAST ISSUE’S WINNER IS...

BRAD JOHNSON ’72 of Henderson, Colorado, who was the first to correctly unscramble the following Berkshire legends. Also passing with flying colors were CHARLES FATUM ’57, HAWLEY ROGERS ’56, CHARLIE SMITH ’02, and former faculty and staff Rick Bellas, Deb Fries Pedraza, Em Putnam, David Sanborn, and Susan Young.

wilted and done=Del de Windt wee major tires=Marjorie Sweet my torn Berliner=Robert Minnerly my egg wrists=Twiggs Myers run, eye candy=Nancy Duryee ballot guilt=Bill Gulotta Roman declined=Irene McDonald paper divide=David Eipper keener pint=Peter Kinne crash tea=Art Chase

you sans gun=Susan Young I’ll buy beer=Bill Duryee chef of meat=Tom Chaffee call bikers=Rick Bellas fatten a biker=Frank Beattie warm, tan jackets=Jackman Stewart rank fen vests=Frank Stevens he wears glory=Hawley Rogers kept a rebel=Albert Keep ever back us=Seaver Buck

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From Advanced Placement art student Isabelle Cho ’09, now a freshman at Cornell University, “my impressions of buildings on campus that are subject to demolition.” The garden entrance of Glenny House (below) is a watercolor, while the hall in Memorial is mixed media.