Reflections Spring 2018

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IN THIS ISSUE: Celebrating the 15th Anniversary of Our Middle School

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MAGAZINE STAFF EDITOR Ashley Vogelsang Director of Marketing & Communications

EDITORIAL STAFF Sarah Walton Director of Development Chiara Peacock Assistant Director of Development Amy Berbert Multimedia Specialist Andrew Rutledge Development Database Manager Carly Slagel Coordinator of Alumni & Parent Relations

CONTRIBUTORS Matt Buck Head of Middle School Sarah Crowley Director of Academic Affairs Jay Parker Director of Student Life and Leadership Program Chiara Peacock Assistant Director of Development

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PHOTOGRAPHY Kristin Albright Waters Amy Berbert Robyn Brown Photography Brian Schneider Photography Brian Teitz Ashley Vogelsang

ADMINISTRATION Andrew Holmgren Head Master Elizabeth Martin Head of Lower School F. Matthew Buck ’87 Head of Middle School Sarah Crowley Director of Academic Affairs

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Celebrating 15 Years of our Middle School

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● Public Purpose

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● Parenting with Empathy

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● Going Green

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Teachers Learn About the World Firsthand

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Love in Bloom: Celebrating Calvert’s Married Couples

on the cover Head of Middle School Matt Buck ’87 walks with Middle School students Caroline Hoskins ’21 and Kai Gathers ’18.

Nicole Webster Director of Admission Sarah Walton Director of Development Tom Travers Director of Finance & Operations Denise Fiorucci Director of Human Resources Craig Luntz Director of Technology

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First Impressions

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Parents’ Association

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Calvert Fund Events

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Alumni Profiles

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Class Notes

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first impressions Message from Andrew B. Holmgren, Head Master

The addition of the Middle School was a natural extension of Virgil Hillyer’s Calvert, and the confirmation of his belief that “the first teaching is the most important of all.”

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n a recent letter to our families, I commented on the busyness of the Calvert experience for our boys and girls. It came at the end of a week that witnessed two Middle School plays, a National Championship in squash, and a school-wide day of community service. This was all layered onto the normal academic, athletic, and artistic activity of a typical week on the corner of Tuscany and Canterbury. The busyness of our program is intentional as we know that elementary and middle school students require multiple opportunities throughout the day to challenge themselves for the sake of growth. This is and always has been the story of Calvert. It is a place where young children can experience the richness of education that was once only thought appropriate for older students.

Fifteen years ago, Calvert opened the doors of Francis J. Carey Hall, the home to its new Middle School. In doing so, the School not only added a Seventh and Eighth Grade, but also committed itself to the Kindergarten through Eighth Grade model of educating young men and women. This structure of education provides significant opportunities for elementary and middle school students. It allows for self-exploration by providing a rich and varied program at all levels.

It provides suitable role models for our youngest students and leadership oppor-

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tunities for our oldest boys and girls. It provides a nurturing environment that allows our children to stumble and then teaches them how to rise again. All of this, of course, is laid firmly on the foundation of the strong academic skills that have defined the Calvert Way for well over a century. Started in our well-established Lower School, these skills are now reinforced and cemented into place as they fortify the more abstract and critical thinking that is developed in Seventh and Eighth Grade. The addition of the Middle School was a natural extension of Virgil Hillyer’s Calvert, and the confirmation of his belief that “the first teaching is the most important of all.”

In the pages that follow, you will learn more about the Middle School as it is today. It has been a long fifteen-year journey, but the program that has emerged is second to none, and, I believe, should be held in the same high regard as our excellent Lower School program.

Indeed, we are all fortunate to be a part of this one Calvert – forever committed to providing the best elementary and middle school education to our children.

Andrew B. Holmgren Head Master

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2017 - 2018 James B. Stradtner Chairman H. Ward Classen ’71, Vice Chairman and Secretary Edwin J. Insley Treasurer Patrick K. Cameron Curtis H. Campbell ’83 Felix J. Dawson Sarah Wesley N. Finnerty ’83 Mark L. Fulchino James R. Garrett ’55 Alex F. Gibson ’90 Ann M. Holcomb Gayle S. Kelly Heidi S. Kenny-Berman Konstantine B. Mallas (Dino) Redonda G. Miller, M.D. ●Courtney L. Otenasek Joshua R. Perry ’96 Amy T. Seto Matthew W. Wyskiel III ’81 Colston Young ’85 TRUSTEE EX-OFFICIO Andrew B. Holmgren TRUSTEE EMERITI Carville B. Collins ’73 E. Robert Kent Jr. Timothy L. Krongard ’76 John A. Luetkemeyer Jr. ’53 Robert J. Mathias Francis G. Riggs ’51

Board Briefing Ward Classen ’71 Selected as Next Chairman, Starting in the 2018-2019 School Year Recently, Ward Classen ʼ71 was elected to be the next Chair of the Calvert School Board of Trustees, succeeding longtime Chair Jim Stradtner who will retire from the Board on June 30.

Mr. Stradtner served the School for more than a decade, the past four years as Chair of the Board of Trustees. During his tenure, Jim led a number of important initiatives which have been critical to Calvert’s success, including hiring the present Head Master, Andrew Holmgren, completing the School’s ten-year strategic plan, executing a successful capital campaign, and significantly increasing financial aid. Jim’s leadership in the community, as well as his passion for Calvert, has contributed immensely to the School’s success.

Mr. Classen has been a Trustee since 2009, holding various leadership positions, and since 2016, serving as Secretary of the Board. Ward’s family has had a multigenerational relationship with Calvert as his father, brothers, and children all attended the School. Ward and his wife, Sibley, live in Ruxton. Their two children, Keena Classen ’05 and Pierce Classen ’07, reside in New York City. Ward’s favorite memories of Calvert are the many wonderful and caring teachers and beating Gilman in Twelfth Age football. Ward is an attorney who is General Counsel of Astea International Inc.

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Honoring the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. A Reflections Speech by Anna McGurkin ’18

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artin Luther King, Jr. once said “The ultimate measure of a person is not where he or she stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he or she stands at times of challenge and controversy." As we think about all the lessons that Dr. King taught us through his legacy, a significant one is the importance of standing up for what you believe in, even if it’s hard to do at the time.

Dr. King was a champion of the civil rights movement, and he challenged the establishment with peace and love, rather than resorting to violence and anger. "Love always prevails," he would say. And, just as our Calvert Pillars remind us here in school, there is no substitute for treating others with compassion, honor, and respect. That is what Dr. King did every day of his life.

Today I’m going to recount a pivotal moment in civil rights history, known as the 1968 Olympics Black Power Salute. It was a time when three Olympic champions put personal glory aside to stand up for what they believed was right.

In 1968, the country was experiencing hard times over difficult issues. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy had just been assassinated, and there were many protests about the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights movement. The Olympics were held in Mexico City that year, and two African American runners, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, were favored to do well in the track events.

They ended up winning the gold and bronze medals in the 200-meter sprint, and their peaceful protest during the medal ceremony became a heroic moment in history and a turning point in their lives.

Both men knew firsthand how hard it was to be black in America during this time. For example, John Carlos was born in Harlem, New York and was raised by two working-class parents. Before he became an amazing bronze medal runner, he wanted to be an Olympic swimmer. Everyone has a dream of what they want to be when they grow up and that was his, but despite his natural gift for swimming, he was unable to achieve his goal because the training facilities needed to become an Olympic swimmer were only open to white people. As a result of this barrier, he had to switch sports and decided to become a runner instead.

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Because they felt strongly about the civil rights movement, the athletes planned a peaceful protest for the Olympic medal ceremony. When John Carlos and Tommie Smith came to the podium to accept their medals, they wore beads and scarves around their necks to protest violence in the South and took off their shoes to protest poverty. After the medals were hanging around their necks, they raised one black-gloved fist as a sign of peaceful protest for equality of all Americans.

Although they are now known as heroes of the civil rights movement, they faced many bad repercussions at the time. They were booed by the audience and forced to leave the Olympic Stadium immediately.

They were kicked off the U.S. track team, and had their medals taken away. Even their families were punished, bombarded with hate mail and threats for simply standing up for what’s right. Despite all that happened to these men after the Olympics, they still took pride in their act of civil disobedience. As John Carlos said, “The bottom line is, if you stay home, your message stays home with you. If you stand for justice and equality, you have an obligation to find the biggest possible megaphone to let your feelings be known. Don’t let your message be buried and don’t bury yourself.” The image of those two men holding their fists in the air has been, and will continue to be, remembered for an eternity as it should be.

Although John Carlos and Tommie Smith are known worldwide for their bold statement at the Olympics, many people forget the third man who was on that platform. He was Peter Norman from Australia. He won the silver medal and stood beside the African Americans in peaceful protest, even though he was white and not from the United States, because he believed that what they were doing was right. He wore a civil rights badge on his chest like the other men, and although it was not as big a stand as John Carlos and Tommie Smith, he was still severely punished. He got kicked off his home country’s track team and was forbidden to compete in the 1972 Olympics. He is rarely remembered as one of the three men who stood up for equality. Through most of his life, he wasn’t given credit for his brave stand, and only after his death has he gotten recognition. He had the least to gain and a lot to lose; his support of his fellow athletes made him a true hero.

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As Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, “In the end, we will not remember the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” There are many cases in our world where people stand by silently and are unwilling to act, but Peter Norman was not one of them.

He was NOT a bystander; he was an upstander. All of us should take this lesson to heart.

make blankets with Ms. Catlin. When we showed up, there was Ms. Catlin and many families; all I remember is the fun I had laughing about the most random things with my mom and even though it felt like I had made a million blankets, I would have made a million more because I hoped when someone got that blanket they would feel the joy that I felt

We may not make quite as big an impact as Martin Luther King, Jr. but the little changes we make will help, and pave the way for others.

These three men stood up for what they believed in, rather than conforming to what was popular at the time. When they were little kids, they never thought that they would be figures of the Civil Rights movement, but then again I never thought I would be speaking at this event. I have seen this assembly nine times in total and when I see all of us together each year, I think to myself we are all leaders: each of us has an opportunity to make an impact on our world.

We may not make quite as big an impact as Martin Luther King, Jr., but the little changes we make will help and will pave the way for others.

At Calvert, I have had great teachers, amazing friends, and many experiences that have made me a better person, such as the MLK Day of Service. I remember one time when my mom and I came to

while making it. I am certainly not Tommie Smith, John Carlos or Peter Norman… but giving back is a small step, something each and every one of us can do, serving a greater Public Purpose.

Next year will be the first year in a decade that I will not be watching this assembly, and, well, it will be sad, but I cannot stay (because they’re making me leave). This school has made me a better person, a better leader, a better friend, and a better role model.

Even though I have a long way to go, I know my time here at Calvert will pave the way for great experiences in high school and beyond. As Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.”

Thank you.

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Reflection Speeches from the Class of 2018 As part of their Eighth Grade year, students are tasked with putting together a Reflection speech. Each week, students address the Middle School community with their personal stories of meaningful messages. Students work on their speeches over four weeks, collaborating closely with faculty mentors and speech coaches on a one-to-one basis.

Public speaking is an important skill to master as our students move into the world beyond Calvert. As we seek to empower each student with the tools to find success as speakers and leaders in the years ahead, this program provides an opportunity for our Eighth Graders to exemplify the spirit of the Calvert experience.

An excerpt from Pieter Heesters’ Reflection speech

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have played chess since I was five years old. Every time I play a game, I basically have to solve a new puzzle.

That is interesting to me. It, almost, never gets boring.

Benjamin Franklin said, “For life is a kind of chess which we often have points to gain, or competitors and adversaries to contend with.” Garry Kasparov, one of the best chess players ever, calls chess a “laboratory for the decision-making process.” It teaches you some of the things you need to make a good decision: “calculation, creativity, and a desire for results.”

The interesting part of the kind of calculation you have to do in chess is that it is not exactly like math. You are not just reasoning to one particular right answer. You are not solving a formula or writing a proof. Calculation in chess is like figuring out a map that keeps changing before your eyes. Maybe that is a lot like life too.

Success in life and chess are not completely in your control. But one wrong move does not equate to a loss.

I have learned from chess that it is important to work hard, not to give up, and how to deal with failure and success. I have learned that I can accept failure, but I cannot accept not trying to succeed.

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An excerpt from JK Kelly’s Reflection speech

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s the youngest of four siblings and one of 21 Kelly cousins, I have witnessed many changes. Even just in the last year, my sister, Jackie, started at the University of Maryland, my brother Stephen graduated from University of North Carolina, my brother Frankie got married, Stephen and Frankie both moved to Atlanta, and this year I am graduating from Calvert.

When we graduate this year, a lot of other things will change. We will no longer be Mighty Bees. We won’t be wearing blue polo shirts like we have for the last ten years. Next September, for the first time in ten years, we won’t be starting our day by shaking someone’s hand.

As Winston Churchill once said, “To improve is to change. To be perfect is to change often.” As I have watched my siblings and older cousins grow into successful people, I have realized it is because they are willing to embrace changes as they come and work hard to turn those changes into opportunities. Each of us will undergo changes in the coming year. I encourage you to embrace the changes, know that change is a necessary part of growing, and work hard to motivate yourself to make the most of these changes.

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An excerpt from Narimon Zamani’s Reflection speech

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n my life I have two types of different families. The first type of family that I have is in the United States. This family consists of my family at home and my Calvert family. My other type of family is my Iranian family.

In my day-to-day life, I have two parts to my day. The first part of the day consists of coming to school as your typical 14-year-old American boy. But, when I get home, that’s when my day changes. That’s when I become an Iranian-American. The vibes at home and at school are totally different. At home the other side of my life (the Iranian side) comes out. I speak Farsi with my parents, which is the language of Iran, if you didn’t know, and I eat different meals than you would probably eat for dinner.

Since I was born and have lived all my life in the U.S., I consider myself more American than Iranian. A big part of life here in the U.S. is my Calvert family. I have been at Calvert since Pilot Class and it has been a fun, bumpy nine years.

Having a diverse family has taught me a lot about life. Being able to see life through two different perspectives has allowed me to be thankful for what I have. It has taught me to cherish the friends and family that I have and Calvert has been one of those families for me.

» MENTOR: Mr. Ali

An excerpt from Ellen Salovaara’s Reflection speech

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have always been afraid of change. Whether it be a small change, such as a shift in routine, or a large one, like moving to a new place, change has always made me wary. I think if I’m perfectly content with the way things are now, why should they change?

When I was ready to start pre-k, my parents thought Calvert would be a good fit. When the day came for me to visit Calvert, my parents were very nervous as I did NOT like being handed off to strangers and was very shy.

It was all going well enough until it was time for testing with Ms. Pinkard. Apparently, I disliked change even as a three-year-old. I literally lay down on the floor in the Lower School library, kicking and screaming. Turns out, I needed another whole year to mature.

The next year rolled around and it was time to try again. Luckily, I wasn’t as afraid as before and I got into Calvert. I am so happy that I did! I learned that change is good, but you have to be ready for it.

Since that traumatic experience years ago, I continually find myself wishing for stability. As John F. Kennedy once said, “Change is the law of life, and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” My life will change very soon, as I head into high school. I’ll be honest: I am nervous, as I am so used to Calvert. But starting this new chapter in my life will bring new opportunities.

» MENTOR: Ms. Hazen

An excerpt from Charlotte Wight’s Reflection speech

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’m sure that everyone here has someone they look up to, whether it’s a friend, a teacher, a coach, or someone in your family. For me, that person is my brother, Neddy. Neddy is three years older than I am, and he’s a huge part of my life. From the day I was born, he knew we were going to be best friends. We fought a lot for years, but by the time we hit middle school we were inseparable, and we have been ever since. Throughout the years, he has taught me a lot, both from making mistakes together and just by watching him grow up.

He teaches me to be brave by making me do things I don’t want to do, like going on rollercoasters, meeting new people, and jumping into lakes.

But in the past few years, Neddy has taught me to be brave in a different way. Four years ago, he was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. Diabetes is one of the hardest diseases to live with, especially as a young athlete.

Over the past four years, my family has managed to create a world for Neddy where diabetes is only a minor detail in his life and he can feel very similar to other kids. He can drive me to school, he can play water polo, he can get me Chick- Fil- A, all while living with an incurable disease.

What I hope everyone takes from my speech today is that your relationships with your siblings are the longest relationships you will have in your life and I recommend that you do not take them for granted.

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1 Kayci Gathers ’24 shows off the apple she brought for her new teacher on the first day of the 2017-2018 school year.

2 The Middle School Gymnasium received a brand new floor last summer. To ready the floor for our athletes, it was refinished and an updated athletics seal was added as a finishing touch.

3 Decarlos Carter ’27 gives Head Master Andrew Holmgren a big smile along with his first handshake.

4 Head of Lower School Elizabeth Martin greets Milo Makowka ’27 with a handshake on his very first day as a Calvert student.

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5 Ashton Morgan ’18 helps guide Fifth Agers across Tuscany Road for the First Day of School Welcome Assembly. Responsibilities likes, this are one of the many leadership opportunities given to our Eighth Grade students.

6 Jordan Green ’22, Bria Hicks ’22, Lower School teacher Justine Forrester, Emerson Pruette ’24, and Helen DiGiovanni ’24 pose for a photo after completing the Bees for BARCS 5K run.

7 Bees for BARCS, a student-led fundraiser for the Baltimore Animal Rescue and Care Shelter (BARCS), was held in October. For the second year, our Middle School students rallied the community around this wonderful cause. Students raised nearly $3,000 for local animals in need.

8 Sixth Grade Dean Angel Menefee, her daughter Avery, and husband Ashton walk with their dog as part of the Calvert team.

9 Tenth Age girls enjoy a movie in the Luetkemeyer Planetarium during a science class.

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10 Seventh Grade students Catherine Zic, Robert Hall, and Westley Seba speak to our Lower School students about the importance of composting at an assembly.

11 Lower School student Saoirse Shah-Fricke ’25 takes part in the annual Lower School Halloween parade in her Minion costume.

12 Ian Robinson ’19 creates a mask in art class.

13 A.J. Cooper ’18 and George Constable ’18 play a history themed board game that they invented in Mr. Short’s Eighth Grade history class.

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14 Middle School students play in the third annual Honey Bowl, our intra-squad football game where Team Gold goes up against Team Black. This year, our Tenth Agers were invited to watch and participate in the event.

15 The Class of 2018 pose as a group outside of McFadden Art Glass, a glassblowing studio in the Canton neighborhood.

16 Annelise Olsen ’18 creates a glass sculpture during the Eighth Grade field trip to McFadden Art Glass.

17 Middle School math teacher, Owen Rossi, attempts to block Carina Beritela ’18 in the annual game of Faculty vs.

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18 Caroline McGraw ’24 and Will Anderson ’18 color together during this year’s Buddy Day. Buddy Day allows our Lower and Middle School students to spend time working side by side.

19 Elizabeth Martin, Head of Lower School, stamps Expedition Calvert passports for Miranda Evanko ’22 and Anna Powell ’22. Our geography program is not only educational, it is a big hit with our Lower School students.

20 Assistant Head of Lower School Paul Wareheim stamps Tenth Ager Zyon Ruffin’s passport during the “Journey to Canada” portion of Expedition Calvert.

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21 Tenth Agers Amaré Gladden, Jackson Angulo-Bartlett, Jansen Craig, and Alexander Zic give their all during the Hoppers vs. Crickets flag football game.

22 Our third annual Family Bingo Night was another success. Seventh Graders organized and led a night of fun for the entire community.

23 Tolliver Wyskiel ’19 spins the wheel and picks a number at Bingo Night.

24 Head of Middle School Matt Buck ’87 was a guest caller for the evening.

25 Seventh Age student Jaylen Jones ’25 shares his answers during Megan D’Andrea’s math class.

26 Cecilius the Mighty Bee, a crowd favorite, made a guest appearance during Family Bingo Night.

He is joined by Reese Woodworth ’19, Elle Gallia ’23, Jameson Exinor ’23, Tamia Exinor ’27, and Mackenzie Cheston ’21.

27 Ballerinas, Mehr Saluja ’25, Maggie Grigg ’26, Molly Brennan ’26, Hallie Dunmore ’25, and Campbell deVilliers ’26, stand at the ballet bar before their December recital. Ballet is offered as a Lower School After School Club.

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28 Tenth Age students communicate with students at Escuela Apostólica de Tlalpan in Mexico City via Skype as part of Expedition Calvert.

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The Mighty Bees of Calvert School are more than just our athletic mascot, they also live on campus. Behind our 2 Oak building, which is adjacent to our Middle School, are three beehives, and this year we produced our first batch of Calvert School Honey. Bottles of honey can be purchased in our School Store.

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29 Fifth Agers Scarlett Margerum ’27 and Toni Tegbe ’27 decorate holiday crafts during their class party.

30 Margaret Baker ’23 frosts holiday cookies along with her classmates.

31 Russell Wilke ’23, hidden behind a flowing Santa beard, and adorable elf Cian Connolly ’23 are dressed up for the Holiday Assembly.

Athletics Corner 32 Professional squash player David Cromwell ’08 returned to Baltimore for a squash tournament at Meadow Mill Athletic Club. While David was in town he met with our Fifth Grade Intramural Squash team.

33 Lauren Steer ’19 dribbles down court during a December home game against St. Paul’s School for Girls. The Mighty Bees defeated SPG with a score of 25 to 14.

34 Coach Holmgren gives Duncan Barnes ’20 some encouragement during a fall football game.

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CELEBRATING 15 YEARS Reflecting on the Past 15 Years of the Middle School Matt Buck ’87, Head of Middle School

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n the past year the Middle School has continued to see positive developments, as it reached its highest enrollment on record (240). A broad and varied program for Fifth through Eighth Grades serves the complex academic, athletic, and social-emotional needs of a thriving student body. At Calvert, a twelve-year-old can perform in a full-scale musical, compete in squash and tennis and ice hockey – interscholastically, and help design leadership events on grade council and present them in grade-level town halls or schoolwide assemblies. She can study algebra and introductory Latin, play the tenor saxophone and learn how to build robots.

He can sing in an a capella chorus, attend Lunch and Learn in the Lyceum to prep for a history test, and share slides and videos for Spanish class via Google Drive.

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and young adolescents. It is exciting to know that this flourishing program has been built on the foundation of hard work and careful design, accomplished by those charged with the planning of the Middle School fifteen years ago.

On January 29, 2003, Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Graders walked down the freshlypaved sidewalk ramp from the newly-titled Lower School to Calvert’s Middle School, an expansive, state-of-the-art school building, its wall-to-wall windows gleaming in the mid-winter sun. Eighty twelveyear-olds and their teachers entered through its lower doors and walked past its stunning lobby mosaic. Fifteen years later, the building is still gleaming, outside and in, while hundreds of boys and girls pile its halls.

Today, students and teachers appreciate that Francis J. Carey Hall is designed perfectly for the developmental needs of Middle Schoolers. A “tour” of our building and through our campus demonstrates this.

Fifteen years after Calvert’s Middle School began, its well-appointed physical space and the people charged with carrying out its mission are flourishing in harmony.

First, the grounds themselves: two excellent athletic fields enfold the red brick and glass building; the upper one, Krongard Field, a premier, full-length game field, given in honor of Alvin B. "Buzzy" Krongard by his sons. With endless, plush grass, this field is ideal for running and chasing down soccer and lacrosse balls, Calvert’s perennial tackle football, and even for makeshift track and field in the spring.

Woods, filled with red-tailed hawk and fox, buffer the fields and edges of the campus, deep enough for a game of tag or for exploring. The magnificent “Molly’s Garden,” a memorial gift from the Harris family, bursting with bloom in all four seasons, accents the lower wooded area on one side, while Virgil Hillyer’s Arts & Crafts-style Castalia estate sits on the opposite side. In between, a spacious asphalt circle with four

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square and basketball courts provides a hardtop for two outdoor recesses per day, plus a second field beyond, all carved out of a canyon that drops from the upper corners of campus at Charles Street and Warrenton Road, and rolls down toward the base of the hill at Tuscany and Stoneyford Roads. This field is Brown Field, given by the Riggs family in honor of former Head Master Edward Brown.

A tributary creek leading to Stoney Run and, eventually, the Jones Falls, babbles through Mollie’s Garden, beneath a slate patio with a breathtaking Pegasus sculpture. Both the creek and the winged horse statue make excellent settings for our Sixth Grade history class in ancient civilizations,

where imaginings include the Nile River in Egypt as well as Greek mythology. Hillyer’s, now Holmgren’s home, Castalia, is so named for the marvelous water nymph who outran Apollo the sun god only to find herself turned into a spring. The woods, streams, gardens—all of it—create ideal outdoor learning spaces in mild weather.

Like Calvert’s iconic Lower School, Francis J. Carey Hall was designed without interior passageways. Floor to ceiling glass windows flank every hallway and classroom. Natural light pours into the building at all hours, particularly on the southern exposure, facing the Lower School, in winter. The sun fills the inside. Whatever the weather, mesmerizing views are available

at a glance—of the outdoors, the grounds, the Lower School. Architecturally, it is clear that every effort has been made to bring the outside in.

Students are dropped off in the morning at a spacious traffic circle, the spoke in the wheel of fields, patios, garden, paths.

They enter a large, open lobby with room for handshaking, greeting and gathering, careful displaying of lost and found and for the hanging of portraits of past graduating classes along an illuminated wood paneled wall. What students carry with them provides a sense of the range of activity presented to our Middle Schoolers each day.

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quet and trumpet case passing through our doors each morning. A program of early exercise in squash and ice hockey, not to mention early rehearsals for music ensembles, occupy scores of students before school, freshening minds and bodies for productive days.

The lower lobby is the Grand Central Station of the Middle School. Large groups pass easily through on their way out the exit doors to two outdoor recesses per day, or down the hall to a variety of classes such as science, music, physical education, or art. The lower lobby is also home to the France-Merrick Atrium, which provides dining services such as a daily healthy snack or full-service lunch. Lastly, the newest addition, the Anne A. McLanahan Leutkemeyer '27 Assembly Hall, is on the lower level adjacent to the Atrium.

to thirty brass, woodwind, and percussion players in the Fifth and Sixth Grades took center stage for an evening holiday concert in early December, with over 200 family and friends in attendance.

Turning east from the lower lobby toward the Luetkemeyer House, we enter the heart of community space in the Middle School.

The Black Box Theater’s multiple uses feature small-scale productions such as twiceyearly Shakespeare plays by our Seventh Grade and puppet shows in Fifth, in addition to video production in Eighth Grade and drama skills classes in Sixth. The BBT also is home to set design as well as props and costume departments for all plays and especially the full-scale winter musical,

now in its fourth year. Framed programs of all Middle School productions since 2003, including the recent musicals Oklahoma!, Shrek Jr., Grease, and this year’s The Lion King Jr., adorn the lobby wall adjacent the BBT doors.

On the way to the art studio, we pass through another light-filled, window-walled hallway. The visual art space is large enough to contain an instructional setting for teaching and demonstrations, work tables, plentiful cabinetry, and counters for storage and supplies, as well as deep closets and a kiln room, even a bank of 20 sewing machines. A skylight lets in the morning sun. Students move about the space effortlessly, fetching supplies and

Students making their way to the athletic locker rooms to drop off gear bags or change from before-school ice hockey or squash practice pass by three tidy science labs, including an engineering space with high butcher block tables, whiteboard paint, and ample cubbies for storing projects and materials, and the world’s largest ant farm-designate. Later in the day, they might find themselves further down the hall in the light-filled music room, which has been thoughtfully organized with racks of guitars and ukuleles, sturdy music stands and chairs, and spacious wooden risers for choral singing. This year at Calvert, we have been pleased to begin the school’s first instrumental concert band. Twenty-five

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designing projects in their popular “open studio” time granted by the teacher for a portion of the hour-long, twice-weekly class during their semester course each year. Emphasis is on mindful creativity and personal expression, buttressed by instruction in the fundamental skills of drawing, painting, and sculpture.

The France-Merrick Atrium is as ideal a place to gather and eat as can be imagined.

Thirty-foot-high vaulted glass ceilings mean artificial lighting is rarely necessary. Our view looks down the canyon past brick patios and beds of flowering bushes to the fields and trees beyond. Round tables encourage social sharing over lunch

and snack. Recent renovations to the servery allow large groups to flow quickly and easily in front of salad, sandwich, and soup stations, as well as a cafe market-style hot food entree. Both the size and layout of the serving area give the feeling of special quality, individual choices and preferences, and design of options to meet the fancies of one’s own palate—all in contrast to an institutional cafeteria. At all other times, the Atrium serves as a pleasing and useful space to facilitate groups, meetings, and workshops.

Tucked behind the Atrium is the centerpiece of our community engagement and leadership programming, a 250-seat

assembly hall, completed in 2013 with the support of the Luetkemeyer Family. In the premier meeting space of the school at large, students and teachers come together twice per week as an entire Middle School to hear Reflection speeches by Eighth Graders, student committee presentations, faculty talks, and entertainment including vocal and instrumental music and short dramatic scenes. This is where we meet one another and begin to know each other better and strengthen our relationships. As is true of any Calvert student audience, much is learned through auditory processing, and whether in Fifth or Eighth Grade, students prove themselves adept at listening

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First MS musical Group travels abroad to Barcelona, Spain, and Provence

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actively. Individual grade levels visit the Leutkemeyer Assembly Hall for morning Town Halls.

And we’ve covered only the ground level of the Middle School! Up the main staircase we find the academic heart of the school: 16 general classrooms with large display boards and readily movable furniture for both individual and cooperative work.

Each grade level is arranged by wing on the second and third floors; Sixth below Seventh, Eighth above Fifth. Most pleasing is climbing between floors and moving quickly from the high-pitched buzz of eleven-year-olds to the walking giants— some six feet tall already—of the Eighth Grade lounge.

Grade-level halls are lined with handsome, well-apportioned, pine-faced lockers, abbreviated by broad lounges with room for dignified yet simple, sturdy furniture for informal gathering for students. A departmental office houses subject area teachers, workspace, while grade level

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deans have a close view of things from their corner offices at the end of the hall.

The Fifth Grade in their gender-specific homerooms, similar to their days in the Lower School, are situated directly across via hanging ramp above the Atrium from the library and learning center, called the “Lyceum,” which was supported by the families of the Class of 2016. Both are warm, carefully furbished rooms on the second floor of the Luetkemeyer House.

These inviting, student-centered spaces welcome over 100 students per day who simply drop in for academic support.

Bricks and mortar alone do not make a school. We are pleased to boast a faculty filled with highly-experienced middle school educators, as well as promising new talent. In terms of recruitment, the last several full-time hires are teachers with ten or more years of full-time middle school classroom experience. All teachers participate in a cohort system of faculty professional growth. Our teachers are highly-skilled and caring adult guides, in

tune with the social and emotional needs of this developmental group. And what is more, they’re amazing people with diverse talents and interests: parents, partners, championship cyclists, accomplished cooks and gardeners, outdoor enthusiasts, published poets, practicing musicians, galleried artists, curriculum designers, multilingual speakers, world travelers, academic doctorates, athletic trainers, math specialists, marathon runners, Civil War buffs, coaches, advisors, and much, much more.

The Middle School faculty places a premium on knowing our students well and supporting them. For fifteen years, this emphasis has been a constant.

And we would not be in a position to do this work were it not for the excellent foundations in learning and mastery of basic skills given to our students by their Lower School teachers.

On behalf of the faculty, I wish a hearty Happy Birthday to our community, present and past.

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A Member of the Middle School’s First Class A Spotlight on Margaret Comer ’04

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he Class of 2004 was the first to graduate from Calvert’s Middle School. Margaret Comer ’04, who was a member of that first graduating class, now resides in England. Margaret is a PhD student in archaeology (heritage studies) at the University of Cambridge. She received her MPhil in Archaeology (Archaeological heritage and museum studies) from the University of Cambridge and her BA in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley.

former gulag system and the Great Terror. She is generally interested in contested memories and memorializations of twentieth-century terror in Eastern and Central Europe. Again, Calvert played a pivotal role in her academic path. “My work now focuses on contemporary Russia and its memories of the Soviet Union. Mr. Shawen really sparked my love for that area. Iʼm eternally grateful to him for the early exposure to Soviet primary sources and the Russian language.”

Calvert gave me the tools to be a successful writer and thinker.

Margaret attributes her strength in writing and her analytical ability to the education she received at Calvert. “Calvert gave me the tools to be a successful writer and thinker. My ʻjobʼ now is largely made up of reading and writing. I honestly appreciate Calvertʼs emphasis on composition, reading, and grammar. Because I experienced this intense program means that, whatever missteps I might make in my thinking, I never have to worry that my writing is technically poor or incomprehensible. This is such a crucial (and often lacking) skill in academia, and I have to credit Calvert for the foundation it gave me.”

Currently, Margaret’s doctoral research focuses on Soviet repression at sites in Russia connected to the

The Middle School’s first graduating class was composed of only 11 students. Margaret recalls, “It was such a tiny group! After also attending a small high school, Iʼve definitely gravitated to larger universities and cities for a change in dynamic. Although I didnʼt fully appreciate it at the time, the minuscule class sizes with outstanding teachers were a huge privilege. It was also fun to be the first group in a school and city that values tradition so much; watching and even participating in the creation of new traditions was a unique opportunity.”

Her favorite memory is easy for her to recall: “Space Camp!”

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PUBLIC PURPOSE AT

CALVERT SCHOOL

By Jay Parker, Director of Student Life

During a recent All-School Assembly to celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., we were reminded of his timeless quotation, “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’”

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ver the years, Calvert has expanded for community service opportunities to continually empower students and make a more significant difference. We have given back to the community around us, both locally here in Baltimore and abroad to the greater world. We strive to support those who are less fortunate and build empathy in the process.

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In recognition of our mission to increase service learning opportunities at Calvert, on September 28 the school hosted the first annual Association of Maryland Independent Schools (AIMS) Building Partnerships Workshop. Many independent schools came to the event, as well as non-profit organizations from the Baltimore area, including Paul’s Place, Civic Works, BARCS, and the Baltimore Hunger Project. The event’s primary purpose was to inform others how vital community service is to our world and what impact it makes on others while encouraging student leadership. This event

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included many of our students and set a wonderful, collaborative tone for our year.

Fall Food Drive In October, Calvert hosted a Fall Food Drive to collect food to donate to the Baltimore Hunger Project. The drive lasted a full week, and we received over $5,000 worth of food. On Halloween, the entire Fifth Grade set aside their morning to pack these items into weekend food packs for area students.

Winter Toy Drive During the week of December 4th through 8th, Calvert hosted the Winter Toy Drive; hundreds of thoughtful gifts were delivered to our partners at Hampden Family Center and Paul’s Place.

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Project Puerto Rico October also brought Project Puerto Rico, inspired by the Peel Family, parents of Geoffrey ’16, Justin ’20, and Ryan ’22. The Sixth Grade collectively organized a drive to collect items for hurricane relief in Puerto Rico on their own and with funds raised during Calvert’s Family Bingo Night. Additionally, two student-organized fundraisers raised $1,400, and over 1000 items were donated to Bags of Love for this initiative.

Bees for BARCS On October 28, the Mighty Bees cheered, ran and walked to raise money for BARCStoberfest, an annual charity event that supports the Baltimore Animal Rescue and Care Shelter. Over $2,750 was raised to help the animals at BARCS. Once again, there was “bee fever” in Patterson Park, as over 70 community members showed up in full force.

Eighth Grader Pieter Heesters and Middle School Learning Resource Coordinator Kait Gentry won their respective race categories!

Fifth Grade’s Campaign for Water In December, the Fifth Grade celebrated another successful Campaign for Water. This service initiative is in partnership with The Water Project, a global non-profit organization. The mission of The Water Project is to educate schools worldwide on the water crisis in sub-Saharan Africa. Through their work, they advocate for clean drinking water and build wells with fundraising proceeds. The Fifth Grade Campaign for Water is a multidisciplinary study that couples service learning, a study of water pollution in Science class, and the book A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park read in English class.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service On Monday, January 15, Calvert hosted its ninth annual Martin Luther King Jr. Service Day. We made cards for troops, blankets for senior adults, and completed outreach work for meaningful organizations such as Our Daily Bread and Sarah’s Hope. Over 250 Calvert families, students, and teachers set aside their day to give back and live Dr. King’s legacy.

As Dr. King reminds us, “The time is always right to do what is right.” This is a message to live by and consider each day as we look to build a culture of service in every grade and every student.

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PARENTS’ ASSOCIATION 2017-2018

Calvert School Parents’ Association

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Torie Getschel Secretary

The Calvert School Parents’ Association (CSPA) connects the parents of current students to campus news, events, and each other. Every parent is a member of the Association. Last year, the CSPA sponsored several special programs to welcome grandparents and special friends, to keep our parents informed and the lines of communication open, and—most important—to ensure our community stays connected and has fun while doing so. If you are interested in taking on a leadership role within the CSPA, please contact Carly Slagel at cslagel@calvertschoolmd.org or (410) 243-6054 ext. 173.

Courtney Brody Brooke Farzad Lower School Class Rep. Coordinators

Parent Coffees

John DeLong President Jennifer Thompson Vice President

Sally Hoskins Amber Wilke Middle School Class Rep. Coordinators

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COMMITTEE CHAIRS Nicki Boudreau Henryka Craig Used Uniform Chairs Crissy Berrier Catherine Thomas Burnett ’81 Grandparents’ Day Chairs Kat Donohue Lindsay Moore McGettigan ’97 A Night on the Town Holly Coady (Lower School) Jennifer Kennedy (Middle School) Faculty/Staff Appreciation Chairs Lori Bourne Tom Blanchard Calvert Day 2019 Chairs

1 Head Master Holmgren speaks with Fifth and Sixth Age parents at the very first Parent

Coffee located in 2 Oak Place. Each grade had the opportunity to meet and speak with the Head Master and other school administrators in a small seting.

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2 Elizabeth Martin, Head of Lower School, addresses a gathering of Ninth and Tenth Age Parents.

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3 Tenth Age students take a final curtain call

for their parents and grandparents following the 2017 Grandparentsʼ & Special Friends’ Day performance.

4 Tenth Ager Bria Hicks, joined by her

grandparents, beams happily following the show.

5 Eighth Ager Celia Irby gets a big hug from her grandmother after the performance.

6 Julia and Liam Foley with their father and grandparents at the reception for Tenth Age families.

7 Alexis Grodin interview her grandfather in her Eighth Age classroom.

8 Still wearing face paint from the play, Sixth Ager Jace Conyer, gets a hug with his grandfather.

9 Teddy Murphy, Eighth Age, fills out his

worksheet diligently as his grandmothers look on.

10 Fifth Ager Naveed Tabrizchi, with his

grandmother, proudly displays his family drawing.

11 Solomon Barkus sits perched on his grandfather’s knee. This Eighth Age family makes a happy trio.

12 Our talented Lower School Music Teacher, Letitia Elliot, accompanies the Eighth Age Sing-a-Long.

13 These Eighth Age girls concentrate intently during their recorder performance.

14 A stage full of adorable Fifth and Sixth Agers act

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Parenting with Empathy

By Sarah Crowley, Director of Academic Affairs

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arenting literally means to bring forth. By definition, then, even if we are not a child’s primary caretaker, it is possible that we “parent” many times over. My goal here is to uncover and examine how understanding certain aspects of neural development can impact the parenting we do.

I have spent the past twenty-three years working closely with parents—as a classroom teacher at the elementary level and as an academic counselor working with families of children from five-to eighteen-years old. “Peter” was a fourteen-year-old boy who was a frequent visitor to my office. Peter was open to receiving support, and during our meetings I came to know Peter as self-deprecating, confident, socially savvy, engaging, and easily warm. I learned quickly that his parents’ experience of Peter was quite different; in a moment of exasperation, they described him to me as arrogant, withdrawn, sullen, and even hostile. I witnessed this firsthand

introspection. Introspection is a sort of meta-awareness of our own emotional state.

Before we can imagine someone else’s emotional experience, we must first allow our brains to take in the sensory information that then allows us to essentially create that same emotional state within ourselves.

Why is this important? In discussions around empathy, we often skip the implications of this essential step. Empathy is

Empathy, then, is not just about taking care of others. At its most elegant, empathy necessitates taking care of ourselves and others. when Peter’s parents accompanied Peter to a meeting. This young man, who showed the most elegant of social graces in our private meetings, became a Bizarro version of the person I knew in the presence of his parents.

In my recent talk, The Roots of Empathy: Using our Brains to Parent with Heart, we uncovered all the intricacies, the whims, and fancies of the adolescent brain. Today, my goal is to shed some light on and understanding of neural development from utero through adolescence and to explain how the early attachments that are formed in infancy and beyond continue to impact the dynamics of the parent-child relationship throughout development. More than that, if we are informed of some of the neuro-biology in how the human brain forms these attachments, we are more likely to understand our own inevitable roles and the impact we have on those dynamics.

We are co-creators of all our relationships. How then can we use the information available to us through current research to influence and optimize our dynamics with our own children?

Empathy is the ability to witness someone else’s experience and imagine their emotional state. In February, we uncovered the often overlooked phenomenon that our ability to empathize—as parents or simply as people with a wide range of relationships—requires

not selfless. Even more, parenting is not a selfless act. To the contrary, parenting requires an awareness of our full selves. We must allow that we are having our own experience in our relationships with our children. Empathy, then, is not just about taking care of others. At its most elegant, empathy necessitates taking care of ourselves and others.

I think back to Peter’s mother who one day called to say, “I know you told me I need to be nice to Peter’s amygdala, but I am so furious that he didn’t turn in his English paper!” And that is the crux of the issue. Parenting with empathy does not mean sublimating our own feelings. Parenting with empathy does not mean holding our breath and making sure we never upset a child in our care. Our children will misstep and we must step in and fulfill our parental responsibilities.

The question is how? If we understand the neuroscience behind why our three-year-old is inconsolable during a tantrum, or why our thirteen-year-old becomes surly or hostile when asked a seemingly banal question such as, “Do you have a lot of homework tonight,” then perhaps we can use that understanding to shift the underlying dynamics between ourselves and the children we love in powerful and effective ways.

To view Sarah Crowley's talk in its entirety, visit www.calvertschoolmd.org/empathy.

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Each fall, The Calvert Fund officially launches with an event that provides a welcome opportunity for the School to thank our volunteers. This year, Calvert Fund Chairs Greg and Betsey Swingle Hobelmann ’87 are spearheading our fundraising efforts. Our team of volunteers consists of parents, alumni, grandparents, trustees, and faculty and staff. We are grateful to these nearly 100 volunteers and to all of the generous donors who support giving. The effort is truly a collective one, and we recognize how fortunate our students and teachers are to be the beneficiaries of a philanthropic community like Calvert.

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1 Fifth Age Girls Chairs Eric and Holly Jackson enjoy the lovely fall evening.

2 Calvert Fund Chairs Greg and Betsey Swingle

Hobelmann ’87 prepare to kick off the festivities with their remarks.

3 Calvert Fund Vice Chairs Chris and Peter Espenshade are ready to take the reins as Chairs next year.

4 Sherry and Fred Wilke, Grandparent Committee

members. Sherry always lends a welcome hand at our Phonathons.

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5 Alumnus and parent Charlie Constable ’82, a member of the Class of 2018 Class Gift Committee, catches up with Charles Schnee, Seventh Grade Girls Chair.

6 Alumni Committee members Lindsay Moore

McGettigan ’97, Blake Sheehan ’00, and Kait Gentry ’97 are always happy to help out with our annual fundraising.

7 Calvert Fund Trustee Chair and parent Courtney Otenasek addresses the guests.

8 Heidi Kenny-Berman, Trustee, and Steve Berman are loyal supporters and volunteers for The Calvert Fund each year.

9 Michelle Kim and Greg Laird are happy to be joining their fellow Parent Chairs. They are representing the Seventh Age Girls this year.

10 This year’s Seventh Age Boys Parent Class Chairs

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Arielle Harry-Bess and Herlen Bess are happy to be part of this year’s team.

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Each year, our Calvert Fund Leadership volunteers help jumpstart our fundraising by reaching out to the community.

Our phonathons, held during the Fall Drive and on Giving Tuesday, are extremely well attended and continue to yield terrific results.

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11 A group of dedicated volunteers makes calls during the Fall Phonathon.

12 Fifth Grade Girls Chair and alumna Cathy Chen ’87 is hard at work alongside Albert Polito, Banner Society Committee member and former Calvert Fund Chair.

13 Peter Espenshade, Calvert Fund Vice Chair, happily takes a pledge.

14 Tenth Age Boys Chair Julie Vaughn volunteers her evening to help with The Calvert Fund.

15 Grandparent Pat Palm is one of our consistent callers.

We are lucky to have the skills of this former director of development on our team.

16 Alumni Committee Member Stasia Thomas

Nardangeli ’93 makes a call while Trustee Chair and parent Courtney Otenasek enjoys a break between calls. It’s not all work and no play!

17 Mike Creasy helped out as Ninth Age Boys Chair.

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In October, Calvert held a Corporate Breakfast to thank and recruit corporate sponsors to partner with us in support of the fundraising event A Night on the Town: An Auction in Support of Calvert’s Teachers. The group of corporate partners was already robust in the fall, and the breakfast yielded even more individuals and organizations eager to help with the important mission of faculty support.

Calvert was fortunate to have Scott Plank of War Horse Cities address the group, and we are grateful for his company’s sponsorship.

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18 Board of Trustees Chair Jim Stradtner and Director of Development Sarah Walton pose with current parents Adrianne Carroll and Lori Bourne.

19 Trustee and long-time parent Ned Insley chats with

parent Kesha Jones. Kesha is owner and CEO of KJ Consulting, which is one of our generous event sponsors.

Kesha is also an Event Committee member.

20 Head of Lower School Elizabeth Martin, Sixth Age

Girls Chair Kirsten Sandberg, Calvert Fund Chair Betsey Swingle Hobelmann ’87, and parent Abby Holmes stand before a backdrop of paintings from the Charles B. Reeves, Jr. ’35 Art Collection.

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Ken Mangum is joined by Alan Garten, who manages the estate of late Dorothy Atkinson ’40. The Dorothy Atkinson Foundation has given Calvert generous support.

22 Committee members Caroline Torba Moore, parent, and alumna Katie Mastropieri ’06 are enjoying themselves.

23 Corporate Breakfast Sponsor Tyler Banks of Charm City Builders spends some time with A Night on the Town Co-Chair Kat Donohue Feinberg.

The valedictorians.

The leads in school plays.

The team captains.

The class presidents.

They all have one thing in common:

THEY WENT TO CALVERT SCHOOL FIRST. Come see where the journey starts. www.calvertschoolmd.org/visit

An independent lower and middle school for boys and girls. www.calvertschoolmd.org • 105 Tuscany Road, Baltimore, MD 21210

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GOING GREEN

By Jay Parker, Director of Student Life

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n the fall of 2016, a group of Calvert School Sixth Grade students volunteered for an interesting leadership challenge: to co-write a Baltimore Gas and Electric (BGE) Green Grant proposal alongside teachers and Calvert’s Director of Development, Sarah Walton. The parameters were broad and vast. The students were tasked only with creating a sustainability initiative under $10,000 that would benefit the whole school and make a lasting difference to the Calvert community. But where to start? These now Seventh Graders share how they made going green a reality.

“In April, Mr. Parker approached us with a cool opportunity to make a real difference at school. Our student team had helpful meetings with Mrs. Forrester, Mr. McGraw, and Mrs. Walton and started to brainstorm ideas for an addition to Calvert’s Green Schools program. After many ideas and discussions around cost, academic outcomes, and student involvement, we settled on taking on a Greening Lunch goal. We wanted a grant proposal where all students could learn and be active together. And, something that could grow each year. We knew earning the grant would help to improve the school by making it a healthier community

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and bringing students from both the Lower and Middle School together. In August, we discovered we had been awarded $6,000 from BGE, we were all so excited to see our work becoming something real,” reflects Julia Powell.

Robert Hall and Jacob King provide more information on their solution and plan. “Greening lunch begins with reducing the amount of waste created at each meal. Our solution was to host a once-a-month composting day. This began this past fall [2017].

Our first few composting days have been a success in the Lower and Middle Schools. But, in order to be successful, we needed to educate all the students about what compost is and why it helps reduce waste. In both divisions, we had a lot of fun leading silly, but informative, assemblies. It was not only successful when students recognized that compost bins are only for vegetables and fruits, but also when we had teachers dress up as bananas and carrots. We weren’t totally sure we reached everyone at first. But then the Fifth and Sixth Agers were having so much fun eating as much fruit as possible at snack one day just so they could put it in our bin. In fact, we ended up with 40 pounds from just one day.”

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Another key piece of going green is the addition of a community garden on campus. Catherine Zic and Wes Seba share their vision, “Our idea also involved establishing a community garden located across from the 2 Oak building. Mr. Chenoweth and Ms. Lears helped make the garden a reality, and the winter crops are already growing. The compost from lunch could ultimately be used to fertilize our crops, and we could use the garden as an educational tool for science classes, both for growing plants and living green. We also wanted to ensure that Lower School students are involved in the composting as well as the new garden, so that it is not just the Middle School students who are involved. By teaching the Lower School students about how composting works, we've helped them understand how they are helping. We are excited that for years to come Sixth Grade science classes will use the garden for their peer education sessions. The first session will begin during Earth Week this April.”

Yasmine Worley looks to the future and how the garden will be an even more inclusive part of Calvert’s ecosystem. “Although

the grant only stated we would create an educational garden and compost system, we realized after a few meetings that a great way to get all the students involved would be through community arts projects. Simply, we want art that has been crafted by all ages. That’s what community is all about, coming together as a whole. This garden really shows the bond throughout the grades and that will become even more evident as it starts to blossom this spring. The garden area will include colorful mosaics and signage from Lower School art classes with help from Mrs. Thompson, a sign designed by Seventh Grader Inti Prada Enzmann, and a large bee-inspired mural created by Ms. Leonard, Seventh Grader Mariana Garza, and a team of Middle School volunteers. It is going to be a lot of work, but well worth it.”

The Calvert “Green Team” was recognized at the BGE Green Grants Award ceremony last fall, and they will continue to watch their idea flourish through the spring and beyond as they apply for another grant and continue on their mission to green our school.

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Five Calvert Teachers Learn About the World Firsthand This past summer, five fortunate Calvert teachers had life-changing travel experiences and were immersed in their subject area by going to the source.

These teachers were awarded travel grants made possible by generous alumni who have established endowed funds designated for faculty travel.

These grants keep our teachers learning and growing throughout their careers and, by doing so, enhance their teaching.

Each year, our teachers have the opportunity to apply for these grants. Few independent schools in the country—let alone K-8 schools—provide the varied and exciting travel enrichment opportunities for their teachers that Calvert does. Through travel, our teachers gain a deeper and richer understanding of the material they teach, and they bring this new knowledge directly back to the classroom.

EUROPE JUSTIN SHORT Eighth Grade history teacher Justin Short traveled to Europe to see battlefields, museums, cemeteries, and other sites associated with World War I and World War II. “I have read about the World Wars since I myself was a middle schooler, and to be on the very grounds where they were waged was incredibly powerful,” Short says. “I am quite grateful to Calvert for making this wonderful opportunity possible.”

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UNITED STATES NATIONAL PARKS TIMIKA TYSON Fifth and Sixth Age science teacher Timika Tyson, who traveled to a variety of National Parks, met her goal of finding creative ways to expand Calvert’s outdoor education program in the primary years. “My trip has provided me with new ideas for generating overall enthusiasm, interest, and curiosity about nature through National Parks.”

AFRICA BRIAN MASCUCH Brian Mascuch, a Fifth Grade homeroom teacher who teaches about the African continent, spent time in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Zambia. Brian shares, “The most meaningful aspect of my trip was engaging with the people of the region, and the major highlight of my trip was visiting Soweto.” There, Brian learned about a program that supports local students by providing meals, tutoring, and use of a computer lab. The program—which has received international recognition—was started by several high schoolers and integrates well with Calvert’s own community service program.

PERU SANDRY SACHAR Sandry Sachar, Seventh and Eighth Grade Spanish teacher, who has taught at Calvert for close to fifteen years, spent several weeks in Peru. “During this traveling seminar in Peru’s Andes, I expanded my sense of purpose and then worked collaboratively with other teachers to build purpose-based curriculum to bring back to our schools,” states Sandry. “To inform our work, we used tools such as guided reflection, mindfulness, and interviews with community leaders. We worked with NGOs, lived with homestay families, hiked, and visited Machu Picchu.”

INDIA JUSTINE FORRESTER Justine Forrester, an Eighth Age homeroom teacher, traveled to Northern India to experience the highlights of Indian culture: cuisine, architecture, religion, history, and handicrafts. She sums up the benefits of faculty travel perfectly: “One of the incomparable benefits of spending time traveling abroad is having the opportunity to wholly immerse yourself in another culture and ‘live it’ rather than just observe it. Being in a country for an extended period of time removes all inhibitions to try something new. You can taste regional dishes, partake in religious services, dress according to local custom, use unfamiliar transportation, and attempt to employ a bit of the language—all because it is all simply the way of life in that country, and it soon feels natural to adopt some of the cultural practices around you. ‘Living it’, even temporarily, is the most authentic way to learn about and then be equipped to teach about another part of the world.”

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Ready, Set...

Go! READY

to provide an exceptional education to our boys and girls.

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to raise $1,050,000 for The Calvert Fund this school year.

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support Calvert School by making a gift today!

Calvert Students are well prepared to go out into the larger community and accomplish great things as intellectually curious individuals, selfless contributors, and influential leaders.

BECAUSE OF YOU. This year’s Calvert Fund campaign began on July 1, 2017.

To make a gift, please visit www.calvertschoolmd.org/give

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ALUMNI BOARD OF GOVERNORS

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Alumni Events Spring/Summer 2018 Join Calvert School at one of our upcoming receptions General Alumni Board Meeting Tuesday, April 24, 2018 Calvert Middle School All Alumni are Welcome!

Rachel Arnot Rockwell ’91 President Clemmie Miller ’81 Vice President Lexie Rich Mills ’90 Treasurer Chris Davis ’94 Secretary MEMBERS Hill Michaels ’51 Peter Schweizer ’58 Kieran Fox ’79 Catherine Thomas Burnett ’81 Laura Killebrew Finney ’81 Chase Martin ’90 George Mumford ’90

Alumni & Reunion Weekend Thursday, May 10 – Saturday, May 12, 2018 Calvert School Celebration details and invitation forthcoming

Our Strategic Focus The mission of the Calvert School Alumni Association is to maintain alumni interest in and support of Calvert School and to enhance alumni involvement in the School. That vision was built into an alumni strategic plan, which was put into place last summer after an all-alumni survey and a half-day planning session with several key stakeholders. The plan focuses on engagement and connections, and it emphasizes the importance of maintaining lifelong relationships between Calvert and its alumni community.

One of the priorities of the strategic plan was adding regional members to the Alumni Board. Doug Carpenter ’99 is representing the New York City area and Meredith GoodCohn ’07 is helping with the School’s Washington, D.C. outreach. In addition to Doug and Meredith, the Alumni Board welcomed four new members to the Board this year, Peter Scheizer ’58, Annie Wu ’01, Olivia Verbic ’15, and Celia Donner ’16.

Rachel Arnot Rockwell ’91 is completing her final year as Alumni Board President.

We are grateful to Rachel for her time, effort, and leadership over the past two years.

Clemmie Miller ’81, the Alumni Board’s Vice President, will assume the role as Alumni Board President, effective July 1, 2018.

Stasia Thomas Nardangeli ’93 John Avirett ’95 Robert Law ’95

ALUMNI BOARD PROFILES

Matt Novak ’95

Calvert School proudly welcomed six new members to the Alumni Board in September 2017. These new members were chosen for their dedication and enthusiasm for education and for Calvert.

Doug Carpenter ’99 Matt Councill ’99 Blake Sheehan ’00 Annie Wu ’01 Meredith Good-Cohn ’07 Olivia Verbic ’15 Brendan Shelley ’16 PAST PRESIDENTS 2014-2016 Brooke Wheeler Rodgers ’91 2012-2014 Kieran Fox ’79 2010-2012 Patty McCormick Klein ’86 2008-2010 Curtis Campbell ’83 2006-2008 Hill Michaels ’51 2005-2006 Susie Quarnguesser Amiot ’79 2004-2005 Matt Wyskiel ’81

If you are interested in joining the Alumni Board, please reach out to the Alumni Office.

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Peter Schweizer ’58 is a management consultant in Baltimore. A graduate of Dickinson College and Loyola University of Maryland, Peter has an MBA in finance and management.

Doug Carpenter ’99 joins us as the New York representative on the Alumni Board. He works as a business development manager at PitchBook Data in New York City. After Calvert, he attended St. Paul’s School for Boys and Hampden-Sydney College, where he earned his degree in economics.

Annie Wu ’01 is a MD/PhD student at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine where she is studying immunology. Annie also graduated with honors in 2011 with a bachelor’s degree in molecular and cellular biology from Johns Hopkins University.

Meredith Good-Cohn ’07 joins the Alumni Board as a Washington, D.C. representative.

She is a health research assistant for the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) and has been in public policy since 2014. After Calvert, Meredith attended Garrison Forest School and graduated from the University of Maryland College Park with a degree in government and politics.

Olivia Verbic ’15 is one of two high school alumni representatives on the Alumni Board. She is currently a junior at McDonogh School. She enjoys being a member of an outreach organization through her school and is part of a community service club at McDonogh where she works with the Special Olympics, Baltimore Station, and others.

Brendan Shelley ’16 is the second Alumni Board high school representative this year.

He is a sophomore at St. Paul’s School where he is a member of the Honor Council, a peer tutor, and a member of the JV soccer and baseball teams. He also serves the Baltimore community and has volunteered with and donated to the St. Ignatius Loyola Academy since 2014.

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Love in Bloom

THIS SPRING WE CELEBRATE CALVERT’S 26 MARRIED COUPLES

By Chiara Peacock, Assistant Director of Development

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pring is here and we thought it would be a perfect moment to recognize our many married alumni couples. While colleges and universities often have alumni who meet during that phase of their lives, how many elementary schools that ended in Sixth Grade can claim the honor of having so many lovebirds?

Calvert’s married alumni span more than half a century–from the classes of 1933 to 1995.

It is touching to hear this group of featured couples recount memories of their first encounters, their courtships, and the details of their lives together. Many of these alumni have children who attended or have graduated from Calvert as well which adds another special element to their stories.

TOMMY BAILLIERE ’51 & ANNE DOBBIN BAILLIERE ’53

A December Dance, Seven Years Later, a June Wedding

Dickie Riggs, Hill Michaels, Dicky Graham, Jimmy Young, and Pat Mund.

“Our daughters, Elisabeth ’79 and Alexandra ’82 (each of whom now has three children), graduated from Calvert which really had to be. Not only were we both alumni, but Tommy’s mother and my father were also TOMMY & ANNE alums, along with countless other relatives!” Anne generously shares what she admired and cherished most about Tommy, “I adored his love of life, of family and friends, his loyalty, his eagerness to help others, his gregariousness, his curiosity, his always looking for another adventure, his wisdom, and his courage through terrible physical adversity and illness.”

Anne and Tommy Bailliere were married for 52 years until Tommy’s death last year. We are honored that Anne chose to share some of her personal memories.

“I knew Tommy from Calvert because he was in my older sister Lisa’s (Elisabeth Dobbin Sherwood ’51) class. Lisa would come home from school and say he had pulled her braids or something similar. She called him ‘Tommy Bailliator’ I remember.”

But it was when Anne was home from boarding school for Christmas vacation that she first really ‘met’ Tommy. He danced with her many times at her sister’s debutante party. She was 16, and he was 18 and attending Williams College. “That was how he first stole my heart! He kept ‘cutting in’ which was so flattering in those days.”

Tommy asked her on a date a few days later. “I was stunned that this incredibly handsome older guy with a notorious reputation would ask me out! On that first date, as I remember, he took me to Harvey Clapp’s house for a party with some of his Calvert classmates—Pat Mundy ’51, Frank Deford ’51, Jimmy Young ’51—and more that I don’t remember—and seniors from Bryn Mawr. I recall feeling terribly nervous, completely out of place and very young.

But that was the beginning, and I was completely smitten from that night on.” However, that feeling, she admits with amusement, was not mutual, and they went their separate ways for several years.

Although the two began dating sporadically when Anne was 18, she recalls that Tommy’s intentions weren’t always clear. “Often when I came home for vacations Tommy would call me and ask me to go out on a double date. But sometimes I would be his date, and at other times he would ask me to date a friend of his, and Tommy would bring another girl as his date! That was a bit confusing!”

After Anne graduated from college and returned to Baltimore, their relationship became serious. The couple was married the following year, in 1964. Many of their Calvert classmates were in their wedding party. “My sister was my maid of honor, and my classmates Susan Baker Powell ’53 and Lucy Howard ’53, and Tommy’s two sisters, Babs (Marian Bailliere Daly ’43) and Gay (Georgiana Gaither Bailliere Finney ’45) were all bridesmaids.

Tom’s Calvert ushers were all from the Class of 1951: Harvey Clapp,

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BOBBY HARRISON ’52 & KITTY SANTOS HARRISON ’57

A Life of Working Together

Bobby and Kitty Harrison are proof that helping out pays dividends. It was in 1962, when Bobby was shoveling snow in his front yard that Kitty remembers first setting eyes on him. A strong work ethic and support of one another turned out to be the cornerstone of the couple’s 52-year marriage. Bobby Harrison unfortunately passed away last year. We are deeply grateful to Dr. Kitty Harrison for explaining what made their long union a successful one.

Bobby and Kitty were separated by five years as Calvert students, so they did not know each other personally during their time at the School. However, they share a Calvert connection: Bobby’s brother, Bill, was in Kitty’s class. In addition, they each remained close to their respective Calvert classmates after their graduation.

In fact, their first date took place a week after their chance meeting in the snow on New Year’s Eve 1963 with a small group of Calvert friends. This date was followed the next year by their wedding, which included a large group of Calvert friends.

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JEFF BURNETT ’78 & CATHERINE THOMAS BURNETT ’81 A Marriage Two Decades in the Making

man. Among the guests, we had a large group from my graduating class of 1957: Scotty Luetkemeyer (Jean Luetkemeyer Prema), sisters Christy (Mary Christy Bergland) and Helen Bergland (Helen Bergland Reilly), Marjorie Futcher, Katharine Baetjer (Katharine Baetjer Pilgrim), Meg Dobbin (Mary Dobbin Greeley), Carol Woodward, Nancy Reeder El Bouhali, and Pinkie Riggs (Jane Riggs Garcia-Mansilla). Other friends included Eleanor Gilmore (Eleanor Gilmore Massie ’56) and George Michaels ’52, and Jim Stone (James D. Stone ’52), who were ushers.”

While the couple raised their children, they also supported one another, which enabled them both to lead accomplished academic and professional lives. Kitty supported Bobby while he attended the University of Maryland School of Law. In turn, Bobby put Kitty through Goucher College and then through medical school at the University of Maryland followed by her residency and infectious diseases fellowship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Kitty eventually became a doctor of internal medicine and infectious diseases, and Bobby practiced law, ending as the Chairman of the Maryland State Board of Contract Appeals under four governors.

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While their paths crossed over the next few years in Baltimore, the two met up again in New York City in 1992, where they had both moved for work. Catherine remembers their first date, saying, “We went to a great restaurant in Soho— one that had been on my ‘Restaurant Bucket List.’ After dinner we saw Blue Man Group, and I remember thinking, “This guy knows how to plan fun evenings.” Jeff recounts that despite his planning, he had a little more work to do. “We went out for dinner a couple of times, after which Catherine offered to set me up with her roommate!” Catherine moved back to Baltimore in 1997 to take a new job and Jeff returned in 2002. “I promptly resumed my pursuit,” Jeff confides. “It went a little better this time, and we were engaged eight months later.”

I feel like fate brought us back together after being apart for those ten years.

Kitty shares that she fell in love with Bobby immediately.

“He was kind, honest, honorable, and would do anything for his family.” The two were partners in every sense, and Kitty says the core of their relationship was “the fact that we were always striving toward a common goal; the fact that we always believed in each other and were honest with each other.”

Their mutual support and love sustained their marriage for over half a century, and we are grateful it is part of the Calvert story.

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Jeff Burnett vividly recalls the time he first met his wife Catherine. “I remember it well, but Catherine has no recollection of the evening,” he jokes. The two met at a party the summer before Jeff left for college. Catherine does remember meeting that night, but, she says, “What I really remember is that he started calling me whenever he was home from school after that!” That meeting took place in 1984, and it would be another twenty years before the couple walked down the aisle.

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True to his knack for excellent planning, Jeff was pitch-perfect with his proposal. “Catherine had spent every summer on Squirrel Island, Maine, and it was made clear to me that if we were to get married, that would not change. So what better place to get engaged?” Catherine says, “I suspected that he was going to propose that weekend in Maine, but we were nearing the end of our time there and it had yet to happen. We had spent the afternoon kayaking and were relaxing on our porch overlooking the water when he finally popped the question. It was perfect.”

JEFF & CATHERINE The couple was married in 2004, and the bridal party included several Calvert alumni: Jeff’s brothers Hal ’75 and Mark ’83, along with Lillie Stewart ’81, Emily Wilson Murphy ’81, and Dorothy Thomas Eckhardt ’76. Many Calvert alumni, both classmates and other alumni of all ages, were in attendance, especially because both Jeff and Catherine are from Calvert legacy families and have a number of alumni relations. Because of their great experience at Calvert, Jeff and Catherine are carrying on the tradition by sending one of their two children, a fourth generation student, Eliza ’23.

Catherine sums up what makes their marriage work by saying, “Jeff and I are very different people which actually makes it easier to have a balanced life. We each keep the pendulum from swinging too far in any one direction, and we have come to rely on that from each other. Jeff’s devotion to people close to him is unwavering, which I admire immensely. I love his positive attitude and sense of humor.” Jeff says of his wife, “Catherine is one of the most selfless people I have ever known, and while she is petite, she is incredibly strong when she needs to be.”

Catherine recounts a funny memory from their early days, “Jeff invited me to go to Turks and Caicos with his brother Mark and Mark’s girlfriend (now his wife) not very long after we started dating for the second time. When I was unsure about whether or not to go, I mentioned it to my mother, who promptly said “Just go; it doesn’t mean you have to marry the boy!”

When asked if there was any last thing he would like to say to Catherine, Jeff says playfully, “What took so long?”

PETE WARD ’81 & LEA CRAIG WARD ’80

Fate and Calvert Serendipity Reunites a Couple

Lea and Pete knew one another slightly at Calvert, but it was not until 1985, when they were in high school that their paths crossed.

They had the same tennis coach and officially met for the first time at their coach’s wedding. Lea’s initial impression of Pete was that he was sweet and funny, while Pete was taken with Lea because “she is incredibly giving and kind.” He recalls finding it endearing that she was always making him mix tapes of her favorite music.

Pete and Lea dated on and off throughout high school and college, but then life took them separate ways for an entire decade. Lea moved to New York City, and Pete was still in Baltimore. It was in 1999 that Calvert stepped in and played a fateful role in their reunion. Lea was at a fellow classmate’s house and saw a photo of Pete. “Seeing this photo inspired me to call him and see what he was up to.” Soon thereafter, he was making a trip to an art opening in New York City and took Lea as his date, “and from that point on we were together,” says Lea. They got engaged that same year. “Pete proposed on Christmas Day at his parents’ house in front of both our parents, his grandparents, his siblings and their spouses, and nieces and nephews. He stood up to say he had an announcement. He had four silver ornaments. He gave one to each of his siblings, and when it came to his, he gave it to me. Written on the ornament was, ‘Will you marry me?’ and the ring was tied to it with a red velvet bow.”

“It may be corny to say,” states Lea, “but I feel like fate brought us back together after being apart for those ten years. I always knew Pete was a ‘good egg’ and that I would be lucky to end up with him.

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Justin and Patty were married in May of 1999 at St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church and their reception was held at Patty’s family home.

While their story is romantic, the foundation of their relationship is what defines their success as a couple. “We love to make each other laugh and try not to take life too seriously,” says Justin.

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When it came time for their children to attend school, they carried on the Calvert tradition. Charlie, their eldest, graduated in 2016, Gracie will graduate this spring, and Drew is currently in a Ninth Ager. “It’s hard to believe,” says Patty, “but in the Twelfth Age Christmas Play, Justin and I were cast to play opposite each other as the Innkeeper and the Innkeeper’s Wife.” It was perfect casting.

Pete readily admits that he had loved Lea since they dated in high school, and that their time apart in the 1990’s gave them time to realize that they were one another’s true love. Pete also states that Lea continues to be as caring, generous, and thoughtful as she was when they first met.

The couple shares the secret of their success: “Open communication always. We share the same values and the same opinions as to who we want to be and how to raise our two boys. We say ‘I love you’ every day.”

JUSTIN KLEIN & PATTY MCCORMICK KLEIN ’86

It Had to Be You

Patty and Justin attended Calvert together from 1979 through 1986, from Sixth Age through Twelfth Age. It was not long before Patty and Justin seemed destined for one another: their first date was in Eleventh Age. “Justin asked me to see Footloose at The Yorkridge Movie Theater. I was so nervous and excited because I thought he was super cute! Justin tried to hold my hand, but I was so anxious that I was biting my nails and my fingers were wet. I pulled my hand away from him when he tried to hold it.”

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Undeterred by his first attempt to hold Patty’s hand, Justin asked her on a second date that year. They saw The Gods Must Be Crazy with two other Calvert classmates. “We remember thinking we were really cool because this was our second date,” says Justin.

During the years that followed their graduation from Calvert, they were good friends. They saw one another quite often while attending different high schools and during the summers while away at college. “We even figured out a way to stay in touch while Patty was abroad at The London School of Economics with a fancy cutting-edge computer communication system called ‘intra-mail’,” Justin laughs. Although they stayed close, they did not date until they both returned to Baltimore after college.

Their third date was twelve years after the first one, in December of 1996. Justin took Patty to a Christmas party as his date, and, as Patty says, “The rest was history. Justin took me on a surprise weekend getaway for my twenty-fourth birthday in 1998. I didn’t know about the trip until the morning we left for Charleston, South Carolina. He had planned a wonderful weekend of romantic dinners and carriage rides. He proposed in a beautiful garden.”

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WILL GEE ’89 & BLAIR HAGAN ’95

A Shared Passion for Life and Each Other

Although they attended Calvert years apart—Blair Hagan was finishing up Sixth Age when Will was wrapping up Sixth Grade — they share a bond with the School, as they both have many friends from their Calvert days. In fact, at their wedding in 2015, nine Calvert alumni were members of their wedding party. Not only that, there were a total of twenty Calvert alumni from all generations in attendance, including their officiant, Steve Clare, Calvert Class of ’95!

While they had known each other slightly through family connections over the years, they say their relationship “really came into focus” while at a group outing to the Coachella Music Festival. A music festival seems an appropriate first date for a couple who shares many seriously fun commonalities: “We’re both involved in the Baltimore Rock Opera Society, which caters to our love of music, dance, creating, tinkering, art, dress-up, community, and general shenanigans.”

Their shared playful sensibility makes them a perfect match.

Will’s creative inclination is evident in how he chose to propose. Blair relates the special way she was surprised: “We were engaged on Easter, so the proposal actually took place at the last stop on an Easter egg scavenger hunt. I was so excited that Will had organized a personalized Easter egg hunt just for me that Will was convinced I knew of his plan to propose. But I had no idea!”

From the outset, they were taken with each other. The qualities each saw in one another hit the mark. Will states simply, “I was

WILL & BLAIR smitten by her unique combination of silliness and extremely high emotional intelligence.” Blair lists the qualities that drew her to him: “His boundless sense of humor, quick wit, humility, confidence, passion...I could go on forever. But most of all, his kindness.”

When asked what she would have said if on her first date she learned she would end up marrying Will, Blair responds simply, “I do.” The quality Will loves most about Blair proves that this relatively new marriage will last a lifetime: “She brings out the best in everyone around her—especially me.” 2

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Calvert Golf Classic

1 Calvert parents Chris Alworth, David DeVilliers, and Richard Yost join parent and alumnus George Mumford ’90 for a round of golf at the 12th Annual Calvert Golf Classic.

2 Charlie Albert ’72 and loyal past parents Ken Rutherford and Frank Turner, are joined by Calvert friend Paul Phelan.

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3 Grandparent Susan Carroll and her daughter-

in-law, Adrianne Carroll, team up with Calvert Trustee and Class of 2018 Class Gift Chair Gayle Kelly and parent Kelly Colhoun.

4 Mandy Mahoney ’61, Ann Stewart ’57, and former Calvert parent Helen Bonsal were also among the eight female golfers at this year’s event.

5 Parent Reggie Carter is joined by Calvert friends

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Jeff Hoes, Ivan Williams, and Michael Harrison.

6 Trustee Colston Young ’85, Bill Buchanan ’79, Kiernan Fox ’79, and parent John Brush enjoy each other’s company on the course.

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7 Trustee Matt Wyskiel ’81, parent Doug Holthaus, parent and former trustee David Clapp ’81, and parent Dan Verbic get ready to tee off for their round.

8 Hugh Purvis, Jonathan Clark ’82 and Chip

Merrick ’88 (who are both Calvert parents) pose before the striking scenery at Hayfields Country Club along with former trustee and current parent Duffy Hart.

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9 New York area alumni gather at Sotheby’s

to celebrate Calvert and view the special art exhibition Iconoplastic: 100 Years of De Stijl.

10 Event host Geraldine Nager Griffin ’71 shares

details about the exhibition with assembled guests as Head Master Andrew Holmgren looks on.

11 Frances Ayers Hinder ’98, Mark Flaherty ’80,

Peter McCormick ’98, and Doug Carpenter ’99 socialize surrounded by the striking paintings.

San Francisco Regional Event

12 Alumni and friends gathered at Airbnb

headquarters in San Francisco for an evening of socializing and sharing Calvert memories. We are grateful to Andrew Schapiro ʼ95 for hosting the group.

13 Stephen Linaweaver ʼ84, Andrew Schapiro ʼ95

(host), Ross Taylor ʼ76, Lucy Bowen Taylor, and Bruce Taylor ʼ81 pose in the Habana Vieja Room at Airbnb.

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Coast young alumni reconnected at this event, including Annie George ʼ08, Bert Schmickel ʼ09, Luke Dewire, Peter Dewire ʼ08, and Bruno Babij ʼ09.

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Anne Nelson Apgar ’60 Laying the Foundation for a Full and Fascinating Life

By Chiara Peacock, Assistant Director of Development

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hen talking with Anne Apgar, one wonders, “How does she do it all?” Anne has an impressive academic pedigree, is accomplished in multiple areas, has supported myriad philanthropic causes, traveled the world, renovated seven historic homes, and, while doing all of that, raised three children. At this point in her life, she is understandably most excited about her precious granddaughters: Emory, twenty-one months, and Arlyn, four months.

With a tight schedule of preparing for a week of nanny duty (along with her husband, Sandy), she managed to make time to share the impact Calvert has made on her.

“If you weren’t asking on behalf of Calvert, I would defer to next year!”

Anne attended Calvert from Sixth Age through Twelfth Age, now Sixth Grade, and her three younger siblings were Calvert graduates as well. Anne highlights three key aspects of what made Calvert the perfect school for her.

The first is that she learned the geography of the United States and the world in detail. “There is nothing like it elsewhere. So many people just don’t know the names of the countries and states or where they are, let alone the names of their capitals. This knowledge has just been fundamental—especially with all of the traveling we continue to do.” The Apgars have been fortunate to travel extensively, including many trips to the Middle East. “We travel because of our interest in the world, different cultures, and new ideas.”

The second item she counts as a gift is her clear handwriting. She proudly holds up a sample and says with a smile, “I think you can probably tell that I went to Calvert.”

There is no doubt.

The third, and most significant, is “Pride in work well done.” She recalls the monthly folder papers that her teachers reviewed and the fact that students made corrections until they got their work right. She remembers the feeling of receiving a bound copy at each year’s end.

“Overall, the rigorous, structured curriculum was the most important aspect of my education. It helped shape the organized, detail-oriented person I am.”

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“I distinctly recall shaking hands with Head Master Brown” (Edward W. Brown Sr.) every morning.” She also has vivid memories of the special lockers, the assemblies, and the class banners. She is happy to note that the favorite aspects of her Lower School are still in evidence today.

Anne went on to accrue an impressive array of academic and other achievements. She attended Wellesley College, where she majored in urban economics. It was during a summer internship at The Rouse Company following her freshman year that she met her husband of forty-seven years, Mahlon “Sandy” Apgar. The couple was married just before her graduation and spent a summer in New York City. Anne then went abroad to study at the London School of Economics, where she earned an MSc in economics, with a major in urban economics. Sandy transferred to London during her first semester, and they spent nine years living in England.

“I describe my professional life as a serial career; I moved opportunistically. My first job was with an English town planning firm, working on housing and transport policy. When we moved back here, Sandy started his own firm. Rather than hire several different people to do all the administrative and financial work he needed, I did it part-time while raising our family.” All the while, Anne

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Overall, the rigorous, structured curriculum was the most important aspect of my education.

It helped shape the organized, detailoriented person I am.

found time to volunteer for a number of organizations, including her other alma mater, Roland Park Country School (RPCS), where she co-chaired their Centennial Capital Campaign.

When their older children were in college and their youngest son was in high school, Anne transitioned to become the Director of Capital Giving at RPCS. “I am someone who enjoys building relationships. I’ve always seen fundraising as offering people another way of making a connection with an institution. When you build a stronger tie with a volunteer or a donor, then you’re successful.”

Calvert is the fortunate beneficiary of one of the many Apgar Awards: Calvert’s Apgar Award for Excellence in Teaching. Anne explains, “Sandy and I established the Awards Program in 1982 to focus on the value of outstanding teaching and clear communications.

Over the years, we have endowed awards at schools and other institutions where members of our family have attended or been active. Calvert’s Award, the only K-8 school in the Awards Program, honors one teacher each year.

When asked which teacher during her time at Calvert would have received the Apgar Award, she says without hesitation, “Miss Mounty,” who was the mother of class-

mate Anne Mountcastle Bainbridge. “Mrs. Mountcastle was enthusiastic and encouraging and made learning fun.” The two Annes remain best friends to this day.

The Apgars also are deeply committed to the urban experience. They moved from an 18th century Georgian townhouse in London to a 19th century Victorian townhouse in Georgetown (Washington, DC) before settling into a family home in Ruxton. While they lived the suburban life for twenty-three years, Anne says, “We always knew we would be urban again.” In total, the Apgars have spent twenty-five years living in urban environments.

After a complete renovation, they moved to their 19th century row house in Federal Hill in 2010. “It’s a new life.

We love it.”

While Sandy has always been involved in each of their seven historic renovation projects, Anne has always taken the lead. “I would have been an engineer or an architect if I had not grown up at the time I did. Heading up these projects has been fun and a wonderful experience. We’ve always directed the architects’ designs and I’ve done most of the detailed drawings.”

Anne’s capabilities are her own, but we at Calvert are delighted that the School provided her with foundational skills that have served her well during her many diverse and exciting life experiences.

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The Hillyer Society for Planned Giving The Legacy of Dorothy “Dottie” Sloan Atkinson ’40 and Her Enduring Impact on Calvert’s Financial Aid Program

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orothy “Dottie” Sloan Atkinson ’40 passed away in 2015 at the age of 88.

A loyal supporter of Calvert's annual fund for decades, she made a final, lasting gift to the School through her will. Her bequest was designated to support one of the School’s most pressing needs: Calvert’s Financial Aid Program.

Dottie’s choice showed not only the value she placed on making a Calvert education accessible, but also her understanding of the importance of these funds being available to the School.

Dottie shook hands with Mr. Hillyer, loved her class plays, and spoke often about her love for Calvert. She wholeheartedly endorsed the educational philosophy of Calvert by leaving an exceptional gift to Calvert. Dottie’s ongoing support will allow us to enroll the best students, both now and in the future, regardless of their families’ ability to pay full tuition.

“Dottie was a highly organized person. She cared about the schools that she attended, and she strongly believed in the value of a quality education,” said her attorney, Alan F.M. Garten of Fedder and Garten. “Her legacy will live on through her generous commitment to Calvert and the access that she has granted to so many.”

We are so grateful to Dottie for her exceptional generosity to Calvert and are truly fortunate to have had Dottie in our community. There is no doubt that her generosity will have a significant and ongoing impact on the School and countless families and students.

To learn more about planned giving and supporting Calvert School visit us online or contact Sarah Walton at (410) 243-6054 ext. 141.

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Terry Lacy ’38 had an excellent week in New England in September visiting family and friends. “I was given a Lifetime Achievement Award in the summer of 2017 by Marquis Who’s Who, which has been very good for the ego, and undoubtedly mostly because of the books and other things that I have accomplished here in Iceland. I am currently writing about my travels and the first volume full of pictures is now bound. I have started writing the second volume.

My trips have been vignettes of history, and the goal is to live long enough to reduce and combine the two volumes and make it available to the public.”

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Anne Howard Stick Hopkins ’40 can say something few alumni can. She has met every Head Master since Calvert’s founding, including Virgil Hillyer. Her relationship with Calvert School spans nine decades, beginning 83 years ago when her father brought her at age three to meet Mr. Hillyer.

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1941 Joan Folger Fey ’41 and her family traveled to Iceland in August 2017. “Although it was August with just a small amount of snow remaining on the mountains, it was cold, at least for us Southern Californians.” They sailed from Akureyri, Iceland across the Arctic Circle. She shares, “With noses appropriately demonstrating qualification, we became members of the Blue Nose Society. We shouted “Skål” and toasted with Aquavit to encourage warmth!” They also traveled to the Faroe Islands, explored the Vestmanna Sea Cliffs where they saw nesting puffins; the trip also included a stop at Lerwick, Shetland Islands. “As is always the case, our cruise was full of gorgeous landscapes, wonderful people and information. An update on the family is also in order – Jenny is maintaining her freelance game design and being factotum of children; Roger is Senior Medical Director with Optum/United Health Care. Sydney continues as flutist with her school’s concert band, and Colin is a member of the robotics team. Both have an extracurricular acting class, and both engage in parkour. If that is an unknown, it is ‘getting over an obstacle the quickest, most efficient way without losing momentum.’ They are both keeping up with their sterling academic progess as well!”

1942

George Thomsen ’42 reports that his youngest son, Laurence Thomsen ’79, completed his first year as Head of School at Sacramento Country Day School last summer.

He is the second member of the family to be a head of school. George’s wife, Mary Ellen, was Head Mistress as St. Paul’s School for Girls for eight years.

Joan Folger Fey ’41 with her family on their latest adventure in the Arctic Circle.

John Wolfe ’42 reports that not much is really "new" from way up in Anchorage, AK. "My wife, Margaret, has been in fulltime nursing home care, with Alzheimers/ Dementia, for two-and-half years already, and that demands much of my time.

Otherwise, the obsessive hobby of Genealogy is still rampant, and consumes much of my other available time. Family remains close by, which is a real blessing these days."

1951

Nick Adams III ’51 is enjoying the peace and quiet of Vero Beach, FL.

1954

Weasa Huey Gaines ’54 writes, "My son, Wick, just turned 50—yikes! He has three children: Macgill (20), Henry (15), and John (13). Wick lives here in Kentucky and is a financial planner. Weasie, 47, lives on our

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farm with her husband, Nick, and their son, North. She is a professional photographer.

My husband, Wick, died three years ago after battling Parkinson's and the side effect of dementia. After taking care of him, it has been hard for me to jump start my life at the tender age of 76, but I’m making progress and doing fine."

1955

Rick Ober, Jr. ’55 is back from a National Geographic/Lindblad ecotour of Costa Rica and the Panama Canal. His recent travel includes a barge tour of the Canal du Midi, France, and a Smithsonian tour of New Zealand. He tmade fall visits to his daughter Julie and grandson Bem Allen in Saline, MI and his daughter, Molly, and his grandchildren Aubrey, Emma, and Simon Fetter-Leggett in Morgantown, WV. Roth “T” Tall Jr. ’55 writes, “Jim Garrett ’55 and his wife, Edie, were on hand in September to help me celebrate my 75th. Cy's and my trip to Glacier National Park (my other big present) was cut short by forest fires. I continue to build homes for Habitat plus work with Rotary International. Our son, Chris, is an ecologist for Wisconsin; his twin, Jamie, teaches middle school English near Poughkeepsie, NY. Cy is now president of Beau Ties of VT, a successful bow tie and apparel manufacturer in Middlebury, VT."

1959

Michele L’Archeveque Woods ’59 and her husband, Alan, welcomed their sixth grandchild in August. Finley is the daughter of Annie Woods McCarthy ’94. She shares, “We are now even with three girls and three boys. What fun!!!”

Lucy Michaels ’61 at Talladega Speedway.

1960

Anne Love Hall ’60 writes, “I am living half the year in beautiful Santa Barbara, CA and half the year in Jackson Hole, WY. I am the luckiest person alive! I have two daughters.

Colby (37) has two boys, ages 5 and 3, and she works at the Children’s Learning Institute in Houston,TX. Louisa (35) is a novelist, with a new novel, "Trilogy," coming out this year.

Matt and I are both retired, playing golf, and gardening. I still love Calvert as my best education!”

1961

February 2018. The summit will address the urgent need for immediate local and regional action to Westchester County, the Hudson Valley, and Long Island in order to create and implement solutions to climate change.

1966 Laura deBuys ’66 shares, “In addition to being the proud mother of two wonderful grown sons, Daniel and Jeb Hastings, I am enjoying my job as Executive Director of a historic movie theater, The Picture House Regional Film Center, in Pelham, NY. We offer Film Education Programs across the county and great movies in two theaters 364 days a year. Come visit!”

Lucy Michaels ’61 attended her first NASCAR event in Talladega, AL in October. “We had VIP passes so had a great experience; I loved it!”

1962 The grandchildren of Michele L’Archeveque Woods ’59 and her husband, Alan.

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Ellen Rouse Conrad ’62 is the co-founder and president of the environmental nonprofit Bedford 2020 Coalition in New York. She is hosting the Bedford 2020 Climate Summit in

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1969

Joe Hooper III ’69 traveled in late fall for a new piece he is writing for Men’s Journal. He is a successful contributing editor/writer at Men’s Journal, Elle, and Popular Science. He has been writing about health and fitness for over 30 years.

1970

Holly Ballard Kreutter ’70 and her husband, Steve, are still in Singapore, about to complete their 30th year in Asia.

1971

Geraldine Nager Griffin ’71 hosted the New York Alumni gathering at Sotheby’s in November 2017. “It was great to meet so many new people. As for me, I am still at Sotheby’s and splitting my time between New York and Stonington, CT. My two daughters are both sophmores: one at Sewanee where she has enjoyed meeting other students from Baltimore, and my youngest is at Horace Mann.”

Geraldine Nager Griffin ’71, Ward Classen ’71, and Keena Classen ’05 at the New York Regional Event.

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1972

Martha Fitzpatrick Bishai ’72 has been living in Durban, South Africa since 2011, working as the Director of The Umkhumbane Schools Project, an education equity nonprofit based within a group of disadvantaged township schools. She shares, “My two daughters are recent college graduates and are working in New York, one as an editorial assistant for Alfred A. Knopf and the other as an intern with The Juilliard School of Music.

My two boys are in their junior and freshman years at Harvard. I enjoy keeping up with fellow Calvert alums on Facebook, and would look forward to welcoming any visitors who happen to be in this part of the world!”

Charlotte Harvey ’72 has had a great year in New York City performing in The Skin of Our Teeth at TFANA in Brooklyn; Uncle Vanya and Henry V in the West Village, and is currently working on The Cherry Orchard with a young director from Columbia University.

“I’ve been studying voice and theatre and am loving it!”

1973

Nancy Scriba Noppenberger ’73 shares, “My classmates might remember me as the ‘middle Scriba’, daughter of Mr. Henry Scriba, Business Manager of Calvert School. The mere sound of the click of his heels down the hallway would make me sit up a little bit straighter at my desk. You know, the desk with the wooden flip-top and the inkwell?

Mr. Scriba spent most of his time downstairs, in the Home Instruction Department, but also taught a class or two in his decades at Calvert. I am proud to carry on his legacy of dedication to purpose and mission in my role at another Baltimore non-profit."

Beauchamp Fontaine ’77

1976

Jamey Hebb IV ’76 writes, “Life is good for me and my family in Lutherville. I am working in SaaS and digital marketing sales in the automotive vertical. My wife, Loury, and I play as much tennis as we can in our free time, though most of that is devoted to our sons Jack (11) and Jamey (10) and their activities. My daughter Lucy Hebb ’07 is working and living in Manhattan, and doing well. I am coaching my son Jamey’s 9-10 rec league lacrosse team in the LTRC program, which I enjoy immensely and serve on the LTRC Board. I am also the Men’s Tennis Chair at Roland Run Club. I hope all of my Calvert classmates are healthy and happy.

Lots of terrific memories of our days together on Tuscany Road!”

Bessie Cromwell Speers ’76 and her family are enjoying life back in the Mid-Atlantic. She is Head of Tower Hill School in Wilmington, DE and stays in touch with lifelong friends who are Calvert classmates.

Clemmie Miller ’81 and Elisabeth Dahl ’81 help to kick off The Calvert Fund at The 2017 Calvert Fund Launch Party.

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1977

Beauchamp Fontaine Hansen ’77 writes, “I married in March and am blissfully happy. I have finally inverted my name legally to Beauchamp Fontaine to match how I list it professionally. I’ve been very busy designing films and only wish I could work at home more often. I was tickled to learn that my stepson’s 5th Grade teacher is Gary Carr ’83. Calvert standards are being passed along!”

1978 Kate Whitaker Chaplin ’78 currently works as a rental agent for The Knowles Company in Northeast Harbor, ME. “If you’re looking to beat the heat of summer in Baltimore in favor of a couple of weeks near Acadia National Park, give me a call, and I can line up a rental home for you! Our three kids, Louise (16) and twins, Susannah and Whit (14), are brilliant, healthy, and fun to be with. My husband, Courtney, and I celebrate 20 years of marriage in July 2017.”

Skylar ’24 & Charlotte ’17, the daughters of Juliana Keyser Harris ’85, choosing a Christmas tree.

1984

Marcy Swingle ’84 is a New York-based photographer specializing in fashion street photography. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, the New York Post, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News, Vogue.com, Vogue Russia, Marie Claire, Town and Country, Elle.com, and more. Follow Marcy’s blog, Gastro Chic, to see the latest in food and fashion.

1991

Dr. David “D.C.” Chalmers ’91 and his family lives in Maine. “I take a run by Calvert School every time I visit Baltimore.

I have twin boys and a little girl who are just about ready to join me. We will stop by unannounced sometime this spring to look at the signatures in the lobby!”

1985

Juliana Keyser Harris ’85 is still living in Baltimore, working for the W. P. Carey Foundation. “I am lucky enough to be at Calvert often since my daughter, Charlotte Harris ’24, is in the Eighth Age. My elder daughter, Skylar Harris ’17, graduated in June 2017, and is now a freshman at Roland Park Country School.”

Marcy Swingle ’84

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Sally Ridgely Thompson ’91 with her mother, Sally Young Ridgely, at the 2017 Calvert Fund Launch Party.

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1994

Marden Nichols ’94 shares that her new book, Author and Audience in Vitruvius’ De architectura, was recently released.

She is an Assistant Professor of Classics at Georgetown University, where she teaches courses in Latin literature and Roman art and archaeology. “I live a few blocks from the university with my husband, Sam Charap, a political scientist at the RAND Corporation.

The book is dedicated to my best friend and Calvert classmate, Carey Seal ’94, who is also a Classics professor, at the University of California, Davis. Carey and I have Calvert to thank not only for our decades-long friendship, but also for instilling in us a love of the ancient world. We are so grateful to Mrs. Moore and all our Calvert teachers!”

Albert Lietzau VI, son of Al Lietzau ’99 and his wife, Danielle.

1995 John Avirett ’95, partner at Greenspring Associates, and Peter Jackson ’98, an associate at JLL, were named to the Baltimore Business Journal’s 2017 Class of 40 Under 40 honorees.

Katherine Pinkard ’95 is working at her firm Pinkard Properties in commercial real estate with her father, Greg Pinkard ’68.

She is also Chair of the Board of the American Red Cross, Central Maryland Chapter: was named one of Maryland’s Top 100 Women in 2017 by The Daily Record: and recently joined the Dean’s Alumni Advisory Board of the JHU Carey Business School. She also shares that her most exciting news of the year is that she was recently married to her husband, Michael Heyse, in October 2017!

The cover of Author and Audience in Vitruvius’ De architectura, the new book by Marden Nichols ’94.

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John Young ’95 writes, “My wife, Sarah Queen, and I moved into a new house three days before Hurricane Harvey hit. Luckily, we came through the storm mostly unscathed.

Also, our first child, Clara, was born in July.”

1997

Jennifer Tuttle ’97 and her husband live in Denver, CO with their two dogs. They welcomed a baby girl, Addison, this summer.

She is a Licensed Professional Counselor working with teens and adults. “Our little family loves exploring all that Colorado has to offer!”

1998

Katharine Fox Castro ’98 lives in Baltimore, MD and is now working as the Chief Strategy Officer for Carroll Motor Fuels and High’s of Baltimore. “I have been there just over a year after spending seven years in investment banking. I’m enjoying life on the corporate side. My daughters, Stella and Zoe, and I have enjoyed a year of fun travel to places like Mexico and Italy. Lastly, Zoe started at Kiddie Calvert this summer and absolutely loves it, and I love seeing her there each day!”

2007

1999

Al “Nickel” Lietzau V ’99 and his wife, Danielle welcomed Albert E. Lietzau VI in late August. “He is happy and healthy, and we are just overjoyed. We also moved into a new home in Lutherville-Timonium in December.”

Nina Rawtani ’99 currently lives in Washington, DC and is finishing up her pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at Children’s National Medical Center this year. She lives with her husband, Collin Baker, and their cat, Jerry.

Tillie Whitman, daughter of Kelly McCormick Whitman ’00 and her husband, Nate.

2000

Peale Iglehart ’00 recently moved from Philadelphia to Los Angeles with her husband and puppy. She is a reading and math specialist at a school for kids with learning differences. “I (loved) seeing Nina Emala Bradley ’00 over Thanksgiving break!”

2001

Miranda Hall graduated from Yale School of Drama with an M.F.A. in playwriting.

She plans to move back to D.C. this fall to teach in the Theater and Performance Studies Department at Georgetown University.

Kelly McCormick Whitman ’00 and her husband, Nate, welcomed a baby girl, Tillie Elizabeth Whitman, in September. Mom, dad, and baby are doing great!

Ashley Geleta ’07 writes, “After receiving my master's in biohazardous threat agents and emerging infecious diseases at Georgetown University, I accepted a job working as a contractor for the Department of Defense. I work to combat biological threats in Iraq and Turkey and travel quite frequently to meet and engage our partners abroad.”

Will Hanley ’07 lives in Boston, MA and works in the field of renewable energy.

2009

Bruno Babij ’09 wrote a tribute to fellow alumnus Dr. John Rawls ’33. The piece appears in the 2017 issue of Reflections.

2010

Tracy Smith III ’10 is currently a senior at the Villanova School of Business, studying marketing and international business. “I plan to work in the sales/recruiting field after school, and I currently have some initial interviews with Yelp, Aerotek, and Bealstone Inc.”

Maisie Devine ’00 shows off her new Calvert mug.

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Grace Laria ’11 Makayla Gilliam-Price ’12 with her sisters, Brittany and Ashley and their mother, Zelda, at the premier of Baltimore Rising.

2011

Grace Laria ’11 studied abroad in Mexico during her fall 2017 semester.

She wrote about her experience for The Hoya, Georgetown University’s student newspaper. Her articles are not only written to encourage Hoyas to choose Mexico as a meaningful study abroad, option but also to challenge the popular definition of culture as primarily focused on art, music, and food. In her September 2017 piece, she discusses her experience in Mexico during the 7.1 magnitude earthquake.

2012 Makayla Gilliam-Price ’12 and others featured in the HBO documentary Baltimore Rising participated in the HBO Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour.

Directed by The Wire actor Sonja Sohn, Baltimore Rising follows activists, police officers, community leaders, and gang

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affiliates. Makayla, an activist, is one of the seven featured. The key figures in the film discuss the struggle to hold Baltimore together in the wake of Freddie Gray’s death. Makayla’s work as an activist started when she founded the youth justice organization City Bloc during high school and continued with the grassroots think-tank, Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle. Baltimore Rising was released

by HBO in November 2017 and can be streamed for free on YouTube.

2015

Blake Shepherd ’15 is currently a junior at Boys’ Latin. He is a Junior Class Leader, a member of the honor board, president of Jewish Awareness Club, and co-founder of a ski club. He has also been playing three varsity sports while at Boys’ Latin.

2014

Tyrese Duncan-Moore ’14 is the Vice President of Student Government at The Park School and is also a member of the Student Council. “I’ve expanded my interest in art and am now a cartoon artist for The Postscript, Park’s student newspaper. I’m also very interested in psychology.

Tyrese Duncan-Moore ’14 and Becky Scott ’16 represented Park School at the 2017 High School Night held at Calvert.

Margaux Trexler ’15 is a junior at McDonogh School and is a published author. Margaux’s book is entitled Think about It: A Perspective on the World, Women, and Well-Bring from a FifteenYear Old Dreamer and is available on Amazon.com.

2016

Becky Scott ’16 is part of the French exchange program at The Park School.

Because of her interest in foreign language, she is studying Spanish in addition to French.

Zander Galli ’17 is taking a gap year to travel the world and delve into his passion for animal conservation. He has been traveling and blogging about his experiences since July and has had some remarkable adventures thus far. Be sure to follow his year-long journey of conservation, learning, and educating on https://zandergapyear.com.

Emma Seto ’17 recently joined the McDonogh School debate team.

Zander Galli ’17 outside of the World Wildlife Fund.

2017

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Jacob Feigenberg ’17 is now a writer for The Exonian, the newspaper of Phillips Exeter Academy. He plays JV squash, and is one of five students leading an initiative to teach English to high school students in Vietnam.

IN MEMORIAM The following Calvert School alumni passed away between July 1, 2017 and December 31, 2017. We continue to remember them in our hearts.

The Hon. Alexander Harvey II ’35

Mrs. Grace Symington Rienhoff ’41

Mr. Mark Hendrix ’73

Mrs. Martha Marburg Sadler ’41

Mr. Philip King ’53

Mr. John L. Stone ’86

Mrs. Mary Ellen Dandy Marmaduke ’39

Mr. Merrell L. Stout Jr. ’48

Mr. William Neill III ’40

Mrs. Adele Buck Ware ’34

Dr. Thomas O’Rourk ’46

Mr. George S. Weikart Jr. ’39

Mr. Thomas P. Perkins III ’47

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