Reflections 2012

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Renaissance Italy

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reflections Volume XIX, Number 1, Fall 2012

FEATURES 14. Honoring Mr. Wm. Polk “Bill” Carey ’42 16. The Illustrious Luetkemeyer Girls 20. A Tribute to Michael Paul 22. A Journey Through Renaissance Italy 27. Remembering a Legend: Head Master Bill Kirk 63. The Calvert Leader Board

DEPARTMENTS

ON THE COVER (left to right) Molly Luetkemeyer ’79, Annie Luetkemeyer ’84, and Julie (Bowen) Luetkemeyer Phillips ’81

4. Words from the Head Master 6. Message from the Chairman 9. Calvert Welcomes New Faculty and Staff 10. Faculty and Staff Awards 11. Graduation 2012 46. Memory Lane 48. Class Notes 53. In Memoriam

EXTRAS 28. Voices from the Class of 2012 32. Parents’ Association 36. Calvert Trivial Pursuit 38. Alumni Association 44. Supporting Calvert School FALL 2012

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words from the Head Master I am very pleased to report that Calvert School is enjoying a great deal of success as we start the 2012-2013 academic year. I could write pages about the accomplishments of the students, faculty, and of the School as a whole; however, a few highlights will pique your interest and encourage you to visit our websit – www. calvertschoolmd.org – with frequency to learn more about the remarkable things happening on campus: l

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In June, we graduated our largest Eighth Grade to date – 46 students – and achieved 100% first-choice secondary school placement; We instituted several new academic initiatives, including Eighth Grade Reflections speeches from each member of the class, an Arête advisory program, a modified Middle School portfolio process to promote student metacognition, and an allschool Earth Week program as part of our effort to become a certified Maryland Green School.

We again opened school with over 600 students, signifying 12% enrollment growth since 2008 and 41% growth since 2002; We have broken ground on two building additions: a classroom wing in the Lower School to house Pilot Class and Sixth Age (expected completion date August 2013), and an Assembly Hall in the Middle School (Spring 2013);

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We exceeded our ambitious Annual Fund goal of $850,000 by raising $ 919,705 in unrestricted and restricted gifts to the Annual Fund during the 2011-2012 fiscal year. 90% of current parents participated in this effort, which is a fantastic accomplishment; We earned a 2012 Best Places to Work Award from Baltimore Magazine.

Since Calvert’s founding 115 years ago in 1897, the School has worked diligently to promote high student achievement. In these pages of Reflections, you will read about the extraordinary accomplishments of the Luetkemeyer sisters – Molly ’79, Julie ’81, and Annie ’84 –in a wide variety of fields and endeavors. Moreover, the “Calvert Leader Board,” a new addition to Reflections, seeks to list and quantify what we have heard for generations – that Calvert graduates earn recognitions, honors, and awards at a disproportionately high rate after leaving Calvert.

Whether you are a current Calvert parent or an alumnus who lives out of state, I truly appreciate your ongoing strong support of the School. Please feel free to stop by campus for a visit or to contact me directly if you have any Calvert-related questions. We have momentum on our side, but we know that our success is directly tied to the quality of education we provide class by class, week by week, and month by month.

Sincerely yours,

EDITOR/DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS

Stephanie L. Coldren EDITORIAL STAFF

Elisa D. Chelius, Assistant Director of Development Kerry S. Johnston, Director of Development Grace E. Rochfort, Communications Assistant Andrew W. Rutledge, Development Database Manager Carly M. Slagel, Director of Alumni Relations & Annual Giving CONTRIBUTORS

Cathy Canning Larisa E. Kamp, Faculty DESIGN

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Larry Canner Elisa D. Chelius Stephanie L. Coldren Hillary C. Huynh Kerry S. Johnston Grace Rochfort Vince Lupo, Direction One, Inc. COVER PHOTO

Courtesy of Julie Bowen Luetkemeyer Phillips ’81

ADMINISTRATION

HEAD MASTER

Andrew D. Martire ’83, Ed.D. HEAD OF LOWER SCHOOL

Edward M. Trusty, Ed.D. HEAD OF MIDDLE SCHOOL

F. Matthew Buck ’87 ACADEMIC DEAN

Pamela A. Ossmus DIRECTOR OF ADMISSION & ENROLLMENT SERVICES

Nicole H. Webster DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT

Kerry S. Johnston DIRECTOR OF FINANCE & OPERATIONS

Joseph P. McGraw DIRECTOR OF HUMAN RESOURCES

Denise D. Fiorucci DIRECTOR OF TECHNOLOGY

Andrew D. Martire ’83, Ed.D.

Craig L. Luntz

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The best of both worlds to prepare for the real world.

Calvert School provides a unique, hybrid environment that gives students the best of both a single-sex and coeducational experience, helping all children excel. We understand the different ways in which boys and girls learn and develop, both academically and socially.

Come visit us during one of our “Considering Calvert” days from 9:00 A.M. – 11:00 A.M. Wednesday, October 17 Thursday, November 15 Thursday, November 29 RSVP: 410-243-6054 ext. 106 An independent lower and middle school for boys and girls.

105 Tuscany Road, Baltimore, MD 21210 • www.calvertschoolmd.org

WELCOME

BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2012-2013 2010-2011

message from the Chairman

Carville B. Collins ’73, Chairman Chairman William James B.S.Stradtner, Harrison, Vice-Chair Treasurer William Janet E.S.McHugh, Harrison,Secretary Treasurer Mark A. Dewire, Secretary Gina Z. Adams David GinaW. Z. Allan Adams ’57 Curtis David H. W. Campbell Allan ’57’83 Curtis H. Ward H. Campbell Classen ’71 ’83 H.Fred Ward C. Classen C. Crozier ’71 Fred Mark C.A. C.Dewire Crozier

A year ago in Reflections, I announced a commencement. It was not the all-important one for our graduates; instead, it was for another significant beginning that has been a rare event in the history of Calvert School.

The commencement begun last year was for the start of the implementation phase of the School’s Strategic Plan. This is the Plan for how the School will advance in the future and reflects the Board of Trustees’ vision for that future.

I am pleased to report considerable progress in the first year of implementing the Plan. The outward visible signs are encouraging: the Lower School and Middle School additions are underway, and we have met and actually exceeded our ambitious Annual Fund goals for the prior school year.

Also part of the Plan – and just as important as the physical enhancements to the campus – is an array of qualitative goals, providing for the School’s long-term advancement and financial security. The School’s Board of Trustees, Administration, and various committees have made significant gains in year one. Over the 2012-2013 school year, we can expect to learn more about these goals, how we will achieve them, and how much progress we can make toward them.

On behalf of the entire Board of Trustees, I extend my thanks to all who have contributed their time, talent, resources, and hard work toward the fulfillment of the Plan. Our outlook is that if we maintain our current

rate of progress, all aspects of the Plan can be completed, or a firm completion schedule can be set, by the end of the 2013-2014 school year. That is just two short years from now.

This edition of Reflectionsserves to remind us all why the fulfillment of the Plan is so important to Calvert School. The raison d’ êtreof the Plan is to preserve and advance excellence, which facilitates the promise that our students can achieve and succeed in extraordinary ways. Calvert’s former head master, Bill Kirk, who passed away earlier this year and is remembered in this edition of Reflections , devoted practically all of his professional life to ensuring the achievement and success of Calvert students through the pursuit of excellence in every aspect of the School. In this edition, you can see for yourself how our students are thriving, with the benefit of the hallmark educational foundation Calvert has always provided.

Sincerely yours,

Carville B. Collins ’73 Board of Trustees

Franklin Felix J.W.Dawson Foster ’70 Wesley JosephN.C.Finnerty Haberman ’83 Franklin EdwardW.G.Foster Hart III’70 F.Joseph Barton C. Harvey Haberman III ’61 Priscilla Edward S. Hoblitzell G. Hart III ’73 F. Barton DavidHarvey S. Knipp III ’61 David Lee H. S. Riley Knipp III Kevin Amy A. McCreadie T. Seto James Lee H.B.Riley Stradtner III Matthew Amy W. Wyskiel T. Seto III ’81 Matthew W. Wyskiel III ’81 TRUSTEES TRUSTEE EX-OFFICIO EX-OFFICIO Andrew Andrew D. Martire D. Martire ’83,’83 Ed.D. Richard Jean N. C. Halle Rasmus

TRUSTEE EMERITI Timothy L. Krongard ’76 John A. Luetkemeyer, Jr. ’53 Robert J. Mathias E. Robert Kent, Jr. CALVERTH.SCHOOL Decatur Miller ’44 105 Tuscany Road Baltimore, MD 21210 Phone: 410-243-6054 www.calvertschoolmd.org

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There are a million reasons to support Calvert School.

You show your support because it is where you were taught the fundamentals of learning and the place you met lifelong friends. It is where your children or grandchildren began their academic journey and where teachers make a profound impact on young lives. You choose to support Calvert School because it shapes students who will someday shape the world.

There truly are a million reasons to support Calvert School.

The true value of a gift to the Calvert School Annual Fund is that it fosters an education based on a tradition of academic excellence. Your gift allows Calvert to do what it does best – provide an outstanding education to talented students as the foundation for a lifetime of learning.

What’s yours?* This year, we are embarking on a landmark $1,000,000 Annual Fund Campaign and want you to be part of this historic moment for Calvert.

*We want to know why you choose to support Calvert School!

Please email annualfund@calvertschoolmd.org to share your story.

this year’s annual fund campaign began on july 1, 2012. to make a gift, please visit www.calvertschoolmd.org or call 410-243-6054 ext. 141.

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new faculty & staff

New Faces In The Halls We are pleased to welcome new faculty and staff to the Calvert community. This talented group enhances our exceptional team.

Tynisha Chatman joins Kiddie Calvert as a Day Care Assistant Teacher. Ms. Chatman joins us from A Child’s Place in New York City. She is currently working toward her Associate’s Degree in Early Childhood Education.

Justine Forrester joins the Lower School faculty as an Eighth Age Boys teacher.

Mrs. Forrester comes to Calvert from Park Elementary School in Anne Arundel County.

She holds a B.A. from Tufts University and a M.A. in Teaching from Towson University.

Kyle Gladden joined Calvert in February as a General Accountant. Mr. Gladden comes to us from First Mariner Bank. He earned his B.A. from Goucher College.

Mark Gruber joins Calvert as a Ninth Age Boys teacher. Mr. Gruber previously worked in Baltimore County Public Schools as a third and fifth grade teacher. He has a B.S. from Towson University.

Liz Jones joins Calvert as a Faculty Intern.

Miss Jones is a recent graduate of Grove City College with a B.A. in English and certifications in English Secondary Education and Communication Education.

Craig Luntz joins Calvert School as the Director of Technology. Mr. Luntz comes to Calvert from The Holton-Arms School in Bethesda where he served as the Director of Academic Technology. He earned a B.A. from University of California, Los Angeles and is currently working on his M.Ed. at the University of Maryland, University College.

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Beth Nichols joins Calvert as the Lower School Guidance Counselor. Mrs. Nichols most recently was the school counselor at St. Paul’s School for Girls. She holds a PostMaster’s Certificate in Clinical Community Counseling from Johns Hopkins University, a M.Ed. from Loyola University Maryland, and a B.A. from Trinity College.

Grace Rochfort joined Calvert as Communications Assistant in January. Most recently, Miss Rochfort worked in marketing for the Whiting-Turner Contracting Company.

She holds a B.A. from Lynchburg College.

Samantha Rodgers joins Kiddie Calvert as a Day Care Teacher. Miss Rodgers previously served as a Kindergarten Readiness Lead Teacher at Celebree Learning Centers. She is a graduate of Stevenson University where she earned her B.S. in Early Childhood Education.

Christina Swanson joins the Middle School faculty as a Fifth Grade Boys teacher.

Previously, Mrs. Swanson was a fifth grade teacher at The Field School in Weston, MA. She holds a B.A. and M.S. from the University of Pennsylvania.

Carrie Young ’01 joins Calvert School this year as Campaign Associate. Miss Young is a recent graduate of the College of William and Mary with a B.A. in History.

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New Positions Assumed Craig D. Bennett Director of Summer Programs Shannon E. Cheston Sixth & Eighth Grade Teacher Britney Harris Technology Support Technician Harvey “Skip” Howe ’77 Middle School Math & Science Teacher Kelly A. McCormick ’00 Fifth Grade Teacher Pamela A. Ossmus Academic Dean Katie E. Wareheim ’98 Director of Student Recruitment Mollie Frazer Williams ’82 Assistant Head of Middle School

Faculty & Staff Awards The Deborah Dorsey Albert ’44 Award Sixth Age Homeroom Teacher, Kimberly K. Miles, was the recipient of The Deborah Dorsey Albert ’44 Award. Established in 1995, this award is given annually to the faculty member who has “made an outstanding contribution to the life and mission of Calvert School.” Generally, the selection process gives particular consideration to those faculty members who have provided long-term service to Calvert. For the past nine years, Kim has seen every day as an opportunity to reach and inspire her young pupils with both the fundamentals and with a sense of the world around them, through games, songs, projects, and creative activities. Her classroom is simultaneously focused and purposeful and alive with movement.

The Apgar Award for Excellence in Instruction Middle School Art Teacher, Larisa E. Kamp, was recognized as The Apgar Award for Excellence in Instruction recipient. This award is given annually to a faculty member who “has demonstrated the ability to motivate students’ interest, curiosity, and love of learning and the willingness to propose and apply new teaching concepts of methods that expand students’ horizons and potential.” Larisa’s dedication to her students constantly shows throughout the hallways. Student artwork is constantly on display, not only in the Middle School, but Larisa has organized off-campus exhibitions. She is driven to improve herself in professional development offerings, and she exudes energy and creativity that has helped the fine arts at Calvert to thrive and grow by leaps and bounds over the past five years.

The Matthew ’06 and Abigail ’10 Young Memorial Award Henry A. McClain-Bey, a member of our maintenance team, was awarded The Matthew ’06 and Abigail ’10 Young Memorial Award. Established in 2008, the award is given to that member of the faculty or staff who, “contributes significantly to many areas of School life, displays care and concern for all members of the Calvert community, and possesses the intangible spirit that made Matt and Abby so special.”

Henry may be the happiest, most upbeat person on campus. For the past six years, he has never failed to sport a big smile, to offer encouragement, to complete his important duties with pride and purpose, and to sing both while he works and for the community. He is someone who is truly full of the spirit that made Matt and Abby so special.

The Class of 2006 Staff Award Director of Day Care & Extended Day Programs, Melissa L. Hood, was presented with The Class of 2006 Staff Award, which was established in 2005 and is given annually to the staff member who has provided exemplary service to Calvert School.

Melissa is organized, caring, detail-oriented, lighthearted, and a great team player.

She and her colleagues lovingly care for the smallest and youngest members of the Calvert community, and her leadership over the last three and a half years is a key reason we have a 35-child waiting list for Kiddie Calvert.

Service Award Recipients

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10 Years

Kathy S. Agley

Joseph P. McGraw Terrill C. Merwin

Frederick G. Schmidt, Jr. Lori Ann Wlodarczyk

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graduation

graduation class of 2012

Class of 2012 High School Choices Grace Adams Bryn Mawr School

Tommy Diehl Gilman School

Ava Geenen Baltimore School for the Arts

Alex Liu McDonogh School

Joe Sakai Gilman School

Amalia Bilis Bryn Mawr School

Anna Dorsey Friends School of Baltimore

Makayla Gilliam-Price Baltimore City College

Micah Manning Friends School of Baltimore

Anne Pearson Smith Bryn Mawr School

Andrew Brennan The Boys’ Latin School of Maryland

Unique Eaton Garrison Forest School

Jack Harvey Gilman School

Anna McGinnis Bryn Mawr School

Mira Emmart St. Paul’s School, NH

Krista Jiranek McDonogh School

Emma Moore Garrison Forest School

Nora Feinberg Roland Park Country School

Riggs Jones Gilman School

Matt Moore Baltimore School for the Arts

Isabel Cooke Friends School of Baltimore

Will Field Calvert Hall College

Jackie Lee Kelly Garrison Forest School

Jackson Morrill McDonogh School

Claiborne Crozier Gilman School

Mitchie Ford Gilman School

Eva King Garrison Forest School

Teddy Obrecht Gilman School

Bridget Danko Bryn Mawr School

Elizabeth Gallo Garrison Forest School

Parker Knott Gilman School

Meghan Quinn Roland Park Country School

Dima Zahan Bryn Mawr School

Erica Dawson Friends School of Baltimore

Isa Garcia-Moreno Friends School of Baltimore

Liza Liotta St. Paul’s School for Girls

Ryan Rossello St. Paul’s School

Kaitlyn Zink Maryvale Preparatory

Edward Burchell Loyola Blakefield Nicholas Colantuono Baltimore School for the Arts

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Barrett Sutley McDonogh School Meg Swindell Garrison Forest School Addison Thompson Friends School of Baltimore Cale Thorne McDonogh School Jacob Warfield St. Paul’s School Madison Williams Garrison Forest School

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graduation

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Eighth Grade Honors & Awards Reflection Speech Jack Harvey

The Isaac H. Dixon Award for Girls Ava Geenen and Meghan Quinn

Citizenship Award Tommy Diehl and Madison Williams

The Bolton Arts Award Matthew Moore and Isabel Cooke

The Edward W. Brown Award for Boys Jacob Warfield

The Girls’ Sportsmanship Award Liza Liotta

The Hillyer Award Ava Geenen

Presentation of Banner Makayla Gilliam-Price

Jay France ’37 Sportsmanship Award Andrew Brennan

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High School Senior Project

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The George A. Whiting Athletic Trophy Bridget Danko, Anne Pearson Smith, and Barrett Sutley

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his past spring, Calvert School was host to eight local high school students as they completed hours for their Senior Project.

These students, many from the Calvert Class of 2008, interned in various classrooms, as well as helped with special projects for the Admissions Office. The Senior Project for Lizzy Banta ’08, Allie Brent ’08, Josie George ’08, Emma Koramshahi ’08, Warner Mason, Emily Rutherford ’08, Sarah Wallack, and Katherine Wright ’08 required them to get “real life work experience,” and they chose to do this at Calvert. For these eight seniors, it was a way to get real classroom experience as a teacher.

“I realize now how much you can learn from the students,” says Katherine Wright ’08, “how unique Calvert traditions are, and how Calvert values stick with you years beyond graduation.”

For Warner Mason, this was not a trip down memory lane but a way to learn how to approach and handle educating young students. “Since I did not attend Calvert, I didn’t know what to expect. What I learned was that for the kids at Calvert, every class exercise is a chance to better themselves as students. [These students] are curious and really want to learn.” Mason enjoyed his time at Calvert. “Everyone made me feel at home as soon as I arrived and was extremely kind and welcoming. Go Calvert!”

So what else did these seniors learn while at Calvert for a few short weeks? Lizzy Banta ’08 said with a smile, “I learned how to manage a classroom with young ages and also learned the valuable skill of pulling a six-year-old’s loose tooth!” Allie Brent ’08 shared that she now realizes how rewarding teaching can be and that there will be good days and bad. She added, “even though you are teaching, you are always learning.” Something that was consistently mentioned by all eight seniors was that Calvert is different than any other School.

The learning environment and curriculum is unique to Calvert.

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A Tribute to

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n January 2, 2012, Calvert School lost a beloved graduate and dear friend, Mr. Wm. Polk “Bill” Carey ’42. Mr. Carey was a loyal and dedicated alumnus and will be remembered fondly for his kindness, generosity, and unwavering commitment to the School.

After graduating from Calvert in 1942, Mr. Carey attended Gilman School and graduated from Pomfret School, a boarding school in Connecticut. He completed his education by attending Princeton University and University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business in 1953. Mr. Carey then served in the Air Force as an intelligence officer. In 1973, he started the highly successful commercial real estate company, W.P. Carey & Co., and subsequently the W.P. Carey Foundation in 1988. The Foundation supported Mr. Carey’s numerous educational and philanthropic interests.

On numerous occasions, Mr. Carey said that the best education he ever received was from Calvert School. He continued to be invested in the vitality and success of Calvert until his death, and was proud to have family members still attending the School. Throughout the years, he graciously opened his New York City home to host Calvert alumni events and he was a consistent and thoughtful supporter of the School. The students and faculty of Calvert School have benefitted greatly from Mr. Carey’s commitment and generosity. On behalf of everyone at Calvert, we thank Bill for his leadership and commitment to preserving the excellence of a Calvert education. He will be greatly missed.

We asked some family and friends to share a short tribute to Bill:

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One of the things I remember most vividly about Bill was his love of Calvert School. I can’t tell you how many times I heard him say that his years at Calvert were the more important and influential in his academic career. Calvert taught him how to think and write effectively.

This is high praise from a man that also attended Gilman, Princeton, and Wharton.

~ Geoffrey R. B. Carey ’74

In conversations with Bill across thirty years, whenever the subject of Calvert School came up, he always said, “Calvert was the best school I ever attended. The reason I write well and know grammar is thanks to Calvert.” As a student of history, Bill treasured the tradition Calvert upheld, and I think the school gave him the foundation to learn, upon which he would go on to achieve great success. I also think Calvert honed his innate skills at communication. He described with fondness how he was editor of the Calvert News. That inspired editorial endeavors at every level thereafter, including newspapers at Gilman (for which he interviewed H.L. Mencken), Pomfret School, and Princeton. Bill went on to invest in educational excellence, and I believe this ambition was rooted in the advantage he felt a Calvert education had afforded him. He wanted all students to be exposed to a rigorous

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academic experience such as the one he so valued at Calvert School.

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~ Juliana Keyser Harris ’85

I have many fond memories of Uncle Bill. Once he was in town visiting and, by chance, it was when my son, Jake, my niece Helen Burdette, and Skylar Harris were performing in their Eighth Age play. When we invited him, he gave us a hearty “yes.” After their play, at the reception, he was very proud. He said to me “you are giving your children a leg up

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in the world by sending them to Calvert. It’s the best education out there.

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~ Shari B. Tompkins ’85

Speaking from personal experience with Bill, he liked to describe Calvert by combining a quote from one of his board members, 1980 Nobel Laureate in Economics, Lawrence Klein with his personal observations.

Bill would say, “Larry Klein says that the key to our future prosperity as a nation wholly depends on the education of the very young (elementary school). Calvert is the absolute best when it comes to primary education and they are winning us a better future. I learned

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more at Calvert than any other school or university that I attended.

~ Timothy W. Burdette ’82

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The Illustrious

Luetkemeyer Girls Listen to the Luetkemeyer sisters expound on the topic of fundamental life skills, and, if you have children, you’ll soon start worrying whether they’ve got that whole handshake thing down. That’s because, according to Molly ’79, Julie ’81, and Annie ’84, that’s where it all begins.

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he handshake, along with several other basic but elemental skills they absorbed during their years at Calvert School, is something they point to as having given them an edge over their peers and, in some cases, over their colleagues today.

Yet, having racked up three hugely successful careers between them – Molly as an interior designer, Julie as the Emmy-winning actress on Modern Family, and Annie as a clinical research physician specializing in HIV/AIDS – it’s clear they had to have a little more than a handshake going for them.

And of course they did. As their father, Jack ’53, former chairman of Calvert’s Board of Trustees, points out, his girls are all “gifted, hard workers” who exceeded every expectation he and his wife, Susie, set for them. But, without fail, they all stress how important the early skills they learned at Calvert were in setting them on the path to success – and, in Julie and Annie’s case, how those became a key factor when they were searching for schools for their own children.

Julie loved the sense of structure and tradition her alma mater gave her. Walk around Calvert’s campus and you can’t go far without

seeing the Luetkemeyer’s influence. Her own sons will never go to a school with a Luetkemeyer Planetarium, she notes. “I mean, come on, we were lucky little kids, but at the time I didn’t feel like I was special, I felt like I had to do a little more,” she says. “Like there was something for me to live up to and there was that sense of history.”

She loved seeing her grandmother’s name on the plaque on the wall and knowing that generations of her family had attended Calvert.

“In California, we were trying to find a school for our son and we have and we love it, but it’s never going to be quite the same as having those years and years and generations of connection with a place.

That always made me feel like I really belonged there, and I did.

“Lining up in the morning for Mr. Kirk, and [not knowing] whether it was going to be a day when you lined up in the center girls and boys or girls to the right and boys to the left. There were all those little Calvert things. That was the best, and to this day, our five-year-old is an excellent hand shaker. Our two-year-olds, they’re not very good, but we’re working on it!”

Julie considers her Calvert years the fundamental ones in her education, years where she became skilled in reading, writing, and public speaking. All of those made her confident as a learner,

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and when she matriculated to Garrison Forrest for Middle School, she was amazed to meet girls “from excellent schools” who didn’t already know how to write a term paper with footnotes.

“I had that foundation,” Julie notes. “I knew how to stand up straight and talk to the back of the room. It’s invaluable. Those are intangible skills, but they’re so important. [If] you don’t have that currency, that confidence of being able to look someone in the eye and shake their hand, you are already at a disadvantage.

And for me to give our kids the advantage of being confident, as learners, socially, with manners and structure and homework and expectations and time management – all those things we learned at Calvert – it’s really important to me. I’m constantly amazed by how impressed people are when we meet. You know, they’re like, ‘My you have a firm handshake’ and I’m thinking, ‘Of course!’ My ability to start a task and complete it, it’s basic. But it’s not that basic in the world.”

Annie ’84, agrees, and is especially grateful for the strong foundation in public speaking she built at Calvert. She still remembers the topics of her presentations. “My endangered species was a gorilla,” Annie laughs. “I remember my city was Bogotá. You had to put this whole thing together and stand up in front of your peers and give a talk, and many of my colleagues didn’t really have to do that level of speaking until they went to medical school.”

Likewise, coming to school every day and shaking the headmaster’s hand is a ritual Annie is thrilled to hear is still in place at Calvert. “I’m always on my kids to shake somebody’s hand, look them in the eye, tell them your name,” she says. “The expectation that you’re your own being and you should be able to put your hand out and tell someone your name, that’s the expectation at Calvert. That level of comfort is a really great thing to grow up with.”

Her father would agree. “I never thought I really learned anything after Calvert,” Jack states. “Organization, discipline, and focus are all tools I learned at Calvert that got me to where I am today. And the School helped my girls like it helped me.”

And while Calvert School can’t take all the credit for their success, it is true that all three have become standouts in their chosen fields.

Annie took a scientific mind and early love of animals and sent them into battle against HIV/AIDS. She divides her time between treating patients with HIV, conducting research and co-authoring papers for medical journals with titles like “Resistance patterns and response to entecavir intensification among HIV-HBV-coinfected adults with persistent HBV viremia.”

Of the three sisters, Annie is the real super woman, both Julie and Molly claim. “She’s a doctor of infectious diseases, especially HIV and tuberculosis, in San Francisco,” Julie emphasizes. “And she’s not just in the lab doing research. She’s also in a clinic treating people. She’s also raising money. She works a gazillion hours a week and is so grotesquely underpaid I am embarrassed to complain about my life at any point.”

L: Annie ’84, Julie ’81, Molly ’79, Susie and Jack.

R: The Luetkemeyers on vacation.

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But broach the subject with her, and it’s clear Annie views it as a mission, not a sacrifice. She started to shift away from veterinary medicine during her undergraduate years at Stanford University, where she was forced to confront the fact that she was allergic to just about every animal there was. “I think I could have been a snake doctor, but that’s about it,” she laughs. The animals’ loss was San Francisco’s gain when she did a fellowship and was introduced to the AIDS epidemic. She was immediately drawn to the field and joined the frontlines of the fight against HIV in the United States – a country that has, unfortunately, become complacent about the presence of AIDS and its ongoing spread at home.

“You can’t be in San Francisco, really in the medical field, but particularly San Francisco, without being touched by the HIV epidemic, which is still very alive and well in the United States, unfortunately,” Annie says. She points to the lack of attention the disease is paid today in the media, especially compared to the 1980s when the epidemic was just becoming known. And while the United States certainly pales in comparison to some sub-Saharan countries in Africa in terms of overall rates of infection, there are populations within our country that have risk rates as high as one in four.

“We have 50,000 new infections each year, which hasn’t decreased in the last 10 years,” Annie says. “That is a huge statement about our failure to prevent this very preventable disease.”

She has become used to hearing people react to her career with a note of incredulity. “How can you be an AIDS doctor? That’s so sad,” Annie hears time and again. “I actually think it’s one of the most exciting and optimistic fields you can be in because there’s so much room for change. I’ve seen people who were super sick, with cancer related to HIV, and I can give them medications and help turn them around to live a long, healthy, normal life where they can have children who don’t have HIV, or get married, or have a partnership and not transmit HIV to your partner. That’s very optimistic to be able to tell people that.”

Ask Julie and the eldest Luetkemeyer sister, Molly, ’79, whether they’re surprised by Annie’s career choice and they’ll quickly say it was completely in keeping with her role as the scientist of the family. It’s interesting to note, however, that, according to Julie, Molly was always considered the actress of the clan while she was designated “the artist.” Yet, today, it’s Molly who makes her living casting an artistic eye toward people’s homes in her career as an interior designer.

The thought was, ‘You can do anything — and, therefore — do something good.

Go make something of yourself.’

Perhaps Calvert’s Mrs. Betsy Cissel unwittingly pushed Molly toward creating harmonious homes when she subjected her to the famous desk turnover move reserved for students with messy desks.

“It scared the living daylights out of me, and I will say I kept a much cleaner desk after that,” Molly says. But she also fondly recalls a time during silent reading when Mrs. Cissel stopped the class and asked them to look at Molly. It turns out Molly was reading without mouthing the words, a practice she wanted the students to copy. “I took a great deal of pride in that,” Molly remembers.

Today, Molly has a thriving interior design practice, M. Design Interiors, and has designed homes for celebrities, producers, and publishers and had her work profiled in such magazines as House Beautiful and InStyle Home. In addition, she is one of the three designers on TLC’s Clean Sweep, where she helped the disorganized turn their cluttered homes into magazine-worthy sanctuaries.

But before all that happened, Molly headed to New York postcollege to tread the boards on Broadway, as they say. She had some early success in the theater and began landing small movie and television roles, but pretty quickly realized that she didn’t like the process of filming. “I liked working in the theater, but I hate to say this, I didn’t want to live the life of walking up five flights of stairs when I was 70 years old,” she says. “It’s just so hard to make a living that way.”

Molly decided to explore the other side of the camera and landed a job with the famous director and producer, Mike Nichols. She came to Los Angeles with him to work on a movie and when the film wrapped, decided to stay. She loved the weather and the energy, but still couldn’t quite wrap her head around a future career.

“That’s when I had what I call my early mid-life crisis,” she jokes. So, Molly headed back to school at UCLA, majoring in interior architecture. Just a few weeks after she enrolled, Molly attended a party and met Kelly Wearstler, one of the country’s foremost designers. “I said, ‘I want to work for you,’ and at age 30, I was an unpaid intern. But it worked.”

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Of course, Molly gives some of the credit to Calvert and – you guessed it – the morning handshake tradition. “I loved looking Mr. Kirk in the eye and starting the day like that,” she says. “Often now, when you say hello to a kid, the kid doesn’t look you in the eye, he has a flabby handshake, and it’s such an integral part of who you are. People always comment on mine.”

She also points to the good fortune she and her sisters have enjoyed – some of it earned and some if given to them by circumstance. “I’ve always felt like I was born under a lucky star,” Molly says. “I’m very lucky to be born into the family I was born into, I’m lucky I had the education I had, really fortunate. Those things really enable you.”

Molly laments that her busy schedule and that of her other sisters doesn’t allow them as much time together as she’d like, especially now that Julie and Annie have children. But they see each other several times a year at least, often at their parents’ home in Santa Barbara. And recently, all three sisters attended the Billboard Music Awards together, courtesy of Julie’s celebrity status. In fact, their father, Jack, actually surprised Julie by showing up to the event as well!

In a trait that seems to run in the family, Julie is self-deprecating about her fame, even though she has an Emmy to her name (as well as another recent Emmy nomination) and her face on billboards and in magazines. Her children, she says, are the ones who get the most pleasure out of LA’s star culture, wryly noting, “My general reaction is to run away.

“The kids are the amazing ones,” Julie says. “We’ll be at a show and they’ll say, ‘There’s Justin Timberlake. Let’s go over and say hi, and I’m like, “No! You can’t say hi to Justin Timberlake!’ One time I saw Ed O’Neill talking to Brad Pitt and I immediately looked at the ground like a dog and just shuffled by.”

But it does have its benefits, including meeting Brian Cranston, of Breaking Bad. “I saw him at several award shows and I purposely tried to avoid him because I revere him so much I wanted to keep FALL 2012

him on a pedestal,” Julie recounts. “I didn’t want him to become a real person. And then lo and behold he gets hired to direct an episode of Modern Family and I was forced to confront his humanity and found out he couldn’t be more delightful,” she jokes.

Another trait, humor, seems to run in the family, as well. Told that she and Julie sound exactly the same over the phone, Molly says, “I will say – I’m the oldest, you know.” She waits a few beats and then adds in a singsong voice, “Somebody’s copying!”

Although all of the sisters attended the dedication of the Luetkemeyer House wing of the Middle School in 2004, they don’t get back to Baltimore as often as they would like.

Molly loved a recent trip she made to her childhood city for a Fourth of July vacation.

“I think there is an attitude in Baltimore unlike any other place I’ve been, and I’ve had the opportunity to do a lot of travel,” she says.

“There is just no place like it for people. There’s a sense of casual, easygoing warmth. You’re sitting in a restaurant and the people at the table next to you are funny and nice and talk to you. And that accent.

That just kills me. There’s this tremendous openness.

“And then there’s the density of the green here – that’s something living in California that you really don’t have – there are so many shades of green. It almost makes that humidity worth it,” she jokes.

When confronted with the heights to which they’ve climbed from their early days on Calvert’s own green campus and asked to define their secret to success, all three sisters are quick to point out the inner drive each one has – driven, unstoppable, Superwoman.

But it’s Molly, the oldest, who sums it up for the trio with this: “With us, and I may be putting words in their mouths, but there was never even any other way. We were always taught that there was nothing we couldn’t do, in our family and at Calvert. There were high expectations. And if you lived up to them, you would be able to go forward and succeed. The thought was, ‘You can do anything – and, therefore – do something good. Go make something of yourself.”

Words to live by.

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A Tribute to

Mr. Michael E. Paul,

Calvert School’s Favorite Pirate After 36 years at Calvert School, Mike “Pirate” Paul is sailing off into the sunset to enjoy retirement.

In his time here, Mike has contributed enormously to the lives of countless students and faculty members. In 2009, he was awarded the Deborah Dorsey Albert Award for his outstanding contribution to the life and mission of Calvert School. At the 2012 graduation ceremony, Head Master Andrew Martire said of his former Ninth Age teacher, “His passion and spirit combined with his love of the Calvert Way will be near impossible to replace.”

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I think that I must have been one of Mr. Paul’s first few classes. We had him for 3rd grade around 1979 or 1980. I recall he had a gold Chevette at the time, a lot of sweater vests, and a moustache. I also seem to recall his classroom was near Mrs. Cissel’s lair so to the extent one was poorly behaved and was sent to go sit on the hallway bench there was almost a 100% chance that you’d get some additional punishment from her. Mr. Paul was well liked by all of us boys and he was quick with a smile and a word of support.

I’ve no idea to this day Mr. Paul’s first name... it could be Keith, Roy, Chuck or perhaps even Paul. Congratulations to Mr. Paul on his retirement and years of fine work, he was one of my favorites.

TRIBUTE - PAUL

Other former students share their thoughts about Mr. Paul:

~ Anthony Brown ’83

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The Class of 1982 had the distinct advantage of having Mr. Paul for Eighth Age and Ninth Age. He was a favorite for our class, and in our two years with him, he treated us all, equally, as if each of us were his favorite.

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~ Frank Martien ’82

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I remember Mr. Paul as a magical thinker who lived on a boat. He began to shape my worldview and helped instill both a sense of responsibility and a sense of humor necessary to navigate through a lifetime. He was a showman and a master.

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After being taught by many different English and Math teachers, Mr. Paul is one of the best teachers I have ever had. I still have vivid memories of being in his math and reading classes. I especially have fun memories with “Pirate Paul” and “Pioneer Paul”. Not only did he teach me important skills and methods that I still use today, most importantly, he made learning fun for all of his pupils. ~ Kirsten Adams ’09

~ Roy Skeen ’94

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Mr. Paul is among the few teachers that, upon reflection, stands out as among the best. Such great teachers leave a lasting impression with the positive influence they make during a student’s formative year. I remember Mr. Paul as loving, caring, kind, supportive, understanding, passionate, positive, creative, up-beat, funny, clear, insightful, and intelligent, all qualities that I strive for every day. It’s just too bad he could never hit me with that dodge ball, despite never allowing himself to be on the same side of the court as me.

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~ John Alexander ’82

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My Family Connection Mary “Bartie” Riggs Cole ’52 My family has a deep and special connection with Calvert School that dates back to its inception. My great uncle and founder of Calvert School, Isaac H. Dixon, planted the seed in 1897 for what has now grown into the School that we all love. My grandfather, John S. Gibbs, was Chairman of the Calvert Board of Trustees from 1919 to 1920 and again from 1921 to 1923, and my mother, Mary Bartlett Gibbs Riggs ’23 also served on the Board from 1942 to 1953. Due to our long family history and continued involvement with Calvert, Charlie and I are delighted to participate in the Hillyer Society.

As a student, I have many fond memories of walking with my cousins, Johnny ’48, Mimi ’51, and Dickie ’53 Gibbs, from school to their home at 2 Oak Place, the current residence of Calvert’s Head Master. I also relished the times that my brothers, Lawrie ’47 and Frank ’51 Riggs, and I carpooled to Calvert with Mr. Perry who was the Boy’s Athletic Director at the time. As I think back over the many memories that I have, my Calvert experience has been essential in making me the person I am today.

Charlie and I felt so strongly about the quality of education that Calvert provided that we agreed to send our two daughters, Bee ’75 and Kathy ’79, there as well. Kathy continues to be involved serving as a trustee from 2003 to 2009 and is currently a Fifth Grade teacher in the Middle School. Kathy’s two daughters, Maclean ’10 and Liza ’12, are also proud Calvert graduates, and Charlie is honored to be serving on Calvert’s investment committee.

The entire Cole family feels so very fortunate to be a part of the Calvert community. We hope that by supporting Calvert in various ways, including the Hillyer Society, that this strong institution will continue to thrive going forward.

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A Journey Through

RENAISSANCE T

he Renaissance, meaning “rebirth,” was a spectacular period of cultural change, creativity and achievement in Europe that spanned the period from about 1350 to 1600 AD and is best known for a renewed enthusiasm for the arts and philosophy of ancient Rome and Greece. Calvert sixth graders take a quarter-long Art History course on the 22

Italian Renaissance that I developed and have taught for the past four years. Every time I teach the class, I learn something new and become even more excited about the material; however, something still always troubled me… I was teaching about something I claim to be an expert about when I have never even seen any of it myself!

This is nothing new. All teachers teach about places they have never been and people they have never met. But I believe that there is no comparison or substitution for viewing artwork firsthand.

Images in a book or on a computer screen are much better than nothing but can’t come close to the real thing. Viewing art in person, in the size and perspective

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by larisa kamp Gondolas along the canal under The Bridge of Sighs, Venice

the artist intended and with all the small but distinct variables that only in-person viewing allows significantly affects your perception of the work and allows you to appreciate it in a way that is just not possible otherwise. I was longing to see firsthand the numerous works of art and architecture that were produced during this incredible time in history and share

my experiences with the students I teach.

Thanks to the generosity of Calvert School’s Garrett Grant program, I was able to do just that when I spent ten days touring the art meccas of Rome, Florence, and Venice, Italy this summer.

My trip began with three days in Rome, the “Eternal City.” Unphased by temperatures tipping 100 degrees (don’t

worry, I was sure to refuel on plenty of pasta and cool off with a gelato at least once daily!), I jumped right in and spent my days getting to know the layout of the city by walking around, and boy, did I WALK! I visited many of the well known tourist spots – the Trevi Fountain, Spanish Steps, Piazza del Popolo, Piazza Novona with its famous Fountain of the Four Rivers

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Standing beneath Raphael’s School of Athens in the Vatican Museum, Rome

by Bernini, and Campo de’ Fiori, the open air food market. I participated in a small group tour of the Colosseum, where I relived the stories of bloody combat between gladiators and wild beasts. I visited the evocative ruins of the Ancient Roman Forum, the cradle of a civilization whose lives, beliefs, and ideas greatly influenced Renaissance humanists, artists, and architects. I spent time contemplating the dome of the Pantheon, which is the only ancient Roman building that remains intact and is the burial place of the Renaissance painting master, Raphael.

I sought out the Church of St. Peter in Chains where I quiletly paid my respects to the most noted of the Renaissance popes, Julius II. His patronage led to the creation of some of the world’s most beloved artworks, and his tomb features Michelangelo’s famous Moses sculpture.

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The highlight of my time in Rome was my guided tour of the Vatican Museum and St. Peter’s Basilica. The greatest patron of the the arts in Renaissance Italy was the papacy, and for half a century, until the sack of Rome by French troops in 1527, the greatest Italian artists of the day were lured to Rome to work for the popes. I was excited to see both works from antiquity and masterpieces by the Renaissance artists we discuss in Art History class, among them Michelangelo, Ghirlandaio, Botticelli, Giotto, and Raphael. On my tour, we were able to see the private apartments of Pope Julius II, decorated by Raphael.

Staring up at Raphael’s School of Athens, his famous fresco in the Vatican, was a surreal and magical experience for me.

I know so much about the painting, the artist who made it and the patron who

commissioned it, but actually stading beneath it was indescribable. Even so, nothing could prepare me for what was essentially right down the hall... the Sistine Chapel. There I stood, in the large though intimate, cool space, dimly lit by just a few high windows, among hundreds of other hushed tourists.

Yet, as I looked above me, I felt almost like I was there alone. The beauty and impact of Michelangelo’s fresoed ceiling and alterpiece, The Last Judgement, are unparalleled and truly, the only real way to understand the depths of his genius is to stand there in that sacred space, right beneath it. It was a moment I will never forget... Still reeling from my encounter with the cozy chapel, I entered the massive St. Peter’s Basilica, overwhelming in its detail of gilt, marble, and mosaic, and showcasing work by some of Italy’s

I scribbled pages of notes about the paintings I saw that will most certainly enhance the content of my Art History class moving forward. greatest artists. Tucked away within the right nave is another breathtaking masterpiece by Michelangelo, his marble staute, Pietá, which was created in his 20’s and shows his genius for capturing the human form. Once again I was overcome with the fact that this was it, the actual sculpture we talk so much about in class, even more beautiful in person than even the very best photograph could ever have shown me.

I continued on my journey just a short train ride north to Florence, an elegant, compact city that was the cradle of the Renaissance and was home to the notorious Medici Family, the city’s former rulers whose fortunes and patronage fueled the Renaissance movement. My first evening was the most memorable.

Moments after first laying eyes on the magnificent Duomo, I decided to climb the famous red-tiled dome constructed by architect Filippo Brunelleschi. The 463 spiraling, curving, steep steps to the top were a mental challenge that I wasn’t too prepared for (it was quite claustrophobic and pretty scary!), but nothing could beat the emotional impact of reaching the summit of the architectural marvel.

The sweeping views of the city below and the Tuscan countryside in the distance brought tears to my eyes. After catching my breath and meditating on the view and the sheer miracle that was the dome itself, I made my decent, stopping on the way down to inch my way across the interior of the dome from hundreds of feet in the air, literally eye level to the

Taking in the view from the top of the Duomo’s cupola in Florence

stunning fresco painted inside. Upon reaching the street again, emotionally and physically exhausted, I was ready for a gelato at dusk on the steps of the Piazzale Michelangelo, another scenic overlook across the Arno River with awe-inspiring views of the city!

During my four whirlwind days in Florence, my intention was to see as many of the artworks we discuss in Art History class as possible, and the more I saw, the more I discovered how much there was! In no particular order, I visited: The Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, a treasure-house of works associated with the building and decoration of the Cathedral; the Baptistery to view its famous doors, the Gates of Paradise by Ghiberti; the Pitti Palace, a stunning building containing a substantial collection of late Renaissance paintings; the Basilica of San Lorenzo, home to works by Filippo Lippi and Donatello as well as the artist’s burial place and that of Cosimo d’Medici the Elder; the Medici Chapels with its crypt and New Sacristy designed by Michelangelo and containing several impressive sketches and sculptures by the master (I promise, if you have seen one by Michelangelo, you have NOT seen them all!); the Bargello Museum, housing an impressive sculpture collection including many by Donatello, like his St. George and his bronze version of David; the Church of Santa Croce with Giotto frescoes and the tombs of Machiavelli, Galileo, and Michelangelo himself; the Brancacci Chapel to view Masaccio’s

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I feel strongly that one’s experiences outside the classroom add greatly to the experience within the classroom.

Italian painting from Medieval to Baroque. I scribbled pages of notes about the paintings I saw that will most certainly enhance the content of my Art History class moving forward.

Lastly, no trip to Florence would be complete without a visit to the Accademia Gallery, home to its most treasured work of art, Michelangelo’s David. As expected, the combined effect of the sculpture’s scale, stunning physical beauty in gleaming white marble, and the explosive psychological tension it conveys stopped me in my tracks. You can see it in photographs, but The tomb of Michelangelo Buonarroti, within the Church of Santa Croce, Florence to be able to walk all the way around it and to view it from The Tribute Money and Expulsion of Adam below, as Michelangelo intented and Eve; and the Pietre Dura museum when he carved it, was spectacular. No where I learned about the Florentine less interesting to me were his Slaves, a inlay technique of using cut and fitted, series of unfinished sculptures that show highly-polished colored stones to create the artist’s carving process and line the decorative art images. hallway leading to David.

I also participated in a guided tour My Italian adventure concluded of the Uffizi, the former office space of with a day and half in “the Floating the Medicis, which boasts the largest and City” of Venice, at which point I was most important collection of Renaissance feeling rather wilted from the oppressive art of any gallery in the world. I spent heat and nonstop touring of museums, hours gazing at work by such artists as palaces, and churches for eight straight Giotto, Botticelli (Birth of Venus anyone?!), days. Still, I was excited to explore the Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, narrow passageways, delicate bridges, and Raphael, Titian, and Caravaggio, just to meandering canals that made the cityname a few! Of particular interest to me is state of Venice the great trading center that the gallery is set up in chronological of the Renaissance. I loved finding my order, making it possible to see the way through darkened alleys and across progression in style and subject matter in footbridges to the hustle and bustle of 26

Piazza San Marco. Here, the sound of live music filled the air while thousands of tired tourists recharged with cappuccinos at shady café tables. The glittering, cavernous interior of the Basilica of San Marco lived up to its reputation as being one of the world’s greatest and most richly embellished churches. I quickly learned that the best way to see things in Venice is from the water, and I was able to see many of the Gothic palaces and the grand Venetian architecture on a small group boat tour of the Grand Canal, as well as from the front seat of a private gondola, which was such a unique experience. This city was simply enchanting. It is clear that during the Renaissance, wealthy Venetians not only supported many artsits, they also built a city that is a work of art!

I’d like to express my sincerest thanks to the Garrett family and the Calvert administrators who made this oncein-a-lifetime trip a reality for me. I feel strongly that one’s experiences outside the classroom add greatly to the experience within the classroom. Having the ability to show students my photos and discuss my own interaction with the culture and masterpieces within these magical cities that Renaissance artists called home gives me the ability to educate and inspire in ways that would not be possible otherwise. I look forward to sharing my new and fresh Renaissance perspective with my students!

The Loss of a Legend

Mr. William “Bill” Kirk,

Fourth Head Master of Calvert School William “Bill” Kirk, Calvert’s fourth Head Master, passed away on Monday, June 18. A native of Baltimore, Mr. Kirk enlisted in the Army when World War II began. Ranked as a Captain in the Medical Service Corps, he received an award for his service in Okinawa in 1944. After his discharge from the Army in 1946, Mr. Kirk attended Johns Hopkins University where he received his B.A. and M.Ed. He came to Calvert in 1951 and taught Twelfth Age for fourteen years before being appointed Principal of the Day School in 1965 and then Head Master in 1967. After his appointment as Head Master, he continued to coach multiple sports—most notably his favorite sport of football—until his retirement in 1983. During Mr. Kirk’s time as Head Master, athletics started to represent a more prominent role at the School and a number of important projects were developed, including the Lower School West Wing addition and the Luetkemeyer Planetarium. In an excerpt from the Board Minutes upon Mr. Kirk’s retirement, it was said, “Since he assumed the office of Head Master in 1967, he has played an important part in every single aspect of the School’s operations and development. Under his leadership, the great traditions of Calvert School have been preserved and strengthened, while exciting new educational programs have been initiated when he was convinced of their substance and merit.”

The steady hand and full engagement of Bill Kirk played a central role in the success of Calvert for more than thirty years, and he leaves behind an outstanding legacy of leadership, dedication, and forward progress. Below, former students share their own memories of Mr. Kirk.

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Personally, I will always be incredibly grateful for Bill Kirk – he shook my hand every morning, he read my folder papers every month, he cared for me as a student and as a person, he coached me, and he mentored me. As a successor of his as Head Master, I am also extremely grateful, for he preserved the core values of Calvert while also moving the School significantly forward in terms of facilities, curriculum, athletics, and personnel. We remember, mourn, and celebrate the passing of a true Calvert legend. Thank you.

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~ Dr. Andrew D. Martire ’83 FALL 2012

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I will never forget his firm handshake and direct eye contact at the top of the stairs walking in to school every morning. As the end of Twelfth Age approached, I remember realizing that this, having been part of my daily routine for roughly half of my life at that point, would be something I would really miss. Behind his sometimes gruff exterior was a gentle man with a very warm heart. When my younger brother (Tucker Hebb ‘81) died in 1983, Mr. Kirk’s presence at our home and genuine expression of grief over the loss was incredibly meaningful to every member of my family. ~ Jamey Hebb ’76

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Mr. Kirk was truly my favorite person at Calvert School. As a person who struggled to concentrate, pay attention and to remember my homework, my memories of Calvert are, well, stressful. Mr. Kirk made me feel supported and loved from the first time I shook his hand at the top of the huge staircase in 1973 on my way to pilot class, to the last time, when he handed me a diploma in 1980.

Once my family took a vacation in the winter and went to Disney World in Florida. It was a week-long vacation, which to a first grader seemed like a semester. My brothers and I did the home-instruction course exercises to stay in touch with our classes. I remember the trip as wonderful but chaotic. My younger brother who was five, managed both to get stung by a Portuguese Man o’War and lost in Disney World. The crowning moment was when he was riding the escalator in the Epcot Center on our last day and his hand followed the escalator belt at the top right into the machine. It was as though he didn’t know he was supposed to let go. My father reached inside and held his hand so it didn’t get sucked off and after what seemed like an eternity, someone turned the whole thing off leaving David and my dad thankfully intact.

We all survived somehow, but when our carpool pulled up in front of the glass doors at Calvert and I looked up the tidal wave of stairs in front of me, I was suddenly sure that no one would remember me. I would have to introduce myself to Mr. Kirk and my teachers and start making friends all over again. I remember climbing the stair sticking close to my big brother, lost in the long line of boys and girls who didn’t know me.

When I reached the top, I looked way up at Mr. Kirk with tears in my eyes and next thing I knew I was lost in a bear hug that lasted a lifetime.

I will always remember Mr. Kirk.

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~ Elizabeth G. Sowell ’80 27

Voices from the Cla

The greatest lesson that I have learned at Calvert is that I can

I am going to miss the

achieve my goals.

unity between teachers

I will miss my

and students. Calvert

friends the most,

is a big family and

I will miss

but I know that I

everyone helps one

knowing each

have made friends

another if they are

person’s name

that will last me a

in need. I am really

in every grade.

lifetime.

going to miss Calvert!

~Mitchie Ford

~Dima Zahan

~Anna Dorsey

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Calvert has given me all the essential tools to succeed as We all have spent so

I move on from this

much time together

wonderful school.

and know each other

The values that

I will miss all of my

so well, and because

Calvert has instilled

friends so much. We

of this, I think that we

in me include

have become like

are one large family. I

leadership and

brothers and sisters

am going to miss the

determination as

over the years.

family environment!

well as many more.

~Isabel Garcia-Moreno

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~Ryan Rossello

~Cale Thorne

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Voices from the Cla

I am the best person that I can be because Calvert has taught me to be strong. It is important to continue

If you work hard and

to strive to be a better

stay focused on your

person each day, even

goals, you can achieve

as we go through hard

anything. Calvert

times. We are challenged

taught me this mindset

to learn new things

and much more. I

every day and apply

am going to miss the

them to our real life. I

relationships that I

will miss the bonds that

have made with all of

I have formed at Calvert

my teachers and fellow

and I will continue to

classmates throughout

carry the Calvert spirit

the years.

within me! ~Krista Jiranek

~Andrew Brennan

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I love Calvert School – I am going to miss the people. The teachers truly want us to learn, Calvert has taught me the

they make class fun,

value of determination.

and encourage us

Although many of my

to transcend the

peers at other schools

boundaries of our

were shocked by the

minds. They have

fact that we had exams

given us the tools to

beginning in Fifth Grade,

succeed in class and

I have found that these

out. Calvert teachers

challenges have only

are different – I feel

proven to me again

close to them, trust

and again that if I have

them, and I am

determination, I can

never afraid to ask

accomplish anything.

questions.

~Ava Geenan

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~Erica Dawson

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GRANDPARENTS’ DAY

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1 Anna M. gets into the Thanksgiving spirit 2 Students perform in the Tenth Age play 3 Tenth Agers appreciate their grandparents 4 Grandparents help students complete a worksheet 5 A student and grandmothers are all smiles 6 Ninth Agers share their Thanksgiving projects

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7 Grandparents enjoyed art class with their grandson 8 The Pilot Class sings to their grandparents

CORKS FOR CALVERT 9 Corks for Calvert Co-Chairs, Betsey Hobelmann ’87 and Janine Robinson

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10 Parents sampling the delicious wines 11 Guests peruse the silent auction items 12 Brooke Wheeler Rodgers ’91, Megan Higgins, Erin Merrick, and Kate English 13 Dennis & Nicole Klein and Nick & Martina Dilks 14 Andrew & Kerry Johnston and Stephanie & Benjamin Coldren 15 Head Master Andy Martire pulls the winning tuition raffle ticket

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CALVERT DAY

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17 Madison Williams ’12 and Ava Beenan ’12 race to win the bungee run 18 A clown creates not only balloon animals but many shapes!

19 A student throws a good toss to win a prize

20 Children enjoy a sweet treat 21 Golfers eagerly anticipate a hole-in-one

22 Students are excited to climb the rock wall 23 Airbrush tattoos were a popular commodity 24 Students enjoy campus on a cloudless day

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25 Calvert Day Co-Chairs, Laura Davis and Kate Powell

MOTHER’S DAY TEA 26 The Pilot Class sings to their mothers 27 Will C. with his mom 28 Conrad P. with his mom

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29 Lin W. gives her mom a plate she painted

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30 Sam B. is happy to spend the morning with his mom

FATHER’S DAY COFFEE 31 A father has his arms full with twin daughters, Elena and Elise 32 Three generations are happy to celebrate family together 33 A father reads the story his daughter wrote about him 34 Alex N. hugs his father

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Trivial Pursuit Sports & Leisure 1. What are the four groups that Calvert students are assigned for athletics during their Lower School years?

2. What year did Calvert hire its first athletics coaches?

Arts & Literature

1. Which song is typically sung during Calvert graduation?

2. Calvert School’s current Lower School building was originally built in the shape of which capital letter?

2. What road divides the Lower School and Middle School and is also a region in Italy?

Geography

1. In 1901, Calvert School moved to which street location?

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History 1. In 1897, the School opened with how many students?

2. The Home Instruction Department was established in what year?

2. Mythology is a class offered in which Age?

1. What year did the Luetkemeyer Planetarium open?

Science & Nature

2. What are students greeted with every morning from the Head Master?

1. Which three fundamentals do students focus on in the Lower School?

Traditions Answers can be found on page 45.

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SIXTH ANNUAL CALVERT GOLF CLASSIC

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1 Parents Rachel and Dennis O’Neill with Jamie and Matthew Seward 2 Randolph Martin, William Martin, Alfred Reaves, and George Taylor 3 Jack Luetkemeyer ’53, Hill Michaels ’51, E.B. Harris ’78, and Jan Miller 4 Luke Wilson ’97, Tom Zink ’90, Peter Eyring ’97, and Jamie Hodges ’93

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5 Alumni Association President Patty McCormick Klein ’86 with the 2011 winning team – Chris Taylor, Paul Reynolds, Justin Klein ’86, and Matt Hodson

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HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI EVENT 6 Halsey Hill ’11, Mackenzie Sappe ’11, Cole Lacovara ‘11, and Peter McIntyre ’11 7 Dwayne Peterkin ’09 and Garrett Knipp ’09

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8 Zoe Bilis ’09, Ana Garcia-Moreno ’09, and Sophia Springer ’09

COLLEGE SENIORS EVENT 9 Members of the Class of 2004 celebrate at their Calvert Reunion

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FLORIDA EAST COAST REGIONAL EVENT 10 Andy Martire ’83 poses with attendees at the Florida East Coast Regional Event 11 Mike Victor, Andy Martire ’83, Wendy Victor, Wendy Pantle, and Bart Harvey ’61

FLORIDA WEST COAST REGIONAL EVENT

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NEW YORK CITY REGIONAL EVENT 1 Frank Carey ’38 and Andy Martire ’83 2 Ross Taylor ’76 and Sana Naylor Brooks ’79 3 Joe Haberman and Annie Haberman ’00

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4 Sisters Mary Lynn Marburg Brett ’37 and Fifi Marburg Peck ’38, are all smiles 5 Ned Murray ’33 with his wife, Cynthia 6 Tenth Age Greeters: Campbell Barnes ’16, Susannah Webster ’16, Charles Meyer ’16, and Thomas Martinson ’16 7 Pattsy Scarlett Swindell ’51 and Lisa Dobbin Sherwood ’51 reminisce as they look at photos 8 Graduates enjoy the food and the company of their former classmates.

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9 Head of Lower School, Ed Trusty and former music teacher Cary Barton 10 Josie George Worthington ’72 and Jack Harvey ’63 11 Kieran Fox ’79, Andy Martire ’83, and Patty McCormick Klein ’86 12 Jamie Hodges ’93 and Gordon Gee ’92 13 Hen George Kennedy ’61, Bart Harvey ’61, Carville Collins ’73, and Mary Lou Collins

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1 2012-2013 Alumni Board of Governors EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Kieran E. Fox, Esq. ’79, President

Hugh F.Z. Cole III ’88, Treasurer

Elizabeth Wheeler Rodgers ’91, Vice President

Rachel Arnot Rockwell ’91, Secretary

MEMBERS

Hill Michaels ’51 Pete George ’66 Skip Howe ’77 Clemmie Miller ’81 Lisa Dowling Costello ’83 Julie Martin McAllister ’86 Cara Shepley ’94 Matt Novak ’95 Luke Wilson ’97 Dale Waters ’10

PAST PRESIDENTS

2010-2012............. Patricia McCormick Klein ’86 2008-2010............. Curtis H. Campbell ’83

3 2012-2013 Alumni Events Legacy Chase Event Saturday, September 29, 2012 Shawan Downs – Railside Spot #26 Seventh Annual Calvert Golf Classic Monday, October 8, 2012 Hayfields Country Club

2006-2008............. Albert H. Michaels, Jr. ’51 2005-2006 ............ Susan Quarnguesser Amiot ’79 2004-2005 ............ Matthew W. Wyskiel III ’81

High School Alumni Event Sunday, November 4, 2012 Black Box Theater College Seniors Reunion Thursday, December 20, 2012 Red Star Bar & Grill

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REUNIONS

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4 The Class of 1987 celebrates their 25th Reunion 5 Mike Paul and the Class of 1997 pose for a photo

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General Alumni Board Meeting Thursday, February 7, 2013 Middle School Atrium Calvert Night at the Yard Camden Yards – Baltimore, MD More information to come in the early Spring

Alumni Regional Events will be scheduled throughout the year.

To see if we’re coming to your city or to learn more about our alumni events, visit www.calvertschoolmd.org and click on ‘Alumni Association.’

Alumni & Reunion Weekend Friday, May 17 – Saturday, May 18, 2013

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ANNUAL FUND KICK-OFF PARTY 1 Annual Fund Co-Chairs, Matt and Debbie Long 2 Ninth Age Boys Chairs, Goldisse Fazeli and Mehdi Zamani 3 Mary Lou Collins, Janet Marie Smith, and Corky Crozier 4 Carty Hebert and Gayle Kelly 5 David and Debra Nelson

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PHONATHON 7 Grandparent helpers working hard at Phonathon 8 Charlie Thorne smiles as he makes his calls 9 Young Alumni Courtney Brent ’95, Ru Belt ’96, and Drew Deloskey ’96 calling their classmates 10 Hill Michaels ’51 is focused and ready for Phonathon

10 Trivial Pursuit answers Sports & Leisure A1. Hoppers, Crickets, Crows, and Canaries A2. 1924 Arts & Literature A1. High Ho for Merry June A2. A capital ‘E’ for Education Geography A1. West Chase Street A2. Tuscany Road

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History A1. 15 students A2. 1906 Science & Nature A1. 1979 A2. Eighth Age Traditions A1. Reading, writing, and arithmetic A2. A firm handshake

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memory lane ~ Athletic Memories

Alice Iglehart McAdams ’36 The day my name was engraved on the silver cup.

Kitty Cromwell ’48 One year, our class proceeded to “wipe RPCS off the map” in kickball. We were playing the game on Calvert’s girls’ black top tennis court when Mr. Brown arrived at half time. To my great surprise and unforgettable benefit, I learned as he told us: “I never ever want to hear that you beat anybody or allowed such a big score difference as this again! You know you are better players than they are. Control the score and never humiliate anyone like that! I am greatly disappointed in you!” Yes, integrity, sportsmanship and kindness were taught at Calvert and I trust they still are.

Louisa Cooper Dubin ’49 When the faculty played the Twelfth Age girls in softball, I managed to hit a ground ball and make it to first base. After the game, Mr. Brown told me to report to my father that I hit a single.

Gee Harvey Wheeler ’54 I remember standing next to my parents during the field day when my younger sister, who had her legs in a cast for much of her first year with a congenitally dislocated hip, WON the race. Happy tears were flowing down both parents’ cheeks. I don’t think I’d ever seen their tears before or since then. It was a glorious moment!

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Mary Webster Wiglesworth ’57 My bloomers falling down in gym drill.

Elizabeth McCleary Primrose Smith ’60

Rear Admiral Richard P. Snyder ’73

Kickball at recess trying to kick the ball over the fence into the boys side! Learning to play field hockey from Mrs. McCleary – though she was my mother, she was a wonderful teacher who had patience, perseverance, and was genuinely interested in every girl she taught!

I remember starting the Calvert wrestling program with my brother, Steve Snyder ’74, as my partner, and my dad, Dick Snyder, as coach.

We used homemade instructional movies (no video or digital back then).

Bessie Cromwell Speers ’76

Bart Harvey ’61 It was the bottom of the ninth (actually the fifth and last inning), the bases were loaded and the score was tied against the Yankees (er.....Gilman). I was pitching and they were hitting me hard! One out – and a blast to the farthest reaches of left center field. I blew it. I mumbled and started to walk off the field, but looking back, I saw Mike Kissel ’61 awake from his snooze and run and dive, arms outstretched, parallel to the ground! The Gilman runner on third was not as well schooled as Calvert players are in the fundamentals – he ran in toward home, he ran back, he ran in again. Did Mike catch it or not? Only Mike knows and you will need to consult him in heaven – but the ump said “out” and Richie Talbert was doubled off third after what seemed to be an eternity. Calvert beat Gilman, 3-3 only rivaled by Harvard beating Yale 29-29 some years later.

All of us of Calvert ’61 on that team and in that class toast you, Mike Kissel.

John Tompkins ’69 I felt like a big fish in a small pond in terms of athletics at Calvert. We met our match when we played Gilman in football, basketball, and baseball. I got to be kicker, punter, center, and even QB on a few passing plays. I got to pitch for the baseball team and even played center for the basketball team. Once in the Eleventh Age v. Friends, I booted a high spiraling punt. So enthused by the moment, I charged down the field to also make the tackle. I got so excited I failed to notice the opponent’s return man calling for a fair catch. I obliterated him after the catch and drew a maximum 7.5 yard penalty! (Remember our field was only half the length of a regular field!) Alas, we were humbled in interscholastic competition but still had much fun.

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I loved field hockey at Calvert and can remember our games and practices being the most important thing in the world to us!

Betsey Swingle Hobelmann ’87 I remember being in Twelfth Age when the girls’ gym had just been finished. We were so excited to have that brand new space!

It was so clean and smelled great, unlike the sweaty old boys’ gym, where I got hit square in the face by a dodge ball.

The most nerve-wracking part of PE was the Presidential Fitness Test. Mrs. Wagner (Sewell) blew her whistle and we had to do sit-ups, pull-ups, and dashes. I was a fine athlete way back then and I dominated the shuttle run, the sit and reach and the broad jump – I could REALLY jump far!

But the pinnacle of Calvert athletics was Field Day. I was nervous, sweaty, and always had butterflies in my stomach. I HAD to beat Aubrie Hall ’87! Most parents came to watch, cheering and screaming from the concrete bleachers – it was a lot of pressure for eleven and twelve-year-olds. All I remember is hearing Ms. Wagner blow the whistle and running like mad. The best thing about Field Day is that it is exactly the same today! I was just there a couple of months ago watching my nine-year-old, Anna ’17, and boy was she nervous.

Abby Pedroni ’06 I remember the one year when the Canary team beat the Crow team (FINALLY) in dodge ball.

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Patricia Byrnes has two grandchildren, Will (4) and Claire (3). Her hobbies include reading, needlepoint, and knitting. She also does private tutoring.

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Bardelle Offutt has become a Florida resident, spending time between Florida and their house in Broadkill Beach Delaware. She plays a lot of golf and is still a member of a garden club but hopes to get back to playing bridge. She is also still very involved with Penn-Mar Human

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John Morton, Jr. passed away on August 3, 2011 at the Blakehurst retirement community in Towson. He worked in real estate and insurance sales until retiring in the mid-1990s from John Stewart Morton Jr., a successor company to Samuel P. Morton & Son, which had been established in 1868. His directorships

Butsy Lovelace ’34 on July Fourth with his son, Don Lovelace

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included Safety Perpetual Building & Loan Association, Metropolis Building Association, Real Estate Board of Greater Baltimore, Platt Manufacturing Co., Margaret Bennett Home and Planned Parenthood Association. A resident of Blakehurst for the past 12 years, Mr. Morton was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati, Society of Colonial Wars, Green Spring Valley Hunt Club, Bachelors Cotillon and the Gibson Island Club. He is survived by two sons, John S. Morton III and Franklin L. Morton of Northfield, IL, a daughter, Lettice L. Rhodes, and three grandchildren.

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Thomas Cassilly III writes, “after retiring from a career in the Foreign Service, I went to Columbia for a Ph.D. and taught at Montclair State University in New Jersey and Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY. Last year at 86, I finally retired as a professor (courses on the Middle East, American Foreign Policy, International Relations) and find I miss teaching very much!”

MaryLina Strauff Kosicki attended Dartmouth this past summer for a 10 day Language Immersion Program to learn Italian.

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Alice Iglehart McAdams is leading a quiet life in a retirement home in Maine. Her four children are scattered across the country, but they come to see her every month of the year. Her nine grandchildren are almost grown and leading interesting and responsible lives.

George Riley, Jr. and wife Helen are now living at the Fairhaven Retirement Community in Sykesville, Maryland.

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Judy Clark Watts ’34 and Charlie Reeves ’35 at the “Remember When” Luncheon during Alumni Weekend

but enjoy the many activities offered and meeting new friends.

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– and motor-driven. We went around Disco Bay in West Greenland, hardly the usual tourist destination, seeing fin whale, icebergs, Eskimo towns and settlements and simply wild land. Truly Unforgettable!”

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Posey Johnson Randall and husband Peter spent two days in Sarasota, FL in February visiting Laurie Hooper ’37 and his wife Dicky. Laurie and Posey were in first to sixth grade together and had a great time recalling the “good old days” – Dicky and Peter have only known each other since Peter’s medical school days (newcomers).

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Terry Lacy’s EnglishIcelandic and LatinIcelandic legal dictionaries are in press at the University of Akureyri. The next (and last) edition of the Business Dictionary is in press. Her autobiography is written and a copy of it is at the Maryland Historical Society, per their request. She recently went on a sailing adventure. She sailed for twelve days on a schooner built a century ago but completely remodeled inside. “We had an excellent captain and crew – and chef

Fifi Marburg Peck has recently moved from her home of forty-five years to the Brightwood Retirement Community on Falls Road.

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Louise Este Hollyday is retired and is getting ready to move to Pennsylvania to a retirement cottage. She writes, “I have no hobbies, but I am interested in what my future will hold for me.”

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Dorothy Klinefelter Earll writes, “since I became blind nine years ago, my interests have narrowed considerably. Activities of my children and grandchildren as well as listening to books on tape and TV are important

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Nan Jay Barchowsky continues to work with her italic based handwriting program. “I depart from the hand Calvert taught me. My latest is an app for the iPad, Letters Make Words.”

WBMD in Baltimore – Bill Clifton) are now few and far between, and Tineke and I enjoy more time together at home in Poor Valley.”

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Maria Cromwell Williams writes, “I continue to enjoy life at Mercy Ridge.

Beau spends lots of time in the world of finance and horses. I am always trying hard to learn the names of so many people. There are lots of activities and wonderful exercise classes. So time just flies by, not just the days but the years!”

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Marion Parsons DeGroff ’51 and George Thomsen ’42 celebrating Alumni Weekend

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Joseph Cooper, Jr. presently works as a Solar Industry Analyst at Wellington Shields & Company in New York City.

He travels to Germany regularly for research purposes. He is fluent in the German language, which has become also a hobby. He has four children in their 30’s and 40’s and one stepson, as well as ten grandchildren.

William Marburg shares, “Thanks to a very energetic Dutch wife who has spent the past 36 years accompanying me in my working tours across Europe, Africa, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the U.S., I am still in relatively good health and looking forward to whatever tomorrow may hold for us. The days of singing mountain songs on my guitar and autoharp accompaniment (under the pseudonym that I was already using in my 1950 radio programs at WBAL &

Shirley Grimes tells us, “This is my 16th year of volunteering at the National Aquarium; I am an exhibit guide there every Thursday and volunteer in other ways at different times. Traveling alone or in a group is one of my favorite activities. The trips are either for wildlife opportunities, or something just scenic in nature. I am also very active in my church.”

Robert Stinson enjoys fly fishing in Tasmania and New Zealand, cropping and raising sheep to produce fat lambs, and following Australian Rules Football – “the best football game there is.”

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Susan Stinson Deering shares, “my second wonderful husband died last August and I have since moved to Elkridge Estates and am somewhat reinventing my life. I find renting to be quite convenient. I work as a Hospice Volunteer several times a week – it is very rewarding.”

Emita Brady Hill serves on a number of not-for-profit boards including being the Executive Director of American University’s Central Asia Foundation.

She was a trustee at UACA for eleven years and chaired the awards selection committee for the New York Women’s Foundation. Her seven grandchildren range from six to 24 years old and live in France, Connecticut, and South Carolina. For fun she plays tennis, piano, and scuba dives. She also sings in a choir.

Frank Riggs ’51, Charlotte Riggs ’84, Sandy Martin ’58, and Faith Riggs enjoying the Calvert School Golf Classic

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Willis Johnson III enjoys time with his wife, playing social golf twice a week, and working in his yard and garden. He also writes, “I love happy hour.”

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Bowdoin Davis, Jr. was a contributing author in the December 2011 Visual Resources: The Crisis in Art History (Volume XVII, No. 4). His article is entitled, Copyright’s Immoral Rights? (pp. 362-369).

Louisa Cooper Dubin shares, “I have moved to the Guadrangle retirement home from my big old house. My cottage has big windows and more light than anywhere else I ever lived.

Formerly a farm, there are 67 acres with handsome trees, plantings, woods, and lawns. It is a wonderful place to walk. Beyond breakfast and lunch, I don’t cook, and I enjoy their varied dinners. I’m tutoring a delightful, bright second grade girl at Gesu School in North Philadelphia. I also play squash and tennis with my friends. My Calvert friends remain my close friends.”

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Joan Allan Aleshire has released her fifth book of poetry, Happily (out from Four Way Books Tribeca). It’s a memoir in poems, several of which are set at Calvert. She continues to teach in the low residency Master of Fine Arts Program at Warren Wilson College in North Carolina. She lives in Vermont, where she volunteers at the local library, which she started in 1975.

She also co-owns an organic dairy farm

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in her town. She has two wonderful granddaughters, ages 11 and 8.

Pickett Randolph writes that he “visited St. Petersburg, Russia several years ago at the end of a river cruise from Moscow.

Although it was during the height of the tourist season as well as the “White Nights,” I fell in love with the city and hoped to return. This past October, under the auspices of the The Suriname pen-pals of the students in 10-B with their Johns Hopkins University Calvert care package!

Alum Association, I returned for a “week of culture” – ballets, opera, Francis Gluck, Jr. is enjoying folk museum, palaces, and of course The retirement from medical practice Hermitage. Unlike my first visit, this time I and the freedom to pick and choose was able to spend hours on my own looking what he does. He volunteers teaching at its fabulous collection – a feast for the medical residents and students, goes eyes of this National Gallery of Art docent. on trips to the Florida Panhandle and A disappointing hotel as I could never get California to see family, and reconnects any hot water! The city is glorious but full with friends – assure no boredom. He of smokers and grimlooking senior citizens. recently received the inaugural “Heart I am off to Alaska in August 2012.” of Hospice” award from Nashville’s largest Hospice. He shares, “it is very Sallie Hurst Worthington writes, “sadly, gratifying to witness the advances my last grandchild graduated from in End of Life Care and to have had Calvert last year. I miss Grandparents’ the opportunity to play a part in the Day, the class assemblies, football games process.” and graduations. I am always interested in keeping up with all that goes on at Barbara Kerr Howe continues her life Calvert. I believe my grandchildren were as a retiree, but those around her do fourth or fifth generation Calvert students. not believe that she has really retired.

Hopefully we can keep the relationship She still sits one day each week in the going!!”

Baltimore County Circuit Court, runs Mr. Duncan Yaggy retired from Duke University on December 31, 2011.

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Harvey Clapp III tells us, “my son, David Clapp ’81 left Calvert to join me in January in our Mount Washington office to help me in financing and monitoring several investments. Calvert’s loss was our office’s gain.”

her own mediation and arbitration business, chairs the Board of Trustees of the Community College of Baltimore County, serves as President of Woodholme Country Club, and serves as the State Delegate to the American Bar Association. She also chairs the Coordinating Council of the Center for Professional Responsibility of the ABA. Her children, Susan Howe Baron ’74 and Skip Howe ’77, are her pride and joy. Susan is married to Robert Baron and they have a daughter, Louise, who will be in Sixth Grade this

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coming fall. Skip is married to Sherrill, and they have three sons: Christopher ’06, Nathan and Conner. Chris just finished his second year at UMBC and Nathan will enter Gordon College in Massachusetts in August. Conner has one more year at Perry Hall High School.

Chris and Nathan are both Eagle Scouts and Conner is almost there as well. She also writes, “I was married on January 1, 2012 to Don Nixdorff and have the best life of anyone I know! I love to travel, attempt to play golf and read lots of books for pleasure.”

Elisabeth Dobbin Sherwood currently sings with the Annapolis Chamber Chorus and the Annapolis Chorale.

She also serves on the Board of Directors of Live Arts Maryland, the umbrella organization of the above. It was very enjoyable to see classmates who attended their 60th Reunion at the home of Tom Bailliere ’51 and Elisabeth’s sister, Anne Dobbin Bailliere ’53 last fall.

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W. Page Dame III retired in July 2010 after 17 years as an Independent School CFO and 30 years in International Banking before that. He has been in Northern Vermont since 2002 and spends a lot of time at his cottage in North Hatley, Quebec. His wife Beverly continues her work as Communications Director at Lyndon Institute and they visit grandchildren in Arizona as often as they can.

Fayne Kayser Farrar is happy to report that “I am still healthy and selling Real Estate at Hill & Co. in Baltimore. For fun I am sailing my Alberg 30 around the Chesapeake Bay, attending friends’ children’s lacrosse and football games and attending the occasional play etc. at Calvert performed by my “adopted” grandkids.”

Mac McLanahan III produced a YouTube video for Lily’s Legacy Senior Dog Sanctuary in Forest Knolls, California this past spring. The purpose was to raise awareness and funds to help this small senior dog rescue to purchase a rural property so that their mission can be even better served. To date, over $60,000 in direct contributions have come to Lily’s Legacy from all over the country as a result of 3,700 views of the video.

The video, which many people have found very moving, may be viewed by going to the Lily’s Legacy website www. lilyslegacy.org and clicking on the video link. As an interesting side note, Lily’s Legacy Founder and Executive Director is Alice Markell Mayn ’57. Alice is Mac’s former wife and mother of their three grown children, Allison, Emily, and Mark.

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Jenette Harvey Wheeler still loves her work as a doctor for students at University of Pennsylvania, helping students from all over the world.

“It reminds me sometimes of when we went downstairs to the Home Instruction Dept. at Calvert and read about Calvert students all over the world learning the same things we were learning and sometimes becoming a pen pal. Singing is such a treat for me – I’ve been in all the Gilbert & Sullivan operettas now and host our folksing group each year and play guitar and sing with my wonderful six grandkids and kids in Maine every summer. My favorite job: baby sitter!”

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Edward Passano, Jr. writes, “All is Good!”

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Carolyn Campbell Beall shares, “George and I spend six months in Naples, Florida playing golf, biking, walking, reading, serving on boards and committees and taking class at Florida Gulf Coast University. Our children all come to visit of course. We spend May and October in the county in Baltimore on Cauteuary Jinkins farm where we live in the carriage house.

In summer, we spend three months in Jackson Hole, Wyoming playing golf, walking, biking and relaxing. Children and friends visit and we both read a lot wherever we are.”

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Alice Markell Mayn is the Founder and Executive Director of Lily’s Legacy.

Lily’s Legacy Senior Dog Sanctuary is located in Forest Knolls, California.

For more information about Lily’s Legacy and to get involved, visit www.lilyslegacy.org.

In Memoriam

The following members of the Calvert community passed away between July 1, 2011 and June 30, 2012. We continue to remember them in our hearts.

Mrs. Natalie B. Barringer

Mr. William M. Gardner, Jr. ’43

Mr. Charles R. Bartlett ’66

Mrs. Helen C. Kelly

Ms. Janet L. Benson

Mrs. Elise Boyce Kelsey ’29

Mr. Eric L. Bergland, Jr. ’62

Mr. William W. Kirk

Mrs. Florence Snyder Bohon ’40

Mr. John S. Morton, Jr. ’31

Mr. Wm. Polk Carey ’42

Mrs. Eleanor Gary Orrick ’34

Mr. Frank L. Carozza ’73

Mr. Aubrey Pearre ’31

Mrs. Betsy Cissel

Miss Elizabeth Pearre ’33

Mr. Peyton S. Cochran, Jr. ’39

Mr. Robert Rhodes

Mrs. Marian Bailliere Daly ’43

Mrs. Margaret P. Scriba

Mrs. Mary Steinmann Davies ’40

Mrs. Nina Stewart Strawbridge ’53

Mr. L. Patrick Deering

Mrs. Anne Poultney Taylor ’24

Mrs. Dorothy Hopkins Eager ’33

Mrs. Marian Trescher Waldhausen ’44

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Harry Hull III writes, “I was the first member of the class of 1959 to reach 59 and the first member of the class of 1965 to reach 65. I am still sail boat racing and won the Cleveland Race Week in Class and Division. Most important, I am still in love!”

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Mary Webster Wiglesworth ’57 and husband Pat enjoying an evening at the Inner Harbor

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Anne Nelson Apgar is enjoying a busy two-year term as Chair of the Women’s Committee of the Walters Art Museum.

She has also established with a group of

neighbors a nonprofit, South Harbor Renaissance, to work with Baltimore City on the renovation of the Federal Hill Park Playground. “Having restored an 1880 townhouse in Federal Hill, we look across the Park to the Inner Harbor. Please knock on 405 Warren if you ever visit the Park!”

Elizabeth McCleary Primrose-Smith shares that “time just gets away from me these days! There is so much going on with kids, grandkids, travel and life in general. I thought when I retired that I would have more leisure, but I am busier than ever, but doing things I love and want to do. I am still enjoying retirement. I went on a cruise of the Mediterranean last fall. Started

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in Istanbul which was a wondrous and beautiful city – magical! Ended in Monte Carlo and then rented a car to drive around Provence for four days – perfect weather, wonderful food, and spectacular countryside. I just returned from a driving trip around the Southwest visiting numerous National Parks and State Parks: Mt. Rushmore, Devils Tower, Bryce, Zion, Petrified Forest and many other places. Drove over 4,400 miles! I have done loads of international travel for work and cruises for fun, but had not spent much time in the U.S. sightseeing.

So I am filled with wonder at the varying sights and landscapes in our vast and varied country. I plan to do a similar trip next May to see other parks and byways.

I am still knitting obsessively – especially now that I have five grandchildren to knit for. I continue to take clogging classes to keep my mind and body tuned. I have also planted lots of fruit trees and flowers around the house. And just enjoying life!”

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Peggy Peterson Anderson is enjoying retirement, although she thinks she’s busier now than when she was working.

Peggy has a very small jewelry business doing beadwoven jewelry and making glass beads. She plays a lot of golf and plays to a fourteen handicap – “not too bad for a 63 year-old who (other than a few lessons at Elkridge) didn’t start to play until my 40’s.” She and her husband, David, try to “see the world” as much as they can – the most recent trip was to Barcelona and a cruise through the Western Mediterranean.

Lucy Michaels continues to live in Brunswick, Georgia working as a physical therapist. She volunteers in community activities such as the wounded warrior project and other various projects. She enjoys photography and spending time with her thirteen-year-old dachshund.

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Ellen Rouse Conrad is the proud mother of three children – Parker, Louisa and Frances. While she moved out of Baltimore after graduating from college, her youngest daughter Frances moved to Baltimore after graduating from Middlebury. She is now a third grade teacher at Gilman. “Protecting our environment is my passion. I founded a nonprofit that is a model for community grass roots efforts. My husband, a former corporate lawyer, now artist and I live in NYC and Bedford, NY.”

of cancer? He loved life. To his many friends at Calvert, thank you. Charlie spent six wonderful years there.”

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Laura Schafer McLaughlin’s debut novel, Alabaster Houses, received the Gold Medal 2011 Book of the Year Award for Multicultural Fiction. The novel was a finalist in two categories, General Fiction and Multicultural Fiction. The story weaves together the stories of two women from different cultures and generations who meet at a critical point in each of their lives as a result of having unknowingly loved the same man. Local readers will enjoy the familiarity of the setting in suburban and downtown Baltimore and D.C. Laura served as an administrator, teacher, and on the advisory board at Odyssey before returning to her writing career in 2001. She lives in Sudbrook Park, Pikesville with her husband and family, and is working on her second novel.

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Peggy Peterson Anderson ’61 with husband, David, in Edinburgh July 2012

Charles Bartlett passed away in December 2011 after a two and a half year struggle with lung cancer. His sister, Lucy Bartlett Cerise ’69 shares that “he remained hopeful during that time and often offered encouragement to others. People would just shake their heads, wondering, how can he be so cheerful and happy under the burden

John Tompkins ’69 and son, Scott ’99 golfing at Half Moon Bay near San Francisco, CA

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Margie Garland Whitman is still working at Calvert as school nurse and she loves it! “I love the energy and bustling activity in a school. I love hiking and tennis, and I am starting golf! My daughter, Elizabeth (24) is finishing her masters in Spanish in Madrid, and she wants to teach! Ben (20) is a sophomore at Denison University and is very happy! Robbie (16) is a sophomore at Episcopal High School and loves it!

He also loved Calvert!”

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Lisa Hopkins Wheeler married fellow Calvert Alum, Mark Wheeler ’65, in 1982, and since then, they have lived in North Carolina, New England, and Baltimore before they headed off the map to spend six years abroad from 2002 to 2008, spending the first four years in Paris where their daughter Isabelle (17) went to a French primary school. “Mme Gunning would be so proud!” They then backpacked around the world for almost a year, using the Calvert program for schooling, as well as the education of being out in the world where they slowtraveled from French Polynesia, through the South Pacific to Malaysia, then Namibia, Egypt and Greece. They spent a year in the village of Rochefort en Terre in Brittany. There, Isabelle went back to a French school, Mark continued with his biotech investment fund, and Lisa explored the markets and pleasures of life in France. In 2008, they headed back to the U.S. to New York City where Isabelle has been at the Lycée Français de New York from which she graduated this past June and is attending Kenyon College this fall.

Lisa is involved with several human rights NGO’s, an annual French film festival, and a Therapeutic Riding, as well as pottery, piano, and tennis. “It

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Mark Wheeler ’65 and Lisa Hopkins Wheeler ’70 enjoying their surprise Anniversary breakfast from their daughter, Isabelle

is my love of French, which I first got hooked on at Calvert (my only consistent), that has served to mold my life in the most wonderful and fulfilling ways.”

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Charlotte Harvey hosted Cairo Open City this past spring. She is shooting some educational videos in Northern

Italy – going to one room School houses in the Dalomite Mountains. She is looking forward to exhibiting her collages this fall.

Margot Van Buskirk Hoerner writes, “Is it really 40 years ago that we graduated from Calvert? Where has the time gone? My husband Eric and I just celebrated the graduation of our oldest child, Cameron from Georgetown. Our twin daughters will be juniors at Bucknell and the Naval Academy, certainly two very different

Margot Van Buskirk Hoerner ’72 with her family celebrating the graduation of her son, Cameron from Georgetown

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college experiences! We have been lucky to live in Lancaster, PA and be within two hours of all three kids so we can regularly visit them and attend their sporting events. I am celebrating my 30th year with Procter and Gamble as an HR Manager. Now that we are empty nesters, I am enjoying having more time for tennis, golf and being able to give back to my community.”

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Carol Graham says, “all is well.” She is living in Gibson Island, MD and works in D.C. at Brookings. She also teaches Ph.D. students at University of Maryland, College Park. She is one of the pioneers of a new part of economics – the economics of happiness. She studies the determinants of wellbeing and can measure the effects of everything from commuting time to job quality to smoking and drinking.

“It’s all the rage now, and people from the U.K. to the U.S. are starting to use the metrics. My three wonderful children, Alexander (18), Anna (13) and Adrian (13) are thriving at Severn School.”

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Jamey Hebb writes, “my daughter Lucy ’07 is now in her third year at Sewanee, and is majoring in French.

To that end, she spent a chunk of the past summer in Cannes and will be attending the Sorbonne this fall. My sons Jack and Jamey, five and four years old respectively, keep me on my toes and young at heart. All three kids are my life’s greatest blessings. I continue to live a quiet life out in in Monkton, and am still working in the retail automotive industry.”

Bessie Cromwell Speers shares, “Ethel Walker just celebrated its Centennial so I have been traveling to London, Texas, California, Seattle, Boston, New York, Philadelphia and other fun places.

I still stay in touch with my Calvert classmates.”

Cathy Cooper Woods is currently getting her house in Bel Air, MD ready to rent/sell if anyone is interested in moving. Her husband has been transferred to West Palm Beach, FL with his law firm. Her son Drew (20) works full time and her daughter Sam (18) goes to college and works. It was great to see so many of you at the Bryn Mawr 30th reunion. See you at the next big Calvert fest!!

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Chase Monroe attended the wedding of Brendan Linehan ’78 in October 2011 in Martha’s Vineyard. Brendan’s brothers John Linehan ’77 and Chip Linehan ’82 were also in attendance.

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Jack Buchanan continues to enjoy living in Jackson, Wyoming. Jack is an accomplished mountain climber and is very skilled with a canoe and kayak.

Sandy Colhoun and his wife and daughter live up in New Hampshire where Sandy heads-up the development office for the New Hampton School.

David Clapp lives just north of Baltimore with his wife, daughter, and son. David works with his father in their family businesses. He is excited about becoming a Calvert parent.

Sackett Cook and his wife Felicity (a.k.a. Flop), two daughters, and son are living in Connecticut. Sackett works in the investment business specializing in insurance companies.

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Barbara Van Buskirk has been living in Buenos Aires, Argentina since 1996. She and her Argentine husband have three children; Nicolis (12), Manns (8), and Alexandra (7). The boys are avid tennis, soccer, and rugby players and her daughter loves art, dance, drama, and tennis! After more than 20 years in the corporate world, she is doing Capability Consulting for a British company. Her favorite pastimes are playing tennis, photography, and travel.

Jamey Hebb’s ’76 sons, Jack and Jamey smiling for the camera

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Liam Culman lives with his wife and daughter in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood above his wife’s art gallery, the Marianne Boesky Gallery. Liam is the managing partner of Bigelow Sands LLC, which manages an art investment fund, and he stays active playing squash.

Mark Cooper lives and works as a doctor down in Alabama with his wife and three sons. Mark runs his own family practice, which is so popular that it has as many families as he can handle.

Elisabeth Dahl has her first book, a children’s novel entitled A.K.A. Genie Wishes, being published by Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams Books, in spring 2013, and she just completed her second book, a novel for adults. Her son, Jackson ’13, is in his final year at Calvert!

Brent Powell, his wife, two daughters, and son live in Hopkinton, New Hampshire. Brent is head of the Upper School at the Derryfield School in Manchester, NH. For the 2011/2012 school year, Brent took a sabbatical so that he and his family could visit and live in a handful of places around the world (Norway, Scotland, South Africa, India, Thailand, New Zealand, China, and some other countries). If you like, you can read about his amazing trip at http://365away.wordpress.com/ William Spencer is back living on the west coast in San Francisco.

Henry Franklin and his family live near Gilman. Henry works with his brothers at Franklin Financial Group and in his spare time he is one of the coaches of Gilman’s varsity wrestling team.

Bruce Taylor, his wife, daughter, and son live in San Francisco. Bruce started Taylor Consulting after working as Vice President of Digital Media and Distribution at Spin Magazine. Bruce is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Blue Bear School of Music in San Francisco, California, a non-profit music school for aspiring musicians of all ages.

Doug Godine, his wife, and three children (two boys and one daughter) live in Baltimore. Doug works at local investment firm Brown Advisory. In his free time, Doug enjoys coaching his sons in lacrosse.

Rusty Ward and his wife and their children live in the Greenspring Valley house that Rusty and brother Pete grew-up in. Rusty works for UBS as an investment advisor.

Joby Gardner, his wife, and their children live in Chicago. Joby is a faculty member of DePaul University’s Education Department.

Pete Ward and wife Lea Craig Ward ’80 and their two young boys live next door to Rusty. Pete works for Ward-Bolland Associates.

Eric Harlan, his wife, son, and daughter live in Baltimore County. Eric is a lawyer with Shapiro, Sher, Guinot & Sandler in Baltimore. Eric is a partner in the firm’s litigation department. He concentrates in general litigation, including commercial, domestic, and personal injury matters.

After a successful two-year stint in Cleveland as head of the University School’s Middle School, Clark Wight and his wife, two sons, and daughter returned to their home near Perth, Australia in December 2011. During the summer of 2011, Clark, Liam Culman, and Matt Wyskiel enjoyed getting together on Nantucket.

DB Hebb is a doctor at Kent Hospital in Connecticut where he lives with his family. DB, Sandy, and Brent enjoy getting together when their schedules allow it.

Andrew Meredith and his wife and children live in Baltimore. Andrew works with his dad at Bank of America / Merrill Lynch in equity sales.

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Stocky Williams and his wife, son, and daughter live in Washington D.C. Stocky is active in promoting affordable “green housing” in the U.S. Matt Wyskiel lives near Gilman with his wife, daughter, and son. He dedicates his time to Skill Capital Management, the investment

management firm that he started four years ago; Matt also enjoys helping children with their education either on a 1:1 basis or via nonprofit organizations like Children’s Scholarship Fund Baltimore, which provides partial scholarships to about 175 children of low-income Baltimore families so that they can attend the school of their choice. If you’re interested in reading more about CSFB, go to www.CSFBaltimore.org

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John Alexander writes, “I live in Ashland, Oregon with my wonderful wife of seventeen years, Taylor. Our straight-A and athletic fifteen-yearold daughter Natalie is turning into a beautiful and amazing woman as she enters her second year in high school.

Henry, our ten year old son, is going into fourth grade. He is a great fiddle player, and he is starting to channel his charisma and humor as a thespian. For over two decades, I have been studying birds in this spectacular region, and using the stories they tell to help inform sustainable natural resource management. The not-for-profit Klamath Bird Observatory (www.KlamathBird.org) that I founded in 2000 continues to grow, with a diverse, dedicated and fun to work with staff. I recently finished my Ph.D., with my dissertation focused on delivering science to land managers and policy makers in support of broad ecosystem conservation.”

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Alex Yaggy is living in Brookyn, NY, with his wife Rebecca, and their two sons, 8 and 5. After leaving Morgan Stanley a few years ago, he now runs

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Rehobeth Beach with family – lots of cousins for my boys to play with!

When the school year starts, both Dylan (9) and Saben (6), will be in school full day for the first time, and I will be teaching Spanish two days a week to them and the other 300 students at their school.

Sarah Mumford Peacock’s ’85 sons, Dylan and Saban enjoying Quiet Waters Park in Annapolis

the Value Investment Strategies for Cortina Asset Management and wishes Calvert had a branch in NYC. He is also pleased that his niece Elizabeth ’21 is currently attending Calvert and is in Sixth Age.

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Emily Mink Frank is enjoying time with her five year old, Connor and the new addition to their family, Abigail Province Frank. Abby was born November 9, 2011.

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Betsey Swingle Hobelmann was the cochair for the Corks for Calvert event that was held by the Calvert School Parent’s Association in February. “It was a fun time!” She recently started working as a photographer’s assistant for her friend Whitney Watson and writes that “the digital world is massive!” Her youngest, James, is in Pilot class, so all three kids are at Calvert School and they love every moment!

Emmie Mink Frank’s ’89 children Connor and Abby

Ted Lord lives with his wife Abby and their children, Rosie and Charlie, in the Boston area. He is completing his training in pediatric anesthesiology at Boston Children’s Hospital. Ted came to speak to Calvert Middle School students last October, which gave him the opportunity to visit some of the same tremendous teachers he had over twenty years ago: Mr. Hardesty, Mr. Paul, and Mr. Wareheim.

James Edwards and his family have moved to a home just a few blocks from Calvert. His youngest son, Michael ’21, is in the Sixth Age at Calvert. They are looking forward to getting reacquainted with Calvert. World travel, tennis, skiing, and home improvements are his current hobbies, but most free time is spent with his three kids (10, 8 and 5) and their various activities.

Sarah Mumford Peacock writes, “we are surviving the hot, dry, summer of wildfires here in Fort Collins, CO. Thankfully, we were able to spend a week away from the smoke and ash in

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Molly Rice Goetz shares that “after staying home with my four kids, Michael (7), Alden (7), Jay (5), and Drew (3), I went back to work full-time as a Financial Advisor at Greenspring Wealth Management. Greenspring is an independant fee-only firm specializing in wealth management and retirement consulting services.”

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Rick Buck ’60, David Powell ’87, Pete Powell, and Matt Buck ’87 at the Calvert Golf Classic

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James Michels tells us that “All is well in Nashville. Our son, James, is about to celebrate his first birthday. He is keeping us (and the dog) on our toes.”

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Alexandra Rich Mills welcomed her new daughter, Isabelle Clark Mills on November 7, 2011.

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David Chalmers completed his urology residency in June 2012 and is moving to Denver, Colorado for a pediatric urology

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fellowship. He has twin boys, Jack and Eli, who are about to turn two years-old and a new baby girl, Louisa!

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Allison Michels Pettinelli is a physician in New York City doing both sports medicine as well as general rehabilitation. She and her husband live in Scarsdale just outside of New York City with their children Leo (3) and Ana (1).

Rachel Arnot Rockwell and her family welcomed Oden Jack Rockwell on December 7, 2011. After moving into their new home in Stevenson, MD they are settling back into life. Hannah ’22 loves being a big sister and is excited that she is in Pilot Class.

Sally Ridgely Thompson recently moved back to Baltimore from Chapel Hill, NC and welcomed her second child, a little girl, McLane Elizabeth Thompson. Their son, Michael Matthew Thompson, Jr. just turned two.

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Rutland Paal, Jr. welcomed a new baby, Michael Edward Paal on December 29, 2011.

Matthew VanDyke ’92 working as a journalist in Afghanistan

Matthew VanDyke fought in the Libyan civil war against the regime of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. He was captured and imprisoned for nearly six months as a prisoner of war in two of Libya’s most notorious prisons before escaping from

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Katherine Pinkard Bowers ’95 receiving the Leading Women Award

prison and returning to combat on the front lines until the war was over. He is currently working on a book and film about his experiences in the war. For more information, please visit: http:// www.matthewvandyke.com/press.html.

Hillary Owen is an Interior Designer at Perkins Eastman Architects in Chicago, IL specializing in senior living, commercial interiors, and higher education design. She recently passed the NCIDQ interior design licensing exam and became a registered Interior Designer in the state of Illinois. She is also an accredited LEED AP (Interior Design & Construction). Hillary is currently in her first term on the IIDA IL Board as the Chicago City Center Director, in charge of planning all of the industry events for the year. She is getting married to Justin DeGroff, a fellow architect, on September 29, 2012 in Baltimore, MD. They will be honeymooning in Peru and hiking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.

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Katherine Pinkard Bowers recently left her job at PNC Wealth Management to form her own commercial real estate firm with her father, Greg Pinkard ’68. She writes, “we’re excited for the future at Pinkard Properties LLC!” Katherine serves on the boards of The American Red Cross and the Homewood Museum. She was named one of the Daily Record’s Leading Women in December 2011, as well as being named the Spirited Woman Rising at the 2011 Spirited Women of Baltimore awards. She is continuing to pursue her MBA at the John’s Hopkins University Carey Business School. She is happily living in the Greenspring Valley area with her husband Chris. “When I have some (rare) down time I can be found spending it with Chris and my horse, River!”

Napolean Sykes ’96 and wife Christy Williams

Napolean Sykes writes, “things are going well. I am now the Outside Linebackers Coach at University of North Carolina, Charlotte. It is a startup program that will be in Conference USA in 2015. I was also married July 14, 2012 in Chicago to Christy Williams. We met at Wake Forest University, where she played Volleyball.

We bought our first home in Charlotte, got a dog, and are living the life! Other than that all is well. Oh and Ru Belt ’96 and Josh Perry ’96 were groomsmen in the wedding.”

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Ahsha Merson recently moved from New York to San Francisco to start a new job as an associate at TPG, a private equity firm. She really enjoys San Francisco. “It’s a beautiful city and is perfectly located for hiking, skiing, and trips to Sonoma and Napa.”

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Katherine Fox Castro ’98 with husband Justin at their July 2011 wedding

Mary Hanson is on the University of North Carolina’s Women’s Lacrosse Team and is in the UNC Honors Program.

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Abigail Pedroni is in her junior year at Washington and Lee University.

Katharine Fox Castro married Justin Castro in July 2011 in Baltimore with several fellow Calvert Alums in attendance – Kinsey Morrison Sale ’96 and Catie Mangels ’98. Katharine and Justin live in Rodger’s Forge with Justin’s daughter, Stella, and their two dogs and are enjoying married life. Katharine is currently working for M&T Bank’s Investment Banking Group focusing on Debt Capital Markets.

Alix Gresov is taking physics at UMBC to prepare for a transfer to Cornell in the fall. She is on a pre-med track and hopes to take the MCAT this fall.

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Claude Diffenderffer graduated from Towson University in 2009 with a BA in Communications. He is living and working in Denver as an Internal Wholesaler of variable rate annuities at Jackson National Life Insurance Company. He comes home to visit, loves snowboarding and hiking in the Rockies, and is still a diehard Ravens fan.

Catherine Woelper Edmiston was married on October 9, 2011 in Rehoboth Beach, DE. She moved to Frederick where her spouse works as a Financial Planner. She is currently in the midst of the job search in her new town – applying for positions in the community development and marketing sector.

and his students in Ligorio, Suriname skyped and wrote letters to one another throughout last school year. John shared with his pen pals that he loves doing outdoor activities like hiking, skiing, whitewater kayaking, and mountain biking.

John Williams ’00 in Suriname

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Blake Sheehan is living in downtown Baltimore working at Brown Advisory.

She is still playing postcollegiate lacrosse and coaching high school club with Kait Gentry ’97. Five Calvert classmates are living within a coupleblock radius in Federal Hill, so we have reunions often!

John Williams is currently a Peace Corp Volunteer through the Worldwise Schools Program. The students in 10-B

Kiki Martire was awarded the English Speaking Union’s scholarship to study abroad at the University of Oxford, St. Anne’s College with the Virginia Program at Oxford this past summer.

She studied 16th and 17th Century British Literature and History.

Gabriella Ravida is currently a member of the Class of 2015 at Princeton University studying Public Policy at the Woodrow Wilson School. She had a very whirlwind and unpredictable year filled with exciting and new things, typical of a freshman undergraduate. One of these things included picking up Italian and studying abroad during the summer in Italy. In one month, she took a class and traveled to Rome, Florence, Venice, Assisi, Perugia, Bologna, Urbino, Recanati and Rimini. The rest of her summer was spent working, interning, and sleeping.

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Michelle Olsson is an honor student at Roland Park Country School and during the summer travelled to Spain on an exchange program and visited relatives in Sweden. During this past school year, Michelle was a team member of the RPCS crew team. Michelle is proud of the RPCS victory over Bryn Mawr in the Baltimore Championship Race.

Gabriella Ravida ’07 in Italy during summer 2012

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Annie George is studying Russian at Kazan Federal University in Kazan,

Russia thanks to a scholarship from the Department of State. After her year in Russia, she will head off to University of Maryland, College Park.

Eria Goodweaver ’11

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Bryn Mawr – RPCS 6K race from Fort McHenry. Michelle Olsson ’10 is pictured in the boat to the right.

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Eria Goodweaver is going into tenth grade next year at the Baltimore School for the Arts for instrumental music.

Her major there is trombone, but she’s also interested in singing (opera/ contemporary/classical), photography, junk art, creative writing, and other forms of artistic expression. Her hobbies include playing soccer, volleyball, and ping pong; flying (trapeze); duckpin bowling; composing simple songs on Mixcraft, and contradancing. Eria is currently working at The Chameleon Cafe and she also intends to accept a job as a mime at the Renaissance Festival this fall.

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calvert leader board Shannon Y. Adams

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Phillips Academy at Andover

National Achievement Scholarship

Elizabeth A. Banta ’08 Friends School

The Joan Alma Eckert ’49 Award (for French), The Award for Proficiency and Sustained Effort in the Study of Latin, The L. Lawrence Peacock Scholar – Athlete Award, The Cum Laude Society

Giorgio Caturegli ’10 Friends School

Silver Medal at the National Latin Exam, placed sixth nationally and second in Maryland at the National French Exam, and first place at the Maryland State Music Teacher Association Solo Piano Festival.

Matthew K. Collins

Alumni Baseball Cup

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Gilman School

Peter V. Cooke ’09 Gilman School

Yale Book Prize – Service Award for Contributing to the Welfare of the school

Robert A. deMuth

C. David Harris, Jr. Tennis Award

’08

Gilman School

Peter J. T. Dewire ’08 Gilman School

Valedictorian, Richard O’Brien Prize for Proficiency in French, Edward T. Russell Latin Prize, The Squash Award

Sharea L. Elliot ’08 Denison University

Awarded a National Merit Scholarship and a Denison University Scholarship

John M. Emmett IV

Frank W. Andrews, Jr. Golf Trophy

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Annie C. George ’08 Friends School

The Letitia M. Stockett English Award, The Richard West Clarkson Mondern Language Award, The Cum Laude Society

Christopher R. Hepner ’04 Johns Hopkins University

Elected to Phi Beta Kappa Academic Honor Society

Francis X. Kelly

Academic All-ACC for lacrosse

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University of North Carolina

Stephen P. Kelly ’09 Calvert Hall

Member of the U.S. under-19 Men’s National Team, which is competing in the Federation of International Lacrosse U-19 Men’s World Championships

Joshua Khuvis

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Gilman School

James L. Sinclair Memorial Scholarship Prize-Science

Kathryn K. Martire

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University of Oxford, St. Anne’s College English Speaking Union’s Scholarship

Lauren P. Riley ’08 Friends School

Scarlet and Gray Award athletic, The Eleanor D. Mace Award for Excellence in the Study of History, The L. Lawrence Peacock Scholar-Athlete Award, The Cum Laude Society

Thomas H. Riley

Tenth Grade Artifacts Paper Award

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Lukas M. Ross ’08 McDonogh School

Student Body President; Rollins Luetkemeyer Senior Leader

Caroline D. Stanley ’08 Friends School

The Joan Alma Eckert ’49 Award (for French), The Cum Laude Society

Joseph F. White

Brown University Alumni Book Award

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Gilman School

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class of 2008 college choices

Class of 2006 College Choices

Shannon Y. Adams Duke University

Roshan Dutta University of Notre Dame

Edwin B. Jarrett IV Vanderbilt University

Lauren P. Riley Wake Forest University

Kelsey E. Albert Wheaton College

Sharea L. Elliott Denison University

Emma C. Koramshahi Wesleyan University

Lukas M. Ross Northwestern University

Elizabeth A. Banta Brown University

Anne C. George University of Maryland

Katherine R. Moore South Carolina

Emily A. Rutherford Dartmouth College

Carlene L. Buccino Columbia University

Josephine S. George Johns Hopkins University

Kristi K. Murray Colorado College

Nicholas R. Shepherd Dickinson College

Gretchen M. Catlin University of Maryland

William S. Harrison Trinity College

Victoria A. Norman University of Chicago

Howard D. Watts University of Maryland

Matthew K. Collins Tulane University

Frederick B. Harvey IV Trinity College

Katherine C. O’Donovan University of North Carolina at Wilmington

Noah Zinsmeister Columbia University

David M. Cromwell, Jr. Middlebury College

Makruma Islam Undecided

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Rachel A. Pinkham College of William & Mary

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