Choate Rosemary Hall Alumni Magazine Director of Strategic Marketing & Communications Mary G. Verselli Editor Lorraine S. Connelly Design and Production David C. Nesdale Class Notes Editor Henry McNulty ’65 Contributors Howard R. Ernst Amy D. Foster Hugo Fontaine David Loeb Carrie J. Lightner ’91 Henry McNulty ’65 Kevin Mardesich ’87 Paul J. Tines Leslie Virostek Photography Deron Chang Al Ferreira John Giammatteo ’77 Paul Horton Ian Morris Life Trustees Charles F. Dey Bruce S. Gelb ’45 Edwin A. Goodman ’58 Cary L. Neiman ’64 Stephen J. Schulte ’56 Edward J. Shanahan William G. Spears ’56
2011-2012 Board of Trustees Luis H. Ball '78 Susan M. Barclay ’85 Samuel P. Bartlett '91 Michael J. Carr ’76 Alex D. Curtis Richard Elman David R. Foster '72 Robert B. Goergen, Jr. ’89 John F. Green ’77 Linda J. Hodge '73 Brett M. Johnson ’88 Warren B. Kanders ’75 Herbert V. Kohler, Jr. ’57 Edward O. Lanphier ’74 William Laverack, Jr. Gretchen Cooper Leach ’57 James A. Lebovitz '75 Kewsong Lee ’82 Robert A. Minicucci ’71 Linda H. Riefler ’79 Marshall S. Ruben Henry K. Snyder ’85 M. Window Snyder ’93 Jeanette Sublett Thomas M. Viertel ’59 Benjamin S. Walton ’92 Editorial Advisory Board Susan M. Barclay ’85 Christopher Hodgson '78 Judy Donald ’66 Howard R. Greene Dorothy Heyl ’71 Stephanie Ardrey Hazard ’81 Henry McNulty ’65 John Steinbreder ’74 Francesca Vietor ’82 Heather Zavod
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Contact the Editorial Office Communications Office, c/o Choate Rosemary Hall 333 Christian Street Wallingford, CT 06492-3800 Editorial Offices: (203) 697-2252 Fax Number: (203) 697-2380 Email: alumline@choate.edu Web site: www.choate.edu Submissions to the Magazine All submissions to the Bulletin should be made via email or through regular post. Photos should be supplied in hard copy format or in digital format at 300 dpi. Every effort is made to accommodate all submissions. However, the Editor reserves the right to refuse images that are not suitable for printing due to poor quality and to edit content to fit within the space allotted.
Choate Rosemary Hall Bulletin is published fall, spring, and summer for alumni, students and their parents, and friends of the School. Please send change of address to Alumni Records and all other correspondence to the Communications Office, 333 Christian Street, Wallingford, CT 06492-3800. Choate Rosemary Hall does not discriminate in the administration of its educational policies, athletics, other school-administered programs, or in the administration of its hiring and employment practices on the basis of age, gender, race, color, national origin, sexual orientation, or non-job-related handicap. Our Commitment to the Environment The Bulletin is printed using vegetable-based inks on ChorusArt Silk, an FSC-certified paper which contains 70% recycled content, including 30% post consumer waste. This issue saved the equivalent of 32+ trees, 13,488 gals. wastewater flow, 92+ lbs. water-borne waste not created and prevented over 2,938+ lbs. of greenhouse gases from being emitted into the atmosphere.
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15 ON T H E COVER Dr. Alex Curtis is welcomed as Headmaster by the
Chairman of the Board of Trustees Michael J. Carr ’76. BACK COVER Art by Kai Takahashi ’12.