CA Magazine Fall 2007

fall 2007

Serious Business Meet CA’s Entrepreneurs

Report of Giving 2006 – 07

Eliza Perlmutter ’07 Untitled, oil on canvas, Painting II, 2006

C O N C O R D A CA D E M Y M I SS I O N Concord Academy engages its students in a community animated by a love of learning, enriched by a diversity of backgrounds and perspectives, and guided by a covenant of common trust.

Students and teachers work together as a community of learners dedicated to intellectual rigor and creative endeavor. In a caring and challenging atmosphere, students discover and develop talents as scholars, artists, and athletes and are encouraged to find their voices.

The school is committed to embracing and broadening the diversity of backgrounds, perspectives, and talents of its people. This diversity fosters respect for others and genuine exchange of ideas.

Common trust challenges students to balance individual freedom with responsibility and service to a larger community. Such learning prepares students for lives as committed citizens.

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Editor

Gail Friedman Managing Editor

Tara Bradley Design

Irene Chu ’76 Editorial Board

Tara Bradley Director of Communications

Gail Friedman Associate Director of Communications

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Pam Safford Associate Head for Enrollment and Planning

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Carol Shoudt Major Gifts Officer

Lucille Stott Development Writer

F E A T U R E S

Clara Dennis ’08

Director of Advancement

Elizabeth “Billie” Julier Wyeth ’76 Director of Alumnae/i Programs

Editorial Interns

Samuel Kim ’08 Alexis von Kunes Newton ’08 Christeen Savinovich ’08 Photography Interns

Henry Butman ’08 Clara Dennis ’08 Christine Lee ’08 Write us

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17 Witnessing Disaster 20 Serious Business Meet CA’s Entrepreneurs

by Gail Friedman and Ann Givens ’91

32 Commencement 2007

D E P A R T M E N T S

38 Reunion Weekend 2007

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Message from the Head of School

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Letters to the Editor

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Campus News

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Alumnae/i Association Update

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Alumnae/i Profiles Ben Reynolds ’99 Kuniko Yokota Inoguchi ’70 Amy Rosenfeld ’84 Carol Swanson Loucheim ’57

INCLUDING: A Celebration of Teaching and Community Teaching Long, Teaching Well by Sandy Stott Joan Shaw Herman Award Winners

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by Nancy Shohet West ’84

© 2007 Concord Academy Committed to being a school enriched by a diversity of backgrounds and perspectives, Concord Academy does not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, color, creed, sexual orientation, or national or ethnic origin in its hiring, admissions, educational and financial policies, or other school-administered programs. The school’s facilities are wheelchair accessible.

Cover photo of Kelsey Stratton ’99, Gay Ellis ’66, and Michael Bruck ’88 by Michael J. Lutch

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Athletics 2007 Spring Highlights Winning with Bloomball

by Rufus Urion ’07 80

In Memoriam

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CA’s Entrepreneurial Spirit

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he stories about entrepreneurs in this issue of Concord Academy magazine are compelling reminders of the important role creativity plays in conceiving, building, and managing a successful enterprise. As I read about graduates who have given reality to promising ideas, I am reminded that the Concord Academy culture has always included a powerful entrepreneurial spirit. The school was founded by a group of local citizens who sensed a need and took bold steps to meet it by opening a small boarding and day school right in the heart of Concord village. As years passed, this same forward-thinking spirit allowed the school to weather the Great Depression and the war years, and to manage the momentous move to coeducation with success and poise.

Many people have heard me talk about the need for Concord Academy to remain “nimble.” To me, the ability to move with speed, skill, and grace when opportunity arises is an essential component of a fine school. That quality is, of course, tied to a strong endowment, which stands as a secure financial platform from which good ideas can be launched, just as entrepreneurial ventures require up-front funding in order to launch. But the kind of agility I’m talking about also has a great deal to do with the creative power of individuals.

Elizabeth Hall is perhaps CA’s most famous example of entrepreneurial spirit, and her “Just do it!” attitude is now legendary. But others in CA history have also contributed to the sense that CA is a place where new ideas are embraced and supported. The filmmaking program that was so innovative in the 1970s still thrives today because teachers have brought to it new ideas for new generations. Consider some of the courses we are offering this year: Agitate, Agitate, Agitate: A History of Dissent in Western

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Thought; Tower, Bridge, Tunnel: A History of Modern Engineering; Chemistry: Forensic Science; and Physics: Classical Mechanics. Classes like these, which exist in all disciplines at CA, allow students to see where idea and reality meet—and to learn how they can make that happen through their own creative thinking and doing. In each area of school life, we encourage our students to look at old questions with new eyes, promoting innovative thinking and creative solutions. In doing so, we help today’s CA students understand the value of their ideas and the power of thinking boldly.

Anyone with experience in independent schools will tell you that every academic year is different. Like the entrepreneurs in these pages, we here at CA approach each September as a new enterprise, with high energy and a desire to make the work fresh. It is an exhilarating process. Combined with CA’s long tradition of examining what we do and encouraging new ideas, this entrepreneurial spirit allows CA to stay rooted in its mission while remaining a dynamic place to teach and learn. I hope you enjoy this issue and take pride in the accomplishments of CA’s graduates.

CA NEWS FLASH As this magazine was going to press, Concord Academy closed on the purchase of an 11.8-acre property, one mile from campus, currently known as Arena Farms. While this property has potential for many different uses, much-needed athletic fields top the list.

We are excited to begin planning for the opportunities this purchase presents, including fruitful partnerships with the Town of Concord, and we welcome ideas from the CA community. It is important to mention that we are not planning to enlarge the student body; the property will support CA’s current people and programs.

We will be providing more detailed information later this fall. In the meantime, please feel free to contact me at jake_dresden@concordacademy.org with your ideas and comments.

Somewhere nestled in the woods near Kiln, Mississippi lives a man who is a very big fan of Concord Academy. May God bless all of you.

Rick Galle Kiln, Mississippi

THANK YOU for including the lovely salute to Molly Gregory (Concord Academy magazine, Winter 2007). And thank you for an interesting issue. The design changes are mostly very attractive, but I was very disappointed in the cover. What a strange lapse in standard from many previous covers, a number of which were displayed on the very first page inside.

Please, let’s go back to the kinds of tasteful and attractive covers of yore.

LETTERS

I finally was able to place this missing link. It was Concord Academy. My observations of Marco made it clear to me that CA has been a very positive influence in the lives of these youth. Marco provided them with exceptional leadership, and it was clear that they looked up to him, but they were able to speak to him as if they were best friends with him. It was Marco that made the job fun, even though it was dirty, physically taxing, and very complicated.

Needless to say, Team Awesome completed the job that they were determined to finish. They worked very late Friday and many of them nearly cried when it was time to go. They wanted to cover the trenches with dirt, as they felt that would completely finish the job. I don’t think they realized the job was finished.

Team Awesome saw me laugh and joke around a lot. It has been the presence of people like them that has enabled me to do this. Living through Hurricane Katrina and the aftermath was a miserable existence. I have seen and experienced things that I never thought I would.

Several thousand people have left this region permanently. Some left because the devastation was too much to cope with, while others left because they never wanted their children to experience anything like that again.

Sometimes what at face value looks and feels like an awful event can bring blessings. To me, some of the blessings were to have met people such as yourselves. Even though I am much older than most of you, Team Awesome has taught me so much. Your compassion, vibrant nature, and can-do attitudes have inspired me and made me a much more compassionate person, and my can-do attitude has returned.

The people of Louisiana and Mississippi that were affected by Hurricane Katrina have decided to put together a memorial specifically dedicated to all the volunteers that have literally pulled us out of the mud. When the time comes, I would like to submit pictures as well as a write-up concerning Concord Academy’s trip to Mississippi. One day some of you, if not all, will come this way again. There is nothing I would like more than to go with you to this memorial because I think, while there, you will feel what you have done for us.

Kit Eaton Dreier ’48

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Corrections

The article entitled “Why We Should Care—A Lot— About Endowment” (Concord Academy magazine, Winter 2007) provided the wrong figure for the amount the endowment grew during the nineteen-year tenure of Headmaster Tom Wilcox. From 1981 to 2000, the endowment grew by approximately $26 million. Following his departure in 2000, Concord Academy received another $5 million in funds from gifts raised by Mr. Wilcox during The Campaign for Concord Academy.

On the In Memoriam listing (Concord Academy magazine, Spring 2007), Richard Brandhorst should have been listed as the brother-in-law of Joanna Hamann Shaw ’53.

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THREE WEEKS before the Concord Academy group arrived in Mississippi (See "Witnessing Disaster,” page 17), the approval came from the county for a massive drainage project. Nearly 300 feet of trenches had to be dug and lines installed.

Several volunteers had come through, and this project was listed, but apparently it didn’t fit the expectations of many that were staying at Camp Coastal. The entire project seemed to be in doubt.

When CA arrived at Camp Coastal, the camp director had a feeling that CA could do this job. Before Team Awesome (six students and teacher Marco Odiaga) arrived, I had been expecting a group of well-conditioned football players; that is what I thought it would take to do the job. I knew that the ground was very hard, and that there were several large roots in the paths of the trenches. I also thought a well-seasoned plumber would be needed, as the drainage design was complicated and unique.

When Team Awesome first arrived, I immediately thought— because of their enthusiasm and can-do spirit—that they could at least get the job started, but that it would take at least three more groups to finish the job in stages.

The first day, we had a record-high temperature. Marco had Team Awesome work in shifts while some sat in the airconditioned van. When Team Awesome left after the first day, the heat as well as the complexity and requirements of this job led me to think they would not return. It was not negative thoughts; I just felt the job was too big for anyone and would take at least three to four weeks to complete. I was so wrong.

On the second day, I was shocked!

Team Awesome piled out of their van and every one of them had a look of fire in their eyes. They were more determined than ever that they were going to be the group to do the job, that they could and would complete it. I knew at that point that there was something special about Team Awesome. During the week, I had an opportunity to speak to them about their families, their goals, their lives, and their reasons for coming to Mississippi.

I concluded that they all came from families that inspired them to achieve, that they were all brilliant young people, and that they all had compassion in their hearts. But something was still missing.

Senior Projects 2007

or author Julia Glass ’74, the road to writing her first novel was long and strewn with seemingly unconnected experiences. Standing on the stage of the Performing Arts Center for what she acknowledged was “the first time in thirty-three years,” Glass offered, in what she called a much delayed senior chapel talk, a candid and funny reflection on how the “meandering, circuitous path” through fateful events and choices can lead one to her true vocation.

Glass is the author of two novels: Three Junes — winner of the 2002 National Book Award— and The Whole World Over (2006).

Glass spoke to an allschool assembly after visiting an English class and discussing her work with faculty and staff. Her March presentation connected her life’s journey with her philosophy of writing, and inspired laughter and thoughtful questions.

Beginning with the succession of roles she played on the

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P.A.C. stage, Glass told of a life marked by openness to new experience, but also by a lack of forward momentum in its early stages. She recounted the many milestones that children pass in their growth — walking, talking, riding a bike — and noted how late she was to reach them. Perhaps it was apt, she suggested, that her chapel talk came decades late. She reminded students that the next steps and life goals they are pursuing now inevitably will be changed by experiences they do not control, and sometimes even blocked until they choose a different path from the one they expected.

Glass recalled that she began experiencing the world through language while at Concord Academy, though it would be much later before she realized that writing was her gift. It was at CA, she said, “that I learned not just how to write, but how to read, from the gut.”

Originally determined to be a visual artist, Glass studied studio art at Yale, then took a fellowship she described as a “subsidized year of bohemianism” in Paris. It was there that she began to walk a path less determined by her past goals and more by reactions to her present situation.

When the year was over, she returned home and took a number of jobs to support her painting, including working as a copyeditor for Cosmopolitan and as a pet advice columnist for Glamour. All the while she read “all the books I would have read if I had been an English major.” She said she was particularly drawn to nineteenth-century realist novels.

After a string of difficult personal setbacks, Glass found her writing voice while reading George Eliot’s novel, Daniel Deronda. Noting that it is not considered the greatest of Eliot’s novels, Glass said that the writing was so beautiful

n May, ten students gathered to present their senior projects to the rest of the Concord Academy community, to friends, and to family. This year’s projects were diverse in topic, ranging from Chris Rhodes’s “Exploration of Music and Poetry” to David Koh’s creation of a “Computer Simulation of a Frisbee in Flight.” What was similar about all, however, was the dedication and enthusiasm the seniors put into them.

Planning and execution were very much left to the students themselves. One senior, Gwen Blumberg, whose project was titled “Bilingual Education in the U.S.,” explained that the projects were “really flexible, as long as

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Novelist Julia Glass ’74 Visits CA

Julia Glass '74 spoke with an English class before her assembly.

that she read passages aloud to her pet rabbit, discovering “the drama of why people, all kinds of people, make the choices that shape their lives.”

This discovery led to a sevenyear struggle to write and be published. It also helped shape her philosophy that fiction writers must be able to live in the roles of others, to be flexible enough to write about the realities of other people’s lives.

Glass took questions from students in the audience about her writing process, including

how she names characters and how she expresses silence in her writing. She ended her talk with a wry reference to CA’s mascot, saying that to be a fiction writer, “you have to be a chameleon.”

— Veronika Travis

New Faces, New Excitement you were putting work into it.”

Gwen’s original plan to study bilingual education morphed into an exploration of the personal stories and views of immigrants who had come to the United States.

One of Gwen’s biggest obstacles came early: “figuring

out exactly what it was that interested me.” That challenge summarizes the purpose of senior projects: to take a deep interest and transform it into a personal, in-depth exploration.

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oncord Academy was delighted to welcome ninety-seven new students to campus this fall. After reading more than 725 applications, the Admissions Office selected a vibrant group of newcomers, including eighty-two freshmen, eleven new sophomores, three new juniors, and one new senior.

The new students include:

—Alexis von Kunes Newton ’08

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Senior Projects Bilingual Education in the U.S. Gwen Blumberg Computer Simulation of a Frisbee in Flight David Koh Design and Teaching of a Korean Language Course Janice Kim Experiments with Rhythm, Layering, and Composition in Recording Jack Glenn Exploring the Formal Harmonies between Music, Architecture, and Dance Zack Winokur Investing in Current Markets Ross Palley, Ben Shapiro-Kline, Steven Fox Nineteenth-Century French Women through Literature and Cooking Louisa Denison Words Make Songs: An Exploration of Music and Poetry Chris Rhodes

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— Pam Safford, Associate Head for Enrollment and Planning

oncord Academy junior Kaitlin Lynch received the Princeton Prize in Race Relations during a ceremony at the Massachusetts State House in May. She won the award, which included a $1,000 prize, for her efforts to open dialogue on issues of race and diversity at school.

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Sparked by an incident of race-based graffiti on campus, Kaitie started a forum called the Graffiti Journal, with support from MOSAIC, the school’s multicultural

alliance. She invited members of the Concord Academy community to contribute their thoughts on race and diversity through art — poetry, stories, drawings, essays, or other creative expression. The Graffiti Journal was published recently with more than thirty submissions from Concord Academy students and teachers.

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hroughout the last academic year, a sketch of a school in Sierra Leone took shape in CA’s dining hall.

Names gradually filled the bricks, windows, and doors posted on the wall, indicating donors who had funded a piece of the school (a brick

cost $10, a door $200).

Katie Simon ’10 got the idea during a Free the Children summer program that she attended in Arizona and New Mexico after eighth grade.

Katie never doubted that her newly formed CA club, School Building a School (SBAS), could raise the $15,000 necessary to fund a facility, built by Free the Children, that would educate about forty children in the Kobo district of Sierra Leone — an area hard hit by civil war.

Katie already had started a nonprofit called Minga, which through a single yard sale had raised $6,000 to fund a rehabilitation center for child prostitutes in the Philippines. A school with a $15,000 pricetag seemed doable.

Ambitious and undaunted, SBAS decided to raise money not only for the school, but

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ustice, to the four women portrayed in the movie Sisters in Resistance, meant one thing: resisting and defying the forces occupying France during World War II. In May, the CA Modern and Classical Languages Department sponsored the screening of this movie as well as a visit by one of the four women, Jacqueline de la

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also for a clean water project, so girls who might otherwise have to spend time walking to pick up clean water could get it right at school. The organization, which is cochaired this year by Mason Glidden ’10, Elizabeth Lamkin ’09, and Alexandra Urban ’10, raised

Rochebrochard.

Sisters in Resistance chronicles the experiences of these four women from their first taste of resistance in the early 1940s to their eventual imprisonment (and meeting) in a concentration camp. Inspired by the notion of “justice” and their determination to preserve France’s independence, de la Rochebrochard and the other women — at this point strangers with a common cause — hid Jews and POWs, and distributed clandestine newspapers to underground supporters of the French Resistance. When the Nazis put up balloons all over Paris to prevent English airplanes from flying low over the city, the women recorded the locations of these balloons and transferred the information to their allies in England.

The audience in the Performing Arts Center learned how de la Rochebrochard and the other women became “mailboxes,” carriers of secret

$13,000 through its buy-abrick donations; they solicited Concord businesses and sold baked goods and pizza to add the final $2,000.

Katie said that construction was scheduled to begin on the Sierra Leone school this fall.

letters and notes, and provided fake passports and identification cards for fleeing families.

Perhaps inevitably, all four women were captured.

The Gestapo seized de la Rochebrochard outside her Paris apartment in 1943 and interrogated her. She was left alone in a prison cell for six months. During a questionand-answer session after the film, she explained that she spent those terrible six months singing, praying, and discussing theology with her neighbors through the holes in the prison walls. Eventually all four women were sent to Ravensbruck, a women’s labor camp in Germany, where they finally met. They spent their nights in crowded bunk beds and their days performing manual labor, improving roads, and cleaning toilets.

At this camp, the four discovered a solidarity that grew out of shared experiences.

They survived by helping one

another: by pinching the cheeks of a woman’s mother to make her appear healthier during the daily “selections,” by passing notes from one barrack to the next, and by providing the foundation for a friendship that was to last the next fifty years.

Today, these women still maintain their friendships.

De la Rochebrochard married a fellow survivor in France at the close of the war, and everyone at the wedding, she pointed out, was a survivor.

The movie underlines the theme of fraternité, an invisible force that linked these four women for life. As an eighty-eight-year-old woman who travels regularly throughout the United States and Europe, Jacqueline de la Rochebrochard proves daily that World War II’s resistance fighters and survivors do not give up.

—Caroline Hughes ’08

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Chinese Expert Delivers Davidson Lecture

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ary Wadsworth Darby ’68 addressed the school in April as CA’s Davidson Lecturer. During her first visit to campus in thirty-five years, she reflected on her early days at CA (“when you were disciplined, you had to chop wood”) and how much the essence of the school seems the same. “What hasn’t changed,” she said, “is the curiosity, the level of the

students, the interaction, and the inspiration.”

A senior research scholar at the Jerome A. Chazen Institute at the Columbia Business School, Darby described her career as a China specialist, told stories of her first trip to China in 1973, while she was still a student, and shared her love of Chinese culture and Mandarin (which she began studying at CA).

The Davidson Lectureship was established in 1966

by Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Davidson in honor of their two daughters, Anne E. Davidson Kidder ’62 and Jane S. Davidson ’64. Each year, the lectureship allows a distinguished guest to visit CA to speak to the campus community.

incredibly compassionate teacher who has done much good work with, for, and through our students. Rarely does he lose his cool, rarely is he unable to find the ‘teachable moment’ in some difficult situation with a student or class.”

Wirtz went on to fete Hall’s sense of humor. “Who can forget his rendition of a popular rap song performed with a Scottish accent at faculty coffeehouse, or his Droopy Dog or Grandpa Simpson impersonations?

What about Max telling us to ‘have a good summer’ as we trudged home on a dreary February afternoon? Or what about Max convincing his entire section of physics to hide when a certain student took his regularly scheduled bathroom break during class?”

Wirtz also shared his hiring fantasies. “If able, I would fill a school with teachers like Max,” he said, “although I’m sure [Director of Operations] Don [Kingman] would cringe, wondering where we’d put all the stuff they would build.”

Max Hall calls his 70-pound electric vehicle drive motor "hard to hug, easy to love."

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ou’d find him tooling around campus in a three-wheeled vehicle, with an engine that he and students had modified to run on gasoline, electricity, and vegetable oil.

He’d gesticulate wildly as he spoke his version of Italian — actually English with a heavy Italian affectation — an audible sign of his excitement preceding a sabbatical in Rome (where he went on to master the actual language).

Most recently, he inspired students to collect mounds of Mylar— the silvery lining on candy bar wrappers and potato chip bags — then helped them use it to build a solar panel. He was philosophical when the panel failed to cook a meal. It did generate heat—as well as enthusiasm for Hall and the science that lurks behind all of his seemingly goofy, always brilliant ideas.

Max Hall leaves CA after nine years, opting to start a business making the kinds of things he has built with his students. Don’t be surprised if he’s retrofitting engines to run on cooking grease, feeding his microcar obsession, or capturing the imagination of clients and customers instead of students.

At a faculty luncheon, Science Department Head Mike Wirtz described “an

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he Massachusetts Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of German honored sixteen Concord Academy students who scored in the 90th percentile or higher on the National German Exam.

The Concord Academy

students honored were (below, from left) Fred Milgrim ’08, Sid Morakhia ’09, Sam Schuster ’09, Jonny Koh ’09, Rachel Frenkil ’08, Sami Morse ’09, (teacher Susan Adams), Lucy Lie ’09, Ben Miller ’08, Rose Lindeberg ’07, Steven Binzel ’07, Cassidy

Mellin ’08, Joy deLeon ’08, Marina Filisky ’08, and, not pictured, Alex Edelmann ’09, Daniel Lander ’09, and Kristian Shaw ’07. Kristian and Rose received special awards for outstanding achievement.

own struggles to stay a step ahead of precocious computer-oriented students. With few exceptions, those students are boys, but the educators gathered in the Ransome Room shared the strategies they’re using to try to change that.

Barbara Bratzel, who teaches programming at the Shady Hill School, a preK – 8 school in Cambridge, offered several tips that have helped keep girls engaged in her technology classes. For starters, she avoids projects and programs that use cars because cars attract boys more than girls. When one project did involve cars, she called them snails. She also tries to sidestep some boys’ supercompetitive spirit by eliminating single winners, instead creating a chance for all students to win. And she avoids partnering girls and boys, explaining, “Girls plan first. Boys build first.”

During the workshop, educators shared a variety of concerns: that boys exude more confidence, regardless of their skill level, which can put off girls; that video-gamesavvy boys use jargon that closes out girls; that risktaking — useful when learning to program — is more common in boys; that the abundance of male teachers in computer courses fails to provide girls with role models; and that computer courses usually aren’t required, which allows or encourages gender-based segregation.

Laurie Heinricher, an academic support teacher at the Winchester Thurston School in Pittsburgh, participated via phone and video, demonstrating interactive software that she uses in a course called Alice in Programming Land.

Others, too, reported that girls happily learn programming when creative programs, such as Jurtle, are used.

At CA, Stumpf has refocused some computer courses, and has rewritten course descriptions in an effort to attract girls. The description of Graphic Design for the Web used to say,

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irector of Academic Technology Ben Stumpf ’88 is determined to defy the assumption that girls don’t want to take computer classes.

The stereotype has been true, at CA and just about everywhere. So Stumpf called a group of educators to CA in April to try to find out why.

Pamela Mack ’73, P’11, who runs a program at Clemson University called Science and Technology in Society, opened the Girls and Computing workshop by explaining that women dominated computer science in its earliest days, partly because men didn’t realize how intriguing the discipline was. “When they realized it was interesting, they began to squeeze out the women,” she said.

Mack referred to students as digital natives and teachers as digital immigrants — a concept many of the educators understood from their

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Director of Academy Technology Ben Stumpf ’88

Mosaic Whispers, an a cappella group at Washington University featuring Tudor Foote ’05, Jonathan Kleiman ’04, and Anne Mancini ’01, recently released a 12-track CD called “Behind Bars.”

Photos by George Larivee

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Caleb Neelon ’94 received a 2007 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Grant in sculpture/installation.

Evening, the movie based on the book of the same title by Susan Minot ’74, opened to wide release and acclaim in late June.

Sam Payne ‘83 and his wife Sandra are performing in San Francisco with Teatro Zinzanni, a show that blends elements of circus and cabaret.

Hilary Walther Cumming ’87 has moved to upstate New York after seven years as director of the CA Orchestra and the Applied Music Program.

From Theory to Practice

“This course examines the computer as a design tool, focusing on graphic design, Web page usability, and creative expression to present information.” It now reads, “This course examines the computer as a creative tool, exploring how graphic design, creative expression, and intuitive layout underlie the Web’s best sites . . . It is geared toward students who are not necessarily computer experts but want to explore this medium.” One Computer Studies course — Narrative, Identity, and Technology — combines the creative thought and analysis of an English class with technology; it may be taken for Computer Studies or English credit.

In the end, the workshop that Stumpf expected to be a small first step in building awareness attracted about thirty participants, representing schools including Buckingham Browne & Nichols, Noble

and Greenough, Thayer Academy, Ethel Walker School, Roxbury Latin, and Phillips Exeter Academy.

Representatives of several other schools tuned in to a Webcast of the event.

Despite the enthusiastic turnout, Stumpf realizes the problem is entrenched in society and will be difficult to remedy. “This is not an independent school problem,” he cautioned. “It’s a national problem.”

wo students produced a mathematical horror film called HyperMurder; another created a dance performance inspired by geometry (and named it “Dancing with the Star”). Others, showing off their understanding of geometry during CA’s fourth annual Geometry Demo Day, explored the fractal architecture of a lunar base, the geometry of a geodesic dome, symmetry in music and stained glass, and the reflective surfaces of mirrored polyhedra.

“Well-conceived, handson projects can represent realworld challenges more thoroughly and thus encourage

ingenuity, creativity, and collaboration,” said math teacher Selim Tezel.

Geometry Demo Day is becoming a tradition at CA, with Tezel convinced that students benefit from applying math concepts to areas of personal interest. “I am a great believer that one should always investigate a new field by building bridges from one’s areas of strength,” he said.

“When a student who is interested and strong in, say, the arts, approaches geometry from this area of strength — studying masters such as Escher or Vasarely, who brilliantly merged the two fields — he or she will find it easier to relate to, enjoy, and grow in mathematics.”

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, Y L L A B O L G Y L K R N O I T H NEIGHB ACTE nvironmentalist Bill McKibben wants to redefine the American Dream— and to reduce global warming while he’s at it.

“The basic assumption of American life is that more is better, that growth is good,” he told CA during a schoolwide lecture in May, facilitated

by Head of School Jake Dresden, who has a home across the lake from McKibben’s Vermont home.

“Does more make us happy?”

The author of several books, including The End of Nature and the recent Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future, told a capacity crowd in the Elizabeth B. Hall Chapel that Americans hit their peak happiness in 1956, according

to annual polls that ask, “Are you happy?” Wealth has increased dramatically since then, he said, but our sense of community has faltered.

Bigger houses in the suburbs resulted in isolation. “We don’t live in a little house on the prairie any more. We live in a big house on the cul-desac,” said McKibben, who wore a bright green T-shirt with the slogan “Girls Gone Green.”

The average American has half as many close friends as he did in the 1950s and eats with family and friends half as much. “Americans are feeling a deep loss of community,” McKibben said. “We’ve been hyperindividualized in a very strange way.”

The environmental activist believes that Americans, for all their growth and success and achievement, have been hard at work manufacturing loneliness. McKibben sug-

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gested that those who live on boarding school or college campuses understand the importance of community better than most Americans.

“You guys are living the way most human beings have lived for most of human history— in close proximity to each other,” he said.

In McKibben’s opinion, pervasive loneliness and global warming can both be addressed by downsizing and creating more self-sufficient communities. He discussed his upcoming book on Cuba, which describes how the country became self-supporting through neighborhood farms — a model he thinks could help the planet — after the Soviet Union collapsed.

When Soviet support disappeared, an average Cuban’s daily caloric intake dropped from 3,000 to 700, and the world expected the country to topple, McKibben said.

Instead, “local, low-impact agriculture” turned things around. Virtually every urban lot became a neighborhood farm. Within five years, calorie consumption was restored.

“Being a farmer is now a prestigious occupation in Havana,” McKibben said.

“They make as much as a doctor.”

McKibben thinks America could learn a lot from Cuba about the efficient use of resources. “It’s a pretty good example of people stepping up to a challenge and figuring it out,” he said. “Hopefully we’ll figure it out before we’re really pushed to the wall.”

To keep us from being pushed that far, policies to address climate change are urgently needed, he said.

“There’s been a twenty-year bipartisan effort to accomplish nothing, and it’s been very successful,” he said.

McKibben’s latest awareness-raising endeavor — Step It Up rallies held on April 14 across the country— publicized efforts to get Congress to require that carbon emissions be reduced 80 percent

by 2050. Originally, McKibben hoped for about one hundred rallies; instead, there were 1,400, in every state.

McKibben told his CA audience that growth during our lifetimes has been based on burning coal and oil; if the Chinese end up driving cars at the rate of Americans, 1.1 billion more cars will pollute the planet. “We got rich and we filled up the atmosphere, so there’s no more room for China and India to fill it up,” he said.

After his presentation, a student asked whether the country could grow economically and still be green.

McKibben said yes, first from short-term savings from reduced energy costs, then from creating industries to provide climate-friendly products and services. He pointed to Japan, which has become home to the world’s biggest solar panel factories — not because of the climate, but because the country, like Germany, heavily subsidized the cost for consumers. “In the sunny parts of this country, it should be part of the building code,” he said of solar panels. “If we started doing that, cost would go down and production would go up . . . We’re the richest country in the world. If we can’t afford this stuff, who’s going to?”

Pervading McKibben’s talk was a theme he said came from a bumper sticker that he saw at a diner: Think Globally, Act Neighborly. Like the slogan, he was folksy and upbeat while discussing global warming, but he was not overly cheery. “I think all these questions are unbelievably difficult, and I’m not overly optimistic that we’re going to solve them,” he said.

At any rate, McKibben warned CA students that they’d probably be discussing global warming for decades to come. “This climate-change stuff is going to be one of the dominant themes of your life,” he said.

ALUMNAE I ASSOCIATION UPDATE

ON JULY 9, Concord Academy was delighted to welcome Meg Wilson as its new director of advancement. When Wilson stepped onto the campus this summer, it was clear that she saw Concord Academy as a “family” school. “After my very first visit to CA, I knew this was exactly the kind of close community I was hoping to join,” she said.

Wilson came to CA with extensive experience working at schools, including senior-level work in fundraising, strategic planning, program development, communications, and marketing.

She succeeds Diane Spence, who left CA in late June after eleven successful years.

Most recently, Wilson served as director of alumni and development at Saint Ignatius’ School in Sydney, Australia, where she developed the school’s first comprehensive stewardship program and worked to set up best practices in fundraising and alumni programming. “These are established traditions in the U.S., but not in Australia,” Wilson said.

Previously, she was director of development at Fountain Valley School in Colorado and at KUED-TV, the public television station licensed to the University of Utah, and was a development officer at Pitzer College. Early in her career, Wilson worked in admissions and as a teacher of students with special needs. She now lives in Littleton, Massachusetts, with her

husband Don, who is president of the University of New Hampshire Foundation. Their daughter Mairin is a senior at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York.

One of CA’s big draws, according to Wilson, was the close relationships she observed between students and faculty. “I love working with this age group,” she said, “I am looking forward to becoming an advisor and to participating in the life of the school.”

Realizing that she is joining CA at an important time in the school’s history, Wilson said she is impressed with Jake Dresden’s vision for the future and with the goals he, the board, and the faculty have identified as essential to the school’s continued strength. “I’ve always been in awe of independent-school faculty,” she said. “I’ve never seen a harder-working group of people. That kind of devotion inspires us all to advocate for what the school is doing and to enlist support for the great work it does with kids.”

From her first week on the job, Wilson has made a point of reaching out to alumnae/i in an effort to get to know “their Concord Academy.

I am learning from within,” she said, “but I know how important it is for me to hear stories from past generations and to absorb the sense of tradition that is so important to those closest to the school.”

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s we welcome Meg Wilson, our new director of advancement, to the Concord Academy community, we continue to look for ways to strengthen our connections with alumnae/i.

This year we launched a new Web site for alumnae/i, and we will host a variety of events to engage CA graduates with each other.

Outgoing Academic Dean Patty Hager said it well in her Commencement talk (page 33): “You have shaped the school, and you are a part of it and of all the others who have learned here. We hope you will return to us often.” Our goal is to help you reconnect with your classmates and teachers in ways that you will find meaningful today.

We can tell you about upcoming events in a timely and cost-effective way if we know your current email address. Please update your contact information by logging on to the new Chameleon Connection at www.concordalum.org, calling the Alumnae/i Programs office directly at (978) 402-2240, or emailing advancement@concordacademy.org.

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Ben Reynolds Class of 1999

Circus Act

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hen Cirque du Soleil first offered Ben Reynolds ’99 a position on the technical crew for O, its acclaimed Las Vegas show, he had to ask them to wait. He was committed to another job that required him to be jumped on, shoved around, and drenched with water by a clown— in other words, an opportunity he couldn’t pass up.

Reynolds was on the tech crew for the Big Apple Circus. He wasn’t officially a performer, but he happened to be the one member of the crew selected to take part on stage, so he deferred the job in Vegas until the Big Apple tour ended.

Reynolds’ interest in theatre began at CA, but even then he was happiest behind the scenes— working on lighting, building sets, helping to manage a production. Now a rigging technician for Cirque du Soleil, he helps the performers succeed. “We’re responsible for anything and anyone that flies through the air,” he said. As a rigger for O, an amphibious production that involves water stunts, he also sets up scuba equipment and other underwater rigging for the performers.

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One might assume that working as a technician is less fun than performing, but Reynolds doesn’t see it that way. “We’re not doing the stunts, but we’re making it possible for the stunts to be done,” he says of the assistance he provides to the acrobats and trapeze artists.

“A performer does a trick and lands safely, and the audience is thrilled.

We watch that and think, ‘I was a part of that.’ Everything we do is a team effort.”

Reynolds’s circus career started early. The summer before his sophomore year at CA, he auditioned for Circus Smirkus, a program for teens interested in developing their skills as circus performers, and he performed with the Circus Smirkus summer tour for the next five years.

“We trained for two weeks, then went on tour to sixteen cities,” Reynolds says. “I did juggling and clowning. One year I was part of an aerial act, one year a horseback act, with two girls standing on my shoulders. I learned performance skills, and I also grew up a lot.

We were a group of twenty kids. On the road, we had a couple of coaches and a counselor, but mostly we had to learn to be responsible for ourselves.”

At Connecticut College, Reynolds was a theatre major, focusing again on the technical side of the stage. He had always attended the

Big Apple Circus as a child and interned there during college, so he was thrilled to get their call as his senior year ended. “Five days after college graduation, I moved into a trailer and joined the Big Apple tour,” he recalled. “I worked as ring crew. I built props, helped with rigging, tended to the animals in the show— whatever needed to be done.”

Reynolds spent about two and a half years on tour with the Big Apple Circus— enough to convince him he’d rather work with a show that stays put. He’s been in Las Vegas with Cirque du Soleil since early 2006; he works two shows a night, five nights a week.

Much as he enjoyed his teen years as a performer, Reynolds is perfectly content with his current role behind the scenes. “This is a job I’ll never get bored with,” he said. “We are always thinking ahead to what could go wrong and what we would do about it. We’re responsible for keeping people safe both in the air and in the water. Cirque’s technical sophistication leads the way in theatre and circus, and I’m proud to be part of it.”

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Ben Reynolds ’99 has rigged acts like Cadre, in O.

Kuniko Yokota Inoguchi Class of 1970

The biggest ambassadorial challenge Japan faces right now is using diplomacy to denuclearize North Korea.

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igh school international exchange programs would be hard pressed to find a better representative than Kuniko Yokota Inoguchi ’70. Inoguchi represented her native Japan when she spent her senior year as an exchange student at Concord Academy. Today she is a representative with a capital “R”: since September 2005, she has been a member of Japan’s House of Representatives.

Inoguchi, a foreign policy advisor to the Secretary General of the Liberal Democratic Party, recently has focused her efforts on reconstructing the relationship between China and Japan.

“That relationship went through a very unfortunate stalemate under [former Prime Minister Junichiro] Koizumi’s administration,” she said. “It was up to the regime of Prime Minster [Shinzo] Abe to reconstruct this relationship. I traveled to China last February to meet with governmental leaders. We settled a lot of problems between our two countries in order to pave the way for Prime Minister Abe’s visit in April. Now China and Japan are on much better terms.”

Inoguchi believes that her work as a statesperson and ambassador over the past thirtyfive years is directly related to the values and educational philosophy she learned at Concord Academy. “My time in Concord was such a positive experience,” Inoguchi said. “It was instrumental in forming my ideas and my commitment to the career I have led since then.

My classmates were very kind. I was probably the first Japanese person many of them had ever met. I was very much inspired by the way that everyone at CA accepted minority students.”

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was raised had rigid borders. “In Japan, education at that time was tailored to provide uniform results and high processing capabilities.

The priority at CA, on the other hand, was to produce writers, politicians, artists, doctors— scholars at the frontiers of science and creativity,” she said. “I felt as if I were being educated at the forefront of intellectualism.”

After finishing her year in Concord, Inoguchi went home to Tokyo to attend Sophia University. She returned to the U.S. to earn her PhD in international relations at Yale University, then went back to Sophia University, where she spent more than twenty years on the faculty, becoming the first tenured female faculty member in the School of Law. As she rose through the academic ranks, Inoguchi also began accepting a number of positions with the Japanese government. She was a member of the Defense Policy Review Council, the Administrative Reform Policy Council, and the Council for Gender Equality, and a board member with the Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance. A big career coup came in 2002, when she was asked to serve as Ambassador Extraordinary and

Plenipotentiary to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva.

“I was at CA during the days of antiVietnam War campaigning,” Inoguchi said. “I had always been interested in international relations and political science. My experience at CA enhanced my aspirations in that field. So it was natural to accept the appointment as Japan’s ambassador of disarmament affairs. I was the first academician in Japan to be given an ambassadorship in forty years.”

Inoguchi believes that the biggest ambassadorial challenge Japan faces right now is using diplomacy to denuclearize North Korea. “We somehow need to create a security format for East Asia,” she explained. “If we succeed in denuclearizing, we will have accumulated our first confidence-building brick, and we’ll be on our way to setting a future framework. That’s something I really have to put my efforts toward.

“I just want to collect all the capabilities and experiences that are in me and use them to do everything I can to pursue security, peace, stability, and protection for this region.”

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nyone who knew Amy Rosenfeld ’84 in high school would agree: she was a terrific athlete and a hilarious comic. So it makes sense to assume she pursued a career in either comedy or sports.

In reality, she jumped from one to the other within a matter of days during the summer after her junior year at Colorado College.

“I was offered an internship with the David Letterman show, and I was all set to accept it,” she recalled. “Then I realized it would mean absorbing the cost of living in New York City without earning any money, while paying tuition for academic credit. It no longer seemed like a very good idea.”

Her sister Jan (CA ’73) knew someone who had just started a cable station called New England Sports Network. NESN offered her an internship. “I was so junior I wasn’t even making the coffee; I was carrying the grounds to the person who made the coffee,” Rosenfeld deadpanned. Nonetheless, she returned to NESN after college and rose quickly, eventually producing televised Red Sox games (a coveted assignment in rabid Red Sox Nation).

Amy Rosenfeld ’84 with colleagues Andy Kirsner and Dan McVan

Amy Rosenfeld ’84 will speak at a CA assembly, November 29 at 2:10 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center.

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But it got even more exciting in 1996, when NBC hired her as a freelance producer at the Summer Olympics in Atlanta. In some respects, Rosenfeld said the experience was a disaster. While filming a feature about the athletes, she found herself in Centennial Park when a bomb exploded, resulting in the death of two people. “My cameraman followed his instincts, running straight toward the action,” she said.

“He ended up with several international awards for the footage he got.

Meanwhile, I followed my instincts and hid behind a dumpster.”

Harrowing as it was, Rosenfeld still found the Olympics a thrill.

She returned to Boston and resigned from NESN to strike out on her own. “It was really hard at first, but each contact led to a new contact, and somehow I started making my way as a freelance producer,” she said.

Tapped to produce women’s World Cup soccer in 1999, she watched the sport evolve before her eyes as she worked with soccer superstars Brandi Chastain, Mia Hamm, Kristine Lilly, and others who became household names. “One of the most poignant moments of my career was when I came out of the women’s restroom at the Rose Bowl and saw 92,000 fans cheering during that last World Cup match,” said Rosenfeld, who plays soccer herself in a recreational league near her home in Carlisle, Massachusetts. “For women’s soccer to attract 92,000 fans would have been unthinkable before that moment.”

NBC rehired Rosenfeld for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where she again covered women’s soccer, then asked her back for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. “The bad news was that they asked me to cover curling. Everyone assumed I was producing something cool like slalom or ski jumping,” she said. “I didn’t want to admit the truth. I read Curling for Dummies on the flight to Salt Lake City — with the cover torn off so no one would know.”

But the world fell in love with curling that year— a sport that involves pushing a stone across the ice with a broom — and Rosenfeld was proud to be part of the trend. “For about five minutes, it looked like they were going to let me produce something else — bobsled or luge — in Torino in 2006,” Rosenfeld said. “But no, they decided to put me back on curling.” Between Salt Lake City and Torino, she covered soccer at the summer games in Athens.

Between Olympics, her biggest client is ESPN, whose soccer coverage has taken her to Korea, Poland, Mexico, Trinidad, and Guatemala. She still occasionally conducts locker-room interviews at professional baseball and football events — which allows her to accrue the kinds of stories that feed her love of ribald stand-up comedy.

Among her cleaner stories: the time the network tested new audio technology by installing a microphone into a special compartment in Brandi Chastain’s bra (not the same bra she was photographed in, shirtless, after winning the World Cup). Chastain slipped on her back during the game, driving the microphone into the flesh between her shoulder blades.

“Turn off the sound!” Rosenfeld screamed at her tech crew as a string of profanities poured over the airwaves.

It’s a whirlwind life. And it’s not always funny. But more often than not, Rosenfeld makes it seem that way.

As for her future in the sport of curling?

“I’ll stick with it,” Rosenfeld said, “for no other reason than that it makes my mother so happy to see me using a broom.”

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Amy Rosenfeld Class of 1984

Carol Swanson Louchheim Class of 1957

Everyone has not only a civic duty to fight for affordable housing, but also a vested interest in welcoming it.

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arol Swanson Louchheim ’57 attended her first town meeting when she was ten years old. It was a curricular requirement for fifthgraders in Peterborough, New Hampshire. “I doubt I understood a word of it, but I idealized the concept,” Louchheim now recalls. “I loved the idea that people were working together trying to make difficult decisions.”

These days, Louchheim devotes much of her own time to making difficult decisions—as a member of the Housing Commission in Menlo Park, California, where she and her husband Hal have lived since 1970.

“I’ve always believed that we all need to be very involved in the cities or towns in which we live,” she said. “Now I’ve taken involvement to the next step, in terms of trying to be a policymaker. Where once I was idealistic, now I am quite practical. In my current role, I really get to see how the sausage is made, which is not necessarily a good thing.”

The strength of her convictions brims over when Louchheim talks about the housing issues in her community. “Menlo Park is a small city of 36,000 right next to Stanford University,” she said. “I first came here in 1963 when I was getting my master’s in education at Stanford. Back then, I saw it as a place with a lot of middle-class people, some poor people, and some probably fairly wealthy ones, and it seemed to function quite well that way.”

After graduate school, the Louchheims lived for a few years in New York and then returned to Menlo Park. “Compared to when we first settled here, there’s much less of a sense of community these days, and there is quite a lot of ‘not in my backyard’ feeling when it comes to housing,” Louchheim said. “The price of housing has changed dramatically. Last year the median 16

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sales price of a single-family home here was $1.4 million.”

Opposition from both the government and her fellow citizens to the commission’s attempts to create more below-market-rate housing is a constant source of frustration. As Louchheim sees it, everyone has not only a civic duty to fight for affordable housing, but also a vested interest in welcoming it. “With housing costs the way they now are, people who work in our city often have to commute a long distance. In the event of an earthquake, the people

you would really want to have on hand—the city workers, hospital nurses, firefighters, other emergency workers—may not be able to get here.”

Louchheim, who is also an active lifetime member of the League of Women Voters, traces her interest in social justice and civic improvement in part to her days at Concord Academy.

“Taking responsibility to be an active and informed citizen is intrinsic to a CA education,” she said. “I just attended my fiftieth reunion, where we reminisced about doing community service in class. This was part of my personal upbringing as well: my mother was head of the Red Cross in Providence during World War II.” She also relates her interest in art history to CA; she currently volunteers as a docent for the Stanford Museum. “Miss [Doreen] Young used to show us slides of works of art. And while we all ooohed and aaahed, she would say, ‘I’m not the least bit interested in whether you like that piece or think it is pretty. You need to learn to analyze it.’ ” That ability to analyze continues to get a rigorous workout, day in and day out. “In coming up with better alternatives for affordable housing, we have to be very creative,” Loucheim said. “Thinking critically and imaginatively is something I learned at CA, and it’s something I still have to do every day.”

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orty-five CA students and eleven faculty and staff members spent a week in Mississippi in early June, digging holes, putting up siding, laying sewer pipe, priming, painting, and contemplating the difference they could make in communities devastated by Hurricane Katrina.

“My hope was that the kids not only witness firsthand the destruction and slow pace of recovery, but also reflect on their own good fortune,” said Dean of Students David Rost, who planned the excursion. “If this trip sparks a commitment to do even more service, all the better.”

Each day, students split into working groups and headed to separate projects; some became competent at nailing siding while others mastered the art of trench-digging.

The CA group stayed at Camp Coastal Outpost, a disaster recovery center and reconstruction camp in Kiln, Mississippi, fifty-three miles east of New Orleans. Accommodations were rugged; teacher Marco Odiaga described “cockroaches that performed like trapeze artists in the rafters above my lower bunk each night.”

CA volunteers chronicled their impressions for a daily blog, maintained by English Department Head Liz Bedell. Following are some excerpts; check out the entire blog at mississippichameleonsjune.blogspot.com.

(distributing building materials, powerwashing, cleaning, mulching, weeding, planting) Miss Mary Evans was fairly noticeable today at our site in New Orleans as she was wearing her Sunday best, a yellow skirt and shirt outfit covered in pink roses.

Her cheery clothing was my in to a conversation. With a small compliment I unleashed her story.

A former middle school special education teacher, Miss Evans came to the distribution center to pick up windows for her partially destroyed home. She told us about the church of which she has been a member for fifty-four years, and when she found out we came from Massachusetts, she excitedly told us about all her family in the Boston area. A woman known to many for her happiness (she told us a story about someone’s amazement at her constantly cheery attitude), Miss Evans was a character who definitely made my day.

— Molly Turpin ’08

After a morning spent working in the Lower Ninth Ward, most of us are spending Sunday afternoon wandering around the French Quarter, grubby boots and all. Over here, it really is like nothing ever happened, and carefree tourists are all over the place. Voodoo merchants, jazz, today’s amazing Zydeco festiva l— it’s a beautiful summer Sunday here, a world away from our morning’s work.

— Liz Bedell, English Department Head

Monday, June 11 (removing debris, leveling a house site, digging post holes for support beams, nailing siding) Randy McGrew sat on his front step, pointing toward the roof of his FEMA trailer. “I crawled up there during the storm. There was

nowhere else to go.” Randy’s dog Freckles buried under his arm, resting her bristling white jowls along the edge of his worn jeans. “I had two other dogs that made it through the storm,” Randy recalled. “They died about two months later, and then I found her chewing at my tires — the tires on my Honda.” He rustled Freckles’ ears and then let his hands drop to his knees.

Gianna [Drew] motioned toward Randy’s trailer. “Did anything make it through?” He laughed, and paused a moment. “My jeans, my shirt — they were on me.” He laughed again, looking down at Freckles and waving his fingers through her coat. “I found Freckles here when she was only a baby, sniffing all around my tires.”

“She’s been a good companion for you,” Gianna said.

Randy looked up. “Yeah, a good friend.”

— Katie McNally ‘08

Tuesday, June 12 (nailing siding, digging, laying sewer pipe) Our objective for the day was to connect the new Americorps building to the septic system of Rick’s house. On a day when temperatures reportedly peaked at 105 degrees (plus humidity!), most of the work was accomplished before a nearly hour-long lunch break. For relief, many students took shelter in the air-conditioned minivan at regular intervals and downed at least a gallon of water each. At the end of the day, a foot-deep and a foot-across trench winding for roughly 130 feet connected the two buildings.

We would later learn from an Americorps volunteer that Rick donated the back half of his spacious property to build a place for Americorps volunteers to gather in some privacy from the rest of the campers.

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Thursday, June 14 (Demo Day, “a gloriously destructive day”) Our estimable dean of students was a beast with a sledgehammer.

We all stood around in silent awe (horror?) as he whacked away at a set of concrete steps, demolishing it in minutes.

— Liz Bedell nephew’s in Biloxi during the storm,” Rick told us during one of many breaks. “On the Monday when things had settled down, we all went to see my sister’s place and it was gone. We went to my mother’s place and that was gone.

We came back here to my place and it was gone.” Rick’s generosity touched the CA students when he brought us ice cream sandwiches at the end of the day.

— Steven Binzel ’07

lunches have become a highlight of our days because one sits with volunteers from all over the country (Seattle, Nebraska, Georgia yesterday) as well as people who live a quarter-mile away— laughing, drinking (lots of water), relaxing. As good as the cornbread fresh from the oven is, it’s the sweaty community that makes the experience.

— Liz Bedell

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For the last two days our group, led by David Rost, worked to put up siding on a woman’s house.

The first day we only got up two sheets, but we came back ready to work the next morning and by lunchtime we had gotten up three more sheets. After lunch, we were told that we needed to average twenty minutes per sheet in order to finish the side of the house, and though no one admitted it, we didn’t think we could do it. Come 4:30 we had finished that side of the house, just in time to be sprinkled by the rain.

— Louisa Smythe ’10 Every day (beginning five days after Katrina struck), the ladies of the Baptist church in the center of Pearlington, Mississippi, have been providing a hot lunch to 250 to 300 local residents and volunteers in an air-conditioned parish hall. These

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(cleaning, priming, painting, distributing materials) Today our group stayed at Camp Coastal to move and distribute supplies to people in the area.

We started by cleaning out a large storage tent. It was a lot of grueling work to lift the wet and damaged boxes as well as heavy insulation, but extremely satisfying knowing it was going to people in need. After a few snake sightings and some mouse poop, we were ready to hand out supplies. The twelve of us hung hand-painted signs that read “Free Paint and Supplies.” Soon after, cars began pulling into the parking lot where we had set everything up and we knew all our hard labor was worthwhile. One touching story we heard was from a kind woman who had taken in seven orphans on top of her three children

Initially, demolition seemed depressing. At the site, I learned that demolition takes organization and many hard workers, not dynamite and a wrecking ball. We ripped apart floors, removed foundation cinderblocks from the mud, and took away other objects on the site.

Among other possessions, we found dresses, an axle to a tricycle, and a teddy bear. I felt a strange sadness clearing away a family’s home, but I also understood my part in the process of rebuilding. In only a few weeks of work, a com-

pleted house will stand on the same plot of land that I helped to clear. I am a part of a process . . .

The lack of organization and communication has frustrated me. We have encountered countless changes in plans, and I worry about the fate of the area with so few workers and organizers for such a large, demanding problem.

— Roger Hurd ’09 Almost every group has by now driven along the four- to five-mile stretch of Beach Boulevard in Waveland and Bay St. Louis, fronting the gulf. This area saw a thirty-foot storm surge, and the echoing emptiness remains haunting. What were obviously estate properties, beachfront homes in every sense, are now empty foundations, though vestiges of the landscaping remain. Some have been rebuilt, and a local man on a bike that my group encountered on Wednesday evening told us that those houses are both self-funded and self-insured. Too many people here cannot afford insurance on their properties, and so have been unable to rebuild.

Striking sights include a bank branch that was ripped away, all save its fast-rusting vault. Or

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after the hurricane. Despite having so little at the moment of Katrina, she still had the heart to give more.

— Razina Aziz-Bose ’10 and

voiced their deep appreciation of our group, for the CA kids have worked unstintingly, with focus, effort, and immense sweat, at whatever task they were assigned, whether glamorous or grungy.

Then, after all that solemnity, we cheerfully fell upon the s’mores supplies, which disappeared with alarming rapidity!

— Liz Bedell

room of Ms. Hill’s house, where a piece of paper taped to the window indicated that this room needed to be painted pink, whereas every other room would be classic taupe.

This is Ms. Hill’s youngest daughter’s room, and right now nothing could make our team happier than to be able to paint that room pink for this little girl.

— Molly Turpin ’08

Friday, June 15 (priming, painting, digging holes and trenches) We applied primer to the entry/ living room, kitchen, hallway, and one of the bedrooms in Ms. Hill’s house. After hole-digging, painting seemed to be a nice break. The wonderful thing about a house in the final stages of construction is that it offers the possibility of imagining the personal touches that are to come and the family that will actually live inside. This was particularly evident in the corner bed-

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a bridge/overpass that stands alone, the pier it once led to long vanished.

I wonder if I can capture the power of tonight’s campfire in words. David [Rost] invited us to share observations, feelings, and thoughts on the week’s experience.

Some voices were a bit daunted, wondering what can one week of my work (or my team’s work, all of

CA’s work) do? How much impact can it have when we can see so much damage all around us?

But then a counterpoint emerged: we realize that we have among us dug four or five houses’ worth of postholes, putting those houses on the track to being built, literally digging the foundation of people’s new lives . . . The names of those we’d met came up — Randy, Noel, Butch, Rick, and others. One person spoke of the power of bearing witness to their experience.

Kids spoke about how complicated the whole house construction process is, and how modest one person’s input can be, about how much remains untouched twentyone months after Katrina hit. Some spoke of a deep anger that had been building over the week, anger at the failure of the government (local, national, whatever) to have responded more wholly to the devastation still visible nearly everywhere.

And as we closed, several of the adults (echoed by some students)

oncord Academy doesn’t teach business. It’s not particularly known for grooming future Wall Streeters or inspiring tomorrow’s moguls. In the course catalogue, business is mentioned once, in a description for Money

Serious

Matters — a literature course offered through the English Department.

Yet when we started compiling the names of CA alumnae/i who started their own businesses, the list quickly became unwieldy. There were software tycoons and beverage manufacturers, robotics purveyors and biotech pioneers. There were clothing designers, innkeepers, publishers, and financiers. Not only did all of them start their own companies, but many argue that CA does indeed breed entrepreneurs, by supporting creativity, risk-taking, and the notion that one should find a passion and go for it, no matter how out of the ordinary it may be.

Many of CA’s entrepreneurs don’t have a formal business education; several had no business experience at all when they leapt assuredly into their own ventures. They had an idea, and they believed in it and in themselves.

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Urban Sawczuk ’80, founder of Zygogen, a biotechnology company in Atlanta.

“When I saw a technological opportunity, instead of waiting for someone else to validate it, I believed in myself and my own opinion. When you’re supported

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at an early age, you have that inner confidence.”

To Michael Bruck ’88, who recently sold the university admissions software company he founded, CA was a safe place to push the boundaries. “I think CA helped push people into their own personal risks,” he said. “At CA they really nurture and encourage people thinking for themselves and being who they are and making their own decisions. Entrepreneurially, you can’t succeed just doing what everybody else is doing.”

Tom First ’85, who founded and sold Nantucket Nectars and is now building a flavored water company, O Beverages, thinks the culture of respect at CA prepares students for future lives as entrepreneurs. “When you get to CA, no matter what you’re good at or what you look like or who you are or where you’re from, there’s a level of respect for you,” he said. “Because of that, people feel comfortable doing what they’re good at.”

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Catherine Bassetti

Seattle’s Favorite Baker

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wen Piper Bassetti ‘54 never would have predicted she’d one day be baking bread for much of Seattle.

“I was a young adult of the sixties and business kind of got a bad name at that time,” she said. “Business was something the man in the gray flannel suit did. My getting into business was happenstance.” Happenstance— plus flour, yeast, and some serious baking talent.

Bassetti had always gravitated toward the kitchen. During her college years, she worked on a ranch, doing much of the cooking. Once her children came along, she ran a roadside food stand in the San Juan Islands, off the coast of Washington state.

In her early thirties, facing a divorce, she decided to apply to the University of Washington and get certified to teach. Her grade point average from Smith wasn’t the 3.5 required, so she was rejected. And annoyed. When two friends told her they wanted to start a business in a restored historical district of Seattle, she chipped in her $2,000 and joined the venture— a sandwich shop with homebaked bread that

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had lines out the door almost instantly.

The Bakery had one of the first espresso machines in Seattle and coffee from the original Starbucks. Bassetti baked the bread — a natural fit for a woman who grew up in a home where the bread was always fresh, and who embodied the seventies’ back-to-nature ethos.

But four years later, remarried and wanting a change, she sold her piece of the business and moved to eastern Washington, where the family farmed purebred sheep and grew shallots. It would be fifteen years before the bread business again beckoned.

In 1989, her second husband had died, and a different friend now owned The Bakery. He asked Bassetti to return to the business.

Influenced by San Francisco’s fledgling artisan bread business and a book, The Italian Baker by Carol Field, Bassetti had been experimenting at home with heavily crusted, Italian-style breads.

She and The Bakery’s owner decided to introduce the artisan breads to Seattle. Bassetti was soon back in the kitchen, in front of the new Italian oven they had purchased. The Bakery

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closed for three months during the summer of 1989, and reopened as Grand Central Baking Company. “The first artisan bread was out the door in September,” Bassetti said. “By November lines were out the door.”

Before long, Bassetti had primary ownership of the company, and still does, though two of her children run it. An article she kept from 1991 had the headline, “1,000 Loaves and Counting.” Now the Grand Central Bakery produces about 10,000 loaves a day and runs eight busy cafes in Seattle and Portland.

In the early years, her business was financed almost entirely through friends and her own bank account. “I wouldn’t have taken the risk if we’d had to do it all through the bank,” she said. Today, the company is bank-financed.

Bassetti’s secret recipe for success?

“There’s a passion that I think is a necessary ingredient,” she said. “If you’re really honest, a combination of passion and some funds. Fund that passion!” And, she forgot to mention, toss in one of the West Coast’s favorite loaves of bread.

MICHAEL BRUCK ’88

Admissions Chatter presents college fairs. Contracts with universities followed; he eventually signed on more than five hundred in forty-eight states and six countries.

To succeed, Bruck focused on customer service and trusted his gut. When other companies were marketing through email, he published an old-fashioned product catalog.

“Direct mail was by far the biggest force behind sales,” he said. “I just knew it would work.”

Bruck managed to maintain that brand of confidence, a trait he considers essential for an entrepreneur to succeed. “I don’t think it’s the confidence that you’re always going to get it right,” he said, “but knowing you can fix it if it fails.”

If there’s an entrepreneurial personality, Bruck may have been born with it. He ran his own candy business in fourth grade (which the school allowed until it realized kids were spending lunch money on sweets). At ten, he sold pussy willows door to door with a friend, whose mother was not amused when she saw the barren bushes in her backyard.

Among CA entrepreneurs, Bruck’s MBA is unusual. He loved Wharton both for what he learned, such as accounting and finance, and

for what he didn’t. “Going there and realizing nobody had the answers, that it was just smart people figuring it out themselves, that there’s no magic solution — it gives you an element of confidence, you realize you can hold your own.”

When Hobsons, a company that offers a range of university services, made Bruck an offer, he hadn’t been thinking about selling.

“It had been six years and I decided it was better to get out when the going was good instead of pushing my luck,” he said. He recognized the volatility of the technology industry and that more competitors would enter his arena. “I’d seen other people hang on too long and eventually get burned,” he said. “I didn’t want to be one of them.”

Now Bruck is traveling, figuring out what to do next. “I don’t want to be someone who sells lots of companies and spends his life in a cubicle,” he said. “Do I want to go back to school and be a student, maybe be a teacher? Work for a nonprofit for a year? I kind of like the idea of a second career, then in a bunch of years something else.

“That said, I already have a meeting set up about another company. But this would be seasonal, so I’d be working only half a year.”

Among CA entrepreneurs, Bruck's MBA is unusual. He loved Wharton both for what he learned, such as accounting and finance, and for what he didn't.

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n the late nineties, Michael Bruck ‘88 was a corporate strategy consultant with a Wharton MBA. And he couldn’t have been more miserable. “I spent all day in front of a spreadsheet,” he said.

He quit, knowing he wanted to start a business, possibly in the university admissions field. But he didn’t know just what he would do.

The idea for Interaction Software took root when Bruck read an article about a school that had built its own online platform.

Every college wanted a way to engage students online, such as in chat rooms, with blogs, on message boards, and by email. But he knew they weren’t sure how to do it and that it wasn’t cost-effective for individual schools to tackle the technologies themselves. So Bruck called a few schools and gauged their interest in such software. Their answers led him to start the company.

Chat University was the first and most successful of six products that Interaction Software would produce before Bruck sold the company in 2006. First-year sales of Chat University totaled less than $5,000, but the company took off when Bruck signed a $900,000 contract with an organization that

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technology that absolutely could help drug discovery.

Whether I did it or someone else did it, it would happen.”

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hen a scientist told Nina Urban Sawczuk ‘80 that he wanted to build a biotechnology company based around zebrafish, she knew his idea was solid.

He had filed a patent, but had no idea how to start a business. So Sawczuk tried to find someone who could help him. “I looked around and just couldn’t find anyone,” she said. “The more I looked, it was just so obvious to me that this was a technology that absolutely could help drug discovery. Whether I did it or someone else did it, it would happen.”

Sawczuk had a master’s in molecular and cellular biology from Harvard Medical School and an MBA from Duke, and had worked in drug discovery, biotech consulting, and business development. At the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) in Atlanta, she helped establish biotechnology incubators in Georgia.

She wanted to work in the business side of science, but never saw herself as an entrepreneur. “At first I said, I have no experience, this is ridiculous, why would I do this? Talking to a couple people, they said, sure, why not, look at your background, you’re perfect for it.”

So Sawczuk and her scientific partner started Zygogen, a business built on the bodies of zebrafish — which are about as similar to humans’ as a fish can be. The genes and proteins of zebrafish resemble those of people, and the fish have a two-chamber beating heart and other characteristics that make them, in many cases, as good as mice for testing drugs.

“Mice are expensive and time-consuming,” Sawczuk explained. “If you can get valuable information from a living system that’s cheaper and faster than mice, that can be a useful tool.”

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Excited to be on the frontier of a new science, Sawczuk first raised funding from family and friends, then applied for grants, which supported much of Zygogen’s early technological development. “If I’d had more money and started bigger I wouldn’t be around today,” she said.

Zygogen’s lab opened in 2000, a year after Sawczuk met her cofounder. The company today collaborates with several pharmaceutical companies, providing zebrafish for drug research, and was the first to receive a grant from the Michael J. Fox Foundation, for which it models Parkinson’s disease in zebrafish.

“After the last eight years working with different groups, we can see where we were in 2000 and where we are now, and the level of interest and understanding around the model,” Sawczuk said. “Signals from the marketplace are clear that this is a valuable technology.”

Nevertheless, failure is an important component of her entrepreneurial venture.

“Every day we take failure and try to turn it into success,” she said, referring to the trial and error involved in scientific discovery. “We’ve been focused on developing zebrafish for drug discovery and applying it. How you do that changes. How you get it into the established pharmacy and biotech companies that are doing drug discovery, how you get your information out has to shift. There are all kinds of ups and downs in terms of funding and interest.”

Nevertheless, both the science and the business continue to intrigue Sawczuk. “I didn’t really want to start a company,” she said.

“I just thought this was something that was important to do and really valuable.”

ANNE DAIGNAULT HARTMAN ’63

Working Differently

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nne Daignault Hartman ‘63 is on business number two, but still says she doesn’t have all the characteristics of a successful entrepreneur. Risk-taking and the determination to do things her way came naturally, she said. Sales did not.

Her first business, Career Investment Strategies (CIS), offered executive outplacement services to corporations, which included her services when crafting severance packages to ease the transition of a career change. Hartman had worked for years in the field, and CIS took off immediately.

She recognizes that her current venture, Working Differently, is still evolving. The company began with Hartman’s desire to end her commute to Boston and to find work near her home in Cape Cod. She began Working Differently in May 2005 with baby boomers in mind. “I was noticing people around me saying, ‘I want to work,‘ or ‘I need to work, but I want to work differently,‘” she said.

Working Differently helps individuals adapt their employment to make time for the lifestyles they want, and it designs programs for employers to meet the needs of aging employees.

“I chose to focus on this demographic because it’s changing and shifting so rapidly, and it’s the one I am,” Hartman said.

Hartman says a course at the Center for Women and Enterprise in Boston, which she took before starting CIS, taught her how to be an entrepreneur. She returned to the center for another course before her second venture. “Working Differently was started around the concept, the idea. Then what I’ve tried to do is build out services around that concept,” she explained.

She says, frankly, that her Working Differently workshops and speaking engagements have been quicker to catch on than her consulting services. Recently she heeded the advice of a local businesswoman and contacted a local economic development organization that was offering a program called TechSmart, which helps businesses leverage the Internet. With the TechSmart consultants’ help, she recently launched several products — from an $11.95 Guide to Working Differently to a $750 package of six consulting sessions. She’s also learning how to analyze and increase the hits to her Web site to increase sales.

“I’m not a natural entrepreneur,” she said. “I’ve had a lot of help.” But she sounds like an entrepreneur when she acknowledges the “dark moments” and her deep commitment despite them. “I love the idea, I believe in the business concept, I believe in the demographics,” she said. “I believe in myself.”

“I was noticing people around me saying, to work differently.’“

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Lesley’s Dogged Pursuit

“I left the park with my tail between my legs,” said Lutyens, who realized that the treat needed more of what dogs like and less of what would freshen their breath.

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andy for pets wasn’t Lesley Lutyens’s first canine idea.

After she closed her children’s sweater company, Luli Ltd., she started doing private fittings for dogs, making outfits based on the pooches’ personalities. “I would make coats for your mutt who always wanted to be a dalmatian or a poodle,” she said. “I was not going to make a killing doing it, but I had fun.”

With that background, pet candy wasn’t such a leap. Lutyens ’81 and her sister, Sarah Speare, already had submitted a feasibility study for a dog product company to a competition at the Center for Women in Enterprise in Boston and had won free legal services for a year. They had borrowed $25,000 from their mother and hired a consultant from the pet industry. The idea to make their product pet candy struck in what Lutyens called “sort of a Eureka moment”— when she was driving with her sister and munching on M&Ms. The consultant had been brutal with all their other ideas. “I would leave in tears most of the time,” Lutyens said. “He would chew us up and spit us out.” But when he heard about pet candy, he gave it an A-plus.

The two sisters founded and incorporated Chomp in 1999; the first products, Yip Yap breath mints and Sniffers treats, launched in 2001. During those two years, Lutyens, the vice president of product development, broke a microwave trying to soften rawhide, scrapped plans to develop dog chewing gum, and struggled to find a manufacturer with the equipment and experience to make candy tablets and a willingness to bring in meat protein.

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LESLEY LUTYENS ’81

Lutyens said her beloved boxer Tula, who passed away last year, was a “discerning” product tester. “We had polled individuals about their expectations of what should be in a breath mint.

We had a rough outline of what we wanted it to include,” Lutyens said. Armed with that information, she would make test batches and take Tula to a nearby park. “In two minutes I was like the Pied Piper,” she said of the dogs that would gather around.

But her very first canine test in the park was humbling. Several dogs lined up, and she gave one breath mint to each. “Every single one of them took the treat and spit it out and then ran off,” she said. As if that weren’t bad enough, a dog owner and friend told Lutyens, “Wow, that’s impressive. My dog eats his own poop and he won’t even eat your breath mint!”

“I left the park with my tail between my legs,” said Lutyens, who realized that the treat needed more of what dogs like and less of what would freshen their breath. After she added liver, dogs approved wholeheartedly.

That approval turned into sales. Last year Chomp sold $5 million worth of its products, which now includes Pit’r Pat candy for cats and a recently expanded line of natural pet treats.

Marketing has been as innovative as the product; Lutyens and her sister were determined that the candy be in grocery stores and gift shops as well as pet stores.

Today, although still a significant shareholder in Chomp, Lutyens has given up management responsibilities. “Our goal had always been to build an innovative company, prove it in the marketplace, and sell it,” she said. “Naive as we were, we thought that was going to be three to five years. When the runway kept getting longer, I realized I wanted to do other things.”

The road to entrepreneurial success was lengthier and harder than Lutyens expected.

She doubts the company would have gotten off the ground if she had known back then what she knows now. “We were very naive but extremely tenacious and really believed wholeheartedly it was a great idea,” she said. All those four-legged fans of Yip Yap and Pit’r Pat apparently agree.

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Nantucket (though Nantucket Nectars became too big to remain on the island), and he wonders if business naiveté actually worked in his favor.

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om First ‘85, founder of Nantucket Nectars and O Beverages and perhaps CA’s bestknown entrepreneur, finds it easier to define what an entrepreneur is not than what it is.

“People who are afraid of making a mistake and afraid of failure are not good entrepreneurs,” he said.

“Risk aversion does not work.”

He came closest to defining the term when he explained why some of his own employees would succeed at their own businesses.

“They don’t require a ton of direc-

tion. They build and create and survive on their own ambition,” he said. “It’s the way their brains work: they see these challenges as a great part of the job, not as an obstacle to success.”

First seems to pride himself on an unpolished, common sense approach to business. He has no

MBA, but frequently speaks to business students. The first time he spoke at Harvard Business School, when he was twenty-three, students asked him for his exit strategy and he replied, “I’ll use that door right there.”

“We didn’t have preconceived notions of pricing and structure,“ he said, noting that in the beginning he and partner Tom Scott didn’t even realize they were losing money because they hadn’t accurately computed manufacturing costs. “If we had done the business plan, we never would have gone down the road,” he said. His only concern back then was making a drink that people would want.

He originally started his own business because he wanted to live on

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onathan Lewin ’93 can still remember 1999, when he was working with just five other people in his tiny apartment in Union Square in New York City. Trying to get a small software company off the ground, they were all working for peanuts, and cutting costs by doing things like using roll paper in an old fax machine, rather than standard 8.5 -by-11-inch sheets.

That, of course, was long before Lewin’s company, eMeta, won clients such as Time Warner Broadcasting, the McGraw-Hill Companies, and NYTimes.com. And long before he sold it to Macrovision. “We were all twentythree or twenty-four, and we didn’t exactly know what we were doing,” said Lewin. “But a few people saw these kids who had a lot of enthusiasm and were willing to take a risk.”

Lewin first got the idea of developing software that allowed publishing companies to control access to their Web sites and charge for their content when he was working for his parents during college. While trying to help his parents get the journals from their scientific publishing company online, he found that the hardest part was figuring out how to identify and control who was logging on, and to collect payment from them. Lewin realized that if he could develop a system to make that easy, a lot of companies would need it.

It didn’t take long for Lewin and his staff to move out of his cramped apartment, and to increase in size from six employees to thirty, then to seventy-five. There were tough years, he said, when he worried that he would have to lay

people off. But, in part because they were an organically funded company and had not used venture capital money, they just pulled through.

Before it sold in 2006, eMeta had become the leading provider of software that enables companies to control and sell digital content and services online.

Lewin said the independence that CA encourages was an important tool on the road to entrepreneurship. “At Concord, you’re doing things because you’re interested in them, not for the sake of getting some award,” he said.

“Entrepreneurship is not for someone who needs a lot of external structure.”

As for what he will do next, Lewin isn’t sure.

In spring 2007, he was working at Macrovision in Silicon Valley doing corporate development, but planned to spend several months reading, traveling, and figuring out what he wants to do now — most likely, something in a totally different field. “Starting a company is a huge amount of work,” he said. “There are still a lot of things in life I’d like to do.”

— Ann Givens ’91

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and friends. He also borrowed big on his credit cards — so much that he says he finally paid off the tab in 1992 and didn’t get another card until 2004.

He offers some tips for budding business owners: Keep it simple. Early marketing

at Nantucket Nectars tried too hard to be creative, he said, missing the answer that finally worked: simply telling their story. “Today I always go back to simplicity,” he said.

“You can’t be good at a million

things.” When Nantucket Nectars began, it manufactured drinks, marketed them, and distributed them. At times the

company’s distribution network got in the way of the product itself. “We almost didn’t have a juice company because of a truck company,” First said.

Be open to change. First likes to

quote something he once heard the president of a young entrepreneurs’ association say: Entrepreneurs never fail, they

Expect anxiety (an emotion that

First says he enjoys). “I think the anxiety of starting your own business and trying to make it successful is extraordinary,” he said, adding that he feels “tremendous responsibility” to those who invest in his businesses —“they believe in me”— as well as to his employees.

“I hire people I like,” he said. “I don’t want to let people down.”

He recently was fretting about missing a young employee’s one-year anniversary.

Tom First ’85 (far right) with his wife Kristan and children Timothy, Olivia, and Luke

Caring 2 Connect

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andy Paynter ’85 may not have realized it at the time, but he became an environmentalist when he was only twelve.

He was traveling with his father, an ornithologist, on the Amazon River. “As we progressed into the jungle, we found less deforestation, sickness, and poverty, and the people seemed happier,” he recalled. “It really struck me, even as a twelve-year-old, that something about the ‘modern world’ was out of balance. Since then I’ve wanted to do something for the environment.”

What Paynter has done is create the largest online network connecting people interested in environmental and social causes — like Myspace or Facebook for people who want to make the world a better place. He developed Care2 to help people live what he calls “a conscious and responsible lifestyle.” The Care2 site is packed with simple ideas for people who want to make a difference, but who don’t know where to begin. They can find 3,500 tips on how to lead a greener lifestyle, send e-cards, click on buttons that spark corporate donations, sign petitions, read cause-related news, and meet people who share their political leanings.

Paynter began Care2.com in 1998, when he realized that the Internet could harness the collective power of individuals with similar interests. His business has grown to 7 million members, works with more than 250 nonprofit organizations, and has been gaining about 150,000 new members each month.

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only give up. “Unless you just quit, you’ll get there,” First said.

“It isn’t about some great idea.

It’s about evolving an idea into something successful.”

dot.com bust years. Paynter originally raised seed money through individuals, many that he knew through a former job at a venture capital firm. But in 2000 and 2001, investors were scarce. “Right after September 11 we had no money in the bank,” he said. “I was about to get married. Literally, I was calling investors on the way to my rehearsal dinner.”

When he failed to raise funding, he reduced his staff from thirty-two to eighteen. “There were probably two to three years where practically every two to three weeks I was wondering how we were going to make payroll.” Still, Paynter hung on, clinging to “a fundamental belief that we were on to something, that individuals out there wanted what we had to offer.”

Slowly, Care2.com recovered, and it has

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been profitable for the past three years. Paynter has managed to attract advertisers without compromising his principles — an ethos he compares to that at Concord Academy. “It really reflects similar values to CA,” he said of Care2.

“It’s all about caring for others, protecting the environment, and fostering a strong sense of community.”

Paynter warns those who hope to start socially responsible businesses not to lose sight of the bottom line. “Often people who are starting socially responsible businesses are more focused on the cause than on building a fundamentally sound business,” he said. His mantra: “no margin, no mission.”

With signs of growing social activism, Paynter is optimistic about both margin and mission. “The war in Iraq and global warming have gotten individuals really fired up,” he said.

“People want to make a difference but they don’t know how.”

Even businesses are trying to make a difference. “Just about every major company out there now is realizing it has to be environmentally and socially responsible,” Paynter said. “The world is catching on to us.”

TREMAINE WRIGHT ’90

Coffee and Community

gatherings to watch presidential debates on the café’s flat-screened television. Gradually, the café has begun to see a steady flow of neighborhood traffic, including some who seem to stop by most afternoons to linger and chat. “We’re developing a relationship with the community whereby people understand that we’re here and open to them,” Wright said.

But while Common Grounds customers are learning to sit and relax, its owner is doing anything but. Still working as a staff attorney at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher, & Flom LLP in Manhattan, Wright wakes up early to take a run and help her staff open the café, works a full day, and still makes it home to help close up at 8:00 p.m.

It’s hard work, but Wright said the feeling that she’s filling a need in her community makes it worthwhile. That’s an idea she says was first planted in her during her years at CA. “The people there encouraged us to be involved and responsible,” she said.

“I find that translates into the lifestyle I’m living now.”

— Ann Givens ’91

Common Grounds, a neighborhood coffee house about six blocks from where she grew up. Common Grounds, located on Tompkins Avenue between Jefferson and Putnam avenues, is a bright spot on its block, decorated in the colors of a sunrise: red, orange, and yellow. A few clothing boutiques have moved into the middle class area, alongside the markets, dollar stores, nail and hair salons, and barbershops.

Wright has become part of Bed-Stuy’s revitalization. “I’m helping to change the perception of the neighborhood by letting folks know they don’t have to leave the area in order to get the service and products they want,” she said.

At Common Grounds, the menu includes an array of hot and chilled espresso drinks, ice cream, sandwiches, and Belgian waffles, and the back of the store is lined with deep, cozy couches and overstuffed armchairs.

During warm months, Wright opens the back garden.

It’s been a bit tough to get people in the neighborhood used to the idea of having a place to gather when they’ve gone so long without one, Wright admits. To draw them in, she’s encouraged local church and community groups to hold their meetings there, hosted game and movie nights, and held

“People here have money, and they spend money, just not in their neighborhood . . . They assume that there’s

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nothing here for them.”

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here was just one thing that bothered Tremaine Wright ‘90 about the Brooklyn neighborhood where she’d lived almost all her life: while lots of people called BedfordStuyvesant home, few really seemed to live there.

“People here have money, and they spend money, just not in their neighborhood,” said Wright, who works as a lawyer in Manhattan. “They assume that there’s nothing here for them.”

That gave Wright an idea. She could build a Bedford-Stuyvesant café where residents would gather to think, share ideas, read, and enjoy themselves. Over the next six years, Wright began attending trade shows and buying books on how to open a café. She even entered a local library’s business plan-writing contest and won a runner-up prize. The toughest part, she said, was finding the right location for the shop — property values in her neighborhood were in flux, and she found that many people were asking too much in rent. Finally, she got an affordable loan to buy a building through a local nonprofit organization called Neighborhood Housing Services, which aims to help revitalize underserved areas in New York City.

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GAY ELLIS ’66

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ay Ellis ‘66 was looking at photographs of the traditional winter coats of northern Scandinavian’s Sami people in National Geographic when she got an idea.

A fiber artist with a fashion design degree, she decided to adapt the pattern for a ski jacket for her husband, architect Rob Brown. Little did she realize that everyone who saw his jacket would want one of their own.

To meet the demand, in 1985 Ellis started a cottage business called Samii; she hired sewers near her home in rural Vermont, opened a warehouse, networked at crafts and trade shows, and watched the interest in her adult and children’s jackets grow. In 1991, at the New York Gift Show, she discovered Aid to Artisans, a nonprofit that helped connect her with talented artisans in Hungary, Russia, Romania, and Uzbekistan. She then traveled to these countries as a design consultant, helping the artists with marketing and incorporating some of their techniques into her own work.

A Hungarian folk art tradition inspired Ellis to integrate the cutfelt techniques used on shepherds’ coats into her designs. The result was a line she named Lanya, the root of which, anya, means mother in Hungarian. Over the years, Ellis expanded the line to include home furnishings, and her colorful, decorative pillows have been in Elle Décor, Martha Stewart magazine, and mail order catalogs such as Garnet Hill, Cuddledown, and Sundance.

Despite Samii’s staying power and continued demand for adult coats, Ellis is realistic about children’s coat sales. “The market has become limited for dressy wool coats for little girls,” she said. “People dress much more casually these days.”

Ellis also is exploring a new entrepreneurial option, completing a degree in an area that has long been both refuge and hobby — landscape design. She already has projects, including a 9,000-squarefoot garden at a private chapel in Vermont. “I’m installing a rosary garden, a stations-of-the-cross garden,’‘ Ellis said by phone from a garden symposium at Mount Snow.

She anticipates a landscaping business will be easier to manage than a clothing design and manufacturing company. In fact, she advises would-be entrepreneurs to be confident about their manufacturers before trying to sell a product. “I think building a product has a lot more challenges than selling a service,” she said.

“You have to have it engineered, and of course your price points must be competitive with China’s.”

For now, she has found a way to remain in the Samii game and to pursue her new landscaping venture. “I make coats only in late fall and early winter,” she said. That leaves plenty of time for the planting season.

KELSEY STRATTON ’99

“People take smoking breaks.

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smoggy, humid day helped turn Kelsey Stratton ‘99 into an entrepreneur.

She was sitting in a class offered through her summer internship in Washington, DC, feeling slightly bored and very hot. The weather had kept her from her daily run on the Mall. “It dawned on me: wouldn’t it be nice to take a breath of fresh air during this polluted day?” she said. For Stratton, that wasn’t just a passing thought.

Stratton became convinced that there was a market for oxygen — if it were packaged in a way that said “hip and athletic,” not “medicinal.” But, still a college student, she was on a path to nonprofit work, not entrepreneurship. She had spent a summer as an international environmental law consultant in Montreal, and had interned at the League of Conservation Voters Education Fund. She had no idea how to start a business.

When she returned to Columbia University as a junior, she took classes that she thought might help her develop her idea; for a sociology class she researched the invention of the Brita water filter, she wrote her thesis on indoor and outdoor air quality, and she joined an entrepreneur group and entered its undergraduate business competition. “I put together a business plan never having read one before,” she said. Of fifty entries, hers was selected as one of the top five.

Stratton also sought advice from fellow CA alum Tom First ’85, founder of Nantucket Nectars and O Beverages; he had spoken at CA when Stratton was a senior and she remembers thinking, “I’d love to have a product and business that I created.”

After college, Stratton took an environmental consulting job in New York, but was miserable and continued to dream about her oxygen idea. She kept networking and learning as much as she could about the product and its market potential. Finally, in May 2004, after fine-tuning a business plan, Stratton received her first investment from a family friend and launched her company, GO2 LLC. She quit her job and moved home with her mother to cut expenses to the minimum, and she hired a product designer to bring her idea to life.

While designing the product, researching the oxygen market, and finding product manufacturers, she continued to have doubts.

“There were so many brick walls, so many times when I said, ‘It’s over,’” Stratton said. “But I’d step back and reassess the situation and figure out a way around the wall. Eventually, I’d find a way over it, under it, or a hole in it.”

After all her research, Stratton decided that Colorado ski country would be the best place to launch her product: the POD—Personal Oxygen Device. For travelers who venture to the mountains each winter and have trouble adjusting to the altitude, the POD can help alleviate symptoms associated with mild altitude sickness. PODs have a uniquely designed mouthpiece (its patent is pending) and enough oxygen to supply forty deep breaths.

Stratton found distributors in Colorado to place the POD in ski shops, hotels, and 7-Elevens in time for the 2006–07 ski season; so far she has sold about 10,000.

She said that one of her biggest challenges at the moment is reducing the retail price of a POD, from the current $15 to $25 to the $8 to $12 range, but she’s confident she’ll find a solution.

Stratton is currently expanding distribution into the sports, health, and aviation markets, and remains convinced that canned oxygen will catch on.

“People take smoking breaks,” she said. “Wouldn’t it be great if people could take a break that leaves them rejuvenated and energized?”

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utgoing Academic Dean Patty Hager spoke to the eighty-six members of the Class of 2007, their friends, families, and teachers, on June 1, when Concord Academy celebrated its eighty-fourth commencement.

Introductory speakers included Head of School Jake Dresden, CA Board of Trustees President Ellen Condliffe Lagemann ’63, Student Body President Freddie Tunnard ’07, and Senior Class President Molly Lebow ’07.

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Introducing Hager, Molly praised the dean’s patience and dedication. “Patty has talked many a senior off the ledge, but she should also be recognized for her abilities to inspire us to take on any challenge,” she said. “The experiences of your classmates, your students, your sons and daughters, and your personal successes at this school have been shaped by this woman’s intelligence, support, and unwavering faith in the academic capacity of this community.”

Photos by Tim Morse

Following is the text of Hager’s Commencement address: THANK YOU MOLLY , and other members

of the Class of 2007. It is a privilege for me to join everyone here to honor you. As I have witnessed your various accomplishments—and escapades—these past few years, I have often had your parents in my mind’s eye. While you have done the work of growing up these past years, it is your parents who gave you and Concord Academy to each other. They trusted you to use this place and this time in your own way, out of their direct view.

Let me say, seniors, that in your mindfulness, honoring adults who have been important to you, your class is uncommon. Our expectation for adolescence is that you are supposed to be self-absorbed. Yet, in my years in Concord Academy, your class is unprecedented in the eloquent, extended tributes you have offered to

your families, chapel by chapel. You have understood your parents’ and grandparents’ gifts to you, even while you were completely immersed in your own consuming commitments and concerns. I want to speak about family—and also about freedom.

This past December, one of you came to speak with me about a dilemma. This senior had been thinking more and more about the fact that his parents made serious sacrifices to pay Concord Academy tuition. Now, he had a chance to attend a fine college that would be easier for his parents to afford. But he had lost his heart to a different college, one with a much higher price tag. Could he justify attending that expensive college, believing that over the next four years the cost might deplete his parents’ resources or compromise their plans for themselves? The student had asked his parents what he should do. They urged him to apply to the college he loved, and assured him that they

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Right: Patty Hager and Molly Lebow '07.

Below: Patty Hager, Molly Lebow '07, Freddie Tunnard '07, Board of Trustees President Ellen Lagemann '63, and Head of School Jake Dresden. Center: Jae Cho '07 and Roy Park '07. Right: Charlotte Zoller '07.

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knew what they were doing in supporting this choice. Still, the student was determined to make his own decision, and he was struggling.

Was he disrespecting his parents or his own values if he pursued that college?

I offered the opinion that perhaps respecting his parents required him to trust them when they told him they wanted him to go for the college he loved. The student paused, and then he asked, “But how could I ever thank them?”

I was so moved that I couldn’t collect words to respond very well. But now I’ve had time to think about that question. Here’s my thought about thanking your parents. If they disagree with me, you’ll hear about that over lunch in an hour or so.

If you want to honor those who have committed their lives to you—your parents and your teachers—do your best to live your lives freely.

My proposition to you this morning is this: the meaning of freedom in your lives is a topic that

should be a very high priority for each of you, beginning now as you are about to enjoy a new level of control over your lives. Your participation in the freedom or lack thereof for other people also merits your most intense and serious consideration. But today being your day, let’s focus on you.

See if you can follow this adult logic. As we have restricted your freedom these past years, we have been investing in your freedom! (Don’t you love being in a school that enjoys contradictions?) We have asked you to learn the rules of scholarship, discipline by discipline. We have pestered you with blue slips, white slips, pink slips, check-ins and check-outs, deadlines, work jobs, dean’s warnings, and DCs. And all the while we have been praying that if we could keep you from making some dumb move that could get you injured or incarcerated, and if we could keep you engaged in meaningful studies, you might have a shot—and this is rare in our

world—you might have a shot at living your lives freely.

Let me explore just one angle on a vast topic. I want to argue that you are likely to be free when you know when to commit yourselves to a calling, and also when not to commit yourselves. Let’s start with the fine art of not complying. Seniors, I am not referring to your relationship with traffic laws. Let me explain in personal terms.

In another time and place, when my dad was in high school, he skipped entire weeks of class, without asking anyone’s permission.

He simply took off by himself to respond to his calling—catching fish in the boondocks of Maine. In fact, those fishing expeditions were among the more innocuous examples of my dad’s disregard for various rules in his small town. Then, as he grew up, my father honed that capacity for delinquency to a more mature skill with noncompliance.

One of my girlhood memories is standing next to my father in our church each Sunday morning to recite the Apostles’ Creed. Some of you will be familiar with the text of this statement of faith used widely in Christian churches: “I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth . . .” and on from there. As I listened to his deep tones, I realized that several weeks in a row, Dad fell silent through one line of the text. When I asked him about this, he told me that he couldn’t recite the line because he didn’t believe it. Now imagine the message to me: first, that one’s beliefs are consequential matters; and second, that even in church, even in the quest for faith, he was not prepared to comply fully.

My parents obeyed most laws—and especially fishing and hunting regulations—because they understood the common good in doing so.

But they also showed my brothers, my sister, and me that they thought hard about which

institutions they should grant authority, from the federal government to the Scouts. In the renegade Girl Scout troop my mother led, I’m not sure any of us ever achieved a merit badge, and if the Girl Scout officials had realized what crazed adventures we undertook, they would have court-martialed my mom. But, lost in the mountains and careening down rivers, we learned to be wild, and we learned to trust ourselves. In my family, if you want to take a jab at someone, you say, she or he “has a high need to comply.”

During the course of the fall, one of you wandered into my office to announce that you were considering getting yourself kicked out of school. Having been prohibited from performing a skit mocking a school decision in senior coffeehouse, for reasons that didn’t make sense to him, he was considering doing his skit anyway. Knowing the possible consequences for directly defying adults, he was pausing to think

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Top: Deeona Deoki '07. Above: Soren Stockman '07 and Saul Alpert-Abrams '07.

Left: Emma Thorne '07.

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it through. This student is right here graduating.

Provided with a bit more data about the adult rationale, he managed to go along with it, but not without asserting his determination to think for himself. My experience is that many of you share this student’s instinct—to resist complying on matters of self-expression.

Now here is a secret about the faculty of this school: a very high percentage of your teachers are at Concord Academy rather than in another profession or in another school because they are not very good at complying. They insist on taking responsibility themselves for the curricula they offer you, rather than accept standardized programs from test-generating corporations.

The same teachers who have taught you the rules in their disciplines have urged you to explore the territory beyond those rules, and also demonstrated how to challenge the rules. Certainly that is the faculty’s first impulse where administrators are concerned. Ask any of us what it is like to

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attempt to achieve agreement and compliance among them. My predecessor here, Ted Sherman, used to say that if this faculty agrees on something, they haven’t understood the question.

This may seem like an odd thing to name on such a day of shared celebration, but I am also aware that many of you have negotiated experiences of loneliness while you have been students here. It’s not that you had no one to be with, but rather that you felt unknown—out of significant relationship with others. It reassures me that you have learned to abide with yourselves when you have to. Never did I hear one of you suggest that you were willing to compromise who you are to gain closer connection with others. Learning that you can endure loneliness— one common outcome of defying the norms—makes it much more likely that you will lead creative, free lives. So give yourselves credit for those times when you were alone.

Now let’s consider the converse of noncompliance: acting freely to commit yourself to something. We trust that you will resist the temptation to resign yourselves to some narrow path through the world, and will instead listen for a calling. At its simplest, finding a calling means that you wake up in the morning looking at the world with fresh eyes, turning to an endeavor that fills your life with meaning.

You don’t have to look to famous people to find examples of what I mean. Many of your parents have made decisions to commit themselves to new work during your lifetimes because they have come to understand the meaning of a new calling. I am thinking of those seated behind you who have decided to take up writing or give themselves over to the arts, those who have earned advanced academic degrees out of the normal timeframe and against the odds, those who have made medical resources available to the economically disadvantaged, those who

have brought ethical and creative insight to their workplaces and families.

Or let’s turn again to the faculty. Does anyone here know someone living more joyfully in a calling than [math teacher] George Larivee?

Indeed, so many of your teachers are living out a calling in scholarly work and engagement with you. Beyond their teaching, you know faculty members who have made decisions to write poetry that is heartbreaking and true, to leave behind graduate work that turned esoteric and demeaning rather than satisfying, to spend summers immersed in service and scholarship all over the world. Some of you would be such gifted teachers, and I hope that at some point you will ask yourselves whether you might be called to the powerful, creative, consuming work of education.

Whether you make your way to teaching or to some other enterprise that you yourselves will invent, I hope you will know the liberation

of committing yourself to work you love with all your heart.

I want to end by offering a word of timely advice on this transition you are making. This will be short because transitions are not my favorite thing. I specialize in denial—a very handy strategy at times like this. Here are three of my own methods. First, tonight, look up.

Get some perspective on what is sublime in the world. Second, find your way to ice cream.

Surely whoever invented mint-chocolate-chip was negotiating a transition. And finally, concentrate hard on what is not changing. In this moment, what is not changing is your alliance with each other, with your families, and with this fine school. You have shaped the school, and you are a part of it and of all the others who have learned here. We hope you will return to us often.

We understand that if you resist complying, and if you give yourself over to a calling, your

life may be both inspired and messy. As you return to Concord Academy, make a pledge to bring your whole lives to us and to each other, as you have done so bravely these past years.

Each one of you has been a blessing in our lives. If our own dreams count for anything, your lives will be filled with blessings in many years to come. In the short term, there is the blessing of a diploma for each of you.

Congratulations, and thank you for allowing me to participate in your graduation this morning. — June 1, 2007

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Center: Malika Mehta '07 with her parents Vikram and Tasneem and her sister Ahilya.

Top right: Everett Wallace '07 with his parents Elizabeth and Jeff. Left: Ross Palley '07, Ben Sullender '07, and Nick Green '07.

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former CA headmaster and president of the Baltimore Community bout three hundred graduates spent the Foundation, which raises money for public-private educational weekend reuniting with old friends and initiatives and supports public school reform. reliving their Concord days during Reunion Wilcox lamented the challenges facing public schools, Weekend, June 15 to 17. describing how little freedom some principals enjoy. “In a world of Festivities began with campus tours No Child Left Behind, with funding tied to test results, there is and the annual Art and Author Exhibit, little opportunity for the creativity we take for granted at Concord featuring books and artwork by alumnae/i of Academy,” he said. the reunion years—those ending in 2 and 7. Head of School Jake Clark-Suazo expressed concern that public school teachers Dresden and Alumnae/i Council Reunions Chair Rebecca Watriss have had to become more focused on meeting standards “just to ’95 greeted alumnae/i for dinner in the Stu-Fac dining hall. Freddie get things done” than on great teaching. “Teaching is not as Tunnard ’07, last year’s student body president, treated alumnae/i creative anymore in a lot of classrooms,” she said. She described to her take on what it means to be a CA student. As classmates one Washington, DC elementary school whose principal eliminated caught up over dessert, Jean Phillips Kelly ’52 entertained on piano. social studies and limited science to twenty minutes a week.

On Saturday morning, panel discussions centered on “Teachers are sneaking it in,” she said. Part of the reason Clarkeducation, the environment, and literature. Those who did their Suazo changed to a private school was “to recapture that desire to homework and read In Pharaoh’s Army by Tobias Wolff stepped continue teaching,” she said, “and it’s worked so far.” back into the classroom for a book group led by Dean of Faculty Hult agreed with Clark-Suazo’s observations. “You’re Sandy Stott and English Department Head Liz Bedell. observed to make sure you’re using the curriculum the right way,” Others discovered what steps CA is taking to make the he said. “It’s hard to find time to talk about something for more campus more environmentally friendly. New Academic Dean John than twenty minutes.”

Drew led a discussion, “A Greener Rostow told the group that Campus and a Greener World,” with small class size, often lacking in public Candy Cox Dann ’72, recycling schools, is key not only because of the coordinator for the Massachusetts extra attention students receive, but Department of Environmental also because teachers can make sure Protection; Johanna Rosen ’97, students speak out repeatedly on cofounder of an urban farm in Philasubjects, to the class and to each other. delphia; and David Santomenna ’82, “I ask students to comment, then I ask director of land conservation for them to explain it again,” she said. the Essex County (Massachusetts) “That can’t happen if students have Greenbelt Association.

PHOTOS BY TIM MORSE only one chance to talk in a classroom.”

Emma Posner ’07 told the Wilcox described a variety of group about an audit that evaluated educational initiatives that are CA’s energy use, and explained that the transforming urban communities and school wants to take immediate small bringing new optimism to city schools; he described Hult and steps, such as its decision to compost leftover food in the dining Clark-Suazo as “the hope for our nation.” hall, but also to seek grants to fund more expensive approaches to Later that morning, Head of School Jake Dresden and energy conservation, such as solar panels or building renovation. trustees Peter Blacklow ’87 and Mark Rosen p’97, ’06 led “A Drew explained that dollars collected from recycled bottles are Conversation about Concord Academy” in the Elizabeth B. Hall administered by student heads of environmental affairs to fund Chapel, engaging alumnae/i in a lively give-and-take. While small environmental projects. The school is focusing for now on praising a flourishing CA, Dresden noted challenges facing the behavioral change, such as more recycling and less paper use. “I school, including affordability, a continued ability to hire gifted don’t want to lose sight of the educational opportunity here,” said teachers, and the increased stress of adolescence today. Later in the Drew, whose Environmental Science class collected, measured, and day, Director of College Counseling Peter Jennings and Associate evaluated energy-use data, which helped CA determine where it Head for Enrollment and Planning Pam Safford provided a frank wastes energy. overview of the current admissions picture at colleges and In what has become a yearly event, alumnae/i who have independent schools. devoted their lives to education held a panel, “Teaching Today for In addition, Kay Muller Bullitt ’42 and Phyllis Rothschild Tomorrow’s World.” It featured commentary by Jason Hult ’02, Farley ’42 received the Joan Shaw Herman Award for Distinwho teaches special education at a charter school in Harlem guished Service (see page 44), and a memorial service honored through Teach for America; fifth-grade teacher Trelane Clark-Suazo members of the Concord Academy community who have died. ’92, who taught in public schools for ten years and is now in an Throughout the day, alumnae/i swam in CA’s pool, played tennis, independent school; Heyden White Rostow ’67, p’08, academic canoed on the Sudbury River, and revisited their favorite haunts dean at the Brearley School in New York City and former dean of in the town of Concord. faculty and English Department head at CA; and Tom Wilcox,

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hen CA paid tribute to retiring faculty at “A Celebration of Teaching and Community” during Reunion Weekend, comments ranged from the sweet and reverent to the unapologetically irreverent.

At times, the event seemed more like a roast, especially when Alex Berlin ’01 shared his memories of retiring teacher Stephen Teichgraeber.

“When I was in Dr. T’s class and he’d ask a question, I would, almost always, have no idea what the answer was,” Berlin said. “In fact, most of the time, I didn’t even understand what the question was. And not just the meaning of the question. But the individual words of the question.

They were simply not in my vocabulary.

So I would just say, ‘chiasmus.’ And you know what? I was right 75 percent of the time.”

With deadpan comic delivery, Berlin held up giant copies of the squiggly happy faces, sad faces, and indistinguishable faces that Teichgraeber used as commentary on his papers. Admiration for the teacher drenched the sarcastic words, even at their most biting.

“Sometimes English teachers are mean,” Berlin said. “Sometimes they X out entire paragraphs of papers with no explanation, and then write ‘wrenching victory from defeat’ toward the end of the paper. Or they comment: ‘Moving through your introductory paragraphs, I was reminded of how long it takes a swan to become airborne.’”

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Gary Hawley was one of the first people I met at CA . . . on my visit as a prospective student . . . He moved blithely across the front row of students collecting homework and amiably discussing approaches to the problems, stopping at my seat to demand my homework.

When I earnestly began to explain that I was a prospective student visiting his class, he cut me off saying that it was no excuse, and if I wanted to be successful at CA, I needed to learn to be prepared. I was dumbfounded . . . [he asked] me if I had misbehaved in my interview at the Admissions Office . . . Gary went on to explain that prospective students were never sent to his classes, and he

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wondered aloud what I might have done wrong there. . . . I continued to be riveted and somewhat startled by what seemed to be some hybrid of Monty Python and Mr. Wizard . . . Gary’s class always felt more like fun and unplanned discovery than serious learning, and that was the brilliant part.

Like Alphonse Doda, the famous Martian scientist who populated our homework and extra-credit questions . . . I must confess that as a statistics professor in recent years, I have made use of Alphonse and sent him to planets that have different normal curves and probability models to be sure my students really understand the models we use here on Earth.

Gary, you may be retiring, but Alphonse is still going strong.

— Christopher Recklitis ’80 I would have lost my way countless times here were it not for a short

Retiring teachers Gary Hawley, Madge Evans, Nicole Fandel, Stephen Teichgraeber, Christine Campbell, and Sally Ismail

story or a quiet word from Gary. Very recently, an old childhood friend of mine took his life. I was lost as to what to do or what to feel. I didn’t talk about it to anyone for a while, until my weekly advisor meeting with Gary. Somehow as we sat in the StuFac with the sun pouring in onto our table, the story just came gushing out. I told him how I felt; I told him stories about my childhood with this kid, about the things we used to do growing up. Gary listened to it all and then told me that I should be sad, but I should look outside, see the sun shining, and remember the good times. This may sound like an obvious thing to say, but it was exactly what I needed to hear. He told me that it was more important to celebrate his life than to think about his death. He made me really stop and remember all of the good times that I had with my friend.

— Sam Sands ’07

CHRISTINE CAMPBELL She was one of the most kind and thoughtful officemates a new teacher could have at CA. No matter what conundrum I encountered — how to explain a particular math concept, how to best help a struggling student, how to negotiate each phase of the CA calendar year (skip February!) — she always reassured me, gave me the information I needed, and did so in such a way that made me feel like it was okay that I didn’t already have all the answers.

— Pat Udomprasert, math teacher How kind was Christine Campbell?

She knew that I liked the show 1776, and she invited me to try out. There

was a little dancing, and she knew I was hopeless. She worked with me during a shared free block, never once laughing at my tragic efforts.

Kinder still, she was able to finagle me a part in the show that had no dancing.

— Howie Bloom, math teacher Her peppy attitude and purple accessories always brightened those early morning eighty-minute blocks of derivatives.

— Emily Howe ’07 You were caring, positive, and patient with mathphobes like myself and, for once, I could see how math was related to other subjects (social sciences and humanities) and life in general.

— Iwei Chen ’95

MADGE E VA N S Years ago, we demonstrated chicken development by incubating eggs in the lab.

Madge emptied one of the eggs, filled it with a ceramic chicken she had made, and left it for me to open — in front of my entire class. Scared the living daylights out of me . . .

She took the freshmen to the Vineyard for years and then to Vermont for many more, all from the goodness of her heart.

— Gary Hawley While I never found a career in science I wanted to pursue, I still refer to biology as my first academic love — and I have that giddy, head-over-

inspired her love of sciences and helped her “find my quiet connection to something bigger than myself.” She described Evans as a teacher serious about science, but with a sense of humor. “She encouraged curiosity, questions, dialogue,” Peterson-Arnzen said. “We had fun; whether it was building the DNA chain in colored marshmallows or poking through the wide array of seashore treasures she had collected to spill out over the work table. By the end of my sophomore year, I affirmed that I wanted to pursue the sciences.”

Teacher Emerita Janet Eisendrath feted French teacher Nicole Fandel and her approach to teaching, in which “works are transmitted by head and heart and received by the students the same way.” She described Fandel’s fascination with teaching, even when she was small.

“Her father played chess, and when he finished a match, she would gather the pieces into a class,” Eisendrath said. “. . . Chess pieces are not all alike—they are different sizes, shape, and colors, and they have different paths which they must take . . . So, from the beginning, Nicole knew that students are not all alike. They, too, have variations to be understood and honored.”

Teacher Emeritus Bill Bailey spoke of his unlikely, deep friendship with science teacher Gary Hawley, whom he described as “a sixties guy” and “a hippie,” while Bailey called himself “a more traditional guy.”

Hawley, he recalled, when excited would say, “far out” or “what a rush!” Bailey might get out a “wow” or a decidedly uncool “jeepers.”

He described Hawley as a Renaissance man who taught chemistry, world religions, cosmology, and woodworking (in a course called, simply, Wood).

Teacher Emeritus Ron Richardson remembered that French teacher Sally Ismail started at CA under difficult circumstances, filling in for an ill teacher who passed away on Ismail’s first day on the job. The blizzard of ’78 followed, with a week of snow days. Ismail’s retirement made Richardson look back on his own. “When I retired, what I missed most was checking in daily with dear Sally, which I had done for twenty-two years.”

heels relationship with biological pursuits still. As a Montessori teacher, though, I did bring as much scientific experimentation into the classroom as I could, and now, as head of school, kids come into my office to show me their discoveries in science because they know I’ll get just as excited as they are.

Thank you for being excited about what you taught — it was contagious.

— Happy Sayre-McCord ’74 You took me seriously and encouraged my dreams to become a surgeon. Twenty-five years ago, as a CA senior, in the front row of your Human Biology class, I learned to respect all life, all forms of life, and other human beings. You signed my yearbook thanking me for my “patience” in Plant Physiology and writing you have “confidence” in me.

You allowed me to teach a freshman biology class and demonstrate my homemade EKG machine!

— David Emanuel ’83

S A L LY ISMAIL One of my favorite memories of Sally Ismail derives from the summer of ‘05 when I was visiting the Ismails at their house near Seillans, France.

It was a sweltering day on which other guests chose to go on what seemed to Sally an overly long, bound to be water-short, hike. Sally thought it better to venture towards a small village perché, Mons, a village we had not explored, where we could perhaps find a restaurant for lunch. Indeed we did; Sally unerringly pointed to the most beautiful auberge literally hanging over a

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devoted many years to the school by offering resources and financial counsel that would help ease the complexities of modern retirement.

Five faculty members who were offered the option—Madge Evans, Nicole Fandel, Gary Hawley, Sally Ismail, and Stephen Teichgraeber— chose to accept the board’s offer. In addition, Christine Campbell chose to retire this year to pursue more fully the dance and theatre work she has been involved in outside the school.

On Saturday afternoon, Head of School Jake Dresden welcomed the gathering in the Elizabeth B. Hall Chapel to honor the careers of all six retirees. “Little is more important to the strength and enduring effect of schools than its teachers, the conveyors of both knowledge and inspiration, as well as the keepers of the culture,” Dresden said. “Those we celebrate today for their service and dedication to their craft, to their students, and to their school are the best of our profession.”

He went on to praise not only the teachers, but the freedom CA has allowed them. “What I particularly respect about CA and its long tradition of distinguished teaching is that there has never been a prescription for what good teaching must be,” he said. “Our honored faculty each has his or her way of educating, some more formal, some more informal, some using the color purple to motivate, some inspiring by force of their personality, others by their quiet, modest integrity. Each student at CA can find a teacher with whom to connect, someone who inspires and challenges, someone whose personality meshes with his or her own.”

Tributes to all the teachers followed; though some were comical, none were quite as unrestrained as Berlin’s. Mathematics teachers George Larivee, Deborah Gray, Pat Udomprasert, and Selim Tezel sang an original version of “We’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face” to thank Christine Campbell for her years of teaching at CA. They wore purple boas and scarves in honor of the color for which Campbell is legendary.

Lani Peterson-Arnzen ’75 recalled the “youthful exuberance and playfulness” of her science teacher, Madge Evans, and how much Evans

Teaching Long, Teaching Well

Dean of Faculty Sandy Stott

During “A Celebration of Teaching and Community,” Head of School Jake Dresden noted that “we are here not only to honor our retiring teachers but also to affirm my conviction that teaching is a noble profession.”

Indeed, when Dean of Faculty Sandy Stott got up to speak, the words he chose to honor CA’s retiring teachers were actually an homage to teaching itself.

Following are Stott’s remarks:

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three thousandfoot cliff, where we watched hawks and glider planes below us, and, in the distance, just glimpsed through a mountain valley the blue Mediterranean. The menu was complicated, but Sally led us through it and challenged me to order in French. Not wanting to risk embarrassment, I demurred, but she insisted; we practiced, and I just managed to pull it off — the waiter simply thought I was from Alsace Lorraine!

Two hours or so later, Sally, guided by unfailing intuition, led us to a tiny shop where an octogenarian made models of Dalmatian argosies, along with a full model of the village, in match sticks. Sally quickly

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n honor of my colleagues retiring and on behalf of CA’s teachers, I offer this reflection on “long teaching,” teaching over decades to hundreds of students, finally to thousands.

It begins in September, though anxiety and excitement have been summer-long companions. This beginning seems natural. After all, sixteen or more years of your youth have been devoted to school, why not this next one? And often, at first, it is seen as one year, as in, “I’ll try teaching for a year and then go to graduate school.”

What happens next is hard to track. A maelstrom of work and need spins the young teacher to dizziness; walking each day’s deck asks an effort unknown before. The fall rushes by. On a winter day, the head of school asks for a chat.

“All’s well,” the head assures you.

“You are having a very good first year,” a description that doesn’t match your interior, but never mind, the praise is sweet liquid. “Now about next year…”

Another year seems right. After all, you haven’t had time to apply to grad school, let alone look for other work, and the daily kick of the classroom has been narcotic — those eyes, those arrowy questions, the way your moments of certainty take root in their minds . . . and in their notes!

charmed him, and we spent the next hour in wonderful and utterly memorable conversation with him . . . That day I was reminded once more of how truly and thoroughly a teacher Sally is; she encourages her students, inspires her students, leads them gently to a point where they test their talents and skills, even when they are uncertain.

— Stephen Teichgraeber When I first met Madame Ismail at the beginning of sophomore year, I didn’t know my way around, I didn’t know the vast majority of the people surrounding me, and it was terrifying to have a French teacher as my advisor. I was taking the leap from French 2 to 4, and wanted nothing more than to be able to hide from French for as long as possible.

Thankfully, I never had to hide.

Madame is one of the easiest people

French teacher Nicole Fandel, right, thanks Teacher Emerita Janet Eisendrath.

A summer of study, another year of work, a steady, pleasing rhythm develops. Suddenly you reach your first real graduation — the class you entered with arrives at the giddy May of their commencement. And here you divine your own divide. Your decision to stay on is defining. Slowly, graduation loses its meaning for you; teaching becomes the life you wondered about finding.

Later, as a young veteran teacher, surety visits you. Long readings of text and conjuring of assignments make the word “mastery” a possibility; a pleasing deference arrives on the gusts of

student questions. But later still, when true mastery sidles into town, it rides atop uncertainty. How best to teach that skill? Where does one locate the alchemy of class discussion? Could it be that jazz is the musical equivalent of great teaching? And who precisely are these young ’uns with their new slang and backwards caps?

Every new class brings with it the enduring question— will this be a good class? And you show up every day; you walk into your classroom bearing a briefcase of their mistakes leavened with appreciation for their insights and fondness for their wide-eyed work. Every day,

to talk to that I have ever met — regardless of whether we’re speaking in French or in English, or even in a mixture of the two . . . She has been continually positive, the perfect counterpart to my sometimes pessimistic attitude, and has brought smiles to her students for years.

Whether we were reading, bringing in baked goods, performing dances to the chapters of L’Étranger, or speaking French over lunch at La Provence, the classes were always fun and exciting.

— Liz Wilsker ’07

tweed plaid?

Had my longtime friend and mostly conservative colleague Philip McFarland really chosen this character to join CA’s English Department? Yes, in his wisdom, Philip had.

Stephen’s previous teaching experience and scholarly pursuits were all at the university level, and this, along with his humanity, is what he brought with him to Concord Academy. What does it mean to explore literature as a scholar? What are the questions to ask? The fields to investigate? Somehow, without ever watering down or oversimplifying, he skillfully managed to lead his students, even the sophomores, along the path of true scholarship.

STEPHEN TEICHGRAEBER I remember my first glimpse of Stephen — the handlebar mustache and the almost fluorescent green jacket, or was it the clashing red

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every day, every day — even in February, the month where lesson plans go to die.

What marks this later stage of mastery is stamina and ease with uncertainty and appreciation of mystery.

At this point you have become identified with your school, become part of its peoplescape, part of its landscape, part of its spirit. Sometimes this leads to moments of wonder in the outside world.

Here is a scene familiar to a veteran teacher: you, newly liberated for a weekend in the city, or perhaps for a summer wandering a far continent. Whatever reverie

you’re immersed in fractures at the bark of this question: “What are you doing here?”— the “you” being bolded and underlined, the jaw that issued it still dropped. What, your former or current student wants to know, are you doing here, beyond the glass walls of your classroom?

When did you take up citizenship in the larger world?

This common moment turns on the impression that teachers are lodged forever in their schools; in the almost-graduated limbo of high school, they are hung like giant academic bats behind emergency glass that may be broken when it’s time for class. But I see it differently. For

me this moment turns on a collision of teacher-selves that suggests the broad influence enduring master teachers have. The teacher walking down the foreign street, let’s call her “Pedestrian You,” is actually a faint replica of the master-teacher who rides everywhere inside your student’s mind. Your student is unprepared to meet “Pedestrian You” and give up the commanding, shaping presence of you in your room. You have grown mythic, and who is ready for the mythic figure along the everyday streets?

This leads me to a final thought about influence, about what I might call a teacher’s diaspora of effect: I

believe we travel largely and widely; I believe that we touch people and places we never see; we are carried there by our students.

We broker disputes, add nuance to arguments, offer context for startling sights; sometimes we may even provide the solace of long connection during life’s inevitable 3:00-in-the-morning moments of difficulty and loss. And over a career, as our teaching deepens, ripens with affection for both student and discipline, our student-carriers become hundreds, finally even thousands. We are everywhere.

Surely this is true of those teachers we honor this evening.

In his elective courses, whether thematic or chronological, Stephen always chose to deal with great writers: Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, Twain, Eliot, and Faulkner. The first test of the semester in his class was a shock: definition of terms, difficult spot-quotations to identify and analyze down to the last syllable, a challenging essay of comparison. This was an approach I had not seen since a course in Shakespeare I took with the renowned Shakespeare scholar Harry Levin at Harvard. Many of Stephen’s students failed the first test, but unlike Levin, he always gave second chances, so each student could achieve a respectable grade and sense of achievement. By the end of the semester even sophomores were achieving college-level work. And his approach inspired his departmental colleagues as well, forcing me, for

one, to buy at least two dictionaries of literary terms in order to keep up.

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She taught French, but not isolated lists of verbs, adjectives, and phrases, but through them Maupassant, the realist; Camus, philosopher of the absurd — which, of course, appealed to her; Rimbaud, the rebel, who, if you ask me, I think is a relative of hers.”

— Sylvia Mendenhall, Teacher Emerita He’s inspired scores and hundreds of Academy students, and not just the brilliant ones. Of course not every single pupil he taught fell under his spell; he’s far too much of a distinctive presence for that. But many, many have, and have had their lives altered for the better accordingly.

Two such are the McFarland children, classes of 1980 and 1984, both of whom took all the courses they could get from Dr. T, and both of whom these many years later remain under his beneficent, inspiring influence. He taught them to love the things of the mind, and as a consequence both have remained in academia, contentedly and gratifyingly in pursuit of scholarship.

You have taught me to think on my feet, to speak up and to be brave. These are truly, as you often say, “survival skills,” and I hope to carry them with me for a long time.

— Janet Eisendrath, Teacher Emerita

— Mia Boynton ’07 I came to CA three years ago absolutely terrified of everything that was related to French class. Your endless patience, understanding, and good humor have meant the world to me. Thank you for everything you have done to make French class a little less scary and a little more fun.

— Becca Bowe ’07

— Philip McFarland, Teacher Emeritus

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Alex Berlin ’01 with a comment from a paper Stephen Teichgraeber graded

TWO CLASSMATES RECEIVE JOAN SHAW HERMAN AWARD

Class of 1947

Kay Muller Bullitt ’42

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H I S Y E A R , Concord Academy was proud to present the Joan Shaw Herman Award for Distinguished Service — the only award the school hands out — to two distinguished alumnae, classmates Kay Muller Bullitt ’42 and Phyllis Rothschild Farley ’42.

Bullitt was honored for dedicating her life to social activism, including early efforts to integrate public schools, to achieve equal rights for women, and to raise awareness about environmental causes. Her home of Seattle has been described as the largest U.S. city to voluntarily desegregate its schools, thanks in part to a racial-transfer program that Bullitt helped organize.

Bullitt founded a women’s savings and loan during a time when it was often difficult for women to secure loans. In recent years, she has supported historic preservation efforts in Seattle and has worked with OneWorldNow, a program for economically disadvantaged youths.

Maggie Kannan Peters ’81 shared comments from Farley, her mother-in-law, who missed the event because of a back injury.

“My mother-in-law was fortunate to be raised in a family that valued community service,” Peters said. “Giving back was one of the most enjoyable parts of her life.”

Peters described Farley’s work in maternity care and natural childbirth, explaining that she realized doulas — advocates who attend the birth and help with newborn care— could also help people facing death. Ultimately, Farley created a program called Doula to Accompany and Comfort and helped write a syllabus that is being used to train medical students. She volunteers as a doula herself, and Peters said she strives to see that dying patients achieve their final dreams. Farley also was instrumental in the founding of the first out-of-hospital birthing center.

Peters said that Farley appreciated her Concord education and recognizes that CA honored the individual and supported academic exploration. Peters said her mother-in-law has referred to her classmates as “the brightest girls she has known before or since.”

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Do you know a CA alumnus/a or faculty member who deserves the Joan Shaw Herman Award for Distinguished Service? Please log in at www.concordalum.org or watch for a nomination form in the mail this fall. Nominations are due February 1; priority is given to nominees from the current reunion class years so that recipients can share the honor with classmates.

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Tom Wilcox, CA’s headmaster from 1981 to 2000, attended this year’s reunion with his wife Whitty— their first extended visit back to campus since their daughter Kate graduated in 2001. Tom shares impressions about CA, and about life since he left.

What made an impression on you as you saw CA today?

Whitty and Tom Wilcox

In many ways the beautiful Chapel expansion tells the story. CA’s “chameleon-like” capacity to adapt to changing times, tempered by a respect for continuing values, guarantees the school’s greatness, whether it is learning for its own sake, a tradition of common trust, or a true commitment to diversity of backgrounds and thought. I was also deeply moved to hear about the success of the Wilcox Fellows.

I can’t imagine a more beautiful

way to be remembered, and I am excited about the promise that these young faculty of color bring to CA and ultimately to schools across America. It is clear that CA is a healthy school and that we have all been incredibly blessed by the thoughtful leadership of Jake and Pat Dresden.

What was it like reuniting with your first class at CA as these graduates celebrated their twenty-fifth reunion?

I was obviously touched that they invited us back to celebrate with them, and I had forgotten about how connected one becomes to one’s students. I literally wept over how lucky I had been to be a part of these amazing lives.

Tell us about your work leading the Baltimore Community Foundation.

Thanks to a great board and professional staff, the Baltimore Community Foundation (BCF) has grown dramatically in size and impact since we arrived in 2000. With five hundred different foundations or funds ranging in size from $10,000 to $21 million, we are in many ways a bank—with multiple accounts, gifts coming in and grants going out, and investment strategies for all the funds. In another sense, we are a “movement,” as each of these funds is committed to making Baltimore a better place to live, work, play, and learn. We know we have to find ways to marry economic development with poverty reduction if post-industrial cities like Baltimore are going to come back and if all its citizens are going to have the opportunity to thrive.

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How has your work with the Baltimore Community Foundation helped forge community connections there for you and Whitty?

Ultimately BCF’s work is about creating community, and we benefit from being players in that community. People have embraced us, and I have even been called a “Baltimoron”—as great a compliment as one can get in this town!

Besides continuing her work with the National Coalition of Girls Schools, what else has Whitty become involved in during your time in Baltimore?

Whitty was one of twenty or so women who six years ago started The Baltimore Women’s Giving Circle, an initiative that has since grown to more than three hundred

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women who are working together to support women and their families across the city. Each donates $1,100 a year, and they then identify and support initiatives that are making a difference in our city, including addressing seemingly intractable challenges such as domestic abuse, addiction, and hopelessness.

How did your years at CA inform the work you do today?

Most specifically, our years at CA helped us figure out how to build The Middle Grades Partnership, an initiative that matches twelve independent schools with twelve public middle schools to give more than five hundred inner-city youth three summers of focused preparation for our city’s strongest public and private high schools.

More broadly I feel that our nineteen years at CA were as much

“community foundation preparatory” for me as CA is “college preparatory” for its students. I have to deal with an enormous variety of constituents, and I have to help them find consensus around common solutions to core challenges.

And there is race. We got better and better at talking about race over the years that I served Concord Academy, and BCF cannot begin to address the long-term needs of this predominantly African American city without digging deeply into the personal, institutional, and structural racism that has for too long divided Baltimore and limited opportunity for too many of its citizens. I will never forget how Telia Anderson’s production of James Baldwin’s Blues for Mr. Charlie transformed race relations at CA. We need similar experiences in Baltimore. The conversation has begun, and there is promise.

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What are your hopes for CA students and alumnae/i as they look to the future?

Among the greatest rewards of serving CA was witnessing great philanthropy—people sharing the rewards of their lives with something they cared about. I got to see people at their very best, doing great things for others. I hope that all who love CA support the school and the world around them. There are community foundations in every part of our country. Each allows you to do what you want to do and be who you want to be even as you contribute to a collaboratively developed sense of community.

That sounds a lot like the ethos of a little school near a town, a meadow, and a river just west of Boston!

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A scene from Double Negative, the Theatre III production.

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ive CA students — Monica Grandy ’07, Daniel Lander ’09, Alexis von Kunes Newton ’08, Charlotte Oldsman ’07, and Aliza Rosen ’10— participated in the Massachusetts Young Playwrights Project (MYPP), hosted by the Boston Playwrights Theatre in Boston.

Throughout the spring, these fledgling playwrights collaborated with guest professional playwright Ronan Noone, who served as their creative writing mentor in two weekend workshops at Concord Academy.

Students from CA and five other local high schools were invited to participate;

their final ten-minute plays were featured at the MYPP Festival in April. Charlotte’s original “Just Not Enough” and Aliza’s “Pass the Salt” were chosen to be rehearsed and performed by professional Boston area theatre directors and actors during the festival.

he CA Orchestra, during a May assembly, performed several new compositions, including It’s a Chameleon, written for the orchestra by Alex Abele ‘87. “This shifting, layered piece is a mirage of sounds and colors, drawing upon works the orchestra has learned this year to create a completely new sound landscape,” said former Orchestra Director Hilary Walther Cumming ’87.

During the same concert, the New Directions Ensemble, a new and select group of CA musicians, performed A Deepening Groove Near Walden Pond by Boston composer John Howell Morrison.

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works were commissioned for CA. In addition, Russell Cohen ’09 performed an untitled work he wrote for cello. Cumming called it “a strong and elemental work, tonal and traditionally lyrical in its concept.”

Also performing was Katie McNally ‘08 on fiddle, who modernized the Scottish folk tune “Annie Laurie” and arranged it for a string orchestra and solo fiddle.

The concert opened with a woodwind work by Mozart, performed by Ben Miller ’08, Ella Mae Walker ’09, and Rachel Frenkil ’08.

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ill Notini ’09 and Zach Zimmerman ’09 shared their artistry at the Young Poets’ Festival, at the Groton School in May. The event featured folk singer Dar Williams, who performed and shared insights into how she writes songs.

Students then read their works, which Will said “ranged from beat/rap-inspired poetry to almost prose-like verses. The topics ranged from politics to family to love.

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heatre Program Director David R. Gammons won the 2007 Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Director in a Midsize Company for his production of Titus Andronicus, presented in Cambridge in early spring by The Actors’ Shakespeare Project.

Reviewer Louise Kennedy praised the director’s “brutal but nuanced staging” in the Boston Globe. “Gammons directs for actors and audiences, too,” she wrote, “with an assured control of movement, imagery, and theatrical space that sends us hurtling into the starkly nightmarish Rome of Titus with terrifying clarity and speed.”

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he April choral assembly marked the last performance of Geoff O’Hara, who led CA’s Gospel Choir. O’Hara leaves CA after eight years directing that group. This year, a new group called the World Chorale replaces

the Gospel Choir, said Choral Director Keith Daniel.

The April assembly also featured performances by CA’s chorus, chamber choir, the Chameleons, the girls’ a cappella group, and the boys’ barbershop quartet.

The mood was heavy one minute, and the room was resounding with laughter the next.”

When his turn came, Will approached the stage nervously and read an original work called “Morning Breath.”

comfortable, and I felt like I fell into a groove by the fifth line or so.”

During a lunch break, Will and Zach jammed with poets from other schools. “Everyone really seemed to be into their art and to believe in what they had created,” Will said, “which I think is incredibly important.” Later, during an open-mike session, Will and Zach played a reggae song, “Chew,” that they wrote together; Zach played guitar, and Will sang.

Will said the festival inspired him. “I felt the urge to explore different formats, mediums, topics, and moods,” he said. “It was a pretty horizon-expanding experience.

It was really great to see such a common excitement for poetry among so many other people my age.”

“I’m addicted to the crazies, baby Drawn to the lunatics And the subtle, sable, antipathy harboring tic Indignation makes her interesting . . . “ He considers his unrehearsed performance “less than suave,” but later was able to relax. “I decided to throw caution to the wind after that, reading a poem I had written the previous day, called ‘Sing, Sing, Sing.’ The second poem was far more

Katrina, New Orleans, 2005

by Katherine Wolkoff ’94

Katherine Wolkoff ’94 A photographer known for artistic portraiture, evocative landscapes, and fearless experimentation, Katherine Wolkoff ’94 says she discovered toward the end of college that photography was “the medium through which I could best understand the world.”

Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, New York, W, Jane, and Travel & Leisure. A one-year study of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina appeared in Aperture magazine.

My work is fine art, but I do editorial assignments and advertising jobs in order to make a living. I am incredibly lucky to do such interesting assignments all over the world.

Like most, I would prefer to spend all my time making art, but that is nearly impossible.

What’s your favorite kind of assignment?

I really most enjoy making landscape pictures, so travel jobs are the best.

Tell us about what you’re working on.

I am editing my second gallery show at the moment—which is exciting and frightening. The pictures are new and unknown. I just returned from two weeks in Africa on assignment photographing landscape in the Gambia and Gabon, which was incredibly interesting.

CA was the first time I really learned how to use a camera and darkroom. I remember learning how to load film in the hot closets in the basement under the PAC, and photographing like a madwoman for the yearbook.

Which photos are you most proud of?

When did you first become interested in photography? What inspired you when you first began?

I can’t really remember, but I feel as though I have always been staring at the world, and at some point that turned into photographing it.

I worked in New Orleans for a year after Hurricane Katrina, mainly photographing the trees and landscape. The resulting pictures were beautiful and heartbreaking. It is the series that is most outside my own personal experience, and in many ways the most universal.

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For you, is photography more journalism or art? How do you reconcile the two?

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The softball team qualified for the EIL tournament this season, with an extra-inning win over league rival Beaver Country Day School. The team earned an eighth-place seed in the tournament. The team returns a core group of players next season, including two EIL honorable mentions, Laura Garbarino ’09 and Sinead Oliver ’09.

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The baseball team captured the Eastern Independent League (EIL) title for the first time in twenty-nine years this spring and qualified for the New England Preparatory School Athletic Council (NEPSAC) tournament as the number-one seed in the East. Henry Butman ’08 and Patrick Walker ’08 were named to the EIL’s All-League team; Ben Wilson ’07 and Aidan Hanlon ’08 received honorable mentions.

Despite a tough loss to league opponent Lexington Christian Academy in the playoffs, the team finished the season with an enviable 10–2 record.

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The girls and boys lacrosse teams each lost key players to graduation last season, but added a new group of emerging players this spring.

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Winning with Bloomball

by Rufus Urion ’07

Math teacher and coach Howie Bloom

here is no crying in baseball, thanks to the supposed emasculation an emotional outburst earns you. There is no crying in Bloomball for entirely different reasons.

Playing for Howie Bloom over the three springs I spent at Concord Academy was an experience that, just a few months off the field, I realize I will share with teammates for years to come, not unlike the time I tripped crossing home plate and went down hard on my face, letting forth an audible groan that to this day is referred to as “The Time Ruf Went Oof.” That the good-natured ribbing I received is as memorable as any win hammers home that, more than anything, Howie Bloom wants his boys to have fun. To cry over baseball would be to concede that winning and losing have a stronger hold on you than your love of the game. Such is the cardinal sin of Bloomball.

The seven scrappy slap-hitters with whom I

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Howe ’07 and Chelsey Bowman ’08 were named EIL All-League, and Tania Torres ’08 received an honorable mention. In boys lacrosse, John Moriarty ’07 earned EIL All-League recognition, while Soren Stockman ’07 received an honorable mention.

ALUMNAE/I CORNER Liz Spence ’04, cocaptain of Dartmouth’s 2008 women’s lacrosse team, received the Dartmouth Class of 1980 Award, given to one member of the women’s and men’s lacrosse teams who “best represent themselves, their team, the college, and the community through their academics, athletics, and community involvement.”

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Whitney Leonard ‘05 played on Williams College’s women’s lacrosse team, which advanced to the NESCAC semifinal game. only NEPSAC tournament game, we were beaten by a Lexington Christian Academy team we’d split our season series with. So ended my baseball career, more abruptly than I’d been ready for.

I cried quietly on the bench as everyone packed up and as we seniors exchanged hugs with younger teammates. I cried quietly for much of the ride back to CA. I cried loudly alone at home for much of the rest of the evening.

I then became angry with myself for committing the cardinal sin: I had let losing get hold of me. But I’ve come to realize it wasn’t losing that single game, which spanned all of two hours of my life, that hurt. Acknowledging the end of a consistent, seasonal involvement in baseball, my first love, was what really hurt.

Bloomball and everything I had loved about CA was ending, whether I was ready or not.

I will always be so grateful to those slaphappy slap-hitters who maintained that baseball came second, life came first — and in so doing, managed to come first in baseball. I can sum up my three springs with what Howie often says when Bloomball is played properly: “That was freakin’ fun.”

Sam Smith ‘05 was on Williams College’s women’s varsity crew team, which won the 2007 NCAA Women’s Rowing Championship.

Others playing on college teams during the winter and spring: Noah Gardner ‘05 Brown University men’s tennis Jenny Imrich ‘04 Bates College women’s squash Sophie Lubin ‘05 Columbia University women’s crew Eva Luderowski ‘06 Carleton College track and field Susie Martin ‘03 Bowdoin College women’s squash Alexis Plukas ‘05 University of Pennsylvania women’s tennis Seth Rosen ‘06 Wesleyan University wrestling 51

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played three seasons each helped the team work its way up, from a 2005 “Best of the Worst” B-Bracket championship to a “Did that happen?” A-Bracket championship in 2006, to this year’s “No, seriously, pinch me” 2007 EIL Championship, the first in just shy of three decades.

Our success is due solely to the principles of Bloomball. As a sophomore, opposing head coaches who wore baseball pants, à la major league managers, inspired a sense of fear in me.

By this past season, I began smirking at uptight coaches and feeling sorry for players who played in pressure-cookers. Teenage athletes inevitably crack if their coaches don’t let them remember that they are high schoolers enjoying an extracurricular sport. Conversely, a Howie “pep talk” is, “So, go for that big play. If you make it, you’re gonna look like a hero to that girl you like who’s watching, and if you don’t, well, we’ll all get a chance to laugh at you on the bench.”

Beyond “just staying loose,” we, as disciples of Bloomball, developed relationships through our ribbing of one another and, over time, relaxed and won some ball games. In our

The Ultimate Frisbee club team enjoyed a successful 3–2 season, with the team earning Spirit of the Game honors at the season-end tournament, held at Northfield Mount Hermon School. The award — voted on by peers from every competing team —recognizes the team that best exemplifies fair and fun play.

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Report of Giving 2006–07

O CONCORD ACADEMY MAGAZINE / REPORT OF GIVING

ur 2006–07 Report of Giving is a portrait gallery of your continuing presence at Concord Academy. It offers a wonderful opportunity for you to see the impact you have had on students, faculty, and all they accomplish together in classrooms, on performance stages, on fields and courts, and in the world beyond CA.

Your support is felt in all we do at Concord Academy, and this is our chance to say how much it means to us all.

Thank you for being here.

Your gifts of time, resources, and great ideas have helped us:

Jacob A. Dresden Head of School

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Surpass our Annual Giving goal of $1.8 million.

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Achieve 100 percent participation in our Senior Parent Gift to support professional development for faculty.

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Build our endowment fund to $48 million.

Sincerely,

Ellen Condliffe Lagemann ’63 President, Board of Trustees

Mark Rosen p’97, ’06 Trustee; Chair, Annual Giving Maureen Mulligan ’80 Trustee; Chair, Alumnae/i Giving David Feldman ’84 Vice Chair, Alumnae/i Giving

Board of Trustees

Life Trustees

Ellen Condliffe Lagemann ’63; President John J. Moriarty p’02, ’05, ’07; First Vice President Lucy-Ann McFadden, Ph.D. ’70; Second Vice President Jeffrey L. Eberle p’99, ’04; Treasurer Frances Savoia Brown p’04; Secretary Jacob A. Dresden; Head of School Jennifer Abele ’90 Peter Blacklow ’87 W. Anthony Brooke p’07, ’09 Ian T. Douglas p’05, ’07, ’10 Alexis Goltra ’87 Wanda Holland Greene Ann L. Gund p’08 Sandra Willett Jackson ’61 Lori W. Lander p’06, ’09 Mary Adler Malhotra ’78, p’10 Amelia Lloyd McCarthy ’89 David Michaelis ’75 Carol C. Moriarty p’02, ’05, ’07 Maureen Mulligan ’80 Susan Hall Mygatt p’99, ’01 Marion Odence-Ford ’82 Mark Rosen p’97, ’06 Maia Y. Sharpley ’85 Fay Lampert Shutzer ’65 Lowell S. Smith p’05, ’08 Chang Rok Woo p’03

John E. Abele p’86, ’87, ’90 Kathleen Fisk Ames ’65, p’95 Marion Freeman ’69 Linden Havemeyer Wise ’70

Katrina Pugh ’83 Vice Chair, Alumnae/i Giving Margaret Walker ’63 Vice Chair, Alumnae/i Giving Fan and Peter Watkinson p’08, ’10 Cochairs, Parent Giving Molly Eberle p’99, ’04 Chair, Parent of Alumnae/i Giving

Departing Trustees At the annual spring dinner for leadership volunteers and donors, Ellen Condliffe Lagemann ’63, president of the Board of Trustees, recognized departing board members.

These individuals contributed countless hours and a range of expertise to advancing Concord Academy’s mission. Concord Academy acknowledges with deep gratitude the wisdom, time, energy, resources, and talents they have extended to the school during their years of service.

Enid M. Starr gp’08 and p’78, ’81 Chair, Grandparent Giving

Alumnae/i Council Marion Odence-Ford ’82 President Madeleine Blanz-Mayo ’86 Vice President; Chair, Nominating Maureen Mulligan ’80 Vice President; Chair, Alumnae/i Giving Daniel Towvim ’91 Vice President; Chair, Outreach Laura Johnson ’86 Secretary

Alexis Goltra ’87 Carol C. Moriarty p’02, ’05, ’07

David Feldman ’84 Vice Chair, Alumnae/i Giving Katrina Pugh ’83 Vice Chair, Alumnae/i Giving Margaret Walker ’63 Vice Chair, Alumnae/i Giving Tim Morse

Volunteer Leadership

Annual Giving Leadership

Many thanks to the following volunteers who served Concord Academy during 2006 – 07 in leadership, fundraising, and other capacities.

Ingrid von Dattan Detweiler ’61 Chair, Archives Stephanie Solakian Goldstein ’91 Chair, Communications and Class Secretaries Rebecca Watriss ’95 Chair, Reunions James Lichoulas III ’91 Cochair, Friends of CA Athletics (FOCAA)

Lani Peterson-Arnzen ’75, p’09, ’10 Chair, Joan Shaw Herman Award Michael Firestone ’01 Cochair, Young Alumnae/i Programs (CAYAC) Kelsey Stratton ’99 Cochair, Young Alumnae/i Programs (CAYAC)

Concord Academy’s Board of Trustees

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Tracy Welch ’89 Cochair, Friends of CA Athletics (FOCAA)

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Patricia Wolcott Berger ’47 Katherine Flather Breen ’48 Lauren Bruck ’85 Trelane Clark-Suazo ’92 Laura Ferraro Close ’79 David Cotney ’85 Carolyn Smith Davies ’55 Nancy Denardo ’76, p’08 Bryan Hobgood ’05 Walter Judge ’78 Martha Livingston ’78 Angelique Yen Marsden ’86 Noah McCormack ’00 Laura Richardson Payson ’47 Virginia Redpath ’65 Jonathan Schechner ’98 Jeffrey Schneider ’91 Jorge Solares-Parkhurst ’94

Catherine Gunn ’84 Amy Huntoon ’70 Pamela Prouty Ikauniks ’60 Hellen Kimble ’84 Jean Dunbar Knapp ’77 Margaret Sweatt Kunhardt ’76 Claudio Lilienfeld ’80 Helen Whiting Livingston ’41, p’78

Gifts received between July 1, 2006 and June 30, 2007

Alumnaei/i

Carol Moriarty p’02, ’05, ’07 President

Parents of Alumnae/i

Jane Hughes p’04, ’08 Vice President for Campus Service Programs Valerie Cummings p’05, ’08 Vice President for Special Events Fan Watkinson p’08, ’10 Vice President for Community Support Janet Benvenuti p’09 Secretary Ginny Sherwood p’08 Parent Updates Coordinator

Mary Poole ’59 Katrina Pugh ’83 Evelyn McKinstry Thorne ’44 Nancy Parssinen Vespoli ’73 Margaret Walker ’63 Elizabeth Julier Wyeth ’76

Martha Livingston ’78 Mary Adler Malhotra ’78, p’10 Amelia Lloyd McCarthy ’89 Lucy-Ann McFadden ’70 Maureen Mulligan ’80 Susan Hall Mygatt p’99, ’01 Marion Odence-Ford ’82 Cynthia Phelps ’64

Charitable Giving by Source and Purpose in 2006–07

CA Parents Executive Committee 2006 – 07

Marie Cullen-Oliver p’06, ’09 Vice President for Parent Outreach

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Current Parents Faculty/Staff Students Grandparents Corporations/Foundations Friends and Other Grand Total

Annual Giving

Current Restricted Giving

Capital Giving

Totals

$899,436

$13,250

$2,509,723

$3,422,409

$837,191

$79,878

$758,801

$1,675,870

$160,834

$10,261

$367,240

$538,335

$15,451

$2,603

$10,000

$28,054

$556

$0

$1,590

$2,146

$11,220

$0

$65,770

$76,990

$0

$95,263

$0

$95,263

$29,818

$39,161

$156,250

$225,229

$1,954,506

$240,416

$3,869,374

$6,064,296

• Trustees, who are represented in various constituencies above, contributed an overall total of $1,161,986 to Concord Academy this year.

• Gifts are recorded in only one category, even if a constituent has multiple affiliations.

Lisa McGovern p’08 Boarding Parent Representative

Leadership Committee

CONCORD ACADEMY MAGAZINE / REPORT OF GIVING

Leadership Committee members encourage gifts to the school of $1,000 ($500 for the classes of 1997–2006) or more to the Annual Giving program.

Kathleen Fisk Ames ’65, p’95 John Axten p’03 Judy Axten p’03 Elisabeth Bentley ’81 Madeleine Blanz-Mayo ’86 Laura Ferraro Close ’79 Nancy Colt Couch ’50, p’75 Molly Eberle p’99, ’04 David Feldman ’84 Michael Firestone ’01 Debra Fradette p’03 Alexis Goltra ’87 Elizabeth Green ’91

Revenue and Expenses for 2006–07* Revenue

Expenses Financial Aid 13%

Physical Plant, Food Service 19%

Annual Giving 11%

Educational Program 43%

Tuition 76% Endowment 10% Auxiliary — Net 2% Miscellaneous 1%

Debt Service 3%

* Source: Unaudited results; net margin from auxiliary programs included in revenue

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General and Administrative 22%

“What makes me happy to give to Concord Academy is that CA has heart. It has a faculty that gives selflessly. And it feels right

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to give to the place that has made your own heart come alive.

—Trustee David Michaelis ’75

Thank you from the heart for another successful year of Annual Giving.

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t’s clear from your outstanding support this year that many alumnae/i, parents, and friends share David Michaelis’s sentiments. That strong sense of connection helped us surpass our Annual Giving goal of $1.8 million.

We could not have done it without you.

Contributions to Annual Giving support students and faculty in and out of the classroom.

They help CA fund scholarships, faculty salaries, new curricular initiatives, and maintenance of the houses and other campus buildings.

A notable quality that distinguishes Concord Academy is the extraordinary breadth of offerings it provides while remaining a small community where every student is known.

Annual Giving helps CA remain distinctive.

Your contributions to Annual Giving not only helped last year’s students enjoy another great learning experience, but also ensured CA’s ability to attract an outstanding group of new students and teachers.

Mark Rosen p’97, ’06 Trustee; Chair, Annual Giving

Margaret Walker ’63 Vice Chair, Alumnae/i Giving

Maureen Mulligan ’80 Trustee; Chair, Alumnae/i Giving

Fan and Peter Watkinson p’08, ’10 Cochairs, Parent Giving

David Feldman ’84 Vice Chair, Alumnae/i Giving

Molly Eberle p’99, ’04 Chair, Parent of Alumnae/i Giving

Katrina Pugh ’83 Vice Chair, Alumnae/i Giving

Enid M. Starr gp’08 and p’78, ’81 Chair, Grandparent Giving

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Thank you for supporting the good work that happens every day at CA.

Annual Giving

Leadership Donors The following donors made leadership gifts of $1,000 ($500 for the classes of 1997–2006) or more to the Annual Giving program during the 2006–07 fiscal year (July 1, 2006 through June 30, 2007). Leadership donors to the 2007 Senior Parent Gift also are included here.

In February 2007, CA launched Main Street Circle ( ), a program to recognize those who have contributed to the Annual Giving program for five consecutive years, as well as recent graduates who have contributed every year since their graduation. Main Street Circle currently has more than 800 members — a number we hope will continue to grow.

Gold Founders’ Council ($50,000 +) Jennifer Johnson ’59

Silver Founders’ Council ($25,000–$49,999) Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of this report. If you find an error, we apologize and ask that you call the Advancement Office with corrections at (978) 402-2240.

Anonymous (4) Tony Brooke and Vicky Huber ’75 Jason and Ursula Gregg Mr. and Mrs. Graham Gund Lucinda Jewell ’76 Doo-Hyun Kim and Eun-Won Cho Mr. and Mrs. William H. Kremer Mr. and Mrs. Steven Langman Lucy-Ann McFadden ’70 David Michaelis ’75 Thomas Shapiro

Founders’ Council ($10,000–$24,999)

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Brendan Shepard

Anonymous Charles and Kathleen Fisk Ames ’65 Mr. and Mrs. Martin Beaulieu Mr. and Mrs. Raynard D. Benvenuti Roger Brown and Linda Mason Jong Han Chi and Hyun Ok Kim

Downing Cless and Alice Trexler Jonathan Cohen and Eleanor Friedman Carolyn Smith Davies ’55 Mr. and Mrs. Pietro A. Doran David G. Fubini and Bertha P. Rivera Silvia Gosnell Eric D. Green and Carmin C. Reiss Jeong Hun Ha and Jooyeon Lee Jerry and Jane Hughes Frank A. Ingari and Margaret A. Sullivan Mr. and Mrs. David J. Kaemmer Mr. and Mrs. Leo Kahn The Lander Family Mr. and Mrs. David G. Leathers Sangbum and Jinsook Lee Richard Levitan and Susan Edgman-Levitan Elizabeth Kahn Mallon ’87 Amelia Lloyd McCarthy ’89 John McCluskey and Margaret Ramsey McCluskey Trevor Miller and Kim Williams Sarah Munro Murray ’78 Ronald H. Nordin and Leslie C. Nicholson Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Owades Mr. and Mrs. Hyoung J. Park Mr. and Mrs. Scott Hyo San Park Mark and Etta Rosen Denise Rueppel Santomero ’77 Fay Lampert Shutzer ’65 Martha Taft ’65 David and Rose Thorne Mr. and Mrs. Thomas N. Trkla Richard and Susan Walters Lucy Winton ’74 Chang Rok Woo and Ho Geun Chung Young June Yang and Hea Kyung Ahn

Leadership Council ($5,000–$9,999) Jennifer Abele ’90 Maren Anderson and Duke Collier Holladay Rust Bank ’72 Bruce Beal ’88

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Mr. and Mrs. Henry P. Becton, Jr. Patricia Wolcott Berger ’47 Robert Biggar ’87 Joshua and Amy Boger Nick Bothfeld and Elizabeth Brown ’70 Mr. and Mrs. Douglas R. Brown Jennifer Burleigh ’85 John and Nancy Butman Mr. and Mrs. HyunKwon Cho Amy Cammann Cholnoky ’73 Rick and Laurie Cohen Nathan and Nancy Colt Couch ’50 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. D’Arcy Anne Dayton ’72 Jane DeBevoise ’72 Dae Seok Do and Kyung Sook Kim Dr. and Mrs. David A. Dockterman William and Permele Frischkorn Doyle ’72 Jeffrey and Molly Eberle Stephen Erhart ’79 Yavuz Ermis Lucy Rand Everts ’41 Thomas First ’85 David Forbes Christopher Fox and Ellen Remmer Mr. and Ms. Daniel Fradkin Mr. and Mrs. Frederick L. Grandy Sang Won Han and So Young Lee Mark R. Jaffe and Marcia C. Glassman-Jaffe Chull Jeong and Youn Ju Ji Dongsik Kim and Kyounghee Yoon Ki-Chul and Jee-Won Ahn Kim Sanghun Kim and Sora Noh Woong Chul and Sookheui Kim Mr. and Mrs. Young Cheon Kim Hellen Kimble ’84 Bong Taek Kong and In Woo Nam Kevin B. Krauss and Laurie J. Zimmerman William and Lisa Lahey Chun Bong Lee and Eun Sil Kim Ji Yong Lee and Jae Hee Choo Marguerite Lee ’77 Yong J. Lee and So Yeong Park Mr. and Mrs. Carl Lehner Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Lie Elliot and Lenore Lobel Carol Swanson Louchheim ’57 Richard A. Lumpkin Mary Adler Malhotra ’78 Leander and Stephanie Starr McCormick-Goodhart ’80 Marc and Jill Conway Mehl ’85 Vikram and Tasneem Mehta Eleanor Bingham Miller ’64 James Normile and Dore Hammond Hoon-Sup and Yong Oh Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Olshan Mr. and Mrs. Brian E. Pastuszenski Cynthia Phelps ’64 Candace Browning Platt ’73 Raymond J. Pohl and Lisa M. Botticelli Katrina Pugh ’83 Robert K. Rodat and Mollie D. Miller Joel B. Rosen and Addie L. Swartz Virginia Sherwood

Seung Heon Shin and Hyun Ji Kim Mr. and Mrs. David P. Southwell Anne Adler Tarbell ’77 Ann Hemingway Tarlton ’62 Douglas C. Telling William Thornton David K. Urion and Deborah Choate Jane Waldfogel ’72 Stuart Warner ’77 Linden Havemeyer Wise ’70 Kwang Hoon Yoo and Moeung Ja Yoo Lee Mr. and Mrs. Tae Hoon Yoon

Benefactors’ Council ($2,500–$4,999) Anonymous (2) Mr. and Mrs. John Axten Jane Barford-Manolakas ’81 Paul S. Barth and Kathy Knight Charlotte Hutchins Bemis ’36 Steven Bercu Priscilla Kidder Blevins ’77 David M. Boghossian and Elizabeth Bartle Tim and Elaine Bowe Mr. and Mrs. John Cao Irene Chu ’76 DeWitt and Kelly Clemens Kevin Dennis and Rebecca Kellogg ’71 Ian T. Douglas and Kristin Harris Mr. and Mrs. Paul D. Downs Jacob and Pat Dresden Peter M. Durney and Beth A. Shipley Michael Epstein and April Stone Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Erhart, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel H. Frank David A. Freedman and Karen A. Trittipo Martha Freedman Dr. and Mrs. Orrie M. Friedman Alexis Goltra ’87 Mr. and Mrs. John P. Green, Jr. Patty and Brad Hager Hee Won Han and Jun Hee Kim Ellen Smith Harde ’62 Jonathan and Tracey Hurd Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Kemp Franklin and Colleen Kettle Daniel Kramarsky ’79 Ellen Condliffe Lagemann ’63 Lucia Woods Lindley ’55 Nils and Muriel Luderowski Rose Lynch ’67 Mr. and Mrs. Jack Mandelbaum Mr. and Mrs. David S. McCue Mary-Dixon Sayre Miller ’40 Thomas and Susan Miller Edward Nicolson ’83 Lauren Norton ’77 Wayne and Marie Oliver Susan Packard Orr ’64 Krid and Supawan Lamsam Panyarachun ’73 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Pappas Evgenia Peretz ’87

Edith Cowles Poor ’39 Dr. and Mrs. Michael Rater Virginia Redpath ’65 David Salomon and Marilyn Leeds Thomas L. Schuster and Ute Dietrich-Schuster Philip Schwartz ’80 Jonathan Shapiro ’87 Maia Y. Sharpley ’85 Mr. and Mrs. Yong Sik Shin Susan Locke Smith ’30 Jill Soffer ’77 Monica Wulff Steinert ’57 Ben and Kate Taylor Christine Kaufman Thompson ’61* Sarah Trafton ’70 Andrew M. Troop and Andrea Sussman Larry S. Tye and Elisabeth Frusztajer ’80 Malcolm M. Walsh and Kathleen J. O’Hara Fan and Peter Watkinson Dr. and Mrs. Michael Wilson

Headmaster’s Council ($1,000–$2,499) Anonymous (4) Sunredi Admadjaja ’90 Elizabeth Aelion ’76 Dr. and Mrs. Robert J. Allio Chris and Cathy Anderson Timothy A. Andrews and Valerie J. Cummings Elizabeth Smith Bagby ’40 Elizabeth Ballantine ’66 Elizabeth Barringer ’70 Robert Drew and Denise Simon Basow Mary Shaw Beard ’50 Caroline Minot Bell ’73 Louise Berliner Lucinda Berry ’67 Dr. and Mrs. Seth D. Bilazarian Diana Jewell Bingham ’54 Peter Blacklow ’87 Charlotte T. Bordeaux James and June Bowman Lindsay Soutter Boyer ’76 Markley Boyer ’78 Elizabeth Appel Brown ’47 Jack and Susan Brown Van M. Brown and Wanda E. Tillman Lauren Bruck ’85 Cynthia Arnold Bruckermann ’72 Elizabeth Bullitt ’67 Jennifer Caskey ’67 Laura Chandler ’71 Mr. and Mrs. Evans W. Cheeseman, Jr. Natalie Churchill ’60 Alice Hutchins Clark ’34 Rosemary Baldwin Coffin ’40 Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin C. Cohen Mr. and Mrs. Paul M. Cole Charles Collier ’85 Mr. and Mrs. Marvin A. Collier Rebecca Wade Comstock ’82 John G. Conley and Elizabeth G. Awalt

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Alice Smith Cornish ’40 Mark H. Corrigan and Nancy Works Judy Bentinck-Smith Covin ’60 Mr. and Mrs. Theodore L. Cross Marguerite Cutler ’67 Christopher B. Daly and Anne K. Fishel John J. Dau Jane Nilan Davis ’54 Varangkana Lamsam de Leon ’79 David and Gretchen Denison George P. Denny Sarah McClary Dewey ’48 William Dewey ’84 Anne Nordblom Dodge ’68 Amy Dunbar ’74 Eliza Howe Earle ’67 Lisa Eckstein ’93 Corson Ellis and Marion Freeman ’69 Elizabeth Mugar Eveillard ’65 Christine Fairchild ’75 Diana Frothingham Feinberg ’52 David Feldman ’84 Debra Fine ’77 Abigail Fisher ’82 George and Lisa Foote Lucy Eddy Fox ’69 Dorothy French ’77 Rebecca Trafton Frischkorn ’71 Howard Frumkin and Beryl Ann Cowan Gordon Gabbay ’82 Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Geitz Mr. and Mrs. Bryan M. Ghows Abigail Gillespie ’71 Nancy Gillespie ’75 Elizabeth Z. Ginsberg David Goldberg ’88 Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey M. Goodman Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Gosnell Elizabeth Alley Graham ’80 Wanda Holland Greene Catherine Gunn ’84 Michael and Caryn Harkins Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey W. Harrison Margaret Richey Hauge ’75 Helen Ballantine Healy ’69 Aynaud F. Hebert and Jeanne Stangle Joy Peterson Heyrman ’77 Alice Hill ’77 Dr. and Mrs. Marshall L. Horwitz Mary Leigh Morse Houston ’47 Timothy and Mary Hult Amy Huntoon ’70 Gale Hurd ’61 Steve Imrich and Cynthia W. Smith Sandra Willett Jackson ’61 Dave and Brooke James Vidar and Kathleen Jorgensen Jacqueline R. Kates Judith Keefer ’70 Wing Sommers Keith ’76 Mr. and Mrs. Kevin B. Kelly Caroline Kennedy ’75 Cam Kerry and Kathy Weinman George and Nancy Kidder Sallie Cross Kingham ’61 Katharine Kinsolving ’78

William Klebenov ’87 Jamie Klickstein ’86 Jean Dunbar Knapp ’77 Katharine Kolowich Mr. and Mrs. Steven P. Koppel Stephen Kramarsky ’85 Mr. and Mrs. Werner H. Kramarsky Sam-angvarn Lamsam Kenneth Lappin and Niti Seth Laura Laterman ’83 Peter and Alison Smith Lauriat ’64 Deirdre Lavieri ’76 Bernard L. Lebow and Barbara J. Guilfoile Olivia Swaim LeFeaver ’41 Thomas and Barbara Leggat Jonathan Lewin ’93 Kristen G. Lewis James Lichoulas ’91 Helen Whiting Livingston ’41 Peter and Babette Loring Mark Lu ’91 Stephen and Kim Maire Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Mallett Anne Mancini ’01 Noel Farnsworth Mann ’56 Andrew H. Mason and Susan R. Lindeberg Stephen J. Nelson and Mary Anne Mayo ’72 Jane Vance McCauley ’58 Hannah Norseen McClennen ’62 Mr. and Mrs. William H. McConaghy Rosamond Brooks McDowell ’42 Caragh McLaughlin ’88 Carolyn Mellin Rick Mellin Alida Rockefeller Messinger ’67 Phebe Miller ’67 Maureen Mulligan ’80 Elizabeth Munro ’71 Sarah Muyskens ’72 Sam and Susan Hall Mygatt Ick H. Nam and Yeon J. Kim Paul and Pamela Ness Jennifer Newbold ’78 Judith Bourne Newbold ’55 Nancy Newbury-Andresen ’57 Robert and Karen Newton Thomas M. O’Brien III Marion Odence-Ford ’82 Susan Sherer Osnos ’65 Julie Packard ’70 Mr. and Mrs. Warren K. Palley Mary Poole ’59 Ann Wilson Porteus ’59 Wendy Powers ’74 Charlotte Quesada ’95 Sally du Pont Quinn ’71 Mr. and Mrs. Mark L. Rhodes Robert Rifkin ’86 John D. Robinson and Molly Bedell-Robinson Kelly Roney and Nancy Denardo ’76 Jonathan Sands and Deborah Merrill-Sands Cornelia Urban Sawczuk ’80

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Carole C. Sawdon Thomas and Katharine Rea Schmitt ’62 Cynthia Perrin Schneider ’71 Mr. and Mrs. Neil P. Searls Linda A. Serafini and Cathy E. Welsh Jacqueline van der Horst Sergent ’75 Lee Shane ’85 Nancy Megowen Shane ’51 Lindsay Davidson Shea ’67 Jim Shen and Julia Zhou Anne Michie Sherman ’39 Gregory M. Shoukimas Mr. and Mrs. Bruce G. Silverman Mr. and Mrs. Richard Simon Lowell S. Smith and Sally Sanford Mr. and Mrs. Daniel T. Smythe Jorge Solares-Parkhurst ’94 Karen R. Sollins Nancy Bentinck-Smith Soulette ’63 Michael and Diane Spence J. Cullen Stanley ’80 Enid M. Starr Sherman and Jill Starr Charlie and Christy Stolper Sandy and Lucille Stott Don Straus and Carol Goss Mr. and Mrs. Bernardo Stumpf Sharon Swindell ’78 Ann Fritts Syring ’64 Elizabeth Rice Thomas ’60 Vanessa Tillman-Brown ’98 Benjamin Treynor ’86 Mr. and Mrs. Glen Urban Mr. and Mrs. Roger F. Urban Melissa Vail ’70 Edith Van Slyck ’57 Mary Wadleigh ’64 Lorna Potter Walker ’72 Marjory Wall ’72 Jay Wallace and Lisa McGovern Jeff and Elizabeth Wallace Carey Mack Weber ’79 Scott and Deborah Jackson Weiss Dr. and Mrs. Gerald Weissmann Tracy Welch ’89 Karen Wendell ’76 Mr. and Mrs. Andy West Thomas E. Wilcox and E. Whitney Ransome Donald A. Wilder and Barbara B. Janeway Edith Wilkie Edwards ’64 Elizabeth Chalmers Wright ’62 Rick Yeiser and Ruth Einstein Robert York and Judith Flynn-York Preston and Elise Zoller

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Alumnae/i Annual Giving by Class Participation percentages for all classes are for Annual Giving only.

Reunion class dollar totals include gifts for Annual Giving and gifts for other purposes. Non-reunion class dollar totals reflect only Annual Giving dollars.

In February 2007, CA launched Main Street Circle ( ), a program to recognize those who have contributed to the Annual Giving program for five consecutive years, as well as recent graduates who have contributed every year since their graduation. Main Street Circle currently has more than 800 members — a number we hope will continue to grow.

CLASS OF 1927

Participation: 100% Total Raised: $100 Mary Bigelow Soutter*

CLASS OF 1942 65th REUNION

Participation: 50% Total Raised: $100

Participation: 55% Total Raised: $2,040

Emily Rand Herman

Margaret Fenn Borden Katharine Muller Bullitt Phyllis Rothschild Farley Eleanor Gooding Hallowell Rosamond Brooks McDowell Elizabeth Day Moulton

CLASS OF 1930

Participation: 100% Total Raised: $3,257 Betsy Doughty Debevoise Susan Locke Smith CLASS OF 1931

Participation: 33% Total Raised: $50 Ruth Brooks Drinker CLASS OF 1932 75th REUNION

Participation: 60% Total Raised: $95 Anne Goodale Brooks Sophie Hunt French Mary Sage Shakespeare CLASS OF 1934

Participation: 30% Total Raised: $2,100 Alice Hutchins Clark Cynthia Northey Martin Virginia Vialle Pratt CLASS OF 1935

Participation: 50% Total Raised: $75 Eugenia Clark Boies CLASS OF 1936

Participation: 80% Total Raised: $2,570 Charlotte Hutchins Bemis Louisa Garfield Browne Anne Perkins Mitchell Helen Reynolds Smith

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CLASS OF 1937 70th REUNION

CLASS OF 1938

Participation: 71% Total Raised: $380 Nancy Parker Clark Mary Cochran Emerson Jocelyn Fleming Gutchess Janet Pierpont Hosmer Lydia Cobb Perkins CLASS OF 1939

Participation: 25% Total Raised: $3,500 Edith Cowles Poor Anne Michie Sherman CLASS OF 1940

Participation: 100% Total Raised: $7,535 Elizabeth Smith Bagby Emily Cobb Rosemary Baldwin Coffin Alice Smith Cornish Marie Gooding Eaton Mary Thorpe Ellison Mary-Dixon Sayre Miller Lucy Richardson Rand Shirley White Scaife CLASS OF 1941

Participation: 83% Total Raised: $8,175 Joan Talcott Batchelor Lucy Rand Everts Flora House Fairchild Sarah Foss Olivia Swaim LeFeaver Helen Whiting Livingston Julie Turner McNulty Elizabeth Twitchell Snyder Anne Taylor Margaret Peters Urquhart

CLASS OF 1943

Participation: 50% Total Raised: $450 Jane Servais Brown Jean Kemble Madeline Foote Kirchner Angela Barry Smith CLASS OF 1944

Participation: 33% Total Raised: $1,400 Eleanor Boit Lucia Cabot Cipolla Anna Borden Sides Evelyn McKinstry Thorne CLASS OF 1945

Participation: 17% Total Raised: $50 Eliza Farnsworth Van Hollen* CLASS OF 1946

Participation: 42% Total Raised: $775 Deborah Perry Clark Sara Hill Friedlander Corinne Benson Johnson Hannah Snider Keevil Alice Hitchcock Morrish Lee Lawrence Pierce Mary Bordman Scudder Penelope Weadock Slough

* Deceased

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CLASS OF 1947 60th REUNION

Participation: 47% Total Raised: $8,825 Patricia Wolcott Berger Mary Anne Weld Bodecker* Elizabeth Appel Brown Elizabeth Enders Costikyan Martha Meyer Douglas Mary Leigh Morse Houston Laura Richardson Payson Edith Clarke Wolff

CLASS OF 1950

CLASS OF 1953

Participation: 44% Total Raised: $7,275

Class Agent: Joanna Hamann Shaw Participation: 48% Total Raised: $3,175

Persis Buxton Ames Mary Shaw Beard Nancy Colt Couch Dayle Peterson Goddard Dianne Stuart Humes Janet Lovejoy Jean Beasley Read Louise Brooks Strandberg CLASS OF 1951

Participation: 56% Total Raised: $2,650 Katherine Flather Breen Adelaide Eicks Comegys Sarah McClary Dewey Katharine Eaton Dreier Pamela Cash Fisher Polly Edgarton Lanman Diane Sargent Margaret Winsor Stubbs Edith Daniels Tucker Angela Middleton Wilkins CLASS OF 1949

Participation: 57% Total Raised: $2,125 Ellen McMillan Aman Joyce Bisbee Andrews Sylvia Shaw Brandhorst Nancy Billings Bursaw Margaret Bemis Case Constance Ludington Drayton Barbara Jules Gage Joan Corbin Lawson Ann Burger Noonan Nancy Daniels Oliver Rosalind Appel Ritchie Margaret Johnson Whitehouse Joyce Swan Wilson

Class Agent: Nancy Biddle Bates Participation: 42% Total Raised: $2,190 Nancy Jaicks Alexander Nancy Biddle Bates Natalia Morse Bryson Patricia Ceresole Dunnell Nancy Douglass Gale Nancy Megowen Shane Cynthia Heath Sunderland CLASS OF 1952 55th REUNION

Participation: 48% Total Raised: $3,650 Robin Welch Ashley Maud Palmer Barton Cecily Clark Elinor DeFord Crane Lucy Faulkner Davison Diana Frothingham Feinberg Jean Phillips Kelly Elisabeth Grote Lay Constance Boyd Skewes Corinne Byers Sucsy LeMoyne Dodge Sylvester Elizabeth Ritchie Topper

Carolyn Parks Bernhardt Rosemarie Barrett Dircks Lavinia Davis Downs Gale Robb Guild Diane L’Etoile Hood Elisabeth Jenney Paige Shelley Smith Ruston Joanna Hamann Shaw Janet Ward Stephens Mary Jenney Stewart Dorothea Wyman Thomas CLASS OF 1954

Participation: 58% Total Raised: $4,155 Gwenyth Piper Bassetti Diana Jewell Bingham Mary Goodale Crowther Sarah Kraetzer Dallas Jane Nilan Davis Emily Pitcher Dudek Jane Fletcher Geniesse Mary Monks Lukens Cynthia Carpenter McFadden Elizabeth Helmer Nickerson Augusta Henderson Petrone Betsy Robinson Nancy Thorpe Sellar Joan Elliot Terry Judith Sargent Weaver CLASS OF 1955

Participation: 50% Total Raised: $ 15,487 Paula Grymes Booher Dorothea Bingham Cherington Carolyn Smith Davies Mary Stewart Hockmeyer

Olivia Swaim LeFeaver ’41

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livia Swaim LeFeaver grew up in Concord and graduated from CA in 1941. She passed her Concord Academy experience on to her daughter, Daphne LeFeaver Ball, who graduated in 1976 in one of CA’s first coeducational classes.

“Concord Academy has meant so much to me,” said Olivia. “I treasure the education I received there, and I have benefited from it throughout my life. I definitely remember my three years of Latin taught by Miss Hobson, the first head of Concord Academy.”

Top Five Reunion Classes: Dollars Raised 1962

45th Reunion

$121,247

1977

30th Reunion

$54,273

1987

20th Reunion

$48,301

1972

35th Reunion

$44,457

1967

40th Reunion

$23,457

Deborah Smith Leighton Lucia Woods Lindley Diana Murfitt Meyer Elizabeth Hughes Morss Judith Bourne Newbold Elizabeth Iselin Noel Sally Dabney Parker Elizabeth Hall Richardson Elizabeth Moizeau Shima Edith McMillan Tucker CLASS OF 1956

Participation: 50% Total Raised: $27,360 Mary Seton Abele Abigail Palmer Anthony Mary Arnold Bachman Kate Wells Brewer Kathryn Wilson DeFord Suzannah Flint Diana Healey Glendon Marna Hayden Abigail Senkler Kazanowski Noel Farnsworth Mann Judy Olmsted O’Malley Victoria Post Ranney Judith Kline Rosenthal

Katrina Jenny Saltonstall Nathalie Wendell Thomas CLASS OF 1957 50th REUNION

Reunion Committee: Miriam Brooks Hall Participation: 66% Total Raised: $14,781 Ann Ingersoll Boyden Marjorie Byers-Gay Caroline Adams Christy Margaret Graham Coreth Barbara Burn Dolensek Barbara Farnsworth Fairburn Helen Hardcastle Gates Miriam Brooks Hall Julia Gowing Houk Diana Wilson Hoven Carol Swanson Louchheim Sylvia Fitts Napier Nancy Newbury-Andresen Constance Rohrbough Monica Wulff Steinert Eileen Behr Sunderland Marcia Synnott

Brendan Shepard

CLASS OF 1948

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After years of extensive traveling with her husband, who made his career in the State Department, Olivia now lives in San Rafael, California, where she is busy volunteering and enjoying her grandchildren.

She continues to give to Concord Academy each year because, she said, “Concord Academy was an anchor for me and a fond memory of when I was growing up in Concord.”

At a CA reception in San Francisco: (standing) Helen Browser Revel ’45 and Evelyn “Muffy” McKinstry Thorne ’44; (seated) Olivia Swaim LeFeaver ’41, Mary Lee Bennett Noonan ’55, and Nancy Jaicks Alexander ’51

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Edith Van Slyck Sandra Spencer Williams CLASS OF 1958

Class Agent: Sandra Snow Downes Participation: 56% Total Raised: $2,885

Stephanie Manzella

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istory teacher Stephanie Manzella gives to Concord Academy in many ways, in the classroom and beyond, including contributions to Annual Giving.

“Teaching at Concord Academy has provided me with many opportunities that I would not have elsewhere,” she explained.

“In addition to allowing me to teach electives on topics I am passionate about, Concord Academy has also provided me opportunities to cultivate areas of interest and bring them back to the classroom.

For example, professional development support allowed me to develop my interest in African history and create three new courses: Early African History, The African Slave Trade, and Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa. From short conferences on African art at Boston University and the Museum of Fine Arts to a month-long summer session at Harvard, I have had numerous opportunities to extend my interest in and understanding of African history and share that with my students.”

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Stephanie knows that the flexibility she enjoys in the classroom would not be possible without Annual Giving, which is why she became a regular contributor herself. “I value highly the academic freedom at Concord Academy. I am able to develop electives of my own choosing, such as Violence in the Balkans, a course that addresses difficult issues of ethnic cleansing and genocide in the lesser-known setting of Eastern Bosnia,” she said.

“Colleagues and administrators trust that, given the chance, I will create a meaningful and challenging course, and I cherish that trust and that freedom.”

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Barbara McCormick Bailey Elizabeth Moses Baker Sally Farnsworth Blackett Meredith Hare Burke Diana Knowles Cashen Nancy Moses Dechert Sandra Snow Downes Nancy Cushman Fairbanks Elizabeth England Fisher Linda Ewing Hamlin Judith Nilan Jackson Jacqueline Vaughan Lee Catherine Holst Levine Lucia Todd MacMahon Jane Vance McCauley Lydia Saltus Menendez Judith Turner Munson Caroline Murfitt-Eller Judith Harris Watriss CLASS OF 1959

Participation: 46% Total Raised: $56,410 Susan Whitmore Allan Bronwen Jenney Anders Elizabeth Boardman Virginia Pitkin Bride Hope Howland Hale Carolyn Hall Hejinian Jennifer Johnson Gillian Shaw Kellogg Jane Boynton Nahon Caroline Craven Nielsen Mary Poole Ann Wilson Porteus Eleanor Putnam Ann Benson Reece Judith Speckman Russell Elizabeth Truslow Russell Merrill Hunt Tikalsky Helen Stuart Twiss Rosemary Wilson CLASS OF 1960

Class Agent: Elizabeth Rice Thomas Participation: 43% Total Raised: $5,170 Mary Jane Bancroft Carol Ganson Burnes Britony Yonts Buxton Margot Dewey Churchill Natalie Churchill Judy Bentinck-Smith Covin Constance Morrow Fulenwider Diana Chace Hoyt Pamela Prouty Ikauniks

Marjorie Hornblower Johnson Molly Duane Leland Eleanor Noble Linton Lisa Volckhausen McCann Sarah Heroy Munday Susan Perry Belinda Pleasants Smith Elizabeth Rice Thomas CLASS OF 1961

Class Agent: Sallie Cross Kingham Participation: 60% Total Raised: $12,530 Judith Howe Behn Elizabeth Fenollosa Boege Judith Carpenter Clark Ingrid von Dattan Detweiler Georgina Forbes Sarah Lanigan Gaitskill Jill Harken Hall Christine Griffith Heyworth Katherine Motley Hinckley Gale Hurd Sandra Willett Jackson Sallie Cross Kingham Margaret Williamson Merrill Shelly Swift Plakans Anne Higinbotham Rosenberg Joan Fahnestock Ruvinsky Cornelia Saltus Christine Kaufman Thompson* Susan Page Trotman Betsy Gambrill van Orman Victoria Wesson Susan White West Elizabeth Pleasants Whitehead Penelope Brown Willing Lucia Norton Woodruff CLASS OF 1962 45th REUNION

Participation: 48% Total Raised: $121,247 Anonymous Helen Johnston Beal Marjorie Bemis Stephanie Braxton Evelyn Burr Brignoli Jane Bunker Sally Vaughan Eagle Stephanie Hoar Einstein Sally Newhall Freestone Ellen Smith Harde Candace Wilder Heaphy Anne Davidson Kidder Hannah Norseen McClennen Toni Russell Merrick Frances Smith Moore Edith Pierce Murphy Melanie Hunsaker Ranney Katharine Rea Schmitt Anne Buxton Sobol Ann Hemingway Tarlton Mary Fleming Willis Thompson

Main Street Circle: Five consecutive years of giving

Phebe Vance Francie Hunt Von Mertens Susan Kemble West Susan Shaw Winthrop Elizabeth Chalmers Wright CLASS OF 1963

Participation: 39% Total Raised: $8,631 Faith Andrews Bedford Dorothy Arnold Elizabeth Norseen Boritt Laura Kennedy de Blank Aileen Erickson Judith Scott Evans Anne Daignault Hartman Jane Hill Marion Myers Johannsen Ellen Condliffe Lagemann Anne Lenox Andrea Morgan Mary Nicholas Margaret Keenan Sheridan Polly Gambrill Slavet Nancy Bentinck-Smith Soulette Mary Rowland Swedlund Anne Gaud Tinker Margaret Walker Mary Wright CLASS OF 1964

Participation: 45% Total Raised: $21,433 Anne Nicholas Atlamazoglou* Lisa Wyman Cowley Jettie Edwards Barbara Cushing Gibbs Susan Colgate Goldman Caroline Herrick Ingrid Michelsen Hillinger Natalie Rice Ireland Elisabeth Aall Kaemmerlen Alison Smith Lauriat Eleanor Bingham Miller Susan Packard Orr Jane Palmer Catherine Morgan Peltier Cynthia Phelps Margaret Falk Pirovano Nancy Hornblower Rice * Susan Pickman Sargent Diana Dennison Smith Ann Fritts Syring Frances Howes Valiente Cecily Vaughan Mary Wadleigh Wendy White Elizabeth Devine Wilczek Edith Wilkie Edwards CLASS OF 1965

Participation: 46% Total Raised: $43,337 Mary Ackerly Kathleen Fisk Ames

* Deceased

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Class Agent: Lucy Boyle Participation: 32% Total Raised: $6,761 Elizabeth Ballantine Elizabeth Bates Eleanor Bemis Lucy Boyle M. Loring Bradlee Caroline Lee Crocker Rebecca Fox Susan Bradlee Grant Mary Paul Loomis Hankinson Anne Clark Jarboe Joan Putnam Kimball

CLASS OF 1967 40th REUNION

Participation: 61% Total Raised: $23,457 Deborah Hyde Baldwin Catherine Bancroft Lucinda Berry Jessie Bourneuf Sarah Brooks Elizabeth Bullitt Sophronia Camp Jennifer Caskey Elisabeth Cohen Marguerite Cutler Muche Desloovere Alexandra Dilworth Eliza Howe Earle Beverly Nelson Elder Lynn Li Rose Lynch Laura Mayer Alida Rockefeller Messinger Phebe Miller Nancy Brown Moyle Lynne Dominick Novack Katharine Perkins Jenny Childs Preston Alison Chalmers Rodin Louise Farley Rogen Sophia Milliken Rogers Heyden White Rostow Cynthia Saltzman Ellen-Alisa Saxl

Dana Denker Semmes Lindsay Davidson Shea Joan Underwood Gail Weinmann Hilda Whitman Ellen MacLeish Zale

Top Five Reunion Classes: Participation 1927

80th Reunion

100%

1957

50th Reunion

66%

Participation: 33% Total Raised: $4,350

1967

40th Reunion

61%

Anonymous Diane Dudensing Allen Melinda Sherer Ashton Alice Beal Sally Poor Beck Carla Bloedel Clark Anne Nordblom Dodge Louise Ewing Suzanne Griffith Julia Harrison Janice Hinkle Kitchen Katherine Little Tamsen Merrill Katharine Munro Nancy Ranney Cary Ridder Penelope Perry Rodday Pamela Shaw Kristen Wainwright

1932

75th Reunion

60%

1972

35th Reunion

56%

CLASS OF 1968

CLASS OF 1969

Class Agents: Marion Freeman Nancy Schoeffler Participation: 32% Total Raised: $6,890 Katherine Agoos Louise Alden Laura Palmer Aronstein Louisa Bradford Susan Day

Constance Burr Evans Lucy Eddy Fox Marion Freeman Ann Fox Gulbransen Jenny Cox Harrison Helen Ballantine Healy Helen Hollingsworth Anne Tilton Jalali Sarah Coffin O’Connor Cary Richardson Paynter Julia Preston Marion Preston Jenny Scheu Nancy Schoeffler Eleanor Morse Sloan Deborah Moses Tonissi Anne Williams CLASS OF 1970

Participation: 46% Total Raised: $62,986 Ramelle Adams Susan Merritt Baird Elizabeth Barringer Susan Bastress

Ayres Stiles-Hall

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yres Stiles-Hall — English teacher, coach, and house parent — views Concord Academy as both his workplace and his home, the perfect environment for him, his wife Kristin, and their two children, Henry and Ella. “I have never worked at another school that fits me so well,” said Ayres. “I love the way we push students hard as they test themselves in academics, arts, and athletics, and I also love the way we support them in all their challenges.”

Ayres once wrote in a personal statement for a job fair after college: “I am a teacher because I’m a learner first.” That is a big reason he was drawn to Concord Academy’s mission statement

Elizabeth Brown Frances Chalmers Sally Eagle Annabel Ripley Ebersole Margaret Erhart Priscilla Stevens French Sally Harrison Helen Hobbs Amy Huntoon Cynthia Hyde J. Brown Johnson Pillot Judith Keefer Edith Chase Keller Mary Lombard Lucy-Ann McFadden Ellen Mugar Julie Packard Marilyn Byfield Paul Rebecca Ruggles Elizabeth Ruml Joanna Bridges Sedlmayr Sarah Trafton Melissa Vail Cornelia White Linden Havemeyer Wise Susan Wood

and the school’s goal of promoting learning for learning’s sake. Like many faculty and staff members at CA, Ayres realizes how much lifelong learning helps him grow and adapt to change.

Ayres has come to understand that his support of Annual Giving is not about the size of his gift but rather about expressing his appreciation for what the school is doing. “At Concord Academy, I am part of a larger family. In everything I do, I feel I should give back to my family,” he says.

“Giving to Concord Academy is a way of saying I know my school is doing a great job.”

Kristin, Henry, Ayres, and Ella Stiles-Hall

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Victoria Gimbel Lubin Julia Page Anne Hart Pope Judith Strohmeier Reece Linda Stillman Sally Crimmins Thorne Marian Ware Alexandra Wylie

Brendan Shepard

Wendy Arnold Hilary Baldwin Brown Edith Bates Buchanan Nan Carey Ruth Chapman Mary Clark Barbara Crockett Collins Helena Evans Elizabeth Mugar Eveillard Linda Galston Fates Tracy Barker Greenwood Josephine Churchill Guerrieri Betsy Horne Rebecca Sherrill More Phyllis Nitze Moriarty Annebet Everett Muceus Joan Weidlein Mudge Susan Sherer Osnos Virginia Redpath Rosamond Hurley Shugrue Fay Lampert Shutzer Martha Taft Katherine Douglas Torrey Jill Peabody Uris Marguerite Willett

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CLASS OF 1971

Class Agent: Rosamond Smith Rea Participation: 52% Total Raised: $13,482 Susan Everts Allen Elizabeth Ames Macdonald Anne Shattuck Bailey Erica Domar Banderob Elizabeth Compton Bellocchio Ellen Bloedel Anita Brewer-Siljeholm Laura Chandler Elizabeth Cobbs Susan Crimmins Elizabeth Strider Dain Josephine Ewing Rebecca Trafton Frischkorn Abigail Gillespie Jean McClung Halloran Delia Hatch Sherry Haydock Karen Herold Nancy Reece Jones Rebecca Kellogg Mary Lassen Lucy Jewett Lowenthal Helen Hooper McCloskey Elizabeth Munro Susan Polk Sally du Pont Quinn Rosamond Smith Rea Cynthia Perrin Schneider Sallie Coolidge Seymour Karen Braucher Tobin Katherine Tweedy Nina Rothschild Utne Elizabeth Lund Zahniser CLASS OF 1972 35th REUNION

CONCORD ACADEMY MAGAZINE / REPORT OF GIVING

Class Agent: Marian Lindberg Reunion Committee: Holladay Rust Bank Ronni Siegal Bialosky Permele Frischkorn Doyle Louisa Heyward Marian Lindberg Mary Anne Mayo Sarah Muyskens Elizabeth Haight O’Connell Jane Waldfogel Louise Werbe White Participation: 56% Total Raised: $44,457 Anonymous Susan Angevin Caroline Ballard Holladay Rust Bank Sally Behr Schendel Evalyn BemisRonni Siegal Bialosky Jennifer Wise Blackman

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Susan Blake Cynthia Arnold Bruckermann Isabel Pratt Bryan Rachel Carley Kim Nourse Clark Carolyn Cox Dann Anne Dayton Jane DeBevoise Permele Frischkorn Doyle Janet Eyre Gail Robinson Fowlkes Louisa Heyward Selina Pedersen Johnson Marian Lindberg Helen Loring Mary Anne Mayo Gretchen Megowen Sarah Muyskens Laura Smith Parker Hope Stevens Poor Mary Porter Amanda Powell Pamela Rollings Sherry MacPherson Sears Christina Wagner Jane Waldfogel Lorna Potter Walker Marjory Wall Louise Werbe White CLASS OF 1973

Class Agent: Nancy Parssinen Vespoli Participation: 37% Total Raised: $19,408 Suzanne LuBien Bagshaw Sarah Bartlett Caroline Minot Bell Elizabeth Suter Bohanon Amy Cammann Cholnoky Ellen Gravallese Jennifer Howell Pamela Mack Sarah Witte Marshall Susan McDonald Wendy Persson Monk Supawan Lamsam Panyarachun Elizabeth Hillyer Parker Carey Peabody Elizabeth Campbell Peters Elizabeth Pickman-Flanagan Candace Browning Platt Sheila Rathbun Jan Rosenfeld Nancy Parssinen Vespoli Holly Whitin Andrea Williams Cathrine Wolf CLASS OF 1974

Participation: 36% Total Raised: $15,980 Marjorie Aelion Fay Baird Sarah Blake Cates

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Lee Comegys Chafee Margaret Child Thomas Chou Amy Dunbar Julia Glass Heather Mayfield Kelly Susan Knopf Lydia Leon Ruth Lounsbury Juliana Mei-Mei Ma Cecily Deegan McMillan Peter Michaelis Nora Mitchell Linda Greene Ortwein Edith Ross Parker Wendy Powers Harriet Sayre McCord Jane Seamans Alexander Spaulding Mary Stockton Annie Laurie Tuttle Lucy Winton CLASS OF 1975

Class Agent: Nancy Gillespie Participation: 48% Total Raised: $52,064 Eleanor Tittmann Andrews Joanne Bertelsen Barnett Anne Bartlett Jesse Cohen Peter de Marneffe Elizabeth Emmons Christine Fairchild Katharine Sisson Feehery Laura Foley Nancy Gillespie Monty Graham Charles Green Margaret Richey Hauge Sarah Hewitt Irene Huntoon Kristin Jones Caroline Kennedy Celena Kingman Katherine Bucknell Maguire Mary Honea McClung David Michaelis Elizabeth Hatch Moder George Perkins Lani Peterson-Arnzen Laura Powers-Swiggett Allison Djerf Ranson Richard Read Allison Recklitis Jacqueline van der Horst Sergent Virginia Sisson Elizabeth Hauge Sword Patricia Vaughn Anne Wilson Marcia Johnston Wood Mary Woolsey Adnan Zubcevic

Denise with her children Charlotte and Camillo

Denise Rueppel Santomero ’77

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enise Rueppel Santomero says Concord Academy changed her life.

“I learned that it is good and expected to make mistakes in the course of growing intellectually, emotionally, and socially. I learned that it is not scary to stand alone for what you believe — indeed, it is empowering and expected of an educated individual. I learned that trying hard pays off and always results in improved performance. I learned that real friendships are as much work as calculus, but they also stay with you forever, even if you are not able to keep in touch all the time. Once these things are in you, they are a part of you.”

Most important to Denise’s experience was the limitless understanding and forgiveness of teachers and administrators. “We needed patience, wisdom, and insight to get us through. Somehow we all made it — intact, and stronger, and smarter for any slip-ups,” she said. “We need to attract and keep these types of teachers and administrators at Concord Academy, and not expect them to do without just for the love of children and education.”

Recalling being treated as a responsible adult, even though CA adults must have recognized the child in her, Denise praises the “gentle guidance” that allowed students to make their own good decisions. “Annual Giving,” Denise says, “ is my opportunity to say ‘Thank you.’”

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Participation: 36% Total Raised: $38,685 Elizabeth Aelion Donald Bell Lindsay Soutter Boyer Natalie Callander Irene Chu Nancy Denardo Alice Domar Sarah Fletcher Lucinda Jewell Wing Sommers Keith Margaret Sweatt Kunhardt David Lewis Amy Longsworth Amy MacRae Anne Manuel Penelope Saltzman Karen Mayfield Seymour Ellen Simsarian Elizabeth Lyne Tucker Ellen Vannah Peter Wallis Anne Knight Weber Karen Wendell Elizabeth Julier Wyeth CLASS OF 1977 30th REUNION

Reunion Committee: Joy Peterson Heyrman Margaret Jackson Jean Dunbar Knapp Sarah Crandall Knox Marguerite Lee Sara White Lennon Elizabeth Ehrenfeld Mendez Anthony Neal Participation: 47% Total Raised: $54,273 James Aisenberg Priscilla Kidder Blevins Gregory Boquist Samuel Collier Alex Craven Lucinda Turley Cutrer Daphne de Marneffe Gwendolen Storey Feher Debra Fine Lena Fransioli Dorothy French Rachel Lipson Glick Timothy Gollin Jody Haymann Joy Peterson Heyrman Alice Hill Jane Booty Horn Jean Dunbar Knapp Sarah Crandall Knox Marguerite Lee Sara White Lennon Elizabeth Loring Jean McCormick Elizabeth Ehrenfeld Mendez

Anthony Neal Lauren Norton Victoria Pillard Emily Suter Ransford Denise Rueppel Santomero Jill Soffer Lael Stone Anne Adler Tarbell Mary Beth Dowd Trubitt Thomas Varriale Katharine Read Villars Sara Donovan Whitford Mary Wilkes-Dyette Sarah Wilson Margaret Winslow CLASS OF 1978

Participation: 57% Total Raised: $29,780 Frances Stahl Ballo Ellen Beberman Susan Beede Catherine Bishop Markley Boyer Victoria Urban Broer Katherine Drasher Julie Duerseas Robert Elwood Donald Gordon Heidi Reichenbach Harring Matthew Hill Dinah Huntoon Margaret Rice Jay Walter Judge Katharine Kinsolving Mary LaClair Jane Lassen Bobruff Julia Stiffler Lavely Thomas Lincoln Martha Livingston Mary Adler Malhotra Sarah Munro Murray Lucinda Goff Muther Jennifer Newbold Henriette Lazaridis Power Mary Rhinelander Julie Starr-Duker Meredith Stelling Sharon Swindell Lisa Crowe Uthgenannt Christine Van CLASS OF 1979

Participation: 36% Total Raised: $14,492 Jennifer Beal Lisa Bergemann Nathaniel Brace Elizabeth Cabot Adam Cherson Laura Ferraro Close Varangkana Lamsam de Leon Laura Drachman Stephen Erhart Martha Pyle Farrell

Main Street Circle: Five consecutive years of giving

Pamela Gleason Lisa Narva Jaffe Ann Keniston Jared Keyes Daniel Kramarsky Amanda Zinsser Moffat Amy Kaufman Norris Richard Oh John Payne Abigail Porter Elizabeth Shober Frances Shuker-Haines Amy Spaulding-Fecher Sarah Warrington Carey Mack Weber Amelia Withington Lisa Zimble Elizabeth Winslow CLASS OF 1980

Class Agent: Elisabeth Frusztajer Participation: 45% Total Raised: $21,965 Sheryl Cuker Appleyard Allison Barber Carolyn Marshall Betz Christopher Borden Jeffrey Briggs Jessica Brown Victoria Fish Elisabeth Frusztajer Elizabeth Alley Graham C. Michael Hiam Carl Ingersoll Lara Jordan James Eileen Judge Nancy Kates Ann Kjellberg Jeremy Koff Jennifer Clarke Kosak Anne Lawson Claudio Lilienfeld Stephanie Starr McCormick-Goodhart Joan Mecsas Maureen Mulligan C. Barrett O’Connor Holly Payne Edward Perry

Christopher Recklitis Philip Rossoni Sina Saidi Cornelia Urban Sawczuk Philip Schwartz Sharon Shakur-Jagatic Eve Slattery J. Cullen Stanley Catherine McCulloch Vaughan Williams Julia Williams Margrethe Winslow Jennifer Wrean Wrenson CLASS OF 1981

Participation: 41% Total Raised: $7,763 Helen Atkinson-Barnes Elizabeth Hufstader Balay Jane Barford-Manolakas Elisabeth Bentley Kristen Bjork Jessica Drachman Blaustein Rebecca Pugh Brown Lindsay Millard Clinton Margaret Coffin-Brown Barbara Dane Polly Sisson Fleckenstein Richard Glazerman David Greenewalt Laila Haddad David Harris Daphne Hays Alan Hernandez Armin Lilienfeld Garrett Macey Frederick Marshall Elizabeth McAlister George Miserlis Jane O’Loughlin Barrow Emily Munro Osgood Penelope Beal Pennoyer Margaret Kannan Peters Gardner Powell Christopher Reimann Peter Smith Enid Starr Ankeney Weitz Lynn Woodward Elizabeth Yerkes

CLASS OF 1982 25th REUNION

Class Agent: Kristen Crowe Stevens Reunion Committee: Lynne Carvalho Adamian Thomas Asher Deborah Bernat Cynthia Cryan Gorey David Greene David Kukla Nina Frusztajer Marquis Nadia Belash McKay Marion Odence-Ford Participation: 46% Total Raised: $10,836 Lynne Carvalho Adamian Michael Allio Thomas Asher Deborah Bernat Sibley Biederman Betsy Blume Rebecca Wade Comstock Elisabeth Pierce Dallape Abigail Fisher Gordon Gabbay Eric Goodheart Cynthia Gorey Elizabeth Hubbard David Kaufman David Kukla Christopher Lamont Marybeth Latchis Lucia Rossoni Longnecker Andrea Lucard Nina Frusztajer Marquis Nadia Belash McKay Simone Feinhandler Mordas Susan Armstrong Mueller Marion Odence-Ford Heidi Willmann Richards Alexander Sachs David Santomenna Elizabeth Nesi Sierra Wendy Slater Sally Solomon Kristen Crowe Stevens Christina Stumpf David Swaebe CLASS OF 1983

Designated Annual Giving Contributions Number of Gifts

Financial Aid

Total Dollars Raised

118

$33,836

Faculty Support

59

$12,920

Educational Programs

20

$13,880

Participation: 27% Total Raised: $15,549 Brooks Beisch Sarah Hebb Carpenter Saundra Claster Douglas Clowes Louis Crosier James Flicker Adam Ford Michele Gamburd Martha Bangs Haddad Sabrina Campbell Heine Polly Hubbard Tilia Klebenov Jacobs

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CLASS OF 1976

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A N N U A L

Laura Laterman Kathryn Mudge Edward Nicolson Victoria Palay Katrina Pugh Sara Goldsmith Schwartz Bliss Freytag Smith Derek Vaillant Susan Gray Wisnia Luanne Zurlo CLASS OF 1984

Participation: 35% Total Raised: $12,464 Dorothy Brown-Martin Jonathan Peretz Chance Nancy Cowan Rebecca Derby William Dewey Charles Feininger David Feldman John Funkhouser Glen Goldman Catherine Gunn Courtney Haan Kimberly Holden Anne Irza-Leggat Sallie Johnston Hellen Kimble Amy Gerson Kynaston Elizabeth Dewey Levey Margaret Mack Deborah Golodetz New Marjorie Oleksiak Elizabeth Peterson-New Amy Rosenfeld Samuel Shepherd Nathaniel Stevens Beverly Thompson Webster Nancy Shohet West

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CLASS OF 1986

Richard Wolfson Sarah Wolozin Sarah Wyman

Class Agent: Madeleine Blanz-Mayo Participation: 30% Total Raised: $7,076

CLASS OF 1985

Class Agent: Elizabeth Dreier Participation: 33% Total Raised: $24,340 Sarah Block* Lauren Bruck Jennifer Burleigh Charles Collier David Cotney Shane Curcuru Katharine Daugherty Alexandra McClennen Dohan Hebe Smythe Doneski Sarah Feldman Thomas First Sarah Hammond Stephen Kramarsky Monica Lee Martha Leggat Jennifer Russell Mahoney Jill Mehl Helen Kaufman Minkes John Moavenzadeh Raymond Paynter Jessica Price Aimee Reveno Lee Shane Maia Y. Sharpley Melanie Simpson Rebecca Stumpf Sheila-Llyn Kraeuter Van Nederveen

Emily Coleman Anderson Madeleine Blanz-Mayo George Cushing Randall Drane Julia Baumgarten Foster Eden Parker Grace Sarah Crissman Hollington Duff Johnson Laura Johnson Jennifer Keller Michele Plaue Kijak Jamie Klickstein Jonathan Lawrence David Marlin David Matias Jennifer Nadelson-Gleba Susan Najjar Elizabeth Saltonstall Repenning Nancy Reynolds Robert Rifkin Elizabeth Temin Benjamin Treynor Elizabeth Weir Peter Yeomans Sandra Yusen CLASS OF 1987 20th REUNION

Reunion Committee: Allison First Beakley Hanna Bailey Boyle Peter Blacklow Leslie Taylor Davol Alexis Goltra Mary Helen Gunn

Andrea Silverman Meyer John Newcomer Aram Zadow Participation: 37% Total Raised: $48,301 Leila Ladjevardi Arsanjani Allison First Beakley Robert Biggar Peter Blacklow Hanna Bailey Boyle Theodore Bradford Helen Parker Brown Elizabeth Scofield Brown Karen Cipriani Hilary Walther Cumming Kathryn DeMot Leslie Taylor Davol Jennifer Fallon Michelle Mulvany Gallagher Kerith Gardner Alexis Goltra Andrew Gottlieb Mary Helen Gunn Samuel Halpern Shira Hammarlund Amy deLone Hutter Philippa Kaye William Klebenov Elizabeth Kahn Mallon Sarah McBride Andrea Silverman Meyer Sarah Margolies Mueller John Newcomer Casey Pant Evgenia Peretz Sarah Russell Jonathan Shapiro Sarah Shohet Eunice Wang Aram Zadow

CLASS OF 1988

Participation: 33% Total Raised: $10,150 David Alperovitz Joseph Baker Bruce Beal Jesse Birge Mary Sinton Bright Abigail Brooks Daniel Brotman Samuel Davol Samara Berk Fangman David Goldberg Kenneth Gordon Jared Green Katia Brown Green Katharine Hammond Joseph Hartley Deborah Bailey Herrmann Michael Kolman Benjamin Maxfield Caragh McLaughlin David Oppenheimer Katie Pakenham Todd Pearce Adam Ramee Maro Robbins Michael Rome Virginia Scott William Stason Benjamin Stumpf Amy Wilensky CLASS OF 1989

Class Agent: Andrew Heimert Participation: 23% Total Raised: $23,431 James Biggar Elise Billings De

Katharine Daugherty ’85

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atharine Daugherty and her husband Constantine recently moved from Belmont, Massachusetts to San Francisco. Even on that other coast, she still feels a strong connection to Concord Academy.

As class secretary, a former member of the Alumnae/i Council, and a key planner for CA events in the Bay Area, Katharine finds that volunteering not only keeps her engaged, but also fosters a sense of stewardship. “Concord Academy is not a distant memory; it is clearly a dynamic organization that works to stay true to its original mission while continuing to evolve,” she said. “I am always impressed and sometimes even filled with longing to return to the classrooms there as a student again.”

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As an accountant for an independent school, Katharine understands the financial challenges that face nonprofit educational institutions and how essential annual fundraising is. “I give to Concord Academy not only with gratitude for my own experience there,” Katharine said, “but for what I know it continues to offer to current students: extraordinary teaching and thoughtful support from a community of adults and peers. Students at Concord Academy have this remarkable opportunity not only to develop academic skills, but also to learn to engage and find their own place in a diverse world with grace and respectful candor.”

She emphasizes that any gift is important, regardless of the amount. “Participating at any

level sends an important message of support and appreciation for the whole Concord Academy community,” she said. “And that giving, while it serves an essential practical need, is also an expression of belief in the potential of Concord Academy and each of its graduates.”

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CLASS OF 1990

Participation: 22% Total Raised: $8,880 Jennifer Abele Sunredi Admadjaja Jason Cook Robin DeRosa Caroline James Ellison Jay Gardner Belinda Griswold Rachel Grossman Matthew Kirkland Michelle McClure Taragh Mulvany Imani Perry Dawn Pieper Kristin Russell Helena Schniewind Maia Sloss Keith Tashima Jason Weinzimer Sarah Amory Welch CLASS OF 1991

Participation: 22% Total Raised: $7,356 Benjamin Bailey Jake Bartlett Claudia Burke Barksdale English Nicholas Evans Jessica Ghiglione Stephanie Solakian Goldstein Elizabeth Green Daniel Henderson Sarah Hirzel Ryan Kelley James Lichoulas Mark Lu Wendy Aaronson Newman Alexander Powell A. Alexander Ridley Michael Rodman Jeffrey Schneider Elizabeth Nicholson Thielscher Daniel Towvim

CLASS OF 1992 15th REUNION

Reunion Committee: Lee Berresford Sarah Christopher Lee Fearnside Nathalie Kim Emily Potts Callejas Participation: 21% Total Raised: $2,425 John Barrett Lee Berresford Stefanie Riego Bester Sarah Christopher Sarah Duve Lee Fearnside Mary Glasser Sarah Hsia Rumey Ishizawar Nathalie Kim Donald Lareau Yves Mantz Peter Maxfield Lauren Moffa Zachary Murphy Emily Potts Callejas Sarah Burckmyer Westwood Andreas Winterfeld CLASS OF 1993

Class Agent: Jonathan Lewin Participation: 37% Total Raised: $4,355 Christopher Ahearn Benjamin Bell Sean Carr Thomas Darling Elizabeth Wang Darling Angus Davol Nicholas Decaneas Lisa Eckstein Sarah Thompson Evans Elijah Feinstein Amy Goorin Fogelman Steven Gottlieb Ethan Harris Nancy Haas Hillis Jennifer Collins Hogan Elizabeth Jackson Aaron Jacobs Allison Kelley Joshua Kempner Jill Kantrowitz Kunkel Jonathan Lewin Rebecca Locke Mara Loewenstien Lugassy Anne Rose Moller Cameron Page Christopher Rodger Rebecca Seamans Merrill Staunton Sam Thayer Wilde Hannah Wunsch

Main Street Circle: Five consecutive years of giving

CLASS OF 1994

Participation: 33% Total Raised: $3,315 Amanda Abelson Khadijah Davis Michael Draskoczy Stephen Dreyfus Nina Feldman Andrew Gardner Michael Green Jamie Harper Daniel Hirshberg Sarah Faulker Hugenberger Mi-Ae Hur Suzanne Katzenstein Siri Kaur Nicholas Lauriat Tess Munro Elizabeth Pinsky Morgan Robinson Sarah Russell Rahul Sakhuja Jorge Solares-Parkhurst Paul Sommer Dorothy Stam Kathleen Surman Jeremy Tamanini Ethan Thurow Jill Rubin Tilem Joshua Towvim CLASS OF 1995

Participation: 15% Total Raised: $1,510 Elizabeth Ames Andrew Cook Karena Detweiler Rebecca Falkoff Alison Gearhart Timothy Hirzel Jessica King Anna Myers Charlotte Quesada Nicholas Todd Morgen Van Vorst Rebecca Watriss CLASS OF 1996

Participation: 10% Total Raised: $1,650 Alireza Ardalan Emily Bockian Landsburg James May Kelcey Morange Rachel Morrison Thapanee Sirivadhanabhakdi Elissa Spelman Joia Spooner-Wyman

Mark Lu ’91

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ark Lu ’91 admires Concord Academy not only for the outstanding education he received, but also for the way CA surrounded him with a vibrant mix of students from varied cultural, social, and financial backgrounds.

Mark says his CA experience continues to influence him. “A Concord Academy education and the personal experiences that accompany it serve as a trusted reference library throughout the progression of one’s life,” he said.

While Mark’s business, Knickerbocker & Brahmin, a real estate development firm in Boston with a focus on green development, keeps him busy with work and travel, he spends his free time volunteering for his elementary school. His giving motto? “Give how you can. If that means giving time, great; if you can give money, that’s great too, as long as your goals are being met.”

The CA that Mark remembers did a lot with limited resources. “The Concord Academy I knew,” he said, “was a chronically underfunded school that promoted multicultural, multidisciplinary learning experiences for the next generation,” he said.

His goals as a supporter of Annual Giving are clear: “Keep it mixed. Keep looking for different kinds of students, as long as they are exceptional, interesting, and thoughtful.”

CLASS OF 1997 10th REUNION

Reunion Committee: Matthew Kovner Lauren Abraham Mahoney Olivia Howard Sabine

* Deceased

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Adam Gailey Howard Martin Elizabeth Mygatt Susannah Parke Jeremiah Parker Elizabeth Prives Jasmine Samaha Dan Schulman Benjamin Sexton Kelsey Stratton Christopher Walker Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai

Dean of Faculty Sandy Stott (top left) and his wife Lucille hosted ten CA alumnae/i from Bates, Bowdoin, and Colby colleges at their vacation home in Brunswick, Maine in April.

Concord Academy also held young alumnae/i events at Brown University and Columbia University this year.

Participation: 16% Total Raised: $1,335 Anonymous Olivia Geiger Jeffrey Green Hannah Hobbs Alice Jayne Reuben Kabel Robert Knake Lauren Abraham Mahoney Jonathan Norcross Kerry Ratigan Johanna Rosen Olivia Howard Sabine Maximilian Toth Sara Walker CLASS OF 1998

Participation: 18% Total Raised: $1,645

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Participation: 15% Total Raised: $835 Jeffrey Fabre Lucas Garmon Adam Haas Ariel Hirschberg Erin Hult Benjamin Krug Humphrey Lee Noah McCormack Sarah Millerick Justin Newberg Tessa Scripps Dugan Tillman-Brown

Michael Cook William Decaneas Emma Huber-Sewell Alexandra Kern Anna Lee Felicia Lorens Michael Miller Mary Nicholson Blair Reich Jonathan Schechner Stephen Siu Vanessa Tillman-Brown Mariel Wolfson

Catherine Mygatt Zoe Preston Nicholas Schuller Carey Tinkelenberg Katherine Wilcox CLASS OF 2002 5th REUNION

Reunion Committee: Matthew Bassett Sarah Bertozzi Maria Harris Participation: 18% Total Raised: $1,010 Matthew Bassett Elizabeth Becton Sarah Bertozzi Katharina Cieplak-von Baldegg Giuliana Di Mambro Carlyn Fitzgerald Maria Harris David Kenner Colin Levy Laura Lively Edward Lontoh Kate Moriarty Jocelyn Ronda Rosalin Walcott Sarah Wilkens

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Class Agent: Michael Firestone Participation: 20% Total Raised: $1,560 Alexander Berlin Benjamin Carmichael Abigail Cohen Nicholas Deane Hilary Falb Michael Firestone Lauren Kett Sophie Lai Anne Mancini Alexis May Laura McConaghy

CLASS OF 1999

Participation: 21% Total Raised: $1,105 Phaedra Athanasiou Julia Briedis John Byrne Courtney Clark Benjamin Eberle Daniel Eberle

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Participation: 10% Total Raised: $335 Barbara Crocker Frances Denny Jenna Hoffstein Whitney Leonard Susan Martin David Miller Mark Weinberger Lisa Zaval

Participation: 10% Total Raised: $435 Camille Bridges Janet Comenos Adam Goldman James Hall Daria Lavrennikov Melanie Lontoh Sarah Seegal Samantha Siegal Elizabeth Spence CLASS OF 2005

Participation: 13% Total Raised: $525 Steven Bertozzi Luke Douglas Adam Fried Torin Hayes Bryan Hobgood Ehjeen Kim Claire Moriarty Elise Novak Elizabeth Olesen Eliza O’Neil Tyler Stone Shara Zaval CLASS OF 2006

Participation: 14% Total Raised: $300 John Arsenault Maxwell Brooks Caroline Griswold Cornelia Hall Margaret Hoffman Benjamin Kaufman Dat Le Eva Luderowski Alison Lynch Benjamin Mirin Dylan Morris Brittany Stone Andrew Wolf

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aron Jacobs ’93 is a consistent donor to Annual Giving at Concord Academy and is volunteering on his fifteen-year reunion committee. He considers his contributions a way to recognize “all that Concord Academy did for me and to ensure the school’s continuing viability so that it may do the same for others.”

Aaron, a patent litigator at Heller Ehrman LLP in Palo Alto, California, believes CA challenged him and prepared him well for work and for life.

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“Concord Academy fostered in me a love of learning and prepared me so well that I didn’t find college all that different or more difficult than Concord Academy.” To this day, he said, “many of my closest friends are still the ones I met while at Concord Academy.”

Gifts from Current Parents Parent Chairs, Annual Giving: Fan and Peter Watkinson

Freshman Parents Class Chair: Elisabeth Frusztajer ’80 Solicitors: Paul Barth and Kathy Knight Elizabeth Bartle Steve Bercu John Conley Kathy Dyer Kristin Harris Maria Hanlon Lori T. Conway Sue Mun Leslie Nicholson Jim and Sarah Rafferty Debra Shapiro Cynthia Smith Nina West Elizabeth Yerkes ’81 Total raised: $173,609 Participation: 84% Mr. and Mrs. Eucimar Abreu Silva Juan C. Alvarez and Debra Dellanina-Alvarez Gerardo A. Bacchus and Paula Leoni-Bacchus Paul S. Barth and Kathy Knight Steven Bercu Dr. and Mrs. Seth D. Bilazarian Dr. and Mrs. Charles M. Bliss Jr. David M. Boghossian and Elizabeth Bartle Mr. and Mrs. Shawn Buckland Isabel Carmichael Sundlun William and Fiona Carr Jong Han Chi and Hyun Ok Kim Kim and Jody Comart John G. Conley and Elizabeth G. Awalt Lori T. Conway Pedro De Jesus Tejada Dae Seok Do and Kyung Sook Kim Dr. and Mrs. Lee R. Domangue Peter M. Durney and Beth A. Shipley Mr. and Mrs. Barry L. Dyer Mr. and Ms. Daniel Fradkin Kevin and Eve Fraser-Corp Scott Glidden and Ruth Page Alan Goldstein Mr. and Mrs. Dante R. Gonzalez Silvia Gosnell Hee Won Han and Jun Hee Kim Sang Won Han and So Young Lee Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey W. Harrison Steve Imrich and Cynthia W. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Mohammed S. Islam Chull Jeong and Youn Ju Ji Ian Johnstone and Pamela C. McKee

Sanghun Kim and Sora Noh Mr. and Mrs. Young Cheon Kim Woong Chul and Sookheui Y. Kim Bong Taek Kong and In Woo Nam Mr. and Mrs. Steven P. Koppel Paul R. Kugler II Chun Bong Lee and Eun Sil Kim Ji Yong Lee and Jae Hee Choo Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Mankin Mr. and Mrs. David S. McCue Thomas M. O’Brien III Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Owades Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Pappas Mr. and Mrs. Brian E. Pastuszenski Jim and Sarah Rafferty Robert K. Rodat and Mollie D. Miller Joel B. Rosen and Addie L. Swartz Mr. and Mrs. Bruce G. Silverman Mr. and Mrs. Richard Simon Mr. and Mrs. Daniel T. Smythe Dr. and Mrs. James E. Spencer Tracy W. Sundlun Laurence E. Tobey and Rebecca C. Park Larry S. Tye and Elisabeth Frusztajer ’80 Mr. and Mrs. Roger F. Urban Malcolm M. Walsh and Kathleen J. O’Hara Richard and Susan Walters Lisa Weissmann and Debra Shapiro Mr. and Mrs. Andy West Young June Yang and Hea Kyung Ahn Elizabeth T. Yerkes ’81 Mr. and Mrs. Li Guo Yu

Sophomore Parents Class Chairs: Muriel Luderowski and Margaret Sullivan Solicitors: Kate Chamberlin Rebecca Downs Michael and Catherine Fender Vicky Huber ’75 Jonathan Hurd David Leathers Edward and Theresa Mallett Dore Hammond Lani Peterson-Arnzen ’75 Ben Taylor Andrew Troop and Andrea Sussman Dionne Tulley Elise Zoller Total raised: $236,037 Participation: 75% Anonymous Breck Arnzen and Lani Peterson-Arnzen ’75 Robert and Denise Simon Basow Mr. and Mrs. Martin Beaulieu Mr. and Mrs. Raynard D. Benvenuti David M. Berson and Jessica C. Straus Mr. and Mrs. Howard Bloom Jack and Susan Brown Christopher Burrell Mr. and Mrs. John Cao

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he Parent Annual Giving program raised a record $837,191 in 2006 – 07 with 81 percent participation, thanks to the leadership of Fan and Peter Watkinson (above), cochairs of Parent Annual Giving.

Also helping to reach this goal were Marcia Glassman-Jaffe and Mark Jaffe, cochairs of the junior class program; Margaret Sullivan and Muriel Luderowski, cochairs of the sophomore class program; Lisa Frusztajer ’80, chair of the freshman class program; and the combined efforts of a dedicated team of fifty parent class agents.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Chamberlin DeWitt and Kelly Clemens Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin C. Cohen Mr. and Mrs. Paul M. Cole Dr. and Mrs. David A. Dockterman Mr. and Mrs. Paul D. Downs Mr. and Mrs. John A. Edelmann P. Howard Edelstein Mr. and Mrs. Michael C. Fender Joanna Fernald Josefa Ferreras Howard Frumkin and Beryl Ann Cowan David G. Fubini and Bertha P. Rivera Jeong Hun Ha and Jooyeon Lee Mr. and Mrs. Edson Haraguchi Robert W. Herold Jonathan and Tracey Hurd Frank A. Ingari and Margaret A. Sullivan Donald E. Ingber and Ellen S. Dolnansky Mr. and Mrs. Ranbir S. Jaggi Mr. and Mrs. David J. Kaemmer Janice Hinkle Kitchen ’68 John S. Kitchen Katharine Kolowich

Kevin B. Krauss and Laurie J. Zimmerman Mr. and Mrs. William H. Kremer Mr. and Mrs. William A. Lamkin The Lander Family Linda C. Lawrence Mr. and Mrs. David G. Leathers Yong J. Lee and So Yeong Park Jane A. Leifer Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Lie Dr. and Mrs. Jongchoo Lim Nils and Muriel Luderowski Jan and Margaret Malek Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Mallett Ariella Martinez John McCluskey and Margaret Ramsey McCluskey Peter Morse and Betsy Vicksell Ick H. Nam and Yeon J. Kim James S. Normile and Dore Hammond Hoon-Sup and Yong A. Oh Mr. and Mrs. Manoel Oliveira Wayne and Marie Oliver John and Lucia Quinn Marcus Ritland

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Dr. and Mrs. Todd K. Rowe Thomas L. Schuster and Ute Dietrich-Schuster Seung Heon Shin and Hyun Ji Kim Gregory M. Shoukimas Chung-Kai and Ying-Yee Chan Sin Mr. and Mrs. David P. Southwell Miguel J. Stadecker and Deborah F. Spitz Eric K. Stange and Barbara M. Costa Marjorie Staub George and Justine Stedman Ben and Kate Taylor Melissa R. Taylor William Thornton Andrew M. Troop and Andrea Sussman Konstantin and Oksana Tsinman Donald and Ariella Tye A. Henry Walker, Jr. Marcia Walsh

Junior Parents Class Chairs: Mark Jaffe and Marcia Glassman-Jaffe Solicitors: Marjorie Aelion ’74 Cathy Anderson Tim Andrews Kathryn Angell Nick Bothfeld John Butman Rick Cohen Kevin Dennis David Forbes Luz Franco David Freedman Sandra Lehner Stephanie McCormick-Goodhart ’80

Lisa McGovern Susan Miller Charlie Namias Virginia Sherwood Total raised: $260,245 Participation: 85% Chris and Cathy Anderson Timothy A. Andrews and Valerie J. Cummings Ingrid Bartinique Howard Bauchner and Chris McElroy Joshua and Amy Boger Richard and Cathy Boskey James and June Bowman Nick Bothfeld and Elizabeth Brown ’70 John and Nancy Butman Catherine K. Byrne Jeffrey M. Byrne Jeff and Emily Caplan Rick and Laurie Cohen CJ and Rachel Coppersmith Christopher B. Daly and Anne K. Fishel Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. D’Arcy Mr. and Ms. Anthony J. de Leon ’79 Kevin Dennis and Rebecca Kellogg ’71 Mr. and Ms. Thanh Chi Dinh Michael Epstein and April Stone Mr. and Mrs. Blair Flicker Karen H. Flicker David Forbes Mr. and Mrs. Domingo Franco Mr. and Mrs. Daniel H. Frank David A. Freedman and Karen A. Trittipo Mr. and Mrs. Gerald L. Frenkil Mr. and Mrs. Bryan M. Ghows Mr. and Mrs. Liviu Goldenberg Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey M. Goodman

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Jason and Ursula Gregg Mr. and Mrs. Graham Gund Patty and Brad Hager Mr. and Mrs. Michael F. Hanlon Jr. Jerry and Jane Hughes Kathleen Izzo Mark R. Jaffe and Marcia C. Glassman-Jaffe Lyle Kantor and Mimi Elmer Mr. and Mrs. Kevin B. Kelly Cam Kerry and Kathy Weinman Franklin and Colleen Kettle Doo-Hyun Kim and Eun-Won Cho Ki-Chul and Jee-Won Ahn Kim Thomas and Carolyn Krusinski Ellen Kwame Mr. and Mrs. Steven Langman Thomas Leatherman and Marjorie Aelion ’74 Sangbum Lee and Jinsook H. Lee Mr. and Mrs. Carl Lehner Herman B. Leonard and Kathryn A. Angell Matthew R. Lynch Jeffrey Malenchak Daniel Matthews Leander and Stephanie Starr McCormick-Goodhart ’80 Carolyn Mellin Rick Mellin Thomas and Susan Miller Trevor Miller and Kim Williams Frederick Mueller and Cynthia Taft Charlie and Debbie Namias Robert and Karen Newton Gil G. Noam and Maryanne Wolf Mark and Alison O’Connell Raymond J. Pohl and Lisa M. Botticelli

John and Carol Westlake Quimby Dr. and Mrs. Michael Rater Mr. and Mrs. Mark L. Rhodes Rita Robert John D. Robinson and Molly Bedell-Robinson Kelly Roney and Nancy Denardo ’76 Nicholas and Heyden White Rostow ’67 Diane Russell David Salomon and Marilyn Leeds Mr. and Mrs. Neil P. Searls Linda A. Serafini and Cathy E. Welsh Virginia Sherwood Lowell S. Smith and Sally Sanford Tony Siesfeld and Cammy Thomas Mr. and Ms. Marc B. Sommers Sandy Starr and Raine Figueroa Dennis and Andrea Ting Mr. and Mrs. Jaime Torres Mr. and Mrs. Thomas N. Trkla Jay Wallace and Lisa McGovern Fan and Peter Watkinson Ronald B. White and Andrea E. Stern Donald A. Wilder and Barbara B. Janeway William and Susan Wood Kwang Hoon Yoo and Moeung Ja Yoo Lee

Senior Parents Dean Sullender and Suzanne Knight David and Rose Thorne Jeff and Elizabeth Wallace (Gifts from parents of seniors designated for the Senior Parent Gift are listed on page 76 of this report.)

Kim Williams and Trevor Miller, P’08

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im Williams and Trevor Miller are parents of three children, including their oldest son, Alexander, a senior at Concord Academy. They have busy, successful careers in the finance and computer software industries, but find time to remain deeply involved in the lives of their children —and the life of Concord Academy.

“Concord Academy has been and continues to be a wonderfully positive influence in Alexander’s life, one that we feel will endure for many years to come,” she said. “It has allowed him to develop his intellectual curiosity and to experience an environment where a love of learning is encouraged. Wherever his path may

lead, we have great confidence that Concord Academy has prepared him well.”

Kim said she and Trevor understand that tuition does not cover the full cost of a Concord Academy education. “We believe in the school’s mission and the need to support those elements that are critical to achieving that mission,” said Kim. “Our contributions to Annual Giving help support the enriching programs that form the fabric of life at Concord.” Kim and Trevor also contribute to Concord Academy through volunteer work: next year they will cochair the Class of 2008 Senior Parent Gift.

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from CA’s close-knit community. “Supporting the school through Annual Giving,” Kim said, “provides an opportunity to recognize and sustain the CA community and allows others to share the experience that Concord Academy offers.”

Gifts from Parents of Alumnae/i Anonymous Bill and Susan Adams Doug and Trish Adams John and Connie Adkins Peter Agoos and Diane Fiedler Helen E. Ahearn Alan C. Aisenberg Dr. and Mrs. Robert J. Allio D. Pike Aloian Robert Alter and Elizabeth de Lima Annabelle R. Ambrose Charles and Kathleen Fisk Ames ’65 Mr. and Mrs. George S. Ames Maren Anderson and Duke Collier Michael Ansara and Barbara T. Arnold David and Carol Antos Renee M. Arb Richard B. Aronson and Jane Waldman Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Asher Dorothy K. Austin Mr. and Mrs. John Axten Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Bachelder III Guillermo and Claire Bahamon Barbara McCormick Bailey ’58 Carolyn L. Bailey William M. Bailey Juliet Schoen-Rene Baker Lisle and Sally Baker Mr. and Mrs. Lynn C. Bartlett Kenneth E. Bassett and Mary Helen Lorenz June L. Baumler Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Beal, Jr. Linda J. L. Becker Mr. and Mrs. Henry P. Becton, Jr. Norman and Nancy Beecher Gordon H. Bemis Mr. and Mrs. Adam S. Berger Joe and Bernadette Bergeron Kostia Bergman and Libby Zimmerman Richard and Rachel Berlin Dr. and Mrs. Geoffrey C. Berresford David and Louisa Birch Mr. and Mrs. Walter W. Birge III Ann Birk Dr. and Mrs. Neil R. Blacklow Nancy Blackmun Sheryl A. Blair Ron Blau and Judith Levin Lore Bloch Mr. and Mrs. Steven Blumsack J. Alexander and Dinah Bodkin Deborah Boedeker-Raaflaub William T. Bogaert and Eugenia Zangas Paula Grymes Booher ’55 Wallace P. Boquist Charlotte T. Bordeaux Ardis S. Bordman Markley H. Boyer and Barbara E. Millen Thomas B. Bracken Lillian F. Braden Peter and Penny Brigham Mr. and Mrs. Douglas R. Brown Van M. Brown and Wanda E. Tillman

Edward and Louisa Garfield Browne ’36 Mr. and Mrs. Donald B. Bruck Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence L. Burckmyer Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Carey Sr. Louise W. Carter Diana Knowles Cashen ’58 Gaynor D. Casner Mr. and Mrs. Evans W. Cheeseman, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Gerald N. Christopher Lucia Cabot Cipolla ’44 Deborah Perry Clark ’46 Nancy Parker Clark ’38 Mrs. James W. Coggeshall Dick and Blythe Colby Mr. and Mrs. Marvin A. Collier Mr. and Mrs. Brewster Conant David and Marcia Cook Ann K. Corbey John J. Corry Mrs. John W. Cotney Nathan and Nancy Colt Couch ’50 Mr. and Mrs. William A. Crimmins Todd and Caroline Lee Crocker ’66 Mr. and Mrs. Theodore L. Cross Mr. and Mrs. M. Colyer Crum Mr. and Mrs. Roger Dane Mr. and Mrs. O. Leonard Darling Mr. and Mrs. Frank P. Davidson Bentley Davis Peter and Anna Davol Mr. and Mrs. Austin de Besche Laura Kennedy de Blank ’63 Dr. and Mrs. Francis de Marneffe Nicholas and Elizabeth Deane Mr. and Mrs. Valery DeBeausset George P. Denny Douglas and Ingrid von Dattan Deteweiler ’61 Sarah McClary Dewey ’48 Robert and Kim Diebboll Emily DiMaggio Mr. and Mrs. Dana C. Djerf Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Donovan Peter and Ivy Dorflinger William and Permele Frischkorn Doyle ’72 Dr. and Mrs. David A. Drachman Katharine Eaton Dreier ’48 Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Dreyfus Henry and Ruth Brooks Drinker ’31 Barbara M. Dudley Dr. and Mrs. Douglas M. Dunbar Mr. and Mrs. Willard L. Eastman Jeffrey and Molly Eberle Mr. and Mrs. Philip D. English Abigail Erdmann and Lucas Aalmans Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Erhart, Jr. Norris and Constance Burr Evans ’69 Mr. and Mrs. John N. Faigle Mr. and Mrs. Peter L. Falb Mr. and Mrs. Peter G. Fallon, Jr. Barry and Carol Faulkner Mr. and Mrs. T. Lux Feininger Mr. and Mrs. John K. Felix Noel Fernandez David and Karen Firestone George and Lisa Foote

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Dr. and Mrs. Orrie M. Friedman Howard E. Gardner Mrs. William W. Garth Jr. Eben and Win Gay Alan S. Geismer and Susan R. Dangel Mr. and Mrs. Isak V. Gerson Abigail Gillespie ’71 Michael Gilmore and Deborah Valenze Katherine G. Gilmour Amy A. Gimbel Michael A. Glier and Jenny Holzer James Goldman and Ronna Tapper-Goldman Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Gosnell Joseph A. Grasso Jr. David H. Green Mr. and Mrs. John P. Green, Jr. Robert and Nancy Greenberg Dr. and Mrs. Bruce Grossman Alexander N. Gunn Mr. and Mrs. John S. Hammond III Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Harbeck Dudley and Ellen Smith Harde ’62 Marlene Harrison Gardiner Hartmann Tim Hayes and Anne Romney Huazhong He and Wei Deng Mr. and Mrs. George S. Hebb, Jr. Aynaud F. Hebert and Jeanne Stangle Mary A. Hedge Michael J. Henchman Mr. and Mrs. George B. Henderson Philip and Ann Heymann Katherine Motley Hinckley ’61 David and Beth Hirzel David and Sally Hooper Dr. and Mrs. Frederic G. Hoppin, Jr. Mary Leigh Morse Houston ’47 Mr. and Mrs. Philip K. Howard Jonathan and Ann Hubbard Charles and Judith Huizenga Timothy and Mary Hult Alexander and Jean Humez William J. Huston Jr. Yannis Ioannides and Anna Hardman Sarah Ismail Dave and Brooke James Mr. and Mrs. Bruce M. Johnson Marjorie Hornblower Johnson ’60 Vidar and Kathleen Jorgensen Mr. and Mrs. Henry S. Julier II Mary Juneau-Norcross Mr. and Mrs. Leo Kahn Lynn Kaplan Jacqueline R. Kates Glen and Jessica Kaufman John and Kathy Kaufmann Michael and Linda Kellett Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Kemp Brian and Carol Kenner Edward and Priscilla Kern Alan Kett and Ann Hendricks Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan M. Keyes George and Nancy Kidder Dr. and Mrs. Eun Han Kim Mr. and Mrs. Robin H. Kirkland

Erik and Perta Kissmeyer-Nielsen Olga P. Klein Mr. and Mrs. Reuben B. Klickstein Mrs. James B. Knight A. Lawrence and Ruth Kolbe Peter and Roberta Kovner Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln D. Kraeuter Mr. and Mrs. Werner H. Kramarsky Ann Kwong and Dasa Lipovsek Steven Lampert and Anita Feins Mr. and Mrs. Macreay J. Landy Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Langione Jenny D. Lassen Mr. and Mrs. Michael M. Laurence Peter and Alison Smith Lauriat ’64 Eugene and Tatiana Lavrennikov Joan Corbin Lawson ’49 An H. Le and Hanh H. Nguyen Olivia Swaim LeFeaver ’41 Thomas and Barbara Leggat John and Kathy Lehmann Charles M. Leighton Deborah Smith Leighton ’55 Mr. and Mrs. James T. Lichoulas, Jr. Claudia B. Liebesny Martin Liebowitz and Mary M. Lassen ’71 Mr. and Mrs. Pedro Lilienfeld Helen Whiting Livingston ’41 Matthew and Davida Loewenstein Ruth E. D. Lord Peter and Babette Loring Mrs. Atherton Loring, Jr. William A. Lott and Honore I. Weiner Mrs. John D. Mack Lucia Todd MacMahon ’58 Stephen and Kim Maire Mr. and Mrs. Gordon L. Marshall Howard Martin and Gail-Ann Brodeur Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Mathus Maria V. A. Matthiessen Bill and Susan Maxfield J. Thomas May and Marianne O’Brien Dr. and Mrs. James W. May, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John Maynard Hannah Norseen McClennen ’62 Mr. and Mrs. William H. McConaghy Mr. and Mrs. Philip J. McFarland Charles W. McKinny and Joan M. Gallagher Cecily Deegan McMillan ’74 Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Menger Julian Miller and Joan Klagsbrun Mary-Dixon Sayre Miller ’40 Marc and Barbara Mitchell Mr. and Mrs. Fred Moavenzadeh David W. Montgomery and Alice J. Merrill Mrs. William L. Moran Mr. and Mrs. Richard Morange Andrew P. Morrison Charles A. Morss, Jr. Suzanne Mosby Mr. and Mrs. James S. Munro, Jr. Russ and Wanfang Murray Sam and Susan Hall Mygatt Stephen J. Nelson and Mary Anne Mayo ’72

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Channing and Deborah Russell Penelope Russell Thomas M. Sadtler and Jane E. Wells Ravi and Rohini Sakhuja Steven Satullo and Christine Erb Carole C. Sawdon Max and Marjorie Schechner David and Amy Schenkein Thomas and Katharine Rea Schmitt ’62 Patricia Sears Susan Secunda John and Barbara Welles Seegal Frederick and Susan Seward William F. Sewell and Julianne P. Huber Dr. and Mrs. John Sexton Nancy Megowen Shane ’51 Gordon and Joanna Hamann Shaw ’53 Susan Shay Mr. and Mrs. Yong Sik Shin Nancy C. Shober Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Shohet Carol Mann Shoudt Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Paul Siegal Thomas and Frances Simonds Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Slater Henry F. Smith and Jane V. Kite Morgan and Belinda Pleasants Smith ’60 Peter W. Smith and Catherine S. Dickey Susan Locke Smith ’30 Daniel L. Smythe, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John S. Solakian Karen R. Sollins John Sommer Mondej and Tassanee Sookpranee Duncan Spelman and Elizabeth Grady Michael and Diane Spence Petrus A. Spierings and Paula C. Wolk Enid M. Starr Mr. and Mrs. Platt Staunton Maurice and Phyllis Stein Mrs. Ames Stevens, Jr. Alice Fales Stewart Mr. and Mrs. Donald M. Stewart Don Straus and Carol Goss Mr. and Mrs. Vcevold O. Strekalovsky

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Anna Newberg David and Catharine Newbury Mr. and Mrs. Morris G. Nicholson Dr. and Mrs. Murray A. Nicolson Mr. and Mrs. David J. Noonan Boyd Norcross and Mary Juneau-Norcross Mr. and Mrs. H. Roderick Nordell Mr. and Mrs. Timothy O’Connell Dr. and Mrs. Daniel J. O’Connor, Jr. John and Gretchen O’Connor Mr. and Mrs. Robert Oleksiak James Olesen and Lynn Nowels David and Barbara O’Neil Krid and Supawan Lamsam Panyarachun ’73 C. Stephen and Kathleen King Parker Dr. and Mrs. James M. Parker Lisa Parker Laura E. Parkhurst Mrs. Raymond A. Paynter Mr. and Mrs. George S. Pearce Kay D. Pechilis Russell H. Peck Mr. and Mrs. Peter J. Philliou Edith Cowles Poor ’39 Anne Hart Pope ’66 Thomas Porcher and Catherine Leonard Mr. and Mrs. Arthur G. Powell Mr. and Mrs. John D. Pratt Jenny Childs Preston ’67 Lynne A. Prives Pat Rabby David and Robin Ray Mr. and Mrs. William S. Reardon Virginia Redpath ’65 Mr. and Mrs. John P. Reeder, Jr. Steven David Reich Russell and Carla Ricci Nancy Hornblower Rice ’64 * Christopher E. Ridley Sarah C. Riley Burton and Gloria Rose Mr. and Mrs. James E. Rosen Mark and Etta Rosen Mr. and Mrs. Jay E. Russ

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Mr. and Mrs. Bernardo Stumpf Owen S. Surman Ann Hemingway Tarlton ’62 Gerald and Susan Taylor Richard and Alix Taylor Elizabeth Plimpton Tilton James and Judith Howe Tucker Hazel F. Tuttle Mr. and Mrs. Glen Urban Dr. and Mrs. Henry W. Vaillant Frances Howes Valiente ’64 Sherman Vannah Mary Wadleigh ’64 Mrs. Jack J. Wagstaff Dr. and Mrs. John M. Wallace George Wallis Mr. and Mrs. Dexter Wang Frederic and Judith Harris Watriss ’58 Eric W. Weinmann Mr. and Ms. Frederick L. Weiss Scott and Deborah Jackson Weiss Margot A. Welch Mr. and Mrs. Wade M. Welch Henry and Barbara White Thomas E. Wilcox and E. Whitney Ransome Elizabeth Devine Wilczek ’64 R. Wade Williams and Penny F. Schindler Mr. and Mrs. Werner S. Willmann Rosemary Wilson ’59 Anne Winslow Antoinette and Brian Winters David E. Wolf and Cynthia A. Coppess Dennis B. Wolkoff and Susan C. Coolidge Chang Rok Woo and Ho Geun Chung Carl and Marjory Wunsch Mary W. Wyman Rick Yeiser and Ruth Einstein Mr. and Mrs. Tae Hoon Yoon Robert York and Judith Flynn-York Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Yusen Edward and Janet Zaval Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth H. Zimble

In addition to raising $8,933 during Winterfest, current students made individual gifts to Annual Giving. Gifts from seniors are in the Senior Parent Gift section on page 76 of this report.

Class of 2010 Dylan Awalt-Conley Casey Barth Julian Bercu Talene Bilazarian Ariel Bliss Emily Boghossian Brendan Buckland Rachel Carr Jung Bae Chi Liza Comart Ho Deuk Do Heui Yung Do Johanna Douglas Julia Dyer Daysha Edewi Jamie Fradkin Dante Gonzalez Philip Gosnell Hye Sung Han Jun Hee Han William Harrison Caroline Howe Maia Johnstone Dong Han Kim Seonjae Kim Andrew McCue Charles Pastuszenski Thomas Rafferty Michael Rho Jack Rodat Lovelie Tejada Suzanne Tobey Alexandra Urban Babatunji Vandermeer Isabel Walsh

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“Concord Academy is unlike any high school I know,” she says. “Beyond the incredible breadth of academic courses and the top-notch faculty, I was especially impressed with the nurturing environment. It created a safe atmosphere for experimentation, which translated

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into love of learning. As a parent, I witnessed some interesting transformations — a jock became intrigued and excited about ideas, while a bookworm found his voice and became quite assertive in stating his political position and worldly view.”

Emily’s explains her continuing support simply: “Concord Academy gave a gift that warrants giving back.”

William Watkinson Benjamin Weissmann Geoffrey Yu Eileen Yung

Class of 2009 Nora Berson Thomas Bloom Adam Brown Bonnie Cao Elizabeth Chamberlin DeWitt Clemens Russell Cohen Emily Cole Adam Cole Anneliese Cooper Jacob Dockterman Alexia Downs Eric Edelstein Amara Frumkin Michael Fubini Laura Garbarino Eugene Ha Marjory Haraguchi Elizabeth Hoffman Saidur Hossain Roger Hurd Jung Hyun Morgan Ingari Angad Jaggi Isabella Joslin Hannah Kaemmer Janice Kitchen Jonathan Koh Lindsay Kolowich Daniel Lander Meghan Leathers John Oh Sinead Oliver Emma Quinn Seth Ritland Garrett Rowe Lewis Salas Emma Ware

Class of 2008 Carly Anderson Peter Boskey Frances Bothfeld Chelsey Bowman Henry Butman Joseph Byrne Lucy Caplan Rutledge Chin Feman Emily Cohen Nathan Coppersmith Joseph Daly Patrick D’Arcy Krongkamol de Leon Julia Denardo-Roney Anabelle Dennis Amanda Deoki Kim Dinh Eliza Epstein

Marina Filisky Kelly Flanagan Daniel Flicker Lucas Frank Nola Glatzel Matthew Goldenberg Sophie Goodman Graydon Gund Anna Hager Aidan Hanlon David Hook Caroline Hughes Carrie Hui Atsuyoshi Ishizumi Morgan Jaffe Julia Kantor Andrew Kelly Laura Kerry Katherine Kettle Jae-Sung Kim Jessica Langman Renee Leatherman-Aelion Dong Hyung Lee Walter Lehner Dana Leonard Katherine McNally Frederick Milgrim Zoe Mueller Alexis Newton David Noam Chloe O’Connell Paul Quimby Max Rater Theodore Rostow Christeen Savinovich Danielle Searls Taylor Serafini Joseph Shapiro Duncan Sherwood-Forbes Emily Shoov Thomas Smith Patrick Walker Marlana Wallace Fannie Watkinson Charles Wilder Alexandra Wood Eva Yuma

Gifts from Faculty and Staff Special thanks to the faculty and staff who contributed to Annual Giving this year. Gifts from faculty and staff, who already give so much of themselves to CA, are especially meaningful.

Carolyn Adams ’98 Ross Adams Bill and Susan Adams Marge G. Albin Carol Antos Annie and Benjamin Bailey ’91

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Thomas Bartolone Carol Anne Beach and Tara Bradley Joanne Becotte Elizabeth Bedell Janel Blood Howard V. Bloom Michael Bouzan Jennifer Brennan Shawn Buckland Justin and Tracy Bull Richard Colton and Amy Spencer Lodowick Crofoot Hilary Walther Cumming ’87 Keith Daniel Susan Davis Leslie Day Jackie Decareau Jeff and Jennifer Desjarlais Ingrid von Dattan Detweiler ’61 Deanna Douglas Jacob and Pat Dresden John and Gianna Drew Marjory M. Evans Jared Falcon Nicole Fandel Lee Fearnside ’92 Eve Fraser-Corp Kim Frederick Gail Friedman David R. Gammons Brian and Bob Giannino-Racine Elizabeth Z. Ginsberg Deborah Gray Russell Gray Patty Hager Max Hall Emily Halpern-Lewis Gary Hawley Linda Hossfeld Nancy Howard Timothy F. Hult Sarah Ismail Peter and Sarah Jennings Greg Jutkiewicz Cynthia Katz Joan Kaufmann Martha Kennedy Donald and Susan Kingman Robert Koskovich Abby Laber Peter Laipson George Larivee Sarah Lawrence Kristen G. Lewis Stephanie Manzella Marion Matson Natalie M. Matus Deb McCarthy John McGarry and Suzanne Parry Morgan Mead Carol Miller Marcy Moreno Jamie Morris-Kliment Marie Myers Roberta M. Nicoletta Marco Odiaga

Kate Oggel Sue Olson Robert and Barbara Piantedosi Isabel Plaster Judi Raiff Carol Rand Cathleen Randall David and Margaret Rost Chris Rowe Pamela Safford and Dan Covell Sue Sauer Paula Scolavino Judi Seldin Timothy Seston and Sally Zimmerli Brendan and Stephanie Shepard Carol Mann Shoudt Adam Simon Kellie and Brad Smith Diane Spence Ayres and Kristin Stiles-Hall Jenny Stirling Sandy and Lucille Stott Jessica C. Straus Benjamin Stumpf ’88 Peter Sun Selim Tezel Cammy Thomas Tina Tong Pat Udomprasert Roberto Ugalde Laurence Vanleynseele Eliza Wall Scott Wick Antoinette and Brian Winters Michael and Hilary Wirtz Elizabeth Julier Wyeth ’76 Andrea Yanes-Taylor Reid Young Eugenia Zangas

Gifts from Grandparents, Former Faculty, and Friends Mr. and Mrs. Robert Anderson Stylianos Atlamazoglou Elizabeth Ballard Albert H. Barclay Sarah Bellini Luis Stephen C. Blacklow Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Bliss Steven F. Bloom and Marjorie D. Mitlin Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Boegel Anne Colman Douglas C. Cooney Ellen R. Cooper Mr. and Mrs. Clive Corp Mr. and Mrs. William Costa John J. Dau Mr. and Mrs. Elden D. Dellanina Jacqueline Dresden Corson Ellis

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Mr. and Mrs. Herb Epstein Tor Faegre and Sue Sommers James W. Fishel Martha Freedman Wanda Holland Greene Leo and Lil Hebert Matthew A. Henson Beth E. Hill Faith Howland Barbara Keough Mr. and Mrs. Philip Lehner Robert M. Lerner Mr. and Mrs. Jerome S. Levitan Ruth Lowy Richard A. Lumpkin Dan Lundquist Kate Magardo Lane and Ann McGovern Sylvia Mendenhall Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Miller, Sr. Paul and Pamela Ness Lois Nordin Julie Orsi Stephen B. Perry Matthew Prete Cecille Price Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Reall George A. Rice Helena S. Riney Robert S. Royce Audrey Rubin Ted Scott John R. Serafini Ann Shaw Mr. and Mrs. Warren G. Sprague Enid M. Starr Mr. and Mrs. Seth Taft Matthew D. Teja Douglas C. Telling Anne Thomas Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Timmons Lillian Troop Nicole M. Turner Dorothy H. Tye Christopher Van Hollen Frona B. Vicksell Neil and Elise Wallace Mr. and Mrs. John Waters Dr. and Mrs. Gerald Weissmann Mr. and Mrs. David L. Wells Alan and Caroline Wu

Gifts from Corporations, Foundations, and Other Organizations Anonymous (3) Alliance Capital Management L.P. ASD Foundation Avaya The Baltimore Community Foundation Beard Family Charitable Trust

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Bell Family Fund Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, Inc. Boston Foundation Boston Private Bank and Trust Company Boyer Charitable Lead Annuity Trust Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Cleveland H. Dodge Foundation The Columbus Foundation Computer Associates International, Inc. Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, Inc. Community Foundation of New Jersey Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts Dayton Foundation Deerfield Associates The Donald J. Hurley Foundation The Dorsey and Whitney Foundation The Eastern Charitable Foundation Elizabeth G. Henry Charitable Lead Unitrust Eveillard Family Charitable Trust EFunds Fannie Mae Foundation The Farzin Arsanjani Family Foundation Fidelity Foundation Fiduciary Charitable Foundation The Gillette Company GlaxoSmithKline Foundation Global Impact Helen and William Mazer Foundation Henry and Joan T. Wheeler Charitable Fund The Initiative For Corporate Responsibility Intel Foundation Jefferies and Company, Inc. Jewish Communal Fund The Kaufman Family Foundation Kahn Charitable Foundation Knox Family Foundation Landamerica Foundation Financial Group, Inc. Lehman Brothers Lincoln Financial Group Foundation, Inc. The Lumpkin Family Foundation Mancini Foundation Mary W. Harriman Foundation The Maslon Foundation Microsoft Corporation MMC The Millmont Foundation The New York Times Company Foundation Oracle Corporation Philips PACE North America Corporation Phoebe R. and John D. Lewis Foundation Random House, Inc. River Branch Foundation Santa Barbara Foundation The Santomero Family Foundation Inc. Savanna Fund Schwab Fund for Charitable Giving The Shane Foundation Trust

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Simon Family Philanthropic Foundation Inc. Summit Area Public Foundation The Tulgey Wood Foundation Time Warner Matching Grants Program UBS Warburg LLC United Way of New York City Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program Wachovia The Weathertop Foundation Wellington Management Co. LLP Wells Fargo Matching Gift Program The Woodcock #3 Foundation

In Honor of Nancy Megowen Shane ’51

Lee Shane ’85 The Shane Foundation Trust In Memory of Joy Kidder Shane ’40

Donald Bell ’76 In Memory of Irving and Jane Cushman Telling ’40

Douglas C. Telling In Honor of Marlana Wallace ’08

Neil and Elise Wallace In Honor of Thomas E. Wilcox and E. Whitney Ransome

Andrea Lucas Lucard ’82

Tribute Gifts Gifts in Kind In Memory of Doris Coryell

Library

Walter Judge ’78 In Memory of Robbie Deitch

David Salomon and Marilyn Leeds In Honor of Alexander Edelmann ’09

Mr. and Mrs. John A. Edelmann In Memory of Michael Filisky

Ingrid Bartinique In Memory of Mary Gregory

Elizabeth Hall Richardson ’55 In Honor of Ann Gund

Jacqueline R. Kates In Honor of Patty Hager

Paul S. Barth and Kathy Knight In Honor of William Harrison ’10

Mr. and Mrs. David L. Wells In Honor of Nancy D. Kates ’80

Jacqueline R. Kates In Memory of John Buxton Lawson

Anne B. Lawson ’80 In Honor of Paul Mathus ’89

Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Mathus In Honor of Benjamin T. Miller ’08

Elizabeth Ballantine ’66 Sharon Bergman ’92 Sophronia G. Camp ’67 Benjamin Carmichael ’01 Margaret Coffin-Brown ’81 Alice Domar ’76 Kim Frederick Rebecca Trafton Frischkorn ’71 Stephanie Solakian Goldstein ’91 Deborah Gray Marna Hayden ’56 Jody Heymann ’77 C. Michael Hiam ’80 Christina Klein ’81 Deborah Smith Leighton ’55 Stuart F. Platt and Melonee Daniels Marcia Synnott ’57 Karen Braucher Tobin ’71 Kim Unsoo Nina Rothschild Utne ’71 Jane Waldfogel ’72 Helen Wheelock ’79 Terry Winters

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Miller, Sr. In Honor of Clare H. Nunes

Other Gifts in Kind

Mark Lu ’91 In Honor of the Operations Staff

Michael and Diane Spence In Honor of Ronald A. Richardson

Maro Robbins ’88 In Memory of Elizabeth Kenney Royce ’54

Mary Monks Lukens ’54 Robert S. Royce In Memory of Laurence Rubin

CJ and Rachel Coppersmith

Keith Daniel John and Gianna Drew Lambertus Drop Jared Falcon Ann Givens ’91 Tim Hayes and Anne Romney Ellen Condliffe Lagemann ’63 James and Deborah Pannell Mr. and Mrs. Brian E. Pastuszenski Robert and Barbara Piantedosi

In Honor of Cynthia Perrin Schneider ’71

The Initiative For Corporate Responsibility In Honor of Lee Shane ’85

Nancy Megowen Shane ’51 The Shane Foundation Trust

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Bill and Susan Adams Peter Agoos and Diane Fiedler Carol Anne Beach and Tara Bradley Jeanne Beaman Ward E. Bein and Priscilla D. Bolte Arthur Bellows Rodman Benedict Wendy S. Berger Louise Berliner Bessie Pappas Charitable Foundation, Inc. Les and Carol Bowen Rebecca M. Boyd William R. Brecklean and Rina K. Spence Dr. and Mrs. Paul A. Buttenwieser Capezio/Ballet Makers Dance Foundation, Inc. Catherine and Paul Buttenwieser Foundation Irene Chu ’76 DeWitt and Kelly Clemens Alison Cohen Concord Cultural Council Nancy Cowan ’84 Keith Daniel Paul R. Draskoczy Mark and Janet Rich Edwards Michael Epstein and April Stone Fidelity Foundation Janice M. Flammia and Gary Genard Eben and Win Gay Alan S. Geismer and Susan R. Dangel Bernard Gold Terry and Fran Goss Sally Grand Rosemary Grove David Harder and Deborah Greenwald Haut-Smith Associates Alan Joslin and Deborah Epstein Dr. and Mrs. Robert A. Kane Edgar Knudson Samuel Kurkjian Alison Smith Lauriat ’64 Charles Lawson Mr. and Mrs. David G. Leathers Susan E. Leeman Sharon Letovsky Janet Levinson T. Loverling Scott R. Matsumoto and Elizabeth A. Collins Leander and Stephanie Starr McCormick-Goodhart ’80 Gayle Merling Paul Messier Betty Milhendler John and Carol Moriarty Shizuo Mukai and Susan Verdicchio New England Foundation for the Arts Clare H. Nunes

Paul S. Barth and Kathy Knight Howard Bauchner and Chris McElroy Carol Anne Beach and Tara Bradley David and Tricia Benson Mr. and Mrs. Raynard D. Benvenuti Wendy S. Berger David M. Berson and Jessica C. Straus Dr. and Mrs. Seth D. Bilazarian Black Mountain Blue A Complete Hair Salon Blue Ribbon Barbeque Thomas and Lisa Blumenthal David M. Boghossian and Elizabeth Bartle Boston Duck Tours Boston Red Sox Boston Symphony Orchestra and Boston Pops Nick Bothfeld and Elizabeth Brown ’70 James and June Bowman Jennifer Brennan Tony Brooke and Victoria Huber ’75 Jack and Susan Brown John and Nancy Butman Canobie Lake Park William and Fiona Carr

C. E. Floyd Company, Inc. A. James and Elizabeth Casner Michael Cavallo and Leah Greenwald Celebrity Series of Boston Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Chamberlin Charles River Boat Company Charles River Canoe and Kayak DeWitt and Kelly Clemens Downing Cless and Alice Trexler Jonathan J. Cohen and Eleanor F. Friedman Rick and Laurie Cohen Community Boating, Inc. Concord Academy English Department Concord Car Wash Concord Flower Shop Concord Museum Concord Provisions John G. Conley and Elizabeth G. Awalt CJ and Rachel Coppersmith Christopher B. Daly and Anne K. Fishel Dalya’s Restaurant Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. D’Arcy DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park Kevin Dennis and Rebecca Kellogg ’71

Educational Programs Arts Program Leander and Stephanie Starr McCormick-Goodhart ’80

Academic The Ramsey McCluskey Family Foundation

Clubs Nancy Howard

Music Program Dr. and Mrs. David F. Walther

Benefit for Financial Aid Raises $150,000

Financial Aid (includes gifts to general financial aid and direct gifts and gifts in kind to the Benefit for Financial Aid) Anonymous Steven Abrams and Abbe Alpert Angela Agard Juan C. Alvarez and Debra Dellanina-Alvarez Timothy A. Andrews and Valerie J. Cummings Anna’s Taqueria Amor Arriaga The Astors’ Beechwood Mansion Atkinson Frame Shop Auntie’s Pet Club Nazneen Aziz and Arijit Bose Bank of America Barrow Bookstore

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aurie Cohen P’05, ’08 and Jane Hughes P’04, ’08 (above) chaired the Benefit for Financial Aid, an annual event that this year centered on the theme, “CA: The School Heard ’Round the World.” The global decorations included posters of alumnae/i working in foreign countries, such as the one of Jill Conway Mehl ’85 at an orphanage in Kenya (above, behind Cohen and Hughes). More than three hundred parents, staff, and faculty attended the benefit; through silent and live auctions they helped raise more than $150,000 for financial aid.

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Wayne and Marie Oliver Mr. and Mrs. Les E. Olson Julie Orsi Joan Parker Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Parker Patricia P. Irgens Larsen Charitable Foundation, Inc. Steven and Terry Perlmutter Raymond J. Pohl and Lisa M. Botticelli Ellen M. Poss Thomas and Jennifer Rawe Terry Real and Belinda Berman-Real Elaine V. Robins Karen Shanley James and Marilyn Showstack Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Paul Siegal The Stebbins Fund, Inc. Sandy and Lucille Stott Surdna Foundation, Inc. Dan Wagoner Jeff and Martha Winokur Leon R. Yankwich William Zink and Sara Delano

Linda Lawrence P’09

Current Gifts Restricted for Special Purposes

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Jeff and Jennifer Desjarlais Dr. and Mrs. David A. Dockterman Ian T. Douglas and Kristin Harris James and Donna Down Jacob and Pat Dresden Peter M. Durney and Beth A. Shipley Michael Epstein and April Stone Yavuz Ermis Essex River Cruises and Charters Mary Etherington Scott Evoy and Alexandra Steinert-Evoy Christian and Pamela Fantini Sanford N. Feman and Linda Y. Chin Mr. and Mrs. Michael C. Fender Mr. and Mrs. Stona Fitch George and Lisa Foote David Forbes Foxwoods Resort and Casino French Lessons Mr. and Mrs. Gerald L. Frenkil Fruitlands Museum Todd Galusha and Leslie Harries Mr. and Mrs. Bryan M. Ghows Elizabeth Z. Ginsberg Wendelin Glatzel Agnes Glidden Scott Glidden and Ruth Page Mr. and Mrs. Liviu Goldenberg Richard Graf and Catherine Kernan The Grasshopper Shop Eric D. Green and Carmin C. Reiss Mr. and Mrs. Graham Gund Max Hall Mr. and Mrs. Edson Haraguchi Michael and Karen Harkins Heritage Plantation of Sandwich Al Herter Hilton Boston Mr. and Mrs. Parkman D. Howe Jerry and Jane Hughes Timothy and Mary Hult Huntington Theatre Company Jonathan and Tracey Hurd Hyannis Whale Watch Cruises Hy-Line Cruises Steve Imrich and Cynthia W. Smith Frank A. Ingari and Margaret A. Sullivan Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Sandra Willett Jackson ’61 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Mark R. Jaffe and Marcia C. Glassman-Jaffe Jillian’s Boston Joe Pouech Flooring Lyle Kantor and Mimi Elmer John F. Kennedy Library and Museum Mr. and Mrs. David J. Kaemmer Mr. and Mrs. Kevin B. Kelly Cam Kerry and Kathy Weinman Franklin and Colleen Kettle Woong Chul and Sookheui Y. Kim Janice Hinkle Kitchen ’68 Betty Knake Kevin B. Krauss and Ms. Laurie J. Zimmerman Ellen Condliffe Lagemann ’63

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William and Lisa Lahey Mr. and Mrs. William A. Lamkin Eric and Lori Lander Laz Parking Ltd. Mr. and Mrs. David G. Leathers Herman B. Leonard and Kathryn A. Angell Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Lie Dr. and Mrs. Jongchoo Lim Elliot and Lenore Lobel Longfellow’s Wayside Inn Nils and Muriel Luderowski Matthew R. Lynch Mary Adler Malhotra ’78 Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Mankin Marcello Capelli Salon Daniel Matthews Max Stein’s American Steakhouse Amelia Lloyd McCarthy ’89 Deb McCarthy Leander and Stephanie Starr McCormick-Goodhart ’80 John McCluskey and Margaret Ramsey McCluskey Mr. and Mrs. David S. McCue Lucy-Ann McFadden ’70 Katherine McNally ’08 Microsoft Corporation Trevor Miller and Kim Williams Mohegan Sun John and Carol Moriarty Janice Mulligan Mr. and Mrs. Don Munsey Museum of Science Charlie and Debbie Namias Nashoba Brook Bakery Nashoba Valley Ski Area National Amusements, Inc. The Neil and Anna Rasmussen Foundation Neiman Marcus New England Aquarium Stephen and Betty Newton Ronald H. Nordin and Leslie C. Nicholson Gil G. Noam and Maryanne Wolf Albert A. Notini and Barbara R. Jezak Thomas M. O’Brien III Wayne and Marie Oliver Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Owades Mr. and Mrs. Brian E. Pastuszenski Patriot Travel Inc. Peabody Essex Museum Steven and Terry Perlmutter Thomas Pimm and Gayle Nutile-Pimm Plimoth Plantation Raymond J. Pohl and Lisa M. Botticelli The Pumpkin Foundation Neil and Anna Rasmussen Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Reich Marc and Lisa Richard Rita Robert Robert K. Rodat and Mollie D. Miller Joel B. Rosen and Addie L. Swartz Mark and Etta Rosen Channing and Deborah Russell Pamela Safford and Dan Covell

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Sakonnet Vineyards Fatima Salas Dan Sanford Ralph D. Sanford and Diane M. Grant Serafina’s Ristorante Thomas L. Schuster and Ute Dietrich-Schuster Eric and Anne Shapiro Virginia Sherwood David Allen Sibley Sierra’s Restaurant Mr. and Mrs. Richard Simon Simon Family Philanthropic Foundation Inc. Lowell S. Smith and Sally Sanford Mr. and Mrs. Daniel T. Smythe Something Special Marc and Christine Sommers Sorrento’s Mr. and Mrs. David P. Southwell Michael and Diane Spence Marjorie Staub Charlie and Christy Stolper Benjamin Stumpf ’88 LeMoyne Dodge Sylvester ’52 Ben and Kate Taylor Thoreau Club Lee Thornton Andrew M. Troop and Andrea Sussman

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher R. Tunnard Laurie Turner Larry Tye and Elisabeth Frusztajer ’80 The UPS Store Mr. and Mrs. Roger F. Urban David K. Urion and Deborah Choate USS Constitution Museum Wachusett Mountain Jay Wallace and Lisa McGovern Marcia Walsh Richard and Susan Walters Fan and Peter Watkinson Lisa Weissmann and Debra Shapiro Ronald B. White and Andrea E. Stern Dr. and Mrs. Michael Wilson James and Jane Wilson Deborah G. Winship ’61 Winston Flowers David E. Wolf and Cynthia A. Coppess Wyndham Boston Andover Hotel Sook H. Yang Mr. and Mrs. Preston F. Zoller Zoo New England

Health and Wellness Anonymous

Tim Morse

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Main Street Circle: Five consecutive years of giving

fully acknowledges the generosity of individuals and organizations that made gifts or new pledges to capital, plant, and endowment purposes between July 1, 2006 and June 30, 2007. In addition to $3,869,374 received in contributions (page 54), an additional $1,946,736 was raised in new pledges.

Anonymous Kathleen Fisk Ames ’65 Morley Cowles Ballantine Becton Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Henry P. Becton, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Neil R. Blacklow Peter Blacklow ’87 Boston Foundation Boyer Charitable Lead Annuity Trust Lindsay Soutter Boyer ’76 Markley Boyer ’78 Markley H. Boyer and Barbara E. Millen College Access Foundation of California Charles Collier ’85 Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, Inc. Nancy Colt Couch ’50 Dean Forbes ’83 Fore River Foundation Alexis Goltra ’87 Mr. and Mrs. Graham Gund Jennifer Johnson ’59 Ellen Condliffe Lagemann ’63 Peter Laipson Lumpkin Family Foundation Richard A. Lumpkin Mary Adler Malhotra ’78 Marshall B. Coyne Foundation, Inc. Mary W. Harriman Foundation Amelia Lloyd McCarthy ’89 Noah McCormack ’00 Lucy-Ann McFadden ’70 Sam and Susan Hall Mygatt Charlotte Quesada ’95 T. Ricardo and Strand Quesada Cornelia Urban Sawczuk ’80 The Alice W. Read Trust Thorne Foundation David and Rose Thorne United Way of New York City Weathertop Foundation Linden Havemeyer Wise ’70 In Honor of Peter Blacklow ’87

Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Brown Other Donors

Becton Dickinson and Company Oracle Corporation Schering-Plough Foundation

The Morton and Lillian Waldfogel Charitable Foundation Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program Jane Waldfogel ’72 Scott and Deborah Jackson Weiss

Financial Aid for Students from Belmont Day School Anonymous

The Trudy Friedman ’78 Scholarship Fund

2004 Senior Parent Gift Paul and Robin DiGiammarino Elliot and Lenore Lobel Schwab Fund for Charitable Giving Dan and Maggie Terris

Fund for Faculty and Staff Enrichment

In Memory of Trudy Friedman ’78

Boston Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Orrie M. Friedman

Elizabeth B. Hall Scholarship Fund In Memory of Elizabeth B. Hall

Huldah Moss ’60 Susan Garth Stott ’59

The Benjamin David Hamilton ’00 Scholarship Fund

2005 Senior Parent Gift Paul and Dee Bertozzi Michael Drossos and Malva Gordett Joseph O. Jacobson and Margaret Seton Jenny C. Preston ’67 Howard and Robin Reisman Mr. and Mrs. Thomas O. Scripps In Honor of Steve Cambria, Susan Davis, Ayres and Kristin Stiles-Hall, and Selim Tezel

Kim and Jody Comart

Gary and Lisa Garmon Wendy Hamilton

New York Scholar Fund

Professional Development Fund

Fay Lampert Shutzer ’65

2007 Senior Parent Gift Marten Ann Pool ’58 Arts and Sciences Scholarship Fund Mary Poole ’59

Teak Fellowship Fund Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Reich

Amy E. Wells ’89 Memorial Scholarship Fund Katie Pakenham ’88

Faculty Salaries and Professional Development The Learning Center Fund Maren Anderson and Duke Collier

Donors to Restricted Capital Purposes

Faculty Recruitment and Retention Fund

Katherine Carton Hammer ’68 Endowed Faculty Chair

Financial Aid

Ann Carton

Anonymous Martin Schneider and Debra Fine ’77 Ken Lappin and Niti Seth

Tribute Faculty Support Fund Gale Hurd ’61

Parents and family members of seniors raised $635,710 in gifts and pledges, providing funds for the Endowed Fund for Professional Development to support the passion for learning in the adult community; $165,000 of this gift is designated for 2006 – 07 Annual Giving.

Cochairs: Tony Brooke and Vicky Huber ’75 Committee: Downing Cless Jonathan Cohen Kit Devereaux Ian Douglas Melinda Howe Bill Lahey Shirley Livingston Esther Lobel, Grandparent Chair Lenore Lobel John and Carol Moriarty Sue Mun Leslie Nicholson Scott Park Steve Perlmutter Bruce Posner Carmin Reiss Ellen Remmer Tom Shapiro

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Charlie and Christy Stolper Rose Thorne Jeff Winokur Elise Zoller

Mr. and Mrs. Vikram S. Mehta Mr. and Mrs. Jeffery B. Morgan Danielle Morgan-Stevenson John and Carol Moriarty Edward and Sue Mun Ronald H. Nordin and Leslie C. Nicholson Eric Oldsman and Kim Triedman Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Olshan Mr. and Mrs. Warren K. Palley Mr. and Mrs. Hyoung J. Park Mr. and Mrs. Scott Hyo San Park Steven and Terry Perlmutter Taijmatie Persaud Richard Pierce and Ellen Mahoney Thomas Pimm and Gayle Nutile-Pimm

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Bruce Posner and Betsy Rudnick Mr. and Mrs. Christopher E. Rhodes Sr. Linda J. Roberts Jonathan Sands and Deborah Merrill-Sands Thomas Shapiro Jim Shen and Julia Zhou Scott and Ellen Slater Mark B. Stockman and Jayne Anne Phillips Charlie and Christy Stolper Dean Sullender and Suzanne Knight Lamont Taste and Joni Shaw-Taste David and Rose Thorne Mr. and Mrs. Christopher R. Tunnard Laurie Turner David K. Urion and Deborah Choate

Jeff and Elizabeth Wallace Patricia Westwater-Jong Roy and Nancy Wilsker Dr. and Mrs. Michael Wilson Jeff and Martha Winokur Mr. and Mrs. Preston F. Zoller

Grandparents of Seniors In Honor of Ben Wilson

Bess Harris In Honor of Charlie Hruska

Mr. and Mrs. Stanley J. Hruska In Honor of Ben Shapiro-Kline

Mr. and Mrs. Kline Tim Morse

Steven Abrams and Abbe Alpert Americo and Susan Andrade Louise Berliner Sadhana Bery Altheia Biaterana Richard and Michelle Binzel Bruce and Jane Blumberg Tim and Elaine Bowe Bill Boynton and Jackie Boegel Tony Brooke andVicky Huber ’75 Roger Brown and Linda Mason Paul and Lisbeth Cahill Michael Cavallo and Leah Greenwald Mr. and Mrs. HyunKwon Cho David Christiani and Charlotte Ryan Downing Cless and Alice Trexler Jonathan J. Cohen and Eleanor F. Friedman Mark H. Corrigan and Nancy Works David and Gretchen Denison Mr. and Mrs. Pietro A. Doran Ian T. Douglas and Kristin Harris Yavuz Ermis Douglas M. Fosdick and Martha A. Penzenik Christopher Fox and Ellen Remmer Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Geitz Kathleen Glenn Michael Glenn and Kathleen Wolf Richard Graf and Catherine Kernan Mr. and Mrs. Frederick L. Grandy Eric D. Green and Carmin C. Reiss Gopal and Nupur Gupta Michael and Caryn Harkins Jonathan M. Harris and Lowry E. Hemphill ’68 Dr. and Mrs. Marshall L. Horwitz Mr. and Mrs. Parkman D. Howe Allan J. Hruska and Sarah Gladstone Sam and Helen Hui Geraldine Jones-Diouf Jonathan and Laurie E. Kahn-Leavitt Dongsik Kim and Kyounghee Yoon Edward Koh and Carol Mastromauro William and Lisa Lahey John Lam Ken Lappin and Niti Seth Bernard L. Lebow and Barbara J. Guilfoile Richard Levitan and Susan Edgman-Levitan Mr. and Mrs. George C. Livingston Elliot and Lenore Lobel Mr. and Mrs. Jack Mandelbaum Mr. and Mrs. Antonio Marques Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Maskell Andrew H. Mason and Susan R. Lindeberg Ellie Mathews

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In Honor of Sylvie Lam

Mr. and Mrs. William M. C. Lam In Honor of Emily Howe

Mr. and Mrs. John Lindquist In Honor of Annie Lobel

Esther F. Lobel In Honor of Nick Morgan

Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Morgan In Honor of Felicity Slater

Mr. and Mrs. A.G. Sterling

Class of 2007

Record-Breaking Senior Parent Gift Tony Brooke and Vicky Huber ’75, cochairs of the Senior Parent Gift Committee and parents of Max Brooke ’07 and Eliza Brooke ’09, and Molly Lebow, 2007 class president, present the 2007 Senior Parent Gift to Head of School Jake Dresden (above left).

The $635,710 gift reflects the generous participation of every single senior’s parents, as well as many grandparents. The gift is the third highest in school history and only the second time a class has reached 100 percent participation, a testament to the inclusiveness and stellar follow-through of the Senior Parent Gift Committee. Molly presented an additional $1,700, raised by members of the senior class, 95 percent of whom contributed — by far the largest student participation in the history of CA. This year’s Senior Parent Gift supports professional development for faculty, helping to ensure that CA adults have the necessary resources to pursue their passion for learning, which fuels their passion for teaching.

Saul Alpert-Abrams Tess Andrade Shamsud Bery Brandon Biaterana Steven Binzel Gwen Blumberg Becca Bowe Marisa Boynton Max Brooke Addy Cahill Bren Cavallo Jae Cho Nora Christiani Issy Cless Deeona Deoki Louisa Denison Kaya Doran Timothy Douglas John Fosdick Steven Fox Emma Friedman-Cohen Anne Geitz Jack Glenn Jody Graf Monica Grandy Nicholas Green Courtney Harkins Patrick Harris

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Faculty and Staff Agree: Giving to CA Is a Capital Idea early 80 percent of Concord Academy’s faculty and staff contributed annual or capital gifts in 2006 – 07.

When History Department Head Peter Laipson (below, with his wife Elizabeth) finished a 2006 – 07 sabbatical as a visiting fellow at the College Access Foundation of California, the foundation gave him a stipend, which Peter and his wife Elizabeth chose to donate to Concord Academy’s endowed Financial Aid Fund.

Then Peter went a step further and asked the foundation to match the gift, which it did, doubling its impact.

For Peter and Elizabeth, the decision to give was easy. “Having taught at Concord Academy for seven years, I have profound respect for the quality of education the school offers,” said Peter.

“Both Elizabeth and I wanted to do our part to make it possible for more students with limited means to attend.”

Joshua Horwitz Emily Howe Charles Hruska Dora Hui Alexander Jong Janice Kim David Koh Maxwell Lahey Sylvie Lam Sonali Lappin Molly Lebow Amelia Levitan Candace Lindeberg Anne Lobel Brian Mahoney-Pierce Karen Mandelbaum Cathy Marques Grace Maskell Farrell Mason-Brown Eric Mathews Malika Mehta Nicholas Morgan John Moriarty Edward Mun John Nordin Charlotte Oldsman Jeffrey Olshan Ross Palley Soo Jin Park Ju-Hyoung Park Eliza Perlmutter

* Deceased

English teacher Parkman Howe and his wife Melinda (right, with daughters Emily ’07 and Caroline ’10) were active in the Senior Parent Gift effort, which supported faculty professional development.

“Giving to professional development is a way to ensure that CA will continue to be a strong and vibrant institution,” said Melinda, a member of the Senior Parent Gift Committee.

Parkman added that, for him, a Senior Parent Gift was also “a way to say thank you to my colleagues for the teaching and counsel they provided for Emily during her four years at the school.”

Outgoing Director of Development Diane Spence, parent of Liz ’04 (right), guided the development staff and managed a successful capital campaign during her eleven years at CA. Before she left her post in June, Diane chose to make a planned gift to Concord Academy. “CA is our

family’s school,” she said, acknowledging the lasting connections she, her husband Michael, and her daughter Liz have formed with CA. “Through a charitable gift annuity, I was able to benefit my parents with additional income for their lifetimes and at the same time ensure a future gift to the school. I was so glad to have this way to show that Concord Academy will always be an organization important to me and my family.”

Jared Pimm Emma Posner Christopher Rhodes Kiefer Roberts Samuel Sands Benjamin Shapiro-Kline Kristian Shaw Mary Shen Felicity Slater Victoria Stevenson Soren Stockman Chad Stolper Benjamin Sullender Emma Thorne Frederica Tunnard Lucas Turner-Owens Rufus Urion Everett Wallace Ben Wilson Zack Winokur Charlotte Zoller

Doreen Young English Department Head Chair

General Endowment

Morley Cowles Ballantine

Pending Designation

Friends and Other Donors

Dr. and Mrs. Murray A. Nicolson

Boston Foundation Charles N. and Christina T. Stolper Foundation, Inc. Fidelity Foundation San Francisco Foundation Schwab Fund for Charitable Giving Tyco

Educational Program

Yoon Chai Lee Mr. and Mrs. Carl Lehner In Memory of Sarah Block ’85*

Athletics Bruce Beal ’88 Keith Gelb ’88

Head of School’s Leadership Fund

Matthew Prete

Physical Plant and Equipment

2003 Senior Parent Gift

Belknap House: Supporting Academics and Community

Richard and Antra Borofsky

2006 Senior Parent Gift

Stephen Nicolson ’81 Cycling Fund

Library Prentice Hiam ’79 Fund Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Ballantyne

Peter Agoos and Diane Fiedler Nazneen Aziz and Arijit Bose Paul S. Barth and Katherine Knight Elizabeth Bartholet Wendy B. Berger Richard and Janesse Bruce Edward Burke and Lisa Zankman Michael and Kathy Fitzgerald Michael A. Glier and Jenny Holzer Glen and Jessica Kaufman Eric and Lori Lander Mr. and Mrs. Herbert L. Levin

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Will Lotter and Trish Allen Steven M. Mirin and Margaret S. McKenna Deborah A. Greenman and Humphrey Morris Russ and Wanfang Murray Albert A. Notini and Barbara R. Jezak Hoon-Sup and Yong A. Oh Wayne and Marie Oliver David and Robin Ray Virginia Wellington Cabot Foundation

Athletic Fields Bruce Beal ’88 Keith Gelb ’88

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Josephine Wadleigh Shane Fund for Chapel Maintenance and Operations

Bequests and Planned Gifts

In Memory of Joy Kidder Shane ’40

Donors who have provided support through bequests, trusts, annuities, and other life income arrangements or estate gifts are also recognized as members of the Chameleon Circle. Such gifts offer mutually beneficial ways to meet personal financial objectives while supporting the school through tax advantaged gifts.

Columbus Foundation George and Nancy Kidder Mary-Dixon Sayre Miller ’40 Phebe Miller ’67 Mary Wadleigh ’64

Technology John McCluskey and Margaret Ramsey McCluskey

Diane Spence

Gifts in Kind Ellen Condliffe Lagemann ’63

Thank You, Chameleon Circle Members!

THE CHAMELEON CIRCLE

CONCORD ACADEMY MAGAZINE / REPORT OF GIVING

recognizes, honors, and thanks the alumnae/i, parents, and friends who have remembered Concord Academy in their estate plans and/or have entered into life income gift arrangements to benefit the school. Concord Academy expresses its deep gratitude to the Chameleon Circle members for their thoughtfulness in planning gifts that will provide new resources to support the education of future generations of students.

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Kathleen Fisk Ames ’65 Wendy Arnold ’65 Morley Cowles Ballantine Caroline Ballard ’72 Mr. and Mrs. John H. Barber Alice Beal ’68 Patricia Wolcott Berger ’47 Sally Farnsworth Blackett ’58 John Bracker and Rachel Countryman David and Kathryn Burmon Nancy Parker Clark, Jr. ’38 Lewis and Phyllis Cohen Rebecca Wade Comstock ’82 Alice Smith Cornish ’40 Nancy Colt Couch ’50 Lucy Faulkner Davison ’52 Peter and Anna Davol Marian Ferguson ’63 Mrs. Samuel Ferguson, Jr. Abigail Fisher ’82 Sarah Foss ’41 Dexter Foss Marion Freeman ’69 Barbara Cushing Gibbs ’64 Susan Colgate Goldman ’64 Erik Hestnes ’79 Mary Leigh Morse Houston ’47 Gale Hurd ’61 Lucinda Jewell ’76 Jennifer Johnson ’59 Alison Smith Lauriat ’64 Lucia Woods Lindley ’55

Helen Whiting Livingston ’41 Pauline Lord ’68 Elissa Meyers Middleton ’86 Eleanor Bingham Miller ’64 Mary-Dixon Sayre Miller ’40 Phebe Miller ’67 Paul and Pamela Ness Anne Chamberlin Newbury ’29 Lynne Dominick Novack ’67 Elizabeth Haight O’Connell ’72 Cynthia Phelps ’64 Edith Cowles Poor ’39 Anne Hart Pope ’66 Edith Rea ’69 Elizabeth Hall Richardson ’55 Cary Ridder ’68 Denise Rueppel Santomero ’77 Anne Michie Sherman ’39 Elizabeth Simpson ’72 Constance Boyd Skewes ’52 Nathaniel Stevens ’84 Elizabeth Hauge Sword ’75 Lillian Thomas Mary Wadleigh ’64 Peter Wallis ’76 Victoria Wesson ’61 Margaret Sayre Wiederhold ’56 Thomas E. Wilcox and E. Whitney Ransome Linden Havemeyer Wise ’70 Marcia Johnston Wood ’75 Elizabeth Lund Zahniser ’71

Create a lasting legacy and become a member of the Chameleon Circle.

If you are interested in learning more about joining the Chameleon Circle through a bequest, gifts of life insurance, charitable trusts, or other life income gifts, please contact Meg Wilson, Director of Advancement, 166 Main Street, Concord, MA 01742; (978) 402-2237; meg_wilson@concordacademy.org.

Or, if you have already provided for such a gift, we invite you to share this information so that the school may acknowledge and recognize you as a member.

Academic Technology Fund, 2001 Senior Parent Gift William M. Bailey History Department Head Chair Morley Cowles Ballantine Fund Barbara Satterthwait Buckley Fund for Music Faculty Salaries Sharon Lloyd Clark Fund for Faculty Salaries Classroom Innovation and Professional Development Fund, 2000 Senior Parent Gift Edward E. Ford Foundation Endowment Fund for Faculty Development Faculty Advanced Study Fund, 2002 Senior Parent Gift Fund for Faculty and Staff Enrichment, 2005 Senior Parent Gift Katherine Carton Hammer ’68 Endowed Faculty Chair Margaret Kendrick Fund Linda Coyne Lloyd Endowed Chair for the Performing Arts Nancy Loring Memorial Fund Elizabeth Maxfield-Miller Fund for French Department Faculty Salaries Lucy McFadden ’70 Endowed Fund for Curricular Innovation in the Sciences George E. Mercer Fund for Art Department Faculty Salaries Harriet Atwood Olmsted Music Fund Sayles Day Sabbatical and Research Fund Lloyd B. Taft Curriculum Fund Wilcox Fellows Fund Doreen Young English Department Head Chair

Financial Aid Funds

A named endowed fund is a gift established in perpetuity. The income from the endowment is used every year to provide support for a particular purpose agreed upon by the donor and the school. Concord Academy is grateful for these funds, which ensure long-term financial equilibrium and represent lasting tributes to faculty, alumnae/i, parents, and friends. The school welcomes additional gifts to these funds at any time.

Dorothea C. Adkins Music Scholarship Anne Dayton Buxton ’72 Fund Anne Bixby Chamberlin Scholarship Fund Class of ’98 Financial Aid Endowment, 1998 Senior Parent Gift Lottie Ellsworth Coit Financial Aid Fund Penelope P. Demille Scholarship Fund Helen Blanchard Dow ’37 Scholarship Educational Opportunity Fund Financial Aid Fund for Students from Belmont Day School Edward E. Ford Foundation Scholarship Fund Patricia E. Frankenberg Scholarship Fund Trudy Friedman ’78 Scholarship Fund Jean Gordon Scholarship Elizabeth B. Hall Scholarship Fund Benjamin David Hamilton ’00 Scholarship Fund Peter Hamlin ’76 Scholarship Fund Valeria Knapp Scholarship Fund Alida Rockefeller Messinger ’67 Scholarship Fund Geneva R. Moody Scholarship Fund Clara E. Morse Scholarship John G. Mulvany Scholarship Fund New York Scholar Fund Sally Whitney Pillsbury Scholarship Fund Marten Ann Poole ’58 Arts and Sciences Scholarship Fund Anne Quinn Scholarship Reader’s Digest Endowed Scholarship Fund Edith M. Robb Scholarship Fund Elizabeth Ross Carey ’72 Financial Aid Fund Students for Students Financial Aid Fund Wang Family Loan Program Susan Hurd Warren Scholarship Fund

* Deceased

Amy E. Wells ’89 Memorial Scholarship Fund Wilcox Scholars Fund

Pooled Endowed Tribute Funds For gifts ranging from $5,000 to $99,000 Tribute Faculty Support Fund

In memory of Nancy Maclaurin Decaneas ’62* In honor of William H. Eddy, Jr. and in memory of Nancy Loring*, Elizabeth Maxfield-Miller*, and George Mercer*

Funds For Program and Other Purposes Alexandra S. Beal ’86 and Bruce A. Beal, Jr. ’88 Fund Beal-Gelb Fund for Athletics Centipede Fund Anne E. and Jane S. Davidson Lectureship Fund Fund for Diversity Jeffrey S. Green ’97 Fund for Curricular Innovation Elizabeth B. Hall Fellowship Fund Head of School’s Leadership Fund, 2003 Senior Parent Gift Prentice Hiam ’79 Fund Richard H. Krock Family Fund Lee House Fund Helena Lefferts Memorial Art Book Fund Lumpkin Gawthrop Fund Nichols Fund Stephen Nicolson ’81 Cycling Fund Billy Rose Foundation Fund Josephine Wadleigh Shane ’40 Fund for Chapel Maintenance and Operations Miriam G. Smith Memorial Fund Wilcox Leadership Fund Doreen Young Fund for Campus Aesthetics

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Named Endowed Funds

Faculty and Academic Department Funds

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IN MEMORIAM

Thelma Apostol, grandmother of David Kukla ’82 Natalie Abbot Baker ’43 Sarah Ann Block ’85 Mary Ann Weld Bodecker ’47 Fan Brown, mother of Elizabeth Brown ’70, grandmother of Frances Bothfeld ’08

Shower of Milk

Harry C. Churchill, father of Natalie Churchill ’60 and Josephine Churchill Guerrieri ’65 Sidney Curelop, father of Jessica Curelop Miller ’87 Susan Swaim Dethlefs ’42, sister of Olivia Swaim LeFeaver ’41, aunt of Daphne LeFeaver Ball ’76 Dana C Djerf, father of Allison Djerf Ranson ’75 and Martha Djerf Kellerhals ’79 Mary Senior Fearey ’32, mother of Mary Fearey Lollis ’63 David and Patricia Granberg, grandparents of David Mallett ’09 Crosby Lincoln Higgins ’51 Mellor R. Holland, grandfather of Alexandra de Juniac ’02 John M. Mugar, father of Elizabeth Mugar Eveillard ’65 and Ellen Mugar ’70 Phyllis Clark Nininger ’46, sister-in-law of Nancy Parker Clark Jr. ’38 and Deborah Perry Clark ’46, cousin of Phebe Clark Miller ’42 and the late Margaret Eaton Gibson ’33, aunt of Hilary Clark ’73, Nancy Clark Davis ’66, and Constance Clark Gagnebin ’60

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Susan Locke Smith ’30, mother of Abigail Senkler Kazanowski ’56 and Susan Senkler McMullan ’59, stepmother of the late Susan Smith Huebsch ’50 and Lydia Smith Nader ’53, sister of the late Helen Locke Driscoll ’28 and the late Sally Locke Ffolliott ’26, and cousin of Mary Cochran Emerson ’38 and the late Margaret Cochran Emerson ’43 Mary Bigelow Soutter ’27, aunt of Beverly Chestnut ’69 Deborah Fritts Stavrou ’68, sister of Anne Fritts Syring ’64 Judith Sterling, grandmother of Felicity Slater ’07 and Gordon Slater ’10 Edith A. Surman, grandmother of Craig Bruce Hackett Surman ’90 and Kathleen Surman ’94 Sarah Sherman Tomaino ’44 Blakely Robinson Waite ’49, cousin of Sarah McClary Dewey ’48

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Eric W. Weinmann, father of Gail Greenwood Weinmann ’67 Louise France Werbe, mother of Louise Werbe White ’72 Continuum of Moments Photographs by Tapp Francke ’89

Janet Wilder, grandmother of David Wilder ’08 Richard Williamson, brother of Margaret Williamson Merrill ’61 Joyce Bartelsen Wilson, mother of Joanne Bertelsen Barnett ’75 Franklin Wyman, Jr., husband of Ruth Cheney Wyman ’43

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The IRS Invites You to Give —And Receive Clara Dennis ’08

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Nancy Colt Couch ’50

The Pension Protection Act of 2006 People aged seventy and a half and older have until December 31, 2007 to make a charitable donation with the following benefits:

• You can transfer IRA assets directly to Concord Academy without paying income tax on the withdrawal.

• The amount of the charitable transfer will count toward your annual minimum required IRA distribution.

• You may contribute up to $100,000.

• The funds must be transferred from a traditional or rollover IRA directly to CA. To learn more, please contact Director of Advancement Meg Wilson at (978) 402-2237, or email her at meg_wilson@concordacademy.org.

e have only until the end of the year to do it, but this is a truly creative way to give to CA while earning benefits for yourself,” said Nancy Colt Couch ’50.

Nancy was referring to the opportunity offered by the Pension Protection Act of 2006, which allows people aged seventy and a half and older to make taxadvantaged charitable donations directly from their IRA accounts. “Concord Academy is the first place I think of when I want to make a charitable donation,” Couch said, “and this opportunity lets me contribute more than I ever thought possible.”

Besides being a CA graduate herself, Nancy is the mother of Susan Couch Lowell ’75. She has also served two terms as a trustee, worked for five years as a development officer at the school, and continues to spend many volunteer hours on behalf of CA. For Nancy, a life devoted to service began early.

“During my Concord Academy years, I woke up to the importance of helping others,” she recalled.

Headmistress Elizabeth B. Hall was an “inspiring breath of fresh air” and a role model for doing good work in service of others. “My first job, when I was still a CA student, was nurse’s aide at Children’s Hospital in Boston. That work opened a whole new world to me, and I knew I wanted to become a nurse.”

Nancy worked as a nurse for several years, but in the early 1970s she was drawn back to Concord Academy when Headmaster Russell Mead asked her to run the fiftieth-anniversary celebration. The success of that event prompted Mead to invite Nancy to become a development officer at the school. Thirty-five years later, Nancy still works in the field, serving as a consultant and class officer in the Harvard College Fund.

Nancy has been particularly gratified by CA’s commitment to diversifying its students and faculty.

“It is great that the school is preparing students for the differences they will discover in the world,” she said.

“The more I work on behalf of CA, the more I realize how important it is to support what the school is doing.

Concord Academy helped me during a difficult part of my life. Over the years, I have been fortunate, and it is important to me to share that good fortune with the place that made such a difference to me. It’s so satisfying to give to CA because you truly feel you’ve accomplished something important.”

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Assemblies

Special Events

Performing Arts Center, 2:10 p.m.

October 18

October 5– 6

Carlotta Duarte, founder of the Chiapas Photography Project in Mexico.

Accompanying exhibit on display in the Ransome Room.

Parents’ Weekend

December 6

Photographer Clint Clemens, P’09 November 15

Bill Frusztajer P’80, ’82, GP’10 Author of Surviving Siberia and Thriving Under Capitalism

October 20

Vineyard Tour and Wine Tasting Cima Collina, 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Carmel Valley, Calfornia Hosted by Richard Lumpkin Chandler Bowl competition at Pingree School, 2:00 p.m.

South Hamilton, Massachusetts November 8

November 29

Amy Rosenfeld ’84, sports producer for ESPN, NESN, NBC, and FOX networks

Fall Athletic Celebration Student Health and Athletic Center, 5:15 p.m.

November 12

London Reception November 17

Admissions Open House: Performing and Visual Arts Performing Arts Center, 1:00 p.m.

Tim Morse

December 8

Admissions Open House: Athletics Student Health and Athletic Center, 1:00 p.m.

January 18

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Thank you.

Battle of Lexington & Concord Athletic competition vs. Lexington Christian Academy Student Health and Athletic Center, 3:30 p.m.