CA Magazine Fall 2008

fall 2008

Out of This World Antarctic adventures and NASA missions make Lucy McFadden ’70 one cool scientist.

Report of Giving 2007–08

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,

Tim Morse

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.

Sierra Starr ’08 Untitled, Sculpture, Spring 2008

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Editor

Gail Friedman Managing Editor

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Editorial Board

Tara Bradley Director of Communications

Gail Friedman Associate Director of Communications

Pam Safford Associate Head for Enrollment and Planning

Carol Shoudt Major Gifts Officer

Lucille Stott Advancement Writer, English Teacher

Meg Wilson Director of Advancement

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

Editorial Interns

Daphne Kim ’10 F E A T U R E S

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16 Out of This World

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Photography Interns

Antarctic adventures and NASA missions make Lucy McFadden ’70 one cool scientist.

by Gail Friedman

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Letters

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Campus News

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Alumnae/i Profiles Mark Garabedian ’99 Ann Ingersoll Boyden ’57 Kate Tweedy ’71 Alice Domar ’76

26 Commencement 2008 33 Reunion Weekend 2008 Joan Shaw Herman Award: Anne Gaud Tinker ’63

by Nancy Shohet West ’84

Message from the Head of School

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CA Bookshelf

by Martha Kennedy, Library Director

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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.

Above: New Zealand band Die! Die! Die! by Zandy Mangold ’92

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Alumnae/i Association Update

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Athletics 2008 Spring Highlights Profile: Jenny Imrich ’04

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Arts Q&A: Zandy Mangold ’92

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In Memoriam

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Libby Chamberlin ’09 Lisa Kong ’10 Jiyoon Lee ’09 Alison Merrill ’09

message from the head of school

Leading from the Inside Out

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Kem Morehead

or some time now, I have been ruminating on the nature of leadership. What qualities make an effective leader? How can each of us recognize leadership qualities in ourselves and find meaningful ways to use them?

In June, those ruminations took a new turn when I traveled to New Orleans with seventy-eight CA students and recent graduates and eighteen other adults for a week of volunteer work. Much of our work took us to the Lower Ninth Ward, where poverty and neglect continue to ravage families as they struggle to rebuild from the effects of Hurricane Katrina. I could see the members of our group wrestling with the realization that the help we could offer was small in scale and limited in effect by the pervasiveness and depth of the need.

But they went out there every day, intent on making real connections with people they met, determined to do what they could, and ready to adapt to whatever circumstances they encountered. In the process, many of them became leaders.

Theirs was the kind of leadership I’ve come to value most, because it was carried out without fuss by people who brought sensitivity to the situation, committed themselves to the work, and engaged others in a truly collaborative effort.

One normally shy student became the first to step forward and take the initiative when he saw something that needed to be done. One faculty spouse sat with his crew members every evening at dinner to help them decompress from the hard job they had done together that day. One house parent offered to change assignments on short notice, showing us all the importance of humor and flexibility in an everchanging scenario.

During the trip, Sandy Wood ’08 shared this reflection in a dispatch to the CA community back home: “I think ‘service’ is an artificial term, because it’s never one way, as the name implies. It is really about connection. At its truest and most meaningful, service is a two-way street.”

Sandy’s thoughtful comment resonated for me on many levels, because I believe leadership is an important form of service and that it begins with a deep connection to other people. If you are patient enough to observe and listen, you come to understand what matters. If you are willing to act on what you believe matters—from clearing a table in the dining hall to sending a note of appreciation to someone for a job well done—you are leading through connection. Your actions spring from an awareness that others will have to clear the table if you don’t or that hard work might go unacknowledged unless you celebrate it. Stepping in at these moments often has a catalytic effect, inspiring others to join you in engaging, in acting—and in leading.

CA prides itself on not having a chest-thumping, sinkor-swim, win-or-lose environment, and in my time in this community, I have encountered some of the finest leaders I’ve ever known. As so many of our group showed in New Orleans, we become leaders not by distinguishing ourselves from others but by helping them work together to effect positive change: good leadership combines empathy with action. CA has a long tradition of fostering both individuality and community.

That’s a tricky thing to pull off. But what better environment for leadership than a place where you are encouraged to be every bit yourself while remaining keenly aware of the many other selves that inhabit your world?

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ormer History Department Head Peter Laipson has been named Concord Academy’s new dean of faculty, taking the reins from Sandy Stott, who led the faculty for nine years. Stott, revered for his ability to address concerns with calm, respect, and humor, is on sabbatical this year and will return next year to teach English.

Before joining CA in 1999, Laipson taught at San Francisco’s University High School.

He graduated magna cum laude from Brown University and completed a master’s and a PhD in history at the University of Michigan. In 2006, Laipson was selected as a fellow in the E.E. Ford Foundation’s National Association of Independent Schools Aspiring School Heads Program. He answered questions about his plans as dean of faculty.

You’re filling big shoes.

What have you learned from Sandy?

No kidding. Sandy’s been extremely generous with his time, and he and I met frequently to talk about what the job entails and the challenges of the next couple of years.

It’s hard to imagine someone being more thoughtful about handing over a position like this to its next occupant: he’s been helpful, enthusiastic

about my ideas for changes in the school, and unconditionally supportive. One of the things that faculty really admire about Sandy, I think, is his goodhumored calmness and his thoughtfulness, both for people and about institutional problems. I wish I could say that I’ve learned his temperament and wisdom, but at least I’ve had lots of opportunities to see and learn from them.

Since CA’s faculty makes the school what it is, what’s most important to maintain about the faculty outlook and composition?

First and foremost, I think CA has always sought, and rightly so, teachers who have a deep affection for kids and a commitment to helping them grow up well, intellectually, emotionally, and physically.

Second, we want teachers

who are deeply schooled in their areas of expertise and in the art of teaching, who are passionate about their own learning and skilled at communicating that passion to students and engaging their interest. And third, we want teachers who reflect and represent a broad spectrum of identities, viewpoints, and experiences and who are actively interested in contributing their perspectives to the broader community.

What do you like to do in your spare time?

I’m a pretty energetic reader and particularly enjoy modern fiction. And I like to cook (with the radio in the kitchen tuned to WBUR, I’m in hog heaven).

Recently I’ve gotten back into running a bit, though we’ll see if my ambition and knees hold out.

Photos by Tara Bradley

Peter Laipson; below right, with Oliver

What are your main goals for your first year or two on the job?

Aside from getting the hang of some new responsibilities (e.g., figuring out the complex relationship between faculty teaching assignments and the budget!) and working in a new way with the other members of the senior administrative team, I’m looking forward to helping the school revisit the faculty evaluation process and continuing its efforts to recruit a talented and diverse applicant pool.

Even as I try to master the job, I know we also have a busy year ahead: we’ll host the NEASC [New England Association of Schools and Colleges] visiting committee and we’ll select a new head of school. So another big goal in the short term is contributing to both of those enterprises.

CAMPUS NEWS

CA Welcomes New Dean of Faculty

ONE THING caught my eye in that marvelous retrospective magazine (Winter 2008).

It mentioned the “first foreign student” in 1959. I believe there was a Dutch girl named Remcoline van Tyen in the Class of 1950. So I wondered why she didn’t count. Anyway, I reveled in all the reminiscences.

Diana Frothingham Feinberg ’52

Editor’s Note: Diana is correct. Remcoline van Tyen Nieuwenhuijs is a member of CA’s Class of 1950.

Correction

Concord Academy magazine welcomes letters to the editor. Please send correspondence to magazine@concordacademy.org or to Gail Friedman, Concord Academy, 166 Main Street, Concord, Massachusetts 01742.

In the In Memoriam listing in the Spring 2008 issue, the name was misspelled for Dorothea Bingham Cherington ’55.

Apologies and condolences to the family.

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CAMPUS NEWS

Looking Ahead

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oncord Academy continues planning the development of the campus addition purchased last summer, formerly known as Arena Farms.

In August, the school purchased an additional 1.8acre property adjacent to the original 11.8-acre plot.

The school had been interested in that adjacent property because it allows two-way access off Route 2, alleviating anticipated traffic flow in a nearby residential area. In addition, the new acquisition to the original purchase provides CA with more flexibility in planning the development of the property.

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he search for a new head of school is well under way, under the guidance of CA’s search committee, chaired by trustees Peter Blacklow ’87 and Mary Malhotra ’78. The committee is working closely with search firm Isaacson, Miller, which plans to bring final candidates to campus by November to meet with trustees, administrators, faculty, staff, students, parents, and alumnae/i.

The final selection is expected to be approved at either a special board meeting in December or the scheduled January board meeting. For the latest information on Concord Academy’s search for a new head, visit concordacademy.org/headsearch.

When CA purchased the original property, the school negotiated a right of first refusal, and in May the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees voted to exercise that right. Carol and John Moriarty PP’02, ’05, ’07 and their family generously funded the purchase. The Board is expected to review final plans for the development of the 13.6-acre property at its October meeting.

Hurricane Katrina: CA’s Continuing Efforts

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eventy-eight students and nineteen adults traveled to New Orleans in mid-June to volunteer on post-Katrina rebuilding efforts. Last summer, forty-five students and eleven faculty and staff took a similar trip to Mississippi’s Gulf Coast.

This year, CA’s group stayed at the Annunciation Mission, a New Orleans church converted to house and feed volunteers, and spent much of its time clearing lots in the city’s hard-hit Lower Ninth Ward. Many students wrote reflections on the experience, including this excerpt from the musings of Claire Wright ’11:

Monday morning came quickly, and we found ourselves loading shovels, weed whackers, and boxes of Powerade into vans, and heading off to a street in the Lower Ninth Ward. The street was all but deserted, many of the houses had been removed, and the few that were still around had been untouched since the storm. Messages in spray paint read “Do Not Demolish” or “Coming Back — Don’t Touch.” Roofs were caved in, windows were broken, and front doors were knocked down. The gardens were overgrown, with weeds climbing up fences, fallen trees

and branches scattering the ground, and grass that came up to my shoulder at points . . .

The families that had lived here before Hurricane Katrina were being charged $100 a month if their lots were unclean, even though many of them were scattered across the country and were unable to return until their houses were rebuilt. The charges were making it even harder for the families to recover. Our job was to clear the lots so that other people could mow them once or twice a month and keep the lots in good condition.

Hidden under blades of grass on one particular lot were a couple of Mardi Gras necklaces; in another lot there was a video game remote —small objects that had been left in the yard or had been blown out during the storm. Simple objects that any child could have left in the garden, not knowing that he might never return to retrieve his toys. . . . During one lunch break, I couldn’t help but wonder if we were really making a difference, clearing lots on an

Photos by Tara Bradley

skills and a break from the more profound thinking encouraged in CA’s classrooms. Dresden taught participants how to change a tire and how to tie a bow tie.

almost abandoned street.

We were helping people who were being charged for their untidy lots, but I wondered if the lots would be kept clear after we left . . .

The last two days the small section of people I was working with went off to power-wash a house and chip off the peeling paint. This job was extremely satisfying,

partly because I felt like the difference we were making was permanent. We got to meet the people who were living in the house, and know that they were appreciative . . . By Friday afternoon we finished the work on the house, and went to drive down the street in the Lower Ninth Ward that we had started clearing earlier that

week . . . At the beginning of the week the lots were so overgrown, you could barely walk across them, and now they were clear. It was then that it hit me that we really had made a difference.

For more reflections on the New Orleans service trip, see concordacademy.org/news.

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Head of School Jake Dresden, carrying on the tradition started by former Headmistress Elizabeth Hall, held a Stuff class in May, during a Community Weekend. Stuff classes provide practical

Amy Albrecht

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n April, Wendy Arnold ’65 spoke at an assembly about her efforts to help teens prevent AIDS through peer-to-peer counseling. Arnold, president of the Peer Education Program of Los Angeles (PEP/LA), a nonprofit devoted to AIDS prevention, has educated people about AIDS around the world for more than twenty-six years.

She received the CA Alumnae/i Association’s Joan Shaw Herman Award for Distinguished Service in 1995.

Arnold encouraged students to embrace community service. “The wealth of experiences far exceeds monetary wealth,” she said. “When you branch out you really meet

people who make your life more wholesome.”

Arnold told stories about AIDS education in Africa and shared statistics: 9,000 new HIV infections and 7,000 deaths each day, one in eleven Africans infected, and 13 million orphans left behind.

Yet she offered stories of hope from her efforts in 160 Peer Education Programs (PEPs), which reach youth through 12,000 teen volunteers and 6,000 trainers in twentysix countries.

“Dare to follow your passion,” Arnold urged her audience. “Get involved with something where you can truly follow your heart.”

Wendy Arnold ’65 (second from right) with her brother, David Arnold III, his wife Ann Moritz, and her parents, Dorothy and David Arnold Jr.

Photos by John Pickle

Tim Morse

CAMPUS NEWS

Peer-to-Peer-to-Peer

Possessed by DEMONS

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he CA inventing club, DEMONS, last year built an

electricity-generating bicycle, under the guidance of science teacher John Pickle. DEMONS members demonstrated it at morning announcements, pedaling until six lightbulbs illuminated.

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worked with tools before,” he said. He also encouraged DEMONS to submit a proposal to an MIT competition for a pedal-powered device that could charge laptops —an idea Pickle believes could help developing nations.

DEMONS didn’t win, but Pickle said they will improve their proposal for next year. In the meantime, he hopes the club will tackle projects of

practical use to the school.

“There are so many things students could develop that are useful to the school,” he said.

“Why not do a project that’s useful and lives on?” Above, Sid Morakhia ’09 demonstrates pedal power.

Watch This Writer

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anging Loose magazine has accepted three stories by Joe Byrne ’08, above, which will be published in a section of the literary journal dedicated to high school writers. “As far as high school writers go, this is a very high level of skill,” said Dick Lourie, a coeditor of Hanging Loose Press.

The fall issue of Hanging Loose will include Byrne’s stories “Waking Up” and “Ice Water,” and “Coral” will appear in the Spring 2009 issue. A CA student was last published in Hanging Loose in 2006, when the journal carried poetry by Jess Lander ’06.

Jiyoon Li ’09

Writing in Vain vgenia Peretz ’87, a writer for Vanity Fair, met with three Creative Nonfiction classes in April, explaining to students how she crafts detailed portraits of her subjects.

Peretz took students into the process that leads to her stories, whether she’s hanging out with surfers, exploring the minds of politicians, or interviewing celebrities. She finds a way inside her subjects’ lives, even when they don’t provide good interviews.

“Some people are storytellers and some people aren’t,” she said. For those who aren’t, “you have to lead them a little bit more.”

Celebrity interviews present unique challenges. “With the movie stars,” she said, “it’s hard to find a new angle.”

She discussed interviews with Tom Cruise (“I felt like I was talking to a robot”), Leonardo DiCaprio (“he could talk about his work for hours and hours”), and other celebrities, including Lindsay Lohan, who accused Peretz of fabricating information about an eating disorder.

That bothered Peretz, who said she liked Lohan and thought she had written a sympathetic piece. And, she added, “to be called a liar as a journalist is just a bummer.”

Lohan should have known better: Peretz has it all on tape.

Fashion Forward andy Wood ’08, right, wears a dress designed

by Molly Turpin ‘08 — a recycled romp of grocery bags, magazine images, and plastic bags. Molly— along with Isabel Walsh ‘10, Olivia Fantini ‘10, and Amelia Fitch ‘11— was competing in the second annual Project CA competition.

Peter Boskey ’08, who won last year’s competition, organized the event, which

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The Massachusetts Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of German honored fifteen Concord Academy students who scored in the 90th percentile or higher on the National German Exam. Attending the May ceremony with her students was longtime German teacher Susan Adams (front, second from right).

A L U M N A E / I U P D AT E was founded

by Kiefer Roberts ’07 to loosely mimic Project Runway, the TV show.

The four competitors were required to design a recycled garment, a garment inspired by a place, and one inspired by a CA faculty member.

Isabel won this year's contest, judged by a panel of four students and one faculty member. At left, Clara Dennis ‘08 modeling a dress made of photographs, designed by Olivia and inspired

by CA’s Visual Arts Department Head Cynthia Katz.

Zachary West ’01 has received a Fulbright grant to travel to Germany, where he will teach English and American history and culture through American films.

Look for the premiere of Frontrunners, directed by Caroline Suh ’89, at the Film Forum in New York City on October 15.

The documentary, about a student election at Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, also opens on October 24 in Boston, Philadelphia, Denver, Los Angeles, Berkeley, and San Francisco.

Suh said that Stuyvesant students share the intellectual sophistication and curiosity of CA students. “In many ways,” she added, “making the film made me appreciate and think a lot about my experience at CA.” For more information, see frontrunnersthefilm.com.

For the third consecutive year, Sara Goldsmith Schwartz ’83 has been recognized as a leading attorney in labor and employment law by Chambers USA, which publishes an annual list of notable attorneys. Schwartz is founder, president, and managing partner of Schwartz Hannum in Andover, Massachusetts.

Margaret Erhart ’70 was one of ten finalists in Amazon.com’s Breakthrough Novel Award contest. Her fifth novel, The Butterflies of Grand Canyon, was among more than eight hundred fiction entries offered for review to Amazon customers and editors at the Penguin Group. Erhart’s novel caught the attention of Plume, a subsidiary of Penguin, which plans to publish Butterflies in May 2009.

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Mark Garabedian Class of 1999

The Video Game of Life

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ike many boys growing up in the 1980s and early ’90s, Mark Garabedian ’99 desperately wanted a Nintendo entertainment system. But his father held firm. “I grew up without Nintendo and so can you,” Garabedian’s father told him. “It’s not something anyone needs, and it will rot your mind.”

Garabedian’s grandmother, then in her 80s, saw it differently.

“Mark, I don’t mean to go against your father’s wishes, but I think Nintendo is something special,” she said. “It’s going to be part of the future, and I think you should have it.”

“So she bought me one,” recalled Garabedian, now a full-time video game designer. His grandmother’s open mind had permanently affected his future.

For Garabedian, who lives in Burbank, California, designing video games is just the latest step in his long pursuit of creativity. Classmates and faculty at Concord Academy probably remember his comic strip, Concord Animals, which ran in both the Centipede and the Concord Realist, the school’s alternative newspaper in the late 1990s. “The strip featured anthropomorphic animals commenting on CA situations and joking about CA traditions,” he explained.

“The main character was Cameron the Chameleon. In one cartoon, Cameron was crucified for standing on the senior steps. Whatever was going on at CA was what the animals would be doing.

Just before finals, I did a cartoon in which a character was trying to channel the spirit of Albert Einstein.”

And it wasn’t just fellow students reflected in the cartoon panels; faculty found their way in as well. “I had a character called a Teichgraebasaurus Rex. He taught English and referred to his students as nerdlies,” Garabedian said. In fact, Stephen Teichgraeber-inspired characters are something of a leitmotif for the artist, who went on to write scripts for TV and movies. He says that every script he’s ever written for a feature film “has involved some parody of Dr. T., in some shape or form.”

After graduating from CA, Garabedian enrolled at Emerson College to study TV and video. During his senior year, he moved to Hollywood for an internship writing reviews of video games for a

Composite courtesy of Mark Garabedian

Quacker and Mark Garabedian ’99

proud), which he says is the perfect way to blend his writing talents with his love of video games. “Whereas in movies and cartoons you’re telling your reader a story, in a video game the key is that you want the player to experience the story firsthand, and not as a spectator,” he said.

It was a somewhat surprising career move, but also a clear fit for his interests. “I just never thought that someday I’d be designing video games,” he said. “Through my writing and networking, I’ve found my way into this realm, and it’s been an epiphany. My career now involves doing something I’ve always admired, but never imagined I could do.”

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gaming show called Cybernet. Early forays into scriptwriting led him to Alan Burnett, producer of many of the TV cartoons Garabedian watched as a child. He pitched some of his ideas to Burnett and was soon hired to write scripts for a cartoon called Krypto the Superdog, about a canine superhero from the planet Krypton. During the show’s two-year run, he wrote eleven scripts and created a new character called Drooly, a sheepdog whose drool has superpowers.

When the cartoon series ended, Garabedian ghost-wrote scripts for a film studio; developed comedy segments for JibJab, an animated Web site; and continued a comic strip he started in college, Quacker and Bowen. He also developed a cooking show for Internet TV called Geek Eats with his then-fiancée, Sylvia. The two married this August. “In one segment, I dressed as Groucho Marx, with grease paint and a cigar, and made duck soup,” he said. “In another, I dressed as Shadow the Hedgehog, a Sega video game character, and made s’mores. It was very well received because there’s so much overlap between the audience for Internet TV and video game players.”

Garabedian —who has since changed his name and now works primarily as Mark Stuart — is a contributing writer to Animation Mentor magazine and maintains his comic strip and Geek Eats through his Web site, quackerandbowen.com. Most recently, he has started designing Nintendo games for a company called Bionic Games (grandma would be

Ann Ingersoll Boyden Class of 1957

Music, Theatre, and Penny Candy

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ecades after leaving Concord Academy, Ann Ingersoll Boyden ’57 can still reel off the highlights of her years with the Concord Academy Chorus: performing in Harvard’s Sanders Theater with the Harvard-Radcliffe Choral Society and the Concord Community Orchestra; singing challenging works such as the Bach B-minor Mass and the Fauré Requiem; and, of course, meeting her future husband Perry, a member of the Middlesex School’s boys’ chorus, with whom CA girls often joined voices.

Not surprisingly, with this musical beginning, the couple’s life continues to center around music and theatre. Despite moves from Washington State back to Concord—where they lived at Middlesex for eight years while Perry was director of admissions—then to rural Maine, the two have always found opportunities to sing and act together.

“I was part of a family that sang and danced and loved theatre,” said Boyden, who’s known to her friends as Annie. “Living in Long Island, we made frequent trips to see shows in New York City. I was lucky to be involved with lots of music at CA, and it’s something that has never ended for me—be it church choirs, a cappella groups, or community theatre.”

In her twenties, Boyden sang with a women’s madrigal group in Concord, and she and Perry were active members of the Concord Players, a community theatre group. “Then we ran away from home,” Boyden laughed, describing the decision to move to the tiny town of Harrison, Maine, to run a farm with their cousins. After four years there, the Boydens moved to the Maine island of Vinalhaven, where Perry had spent childhood summers, and converted an old homestead into a farm, where they raised cows, pigs, and chickens and grew vegetables.

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As their children reached school age in Vinalhaven, Boyden sought to fill the void of music and art in the small public school by inviting other parent volunteers to help her kick off an arts program. “At first, we did after-school music and drama classes, but eventually we were invited into the school to create arts-related curricula.

We designed programs around particular historical periods or different cultures that included arts and crafts, dance, singing, drumming, and, of course, theatrical presentations.”

Boyden so loved teaching that she decided to attend Lesley College for a master’s in arts and learning. She and Perry bought a second home in Portland, Maine, to ease her commute to Cambridge for classes. In the midst of this busy time, with three children in college and one in high

school, she learned that another baby was on the way. Their son Daniel was born when Boyden was 44.

Earlier this year, Boyden took on a different kind of musical challenge, organizing the “Song of Peace” project in Vinalhaven, an international initiative in which communities promoted peace through music. More than forty performers were involved, along with an audience that joined in to sing “Dona Nobis Pacem” and “We Shall Overcome.” “It was a powerfully moving event for all,” Boyden said.

The Boydens continue to divide their time between Portland and Vinalhaven; they sing in choruses and belong to local theatre groups in both communities. Twenty-five years ago they personally oversaw the construction of a new arts center in Vinalhaven, the Arts & Recreation Center, where they continue to participate in various arts programs.

While the children of Vinalhaven may not realize Boyden’s impact on the arts programming they enjoy, many of them do know her—as the penny candy lady in Go Fish, Boyden’s daughter’s toy store. Boyden tries to model herself after Mrs. Nichols, the delightful woman she remembers dispensing penny candy at the long-gone Country Store in Concord center. “She was so patient and took so much pleasure in doing this for kids—just as I try to do now,” she said.

While she enjoys the youngsters, Boyden said her greatest pleasure “is being with our five kids, their wives and husbands, and our eight grandchildren. After that comes the fun of creating art, music, and theatre together. Throughout my life, what has remained most important to me besides family is community, and the joy and wonderful feeling of celebration and collaboration when people get together and sing.”

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Kate Tweedy Class of 1971

Confronting an Equine Legacy

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Kate Tweedy ’71 and her mother Penny Chenery, at the Kentucky Derby

was in a position to reach out to other people as an advocate for the sport,” Tweedy said. “She was personable, good-looking, and enthusiastic, and today she is known as the First Lady of Racing.”

Not until her mother suffered a heart attack in 2004 did Tweedy fully appreciate the scope of her mother’s influence. Tweedy went to Kentucky to help her mother recover. “Once I was there, I began to understand this other life my mother had developed for herself. I saw that she was happy in that world, and I saw how many fans she had,” Tweedy said.

After the heart attack, Chenery moved to Colorado to be near her children, and Tweedy said the family has grown close. Working on her book, Tweedy—who gave up a law career to devote herself to writing— interviewed some of the Virginia stable’s employees, whose immediate ancestors were slaves there. “It’s been very tough to confront the notion that our ancestors were slave owners,” she said, hinting that her research might inspire another book.

For now, her focus is on Penny Chenery’s journey to the winner’s circle. “Even thirty-five years after Secretariat’s Triple Crown win, people want my mother’s autograph,” Tweedy marveled. “I began to understand what a wonderful and magical thing it was for my family to have been connected to that horse.”

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hen the Disney movie about racehorse Secretariat reaches theatres, Kate Tweedy ’71 will have a unique reason to see it.

Not only is she interested in the story of the legendary 1973 Triple Crown winner, she also wants to see which young actress plays the part of twenty-year-old Kate Tweedy.

It was the late 1960s when Tweedy’s mother, Penny Chenery, left the family home in Littleton, Colorado, to take over Tweedy’s grandfather’s horse farm in Virginia. Tweedy’s mother knew quite a bit about horses, having grown up around them and continuing to ride as an adult, but she knew little about the racing industry. “She gave herself a quick self-education about horse racing and took over the stable,” Tweedy said.

Until that point, her mother had been “a frustrated housewife,” in Tweedy’s words, raising four children in a Denver suburb. But once in Virginia, “lightning struck twice while the stable was under her management,” Tweedy recalled. “First in 1972 with Riva Ridge, who won the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont Stakes, and then in 1973 with Secretariat winning the Triple Crown, the first horse in twenty-five years to accomplish that feat.”

But Secretariat’s legacy in the Tweedy family is complicated — and to untangle it, Tweedy has written a memoir, tentatively titled Journey to the Winner’s Circle. It’s not a book about Secretariat per se, she emphasizes—several such books have already been written.

Tweedy said the book describes “how the passion and drive of my grandfather and mother, in struggling to free themselves from physical or emotional boundaries, created new lives and new opportunities for success.” It also sheds light on Tweedy’s determination “to establish new standards of prowess, this time not financial or equine, but emotional.” Tweedy hopes a publisher will pick up her book in time for its debut to coincide with the Disney movie.

Chenery’s decision to leave Colorado and subsequently manage the rise of two world-famous racehorses irrevocably altered their family.

“The change she made gave her a new lease on life at age fifty,” Tweedy said. “But it also sort of split up our family.” Her parents divorced soon after, and Tweedy came to see Secretariat and the other horses as divisive factors in her life. “We essentially lost my mother to the horse-racing world,” Tweedy said. “The rest of us in the family were pretty alienated from the whole thing. The sport of racing attracts a very different crowd from the kind of society we grew up with. We were skiers; we had never dreamed of attending the Kentucky Derby.”

Her mother became more than a successful stable owner; she grew to be a spokesperson and ally for the 1970s-era horse-racing industry. “Having owned such a phenomenal horse, she saw that she

Alice Domar Class of 1976

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few years ago, Alice Domar ’76 was sharing a podium with world-renowned heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz at a symposium on women’s health. When Oz commented to Domar, herself a world-renowned health psychologist, that he preferred male patients to female patients, Domar remembers feeling appalled. “My first thought was, how sexist of him,” she said.

“Then he went on to explain that when he sees a male patient after cardiac surgery, he typically meets with the patient and his wife together. He tells them that the patient needs to eat a lower-calorie, lower-cholesterol diet, and the wife nods and takes notes, and he knows when they go home, she’ll make sure her husband follows the doctor’s orders. Oz then said that when he tells a female patient the same thing, he knows she’s not going to change the way she cooks just because of her own needs.

She’s going to keep making what her family wants to eat.”

Then Domar understood exactly what the surgeon was saying—it’s a principle on which she has built a career as a clinician, researcher, consultant, and author. “Women feel too guilty to focus on self-nurturing,” she said. “They take care of other people, never themselves.”

Domar had always been interested in both mental and physical health, and was unsure whether she should become a physician or a psychologist. When a professor told her about the newly emerging field of health psychology, Domar recognized a perfect match for her skills and interests. She earned her PhD at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, then moved back to Boston to study with Dr. Herbert Benson at Beth Israel Hospital.

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known as the Relaxation Response, was a pioneer in the mind-body connection, researching how control over one’s mental health can positively affect physical well-being. At that time, his research was applied primarily to illnesses such as heart disease, cancer, and lupus. A talk Benson gave to a group of ob/gyns at Beth Israel sparked discussion about whether the same principles might work with infertility, and Benson encouraged Domar to pursue this question.

“Instead of doing a traditional study, I asked him if I could just start a group for infertility patients in which we’d use mind-body and Relaxation Response techniques,” she said. Benson gave her the green light—and that was the start

of Domar’s groundbreaking work in infertility, which has helped patients by adding alternative, mind-body approaches to their infertility treatments.

But after several years in that field and publication of her first book—Healing Mind, Healthy Woman: Using the Mind-Body Connection to Manage Stress and Take Control of Your Life—Domar began to realize she was tackling a larger issue: women's inability to focus enough on their own well-being. Recognizing that her mind-body methods could help women struggling with stress of all kinds, she wrote her second book: Self-Nurture: Learning to Care for Yourself As Effectively As you Care for Everyone Else. Domar also remains focused on her infertility work, and couples trying to conceive frequently consult her third book, Conquering Infertility.

In 2001, Domar accepted a staff position at an infertility center called Boston IVF. Five years later, executives there approached her with the idea of opening a new complementary care center for women—one that offered acupuncture, nutrition, yoga, and psychological counseling to help a wide range of health issues. She agreed to take it on, but balked when they wanted to name the facility after her.

“My first response was to say, ‘I’m too young and I’m too alive to have a health center named after me,’ ” Domar recalled. Then one of the senior partners suggested that it would honor her parents. Since she credits her parents with the life skills and personal qualities that have governed her career—her late mother was a social worker from whom she learned empathy and her father an economist who taught her to apply analytical skills—she acceded, and the Domar Center for Mind/Body Health opened in 2006.

Though her career is dedicated to teaching women to take care of themselves, Domar admits that her own life can be as complex as anyone’s, and she too gets stressed. She is now the author of a fourth book, Be Happy Without Being Perfect: How to Break Free from the Perfection Deception (see page 13). And she is working on a fifth with Dr. Susan Love, How To Be Pretty Healthy. She is director of the Domar Center, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, a clinician, the director of four research projects, a wife, and the mother of two daughters, ages seven and twelve.

The gratitude of thousands of patients and others who have benefited from her books, talks, and support groups suggests that the world of women’s health is a better place for all of Domar’s efforts. But she’s not so sure her work is done. “Have I achieved my goal of making women mentally and physically healthier?” she asked. “I don’t know yet.”

Attachment Isabel Fonseca ’79 Knopf, 2008

Davis takes readers along on her frequent walks through South Whidbey State Park in Whidbey Island, Washington, with poetry as her able guide. Though Davis has written poetry for years, she was drawn to haiku in particular about six years ago, seduced in part by its simplicity. The result is Wind Whispers Softly, her homage to the natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest.

For Jean, a forty-something American, and Mark, a suave British advertising executive, life on a remote Indian Ocean island is bliss.

That is until Jean inadvertently reads an email intended for Mark.

Drawn by the provocative text, she poses as her husband and begins a raunchy online exchange with the “other woman.” The email provides the catalyst for Jean’s descent from a comfortable twenty-threeyear marriage into an abyss of uncertainty. Despite writing a health column in an English woman’s journal, Jean comes up short in knowing how to help herself. Throw in a free-spirited, college-age daughter in London, an ailing parent in New York, and an erotic encounter with one of Mark’s young assistants and you have all the elements for a delightfully vicious and bitter tale of midlife.

Foamflower Flecks of ocean foam Give this plant its name; how odd— It lives in deep woods.

Roots Dark octopus roots Creeping across forest floor Hold up a giant.

Chocolate in Mesoamerica: A Cultural History of Cacao Cameron L. McNeil ’87 University Press of Florida, 2006 This collection of works by twenty experts in the field of Mesoamerican and pre-Columbian studies focuses on Theobroma cacao — the plant behind the chocolate we crave. By gathering such a wide range of experts, McNeil provides a thorough examination of cacao, from botanical, historical, ritualistic, political, and economical perspectives. She takes readers from the Amazon to Mexico to discover cacao’s rich and royal story. McNeil, who was awarded the 2008 Mary W. Klinger Book Award by the Society for Economic Botany for Chocolate in Mesoamerica, is assistant professor at Queens College (City University of New York).

Be Happy Without Being Perfect: How to Break Free from the Perfection Deception Alice D. Domar ’76 and Alice Lesch Kelly Crown Publishers, 2008 Paralyzed by the pursuit of perfection? Overwhelmed by unrealistic goals and an overt obsession for detail? Nearly everyone seeks perfection in some aspect of daily life, but for many women, the drive to be perfect in all domains leads to anxiety, stress, and depression, according to Dr. Domar, executive director of the Domar Center for Mind/Body Health and assistant professor of obstetrics/gynecology and reproductive biology at Harvard Medical School. She shares case studies of her own patients and outlines techniques to help readers balance busy lives by setting realistic goals and expectations. (See an alumnae/i profile of Dr. Domar on page 12.)

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Wind Whispers Softly: Northwest Forest Haiku Elizabeth Davis (Jane E. Davis ’54)

The Nuclear Taboo: The United States and the Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons Since 1945 Nina Tannenwald ’77 Cambridge University Press, 2007

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For decades, deterrence has been considered the primary reason for the non-use of nuclear weapons, but Tannenwald takes issue with the assumption. U.S. leaders considered using nuclear weapons in Korea, Vietnam, and as recently as the 1991 Gulf War. Despite an increase in the number of nuclearcapable states, no country has deployed a nuclear warhead in a military conflict since the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Why the hesitancy to use the most potent of modern-day weapons? Tannenwald, an associate research professor of international relations at Brown University, proposes that a “powerful normative element” or “nuclear taboo”— and not deterrence — is behind the longstanding period of nuclear nonuse. Through the historical analysis of archival sources, Tannenwald outlines the rise of the nuclear taboo and presents strong moral arguments that challenge the convention of deterrence.

American Priestess: The Extraordinary Story of Anna Spafford and the American Colony in Jerusalem Jane Fletcher Geniesse ’54 Nan A.Talese/Doubleday, 2008 The story of Anna Spafford begins as the four-year-old’s father, a Norwegian immigrant, flees repression and poverty in search of American prosperity. Young Anna turns away from the strict Lutheran tradition of her homeland and takes little interest in the Protestant revivalism spreading throughout the Midwest.

When Anna marries Horatio Spafford, a well-heeled Chicago attorney and budding evangelist, she doesn’t share his religious fervor until backto-back tragedies hit: the Great Chicago Fire and the death of her four daughters in a transatlantic shipwreck. While Horatio’s poor financial dealings leave them nearly bankrupt, his religious followers, an evangelical sect known as the Overcomers, dream of traveling to the Holy Land for the Second Coming.

In the fall of 1881, the Spaffords and a handful of believers arrive in Jerusalem and build a utopian religious colony that survives the final days of the Ottoman Empire, the founding of the state of Israel, and on into the 1950s. Today, Anna’s former mansion in East Jerusalem is the American Colony Hotel, named for the Spaffords’ religious utopia.

Diplomats and journalists who stay overnight rarely realize the historical significance of their surroundings.

Cotting School Elizabeth Campbell Peters ’73 and David Manzo Arcadia Publishing, 2008

Syringa Laura Davies Foley ’75 Star Meadow Press, 2007

Established in Boston in 1893, the Cotting School was America’s first day school for children with a broad spectrum of learning and communication disabilities, physical challenges, and complex medical conditions. Peters, the director of annual giving and communications at the Cotting School, and her coauthor bring Cotting’s history to life through archival photos, which document the school from its founding— when educational alternatives for disabled children were few— to the present. Interspersed with the photos of children are Boston sports legends Carl Yastrzemski, Bobby Orr, Larry Bird, and M.L. Carr, all frequent visitors to the school. Since the beginning, the Cotting School— now in Lexington — has provided a whole-child approach to learning, incorporating play (including athletic teams) and cooperation into vocational and therapeutic education.

This collection of poems, named for a resilient Canada goose with a broken wing, emotes metaphorical healing. As Syringa continues her pondside vigil season after season, she becomes an important fixture in Foley’s life, providing an extraordinary example of natural strength in a deceptively simple being.

A sample of Syringa’s inspiration: The Quiet Listeners Go into the woods and tell your story to the trees.

They are wise standing in their folds of silence among white crystals of rock and dying limbs.

And they have time.

Time for the swaying of leaves, the floating down, the dust.

They have time for gathering and holding the earth about their feet.

Do this.

It is something I have learned.

How they will bend down to you so softly.

They will bend down to you and listen.

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Prism

By John Blacklow ’83 EDI Records, 2008

Agoos balances a collection of poems with a centered, seventythree-page transcription of a vicious murder trial in a small town. The crime is conveyed in fascinating fractured detail, leaving the reader to piece together the facts and inferences. Agoos, a professor of English at Brooklyn College (City University of New York), teaches poetry in the MFA program. She wrote the following about Property : Property began as a narrative cycle of what I thought would be twenty-five short poems, which I had intended to be almost a piece of fiction in verse.

I thought it would resonate as a certain kind of country tale, but also unveil the hostilities, so connected to large-scale political hostility, that are so deeply embedded in so much of local life, whatever the national context . . . I started listening in a different way when people spoke, especially when people spoke in their most uncensored ways, and one day in a ninety-three-year-old neighbor’s voice as we had our daily exchange about the world, I heard the foundational tone I was after, and knew I wanted to remake the whole book into something far less processed, more immediate.

Pithy Seedy Pulpy Juicy: Eleven Rhymes With Orange Books in One Hilary B. Price ’87 ECW Press, 2007 Cunning, scathing, cutting, biting — a weighty volume of classics by Concord Academy’s own syndicated cartoonist. Whether tackling life with pets, navigating through a relationship, or raising kids, you’re sure to recognize yourself more than once— and wonder how Hilary Price knows so much about your life.

You’ll even find a few Rhymes With Orange strips reminiscent of your days at CA, including Price’s take on math class, below.

Somewhere Different Now (Live)

By Girlyman Featuring Nate Borofsky ’93 Fine Feathered Music (BMI), 2008

Coming soon in CA Bookshelf, works by: Perdita Buchan, former faculty Elizabeth Fox-Genovese ’58 Julia Glass ’74 Margaret Morgan Grasselli ’68 Ann McKinstry Micou ’48 Cynthia Saltzman ’67 Matt Taibbi ’87

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Property Julia Agoos ’74 Ausable Press, 2008

OUT OF THIS Antarctic adventures and NASA missions make Lucy McFadden ’70 one cool scientist.

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er cubicle looks like any other, cluttered with reference books and papers, off an anonymous hallway in a science building at the University of Maryland. But on an inbox attached to the door hangs a clue that something out of the ordinary goes on inside:

© Photographs by Lucy McFadden ’70 and Marie Keiding, with thanks to the Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) program

The bumper sticker speaks the truth. Lucy McFadden ’70 really does.

Through most of December 2007 and January 2008, McFadden was on the barren ice of Antarctica, discovering, labeling, and collecting the fragments of asteroids that find their way to Earth, known as meteorites. Before that, she was an investigator and education/outreach manager for a NASA project called Deep Impact, which essentially rammed a spacecraft into a comet to see what was going on inside. She was on the science team for the Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR), which from 1996 to 2001 examined Eros, an asteroid about 160 million miles from Earth. Now she’s taken her expertise to asteroids farther away, as an investigator and education/outreach director for Dawn, NASA’s first mission to orbit main-belt asteroids.

Wearing Saturn earrings and her Concord Academy ring, McFadden pulled out the Encyclopedia of the Solar System, a nearly 1,000page tome that she coedited, to help explain what makes an asteroid a main-belt asteroid.

Pointing at a diagram, she launched into an explanation of why the small bodies between Mars and Jupiter never became planets— because their growth was disrupted by Jupiter’s gravitational pull. The Dawn mission, she explained, is visiting two of the largest asteroids, orbiting and photographing them. A sensor on the spacecraft will determine what elements exist on Vesta and Ceres (now considered a dwarf planet like Pluto).

McFadden might as well be talking about a trip to Cape Cod. To this astronomer, an asteroid belt hundreds of millions of miles away is part of her everyday world. Its lessons, however, are far from routine.

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Along with colleagues in astronomy around the globe, McFadden is taking tiny steps toward unraveling the world's greatest mysteries.

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McFadden said. She is well aware that, as a scientist, she is trekking the same territory traveled by existential philosophers over the ages. “We see things differently and we know more,” she said, “but the fundamental questions remain the same: How did the solar system form? How did the planets form?

How did life begin?”

Armed with science, McFadden may have a shot at some of the answers. Along with colleagues in astronomy around the globe, she is taking tiny steps toward unraveling the world’s greatest mysteries. But there’s no time to get caught up in the grandeur of the work. “These are the big questions.

Then there are the realities of, how does a scientist do this?” she said. “Very quickly it becomes practical.

How do you build a functioning scientific organization? I have to develop an idea, sell my idea, put information into a proposal, and persuade a panel of my peers that my research is worth doing.” And as a research professor of astronomy at the University of Maryland, she’s also supervising students, inspiring research assistants to look skyward. Questions of how life began can get lost fast in a bureaucracy. But they lurk behind every proposal, every exploratory trip and student encounter.

McFadden pulls out a tiny plastic bag and unscrews the top off a cylinder, allowing a peek at what looks like an ordinary rock. It is a chip off a meteorite, and she knows the secrets of the sediment.

This meteorite has no iron in it whatsoever, and to a geologist or astronomer, that’s an important distinction. “There are few rocks on earth with no iron,” she said, explaining that this meteorite came from a part of the solar system where conditions don’t support the integration of iron into minerals.

“That tells us the solar system is not uniform. There are patches where conditions are different, and where rocks of different compositions form.” It piques her curiosity: what were the conditions at this meteorite’s birthplace? Every little fragment, to McFadden, is another piece of the existential puzzle.

A Forty-Two Day Marathon

As a little girl, McFadden was fascinated with nature.

She started a butterfly club at age ten and thought she would become a lepidopterist, what a real scientist— even one in grade school—would call a butterfly expert. Concord Academy teachers fostered her passion for science, but her introduction to astronomy was half happenstance. She was signing up for classes at Hampshire College and had to list backup choices in case her first-choice classes were full. A class called Optical and Radio Astronomy caught her eye, primarily because she had no clue what radio astronomy might be. When her first choices were indeed full, McFadden took the astronomy class and was intrigued. The professor, noting her talent, not only encouraged her, but offered her an internship at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California.

The jets weren’t the only things propelled.

McFadden went on to get a master’s degree in earth and planetary science at MIT and a PhD in geology and geophysics at the University of Hawaii. She joined the University of Maryland as a visiting professor in 1992, and became a full faculty member in 1996.

While in her PhD program, she first heard about Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET), an effort supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) that has funded meteorite exploration in Antarctica since 1976. She asked her thesis advisor

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espite trips to Antarctica and meetings with meteorites, Lucy McFadden ’70 has found time to remain actively involved with Concord Academy. She was a trustee from 2002 to 2008, has visited science classes by day and observed the stars with students by night, and in 2001 created the Lucy McFadden Fund for Curricular Innovation in the Sciences at CA. The fund’s stated purpose is “to enhance the teaching of the sciences as a foundational component of every student’s education at Concord Academy” and “to foster innovations in the teaching of science through curriculum development.”

So far the fund has supported professional development retreats for science faculty, a faculty trip to a conference on chemical education, and graduate-level studies.

“I wanted the science teachers at CA to experience science,” McFadden explained. “I believe that one is a better teacher of something if he or she engages in the discipline. It was my intention that the science faculty would have the opportunity to return to school or to engage in scientific work, perhaps over the summer.”

The fund has helped Science Department Head Michael Wirtz finance his graduate education. “By endowing this fund, Lucy has allowed members of the Science Department to keep on learning and growing,” Wirtz said. “That, in turn, has a major impact on CA students.”

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about it, but he told her all the meteorites probably would be discovered by the time she finished her PhD. It was more than twenty years later, in 2006, when she sat next to ANSMET’s lead investigator at an event, that she realized the opportunity still existed for her, especially since her daughters Whitney and Katherine were grown and her empty-nest years just beginning. It turns out that more than a few meteorites remained in the vast expanse of Antarctic ice, and McFadden joined an eight-person ANSMET team that would collect 711 of them, ranging from tiny, half-inch pieces to an eight-pound behemoth.

The day after Thanksgiving in 2007, McFadden set off for Los Angeles, where she met the rest of her team and flew on to New Zealand. On November 27, with an arsenal of NSF-issued parkas and other cold-weather gear, she flew from New Zealand to Antarctica’s McMurdo Station on a U.S. Air Force C17 cargo plane. Traveling with cargo should have been a tip-off to the level of luxury to come.

There is no Holiday Inn in Antarctica.

During her eight-week stay on the barren continent, McFadden spent a week training at McMurdo, the closest thing to a town in Antarctica and the scientific community’s home base, then forty-two days living in a tent on a remote stretch of ice. It was summer, which meant temperatures hovered between zero and ten degrees Fahrenheit, despite the constant illumination of the sun. For eight hours each day, McFadden was outside, systematically examining rocks to determine their celestial birthright. At night, she would hang her damp clothing at the uppermost tip of her tent, the spot to which much of the heat from a propane stove rose.

The field site where she worked was 250 miles from McMurdo Station. On her very first day at the remote site, 30 mile-per-hour winds and poor visibility kept McFadden in her tent. “I was happy,” she said. “I arranged my tent and got acclimated.” The storm lasted for three days, and acclimation gave way to boredom. She had brought cards, but her Danish tent mate didn’t know the same games she did. She read, and read. Over the weeks, she completed Lord of the Rings, South by Ernest Shackleton, and—just before she left the field site—The Whole World Over by Julia Glass ’74, a welcome escape after reading about Shackleton’s ill-fated 1914 Antarctic expedition.

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sense when camping at home, but it was a frigid mistake in Antarctica. McFadden learned that keeping a peanut butter sandwich in her pocket meant a lunch that wasn’t frozen. And that when she was thirsty she should reach for her ice pick, loosen a chunk of ice, then melt it. She learned to distinguish the textural change in the ice that warned of a crevasse. “We all fell in,” she said, though no one needed the crevasse rescue training required of all team members.

Getting dressed was particularly challenging.

The NSF had provided five different hats and five pairs of gloves, each appropriate for different weather conditions. At first, McFadden didn’t know which coat to wear, and when she got one on, her zipper continually got stuck. “I really felt like a kinder-

gartener,” she admitted. She said she gained real empathy for what new immigrants from developing countries encounter in America. In the early days in Antarctica, she too felt lost in a foreign land.

But her ANSMET mission was right on track.

Each day, she and her colleagues would travel by snowmobile to areas designated as potential meteoric treasure-troves. They learned the properties of the local bedrock so they could distinguish meteorites from common chunks of Earth. They gathered debris from unknown reaches of the solar system, and from the moon. And later, by comparing the rocks’ chemical signatures to similar signatures measured by NASA’s Mars rover, they discovered that some of their finds once nestled on Mars. Scientists worldwide

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Lucy McFadden ’70, center, and colleagues cooked each night on propane stoves in their individual tents, but gathered weekly in a common tent for a potluck supper.

Clockwise from top left: A crevasse lined with ice crystals; labeling and measuring a meteorite; Lucy McFadden ’70 reading in her tent; the team searching for rocks on foot. Opposite page: McFadden, center, raises her visor to better examine a rock she believes is a meteorite.

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will study the meteorites McFadden and her teammates collected in Antarctica.

McFadden is known for her ability to figure out what meteorites are made of. She is an expert in reflectance spectroscopy, which means she can identify minerals in a rock by studying the spectrum that results when sun light bounces off it and passes through a prism.

Some of the light is absorbed and some reflected, depending on the material.

Different elements and minerals cast off different spectra or rainbows. “I look at their spectral signature,” she explained.

To McFadden, every rock and meteorite has its own John Hancock.

Better Than Fireworks

On January 25, 2008, with meteorites gathered, labeled, and categorized, McFadden climbed back into a cargo plane and began her journey home.

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sense of tranquility. “I wish I could maintain the level of calm and serenity that was afforded by the simple life of Antarctica,” she said.

By February 4, she was back home in Maryland, eager to reconnect with friends and family. She said she appreciated a hot shower, a comfortable bed, and a washing machine as never before, yet found life at home unduly complicated. “There was more to do than just look for rocks from space,” she said. When she thinks of Antarctica now, it seems so far away— geographically, culturally, emotionally—that she almost feels as if she’s visited another planet.

In fact, the barren stretches of Antarctica may be the closest she ever gets to an environment resembling that in outer space. McFadden has never wanted to be an astronaut; the missions she works on bring her close enough to the stars. She describes the moment in 2005, when the Deep Impact spacecraft hit its target comet, as the most memorable of her career. The impact was about 80 million miles away, but McFadden felt an adrenaline rush as if it had happened outside her door. “Seeing that was really a heartstopper,” she said.

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ucy McFadden ’70 says she has vivid memories of her own science classes while at CA: Chemistry with Nancy Konigsberg, Physics with Joel Salon, and Biology II with Madge Evans. “By the time I got to Bio II I was daydreaming about boys,” she admitted, “so I don’t think I absorbed all of Miss Evans’s teachings.”

She credits then Science Department Head Molly Plumb with her first leadership role in the sciences. “Miss Plumb asked me to be head of the lab assistants as a senior. I didn’t really have any insight into leadership at the time,” she said.

In that position, McFadden was allowed to do her own experiments.

“I decided to make firefly luminescence,” she remembered. “It really wasn’t an experiment because all I did was purchase the right chemicals and mix them up.” Although McFadden said she didn’t draw any conclusions from her look at luminescence, her independent experiment planted seeds for a life of scientific inquiry. “That opportunity definitely got me started,” she said.

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by radio telemetry, to reach Earth. “The wait was like holding my breath for seven minutes,” she explained.

“And then all of a sudden, the comet appeared with a bright plume of illuminated dust that was better than any fireworks display here on Earth. We’d planned it, and the result was beyond our expectations.”

Today the scientist is focused on NASA’s Dawn mission to Ceres, which may contain water, and Vesta, a dry asteroid that has spawned one in seven of the meteorites found on Earth. The project could shed light on how water has affected the formation of planets.

As far as those existential questions, McFadden still doesn’t know the answers. She doesn’t know how life began on Earth, or what conditions caused bodies in one part of the solar system to differ so much from those in another. She wouldn’t be surprised to find some kind of life elsewhere in the universe—it is just too vast for McFadden to imagine otherwise.

For now, every meteorite analyzed and every new photo from outer space are steps along her path to discovery—a path with forks and switchbacks, but also with continual opportunity for that heartpounding breakthrough. And for McFadden, wherever that path goes, it leads to fulfillment. “I derive a lot of satisfaction from understanding things and discovering things,” she said. Simple but profound words from a scientist, starry-eyed or not.

She wouldn’t be surprised to find some kind of life elsewhere in the universe — it is just too vast for McFadden to imagine otherwise.

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Opposite page: A colleague searches for meteorites on the snow. Top right: A meteorite, most likely from Mars, found in Antarctica by McFadden’s group.

Below: The scientists admire a glacier. Right: McFadden drills a hole to plant a flag marking where her team’s search ended, and where the next group’s exploration will begin.

COMMENCEMENT 2008 Speaker: Frederic “Sandy” Stott, Dean of Faculty

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o honor Sandy Stott for his twenty-five years of teaching, coaching, and inspiring at Concord Academy and for his able leadership as dean of faculty since 1999, the Class of 2008 invited him to deliver the Commencement address. Stott is on sabbatical for the 2008–09 school year, then returns to teach English.

At the seniors’ recognition dinner for faculty and staff in late May, Anna Hager ’08, Haesung Kim ’08, and Kevin Ting ’08 paid tribute to Stott, their advisor. “We had the strong urge to write this speech in light blue pencil, but they were all behind Sandy’s ear,” began Ting. Kim went on to explain that Stott is not truly a critical person.

“His lessons come in the form of stories, metaphors, and eloquently crafted emails,” she said.

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The three students then listed things they had learned from Stott, including:

• Thoreau, bear metaphors, and baseball are applicable to any situation.

• There’s a story in everything.

• You have to write poorly before you can write well.

• There’s more to life than homework; there’s more to life than high school.

• Every long speech can be shortened into a haiku.

They concluded: What we have gleaned from Sandy Stott, advisor king We can’t do justice

Photos by Tim Morse

The tribute was an apt prelude to Stott’s Commencement speech, which he titled, “Janus in June”: I BEGIN WITH THANKS —thanks to all

of you who have entrusted us with the high school education of your daughters and sons and grandchildren. And thank you, Fannie [Watkinson, the senior class president] and other members of the Class of 2008. It’s a privilege to share this day with you, just as it’s been a privilege to share our school throughout your years here.

Seniors. Often, during the past year, while I worked in my office, I heard you sorting through the meanderings and dilemmas of your worlds while sprawled on the hard “airport” couches above the dining hall. (Wasn’t it, by the way, appropriate that you should pass some of your rare free time on couches designed for

“flight delays”? At times, high school must have seemed just that.) As you lounged, your talk was an entertaining mix of a CA version of Facebook, a blog’s random postings, and moments of existential dilemma from a Beckett play: you could not believe “they” were dating; your physics assignment demanded public critique; you wondered aloud whether Godot would arrive. “Perhaps he’ll post on go.com,” said one of you. “Should we search for him or wait?” asked another.

And then there were what I call the “blue” episodes, those topics (often the amount of work you had) that invited the bite of everyday obscenity, that reminded me that you are not scholar-angels, as we, your teachers, sometimes like to cast you. On occasion, I emerged from my lair with a notebook to be sure I’d gotten the effing sequence of your words just so.

Mostly, however, your voices were homey background, an aural reminder of the teaching that

would be my reward for trudging through another drift of email.

But how you passed your free time is not today’s subject. Rather, here on the balance point of May’s last days we teeter for a moment between the span of high school past and the stretched immensity of your future. It is a good place from which to look both backward and forward, to be a sort of Janus in June, scanning each horizon from May’s doorway.

By my count during the last two years, I’ve had the pleasure of teaching forty-five of you, a classic glass-half-full or glass-half-empty calibration in that I often hear a teacher at the lunch table or in faculty meeting extol your virtues, and I say to myself, “I wish I’d had the chance to teach her.” Still, I have been rich in students, rich in comrades in reading and writing. And you have been rich in classmates.

When you were juniors, one of you embarked upon a long essay in my Creative

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Right: Ellen Condliffe Lagemann ’63, Sandy Stott, Joe Shapiro ’08, Fannie Watkinson ’08, and Jake Dresden.

Below from left: Lucas Frank ’08, Clara Dennis ’08, Max Rater ‘08, and Marlana Wallace ’08.

Left: Kim Dinh ’08. Below from left: Emily Cohen ’08 and Caroline Hughes ’08; Peter Boskey ’08; David Noam ‘08, Michael Wirtz, Fred Milgrim ‘08, and Kevin Ting ‘08.

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Nonfiction class; the essay chronicled the writer’s search for self-defining challenge, for the sort of test that would assure him he was up to the contact and bruisings of life; it was a search within himself surely, but one that also turned in mid-essay upon the surprise discovery of an external antagonist, a fellow student who, at first, cast a shadow of unpredictable menace across the writer’s quest. As good essays often are, this one was a mixture of story and selfexploration, and, because it was set at CA, it was peopled by you. The author surely found challenge and explored himself, but, as I read the essay’s finished version, I was struck also by how dependent his quest was on you and your support, both vocal and tacit. He was able to run a gauntlet of risks because you were there at key points along the way, and this was even true of his antagonist, who became a friendly sort of opponent. It turned out that his gauntlet of perceived risk had morphed into a

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loose circle of support, where you used your hands and words only to nudge him forward.

I’ll cite one more example of self-exploration made possible by the group from the hundreds available to me. Over the past weeks, I’ve watched and participated in twenty-four essay workshops, moments when we pause in the pursuit of a story and winged writing to consider that partially-feathered bird, the draft.

Typically, five students will arrive in class having read and critiqued a sixth student’s first effort at a long essay. We arrange ourselves in a circle of sorts and the author sits to the side, facing away from the group; for the first twenty minutes of our discussion, she will simply listen, making notes and perhaps wondering how we could be such ninnies for missing her best points or keenly wrought extended metaphor.

These are, as you might imagine, vulnerable moments for a young writer, for any writer.

They are moments when the arrow of remark

can be particularly piercing.

And yet, in workshop after workshop, discussion rumbled or meandered forward on a mixed fuel of wit, enthusiasm, and kindness that often allowed the writer full hearing of her work’s possibility. Often, as I watched our workshops, I could see an author’s quiet delight at hearing her writing closely examined, sometimes even borne aloft by her peers’ insights and intelligence.

Early last fall, I read a piece in the Sunday Globe that offered angled insight into what I’d found routinely in my work with you and into my growing admiration for your class. The article described a new field of study and research called allophilia, a composite word that means literally “love of the other.” Essentially, allophilia searches for the inherent root or roots of kindness; it proposes that we have a natural leaning toward kindness that balances or perhaps trumps our well-documented competitive

Often, as I watched our workshops, I could see an author’s quiet delight at hearing her writing closely examined, sometimes even borne aloft by her peers’ insights and intelligence.

and warlike tendencies. Allophilia, if its theorists are right, functions as a sort of governor on the hot engine that drives us to get out in front of or subdue others. As I read the piece I thought immediately of you and the thousand instances of kindness little and large that I have witnessed, or heard of, or received during your time at CA. Kindness has its own rewards, of course, but when it becomes a distinguishing feature many possibilities arise. Chief among them is the sort of self-exploration I mentioned earlier, a quest often mistakenly cited as a solitary pursuit.

Permit me a moment of envy. Not the agebased envy usual when we, your elders, look out upon your generation, seeing growth and possibility measured in exponents. Rather it’s a narrow envy generated by comparison between your and my high school experiences.

This comparison offers a small window into the way self-exploration falters in a school colored by an opposite of kindness; because it ruled my

own high school years, I’ll choose sarcasm as my high school organizer. Sarcasm, our most common form of irony, turns expression; it makes meaning snake back beneath itself where it creates uncertainty. “Did he mean that?” we often ask as we parse a sarcastic statement for its “true” meaning. Or, “How much of that did he mean?”

I am sixteen years old and acutely aware . . . of everything; often I feel myself to be a quivering antenna. Among each day’s many wonderings is this central one: “Who am I?” I sit down at breakfast, weary from the night’s study, wary of the day’s tests. “Lookin’ good,” says the boy on my right. I look down at my gravyspotted tie. “Yeah, o so fine,” says the boy across from me. I notice again the red aura of a pimple emerging on my nose. “Yeah, and you were brilliant in history yesterday, a regular luminary,” says a third. I recall offering that the Mongol Horde was a treasure. They all snicker as coda

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Clockwise from top left: Visual arts teacher Jessica Straus with Molly Turpin '08; history teacher Marco Odiaga with his advisees, Nick Trkla '08, Tamer Mallat '08, and Mathis Bauchner '08; Daly Franco '08 with her parents Domingo and Luz; Clara Dennis '08 (second from left) with her brother Luke '03, her mother Rebecca Kellogg '71, her sister Charlotte, and her father Kevin Dennis

Clockwise from top left: An a cappella performance at Baccalaureate, arranged

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to this usual greeting, and then it is someone else’s turn to receive and mine to offer. “Nice shirt,” I say to a new arrival; “it matches the scarecrow look you’ve got going on with your hair.” And on: throughout the day, throughout the week, throughout the term.

The effect of such a steady diet of sarcasm is a narrowing of options, a narrowing of acceptable me’s. It is a cynical approach to relationship. Will I be the one among the six at my breakfast table to risk sincerity and float a real dilemma, to say, for example, “I don’t get how Shakespeare knew so much about what a range of people thought, so I’m thinking of trying out for a play,” or, “I’m thinking of talking with coach because his mockery is breaking down Jeff ’s confidence.” It’s not that such risks aren’t taken in a school or place where sarcasm’s current is the mainstream; rather, it’s that such risks must be part of one’s secret life and self instead of public and shared.

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Often, I think, there’s a confusion at work in society; sarcasm and its cynical approach to life are touted as markers of clarity and toughness and realness, even of wisdom, while kindness obtains a reputation for haziness and softness, the atmospherics of some personal la-la land or bubble. “That’s not the way it is in the real world,” we say dismissively. The opposite is true, however. While ironic cynicism is reflexive, kindness is imaginative. Cynicism hardens quickly into a sort of intellectual and emotional Maginot Line capable only of devastating delivery in predictable direction.

Kindness, on the other hand, requires an unshelled awareness. Its constant practice forms a sort of emotional essay. As you will perhaps remember, the word “essay” comes from the French verb essayer, which means to attempt, and so an essay is an attempt to understand, to make sense of part of the world’s action and beings and our responses to them. Such work

takes imagination born of empathy, and, as many of you know, risk is written all over empathy because you too become vulnerable the moment you feel openly. And, of course, risk takes resolve and courage, the sort of flexible toughness that is called resilience. I’ve seen this willingness to risk openness in your eyes; I’ve heard it in your voices; I’ve noted it, every day, in your actions.

I’m sure a few of you wondered whether I could get through any fifteen-minute address without mention of Henry Thoreau; clearly, the answer is no. Here, for me, is how Henry appears: You are, in words found in his journal, about to “walk on into futurity.” Leave aside the clunky word “futurity”; let’s think instead of the essential word . . . “walk.” To walk is to move at a speed of perception that invites serendipity and wisdom. Henry set aside four hours a day for walking; he considered it essential for his health, for his mind, for his under-

standing of what it meant to live. This daily walking was his exploration—of world and self.

It was a form of openness that fueled his writing and talking, that allowed him to say precisely what he thought, whether it brought a chorus of head-bobbing assent or, more likely, the scant comment, “There goes Henry . . . again.”

Where Henry went we get to follow; he wrote out explicit observations; he kept track.

In the long conversation he had with the natural world (a world he counted humans a part of), Henry found little need or time for irony’s snake, little reason to say other than what he meant. His primary goal, he said, was to act as chanticleer, time’s rooster, and awaken his neighbors to the thousand paths of relatedness, to the thousand ways of living fully. Though sometimes nettlesome and opinionated, Henry was a wandering kindness too; he was a Concord favorite among the children because he was full of wonder and he knew where the won-

drous could be found—where birds nested and slept, where old trees still held sway, where the first signs of each season appeared, where the berries grew thick as thought.

And, though he loved to point his finger at readers and opine about this and that, Henry was also interested in exchange, in each person’s letter from the distant land of self. On Walden’s opening page, he writes, “I require of all writers, first or last, a sincere account . . . a letter such as one might send to one’s kin from a distant land.” One of Henry’s “letters” from (and to) Walden Pond describes a moment when the very needles of surrounding pines “swell with friendship.” In class last fall, we called this the “pineneedle moment” and it represents a fleeting but powerful episode of reciprocal allophilia, the sort of love of other that suggests that one has found full home on earth, that one is “equally at home everywhere.”

Throughout your time here you too have

written and sent these letters; I have read them in class and heard rumor of them burble forth outside my office; they have been quiet, personal drafts and larger staged ones. As you have learned, you have said what you think and questioned what you have heard. And throughout, like the many hands you are, you have caught, propped, and propelled each other through the days, through their thickets of uncertainty, through their sadnesses, through their split laughter of smiles gone loud. As you grow and change and learn, I hope you will stay true to a defining kindness, to a best you. I hope you will walk out daily into the world. And I hope you will send back letters from distant lands telling us, your kin, of your lives.

Thank you for your years here.

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s I take over as president of CA’s Alumnae/i Association—which has thrived under the leadership of Marion Odence-Ford ’82—my goal is to inspire all of you to become involved. Reconnect with classmates, visit campus to see students benefiting from the quality education we all enjoyed, or visit us virtually through the Chameleon Connection.

Think about getting involved in the way that feels right to you.

Come to a reception or another alumnae/i gathering, join a committee, attend an Alumnae/i Council meeting, or pop in on one of the events that fill the campus with energy. For example, alumnae/i are always welcome at assemblies, a weekly lineup of impressive performers, artists, filmmakers, and lecturers. Consider attending a campus theatre production or viewing this fall’s faculty art show at the Concord Free Public Library.

And no matter where you are, there’s a good chance that CA is scheduling a get-together nearby. Alumnae/i events are being planned throughout the country and the world—check out concordalum.org for the latest calendar, and be in touch if you have an idea for an event or program in your area. Over the past year, CA alumnae/i have gathered in Nantucket, California, New York, Maine, Seattle, Oregon, and London.

I know how meaningful it can be to reengage with CA. Over the years, I have been able to reconnect with old friends and with a community that remains vibrant and driven by the core values that we would all recognize—namely, the close interaction between teachers and students.

I also enjoy supporting the school as it charts a course through new challenges and opportunities.

I invite you to attend the next Alumnae/i Council meeting on October 18. Council meetings are not just for Council members; all alumnae/i are welcome, and appreciated, at every meeting, so please mark your calendars and check the Web site for updates.

If you ever have questions about CA or about how you can become involved, please contact me through Chameleon Connection at concordalum.org. Better yet, introduce yourself at an event.

CA alumnae/i are such a varied and dynamic group; it’s exciting to be part of this community.

Maureen Mulligan ’80 President, Alumnae/i Association

concordalum.org Reconnect with classmates and learn about alumnae/i events in your area at concordalum.org.

Reunion Weekend 2008

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he Concord Academy campus teemed with faculty, staff, and generations of alumnae/i June 13 to 15, as nearly three hundred former students representing classes from 1938 to 2003 greeted one another, often introducing their spouses, partners, and children. With well-attended panel discussions, author presentations, exhibits, tours, and meals, and the countless memories shared, Reunion Weekend was a reminder that Concord Academy holds a permanent place in the hearts and minds of its graduates.

Saturday’s program of panels kicked off with an environmental discussion that reflected the diversity of approaches alumnae/i have taken to address green issues. More than thirty people filled a classroom to hear Pauline Lord ’68, Margo Rice Jay ’78, and Tony Patt ’83 discuss their work.

Patt, who lives in Vienna, is a researcher at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, where he examines options to reduce CO2 emissions to the zero level.

He discussed how new technologies and policies can realistically mitigate climate change. Jay shared insights from her work with a Harvard-affiliated initiative that helps bring environmental sustainability to campuses. And Lord described running an organic farm in East Lyme, Connecticut, devoting her days not only to the manual labor of growing vegetables, but also to educating her customers about the flavor and nutritional advantages of organically grown local produce and the importance of community-supported agriculture.

The lively Q&A session that followed the three pan-

elists’ presentations touched on issues from the current political administration’s failure to improve the outlook for the environment to ideas about how schools, including CA, can do their part. Patt said that generating solar power in the desert and transmitting it to populated areas is one of the best hopes for significantly reducing CO2 emissions in the future.

In addition, he said, “Government policies such as tax credits and subsidies have proven to be very effective in leading to substantial investment in technology improvement and in reducing costs for renewable energy.”

Jay addressed audience questions about CA’s green initiatives, which include a significant recycling program, the monitoring of energy use, food composting, and a “green team” of students, faculty, and staff charged with coming up with new ideas. She also referred to “trayless Tuesdays and Thursdays” at CA, which have resulted in diners taking—and therefore wasting—less food because they are carrying only a plate. In addition, heat and water are saved when there are no trays to wash.

Lord answered questions about organic crops and sustainable agriculture, underscoring the need for farmers like herself to avoid undercutting farms’ financial sustainability by setting their prices unrealistically low. Audience members from Colorado, California, and other parts of New England offered details about organic farming and community-supported agriculture in their home towns.

Also during the morning, alumnae/i gathered in the Chapel, first to memorialize classmates who had died in the past year, then again to honor Joan Shaw Herman Award

Hannah Wunsch ’93, Anna Fincke ’93, Fincke's husband Bryan Wentzell, Jill Kantrowitz Kunkel ’93, and Nick Decaneas ’93

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recipient Anne Gaud Tinker ’63 (see page 37). Throughout the afternoon, children splashed in CA’s pool, and toddlers ran across the lawns. A steady parade of life-jacketed paddlers streamed in and out of canoes by the boathouse. And guests perused the creative efforts of their classmates at the annual Art and Author Exhibit, featuring the works of more than thirty alumnae/i and faculty.

In Aloian House, Head of School Jake Dresden led the dedication of the living room to two early stewards of CA for their unparalleled commitment to the school’s mission: the late Anne Bixby Chamberlin, who was one of the school’s founders, and her daughter, Anne Chamberlin Newbury ’29.

Newbury’s granddaughter, Elizabeth Newbury ’98, took part in the dedication of the Chamberlin-Newbury Room and said she was honored to represent her family. Associate Head for Enrollment and Planning Pam Safford took the opportunity to emphasize how generous the Chamberlin-Newbury family has been with financial aid—and how significantly their gifts have furthered the mission of the school.

Later in the afternoon, several alumnae/i who work in finance spoke on current markets and the economy. A standing-room-only crowd gathered in the Great Room to hear the insights of financial analyst Tom Darling ’93; Keith Gelb ’88, a cofounder of a private equity real estate investment firm; Jamie Flicker ’83, an investment banker for Greenhill & Co. specializing in the paper and forest products industry; and Heidi Reichenbach Harring ’78, a vice president with Fidelity.

Moderating the panel was Consuelo Mack ’68, anchor and producer of the public television show Wealth-Track, former host of CNBC’s Wall Street Journal Report, and a previous Hall Fellow. Mack started the panel with a question that induced

several laughs: “How does a Concord Academy graduate end up with a career in finance, anyway?”

After panelists discussed their particular sector of the economy, Mack attempted to pin them down on a forecast.

Darling responded that his role is to focus on individual companies and their potential, not the economy as a whole.

“The joke about economists is that we’ve forecast thirty of the last five recessions,” he added. Flicker predicted economic problems would worsen. “The public may have thought the Bear Stearns buyout was the bottom of the downward slide, but it was not,” he said. “And I’m not sure we’re at the bottom yet. This is going to go on for at least a couple more quarters.”

Gelb said that, from a real estate perspective, “we are likely in the fifth or sixth inning” of what he called a residential real estate depression. And Harring described the larger problem generated by the mortgage crisis: “Without housing starts, you don’t have incremental increases in a town’s finance base.”

She sees the potential for people making bad decisions, such as walking away from their mortgages or borrowing against their 401ks.

Other reunion events included Choral Director Keith Daniel’s class on the Beatles as musical and social trendsetters, a memoir workshop led by Faith Andrews Bedford ’63, and a panel on “CA Today” with current students and faculty, moderated by Dresden. In light of Dresden’s departure from CA after the 2008–09 school year, the Head of School Search Committee provided an overview of the head of school search, and alumnae/i with school-aged children took campus tours with an eye toward their own children’s educational futures.

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ment prevailed at the seafood dinner Friday night and the ice cream sundae bar that followed, hosted by Marion OdenceFord ’82 and her husband, co-owners of Christina’s Ice Cream in Cambridge. Musical entertainment, in a tent on the Stu-Fac patio, topped off the evening, with vocalists Keith Daniel and Annie Mancini ’01 jamming with music teacher Ross Adams, on guitar. The lively mood continued at the class dinners Saturday night, which were capped off with entertainment by Nate Shaw ’88 on piano.

Early risers on Sunday could opt for bird-watching with ornithological hobbyist Walter Judge ’78 or yoga in the dance studio. Alumnae/i who graduated since 1998 gathered in the Stu-Fac for a pancake breakfast sponsored by the

Concord Academy Young Alumnae/i Committee (CAYAC).

They saw Jake Dresden standing behind a griddle, wearing a chameleon apron and a chef ’s hat, flipping pancakes, and occasionally veering into theatrics with a high-flying flapjack.

Also armed with toques and spatulas were math teacher Howie Bloom, Teacher Emeritus Bill Bailey, and Major Gifts Officer Carol Shoudt. But two members of the kitchen staff stole the show when they became Olympic pancake judges, holding up numbers to rate the chefs’ handiwork.

A 10 for a perfectly flipped flapjack. They were rating the pancakes, but they could have been rating the entire weekend.

Based on the comments of participants and the pledges to return five years from now, Reunion Weekend earned a 10.

See more Reunion Weekend photos at www.concordalum.org.

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From left: Phoebe BestDevenish ’63 and Daria Bolton Fisk ’63; Anne Gaud Tinker ’63; Tinker with Angelique Yen Marsden ’86; and the Class of 1963, gathered to honor their classmate

Joan Shaw Herman Award: Anne Gaud Tinker ’63

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oan Shaw Herman ’46, a victim of polio, spent much of her adult life raising awareness of physical disabilities. Similarly, this year’s recipient of the award created in her memory, the Joan Shaw Herman Award for Distinguished Service, “has defended the rights of women who are . . . culturally and politically handicapped,” as Joan Shaw Herman Award Committee Chair Angelique Yen ’86 said in her opening remarks during the Reunion Weekend award ceremony.

The 2008 honoree, Anne Gaud Tinker ’63, joins a long line of CA graduates who have distinguished themselves through an unwavering commitment to service to others. With fellow members of the Class of 1963 clustered near the front of the Elizabeth B. Hall Chapel, Tinker began describing her history in public service by speaking about her memories of CA. “I remember Mrs. Hall speaking to us from this same podium,” she said. “There was a no-nonsense attitude here that women were as capable and responsible as men to fulfill their potential. There was no such thing as men’s or women’s work. I remember chopping wood.”

Tinker described how her career was influenced by growing up during the civil rights movement, which she emphasized addressed the rights of both blacks and women. She told of childhood trips to

Charleston, South Carolina, to visit relatives, and the restroom signs that said “Whites Only.”

Until her recent retirement, Tinker built a career around improving health care for women and children in the world’s poorest countries. She began at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, migrated to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), then to the World Bank, eventually applying her expertise and commitment to the Saving Newborn Lives Initiative, jointly developed by the Save the Children Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Even in retirement, she continues to serve as a senior advisor for Save the Children.

Tinker, who has master’s degrees in Latin American studies and public health, said her public service profile paralleled her personal life in many ways. In her early twenties, newly married, she focused on family planning and reproductive health.

After giving birth to two children, her attentions shifted somewhat to the area of newborn and maternal wellness and survival, examining issues such as breastfeeding and immunizations. As her daughters grew older, she added extensive travel to her schedule, visiting developing countries where conditions for women and children were in desperate need of improvement.

Riveted, the audience heard accounts

of regions in which highly unsanitary practices were routinely employed for newborn care, including the use of cow dung on babies’ umbilical cords in Uttar Pradesh, one of the poorest states in India. “Babies in the poorest state of India are not given names until they are forty days old, because of the high mortality rate,” she said, and some female babies are not named even then. Tinker faced her own on-the-job perils numerous times, including being held hostage in Sri Lanka for five hours during a terrorist attack on her hotel. She celebrated her fortieth birthday in Bangladesh amidst the sobering realization that she had just exceeded the life expectancy of women in that country.

“I have always wanted to experience how others live and to try to make those lives better,” Tinker concluded. “Aware of how fortunate I was growing up motivated a passion and commitment to give to those less fortunate. Many of the lessons that I learned at Concord Academy continue to guide my life today—look for opportunity, respect every human being, remain optimistic, believe that you can make a difference, aim high, and stand up for what you think is important.

“Don’t be afraid to walk to your own drummer and remember that progress comes only with change.”

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The varsity baseball team finished its regular season 8–3 and was invited to the postseason New England Small School Tournament for the second straight year.

Graduating seniors capped their CA career as part of the strongest baseball team in the school’s history, winning this year’s postseason Eastern Independent League (EIL) tournament and capturing the EIL title for the last three years.

The Ultimate Frisbee team’s 5–3 season included several highlights: two Callahan goals—scored when a defensive team intercepts a pass in the opponent’s end zone; a 15–13 win over Pingree in early April; a well-fought loss against Andover; and a 15–5 domination over Gann Academy.

Cocaptains Sarah Thornton ’09 (#1 singles) and Sophie Goodman ’08 (#1 doubles) led the girls varsity tennis team with a strong work ethic and determination through a 4 –7 season. Jenna Troop ’09 (#2 singles), Beth Basow ’09 (#1 doubles), and Aliza Rosen ’10 (#2 doubles) returned this season with strong play; Tonia Tsinman ’09 (#3 singles) made the jump from JV and had the highest winning percentage on the team. Sarah Wilker ’11 (#2 doubles) and Christine Wu ’11 (singles/doubles) made significant contributions in their first seasons.

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Four returning players and four first-year student-athletes led the boys varsity tennis team to a 6–3 season, including a satisfying win over rival Pingree. Cocaptains Jake Dockterman ’09 and Trip Smith ’08 held the top two positions and were named EIL AllLeague players. Returning players Eric Edelstein ’09 and Matt Goldenberg ’08 solidified the first and second doubles teams respectively. Four newcomers had a huge impact: Josh Suneby ’11 (EIL All-League, #3 singles), Jack Moldave ’11 (#1 doubles), Dan Weiner ’11 (#2 doubles), and Clement Guerner ’09 (doubles).

CA’s sailing team raced in 420s and Cape Cod Mercurys during a cold, wet season, placing second in the C division of the Massachusetts Bay League in the Mercury competition and fourth in the 420s.

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The girls lacrosse team started the season without a goalie and with just one substitute, but played with spirit toward individual and team improvement and a 3–8–1 season.

CA’s offense was led by sophomore Julia Dyer’s 27 points, on 25 goals and two assists. She was named a New England Prep School Women’s Lacrosse Association (NEPSWLA) All-Star and part of the EIL AllLeague team. The defense was anchored by Yaliza Bacchus ’10, who stepped in as goalie, saving half the shots against her. Captain Chelsey Bowman ’08 was named

Photos by Dan Sanford

CA’s 2008 softball team combined solid returning players with new talent and energy, who all instilled a competitive spirit in a rebuilding program. Coming off a 4–7 season, the future looks bright: Hannah Kaemmer ’09 was named an EIL All-League player in her first year with the team.

a NEPSWLA All-Star and EIL AllLeague selection for the third year in a row, as well as an All-American Honorable Mention. She is continuing her career at Harvard.

The boys lacrosse team experienced a 1–10 season of growing pains and camaraderie. A rousing 9–2 win against Gann Academy was only overshadowed by a thrilling, season-ending 11–10 loss to Landmark Academy, in which the team scored five goals in the final eight minutes.

EIL ALL-LEAGUE PLAYERS Baseball Henry Butman ’08 Aidan Hanlon ’08 Patrick Walker ’08 Scott Bloom ’08 (Honorable Mention) Girls Lacrosse Chelsey Bowman ’08 Julia Dyer ’10 Tania Torres ’08 (Honorable Mention) Boys Lacrosse Fred Milgrim ’08 (Honorable Mention) Softball Hannah Kaemmer ’09 Joy deLeon ’08 (Honorable Mention) Boys Tennis Jake Dockterman ’09 Trip Smith ’08 Josh Suneby ’11

John Moriarty ‘07 played on Colby College’s men’s lacrosse team in the spring.

Max Bogaert ‘05 pulled double duty, participating on the Clark University baseball squad and assisting Howie Bloom with CA’s baseball team.

Sam Smith ’05 rowed with Williams women’s crew team, which captured the NCAA Division III women’s rowing title.

Liz Spence ’04, lead defender on Dartmouth’s women’s lacrosse team, cocaptained the team during her senior year. Last spring she received the inaugural Dartmouth Class of 1980 Award, given to one athlete from both the men’s and women’s lacrosse teams in recognition of athletic, academic, and community work.

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hen Jenny Imrich ’04 joined the squash team during her freshman year at CA, she was a total novice. She had spent four days on the volleyball team, but squash was a player short, so she offered to complete the team.

“I hadn’t actually ever played before then,” she recalled. Though she liked the sport right away, she hardly thought she’d end up captaining the varsity women’s squash team at Bates College, working with two other captains to lead it to a number-twelve national ranking. Nor would she have imagined that when she graduated college, she would be ranked eighty-third among women squash players in the U.S.

Sarah Faulkner Hugenberger ‘94 returned to CA last spring as the girls varsity lacrosse assistant coach. Hugenberger, who played club lacrosse at Brown, has moved into the head coaching spot for the coming year, replacing Kate Leonard, who left CA for a full-time collegiate field hockey and lacrosse coaching position.

At CA, Imrich had played soccer and lacrosse — and she had captained all of her sports her senior year (and soccer her junior year as well). She thought about playing lacrosse in college, but opted to go out for squash. She met with college coaches, but wasn’t recruited per se. “In the squash world, you need to play a lot of junior tournaments in order to be on the map,” she said.

At Bates, she made the team, but started humbly at the number-thirteen spot. “Only the top nine count, so I was sort of on the reserve list,” she said. Yet she considered herself lucky to be practicing with talented players. And she was on a mission to sharpen her skills.

“I did a lot of extra practicing, played in the off-season, sought outside help from my coach,” she said. The extra work paid off as Imrich moved up the lineup, all the way to the numbertwo spot her senior year. “It felt like a natural progression up the lineup, but I still can’t believe how I moved up,” she said.

Most of her competitors had been playing squash long before Imrich picked up the racquet at CA. “A lot of people would consider how late I started a disadvantage,” she said, “but my opportunity to play squash seemed to coincide with when I was dedicated to improving.”

Imrich graduated from Bates with a psychology major last spring, spent the summer on a marketing internship in San Francisco, and was planning to move to New York in the fall. She took a break from competitive squash after school, but looks forward to entering adult tournaments and possibly joining an adult club team.

“I love squash because it requires a balance of fitness, mental strength, finesse, and control,” she said. “Every time I step on court I learn something new about the game and myself.”

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Issy Cless ‘07 (Tufts University) and Jared Pimm ‘07 (Trinity College) competed on high-achieving New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) basketball teams. Tufts women’s basketball won 26 of 30 games, its best season ever, and went all the way to the quarterfinals of the 2008 NCAA Division III Women’s Basketball Tournament. Trinity captured its first NESCAC men’s basketball title, with the team surpassing Bowdoin College 74–55 in the final game of the 2008 NESCAC championship.

Emily Howe ’07 scored six goals during her starting season on Bates’ women’s lacrosse team. One of the goals was critical, helping Bates defeat rival Bowdoin College for the first time in fifteen years.

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oncord Academy’s Jazz Ensemble focused on classics during its spring concert, performing works such as Duke Ellington’s “Perdido,” John Coltrane’s “Equinox,” and the New Orleans spiritual, “A Closer Walk With Thee.”

Among the musicians showcasing their improvisational talents were Rutledge Chin Feman ’08, Nathan Coppersmith ’08, Julia Denardo-Roney ’08, Jonathan Fagan ’11, Joe Shapiro ’08, Monica Stadecker ‘09, and Molly Turpin ’08.

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Patrick Walker ’08, foreground, performed in the Theatre 3 Company’s production of (Her) House, inspired by Sophocles’ Electra.

The ancient tragedy provided the lens for a contemporary investigation of grief, passion, and exultation, employing the poetry

of Anne Carson, readings from Elaine Scarry’s The Body in Pain, and a study of Polish director and theoretician Jerzy Grotowski.

The Theatre 3 class created and performed (Her) House under the guidance of Theatre Program Director David R. Gammons.

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Keith Daniel and English teacher Parkman Howe (left), with two non-CA colleagues.

The four have been writing musicals for twenty-five years, said Daniel, and staged four of their works in the 1980s, reviving one, Hooch, three years ago at CA. The Tsarina’s Harp, based on a Russian folk tale, “is oldfashioned and romantic, with a dash of adventure,” said Daniel. See The Tsarina’s Harp (and hear its seventeen original songs) in the Performing Arts Center, November 14 –15.

Check concordacademy.org for more information.

“The Brophy Boys” by Aaron Freedman ’08

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Katz often guided him. “Whenever I am stuck, or I cannot decide which photos to include in a show, Cynthia has given me the vocabulary to articulate what is strong about a photo, versus what is weak,” he said.

In his scholarship entry, he explained the lure of photography’s immediacy. “Unlike other media, photography allows me to capture visual elements as soon as they occur,” he wrote. “It would be impossible to notice every detail of this photograph in the moment — the flick of the hands, and the placement of each of the three soccer balls.”

Freedman hopes to continue pursuing photography this year at Williams College.

“The combination of knowledge and skill, along with the serendipity of discoveries in the darkroom, is what defines my love for and approach to photography,” he said.

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n May, CA’s Orchestra and Chorus (above) performed a joint concert, opening with “By an’ By,” a traditional spiritual, featuring choral soloists Julia Hanlon ’10 and Ara Bilazarian ’10. The Chamber

Choir followed with “Margoton” by Francis Poulenc, and the Chorus with “Make Our Garden Grow” from Candide.

The evening concert also included works by Gabriel Fauré and Mozart.

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hen Aaron Freedman ’08 (right) submitted a playful photograph of three boys tossing soccer balls to a scholarship competition, the Griffin Museum of Photography, based in Winchester, Massachusetts, took notice.

A museum panel, impressed with “The Brophy Boys” (far right), selected Freedman to receive its Joan Johnson Scholarship, given to high school photographers whose photos demonstrate technical proficiency, originality, and a compelling quality.

“Quality, composition, movement, mystery are all a part of this unique black-and-white portrait,” wrote one juror.

Another was taken with the ball in front of the boy’s face.

“Obscuring most of his features, in size and prominence it lets us know that soccer is probably the most important feature of the boy’s identity.

Also, it gives the image a quirky, slightly strange quality that references Surrealism and makes this a very unusual portrait.”

Freedman studied photography at CA each year since he was a freshman, and said that teacher (and Visual Arts Department Head) Cynthia

ARTS Bag by Fannie Watkinson '08 for Fiber Arts: Pattern and Embellishment; portrait by Walker Nordin ‘10 for Drawing 2; self-portrait by David Wilder ’08 for Drawing 2; terracotta hand by Sam Malenchak ’08 for Ceramics 3

Theatre News

☞ Jennie Israel, who was guest director of The Beaux’ Stratagem, last winter’s mainstage production, has joined CA’s faculty to teach the classics-focused semester of Theatre 2. Israel is associate artistic director of the Actors Shakespeare Project and played Phebe on the Boston Common this summer in As You Like It. ☞ Ian Hannan, formerly a parttime technical director, has become full-time and will teach Theatre Design and Technology.

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☞ Playwriting teacher Melinda

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n April, the CA Dance Company presented Transformation Pending, an original work inspired by the writings of Henry David Thoreau and the music of John Cage. Choreographed by Dance Company students and conceived and directed by dance teacher Richard Colton, Transformation Pending recreated the backdrop of Thoreau’s home by working closely with the Thoreau Farm Trust in Concord; the set included elements — such as wallpaper patterns — that mimicked Thoreau’s birthplace.

Lopez was nominated for a 2008 Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding New Script for her play Gary, which premiered in March at the Boston Playwrights’ Theatre.

The production also was nominated for Outstanding Production by a Small Company. The Elliot Norton Awards are Boston’s most prestigious drama honors.

☞ These three teachers, along with CA veterans Megan Gleeson and Theatre Program Director David R. Gammons, bring the program’s faculty to five, compared to the program of one that Gammons took over in 2000.

“The faculty’s range of backgrounds gives students a deeper experience,” Gammons said.

Photos by Tim Morse

Teapot by Maia Johnstone ’10 for Ceramics 1; stirrup vessel by Alexandra Zeitouni ’11 for Ceramics 1; still life by Patrick D’Arcy ’08 for Painting 3; dress by Eliza Brooke ’09 for Garment: Form and Function

course, classroom setting, job . . . life in general. I remember taking Ceramics II with her and knowing soon after that my life would be played out as a ceramic artist. I simply knew it.”

After graduation from Skidmore College, Eberle apprenticed with the renowned Toshiko Takaezu, then headed to San Jose State University for a master’s in fine arts.

Eberle hopes to inspire CA students as Conn inspired him. “If I am half the teacher Kendra was,” he said, “I will consider myself a complete and total success.”

Photos by David R. Gammons

en Eberle ’99, right, has joined the CA department that once inspired him to pursue ceramics professionally.

“I loved the CA arts community— its strength, its vivacity, eccentricity, and reputation,” said Eberle, who began teaching ceramics at CA this fall.

In a sense, Eberle is paying it forward. “It would be a total lie if I said CA was anything but the single most important part of my career as an artist,” he said. “The mainstay in my creative life is the legendary Kendra Conn. She is simply the best teacher I've ever had in any art

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (left) and Fen (right) were staged in the spring, thanks to CA’s Directors Seminar, a full-year course in which students write or adapt, cast, stage, produce, and direct a play of their choice. Marina Filisky ’08 and Grady Gund ’08 codirected Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Tom Stoppard’s farce and Shakespearean homage. Marlana Wallace ’08 directed Fen, a play by Caryl Churchill about ambition, abuse, endurance, class conflict, and mother-daughter relationships.

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Déjà Vu for CA’s Newest Ceramic Artist

ARTS You may have seen Zandy Mangold’s work without even realizing it, especially if you read about music. His photographs have appeared in Rolling Stone, the New York Times, Enter-

What kinds of assignments send you on tour with bands?

All the tours have been on my own volition. I have syndicated photos from the tours and produced album art, but at its core it’s a labor of love as there are no guarantees of anything except crashing on random floors. One of the most unique things I did recently was document a tour with the band Edison. We spent five nights on the USS Kearsarge as it sailed from Virginia to New York City for Fleet Week.

Edison played one show for the troops on this massive vessel, and the rest of the time we cruised! I ended up writing a piece about the experience for the New York Post with photos and video.

tainment Weekly, and other publications, and have illustrated the CD covers of indie rock bands.

Mangold recently answered questions by email. He had more to say than space allows; see the entire interview at www.concordacademy.org/mangold.

Q&A

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What have you been working on lately?

Time management and production, those are the aspects of photography that I call work. Otherwise, taking pictures — it ain’t work!

Basically I am working on the two same divergent projects that have inspired me from the start — one on places and one on musicians — trying to convey the essence of a place while showing as little as possible, and trying to capture the essence of musicians in an image by any means necessary.

Much of my “place” photography occurs while on tour with bands.

It’s a reaction to the hectic, stimulated nature of a tour and thanks to inspiration derived from seeing new places. I enjoy getting lost in my surroundings, observing and trying to make sense of them in a picture — a form of unintentional meditation — just as much as I enjoy collaborating with a live subject.

Which bands have you toured with?

I’ve gone on extensive tours with City Sleeps, Phonograph, Old Man River, and Edison.

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What’s rewarding about this kind of work?

Well one thing is for sure, it’s not the money! The most rewarding aspect is doing something I love.

It’s not complicated, or maybe it is.

I can’t explain the chemical or psychological reasons that cause fulfillment when I take pictures; I just accept that as part of my makeup. I think I was six when I stole my parents’ Polaroid camera, and I remember when I first looked through an SLR [single lens reflex] camera, so I am very grateful to be pursuing a career that is true to my nature. Meeting great people and having interesting experiences are added value.

When do you consider your photography journalism, and when art?

I think the intent behind an image mostly determines if it’s an artistic, journalistic, or commercial piece.

One could show the exact same image on three different gallery walls, and the photographer’s explanation would determine under which category it falls. One thing I enjoy about music photography is that the lines can blur. I definitely consider work with musicians an artistic endeavor, and yet these frozen moments can end up being used for something commercial, and I can actually make a living.

How do you decide where to shoot someone?

Sometimes I have a visual in my head; other times it’s a matter of who can be where when. That said, I have been photographing musicians on a bare studio wall for over a decade. This is a specific project, and it’s about getting to the core of the person behind the music. The

simple visual approach forces the image to be about the subject. It creates vulnerability, but also a power because it’s all about them.

Other times I will listen to a band and get a feeling from their music and seek a fitting location. Sometimes subjects already have a location in mind, and I roll with that.

How do you get to know your subjects, to capture their essence, when you may not really know them?

It’s a sensitive area, but a sincere interest in somebody breaks all kinds of ice, and I am fascinated by all people. I also prefer to collaborate with my subjects in creation of an image, and that creates respect, trust, and vested interest in a photo.

What has been your most exciting assignment?

Photographing Ray Charles not once, but twice, was amazing. In addition to being awed by his musicality and inspired by his joie de vivre, he was an entertaining and funny dude. Also Vietnam, which was a personal assignment, was overwhelmingly photogenic. I don’t necessarily mean pretty, rather crazy things for the eye to see and record at every juncture.

Please tell us some of the places your photos been published.

Rolling Stone, the New York Times, the New York Post, the New York Daily News, Entertainment Weekly.

What’s it like photographing high-profile celebrities?

Usually the celebrities are great, and the people around them are more

Kirsten Price, by Zandy Mangold ’92

uptight. Often the celebrity is not aware of his or her schedule, but the handlers are. The biggest challenge for me is to get as much accomplished as possible in a short amount of time. I’ve only been starstruck once. That occurred when I photographed Slash of Guns N’ Roses and Velvet Revolver, and I have no problem admitting that!

I was shocked and awed by his gentle nature and by how soft his hands were when we shook. Who knew?

It sounds wrong, but he had the softest hands I can recall.

Any funny celeb stories to share?

Meeting Ray Charles for the first time was a trip. He doesn’t just shake your hand, but feels your arm from wrist to elbow, like he’s reading your life story. He shouted, “Somebody get this boy some food!”

How long have you been interested in photography?

As long as I can recall, literally. The first time I looked through the Polaroid or Instamatic camera and began composing the world around me in a viewfinder, I was hooked.

Maybe I was driven by the urge that there must be a cooler way to see what I am seeing. I think most people can identify with that when they look through a camera, no?

What inspired you when you first began?

Definitely my cat. I was in love.

There was nothing more beautiful.

I had to photograph her with my parents’ camera, and that is when I stole their Polaroid. I guess I was six. I knew right from wrong at that point. It became a small crisis, especially when innocent houseguests came under my parents’ suspicion.

And then, years later, it was the passing of my cat that set me on a professional career course in photography. At the time I was

Bear Hands, by Zandy Mangold ’92

writing some fluffy pieces for the Washington Times and harder-core journalism for the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, and my cat, Blueberry, became terminally ill. After taking her to the vet for euthanasia I was devastated and took a couple weeks off, during which time I determined life is short and I must pursue my passions, consequences be damned. So I quit my jobs in DC and enrolled in the photography program at the Portfolio Center in Atlanta, graduating two years later.

Did CA’s photography courses influence you or your work?

I took intro to photo with Cynthia Katz as a junior. I love her! It’s funny to look back at that portfolio and Cynthia’s spicy critique. I borrowed a 35mm camera from the school, and after that class had to return it and didn’t really shoot again until I was studying abroad in Chile as a junior in college. The program provided internships, and the advisors told me to list dream jobs and see what happens. Amazingly, I got a photo internship at a Chilean daily newspaper called La Nación, and in a bit of a fluke, the second day on the job

found myself photographing General Augusto Pinochet.

I was a blank slate going into Photo I, and Cynthia taught me to think about what I was shooting and why. How did the composition of the photo influence the visual message? So yes, that class forever changed the way I took pictures.

Of course, my first roll of film for the class was blank! I hadn’t loaded it properly in the camera.

Kevin Jennings was another very influential teacher. Not on purpose so much, which is what’s so great about Kevin, but just by being a funny, rational voice and a friend while at CA. We still see each other in NYC, and he actually lent me his lovely loft to shoot Susan Sarandon a few months ago for Animal Fair magazine.

breakups, we decided to start a band. Have you heard of The Carpenters? Well, we are not like them. Being in a band definitely helps me relate to the artists I work with. There are peculiarities to the music business and lifestyle, and being comfortable in that world helps me get along with my music photo subjects.

What other interests take your time?

Cooking, tennis, running, travel, yadda yadda.

If we made you choose a single favorite photo, which would you choose?

If you had to ask the most impossible question of a photographer, what would it be?

You also play drums in a rock band, Uncle Moni.

How does Uncle Moni fit in with your photography work (or vice versa)?

Playing the drums (or sinks or desks) is something I always did, and one day, sitting on a roof in Brooklyn with a friend, mulling our respective

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What kinds of things have you done for commercial clients?

Fashion and beauty shots for companies like drugstore.com and Nylon magazine. Album art, portraits of sound engineers, and product shots for Digi Design, which makes a music recording program. Also restaurant Web sites — I love photographing food. Chefs are of the artist ilk — they sacrifice a lot to pursue a passion, with little guarantee for success or stability. [Mangold has photographed Anita Lo ’84, chef/owner of Annisa in Manhattan, for the New York Post.]

CONCORD ACADEMY was thrilled to welcome 112 new students to campus this fall. After reading

more than 750 applications, the Admissions Committee chose an exciting group, including eightyeight freshmen, twenty-two new sophomores, one new junior, and one new senior, a Thai Scholar.

Scenes from Orientation 2008 Photos by Alison Merrill ’09

ADMISSIONS

FRESHFACES

The new students include: •

57 boys and 55 girls

• Residents of

12 states (California, Connecticut, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont) 6 countries

(Canada, China, Germany, South Korea, Thailand, and the United States) and Bermuda

More new student trivia: • •

20 percent receive financial aid 24 percent have a parent, grandparent, or sibling who attended CA

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23 percent are U.S. students of color 12 percent are international students

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Report of Giving 2007–08

Help Change the World One Gift at a Time

ne important way your gifts to Concord Academy make a difference is their role in helping our students make a difference.

Whether they are traveling to Louisiana to help residents rebuild their lives in the wake of Hurricane Katrina; raising awareness throughout campus about ways we can reduce our carbon footprint for the good of the planet; working at shelters, soup kitchens, and organic farms; or simply caring about each other every day, CA students are having a positive impact on the world around them.

This Report of Giving celebrates your generosity and reflects the caring spirit of many people—alumnae/i, parents, trustees, faculty, staff, and other friends of the school. What is less obvious is that each of your gifts was matched with acts of generosity by those who benefited from them most directly: our students.

Thank you for giving so generously and for caring so deeply about CA. And thank you for helping our students see the value of giving back.

Sincerely,

CONCORD ACADEMY MAGAZINE / REPORT OF GIVING

Jacob A. Dresden Head of School

Ellen Condliffe Lagemann ’63 President, Board of Trustees

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Departing Trustees

Board of Trustees Ellen Condliffe Lagemann ’63, President John J. Moriarty p’02, ’05, ’07, First Vice President Lucy-Ann McFadden ’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 Elizabeth Ballantine ’66 Peter Blacklow ’87 W. Anthony Brooke p’07, ’09 Valerie Cummings p’05, ’08 Ian T. Douglas p’05, ’07, ’10 Thomas J. First ’85 Elisabeth Frusztajer ’80, p’10 Keith B. Gelb ’88 Wanda Holland Greene Ann L. Gund p’08 Sandra Willett Jackson ’61 Lori W. Lander p’06, ’09 Mary B. Malhotra ’78, p’10

Amelia Lloyd McCarthy ’89 David Michaelis ’75 Maureen Mulligan ’80 Sarah E. Muyskens ’72 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 Jorge Solares-Parkhurst ’94 Chang Rok Woo p’03

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

AT THE FINAL BOARD MEETING OF THE YEAR , Ellen Condliffe

Lagemann ’63, president of the Board of Trustees, recognized departing board members. These individuals contributed innumerable 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.

Jennifer Abele ’90 Valerie Cummings p’05, ’08 Wanda Holland Greene Lucy-Ann McFadden ’70 Marion Odence-Ford ’82 Mark Rosen p’97, ’06 Chang Rok Woo p’03

Concord Academy’s Board of Trustees 2007–08

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Volunteer Leadership

Many thanks to the following volunteers who served Concord Academy during 2007 – 08 in leadership, fundraising, and other capacities.

V O LU N T E E R

CA Parents Executive Committee Valerie Cummings p’05, ’08 President Marie Cullen-Oliver p’06, ’09 Vice President, Parent Outreach

Bryan Hobgood ’05 Laura Johnson ’86 Walter Judge ’78 James Lichoulas III ’91 Martha Livingston ’78 Noah McCormack ’00 Laura Richardson Payson ’47

L E A D E R S H I P

Virginia Redpath ’65 Jonathan Schechner ’98 Jeffrey Schneider ’91 Monica Wulff Steinert ’57, gp’11 Margaret Walker ’63 Tracy Welch ’89

Fan Watkinson p’08, ’10 Vice President, Campus Service Programs Jane Hughes p’04, ’08 Vice President, Special Events Margaret Sullivan p’09 Vice President, Community Support

Charitable Giving by Source and Purpose in 2007–08 Gifts received between July 1, 2007 and June 30, 2008

Janet Benvenuti p’09 Secretary

Annual Giving

Restricted Giving

Capital Giving

Totals

Alumnae/i

$970,848

$32,578

$2,331,299

$3,334,725

Current Parents

$953,046

$65,955

$1,206,498

$2,225,499

Parents of Alumnae/i

$170,847

$24,973

$1,715,303

$1,911,123

$15,128

$2,675

$45,079

$62,882

$833

$0

$648

$1,481

$23,946

$0

$93,450

$117,396

$0

$14,250

$22,500

$36,750

$28,870

$35,916

$46,554

$111,340

$2,163,518

$176,347

$5,461,311

$7,801,196

Erin Pastuszenski p’10 Parent News Coordinator Lisa McGovern p’08 Boarding Parent Representative

Faculty/Staff

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 Lauren Bruck ’85 Secretary

Students Grandparents Corporations/Foundations Friends and Other Grand Total

• Trustees, who are represented in various constituencies above, contributed an overall total of $2,483,245 to Concord Academy this year.

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

• None of the columns include pledges. For Capital Giving, the total in gifts and pledges is $10,814,739.

Stephanie Solakian Goldstein ’91 Chair, Communications and Class Secretaries Kate Pugh ’83 Vice Chair, Alumnae/i Giving

Revenue and Expenses for 2007–08*

Jamie Klickstein ’86 Vice Chair, Alumnae/i Giving Rebecca Watriss ’95 Chair, Reunions

Revenue

Expenses General and Administrative 27.6%

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Ingrid von Dattan Detweiler ’61 Chair, Archives Angelique Yen Marsden ’86 Chair, Joan Shaw Herman Award Michael Firestone ’01 Cochair, Concord Academy Young Alumnae/i Committee (CAYAC) Kelsey Stratton ’99 Cochair, Concord Academy Young Alumnae/i Committee (CAYAC) Patricia Wolcott Berger ’47 Katherine Flather Breen ’48 Trelane Clark-Suazo ’92 Laura Ferraro Close ’79 Carolyn Smith Davies ’55 Nancy Denardo ’76, p’08

Annual Giving 11.1%

Tuition 75.3% Endowment 10.6%

Educational Program 39.1%

Auxiliary Programs — Net 1.8% Miscellaneous 1.2% Financial Aid 12.1% Debt Service 4.0%

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

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Physical Plant, Food Service 17.1%

Annual Giving Works!

You made it work!

From funding scholarships and supporting faculty to heating classrooms and maintaining student houses, Annual Giving helped Concord Academy continue to thrive as a great place to live and learn.

On behalf of the students whose lives you touch each year with your generosity, THANK YOU for your loyalty and for your enduring belief in the value of a CA education.

Mark Rosen p’97, ’06 Trustee; Chair, Annual Giving Maureen Mulligan ’80 Trustee; Chair, Alumnae/i Giving Jamie Klickstein ’86 Vice Chair, Alumnae/i Giving

Margaret Sullivan p’09 Chair, Parent Giving Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Gosnell gp’10, p’73 Cochairs, Grandparent Giving

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Katrina Pugh ’83 Vice Chair, Alumnae/i Giving

Annual Giving 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.

CONCORD ACADEMY MAGAZINE / REPORT OF GIVING

Leadership Committee Leadership Committee members encourage gifts to the school of $1,000 ($500 for the classes of 1998–2007) or more to the Annual Giving program.

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Leadership Donors The following donors made leadership gifts of $1,000 ($500 for the classes of 1998–2007) or more to the Annual Giving* program during the 2007–08 fiscal year (July 1, 2007 through June 30, 2008). 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 971 members — a number we hope will continue to grow.

Gold Founders’ Council

Founders’ Council

($50,000 +)

($10,000–$24,999)

Nick Bothfeld and Elizabeth F. Brown’70 ❂ Lucinda Jewell ’76 Jennifer Johnson ’59 ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Steven Langman Carl and Sandra Lehner Trevor Miller and Kim Williams Mr. and Mrs. Neil E. Rasmussen Anonymous ❂

Charles and Kathleen Fisk Ames ’65 ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Raynard D. Benvenuti Steven Bercu Tony Brooke and Vicky Huber ’75 ❂ Jong Han Chi and Hyun Ok Kim Rick and Laurie Cohen ❂ Carolyn Smith Davies ’55 ❂ Dae Seok Do and Kyung Sook Kim Mr. and Mrs. Boruch B. Frusztajer David G. Fubini and Bertha P. Rivera Keith Gelb ’88 ❂ Ching Tai Huang and Jen Chi Chang Frank A. Ingari and Margaret A. Sullivan Ok Hyun Jung and Hye Sung Cho Mr. and Mrs. David J. Kaemmer Franklin and Colleen Kettle The Lander Family ❂ Mr. and Mrs. David G. Leathers Ji Yong Lee and Jae Hee Choo Yong J. Lee and So Yeong Park Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Lie Richard A. Lumpkin ❂ Vikram and Mary B. Malhotra ’78 ❂ John McCluskey and Margaret Ramsey McCluskey David Michaelis ’75

Silver Founders’ Council ($25,000–$49,999)

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Blumenthal Mr. and Mrs. Graham Gund Jeong Hun Ha Mr. and Mrs. William H. Kremer Jooyeon Lee Elizabeth Kahn Mallon ’87 Amelia Lloyd McCarthy ’89 ❂ Leander and Stephanie Starr McCormick-Goodhart ’80 ❂ Lucy-Ann McFadden ’70 ❂ John and Carol Moriarty Jorge R. Solares-Parkhurst ’94

Kathleen Fisk Ames ’65, p’95 Benjamin Bailey ’91 Elisabeth Bentley ’81 Madeleine Blanz-Mayo ’86 Amy Cammann Cholnoky ’73 Laura Ferraro Close ’79 Nancy Colt Couch ’50, p’75 David Feldman ’84 Michael Firestone ’01 Alexis Goltra ’87 Catherine Gunn ’84 Amy Huntoon ’70 Pamela Prouty Ikauniks ’60 Hellen Kimble ’84 Jamie Klickstein ’86

Jean Dunbar Knapp ’77 Margaret Sweatt Kunhardt ’76 Alison Smith Lauriat ’64 Claudio Lilienfeld ’80 Amelia Lloyd McCarthy ’89 Lucy-Ann McFadden ’70 Andrea Silverman Meyer ’87 Maureen Mulligan ’80 Marion Odence-Ford ’82 Penelope Beal Pennoyer ’81 Mary Poole ’59 Kate Pugh ’83 Evelyn McKinstry Thorne ’44 Elizabeth Julier Wyeth ’76

*Beginning in 2008–09, Annual Giving will be referred to as the Annual Fund.

Thomas and Susan Miller Mr. and Mrs. Shreyas Morakhia Sarah Munro Murray ’78 ❂ James S. Normile and Dore Hammond Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Owades Mr. and Mrs. Scott Hyo Sang Park ❂ Kate Pugh ’83 ❂ Rita Robert Mark and Etta Rosen ❂ Eric and Anne Shapiro Fay Lampert Shutzer ’65 ❂ Martha Taft ’65 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas N. Trkla ❂ Jay Wallace and Lisa McGovern Richard and Susan Walters Mr. and Mrs. James M. Wilson Lucy S. Winton ’74 Mr. and Mrs. Jonathon Wright Young June Yang and Hea Kyung Ahn Mr. and Ms. Dennis Zhu Anonymous (3)

Leadership Council ($5,000–$9,999)

Dr. and Mrs. Robert J. Allio ❂ Elizabeth Ballantine ’66 ❂ Choon Ho Bang and Myung Mi Nam Paul S. Barth and Kathy Knight ❂ Bruce Beal ’88 ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Henry P. Becton Jr. ❂ Robert Biggar ’87 Priscilla Kidder Blevins ’77 Joshua and Amy Boger Mr. and Mrs. Douglas R. Brown ❂ Roger Brown and Linda Mason Candace Browning Platt ’73 Jennifer J. Burleigh ’85 John and Nancy Butman Amy Cammann Cholnoky ’73 ❂ Irene H. Chu ❂ DeWitt and Kelly Clemens Wendell B. Colson and Joanne R. Casper Nathan and Nancy Colt Couch ’50 ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. D’Arcy Charles G. Davidson ’76 Jeffrey and Molly Eberle ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Erhart Jr. ❂ Stephen M. Erhart ’79 Thomas J. First ’85 Isabel Fonseca ’79 Mr. and Ms. Daniel Fradkin Mr. and Mrs. Daniel H. Frank David A. Freedman and Karen A. Trittipo Dr. and Mrs. Orrie M. Friedman Brad and Patty Hager ❂ Linda Ewing Hamlin ’58 Sang Won Han and So Young Lee Jerry and Jane Hughes ❂ Jonathan and Tracey Hurd Chull Jeong and Youn Ju Ji Sanghun Kim and Sora Noh Woong Chul and Sookheui Kim Mr. and Mrs. Young Cheon Kim Hellen K. Kimble ’84 ❂

Benefactors’ Council ($2,500–$4,999)

Timothy A. Andrews and Valerie J. Cummings ❂ Mr. and Mrs. John Axten ❂ Holladay Rust Bank ’72 ❂ Jane Barford-Manolakas ’81 Alice Beal ’68 Charlotte Hutchins Bemis ’36§ ❂ Mr. and Mrs. David F. Benson Patricia Wolcott Berger ’47 ❂ David M. Boghossian and Elizabeth Bartle Richard and Cathy Boskey Markley H. Boyer and Barbara E. Millen ❂ Jack and Susan Brown A. James and Elizabeth S. Casner Natalie Churchill ’60 ❂ John G. Conley and Elizabeth G. Awalt Alice Smith Cornish ’40 ❂ Jane DeBevoise ’72 ❂ Ian T. Douglas and Kristin Harris ❂ Jacob and Pat Dresden ❂ Peter M. Durney and Beth A. Shipley Michael Epstein and April Stone Lucy Rand Everts ’41 ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Stona Fitch Mr. and Mrs. Blair Flicker Rebecca Trafton Frischkorn ’71 ❂ John and Kathleen Green ❂ Paula S. Greenman Hee Won Han and Jun Hee Kim Ellen Smith Harde ’62 ❂ Beth E. Hill

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Dinah Huntoon ’78 ❂ Mark R. Jaffe and Marcia C. Glassman-Jaffe Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Kemp ❂ Cam Kerry and Kathy Weinman Katharine Kinsolving ’78 Daniel Kramarsky ’79 ❂ Lucia Woods Lindley ’55 ❂ Nils and Muriel Luderowski ❂ Martin Lueck and Nancy Traversy Rose Lynch ’67 ❂ Stephen and Kim Maire ❂ Chibli Mallat and Nayla Chalhoub-Mallat Edward and Theresa Mallett Jane Vance McCauley ’58 ❂ Mr. and Mrs. David S. McCue Mary-Dixon Sayre Miller ’40 ❂ Robert and Karen Newton Mr. and Ms. Stephen D. Newton Edward Nicolson ’83 ❂ Albert A. Notini and Barbara R. Jezak Wayne and Marie Oliver ❂ Susan Packard Orr ’64 ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Pappas Evgenia Peretz ’87 Margaret Falk Pirovano ’64 ❂ Henriette Lazaridis Power ’78 Mr. and Mrs. Mark L. Rhodes Ronald and Gail Rivest John D. Robinson and Molly Bedell-Robinson ❂ Joel B. Rosen and Addie L. Swartz Thomas and Katharine Rea Schmitt ’62 ❂ Thomas L. Schuster and Ute Dietrich-Schuster Sara Goldsmith Schwartz ’83 ❂ Philip Schwartz ’80 ❂ Jonathan A. Shapiro ’87 Maia Sharpley ’85 Mr. and Mrs. Bruce G. Silverman Nancy Bentinck-Smith Soulette ’63 ❂ Mr. and Mrs. David P. Southwell ❂ Sharon Swindell ’78 ❂ Sarah Trafton ’70 ❂ Robin Gosnell Travers ’73 Benjamin Treynor ’86 Mr. and Mrs. Glen Urban ❂ Jane Waldfogel ’72 ❂ Malcolm M. Walsh and Kathleen J. O’Hara John W. Winkelman and Janet Wozniak Dr. and Dr. Bertram Zarins Anonymous

Headmaster’s Council ($1,000–$2,499)

Sunredi Admadjaja ’90 ❂ Elizabeth Aelion ’76 ❂ Chris and Cathy Anderson Wendy Arnold ’65 ❂ Elizabeth Smith Bagby ’40 ❂ Elizabeth Barringer ’70 ❂ Sarah Bartlett ’73 Robert and Denise Simon Basow Mary Shaw Beard ’50 ❂

Brooks Beisch ’83 George D. and Caroline Minot Bell ’73 ❂ Dr. and Mrs. Seth D. Bilazarian Lisa Black Franks ’81 Peter Blacklow ’87 ❂ Charlotte T. Bordeaux ❂ Katherine Flather Breen ’48 ❂ Jeffrey Briggs ’80 Elizabeth Appel Brown ’47 ❂ Ralph H. Brown Van M. Brown and Wanda E. Tillman Lauren Bruck ’85 Elizabeth Bullitt ’67 ❂ Elizabeth Cabot ’79 ❂ Mr. and Mrs. John Cao Diana Knowles Cashen ’58 ❂ Laura Chandler ’71 ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Evans W. Cheeseman Jr. ❂ Bayard D. Clarkson and Susan E. Austrian Rosemary Baldwin Coffin ’40 ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Paul M. Cole Charles Collier ’85 ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Marvin A. Collier ❂ CJ and Rachel Coppersmith Judy Bentinck-Smith Covin ’60 ❂ Mr. and Mrs. William A. Crimmins Mr. and Mrs. Theodore L. Cross John J. Dau Sarah McClary Dewey ’48 William Dewey ’84 ❂ Alexander Dichter ’85 Mr. and Ms. Thanh Chi Dinh ❂ Anne Nordblom Dodge ’68 ❂ Hebe Smythe Doneski ’85 ❂ Amy Dunbar ’74 ❂ Eliza Howe Earle ’67 ❂ Corson Ellis and Marion Freeman ’69 ❂ Elizabeth Mugar Eveillard ’65 ❂ Christine Fairchild ’75 ❂ Phyllis Rothschild Farley ’42 Diana Frothingham Feinberg ’52 ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Michael C. Fender Michael Firestone ’01 Abigail Fisher ’82 ❂ Max Follettie and Joan Bell George and Lisa Foote ❂ Dean Forbes ’83 Raymond Ford and Marion Odence-Ford ’82 ❂ Lucy Eddy Fox ’69 ❂ Rebecca MacMillan Fox ’66 Dorothy French ’77 Richard and Beth Fried Robert G. Gardner and Adele R. Pressman Gary and Lisa Garmon Nancy Gillespie ’75 ❂ Elizabeth Z. Ginsberg David Goldberg ’88 ❂ Alexis Goltra ’87 ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Gosnell Wanda Holland Greene ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Hervé F. Guerner Catherine Gunn ’84 ❂ Laila Haddad ’81 Meredith Rollins Hamer ’52 Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey W. Harrison Margaret Richey Hauge ’75 ❂

Margaret Lewis Herbert ’56 Joy Peterson Heyrman ’77 Julie Boyer Hickey ’88 Dr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Hoffman Mary Leigh Morse Houston ’47 ❂ Timothy and Mary Hult ❂ Gale Hurd ’61 ❂ Steve Imrich and Cynthia W. Smith Sandra Willett Jackson ’61 ❂ Tilia Klebenov Jacobs ’83 Dave and Brooke James ❂ Marion Myers Johannsen ’63 ❂ Vidar and Kathleen Jorgensen ❂ Walter Judge ’78 Mr. and Mrs. Gary Julian Miranda Kaiser ’89 Jenifer Kasdon Judith Keefer ’70 ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Kevin B. Kelly George and Nancy Kidder ❂ Sallie Cross Kingham ’61 ❂ Henry A. Kissinger William Klebenov ’87 ❂ Jamie Klickstein ’86 ❂ Jean Dunbar Knapp ’77 ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Steven P. Koppel Stephen Kramarsky ’85 Mr. and Mrs. Werner H. Kramarsky Peter and Alison Smith Lauriat ’64 ❂ Deirdre Lavieri ’76 ❂ David Lax and Ilana Manolson Marguerite Lee ’77 Janet Samuel Levy ’73 Jonathan Lewin ’93 ❂ James Lichoulas ’91 ❂ Helen Whiting Livingston ’41 ❂ Pauline Lord ’68 Peter and Babette Loring ❂ Consuelo Cotter Mack ’68 Anne Mancini ’01 Noel Farnsworth Mann ’56 Muzammil Mansuri and Diana Stork Daniel Matthews Karen R. McAlmon ’75 Mr. and Mrs. Peter McCann Hannah Norseen McClennen ’62 ❂ Mr. and Mrs. William H. McConaghy ❂ Elizabeth Munro ’71 ❂ Caroline Murfitt-Eller ’58 ❂ Sarah Muyskens ’72 ❂ Sam and Susan Hall Mygatt ❂ Mr. Ick H. Nam and Mrs. Yeon J. Kim Stephen J. Nelson and Mary Anne Mayo ’72 Paul and Pamela Ness Jennifer Newbold ’78 ❂ Judith Bourne Newbold ’55 ❂ Elizabeth Haight O’Connell ’72 Mr. and Mrs. Emilio M. Ortiz Susan Sherer Osnos ’65 ❂ Julie Packard ’70 ❂ Krid and Supawan Lamsam Panyarachun ’73 Mr. and Mrs. Hyoung J. Park ❂ Douglas W. Phillips and Eileen Mullen William Philps and Pamela Valentine Sylvia Channing Pope ’58

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Ellen Condliffe Lagemann ’63 ❂ Chun Bong Lee and Eun Sil Kim Marc and Jill Conway Mehl ’85 Thomas M. Metzold and Karen B. Manor Eleanor Bingham Miller ’64 Ronald H. Nordin and Leslie C. Nicholson ❂ Lauren Norton ’77 ❂ Hoon-Sup and Yong Oh ❂ Stefano Paci ’80 Mr. and Mrs. Brian E. Pastuszenski Cynthia L. Phelps ’64 ❂ Raymond J. Pohl and Lisa M. Botticelli Edith Cowles Poor ’39 ❂ Eric D. Green and Carmin C. Reiss ❂ Robert K. Rodat and Mollie D. Miller David Salomon and Marilyn Leeds ❂ Denise Rueppel Santomero ’77 ❂ Thomas Shapiro ❂ Florence L. Short Jitendra Singh and Andrea Curtis Mr. and Mrs. Daniel T. Smythe Anne Adler Tarbell ’77 ❂ Ben and Kate Taylor William Thornton Andrew M. Troop and Andrea Sussman Nancy Parssinen Vespoli ’73 ❂ Stuart Warner ’77 ❂ Linden Havemeyer Wise ’70 ❂ Chang Rok Woo and Ho Geun Chung ❂

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Ann Wilson Porteus ’59 ❂ Wendy Powers ’74 ❂ Julia Preston ’69 ❂ Sally du Pont Quinn ’71 ❂ Cary Ridder ’68 ❂ Robert Rifkin ’86 Kelly Roney and Nancy Denardo ’76 ❂ Nicholas and Heyden White Rostow ’67 ❂ Cornelia Urban Sawczuk ’80 ❂ Cynthia Perrin Schneider ’71 ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Neil P. Searls Linda A. Serafini and Cathy E. Welsh Lee Shane ’85 ❂ Nancy Megowen Shane ’51 ❂ Lindsay Davidson Shea ’67 Anne Michie Sherman ’39 ❂ Gregory M. Shoukimas Tony Siesfeld and Cammy Thomas ❂ Mr. and Ms. Mark I. Siewers Nancy B. Simches Chung-Kai and Ying-Yee Chan Sin Thapanee Sirivadhanabhakdi ’96 Catherine Smith ’71 Karen R. Sollins ❂ Michael and Diane Spence ❂ J. Cullen Stanley ’80 Enid M. Starr ❂ Sandy Starr and Raine Figueroa Sherman H. Starr Marjorie Staub Alan and Monica Wulff Steinert ’57 ❂ Sandy and Lucille Stott ❂ Ann Fritts Syring ’64 ❂ Ann Hemingway Tarlton ’62 ❂ Melissa R. Taylor Evelyn McKinstry Thorne ’44 ❂ Vanessa Tillman-Brown ’98 Anne Gaud Tinker ’63 ❂ Dr. and Mrs. Scott A. Turpin Larry S. Tye and Elisabeth Frusztajer ’80 ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Roger F. Urban Melissa Vail ’70 ❂ Edith Van Slyck ’57 ❂ Mary Wadleigh ’64 ❂ Neil and Elise R. Wallace Margaret Walker ’63 ❂ Dr. and Mrs. David F. Walther Gail Weinmann ’67 Scott and Deborah Jackson Weiss ❂ Dr. and Mrs. Gerald Weissmann Lisa Weissmann and Debra Shapiro Tracy Welch ’89 ❂ Thomas E. Wilcox and E. Whitney Ransome ❂ Edith Wilkie Edwards ’64 Meg and Don Wilson Rosemary Wilson ’59 William and Susan Wood Elizabeth Chalmers Wright ’62 ❂ Rick Yeiser and Ruth Einstein ❂ Robert York and Judith Flynn-York Yee Tak and Kam Lin W. Yung Peter Zimble ’86 Judi Ross Zuker Anonymous (5)

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G I V I N G

Alumnae/i Annual Giving by Class Participation percentages and class dollar totals for all non-reunion classes are for Annual Giving only. Participation percentages and class dollar totals for reunion classes include gifts for Annual Giving and gifts for other purposes.

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 971 members — a number we hope will continue to grow.

CLASS OF 1930 Participation: 100%

Betsy Doughty Debevoise ❂ CLASS OF 1931 Participation: 67%

Mary Loring Clapp Ruth Brooks Drinker CLASS OF 1932 Participation: 40%

Anne Goodale Brooks Mary Sage Shakespeare CLASS OF 1934 Participation: 50%

Cynthia Northey Martin Virginia Vialle Pratt ❂ CLASS OF 1936 Participation: 100%

Charlotte Hutchins Bemis§ ❂ Louisa Garfield Browne ❂ Anne Perkins Mitchell Helen Reynolds Smith ❂ CLASS OF 1937 Participation: 100%

Emily Rand Herman ❂ CLASS OF 1938 70th REUNION Participation: 67% Annual Giving: $580

CLASS OF 1940 Participation: 100% Annual Giving: $9,226

CLASS OF 1944 Participation: 42% Annual Giving: $2,000

Elizabeth Smith Bagby Emily Cobb Rosemary Baldwin Coffin ❂ Alice Smith Cornish ❂ Mary Thorpe Ellison ❂ Mary-Dixon Sayre Miller ❂ Lucy Richardson Rand ❂ Shirley White Scaife ❂ Anonymous

Eleanor Boit ❂ Lucia Cabot Cipolla Madeleine Wilson Fraggos Anna Borden Sides ❂ Evelyn McKinstry Thorne ❂

CLASS OF 1941 Participation: 82% Annual Giving: $7,998

Joan Talcott Batchelor ❂ Lucy Rand Everts ❂ Sarah Foss ❂ Olivia Swaim LeFeaver ❂ Helen Whiting Livingston ❂ Julie Turner McNulty ❂ Elizabeth Twitchell Snyder ❂ Margaret Peters Urquhart Mary Rowse West CLASS OF 1942 Participation: 60% Annual Giving: $2,090

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

Nancy Parker Clark Jocelyn Fleming Gutchess ❂ Janet Pierpont Hosmer ❂ Lydia Cobb Perkins ❂

CLASS OF 1943 65th REUNION Participation: 43% Annual Giving: $350

CLASS OF 1939 Participation: 25%

Jean Kemble ❂ Madeline Foote Kirchner ❂ Angela Barry Smith ❂

Edith Cowles Poor ❂ Anne Michie Sherman ❂

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CLASS OF 1945 Participation: 17% Annual Giving: $400

Helen Bowser Revel CLASS OF 1946 Participation: 47% Annual Giving: $950

Deborah Perry Clark ❂ Sara Hill Friedlander ❂ Elizabeth Eames Hooper Corinne Benson Johnson ❂ Hannah Snider Keevil ❂ Alice Hitchcock Morrish ❂ Mary Bordman Scudder ❂ Penelope Weadock Slough ❂ CLASS OF 1947 Participation: 47% Annual Giving: $6,500

Patricia Wolcott Berger ❂ Joan Barry Brookes Elizabeth Appel Brown ❂ Elizabeth Enders Costikyan ❂ Mary Leigh Morse Houston ❂ Laura Richardson Payson ❂ Edith Clarke Wolff ❂ CLASS OF 1948 60th REUNION Participation: 83% Annual Giving: $2,664

Katherine Flather Breen ❂ Adelaide Eicks Comegys ❂ Mary Lawrence Curry Ann Bemis Day Sarah McClary Dewey Katharine Eaton Dreier ❂ Zoe Comninos Eleftherio Pamela Cash Fisher ❂

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Nancy Crocker Stewart Corinne Byers Sucsy LeMoyne Dodge Sylvester ❂ Elizabeth Ritchie Topper ❂

CLASS OF 1949 Participation: 62% Annual Giving: $2,150

Reunion Committee: Joanna Hamann Shaw Dorothea Wyman Thomas

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 ❂

Lavinia Davis Downs ❂ Gale Robb Guild ❂ Diane L’Etoile Hood ❂ Anne Preston Knowlton Elisabeth Jenney Paige ❂ Shelley Smith Ruston ❂ Joanna Hamann Shaw Janet Ward Stephens ❂ Dorothea Wyman Thomas

CLASS OF 1953 55th REUNION Participation: 43% Annual Giving: $3,000

CLASS OF 1954 Participation: 42% Annual Giving: $1,078

Persis Buxton Ames Mary Shaw Beard ❂ Nancy Colt Couch ❂ Dayle Peterson Goddard ❂ Dianne Stuart Humes Jean Beasley Read Louise Brooks Strandberg ❂

Mary Goodale Crowther Sarah Kraetzer Dallas ❂ Emily Pitcher Dudek ❂ Mary Monks Lukens ❂ Martha Martin-Hufford Cynthia Carpenter McFadden ❂ Elizabeth Helmer Nickerson ❂ Augusta Henderson Petrone ❂ Nancy Thorpe Sellar ❂ Joan Elliot Terry ❂ Judith Sargent Weaver ❂

CLASS OF 1951 Participation: 37% Annual Giving: $2,365

CLASS OF 1955 Participation: 54% Annual Giving: $15,420

Nancy Biddle Bates ❂ Natalia Morse Bryson Patricia Ceresole Dunnell ❂ Nancy Douglass Gale Jane Uhler McDonough Nancy Megowen Shane ❂ Cynthia Heath Sunderland ❂

Paula Grymes Booher ❂ Carolyn Smith Davies ❂ Mary Stewart Hockmeyer Deborah Smith Leighton ❂ Lucia Woods Lindley ❂

CLASS OF 1950 Participation: 39% Annual Giving: $10,050

Diana Murfitt Meyer ❂ Janet McKenney Mezgolits Elizabeth Hughes Morss ❂ Judith Bourne Newbold ❂ Mary Lee Bennett Noonan Sally Dabney Parker ❂ Elizabeth Hall Richardson ❂ Elizabeth Moizeau Shima Edith McMillan Tucker ❂ CLASS OF 1956 Participation: 50% Annual Giving: $3,575

Abigail Palmer Anthony Mary Arnold Bachman Kate Wells Brewer Kathryn Wilson DeFord ❂ Suzannah Flint ❂ Diana Healey Glendon ❂ Marna Hayden ❂ Margaret Lewis Herbert Abigail Senkler Kazanowski ❂ Noel Farnsworth Mann Judy Olmsted O’Malley ❂ Victoria Post Ranney ❂ Judith Kline Rosenthal Katrina Jenney Saltonstall Nathalie Wendell Thomas ❂ CLASS OF 1957 Participation:48% Annual Giving: $4,425

Ann Ingersoll Boyden Anne McLean Dorr Barbara Farnsworth Fairburn ❂ Helen Hardcastle Gates ❂ Miriam Brooks Hall ❂ Julia Gowing Houk Sylvia Fitts Napier Nancy Newbury-Andresen Constance Rohrbough ❂ Monica Wulff Steinert ❂ Eileen Behr Sunderland ❂ Marcia Synnott ❂ Edith Van Slyck ❂ Sandra Spencer Williams ❂

CLASS OF 1952 Participation: 68% Annual Giving: $4,255

Robin Welch Ashley Maud Palmer Barton ❂ Cecily Clark ❂ Elinor DeFord Crane ❂ Lucy Faulkner Davison ❂ Diana Frothingham Feinberg ❂ Meredith Rollins Hamer Jean Phillips Kelly ❂ Elisabeth Grote Lay ❂ Jean Dunbar Maryborn Joan Watson McCabe Constance Boyd Skewes Jacqueline Walker Smith

Top Five Reunion Classes: Dollars Raised 1988

20th Reunion

$241,179

1978

30th Reunion

$72,729

1973

35th Reunion

$56,723

1983

25th Reunion

$33,764

1963

45th Reunion

$19,153

“A good education makes one a better citizen.”

Anna Borden Sides ’44

ne of four sisters who graduated from Concord Academy in the 1940s, Anna Borden Sides ’44 said that over the years she has developed a deep understanding of how “a good education makes one a better citizen.”

From her home in Florida, Anna remembered fondly her time at CA: “the excellent education I received and the happy school years it gave me.” She contemplated all that she and her sisters absorbed from their CA days and concluded, “Thank goodness our parents thought a good education was important.”

Today, Anna values the way that Concord Academy remains committed to instilling in students a love of learning that helps them appreciate and engage in the world around them.

“Our nation needs well-educated citizens,” she said. “Education is like a healthy river: it needs sources of nourishment to remain alive in the present and future of our children.”

To Anna, supporting a school is essential—and no less important when loved ones aren’t enrolled. “We all pay taxes to support our public schools, not just those of us who have children in those schools,” she said. “CA was there for us because it had been established and supported by others over the years. It needs to have continuing support from us for present and future students.”

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Polly Edgarton Lanman ❂ Anna Wood Murray Nancy Bird Nichols Joan Gathercole Rice Diane Sargent Margaret Winsor Stubbs ❂ Edith Daniels Tucker Angela Middleton Wilkins

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CLASS OF 1958 50th REUNION Participation: 83% Annual Giving: $15,468 Restricted Giving: $2,000 Total: $17,468

Rebecca Reed Smith Nancy Wolfe Stead Judith Harris Watriss Sarah Whitney Anonymous

Reunion Committee: Barbara McCormick Bailey Nancy Cushman Fairbanks Lucia Todd MacMahon Jane Vance McCauley Katharine Rogers McQuarrie Caroline Murfitt-Eller Clover Nicholas Class Agent: Sandra Snow Downes

CLASS OF 1959 Participation: 52% Annual Giving: $56,765

CLASS OF 1960 Participation: 48% Annual Giving: $6,324

Class Agent: Elizabeth Rice Thomas Mary Jane Bancroft Britony Yonts Buxton Margot Dewey Churchill ❂

Natalie Churchill ❂ Judy Bentinck-Smith Covin ❂ Constance Morrow Fulenwider ❂ Dale Ketcham Graves Diana Chace Hoyt Pamela Prouty Ikauniks ❂ Marjorie Hornblower Johnson ❂ Molly Duane Leland Eleanor Noble Linton ❂ Cynthia Maxim Lisa Volckhausen McCann ❂ Madge Nickerson Donata Origo Susan Perry ❂ Belinda Pleasants Smith ❂ Elizabeth Rice Thomas CLASS OF 1961 Participation: 55% Annual Giving: $7,496

Class Agent: Sallie Cross Kingham Judith Howe Behn ❂ Elizabeth Fenollosa Boege ❂ Judith Carpenter Clark ❂ Ingrid von Dattan Detweiler ❂ Sarah Lanigan Gaitskill Jill Harken Hall Christine Griffith Heyworth ❂ Gale Hurd ❂ Sandra Willett Jackson ❂ Sallie Cross Kingham ❂ Margaret Williamson Merrill Elizabeth Hopkins Petras Shelley Swift Plakans Anne Higinbotham Rosenberg ❂ Cornelia Saltus ❂ Emilie Stuart Margaret Crafts Thorpe Susan Page Trotman

Top Five Reunion Classes: Participation 1948 & 1958

60th & 50th Reunion

83%

1938

70th Reunion

67%

1978

30th Reunion

54%

1973

35th Reunion

48%

1968

40th Reunion

45%

Betsy Gambrill van Orman Victoria Wesson ❂ Elizabeth Pleasants Whitehead Penelope Brown Willing ❂ Lucia Norton Woodruff CLASS OF 1962 Participation: 50% Annual Giving: $83,712

Helen Johnston Beal ❂ Stephanie Braxton ❂ Evelyn Burr Brignoli Nancy Maclaurin Decaneas§ Sally Vaughan Eagle ❂ Stephanie Hoar Einstein Sally Newhall Freestone ❂ Ellen Smith Harde ❂ Candace Wilder Heaphy Virginia Smith Hibbard Anne Davidson Kidder ❂ Charlotte Kelly Lally Hannah Norseen McClennen ❂ Toni Russell Merrick ❂ Frances Smith Moore ❂

Chris Rowe

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isual arts teacher Chris Rowe contributes to Annual Giving because—in this one case— he is happy to be a statistic. “It feels great to be one of the people who love Concord Academy and are committed to helping it remain the school they love,” he said.

The support CA receives from Annual Giving allows Chris “to teach to a wonderfully diverse group of students in well-equipped studios through an academic program that is nothing short of fantastic, given its breadth and depth.”

Chris values his twenty-odd years at CA in part because they have allowed him to be student as well as teacher. The lifelong learning that CA encourages has permitted him to pursue a variety of professional interests, inside and outside the classroom, with

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Cathie Hibbard Roessiger Katharine Rea Schmitt ❂ Rebecca Cummings Shovan Anne Buxton Sobol Ann Hemingway Tarlton ❂ Phebe Vance ❂ Francie Hunt Von Mertens Susan Kemble West ❂ Susan Shaw Winthrop ❂ Elizabeth Chalmers Wright ❂ Anonymous (2) CLASS OF 1963 45th REUNION Participation: 39% Annual Giving: $13,959 Restricted Giving: $5,194 Total: $19,153

Reunion Committee: Marion Myers Johannsen Margaret Walker Faith Andrews Bedford ❂ Laura Kennedy de Blank ❂ Aileen Erickson

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Barbara McCormick Bailey ❂ Elizabeth Moses Baker ❂ Gretchen Becker Sally Farnsworth Blackett ❂ Meredith Hare Burke ❂ Nancy Ela Caisse 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 ❂ Katharine Rogers McQuarrie Lydia Saltus Menendez ❂ Judith Turner Munson ❂ Caroline Murfitt-Eller ❂ Clover Nicholas Sylvia Channing Pope Alice Hawkes Roberts

Susan Whitmore Allan Bronwen Jenney Anders ❂ Anna Lutnicki Bourgeois Virginia Pitkin Bride Janet Spencer Dougherty Hope Howland Hale Carolyn Hall Hejinian Jennifer Johnson ❂ Gillian Shaw Kellogg Susan Senkler McMullan Jane Boynton Nahon ❂ Caroline Craven Nielsen Mary Poole ❂ Ann Wilson Porteus ❂ Eleanor Putnam ❂ Ann Benson Reece ❂ Judith Speckman Russell ❂ Elizabeth Truslow Russell ❂ Susan Garth Stott Julia Terry Merrill Hunt Tikalsky ❂ Rosemary Wilson ❂

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like-minded colleagues and students. Over the years, Chris left CA a few times to focus on his own artistic pursuits, but, he said, “I’ve always been welcomed back with open arms and new challenges.”

Annual Giving, said Chris, “allows us to give the wonderfully eclectic group of teenagers who show up at our doorstep every September, brighteyed and hair-dyed, the kind of education that will build their intellects and stretch their imaginations while encouraging them to balance their heads with their hearts as they take on new challenges after CA. “The achievement of CA alums, many of whom I remember as students, is a testament to the good work this school does and needs to keep doing if the next generation of scholars and artists is going to perpetuate their legacy.”

“The kind of education that will build their intellects and stretch their imaginations”

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Elizabeth Mugar Eveillard ❂ Linda Galston Fates ❂ Tracy Barker Greenwood ❂ Josephine Churchill Guerrieri ❂ Betsy Horne Joan Weidlein Mudge ❂ Susan Sherer Osnos ❂ Jeanine Miller Ransom Evelina Pierce Sarles Fay Lampert Shutzer ❂ Martha Taft Katherine Douglas Torrey Jill Peabody Uris Anonymous

CLASS OF 1964 Participation: 46% Annual Giving: $26,862

Class Agent: Lucy Boyle

Margaret Hooper Blair Lisa Wyman Cowley ❂ Jettie Edwards ❂ Barbara Cushing Gibbs ❂ Susan Colgate Goldman Anne Trafford Gordy Caroline Herrick ❂ Ingrid Michelsen Hillinger Natalie Rice Ireland Elisabeth Aall Kaemmerlen Alison Smith Lauriat ❂ Catherine Petersen Mack Eleanor Bingham Miller Jennifer Holmes Mirling Susan Packard Orr ❂ Jane Palmer Catherine Morgan Peltier ❂ Cynthia Phelps ❂ Margaret Falk Pirovano ❂ Susan Pickman Sargent Diana Dennison Smith Ann Fritts Syring ❂ Frances Howes Valiente Cecily Vaughan Mary Wadleigh ❂ Wendy White Edith Wilkie Edwards CLASS OF 1965 Participation: 41% Annual Giving: $44,837

Class Agent: Rebecca Sherrill More Kathleen Fisk Ames ❂ Wendy Arnold ❂ Hilary Baldwin Brown Edith Bates Buchanan ❂ Nan Carey Ruth Chapman ❂ Mary Clark ❂ Barbara Crockett Collins ❂ Rosamond Deming Helena Evans

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CLASS OF 1966 Participation: 40% Annual Giving: $11,681

Elizabeth Ballantine ❂ Elizabeth Bates ❂ Eleanor Bemis ❂ Lucy Boyle ❂ M. Loring Bradlee ❂ Lucy McClintock Calhoun Caroline Lee Crocker Leslie Davidson Holly DeBlois Gay Ellis Rebecca MacMillan Fox Holly Gray Goodspeed Jane Hotchkiss Anne Clark Jarboe ❂ Joan Putnam Kimball Mary Paul Loomis ❂ Victoria Gimbel Lubin Julia Page ❂ Anne Hart Pope ❂ Judith Strohmeier Reece ❂ Linda Stillman ❂ Sally Crimmins Thorne ❂ Marian Ware ❂ Alexandra Wylie ❂ CLASS OF 1967 Participation: 34% Annual Giving: $5,727

Deborah Hyde Baldwin ❂ Jessie Bourneuf ❂ Sarah Brooks Elizabeth Bullitt ❂ Muche Desloovere ❂ Eliza Howe Earle ❂ Rose Lynch ❂ Laura Mayer ❂ Phebe Miller ❂ Nancy Brown Moyle ❂ Lynne Dominick Novack ❂ Katharine Perkins ❂ Alison Chalmers Rodin ❂ Heyden White Rostow ❂ Cynthia Saltzman ❂ Dana Denker Semmes ❂ Lindsay Davidson Shea

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Joan Underwood Gail Weinmann Ellen MacLeish Zale ❂ CLASS OF 1968 40th REUNION Participation: 45% Annual Giving: $11,500 Restricted Giving: $7,532 Total: $19,032

Reunion Committee: Katherine Little Pamela Aall McPherson Diane Dudensing Allen ❂ Jane Lord Andrews Melinda Sherer Ashton Alice Beal Sally Poor Beck ❂ Anne Nordblom Dodge ❂ Louise Ewing Margaret Morgan Grasselli Janice Hinkle Gregory ❂ Suzanne Griffith Katherine Carton Hammer§ ❂ Julia Harrison ❂ Katherine Little ❂ Pauline Lord Consuelo Cotter Mack Pamela McAdoo Tamsen Merrill Katharine Munro ❂ Nancy Ranney ❂ Cary Ridder ❂ Pamela Shaw Ann Boling Solberg Kristen Wainwright ❂ CLASS OF 1969 Participation: 37% Annual Giving: $6,650

Class Agent: Nancy Schoeffler Katherine Agoos ❂ Louise Alden ❂ Laura Palmer Aronstein Louisa Bradford ❂ Beverly Bigelow Chesnut Elizabeth Covington Susan Day Elizabeth Dodd Constance Burr Evans Lucy Eddy Fox ❂ Ann Fox Gulbransen ❂ Helen Hollingsworth Cynthia Holmes Sarah Coffin O’Connor ❂ Cary Richardson Paynter ❂ Sarah Pillsbury Julia Preston ❂ Marion Preston ❂ Jenny Scheu ❂ Nancy Schoeffler ❂ Joelle Desloovere Schon Eleanor Morse Sloan Deborah Moses Tonissi

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Jenny Potter Scheu ’69 with Thomas and John

Jenny Potter Scheu ’69 or me there is something very special about Concord Academy,” said Jenny Potter Scheu ’69. “I have not found many communities that believe in, nurture, and challenge teenagers to think outside the box. It also is a place that allows teachers to work closely with their students and demonstrate beauty and possibility.”

To Jenny, those intangibles set the school apart. She believes that the future of the world depends upon a bit of luck and a lot of knowledge and creativity. “I am glad to support CA, because I sense that its students, faculty, and alums have seeded—and continue to seed— many good and elegant things, large and small,” she said.

Jenny, who lives in Portland, Maine, with her husband John and son Thomas, runs her own architectural firm, Redhouse Architects, and has volunteered for several nonprofit organizations. “I have worked with other nonprofits enough to know that Annual Giving becomes an essential part of the annual budget, and that participation of the school’s alumnae/i every year is important to getting grants and encouraging new donors.”

She personally chooses to contribute to CA “because it was a community that challenged, supported, and inspired me. I know that the current CA community is doing the same for a new generation of students and their teachers.”

Jenny recalled studying at CA alongside artists, poets, critics, musicians, scientists, and designers. “I feel lucky to have had many teachers there who raised the bar, and treated us like the serious scholars we were learning to be,” she said. “That we could do what they were doing—delighting, excelling, and making an impact—was clear, and it was a wonderful and heady thing.

“I’m not sure I understood it well then, but I am grateful to have learned at CA that one can make an artistic life and thrive, and that support of those who have not had our opportunities is important to our world.”

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Marian Ferguson Anne Daignault Hartman Jane Hill ❂ Marion Myers Johannsen ❂ Ellen Condliffe Lagemann ❂ Anne Lenox ❂ Mary Fearey Lollis Mary Nicholas ❂ Pamela Pyle Powel Peggy Keenan Sheridan Polly Gambrill Slavet ❂ Nancy Bentinck-Smith Soulette ❂ Mary Rowland Swedlund ❂ Anne Gaud Tinker ❂ Susan Davis Treadway Margaret Walker ❂ Mary Wright ❂

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CLASS OF 1970 Participation: 44% Annual Giving: $55,179

Rich Read ’75 with Nehalem and Kim

Rich Read ‘75

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ich Read ’75 echoes many alumnae/i who say they learned to think critically at Concord Academy. But Rich’s two Pulitzer Prizes attest to the difference that clear thinking, interpretation, and communication can make.

A senior writer at The Oregonian, Rich has found that he carries his CA education with him wherever he goes—and he has reported all over the world. “At CA, I acquired skills I use every day, ranging from writing to woodworking,” said Rich, who lives in Lake Oswego, Oregon, with his wife Kim and daughter Nehalem.

But his role as board president of The International School in Portland, Oregon, really taught Rich the importance of giving—at any level. “Every gift, no matter how modest, is important, because foundations tend to support schools with high giving percentages,” he said.

Rich recognizes that his CA education provided benefits that endured long after graduation—and that continue to affect his life. He has chosen to give “out of appreciation for the terrific education the school gave me, and so that others may benefit from that same quality of education.”

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Elizabeth Barringer ❂ Susan Bastress Elizabeth Brown ❂ Isabella Choate Sally Eagle ❂ Annabel Ripley Ebersole ❂ Margaret Erhart Priscilla Stevens French ❂ Helen Hobbs ❂ Amy Huntoon ❂ Cynthia Hyde Brown Johnson ❂ Judith Keefer ❂ Mary Lombard ❂ Lucy-Ann McFadden ❂ Stephanie Pickman Monahan Ellen Mugar ❂ Julie Packard ❂ Marilyn Byfield Paul Rebecca Ruggles ❂ Elizabeth Ruml Joanna Bridges Sedlmayr Sarah Trafton ❂ Melissa Vail ❂ Cornelia White ❂ Linden Havemeyer Wise ❂ Sally Wister Susan Wood ❂ CLASS OF 1971 Participation: 57% Annual Giving: $12,015

Class Agent: Rosamond Smith Rea Elizabeth Ames Macdonald ❂ Anne Shattuck Bailey ❂ Erica Domar Banderob ❂ Elizabeth Compton Bellocchio ❂ Ellen Bloedel ❂ Anita Brewer-Siljeholm Louisa Browne Soleau Catherine Carter Laura Chandler ❂ Elizabeth Cobbs ❂ Elizabeth Strider Dain Elizabeth Eggert Josephine Ewing Rebecca Trafton Frischkorn ❂ Jean McClung Halloran ❂ Delia Hatch ❂ Sherry Haydock ❂ Clara Hemphill Karen Herold Mary Ann McDonald Hetzer Nancy Reece Jones ❂ Rebecca Kellogg Mary Lassen ❂ Anne Lauderdale Lee Lucy Jewett Lowenthal ❂ Helen Hooper McCloskey Elizabeth Munro ❂ Susan Polk ❂ Sally du Pont Quinn ❂ §

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Rosamond Smith Rea ❂ Cynthia Perrin Schneider ❂ Sallie Coolidge Seymour Catherine Smith Sage Sohier Katherine Tweedy Elizabeth Lund Zahniser ❂ CLASS OF 1972 Participation: 46% Annual Giving: $16,890

Class Agents: Ronni Siegal Bialosky Marian Lindberg Mary Anne Mayo Caroline Ballard ❂ Holladay Rust Bank ❂ Carolyn Beecher Ronni Siegal Bialosky ❂ Jennifer Wise Blackman ❂ Susan Blake Cynthia Arnold Bruckermann Isabel Pratt Bryan ❂ Rachel Carley Kim Nourse Clark Carolyn Cox Dann ❂ Jane DeBevoise ❂ Janet Eyre ❂ Eliza Greene Abigail Halperin Selina Pedersen Johnson ❂ Marian Lindberg ❂ Helen Loring ❂ Mary Anne Mayo Harriot Tuttle McGraw Abby Minot Sarah Muyskens ❂ Elizabeth Haight O’Connell Hope Stevens Poor ❂ Mary Porter Amanda Powell Jane Waldfogel ❂ Lorna Potter Walker ❂ Elizabeth Sherman Walker Anonymous CLASS OF 1973 35th REUNION Participation: 48% Annual Giving: $30,723 Restricted Giving : $26,000 Total : $56,723

Reunion Committee: Sarah Bartlett Candace Browning Platt Amy Cammann Cholnoky Maud Smith Daudon Sarah Witte Marshall Laurel Matthews Susan McDonald Barbara Storey McGrath Jan Rosenfeld Robin Gosnell Travers Nancy Parssinen Vespoli Suzanne LuBien Anderson Sarah Bartlett ❂

Caroline Minot Bell ❂ Alice Bemis Bueti Elizabeth Suter Bohanon Candace Browning Platt Mary Bush Amy Cammann Cholnoky ❂ Maud Smith Daudon Ellen Gravallese ❂ Jennifer Howell Robin Jones Janet Samuel Levy Pamela Mack Sarah Witte Marshall Laurel Matthews Cynthia McCallister Susan McDonald ❂ Supawan Lamsam Panyarachun ❂ Elizabeth Hillyer Parker Carey Peabody ❂ Elizabeth Campbell Peters Elizabeth Pickman-Flanagan Jan Rosenfeld ❂ Lucy Stokey Robin Gosnell Travers Nancy Parssinen Vespoli ❂ Holly Whitin ❂ Andrea Williams ❂ CLASS OF 1974 Participation: 29% Annual Giving: $14,980

Julie Agoos Marjorie Aelion ❂ Lee Comegys Chafee Thomas Chou Amy Dunbar ❂ Julia Glass ❂ Bee Bell Gosnell Heather Mayfield Kelly ❂ Susan Knopf Cecily Deegan McMillan Peter Michaelis ❂ Nora Mitchell ❂ Linda Greene Ortwein ❂ Wendy Powers ❂ Katherine Ringer Harriet Sayre McCord ❂ Alexander Spaulding ❂ Annie Laurie Tuttle ❂ Lucy Winton Anonymous CLASS OF 1975 Participation: 49% Annual Giving: $36,169

Class Agent: Nancy Gillespie Joanne Bertelsen Barnett Anne Bartlett Peter de Marneffe ❂ Elizabeth Emmons ❂ Christine Fairchild ❂ Katharine Sisson Feehery ❂ Laura Foley Elisabeth Frost Nancy Gillespie ❂

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CLASS OF 1976 Participation: 34% Annual Giving: $65,975

CLASS OF 1977 Participation: 28% Annual Giving: $37,742

James Aisenberg ❂ Richard Bell Priscilla Kidder Blevins Lena Fransioli Dorothy French Rachel Lipson Glick ❂ Timothy Gollin Joy Peterson Heyrman Jane Booty Horn ❂ Jean Dunbar Knapp ❂ Robert Lampietti Marguerite Lee Sara White Lennon ❂ Elizabeth Loring ❂ Joanna Eldredge Morrissey Anthony Neal Lauren Norton ❂ Monique Patterson Denise Rueppel Santomero ❂ Lael Stone ❂ Anne Adler Tarbell ❂

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William Adams Elizabeth Aelion ❂ Daphne LeFeaver Ball Edward Beecher Donald Bell Natalie Callander Irene Chu ❂

Charles Davidson Nancy Denardo ❂ Alice Domar ❂ Alexandra Harvey Lucinda Jewell Margaret Sweatt Kunhardt ❂ Amy Longsworth ❂ Anne Manuel Melissa Moye Jonathan Nelson Karen Mayfield Seymour ❂ Ellen Simsarian ❂ Elizabeth Lyne Tucker ❂ Peter Wallis Elizabeth Julier Wyeth ❂ Anonymous

CLASS OF 1978 30th REUNION Participation: 54% Annual Giving: $49,335 Restricted Giving: $23,394 Total: $72,729

Reunion Committee: Markley Boyer Robert Elwood Kevin Fowler Dinah Huntoon Walter Judge Katharine Kinsolving Thomas Lincoln Martha Livingston Mary B. Malhotra Henriette Lazaridis Power Mary Rhinelander Sharon Swindell Anne Barrett Markley Boyer ❂ Victoria Urban Broer Katherine Drasher Robert Elwood ❂ Kevin Fowler Gertrude Friedman§ Donald Gordon Heidi Reichenbach Harring ❂ Dinah Huntoon ❂ Margaret Rice Jay ❂ Walter Judge Katharine Kinsolving Mary LaClair ❂ Jane Lassen Bobruff ❂ Julia Stiffler Lavely ❂ Thomas Lincoln Martha Livingston ❂ Mary B. Malhotra ❂

Sarah Munro Murray ❂ Jennifer Newbold ❂ Henriette Lazaridis Power Mary Rhinelander ❂ Julie Starr-Duker Meredith Stelling ❂ Sharon Swindell ❂ Ann Barrett Trudeau Christine Van CLASS OF 1979 Participation: 32% Annual Giving: $15,704

Jennifer Beal ❂ Lisa Bergemann Lucy Bucknell Elizabeth Cabot ❂ Sophie Carlhian Adam Cherson Laura Ferraro Close ❂ Varangkana Lamsam de Leon ❂ Laura Drachman Stephen Erhart Martha Pyle Farrell ❂ Isabel Fonseca Roger Kaufman Ann Keniston Jared Keyes Daniel Kramarsky ❂ Amanda Zinsser Moffat ❂ Elizabeth Nordell Amy Kaufman Norris Richard Oh Abigail Porter ❂ Elizabeth Shober Sarah Warrington Carey Mack Weber ❂ Elizabeth Winslow Amelia Withington ❂ Lisa Zimble ❂

CLASS OF 1980 Participation: 46% Annual Giving: $18,036

Class Agents: Elisabeth Frusztajer Lara Jordan James Sheryl Cuker Appleyard ❂ Carolyn Marshall Betz ❂ Christopher Borden ❂ Jeffrey Briggs Jessica Brown ❂ Rebecca Campbell Luis Fernandez Victoria Fish ❂ Elisabeth Frusztajer ❂ Jeffrey Hall C. Michael Hiam Carl Ingersoll ❂ Lara Jordan James Nancy Kates Ann Kjellberg Jeremy Koff Jennifer Clarke Kosak ❂ Anne Lawson Claudio Lilienfeld ❂ Eric Lund Stephanie Starr McCormick-Goodhart ❂ Joan Mecsas Maureen Mulligan Julie Foster Nocka C. Barrett O’Connor ❂ Stefano Paci Holly Payne Karen Pechilis Christopher Recklitis ❂ Sina Saidi Cornelia Urban Sawczuk ❂ Philip Schwartz ❂ Sharon Shakur-Jagatic Lisa Siegel

Nancy Howard s executive assistant to the head of school, Nancy Howard is in a unique position to observe Concord Academy. “My daily exposure to the nuts and bolts of running this institution convinced me to give,” she said. “Everyone who comes in the door has financial needs—for an academic program, the physical plant, student needs and programs, professional development, salaries.

The list is long.”

For Nancy, it’s an easy place to support. At work, she has found a community with the same attitudes and culture she tries to embrace in her personal life. “Over the years what I have observed and experienced at CA has opened my eyes and broadened my horizons,” she said. “I am a believer.”

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always impressed with their skills, poise, knowledge, positive spirit, and dedication. “Our students model our mission,” she said, “which is evident in how they embrace learning, in the diversity of their perspectives and their cultural differences, in their myriad of talents, and in how they are empowered to speak their thoughts and act on their convictions.

“These students are our future. If you follow their lives when they leave CA, you see accomplished leaders, artists, people in the medical profession, environmentalists, political activists, musicians, and empowered women. You see a population of kids who will make sea changes in our world. That makes the dollars given to CA a sound investment in all of our futures.”

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Eve Slattery ❂ J. Cullen Stanley Catherine McCulloch Vaughan Williams ❂ Jennifer Willmann Margrethe Winslow CLASS OF 1981 Participation: 34% Annual Giving: $9,047

Class Agent: Lindsay Millard Clinton Helen Atkinson-Barnes ❂ Elizabeth Hufstader Balay Jane Barford-Manolakas William Bennet Kristen Bjork Lisa Black Franks Jessica Drachman Blaustein Lindsay Millard Clinton Huntley Funsten Fitzpatrick Richard Glazerman ❂ David Greenewalt Laila Haddad David Harris Alan Hernandez ❂ Tina Klein Armin Lilienfeld Garrett Macey Frederick Marshall ❂ Elizabeth McAlister ❂ Susan Mecsas-Faxon Jane O’Loughlin Barrow Ellison Poe Gardner Powell ❂ Peter Smith Enid Starr ❂ Mary Ticknor Lynn Woodward CLASS OF 1982 Participation: 35% Annual Giving: $6,615

Class Agents: Lynne Carvalho Adamian Abigail Fisher Nina Frusztajer Marquis Hilary Shaw Marzot Kristen Crowe Stevens CONCORD ACADEMY MAGAZINE / REPORT OF GIVING

Thomas Asher Timothy Bergreen Deborah Bernat Betsy Blume Elisabeth Pierce Dallape ❂ Abigail Fisher ❂ Eric Goodheart Cynthia Gorey ❂ David Kaufman ❂ David Kukla Marybeth Latchis Lucia Rossoni Longnecker ❂ Andrea Lucard Nina Frusztajer Marquis ❂ Carol Millard ❂ Simone Feinhandler Mordas

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Total Dollars Raised

Financial Aid

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$16,270

Educational Programs

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$11,750

Faculty Support

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$7,675

Tara O’Brien Pride Marion Odence-Ford ❂ Alexander Sachs ❂ Lauren Shohet Sarah Shulman Sally Solomon Kristen Crowe Stevens Christina Stumpf Karen Van Houten CLASS OF 1983 25th REUNION Participation: 36% Annual Giving: $33,264 Restricted Giving: $500 Total: $33,764

Reunion Committee: Charles Grattan Baldwin Louis Crosier Jamie Flicker Martha Bangs Haddad Polly Hubbard Tilia Klebenov Jacobs Alexis Kraft Edward Nicolson Anthony Patt Kate Pugh Sara Goldsmith Schwartz Bliss Freytag Smith Derek Vaillant Carla Vivar Luanne Zurlo Elizabeth Baker Brooks Beisch Wendy Crum Bennet Pamela Collins Cafiero Jonathan Campbell Sarah Hebb Carpenter ❂ Saundra Claster Louis Crosier ❂ James Flicker Dean Forbes Adam Ford ❂ Amelia Gallitano-Mendel Michele Gamburd ❂ Martha Bangs Haddad ❂ Polly Hubbard ❂ Tilia Klebenov Jacobs Alexis Kraft Kathryn Mudge ❂

Edward Nicolson ❂ Victoria Palay ❂ Anthony Patt Kate Pugh ❂ Jessica Rosenfeld Sara Goldsmith Schwartz ❂ Bliss Freytag Smith ❂ Sonia Uyterhoeven Derek Vaillant Luanne Zurlo ❂ Anonymous CLASS OF 1984 Participation: 31% Annual Giving: $12,399

Julie Baher Dorothy Brown-Martin ❂ Nancy Cowan ❂ Rebecca Derby William Dewey ❂ Charles Feininger ❂ John Funkhouser Glen Goldman ❂ Catherine Gunn ❂ Courtney Haan ❂ Kimberly Holden ❂ Anne Irza-Leggat Sallie Johnston Jill Colley Kastner Hellen Kimble ❂ Amy Gerson Kynaston Elizabeth Dewey Levey ❂ Margaret Mack ❂ Andrew Mill Deborah Golodetz New ❂ Marjorie Oleksiak ❂ Elizabeth Peterson-New Martha McElroy Rojas Nathaniel Stevens ❂ Nancy Shohet West ❂ Sarah Wyman ❂ CLASS OF 1985 Participation: 41% Annual Giving: $33,590

Class Agent: Elizabeth Dreier Alexander Beal Lauren Bruck

Jennifer Burleigh Charles Collier ❂ Shane Curcuru Katharine Daugherty ❂ Alexander Dichter Alexandra McClennen Dohan ❂ Hebe Smythe Doneski ❂ Thomas First Douglas Hall Sarah Hammond Stephen Kramarsky Matthew Laurence Monica Lee ❂ Martha Leggat ❂ Jennifer Russell Mahoney Elizabeth McGhee Jill Conway Mehl Mark Mironer John Moavenzadeh Raymond Paynter Anne Pfitzer Jessica Price Aimee Reveno Paul Santomenna Lucienne Spalding Schroepfer Lee Shane ❂ Maia Sharpley Melanie Simpson ❂ Rebecca Stumpf Sheila-Llyn Kraeuter Van Nederveen CLASS OF 1986 Participation: 31% Annual Giving: $9,169

Class Agents: Madeleine Blanz-Mayo Jennifer Nadelson Madeleine Blanz-Mayo ❂ Randall Drane Nathan Dudley Julia Baumgarten Foster Melinda Lane Hanson Sarah Crissman Hollington David Jacobs Laura Johnson ❂ Jennifer Keller ❂ Michele Plaue Kijak Jamie Klickstein ❂ Jonathan Lawrence Marya Chapin Lundgren David Marlin ❂ David Matias Jennifer Nadelson Thomas Pryor Elizabeth Saltonstall Repenning ❂ Nancy Reynolds Robert Rifkin Elizabeth Temin ❂ Benjamin Treynor Elizabeth Weir Sandra Yusen ❂ Peter Zimble Anonymous

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CLASS OF 1987 Participation: 35% Annual Giving: $54,404

Class Agent: Sarah Russell Leila Ladjevardi Arsanjani Robert Biggar Peter Blacklow ❂ Hanna Bailey Boyle Helen Parker Brown ❂ Elizabeth Scofield Brown ❂ Johan de Besche Jennifer Fallon ❂ Kerith Gardner ❂ Alexis Goltra ❂ Andrew Gottlieb ❂ Gregory Gottschalk Mary Helen Gunn Shira Hammarlund ❂ William Klebenov ❂ Elizabeth Kahn Mallon Sarah McBride ❂ Cameron McNeil Andrea Silverman Meyer ❂ John Newcomer Casey Pant Evgenia Peretz Hilary Price Nicholas Rathbone Juan Real Sarah Russell ❂ Jonathan Shapiro Sarah Shohet Eunice Wang Anonymous CLASS OF 1988 20th REUNION Participation: 36% Annual Giving: $17,478 Restricted Giving: $223,701 Total: $241,179

Reunion Committee: Michael Bruck Laurie White Ensley Keith Gelb David Goldberg Jared Green Deborah Bailey Herrmann Katharine Lowenstein Caragh McLaughlin Rebecca Stiritz Moore Amy Wilensky David Alperovitz Susannah Schmitz Amiteye Joseph Baker ❂ Bruce Beal ❂ Claudia Bernheim Jesse Birge ❂ Mary Sinton Bright Daniel Brotman Rebecca Manzer Chandler Laurie White Ensley Keith Gelb Jonathan Gluck

Main Street Circle: Five consecutive years of giving

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CLASS OF 1989 Participation: 28% Annual Giving: $31,463

Class Agent: Andrew Heimert James Biggar Elise Billings De John Faigle ❂ Tapp Francke Alexandra Klickstein Glazier Alexander Grant ❂ Ameen Haddad Andrew Heimert ❂ Eve Herzog Robbins Andrew Hoppin Miranda Kaiser Alexandra Rummonds Lawani Amelia Lloyd McCarthy ❂ Shyam Parekh Danielle Urban Pedreira ❂ Andrea Geiger Re

Sarah Cosgrove Stoker ❂ Caroline Suh Tracy Welch ❂ Rebecca Schotland Wolsk ❂ CLASS OF 1990 Participation: 15% Annual Giving: $5,110

Class Agent: Jason Weinzimer

Stefanie Riego Bester Trelane Clark-Suazo Joshua Cramer Jessica Erdmann-Sager Sarah Hsia Nathalie Kim Donald Lareau Adria Linder Yves Mantz ❂ Peter Maxfield Lauren Moffa ❂ Sarah Burckmyer Westwood Andreas Winterfeld ❂

CLASS OF 1991 Participation: 26% Annual Giving: $5,580

Class Agent: Jake Bartlett Benjamin Bailey Jake Bartlett ❂ Claudia Burke ❂ Benjamin Conway Hope Egan Barksdale English ❂ Nicholas Evans ❂ Jessica Ghiglione ❂ Stephanie Solakian Goldstein Elizabeth Green ❂ Daniel Henderson ❂ Ryan Kelley Naomi Ko Michael Layne

Abigail Fisher ’82 o say I was well prepared for college would be a huge understatement. I was terrifically prepared!” said Abigail Fisher ’82, who enjoyed a career in science before starting her family. “I was never exposed to the idea that women cannot do math and science. I attribute that to the science and math faculty at Concord Academy. I was prepared to be whatever I wanted to be.”

These days Abby lives in Belmont, Massachusetts, and keeps busy raising her two children, James and Valerie, with her husband Steve. She feels fortunate to have had the opportunities CA offered.

“I know tuition doesn’t cover the entire cost and that others are not so fortunate,” she said. “If by giv-

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CLASS OF 1992 Participation: 15% Annual Giving: $1,843

Sunredi Admadjaja ❂ Robin DeRosa ❂ Caroline James Ellison Belinda Griswold Rachel Grossman Matthew Kirkland ❂ Michelle McClure Taragh Mulvany ❂ Keith Tashima ❂ Kristin Tausch Jason Weinzimer ❂ Anonymous (2)

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CLASS OF 1993 15th REUNION Participation: 29% Annual Giving: $5,510

Reunion Committee: Elizabeth Wang Darling Thomas Darling Elijah Feinstein Rebecca Seamans Class Agent: Jonathan Lewin Benjamin Bell Sean Carr ❂ Brooke Cobb Elizabeth Wang Darling ❂

Thomas Darling ❂ Angus Davol Nicholas Decaneas ❂ Lisa Eckstein ❂ Sarah Thompson Evans ❂ Elijah Feinstein ❂ Amy Goorin Fogelman ❂ Steven Gottlieb Nancy Haas Hillis Elizabeth Jackson Aaron Jacobs ❂ Joshua Kempner ❂ Jill Kantrowitz Kunkel Jonathan Lewin ❂ Rebecca Locke Mara Loewenstien Lugassy Christopher Rodger ❂ Rebecca Seamans Merrill Staunton ❂ Hannah Wunsch ❂ CLASS OF 1994 Participation: 33% Annual Giving: $12,498

Seth Bruning Khadijah Davis Stephen Dreyfus ❂ Nina Feldman ❂ Andrew Gardner Bentsion Harder Jamie Harper ❂ Daniel Hirshberg Sarah Faulker Hugenberger Mi-Ae Hur ❂ Suzanne Katzenstein Siri Kaur Nicholas Lauriat ❂ Randi Levinson Leigh Eliza Miller Tess Munro Sarah Russell ❂ Justin Samaha Jorge Solares-Parkhurst ❂

Paul Sommer ❂ Rebecca Spence Dorothy Stam ❂ Kathleen Surman Ethan Thurow Jill Rubin Tilem Benjamin Upham CLASS OF 1995 Participation: 19% Annual Giving: $655

Class Agents: Rebecca Watriss Karena Detweiler Elizabeth Ames Saima Chowdhury Karena Detweiler ❂ Rebecca Falkoff Ezra Feinberg Alison Gearhart Timothy Hirzel Jessica King Jessie King Anjali Koka Kathryn Master Ian McCullough Anna Myers Charlotte Quesada ❂ Nicholas Todd Sam Zimmerman-Bergman CLASS OF 1996 Participation: 14% Annual Giving: $1,765

Class Agent: Alison Ross Scott Armstrong Elizabeth Caffrey Francis Faulkner Emily Bockian Landsburg Kelcey Morange ❂ Rachel Morrison

“I was prepared to be whatever I wanted to be.” ing to CA I can help keep tuition down and financial aid up, I can help others have the opportunity I had.”

A loyal supporter of CA for many years, Abby said it has always felt right to give back. “Frankly, it never occurred to me not to give. I guess I assumed that was what alumnae/i were supposed to do. My closest relationships at CA were with faculty and, to some degree, with administrators, so the idea that I would support the infrastructure of the school just came naturally to me.”

Abby knows, too, that every gift counts. “It doesn’t take much to make a difference. These days, when coffee at Starbucks runs several dollars, the

least we can do is give something to help support the kids who are coming through CA behind us. Shouldn’t they have the opportunity to build a strong educational foundation so that when they go off to college, they’ll feel they can be whatever they want to be? Shouldn’t they enjoy great relationships with teachers and administrators who are approachable human beings?

“Shouldn’t they feel as prepared for life as we did?”

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Alison Ross Darrin Samaha Thapanee Sirivadhanabhakdi Elissa Spelman ❂ CLASS OF 1997 Participation: 18% Annual Giving: $1,475

Class Agents: Jeffrey Green Alice Jayne Sarah Cheeseman Jeffrey Green Alice Jayne Reuben Kabel Lauren Abraham Mahoney Jonathan Norcross Kerry Ratigan Jessica Roll Johanna Rosen Olivia Howard Sabine Sarah Sears Julia Smith Courtney Stratton Maximilian Toth Sara Walker ❂ Anonymous CLASS OF 1998 10th REUNION Participation: 16% Annual Giving: $1,895

Carolyn Adams ❂ Emily Coit Eddie Concepcion Michael Cook ❂ William Decaneas Michael Edwards Evan Gatica Alexandra Kern ❂ Jonathan King Felicia Lorens

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CLASS OF 2001 Participation: 21% Annual Giving: $2,120

Nancy Newbury Jonathan Schechner Vanessa Tillman-Brown

Class Agent: Michael Firestone

CLASS OF 1999 Participation: 19% Annual Giving: $985

Sarah Anderson Eliza Bemis Daniel Eberle Adam Gailey ❂ Howard Martin ❂ Rebecca Mitcheson Elizabeth Mygatt Susannah Parke Jeremiah Parker ❂ Elizabeth Prives Jasmine Samaha Dan Schulman Benjamin Sexton Kelsey Stratton Christopher Walker Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai

Alexander Berlin ❂ Benjamin Carmichael ❂ Abigail Cohen Nicholas Deane Hilary Falb Michael Firestone ❂ Molly Harris Lauren Kett Sophia Lai Anne Mancini ❂ Laura McConaghy ❂ Christopher Norcross Ju-Hyun Park Nicholas Schuller Margaret Stoltzman Carey Tinkelenberg ❂ Laura Twichell CLASS OF 2002 Participation: 15% Annual Giving: $1,078

CLASS OF 2000 Participation: 17% Annual Giving: $525

Class Agent: Rachel Sebell Graveline Claudel Antoine Rachel Sebell Graveline Ariana Green Sarah Green Adam Haas Erin Hult Benjamin Krug Michael Littenberg-Brown Liana LoConte Sathyanandh Mohan Justin Newberg Nitchaya Vannasaeng Anonymous

Matthew Bassett Sarah Bertozzi ❂ Carlyn Fitzgerald ❂ David Kenner Natalie Krajcir Peter Xiaoran Li Laura Lively Kate Moriarty Matthew Ricci Jocelyn Ronda Rosalin Walcott Susanna Whitaker-Rahilly Sarah Wilkens ❂

CLASS OF 2003 5th REUNION Participation: 12% Annual Giving: $960

Benjamin Aronson Adam Clark Barbara Crocker Alexis Deane Kara Huston Whitney Leonard David Miller Charles Smith Lisa Zaval ❂ Anonymous CLASS OF 2004 Participation: 18% Annual Giving: $625

Megan Brown Janet Comenos ❂ Thomas Cote Joshua Duboff James Hall Megan Harlow Jennifer Imrich Daria Lavrennikov ❂ Melanie Lontoh William Moonan Brandon Peters Alexander Rosen Sarah Seegal Samantha Siegal ❂ Elizabeth Spence ❂ Anonymous CLASS OF 2005 Participation: 13% Annual Giving: $764

Brett Andrews Steven Bertozzi ❂ Ariel Dorflinger Luke Douglas ❂

Torin Hayes ❂ Bryan Hobgood ❂ Claire Moriarty Elise Novak Elizabeth Olesen Mary Soule Ricci Tyler Stone ❂ Shara Zaval ❂ CLASS OF 2006 Participation: 17% Annual Giving: $442

John Arsenault ❂ Brian Barth Elizabeth Berger Maura FitzGerald Cornelia Hall ❂ Margaret Hoffman ❂ Geoffrey Hook Benjamin Kaufman ❂ Dat Le ❂ Eva Luderowski ❂ Benjamin Mirin ❂ Sean Murray Lauren Rowe Brittany Stone ❂ Andrew Wolf ❂ Lauren Yeiser CLASS OF 2007 Participation: 13% Annual Giving: $278

Jae Hyeon Cho ❂ Jack Glenn ❂ Nicholas Green ❂ Dora Hui ❂ Molly Lebow ❂ Catarina Marques ❂ Nicholas Morgan ❂ Jeffrey Olshan ❂ Benjamin Shapiro-Kline ❂ Lucas Turner-Owens ❂ Rufus Urion ❂

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n fall 1995, Rachel Sebell decided to apply to only one independent school: Concord Academy.

She wanted to go to boarding school but couldn’t find another that fit her the way CA did.

Today, she says she feels the same pride for the school that was apparent in everyone she met when she toured as a prospective student. “At CA you are encouraged to figure out who you are as an individual, not who they want you to be,” she said.

“Athlete, artist, gay, straight, it doesn’t matter who you are; it matters that you pursue your passion.”

Rachel said she also learned to speak up for herself while at CA, an invaluable tool for college and beyond. “CA equipped me with knowledge,

passion, and a drive to succeed at anything I put my mind to,” she said.

When people ask why she gives to CA, Rachel tells them, “I am young and I don’t have a lot to give. But CA has been there for me every time I have asked for help. When I’ve had questions, when I transferred to a different college, the faculty and administration have always been there. For my senior show in college, [visual arts teacher] Antoinette Winters drove to Providence to celebrate with me.”

“When I was a student there, I always heard that CA is a family,” she added. “Well, my family prepared me for life, and now it is time for me to give back to it.”

Solicitors: David Beard Hugh Bennett and Kimberly Balfour-Bennett Steven Bercu Melanie Bilazarian Deb Boucher Jan Bruce Elizabeth Casner Tracey Hurd Karen B. Manor Joy Murray Jonathon and Lucinda Wright Michal Zeitouni

Mr. and Ms. Stephen D. Newton Adam J. Nussenbaum and Shari Abramowitz Mr. and Mrs. James C. Pannell Douglas W. Phillips and Eileen Mullen William Philps and Pamela Valentine Eric D. Green and Carmin C. Reiss ❂ Mr. and Mrs. William C. Ronco Mr. and Ms. Mark I. Siewers Jitendra Singh and Andrea Curtis Mr. and Ms. Per A. Suneby Richard and Susan Walters Wenda D. Waterman Anthony Weiner and Priscilla Cohen James R. Wilker and Vicki A. Rosen Mr. and Mrs. James M. Wilson John W. Winkelman and Janet Wozniak Mr. and Mrs. Jonathon Wright Zong-Yeng Wu and Lih-Ling Lin Dr. and Dr. Bertram Zarins Dan Zeitouni Michal Zeitouni Anonymous

Total: $137,302 Participation: 74%

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Parent Chair, Annual Giving: Margaret Sullivan

Freshman Parents Class Chair: Dore Hammond

Mr. and Ms. Tariq F. Abu-Jaber Choon Ho Bang and Myung Mi Nam David Beard and Gail Friedman Hugh Bennett and Kimberly Balfour-Bennett Mr. and Mrs. David F. Benson Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Blumenthal Mr. and Mrs. David M. Boucher Mr. and Mrs. Richard Bruce A. James and Elizabeth Casner Prescott J. Cheney Bayard D. Clarkson and Susan E. Austrian Wendell B. Colson and Joanne R. Casper Dr. and Mrs. Peter K. Dempsey Robert G. Eaton and Betty Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Stona Fitch Max Follettie and Joan Bell Karl and Susan Frieden Brian and Bob Giannino-Racine ❂ Doug Girdwood and Susan MacDonald Ching Tai Huang and Jen Chi Chang Edward and Jennifer Hurley-Wales Ronald E. Iverson and Carolyn McGowan Mr. and Mrs. Gary Julian Ronn Kliger and Lis Wolfson Richard and Lydie Labaudiniere Bozena Lato Eugene and Tatiana Lavrennikov David Lax and Ilana Manolson Martin A. Lueck and Nancy J. Traversy John W. Mauer and Pamela Mack ’73 Muzammil Mansuri and Diana Stork Mr. and Mrs. Peter McCann Thomas M. Metzold and Karen B. Manor Michael C. Monks and Marietta Christie Humphrey Morris and Deborah A. Greenman Rory and Elizabeth Leahy Morton Mr. and Mrs. James Murray Jonathan and Deborah Golodetz New ’84 ❂

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Class Chair: Elisabeth Frusztajer ’80 Solicitors: Paul S. Barth and Kathy Knight Elizabeth Bartle Steven Bercu Melanie Bilazarian Fiona Carr John G. Conley Lori T. Conway Maria Hanlon Kristin Harris Mary B. Malhotra ’78 Richard and Eileen Mankin Erin Pastuszenski Debra Shapiro Peter and Fan Watkinson Elizabeth Yerkes ’81 Total: $273,141 Participation: 77%

Mr. and Mrs. Eucimar Abreu Silva Angela Agard Juan C. Alvarez and Debra Dellanina-Alvarez Paul S. Barth and Kathy Knight ❂ Nazneen Aziz and Arijit Bose Steven Bercu Dr. and Mrs. Seth D. Bilazarian 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 Leslie Cioffi 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 Ian T. Douglas and Kristin Harris ❂

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he Parent Annual Giving program raised a record $953,000 this year, edging closer than ever to the million-dollar mark. This fundraising triumph is nearly $120,000 above last year’s total, thanks to the leadership of Margaret Sullivan, chair of Parent Annual Giving. In addition, Muriel Luderowski and Catharine Fender, cochairs of the junior class program; Lisa Frusztajer ’80, chair of the sophomore class program; Dore Hammond, chair of the freshman class program; and the combined efforts of a dedicated team of almost fifty parent class agents helped reach this goal. Above, Lisa Frusztajer '80, Catharine Fender, and Margaret Sullivan.

Peter M. Durney and Beth A. Shipley Mr. and Mrs. Barry L. Dyer ❂ Scott Evoy and Alexandra Steinert-Evoy Mr. and Ms. Daniel Fradkin Kevin and Eve Fraser-Corp Judy Garlan Scott Glidden and Ruth Page Hee Won Han and Jun Hee Kim Sang Won Han and So Young Lee Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey W. Harrison Mr. and Mrs. Parkman D. Howe ❂ Steve Imrich and Cynthia W. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Mohammed S. Islam Chull Jeong and Youn Ju Ji Ian Johnstone and Pamela C. McKee Kevin Keegan and Deborah Donahue-Keegan Sanghun Kim and Sora Noh Woong Chul and Sookheui Y. Kim Mr. and Mrs. Young Cheon Kim Mr. and Mrs. Steven P. Koppel Paul R. Kugler II

Chun Bong Lee and Eun Sil Kim Ji Yong Lee and Jae Hee Choo Sebastian Lousada and Sabra Ewing Vikram and Mary B. Malhotra ’78 ❂ Richard and Eileen Mankin Mr. and Mrs. David S. McCue Ronald H. Nordin and Leslie C. Nicholson ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Owades Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Pappas Mr. and Mrs. Scott Hyo Sang Park ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Brian E. Pastuszenski Thomas Pimm and Gayle Nutile-Pimm ❂ Jim and Sarah Rafferty ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Neil E. Rasmussen Robert K. Rodat and Mollie D. Miller Joel B. Rosen and Addie L. Swartz Mr. and Mrs. Bruce G. Silverman Mr. and Mrs. Daniel T. Smythe Dr. and Mrs. James E. Spencer Tracy W. Sundlun Jodi A. Tucker

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Junior Parents Class Chairs: Catharine Fender and Muriel Luderowski Solicitors: Denise Simon Basow Susan Brown Kate Chamberlin Lisa Cole Deborah Epstein Michael Fender Vicky Huber ’75 Jonathan Hurd Edward and Theresa Mallett Ben Taylor Andrew Troop and Andrea Sussman Total: $283,770 Participation: 76%

Breck Arnzen and Louise A. Peterson-Arnzen ’75 ❂ Robert and Denise Simon Basow Nancy F. Bauer

Mr. and Mrs. Raynard D. Benvenuti David M. Berson and Jessica C. Straus Tony Brooke and Vicky Huber ’75 ❂ Jack and Susan Brown Christopher Burrell Mr. and Mrs. John Cao Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Chamberlin Marusya Chavchavadze DeWitt and Kelly Clemens Mr. and Mrs. Paul M. Cole Beryl Ann Cowan P. Howard Edelstein Mr. and Mrs. Michael C. Fender Joanna Fernald Howard Frumkin David G. Fubini and Bertha P. Rivera Mr. and Mrs. Albert Garbarino III Janice Hinkle Gregory ’68 ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Hervé F. Guerner Jeong Hun Ha Mr. and Mrs. Edson Haraguchi Dr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Hoffman Jonathan and Tracey Hurd Frank A. Ingari and Margaret A. Sullivan Donald E. Ingber and Ellen S. Dolnansky Mr. and Mrs. Ranbir S. Jaggi Alan Joslin and Deborah Epstein Ok Hyun Jung and Hye Sung Cho Mr. and Mrs. David J. Kaemmer John S. Kitchen Katharine Kolowich Mr. and Mrs. William H. Kremer Mr. and Mrs. William A. Lamkin The Lander Family ❂

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Linda C. Lawrence Mr. and Mrs. David G. Leathers Jooyeon Lee 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 ❂ Edward and Theresa Mallett Ariella Martinez John McCluskey and Margaret Ramsey McCluskey ❂ Robert E. Merrill Mr. and Mrs. Shreyas Morakhia Peter Morse and Betsy Vicksell Ick H. Nam and Yeon J. Kim James S. Normile and Dore Hammond Albert A. Notini and Barbara R. Jezak Hoon-Sup and Yong A. Oh ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Manoel Oliveira Wayne and Marie Oliver ❂ John and Lucia Quinn Jane Reed Marcus Ritland Dr. and Mrs. Todd K. Rowe Fatima Salas Thomas L. Schuster and Ute Dietrich-Schuster 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

Ben and Kate Taylor Melissa R. Taylor William Thornton Andrew Troop and Andrea Sussman Donald and Ariella Tye A. Henry Walker Jr. Marcia Walsh Bert H. Ware and Monique Y. Patterson ’77 Mr. and Mrs. Preston F. Zoller ❂ Anonymous

Tracey and Jonathan Hurd P’06, ’09 racey and Jonathan Hurd, parents of Roger ’09 and Keelin ’11, have a simple reason for supporting Concord Academy: shared values.

“CA offers our children a community that embodies the values we hold for our family and that nurtures their own independent realization of those values,” Tracey said. “We give to Annual Giving because we want to support this community that truly lives its mission.”

Tracey and Jonathan also appreciate CA’s rigorous academic program, which challenges Roger and Keelin while nurturing their individual interests. “They have been passionately involved in the arts, sports, social justice, and creating the community around them,” Tracey said. “In all of these efforts, they are engaging with a diversity of students and learning more deeply about transcending qualities that are common ground between themselves and others. They are each developing a sense of the inherent worth and dignity of all people through their membership in the CA community.

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And they are unlearning misunderstandings about identities of race, class, and ethnicities that are prominent in our greater culture.”

In addition, Tracey stressed how much Roger and Keelin have benefited from relationships with their advisors. “These adults meet one-on-one each week to ask our kids, ‘How are you doing?’

They care about students beyond the achievements and disappointments that can cloud adolescents’ sense of self,” she said. “This helps our children develop deeper trust in themselves and in the CA community. It is a cornerstone of the CA experience that inspires us, as parents, to give back to this incredible community.”

Overall, Tracey explained, “giving to CA is an expression of support and affirmation. Thinking about the richness of our children’s experiences at CA, and the importance of having these experiences before their early adult years, brings us consistently back to a sense of gratitude and a yearning to somehow give back.”

Gifts from Parents of Alumnae/i Lucas Aalmans and Abigail Erdmann Harold and Lynn Abelson Steven Abrams and Abbe Alpert Bill and Susan Adams ❂ Peter Agoos and Diane Fiedler ❂ Helen E. Ahearn ❂ Alan C. Aisenberg ❂ Dr. and Mrs. Robert J. Allio ❂ Robert Alter and Elizabeth de Lima Annabelle R. Ambrose ❂ Charles and Kathleen Fisk Ames ’65 ❂ Mr. and Mrs. George S. Ames ❂ David and Carol Antos ❂ Renee M. Arb ❂ Nancy Cramer Aronson Ronald B. Arsenault and Abbe J. Levin Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Asher Dorothy K. Austin ❂ Mr. and Mrs. John Axten ❂ Barbara McCormick Bailey ’58 ❂ Carolyn L. Bailey ❂ William M. Bailey Professor and Mrs. Bernard Bailyn Lisle and Sally Baker ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Lynn C. Bartlett June L. Baumler ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Beal Jr. ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Henry P. Becton Jr. ❂ Gordon H. Bemis ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Adam S. Berger ❂ Wendy S. Berger 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 Nancy Blackmun Sheryl A. Blair ❂ Ron Blau and Judith Levin ❂ Lore Bloch Bruce and Jane Blumberg Mr. and Mrs. Steven Blumsack ❂ J. Alexander and Dinah Bodkin ❂ William T. Bogaert and Eugenia Zangas ❂ Mr. and Mrs. John S. Bonavia Paula Grymes Booher ’55 ❂ Wallace P. Boquist ❂ Charlotte T. Bordeaux ❂ Markley H. Boyer and Barbara E. Millen ❂ Thomas B. Bracken ❂ Lillian F. Braden ❂ Robert P. Brown and Gay Ellis ’66 Mr. and Mrs. Douglas R. Brown Roger Brown and Linda Mason Van M. Brown and Wanda E. Tillman Edward and Louisa Garfield Browne ’36 ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Donald B. Bruck ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Paul C. Bruning Paul and Lisbeth Cahill ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Carey Sr. Louise W. Carter ❂

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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 Downing Cless and Alice Trexler ❂ Dick and Blythe Colby ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Marvin A. Collier ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Brewster Conant Andrew Cook and Jacqueline Ellis 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 ❂ 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 Antony Decaneas Nancy Maclaurin Decaneas ’62 § David and Gretchen Denison ❂ Douglas and Ingrid von Dattan Detweiler ’61 ❂ Sarah McClary Dewey ’48 Robert and Kim Diebboll Emily DiMaggio Peter and Ivy Dorflinger Dr. and Mrs. David A. Drachman Katharine Eaton Dreier ’48 ❂ Henry and Ruth Brooks Drinker ’31 Michael Drossos and Malva Gordett 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 Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Erhart Jr. ❂ Norris and Constance Burr Evans ’69 Mr. and Mrs. John N. Faigle ❂ 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 Barry and Odile Fidelman David and Karen Firestone ❂ George and Lisa Foote ❂ Richard and Beth Fried Dr. and Mrs. Orrie M. Friedman Robert G. Gardner and Adele R. Pressman Gary and Lisa Garmon Mrs. William W. Garth Jr. ❂ Eben and Win Gay

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Katherine G. Gilmour Amy A. Gimbel Kathleen Glenn Michael A. Glier and Jenny Holzer ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Dante R. Gonzalez David and Holly Gray Goodspeed ’66 Allen and Linda Goorin Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Gosnell Joseph A. Grasso Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce C. Gray David H. Green ❂ Mr. and Mrs. John P. Green Jr. ❂ Robert and Nancy Greenberg Dr. and Mrs. Bruce Grossman Alexander N. Gunn ❂ Myron and Meredith Rollins Hamer ’52 Mr. and Mrs. John S. Hammond III ❂ Dudley and Ellen Smith Harde ’62 ❂ Marlene Harrison Gardiner Hartmann ❂ Richard Hawkins and Marian Ferguson ’63 Tim Hayes and Anne Romney ❂ Huazhong He and Wei Deng Mr. and Mrs. George S. Hebb Jr. Michael J. Henchman Mr. and Mrs. George B. Henderson ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Hendrick Philip and Ann Heymann ❂ Sarah Hinkle David and Beth Hirzel ❂ David and Sally Hooper ❂ Dr. and Mrs. Frederic G. Hoppin Jr. ❂ Mary Leigh Morse Houston ’47 ❂ Allan J. Hruska and Sarah Gladstone Jonathan and Ann Hubbard Charles and Judith Huizenga Timothy and Mary Hult ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Harvey L. Hunt William J. Huston Jr. Yannis Ioannides and Anna Hardman ❂ Raouf and Sarah Ismail Mary Eliot Jackson 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. Richard Kabel Lynn Kaplan ❂ Glen and Jessica Kaufman Joan Kaufman John and Kathy Kaufmann ❂ Peter and Angela Keiser 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 ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Robin H. Kirkland ❂ Henry A. Kissinger A. Lawrence and Ruth Kolbe Peter and Roberta Kovner ❂

Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln D. Kraeuter ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Werner H. Kramarsky Mr. and Mrs. Michael F. Kuppens Ann Kwong and Dasa Lipovsek Robert and Charlotte Kelly Lally ’62 Mr. and Mrs. Macreay J. Landy Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Langione ❂ Kenneth Lappin and Niti Seth Jenny D. Lassen ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Milton Lauenstein Mr. and Mrs. Michael M. Laurence ❂ Peter and Alison Smith Lauriat ’64 ❂ Lindsey C. Lawrence Joan Corbin Lawson ’49 ❂ An H. Le and Hanh H. Nguyen ❂ Bernard Lebow and Ms. Barbara J. Guilfoile Olivia Swaim LeFeaver ’41 ❂ John and Kathy Lehmann ❂ Charles M. Leighton Deborah Smith Leighton ’55 ❂ Mr. and Mrs. James T. Lichoulas Jr. ❂ Claudia B. Liebesny Marty Liebowitz and Mary Lassen ’71 Mr. and Mrs. Pedro Lilienfeld ❂ Helen Whiting Livingston ’41 ❂ Matthew and Davida Loewenstein ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Ruly Lontoh Pauline Lord ’68 Ruth E. D. Lord ❂ Mrs. Atherton Loring Jr. Peter and Babette Loring ❂ Jim and Cindy Lynch Talbot and Catherine Petersen Mack ’64 Lucia Todd MacMahon ’58 Stephen and Kim Maire ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Gordon L. Marshall ❂ Howard Martin and Gail-Ann Brodeur ❂ Steven and Charmaine Masters Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Mathus ❂ Maria V. A. Matthiessen ❂ Bill and Susan Maxfield ❂ J. Thomas May and Marianne O’Brien Jim and Linda May Mr. and Mrs. John Maynard ❂ Hannah Norseen McClennen ’62 ❂ Mr. and Mrs. William H. McConaghy ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Philip J. McFarland ❂ Shawn M. McGivern Cecily Deegan McMillan ’74 Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Menger ❂ Mary-Dixon Sayre Miller ’40 ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Fred Moavenzadeh David W. Montgomery and Alice J. Merrill ❂ Mrs. William L. Moran ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Richard Morange ❂ John and Carol Moriarty ❂ Andrew P. Morrison Charles A. Morss Jr. ❂ Suzanne Mosby ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey H. Movius Mr. and Mrs. James S. Munro Jr. Russ and Wanfang Murray ❂ Mrs. John Muyskens

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Sam and Susan Hall Mygatt ❂ Stephen J. Nelson and Mary Anne Mayo ’72 Anna Newberg David and Catharine Newbury ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Morris G. Nicholson ❂ Dr. and Mrs. Murray A. Nicolson Mr. and Mrs. David J. Noonan ❂ Mr. and Mrs. H. Roderick Nordell 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 Bruce Paley and Carol Goldman Krid and Supawan Lamsam Panyarachun ’73 Mr. and Mrs. Hyoung J. Park ❂ C. Stephen and Kathleen King Parker Lisa Parker Laura E. Parkhurst Mrs. Raymond A. Paynter Mr. and Mrs. George S. Pearce ❂ Kay D. Pechilis ❂ Gretchen A. Pfuetze Mr. and Mrs. Peter J. Philliou ❂ Edith Cowles Poor ’39 ❂ Anne Hart Pope ’66 ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Arthur G. Powell ❂ Mr. and Mrs. John D. Pratt ❂ Lynne A. Prives Mr. and Mrs. William S. Reardon ❂ Mr. and Mrs. John P. Reeder Jr. ❂ Steven David Reich ❂ Russell and Carla Ricci ❂ Ronald and Gail Rivest Burton and Gloria Rose ❂ Mr. and Mrs. James E. Rosen ❂ Mark and Etta Rosen ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Stuart H. Rosenwald Andre and Lee Roussel Aditi Roy Mr. and Mrs. Jay E. Russ ❂ Channing and Deborah Russell Penelope Russell Thomas M. Sadtler and Jane E. Wells Ravi and Rohini Sakhuja ❂ Steven Satullo and Christine Erb ❂ Thomas and Katharine Rea Schmitt ’62 ❂ Deborah B. Scripps Patricia Sears Mr. and Mrs. Mark H. Sebell Frederick and Susan Seward Dr. and Mrs. John Sexton ❂ Nancy Megowen Shane ’51 ❂ Thomas Shapiro ❂ Gordon and Joanna Hamann Shaw ’53 ❂ Nancy C. Shober ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Shohet ❂ Florence L. Short Carol Mann Shoudt ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Paul Siegal ❂ 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 ❂ Daniel L. Smythe Jr. ❂ Mr. and Mrs. John S. Solakian ❂

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Karen R. Sollins ❂ Gwendolyn S. Sommer Duncan Spelman and Elizabeth Grady ❂ Michael and Diane Spence ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Platt Staunton ❂ James and Nancy Wolfe Stead ’58 Mrs. Ames Stevens Jr. ❂ Alice Fales Stewart ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Donald M. Stewart Mr. and Mrs. Vcevold O. Strekalovsky Mr. and Mrs. Bernardo Stumpf Dean Sullender and Suzanne Knight ❂ Owen S. Surman ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. Sweatt Ann Hemingway Tarlton ’62 ❂ Richard and Alix Taylor ❂ Elizabeth Plimpton Tilton ❂ James and Judith Howe Tucker ❂ Hazel F. Tuttle ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Glen Urban ❂ David K. Urion and Deborah Choate Dr. and Mrs. Henry W. Vaillant ❂ Frances Howes Valiente ’64 Mr. and Mrs. James H. Vaughn Mary Wadleigh ’64 ❂ Mrs. Jack J. Wagstaff ❂ Dr. and Mrs. John M. Wallace George Wallis ❂ Dr. and Mrs. David F. Walther Mr. and Mrs. Dexter Wang Frederic and Judith Harris Watriss ’58 Steven and Janet Weinberger Mr. and Ms. Frederick L. Weiss ❂ Scott and Deborah Jackson Weiss ❂ Margot A. Welch ❂ Linda Whitlock and Marc Cumsky Thomas E. Wilcox and E. Whitney Ransome ❂ R. Wade Williams and Penny F. Schindler ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Werner S. Willmann ❂ Rosemary Wilson ’59 Anne Winslow Patrick H. Winston and Karen A. Prendergast 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 ❂ Robert York and Judith Flynn-York Jane Yusen ❂ Edward and Janet Zaval ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth H. Zimble Judi Ross Zuker Anonymous (3)

Ana, Eva, and Muriel Luderowski

Muriel and Nils Luderowski P’06, ’09

uriel and Nils Luderowski have been active members of the Concord Academy community throughout the time their daughters, Eva ’06 and Ana ’09, have been at the school.

“CA has hugely broadened our daughters’ horizons and has helped them define who they are,” said Muriel. “The school taught Eva and Ana to think with their senses and feel with their minds. CA invites the student to explore the academic world in an uninhibited and passionate way. It is a community where students and teachers are constantly engaged in open dialogue, a place where learning is celebrated, and where young adults develop a strong sense of self.”

Muriel said she and Nils support Annual Giving “because we want our children and future students to continue to benefit from the school’s unique philosophy, and for CA to continue to attract teachers who bring an unequalled learning experience to the community.”

The Luderowskis choose to give unrestricted annual gifts so the school can direct the funds to where they are most critically and immediately needed. The couple is mindful of the message their gifts send to their daughters: “Eva and Ana eagerly observe our commitment to the school and respect our trust in CA’s mission,” Muriel said. “It has helped them understand the importance of giving back to a place that has made such a difference in their lives.”

Muriel has noticed that CA parents are uncommonly enthusiastic and dedicated to the school, and she believes that comes from listening to their children, day after day.

“Quietly enjoy their reporting of school events, conversations with teachers and fellow students, their view on the world,” said Muriel. “Take notice of how they have grown intellectually and emotionally. Then ask yourself, ‘What is a Concord Academy education worth to our family?’”

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Gifts from Students In addition to raising $11,035 at 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 2011 F. Jaspar Abu-Jaber Elisabeth Beckwitt Sarah Bennett Peter Benson Tobias Bercu Andrew Casner Chih Yi Chao Alexis Cheney Rebecca Colson Daniel Coppersmith Hugo Desius Laurena Fasllia Alexander Fernandez Sophia Fish Amelia Fitch Gabe Follettie Eva Frieden Danielle Girdwood Andrew Gonzalez Eliza Green John Alexander Hall Amy Huang Keelin Hurd Sofia Julian Samantha Kioussis Matthieu Labaudiniere Andrew Lavrennikov Lena Lax William Levinger Kristen Lueck Daniel Mansuri Elizabeth Mauer Sarah New Camille Newton Nora Normile Kate Nussenbaum Nicholas Phillips Robert Philps Zoe Reich-Aviles Therese Ronco Joshua Suneby Natalia Winkelman Claire Wright Christine Wu Andrew Zarins

Class of 2010 Casey Barth Julian Bercu Ariel Bliss Emily Boghossian Brendan Buckland Johanna Douglas Elizabeth Durney

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Julia Dyer Daysha Edewi Olivia Fantini Jamie Fradkin William Harrison Caroline Howe Rebecca Imrich Rofez Islam Boseura Jeong Maia Johnstone Katherine Koppel Charlotte Kugler Haemin Lee Suah Lee Elvis Leon Marina Long Andrew McCue Bronwyn Murray-Bozeman Alexander Ocampo Thomas Rafferty Michael Rho Aliza Rosen Louisa Smythe Tessa Steinert-Evoy Katie Surrey-Bergman Lovelie Tejada Kendall Tucker Alexandra-Makeba Turner-Owens

Class of 2009 Elizabeth Basow Eric Benvenuti Nora Berson Adam Brown Harvey Burrell Bonnie Cao Elizabeth Chamberlin Russell Cohen Amara Frumkin Michael Fubini Laura Garbarino Eugene Ha Werner Herold Roger Hurd Angad Jaggi Isabella Joslin Hannah Kaemmer Janice Kitchen Elizabeth Lamkin Jennifer Lamy Daniel Lander Meghan Leathers Yelena Rasic Garrett Rowe Lewis Salas Samuel Schuster Hyun Shin Daniel Shoukimas Clement Sin Monica Stadecker Mia Stange Justin Stedman Jenna Troop Koyami Tulley

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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.

Ross Adams ❂ Bill and Susan Adams ❂ Marge G. Albin ❂ Carol Antos ❂ Annie and Benjamin Bailey ’91 ❂ Thomas Bartolone ❂ Carol Anne Beach and Tara Bradley ❂ Joanne Becotte Elizabeth Bedell Wendy S. Berger Janel Blood Shawn Buckland Thomas Collins Richard Colton and Amy Spencer ❂ Karen Culbert 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 ❂ Mark Engerman Brenda Fortier-Dube Eve Fraser-Corp Kim Frederick ❂ Gail Friedman David Gammons ❂ Brian and Bob Giannino-Racine ❂ Elizabeth Z. Ginsberg Sarah Gore Deborah Gray ❂ Emily Halpern-Lewis Tonhu Hoang Nancy Howard Parkman Howe ❂ Kirsten Hoyte Timothy Hult ❂ Max Hunter Peter and Sarah Jennings ❂ Greg Jutkiewicz Cynthia Katz Joan Kaufmann Martha Kennedy ❂ Donald and Susan Kingman Abby Laber Peter Laipson ❂ George Larivee ❂ Kate Leonard Kristen G. Lewis ❂ Stephanie Manzella Natalie M. Matus ❂ Deb McCarthy ❂ John McGarry and Suzanne Parry ❂

Morgan Mead Carol Miller Tariq Mohammed Kem Morehead Jamie Morris-Kliment Marie Myers and Ed Rafferty Roberta M. Nicoletta ❂ Kate Oggel ❂ Kate Peltz Robert and Barbara Piantedosi ❂ John Pickle Isabel Plaster Judi Raiff ❂ 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 Hilde Steffey Ayres and Kristin Stiles-Hall Sandy and Lucille Stott ❂ Jessica C. Straus Peter and Lisa Sun Selim Tezel ❂ Alison Tomlin Tina Tong Pat Udomprasert Roberto Ugalde Laurence Vanleynseele Jon Waldron Eliza Wall Scott Wick Meg and Don Wilson Michael and Hilary Wirtz ❂ Rebecca Wrigley Elizabeth Julier Wyeth ’76 ❂ Andrea Yanes-Taylor Reid Young Eugenia Zangas ❂

Gifts from Grandparents, Former Faculty and Staff, and Friends Mr. and Mrs. Mark Abramowitz Beverly Adler Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey Austrian Sonia G. Austrian Nancy C. Babcock Albert H. Barclay Dr. and Mrs. John Bargoot Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth E. Bentsen Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Berkowitz Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Bliss Robert Butman Anne Colman Douglas C. Cooney

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Ellen R. Cooper Mr. and Mrs. William Costa John J. Dau Jacqueline Dresden ❂ Corson Ellis Cora P. Emlen Nicole Fandel Mr. and Mrs. Herb Epstein Cynthia Gilles Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Gosnell Mr. and Mrs. David Graham Wanda Holland Greene ❂ Paula S. Greenman John Hall Sean M. Hanlon Mrs. Richard Herold John Hickling Faith Howland ❂ Ivan C. Kaufman § Mr. and Mrs. Eric Lawrence Sarah Lawrence Robert M. Lerner Richard A. Lumpkin ❂ Sylvia Mendenhall ❂ Franziska Morris Mr. and Mrs. Don Munsey Paul and Pamela Ness Lois Nordin Mr. and Mrs. Thomas O’Brien Mr. and Mrs. Emilio M. Ortiz June Pannell Cecille Price Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Reall Dr. and Mrs. G. David Ritland Margaret Seton Ann Shaw Nancy B. Simches Mr. and Mrs. Warren G. Sprague Phylis Tocci Lillian Troop Paul and Leslie Tuttle Dorothy H. Tye Frona B. Vicksell Dorothy Vollans Mr. and Mrs. John Waters Dr. and Mrs. Gerald Weissmann Mr. and Mrs. David L. Wells

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Gifts from Corporations, Foundations, and Other Organizations A&E Televison Networks Acton Memorial Library Adobe Systems Incorporated The Air Products Foundation Alliance Capital Management L.P. Bailey Pottery Equipment Corp.

The Baltimore Community Foundation Bank of America Matching Gifts Batterymarch Financial Management, Inc. Beard Family Charitable Trust

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The Bell Family Fund Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, Inc. Boston Foundation Boston Private Bank and Trust Company Boyer Charitable Lead Annuity Trust CA, Inc. Matching Gifts Program Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Cleveland H. Dodge Foundation The Columbus Foundation Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, Inc. Community Foundation of New Jersey Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County Deerfield Associates The Dorsey and Whitney Foundation Dow Jones and Company Elizabeth G. Henry Charitable Lead Unitrust The Felucca Fund Fidelity Foundation Gap, Inc. GE Foundation Gertrude S. Brown Fund GivingExpress Program From American Express GlaxoSmithKline Foundation Global Impact Harvard University Helen and William Mazer Foundation Henry and Joan T. Wheeler Charitable Fund Home Depot Houghton Mifflin Company Intel Foundation The Irwin and Nancy Aronson Philanthropic Fund of The Foundation for Enhancing Communities John and Lydia Perkins Fund Kahn Charitable Foundation Knox Family Foundation Levi Strauss Foundation The Lumpkin Family Foundation Mancini Foundation Mary W. Harriman Foundation Merrill Lynch Matching Gifts Program Microsoft Corporation MMC The Millmont Foundation The Minneapolis Foundation The Neil and Anna Rasmussen Foundation The New York Community Trust The New York Times Company Foundation Oracle Corporation Philips PACE North America Corporation Raytheon Charitable Gift Fund Renaissance Charitable Foundation, Inc. River Branch Foundation Santa Barbara Foundation Schwab Fund for Charitable Giving The Shane Foundation Trust The Stanley Works State Street Boston Corporation The Tulgey Wood Foundation United Way of New York City Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program Wachovia

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n April, Dr. Rebecca Sherrill More ’65, director of the Harriet W. Sheridan Center at Brown University, hosted CA alumnae/i currently attending Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design. Peter Jennings, director of college counseling at Concord Academy, and Brendan Shepard, associate director of Annual Giving, also attended the reception, held in Providence. CA also held another young alumnae/i event this year, at Columbia University.

The Weathertop Foundation Weingrod-Salten Fund Wellington Management Co. LLP Wells Fargo Community Support Campaign The Woodcock #3 Foundation Anonymous

In Memory of Lola Klein

Tina Klein ’81 In Honor of Lillian Lamboy ’06

Ms. Shawn M. McGivern In Memory of Bee Motley Livermore ’63

Peggy Keenan Sheridan ’63 In Memory of Amy Loring ’83

Polly Hubbard ’83

Tribute Gifts

In Honor of Samantha Mankin ’10

Cecille Price In Honor of Benjamin Bailey ’91

Joanne Becotte In Memory of Patricia Brown

Dorothy Brown-Martin ’84 In Memory of Mary Buxton ’64

Peggy Keenan Sheridan ’63 In Memory of Doris Coryell

Walter Judge ’78 In Memory of Christine Grote Crisp ’55

Elizabeth Moizeau Shima ’55 In Honor of Jacob and Pat Dresden

Anonymous Isabel Fonseca ’79 In Memory of Elizabeth Fox-Genovese ’58

In Honor of John O’Connor

Mark Lu ’91 In Honor of Alison Ross ’96

Judi Ross Zuker In Honor of the Science Department

Michael and Hilary Wirtz In Honor of Lee Shane ’85

Nancy Megowen Shane ’51 The Shane Foundation Trust In Honor of Nancy Megowen Shane ’51

Lee Shane ’85 The Shane Foundation Trust In Memory of Lezlie S. Surman

Kathleen Surman ’94

Rebecca MacMillan Fox ’66 Judith Speckman Russell ’59 In Honor of Gabriel Greenberg ’98

Robert and Nancy Greenberg

Gifts in Kind

Library

In Honor of Lucy Greenberg ’02

Robert and Nancy Greenberg In Memory of Elizabeth Hall

Mary Lee Bennett Noonan ’55 In Honor of Parkman Howe

Peter Xiaoran Li ’02

Julie Agoos ’74 Howard Bauchner and Chris McElroy Gretchen Becker ’58 John Blacklow ’83 Nathan Borofsky ’93 Sophronia Camp ’67 Jennifer Nurse Candon ’93

William and Fiona Carr Adam Cherson ’79 Mallika Chopra ’89 Perdita Connolly Louis Crosier ’83 ❂ Sheldon Culver ’66 Jane Nilan Davis ’54 Alice Domar ’76 ❂ Mr. and Mrs. John A. Edelmann Drew Gilpin Faust ’64 Hamilton Fish and Sandra Harper Laura Foley ’75 Isabel Fonseca ’79 Robert Forbes ’76 Mr. and Mrs. Boruch B. Frusztajer Jane Fletcher Geniesse ’54 Stacey Gerrish Margaret Morgan Grasselli ’68 Jody Heymann ’77 Chi Huang Claudette Hunt Barbara Kaufman Janice Kim ’07 Katharine Kolowich Ellen Condliffe Lagemann ’63 ❂ Jane A. Leifer Mr. and Mrs. James K. Levinger Katherine Bucknell Maguire ’75 Muzammil Mansuri and Diana Stork Philip McFarland Mike and Leanne McNally Cameron McNeil ’87 Tamsen Merrill ’68 Andrea Silverman Meyer ’87 ❂ David Michaelis ’75 Ann McKinstry Micou ’48 Zoe Mueller ’08 Jeremy Owades ’10 Mr. and Mrs. Brian E. Pastuszenski Elizabeth Campbell Peters ’73 Louise Peterson-Arnzen ’75 ❂ Hilary Price ’87 Chris Rhodes ’07 David and Margaret Rost D. Fairchild Ruggles ’75 Kevin Shay ’91 Lowell S. Smith and Sally Sanford ❂ Sandy and Lucille Stott ❂ Marcia Synnott ’57 ❂ Nina Tannenwald ’77 Dr. and Mrs. Scott A. Turpin Jane Waldfogel ’72 ❂ Jay Wallace and Lisa McGovern Elizabeth Lund Zahniser ’71 ❂

Other Gifts in Kind Gwenyth Piper Bassetti ’54 David M. Berson and Jessica C. Straus Mr. and Mrs. James E. Gilliant Joan Kaufman John Pickle Mark B. Stockman and Jayne Anne Phillips Elizabeth Lund Zahniser ’71 ❂

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CA Dance Program and Summer Stages Dance Bill and Susan Adams ❂ Peter Agoos and Diane Fiedler ❂ Charles and Kathleen Fisk Ames ’65 ❂ David and Carol Antos ❂ Hans and Eva Apfelbaum Janet M. Bailey Carol Anne Beach and Tara Bradley ❂ Jeanne Beaman Ward E. Bein and Priscilla D. Bolte Sarah Bellini Luis Rodman Benedict David M. Berson and Jessica C. Straus Steven F. Bloom and Marjorie D. Mitlin Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Blumenthal Lawrence and Susan Borges Edward and Maureen Bousa Les and Carol Bowen Lindsay Soutter Boyer ’76 Markley Boyer ’78 William R. Brecklean and Rina K. Spence Nick Browning and Rebecca Ramsey John and Nancy Butman Dr. and Mrs. Paul A. Buttenwieser Mark and Barbara Caddell Catherine and Paul Buttenwieser Foundation Stephen Cecchetti and Ruth Charney Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Chamberlin The Charles Engelhard Foundation Irene Chu ’76 ❂ Downing Cless and Alice Trexler ❂ The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Concord Cultural Council John G. Conley and Elizabeth G. Awalt Howard Cooper and Jane Karol Copper Leaf Productions Nancy Cowan ’84 ❂ Mr. and Mrs. John Cratsley Christine A. Creelman Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Cross III Susan R. Dangel Keith Daniel ❂ Kevin M. Dennis and Rebecca Kellogg ’71 Stephen and Sandra Doran James and Donna Down Jacob and Pat Dresden ❂ Michael Elefante and Louise Sawyer Lee and Amy Ellsworth Michael Epstein and April Stone Peyman Farzinpour Mr. and Mrs. Michael C. Fender Fidelity Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Stona Fitch Thomas Flanagan and Rebecca Rice Mr. and Mrs. John M. Flynn George and Lisa Foote ❂ David A. Freedman and Karen A. Trittipo Thomas and Pamela Gaither David Gammons ❂

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Robert G. Gardner and Adele R. Pressman Eben and Win Gay Daniel E. Geffken Alan S. Geismer Carl and Patricia Geyer Michael A. Glier and Jenny Holzer ❂ Terry and Fran Goss Colette Gramm Eric D. Green and Carmin C. Reiss ❂ Michael and Nancy Grogan Rosemary Grove Mr. and Mrs. Graham Gund Brad and Patty Hager ❂ David Harder and Deborah Greenwald Haut-Smith Associates Peter Herrup Norman and Susan Hildreth Margo Howard Jasper Peak Pilates, LLC Alan Joslin and Deborah Epstein Joan Karol Michelle Karol Steve Kelman and Shelley Metzenbaum Cam Kerry and Kathy Weinman Kingston Auction Company Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Klein Edgar Knudson Peik and Judith Larsen Alison Smith Lauriat ’64 ❂ Charles Lawson Mr. and Mrs. David G. Leathers Susan E. Leeman The LEF Foundation Sharon Letovsky Joseph S. Levine Marc Levitt and Janet Mendelsohn Mr. and Mrs. Alan Lightman T. D. Loverling and and Tina Forbes Kate Magardo Ronald Mallis Marshall B. Coyne Foundation, Inc. Scott R. Matsumoto and Elizabeth A. Collins Leander and Stephanie Starr McCormick-Goodhart ’80 ❂ Daniel W. McCusker Gayle Merling Paul Messier Rosanne Miller Payette George and Katalin Mitchell Joseph B. Moore and Elizabeth L. Chiquoine John and Carol Moriarty ❂ Frederick Mueller and Cynthia Taft ❂ Shizuo Mukai and Susan Verdicchio The Neil and Anna Rasmussen Foundation New England Dance Conservatory New England Foundation for the Arts The New York Community Trust Clare H. Nunes Wayne and Marie Oliver ❂ Julie Orsi Mr. and Mrs. Warren K. Palley ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Parker Patricia P. Irgens Larsen Charitable Foundation, Inc.

Christopher Pennington and Jeffrey Kazin Steven and Terry Perlmutter Jaye R. Phillips Raymond J. Pohl and Lisa M. Botticelli Ellen M. Poss Putnam Investments Judi Raiff ❂ Rebecca Ramsay ’64 Mr. and Mrs. Neil E. Rasmussen Rebecca Rice Dance Marc and Lisa Richard Elaine V. Robins Mr. and Mrs. William C. Ronco Stuart M. Rose and Margie J. Topf Dr. and Mrs. Todd K. Rowe Carol F. Ryser Stephanie Selden Judi Seldin ❂ Donna Sessa-Carter Thomas M. Shapiro and Ruth M. Birnberg James and Marilyn Showstack Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Paul Siegal ❂ Eric Silver Susanne Simpson Jean Chapin Smith Mr. and Mrs. David P. Southwell ❂ Michael and Diane Spence ❂ Catherine M. Spencer Eric K. Stange and Barbara M. Costa Marjorie Staub The Stebbins Fund, Inc. Mark B. Stockman and Jayne Anne Phillips Sandy and Lucille Stott ❂ Don Straus and Carol Goss Lawrence Susskind and Leslie Tuttle Wendy Sweet Susan Turner David Vaughan Ronald and Peggy Warren Theodore and Jean Webb Richard Whalen Jeff and Martha Winokur ❂ Robert Wortman Joseph R. Zina and Bernard J. Toale William Zink and Sara Delano

Educational Programs Arts Program Leander and Stephanie Starr McCormick-Goodhart ’80 ❂

Academic The Argosy Foundation

College Counseling Channing and Deborah Russell

Music Joel B. Rosen and Addie L. Swartz

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Financial Aid (Includes gifts to general financial aid as well as direct gifts and gifts in kind to the Financial Aid Benefit)

Roger Matus

Bill and Susan Adams ❂ Juan C. Alvarez and Debra Dellanina-Alvarez Timothy A. Andrews and Valerie J. Cummings ❂ Paul S. Barth and Kathy Knight ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Beal Jr. ❂ Mr. and Mrs. David F. Benson Mr. and Mrs. Raynard D. Benvenuti

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Blumenthal Deborah Boucher James and June Bowman Tony Brooke and Vicky Huber ’75 ❂ Budget Printing John and Nancy Butman Center Sports Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Chamberlin Downing Cless and Alice Trexler ❂ CLK Design Automation Fernando C. Colon-Osorio and Laurie A. Margolies Wendell B. Colson and Joanne R. Casper John G. Conley and Elizabeth G. Awalt

CA Parents Benefit for Financial Aid

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his year’s CA Parents Benefit for Financial Aid brought parents and alumnae/i into the classroom, where they studied topics ranging from Russian history and Kafka to technology, fractals, and visionary folk art.

Above, science teacher Joan Kaufmann teaches Chemistry in the Kitchen, demonstrating the chemical and physical transformations that occur during cooking.

The April benefit’s theme was “Getting in Tune with CA,” and the afternoon began with a rollicking session with David Harp, who uses the harmonica to both entertain and teach breathing and relaxation techniques.

Chaired by Gabrielle Dockterman P’09 and Debbie Alvarez P’10, the event raised more than $77,000 for financial aid.

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Copley Business Service Christopher B. Daly and Anne K. Fishel Kevin Dennis and Rebecca Kellogg ’71 Dr. and Mrs. David A. Dockterman Jacob and Pat Dresden ❂ David A. Freedman Mr. and Mrs. Stona Fitch Flour Bakery & Cafe George and Lisa Foote ❂ David Forbes Forbes Consulting Group Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey M. Goodman Eric D. Green and Carmin C. Reiss ❂ Janice Hinkle Gregory ’68 ❂ Karin S. Gunn Al Herter Mr. and Mrs. Parkman D. Howe ❂ Jerry and Jane Hughes ❂ Jonathan and Tracey Hurd Frank Ingari and Margaret Sullivan Mark R. Jaffe and Marcia C. Glassman-Jaffe Iggy’s Bread of the World Mr. and Mrs. David J. Kaemmer Franklin and Colleen Kettle Ronn Kliger and Lis Wolfson Judith Kloc McInerney Katharine Kolowich Mr. and Mrs. Steven P. Koppel Karen Koumjian Peter Laipson ❂ Jane A. Leifer Herman B. Leonard and Kathryn A. Angell ❂ Dr. and Mrs. Jongchoo Lim Nils and Muriel Luderowski ❂ Michael Macaris’ Kung Fu Academy Musicworks Studio Muzammil Mansuri and Diana Stork Stephanie Manzella Natalie M. Matus ❂ Mr. and Mrs. William H. McConaghy ❂ Mr. and Mrs. David S. McCue Thomas and Susan Miller Michael C. Monks and Marietta Christie

Peter Morse and Betsy Vicksell Musicworks Studio The Neil and Anna Rasmussen Foundation Albert A. Notini and Barbara R. Jezak Thomas M. O’Brien III Wayne and Marie Oliver ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Brian E. Pastuszenski Percussion Specialties William Philps and Pamela Valentine Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Radochia Neil and Anna Rasmussen Rita Robert Joel B. Rosen and Addie L. Swartz Pamela Safford and Dan Covell ❂ Thomas L. Schuster and Ute Dietrich-Schuster Eric and Anne Shapiro Ginny Sherwood Jitendra Singh and Andrea Curtis Mr. and Mrs. Bruce G. Silverman Mr. and Mrs. Daniel T. Smythe Mr. and Ms. Marc B. Sommers Specialty Foods Boston Dr. and Mrs. James E. Spencer Marjorie Staub Alan and Monica Wulff Steinert ’57 ❂ Andrew Troop and Andrea Sussman Jodi A. Tucker Roland and Sui Ting Van Liew Jay Wallace and Lisa McGovern Malcolm M. Walsh and Ms. Kathleen J. O’Hara Richard and Susan Walters Peter and Fan Watkinson Lisa Weissmann and Debra Shapiro Mr. and Mrs. James M. Wilson Meg and Don Wilson Michael and Hilary Wirtz ❂ Mr. and Mrs. Jonathon Wright Dr. and Dr. Bertram Zarins Anonymous

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Capital Giving Concord Academy gratefully acknowledges the generosity of individuals and organizations that made gifts or new pledges for capital, plant, and endowment purposes between July 1, 2007 and June 30, 2008. In addition to $5,461,330 received in contributions (page 54), $5,353,409

Donors to Unrestricted Capital Purposes

Donors to Restricted Capital Purposes

Faculty Salaries and Professional Development

Charles and Kathleen Fisk Ames ’65 Morley Cowles Ballantine Becton Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Henry P. Becton Jr. Caroline Minot Bell ’73 Dr. and Mrs. Neil Blacklow Boston Foundation Boyer Charitable Lead Annuity Trust Lindsay Soutter Boyer ’76 Markley Boyer ’78 Markley H. Boyer and Barbara E. Millen Charles Collier ’85 Nathan and Nancy Colt Couch ’50 Carolyn Smith Davies ’55 Jacob and Pat Dresden Fore River Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Boruch B. Frusztajer David G. Fubini and Bertha P. Rivera Alexis Goltra ’87 Mr. and Mrs. Graham Gund David Harris ’81 Harvard University Sandra Willett Jackson ’61 Jennifer Johnson ’59 Mr. and Mrs. William H. Kremer Mark Lu ’91 Martin Lueck and Nancy Traversy Vikram and Mary B. Malhotra ’78 Marshall B. Coyne Foundation, Inc. Mary W. Harriman Foundation Amelia Lloyd McCarthy ’89 Lucy-Ann McFadden ’70 John and Carol Moriarty Sam and Susan Hall Mygatt Judith Bourne Newbold ’55 T. Ricardo and Strand Quesada Cornelia Urban Sawczuk ’80 Ben and Kate Taylor The Weathertop Foundation David and Rose Thorne United Way of New York City Estate of Mary D. Upton ’60 Melissa Vail ’70 Linden Havemeyer Wise ’70 Anonymous (4)

Financial Aid

Argosy Foundation Fidelity Foundation Fore River Foundation Marc and Jill Conway Mehl ’85 Charlotte Quesada ’95 Elizabeth Lund Zahniser ’71

Fidelity Foundation Fore River Foundation Charlotte Quesada ’95 Martin Schneider and Debra Fine ’77 Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program Scott and Deborah Jackson Weiss Elizabeth Lund Zahniser ’71 In Memory of Anne Nicholas Atlamazoglou ’64

The Cold Brook Fund Jenifer Kasdon Clover Nicholas ’58 In Memory of Mary Fearey ’32

The Fearey Family

Marshall B. Coyne Financial Aid Fund Amelia Lloyd McCarthy ’89 The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region

In Honor of Ruth Dickler

Dickler Family Foundation, Inc. Emily Hoppe ’05

Head of School Fund Anonymous

Katherine Carton Hammer ’68 Endowed Faculty Chair Camilla W. Hammer Joseph W. Hammer

Lehner Fund for Faculty Professional Development Carl and Sandra Lehner Orchard Foundation

Dancing Horse Scholarship Estate of Christine Kaufman Thompson ’61

Patricia Frankenberg Financial Aid Fund The Aloian Family

Elizabeth B. Hall Scholarship Fund In Memory of Elizabeth B. Hall

Huldah Moss ’60

The Benjamin David Hamilton ’00 Scholarship Fund Wendy Hamilton

Lucy McFadden ’70 Endowed Fund for Curricular Innovation in the Sciences Jitendra Singh and Andrea Curtis

Wilcox Leadership Fund Marguerite Lee ’77

Faculty Recruitment and Retention Fund / 2004 Senior Parent Gift Paul and Robin DiGiammarino Don Straus and Carol Goss Dan and Maggie Terris

was committed in new $10,814,739.

Local Day Student Fund Mrs. Lawrence Edmands Martha Taft ’65

Fund for Faculty and Staff Enrichment / 2005 Senior Parent Gift

Fay Lampert Shutzer ’65

Joseph S. Deitch Winthrop L. McCormack Jenny Childs Preston ’67 Howard and Robin Reisman

Marten Ann Poole ’58 Arts and Sciences Scholarship Fund

Professional Development Fund / 2007 Senior Parent Gift

Mary Poole ’59

Sadhana Bery Boston Private Bank and Trust Company Downing Cless and Alice Trexler Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Geitz Tony Brooke and Vicky Huber ’75 Dongsik Kim and Kyounghee Yoon

New York Scholar Fund

Amy E. Wells ’89 Memorial Scholarship Fund Katie Pakenham ’88

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Elliot and Lenore Lobel Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Maskell John and Carol Moriarty Ronald H. Nordin and Leslie C. Nicholson Mr. and Mrs. Warren K. Palley Steven and Terry Perlmutter Bruce Posner and Betsy Rudnick Jonathan Sands and Deborah Merrill-Sands Schwab Fund for Charitable Giving Mr. and Mrs. Christopher R. Tunnard Dr. and Mrs. Michael Wilson

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Professional Development Fund / 2008 Senior Parent Gift Parents and family members of seniors raised $1 million in gifts and pledges, providing funds for the Endowed Fund for Professional Development, which supports the passion for learning in the adult community. Of this $1 million gift, $250,000 is designated for 2007–08 Annual Giving.

Cochairs: Trevor Miller and Kim Williams Committee: Cathy Anderson Timothy A. Andrews Kathy Angell Nick Bothfeld Kevin Dennis and Rebecca Kellogg ’71 Blair Flicker Luz Franco David Freedman Marcia Glassman-Jaffe Albert Kim and Eun-Won Cho Steven Langman Sandra Lehner Stephanie Starr McCormick-Goodhart ’80 Charlie Namias Rita Robert, Grandparent Cochair Ginny Sherwood Lowell S. Smith and Sally Sanford Enid Starr, Grandparent Cochair Jay Wallace and Lisa McGovern Fan Watkinson Kathy Weinman CONCORD ACADEMY MAGAZINE / REPORT OF GIVING

Parents of Seniors Chris and Cathy Anderson Timothy A. Andrews and Valerie J. Cummings Howard Bauchner and Chris McElroy Mr. and Mrs. Howard Bloom Joshua and Amy Boger Richard and Cathy Boskey Nick Bothfeld and Elizabeth Brown’70 James and June Bowman John and Nancy Butman Catherine K. Byrne

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revor Miller and Kim Williams, cochairs of the Senior Parent Gift Committee and parents of Alex Miller ’08, present the 2008 Senior Parent Gift to Head of School Jake Dresden (center).

The $1 million gift represents 97 percent participation of senior parents, as well as many grandparents, a testament to the inclusiveness and stellar follow-through of the Senior Parent Gift Committee. The gift is the second highest in school history.

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.

Jeffrey M. Byrne Jeffrey 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 Peter S. Eisenberg and Dina Beach Lynch Michael Epstein and April Stone Sanford N. Feman and Linda Y. Chin Kevin and Patricia Flanagan Mr. and Mrs. Blair Flicker Karen H. Flicker Mr. and Mrs. Domingo Franco Mr. and Mrs. Daniel H. Frank David A. Freedman and Karen A. Trittipo Mr. and Mrs. Gerald L. Frenkil Wendelin Glatzel Mr. and Mrs. Liviu Goldenberg Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey M. Goodman Jason and Ursula Gregg

Mr. and Mrs. Graham Gund Brad and Patty Hager Mr. and Mrs. Michael F. Hanlon Jr. Linda Hook Jerry and Jane Hughes Sam and Helen Hui Kanji and Naomi Ishizumi 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 Thomas and Carolyn Krusinski Ellen Kwame Steven and Wendy Langman Thomas Leatherman and Marjorie Aelion ’74 Carl and Sandra Lehner Herman B. Leonard and Kathryn A. Angell

Matthew R. Lynch Jeffrey Malenchak Chibli Mallat and Nayla Chalhoub-Mallat Daniel Matthews Leander and Stephanie Starr McCormick-Goodhart ’80 Tammy McKinnon 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 Esmilanda Pacheco Taijmatie Persaud 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 Eric and Anne Shapiro Tony Siesfeld and Cammy Thomas Lowell S. Smith and Sally Sanford Mr. and Ms. Marc B. Sommers Sandy Starr and Raine Figueroa Dennis and Andrea Ting Mr. and Mrs. Thomas N. Trkla Dr. and Mrs. Scott A. Turpin James E. Walker Julia Walker Jay Wallace and Lisa McGovern Peter and Fan Watkinson Ronald B. White and Andrea E. Stern Donald A. Wilder and Barbara B. Janeway William and Susan Wood Anonymous (2) In Memory of Michael Filisky

Ingrid Bartinique In Memory of Leo Hebert

Mike and Leanne McNally

The following grandparents gave to the Senior Parent Gift in honor of their grandchildren: Mr. and Mrs. Robert Anderson (Carly Anderson) Ralph H. Brown (Frances Bothfeld) James W. Fishel (Joseph Daly) Martha T. Freedman (Aaron Freedman)

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Roger Hager (Anna Hager) Lil Hebert (Katherine McNally) Beth E. Hill (Henry Butman) Mr. and Mrs. John H. Kellogg (Clara Dennis) Fred and Polly Mellin (Cassidy Mellin and Grady Gund) Helena S. Riney (Ben Miller) Audrey Rubin (Nathan Coppersmith) Enid M. Starr Sherman H. Starr (Sierra Starr) Mr. and Mrs. Seth Taft (Zoe Mueller) Neil and Elise R. Wallace (Marlana Wallace)

Class of 2008 Carly Anderson Mathis Bauchner Scott Bloom Samuel Boger Peter Boskey Frances Bothfeld Chelsey Bowman Henry Butman Rutledge Chin Feman Emily Cohen Nathan Coppersmith Michelle Corkrum

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 Daly Franco Lucas Frank Aaron Freedman Rachel Frenkil Nola Glatzel Matthew Goldenberg Sophie Goodman Graydon Gund Anna Hager Aidan Hanlon David Hook Caroline Hughes Carrie Hui 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 Yennice Linares

G I V I N G

Mary Matthews Emma McCormick-Goodhart Katherine McNally Cassidy Mellin Frederick Milgrim Alexander Miller Benjamin Miller Zoe Mueller Alexis Newton David Noam Chloe O’Connell Camille Pohl Paul Quimby Max Rater Sarah Rhodes Eleanor Robinson Dana Salomon Christeen Savinovich Danielle Searls Taylor Serafini Joseph Shapiro Duncan Sherwood-Forbes Emily Shoov Thomas Smith Isaiah Sommers Sierra Starr Kevin Ting Tania Torres Martha Turpin Patrick Walker Marlana Wallace Fannie Watkinson Camille White-Stern Charles Wilder Alexandra Wood Eva Yuma

Friends and Other Donors Avaya Joanne M. Becotte Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, Inc. Fidelity Foundation The Gillette Company Lincoln Financial Group Foundation, Inc. The Maslon Foundation Random House, Inc.

Educational Program Athletics Bruce Beal ’88 Keith Gelb ’88

The Boston Program Mr. and Mrs. John S. Reed

Stephen Nicolson ’81 Cycling Fund Dr. and Mrs. Murray A. Nicolson

Library Prentice Hiam ’79 Fund Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Ballantyne

try to help kids make memories out there.” For Adam Simon, who has coached CA’s boys varsity soccer team for ten years, it’s as simple as that.

Adam, who lives in Concord with his wife Amy and their two children, Matt and Kate, first came to CA in the mid-1990s as an assistant soccer coach. He took on the head coaching position in 1999, and today also coaches the JV-2 boys basketball team and assists with baseball. But his first love is soccer. “There’s nothing Adam loves to do more than come to CA during the fall season,” said Amy. “From start to end, it’s a passion for him.”

Adam and Amy decided to make a capital gift to Concord Academy to support new fields, which will be developed at the recently purchased campus extension, previously known as Arena Farms. “We are so challenged with our current fields, and I see the effect that has on the students,” said Adam.

“We felt this was an opportunity to help out with

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something that provides kids with important life lessons.”

Amy and Adam also chose to support the athletic fields because of their local impact. “As a family, we’ve been very fortunate,” said Amy. “We like to give to global causes, but we also feel it’s important to give locally. Concord Academy is a special place to our family, and it will be good to see our contribution make a difference on a daily basis.

We’re also happy that CA worked closely with the town when the school bought the Arena Farms land, and that the school will continue to be a good neighbor in the town.”

To Adam, athletics is a worthy cause that helps create balance in CA students’ lives. “I try to make practice something that kids look forward to, something they want to do at the end of a class day,” he said. “To me, giving to the fields is giving to the team, and that’s important to me.”

Amy and Adam Simon with Matt and Kate

“Providing kids with important life lessons”

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General Endowment

In Honor of John and Carol Moriarty

G I V I N G

Technology

Jonathan and Margot Davis

Unrestricted Endowment Mr. and Mrs. Neil E. Rasmussen The Neil and Anna Rasmussen Foundation

Pending Designation Sarah Block ’85 § Yoon-chai Lee

Physical Plant and Equipment Argosy Foundation Gwenyth Piper Bassetti ’54 Bruce Beal ’88 David and Karen Firestone Keith Gelb ”88 John and Carol Moriarty Simon Family Anonymous

Belknap House: Supporting Academics and Community / 2006 Senior Parent Gift Paul S. Barth and Kathy Knight Mr. and Mrs. Richard Bruce Dr. and Mrs. Bruce R. Cook Steven M. Mirin and Margaret S. McKenna Humphrey Morris and Deborah A. Greenman

Josephine Wadleigh Shane Fund for Chapel Maintenance and Operations Charlotte Hutchins Bemis ’36 § Eleanor Bemis ’66 Gordon H. Bemis Marjorie Bemis ’62 Alice Bemis Bueti ’73 George and Nancy Kidder Mary Wadleigh ’64

Blakeley R. Waite Trust John McCluskey and Margaret Ramsey McCluskey

Bequests and Planned Gifts 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. New members of the Chameleon Circle this year: Sandra Willett Jackson ’61 Helen Whiting Livingston ’41 Sam and Susan Hall Mygatt Lowell S. Smith and Sally Sanford

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Deceased

Thank You, Chameleon Circle Members!

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Kathleen Fisk Ames ’65 Wendy Arnold ’65 Morley Cowles Ballantine Caroline Ballard ’72 Holladay Rust Bank ’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 ’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 Abigail Fisher ’82 Dexter Foss Sarah Foss ’41 Marion Freeman ’69

Barbara Cushing Gibbs ’64 Susan Colgate Goldman ’64 Mary Leigh Morse Houston ’47 Gale Hurd ’61 Sandra Willett Jackson ’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 Sam and Susan Hall Mygatt 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 Lowell S. Smith and Sally Sanford Nathaniel Stevens ’84 Elizabeth Hauge Sword ’75 Ann Fritts Syring ’64 Lillian Thomas Karen Braucher Tobin ’71 Mary Wadleigh ’64 Peter Wallis ’76 Victoria Wesson ’61 Margaret Sayre Wiederhold ’56 Mr. Thomas E. Wilcox and Ms. E. Whitney Ransome Linden Havemeyer Wise ’70 Marcia Johnston Wood ’75 Elizabeth Lund Zahniser ’71

THE CHAMELEON CIRCLE

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 listed at left

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, annuity, charitable trust, or other life income gift, 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.

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for supporting future generations of students.

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 Head of School Endowed Chair Margaret Kendrick Fund Lehner Fund for Faculty Professional Development 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 longterm financial equilibrium and represent lasting tributes to faculty, staff, 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 Marshall B. Coyne Financial Aid Fund Dancing Horse Scholarship 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 Local Day Student 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 Amy E. Wells ’89 Memorial Scholarship Fund Wilcox Scholars Fund

Pooled Endowed Tribute Funds 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 Tribute Financial Aid Fund

In memory of Anne Nicholas Atlamazoglou ’64 In memory of Mary Senior Fearey ’32

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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Faculty and Academic Department Funds

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Metolius Photograph by Lynn Woodward ’81

IN MEMORIAM

Mariam Abrahim, sister of Leila Ladjevardi Arsanjani ’87 Julia Woll Arliss ’80, former faculty Harriet A. Barker, mother of Tracy Barker Greenwood ’65 Charlotte Hutchins Bemis ’36, mother of Marjorie Bemis ’62, Eleanor Bemis ’66, and Alice Bemis Bueti ’73; sister of Alice Hutchins Clark ’34; grandmother of Eliza Bemis ’99 and Robert Bemis ’04; and aunt of Ann Bemis Day ’48, Margaret Bemis Case ’49, Alice Bemis Wiggin ’53, Faith Bemis Field ’57, Susan B. Perry ’60, Penelope Perry Rodday ’68, and Evalyn Bemis ’72 Frank Thomas Bradshaw, former staff Olive C. Butman, grandmother of Henry J. Butman ’08 Mario Joseph Celi, father of Courtney Celi Haan ’84 Elizabeth W. Churchill, mother of Natalie A. Churchill ’60 and Josephine Churchill Guerrieri ’65 Ina Larson Donnan ’53 Flora House Fairchild ’41, mother of Christine deMauriac Fairchild ’75 Rosamond Lee Heroy ’34, mother of Sarah Heroy Munday ’60 and aunt of Wendy Watts Pierson ’56 and the late Evelyn Watts ’58 John W. Hobgood, father of Bryan J. Hobgood ’05 Diane L’Etoile Hood ’53 CONCORD ACADEMY MAGAZINE FALL 2008

Tadeusz Malek, grandfather of Stephanie C. Malek ’09 Richard G. McClung, father of Jean McClung Halloran ’71 Eleanor Morse, former staff John Lowe Newbold, husband of Judith Bourne Newbold ’55 Yvonne P. Rust, mother of Holladay Rust Bank ’72 Margaret Hinchman Slawson ’43 Kyle L. Stone ’79 Tasha Tudor, mother of Efner Tudor Holmes ’67 Drusilla Greenwood Withington ’46 80

Help Us Meet The Dresden Challenge

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I would like to honor Jake Dresden for his inspiring service to Concord Academy. In that spirit, I hope you will join me in contributing to the Dresden Tribute Fund.

Supporting this new fund is a meaningful way to honor the special place that is CA and the

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special leader who has made it even stronger during his nine out-

A devoted alumna, who prefers to remain anonymous, invites you to join her in honoring Head of School Jake Dresden during his last year at Concord Academy.

standing years as head of school.

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She will match every new and increased gift to the Annual Fund— dollar for dollar—up to $500,000.

Your gift will have great impact, because it will help honor Jake and benefit the caring faculty and dynamic students who make this school so distinctive.

A gift will be considered new if you did not contribute to the Annual Fund in the 2007–08 fiscal year. If you did contribute in fy07–08, an increase this year will count toward The Dresden Challenge.

Thank you very much for considering a new or increased gift today.

To contribute to the Dresden Tribute Fund or for more information, please contact: Eliza Wall, Director of the Annual Fund 166 Main Street Concord, MA 01742 eliza_wall@concordacademy.org (978) 402-2257 Or visit our Web site at concordacademy.org/giveonline.

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Special Events

Assemblies Performing Arts Center, 2:10 p.m.

October 10 –11

October 16

Parents’ Weekend

Thomas Schuster p’09 on political change in South Africa

October 17–18

Chandler Bowl competition vs. Pingree School

November 20

October 18

Patrick Cook-Deegan on bicycling through Myanmar

Admissions Open House Performing Arts Center, 1:00 p.m.

December 11

CA Orchestra Fall Alumnae/i Council Meeting Ransome Room, 9:30 a.m. to noon November 14 –15

The Tsarina’s Harp A premiere conceived and written by Keith Daniel, Parkman Howe, and colleagues Performing Arts Center, 7:30 p.m., $15 December 5, 12

Boston Celtics Games for CA Alumnae/i Celtics vs. Portland Trailblazers (Dec. 5) Celtics vs. New Orleans Hornets (Dec. 12) Brass Pants by Jessica Straus

December 12 October 2–31 Concord Academy Visual Arts Faculty Exhibit

Featuring the works of Justin Bull, Nicole Darling, Ben Eberle, Kori Feener, Cynthia Katz, Chris Rowe, Jonathan Smith, Jessica Straus, and Antoinette Winters Concord Free Public Library Art Gallery 129 Main Street, 2nd Floor, Concord, MA Meet the artists at a reception October 21, 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., in the library gallery.

CA Orchestra in Concert Performing Arts Center, 7:00 p.m.

January 23

Battle of Lexington & Concord Annual athletic competition vs. Lexington Christian Academy 48 Bartlett Avenue, Lexington, 3:30 p.m.

January 23–24

FroshProject 8 Performing Arts Center, 8:00 p.m.

For more information, check www.concordacademy.org.

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