O The Moriarty Family
n Friday, November 2, more than five hundred members of the CA family gathered under a white tent for the formal dedication of the Moriarty Athletic Campus. In his address to the assembled gathering, Head of School Rick Hardy offered up something of a history lesson. “The ground we are standing on actually has a CA connection that goes back hundreds of years. Ancestors of Emily Wheeler, a member of the Class of 1970, farmed this land beginning in the mid-seventeenth century.” Now, in the twenty-first century, the former farmland is the site of a new and spectacular athletic facility, with tennis courts, playing fields, a baseball diamond, and a field house — all of
which will provide a vital and necessary boost to CA’s thriving athletics program. Rick Hardy credited Board of Trustees President John Moriarty P’02, ’05, ’07 as the man with the leadership, vision, and financial support needed to drive the project forward from the initial purchase of the land in 2007 to the final completion of construction and landscaping this past August. Along the way, a small army of talented people also helped bring the project to fruition, including CFO Judi Seldin P’15, the entire Concord Academy advancement staff, and the board of trustees, in particular Tony Brooke P’07 ’09 ’13 and former trustee Ann Gund P’08, both of whom, said Hardy, provided “critical wisdom and leadership along the way.” When Rick Hardy recognized the hard work and dedication of CA’s Director of Operations Don Kingman, who shepherded the construction
Left: Inside the new field house From top: A group of new CA students enjoying the day’s events; Nancy Parssinen Vespoli ‘73
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CA Dedicates Moriarty Athletic Campus