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UN/INTERRUPTED

In November, the Concord Academy Performing Arts Department proudly presented the fall Dance Project production of an original work, Un/interrupted, directed and choreographed by new CA dance faculty members Rika Okamoto and Alex Brady. It was the firs of a full slate of live, in-person performances planned during this academic year.

VISUAL ARTS

FALL SEMESTER STUDENT ART

CA’s visual art studios were once again abuzz with activity this fall.

1. Figure study by Alicia Zhang ’23.

2. Self-portrait with mask by

Isabelle Aish ’22.

3. Blue tonal study of geometric forms by Nana Jiraphaphong ’24.

4. Collection of small paintings by

Painting 2 students.

5. Skeleton studies by ChaeWon

Bae ’22 (above) and Sophia Di

Giovanni ’22 (below).

6. Pear painting by Vivi de Oliveira

Castro ’22.

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LEARN MORE See more recent CA student artwork at www.concordacademy.org/visual-arts.

WELCOME, NEW TRUSTEES

In May 2021, Concord Academy’s Board of Trustees elected four new and returning board members.

Irene Chu ’76, P’20 ’22 is a

graphic designer with over 30 years of experience working on her own, primarily with educational institutions and other mission-driven organizations. She started her career on Wall Street with J.P. Morgan’s in-house design department, created to standardize and oversee its corporate communications worldwide. After moving back to the Boston area, she worked as project manager and senior designer for Shepard Quraeshi Associates, a multidisciplinary design firm. Chus interest in education also led her to the classroom: She has taught graphic design at Cooper Union, the School of Visual Arts, and the Portland School of Art (now Maine College of Art and Design). After graduating from Concord Academy, Chu received a B.A. from Wesleyan University and an MFA from Yale University. She previously served on CA’s Board of Trustees from 1991 to 1995, and was vice president of the Alumnae/i Association and chair of alumnae/i giving. Irene lives in Lincoln, Mass., with her wife, Cindy DeChristofaro, and their two children, Sofie ’20, and Nicolas ’22.

Rachel Lipson Glick ’77

grew up on the east side of Detroit and was a boarder at Concord Academy. She then attended the Integrated Premedical-Medical Program (Inteflex) at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, receiving her B.A. in 1981 and her M.D. in 1984. She completed an internal medicine internship and residency in New York City at the New York Hospital/Cornell Medical Center before moving to Boston for her psychiatry residency at Massachusetts General Hospital. She joined the faculty at the University of Michigan Medical School after one year as a clinical instructor at Harvard. She served in a number of roles at the University of Michigan Medical School, including as associate dean for student programs, director of medical student education in psychiatry, associate chair for clinical and administrative affairs in psychiatry, and medical director of psychiatric emergency services. She retired from UM in 2019 but continues to do some clinical work in the psychiatric emergency services as an active clinical professor emerita. She has been involved in multiple state and national professional organizations, holding a number of leadership roles. She completed seven years of service on the Temple Beth Emeth (Ann Arbor, Mich.) board of trustees in 2020, including three years on the executive committee as vice president for membership. She is married to Gary Glick, a former professor of chemistry at UM and biotech CEO. Her daughter, Hannah, is a third year medical student at UM, and her son, Jeremy, is a first year law student at George Washington University.

Alexis Goltra ’87 (ex-officio,

co-chair of the Alumnae/i Annual Fund) attended Harvard College after graduating from Concord Academy, then the University of Virginia School of Law. Alexis started as a litigator at Palmer & Dodge in Boston and then joined Oracle as an in-house counsel in 2001. He served as its chief privacy officer from 2013 through 2018 until joining Citrix in 2019, where he is also the CPO. Alexis lives in Concord, Mass., with his wife, Lynne, and two daughters, Charlotte and Josephine, who attend the Nashoba Brooks School. His mother, Catherine Petersen Mack, graduated from CA in 1964, as did his stepsisters Aeron and Megan Mack, in 1983 and 1984. Alexis previously served on the CA Board between 2003 and 2007 and is pleased to reprise his role as co-chair of the Alumnae/i Annual Fund.

Carol Moriarty P’02 ’05 ’07

is a 1974 graduate of Lesley University, after which she taught in both public and private schools for 10 years. She is the parent of Kate ’02, Claire ’05, and John ’07. She was on the CA board when she served as president of the Parents Association. In addition to her work at CA as co-chair of the Centennial Campaign, Carol serves on the Fenn School board as advancement chair, the Westport River Watershed Alliance board as vice president of development, and the Mission of Deeds and A.R.T. boards. She remains active at the Winchester Community Music School, where she was previously board chair, and at Lesley University, where she is a trustee emerita. She enjoys spending time with her grandchildren, participating in her book group, and playing tennis and golf.

Music Meets Science

A new Musical Instrument Design class is offered at CA

“Have you thought about using these for tuning?” music teacher Nate Tucker asks as he plucks the spokes of a bicycle wheel. Violet Ramanathan ’23 nods, inspecting the wheel on the lab table. She is attempting to build an instrument similar to a bass guitar using the wheel, and she and Tucker hope that the frequency of the strings will vibrate the spokes to create the sound they’re looking for. Around the classroom, some students are diligently working on their own designs. Others are in CA’s Beta Space measuring, sawing, and assembling wood and metal. This hands-on experience is core to Musical Instrument Design, a course that Tucker introduced to Concord Academy this fall.

Tucker has had firsthand experience designing several types of musical instruments. As a percussionist for theater companies, he has created instruments to use in specific poductions, and he has also experimented with making instruments by blowing glass. When he suggested introducing a course on musical instrument design at CA, Tucker says, “the school jumped on it right away.” He says students were eager to return to hands-on work, which the pandemic had prevented for so long.

The semester-long class, which concluded in December, is cross-listed in the Performing Arts Department and the Science Department and is co-taught by Tucker and physics teacher Max Hall, providing an opportunity for interdisciplinary engagement. Both teachers are excited about their partnership. Tucker appreciates Hall’s “real sense of the science element” of the course. Hall says that “being Nate’s accomplice in this has been, and remains, really fun.”

Students began the semester by diving into the science of sound. During one class, Hall and Tucker set up a giant 50-foot guitar string outdoors and used it to replicate the shape of sound waves. Early in the fall, students also played what Tucker calls “found instruments,” objects in nature that can produce sound, such as sticks and bark. For their first assignment, students made a sin gle-stringed instrument that could create multiple pitches. From there, they moved on to designing an instrument with three to six strings. For these multistringed projects, students drew inspiration from their own experiences with and knowledge of other instruments. Kevin Arenas ’22 worked on an instrument modeled after the koto, a Japanese instrument with strings strung over movable bridges. Cecilia Wang ’23 looked to the harp and the lyre for inspiration, designing an instrument with a halfmoon shape in honor of the Moon Festival celebrated in China. With the Telecaster as his model, Will Liu ’24 made an acoustic, simplified version o an electric guitar.

At the end of the course, students shared the results of their hard work, performing with all of the instruments they had created throughout the semester. — Samantha Culbert ’15

“Being Nate’s accomplice in this has been, and remains, really fun.”

MAX HALL CA science teacher

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LEARN MORE Hear some of the instruments at www.concordacademy.org/instrument-design.

Top: Science teacher Max Hall works with students in CA’s Beta Lab to cut material for instruments of their own design. Bottom: Music teacher Nate Tucker discussed the acoustic properties of materials. Inset left: Cecilia Wang ’23 shows her instrument to the class.

NEW STUDENT GROUPS ON CAMPUS

It wouldn’t feel like CA if students weren’t organizing to get each other involved in everything from lawn games to linguistics. Here are just a few of the many new clubs and affinit groups that students have formed recently.

Trans Affinit Group (TAG)

This group for anyone who does not identify as cisgender joined the Gender Sexuality Alliance (GSA), Queer and Questioning (Q^2), and Queer People of Color (QPOC) as an additional on-campus affinit space for genderqueer students.

The Chameleon Composers

Students interested in composing musical scores meet to share and develop their work. This club, inclusive of all genres and levels of musicianship, welcomes all who love original music.

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Active Minds

This group is for students interested in learning more about mental health and helping to break the stigma surrounding this topic.

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Dungeons and Dragons Club

Students gather to play this dicebased role-playing game and complete adventures.

Writers Guild

Students write and send letters to individuals in local senior centers, homeless shelters, and other marginalized communities to share hope and encouragement.

Femme Weightlifting Club

Women and femme-identifying students have fun lifting together in the fitnes center.

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LEARN MORE See a full list of CA student clubs and affinit groups at www. concordacademy.org/clubs.

ATHLETICS

Go, Green!

A return to full competition

Following a canceled 2020 competitive season, our teams’ return to the fields, courts, and trail this fall for a full league schedule felt poignant. From ringing the home victory bell at the Moriarty Athletic Campus to raising the Chandler Bowl for the fifth consecutive time, our athletes had muc to celebrate. In addition, the boys cross-country team captured the EIL championship, the girls field hockey and girls soccer programs enjoyed their most successful seasons in recent years, and boys soccer earned a sixth consecutive NEPSAC tournament berth. Most of all, it was pure joy to compete and cheer on teammates again.

CA Captures a Fifth Consecutive Chandler Bowl

In October, all 10 CA fall teams battled rival Pingree School in the annual Chandler Bowl for Changing Lives. The close contest came down to the final face-off, with the boys varsity soccer team scoring the only goal of the game to secure CA’s victory with just 10 minutes remaining. >>