Kent Quarterly Fall 2014 by Kent School

Fall 2014

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Volume XXXI.1 Fall 2014

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Prize Day: Joseph A. Kaiser ’95

Let Us Now Praise Fr. Patterson’s Men, Part I

Recognition of Faculty Service

Leading the Examined Life: Lisa Brody

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Tribute to the Right Rev. E. Don Taylor

Exploring Ocean Life

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Departments

From the Headmaster

Kent Authors

Senior Parent Gift 2014

Between the Hills and River Shore

Alumni News

38 Reunion 42

Class Notes

In Memoriam

Grace Note

ON THE FRONT COVER:

New at the foot of Mt. Algo—the Colonnade Gallery and Clock Tower, located between the Dining Hall & Music Center and Mattison. Photo by Adam Fischer

From the Headmaster

BACCALAUREATE ADDRESS 2014 (AN EXCERPT)

This is the day that the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it. WHEN, AFTER MANY YEARS, you return to Kent,

you will find yourself still here. No matter how much the School evolves to keep up with the times, as it will, the essential things do not change. Today, 2014, you take Kent with you, and you leave an important legacy. Your loving families, your devoted teachers… we are all very proud of you for this. Temperantia, Fiducia, Constantia. Simplicity of Life, Directness of Purpose, Self-Reliance. We pause for a moment, in this beautiful chapel… in the beauty of holiness… to reflect before the special day’s proceedings… on things achieved and things that do not change. Edmund Morris, Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer of Theodore Roosevelt, spoke to us earlier in the year in our new engineering building about the imagination of the young Thomas Edison, reminding us of Edison’s famous remark: “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that don’t work.” We do not have time (nor the inclination) to chronicle the history of small failures that led to all the big successes for each and every one of you that we celebrate today. But let us keep in mind as we consider just how great this Class is, it wasn’t easy getting to this day. There were many errors, failed attempts, much anxiety, moments of self-doubt. It was not a

straight path. But you kept at it. And when you face those kinds of challenges again in the future, as you will, remember your Kent experience. Whatever it is, you can handle it! There was also a huge amount of sacrifice along the way. Not just yours, but by your teachers and families. Everyone gave up something… time or money or the pleasure of a family reunion or just the day-to-day happiness of having you around, to make your Kent education possible. One parent told me they had to let their child go to Kent in order “to chase a dream.” Another family urged their young son to leave home in Afghanistan and go to the United States for an education. Sacrifice is at the heart of a good life. Sacrifice: The Cross of Jesus Christ has endured as the central symbol for billions of the faithful. “It is more blessed to give, than to receive.” It is a powerful symbol for everyone. One of you wrote to me: “The really special thing Kent provides is its community. There is a special Kent bond between friends and faculty. When I graduate that is what I am going to miss. I know each and every one of us will keep this connection. A connection that was built over time.”

As a class you demonstrated leadership for the entire student body. Christ and Rachel, you acted wisely and faithfully and made this a better School than ever. I’m sure you learned that leadership is not just telling people what to do, but actually doing it with them. As for your colleges… as one of you said: “My class’s college acceptances were phenomenal.” Congratulations to each of you! Your teachers have assured us: You are also well-prepared… for higher learning and for advancing the frontiers of knowledge. The top colleges and universities in the nation and the world have spoken. Congratulations on the great choices they and you have made! To those of you who will attend the U.S. Naval Academy and West Point, we are proud of you… and grateful. Eternal vigilance. Fr. Sill started Kent 108 years ago in a rented clapboard house a mile down river. Three teachers, 18 boys. That’s why we ring the bell 18 times before each service. Today we have students—girls and boys—from 28 states and 37 countries. We are the world, we are the children. For next year Kent is working on a scholarship for a girl from Nigeria to be made possible by a devoted Kent family who lost their own daughter. The family’s foundation, called Bessie’s Peace, named in honor of their daughter, will work to fund an opportunity at Kent for a well-qualified girl from Nigeria. Again your School will be a beacon of hope. Next year the first Falcon Scholars, two young women and one young man, will be here on their way to the United States Air Force Academy. You are all now Ambassadors for Kent… How lovely

are the messengers that preach us the gospel of peace… To all the nations is gone forth the sound of their words. Or in the familiar words of the School Song, “Always the faith more strong than they / Will bear their voice from land to land.” One of Kent’s poets, who wrote those words, Robert S. Hillyer 1913, also wrote these verses about our School: Compared to present days the school was poor, But the essential spirit was the same; The nucleus of virtues that endure Foretold what affluently Kent became: The Library, the shrine of literature, The Chapel, shrine of sacramental flame, Were scarcely more than sheds, but faith and learning Though humbly housed were no less brightly burning. Blest was the school where so much brightness shone From frugal windows in that simple place. Blest is the school that grows as Kent has grown Without diminishment of zeal or grace. Truth does not weaken when more widely sown Nor vision become dim in ampler space; For every hill we climb, a higher still Reveals unfolding vistas further still.

Beautifully done, Class of 2014! God bless you all. Richardson W. Schell ’69 Headmaster and Rector

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Prize Day 2014 ADDRESS BY JOSEPH A. KAISER ’95

CLASS OF 2014, I would guess that these are the three questions that are on your minds right now: Is he going to sing? Don’t opera singers wear Viking helmets? How is what he has to say (or sing) relatable to me? No. I am not going to sing. They wouldn’t let me bring my Viking helmet on the plane. As for the third question, here’s a little story to help convince you that what I have to say is relatable. The summer between Kent and my first year at McGill University, I attended the Boston University Tanglewood Institute in Lenox, Massachusetts. I dated a lovely young woman from Birmingham, Alabama. (We’re still friends today.) At the end of the summer, I was, of course, sad to leave her. She said, “Don’t worry. We can email.” I said, “What’s email?” All kidding aside, I have been asked to come here today because I have gone on quite a journey in the nineteen years since I was a student at this incredible institution. I have met a lot of my idols; I’ve been in a feature film; I’ve sung in operas that were transmitted into movie theaters all over the world or turned into DVDs. I’ve sung on five continents, met foreign dignitaries, all that good stuff. I have, in a lot of ways, led a very charmed life. But I think the real reason I am here to talk to you is because of something that you all possess. You have it whether you know it or not, whether you like it or not, and whether or not you choose to listen to it. It’s something I have worked on tirelessly my whole life. With a nod FALL 2014

of the cap to Malcolm Gladwell, my 10,000 hours have gone into this. I am here to talk to you about your unique voice. Specifically, I am challenging all of you today to find your voice, develop your voice and then to listen to your voice. Now let me be clear: This is not going to be Joe Kaiser speaking at Prize Day 2014 a gigantic singing lesson. (I do teach lessons nerable. I remember my first month of if anyone is interested… our flight’s at elementary school. I was so unbelievably 7:00 out of Hartford, so it’s going to have shy. Our teacher, Mrs. Huttar, spent the to be quick.) Instead, I am talking about first few minutes of class each day writfiguring out who you are and what your ing on the board about one of the stucalling is. For me, that just happened to dents. On my day, she wrote “Joseph likes be using my voice to make music. apples.” (I do.) “Joseph’s favorite color I grew up as one of four kids in is blue.” (It is.) Then she wrote, “Joseph Montreal, Quebec. I started taking loves to sing.” I stood up and said, “No, violin lessons at age three and rhythm I do not!” and ran out of the room, cryand solfège (do-re-mi) lessons from a ing. I was so nervous that the other kids Hungarian butcher down the street. would see my singing as effeminate. When we moved to the U.S. in 1983, I So fast-forward to Kent. Here I was, switched to cello, dabbled in piano, even fourteen and pimply, not because I had explored the drums for about ten years. been recruited for a sport (In spite of But my real passion was singing. Man, being tall, it’s debatable whether I am a did I love to sing. I sang along to the Rolling Stones, Abba, Billy Joel and Elton worse basketball player or rower), not because I was a very gifted student. No, John… these are all people that none of I had been shipped off from one of the you have ever heard of, but I sang at the best public school systems in America top of my lungs! When I sang, I felt like because I wouldn’t do my homework at I could do anything; I felt like I could be home. I did not know anyone here. And anyone. And what’s more, I could finally I was so not cool. So I just worked on my be me. There was a part of me that came music. I played percussion in the band alive, something that remained dormant with Mr. Emerich; sang in the Kentones at all other times. with Mr. Holcombe. In my free time, Feeling alive through singing also I would go to the practice rooms with caused me to feel embarrassed and vul3

ABOVE (L–R) Senior Prefect Rachel Herman receives the Headmaster’s Prize from Headmaster Dick Schell; Recipient of the Columbia Cup Robert Roth with Trustee Emeritus Brandon Sweitzer ’60; Trustee Lynn Doe Shipway ’66 presents Mary Westermann with the First Class Prize.

a book of songs, and I would just sing through them, hoping that I would have an audience to listen to them one day. I knew, even then, that this was my calling, that singing would be the thing that would bring me joy for the rest of my life. Each of you knows, deep down, that there is something that you cannot wait to do each day, right? Think about it: something that doesn’t even feel like work, something that drives you. One of my roommates at Kent used to say that he loved doing wind sprints at hockey practice because the sensation of his lungs burning made him feel so alive! Another good friend, Robert Wagner, was so excited to get to college because he could finally focus on one topic at school: derivatives. I’m sure you’re all sitting here now thinking, “I am so excited for derivatives.” Truly though, as you begin your life after Kent, take the time (if you haven’t already) to identify your passion. Your inner voice, the thing that whispers to you, “This is who I am, this is what I love.” Find your voice. My fifth-form year at Kent was very different. I finally clued into the idea that if I did my work on time, people 4

would let me work on music as much as I wanted to. I joined as many ensembles as I could, singing in the choir, chamber choir and the Kentones, as well as playing drums for the concert band, jazz band and Dixieland band. I auditioned for some plays; I even decided to join The Kent News. I was a very busy guy. So when Ms. Albrecht, my amazing Kent School voice teacher, approached me to ask why I had not signed up for voice lessons (like I had done the past year), I said, “Ms. Albrecht, I am just too busy. And I sing with all of the choirs and on my own… so I don’t think I need to really take lessons.” I remember the look on her face, which was more “Who does this kid think he is?” than anything else. To her credit, she calmly said, “That is a mistake. Look: There is an All-State competition in a few months. Take lessons with me and do the audition. If you don’t feel it’s worth your while, you can quit at Thanksgiving.” I agreed. We worked very hard together. She was pretty brutal with me when I would not practice hard enough between lessons. Another favorite line of hers was, “It sounds pretty, but I don’t believe a word!” She was proving

a point: Talent is not enough. A hard lesson to learn at sixteen, but one that has served me well throughout my career. I did very well in the competition. I was over the moon. My roommates were pretty happy for me too. Eventually, word got around and students whom I had never met before came up to congratulate me. I thanked Ms. Albrecht… and I figured it out: If I wanted to be an extraordinary singer, I needed to commit to putting in an extraordinary amount of work. And so, when I was at McGill, or an apprentice at The Canadian Opera Company, Glimmerglass Opera, San Francisco Opera or Lyric Opera of Chicago, I wanted to make sure that I wasn’t just talented. I wanted everyone there to know that no one was going to work harder than I did. It took me time to mature, to realize things like I learn ten times as much by watching other singers as I do when I get up to sing myself. And I figured things out about my voice too. Like, hey: I’m a tenor and not a baritone. By just adding three to four notes to my vocal range, my calendar went from being booked out six KENT QUARTERLY

months in advance to four to five years in advance. I was really cooking with gas now. I had taken the raw talent and shaped it into a career, all the while maintaining this amazing outlet for expressing myself. You see, it’s not enough to be talented or gifted. When you find your voice, you need to develop it and honor it, treating it like the gift that it is. “Develop” defined not only as “to grow or mature,” but as “to start to exist, experience or possess.” You have to truly hone your craft. You have to commit to work on the things that you are bad at. Perhaps some of you already do this. Personally, I learned it at age 27. Example: Your passion is basketball. You’re awesome at dribbling and driving the lane? Great. Bad at shooting from the perimeter? Guess what? You just figured out what you’re going to work on for the next two years. Develop your voice. Before I continue, I am sure that each and every one of you can think of a family member, a fellow student or a teacher here at Kent who helped you to find and develop your voice. I am here today because my parents, my sib-

lings, Mr. Emerich, Mr. Holcombe, Ms. Albrecht and my wonderful advisor, Mr. Roney, all heard something in my voice— and saw something in me—that I didn’t fully understand. Take a second now and think about who those people are for you. Make sure you thank them today. Listen to your voice. You may have thought that this section would be called “Use your voice.” Instead, I’m going to go a different route. I want to ask you to listen to your voice. Why? A lot of people are going to tell you that you can’t make it. They will try to speak for you. You have no idea how many times I was told that I should probably do something else for a living, that I was setting myself up for disappointment. I think the modern expression is “Haters are gonna hate.” Let them. Let them doubt you. And then turn their pessimism into your rallying cry. You have worked so hard to make this happen. You have worked so hard to figure out what your calling is, and you’re determined to make it a part of your everyday life. But what if you don’t make it? What if you do not reach the level of success that you had hoped for? Or what if, per-

ABOVE (L–R) Senior Prefect Christ Dineff, recipient of the Headmaster’s Cup; Teddy Voulgaris receives the Thomas Talbot Seeley Greek Prize from Greek teacher Joe McDonough.

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haps, your plans change? Or you change? To answer that, I take you back to October 6, 2007. I was standing on the stage of The Metropolitan Opera waiting to bow. Five weeks earlier, I had gotten a call from my agent. A famous tenor had to cancel his performances in Romeo and Juliet. The conductor was none other than Placido Domingo, who also happens to be one of the greatest tenors of all time. Playing Juliet was Anna Netrebko, probably the most famous soprano of my generation. And The Metropolitan Opera, probably the best opera house in the world, wanted me to sing Romeo. Wow. On opening night I was a little nervous at first, but I knew that my colleagues supported me. Anna Netrebko said, “If you are doing well, I will wink at you.” In my first scene with Anna (our Juliet), I sang a challenging opening phrase while her back was to the audience. She winked. The performance went very well, better than I expected. I am waiting to make my first bow on the stage of the Met. This has been my goal for as long as I can remember. My mom is there. My siblings are there. Mrs. Huttar is there! (“Joseph likes to sing.”) I have even purchased a ticket so there can be an empty seat for my dad. As the curtain opens for my bow, I walk onto the stage. The applause is great. I feel so happy. I’ve made it. And as I bow, there is only one thought in my head: I miss my kids so much. I had always wanted to be the best opera singer I could be. But now it was time for me to hear something: It’s not enough to strive to be one of the best singers. I have to balance it with trying to be a great dad too. So now I have a wonderful career. I still travel all over the place, still record, still sing with my idols. I just work a little bit less. And that’s really great. Because now I can say with pride that I really have made it. This past season not only 5

ABOVE (L–R) Emma Okonkwo, recipient of the Horace Scheidt Chemistry Prize and the Richard M. Baker French Prize, with her family; Maria Nieto beams at the conclusion of Prize Day.

did I sing in Tokyo, New York, Vienna and Washington, D.C., I also made it to nine of Jack’s basketball practices. Or take my visit here: When Father Schell asked me to come speak to you, truly one of the greatest honors I could imagine, I told him that I would on one condition— that Jack and I could attend his brother Jacob’s dance recital yesterday afternoon in Chicago. It all works out. As you grow, as you really get to know yourself, you’ll see that your definition of success might change, that your goals might change. That’s fine. That’s not selling out. That is staying connected to yourself, respecting yourself. Heck.

You put in all this work. You deserve to be heard. Listen to your voice. Just the other day, a writer for Salon .com named Tim Donovan wrote an article entitled “Don’t follow your dreams (A commencement speech for the mediocre).” He spoke about how commencement speakers tend to be high on inspiration and low on realism, citing “… they tend to be far too willing to dish out the craziest, worst advice, simply because it somehow worked for them.” Hm. Well, Mr. Donovan, I do not think it is crazy or bad advice to suggest that these graduates pursue their calling. Because I know the odds: Not all of you will end up

in your dream job starting a hedge fund, becoming a senator, inventing a zerocalorie dessert that tastes like chocolate cake but is actually kale. Here’s the thing: I know—I know—each of you will be a more complete person, that you will be stronger and better off (and better at whatever you end up doing) because you will have searched deep within yourself to find your unique voice. You will look back with pride at the effort and tenacity with which you worked to develop your voice. And you will know that you are truly on the right path because you will have listened to your voice. Thank you.

Joe Kaiser was born in Montreal and moved

Music Prize for the second year in a row, and

tor Kenneth Branagh cast Joe in the lead role of

with his family to Westchester County, New York,

was the recipient of the Thomas L. Andrews

Tamino in his film version of The Magic Flute.

at a young age. He arrived at Kent as a fourth

Memorial Prize in Drama.

former and took full advantage of the many

Following Kent, Joe attended McGill

Throughout his career, Joe has taken time to give back to Kent, by performing here on campus

opportunities offered by Kent’s music program:

University in Montreal. Since graduating, he has

and by meeting with students, alumni and faculty

singing with the chamber choir and the Kentones,

established himself as one of the leading tenors

after performances, as he did last winter when he

and playing the drums with the jazz, Dixieland

of his generation, performing in opera houses

performed in New York City. Joe credits his Kent

and concert bands. Joe had lead roles in Guys

and concert halls throughout the world. In the

education with developing his passion for singing

and Dolls, Gilbert and Sullivan’s Iolanthe, and

past year alone, he has performed in Munich,

and his love of music, and for providing him with

Kiss Me Kate. He was also an editor of the Kent

Madrid, New York, Houston and Washington,

a strong foundation to pursue his goals.

News, a peer counselor, and the Prefect of North

D.C., and in concert halls in Vienna, Tokyo, New

Dorm. On Prize Day 1995, Joe was awarded the

York, Boston and Los Angeles. In 2006, direc-

Joe lives in Chicago and is the father of two boys, Jack and Jacob.

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Cum Laude Society Inductees Class of 2014 inducted on Prize Day 2013 Sarah Cho Christ Dineff Karahm Kim Daichun Lin

Class of 2014 Napa Aramthanapon Hye Ryeong Bae Rebecca Brough Jocelynn Chu Bilan DeDonato Siqi Guo Sabrina Hagan

Cheng-Fang Hsieh Philippe Michalk-Rousseau Bennett Morrison Anabelle Nuelle Nneoma Okonkwo Naomi Otoo Morgan Parker Robert Roth

Sheung Him Tang Mary Westermann Mingzhi Zuo Class of 2015 Zachariah Foster Angela Wang Grace Yoo

Faculty Randall J. Hobbs Honorary Joseph A. Kaiser ’95

TOP (L–R) Members of the Cum Laude Society elected on Prize Day 2013; New members of the Cum Laude Society from the Classes of 2014 and 2015 BOTTOM (L–R) Members of the Cum Laude Society elected in April 2014; Headmaster Dick Schell congratulates faculty member Randy Hobbs,

who was inducted into the Cum Laude Society on Prize Day.

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PART I

Let Us Now Praise Fr. Patterson’s Men ROBERT F. OBER, JR. ’54

For rigorous teachers seized my youth, And purged its faith, and trimm’d its fire, Show’d me the high, white star of Truth, There bade me gaze, and there aspire. — MATTHEW ARNOLD (1822–1888)1

WITH THE 60TH REUNION of my class approaching, Headmaster Dick Schell gave me access to the School’s archive to study the background of the seventeen teachers whom Fr. John Oliver Patterson, our headmaster, had hired during our years at the School. By graduation in June 1954, I, and most others I believe, felt that Fr. Patterson had dramatically improved the quality of the education Kent was providing. My archival work not only confirmed this feeling but persuaded me that, on the basis of what these men (they were all men, of course, in a virtually allmale school) brought to their classrooms and how their careers developed later, with few exceptions they comprised an outstanding group. When Fr. Patterson resigned after thirteen years in the early fall of 1962, the Kent News identified his accomplishments as the building of the Rectory (the residence next to St. Joseph’s Chapel), the addition of Mattison Auditorium, the establishment of the honors Guild, the sponsorship of two national seminars furthering the Christian idea of education, and the opening of the Girls’ School in 1960, all developments which, apart from the Rectory, post-dated our graduation. When reflecting on the Patterson era, shouldn’t we also have in mind what he did for teaching at Kent, beginning with his first few years, which overlapped with the majority in our Class of 1954, who had begun as second formers in September 1949? In no way does this imply a denigration of the faculty in place when we reached Kent: After all, Fr. Patterson’s immediate predecessor, Fr. William S. Chalmers, OHC, had hired O.B. Davis ’42 in 1949 just before our arrival, and Bill Armstrong in 1944, two “giants” 1 Excerpt from the poem “Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse.” The poet’s father was Dr. Thomas Arnold (1795–1842) of Rugby School, the great headmaster immortalized in Thomas Hughes’ novel Tom Brown’s Schooldays, which I may have first read in connection with the tutorial reading program of Edmund Fuller, to be discussed in Part II of this article.

of the teaching profession who spent their entire careers at Kent (“lifers” in today’s parlance). I suggest, however, that the record shows that Fr. Patterson embedded good teaching much deeper and much more at the center of Kent’s distinctive culture.2 JOHN OLIVER PATTERSON brought two important friends with him to Kent from Madison, Wisconsin: Fr. Samuel E. West (to be profiled in Part II) and Ray Ronshaugen. Ray was the curriculum director of the U.S. Armed Forces Institute in Madison when he was tapped. The Institute was responsible for planning and designing the curricula used worldwide by the armed forces in their academic programs, both at the individual and unit level. Ray had previously served nine years as a school principal and had a master’s degree in education from the University of Wisconsin. At Kent he would serve as Patterson’s righthand man as assistant headmaster, and would be responsible, it seems, for initially appraising each candidate for teaching. I have no doubt that he played an important role in improving the School’s teaching standards. As the News article of 1962 reported, Ray would follow Fr. Patterson when the latter set out “to found a school of Christian intent in Rome, Italy,” i.e., the school that would emerge in 1964 as St. Stephen’s School, which thrives to this day. After several years Ray returned to the U.S. to serve as the assistant headmaster of Marvelwood School, the school now located on the one-time girls’ campus. Peter Tacy, Marvelwood’s former head, tells me that Ray’s curricular expertise helped Marvelwood survive its first 2 In developing the profiles of those about whom I write, I have mainly drawn from files in the School’s archive. Except as otherwise indicated, the statements quoted come from letters or other items in those files (e.g., letters from those recommending a candidate). Institutions where several of the teachers later worked have also been helpful. I especially thank Edouard L. Desrochers, the doyen of secondary school archivists from Phillips Exeter Academy, for sending me information on Stephen Kurtz.

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The Kent faculty in 1953

years, and a dormitory was in fact named in his honor before the school left Cornwall, Connecticut, for its campus on Skiff Mountain. In one of Ray’s first letters to a teacher candidate in 1950, he wrote that Kent was “in the process of strengthening our faculty by the addition of younger men as opportunity arises….” As a second former I was struck by the advanced age of several of my teachers. “Older than my grandfather,” I surely thought. Of course, World War II had depleted all schools of younger men, and administrations often had no choice but to retain superannuated teachers into their retirement years. Charles Scribner Grant, Dartmouth ’39, was the first teacher (or “master” as we then called a teacher) hired by Kent’s new leadership. And what a fine choice he turned out to be. Grant had graduated from Washington’s St. Albans School as president of his class, senior prefect and member of the Cum Laude Society, and had gone on to Dartmouth College, where he also achieved success. Upon graduation and before Pearl Harbor, he joined the U.S. Army Air Force (USAAF); with the war’s breakout, he left for Australia as a navigator with a squadron of B-24 Marauders and, operating out of New Guinea, “became a veteran of many long and perilous bombing raids in the South Pacific. On one mission, he navigated a cargo plane to Mindanao to evacuate soldiers trapped in the Philippines by the advancing Japanese army. Soon thereaf3 In writing about Dr. Grant I quote from an undated statement sent to me by Williams College that a speaker at a recent ceremony honoring Dr. Grant used.

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ter he participated in the crucial Battle of the Coral Sea….”3 In his mid-20s, Grant was promoted to captain and was brought back to Washington as a highly decorated flier to teach navigation skills to other officers. With the help of the G.I. Bill, Grant received a master’s degree in history from the University of Pennsylvania and joined Kent School’s History Department in September 1950. At Kent he commuted several evenings a week to Columbia to pursue a Ph.D. degree while preparing his dissertation on the Town of Kent’s historic land records. Grant’s labors would not only result in his receipt of a doctorate but the publication of his dissertation in 1961, “Democracy in the Frontier Town of Kent.” One of the prominent scholars of colonial America, the Harvard archivist and historian Dr. Clifton Shipman declared that Grant’s thesis would mark “a turning point in our knowledge of our democracy.” In Kent’s archive I found a 1957 letter from Yale’s own scholar of early American history, Edmund Morgan, to Fr. Patterson, noting that the young Grant had published “a couple of excellent articles in the professional journals” and asking whether the headmaster would appraise Grant’s qualities in view of an opening at Yale. Charles Grant was at Kent for four years, moving on to Middlebury College in 1955, where, in 1961, just before his book appeared, he succumbed to lymphatic cancer at the age of 44. The journal that had published the favorable review of his dissertation noted in his obituary that Grant had “demonstrated a quality of scholarship which marked him as one of the most promising younger members of the profession.” Professor Grant’s friends, faculty colleagues 9

and former students established an endowed Charles G. Grant Memorial Fund that continues to sponsor an annual lecture on a history topic at Middlebury College. Harry Hoyle, Brown University ’42, came from The Cathedral School of St. John the Divine in New York, also in September 1950, to teach history. Harry had served four years in the military, receiving a diploma in Japanese studies during his training at Yale; he later served as an interpreter for POWs in both German and Japanese. Ray Ronshaugen described Harry as an “excellent schoolman in every way” when supporting his candidacy for graduate school after three years at Kent. He then joined Tabor Academy, where he had a full career, becoming a “legendary coach” of its crew (according to a recent Tabor webpage), one of which won the Princess Elizabeth Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta in 1965. Fr. Patterson also added Kenneth S. Templeton Jr., Williams College Class of 1948, to his faculty. Ken originally came from Lake Forest, Illinois, but was living temporarily in Madison, pursuing a master’s degree in history from the University of Wisconsin when Fr. Patterson was the Rector of Madison’s Grace Church. When I found a telephone listing in Maine under Ken’s name in July 2014 and he came on line, I thought I was probably speaking with a son, but no, this was the same Ken Templeton at the age of 91; his voice, after more than sixty years, had hardly changed. When I mentioned the name “Patterson” and my projected article, Ken said, “Of course I knew Fr. Patterson… he married me and my wife in Madison.” After graduating from St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire, Ken began study at Williams, then the war broke out and he joined the Army. He had a distinguished career, becoming a platoon leader in the famed 10th Mountain Division that fought its way up the Italian peninsula through the Po Valley. He earned a raft of medals, including an infantry combat badge, two battle stars, a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart. Discharged in August 1946, he returned to Williamstown and graduated in 1948, having been awarded a Phi Beta Kappa key and the Dewey Prize for a speech he had delivered at Commencement. When recommending Ken to Patterson, Dr. Merle Curti, Wisconsin’s distinguished historian, characterized him as “a first-rate young scholar.” The president of Williams College, James Phinney Baxter III, added a piquant touch to his own strong recommendation, writing that Ken was “married to the granddaughter of the great historian Frederick Jackson Turner.” Ken established the Contemporary History course for selected sixth formers at Fr. Patterson’s request. He also organized the Public Speaking Society, and when word 10

began to circulate that he was leaving Kent at the end of our fifth-form year, I and several others in the class, who were looking forward to studying under his tutelage, were greatly disappointed. After Kent, Ken held senior positions at various American foundations that provide support for colleges and universities, and helped organize academic programs and seminars on free-market economies, etc. Ken had lengthy tours of service at the William Volker Fund, the Lilly Endowment, the Institute for Humane Studies and the Liberty Fund, the latter three located in Indiana. Fr. Patterson also arranged for a British teacher from Rugby School, thirty-five-year-old William Winlaw, who had graduated from Cambridge University, to join Kent for the year beginning in September 1950. Little did we know how Mr. Winlaw, who was “versatile in four languages, an excellent soccer coach and a friend to all” (according to a vignette in the 1951 Kent yearbook), had spent the war. After recovering from wounds suffered at the Battle of El Alamein in North Africa, Winlaw parachuted into occupied Greece and operated for “eighteen months behind German lines disguised as a filthy mendicant priest.” He left the British military as a lieutenant colonel. Fr. Patterson wanted to keep him on, but as he had crossed the Atlantic under an English Speaking Union (ESU) program, he had to return home. Following his year at Kent, he became headmaster of three different schools in succession in Ghana, Pakistan and Mali. FOR THE 1951–52 SCHOOL YEAR, Fr. Patterson and Ray

Ronshaugen added four American teachers to the faculty: George Semler, who taught Spanish; Steve Kurtz, history; Lane Barton, Latin; and Willoughby Newton, who taught English and would be ordained in 1957 (Fr. Newton’s profile will be provided in Part II of this article). A graduate of the Millbrook School (with a post-graduate year also at Phillips Academy Andover), George Semler had begun studying at the University of Virginia when war intervened and he chose to join the Coast Guard. After four years of service, including in the Pacific, he returned to Charlottesville and secured his B.A. in 1947. George began teaching Spanish at Salisbury School that year, then acquired a master’s degree and proceeded to Kent, where he taught for four years beginning in 1950. He then moved north to teach at Berkshire School. Sidney N. Towle ’31, who was principal of the Girls’ School when he succeeded Fr. Patterson as headmaster in 1962, approached George to teach once more at Kent but this time on the Hill Campus and both Spanish and French, which he did until retiring to Maine in 1970. George’s sons, George Jr. ’62, of KENT QUARTERLY

Barcelona, Jack ’64 and Derrick ’67, both of Vermont, all graduated from Kent. My disappointment with Ken Templeton’s departure was allayed when I began my sixth-form year and found Stephen Kurtz in charge of the Contemporary History course. Steve was Class of 1948 at Princeton with a sterling record: president of the Glee Club, a member of the Nassoons singing group, and an honors graduate of its History Department. Before arriving at Kent, Steve had obtained a master’s degree in history from the University of Pennsylvania; in 1953 while at Kent, he completed the requirements there for his doctorate. I was unable to track how Fr. Patterson and Mr. Ronshaugen managed to draw Steve to Kent (his file is missing), but he turned out to be a popular master. His career after five years teaching and coaching at Kent confirms his far-reaching capabilities. In 1956 his friend Ken Templeton suggested that he, then somewhat restless about teaching more history, look into Wabash College’s need for a dean of freshmen. Steve applied and was hired. After a few years in Indiana, he returned east and served on the faculties of William and Mary College, Columbia University and American University. In 1974, while serving as dean of Hamilton College, he was appointed Phillips Exeter Academy’s eleventh principal, remaining at that post for thirteen years. According to his obituary in the Princeton Alumni Weekly, Steve “facilitated the transition in the early days of coeducation and brought women into the mainstream of Exeter life.” I am sure that his wife, Jeanne, whom Steve married while at Princeton, contributed to that undertaking, as she was the daughter of Princeton’s longtime dean, Francis Godolphin. Kent has always prided itself on its Classics Depart ment, and in 1951 it added a scholar skilled in Latin, Greek and Sanskrit: Lane W. Barton Jr., a Kent graduate, Class of 1944, who had left the School a year early to matriculate at Harvard. Lane had been a fifth-form council member, the captain of the 1943 football team and a varsity oarsman. His brother, George, Class of 1948, followed him to Kent. As a foot soldier in the 87th Division, Lane had been wounded in France but, like so many World War II veterans, was reticent about his service, letting me know only that he had received a Purple Heart. Demobilized and relying on the G.I Bill, he earned his A.B. in 1950 from Harvard, where he also rowed. One of his friends in the Class of 1944, Jack Rich, wrote a strong letter to Fr. Patterson urging Lane’s appointment, noting that his friend’s wartime “disability may have deprived Harvard of one of its finest football centers and #6 oarsmen.” Lane taught Latin and coached club football, hockey FALL 2014

and crew. Willoughby Newton also coached crew and recalled in an oral history that his and Lane’s crews competed on the Housatonic. Willoughby admitted he knew nothing about crew while Lane did. “I’d tell them [my boys] to row like hell! … My crew always beat his because he was so busy teaching them exactly how to row, and I didn’t have much to teach.” In September 1955 Lane entered Episcopal Theological Seminary in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He pursued the study of theology further at Oxford before being ordained. In July 2014 I reached Lane by telephone at his home in Vancouver, Washington, and we had a brief discussion of his life after Kent. While he recently lost his wife, he lives near their five children. For some years he worked closely with Bishop James Pike as the priest-in-charge of an inner-city church in San Francisco, St. Barnabas Episcopal Mission, where Pike was rector. Lane described the physical reconstruction of the church that he had helped accomplish. A March 12, 1965, letter in Lane’s handwriting is to be found in the Martin Luther King archive in Atlanta (which is available online); Lane, bearing the title Vicar, extols Dr. King’s Selma-to-Montgomery marches and assures that he, at St. Barnabas, will try to marshal additional financial support for the important cause. At the time, many white clergy, including in the Episcopal Church, were still hesitating to embrace Dr. King’s cause. Lane confirmed to me what Ken Templeton had mentioned in passing, that he had also taught Greek at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley for five years. Then, after I mentioned the letter to Dr. King, Lane acknowledged that he recalled participating in the second march to Montgomery, with Bishop Pike providing the airline ticket. But judging from our brief conversation and a few email messages, I don’t think Lane is someone who likes to talk about his own “good works.” Parts II and III will appear in upcoming editions of the Kent Quarterly. Thanks to Katy Armstrong, Bill Armstrong’s granddaughter, who is in charge of the Kent School archive, and Kathy Nadire of the Alumni and Development Office, for helping me locate material for this article and the ones that follow. Katy extracted files I needed to consult; Kathy supplemented my search for obituaries. My wife, Liz, carefully read my draft and corrected errors. I adapted the title from that masterpiece of photography and text created by Walker Evans, Andover, Class of 1922, and James Agee, Exeter, Class of 1928, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.

Mr. Ober attended Princeton and Harvard Law after Kent and had a Foreign Service career. He served as Kent’s Director of Development and, for a period, its Alumni Secretary, from 1987–1998; then went to Beirut as president of International College, remaining three years. He has served as a trustee of three schools: Anglo-American School, Warsaw, 1967–68; International College, 1988–98; and Marvelwood School, 2002–present.

Recognition of Faculty Service REFLECTIONS BY STUART SYMINGTON, JR. ’43

An event honoring a faculty member at the day school he attended in St. Louis prompted Stuart Symington ’43 to reflect on the faculty from his era at Kent in the late ’30s and early ’40s and the thanks they deserved for all they did for him and his fellow students.

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teacher and crew coach Tote Walker

had lifestyles every bit as austere as those of us students. Of an evening you could see married faculty members trudging home by way of the Dining Hall, toting a stack of dinner pails containing their allotment of the rations that we students were eating. Presumably faculty wives did not look forward eagerly to reheating for dinner mounds of congealed gravy and mashed potatoes. For sure, the faculty were not living high on the hog. As a result, they may have had to look for satisfaction in the results of their efforts to impart knowledge to occasionally reluctant adolescents. Tote Walker ’19 was the only master with whom I remained in regular contact after graduation. After his death my wife and I kept in touch with Mrs. Walker for the rest of her life. I keep Tote’s picture on my desk. I knew him, not as a math teacher but as a crew coach under unusual circumstances. I wasn’t much of an oarsman at Kent, but when I was discharged from the army in the spring of 1946, I made my way to Kent, where I worked on rowing with Tote. He was a great crew coach. He expressed the quiet confidence that I could make the Yale freshman crew, which I did. His encouragement meant a lot to me. There were many others whom I never thanked for their interest and guidance. In the fall of 1942, William Worthington ’24 took over management of the school library, and I became his assistant. He was a good boss. He and Mrs. Worthington could not have been more kind to me. They invited me to dinner and were the first adults to treat me as more than a gangling adolescent.

George Chadwick was my second-form English teacher. “Symington,” he said, “I want you to write with utter clarity.” How many times have I thought of that injunction subsequently, in many different communications contexts, from letters to commencement speeches? George Hayes ’30, second-form French teacher, taught me enough French to ease my subsequent performance of the duties of Honorary French Consul in St. Louis. Bish Colmore ’31, a fine gentleman and great crew coach, taught both French and Spanish. He was very patient with me when one day I went to sleep in his Spanish class while he was explaining something to a slow learner. Ollie Butterworth ’33 not only taught Latin, but introduced us heathens to the rudiments of art appreciation by way of a slide show of images of classical architecture. Cliff Loomis, a senior master, taught sixth-form English. He was very deaf and the object of occasional student pranks that preyed on his affliction. He echoed George Chadwick’s advice. When I wrote a short story that had the hero sitting down to sharpen a scythe, Cliff wrote in the margin that you can’t sharpen a scythe sitting down; you have to stand up to do it. He was right. Allan McDowell, architect and math teacher, taught us a remembered life lesson: “Make use of your fractional bits of time.” David Tirrell was a patient, capable German teacher. I regret that I spoiled his effort to stump the class one day. He asked, “If fressen is the German word for ‘to eat,’ as an animal, what is a friseur?” I shot up my hand and said, “A hairdresser!” Somewhat discomfited, Tirrell agreed. KENT QUARTERLY

Jim Humphreys, Latin teacher, and Deke Anders, physics and math teacher, both had me figured out. Humphreys took a real interest in me. He told me that if I didn’t get 90 or better on a final exam, he would flunk me. His remark encouraged me. Maybe to improve my résumé, he put me on the second tennis team in some ambiguous status. Deke Anders was a powerful man who had strong feelings on a number of subjects. He concluded that I should do better than the 15 I got on a physics test. Looking at me hard, he ordered me to do better the next time. I don’t blame him, and I did do better. Talk about tough love! “Uncle Ted” Evans ’15, a kindly man, was mostly an administrator, but he coached second-form baseball. I can see him now, over 75 years later, showing us how to bunt. I can hear him say, “Hold the bat level like this, and let the ball meet it.” Every time I see a major leaguer holding the bat at an angle and jabbing unsuccessfully at a pitched ball, I think of Uncle Ted’s advice. R. Lee Gilliam was director of music at Kent. He strove manfully to get me beyond the third grade as a piano student. But a few of us students knew him better as a strong-armed touch football quarterback. We spent many a crisp fall day enjoying the pure pleasure of sport on the field by North Dorm. “Gilly” later married Caro line Ciaburri, one of the two school nurses. She and her colleague, Helen Kesting, had received their training at Johns Hopkins. By their starched caps and no-nonsense care, you knew they were quintessential professionals.

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Palmer Bovie taught at Kent my sixth-form year. He was only a few years older than we seniors. He was simpatico with us, like a big brother. When we first came to Kent as second formers, Father Sill, Pater, the founder of the School, was still headmaster. He let it be known that we were not at Kent just to study the books, but to determine, if we could, what our vocation, our calling, would be. Pater’s advice was emphasized one sunny spring day in 1943 when Palmer Bovie and I were chatting by the tennis courts near the North Dorm. Palmer asked me, “What are you going to do?” I had no idea, but Palmer’s expression of interest got me to thinking about my future seriously, and I have never forgotten our conversation. All my memories of association with faculty and staff of Kent School those many years ago are positive. I just regret that I never seized the opportunity after graduation to keep track of them, to thank them for preparing me for life, to honor them on retirement, to obtain their obituaries and to acknowledge, as some comfort to their families, the debt I owe their memories. At the last reunion of the Class of 1943 and before my classmate Pat Humphreys left us, I gratefully seized the opportunity to share with him the respect I had for his Dad. Perhaps the world of the Internet and its associated applications could develop a program that would encourage and help boarding school graduates to keep in touch with faculty members and participate in recognition programs.

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teacher William Worthington RIGHT Allan McDowell:

“Make use of your fractional bits of time.”

Leading the Examined Life CUM LAUDE SOCIETY ADDRESS BY LISA BRODY (AN EXCERPT)

“Making connections to art connected me to the world and became a way of examining my life.” I AM DELIGHTED AND PRIVILEGED to stand before

this esteemed and learned group of students and faculty, and I congratulate all the members of this group for their achievement, dedication, determination and scholarship, and I praise all of you who have encouraged, taught and inspired these young minds. All of you are here because you have been devoted to your studies and engaged with the world in so many arenas, as athletes, artists, actors, scientists, writers, historians, engineers, the list goes on. And what goes hand in hand with that is the process of getting to know yourself better—to lead the examined life. When Ms. Yammin asked me to write a speech for this occasion, I immediately got to work. I would go for my daily run, where I generally do my best thinking, and something would occur to me and I would add it to the speech, edit, revise. I was narcissistically thinking it might even be the start of a Guild Paper. So it’s Mother’s Day Sunday, and dutiful daughter that I am, I drove home to spend the day with my mom. My mom wanted to read my speech. After she read it, she looked at me and said, in a way only a mother can, “This is lovely, but they’re not going to be interested in this. Make it personal. Tell your story.” Important message: Listen to your mother. She is the only person who will tell you the truth. Maybe for some, it’s not your mother, but make sure you have at least one person in your life that will always be your mirror. This will also help you in your quest to lead an examined life. Let me tell you a little about my mom. She was accepted to attend Bennington College, the first American college to include visual and performing arts

in a liberal arts education, to study painting. That was her plan. However, my grandfather tragically died at the young age of 40. My mom knew she would need to have a career right away and instead attended Pratt Institute to become a commercial artist. It was not her intended plan, but life happens and what can you do? She became a highly successful art director in New York City for most of her life. Have any of you ever watched Mad Men? That was her world. One of very few women working in a man’s world. First woman inducted into the Art Directors Guild. Amazing role model and mentor. Since my mom was an artist, there were easels set up all over the house, lots of art supplies, books and music. We were expected to draw, paint, read and listen to music—opera and classical music of every kind. I remember entire summers lying out all day on the front lawn just reading and painting. My sisters and I would perform plays and musicals, singing and dancing. A very idyllic childhood. There were no digital devices and computers. We created things, all sorts of things, and it was fun and never boring. When it was time to apply to college, I applied to three schools. I don’t even think my parents and I discussed where. In high school I was secretary of Future Physicians of America. I was going to major in premed—that was the plan. My dad was a dentist, and he had secret ambitions that I would take over his practice. My older sister had already carved out a successful career as a commercial artist. I didn’t want to compete, and I wanted to create a different trajectory for myself. Unlike all of you, students from so far away, leav-

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ing your homes and living apart from your families and going to school, I had never left home before I went to college. Not even for an overnight. Imagine what it felt like being dropped off at college, for the very first time away from home, with my father weeping upon leaving me, which didn’t add to my security level. I adjusted to homesickness by filling my days taking classes, and lots of them, enough so that I graduated with two bachelor’s degrees because I had taken an overload of courses—but that’s another story. However, it was the year of organic chemistry that did me in. Organic chemistry was a foreign language, and try as I might, I just couldn’t master it. I was completely lost. It was around this time that a friend told me about a wonderful course called The Interaction of Color, based on the teachings of the artist Josef Albers from Yale. It was

was really no way to even know if you were solving the problems until it just happened from looking and pure perception. All I know is that I spent hours playing with hundreds of sheets of color spread out on the floor of my dorm room as I started to understand and see the relationship of color. No color exists alone, and every color is constantly changing. Color is always seen in relation to the colors surrounding it. Color is understood by experience, and we all see differently. It was at this point I realized that this is where I wanted to be. I could spend hours alone studying color, and it was fascinating. The fine art and architecture students were up all night working in the studios. I had found my home. From there, I signed up for every art class within reach. I knew I would never be bored or lonely or unchallenged. I had found a diverse com-

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Shades of Grey by Lisa Brody

“The entire class was based on a box of color-aid paper, 220 sheets of coated paper in a complete glorious array of hues.” just what I needed. His teaching was based on learning by direct perception, not by the theories of color theory. I signed up for that class on a lark. The entire class was based on a box of color-aid paper, 220 sheets of coated paper in a complete glorious array of hues, tints and shades of every color mixture from the color wheel. Albers was considered one of the founders of modern art education. That class changed my life and forever changed the way I would see. It was pretty esoteric. My professor would dramatically leap on top of the studio tables, walking among our work while speaking philosophically about color, life, science, art. The assignments were almost given in code. There

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munity of creative minds that was a source of constant stimulation. I had also found my way, an active way to engage in the world by making my mark and leaving something behind. Drawing and painting were the vehicles that got me to look and see. And see deeply. Making those connections to art connected me to the world and became a way of examining my own life. They say seeing is believing. But seeing is so much more than that. For me, seeing is analyzing, seeing is processing, and seeing is how I make sense of the world. For while drawing and painting might not be your path as it is mine, there are so many routes to take to allow you to examine your life and its relation

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Brody works with a student in the art studio.

to the world. Try not to be too set in your ways. There is uncertainty in life and it can take you to unexpected places. The great twentieth-century painter Paul Klee said that “Drawing is taking a line for a walk.” You can start off in one place and you don’t know where it might end up. And of course, life is like that too. If I can offer parting words to you, to all of you on your way to your next big thing, to a life of scholarly pursuits, challenges and other adventures, please take the time to turn off your screens, shut down your devices and engage with the world. You might want to go outside, pick up a pencil and take a line for a walk. I’d love that and strongly recommend it. Once you start, you won’t be able to stop. But this is just one way to examine the world. There are so many other ways. Hard work is one way that will take you there. But you know that already or you wouldn’t be here right now. When I entered university, I was majoring in courses to prepare me for a medical career, but I took an art class with professors who were the leaders in a new kind of contemporary landscape painting. They took me under their wing and fostered and promoted

me. They also believed in the importance of giving back, of passing on the knowledge and wisdom learned—that teaching was an important obligation and trust. Well, you can see what happened. I am so happy that by taking a line for a walk I am now here today, because it has been a source of real pleasure for me to have taught and worked with so many of you. And I’m proud of what you have achieved in your time here and excited about where life’s walks will take you! And in that walk, remember to always be true to yourself, be authentic and live with integrity. Know who you are; examine your life. Above all, and most important, in all things be kind. There is never any excuse for meanness or cruelty—not ever. Lisa Brody delivered these remarks at the Cum Laude Society banquet in May 2014. Appointed to the faculty in 1992, Lisa teaches courses in painting, drawing, architecture and art survey. She received both a bachelor of arts and a bachelor of fine arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania. In 2013 Lisa was inducted into the Cum Laude Society.

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The Right Reverend E. Don Taylor The Right Reverend E. Don Taylor, father of Tara Taylor ’96 and a Trustee of Kent School from 1996 to 2013, died on May 24, 2014. Bishop Taylor served as the Vicar Bishop of the Diocese of New York from 1994 to 2009. Headmaster Dick Schell wrote to the School community: “Don was a dear friend of Kent School. He loved the Students, Faculty, Staff and Trustees. Our thoughts and prayers are with his beloved daughter, Tara, and his many devoted friends in New York City and Jamaica.” The Rt. Rev. Andrew M.L. Dietsche, Bishop of New York, paid tribute to Bishop Taylor: “Bishop Taylor held the distinction of being the first West Indian to become a Bishop in The Episcopal Church. Born and raised in Jamaica, he was ordained a priest in 1961 and began a ministry at St. Mary the Virgin, then a small mission in Kingston, Jamaica. In 1970, he left a flourishing congregation to take up his next appointment as Headmaster of Kingston College. He came to the United States in 1973 and served communities in Buffalo and Atlanta for some 14 years, until election in 1987 as Bishop of the Virgin Islands. As Bishop, his strong pastoral ministry contributed to significant church growth. A former radio announcer, he established a Diocesan Radio Studio and proclaimed the gospel in weekly broadcasts.

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“In 1994, Bishop Taylor returned to the United States mainland to assume duties as Assistant Bishop in this diocese, in the newly created position of Vicar Bishop for New York City, an area covering Staten Island, Manhattan and the Bronx. Bishop Taylor was especially beloved for his pastoral ministry and his commitment to promoting community development. Always he cared most about the people he served. ‘I haven’t done spectacular things, haven’t raised millions of dollars,’ Bishop Taylor once said about his ministry as Vicar Bishop. ‘I’ve just tried to be a faithful, loving and caring bishop.’ “Upon his retirement, he answered the call to serve, once again, in his homeland and in 2009, he was appointed Rector of the Church of St. Thomas the Apostle, more widely known as the Kingston Parish Church, in the Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands.” In memory of their colleague and friend, and in recognition of his devotion to Kent School, the Kent School Board of Trustees has established the Bishop Taylor Memorial Scholarship Fund to support the educational costs at Kent for a highly qualified student from Jamaica. For more information, please contact Marc Cloutier, Director of Development, at (860) 927-6020 or mcloutier@kent-school.edu.

Exploring Ocean Life Kent at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute BY CONNOR WELLS & ELISABETH ANDERSON THIS JUNE MARKED KENT SCHOOL’S FIRST

Marine Biology Expedition to the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute at Florida Atlantic University in Fort Pierce, Florida. Six students, ranging from incoming freshmen to rising seniors, attended the five-day immersion into the lives of scholars who have dedicated their work to the understanding and preservation of ocean life. Accompanied and directed by Mr. Connor Wells, fifth form dean and member of the Science Department, and Ms. Elisabeth Anderson of the English Department, students followed their personal guide, Tracy Griffin of FAU, collecting and analyzing data from the field, performing daily research labs and attending lectures. On the first day, Kent students jumped into the research with a plankton collection and observation lab. After receiving information about the specific ecosystems of Florida’s coastal temperate-subtropical climate zone, ocean currents, and a thorough background on plankton—the life source of all marine ecosystems—students performed a series of plankton pulls in the HBOI (Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute) channel, which leads to the Indian River Estuary. After completing both “day” and “night” samplings, students brought their findings into the lab, where they identified and categorized the microscopic organisms they had caught. Who would have thought larval Cnidaria ( jellyfish) could be so exciting? Each night students reflected on and described the day’s activities for their required daily reports. Throughout the week their excitement and energy were boundless. Mr. Wells and Ms. Anderson—as well as the entire HBOI staff—were thrilled to work with such an enthusiastic, focused group of young scientists. After a comprehensive lesson on fishes (the proper term for multiple species of fish) and the maintenance of marine ecosystems at the

Smithsonian Marine Station in Fort Pierce, one of the major data collection highlights of the second day was seining—dragging sea grass nets with weights on the bottom through shallow water. The purpose was to determine species diversity and abundance in areas of the Indian River Lagoon. Two spots were sampled: Jaycee Park and Johnson House Beach at HBOI. Head of Education Tracy Griffin emphasized the importance of looking for indicators for species identification, using proper counting techniques, and handling organisms with care when counting and releasing specimens back into the shallow waters. In the channel leading to the lagoon, students focused on testing water quality and learning the proper methods and techniques for gathering data, including dissolved oxygen levels, temperature, pH and salinity. Ryder Sammons ’15, Bernadette Winby ’15 and El Collins ’16 effectively performed the dissolved oxygen measurements for the group. Back on site in the afternoon and evening hours, students were given a tour of the marine mammal facilities, where they enjoyed in-depth discussions with dolphin scientists. They attended a powerful talk from the eloquent Dr. Jon Moore on climate change, and performed a chemistry-based ocean acidification lab before joining the Florida community in the HBOI auditorium for an Ocean Science Lecture Series talk on lionfish. This exceptionally invasive species is taking over ecosystems along Florida’s Gulf and Atlantic coasts. On a sunny Wednesday, the group ventured out on a guided kayaking adventure to Round Island. After a few hours of exploring and relaxing, the group paddled back to our launch site—fully enjoying the beautiful morning on the water—and lunched on the beach. With a jam-packed, science-intensive first half of the week, the more relaxed morning and early afternoon was an appreciated change of pace—and a great moment to enjoy the gorgeous Florida weather.

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The second-to-last day of the trip was centered on a back-to-back study of the deep sea and bioluminescence. The students learned about—and saw close up in preserved jars—the incredible diversity of marine organisms living thousands of feet below the oceans’ surfaces. Equally fascinating and noteworthy were the naturally illuminating organisms, including dinoflagellate plankton, invertebrates and some unique species of fish. To read about this surreal phenomenon is one thing; to see it firsthand was thrilling for students and teachers alike. The final marine biology lesson focused on local sea turtle populations. The group heard about the recent threats, human and otherwise, to Florida’s sea turtle population. They learned about green, loggerhead, and leatherback turtle species, and the complex impact

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that development, government subsidies and economics have on Florida beaches and biological diversity. Our trip culminated in an evening visit to the local sea turtle protection group in Vero Beach. Conservationist Rick Herron gave us an in-depth talk about the modern sea turtle drama, before taking us on a night walk on the beach. On Vero Beach, one of the densest sea turtle nesting areas in the continental United States, we were able to witness a female loggerhead climb up from the water, nest, lay her eggs, and then return to the ocean. It was a truly amazing experience that had our Kent students—and faculty—in awe. This was marine biology at its finest. Our sincere thanks to Scott Buzby ’47, who introduced Headmaster Dick Schell to Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute.

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plankton through compound light microscopes BOTTOM FROM LEFT Examining the

catch in the seine net A visit to the Navy SEAL Museum in Ft. Pierce A juvenile seahorse (Hippocampus reidi) from the Indian River Lagoon

Inaugural SEEK4

and Kent-Georgia Tech Teachers Workshop IN COLLABORATION WITH GEORGIA TECH’S

Integrated Product Lifecycle Engineering

(IPLE) Laboratory, two inaugural programs were held in July at Kent’s Pre-Engineering and Applied Sciences Center: SEEK4 (Summer Educational Experience at Kent), a twoweek program that focused on Team-based Engineering and Manufacturing (TEAM), and a workshop for K–12 teachers interested in establishing a pre-engineering or robotics program at their schools. These programs were in addition to the three SEEK programs held at Kent earlier in the summer. Dr. Daniel P. Schrage, director of the IPLE Lab, and three of his colleagues from Georgia Tech joined Kent faculty member Dr. Ben Nadire and Mr. Harrelson Stanley, father of Anthony ’16 and Abigail ’18, in leading the programs.

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Team-based Engineering and Manufacturing (TEAM) Mr. Harrelson Stanley began the program with a workshop entitled “What is a Micron?” about surface metrology, the science of measurement. He explained how surface flatness is measured with different parameters, including the latest 3D standards. Students viewed objects through the lenses of a laser confocal microscope, which provides high resolution images and allows for a very precise three-dimensional image of the sample. Students practiced making stone surfaces smoother and edges sharper using ceramic sharpening stones. These techniques came in handy later when they used 3D printers to manufacture blades for helicopters and wind turbines. Students were introduced to three team competition challenges (Ground Vehicle, Wind Turbine Design and Aerial Vehicle) and learned how to be creative and innovative by exercising the Co-Create, Design, Build and Operate (CDBO) approach. These challenges enhanced their understanding of the ways in which today’s engineers use principles of science and mathematics to develop a product by sequentially and systematically following different stages of the product

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design lifecycle. Teams spent three days on each challenge, which required that they select a design concept for a robot, a helicopter or a wind turbine. Once they selected a principal design, students generated a threedimensional model of the parts using CATIA V6 (3D printer software) and then used 3D printers to create physical prototypes of their designs and assembled the printed parts, integrated them within the appropriate engineering system and operated the system to perform the mission stated in the challenge. Students documented their design approach and gathered data during testing, which was then presented on a poster as well as in a final presentation. For their first challenge, the Ground Vehicle Challenge, teams assembled and operated LEGO Mindstorms robots and, using tutorial guides and the programming software, learned how to program a robot to perform various tasks dictated by the mission. They provided a flow chart for each program developed and explained the algorithms that allowed an autonomous robot to navigate through various terrains—cratered, sandy and rocky—and, before returning to base, to collect rings to deposit in bins and a flag to place on a designated spot. At least two of the four existing robot

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Running trials for the Ground Vehicle Challenge Mr. Harrelson Stanley discusses surface metrology The Vex Robotics field set up for competition

A helicopter used in the Aerial Vehicle Challenge

wheels had to be replaced by newly designed and 3D-printed wheels in order for the robot to be able to go through the different terrains. Other requirements, including designing a lift, were also necessary to fulfill the tasks of the challenge. In the Wind Turbine Design Competition, the students explored wind energy and designed prototypes to utilize wind power. First they assembled a turbine using a kit made by KidWind and designed balsa wood blades to be attached to their turbine. They then tested their blades’ mechanical and electro-mechanical power. The first test was for raw mechanical power to see how much weight the turbine could lift. The second was to see how much electricity the turbine could produce when connecting a generator to lights and a water pump. Next, students designed and assembled a LEGO car capable of driving through wind power, both toward and away from the source of the wind. Taking their blade design a step further, they created blades using computer-aided design (CAD) software, 3D printed the blades, then compared balsa wood blades to the 3D-printed blades and chose which to use on their car. The Aerial Vehicle Rotor Design Challenge consisted of designing and manufacturing the blades of a remote controlled helicopter rotor system so that the blades provide better performance than standard stock blades. This was done by altering the following parameters: twist, taper, radius and root chord. Teams were asked to do research to help decide which parameters to change and by how much. Once their parameters were determined, the blades were modeled in 3D printer software and then 3D printed. The test flight procedure started with a flight without any added weights, and, if successful, teams moved to the next weight increment, repeating until the heaviest payload, represented by rubber bands, was attached, or until the helicopter failed the test. The requirements for a successful mission were that the helicopter must hover in stable flight for fifteen seconds at least three feet above the ground, and must clear obstacles determined by the instructors. Toward the end of the first week, students went on a field trip to the Sikorsky Aircraft facility in Stratford, Connecticut. They were joined by students who were participating in a similar Team-based Engineering

and Manufacturing camp run by Georgia Tech at the University of New Haven. The comprehensive, guided tour took more than two hours and included an overview of the origin of the company, an explanation of how helicopters work and a tour of several assembly lines where helicopters were being assembled and finished. By the end of the second week, the students had participated in all three of the prize challenge missions, and judges evaluated them with respect to their designs and the quality of their involvement and collaboration. Based on the comprehensive evaluation, the cumulative scores were found so close in value that all teams received a first place award.

Kent School-Georgia Tech Teachers Workshop Teachers who wished to learn about establishing or enhancing engineering courses or programs at their schools attended this workshop. Some teachers were also interested in collaborating with Georgia Tech to set up and run a summer camp at their schools. Teachers attended a lecture by Dr. Schrage, formed teams and competed in the wind turbine design challenge. They were introduced to the VEX Robotics platform, a system commonly used in high school robotics programs, and learned how to run a VEX competition. The workshop was run simultaneously with the student TEAM program to give teachers and students the chance to witness each other’s excitement about hands-on learning and the benefit of teamwork. Both teachers and students built their own products using 3D printers based on their models from the 3D printer software. Our sincere thanks to Mr. Harrelson Stanley for providing all material for his workshop; to Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation for giving the tour of their main facility in Stratford; to Dassault Systèmes for providing a year membership of the V5 software licenses for all students; to Stratasys for providing 3D printing material; and to Keyence Company for providing a laser confocal microscope. Note: The two 3D printers used were a Stratasys uPrint SE Plus 3D printer using thermoplastics ABS, and a Maker Bot Replicator 2 (Fifth Gen.) using polylactic acid, which also helped to compare the output of the two machines. Dr. Ben Nadire, Director of the Wentz Pre-Engineering Program

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Kent Authors

Be Unstoppable: The 8 Essential Actions to Succeed at Anything by Alden M. Mills ’87 (Tilbury House, Publishers/Cadent Publishing)

The following is an excerpt from the Introduction MY INSPIRATION AND PURPOSE for writing this book

comes from my boys—all four of them. As their mother and I proudly watch them grow and test our patience by purposely not listening to our spoken words, I’m hopeful the written word might have a more lasting impact. Like most parents, we want our children to succeed. We want to give them the tools for success, including a good education and a full array of life skills from swimming to not hitting their brothers to flossing their teeth. As we navigate parenthood without a map or playbook, life doesn’t wait for us to adapt; it just happens. A lot has happened since I made the decision to leave the SEAL teams and start my own business. For starters, several of my SEAL teammates are no longer with us. Back then we prepared “just-in-case” letters to be sent to our loved ones if we didn’t return from a mission. In mine, I would thank my parents for the gifts they had given me, which enabled me to do what I loved doing most at that moment: leading SEALs. I would tell them not to be upset—that if the letter had been sent, it meant that I had died doing what I loved, and how many people are privileged to say that? I always wrote a letter to my younger brother, Andrew, usually starting it with a laundry list of apologies. Sorry for throwing a rock at your head in third grade, sorry for pretending to drown you at the lake, sorry for breaking your favorite Matchbox cars, and (the one I will always regret most) sorry for missing your wedding. But I always tried to end on a positive note, telling him how proud of him I was for his overcoming dyslexia, and that he could do anything he put his mind to. I would tell him to keep trying and never to give up, and to know that even though I was no longer physically there for him, I would always be with him in spirit, cheering him on.

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Thankfully, none of those letters ever needed to be sent from my platoons, but that hasn’t been the case for many SEAL teammates. And many of those letters weren’t addressed to mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, girlfriends or wives; they were addressed to sons and daughters. Though I no longer serve in harm’s way, I think daily about my fallen teammates and wonder what they wrote to their children and what wisdom they would have shared if given the chance. It was this thinking that inspired this book. It’s my “just-in-case” letter to my boys. Alden M. Mills ’87 is a former Navy SEAL and the developer and co-founder of Perfect Fitness, producer of the Perfect Pushup and other fitness products and Inc. 500’s fastest-growing consumer-product company in 2009.

Announcement of the Class of 2014 Senior Parent Gift SIXTH FORM RECOGNITION CEREMONY, CUMMING HOUSE, MAY 31, 2014

It has become a tradition that parents and grandparents of the Senior Class work together throughout the year to raise funds for a special project as a lasting tribute to their children and to their Kent School experience. The tremendous generosity of Class of 2014 families was announced by Ken Southworth ’81, P’14, chair of this year’s effort, immediately following a big round of applause for the nine Kent students who were awarded Perfect Attendance Awards during their four years at Kent. In my day, the Kent faculty wanted to give us goals that were both reasonable and attainable. So we didn’t have attendance awards. Which may tell you something about the direction Kent has taken! As proud as I am of being a member of the Kent Class of ’81 or my wife is of being a member of the Kent Class of ’84, I know we’re equally proud of being parents of the Class of 2014. What an unbelievable job you’ve all done, and we look forward to welcoming you tomorrow to the community of Kent School alums. Please allow us to salute you. I stood before you in October of 2013 to talk about the Senior Parent Gift and our endeavor to raise funds for the purchase of new furniture and accoutrements for the Common Rooms around campus. I am pleased to report that we have met that challenge: the furniture will be ordered and installed this summer and should be ready for the onslaught of students new and old this September. I am also very happy to report that due largely to the magnanimous gesture of one family who offered a challenge gift of $50,000, we became energized to pursue a second purpose gift: namely the establishment of a permanent fund to recognize the amazing Kent faculty by helping to endow a professional development program that pays for their continuing educational development—from master’s and doctorate programs to summer workshops. With this year’s Senior Parent Gift, only the 15th year of this giving tradition at Kent, we’ve tried to address two of the more important elements of board24

ing school life: the quality of living… trying to spruce up the place a little bit, and the quality of learning by paying homage to our most precious resource, the Kent School faculty. And make no mistake about it, the faculty is where the bang for your buck comes from; or, if you’d like, this is where your kid’s bread gets buttered. I have a lot of friends, acquaintances, business associates, who have attended boarding schools and I have never begrudged them the fact that their flag flies high for Taft, Hotchkiss, Westminster, Canterbury, Loomis… well, maybe not Loomis (kidding—can’t get the Spoon Games out of my head!). Because central to their feelings for their school are the relationships they have fostered with their classmates, and ultimately with their teachers… and who’s to say that one relationship is more special or is valued more than another? What most boarding schools have in common is that they are served by people who give a damn. This is not to say that these people do not exist at public schools, they most certainly do, but not to this degree—not at these concentrated levels. We’re talking about selfless people, extremely smart selfless people, mind you, whose time and commitment to their craft are not governed by the hands on a watch. They don’t work set hours and call it a day. Within reason, they are always on—always available to a kid who needs them—and this includes kids who have graduated (make a note of that). They are people whose skill levels and academic backgrounds would position them to hit extremely long balls, in the private sector, yet their passion, their sense of purpose, the way they choose to be defined, is by sharing themselves with all of us chuckleheads! As an alum, whose life has been so enriched by the relationships I’ve maintained with various Kent faculty members over the last 35 years, I love this gift. I love it because it’s an opportunity for us to say, in a very small, token gesture kind of way, “Thank you.” I worry, a little KENT QUARTERLY

Class of 2014 Gift In early September 2013, sixteen members of the senior class answered the call to think about and plan for various fundraising efforts so that on Senior Recognition Day, the great Class of 2014 could present Kent with their own gift to the School. The committee members and the class worked on five fundraisers throughout the year. The committee presented Father Schell a check in the amount of $5,771.40 as their Class Gift. The gift is the seed money for The Class of 2014 Scholarship Fund designated for the Endowment.

ABOVE Ken Southworth ’81, P’14, Alden Southworth ’14 and Ellie Smith Southworth ’84, P’14 BELOW Special thanks this year to Paul Herman P’11,’14,’16, pictured here with his wife, Diane, and daughter, Rachel Herman ’14. Paul chaired the Kent Parents Fund for three years, for which the school community is forever grateful. Thank you, Paul!

Committee members did a terrific job organizing this yearlong effort: Sarah Cho, Kate Conway, Ryan Courtney, Christ Dineff, Ayse Ercan, Beth Friedman, Sabrina Hagan, Olivia Langa, Ana Lenskiy, Maria Nieto, Annabelle Nuelle, Emma Okonkwo, Naomi Otoo, Pelin Ozbay, Zoe Pesce and Sawyer Ryan.

bit, about the younger faculty members, who’ve yet to have their first graduating classes return to campus. I assure you, they’re coming. You have touched their lives and have helped mold their futures, and they will be back in the next five, ten, fifteen years to let you know! In the meantime, please know that this gift from the parents of the Class of 2014 says we appreciate what you’ve done for our kids. We value your continuing presence in their lives and we hope that you’ll stay. This year the parents of the Class of 2014 are donating $50,000 for the Common Rooms and $125,000 for the Teachers Fund. Over the last four years, the parents of the Class of 2014 have donated over $877,000 to Kent School. To the parents and students of the Class of 2014… to the leadership, faculty and staff of Kent School, and especially our headmaster, Dick Schell… Thank you… and may your flags always fly high for Kent. Kenneth A. Southworth ’81, P’14, Chair of the 2014 Senior Parent Gift FALL 2014

Between the Hills and River Shore

New Members of the Board of Trustees N. ROGAN DONELLY ’04

While at Kent, Rogan was appointed prefect of Field Dormitory and was elected captain of Kent’s 2003 football team. He was named to the All-Star New England Team in 2003 and received the Robert J. Farrell Award as a National Scholar-Athlete. Following Kent, Rogan earned a B.A. in anthropology from Bowdoin College in 2008, where he also was captain of the football team and an all-conference player. Rogan is a third generation managing shareholder of Tervis Tumbler Co., the leader in insulated drinkware, with offices in North Venice, Florida, and Manhattan. He serves as chair of the Tervis Executive Committee. Since 2011 Rogan has been the managing member of ARAND, L.L.C, a commercial real estate company. He also was executive producer of The Boys of Abu Ghraib, a film released in March 2014. Rogan resides in Sarasota, Florida.

ERNEST W. FRANKLIN IV ’87

Ernest Franklin ’87 has been elected president of Kent School’s Alumni Council at the spring meeting and thus becomes an ex officio member of the Board of Trustees. Ernest graduated from Tulane University in 1991 and from Tulane University School of Medicine in 1995 with Alpha Omega Alpha honors, receiving the American Federation for Clinical Sciences Award, as well as awards for surgical excellence.

From 2003–2010 Ernest was a consultant for McKinsey & Company, serving clients in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Hong Kong. Since 2010, he has held roles with Baylor Scott and White Health, the 12th largest U.S. not-for-profit health system, and is now the senior vice president of Surgical and Ancillary Services, leading the laboratory medicine, pharmacy, radiology and surgical service lines across 34 hospitals. Ernest resides in Dallas, Texas, with his wife, Mai, and their two boys, Ernest (5) and Henry (2).

for his work on sustainable development. His latest book, The New Harvest: Agricultural Innovation in Africa, was published in 2011 by Oxford University Press. Calestous participates in SEEK3 (Summer Educational Experience at KENT) with the Grand Challenges for Global Development. He is married to Alison Thornycroft Field and they are parents of a son, Eric. They reside in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

AMY MACARTNEY FREIDENRICH ’87, CALESTOUS JUMA

Calestous Juma is professor of the Practice of International Development, director of the Science, Technology and Globalization Project, and faculty chair of the Innovation for Economic Development Executive Program at Harvard Kennedy School. He was recently named as the Martin Luther King, Jr. Visiting Professor at M.I.T. Calestous directs the Kennedy School’s Agricultural Innovation Policy in Africa Project, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He is a former executive secretary of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity and founding executive director of the African Centre for Technology Studies in Nairobi. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Science and Technology Policy Studies from the University of Sussex in the U.K. and has received several international awards and honorary degrees

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Amy earned a B.A. in English Literature at Mount Holyoke College. After graduating she moved to San Francisco where she worked at The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Foote, Cone & Belding Advertising; and Stanford University in the School of Education. After raising her young children, Amy apprenticed as a baker and then spent a number of years baking for businesses and for private clients in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2012 she founded Flour Sugar Hope to bake birthday cakes for homeless children in San Mateo County, California. Amy has supported Kent as a class secretary, regional representative and a reunion committee member. She and her husband, Eric, live in Ridgefield, Connecticut, with their four children: Theo ’16 and Lucy ’18, Beverly (11) and Sylvia (8).

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A Morning Talk with Rear Admiral Dugan Shipway ON MAY 5, students, faculty and staff enjoyed an educational presentation given by Rear Admiral J.F. “Dugan” Shipway, husband of Kent Trustee Lynn Doe Shipway ’66. Admiral Shipway graduated in 1965 from the Speed Scientific School at the University of Louisville with a degree in chemical engineering. He was commissioned an ensign in the United States Navy and started a 35-year career focused on submarines and related weapon systems. He served on five submarines—commanding the USS Los Angeles for over four years, during which they sailed from the west coast of the United States to the east coast of Africa, and from below the equator to above the Arctic Circle. He went on to serve in Washington, D.C., for over a decade, buying submarines and being responsible for the United States Navy’s nuclear weapons.

After retiring from the Navy, he became a leader in Navy Shipbuilding, working first for General Dynamics Corporation as president of Bath Iron Works in Maine and later serving on the board of trustees of an Australian privately owned shipyard in the United States, building U.S. warships and an Australian government–owned shipyard in Adelaide, South Australia, that builds Australian submarines and surface ships. Admiral Shipway was awarded the Navy League of the United States’ highest honor—the 2009 Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Award for exemplary leadership in the maritime defense industry. During his talk Admiral Shipway discussed his nearly fifty years of involvement with the U.S. Navy, its submarines and its surface ships. He reviewed his life’s journey from the small town of Cherry Valley, New York,

to his distinguished service in the U.S. Navy to his career with Bath Iron Works. He discussed how a submarine works, reviewed the types of submarines and discussed types of ships used by the Navy. He also discussed the building of the Panama Canal, which led to a pertinent discussion of engineering. At the completion of his talk, Admiral Shipway donated models of submarines to Kent so that students will have the opportunity to study them.

Kent-Radley Teacher Exchange Tom Hunt (right), a member of the Kent English Department and holder of the David C. Clapp 1956 Teaching Chair, spent a week at Radley College last June as part of the KentRadley Teacher Exchange. Here he visits with Ali Hakimi and Andrew Cunningham, Radley faculty members who visited Kent in the spring of 2014. Tom’s account of his visit to Radley will appear in the next Kent Quarterly.

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Kent Legacies:

2014–15 Academic Year Kent School welcomed to its community in September a total of 28 Legacies. These students continue the tradition of their parents and/or grandparents as they study here on Kent’s campus.

TOP Livie Betke ’16 (F: Eric ’81), Jordan Moller ’15 (F: Eric ’86), Paige Whitney ’17

MIDDLE RIGHT Johnny Alexandre ’17 (F: Philippe ’84), Bert Dorman ’16 (F: Brian ’79)

(F: David ’80) and Rick Henshaw ’17 (F: Richard ’82)

and Gabriel Garza ’16 (F: Federico ’82)

MIDDLE LEFT seated: Stewart Sykes ’17 (F: Colin ’88), Blair Stratman ’16 (GF:

BOTTOM LEFT (l–r) After completing his job on dish crew, Randy Tyng ’18 (GF:

Donald Arrowsmith ’49), Lucy Freidenrich ’18 (M: Amy Macartney ’87), Julia Kiendl ’15 (F: William ’74), Phoebe Danaher ’16 (F: William ’84) and Ben Chynoweth ’17 (M: Dorothy Barclay ’83); standing: Jaehan Kim ’15 and Jitty Synn ’15 (GF: Ilhi Synn ’58), Adams Davenport ’15 (F: Robert ’83), Sam Haack ’15 (M: Jennifer Robinson ’84), Courtney Thayer ’15 (F: Christopher ’87), Theo Freidenrich ’16 (M: Amy Macartney ’87), Lindsay Moller ’18 (F: Eric ’86) and Alexis Mills ’17 (F: Andrew ’89)

Franklin ’42) joins Stephanie Trott ’18 (GF: Francis ’45), Grace Sanford ’18 (F: Thomas ’83, GF: Robert ’50, GGF: Foster ’23) and Alex Douglas ’17 (F: Edward ’72) BOTTOM RIGHT Stella Brack ’16 (F: Reginald ’85), Robby Lane ’18 (F: Marcus ’76) and Sam Kirkiles ’18 (M: Melissa Holcombe ’87) KEY F = Father, M = Mother, GF = Grandfather

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Alumni News

Class of 2014 Blue & Gray Dinner On Friday, May 9, 179 sixth formers gathered with Kent School Alumni Council members at the Richard A. Springs, Jr. ’36 Center and enjoyed a specially catered dinner as they officially were welcomed into the Kent School Alumni Association. Alumni Council President Peter Patch ’67 and incoming President Ernest Franklin ’87 welcomed the seniors and highlighted the importance of staying in touch with the School throughout the upcoming years and of supporting Kent through the Annual Fund. Other Council members in attendance included Ross Newland ’74, Charlie MacLachlan ’78 and Margaretta Colangelo ’83.

’78 Class Fund Chair Charlie MacLachlan

Fuzz Foster Award

ABOVE Sixth formers Daneesha Provo, James Skelton, Naomi Otoo, Gray Oates,

Kate Lavarentios, Lester Kuo, Brandon Choy, Alex Brighenti and Paul Kim BELOW Alumni Council President (2014–16) Ernest Franklin ’87, Leon Tambue,

Alumni Council member Margaretta Colangelo ’83, Adam Lake, Alumni Council President (2012–14) Peter Patch ’67, Andrew Hyde, Emma Okonkwo and Yhavi Mariwala

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Alumni Council member and Class Fund Chair Charlie MacLachlan ’78 is the 2014 recipient of the Julian C.S. “Fuzz” Foster ’41 Award. Charlie works diligently to connect with classmates, to promote Kent and Kent events via social media and to encourage everyone to support the Kent Annual Fund. Charlie’s efforts resulted in updated contact information for his classmates and an increase in Annual Fund donations for his class. He works tirelessly to keep his classmates engaged, and his efforts as class fund chair (now class fund co-chair with Suzy Bird Gulliver) are both extraordinary and exemplary. He was the driving force behind the New York Area Kent Alumni gatherings this year. We appreciate his hard work and dedication. The Julian C.S. “Fuzz” Foster ’41 Class Secretary Award was established by the Class of 1941 and the Alumni Council in grateful recognition of longtime Class Secretary Fuzz Foster’s faithful and devoted service to the Class of 1941 and to Kent School. Fuzz served as Class Secretary for 44 years, from his graduation in 1941 until his death in 1985. While at Kent, Fuzz was president of his form for five years, senior prefect, captain of the baseball team and president of the Glee Club. Given annually to class fund chairs, The Fuzz Foster Award recognizes class volunteers who have done the most to promote the Annual Fund among their classmates, to stimulate interest in their class reunions, and who have served their classes with distinction. The names of each year’s recipients are engraved on a silver tray, which is displayed in the Alumni and Development Office.

Alumni News

THE TWELFTH ANNUAL

United States Naval Academy-Kent School Alumni Brunch NAVAL ACADEMY CLUB ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND

Current midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy who graduated from Kent, parents, alumni and friends of Kent gathered for brunch at the Naval Academy Club earlier this year. Thanks to everyone who made the trip to Annapolis from nearby to as far away as Barrington, Rhode Island, and Buffalo, New York. This year we were honored to have in attendance Capt. Andy Combe, USN (Ret.), a trustee at U.S. Naval Academy Foundation, standing in for our host Capt. Ed Wallace. Capt. Wallace USNA ’72 is vice president of athletic and scholarship programs at the U.S.

Naval Academy Foundation. He works closely with current USNA Foundation Scholars at Kent School throughout the year and with other candidates from Kent interested in the U.S. Naval Academy. Our continuing thanks to Dik and Barbara Glass P’02,’05, who began this wonderful annual tradition when their son, Alex, was at the Academy. LT Alex Glass ’02, USNA ’06, is currently serving as flag aide to Rear Admiral (lower half ) John D. Alexander, Commander Carrier Strike Group FIVE embarked on the aircraft carrier George Washington (CVN 73) home ported in Yokosuka, Japan. Please join us next year for the 13th Annual USNA-Kent Brunch. If you are a U.S. Naval Academy graduate or currently serving our country and would like to join us next winter in Annapolis, please contact Kent Alley ’82 in the Alumni Office, (860) 927-6265 or alleyk@kent-schoool.edu.

Falcon Foundation Announces Scholarship At the annual dinner of the Falcon Foundation, held at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on October 3, 2014, Kent Trustee Bruce Whitman ’51 (above right), vice chairman of the Falcon Foundation, announced the establishment of a Falcon Foundation Scholarship for a Falcon Scholar attending Kent. The scholarship is in honor of General Gregory “Speedy” Martin (center), USAF (Ret.), retiring chairman of the Falcon Foundation. The first recipient is Hannah McGowen ’15 of Longview, Washington. Headmaster Dick Schell ’69 (left) represented Kent School at the event.

ABOVE (from top, l–r) Bob Reichart ’80, USNA ’84, Kirk Kostrzewski ’12, Ashley Miller ’09, USNA ’13, Eric Stockwood ’13, Alex Glass ’02, USNA ’06, Dik Glass P’02,’05, Keefe Rafferty ’11, Wendy Jilson, Erik Jilson ’90, Seamus Fish (guest of Ben Wright, from Lawrenceville), James Thomas ’01, USNA ’05, Suzanne Toms ’14, Ben Wright ’80, USNA ’84, Lucia and John Miller P’09,’10, Laurie and Mark Kostrzewski P’12, David Thomas P’01,’05, Brandon Karpf (guest of Ben Wright, from Lawrenceville), Vice Admiral Jack Baldwin ’50, USNA ’55, Kate Hobart Glass ’02, Ashley Thomas, Elizabeth Stockwood P’13, Headmaster Dick Schell ’69 and Rick Stockwood P’13

(Those who made the trip this year to attend the brunch with their families, but were not pictured: Brooks McFeely ’91 and Michael Kirwan ’91)

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Alumni Council—A Changing of the Guard for 2014–2015 The Alumni Council of Kent School is delighted to report on the May 2014 election of its new officers and members, as well as to bid a fond farewell to its dedicated outgoing members. NEW OFFICERS: Ernest Franklin ’87, MD, MBA, was

elected president for a two-year term. Jesse Kimball ’98 was elected vice president for a two-year term. Lindsey Huenink McCormick ’95 was elected secretary for a two-year term. NEW MEMBERS ELECTED FOR THREE-YEAR TERMS: Jeffrey Crowell ’01 Jeff is currently the senior account executive for Financial Markets America at HIS, Inc., New York. NYSE:HIS “is the leading provider of industry analysis, in-depth market research, technical data and bespoke advisory services across key areas of the global business landscape.” Jeff is also a co-chair of Joan Dancy & PALS (People with ALS), a New York City fundraiser, Seas It—Cancer Recovery, a volunteer youth hockey coach with North Park Hockey Association and the co-founder of “We Are Not Athletes,” a digital fund raising campaign for Hole in the Wall Camps. Jeff has a B.A. in English from the University of Maine and studied literature and economics at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England. Samantha Krupnick ’05 Samantha is currently the director of sales and client development for Paddle8, Inc., in New York, a firm specializing in international nonprofit organizations, brand development, marketing and sales. She holds a B.A. in policy management from Dickinson College. She was named the Top Fundraiser in 2012 for the National MS Society and serves on the NYC Alumni Chapter of Dickinson College. FALL 2014

Adam Peck ’82 Adam is a television, film and theatrical producer, as well as a talent and literary manager based in Los Angeles and New York. He is the owner and president of Synchronicity Productions and runs Synchronicity Management. He is also chairman of the board of the renowned Los Angeles– based Echo Theater Company. Adam graduated with a degree in radio-TVfilm from Northwestern University and studied film theory and criticism at Le Sorbonne in Paris. Benjamin Seidenstein ’07 Ben currently works as an analyst for Goldman Sachs in San Francisco in their Investment Management Division on the private wealth management team, overseeing assets for approximately 40 highnet-worth families and foundations. He graduated cum laude from Santa Clara University with a major in finance.

Wine Tasting Event Alumni Council member Eleanor Culbertson Albert ’65 hosted a Wine Tasting at the New York Times Building in New York on April 10, 2014. David Hamburger, director of special events at Acker Merrall & Condit, was the moderator for the evening. Guests tasted and learned about ten wines, each from a different region in France, Napa Valley, Italy, Spain, Germany and Austria. Guests were also treated to a selection of special cheeses to accompany each wine. The delightful evening was both enjoyable and educational.

OUTGOING MEMBERS:

The Alumni Council would also like to recognize the outstanding service and dedication of outgoing members: Alice Bishop ’78, Erica Lumiere ’87 and Minki Synn ’92, who each served two threeyear terms, and Frederick Schoch ’69, who served a one-year term. The officers’ terms of Peter Patch ’67 (president) and Elizabeth O’Connell Burn ’83 (secretary) also came to a conclusion. These six individuals were tireless in their commitment to the Council and the School and were instrumental in establishing many of the alumni programs that are now annual events and best practices. All alumni of Kent owe them a huge debt of gratitude! All alumni are encouraged to make their interest in participating in the Alumni Council known to Stacy Langa, Director of Alumni Giving and Initiatives at (860) 927-6262 or langas@kentschool.edu. The elections of accepted candidates occurs each May at the spring meeting.

Chris Cassin ’99, Ali Reese ’00 and Ed Williams ’00

Vero Beach Gathering 2014 The School wishes to thank Foster ’56 and Penny Devereux for hosting yet another lovely evening for over 50 Kent alumni, parents and friends at the Riomar Beach Club in Vero Beach, Florida, this past March. This annual event drew guests from near and far, full-time residents and those vacationing in the area. Headmaster Dick Schell ’69 gave an inspirational State of the School talk, including the outstanding college results achieved by the Class of 2014, and thanked loyal donors for their ongoing support.

Alumni News

Building Support for Kent On May 1, 2014, Graham Jones ’00 hosted a Kent event for alumni, parents and friends at the Racquet and Tennis Club in NYC. Headmaster Dick Schell spoke about the new Center for Music Studies, the turf fields and the newly renovated Mattison Auditorium. He also reminded all those present of the

importance of supporting scholarship aid for Kent students. There was a special tribute to Coach Todd Marble, who has served for 20 years as the athletics director and head football coach at Kent. Coach Marble was named Coach of the Year three times by the Northern Connecticut chapter of

TOP Greg Jones ’01, Nile Lundgren ’03, Graham Jones ’00, Coach Todd Marble,

Rogan Donelly ’04, Dan Pike ’93, Ashley Cooke ’98 and Mike Estroff ’93. Each gave a tribute to Coach Marble.

the National Football Foundation. His teams have won seven Erickson League Championships and participated in six New England championship games, winning three. Coach Marble will continue to serve as athletics director. Assistant Dean Connor Wells will now serve as head football coach.

BOTTOM LEFT Rogan Donelly ’04, Dan Pike ’93 and Headmaster Dick Schell MIDDLE 2006 classmates Isabel Smith, Charlotte Beckwith, Christine Kaczynski O’Brien, Lily Crouss and Derrick Yu ’05; RIGHT Graham Jones ’00, Graham Jones

P’00,’01, Greg Jones ’01 and Crick Sinclair ’01

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Kent in Los Angeles The SoCal Kent Alumni Association, under the leadership of Adam Peck ’82 and Kyra Sweda ’86, organized a wonderful evening on February 22, 2014, at the California Club in downtown L.A. This yearly event draws alumni and spouses, present and past parents, grandparents and friends of Kent to connect with one another during the winter season. The School is grateful to the SoCal group as they carry the tradition of hosting various events throughout the year. TOP A festive gathering at the California Club BOTTOM (l) Hosts Kyra Sweda ’86 and Adam Peck ’82 with Director of Development Marc Cloutier P’99,’01; (r) Mac Weaver ’05 and Dan Richter ’57

Joseph Kaiser ’95 hosts Kent at the New York Festival of Song

Tyler Hirschey ’96, retired faculty member Tom Holcombe, Cormac Bluestone ’96, Joe Kaiser ’95 and Director of Academic Advancement Adam Fischer P’13,’15

Kent Alumni and Parents in Chicago In early May, a small group of Chicago-area alumni, parents and their guests enjoyed an intimate gathering at the home of Blair and Anne Prenner Schmidt ’94 in downtown Chicago. Thank you, Anne and Blair, for hosting our Kent family in Chicago.

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In February a group of Kent alumni, parents and friends traveled to Merkin Concert Hall near Lincoln Center for a musical treat— Joe Kaiser singing in a program in the New York Festival of Song entitled “Warsaw Serenade.” Joe and soprano Dina Kuznetsova alternated between duets and solo pieces in a dazzling array of music from Poland. As one of the attendees said after the show, “When he opens his mouth, oh my, what an amazing sound comes out!” Joe kindly made possible a block of tickets for the Kent group in the front rows. Following the performance, he visited with the group, which included fellow Kentones alumni Tyler Hirschey ’96 and Cormac Bluestone ’96 as well as Thomas Holcombe, retired St. Joseph’s Chapel organist and member of the Kent faculty responsible for many singing groups over the years. It is rumored that a bit later in the evening, they retreated to a secluded area of the lobby for a quick a cappella rendition of the School Song—in four parts, of course!

Alumni/ae Row

The Alumni/ae Row on May 3, 2014, brought graduates from the Classes of 1955 to 2003 back to the Housatonic. Former Kent oarsmen and oarswomen set off in an eight and a four, demonstrating that, even years later, they hadn’t lost the technique they learned at Kent. Family

Alumni Soccer Game

Kent alumni Matt Heslop and Sean Becket from the Class of 2004, Alex Shipper ’06, 2008 graduates Francois Anderson, Brian DeDonato, Alston Eldridge, Stephen Hartnett and Nick Whitaker, and 2012 graduates 34

members showed their support from the launches and the river bank. Many thanks to coaches Eric Houston ’80 and Garrison Smith for overseeing the row, which has become an annual event scheduled around the KSBC boys’ Pass the Torch Dinner and the girls’ Chariots Dinner.

INSET Raleigh Flickinger, Gavin Flickinger ’94 with son Tarp and wife Heidi, Carla and Gar ’91 Flickinger

Josep Adsera Martinez and Max Soloshchanskiy joined members of the Kent faculty for the annual Alumni Soccer Game against Kent Boys Varsity Soccer on Saturday, September 6, 2014. Despite a delay from thunderstorms,

torrential rains and high humidity, the game reached a score of 3–0 at the conclusion of an abbreviated 45-minute half with Boys Varsity as victors. All participants enjoyed the BBQ following the game.

ABOVE (l–r) Gus Southworth P’98, Dana Peirce ’97,

Matt Scott ’99, Cameron Law ’03, John van der Kieft ’87, Jenn Robinson Haack ’84, Charlie MacLachlan ’78 (kneeling), Bob Davenport ’83, Hunter Southworth ’98, Sarah Jorgensen ’90, Gavin Flickinger ’94 and Gar Flickinger ’91 (Missing from photo: Pim Goodbody ’55)

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San Francisco Harbor Cruise Morgan Proescher ’01, his wife, Casey, and parents, Ward and Susan Proescher, hosted a dinner cruise on Tuesday, April 29, for area alumni, parents and friends aboard the Chardonnay Commodore.

More than 80 guests enjoyed a beautiful evening on the San Francisco Bay. Many thanks to Morgan, Casey, Ward and Susan for hosting this very special event again this year.

RIGHT Ben Seidenstein ’07 and guest Katherine De Leon BELOW (L–R) Morgan Weaver ’11, Carter Perez ’84, Christopher Smith ’86 and Colin Murray ’84;

Kevin Saxton, chairman of the Math Department, Margaretta Colangelo ’83, Holly Comer Zapf ’87, Jennifer Tesoro Reese ’87, Bruce Owen Jr. ’86 and Bronwen Kalmes ’12

Class of ’44 Reunion Six members of the Class of ’44 returned to campus for their 70th Reunion in April. They traveled from coastal Connecticut, Texas, Florida, South Carolina and even Argentina. The reunion began with a tour of new campus facilities, followed by a service in St. Joseph’s Chapel with students, and dinner at Cumming House hosted by Headmaster Dick Schell ’69. Early the next morning several classmates attended American history classes and shared with students their experiences in WWII. Later that morning the Class Memorial Service provided an opportunity to honor deceased classmates as each classmate’s name was read aloud. A discussion with Kent students followed, and the reunion concluded with lunch in the Headmaster’s Study. FALL 2014

Honorary classmate Dick Whitaker and wife Elaine, Dwight Davis, Charles and Inger Russell, Marie and Bob Weltzien, DeDe Schmitt and Jean Richards, and Bill Hammond

Many thanks to DeDe Schmitt and to Bob Weltzien for organizing the reunion and for reaching out to classmates to encourage them to attend. And thank you to those who traveled from near and

far to attend. The reunion was a wonderful opportunity for classmates to spend time with one another and to learn about Kent today.

Alumni News

Kent in Newport, Rhode Island On a lovely Friday evening in late August, 60 Kent alumni, parents and friends enjoyed a cocktail reception at the New York Yacht Club in Newport, Rhode Island. Many thanks to Elijah Duckworth-Schachter ’87 for sponsoring this very special annual summer event!

TOP LEFT (l–r) Gwen Tarbox ’79 and daughter Meredith, Brian Dorman ’79, P’16, Bert Dorman ’16, Denise Dorman P’16 and Meredith Dorman

TOP RIGHT Walker Humphrey ’03 and Allison Barrier BOTTOM RIGHT Mark Swistak P’96, Deborah Swistak P’96, Faithe Weathers and Matt Swistak ’96

BOTTOM LEFT Elijah Duckworth-Schachter ’87, his

wife, Katy DeConti, and their son, Campbell

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Kent on the Charles River in Boston A Charles River dinner cruise was hosted by Alumni Council member Rob Smith ’74 on Thursday, July 24, for area alumni, parents and friends aboard the Henry Longfellow. Almost 40 guests enjoyed a beautiful evening on the Charles River. Many thanks to Charles Riverboat Company owners Eliza Smith Cushman ’83 and her husband, Russell Cushman, for this very special summer event!

TOP LEFT Rob Smith ’74, P’10 and Brud Humphreys ’45, P’82 BOTTOM LEFT Tonya Kalmes P’12,’16, Ted

Wagenknecht ’96, Genevieve Wagenknecht, Patrick Hickox ’68, Brigid Williams, Marc Cloutier P’99,’01 and John Corey P’07 TOP RIGHT Chris Corey ’07 and Kyle Traub ’07 BOTTOM RIGHT Nop Shusang ’11 and

Sung Min Oh ’07

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Reunion

Kent Reunion 2014

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Kent Authors’ Corner at Reunion The Authors’ Corner debuted at Reunion 2013. Anthony Abbott ’53 conceived of creating an opportunity for those in his class who are authors to discuss their works with classmates. Then it was suggested to include other classes as well and, as Tony put it, “We had something wonderful—a better idea than just doing it for one class, because it promotes interaction among classes— allows us to know people we wouldn’t have otherwise known.” The 2014 Authors’ Corner featured four very different writers: Pulitzer Prize finalist Leo Damrosch ’59, young adult FALL 2014

fiction specialist Janet Stroup Fox ’69, nonfiction author Sidney Kirkpatrick ’74 and short story writer Ed Evans ’69. A presentation about Kent authors was followed by a reading from each and lively questions and answers. Many people remained in the Headmaster’s Study after the scheduled end of the event chatting with the authors. Once again, Kent authors’ advice to aspiring writers: Don’t give up. Keep writing!

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Athletic Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony The 14th annual Athletic Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony was a wonderful celebration of athletic achievement and sportsmanship. Held in the newly renovated Mattison Auditorium, the ceremony recognized six alumni and one team whose accomplishments are still memorable, even years later. Each honoree was awarded his or her Hall of Fame certificate by a presenter—a coach, teammate or family member—who spoke about the inductee’s contributions at Kent and beyond. For a full description of each of this year’s inductees, please visit www.kent-school.edu/athletics and click on Hall of Fame. THIS PAGE, ABOVE Art Walters P’97,’99,’02, Nancy and John

Bogosian P’96,’99,’00, John Bogosian ’99 with his wife, Libby, and son, Brian; BELOW Dick Patrick ’64, left, was presented with his certificate by former teammate Clai Carr ’64. FACING PAGE, TOP ROW (L–R) Peter Bragdon, coach of the Hall of Fame ’74 Hockey Team with Kevin Wang ’75, goalie of the ’74 team; Brad Dorman ’80 presented his brother Brian ’79 with his Hall of Fame certificate. MIDDLE ROW (L–R) Antonio Brecevich ’04 with Hall of Fame Committee member Mike Brooks ’63; Marissa Mullane ’04 with her former ice hockey coach, Ed Dunn P’98 BOTTOM ROW (L–R) Fred Schoch ’69, center, with former

teammates John Drinker ’69 and Malcolm Poole ’69

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Grace Note

Cups of Compassion During the spring and fall terms, more than ninety Art Survey students created a wonderful collection of ceramic vessels. In addition to working with this ancient medium, each student offered one cup to include in a silent auction to raise money for a charity of their choosing. After several charities were considered, the students decided to make a gift to 20/20/20, an organization whose goal is to restore vision to

children and adults in the developing world. Not only were our art students moved by imagining life without eyesight, but they were also impressed that for $300, one person could receive the surgery necessary to restore his or her vision. The goal was to raise enough money during the Parents Weekend silent auction to contribute $300, but the generosity of students, faculty and parents allowed them to make a gift of nearly $1,200.

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Leading the Way in the Bell Tower Society

The Classes of â&#x20AC;&#x2122;36 and â&#x20AC;&#x2122;56 lead all classes in their

membership in the Bell Tower Society. By including the School in their estate plans, they help provide for Kentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s future and continued academic excellence. Through bequests, retirement accounts, life insurance policies, charitable gift annuities and trusts, classmates have made gift arrangements that are appropriate for themselves and their families, while benefiting Kent. We are deeply grateful to these classes and to all who have honored Kent in this meaningful way.

Learn more: please contact Denny Mantegani, Director of Planned Giving ManteganiD@kent-school.edu 860-927-6274 or 877-770-5368 (toll-free) or visit www.kent-school.edu/plannedgiving

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Calendar of Events for Alumni, Parents and Friends Winter/Spring 2014–2015 DECEMBER 2014 New York Holiday Party (New York Yacht Club, New York, NY)

Thursday, December 4

JANUARY 2015 Alumni/ae Hockey Game (Kent School) SoCal Reception (The California Club—Los Angeles, CA) Kent Forum in New York City (The Yale Club, New York, NY)

Saturday, January 17 Saturday, January 17 Friday, January 23

MARCH 2015 USNA-Kent Brunch (U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD) Accepted Student Regional Welcome Teas (hosted by Kent Alumni and Parents)

Sunday, March 8 March 10–April 1

APRIL 2015 Kent Event in Litchfield County (Sharon Country Club, Sharon, CT) Kent Forum in San Francisco (San Francisco, CA)

Friday, April 10 Tuesday, April 28

MAY 2015 Grandparents & Special Friends Day (Kent School)

Wednesday, May 6

JUNE 2015 Prize Day (Kent School) Reunion Weekend (Kent School)

Sunday, June 7 Friday, June 12–Sunday, June 14

Dates to follow for additional gatherings in Atlanta, Baltimore, Florida, New York, Philadelphia and Richmond.