Indian Springs

INDIAN SPRINGS

A MAGAZINE FOR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS OF INDIAN SPRINGS SCHOOL

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MEANINGFUL CONNECTIONS S P R I N G S ’ N E W H I G H -T EC H C L A S S R O O M S F O ST E R T H E B E ST I N C O L L A B O R AT I V E L E A R N I N G PAG E 1 2

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LEARNING THROUGH LIVING SINCE 1952

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NEW CLASSROOMS DRAW RECORD NUMBER OF APPLICANTS The ISS Admission Office has over the past year fielded a record number of calls and e-mails from prospective families interested in the school and Springs’ new classroom buildings. Requests for student “shadow days” rose by 40 in 2014-15, and applications jumped 30%, says Director of Admission Claire Cassady. “It’s clear that excitement about the new buildings was a big part of the surge in interest,” she says. “It’s great news for us. Among prospective students, SSAT scores averaged 2,000+, which means our pool of bright, eager applicants is growing. My advice for next year: Apply early!”

ADMISSION OPEN HOUSES

Gareth Vaughan ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR AND DEAN OF ACADEMICS

David Noone DEAN OF STUDENT LIFE

Jan Fortson DIRECTOR OF FINANCE

Tanya Yeager DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT

Beth Mulvey DIRECTOR OF ADMISSION

Claire Cassady DIRECTOR OF COLLEGE ADVISING

Gunnar Olson DIRECTOR OF COUNSELING AND RESIDENTIAL LIFE

Brian Rodgers ATHLETIC DIRECTOR

Greg Van Horn

Wednesday, November 11, 2015

DIRECTOR OF TECHNOLOGY

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Chuck Williams

Monday, January 11, 2015

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT FOR COMMUNICATIONS AND MAGAZINE EDITOR

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Mindy Keyes Black

INSIDE SPRINGS: ACADEMICS

EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTORS

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Amelia Brock, Development Associate; Sunny Dong ’17, Photography Intern

INSIDE SPRINGS: ATHLETICS MEET & GREET

Libby Pantazis P ’03, ’06, ’09, Chair, John Abbot ’80, Robert Aland ’80, Janet Perry Book P ’04, ’09, Myla Calhoun P ’11, ’13, Larry DeLucas P ’99, ’05, Alan Engel ’73, P ’03, ’12, Joe Farley ’81, P ’14, ’16, Clara Chung Fleisig P ’13, ’16, Mike Goodrich Jr. ’90, P ’20, Rob Henrikson ’65, Ben Hunt ’82, Leo Kayser III ’62, Jimmy Lewis ’75, P ’11, ’11, Ellen McElroy ’78, Catherine McLean P ’03, ’06, ’11, Eli Phillips, Scott Pulliam ’85, P ’16, ’17, Rusty Rushton ’74, P ’09, ’11, Frank Samford ’62, P ’90, John Simmons ’65, P ’96, Hanson Slaughter ’90, P ’20, D.G. Pantazis ’03, Ex Officio, Alumni Council, Stacy Pulliam P ’16, ’17, Ex Officio, Parents Association

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Saturday, December 12, 2015 2-3:30 p.m.

INSIDE SPRINGS: CAMPUS LIFE

Thursday, February 11, 2016 6-7 p.m.

ALUMNI & FRIENDS: MARK YOUR CALENDARS! Saturday, November 7, 2015 10 a.m.-Noon

Come See Our New Classrooms!

(All are welcome; remarks at 10 a.m. in the Theater)

Saturday, December 26, 2015 3-5 p.m.

Alumni Holiday Party - ISS Campus April 14-17, 2016 Alumni Weekend

BOARD OF GOVERNORS 2015-16

©2015 Indian Springs School. Indian Springs is published biannually in fall and spring.

All rights reserved. 190 Woodward Drive, Indian Springs, AL 35124 | Phone: 205.988.3350 | Website: indiansprings.org MISSION STATEMENT

Indian Springs School seeks to develop in students a love of learning, a sense of integrity and moral courage, and an ethic of participatory citizenship. Inspired by the motto Learning through Living, the school is a community of talented boarding and day students and dedicated faculty committed to the belief that in learning to balance individual achievement with the values and principles of democracy, the student can develop to his or her full stature.

NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMINATORY POLICY AS TO STUDENTS Indian Springs School, an independent school nationally recognized as a leader in boarding and day education for grades 8-12, serves a talented and diverse student body and offers its admission to qualified students regardless of race, gender, religion, national origin, ethnicity or sexual orientation. Located in Indian Springs, Ala., just south of Birmingham, the school does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion, national origin, ethnicity or sexual orientation in administration of its educational policies, admission policies, scholarship and loan programs, or athletic and other school-administered programs.

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WELCOME

Meaningful Connections

2 Greetings from Board Chair Libby Pantazis, Director Gareth Vaughan CAMPUS LIFE

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Honors and Achievements

Springs’ New High-Tech Classrooms Foster the Best in Collaborative Learning Springs’ new classroom spaces and interactive technologies have given ISS teachers and students powerful new tools for exploring the finer details of everything from geometric proofs to lunar eclipses, Chinese characters, The Great Gatsby, and the exploration of the Americas. Made possible through contributions to the $20 million Campaign for Springs Eternal, they provide quick access to valuable and timely content, encourage meaningful connections both inside and outside classroom walls, and prepare students for a rapidly changing, high-tech world.

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ANNUAL REPORT

34 LASTING TIES

Alumni Weekend 2015 Directors’ Dinner Tour de Springs: San Francisco

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Meet New Faculty, Staff

LEGACY OF SINGING

Tim Thomas ‘67

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Photo by Graham Yelton

Alumni News In Memoriam

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LIBBY PANTAZIS

Chair, Indian Springs School Board of Governors

Indian Springs’ new classrooms opened on Aug. 23 for the start of the 2015-16 school year.

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ndian Springs School had been open only a short time when school leaders recognized the challenges of the initial plan—to hold classes in the common rooms of faculty homes— and the need for classroom facilities. In 195354, as longtime faculty member Mac Fleming recalls, the school’s first classrooms gave students and teachers a space where they could focus on “Learning through Living.”

Today, “Learning through Living” includes the ability to navigate the world electronically, the capacity to apply advanced technological tools to complex questions, and the dexterity to communicate as easily with the person sitting next to you as the person joining you by videoconference from thousands of miles away. Our new state-ofthe-art classrooms and Kayser Academic Center are already making these important life skills possible, and I am thrilled that as we complete Phase One of our Campus Master Plan, we are continuing to give our students the tools they need to be thoughtful, engaged world citizens while also building the school’s endowment to keep Indian Springs strong.

The excitement of students, teachers, parents, and alumni for the new classrooms can be felt throughout this issue of Indian Springs magazine, and as we search for Director Gareth Vaughan’s

successor to lead the school and set priorities for the remaining phases of our Campus Master Plan—a new Dining Hall and Arts Center— I feel confident that the incredible new spaces will attract not only bright students and committed families but also a new Head of School who, like Gareth, is passionate about our mission and eager to lead the school to new heights of excellence. As one alum aptly put it in our recent ISS Director Search survey, what a “meaningful launch pad” great rankings, strong enrollment, and the new buildings will provide.

Our search is off to a great start. Wickenden Associates, our search consultant, has been reaching out to potential candidates and will accept applications through Nov. 2. The Board-appointed Search Committee, made up of 16 members of the ISS community representing alumni, parents, faculty, and staff, will review candidates’ credentials on Nov. 9, conduct semifinalist interviews Nov. 21-22, and meet with finalists in December.

For updates on the search process, visit the Head of School Search page, located under the “About Us” tab, at www.indiansprings.org.

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t’s been incredible to watch the evolution of our extraordinary new classrooms, designed and constructed to LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) standards and ready to support the very best in teaching and learning. We started off the school year with a collective sense of rejuvenation and excitement that continues as teachers and students discover how our new high-tech capabilities and design features like skylights and acoustic wall panels make class time more productive, focused, and timely.

The excitement is equally evident among prospective families, who are visiting in larger numbers and applying earlier; among alumni and alumni parents, who are making special trips to campus to see the new buildings; and among current parents, who have been eager to ask at fall parent potlucks about our LEED status (we hope to receive certification by the end of 2015) and to talk about the importance of having great facilities to support our great program, both for their children and the future of the school.

Parental enthusiasm and support remain driving forces behind Indian Springs’ successes

in all areas of school life, and as we take our final pledges in order to conclude the Campaign for Springs Eternal during Alumni Weekend 2016, I am excited to see current and alumni parents coming together to help us reach our $20 million goal by taking part in “Springs Eternal Parents” on Thursday, Nov. 5, at ArchitectureWorks.

Hosted by our Parents Association, the evening fundraiser will highlight naming opportunities of $1,000 and up and feature remarks by Sydney and Mark Green, parents of author and ISS alum John Green ’95.

For parents, alumni, grandparents, and all friends of the school, this is an unprecedented opportunity to honor your own or a loved one’s Springs experience. I urge you to consider the naming opportunities listed on page 24 of this issue and to visit www.indiansprings.org/ ISSSpringsEternal to join in the excitement by adding your family’s name to Springs Eternal.

GARETH VAUGHAN Director, Indian Springs School

Director Gareth Vaughan leads a preview tour of the school’s new buildings during Opening Weekend 2015.

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meaningful connections Springs’ New High-Tech Classrooms Foster the Best in Collaborative Learning

By MINDY KEYES B L AC K Photos by G RA HAM YE LTO N

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Opposite: Math teacher Paul McGee and D Block Geometry students. Clockwise from top left: New Classrooms 5-8; students in Kelly Jacobs’ Eighth-Grade Social Studies class; study time on the Kayser Academic Center Portico; Stephanie Thomas’ Algebra I class.

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The bell sounds to announce the start of D Block, and math teacher Paul McGee pulls up last night’s homework on a 75-inch Clear Touch Interactive Panel at the front of Springs’ new Frank Cantey Mathematics Laboratory, Classroom 1. McGee and his Geometry students are talking about properties of equality as they prepare to begin writing proofs.

“Let’s look at No. 44,” says McGee, swiping two fingers on the screen to enlarge the text. “Can everyone see this? Now what property are we talking about here? Katie?”

“Is it … reflexive?” asks Katie Wiatrak ’18.

“Reflexive? Let’s think about it,” says McGee as he grabs a dry-erase marker and jots down an example on a nearby white board. “Remember that reflexive is a = a. When you have a = b and b = a, that property is called . . . ?”

“Symmetric,” calls out James Lasseter ’18.

“That’s it,” says McGee, picking up a wireless Android tablet that lets him move effortlessly from homework questions to a PowerPoint presentation featuring examples that break down the proof-writing process. “We know that angle A and angle B are supplementary angles, and angle A is 45 degrees.” He touches two fingers to the screen, a pencil icon appears, and he chooses the color red to circle “Definition of Supplementary Angles” for emphasis. “The angles don’t equal 180, do they? That’s right, they add to 180.”

Springs’ new classroom spaces and interactive technologies have given ISS teachers and students powerful new tools to explore the finer details

of everything from geometric proofs to lunar eclipses, Chinese characters, The Great Gatsby, and the exploration of the Americas. Made possible through contributions to the $20 million Campaign for Springs Eternal, they provide quick access to valuable and timely content, encourage meaningful connections both inside and outside classroom walls, and prepare students for a rapidly changing, high-tech world.

World at Your Fingertips

Lisa Balazs is urging her Stellar Astronomy students to watch the total lunar eclipse that will take place over the coming weekend. “These don’t happen terribly often,” she says, touching her Clear Touch panel to pull up an image that shows what will be visible to viewers in different parts of the world. “We’re right smack in the middle of the zone that will see the full eclipse,” she says, touching the panel again to pull up a photograph of the moon during an

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eclipse. “So why does it appear red when it’s in the Earth’s shadow?”

As Balazs talks, she continues to tap on the screen, pulling up interactive images of the moon in its orbit, displaying a view of space from Earth, and showing an animation of a lunar eclipse. On one interactive image that allows her to show the moon’s phases using bisectors, she doesn’t like the way the image indicates the direction of the sun, so she taps on the sun to delete it and uses her finger to draw her own sun. When one image won’t open full screen, junior Henry Giattina ’17 gets up to help her, pushing back his sleeves as he prepares to demonstrate the proper technique for classmates. “Thank you, Henry,” Balazs says, laughing, when the image responds. “Teamwork triumphs!”

The images, videos, and interactive content that now appear at the touch of a finger used to be so much trouble to access via projector that ISS faculty members for the most part avoided them, says Balazs. “The new panels are so fast and easy,” she says. “You walk into the classroom, and your content is there, ready to share with students.”

The interactive panels also make it easier to stay connected with what’s happening in the world, she says. At the start of the school year, Balazs’ class watched a video of the historic Pluto flyby from July and then joined live conversations with planetary scientists via Google Hangout. “We read a lot of articles about Pluto that week and looked at how science has changed. Pluto was not discovered until 1930, and in 1978 we discovered its first moon. Now we know it has five moons. The experience opened their eyes to how science works and how scientists are constantly surprised by what we find—it’s not always what we expect.”

With their state-of-the-art, multimedia capabilities, the new interactive panels were

built for learning Built from eco-friendly, energy-efficient materials and designed to enhance learning and integrate with Springs’ natural, 350-acre setting, the school’s three new classroom buildings and new administration building are likely to earn LEED certification and other architectural recognitions in the year ahead. Accolades from students, both past and present, are already rolling in.

“The new classrooms created a very exciting start to the new school year.

The atmosphere is wonderful and creates a stronger motivation for learning and focus.” —Lynn Berger ’17

“I feel truly lucky to be able to experience the amazing new classrooms but am also very happy that everything still has the unique Springs feel that makes us more than just another high school.” —Sarah Guillaume ’16

“The new classrooms have various features that make them more comfortable. Sound doesn’t echo in the

new classrooms, so we can hear teachers very clearly. Some students tend to lean back in their chairs, and the flexible backs of the new chairs allow them to do so without falling backwards. Such small but convenient details can really affect focus in a learning environment.”

—Mark Romero ’18

“The buildings themselves are having an empowering, revitalizing effect on students as well as teachers. While our other buildings were satisfactory and met standards, our new classrooms allow both teachers and students to spread our wings so much further.” —Joon Soo Sea ’17

“I would argue that the classrooms support better learning by simply giving the teachers a modern, well-equipped platform to teach from.”

—Johnny Baxley ’16

“The classrooms feel more like Springs than they did before!”

—Sydney Dean ’11, on visiting the new classroom buildings for the first time last summer

“The new buildings are so essentially Springs.” —Fergus Tuohy ’96

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Jimmy Lewis ’75 checks construction progress last spring.

At right: Lewis (far right) with Charlie Vick of BL Harbert and Marzette Fisher of ArchitectureWorks.

Built To Last

James C. Lewis Infrastructure Project Honors Alumni Parent and Grandparent and Ensures Strong Foundation for Indian Springs’ Next 60 Years When Jimmy Lewis ’75 joined the ISS Board of Governors in 2009, his first challenge was to figure out why the school’s sewer bill was averaging $100,000 a year over budget. Tests revealed that the original, 60-year-old terra-cotta pipes, which had received some temporary repairs in the 1980s, were crumbling. “An awful lot of our fluids and waste was going into the ground, and we were paying outrageous sewer bills because we were processing groundwater,” says Lewis, who is President of Lewis Investment Company in Birmingham and Chair of the Board’s Buildings and Grounds Subcommittee. “Water infiltrated cracks in our pipes, went through the meter, and we got the bill.” An engineer hired to study the problem in 2011 recommended abandoning the old system and replacing it with a “low-pressure force main” that captures the waste and pumps it away in a small-diameter pipe.

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opportunity for groundwater infiltration that runs up the bill.”

So in 2013, when Indian Springs launched the silent phase of the Campaign for Springs Eternal, Lewis decided to make a significant restricted gift toward the project in honor of his 93-yearold father, James C. Lewis. “He is my father, my friend, my mentor,” says Lewis. “He was a developer of many fine projects throughout the nation. He taught me the trade—the craft—of real estate development. So my gift is really named in his honor.”

As crews began putting the new sewer system into place, other important service and utility needs also came to light. “We had had a number of natural gas leaks over time,” he says.

“Then one day I was walking past the old senior wing—the current Business Office—and smelled gas.” Alagasco crews said they wouldn’t repair the leak, so he and Board Chair Libby Pantazis added “natural gas main” to the list of

infrastructure needs. Running power lines underground to prevent power outages soon rounded out the list.

“We will eventually end up with a loop power system that will be part of the Dining Hall phase to further reduce the opportunity for power outages,” he says.

While most of the work that his gift helped make possible is hidden from view, he believes that the new infrastructure creates a strong foundation for Springs’ next 60 years. It is also a tribute to the man who laid the groundwork for him to attend ISS. “My dad wisely noted when I was a 9th grader that I wasn’t happy, and that I wasn’t where I needed to be,” recalls Lewis.

“He suggested I come out here and was thrilled when I agreed. He has been a benefactor for many years and is proud that his son and two of his grandchildren went to school here. He is also proud to see that his family gives back to the school.”

chosen to make these types of classroom experiences convenient and easy, says Technology Director Chuck Williams. Because they’re mobile, they offer more flexibility than a stationary whiteboard. They’re also both wireless and wired, so if for any reason Springs’ wireless system drops, teachers can plug the panels into an Ethernet port and keep going, he says. And because they’re really two devices in one—a Windows touch-screen computer and an Android tablet—if anything disturbs the panels’ online connection, teachers can simply switch to Android mode to continue working.

Each classroom also now has a printer that students can access, as well as Internet connections in the floor and every wall. Three Wi-Fi networks prevent any one network from being overloaded. “These advances take us a giant step ahead of other schools,” he says.

Culture of Collaboration

Associate Director and Dean of Academics David Noone believes that the biggest benefit of Springs’ new high-tech classrooms is that they encourage collaborative learning. “Our new technology gives kids access to more resources via a common platform that is there to engage everybody, not to separate everybody in their own technological worlds,” he says.

“When we use it to support clearly defined curricula and to give students opportunities to collaborate, we are teaching them how to navigate the wide world of online resources and at the same time fostering shared learning.”

English teacher Diane Sheppard says Springs’ new high-tech environment is helping her students learn how to speak in front of a group. “One of the major problems when students are presenting is that they want to look only at me,” she says. “Now they go up to the board and write on the screen or bring up a picture, and it makes them feel that they are in charge, so they are learning to look around. It’s helping them organize their presentations and speak to the entire group, which I think is an important skill to have.”

Sarah Guillaume ’16 feels that the mobility of the panels and individual desks makes collaborating easier. “The flexibility we have with configuring the desks to whatever arrangement best suits our activities for the day makes such a difference in group discussions,” she says.

She also believes that the interactive content is helping her learn new material. “I am a very visual person, so when my teachers can pause a video to draw a diagram and really go into detail about a confusing concept, it makes such a difference in how well I remember the topic.”

Visual Learning For history teacher Dr. Richard Neely, who is now able to pull up historical paintings and documents, interactive maps, National Geographic articles, and photos of historical weapons for his AP U.S. History and Civil War & Reconstruction classes, Springs’ new technology has had a “tremendous impact” on his ability to incorporate visual materials into his teaching.

“For our kids who are visual learners, these new visual cues are extremely useful ways to remember historical figures and events, ” says Dr. Richard Neely about the new Clear Touch Interactive Panels.

“Look at that nose,” he jokes with his F Block AP U.S. History class as he pulls up a painting of Francois I, whose reign prompted French exploration of the New World. “That has to be the longest nose in French nobility you’re ever going to see. Now this guy, Francis I, is responsible for leading the early exploration for France . . . .

“It’s a wonderful thing,” Neely says of the new technology after class has ended. “I use it every day.” He points to the several dozen links that he has saved on his Clear Touch desktop for this week’s lectures. “If I want to show my students what happened at Bull Run, I touch here to pull up an interactive map that I’ve saved to my panel, tap here to display the pencil tool, and use my finger to highlight details: Washington is up here, Richmond is down here, McDowell displays his troops here, Beauregard is camped here.

“Last year,” he continues, “we had to look at small maps in our books, or I would draw a rough map on the board, but now I can pull up any map that I want and choose different colors to indicate different days or sides in a battle. For our kids who are visual learners, these new visual cues are extremely useful ways to remember historical figures and events.” ] 17

As part of Springs’ new technological advances, ISS students now also have the ability to participate in high-quality distance learning by taking online specialty classes offered at schools around the country through the Malone Schools Online Network. Sunny Dong ’17 decided to enroll in a yearlong Arabic I class offered twice a week by Stanford University Online High School. “The history of the Middle East is really interesting, so I wanted to get into the language,” she says. “I thought I’d take advantage of the school’s membership in the Malone Network and try it out.

What’s nice is I get to take something that is not offered here, but I’m learning from a teacher, and the technology is working really well.”

In addition to opening the door to important online resources and new ways to learn and collaborate, Springs’ new classrooms and technologies are changing the dynamics of class time for students and teachers, says Director Gareth Vaughan.

“This ultimately means less time spent trying to access and display content and more time spent analyzing and using it,” he says.

Now more than ever, telecommunications technologies provide the foundation of global collaboration and decision-making, says Vaughan. This has been true for some time in business and industry, he says, so giving students the chance to work on multilayered projects and problems while navigating complex resources prepares them well to succeed in a multitude of career paths.

“In today’s schools, technology has the potential to play a ‘best supporting’ role to great teaching through the meaningful connections that it offers,” says Vaughan.

“Now that the generosity of many dedicated alumni, parents, and friends is enabling us to unlock technology’s potential in our classrooms, we are giving our teachers and students an invaluable tool that I believe will greatly enhance both teaching and learning at ISS.” ] 18

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The new panels make it possible to do more than just go through the static prepared content that you were going to show in class because now you can actually annotate over and extend the prepared content. They also allow you to step away from behind a projection system and stand instead in front of the action.”

—Computer Programming teacher William Belser ’80

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I love the natural light and very often do not turn on the classroom lights. It’s a slight social experiment to see how it affects behavior, but I believe it’s better on everyone’s eyes, and more calming.”

—Spanish teacher Weslie Wald

more thoughts from iss teachers

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The new technology allows me to demonstrate the order of strokes used to write Chinese characters.

As we practice, we can write the characters using different colors and calligraphy art forms.”

—Chinese teacher Athena Chang

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I love the versatility of having both the new Clear Touch panels and the whiteboards. When a math concept requires a graphic, I can minimize a problem on the panel and open a graph, where everything can be precise—which is important in math! I can save it for anyone who is absent, or to refer to later on. I think I’m able to go faster through new material if the students get it because I’m not bogged down trying to write all the examples on the board.”

—Math teacher Stephanie Thomas

The technology lets us do in the classroom what we’ve always said we wanted to do—and now that we have the beautiful back porch of the Kayser Academic Center, we can actually take our classes outside without sunburn, without heat, when the weather is nice. The new space has allowed us to keep the best of the old, but better!”

—English teacher Dr. Michelle Williams

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Committed Community Lead Donors Visit the Classrooms They Helped Make Possible Current parents, students, and lead donors to the Campaign for Springs Eternal gathered on Sunday, Aug. 23—mere hours before Opening Day 2015—for a preview of Springs’ three new classroom buildings and new administration building, made possible through gifts to the largest capital campaign in the school’s history.

“We are thrilled to start the 2015-16 school year in these incredible new facilities designed to support and enhance the excellence of our academic and student life curricula,” said Director Gareth Vaughan. “Our new classrooms and state-of-the-art technology are invaluable tools as we continue to teach our students to think flexibly and find creative solutions to multi-layered problems, and we are grateful to the many dedicated alumni, parents, and friends whose vision, leadership, and financial support

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are making these beautiful new buildings possible.”

Vaughan presented plaques made from cypress used for the new buildings to those ISS families who have named classrooms and other spaces through generous gifts to the campaign. “These plaques are a recognition that we want our buildings to be energy-efficient and green,” said Vaughan.

“They are also a tribute to your incredible generosity, which is enabling us to pave the way for Springs’ next 60 years.”

Said Vaughan, “As we continue to raise funds to build our endowment and meet the $17 million cost of construction, we are asking parents of current students, parents of alumni, and alumni themselves to join us in our commitment to the Campaign and extend our deepest gratitude to those of you who are helping us make Springs Eternal. Your passion for the school keeps us at the forefront of education.” 

Come See the New Classrooms!

Alumni, Parents of Alumni, Current Parents, Friends of the School, and the General Public are invited to visit the Indian Springs School campus to Celebrate the Completion of Phase One of the Campus Master Plan

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10 a.m. - Noon Remarks at 10 a.m. in the John Badham Theater See the New Campus Entry, 18 New Classrooms, New Administrative Building, and renovated Kayser Academic Center, designed by award-winning architects Lake|Flato of San Antonio in partnership with ArchitectureWorks of Birmingham.

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1. Bruce, William ’03, Chip ’58, and Tom ’60 Gamble at the Gamble Family Classroom, named “in loving memory of Laura and Chuck Gamble, who believed in education” by Chip ’58, Tom ’60, Travis ’63, Bruce, and William ’03 Gamble. 2. Margaret and Bruce Alexander with French teacher Dr. Jonathan Horn ’75 at La Salle Iain M. Alexander ’91, “nommée en son honneur par ses parents.”

3. Director Gareth Vaughan welcomes supporters to the new administration building. 4. Martin ’68 and Heidi Damsky at the Damsky Classroom, named in memory of Selma and Leonard Damsky. 5. Rene and John Simmons ’65 just outside the Simmons Family Classroom. 6. Lead donors gather on Aug. 23 to celebrate the new buildings. 7. Randy Marks ’65 at the Frank Cantey Mathematics Laboratory, named after longtime ISS faculty member Frank Cantey, “a gentle spirit and superb mentor,” by the Marks and Porter families.

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IN SIGHT OF O U R G O A L !

Photo by Art Meripol

Panoramic view of new Administration Building (left), Kayser Academic Center (center), and Classrooms 9-12 (right).

W H E R E W E A R E T O DAY To date, more than $19.1 million has been committed by dedicated alumni, parents, and grandparents to the Campaign for Springs Eternal to increase Indian Springs’ endowment and make our Campus Master Plan a reality.

Of these funds, more than $3 million are endowed or quasi-endowed funds, and $16 million is dedicated to the $17 million cost of Phase One of the plan: removing six classrooms, adding 18 new classrooms and 18 faculty offices, constructing a new Administration Building, upgrading infrastructure, and completing the Leo Kayser Jr. Academic Center.

ONCE A SPRINGS PA R E N T, A LWAY S A SPRINGS PA R E N T

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WHERE WE’RE HEADED Springs’ three new classroom buildings, new Administration Building, and new campus entry were designed by award-winning architects Lake|Flato of San Antonio and ArchitectureWorks of Birmingham and completed in August for the start of the 2015-16 school year. The Kayser Academic Center is scheduled to open this fall. In September, the ISS Board of Governors decided to pause planning for the remaining elements of the plan—a new dining hall and new arts center—to enable Springs’ next director to guide the projects. With your important support, we can reach our $20 million goal to meet the cost of Phase One before the close of the campaign during Alumni Weekend 2016 (April 14-17).

H E L P U S PAV E T H E WAY W I T H YO U R G I F T Add your family’s name to the walkway commemorating gifts to Springs Eternal by making a gift or pledge of $1,000 or more:

Visit www.indiansprings.org/ISSSpringsEternal today!

Once a Springs Parent, Always a Springs

Celebrate Indian Springs School and contribute to

e Campaign for Springs Eternal Thursday, November 5, 2015 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.

Special remarks by Sydney and Mike Green , parents of author John Green '95

Cocktails and Hors d’oeuvres

ArchitectureWorks

130 19th Street South Birmingham, Alabama 35233

RSVP by October 29th Reply card enclosed

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All Parents of Current Students and Parent s of Alumni are invited to come together to

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A N N UA L R E P O R T People give to Indian Springs School for many reasons. To honor children, parents, and teachers. To give back to the school that made them “better people” and fueled “a lifelong love of learning.” To support a thoughtful school that makes a difference by nurturing community while also celebrating individuality. And to ensure the continued excellence of Indian Springs, year after year. The ongoing support of parents, grandparents, alumni, and friends provides both the backbone and the heart of the distinctive educational opportunities and environment that have, since 1952, made us uniquely Springs. Your yearly gifts to the Annual Fund help us realize goals that are vital to the school’s mission, and your generosity to the Campaign for Springs Eternal is allowing us to build on our strengths, both by providing important campus updates and by growing our $12 million endowment to secure a strong future.

F I N A N C I A L S TAT E M E N T S July 1, 2014—June 30, 2015

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SPRINGS ETERNAL GIFTS & PLEDGES 2014-15

INCOME

Building & Endowment

$6,422,131.80

Total Committed to Springs Eternal as of October 1, 2015

Tuition & Fees Annual Fund & Other Gifts

$ 19.1 million

Total Income Endowment Draw

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Annual Fund – Unrestricted Annual Fund – Restricted Total

$531,007 77,953 $ 608,960

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Total Restricted Gifts

$ 264,881

$7,555,765 704,685 $8,260,450 $600,000

EXPENSES

Salaries & Benefits Financial Aid Instructional & Student Activities Dining, Transportation & Other Services Operations & Maintenance General & Administrative

$4,043,833 1,497,989 422,628 926,631 1,155,749 760,418

Total Expenses

$8,807,248

Thank you for your passion, your dedication, and your support.

You are making Springs Eternal.

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