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Getting ready to role: In the dressing room backstage in St. Nick, student actors get ready for the Upper School spring 2016 play, “Almost, Maine,” a romantic comedy described by one critic as “Thornton Wilder crossed with the Twilight Zone.” Drama teacher Alban Dennis, who directed, promoted it as “funny, moving, and family friendly! And a great date night, too!”
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What a great series of articles (“Finding Success,” Spring/Summer 2016). I’m a believer in finding time for introspection and accepting life’s messiness and imperfections, and it’s wonderful and validating to hear those messages from Bernie Noe, setting the tone for the school.
“From the Archives: Adams Scholars, Taming ‘The Academic Rat Race’” (Spring/Summer 2014) described the first Adams Scholars, who were allowed “unprecedented freedom from some courses in order to focus on a topic of special interest.” Listed and pictured among them was M.J. (Michael) Mates, who recently wrote to the Lakeside archivist: “My name should be removed from the list. I was invited to be an Adams Scholar and was listed as such in December 1963. I skipped several days of classes before Christmas holiday to ‘hitchhike to Montreal’ with a classmate, ending up in Medicine Hat, Alberta, after the cold got the better of us. We took the train back before Christmas, and after classes resumed in January 1964, I was told that my status as an Adams Scholar had been revoked. Fair enough — they made the rules and I broke them. BTW, Bill Dougall broke the news in person and did so in typical kindly fashion.”
— Lori Pender P’21
I just finished Knute Berger ’72’s article, “Life On Their Own Terms” (Spring/Summer 2016), and I really loved it. Besides the beautiful writing, no surprise but a pleasure all the same, I appreciated his gentle but insistent focus on success other than top grades, top money. I particularly liked Lael Plunkett Atkinson ’80’s quote about being an honorable person. My daughter starts Lakeside in 9th grade this year. I’m hoping she will embrace the good and not get caught up in the race to be perfect. —Debby Bacharach ’84
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—Michael Mates ’64
Michael Mates worked overseas as a teacher and as a U.S. diplomat, and in retirement lives in Monroe where he studies Christian theology and applied horticulture, notes Lakeside archivist Leslie Schuyler.
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