MERCERSBURG MAGAZINE FALL 2016
Burg’s Eye View
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CAMPUS NOTES
Frank Rutherford ’70 was the featured speaker at Mercersburg’s 2016–2017 Opening Convocation in September. Rutherford his fifth decade as a faculty member at his alma mater; he teaches science and holds Mercersburg’s Archibald H. Rutledge Chair. During his 40 years at the school, he has taught chemistry, physics, biology, environmental science, and economics; coached track & field, cross country, swimming, basketball, and field hockey; served as the director of instructional technology, registrar, faculty adviser to the Washington Irving Literary Society, and on the Alumni Rutherford Council; worked as a dorm parent and adviser; and taught in India with School Year Abroad. Rutherford was a four-year letterman in track & field at Lebanon Valley College, where he earned a bachelor’s degree. His master’s degree is from the University of Delaware. He and his wife, Associate Head of School Debbie Rutherford, are the parents of three Mercersburg alumni: Matt ’03, Paul ’06, and Stephon Fullerton ’06. Mercersburg opened the year with 441 students enrolled (in addition to three students participating in School Year Abroad—in France and Spain). Members of the student body reside in 29 different American states and are citizens of 48 nations of the world. There are 130 students in this year’s senior class (the Class of 2017).
Among the 11 new faculty members on campus this year are Ashira Anderson and Rebecca Rose, who make up the school’s inaugural class of Teaching Fellows. Anderson, who is teaching chemistry, and Rose, who will teach Latin and Greek, have received two-year appointments, which include teaching, coaching, and residential responsibilities in the dormitory. Anderson, who grew up in Chicago and graduated from Trinity College in Connecticut, was a Posse Foundation Leadership Scholar. She is assisting with volleyball, basketball, and lacrosse. Rose, a native of Croton-on-Hudson in New York’s Hudson Valley, is a graduate of Middlebury College, where she was a member of the varsity crew team and played in the Middlebury College Orchestra. Rose is an assistant cross country coach at Mercersburg.
Meet Our New Faculty Anderson
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Eleven new faculty members were appointed prior to the 2016–2017 academic year. Front row (L–R): Carl Stensland (science), Leah Rockwell ’97 (global programs & initiatives), Lena Eckstine (admission), Katie Titus (head of school/mathematics). Second row: Jake Kennedy (admission), Rebecca Rose (classical & modern languages teaching fellow), Stuart Titus (English). Back row: Bryan Morgan ’07 (fine arts), Coleman Weibley (summer & extended programs), Ashira Anderson (science teaching fellow), Jeremy Thompson (science).
World Famous The Mercersburg trio of Conner Caruso ’16, Caroline Casparian ’16, and Suky Kuye ’16 placed second in the Rescue Mini division of RoboCup Junior International 2016, which was held June 30–July 4 in Leipzig, Germany. The students (who all graduated in May as members of the Class of 2016) were joined on the trip by robotics faculty members Julia Stojak Maurer ’90 and Marcus Jaiclin. The trip was the eighth appearance for Mercersburg students at the international competition. Caruso is attending the University of Virginia, Casparian is enrolled at the State University of New York at New Paltz, and Kuye attends Rochester Institute of Technology. Maurer, Caruso, Casparian, Kuye, Jaiclin