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ALUMNI COUNCIL SERVICE AWARD Tom Massey III ’43
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After Mercersburg, Tom graduated from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, where he majored in finance. He served in the Navy as a submariner during World War II, worked for Delaware Trust Bank, opened his own collection agency, and ultimately retired from a career with Sears and Roebuck. Tom is well known at Mercersburg as the school’s first two-time Lehigh Interscholastic Tournament wrestling champion. He was a member of the powerful teams produced by Coach Fred Kuhn in the 1930s and 1940s, and he captained the squad that won the first of four consecutive Lehigh Tournament titles. Many people know Tom as the leader of Step Songs during Alumni Weekend. He has served as a class agent and a reunion volunteer and has been an active participant in events. Tom is a member of the Marshall & Irving Alliance, and he is a Torchbearer who made his first gift to the school in 1950.
grants have generated a great deal of excitement and energy among the faculty. Pierce serves Mercersburg as an event and reunion volunteer and as a member of the Board of Regents, where he serves on the Academic Policy and Investment committees, as well as the Committee on Regents. Pierce has also been instrumental in helping found a young alumni leadership initiative in which potential future leaders for Mercersburg are identified from the school’s youngest alumni. He helped host two events for these Young Leaders and communicates with them regularly to keep them up to date on the exciting things happening at Mercersburg. Pierce is a Torchbearer and a member of the William Mann Irvine Society. He and his wife, Nina, have a daughter, Stella, and live in Hoboken, New Jersey.
Pierce Lord ’98
Mark graduated from Trinity College and holds the distinction of having been the top-ranked professional hardball squash player from 1983 to 1995. During that time, Mark was World Professional Squash Association Player of the Year eight times, and was an Olympic Athlete of the Year on three occasions. Mark was one of 15 inaugural inductees in the U.S. Squash Hall of Fame in 2000 and received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2011 World Squash Awards. He captained the first USA team to compete in the Pan Am Games, earned the Sharif Khan Award for Sportsmanship, and won the USSRA President’s Cup. In 1991, Mark founded the Talbott Squash Academy, which operates out of Stanford University and Newport, Rhode Island. He served as coach of the women’s squash team at Yale University from 1998 to 2004, winning a national championship in his final season. Today, he is director of squash at Stanford University and runs Xtreme Squash, a nonprofit urban education/squash program. Mark, who was a volunteer fundraiser for the school during the Mightily Onward campaign, lives with his wife, Michelle, in Palo Alto, California. They have a daughter, Maya, and a son, Nick.
Pierce earned a bachelor’s degree in economics and mathematics from Colgate University. He is a product developer in Bloomberg LP’s evaluated pricing service. Previously, he was owner of Lord Capital Management, an investment advisory business. Pierce also worked in the portfolio management group at Drake Management and as a market analyst for UBS Warburg. Pierce, a world traveler, has always felt that his travel experiences made him a well-rounded person, and he realized that if more faculty members could visit other countries, it would strengthen the broad worldview they share with students. Beginning in 2008, he made several generous gifts to fund travel opportunities for selected faculty members each summer. Upon completion of travel, faculty share their experiences with the school community. Pierce’s mother, Stephanie Lord, has stepped forward to support the grants; thus far, the Lords have made it possible for 19 faculty members to visit France, Italy, Switzerland, Thailand, China, Brazil, Colombia, and other awe-inspiring destinations. All interested faculty members are invited to apply for the grants, and winners are selected through a lottery. The travel
ALUMNI COUNCIL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Mark Talbott ’78
Pierce Lord ’98 (right) with Alumni Council President Dean Hosgood ’98