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State Recognition for Morgan Park Academy 2003 team

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Barry Kritzberg: "Worth a thousand words?" .................. 1 "And the rest of the story" .............................................. 2 State Recognition for

Morgan Park Academy 2003 team

"Not the typical student" ................................................. 3 Robert McClenathan: "How I came to MPMA" ••••••••••••••••• 4

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Col. Horace J. Mellum: "Dedicatory Address, Alumni Memorial Building, MPMA (Oct. 21, 1928)" ......... 7

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"The architect clears the air" ........................................ 16 "Academy bus service reaches the halkentury mark" ••• 16 Contributors:

"Camp Traverse: MPMA summer life in the woods" •••••• 17 "The adventures of 'Sarge' and 'Cap' at Spider Lake" • 21

"Hard work gets to the state tennis finals" •••••••••••••••••• 23 Dale Ralston: "The value of winning" ............................ 24 Sue Oczkowski: "The Dream Season" ........................... 25

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Robert McClenathan [38] saw the war in Europe coming and opted for a military school.

Col. Horace J. Mellun [1892] was president of the alumni association in 1928.

Enoch J. Price was president of the board of trustees in 1928.

Dale Ralston coaches and teaches physical education at MPA. Sue Oczowski coaches and teaches physical education at MPA. Sherry Grutzius teaches English in the upper school at MPA. Laura Ingram teaches Spanish at MPA. Sonalee Joshi [OS] is a junior on the staff of the Academy News.

Sara White Grassi [71] is director of alumni affairs.

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Grutzius: "I took to the woods" ......................... 26

Laura Ingram: "Four thousand dollars to read a book? You betl" .............................................. 27

~ Sonalee Joshi and Barry Kritzberg: "A mouse-trap and a beautiful machine" ............................ 29

Cover design: Barry Kritzberg Archives: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9,10, 11, 13,14, 15,16, 17, 18, 20,22,23,26,28,30 Jim and Ting Ting Branlt: 6 Beverly Review: 30 Alumni office: 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42

"WYSE" captures second in state for the fifth time in a row" .. 30

The Academy Magazine is published by the Office of Development and Alumni Affairs.

"A Pullman sweep for MPA" ........................................... 30

All news items should be addressed to:

State history finalists: a blue ribbon trio ...................... 30

~; "Class notes" ................................................................. 31 "Taps" ............................................................................. 35 Annual Report 2002·2003 ............................................... 43

Barry Kritzberg Academy Magazine 2153 W. lllth Street - Chicago, IL 60643 bkrltzberg@morganparkacademy.org Printed for Morgan Park Academy by PrlntSource Plus 12128 S. Western Ave. Blue Island, IL 60406

wopth a thousand 1Mopds? by Barry Kritzberg

A picture isn't always worth a thousand words - especially when one turns it over to read what is on the other side.

I have turned over hundreds of photographs in the MPA Archives, hoping there would be a caption there that would allow me to identify the subject, place it in some time frame.

More times than not, the caption BARRY KRITZBERG is not there.

One photograph, which came in a small frame (approximately 4 x 3) and said to be from the 1880s, was thought to be the earliest photograph of an Academy graduating class.

The frame was badly deteriorating, so I removed the photograph. I dutifully, routinely, turned it over.

There was a caption, full and complete, covering the entire back of the photograph, but it did not offer any

insight into life at MPMA in the 1880s.

The caption identified the group of nine (seven of whom are wearing military uniforms and the other two are in academic caps and gowns) - not as a graduating class of Morgan Park Military Academy of the Talcott era, but as Griswold College (Davenport, Iowa) cadets, posing on the steps of Kemper Hall in 1887.

Griswold College was established in 1859 by the right Rev. Henry Washington Lee, first Episcopal Bishop of Iowa, to primarily train priests. The school was later moved and renamed Grinnell College.

Kemper Hall still exists and is still in use. It is one of the buildings on the campus of Davenport Central High School.

Some of those in the photograph in the MPA archives are listed as students and/or faculty of Griswold College in the 1887-88 catalogue of the school.

No MPA/Griswold connection has been established.

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And the rest of the story Ah, but that was not quite the end of the story. Now, as venerable radio commentator Paul Harvey loved to say with such gusto, "here is the rest of the story."

There is an archive folder containing, for the most part, correspondence regarding the October 21, 1928 dedication of Alumni Hall.

In the folder are several letters from Osborn Marcus Curtis, Sr., on stationery of the Curtis High School in New York. What caught my eye was that Curtis had been a cadet commandant at MPMA in 1883-85 and again in 1888.

The first letter (October 18, 1928), addressed to Philip Stockhausen, president of the MPMA alumni association, sent regrets that he could not attend the dedication, for he was "too busy" with his own school. He also mentioned that he had dined recently with Col. Henry J. Stevens, who was superintendent of Illinois Military Academy, another incarnation of MPA 1890-1892.

Curtis also enclosed a letter for Abells, in which he said that he had been unable to locate any old photographs of him at MPMA. "I can't recall," he wrote, "ever having a photo taken in uniform at MPMA." He did send a photograph from 1887, however, showing him in uniform on the Kemper Hall steps, "where I was major (A.D.C. Governor's Guard, Colorado) and comdt [of] Cadets at the Griswold College."

He also wrote the names on the back and explained that those in the photo were his line officers.

So, then, the mystery is explained: there was, indeed an MPMA-Griswold connection, but imperfect records from that time made it more of a mystery than it needed to be.

But there was more.

Curtis, in another letter to Abells (November 11, 1928), expressed gratitude for taking the time to read his outline for the "Ideal School" and sharing it with the MPMA faculty.

Curtis wrote that he never expected to put his ideal school in practice, for those teachers "who stay long in any city system lose the power to invent or create anything and nothing new or strange could get into their mentalities. If any changes in ideals or methods are to come, they must come through free men who are thinking for themselves."

He then went on to congratulate MPMA for its football program, noting with pride that the Academy was scheduled to play Missouri Military Academy in Wrigley Field. Curtis rambled a bit, but mentioned the fine football teams that were at Pennsylvania Military Academy 1878-1880, who took on such opponents as Princeton, Rutgers, and the University of Pennsylvania.

If a military school in Pennsylvania had a football team in the 1870s, it certainly seems possible that MPMA might also have had a football team. The early catalogues mention football as a recreational activity, but there is no mention of contests against other schools.

The last piece of Curtis correspondence (June 12, 1933) is a postcard.

"Dear Colonel," O.M. Curtis Sr. wrote, "only the fact that my bank has all my loose [checking account] money and hasn't reopened prevents my being at MPMA for the 60th."

It was the baclc of the picture that made if obl/ious that the photograph, though taken in 1887, was not of a Morgan Parle Military Academy graduatlon~

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Not the typical student She entered Morgan Park Academy in 1895 at age twenty-six - yes, twenty-six! - to prepare for entrance to the new University of Chicago and she married at an age when others are seeking nothing more exciting than a rocking chair on a screened-in porch.

She became a bride for the first time at the jaunty age of (hold on to your hat for this one) sixty-eight.

Anna Jewett LeFevre was born December 19, 1868 on a farm near Gibson City, Illinois, in a house built by her grand parents in 1856.

What drove her to abandon an (apparently contented) country life at age twenty-six for the rigors of academic life in the village of Morgan Park is by no means clear, but perhaps she thought William Rainey Harper's liberal admission policy for women was just the ticket. The record of her life prior to coming to MPA, unfortunately, is a complete blank. She seems to have had some education, however, for she was admitted to MPA on the basis of a certificate from another school.

She entered the Academy on August 10, 1895 and tackled mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, French, Latin and Greek with sufficient flair to earn a half-scholarship for each of her last two years. Anna graduated from MPA in 1898 and then enrolled at the University of Chicago.

At the University of Chicago, she must have impressed many as bright and able, for in 1902 she was hired as the secretary to the dean of the college of education.

Anna continued in that position until 1912, when she returned to the family farm near Gibson City and became the registrar at Bradley Polytechnic Institute, Peoria, Illinois.

Bradley, founded in 1897, was one of the University of Chicago's affiliated schools (a Harper plan to raise the standards at other institutions). William Rainey Harper also served on the Bradley board of trustees.

LeFevre remained as Bradley's registrar for the next twenty-three years, until her retirement in 1935.

She had another distinction as well. Most of the women who attended Morgan Park Academy in the 1890s seemed to have had less and less connection with MPA after it reverted to being an all boys school again in 1900. Anna LeFevre was one of the few who stayed in touch - very much in touch, as it proved, for she was the corresponding secretary of the Academy alumni association for over three decades.

On May 31, 1937, not long after her marriage, Anna LeFevre Boyer sent Col. Abells a few items for the Academy "treasures closet" (as Abells called it). Included were some

letters, the alumni association secretary's book (a sign, no doubt, of her retirement from that post), and several copies of the Philolexian and the Autocrat (MPA literary magazines of the 1890s). The letters and the alumni association secretary's books seem to have vanished, but the literary magazines (with Anna Lefevre's bold, neat signature in the upper right hand corner of the front cover of each) survive as "treasures" of the new MPA archives.

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How I came to MPMA by Robert McClenathan

I was on a boy scouts excursion to Europe in 1933 and, while we were travelling by train in Germany, we went on to a side-track to let a freight train pass by.

What I saw, as the freight passed, were tanks and tanks, and many other weapons of war.

I was just fourteen at the time, but I saw enough to convince me that there would be a war before too long.

I decided that, if there had to be a war, and I had to be in it, I'd like to

be as high up on the ladder as possible.

Later, at Morgan Park High School, I was in the ROTC, and some boys from MPMA tried to persuade me to go there.

I was reluctant, however, for there were not as many cute girls around the Academy (except when they had dances) as there were at the high school. But my concerns about a future war outweighed my immediate interest in girls and I marched up the

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hill to become a cadet.

I was right about a war coming, as events proved. I graduated from MPMA in 1938 and fourteen months later war began in Europe. I went through my basic training at Camp Robinson, in Arkansas, and shortly after that I landed at Omaha Beach. I saw plenty of action as we crossed the Rhine and met the Russians at the Elbe. I climbed up the ladder, too. My rank was captain.

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Dropping the InGsk by Barry Kritzberg

to this Illinois Supreme Court Justice. His principal job, as I remember him in high school as witty and creative; he clerk, was to draft opinions for the Illinois Supreme Court remembers himself as cynical and misanthropic.

Justices, and this particular justice would often respond to Perhaps I saw only the mask, but now Jim Branit [79] is Branit's drafts by saying, "I don't understand it, Jimmy, but candid and philosophical enough to drop the mask altoit sounds good." gether.

This particular justice had a drinking problem and local His story suggests that there is not only life after high waitresses were instructed to not supply swizzle sticks with school, but a good bit of learning, too. his vodka and tonics so no one could count how many he He may be the only person in the history of the Illinois downed at one sitting.

Institute of Technology to major in English there. This was To be so young and to be responsible for writing not to be a new (and obvious) target for his misanthropy, opinions for the Illinois Supreme Court did not make Jim but it was part of a plan: lIT had a program that would feel important. "It gave me a cynical view of the law," he admit a student to the Kent School of Law after three years said. of undergraduate work.

He went back to private practice but, he said, "I was It was not that Jim was so eager to be a lawyer; in fact, overwhelmed by the prospect of doing it for the rest of my he didn't really know what he wanted to do, and he became life. Law meant you had to be a a lawyer only by, as it were, default . mean guy and beat other people at JAMES BRANIT After Kent, he spent a this game."

I love mankind.

Then it happened. year in Salzburg, Austria, It's people I can't stand.

He was driving down Elston earning an advanced law Linus V on Pelt Avenue and he saw a sign which degree. He then had an internship with the Human read, "Chicago School of Violin Making."

Rights Centre of the United Nations, in Geneva, SwitzerAs a youngster, he always land. He was offered a job at enjoyed woodworking, although he was never very good at it. He did a the United Nations, but little investigating and he visited the President Reagan chose that moment to withhold the school.

American share of UN dues.

In the past, he had reacted Jim Branif. as he appeared in fhe 1979 yearbook.

That, in turn, brought about negatively against anything that was a hiring freeze at the UN and Jim was not only out of a job, not strictly in the left-brain mode. but also out of prospects.

He had avoided anything artistic and stuck to that which He, and another Chicagoan with whom he had worked was logical, analytical. in Geneva, then started their own law practice. Branit, not Violin making was something very different, far reparticularly enamoured with practicing law, looked for ways moved from the rigors of law. It seemed to offer a way out. to do something else.

"I felt like I was wearing the golden hand-cuffs as a He eventually became a law clerk for two different lawyer," he said, "the more successful I was, the tighter they judges, where he practiced law in a different way. He worked became." first for a federal court judge and then an Illinois Supreme "Violin making, on the other hand" Jim explained, "is Court justice, and the contrast between them was astonishreally sculpture, dealing with three-dimensional curves in ing. One was a conscientious judge, of high integrity, and space. It requires a right-brained, artistic way of seeing Jim learned much by watching him work. The other, who things. I remember once, working on the curving scroll part had been on the bench for more than thirty years, may once of a violin, becoming disoriented and physically dizzy. I just have been a good judge, but at that moment he seemed out wasn't used to using that part of my brain to that degree. " of touch with even the basic concepts of the law.

He reduced his law hours to about fifteen a week while Jim, not that far removed from law school, found he attended the violin making school. himself explaining the legal principles, often from scratch, To make one violin, from sharpening the plane-blade to

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the end of the step-by-step sculpturing process, takes about four weeks of full-time work for the skilled student. A master-craftsman might be able to produce a single violin in about two weeks. The school program required three and one-half years of full-time (8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. every day) training.

Then another thing happened.

He met his future wife, Ting-Ting, at the violin making school, where she was a semester ahead of him.

They were married in his third year (Ting-Ting's last semester) and, because of an untimely and inauspicious change of instructors at the violin making school, Jim never finished.

He went back to practicing law, but for the next several years he continued to be part-time. "The partners, fortunately," Jim said, "thought that happy lawyers would be better lawyers, so they were willing to let me continue parttime if that would make me happy."

In January 1997, a child, Lilian, was born to Jim and Ting-Ting. Lilian was born with Down's Syndrome and a serious heart defect. She lived for only one year and two days and, although Jim went through the torments of guilt and shame, he now looks back on those 367 days as a kind of miracle, for Lilian taught him how to love.

It didn't come easily, however. The stress of the uncertainty of this new life was overwhelming, unbearable, and it was always heart-rending just to see the breathing and feeding tubes which sustained the fragile life of this little girl. "I had to learn how to love her," he said. "It was almost a physical struggle."

"I look back now with shame at the attitude I once had toward people," Jim said. "My senior yearbook quote, taken from a Peanuts cartoon, summed up my attitude: 'I love humanity; it's people I can't stand.'"

It was other people, however, who brought Jim the misanthrope into the light. The people at his law firm were immensely supportive, offering time and so much more.

Other people, too, strangers even, did what they could to provide aid, comfort, and prayers.

Doctors and nurses, Jim realized, were not just doing their jobs. They, too, could give tremendous love to Lilian.

"It was wonderful to see the way people cared and it was truly an epiphany for me to realize the goodness that was in people," Jim explained.

Lilian's brief life also made Jim a better lawyer, for her brief existence brought about another epiphany in Jim, about the very way he practiced law.

"I formerly used the law as a simple bludgeon. If this was so, then that must follow. But, because of Lilian, I couldn't bludgeon any longer. I realized what law was really all about. I've turned to creating law for humans and for the human reasons. I seek communion, reconciliation, not just

simply winning the case. A lawyer has to know people, to love them, and the lawyer who loves the best is the best lawyer."

Lilian taught another lesson as well.

"Lilian gave me a touch of what grace is all about," Jim said. "I was on a path where I would never be happy. She saved me, and Ting-Ting too. Lilian was never able to say one word in her short life, but she was able to show us what grace means."

Jim and Ting-Ting now have two adopted daughters, both from China, with whom they share that grace.

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A studious Jim in a science lab, circa 1977.

Hannah, Jim, Ting Ting and Sarah, in Houston, September 2003.

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75th anniversary

Dedicatopy Addpess, Alulftni Melftopial Building, Mopgan Papk Militapy Acadelfty (Oct 21, 1928) by Col. Horace J. Mel/urn

This assemblage is for the purpose of doing honor to the living and to perpetuate the memory of those who served us in the past and who have gone to their eternal rest. We are privileged to be a part of an occasion set aside in the busy moments of our lives to dedicate a building which we fervently hope shall have a lasting and beneficial influence on all who shall come within its environs.

In the days of the ancient Greeks, when a temple had been erected, the multitude would gather at the appointed place and offer up thanks to the gods for the beauty of the moment and the glory of the accomplishment. We are not now engaged in any new adventure. We are not here today doing anything of a novel or unusual character. But to each of us this moment must give a personal and inner feeling of deep devotion when we contemplate retrospectively the sacrifices that have been made by those responsible for this magnificent institution. It is with a prayer of thanksgiving that we are privileged to have with us men of outstanding and sterling character, who have had such a lasting and deep impression upon the lives, actions and thoughts of the young men who have for many years left these precincts for other fields of activity.

Within the walls of Morgan Park we have received knowledge of higher ethics and fairer rules for playing the game of life. We have here received inspiration of hope, confidence and opportunity for the individual success of our alumnus. We have been inspired by the precepts that we must not retreat from the common tasks of respectable citizenship and that there must be no compromise with those insidious forces of radical thought

now masquerading in the gaudy colors of modernity which, accompanied by discordant noises of jazz bands and flying banners of black, yellow, red and pink sophistries, are now invading our schools and churches, the homes of the idle rich and all places where the opportunity is ripe for the planting of this iniquitous seed.

We all must realize that nothing is so sacred as the integrity of our own mind. We are cognizant of the fact that it is easy in this world to live after the world's opinion, and that it is easy in solitude to live after our own. The great man, however, is he who in the midst of the world can keep with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. So let me impress upon you now the one thought of being yourself. This one gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only a temporary and fleeting half possession. You must, therefore, be impressed with the fact that the individual self must be the individual driving power of any human unit.

Your soul must be that driving force of individuality. In all ways does the soul concentrate and reproduce its truth for each of us. Each one of us has his place in the making of our common history and the future of our country is present incarnate in every just and wise man. Each one of us with a soul developed and a mind conscious can be and shall be a temple unto himself, and a mighty force in reflecting glory to others.

As a man thinketh, so he is; and as a man chooses, so is he. It has been well said that the progress of intellect consists of the clearer vision of cause, which overlooks surface difficulties.

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We must agree that to the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred; all events profitable and beautiful; all days holy and all men divine. Miserable must be the man who cannot have a clear vision of the beautiful and the true; hard must be the life which cannot see that life is indeed a beautiful and wonderful thing. To have the mind and body working in perfect coordination is a wonderful and glorious privilege. To those who have not, we must in all humility and beauty of soul help in the deficiency of such.

Let us resolve here to have respect for the opinion of others and to grant them the courtesy of an expression of their beliefs, with the hope that they are honest and sincere in such opinion, regardless of the wide divergence of opinion existing between you and them. Let us here resolve to be courageous leaders in the best thought of the day. Let us highly resolve to never compromise with wrong. Let us value our citizenship to that extent at least. Be what you will in the affairs of life, whether it be a poet, a dreamer, an idealist or a prophet, but whatever your path may be, resolve at least to be a thinker.

Retire within yourself now and then and seek the solitude of your own conscience and of your own soul. You are the captain of your fate and the master of your soul. Let us learn to think and to feel and to act according to the great precepts and principles of our Master.

Mayall that we say and do here be reflected in the glory and the significance of this building which we now dedicate to the glorious past, the hopeful present and the promising future of Morgan Park Military Academy, and to those who have

served and sacrificed for their country.

May this building be a constant stimulus for peace, and may it stand as a challenge to the statesmen of the future as a consecration of spirit to prevent wars. May these piles of brick and stone become a radiant meeting place and a real school of democracy in which each fellow shall be welcome and equal to the other.

We do now dedicate this building as an added instrument for the achievement of the high ideals which have permeated the spirit of its directing genius and its faculty. May it stand here for numberless years as living evidence of the loyalty and love of its alumni, and be a constant inspiration to those to follow us. May this school continue to be a leader in

the immediate purpose of bringing to useful citizenship the young men gathered here today and those to follow, and to whom we offer our brotherly love and our deep devotion.

May the Almighty watch over our great leaders who now hold the destiny of the future in their hands, and the inspiration of this day be a lasting and powerful force for good.

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A very early photograph of Alumni Hall. The stairs are temporary, the walkway is dirt, but the building is finished.

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75th anniversary

(Pages 9, 10 and 11 are from a 1928 brochure highlighting the features of the new Alumni Hall.)

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FTER one has climbed the ~Iemorial staircase he enters the room shown below. This spacious cadet club room offers advantages for relaxation , for social pleasures, and companionships which are unsurpassed. Its clublike furnishings are the pride of every cadet. the evening after I Nmess and at other times of freedom, groups such as that shown around the phonograph are sure to be found enjoying the homelike facilities of the room.

Can the value of these hours of friendship be measured?

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HEN too this fine new radio, gift of a pleased father of two cadets, is a center of interest.

Maybe tonight a concert from WGN wi ll be app reciated or on another occasion the boys will tune in on WLS where Captain Payne of the faculty is a popular tenor soloist.

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HERE is no faculty supervision in this clubroom.

Cadet tradition carefully guarded by the boys themselves keeps the room free from loud noises, boisterousness, or ungentlemanly conduct. "Use it right, or not at all," is their motto.

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75th anniversary

Hansen Hall: The Dedication Address (October 21, 1928) by Enoch J. Price

Hansen Hall, which fronts us to the West, is the latest building to be completed by the Academy management. Its purpose is to furnish living quarters for students, and it will, when devoted entirely to that purpose, house 148 cadets.

With the other two dormitories, East Hall and West Hall, this building furnishes housing accommodations for the full number of boarding pupils which we aim to care for, 350.

This number of boarding pupils, and perhaps 100-day pupils, we regard as a full-sized school for the space we have, or can reasonably acquire, for the activities of military drill and athletics.

Hansen Hall is the latest word in dormitory construction for a secondary school. It is fire proof, has terrazzo floors in all corridors and student rooms. It is heated by the vapor system from a central heating plant in Blake Hall, and most ample provisions are made for sanitary needs.

The building was designed and constructed by the same architect who built Alumni Hall, a son of Morgan Park, who is a graduate of the Academy, class of 1904, Mr. Ralph H. Oliver. The construction work of both buildings was supervised by the chairman of the buildings and grounds committee of the board of trustees, Mr. James W. Greenman.

This building, like Alumni Hall, is part of a general plan for the development of the Academy buildings and grounds, which was worked out by Holmes and Flynn, architects of Chicago, who are noted for their work in the architecture of colleges and universities. It is the hope of the Academy authorities that these beautiful structures will be followed by other buildings needed to give the full accommodations which we desire for our school.

As this building neared completion, the question was raised in the board of trustees, what the new building should be named. Our minds at once met on the suggestion that it be named in honor of a beloved member of our board who was taken away by death just as we were starting our building program, in which he was intensely interested, Mr. Jens Carl Hansen. So above the entrance you see in bronze lettering, the name "Hansen HalL" When, in the year 1914, Colonel Abells asked some of his friends to join with him in organizing a board of trustees to govern and conduct the academy, the fifteen positions of the board were filled from three classes: citizens of the community who had shown an interest in educational matters; alumni of the school, and fathers of students then in school. In the last class was included Mr. Hansen who then had two sons in the school and showed great interest in the work.

He was then president of the Security Bank of Chicago, and an outstanding representative of the great class of citizens to whom Chicago owes so much, those of foreign birth who have adopted American ideals with an undivided loyalty to all that is best in our democratic society. Born in Germany, of Danish stock, he was brought to America as a child. With limited education opportunities, he advanced to a commanding position in Chicago's commercial life.

To none of the responsibilities which came to him was he more devoted than to his duties as member and vicepresident of our board, on which he served continuously from its first organization to the date of his death. Other non-residents of the community lost interest in the work after their sons graduated, and resigned from our board, but Mr. Hansen's interest and enthusiasm in the work of the Academy only increased with years of service, and even after a fatal disease fixed itself upon him, he attended meetings of the board at the risk of aggravating his condition.

Such devotion and loyalty, Mr. Hansen's colleagues on the board felt, should be a permanent and worthy memorial upon the campus of the Academy. The elements of solidity, dependability and fundamental honesty, which we found in his character and work, are exemplified by this structure, and it will stand as a permanent monument to the man whose name it bears.

In the conception of Mr. Hansen and his associates upon the board, with whom he planned the future of the school, Morgan Park Military Academy was to be much more than a school where a boy may spend several years of very pleasant training under goods influences, and perhaps prepare to enter college, if his ambitions inclined that way.

To him, and to others who planned with him, Morgan Park was conceived as a sort of beacon light, set in a very stormy and turbulent center of our great national heritage.

Chicago, as the human center of this great MissiSSippi Valley, must have trained leadership from its own sons - leadership with better ideals than we now see applied to our problems.

This need is peculiarly the task of schools like this that undertake to give selected sons of Chicago training for life and work while their characters and ideals are in the formative stage.

Here we bring such boys together in a carefully guarded community, under continuous supervision and discipline of selected leaders. No better conditions could be devised for teachers of character and high ideals to instill into generous youths, the better things in morals, civic ideals and life, as well in intellect and athletics.

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75th anniversary This Academy is conducted under a charter not for profit, and without any sectarian or other prescribed qualifications for its trustees or its faculty.

Under such a charter we are free to build up here a school which will respond to every sound educational advance, which will aim to meet all the needs, in the fullest way, of its students, which will always strive to instill into its student body, representing a cross-section of the cosmopolitan life of this region, those highest principles, tastes and ideals which both ennoble the individual life, and tend to better the community in which it is lived.

In support of such ideals of usefulness, and our plans for the growth of physical equipment, we ask the cooperation and sympathy of this community and our alumni, in building up and developing this school of which those buildings which we dedicate today are only the tools, into a position of influence and usefulness which is second to none in this great middle west.

May this growth and this influence be commensurate with the devotion Mr. Hansen and his colleagues, Colonel Abells and his staff of picked teachers, have given and will give to building up here the outstanding school of its class in this western country.

As stepping stones toward this ambition for our Academy, we here today most earnestly dedicate these two structures in which artistic taste and beauty are combined with utility and honest usefulness; much as we would build here into the training of our pupils, the graces and beauties of character with the rugged honesty and intelligent forcefulness which enables youths to become a real man among men.

May these building, this campus, long a sacred spot to which generations of graduates will return as to hallowed ground; and to which new generations of ambitious youths will come to breathe here the spirit of earnest industry, splendid ideals and sound traditions which are here taught and nourished . If this vision be realized, the labors of Mr. Hansen and of us who wrought with him will be amply rewarded.

That our school is doing this, that with the growth of the school and maturing of our graduates, and their taking their places in the life of this great city, and this great central west, an appreciable advance in public life may be attributed to our school here, through the students it has trained, is the belief and hope of every member of this board, and of the faculty of the Academy. It was this faith and vision that made service on the board of trustees a duty and a pleasure

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to our friend, to whom this building is to be a memorial, and to us, who served and planned with him.

Our school is almost unique for schools of its class in the central west. Other secondary schools in this territory with military discipline are either operated as commercial enterprises for profit, or under denominational auspices .

Both plans detract from the best and broadest usefulness, we believe.

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75th anniversary

(Hansen Hall was so new as a dormitory in 1928 that no cadet had yet had his room inspected.)

morning every cadet must EACH stand inspection of quarters.

His room must be neat and clean and he soon learns that these habits are well to transfer into civilian life. This room is in East Hall. The small view below shows the corridors found in Hansen Hall.

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The architect clears the air Architect Ralph Oliver submitted a report Oanuary 3, 1929) to the MPMA board about the construction of Hansen Hall and the alterations made to Blake.

"Ground was broken [for Hansen Hall] on February 13 th [1928] and work progressed at a rapid rate favored by fine weather until the building was finished," he wrote. "To show how the work was pushed, we had working at the same time masons, partition tile setters, carpenters, slaters, lathers, plasterers, terrazzo

workers and glaziers; and I want to assure you it keeps those in charge extremely busy to take care of the numerous questions that each branch of the work wanted settled at once."

The only hindrance in the construction came from a temperamental heating contractor who did not meet his obligations squarely and who insinuated that the work of the architect "was not above suspicion."

This prompted the board to appoint an engineer to inspect Oliver's work.

Oliver responded: "Now, gentlemen, I have known most members of the board for thirty years, I have grown up in the shadow of the Academy and am an alumnus of the school, and I feel deeply hurt that the board would countenance for a single instant any such investigation ... however, I feel the engineer's report will vindicate me in every way."

The engineer did suggest some modifications, but they were relatively minor, and it seems that Oliver was, indeed, vindicated by the report.

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Acadetny bus service reaches the half-century tnark The Academy bus service rolled past another milestone in 2003: its 50th anniversary.

MPMA added a bus service, effective September 11, 1953, according to Elmer Schuldt, then chairman of trustees committee on cadet transportation.

The Academy also planned to cooperate in the new service with the Loring School for Girls, the Beverly Review reported, September 3, 1953.

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A 1960s edition of the Academy bus service.

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Camp Traverse: MPMA summer life in the woods Enrollment was on the upswing, the alumni were putting up money for a new building, and there was a heady sense of prosperity at Morgan Park Military Academy and so, in 1926, the board authorized the purchase of 80 acres near Traverse City, Michigan to be developed as a summer camp for cadets.

A summer camp option for cadets was not new, but it had previously been an on-again, off-again, hit-or-miss proposition, determined largely by faculty interest and the availability of rental campgrounds.

This was to be a new step, a more serious commitment to getting cadets (and others) into the great outdoors.

Some of the impetus for this seems to have come from Capt . Herman Mayhew, according to an account written by his son, Thomas Mayhew. It is undated, but probably written in the early 1960s.

Capt. Mayhew, shortly after coming to the Academy, became acquainted with PB. Sampson, an executive of the Boy Scouts of America, who, in turn, introduced him to Baden Powell, founder of the scouting movement.

It was through his association with the boy scouts that Mayhew became involved in summer camp work, at Camp Owasapie, near Whitehall, Michigan. Floyd Fleming, also of MPMA, soon joined him there as an assistant.

Capt. Fleming

When MPMA was looking for a site for a camp, it seemed only natural to commission Mayhew to seek one out. He found what he was looking for at Spider Lake, 360 miles from Chicago, and thirteen miles from Traverse City, Michigan.

A two-story lodge, with facilities for cooking, sleeping, and dining, was built at the camp by Bill Mack of Kingsley, Michigan.

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Capt. Fleming became the first director, for Capt.

Mayhew was still under contract for the summer with the boy scouts.

Thomas Mayhew briefly digressed in his account to remember the time when Capt. Gray worked at the camp and, on an afternoon swim, lost his false teeth (which were never recovered). He also recalled that it quickly became a tradition to hold a football camp at Spider Lake, after the regular camping season was over.

Capt. Fleming continued as director until 1933 (when, in that Depression year, only eight campers enrolled for the summer).

Capt. Mayhew directed the camp from 1934 to 1945 and, in 1946, the captain purchased Camp Traverse from the Academy.

A Report of the 1939 Season - Camp Traverse indicates that there were eighteen paying campers for the eight-week term, the highest since Mayhew took over as director.

The report also alluded to the health of the campers as generally good, but noted the usual and the unusual: sunburn, ear aches, stubbed toes; and one case of pneumonia (sent to hospital and then home). In general, the report continued, Mrs. Mayhew seemed to do better than the student doctors they had had in previous years.

There was an innovation in the camp that year too: water, previously hand-pumped, then heated on top of the stove, now was heated to that just-right temperature by a hot-water heater.

Captain Mayhew was pleased, too, with the progress of the campers in swimming. All non-swimmers had become swimmers; and five passed the Red Cross test to become junior life-savers.

On the 1939 staff were: Lewis Mayhew, as program director (but who planned to take leave from camp work in 1940 to work on a master's degree); Charles Beardsley, a student at DePauw, was in charge of music, dramatics, and camp fire activities; Tom Mayhew, handicrafts; and Bobbie Beardsley was swimming instructor.

In addition, Camp Traverse "has taken pride in the food

served, and the 1939 season was no exception." Jim and Lula Green are an "ideal couple for camp work."

Sixteen campers came for the full eight weeks, the 1940 Camp Traverse Report stated, and six more for various stays of from 3-6 weeks.

The campers participated in the Traverse City swim meet and managed to win it, "in spite of some stiff competition.

It was announced over the public address system that Camp Traverse had won the swimming meet for the past five seasons, which was nice publicity if not entirely correct."

Camp Finances were good that season, in the black to the tune of $900.

Capt. Mayhew's salary was $300, while ~ Jim and Lula Green earned a combined ~ $288. Mrs. Edna ) ~ Mayhew, previously :::=::::::::;:;:~i:II ~.~'" unpaid for her camp efforts, was voted $75 by the trustees in January -= 1940. t'~ ~~ To keep interest in - the camp during the winter doldrums, a midwinter Oanuary 10, 1941) edition of the camp newsletter, Camp Traverse Wind-bag, offered little bits of gossip about the campers, provided the dates for the next season, and noted that eleven former campers were now cadets.

Mayhew wrote to campers (May 28, 1941) to let them know that the Pere Marquette Railway round trip coach fare would be $11.60; and a lower birth would be $2.65 and an upper $1.80.

In 1943, however, because of war-time restrictions, the cadets traveled to the camp by Greyhound bus instead of by train. The war produced other hardships as well: rationing and higher food costs caused problems, and because so many young men were in military service, it was difficult to find good staff for the camp.

Captain Mayhew ran the camp until 1956, when son Thomas took it over. He continued to operate it as a camp until 1962.

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Camp Traverse was also the object of gentle, satirical humor, as this article from a 1927 Skirmisher attests.

The cock has just began to crow and the sun sheds its first light on the dew laden grass, when a snappy little fox-trot on the victrola outside awakes the drowsy campers from heavy sleep at 10:00 a. m. ,. Where is Ashendon? ", will probably be the first words of the camp director.

"What ...... again? Will you please go down and drag him out, and tell him another trip to the beach without his water wings will mean a severe slap on the timepiece." Three quarters of an hour are then allowed for a marcel or facial treatment but it takes almost this much time for Vogel to reach his shoes so he can leave them.

A hardy breakfast of buttered toast and Instant Postum follow. Thomas is usually allowed an additional poached egg to build up his puny body. The campers then return to their room to tidy up a bit with the vacuum cleaner or tune in on "Helps for the housewife" from KYW. The hottest part of the day is passed in darning old socks and learning new knitting stitches. Almost every day Capt.

Grey has a different stunt for them in crocheting.

Swimming is next on the strenous days program. Bell and Soper are only allowed up to their hips because they once fell out of a canoe and the river rose five feet. All campers are covered with insurance and a life preserver before entering the water. Arnold is content to spend the hour in wading and making necklaces from shells, while Georgie Wenger builds large walls and miniature cities for Herring to knock down with mud pies. Dunn has been dragged out of the river three times and now appears with an Evinrude Twin cylinder strapped alongside of his water wings.

The best thing to do before dinner is to work up an appetite. Thus preceding the last meal we see the jolly woodsmen arrayed in flimsy garments engaging in a little aesthetic dancing. Their best interpretation is a cross between the black bottom and the highland fling. As you see them trip gracefully along thru the woods there should be no doubt in your mind but that Factor will return with a fresh case of poison ivy. "Art for art's sake and not for the love of Mike" is the Camps motto. Soon the sun is sinking in the north and the happy dancers find their way back home by means of Moran's brilliant conversation. However with a juicy sirloin and a dish of blue point oysters waiting impatiently for them within their tent they do not take long.

The parfaits have just been finished when the shrill blast of a boat whistle signals the departure of the yacht for town. In the last minute to make the boat, vanity cases are quickly snatched up and the nail file takes its last run. After the usual breath taking trip during which the gasoline either gives out or the river dries up, the hardy campers arrive at City-In-Reverse, a nearby summer resort, to spend a pleasant evening as they wish.

Fullerton and Lentz spend most of their time reading at the public library, Lavery takes his favorite mare "Old Ironsides" out for his nightly airing. However the new pay-as-you-Ieave theatre seems to be the most popular no matter what picture is there. Rosenberg merely tells the manager it was a bum show and no admission is expected of him. About twelve o'clock everybody hears a loud laugh in the direction of the boat. It was probably skipper Shoan laughing at a joke his brother told him three years ago. Anyway they know its about time to go and the weary campers drag their feet homeward, after a busy day that well exemplifies the usual hardy life in the North woods.

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The parents who sent their boys to camp did not escape the satirical barbs of the cadets.

(Note the date of the letter.)

TEACHING THE

Boys

TO DEFY GRAVITY

TESTIMONIAL LETTER ALFRED URN EEDULL 100 Island Dressing Ave.

Chicago, Illinois.

Camp Director, April I, 1927.

Morgan Park Miiitary Academy.

Dear Sir: I am indeed grateful to you for taking the little brat off my hands for a while.

H aving found such a place for him to spend his time during the summer, I enjoyed a few golf games without the pest sending a few well aimed balls straight for my head or hiding my favorite clubs in the lake.

H e learned many things up at camp. We have given him a room out. in the barn in ord er that he may not lose that contact with nature he gained this summer.

He wants to go this summer again and I will be glad to get rid of him. He liked his woodcraft and spends most of his time at home chopping up the best furniture.

I hear some loud noises in the front roo m. Good grief! he must be at the pian o legs by now. I will stop before he reaches the parlor table. Hoping the camp sea50n will soon be at hand, I remain Yours Truly, ALFRED UR

NEEDULL

SHE WONT WALK HOME FROM THIS RIDE

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"They and their two sons were going to camp," she continues. "They were old campers who had spent a good many enjoyable summers in the woods. Cap measures the quality of his friends by one rule. If he would go camping with them, they are all right; if he wouldn't go camping with them, you know he doesn't trust them."

The "Sarge" is Edna; "Cap" is Captain Herman Mayhew; and the two sons are Lewis and Tom. The time is the Depression years of the 1930s and they are pushing off for MPMA's Camp Traverse at Spider Lake, 360 miles to the north, near Traverse City, Michigan.

The following are some of the highlights of her thirty-eight page typescript, undated, but probably composed in the 1940s, for there are allusions to such things as rations boards and any number of former campers are described as now being in military service. ("Camps have to give way when Uncle Sam calls ... ") All of the camp gear was packed in their 1929 Dodge sedan, once their pride and joy, then much the worse for wear. But it did run, that was the main thing, Edna felt. (Later, it would be a Dodge station wagon, then a Ford station wagon.)

The camp was near the Bordman River, in a great pine forest, where boys could roam free and keep an eye out for deer and porcupine and be on the alert for "plaintive cry of the whippoorwill. " Spider Lake was spring-fed, Edna noted, and there was no outlet, so the water was always clean and fresh.

There were twenty-three miles of

shoreline and five little islands in the lake. There was one resort on the lake and just a few cottages - "hardly enough people on the lake," Edna wrote, "to keep us from feeling that we are isolated in these woods.

Civilization can't bother us." A family of loons provided morning wake-up calls.

The Lodge, a two-story frame building with a large screened-in porch for a mess hall, sat on a hill, overlooking Spider Lake. It was a little down-at-the-heels, to be sure, and it wasn't easy to recruit boys in those Depression years. Only eight boys came in 1934, and the staff (aside from Cap, Sarge, and Lewis - who was a counsellor and boy-of-all work) included a man to run the programs, a swimming instructor, and Abby, the cook.

Under the lodge was a family of porcupines, which often made more noise than a chain-gang. There was more than one boy who, on hearing their racket in the middle of the night, had to be reassured that it was just the porcupines, not midnight marauders breaking into the lodge.

Sometimes, for those who were up late and knew where to look, there was the grand spectacle of the northern lights.

There was also a resident cat, not high on Edna's list of faVOrites, for she thought that it too often conveyed "a sinister contentment," as though it had just devoured another song bird.

Cap relished every moment of camp, for he believed that (as Edna said) "[it] is the only place for boys to grow into real men." His philosophy of running a camp for boys was simple: "safety first, then a good time."

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quickly got into the round of activities - sports, hiking, etc. - and spent much of their time outdoors. A favorite activity of the second summer was watching the dog, Danny, contend with Teegie, the cat, for supremacy in the camp.

There were favorite excursions, too - the overnight hike to Rennie Lake, a mud bath at the spring on the Bordman River, the cherry festival in Traverse City, the circus (where the boys earned their tickets by watering the elephants and helping set up the tents), "deep sea fishing" in Lake Michigan, where the prize might be a seven pound lake trout, and a supper and square dance outing at Miss Steer's girls camp on nearby Lake Arbutus.

Edna also remembered the fire, started by a careless smoker, on Fifth Island. Much of the camp turned out and formed a bucket brigade to help neighbors put out the blazing evergreens.

A number of pages are devoted to her recollections of the boys, the home-sick one, the funny one, the sun-burned one, the one who was allergic to virtually every food in the camp, the one who claimed a loon had bitten him on the toe while swimming, and the one who announced one day that the whitehaired Sarge was "a good nurse, she nursed in the Civil War." Some of the boys did grow up, of course, and some of them returned to the camp to rise through the ranks as junior and then senior counselors. A camp counselor, in Edna's view, was much like a private school teacher: "He is hired for a definite pOSition, but unless he has the vision to see, and the willingness to do the dozens of unmentioned things that come up

daily, he is a failure."

There was also the seven-year-old, son of a military officer, who on his second day at camp, put on his Sunday best for lunch. When he was told that such formalities were not necessary, he simply replied that he "liked to dress for dinner."

Dinner, for eight years running, was the special province of Jim Green, a Pullman-trained cook hailing from Alabama. He was never known to have had a culinary failure and Edna's mouth drooled at the memory of his fried chicken ("crusty on the outside, juicy and tender on the inside"), his biscuits ("a pleasant dream"), his mashed potatoes ("always fluffy and

white"), and his Fourth of July triumph, barbecue spare-ribs, slowcooked over a wood and coal fire, dug in a pit. Jim's wife, Lula, was the chief dish-washer and they looked forward to their camp work each summer as a "vacation" from their regular jobs as cook and dish-washer in a medical fraternity.

Edna did not neglect to give a little sketch of the director of Camp Traverse, her husband, Captain Mayhew. "He was a man of few words," she said, "but they were usually to the point. He put his whole soul into camping, [just] as he did his school work. His belief was, 'there were no bad boys.'"

Some, it is true, may have had bad habits and occasionally a boy might need to be reprimanded . "[When] it was done," she added, "the slate was washed and a new beginning was made .... To my knowledge, he never failed [to do right by] a boy in his life."

Edna, looking back over a decade at Camp Traverse, could say, with obvious pride, "we know that every boy who has breathed the good clean woodsy smell of our pine woods, gulped the water in old Spider, and drank the sparkling water from the camp pump will be a better man for having had that experience."

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Cadets William Ribbentrop [311 and Philip Graver [321 "stand guard" at the entrance to Camp Traverse in 1930.

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Hard ""ark gets t""a to the state tennis f:inals Barb Zidek [OS] and Lynsey BARB ZIDEK Bochenek [06] earned fifteen points to lead MPA to an eighth place finish in the Illinois High School Association state tennis tournament in November 2002. Barb took third in the state tournament and Lynsey captured the 30 th spot.

Barb came to MPA in 4th grade, while Lynsey, a relative newcomer, arrived as a ninth grader in September 2002.

The two players were not strangers to MPA tennis coach Carol Metzcus when they joined the team in September 2002 (Barb had missed the 2001 tennis season because of a stress fracture in her back).

Coach Metzcus saw the potential in Barbara Zidek as a nine-year-old.

"It didn't take very long to realize that Barb had a tremendous amount of talent. She also had a love for tennis and we couldn't get that child off the court in 90-degree weather," Metzcus said. "MPA provided an arena to develop her interest, but her own desire took her very far very quickly."

"Lynsey's mother and I have played tennis together for a few years," she continued, "but I didn't know anything about Lynsey beyond the fact that she did play tennis. Both girls daily demonstrated a wonderful work ethic and both are extremely positive team players. Barb and Lynsey would finish off their matches in forty to fifty minutes and then they would become cheerleaders for their teammates. They showed no arrogance and always made other players feel comfortable. As people, and as student-athletes, they are remarkable."

Barb Zidek began playing tennis

recreationally about age eight, just about the time she came to MPA. By age eleven, she was playing in tournaments.

She played in the twelve-andunder national tournament, on clay courts at Boca Raton, Florida and won two matches and lost two and finished in the top thirty-two.

She was hooked. "It didn't matter that I didn't win," she said. "I just liked playing."

Now, when she is healthy (a foot injury led to a staph infection in 2003 and another surgical procedure), she will play in twenty to twenty-four tournaments a year.

Tournaments have taken her all around the country and to such places as Panama and Costa Rica.

She has consistently been ranked (by the United States Tennis Association) in the top forty players in the nation in her age group and has ranked as high as sixth on occasion.

"When things are normal," Barb said, "I don't waste time, not even five minutes. I've learned to make good use of my time, I suppose, because I've had to do it for so long.

I'm not one of those players who blows off school. I want to go to college, and I've simply developed the habit of being efficient."

Her normal tennis routine is to play five or six days a week. She does weight training and some sprinting (primarily for stamina) for about an hour each day and then plays (or practices) one-to-three hours . The weekend workout tends to be longer, simply because there is more time.

Lynsey began playing tennis at the age of three or four and, by age six, she was beating her father in matches. By age ten or eleven, she was defeating her mother on the

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tennis court.

She entered her LYNSEY BOCHENEK first tau rnament at age ten and won it. "From then on," Lynsey said, "I started taking tennis more seriously."

She also puts in long hours on the tennis court each week and the hard work has earned her high rankings from the United States Tennis Association: eleventh in Chicago, twenty-second in the Midwest, and in the top 140 players nationally in her age group.

Lynsey, like Barb, travels all around the country to compete in tournaments. "One can't play casually and improve," Lynsey said.

"I love tenniS," Barb said, "doing it is fun. There are some people, though, who say I'm lucky, but they don't understand. I just work hard."

Both Barb Zidek and Lynsey Bochenek work hard and that, perhaps, is why they are good.

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Barb Zidek, setting up to fire another serve.

Middle school baseball

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Morgan Park Academy has been fielding baseball teams for over a century, but the successful teams of any era are probably pretty

much alike.

All the winning teams must have had, it seems to me, the essential ingredients: teamwork, toughness and adaptability (plus some talent and a little luck).

The teams that have those essential ingredients are the ones that can win a game in a last at bat or overcome a seven-run deficit.

The middle school A team has had all of those ingredients to a remarkable extent over the last three years.

The A team has had three different coaches (student teacher Chris Trass in 2001, Tony Churchill in 2002 and Dale Ralston in 2003) in the last three years and, despite that, the team was undefeated in each of those seasons. The A team, over that time, has won nineteen straight games.

All MPA baseball teams, I would

imagine, have had to overcome the usual difficulties - inclement weather, limited practice time, etc. but few have had to adjust to a different coaching style with each new season.

The A team's success over the last three years, then, is fairly remarkable and it has been the positive attitude of these young men that has brought it about.

The nineteen consecutive wins are worth cheering about, to be sure, but I can't help thinking that these victories are a symbol of the values the Academy has been teaching for well over a century.

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Top Row: Coach Churchill, Alexander Koht, P. Oreilly, P. Radakollich, Edward Nepomuceno, Matthew Wiegel. Bottom Row: Austin Borisey, Bobby Churchill, Douglass Nolan, Timothy Riggenbach, Tom Costin, Alexander Ingram.

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Middle school softball

The dream season by

Sue Oczkowski St. Clement, our next opponent, managed only one hit I could sense something special against us as we won 12-2. about this team, even at our indoor Amy Pruim, making her first start of the season, and practices in March. They were not at pitched a no-hitter as MPA pounded out 29 hits in a 30-0 odds with one another, they were win over Sacred Heart (a team of all eighth graders, by the confident, and they had that winning way). attitude.

MPA was 5-0 and, because of some scheduling complicaSome of the players on the tions and the play-off schedule, our next three games would middle school softball team were be against Latin. inexperienced, but the veterans were Amy Pruim, in her second start for MPA, held Latin to helping them out. And some of the SUSAN OCZKOWSKI new sixth graders could flat-out play. just one hit in a 15-0 victory. In the second game, Amy and Courtney collaborated on a no-hitter as we won 12-4. Then There were only two eighth graders on the team, but we made it three straight over Latin, winning 13-2, and what leaders Courtney Chiagros and Allison Gilbert proved boosting our record to 8-0. to be. Some of the players, although they had not played The championship game was on May 23 and our together at MPA, had played year-round on club teams. The entire team seemed eager to be winners at MPA. opponent was St. Margaret Mary. Our undefeated season was Such enthusiasm is always welcome, but we hadn't on the line. played a single game yet.

Our first seven batters knocked out hits and we had five runs before St. Margaret Mary came to bat. Courtney held Our season opener on April 2, 2003 was against Anshe Emet, a team that has been a them scoreless and hitless challenge for us in recent through four innings. In the fifth, years. Anshe Emet managed however, we went three-up and only two harmless singles three-down on just three pitches. and we won easily, 12-2.

They added some runs in their The second game, half of the inning and, in the against St. Viator, was not bottom of the seventh, three hits until April 15 . We did not and an error made it seem as have a lot of practice, though St. Margaret Mary might however, for the middle mount another comeback. We school had its class trips held on, however, for an 11-5 during that time. win, a perfect 9-0 record and the One would never know league championship. that our practices had been It was quite a season. In the few, however. MPA batted nine games, we outscored our .500 for the game, while St. opponents 137-25. We had 31 Viator managed only a single Top Row: Coach Oczkowski. S. Eck. Anna Stenzelextra-base hits and a team batting in the final inning. The score Kuehn. A. Kinczyk. Katie Adams. B. Gandy. Middle average of .451. was 20-1.

Row: K. Makarski. Jordan Everett. Courtney Chiagros.

The defense was also excepAllison Gilbert. L. Robinson. G. Dryjanski. Bottom Row: tional, commiting only ten errors Our first real test was Maura Marmo. Nida Badowi. Amber Sipich. Sabine. against St. Margaret Mary, all season. which always seems to field Chisty.

Our pitching was phenomstrong teams. This was an evenly fought contest, with the enal. Courtney and Amy faced a total of 220 batters and lead see-sawing back and forth. We took a 12-9 lead, but in allowed only 15 hits, limiting our opponents to an .068 the bottom of the seventh, St. Margaret Mary loaded the batting average. bases with two outs. Our pitcher, Courtney Chiagros, coaxed It was, in short, a dream season, the kind one will never the batter into hitting a routine grounder back to the mound forget. and, with an easy toss to first, we had won our third game.

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I took to the woods by Sherry Grutzius

"How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book," Henry Thoreau wrote in

willing to give up a week of summer vacation to attend a seminar?"

I wrote, in part, "I agree with Thoreau that nature makes me feel human again - I started to garden and grow flowers last year. Every window in my house has a peat pot propped and sprouting. Growing things is a stress-reliever. I am a mother, wife, teacher - chauffeur for gymnastiCS, little league, soccer and life is hectic and draining at times. Why would I give up a week of summer vacation to write by a babbling brook in a lush forest? Why the heck not!"

So, I was off on my own Starved Rock expedition. No kids (mine, MPA's or others) - just me, alone, to write and relax. I had no expectations but to see what happens when faced with a week of blank pages. What I experienced was a renewed love of writing - writing just for me. Our group, "Earth Words, " which Michael from Germany affectionately renamed "Earth Worms" was a fresh and inspiring mix of young and not-so-young teachers of all grade levels.

We bonded as a group and shared thoughts, ideas and long games of Cranium. On our last night together, we had an open microphone event. The younger teachers entered the room smirking and armed with coolers filled with an assortment of beverages - it would prove to be quite an evening. Each member of the circle shared personal, intimate writings - some filled with sadness, others were hilarious, but all created something special and meaningful.

I ended my week eager to return to my husband and kids. I went home with a revived spirit and an eye for noticing things again. It's amazing what sitting by a babbling brook with a pen and a notebook can do for the soul.

Walden; or Life in the Woods (1854) .

SHERRY GRUTZIUS

Five years ago, I took a journey into the mind of Mr. Thoreau and brought 47 juniors along for the adventure. In 1998, I accepted a position at MPA and inherited Walden as part of an American literature syllabus designed by Barry Kritzberg (resident Morgan Park Academy

expert on Thoreau) .

I must admit, I was a bit nervous and intimidated at the thought of attempting (attempting is the operative word in this sentence) to fill the shoes of the "legendary Kritzberg" especially as it applied to Thoreau.

I took a deep breath and dove into the pages. The ideas touched my soul and I soon forgot about the "Kritz factor," allowing the words to consume my thoughts for days. My husband would find me in a corner gazing out a window or in the yard sitting under a tree. I would stop to smell tulips at Bank One or examine a yellow furry caterpillar with my sons.

"What's the matter with you?", my husband suspiciously asked .

"It's a book I'm reading. It's making me notice things, " I told him.

In April 2003, we (chemistry teacher Mark Linnerud and I) took the entire junior class to Starved Rock to camp and experienced nature the Henry David Thoreau way (almost).

"They who come rarely to the woods take some little piece of the forest into their hands to play with it ... " Thoreau had prophetically written. Students, wearing face paint and army fatigues, played Capture the Flag - running, hiding and giggling like lower school kids. They roasted hot dogs and marshmallows with tree branches over an open fire (some doing this for the first time) .

Linnerud sang science campfire songs like a seasoned Chicago blues man (and kids later said that the image of Linnerud belting out tunes was one of the highlights of the trip). Some were quite resistant to the idea of camping, and yes, the raccoons paid an evening visit, the bathroom required a hike, and it rained in the morning, but it was a real and thrilling experience.

Solitude - the students experienced something special while sitting on a rock and journaling by the water.

This past summer, I was selected to attend a week-long Illinois Humanities Council nature writing workshop at Starved Rock. I had to submit an essay as part of the application process addressing the question, "Why would I be

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A few drops of rain never hindered Henry Thoreau from his nature excursions, and Sherry Grutzius, on a recent visit to Concord, Massachusetts, didn't let a little shower keep her from a little dip in the sacred waters of Walden Pond.

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thousand dollaps to pead a book?

You bet! by Laura Ingram

People are often incredulous when I tell them that the government paid me nearly four thousand dollars to spend the summer in New York LAURA INGRAM reading a book.

It's true. The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded me a grant to participate in the "Reading Don Quixote" Summer Seminar at Binghamton University, alongside fourteen other teachers from around the country.

I had previously read the book in the course of my studies both in Costa Rica and Spain, but this seminar was a chance to retreat from my normal, daily life and immerse myself as never before in the plight of this famously misunderstood knight.

Don Quixote is a familiar and endearing character, adopted into American popular culture through television and comic books, cartoons and Broadway plays, and the emblematic image of a deluded knight jousting against giant windmills continues to haunt our collective imagination. Still, these reductive adaptations tend to be superficial and at times entirely inaccurate, and there is no substitute for a thorough reading of Cervantes' original novel.

The narrative is a sly, subtle, and complex construction that spans the greatest themes of humanity: identity, love, mortality, fame, friendship, faith, inspiration, technology, reality, madness, beauty, and goodness, to name a few. One does not have to look hard to see this novel's influence

on the subsequent literary tradition.

Cervantes, a true pioneer in literature, deftly experimented with genre, narrative technique, irony, and authority, and Don Quixote has often been hailed as the first modern novel.

Many people are familiar with the first volume of the novel, in which Don Quixote dons his makeshift armor and heads out into the world to protect damsels, promote liberty, and undo wrongs. In the second, less-read but far more profound volume, Don Quixote gradually gains awareness of his failure and absurdity and returns home, defeated and humiliated, to die.

The novel teaches, among other things, that we cannot return to some idyllic Golden Age and that fame and glory ultimately cannot defeat mortality. It is a deeply sad book, but this sadness is always tempered by irony, and the reader must discover many complementary layers on the path to understanding what makes Don Quixote one of the world's truly great books.

In my twenty-page final paper, about death, I barely managed to scratch the surface of the countless images and ideas presented in the novel.

Of course, aside from the reading and seminar discussions of the text, the summer was filled with adventures (and misadventures) of our own.

Some were related to the book: watching Man of La Mancha on Broadway, visiting the National Hispanic Institute which houses innumerable editions of Cervantes's text, and viewing the hilarious documentary film, Lost in La Mancha, about director Terry Gilliam's desperate, failed attempt to bring the novel to the big screen. Other adventures

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included kayaking the Susquehanna River, croquet tournaments, wine tasting, minor league baseball games, local theater productions, and horseback riding in the lower Adirondacks.

Intense reading of any book, particularly a vast novel like Don Quixote, tends to color one's vision of the world; we wound up seeing quixotic analogies and allusions everywhere we went. At one point, one of the teachers inadvertently hopped up on a horse with no reins, and the horse decided that was his cue to begin walking in whatever direction he pleased. We spent quite a while following at the mercy of the horse's aimless wanderings, which was quite reminiscent of the romantic knightly custom often employed by Don Quixote of loosing the horse's reins and letting him lead the way to the next adventure. Another particularly quixotic misadventure occurred when we went the wrong direction on the subway and wound up in Brooklyn instead of on Broadway, very nearly forfeiting our tickets to Man of La Mancha - a predicament salvaged only by the expert driving of a zealous and determined cabby who came to our rescue.

Our weekend trip to New York City was my first visit there. I spent four nights sleeping on a loves eat in an old tenement apartment near Alphabet City, once inhabited by Allen Ginsberg and now by another teacher in my seminar. I visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim, strolled through Central Park and Battery Park, explored neighborhoods, ate in Chinatown and Little Italy, saw two Broadway shows (At A Long Day's Journey into Night, I had to switch seats because Hugh

Jackman was sitting in front of me and I couldn't see over his head!), and stared mesmerized at the whirling lights of Times Square (quite overwhelming after six weeks without television). I also paid my respects at Ground Zero. All told, the city was amazing and endearing beyond description, and I will certainly return

there.

For me, this summer was the perfect sabbatical. I had time to run and to play basketball, to finish books that I had long been waiting to read, to work on my own writing, and to form several lasting friendships with teachers whose values and aspirations are much like my own. We reflected

together about our profession, from broad philosophical ideals to practical methods and strategies.

I returned to MPA in the fall rejuvenated in mind, body, and spirit, thankful to the NEH (and to Cervantes) for this priceless experience.

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Laura Ingram, in a leisurely moment, at her NEH summer seminar on Cervantes' Don Quixote.

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A Inouse-tpap and a beautiFul Inachine by Sonalee Joshi and Barry Kritzberg

SONALEE JOSHI

Ralph Waldo Emerson's aphorism, "build a better a mouse-trap and the world will be at your door," does not apply to Rube Goldberg

machines.

Emerson was suggesting that if one could take an old device and make it better, one's fortune would be made.

Those who build Rube Goldberg machines have no such object in mind . They combine manual dexterity with technical virtuosity for an utterly whimsical result. Such whimsy can, however, win a form of glory, even if it does not make one's fortune.

The inspiration for this rare combination of imagination and skill was Rube Goldberg (1883-1970), a Pulitzer-prize winning cartoonist with a penchant for drawing incredibly complicated machines that could perform utterly simple operations.

Goldberg was firmly convinced that if you gave a person two ways of doing things, a simple way and a complex one, the person would invariably choose (out of some natural perversity, perhaps) the more difficult way.

Goldberg designed machines that would do such valuable and eminently practical things as "teeing up a golf ball without bending over" and "how to keep the boss from knowing you are late for work."

"There's glory for you," as Lewis Carroll's Humpty Dumpty liked to say, quite irrelevantly.

Ah, but there is glory.

Each year there is a Rube

Goldberg machine contest for high school students, sponsored by Argonne National Laboratories and University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign.

And Morgan Park Academy, as if to demonstrate that it was not lacking in higher whimsy, put a team together and entered the competition in 2002. MPA's team didn't advance very far, but the Rube Goldberg idea seemed to take root. In April 2003, the beautiful machine Morgan Park Academy Carnival, was judged the second best in the entire state, after a first place at the regional contest.

The Rube Goldberg team, sponsored by upper school science teacher Dr. Larry Brown, made definite improvements in preparation for 2003. The most notable difference is that the 2003 team worked at Brown's house instead of at school. This gave them access to a number of new tools and building options that they didn't have in previous years.

"Last year, it was done at school after school," said Brown. "This year, it was done during Project Week. We are able to use a wider range of tools, and we were able to leave our machine set up instead of dismantling it every day, which enabled us to build a more robust machine." In addition to increasing their building and engineering skills, the students learned to work as a team.

"They learn how to work together, to make things, to persevere," said Brown.

The team members who built Morgan Park Academy Carnival in 2003 were Rohini Srinivasan [OS], Dan Cullina [OS], Steven Marovitch [OS] , Kevin Larson [OS], Ryan Rasmussen [OS], and Joe Gradle [06], and honorary member, Muhammed Seifullah [03].

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"Science is fun, and exciting. The field is constantly changing. Rube Goldberg gives students the opportunity to experiment with science and with engineering," said Marovitch.

Many returning team members utilized what they learned last year to improve and put their machine above the rest.

"Last year we had problems of moving the machine and fine tuning, but this year, we didn't use anything that was sensitive. Instead we focused on reliability and strength. We also went beyond the requirements this year since our machine chose a can that was to be crushed randomly," said Srinivasan.

Throughout the process of making MPA Carnival, the team was faced with several obstacles that it was able to overcome and which ultimately led to first place in the regional and second in the state.

"We had a difficult time with the chute because a can had to slide down it a certain way. So it took a lot of trial and error," said Srinivasan.

"We also needed to fix a couple of ball bearings that fell out and raise a wire, but they were all minor adjustments. We also wanted to paint the machine, which we didn't have time for before the regional competition," said Larson.

The 2004 team, building on their experience and success, has a new challenge: "to select, mark, and cast an election ballot in twenty or more steps."

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WYSE captures second in state for the fifth time in a row Morgan Park Academy's WYSE (WorldwideYouth in Science and Engineering) team, after victories in regional and sectional competitions, won second place honors in the 2003 state-wide competition.

It was MPA's fifth consecutive second place finish in the state tournament for advisor and coach Larry Brown.

Individual state honors went to Vidhya Srinivasan [03] (second in chemistry; third in physics), Dan Cullina [05] (third in engineering graphics and fourth in mathematics), Kevin Larson [05] (fourth in engineering graphics), Tim Madsen [03] (fifth in computer fundamentals and sixth in

engineering graphics), and Ramah Kudaimi [03], sixth in chemistry.

At the regional competition, the team captured 11 out of 21 medals, including six first place medals out of a possible seven subject areas.

"I believe we succeeded this year because of the team member's passions," said Vidhya Srinivasan.

WYSE advisor Larry Brown attributed the success of the team to the leadership of the seniors and the rapid progress of underclassmen.

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A Pullman sweep for MPA It was a sweep.

Morgan Park Academy students placed one-two-three in the senior division (grades 10-12) of the 2003 Pullman Foundation essay contest.

It was the third year in a row that a student from Barry Kritzberg's Chicago History Workshop class at MPA has won the top prize and the third year in a row that MPA claimed three of the top four spots in the senior division contest.

The winners, announced in an awards ceremony at the Pullman Visitor Center on April 27, 2003, were all sophomores.

Barbara Zidek took the top prize (a $100 Borders gift certificate) for her essay, "We Absolutely Refuse," which looked at the 1894 Pullman strike through the eyes of union leader Thomas Heathcote.

Second place (a $75 certificate) went to Matthew Reed, for "Pullman: Tragic Idealist," a study of how the clash of idealism and the desire for profit in George M. Pullman led to a strike with national ramifications.

Neeraj Chhabra's "A Defense of Pullman's Policies," argued that the Pullman strike, viewed in the larger context of Pullman enterprises and a national depression, was not as disastrous to workers as it might at first appear. He won the third spot (a $50 gift certificate) .

Zidek, Reed and Chhabra were also honored with ribbons and certificates for their accomplishments.

Three MPA students - (from left} Katie McCafferty C09}, Sasha Jones C09} and Michelle Hill C03} - won honors at the 2003 Illinois State History Expo. Sasha Jones' project, "Freedom of Speech: Nazi March in Skokie," was awarded a blue ribbon (superior rating}, placing her in the top twenty in the state in the individual projects elementary school category. Katie McCafferty's project, on risk-taking at the Steppenwolf Theater, earned a red ribbon (placing her in the top forty in the state}. Michelle Hill wrote about her grandfather ("Henry Pryor, An Aspiring Groundbreaker"} and the discrimination he faced as an African-American in the 1930s in the engineering field. Her research paper was a blue-ribbon effort in the high school category.

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CLASS NOTES:IOJ, 30S, 408 &

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"Hello A lumni, are you there?"

Sara White Grassi [71] Director of Alumni Affairs

NOT RELATED TO JOE GRASSI,

MPMA[43] I must get at least one MPMA inquiry a month, asking me if! am related to Joe Grassi, [43]. No gentlemen, I can't convince Joe we're related. As a matter of fact though, Joe and I exchange notes from time to time. Actually, Joe was probably my first pen-pal, most likely due to my inquiry about the possibility of being shirt-tail relatives. Joe has two ladies in his life, his wonderful wife Linda, and their boat, the Snowy Owl. I bet Joe and Linda can't wait until next summer to boat on Lago Michigan.

But, we aren't related.

Sara White] Grassi

G ilbert

Rubenstein Reported from Flint, Michigan, that he is still practicing law and wants to know who is around from the years 2831. He recounted a story of his first day at MPMA. "We were all marched into the gym where we had to introduce ourselves. When it was my tum, I stood up and said that I was from America's "fmest car manufacturing capital in the world Flint, Michigan. I was so proud.

Who is older than I?"

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John Piling

Beth Piling, John's daughter, writes: "My father was a pretty interesting person. After Morgan Park, he attended University of Illinois. Later, he joined the army corps as a colonel. He was a test pilot for RCA and later established a company called National Aeronautical Corporation, later Narco Scientific. He held a number of patents and was an expert in the field of navigation equipment for small aircraft. During school (college), he played the theatre organ while early movies were shown. He purchased the last Wurlitzer Theatre organ ever made from CBS studio in Minneapolis. He died unexpectedly while on

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his boat in Key Largo Fl. at the age of 56. I thank you for the pictures and notations regarding my dad. If anyone else has recollections of my dad, I'd love hearing them."

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Bill Hugill

93 Columbia Drive Rancho Mirage, CA 92270

"I was wondering if you have heard from classmate Don Carner in California. I now live in Rancho Mirage, California. My home is off the 6th fairway. After many years of hacking away at golf, 1 had a hole in one. I should probably give it up but I'll keep playing for 5 more years, then I'll talk about it. In the late summer I travel to France and visit friends." Bill would like to know who else is around from the same era and area?

We are pleased to report that we did see your classmate Don Carner and his lovely wife, Hazel, at the San Francisco reunion this past July in Tiberon, California. They are enjoying their retirement in that beautiful village on the bay.

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Edward V. Cerney

433 Saddlebrook Ln. Hopkins, SC 29061路9475

"I had an artery operation in April 2001. I still play golf, walking 3 times a week. I married Margaret W. Adams on 17

May 2002. Please tell me the names of any survivors from MPMA class of 1937.

Class of37, time to get in touch with Ed. Sara Grassi

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Hoby Van Deventer

1002 Oakley Streator, IL 61364

VANDY@UB.NET

"I was sent to MPMA and really had an opportunity to meet other kids for the very first time. After graduation I worked for my stepfather and then joined the army in the Spring of 41 and was sent to Hawaii. I spent the next four and a half years in the Pacific and was the First Sergeant of a heavy mortar company participating in four campaigns.

When back home 1 attended Knox College and met the world's finest, my wife Charley. 1 have had a wonderful life. We met, traveled with, and exchanged stories with some of the most wonderful people in the world. Memories, memories, memories, what more could one ask?

Even the bad ones, in retrospect, are good to recall.

Aloha."

CLASS NOTES:40s [40]

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Joyce Crowe

"Retired and loving life. .. golf 3-4 days per week. Road trips around Florida. Recently auto trip to Texas for my 77th birthday party with 6 sons and wives and grandchildren.

Anyone in the 42-45 classes, how about a Florida reunion? "

Loring Joyce is selling real estate with the Russ Lyon Realty Company in the greater Scottsdale, Arizona area. She is an avid golfer and enjoys the southwest and the weather. You can visit her website: www.azproperty. net.

Joyce writes: "I so much enjoyed meeting [Sara]. It was a great time to enjoy the game and get acquainted. I thank you for your warm hospitality in having the tailgate feast. My warmest regards and look forward to your return visits."

(Who else from Loring is out there?)

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Mary Stoeber Richards Loring

E. Wakefield, NH "I know several Loring girls ... Natalie Barker Dodge, Betty McAfee-Miller, I will attempt to find more for you. Do you need a class book? They would all be the class of 40. Another tid bitBill (William Richards MPMA [40]) and I were in love from age 16, and of course attended many Academy functions. He was co-captain of the football team along with Irwin Martin and of course I attended every game and looked after Coach Mahon's child. We were married in 43 due to the war and had 50 wonderful years before his passing in 1994. Will keep in touch and try for more names."

Mary, the Loring Alumni Association would love you to share your memories.

The more names the better. There are a lot ofMPMA and Loring love stories and marriages. We would appreciate hearing about all ofthem.

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William Getz

Bob St. Pierre

Bob, I think a Florida reunion would be a great idea. Let's plan a time when the wind chill factor is hovering around 17 below zero in Chicago!

Joyce Crowe with friend Marty (Arizona Reunion Spring 03)

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Dick Phillips

Wood, Phillips, Katz, Clark & Mortimer 500 W. Madison St. Ste3800 Chicago, 1L 60661

[In Chicago practicing law.]

[43] Van C. Argiris Travel/still selling real estate "If you are healthy-keep working." I am working out and swimrningweight is only 178-in great health. I want to remind members of our class 'IT IS OUR 60th! ' How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are- 19 yrs old, no joke!"

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Ralph Schiller

Palm Beach, Florida We asked Mr. Schiller if he thought it was time for another Florida reunion. His reply: "I would be pleased to help any way I can. Spent four years there as a boarding cadet."

Despite differences, Mr Schiller has "fond regard for memories of MPMA" and was pleased by the Chicago Magazine's report of MP A's progress. He says, "one can marvel at the school's achievement. .. " He asks, "my platoon leader one year was Joe Grassi, are you related?

No, Mr. Schiller, I have compared the 'Roman nose' ofmy husband to Joe's and although they are both handsome, we're not related.

Joseph Grassi

Joe and his wife Linda, are living in Chicago and are enjoying summer boating on Lake Michigan.

Bay area reunion goer.

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Alumni/ ae

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John Dosland

Louis Kole

Lou writes that he retired after 30 years running a Pontiac, GMC, VW Dealerships in Oak Lawn, IL. He's an avid golf player in Illinois and Arizona. He is recovering from surgery. When Lou was asked what his stock pick would be, he replied "Morgan Park Academy".

Attorney practicing in Fargo North Dakota Favorite sport: web surfing Favorite quote: "A fellow on a plane asked how I stood the weather in Fargo. I said, 'it keeps the rif-raf out.' The fellow said that it was too cold for him. I said 'see, it works. '"

Lou Kole [48] & Bill Adams (Arizona Reunion Spring 03)

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Willard (Bill) Diamond

Bill wrote the Academy for a '48 Skirmisher. The school only has the one copy. Ifanyone out there has a spare, I know a fella who'd like it. Otherwise, I'm going to be spending a long time at the copy machine. The Academy could use a few 48 Skirmishers also.

Bill writes: Dear Sara, First, may I thank you for the closing paragraph in your reply to my request for a Skirmisher.. .Oh to be 17 again. Talk about the good old days. Yes, of course I would love to receive a 48 Skirmisher no matter how long it takes. Most of us from that year (those still with us) are probably drooling in a cup (all in jest of course). I have been fortunate enough to locate quite a few old cadets. When time permits I'll gladly fill you in. Thank you for your timely reply to my request and of course paragraph six of your email. ..

Bill is still a good looking guy ..

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Robert Gamble

"My wife Betty and I are enjoying retirement (past 3 years) in good health. I taught high school physics and math for 8 years after retiring from ITT Corporation.

We spend summers in Vermont.

Especially enjoying 6 great kids and 5 grandchildren. I credit Capt. Grey and MPMA for my excellent foundation in math."

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Lee Tew

3330 W. 100th St Evergreen Park, IL E-mail:LTEW3330@aol.com Lew writes that he is semi-retired, loves golf, fishing and hunting.

He's made trips to Florida, Washington DC and Baltimore. Celebrated 50 years of marriage with 21 kids and grandchildren at Grand Geneva. He says, "I have pix for Bill Diamond, Bob Lee Tew [48] (on left) with his "pike" dream.

Schmidt and Joyce Bishop if they want them.

Last Call!"

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CLASS NOTES: THE 50s

I am Pastor of Tabor Lutheran Church. Husband to Sharon (37 yrs), father to Kimberly Sampson, Martin Schossman Jr., and Heather Wallisch. Grandfather to eight. By God's Grace I am one of His undershepherds.

[58] Edward Haney

Anyone know these Loring girls? ..

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Martha H. Swift Loring

Mrs. Virginia Miller Taylor taught us such useful things as the difference between 'nauseous' and 'nauseating'.

Her husband was Capt. Taylor.

[53] William Craske wrote for a copy of his diploma from the year 1953.

Editors note: Most unfortunately, the Academy didn't keep copies ofdiplomas.

There are some class and grade records in storage but this is hit or miss due to some water damage several years ago where records were kept. Barry Kritzberg is our school's archivist. We are working hard piecing together the school's history.

Ifany ofyou have spare yearbooks or MPMA pictures, stories, memorabilia, etc., that you are willing to part with, your school would be honored to display and tell the story.

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"I am presently the Operations and Maintenance manager for the Surface Towed Acoustic Analysis Sonar System installed on USNS ships. Still living in Chesapeake, VA with my wife of 42 years. I have two daughters, and three grandchildren. My oldest grandchild is in the USMC working in a classified electronics project. Lately I've had a few health setbacks but am on the road to full recovery.

I would like to hear from anyone that graduated with me in 58 and also any of the Loring Ladies that remember me.

Arthur Gorlick

"Have had a series of medical setbacks. I am working on a healthy comeback. Please give my best wishes to all who attended the reunion. The message in all this: Don't grow old."

[56] Ed Jerabek Ed planned for the Zeta Fiesta in October 2003, to be held in Mexico. All Zeta classes are asked to contact him for details. E-mail address: ajC@enteract.com.

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Pastor Martin Schlossman

"I am very active with the CAPS program in Chicago and serve as Chairperson for the 17th Police District. I am also on the Faith Leadership Advisory Committee for Mayor Daley's office on domestic violence. I am also on the Board of Directors for Albany Park Community Center.

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. .. or these military guys?

TAPS A. Richard Ayers, MPMA 1936 Charles Pagels MPMA 1940 Dr. George B. Whitfield MPMA 1940

Arthur A. Hanson MPMA 1944

Norman Fleming MPMA 1949

George Stemmler, Jr.

Charles Rabishaw

MPMA 1944

MPMA 1953

Charles Busbey MPMA 1947

Russell Frink MPA 1966

Bob Burchinal MPMA 1943

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CLASS NOTES CLASS NOTES: 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s & 2000s THEN

&

Now

MEET TERRY PEIGH [71] by Sara Grassi ily thought of all this travel? "They have been very supportive of my schedule, and these days, it's not that uncommon for people to work out of two cities. "

High a glassy skyscraper, overlooking Michigan Ave., I was waiting to interview, The 1971 MFA Book Bouncing Champion, Terry Peigh.

How does one go from book bouncer champ to top executive?

Terry is a hybrid executive at Foote Cone & Belding (possibly the largest global advertising firm) and True North Communications, a parent corporation to FCB. He and his family live in Chicago, but he also works in New York. He manages operations and real estate for FCB and their 95 global offices and does some 'creative ad stuff' with accounts like Diet Coke and John Deere. He's the person responsible for managing the creative team. The other hat he wears is working for the Chairman at True North in NYC where he says he's "in charge of keeping the trains running on time." He loves his position, saying "it's truly satisfying, and challenges both sides of the brain, the creative side and the business side. I love putting teams together and making things happen." When asked what was the most rewarding feature of his job, he gave a sly smile and replied "frequent flyer miles," of which I'd assume are many. I wondered what his fam-

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Tom Murdock

"I was a student at the school in the last days as a military academy. Attended 4th grade through high school, graduating as part of the class of 1960. Finished a 20 year career in the US Navy in 1986 and have been in business since. Have many fond memories of my time at the academy and if I am ever in the area will stop by to see what remains from my time there."

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Charles E. Anderson

"I started in the first non-military academy class in 1959 and my mother Joan was the admissions director for several years. I retired in the fall of 2000 and my wife Connie and I currently reside in the Smoky Mountains. If any alumni need info regarding hiking or backpacking in the Smoky Mountains, or surrounding areas, please put them in touch with me ."

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I asked, "Looking back, when did you know this was the direction for you?

"Remember our senior project at MPA? Well, my group made the 1st rock video to Jimmie Hendrix's T erry now Star Spangled Banner, now that was fun. But of course I took all four years of math and four years of science and thought it a great foundation .. .it was a solid curriculum and made college manageable. Science was the best, really enjoyed Doc Brown and Henry T. Lee. (~to

Richard Jennings

President of Smithereen Pest Management Co. "Love to boat. I race Pied Piper in the Mackinac race. We've been building a new house lately.

Best stock pick: Valance. "

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Peter van der Steere

"After graduation from college, I traveled for four years and settled in San Francisco, 71 . I have lived here since that time. I spent 12 years studying Buddhism at the Zen Center of San Francisco and established a construction firm in 84. I married in 81 and have been separated since 96. I have 2 sons: 17 ( a dancer) and 14 (an improv artist) who resides with me 112 time.

My interests include Buddhism, literature , history, photography and Bay swimming. My intention is to reconnect with the people from my early and school days. "

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George Kumis

George was elected to the Hinsdale High District 86 Board.

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Jerry Levit

"I have recently reconnected with one of the truly great teachers [Stan Carmichael] that ever graced the halls ofMP A and he tells me that he and his wife will do their damest to make it to the weekend. In any event, he would probably enjoy receiving the Academy Magazine. If there is any cost, send me the bill ." The Carmichaels will be added to the mailing list.

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JanetWolkMuzatko

"8th grade reading teacher in Elkhorn, WI. Team leader-taught 30 years. I love to read, garden and walk. Just celebrated 19th wedding anniversary. Hoping to return in 4-5 years. Elkhorn just built a new middle school. I'll be moving and adjusting to the new building. Planning a return trip to Hawaii 2004. Want to contact Nancy Andelman Opyd, MPA 1968. "

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[73] Karen

Linda Cardozo Feder "My husband AI and I are great.

Daughter Stephanie (25) is living in San Francisco now the 2nd year.

She has a private voice studiO, sings in the SF Bach Choir and Jazz band and auditions like crazy. My son Steve (23) is finishing up a year's study at the London School of Economics.

He'll have a masters degree.

He still loves acting and directing and starring in the Sondheim Review in London .

I am starting a second career and plan to go into business for facials and body care."

Snappy Answers: A truck driver was driving along on the freewqy. A sign comes up that reads 'low bridge ahead'. Bifore he knows it the bridge is right ahead of him and he gets stuck under the bridge. Cars are backed up for miles. FinallY a police car comes up. The cop gets out of his car and walks around to the truck driver, puts his hands on his hips and sqys, ''got stuck, huh."

The truck driver sqys, (No, I was delivering this bridge and ran out

of gas."

[71] Nancy Johnson Stout "1 have two girls and have been married for 17 years. gOt my MBA from the UniverI sity of Denver. I worked in corporate marketing research for about 10 years in between kids. Then I worked for a large bank and then the United Way. My summer was busy with skating competitions and a short trip to Vail.

My daughter and I run a small business now. I hope to be in Chicago over Thanksgiving.

Any 71s around, let me know!"

1

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M. Lauri Mikael Salovaara

C. Nelson [72]

"The whole family, having survived hockey season with four intact skaters, went to Alta to ski in mid-March. We have tried to count back and think it is our seventh year running for a March week at the Alta lodge. Malcolm (then 6) and I went to Honduras with the family of one of my Goldman Sacks partners last July to see Mayan ruins, cloud forest and

Nielsen Isaacs Profession : violin teacher "I've been married to Don Isaacs for 25 years. I have 3 children, Phillip 21, Pete 17 and Meg who is 12 years. I perform with the Lafayette [71] Christensen, Patricia [78] Area String Quartet. I Martinez at the Arizona R eunion 03 enjoy my family and music." off shore islands. We had so much fun, we are taking eveMark Sch neider ryone back in August."

"I teach physics at Grinnell College. I play banjo, mandoChristina Nelson lin and guitar with a couple of "I am in Chapel Hill NC and local amateur folk groups." am teaching Western Civ at a local junior college this seSidonie Lee mester and will be finishing my dissertation. I presented "Profession: Teacher & Triaa research paper in Oct in thalon competitions. I am Washington DC at a history enrolled in the University of conference. My daughter is a Northern Colorado for a Masfreshman at Smith and my ters of Special Education. I son has just begun high want to contact Doreen Stelschool at a small independent ton, Indre Vepstas and Peter Quaker school."

Babakitas ... Best stock pick: Horizon Dairy. "

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Jim Fitch

I"US Army (infantry officer) 1977-1991. A banker, 1991-2003. Instrument rated private pilot and Bible study are my hobbies. The bank just sold (June 03) We're moving to Florida .

Four children : Jay (21), Brian (19), Amy (15), and Alex (12).

It would be great to reconnect with all my classmates."

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Susan WaitkusWestcott

Sue and Craig are enjoying their one-year-old daughter Serena, born September 28, 2002. Sue wants to know what all her classmates are doing.

Bruce Barker

"I would love to visit but I live in England and have since 1995. FYI, I am married with 2 children. I teach computer skills at a local college.

Please say hello to everyone and feel free to give my e-mail address to anyone who wishes to contact me."

Serena Westcott

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Diane PappageorgeMarino has moved to River Edge NJ.

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Jon is Director of Recruiting, Staffmg and Compliance at Nestle Purina PetCare Co.

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Carrie Swearingen

"Thank you so much for the adorable MPA baby t-shirt.

What a nice surprise. The arrival of Matteo was a real miracle blessing for us and we truly appreciate your thoughtfulness."

downtown, just a few steps from work, and would love to hear from any of his former classmates. Tell Mr. Hibbs , 'hi! '"

Jon Sabnons

[89]

Marc Sokol

"I am now working for Bally Total Fitness, managing their martial arts department for four of their clubs in Chicago.

I am also training for my 2nd degree belt in Tae Kwon Do and my 1st degree black belt in Hapkito ."

"As for what I've been up to .. . graduated summa cum laude from the Indiana University School of Law in 200l. In May 2003, obtained my MBA from Duke University, Fuqua School of Business. I now work as a corporate litigation attorney for the Chicago law firm of Jenner & Block. I live

CLASS NOTES

Wendy Heibnan

Attention Alumni!

Mentoring Program: Looking to make a difference in the lives of MPA Students and recent graduates? ...

Consider Mentoring If you are interested in an emerging alumni volunteer program contact Joe Morrow [97) via sgrassi@morganpark academy.org.

90s

Class of 1993 Reunion Top row: Elham Abdishi, Julie Cuadros, Phil Danielewicz; Second row: Latania's fiance, Latania Broyls, Marc Mesleh [~O], Faheem Jesani, Mike Mesleh; Bottom row: Gina Valdes, Gretta Heintz, Liz Winger, Maria (Alexander) Taylor, Soter Nomikos, Mark Hopkins

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2000s Tiffany Griffin

"I have kept in touch with just a few of my classmates but eagerly await Mr. Kritzberg's Alumni Magazine to see what everybody's doing. As I begin my senior year at Spellman, I am becoming more and more nostalgic about my time in Atlanta. 1 also find my thoughts wondering to the fond memories of classmates and teachers at MP A. I miss everyone.

I'm also interested in any information from the classes of98, 99 and 2000."

Hats Off to MPA 8th Grade 2003 Upcoming Alumni Events • Alumni Basketball Game on campus in the gymnasium, Sunday, December 28,2003 at 6:00 pm

Dates to be announced:

• Salute to Excellence March 6,2004 at the Four Seasons Hotel, Chicago

Southern California Reunion

• 4th Annual Northern California Alumni Reunion- Bay Area (Summer 2004)

Commencement ReunionChicago

Annual Florida Reunion

3rd Annual Arizona Reunion

TERRY PEIGH (-+from 36) Perhaps that's why he thought he'd like to study engineering at University of Colorado.

"After a year, I switched from the U of Colorado to Northwestern to study film, then U of Chicago for my masters in business. Advertising was the perfect field to compliment these two interests." After school 1 hooked up with FCB right away.

I asked about the book bouncing prowess?

"Well, you've got to have a little fun during study hall. 1 remember someone getting mad and throwing a text book down on the floor, only to have it bounce. 1 practiced that bounce and could get a textbook to hit the ceiling."

"I wonder if this talent would fly on David Letterman's Stupid Human Tricks."

So, that's how he had fun in study hall, what about now? One can't be throwing books .

"Oh, that's easy," he says, "my wife and 1 go to Africa."

He said several years ago he had done some government work which took him to Africa . .. and instantly he became an Africa-o-phile. He's traveled extensively thru Tanzania, Nairobi, Botswana and other nations. There are those amazing animals and the most brilliant scenery. If you let it, a sa/an' has the potential of changing your life. It's as if time stands still.. ."

Terry never stands still for very long.

He has given much of his talent and time for pro-bono government work for various social programs. He assists these groups by bringing the teams together who can best communicate the program and then manages that team. He says, "I really wanted to be a film maker from the begin-

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Terry then ning ...even when I was a student at MP A. 1 make shorter films and try to get a message across in a few seconds as opposed to a couple hours . My profession has been very stimulating. I love the creative process, and problem solving, I really like making things happen. I'm lucky, I've traveled, worked and met a lot ofvery creative people."

There are a lot of creative kids who have graduated from MPA. 1 was just lucky to be in Terry's class. ill

Where they are going !

MPA Class 2003 Adrianne Artis Amanda Bartman Patrick Bertoletti Susan Bertoletti Walter Cartwright Karli Cooke Rory Cox Robert Czarkowski *Marc Dabaco John Doherty

Oakwood College Valparaiso University Kendall College De Paul University Howard University U of I at Chicago Lawrence University U of I at Chicago Moraine Valley Community College

Ginger Lily Dragon Patrick Fitzgerald **Gregory Floyd Alicia Foote Stephan Garaffo Louis Gulino Justin Gunn Christopher James Jeremy Jones Caitlin Kenny Sara Khorshid Tara Kornhaber ShaunKuhn David Lewandowski Keke Linton David Madonia Timothy Madsen Michelle Martinez **Poonam Merai

Milda Pliop/ys & Amanda Bartman

Natalie Morgan Chisa N chekwube Milda Plioplys Lindsey Proctor Anne Radakovich Omar Raddawi *Drew Schlomas Katharine Schwer *Muhammad Seifullah Timothy Silagyi Nastassija Spraggins Vidhya Srinivasan

Sai Sunkara Patrick Toomey Aberon Truneh Valerie Vega Brad Watson Brandy Williams

Loyola University, Chicago U ofI/Urbana-Champaign Loyola University of New Orleans Loyola University of New Orleans Loyola University, Chicago Grinnell College Morehouse College U of I at Urbana-Champaign University of Minnesota Claremont McKenna College Northwestern University Johnson and Wales Moraine Valley Community College (Daimler Chrysler CAPS program) Iowa State University Harvard University Marquette University lllinois Institute of Technology University of lllinois at Chicago U of I at Chicago (Guaranteed Professional Program in Medicine)

Loyola University of New Orleans Northwestern University U of W /Madison Michigan State University Warren Wilson College Princeton University Reed College Moraine Valley Community College Purdue University Northwestern University (Honors Program in Medical Education) University of Missouri Kansas City Medical School St. Xavier University Drexel University Beloit Bradley University Loyola University, Chicago

*students undecided at time ofpublication ** alumni! ae class representative

Alutnni Giving Third Millennium Circle ($5,000.00 + ) Dr . James Butler [S6]

Mr. Daniel W. Jarvis [97]

Mrs. Aida Rodriguez-Parnas [68]

Founders Society - ($2,500.00 + )

Ms. Karen Butler-Cook [SO]

Mr. David A. Jones, Jr. (7S]

Mr. Bruce C. Rolfe [S2]

Mr. Richard L. Duchossois [40]

Mr. Brian T . Bye [SO]

Mr. Charles A . Junkunc [59]

Mr. Robert Rosi [67]

Laureate Society - ($1,000.00 + )

Mr. Theodore R . Carlson [67]

Mrs. Karren [Rodighier] Junkunc [60]

Mr. William D. Rundle [47]

Class of 19S2

Mr. Donald C. Carner [35]

Mr. Kenneth Mortenson [63]

Mr. Ira W . Kahoun

[~6J

Mrs. Nancy [Montgomery) Runyon [74]

Mr. John E. Horn [66]

Mr. Edward V. Cerny [37]

Mr. Eugene J. Katz [59]

Mr. Ronald Sabath (51]

Mr. Kermit O . Kelly [73]

Mrs. Carla (Broermann] Christensen (7l]

Mr. William W. Keefer (43]

Mr. L. Mikael Salovaara (71)

Ms. Susan Shimmin [66]

Mr. Frank Correll, ill [S2]

Mr. Frederick D. Kitch [46]

Ms. Kim [Kole) Sappenfield [S2]

Mr. Walter S. Snodell [62]

Lt. C . Russell C. Craig USAF(Ret.) [37]

Dr. John 1. Kitch, Jr. [51]

Mr. Robert L. Scardon [46]

Mr. Jonathan G. Turk [S2]

Mr. Robert C. Crist IV [70]

Mr. Mark C. Klein (55]

Mrs. Sue [Tuthill) Schiess [69]

Skirmishers Club - ($500.00 + )

Mr. Andrew V. Dahlberg [64]

Mr. Frederick W. Koberna [49]

Mr. William B. Semmer [71]

Mr. Stanley Balzekas, Jr. [43]

Mrs. Tracey [Thorsen] Daly [S2]

Mr. Edward C. Kole (53]

Ms. Claire Concannon [S5]

Mrs. Nancy (Dahlberg] Davis [65]

Ms. Jennifer Kraft (86]

Mrs. Leslie Shimmin-Hickey (72)

Ms . Carol [Patejdl] Col ton [75]

Mr. Allen DeNormandie [65]

Mr. Arthur J. Kralovec (39]

Mrs. Daniela [Ford] Silaides [94]

Mr. Charles D. Cresap [52]

Mrs. Olga (Kurylak] Derkach (7S]

Mr. David Kudla [01]

Ms. Verneta J. Simon [7S)

Mr. Ronald D. Drynan, Jr. [79]

Ms. Elisabeth A. Doherty [9S]

Mrs. Gail (Scruggs] Lauryn (69]

COL Gene R. Simonson [45]

Mr. Joseph Grassi [43]

Mr. James D. Doljanin [S2]

Mr. Craig W. Lenz (S2]

Mr. James E. Smith [42]

Mrs. Sara [White] Grassi (7l]

Mrs. Jean Doyle [79]

Mr. William F. Liptak (49]

Mr. William Springer [61]

Mr. William T. Kwan [49]

Dr. Joan Driscoll [70]

Mr. Ronald G. Loomis (55]

Mt Margaret Spurgin [S2]

Mr. Terry Peigh [r7I]

Mr. Malcolm Duffek (53]

Mr. Kenneth R. Mack (5S]

Mr. John M. Stack (61)

Mr. Jerome A. Thrall [44]

Dr. Gregory A. Dumanian [79]

Mr. George A. Mahon Jr. (54]

Mrs. Jerri [Jansma] Stanley [62]

Mr. Hobart Van Deventer [39]

Mr. Stanley B. Eigelberner (54]

Mr. Frank A. Major [42]

Ms. JudithA. Stark [62]

Dr. Linda M. Weinfield (76]

Mrs. Janice Erickson [62]

Ms. Jennifer Matz [94]

Mr. John F. Stewart [47]

. Robert Shetler [46]

Mr. Mark Wiegel [79]

Mr. John S. Erickson [65]

Mr. James H. McClure (35]

Mr. James S. Strenk [75]

Alumni Club - (up to $499)

Mr. Steven E. Erickson [62]

Mr. Michael D. McClure (60]

Ms. Carrie A. Swearingen [S2]

Mrs. Madonna [Farmer] 1 bdishi (63]

Mr. Karion J. Fitzpatrick [47]

Mrs. Amy (Danielewicz] McCombs (90]

Ms. Martha H. Swift [52]

Mr. JohnF. Aberson [47]

Mr. Fleming W. Flott [45]

Mrs. Kelly [Stevens] McCormick (S2]

Mr. William A . Taylor [40]

Mrs. Chris [Rohe] Alkire (62]

Mr. Francis E. Flynn [48]

Mrs. Kathryn McEachern Baker [62]

Mr. M. L. Tew [4S]

Mrs. Tara [Brigham] Allen [S6]

Mr. Philip C. Freund [42]

Mr. Robert E. McGuire (4S]

Mr. Joel Tornabeni (61)

Mr. Dominic E. Amadio, Esq. [59]

Capt. George Froemke USA(Ret.) [42]

Mr. James E. Meck (50)

Mr. C. Robert Tully [39

Col. Allen M. Andreasen USMC(Ret.) (47]

Ms. Nicole E. Frontera [01]

Ms. Marilyn Meunier (70)

Mr. James G. Tuthill,Jr. (71)

Mr. William Arnold (02]

Mr. Robert B. Gamble (4S]

Mrs. Linda E. Millette [61]

Dr. Stanley G. Tylman [39]

Mr. AsaM. Bacon [44]

Mr. F. Morgan Gasior [SI]

Mr. JosephM. Moran [97]

Dr. JeffR. Unger (70)

Mr. Charles F . Bacon [3S]

Ms. Peggy Gatsinos [00]

Mr. TimothyM. Murnane [S3]

Mr. Peter C. van der Sterre [63]

Dr. Julian 1. Barish [34]

Dr. Charles W. Getz [42]

Ms. Michelle M. Murphy [SO]

Mr. Spiro W . Vass (47)

Mr. Richard L. Berliner [45]

Capt. J. Robert Gilbert [45]

Mrs. Claudia (Pridjian) Nazarian (7S)

Mr. H. Lincoln Vehmeyer, Jr. [47]

Mr. Joseph Bertoletti [95]

Ms. Robin Goss [63]

Mr. Stanley Nichols (48)

Mr. Richard F. Vitkus [57]

Mr. Marc Blackwell [S2]

Ms. Dana Green (67]

Mr. Lawrence A. Novak [4S]

Mr. PeterW. Voss [54]

Col. William C. Boehm USA(Ret) [37]

Mrs. Mary [Resman] Guthrie [S2]

In Memory of Walter Page [44]

Mr. John A. Wass [65]

Mr. Harold A. Boex [52]

Mr. Harry J . Hager, Jr. [4S]

Mrs. Susan [Gnilka] Panovich (72)

Mr. George E. Wiegel, Jr. [50]

Mrs . Lisa [Kirk] Bourke [SI]

Mrs. Sue [Vlasis] Hale [69]

Mr. George J . Pappas, Jr. [55)

Mrs. Janet Wiegel-Elmore [60]

Mr. Jerry D. Bowden [57]

Mr. Gary C. Hall [65]

Ms. Virginia [McEachern] Payne (61)

Mt. Mark Wiegel [79]

Mr. Kristofer Braaten [S2]

Mr. Edward P . Haney [5S]

Dr. Bradley M . Pechter [SO]

Ms. Sybil M . Wilkes [7S)

Mr. William P . Braker [44]

Ms. Wendy Heilman [S9]

Mr. Matthew Quinn [96]

Mr. Pearson F. Williams Jr. [5S)

Mr. Carl Brody, Jr. (S5]

Ms. Elizabeth M . Hendel [94]

Mr. Robert Reid (36)

Dr. Leon J . Witkowski, Jr. (65)

Mrs. Jean (Fern] Builder (62]

Mr. William Hickey [7l]

Mr. John Renaldi [S2]

Mr. James P . Wognum (63)

Dr. Frank A. Burd [52]

Mr. Paul Holzman [7l]

Mr. Dale R. Richards [SI]

Mr. Julius J . Zschau II [57)

Mr. Bruce E. Burmeister [61]

Mr. Stafford Jacques [S2]

Mrs. Theresa [Farley] Robinson [S2]

Dr. Kenneth J. Zubrick [52]

Annual Report 2002路2003 Audited Financial Summary (July 1, 2002 . June 30, 2003) Assets: Cash and Cash Equivalents ............................................ $ 311,901 Investments............................................................... $ 679,571 Receivables................................................................ $ 395,871 Pre-paid Expenses....................................................... $ 61,844 Plant and Equipment..................................................... $ 2,081,640 LongTerm Receivables .................................................. .-,;$;-----:..;15:..;:8;.:.,8:..;:7~9;....

Total Assets........................................................... $ 3,689,706 Liabilities and Net Assets: Liabilites Accounts Payable .........................................................

Notes Payable ............................................................. , Accrued Payroll/Expenses ..............................................

Deferred Revenue ........................................................

Long Term Liabilities .....................................................

Total Liabilites ........................................................

$ 147,305 $ 248,842 $ 120,706 $ 1,230,026 $ 1,633,624 $ 3,380,503

Net Assets Unrestricted ................................................................ $ (58,655) Temporarily Restricted ...................................................._$~~36:..;:7..!.:,8:..;:6:..:1_ Total Net Assets..................................................... $ 309,206 Total Liabilities and Net Assets: .................................... $ 3,689,709

Income: Tuition Income ............................................................. $ 5,297,811 251,777 Program Services ......................................................... $ Student Services ......................................................... $ 158,417 Auxiliary Services ......................................................... $ 133,294 Investment Income ........................................................ $ 9,626 Annual Giving and Fundraising ........................................ $ 788,486 Other Revenue ................................................................,;$;-~6;..1:,.!.,6;,:6;.::3:....

Total Income .......................................................... $ 6,701,074 Expenses: Employee Compensation............................................... $ 3,951,325 Employee Benefits ........................................................ $ 883,920 Instructional Expenses ................................................... $ 137,526 Student Services.......................................................... $ 154,033 Auxiliary Services......................................................... $ 100,054 362,514 General Administration .................................................. $ Admissions and Marketing .............................................. $ 75,643 88,526 Advancement and Fundraising ........................................ $ Building and Grounds.................................................... $ 63,026 175,716 Utilities ....................................................................... $ 37,664 Computers and Major Projects ........................................ $ Other Operating Expenses............................................. $ 50,590 Bad Debt Recovery ....................................................... $ (21,428) Depreciation ................................................................ ...,;$~---:..;13:..;:0;.:.'1.:....:7~6:....

Total Expenses ....................................................... $ 6,189,285 Net change in assets............................................... $

511,789

INCOME

11.8%

0.9%

Tuition Income ..... .. ..... ....... ... .. ............. ....... .... .... .. .... ...... .

Program Services ..... ...... ... ................ ............. .... .... ...... .

Student Services ... ..... ... .......... ...... ... .......... .... .... ... ......... ..

Auxiliary Services ... .. ... .... ....... ... ... .. ...... ..... .... ....... .... ...... .. .

Investment Income ...... .. ...... ......... .... ... ... ...................... .

Annual Giving and Fundraising .. .. ..... .... ..... ...... ........... .. ..........

Other Revenue ................ ..... .. ......... .. .... ... ....... ........ ......... .

Total Income ................... ... ................................... ..

$ $ $ $ $ $ $ $

5,297,811 251,777 158,417 133,294 9,626 788,486 61,663

79.1% 3.8% 2.4% 2.0% 0.1% 11 .8% 0.9%

6,701,074 100.0%

EXPENSES

Employee Compensation .. .. ... ............. ........ .... .. ..... .. ........ . .

Employee Benefits .. ...... .......... .. .. ... .. ..... .......... ...... .... ..... .. .

Instructional Expenses .. .. ........ .... ..... .. ..... .... ... ... .......... .......... .

Student Services .. .. ........ .... ........ ... .. ..... .......... ... ......... ... .

Auxiliary services .. .............. ...... .... ..... ............. ....... ....... . .

General Administration ....... ................. ... ... .............. ..... .. .

Admissions and Marketing ... ... ... ... .. ... ...... .. ... ... ... ....... ... ..

Advancement and Fundraising .... ... ... .... ...... ... .. .... ... ...... ... . .

Building and Grounds ... ...... .. ... .. ...... ...... ... ..... .... ..... ....... .. .

Utilities .... ...... ... .. ... ... ... ... ......... .... ... ... ... ... ...... ..... ........ .

Computers and Major Projects ..... .......... ...... ... .... ................ .

Other Operating Expenses ...... ..... ......... ........ .. ....... ..... .... .

Bad Debt Recovery ... .... ..... ....... ....... .... .. .. ... ..... ... .. .. ..... ... .

Depreciation .. ... .... ... ... ... ...... .. ...... .. ... ......... .... ........ ...... . .

Total Expenses ...... .. ................................................ ..

$ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $

3,951,325 883,920 137,526 154,033 100,054 362,514 75,643 88 ,526 63,026 175,716 37,664 50,590 (21,428) 130,176

63.8% 14.3% 2.2% 2.5% 1.6% 5.9% 1.2% 1.4% 1.0% 2.8% 0.6% 0.8% -0 .3% 2.1%

6,189,285 100.0%

Total Income............................................................... $ 6,701,074 Total Expenses.......... ........... .. ............................... ... ... _$:-_....;6:..<.,::-18:-,9:-<-,2=8=-:5:-.Net increase in assets...................... .. ...................... .. ... $ 511,789

Board Designated Unrestricted Net Assets As of June 30, 2003 1 Kennedy Memorial Fund 1 Boyd Fund 2 Morgan Park Academy Endowment Fund 4 Heilman Family Endowment 1 Donald

E. Coller

1 Ross Widney Beatty 4 Loring Fund 2 Alice H. Baer 1 George

E. Wiegel Memorial

3 Edward E. Ford Foundation 3 Martin Wolf Fund 1 Jerome A. Thrall Scholarship Fund 1 A. Bitta Scholarship Fund 2 Mancini Fund 2 War Memorial Fund 1 Captain Grey Fund

3 Claudette LaRose Fund 4 Mrs. Patricia Grassi Memorial 1 Phyllis Montgomery Fund

3 Faculty Endowment 4 Morgan Park Academy Restricted Fund 4 Morgan Park Academy Undesignated Fund 4 Morgan Park Academy Staff Endowment

1 Combines to make the Scholarship Endowment Fund value 2 Combines to make the Capital Endowment Fund value 3 Combines to make the Faculty Endowment Fund value 4 Combines to make the Undesignated Endowment Fund value

2003 4,091 2,414 22,996 1,725 8,541 34,010 50,816 343,956 11,180 163,680 11,838 45,350 13,314 199,679 3,153 32,612 7,195 508 3,049 105,111 15,269 77,160 3,397

2002 4,020 $ 2,372 $ $ 22,596 1,695 $ 8,392 $ 33,418 $ $ 49,932 $ 337,973 10,985 $ $ 160,833 9,129 $ 44,562 $ 13,082 $ $ 196,206 2,097 $ $ 32,045 7,070 $ 499 $ $ 2,996 37,688 $ 9,993 $ 85,800 $ $

$ 1,161,044

$1,073,383

$ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $

$ $ $ $

154,561 569,784 287,824 148,875

Annual Giving Fund 1873 Society - ($5,000.00 + ) Mr. and Mrs. J. William Adams Anonymous Mr. Kenneth [63] and Mrs. Linda Mortenson Mr. Kshetij S. Patwa and Dr. Kathryn A. Bryan Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Pruim, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Story Sustainer's Circle - ($2,500.00 + ) Dr. and Mrs. Wilfred Boarden Mr. Richard 1. Duchossois [40] Mr. Jerome V. Frazel and Mrs. Nancy H. Wilder Dr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Javorski Dr. and Mrs. Ajit N. Kumar Mr. and Mrs. James G. Richmond Mr. and Mrs. James F. Seward Guardian Circle - ($1,000.00 +) Mr. and Mrs. John M. Atkinson Mr. and Mrs. David K. Barclay Chicago Tribune Foundation Mr. and Mrs. William H. Collins Dr. Randall Davenport Mr. and Mrs. Robert Eichinger Mr. and Mrs. Mark D. Erzen Dr. Don R. Fishman and Dr. Elizabeth J. Allen Dr. and Mrs. Richard Green Mr. David Hibbs and Dr. Maria Hibbs Mr. John E. Horn and Ms. H. Elizabeth Kelley Illinois Tool Works Foundation Kirkland & Ellis Mr. Kenneth Konecki Mr. and Mrs. William Mastro Dr. Edilberto Nepomuceno and Dr. Arsenia Nepomuceno Mr. and Mrs. Richard O. Nichols Mr. and Mrs. Albert Petkus Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Radakovich Dr. Hareth Raddawi and Dr. Ada I. Arias Mr. and Mrs. Rodd Rasmussen

Dr. and Mrs. Antanas G. Razma Dr. William Schwer and Mrs. Mary Pat Benz Dr. and Mrs. M. Nabil Shabeeb Mr. and Mrs. Stephen M. Smith Mr. Walter [62] and Mrs. Kathleen Snodell Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Taft Academy Partner - ($500.00 + ) Dr. and Mrs. Anil Agarwal Dr. Surendra B. Avula and Dr. Sunitha R. Avula Mr. and Mrs. Mahmoud Badawi Mr. Stanley Balzekas, Jr. [43] Mr. and Mrs. Stuart B. Baum Mr. and Mrs. Louis J. Bertoletti Mr. and Mrs. John A. Biel Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth Bielinski Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Black Mrs. Cheryl Blackwell-Bryson Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bollacker, Jr. Dr. James Bray and Dr. Linda Janus Mrs. Maggie Brewer Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Roger A. Brewin Mr. and Mrs. Javier Casimiro Dr. Sandeep Chandra and Dr. Madhulika Saxena Mr. and Mrs. Ted D. Cohen Ms. Claire Concannon [85] Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Costin Mrs. Carol P. Coston [75] Mr. and Mrs. Kelly E. Cotter Mr. Charles [52] and Mrs. Gail Cresap Dr. and Mrs. Juanito Dalisan Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Doherty Mr. and Mrs. Eugene C. Edwards Ms. Margaret Fitzpatrick Mr. and Mrs. Demetrios Gatsinos Mr. Benjamin Ghess and Mrs. Michele Pitman Mr. Jeffrey Gilbert and Ms. Malinda Steele Mr. and Mrs. Ernest 1. Glaspie Ms. Elizabeth A. Gradle

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Mr. Joseph Grassi Mr. and Mrs. Steven Grassi Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Harmening Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Hart Mr. and Mrs. John Hill Mr. and Mrs. Leonard K. Hoyles Mr. and Mrs. Jack Jucewicz Dr. John T. Keane and Dr. Shirley A. Maides-Keane Mr. and Mrs. Robert Keelan Dr. and Mrs. Antoun Koht Mr. William T. Kwan [49] Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie T. Lewis Dr. Richard M. Lewis Dr. Rachel Lindsey Mr. and Mrs. Mark Linnerud Mr. and Mrs. Minas E. Litos Mr. and Mrs. Charles Long Prof. and Mrs. Errol M. Magidson Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Maloney Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Marmo Mr. and Mrs. Donald P. McGrath Mr. and Mrs. Ervin A. Moo-Young Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Olivieri Mr. Terry Peigh [71] Mr. and Mrs. Joel T. Pelz Dr. Peter Perrotta and Dr. Sharon Kraus Mr. and Mrs. Carl N. Pettigrew Mr. and Mrs. Terence Raser Dr. and Mrs. Mohammad A. Razzaque Dr. and Mrs. Gerardo Reyes Mr. and Mrs. Michael Salerno SBC Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Chidambaram Srinivasan Dr. and Mrs. Krishna Sunkara Mr. and Mrs. Richard Szkarlat Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Thomas Mr. Jerome [44] and Mrs. Lynn Thrall Mr. and Mrs. Randall Townsel Mr. and Mrs. John Tubutis Mr. and Mrs. Dean G. Vallas

Mr. Hobart [39] and Mrs. Charlene Van Deventer Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Vasquez Mr. and Mrs. Ignatius Villasenor Mr. and Mrs. RobertJ. Volkmann Mrs. June E. Webb Dr. Linda M. Weinfield [76] Ms. Pamela L. White Mr. Mark [79] and Mrs. Jeri Wiegel Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Wimp Mr. and Mrs. James E. Woods, Sr. Mr. and Ms. Robert Zaniolo

Century Club - ($100.00 + ) Mr. John [47] and Mrs. Patricia Aberson Mr. and Mrs. Jean-Bernard Abraham Mrs. Harriet Arnold Mr. William Arnold [02] Dr. and Mrs. Andre Artis Mr. Asa M. Bacon [44] Dr. Julian [34] and Mrs. Judith Barish Dr. Terrence Bartolini and Dr. Carol Braun Mr. Jermone A. Bonner and Mrs. Joyce Ann Gardner-Bonner Mr. James C. Bremer and Ms. Margaret O'Brien-Bremer Dr. and Mrs. Larry G. Brown Mr. and Mrs. Gregory A. Browne Dr. and Mrs. Melvin Bunn Dr. Frank [52] and Mrs. Partice Burd Mr. and Mrs. David L. Case Mr. Edward V. Cerny [37] Mr. and Mrs. Norman Chappelle Mrs. Carla [Broermann] Christensen [71] Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Churchill Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler Coleman Lt. C. Russell C. Craig USAF (Ret.) [37] Mr. and Mrs. John M. Craven Mr. and Mrs. Timothy L. Cullina Mr. and Mrs. Grant W. Currier Mr. and Mrs. Fred P. Danielewicz Mr. and Mrs. Timothy T. Dillon Mr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Driscoll Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Dryjanski Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Duffek Dr. C. Elise Duffy Dr. Gregory [79] and Mrs. Edma Dumanian Mr. and Mrs. Leo C. Frontera

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Fuller Capt. J. Robert Gilbert [45] Mr. and Mrs. Clarke M. Gillespie, III Dr. Robert and Mrs. Sue [Vlasis] Hale [69] Mr. and Mrs. Ronald H. Harris Ms. Elizabeth M. Hendel [94] Mr. and Mrs. John R. Higgins Ms. Donalda Hingston Mr. Michael H. Hyatt and Mrs. LaVonia M. Ousley-Hyatt In Memory of Savannah Mae Ruff In Memory ofjoanne Grover In Memory of Robert Geil In Memory of Dan Naklicki [98] In Memory of Rose Thompson In Memory of Delbert Hofer In Memory of Walter H. Page [44] Mrs. Sharon Jeffrey Mr. David [78] and Mrs. Sorocco Jones, Jr. Mr. Charles [59] and Mrs. Karren [Rodighier] [60] Junkunc Dr. and Mrs. Edmund Kearney Mr. Auntone A. Kelly and Mrs. Gloria M. Reveron-Kelly Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Kenny Mr. Mark [55] and Mrs. Carole Klein Mr. and Mrs. George W. Kruchko Dr. and Mrs. Vasantha Kumaraiah Mr. Ralph G. Larson and Mrs. Beverly L. Ash-Larson Mr. and Mrs. Mark T. Lewandowski Mr. Charles C. Lira Mr. Greg Lochow Dr. and Mrs. Daniel Luetkehans Mr. and Mrs. George M. Macey Mr. Thomas Malcolm Ms. Susan Mangels Mr. MichaelJ. McCafferty Ms. Connie McGee Mr. Joseph M. Moran Mr. and Mrs. Niko Mourgelas MPA Mothers' Club Mr. and Mrs. Peter Mulchrone Mr. Timothy M. Murnane Mr. and Mrs. Levon Nazarian Ms. Susan Oczkowski Mr. Marc E. Odier and Mrs. Marilyn E. Hanzal Dr. and Mrs. Kaushik Pandya Mr. Richard B. Patrick and Dr. Nanette James-Patrick

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Mr. and Mrs. Ethan M. Payne Dr. Audrius V. Plioplys and Dr. Sigita Plioplys Mr. and Mrs. Prince A. Qualls Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Raglin Ms. Ellen Rasmussen [00] Mr. and Mrs. James A. Reddington Dr. and Mrs. Donald L. Reed Mr. Robert Reid [36] Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Reiter Mr. Dale [81] and Mrs. Debra Sue Richards Mr. and Mrs. Carl Riggenbach Mr. Nathan Ross and Mrs. Stephanie Cox-Ross Major and Mrs. Archie L. Roundtree, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Ruff Mr. William D. Rundle [47] Dr. Louis Rutland and Mrs. Tara Tillman-Rutland Mr. Richard Sabatini Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Sarabia Mr. Asif A. Sayeed and Dr. Shaheen A. Sayeed Schoolpop Mr. and Mrs. Philip K. Senanou Ms. Susan Shimmin [66] Ms. Verneta [Ford] Simon [78] Col. Gene Simonson [45] Mr. and Mrs. John Somerville Mr. and Mrs. Mariano L. Sori-Marin Mr. William Springer [61] Mr. John [61] and Mrs. Cynthia Stack Ms. Martha H. Swift [52] Target-Take Charge of Education The Prudential Foundation Mr. and Mrs. John Toomey Mr. Ricardo M. Tostado and Mrs. Jacqueline V. Cibils Ms. Jean Tourville Mr. Julius Tucker and Mrs. Jennifer Holt-Tucker Dr. Jeff [70] and Mrs. Lisa Unger Mr. H. Lincoln [47] and Mrs. Nancy Vehmeyer, Jr. Mr. Richard F. Vitkus [57] Mr. Peter [54] and Mrs. Janet Voss Mr. Kevin E. Waller and Mrs. Jean M. Roche Mr. and Mrs. Marc Wells Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Wesley Mr. and Mrs. Byron L. Williams

Mr. and Mrs. Donald K. Williams Mr. Steven R. Wolfe and Dr. Cheryl D. Wolfe Mr. and Mrs. Guy J. Wolgamott Ms. Linda Wolgamott

Contributor - (up to $99 ) Mrs. Madonna [Farmer] Abdishi [63] Mrs. Margaret Allison Alsip Hotel Investores, LLC Mr. Dominic E. Amadio, Esq. [59] Anonymous (Parent) Dr. and Mrs. Ammar Bayrakdar Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Beatty Mr. Richard L. Berliner [45] Ms. Mary L. Bochenek Mr. Carl Brody, Jr. [85] Dr. James Butler [86] Ms. Karen Butler-Cook [80] Mr. and Mrs. Sanjiv Chadha Mr. John Chi era and Mrs. Elizabeth Proctor Mrs. Eunice Cobbs Mr. Andrew V. Dahlberg [64] Ms. Nancy [Dahlberg] Davis [65] Ms. Elisabeth A. Doherty [98] Dr. Joan Driscoll [70] Mr. Ronald [79] and Mrs. Wendy Drynan,Jr. Mr. John [65] and Mrs. Alice Erickson Mr. Charles F. Fitzgerald and Mrs. Mary Ellen Denn Mr. Philip C. Freund [42] Ms. Melissa Frew Ms. Nicole E. Frontera [01] Mr. and Mrs. Glenn L. Gagnon Mr. Robert [48] and Mrs. Elizabeth Gamble Ms. Peggy Gatsinos [00] Mr. Eric T. Bell and Mrs. Sherry Grutzius Mr. and Mrs. Michael Gulino Mr. Harry J. Hager, Jr. [48] Ms. Wendy Heilman [89] Mr. Daniel W. Jarvis [97] K-mart Corporation Mr. and Mrs. Martin L. King Mr. and Mrs. Douglas T. Lazo Mr. Geoffrey J. Lewis Mr. and Mrs. Roger D. Lis Ms. Jennifer Matz [94] Mr. Shawn and Mrs. Amy [Danielewicz] [90] McCombs

Ms. Marilyn [Moody] Meunier [70] Mrs. Diana Morgan Mr. Michael H. Newell and Mrs. Lisa Hopkins-Newell Mr. and Mrs. Hershey Norise Rev. William J. O'Donnell Oberweis Dairy Mr. and Mrs. Walter Owens Ms. Lynne Panozzo Dr. Bradley M. Pechter [80] Mr. Matthew Quinn [96] Mr. and Mrs. Gerardo Reyes Mr. Paul and Mrs. Nancy [Montgomery] [74] Runyon Ms. Kim [Kole] Sappenfield [82] SchoolCash. Com Ms. Anna L. Stange Dr. and Mrs. Michael VanderWeele Mr. Spiro W. Vass [47] Mr. Thomas A. Vogt and Mrs. Candace K. McMillan Ms. Kathleen o. Welch Mrs. Janet Wiegel-Elmore [60] Mr. and Mrs. Wladyslaw Wodziak

Gift in Kind Ms. Laura Arnett Mr. and Mrs. Dan Barrett Mr. James c. Bremer and Ms. Margaret O'Brien-Bremer Mr. and Mrs. David Edison Mr. and Mrs. Ernest L. Glaspie Mr. David Hibbs and Dr. Maria Hibbs Mr. James Kowalsky and Dr. Vicki Williams Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Madonia Milano's Pizza MPA Mothers' Club Mr. Richard A. Nelson and Mrs. Kathryn Zeledon-Nelson Dr. Peter Perrotta and Dr. Sharon Kraus Mr. Bruce Posey Dr. and Mrs. Gerardo Reyes Mr. and Mrs. James G. Richmond Mr. and Mrs. Michael Salerno Mr. Aloysius Stonitsch and Mrs. Helen Witt Subway Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Thomas Mr. Mark [79] and Mrs. Jeri Wiegel

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Martin Wolf Scholarship Fund Class of 1982 Ms. Claire Concannon [85] Ms. Mary [Resman] Guthrie [82] Mr. Stafford Jacques [82] Mr. Craig Lenz [82] Ms. Kelly [Stevens] McCormick [82] Mr. John Renaldi [82] Ms. Theresa [Farley] Robinson [82] Mr. Bruce Rolfe [82] Ms. Kim [Kole] Sappenfield [82] Ms. Margaret Spurgin [82] Ms. Carrie Swearingen [82] Mr. Jonathan Turk [82] Crist Family Fund Robert & Barbara Crist Foundation (Warren Crist [63], Robert Crist [70], Josephine [Crist] Kirk [71]) Donald Coller Scholarship Fund Ms. Susan Shimmin [66] Capt. Francis S. Gray Fund The Martha G. Moore Foundation, Inc. (Calvin Johnson [46]) Designated Gifts Mrs. Harriet Arnold Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bern

Salute to Excellence 2003 Platinum Society - (55,000.00 + ) Dr. and Mrs. Richard Green Mr. and Mrs. William Mastro Mr. and Mrs. Richard O. Nichols Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Pruim, Jr. Gold Society - (52,500.00 + ) Mr. and Mrs. John M. Atkinson Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth Bielinski Dr. James Bray and Dr. Linda Janus Mr. and Mrs. William Dods Mr. James Hansen and Mrs. Roseann de la Paz-Hansen Mr. Aloysius Stonitsch and Mrs. Helen Witt Dr. and Mrs. James A. Sylora Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Taft Ms. Linda Wolgamott Silver Society - (51,000.00 + ) Mr. and Mrs. J. William Adams Dr. and Mrs. Ani! Agarwal Dr. Terrence Bartolini and Dr. Carol Braun Mr. and Mrs. John A. Biel Dr. and Mrs. Wilfred Boarden Duchossois Enterprises, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Mark D. Erzen Dr. Don R. Fishman and Dr. Elizabeth J. Allen Mr. and Mrs. John Fitzpatrick Dr. Marlene Green Dr. John T. Keane and Dr. Shirley A. Maides-Keane Mr. Kermit [73] and Mrs. Rose Ann Kelly Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Kenny Dr. and Mrs. Antoun Koht Mr. Kenneth Konecki Dr. Anil and Dr. Sunita Kothari Dr. and Mrs. Ajit N. Kumar Mr. and Mrs. Minas E. Litos Marina Cartage, Inc. Mat Leasing, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Olivieri Mr. and Mrs. Albert Petkus Dr. Hareth Raddawi and Dr. Ada I. Arias

Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr.

Neal Rosner and Mrs. Michael Salerno and Mrs. James F. Seward and Mrs. Marc Wells

Bronze Society - (5500.00 + ) Mrs. Cheryl Blackwell-Bryson Mr. and Mrs. Sanjiv Chadha Dr. Brian O'Leary and Dr. Elaine Cheng Mr. and Mrs. Ted D. Cohen Mr. and Mrs. William H. Collins Mr. and Mrs. Kelly E. Cotter Mr. and Mrs. John M. Craven Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Doherty Mr. and Mrs. StephenJ. Driscoll Mr. Ronald [79] and Mrs. Wendy Drynan,Jr. Mr. Michael]. Flannery and Ms. Susan M. Larson Dr. and Mrs. H. G. Frank Mt. and Mrs. Paul Fuller Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Harmening Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Hart Mr. Howard Hill and Mrs. Antoinette Bryant Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Jordan Mr. and Mrs. Jack Jucewicz Mr. and Mrs. George W. Kruchko Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie T. Lewis Dr. and Mrs. Danilo Martinez MPA Fathers' Club Mr. Richard B. Patrick and Dr. Nanette James-Patri Dr. Peter Perrotta and Dr. Sharon Kraus Mr. and Mrs. Rodd Rasmussen Dr. and Mrs. Antanas G. Razma Ms. Janice T. Shepard Mr. and Mrs. James Smith Mr. Allan Teske Mrs. Brenda Thomas-Asaju Mr. and Mrs. James E. Woods, Sr. Gala Club - (5100.00 +) Mr. and Mrs. Jean-Bernard Abraham Alderman Ginger Rugai

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(Ginger Rugai) Mrs. Tara Allen Col. Allen [47] and Mrs. Ursula Andreasen USMC(Ret.) Arlington International Racecourse Mrs. Harriet Arnold Ms. Consuelo Arteaga Mr. Charles [38] and Mrs. Dorothy Bacon Mr. Stanley Balzekas, Jr. [43] Mr. and Mrs. David K. Barclay Mr. and Mrs. Jeremiah J.Barry Dr. Garfield C. Batchelor and Dr. Minakshi Joshi Mr. and Mrs. Stuart B. Baum Mr. Michael Bayer Dr. and Mrs. Ammar Bayrakdar Col. William [37] and Mrs. Reva Boehm USA(Ret) Mr. Harold [52] and Mrs. Mary Helen Boex Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bollacker, Jr. Mr. Jerry [57] and Mrs. Virginia Bowden Mr. William [44] and Mrs. Patricia Braker Mr. James C. Bremer and Ms. Margaret O'Brien-Bremer Ms. Ann B. Brown Dr. and Mrs. Larry G. Brown Mr. and Mrs. Alex Brusha Ms. Cicely Bryar Mr. Brian T. Bye [80] Mr. Theodore [67] and Mrs. Dee Carlson Mr. and Mrs. David L. Case Chesterfield Federal Savings & Loan Association Dr. and Mrs. Muhammad Chishty Dr. and Mrs. Jerry Chow Dr. Benjamin Coglianese Mrs. Edna Coleman Mr. Robert A. Cook Ms. Carol [Patejdl] Coston [75] County Fair Foods Mr. Robert [70] and Mrs. Bonnie Crist IV

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Dal Corobbo Mr. and Mrs. Fred Daniel Mr. and Mrs. Fred P. Danielewicz Mr. Allen [65] and Mrs. Peggy DeNormandie Mr. Bill and Mrs. Olga [Kurylak] [78] Derkach Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Dryjanski Mr. Richard L. Duchossois [40] Dr. C. Elise Duffy Dr. Gregory [79] and Mrs. Randa Dumanian Mr. and Mrs. George Eck, Jr. Eckenhoff Saunders Association of Architects Mr. and Mrs. David Edison Mr. and Mrs. Robert Eichinger Mr. and Mrs. Robert Evans Mr. Karion [47]and Mrs. Doris Fitzpatrick Ms. Margaret Fitzpatrick Mr. and Mrs. Bill Fleener Florida Plastics International, Inc. Mr. Fleming W. Flott Mr. Francis [48] and Mrs. Dolores Flynn Mr. and Mrs. J. Frazel Capt. George Froemke USA (Ret.) [42] Mrs. Ruth Fuss Mr. Matthew Gallagher Mr. F. Morgan [81] and Mrs. Darlene Gasior Mr. Benjamin Ghess and Mrs. Michele Pitman Gifts Galore Capt. J. Robert [45] and Mrs. Marilyn Gilbert Mr. Jeffrey Gilbert and Ms. Malinda Steele Ms. Elizabeth A. Gradle Ms. Colleen Graney Ms. Michele Graney Mr. Joseph Grassi [43] Mr. Steven and Mrs. Sara [White] [71] Grassi Mr. Thomas Clancy and Ms. Dana Green [67] Mr. Harry J. Hager, Jr. [48] Mr. Edward P. Haney [58] Hawkinson Ford Mr. Paul Hease and Mrs. Carol McGury Mr. David Hibbs and Dr. Maria Hibbs

Mr. William Hickey [71] and Mrs. Leslie Shimmin-Hickey [72] Mr. and Mrs. John R. Higgins Jam Associates Mrs. Celeste R. James John Sheehy & Sons Funeral Home Mr. David [78] and Mrs. Sorocco Jones, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. David A. Jones Dr. and Mrs. Sanjeev Joshi Ms. Felicia Kasa Mr. EugeneJ. Katz [59] Dr. and Mrs. Edmund Kearney Mr. William [43] and Mrs. Gayle Keefer Mr. Darryl E. King and Mrs. Cynthia Pleasant-King Mr. Frederick [46] and Mrs. Beverly Jane Kitch Dr. John [51] and Mrs. Betsy Kitch, Jr. Mr. Frederick [49] and Mrs. Arlene Koberna Mr. Edward C. Kole [53] Ms. Ann Konecki Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Kornhaber Mr. James Kowalsky and Dr. Vicki Williams Mr. Arthur [39] and Mrs. Dolores Kralovec Mr. William T. Kwan [49] Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Lambrecht Mr. Daivd and Mrs. Gail [Scruggs] [69] Lauryn Mr. and Mrs. Douglas T. Lazo Dr. Rachel Lindsey Mr. and Mrs. Mark Linnerud Dr. Michael Linton and Dr. Bernadette Linton Mr. William [49] and Mrs. May Liptak Little Company of Mary Hospital Mr. and Mrs. Charles Long Mr. and Mrs. Ronald [55] and Mrs. Diane Loomis Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth [58] and Mrs. Barbara Lee Mack Mr. George A. Mahon Jr. [54] Mr. Frank [42] and Mrs. Betty Major Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Maloney Mr. Daniel Mangan Ms. Susan Mangels Marquette National Bank

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Mr. Michael [60] and Mrs. Brenda McClure Mr. and Mrs. Donald P. McGrath Mr. Robert E. McGuire [48] McNellis and Company Mr. James [50] and Mrs. Marty Meek Mr. Kenneth Mercury Midwest Anesthesiologists, Ltd. Mr. James Mikulski Mr. John A. Mikulski Mr. and Mrs. Ervin A. Moo-Young Mr. and Mrs. James Morgan Mrs. Helen Morong Mr. and Mrs. Lehman E. Morris, Jr. Mortenson Roofing Company, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Niko Mourgelas MPA Mothers' Club Mr. and Mrs. Peter Mulchrone Mr. Timothy M. Murnane [83] Ms. Michelle M. Murphy [80] William Napleton Mr. Levon and Mrs. Claudia [Pridjian] [80] Nazarian Mr. Richard A. Nelson and Mrs. Kathryn Zeledon-Nelson Dr. Edilberto Nepomuceno and Dr. Arsenia Nepomuceno Mr. and Mrs. James Nichols Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Noonan Mr. Lawrence [48] and Mrs. Sheila Novak Optimum Dental Center, PC Mr. and Mrs. Mario Ortiz Dr. and Mrs. Kaushik Pandya Mr. David and Mrs. Susanne [Gnilka] [72] Panovich Mr. George J. Pappas, Jr. [55] Dr. and Mrs. Dilipkumar Parikh Mr. Kshetij S. Patwa and Dr. Kathryn A. Bryan Mr. and Mrs. Ethan M. Payne Mr. Richard Pellar Mr. and Mrs. Carl N. Pettigrew Mr. Carl Pettigrew Dr. Marianne Piet Dr. Audrius V. Plioplys and Dr. Sigita Plioplys Mr. and Mrs. Cornel Raab Rae Products & Chemicals, Corp.

Mr. and Mrs. Terence Raser Dr. and Mrs. Donald L. Reed Mr. Robert Reid [36] Mr. Dale [81] and Mrs. Debra Sue Richards

Mr. and Mrs. James G. Richmond Mr. Robert [67] and Mrs. Mary Rosi Mr. Ronald [51] and Mrs. Georgine Sabath Mr. L. Mikael Salovaara [71] Mr. Robert L. Scardon 46] Dr. Keith Schaible and Dr. Anne Schaible Mr. C. Gary and Mrs. Sue [Tuthill] [69] Schiess Mr. William [71] and Mrs. Mary Semmer Mr. Jeff Sharp Ms. Susan Shimmin [66] Ms. Verneta Simon [78] Mr. and Mrs. Mark Slaughter Mr. and Mrs. John Somerville Mr. and Mrs. Mariano L. Sori-Marin South Suburban Hospital Mr. Bryan M. Spencer and Mrs. Pamela Randle-Spencer Mr. William Springer [61] Mr. John [61] and Mrs. Cynthia Stack Mr. John [47] and Mrs. Audrey Stewart Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Strasser Mr. and Mrs. John Stratta Ms. Martha H. Swift [52] Mr. William [40] and Mrs. Elizabeth Taylor Mr. M. L. Tew [48] The Washington &Jane Smith Home Mrs. Winnie Theodore Ms. Angenette Thomas Ms. Barbara Thomas Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Thomas Mr. and Mrs. Paul R. Thompson, III Mr. Jerome [44] and Mrs. Lynn Thrall Mr. and Mrs. John Toomey Mr. Joel [61] and Mrs. Jolene Tornabeni Ms. Jean Tourville Mr. and Mrs. John Tubutis Mr. C. Robert [39] and Mrs. Sandra Tully Mr. James [71] and Mrs. Jan Tuthill, Jr. Dr. Stanley [39] and Mrs. Mary Tylman Mr. and Mrs. Dean G. Vallas Mr. and Mrs. RobertJ. Volkmann

Mr. Kevin E. Waller and Mrs. Jean M. Roche Dr. Samir Y. Wassef and Dr. Wafaa G. Hanna Ms. Jean Waterman Mrs. Elizabeth White Ms. Nel White Thompson Mr. George [50] and Mrs. Carolyn Wiegel, Jr. Ms. Sybil M. Wilkes [78] Mr. and Mrs. Byron L. Williams Mrs. Fannie Williams Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Wimp Dr. Leon [65] and Mrs. Kay Witkowski, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Guy J. Wolgamott Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Zidek Dr. Kenneth]. Zubrick [52] Friends - ($1.00 + ) Ms. Michelle Alfano-Ortiz Dr. Eric Barnes and Dr. Adrienne Barnes Mr. Vernon E. Bell and Ms. Adrienne Henry Mr. Richard L. Berliner [45] Dr. James Butler [86] Mr. Frank Casio Mr. and Mrs. Michael Chapan Mrs. Eunice Cobbs Dr. Michael Davenport and Mrs. Loretta Hopkins-Dav Dr. Joan Driscoll [70] Mr. and Mrs. Peter L. Garaffo Ms. Nancy Gracia Mrs. Mary Ellen Ingram Mr. Ralph G. Larson and Mrs. Beverly L. Ash-Larson Mr. Greg Lochow Mr. Thomas Malcolm Ms. Connie McGee Dr. and Mrs. George Mesleh Dr. and Mrs. Richard O'Young Ortigara Musicville Palos Sports Patio Restaurant Ms. Debra Powell Mr. and Mrs. Carl Riggenbach Mr. Robert Shetler [46] Dr. and Mrs. Krishna Sunkara Mr. and Mrs. James Wardlaw Wentworth Tire Service Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Wesley Mr. Mark [79] and Mrs. Jeri Wiegel Mrs. Lyna M. Williams

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Gifts in Kind Mr. and Mrs. J. William Adams Adler Planetarium Astronomy Museum Dr. and Mrs. Anil Agarwal Mrs. Margaret Allison Apple Tree Theatre Arlington International Racecourse Mrs. Harriet Arnold Aurelio's Pizza Franchise, Ltd. Bally Total Fitness Corporation Mr. and Mrs. Louis J. Bertoletti Beverly Woods Restaurant Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bollacker, Jr. Mr. James c. Bremer and Ms. Margaret O'Brien-Bremer Ms. Ann B. Brown Ms. Karen Butler-Cook [80] Chicago Architecture Foundation Chicago Blackhawks Hockey Team, Inc. Chicago Children's Museum Chicago Historical Society Chicago White Sox Country House Restaurant Dairyland Greyhound Park Dance Center of Columbia College Mr. and Mrs. Fred P. Danielewicz DePaul University/The Theatre School Dermotology Center & Association Mr. David Bonnan and Mrs. Jean Doyle [79] Mr. Ronald [49] and Mrs. Jane Drynan, Sr. Mr. Ronald [79] and Mrs. Wendy Drynan, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. David Edison Mr. and Mrs. Robert Eichinger Mr. Michael J. Flannery and Ms. Susan M. Larson Mr. and Mrs. Leo C. Frontera Mr. Benjamin Ghess and Mrs. Michele Pitman Mr. Jeffrey Gilbert and Ms. Malinda Steele Mr. Steven and Mrs. Sara [White] [71] Grassi Harley Davidson Financial Services, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Harmening Mr. David Hibbs and Dr. Maria Hibbs

~~ Mr. Robert E. Nolan and Mrs. Daryce Hoff-Nolan Improv Olympic Innisbrook Wraps Island Furs Mr. Kermit [73] and Mrs. Rose Ann Kelly Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Kenny Dr. and Mrs. Antoun Koht Dr. and Mrs. Ajit N. Kumar Lakeshore Athletic Club - Lincoln Park Lands' End, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas T. Lazo Mr. Greg Lochow Loews Cineplex Entertainment Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Marmo Mr. and Mrs. Donald P. McGrath Morgan Park Academy Mr. and Mrs. Niko Mourgelas MPA Kindergarten MPA 1st Grade MPA 2nd Grade MPA 3 Year Old Preschool MPA 3rd Grade MPA 4 Year Old Preschool MPA 4th Grade MPA 5th Grade MPA 6th Grade MPA 7th Grade MPA 8th Grade

MPA 9th Grade MPA 10th Grade MPA 11th Grade MPA 12th Grade MPA Development Office MPA Kindergarten MPA Lower School MPA Maintenance MPA Music Department Museum of Contemporary Art Museum of Science & Industry NBC Studios Mr. and Mrs. Richard O. Nichols Dr. and Mrs. Richard O'Young Mr. and Mrs. Mario Ortiz Pick-Staiger Concert Hall Ms. Jennifer Pool Dr. Hareth Raddawi and Dr. Ada I. Arias Rainbow Play Systems of Illinois Mr. and Mrs. Terence Raser Mr. and Mrs. Rodd Rasmussen Ravinia Festival Dr. and Mrs. Antanas G. Razma Replogle Globes, Inc. Mr. Michael H. Rogers [69] and Ms. Karin Nelson-Rogers Mr. and Mrs. Michael Salerno Ms. Susan Shimmin [66] Skyline Gymnastics Mr. Bryan M. Spencer and Mrs. Pamela Randle-Spencer

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Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies Ms. Anna L. Stange Mr. Aloysius Stonitsch and Mrs. Helen Witt Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Taft Mr. Allan Teske The Cooking Hospitality Institute of Chicago The Language and Music School The Newberry Library The Organic Theater Company The Second City The Theatre Building The Ultimate Smile Ms. Angenette Thomas Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Thomas Mrs. Brenda Thomas-Asaju Tinley Park Frozen Foods Truefitt and Hill Barbershop Mr. and Mrs. John Tubutis Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Vasquez Victory Gardens Theater Wheel of Fortune White Fence Farm Mr. Mark [79] and Mrs. Jeri Wiegel Mr. and Mrs. Byron L. Williams Mr. and Mrs. Carl Wolgamott Ms. Linda Wolgamott World Wrestling Federation Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Zidek

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" It wasn't a difficult change," said Lauren Green, a Morgan Park Academy grad who is a pre-med junior at Princeton. "It was just sort of added on to what I was taught in high schooL"

• Lake Forest Academy • The Latin School of Chicago • Morgan Park Academy • New Trier • Northridge Preparatory School • St. Ignatius College Prep • University of Chicago Laboratory High School

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ACTs: Average composite of 25.9

Graduates enrolled in four-year colleges: 98.7% Famous alumni: August Busch (1879)

beer entrepreneur; Richard Duchossois ('40).

Arlington Racecourse owner; Ribyne Robinson (79), first black anchorwoman in Minneapolis-St. Paul.

Guess What? in 1892, Morgan Park, which started as a military academy, became the coed prep school for the University of Chicago.

The experiment lasted less than 10 years.

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Morgan Park Academy students enjoy ethnic food for lunch on "International Day."

MORGAN PARK ACADEMY Each day, 180 high school students cross the racial and ethnic boundaries separating Chicago's South Side, Indiana and the southwest suburbs to make their way to Morgan Park Academy.

The school has the highest percentage of minority students (-i9 percent) among the top 10. Diversity is a hallmark of the 125year-old school. known as "the Academy."

"You learn so mllch about the world. and that really adds to your education." said Erin Vaughn. a black junior from Beverly, during the school's International Day. celebrated with Indian dance les-

sons . classes in Australian aborigin al painting and a feast of falafel. Namoora Arabic pastries and mince pie.

"Lots of schoo ls are mixed [racially and eth nically J . but kids don't really mix:' Erin said. "Here everyone is at one table."

Tucked of 111 th Street on the Far South Side, the ivy-covered campus bests many small liberal ,\lis quads in charm.

The sc hool is casual and intimate.

About half the Academy's students are "lifers:' starting in preschool or kindergarten. The rest start at high schoo l sftel' proving they can score two or three grade levels above what's expected at their age.

Faculty members offer plenty of freedom but rein in students with a nurturing environment, an array of clubs and sports (with a no-cut policy) and a focLis on college from Day One. About 26 percent of classes m'e at the Advanced Placement level , the second highest among the top 10. On average , about 74 percent of scores on AP tests were high enoLigh over the last four yeill's to qualify for credit at most colleges.

The rest of the Academy's classes are also at a high level. In honors physics, for example. teacher Larry "Doc" Brown pushes through 50 or 60 labs a year and almost two dozen major lab reports.

"He teaches the general idea and then you have to figure OLit the rest." said senior Jeremy Jones. "He wants you to think for yourself."

Kate N. Grossman

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This 19th century photograph is in the archives. It may be - though it is only a guess - the Drill Hall, which was constructed in the 18705 and apparently demolished (perhaps after a fire) by the 18905.

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