Alumni News Summer 2011 Park Tudor School
Underground newspaper resurfaces
Remember “The Daily Snart?”
The Alumni Association sponsored an evening at the Indianapolis Phoenix Theatre production of “Avenue Q” on June 9. Emily Ristine Holloway ’94 played the role of “Kate” in the production. Left to right: Cathy Wood Lawson ’72, Emily Comer ’98, Heather Kulwin ’92, Cathy Yingling ’87, Lori Bievenour, Torrey Bievenour ’96, Kelly Lamm Teller ’87, Nikhil Gunale ’96, Emily Ristine Holloway and Rima Gunale.
Class of 2001 alumni James Riswick and Sam Rowe check out their PT yearbook at the Alumni Weekend reception on May 7.
Alumni living in the New York City area gathered for a reception sponsored by Park Tudor in January at Xai Xai, a midtown Manhattan wine bar. Left to right: Brooke Steichen ’96, Tony Holds ’93, Laura Dick Chubb ’96, Laura Williams ’99, Arielle Lipshaw-Pride ’02, Simon Pride, Liz MacNeill, Robert MacNeill ’89.
If you do, it’s likely you were a student at Park School or Park Tudor in the early 1970s. For those who missed it or have forgotten, “The Daily Snart,” was an underground newspaper posted surreptitiously on school bulletin boards from 1970 through 1972. Two of the paper’s founders, Will Gould ’73 of Indianapolis and Tom Hollowell ’72 of Alexandria, VA, recently reunited over carefully preserved stacks of “The Daily Snart” and reminisced about their collaboration and the era. Gould is now an actor with Young Audiences of Indiana and Hollowell is an informatics specialist and botanist with the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian. They— along with several of their classmates—typed up hundreds of editions of “The Daily Snart,” which poked fun at each other, teachers and the times. Male students were facing the draft to the war in Vietnam, edgy comedy and music was becoming more mainstream, and the time was ripe for student-written material that was slightly subversive and “on the edge—or over the edge—of propriety,” according to Gould. “We should have been called out,” Hollowell said. “But by tolerating us, they [school administrators] recognized the academic merit of student satire.” The complete set of “The Daily Snart” was until recently in a closet at Gould’s house, but he’s happy to share them with anyone who wants to enjoy them again. Copies also are available for perusal in the Park Tudor Archives. “It’s a great cultural artifact,” Gould says.
Will Gould ’73 and Tom Hollowell ’72 with original issues of “The Daily Snart.”
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