ALUMNI NEWS Alumnus speaks in Georgetown
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n Oct. 7, 2004, more than 70 Washington, D.C., area alumni and guests met at the Sequoia restaurant in Georgetown for a cocktail reception hosted by the AndoverAbbot Association of the National Capital Region. Guest speaker James B. Steinberg ’70, vice president of the Brookings Institution, director of the Brookings Foreign Policy Studies program, and deputy national security adviser to President Clinton from 1996–2000, discussed terrorism and the U.S. intelligence community after Sept. 11, 2001. Faculty member emeritus Tom Lyons introduced Steinberg. Top left: Smiling for the camera are Tom Lyons, PA faculty member emeritus, and Amy Appleton ’79, who attended the Georgetown event.
Above: Five members of the Class of 1970 were among the guests at a reception sponsored by the Andover-Abbot Association of the National Capital Region in October 2004 in Georgetown. From left are Michael Ebner, interim secretary of the academy; David Cohen; James Steinberg, guest speaker at the event; Jim Rogers; and Doug Adler.
Combined-ages event held in Philadelphia
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ore than 60 alumni, including young alumni from local colleges, attended a reception at the Union League in Philadelphia on Oct. 13, 2004. The event, hosted by the Andover Regional and Young Alumni programs and the Mid-Atlantic Andover-Abbot Association, featured PA guest speakers Kathleen M. Dalton and E. Anthony Rotundo, instructors in history and social science.
Gabriela Ardon of the Office of Alumni Affairs compiles the news for this section. 30
Andover–Exeter game videostreamed
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lumni could stay home to watch the Andover–Exeter football game last November. For the first time, the game was broadcast live on the Internet. The broadcast was tuned in on 1,460 computers, 1,340 of them off-campus. Alumni who returned to campus for the game, including a group from the Class of ’62, were invited to attend an alumni reception following the game. The videostreaming was conceived by Interim Secretary of the Academy Michael Ebner ’70 and implemented with the help of Tim Griffin, director of the academy’s Polk-Lillard Electronic Imaging Center. The final score was Exeter 28, Andover 12.
Above, Matt Ward '06 (left) protects Jerell Smith '05 as he advances the ball at the Andover-Exeter contest in November. Left: Alex Lebow '05 (foreground) provides game commentary, while Mark Efinger '74 calls the plays for the video broadcast.