ANDOVERBULLETIN The ANDOVER BULLETIN is published four times a year, fall, winter, spring and summer, by the Office of Communications at Phillips Academy, 180 Main Street, Andover MA 018104161.
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Main PA Phone 978-749-4000
A SPIRITUAL VOICE IN A SECULAR SOCIETY
Changes of address and death notices: 978-749-4269; alumnirecords@andover.edu
by Theresa Pease
Phillips Academy Web site: http://www.andover.edu Bulletin Phone 978-749-4040 Bulletin Fax 978-749-4272 e-mail: tpease@andover.edu Periodical postage paid at Andover MA and at additional mailing offices. Postmasters: Send address changes to: Andover Bulletin, Phillips Academy, 180 Main Street, Andover MA 01810–4161 ISSN-0735-5718
Spring 2005 Volume 98/Number 3 Publisher Elizabeth Roberts Secretary of the Academy Editor Theresa Pease Interim Director of Communications Operations Art Director Ellen Hardy Director of Design Services Assistant Editors Jill Clerkin Sharon Magnuson Paula Trespas Class Notes Coordinator Maggie Carbone Contributing Writer Tana Sherman Design and Publications Assistant Jennifer Barcza Production Coordinator Linda Capodilupo
THE POWER OF ONE:
Father Joseph Champlin ’47 lives out a ministry that is both micro and macro. 5
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Connecting the worlds of science and nature:
LYDIA GOETZE by Vincent Avery
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The American dream comes true at Andover:
C.Y. HUANG by Tana Sherman
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Fulfilling great expectations:
’CILLA BONNEY-SMITH by Jean St. Pierre 26
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Question, provoke and lead:
NAT SMITH by Victor Henningsen ’69
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So very French!:
MADAME SUZY JOSEPH by George Dix
Photography: Lionel Delevingne, Neil Hamberg, Ellen Hardy, Richard Howard, Michael Lutch, Mark Teatum, Bethany Versoy
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A Renaissance couple:
LESLIE BALLARD AND ROBERT PERRIN
All photos copyrighted Printed on recycled paper
by Tana Sherman
Cover: Photographs by Mark Teatum
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A SLICE OF ANDOVER HISTORY:
D E PA R T M E N T S
THE STORY OF THOMAS PAUL SMITH
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Exchange
by Benjamin Heller ’05
Dateline Andover
Andover lists T.P. Smith among its notable alumni, but who really knows anything about this early black separatist?
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