Andover Athletics Hall of Honor: 2019 Inductees

2019 Andover Athletics Hall of Honor

INDUCTION CEREMONY Saturday, June 8, 2019 4:30 p.m.

Kemper Auditorium

Andover Athletics Hall of

Honor

Opening Remarks Minor Myers III ’96, Athletics Committee Cochair

Inductees & Introducers Michael H. Bassett ’59, P’97—Terrell L. Ivory ’00, Athletics Committee member Richard L. Gelb ’41, P’69, GP’05 (d)—Nathaniel M. Cartmell III ’69, P’06, Athletics Committee member Catharine von Klemperer Utzschneider ’73—Susan Jenkins Warren ’79, P’18, ’22, Athletics Committee Cochair Julie H. Wadland ’06—Lee S. Apgar ’78, P’17, Athletics Committee member 1948 Varsity Football Team—Leon A. Modeste, Director of Athletics

Closing Remarks John G. Palfrey P’21, ’23, Head of School 1925 Hockey team 1

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1958 football team: Bassett is front row, #10.

Mike Bassett

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orn in Lowell, Mass., Mike Bassett came to Andover in 1956 from Hamden, Conn. He earned his first varsity football letter in 1957 as a halfback and defensive safety. Bassett stayed on for a postgraduate year and, as starting quarterback, led Andover football to an undefeated season in 1959. The combined record for the 1958 and 1959 seasons was impressive: 11 wins, 1 loss, and 1 tie.

Those same years, Bassett was selected to the first team All–New England Prep teams.

At Harvard, Bassett split his freshman year between the quarterback and halfback positions. He became a three-year starter as quarterback his sophomore year. That year, Harvard won its first Ivy League Championship (cochampion honors were shared with Columbia, which also had a 6–1 conference record). Best known for his running, blocking, ball handling, and game management skills, Bassett threw two of the longest

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touchdown passes—82 yards and 76 yards—in Harvard football history. His career quarterback passing rating was 112, and he was Honorable Mention All-Ivy his junior and senior years. After college he played football with the Quebec Rifles in Montreal for a season.

Bassett was director of the Ivy Football Association from 2006 to 2016 and is still involved with the organization, which was cofounded by his Andover teammate Hank Higdon ’59.

For many years, Bassett served the Andover community as an alumni admission representative, interviewing prospective applicants from the New York City area. He has also been a class agent and member of his class’s 50th Reunion committee. Bassett retired in 1998 from a Wall Street career that entailed considerable travel to Asia and Europe. He and his wife, Jung, split their time between homes in Wellington, Fla., and Stamford, Conn.

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1941

Dick Gelb

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ichard Gelb was a talented javelin thrower on Andover’s 1941 varsity spring track team. Seven years later—after entering Yale, three years of military service during World War II, and then returning to Yale—he finished sixth in the NCAA for javelin and 10th in the 1948 U.S. Olympic Trials.

Gelb graduated from Yale in 1948 and earned a master’s degree from Harvard Business School in 1950. After graduation, he worked at Clairol, a cosmetics company founded by his parents, and became president. When Clairol was acquired by Bristol-Myers in 1959, he stayed on as president of Clairol, eventually becoming president and then, in 1972, CEO of Bristol-Myers. Gelb retired from his leadership posts in the mid-1990s but continued to consult for the company.

An Andover charter trustee from 1976 to 1994, Gelb was a member of the Alumni Council and the Executive Committee of

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the Andover Development Board as well as honorary vice chair of Campaign Andover. In 1999, he donated one of the largest gifts ever received by the Academy for the construction of the Gelb Science Center, which replaced Evans Hall. Gelb passed away in 2004, several months prior to its dedication. He was the father of Larry Gelb ’69 and grandfather of Emily Gelb ’05.

Gelb served on the boards of the New York Times, Lincoln Center of the Performing Arts, Council on Foreign Relations, and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, among others. Fascinated by police work, Gelb helped initiate the New York City Police Foundation. In 2003, he received Yale’s George H.W. Bush Lifetime of Leadership Award.

“Dick Gelb was a man of dignity, integrity, and commitment,” said former Andover head of school Barbara Landis Chase. “I will miss his wisdom and his counsel, and Andover will miss a generous, loyal alumnus.”

1941 track team: Gelb is front row, fourth from left.

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1973

Cathy von Klemperer Utzschneider

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member of Abbot Academy’s final graduating class, Catharine von Klemperer Utzschneider earned a BA degree from Middlebury College and an MA in health sciences, an MBA, and an EdD in physiology and performance from Boston University. Her dissertation on more than 100 national- and world-class runners determined that it’s never too late to excel physically.

Utzschneider was a competitive cross country skier and squash and tennis player from a young age. Encouraged by a neighbor, she joined a running club at age 40; within a year she was sponsored by New Balance. In 1992, she founded M.O.V.E.! (Motivate, Organize, Visualize, Excel!) to help people achieve physical goals, accelerate productivity, and enhance their joy for life. Five years later, she joined Boston’s Liberty Athletic Club, the country’s oldest all-female running club.

She became president and later head coach.

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An elite masters athlete for more than 20 years, Utzschneider won a Nike World Masters Games silver medal in 1998, a national title in aquathlon (a two-stage race of swimming and running), the bronze medal in the World Aquathlon Championships in 2017, and nine USA Track and Field age-group titles in races ranging from 800 meters to 8K. In 2005 she achieved a fifth in the world age-group ranking in the mile. In 2014, she was ranked first in the country in the 3K. Utzschneider believes that goal-setting transforms lives.

She has trained hundreds of runners (including beginners to Olympians and world age-group record holders) and served as a Boston Marathon coach. She is the author of M.O.V.E.! and Mastering Running and is a New England Sports for Women board member, National Masters News columnist, U.S. Track and Field communications advisor, and Boston College adjunct professor of goal achievement and high performance.

Utzschneider is standing far right.

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2006

Julie Wadland

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four-year varsity athlete, Julie Wadland lettered in soccer, ice hockey, and lacrosse each year for an impressive 12 letters. She also served as a tri-varsity captain of each sport her senior year and was named Andover’s outstanding senior female athlete. Wadland had a remarkable overall record in lacrosse as the starting goalie (43–9) and was the recipient of the 2006 Press Club Award.

“Simply put, we have not seen another goalie who can match the skill, the finesse, the athleticism, and the will to win that we saw in Julie Wadland,” said Kate Dolan, her former lacrosse coach.

After graduating from Andover, Wadland became a fouryear lacrosse starter at Dartmouth College and was team captain her junior and senior years. Selected to the All-Ivy First Team both junior and senior years, she also was named a U.S. Lacrosse All-American and selected for the Ivy League

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All-Tournament team her senior year. Wadland received the Dartmouth lacrosse Harper Award her junior year, the Patty Pierce Award her senior year, and the lacrosse Defensive MVP award her junior and senior years. Those same years she was also a nominee for the prestigious Tewaaraton Award— given annually to the most outstanding American college lacrosse player.

In 2016, Wadland was drafted as goalkeeper by Boston Storm in their inaugural season. The professional women’s field lacrosse team is a member of the United Women’s Lacrosse League (UWLX).

An active alumna, Wadland currently serves on Andover’s Alumni Council as Equity and Inclusion Committee cochair.

She worked in Andover’s admissions office for several years and is currently an associate director in admission and head coach of girls’ varsity lacrosse at Loomis Chaffee.

2006 lacrosse team: Wadland is front row, #5.

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1948

Varsity Football Team Cocaptains Bo Polk and Mort Collins

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he 1948 football season had an unusual beginning and a rare ending: cocaptains were elected for the first time ever—and the team went undefeated. Legendary head coach Steve Sorota and his coaching staff began the season with eight returning lettermen but no captain. At Sorota’s suggestion, the team instead voted for cocaptains—Bo Polk ’49 and Mort Collins ’49—in the first week of preseason practice.

The quarterback slot was shared by Ed Ryan ’49 and Gil O’Neil ’49, and Al Toole ’50 kicked the extra points. The line was anchored by Toole, Dan Wight ’50, Tim Anderson ’51, Pat Esmiol ’50, Dick Gordon ’50, Mal Gamble ’49, and Mac Beatty ’49—with cocaptains Polk and Collins as linebackers.

Pete Gardere ’50 started the season with a 40-yard run against Yale—and ran like that for the rest of the season, scoring 42 total points. Speedster Dick Collins ’49 scored 72 points.

At every position there was more than one able substitute.

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The first and second teams would run up a big lead and then the third and fourth teams, including eight lowers, would take over, keeping the relentless pressure on. Polk and Collins’s leadership and spirit steered the team to a sparkling finish, with Andover outscoring its opponents 207–41.

Andover beat Yale freshmen 20–14 and Harvard freshmen 13–7 (in Harvard’s varsity stadium), Brewster Academy 26–0, Springfield freshmen 35–7, Tilton Academy 38–6, and Tufts freshmen 48–0, culminating with a decisive 28–7 win over Exeter. “BLUE DOWNS RED” screamed the November 12, 1948, Phillipian headline. “Andover’s powerful Blue eleven crushed Exeter today at Brothers’ Field to climax the home team’s first undefeated season in eight years…nearly 6,000 spectators cheered themselves hoarse,” reported the paper.

“The team and the season was one to be proud of and shall never be forgotten,” said Sorota.

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Past Inductees

Ensuring Competitive Excellence at Andover

2008

2010

2012

2014

2017

George H.W. Bush ’42

John F. Bronk, athletic trainer (d)

James H.H. Carrington ‘42 (d)

Gilbert R. Bamford ’58

Samuel C. Butler ’72

Becky Dowling Calder ’94

William H. Brown ’34 (d)

John G. Clayton ‘47

Douglas W. Brown ’64

John R. Kilpatrick, Class of 1907 (d)

H. Richard Duden ’43

Archibald M. Bush, Class of 1867 (d)

Thomas F. Fleming ‘72

J. Dana Eastham ’49 (d)

Caroline M. Lind ’02

Fred H. Harrison ’38 (d)

Joseph V. Cavanagh Jr. ’67

Henry G. Higdon II ‘59

Jeanne E. Ficociello ’96

John G. Noll ’66

Frank Hinkey, Class of 1891 (d)

Ashley A. Harmeling ’00

Edward W. Mahan, Class of 1912 (d)

Henry G. Higdon III ’94

William E. Stevenson, Class of 1918 (d)

Sarah E. Mleczko Kasten ’76

Gerard E. Jones ’55

Michael A. Moonves ‘62

Dianne P. Hurley ’80

Aisha Jorge Massengill ’88

Harvey M. Kelsey Jr. ’41

Julia Trotman Brady ‘85

Kenneth W. Keuffel ’42 (d)

2018

John L. Morrison ’63

Carter Marsh Abbott ’93

Joseph B. Wennik ‘52

Alan G. Schwartz ’48

Jonathon J. Coleman ’93

Richard J. Phelps ’46

Arthur K. Moher ’45

Randolph B. Wood ‘82

David B. Smoyer ’59

Heather E. Gotha ’98

Natalie Ware Ryherd ’63 (d)

2011

2013

2015

1948 Varsity Swim Team

William S. Belichick ’71

Lee S. Apgar ’78

Aimionoizomo O. Akade ’00

Alison Wheeler Kennedy ’93

Arthur R.T. Hillebrand, Class of 1896 (d)

Judy Morton Bramhall ’78

Hee-Jin Chang ’05

Barbara W. Trafton ’78

Thomas J. Hudner Jr. ’43

Laurie N. Coffey ’95

Ford M. Fraker ’67

Walter J. Whitehouse ’58

Daniel G. Bolduc ’72

Meredith Hudson Johnston ’01

Richard J. Collins ’49

Todd A. Harris ’95

Frank F. DiClemente, coach (d)

Paul Kalkstein ’61

Zackary R. DeOssie ’03

Edwin G. Quattlebaum ’60

Martha Hill Gaskill ’78

Raymond A. Lamontagne ’53

Thomas H. Harvey Jr. ’54

Cory F. Schneider ’04

William C. Matthews, Class of 1901 (d)

Thomas E. Pollock III ’61

Robert P. Hulburd, coach

Theodore B. Thorndike ’70 (d)

John P. McBride ’56

William S. Smoyer ’63 (d)

Macauley L. Smith ’23 (d)

Shirley J. Ritchie, faculty emerita

2009

James P. McLane Jr. ’49

Jonathan A. Stableford ’63

• George Ireland ’74, P’05, ’09 Ireland Search and Rescue Bench • Scott Mead ’73, P’18, ’18 (in honor of his father) James M. Mead ’47 Football Bench

Bruce G. Hearey ’68 William B. Kaplan ’73

• Donald J. Sutherland ’49, P’77, ’06 Sutherland Bench for Boys’ Varsity Lacrosse • The Watling Family (in honor of John W. Watling Jr., Class of 1926) John W. Watling Jr. Golf Bench • Richard J. Phelps ’46, P’73, ’89, GP’14 Richard J. Phelps ’46 Scholarships for Athletes

2016

C. Anthony Pittman ’90

Charles E. Borah, Class of 1925 (d)

Robert W. Sides ’34

Christopher J. Gurry ’66

Stephen S. Sorota, coach (d)

James F. Herberich ’81

Eleanor Tydings Gollob ’86

Mary W. Hulbert ’81

1952 Varsity Football Team

Titus L. Ivory ’96 John H. Turco ’66

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Alumni and students often describe their Andover athletic experiences as formative—and even transformative. The Department of Athletics, student-athletes, and coaches would like to thank the following donors for establishing Athletic Bench endowments and student-athlete full scholarships.

(d) = deceased at time of induction

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Would you like to create an enduring legacy on campus?

An Athletic Bench ensures a solid foundation for your favorite program by endowing critical operating expenses, while an athletic scholarship supports our most talented studentathletes—and need-blind admission as well. To learn more, please contact Nicole Cherubini, director of development, at 978-749-4288 or ncherubini@andover.edu.

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The Andover Athletics Hall of Honor celebrates members of the Phillips and Abbot academy communities who, based on their experiences and affiliations with athletics either while at school or after graduation, have demonstrated the highest levels of sportsmanship, teamwork, and competitive excellence. Those recognized include superior athletes as well as those who took what they learned on the field and applied it in inspirational ways to other aspects of their lives.

Alumni Council Athletics Committee Amanda Q. Adams ’93 Aimionoizomo Obehi Akade ’00 Lee S. Apgar ’78, P’17 Bret D. Asbury ’96 Gil R. Bamford ’58, P’81, GP’14 Nathaniel M. Cartmell III ’69, P’06 Hee Jin Chang ’05 Michael R. Ciummei ’08 Quinn W. Daly ’13 Maria L. Elias ’82

Nominations for 2020 The Alumni Council Athletics Committee will accept nominations of individual alumni, teams, and coaches for the 2020 induction year until September 1, 2019.

Please note that previously submitted nominations stand for consideration in future years. Email nominations to Mary Corcoran in the Office of Alumni Engagement at mcorcoran@andover.edu.

Terrell L. Ivory ’00 Minor Myers III ’96, Cochair George S.K. Rider ’51, P’86, GP’22 Susan Jenkins Warren ’79, P’18, ’22, Cochair