2010 Andover Athletics Hall of Honor Program

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2010 Induction Ceremony Saturday, June 12 4 p.m.

Kemper Auditorium

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Andover Athletics Hall of Honor 2010 Induction Ceremony

Opening Remarks and Introduction of the Hall of Honor Abigail Harris ’96 and Dan Dilorati ’75

Announcement of Inductees Abigail Harris ’96 and Dan Dilorati ’75

Keynote Speaker John S. Berman ’90 (introduced by Bill Scott, instructor in math)

Closing Remarks Peter R. Ramsey Secretary of the Academy

John S. Berman ’90 With ABC News since 1995, John Berman has appeared on television since 2001 and has covered stories ranging from the war in Iraq to the best way to catch catfish barehanded. He is a regular contributor to all ABC broadcasts, including World News with Diane Sawyer, Good Morning America, and Nightline, and also writes for ABCNews.com. Berman covered the 2008 presidential campaign, following Senator John McCain and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney during the GOP primaries, as well as then-Senator Barack Obama in the general election. In 1999 and 2000, Berman worked as an off-air reporter for ABC News covering George W. Bush ’64’s presidential campaign, logging more hours with thencandidate Bush than nearly any other reporter.

Berman also covered the Indian Ocean tsunami from Banda Aceh, Indonesia, and the steroids scandal in American sports. From 1997 to 1999, he was the head writer for World News Tonight With Peter Jennings.

A native of Carlisle, Mass., Berman attended PA for four years. His athletics legacy includes playing varsity soccer and managing the girls’ varsity ice hockey team. He graduated from Harvard, where he was president of Hasty Pudding Theatricals.

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Carter Marsh Abbott New Jersey native Carter Marsh Abbott became the first female junior in more than a decade to start on three varsity sports teams. She went on to become a four-year starter in soccer, basketball, and lacrosse, earning 12 letters in her time at Andover and captaining the basketball and lacrosse teams her senior year. An All-America selection for both soccer (1992) and lacrosse (1993), Abbott also was selected in 1993 as a member and captain of the New England team at the National Schoolgirls lacrosse tournament.

She was named one of the Phillipian’s “Athletes of the Year” in 1993; in 2003 the newspaper named her one of the top 10 athletes in PA history.

a member of the 1994 NCAA Division I national championship squad, was a three-time First-Team All-Ivy League selection, and was named Ivy League Player of the Year in 1997. In 1995 she earned lacrosse Second-Team All-America honors and was a 1996 and 1997 First-Team All-America honoree. In addition to serving as the Tigers’ team captain in 1997, she competed on the U.S. Developmental Lacrosse team in 1995 and 1996.

Abbott earned an MEd degree at Harvard and is now a teacher and coach at Suffield Academy in Connecticut, where she lives with husband Red and daughters Campbell and Quinn. She has coached seven lacrosse players to All-America honors and was inducted into the New Jersey Chapter of the U.S. Lacrosse Hall of Fame in January 2010. She currently is an assistant coach for the U-19 United States National Team in lacrosse.

Abbott played lacrosse and soccer for Princeton, foregoing basketball due to the time commitment needed to play a varsity sport at the college level.

She was a lacrosse standout: Abbott competed as

1993 basketball team; Abbott is front row, center.

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John “Jake” F. Bronk received his formal training in athletic medicine at Harvard under Dr. Augustus Thorndike, a pioneer in sports medicine. Upon accepting an offer to come to Andover in 1944, he left the esteemed position of head athletic trainer at Dartmouth—to which he had been named at age 22. There are countless athletes and teams who attribute their success to Bronk’s unparalleled skill, intuition, and care. Just last year, when the 1952 football team was inducted into the 2009 Andover Athletics Hall of Honor, the team added a special note to their induction program writeup to recognize Bronk for the exemplary care he provided for their undefeated team. For Bronk’s obituary in the March 1980 Andover Bulletin, former hockey coach Ted Harrison ’38 wrote: “In my long association with athletics, I have never encountered a more knowledgeable trainer. He was an expert on protective equipment, the fastest and most effective taper I have ever known, an uncanny diagnostician of athletic injuries.” But Bronk’s impact was felt far beyond the training room.

“Jake was more than a trainer. He was a friend, a needy shoulder granting solace, an energizer, a sounding board, a conscience, and much more to many athletes and lonely teenagers far from home,” wrote former PA baseball and football player David Adzigian ’58. “For me he was, as much as anyone on the PA campus, a life coach who encouraged me to realize that personal disappointments at PA simply ‘toughened’ me for a successful lifelong bout with the adult world. His value far transcended his professional responsibilities. I speculate there are few who passed through the PA athletic community during his tenure who were not substantially and beneficially touched and influenced by Jake Bronk.”

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Bill Brown 1934 William H. Brown spent his sports time at Andover busy on the tennis squad and as manager of the baseball and basketball teams. He later attended Harvard, where he became involved with rowing.

He joined the PA faculty as an English instructor in the fall of 1938 and founded the Academy’s rowing program 17 years later. After locating a place to store the boats and oars—the old Lawrence Canoe Club—Brown began the task of acquiring that equipment. He approached a number of Ivy League rowing programs and asked each to donate a shell, which Harvard, Yale, and Princeton graciously did. When the school reopened after spring vacation in 1955, 107 boys signed up for crew—one of whom was Oscar Tang ’56. Three years later PA sent its first crew to Henley.

Prior to starting PA’s rowing program, Brown coached an undefeated golf team, founded the sailing team, assisted in hockey and basketball, and early on was coach of six-man football. He retired in 1979 and recently returned to campus for the 50th anniversary of crew at Andover, when five boats, filled with alumni eager to row their old course, were launched into the Merrimack. The day also honored Brown as the founder of the program and celebrated a new crew fund named in his honor. Brown recounted that evening: “The trustees in the ’50s had tried to dissuade me from establishing a crew program. Little did they know that 50 years later we would have the president of the board [Oscar Tang] rowing on the Merrimack.”

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Archibald Bush 1867 Archibald McClure Bush came to Andover at the same time as his cousin, James McClure; both had played in junior amateur baseball clubs in Albany, N.Y. In those days, baseball at Andover was played on a rocky field. With cross-class representation, Bush and McClure organized the Academy’s first official baseball team, and the trustees built a new field (behind the present-day Peabody Museum), which served as the school’s main baseball field for the next 40 years. The team organized by Bush and McClure was the first preparatory school “nine” in the nation and won its first away game, at Tufts, 35–4. Elected captain his first year, Bush was considered the best baseball player in the country during his time at Andover—and during his four years at Harvard.

morning, he and a friend skipped geometry to watch a ball game in Boston. The two friends, along with several others who had cut classes that day, were expelled by Principal Samuel H. Taylor. Enraged that a leader of their class was being expelled, 25 of the remaining 42 members of the Class of 1867 purposely broke curfew that evening, and they, too, were expelled—and thus were unable to pass Yale’s entrance exams. The classmates hired tutors, studied all summer, and passed the exams for Harvard—where Bush became captain of the baseball team for three of his four years and never lost to Yale. Shortly after getting married, he and his wife sailed for Europe, where Bush died of typhoid pneumonia in 1877.

On April 20, 1903, the trustees unanimously approved a recommendation to reinstate the expelled students from the Class of 1867 in “good and regular standing.”

However, Bush’s love of baseball would have unfortunate consequences. One early summer

PA baseball team ca. 1875

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Joe Cavanagh 1967 Even before stepping foot in Massachusetts, Joseph V. Cavanagh Jr. had made a name for himself on the ice when he was named Rhode Island’s most valuable high school player in 1965 and 1966.

He came to Andover as a PG and was part of a high-scoring 1967 line that included classmates Ford Fraker and Norman Cross Jr. During his first foray into college hockey as a Harvard sophomore in 1969, he made a big impression. Incredibly, he was selected as a First-Team All-American, a First-Team All-East, a First-Team All-Ivy, and a First-Team All-New England, received the Walter Brown Award (given to best American-born player), and was named most valuable player of the annual Beanpot Tournament—which the Crimson won by beating Boston University.

All-East, All-Ivy, and All-New England squads— and he won the Walter Brown Award again during his final season at Harvard. He was the team’s leading scorer all three seasons (tied with Robert McNamara as a junior) and also was given the John Tudor Memorial Cup Award as team most valuable player after his junior and senior seasons. Upon graduating in 1971, he joined the U.S. Olympic hockey team headed to Sapporo. Cavanagh suffered a career-ending injury in practice for those Olympics and retired from hockey. Recognized by numerous hockey organizations over the years, he was inducted into the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame in Minnesota in 1994. Now a lawyer with Blish & Cavanagh in Providence, Cavanagh and his wife, Carol, live in nearby Warwick, where they raised their nine children.

Following his junior and senior seasons, Cavanagh again was named to the first team All-American,

Cavanagh, number 9, in action on the 1967 hockey team

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Ashley Harmeling 2000 First-Team Womenslacrosse.com All-America honors. Also ranked Amherst’s top women’s squash player, Harmeling was a co-winner of the Howard Hill Mossman Trophy, presented annually to the senior who has brought Amherst the greatest honor in athletics. She will receive an MBA degree from Harvard this spring and plans to pursue a career in entrepreneurship.

About the time she learned to walk, Ashley A. Harmeling started playing soccer in her hometown of North Reading, Mass. She took up lacrosse in seventh grade and added squash at PA “because Andover requires you to do something active each term.” She excelled in all three—earning four varsity letters in soccer, four varsity letters in lacrosse, and three varsity letters in squash; she captained her squash and lacrosse teams. In her senior year she received All-American honors in both soccer and lacrosse and, as the recipient of Andover’s coveted Yale Bowl prize, was likewise recognized for her academic accomplishments.

Harmeling matriculated at Harvard, but the university was not a perfect fit. Coming from Andover, where the classes were small, the studentfaculty ratio favorable, and the discussions intimate and animated, Harvard seemed impersonal. “It was really frustrating,” she recalls. “My classes were 600-kids big, so I wasn’t getting much personal attention from faculty.” She transferred to Amherst College, where she played all three sports. In her junior year, she won NESCAC’s Player of the Year and also was named to FirstTeam All-America in soccer and lacrosse. That same year she shattered single-season school records in both sports, leading the NESCAC in goals, assists, and points. She was named FirstTeam All-NESCAC, NESCAC Player of the Year, First-Team IWLCA All-New England, FirstTeam IWLCA/US Lacrosse All-America, and

Harmeling, right, in action in 2000

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Gerry Jones 1955 Andover’s legendary ice hockey coach, Ted Harrison ’38, taught Gerard E. Jones how to play goalie. Jones played football and ice hockey at Andover, where he also served as a class officer and president of the debating society, and tried to master American History—then reputed to be Andover’s most difficult course. As a graduating senior, he won the Fuller Medal for exemplifying the ideals and traditions of Phillips Academy. He served as a trustee of the school on two occasions.

His three daughters, Virginia ’86, Catherine ’90, and Leila ’93, attended Andover and later played Division I ice hockey.

At Yale, Jones was selected as an All-Ivy goalie and, in his senior year, as an All-American. He holds the Yale record for most saves—66. At his graduation he received the Mallory Cup for sportsmanship and representing the Yale tradition in athletics.

After serving as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, Jones attended Yale Law School. Thereafter he enjoyed a career in corporate law before retiring to Woodstock, Vt. He now teaches history in Dartmouth College’s continuing education program.

1955 hockey team; Jones is front row, far left.

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Harvey Kelsey 1941 “The fastest schoolboy” was the much-deserved superlative earned by Harvey M. Kelsey Jr. in the 1940s. As captain of PA’s track team, he ran the 100-yard dash in a blazing 9.5 seconds in 1941— 1/10th of a second off the then–world record.

That same day, he set a second long-standing record: he ran the 220-yard dash in just 21.1 seconds. The successes of that season continued when Kelsey placed first in the New England Interscholastic sprints. From PA, Kelsey headed to

Princeton where, as a freshman, he set a record as a sprinter, winning his “Major P.” He was living under a U.S. Army program “in barracks” when in 1943 he won the Princeton Relay 100 and later ran six heats in one day to win the 100- and 220yard dashes in the intercollegiate championship.

The next day he went on active duty to Fort Bragg.

Professionally, Kelsey retired from Johnson and Higgins as a senior vice president and director.

1941 track team; Kelsey is front row, third from right.

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Artie Moher 1945 1947, and Moher was Yale’s starting shortstop; he was named the outstanding shortstop in the 1948 College World Series. In hockey, he was Yale’s starting center from 1946 to 1948, ranking as high-scorer in 1947 and 1948. In both seasons, he scored more than 40 points. He led the team as captain his junior year.

Arthur K. Moher excelled in two sports—hockey and baseball. It is of note, however, that he achieved a varsity letter in football: for one year Coach Stephen Sorota used him as a drop kick specialist. Moher earned four varsity letters in both hockey and baseball and was captain of both teams for two years. As a senior, he led his undefeated hockey team to victory over St. Paul’s on their home ice in Concord, N.H., the first time any prep school team had done so. Moher served as class president for three years, was a member of the student council for four years, and was elected student council president his senior year.

In 1948, he was drafted by the Detroit Tigers and played baseball for their AA team in 1948 and their AAA team in 1949. At that point, he decided to retire from baseball. Moher enjoyed a successful 43-year career as a yarn sales agent, eventually becoming the owner of his own company, Moher Associates.

At Yale he played both varsity baseball and hockey.

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1945 baseball team. Moher is front row, center

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