Richard M. Cashin Jr.

In his senior year at Andover, Dick Cashin’s football team went undefeated, his squash team was New England Interscholastic champion, and his lacrosse team won the New England Prep championship. The highlight of those experiences, he recalls, was his exceptional teammates.

At Harvard, Cashin competed in squash and rowing, winning two national championships in each sport as well as the Bingham Award for best athlete. He earned a BA in East Asian studies and an MBA from Harvard and was inducted into the Harvard Varsity Club Hall of Fame in 1998.

A two-time rowing Olympian, Cashin competed on six U.S. national teams. A spare in 1973, he won gold rowing six seat in the eight at the 1974 World Championships. He again rowed six seat in 1975 and in the 1976 Olympics. In 1979, he raced the pair, honing skill over his trademark power.

Cashin rowed two seat in the 1980 Olympic eight, but his team was unable to compete in Moscow due to the U.S. boycott. His eight went on to win the 1980 Grand Challenge Cup at The Royal Henley Regatta, beating the British (silver medalists in Moscow) and trading wins with the East Germans (gold medalists in Moscow). He raced in and often won the Head of the Charles Regatta with his 1980 boat over the next 40 years. A four-time world indoor rowing champion, Cashin is the world record holder for the 55-year-old division—and is eyeing a second world record in the 70-year-old division. Cashin worked for Citigroup and JP Morgan before founding and serving as president of One Equity Partners. Instrumental in funding Community Rowing Inc.’s Harry Parker Boathouse, he is also a major supporter of Row New York and is a long-time director and former chair of the National Rowing Foundation. A supporter of rowing at Andover and a former PA trustee, Cashin serves on numerous boards in New York City and at the American University in Cairo. He is also active in several inner-city educational initiatives.

Alexandra Bell Farr

Alexi Bell came to Andover from Texas. A four-year starter for the girls’ volleyball team, she consistently proved herself to be a strong player both mentally and physically and helped her team win the New England Prep School Championship in 2010 and 2011. A team captain as a senior, she was also named New England Prep School All-Star that year.

In a season-to-date article in the October 19, 2012, Phillipian, Head Coach Clyfe Beckwith described Bell as “one of the most dominating middle hitters the league has seen in the past three or four years. She’s a motivator by example, and although she’s specialized in her role as a middle hitter and blocker, she knows every position on the court and gives valuable feedback to her teammates all the time.” The story went on to report that Bell had earned 91 out of the team’s combined 320 kills (nearly double the kill count of the next-highest individual), led the team in blocks, and had a 90 percent hitting percentage, the team’s highest.

It came as no surprise that Bell committed to West Point as an upper. U.S. Military Academy coaches had approached Bell at the 2011 Nationals when she was playing club volleyball. Bell’s collegiate debut included 34 kills, and she had the highest gradepoint average of all Patriot League student-athletes. After graduating from West Point in 2017, Bell attended Edinburgh University on a Rotary Club scholarship and earned an MSc in data science. She was promoted to captain, and is currently a cyber officer in the U.S. Army. Bell married West Point classmate David Farr in 2020, and the couple now has two children. In November 2022, Capt. Farr returned to campus as the keynote speaker for the 13th Annual Veterans Day Program and Dinner, hosted by the Andover and the Military Committee. She spoke about how her experiences at Andover helped prepare her for success at West Point and beyond.

Jeehae Lee

orn in Seoul, South Korea, Jeehae Lee moved with her family to the United States at age 12. A four-year starter on the PA golf team, she was the only female to compete at that time.

10–1–1 record and win the Lovell Cup and Witherspoon Bowl. Co-captain her senior year, Lee was awarded the Kazickas Golf Trophy for being the season’s low medalist and was named a Boston Globe High School All-Star. Lee joined Yale’s varsity golf team as a freshman; the team won the Ivy League Championship that spring. After a two-and-a-halfyear hiatus from golf to explore other opportunities—including a semester abroad in Beijing—Lee resumed golf as a senior and the team won yet another Ivy League Championship. She graduated with a BA in economics.

A player on the Futures Tour in 2007 and 2008, Lee qualified for the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) in 2009 and tied for 55th place in that year’s LPGA Tour Championship. Focusing on the Ladies European Tour in 2010, she played in 17 events with four top-10 finishes and two top-5 finishes. In 2011, her final year as a professional golfer, Lee competed on both the LPGA and Ladies European Tour. In 2012, she began working at the talent management company IMG, representing her friend, professional golfer Michelle Wie West.

After earning an MBA at The Wharton School in 2015, Lee worked at Topgolf Entertainment Group for five years, leading business strategy and new business development for various divisions. Currently co-founder and CEO of Sportsbox AI—where she reunited with Yale teammate Stephanie Wei—Lee develops products using AI-enabled 3D motion analysis technology to help sports and fitness enthusiasts learn proper technique and improve their skills.

J. Richard Lux P’69, ’73

ick Lux joined the Andover faculty as a math instructor in 1949. He became varsity lacrosse coach in 1952 and varsity wrestling coach in 1954. In this era of the “triple threat”— when most faculty were expected to teach, coach, and oversee students in the dorms—workloads could get very heavy. At the end of the 1955 lacrosse season, it was decided that Lux should handle only one varsity sport—wrestling—in deference to his already crowded schedule, which included being a house counselor and Lux was wrestling’s head coach until 1976, and his long-term impact on PA’s program was profound. He not only transformed wrestling at Andover, but also was instrumental in organizing the

According to New England Independent School Wrestling Association history, the wrestling association more than doubled in size in a matter of years. By 1961, public and private New England schools had separated to hold their own championships. The association credits Lux and coaches from Exeter, Governor Dummer, and Nobles for working on the creation of the Class A, B, and C leagues for independent schools.

Nearly all of Andover wrestling’s coaching history stems from Coach Lux. Lux was Nicholas Kip ’60’s head coach; Kip, now faculty emeritus, would join the wrestling staff in 1968 and coach until 1993—during which time he coached Rich Gorham ’86. Longtime faculty member Gorham, wrestling head coach from 1997 to 2019, coached Kassie Archambault ’06—now an instructor in Russian and the wrestling program’s current head coach. Lux retired from PA as faculty emeritus in 1991. Two awards are given annually in his honor: the J. Richard Lux Award for the most improved wrestler and the Lux Lacrosse Award for the player who, through love and enthusiasm for the sport, has most imparted a will to win among their teammates.