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Alumni Engagement Welcomes the Class of 2013............................................... 3 Promenade......................................................... 4 Senior Concert and Senior-Faculty Convocation........................... 6 Baccalaureate.................................................... 8 Commencement and Head of School John Palfrey’s Address to the Class of 2013...................... 10 Senior Prizes and Awards..............................17 Faces 2013........................................................ 18

A Tribute to Becky Sykes............................. 20 Parting Arts and Letters...............................22 2013 Class Photo............................................24

Photos by Michael Lutch and Gil Talbot

Charles Hirschler

Top: Devon Burger with her mom, English instructor Susan Greenberg, and dad, William Burger Right: Lucy Frey and her mom, history and social science instructor Emma Frey Below right: Cameron Morose and Tom Hodgson, instructor in philosophy and religious studies Bottom: Alexander Hyder with his grandfather, Henry K. Hyder Jr. ’45, and dad, Henry K. Hyder III ’84; his great-grandfather was Class of 1912

Left: Johannes Verhaegh hugs his mom, Karen.

Top: Theodore Agbi with his mom, Isoken Okhuahesuyi, and aunt, Nicole Francis Above: Maia Hirschler and her dad, Charles ’72; Mimi Leggett and her dad, Tony ’72; and Samuel Green and his dad, Dick ’72 Below: Kaitlin Poor (center) with, from left, grandparents Carol and Charlie Poor; Zander Buttress; her mom, Katy; sister Lauren and brother Ryan; and dad, Jeff Inset: English instructor Seth Bardo and Amanda Chatupron-Lacayo

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COMMENCEMENT 2013 Volume 106 Number 4 PUBLISHER Tracy M. Sweet Director of Academy Communications EDITOR Sally V. Holm Director of Publications DESIGNER Ken Puleo Art Director ASSISTANT EDITOR Jill Clerkin PHOTOGRAPHERS Charles Hirschler '72, Michael Lutch, and Gil Talbot © 2013 Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.

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Cover: A perfect day for an unforgettable event greeted graduating seniors, faculty, relatives, and friends gathered in the brilliant sunshine for Head of School John Palfrey’s first Commencement Address, followed by the traditional diploma circle on the Great Lawn. Photo by Michael Lutch

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Dear Class of 2013: It seems like just yesterday we all were sitting in the chapel for the Senior-Faculty Convocation, gathered in that special space for one of the last times. Sunday, June 9, dawned picture perfect; in my 25 years of attending graduation ceremonies, your day was one of the most beautiful—ever!

After receiving your diplomas, you were transformed from Andover students to alumni. Though the day was filled with goodbyes, do not think of it as an ending. As the meaning of the word “commencement” implies, this is a new beginning. You now embark on a new adventure and a lifelong relationship with Andover as alumni.

What does it mean to be an Andover alum? It means that you are now part of an extraordinary alumni body. Find comfort in those friendships and connections. Use the network.

It means that you have been privileged to receive a very special education. Use the knowledge and skills you learned here to make a difference. Be proud of what you accomplished yet embrace humility as you lead and serve.

Your class number—’13—will be etched on a Gelb foundation stone, and your class will have a permanent place in Andover’s history. Being an alum means you will forever be part of Andover and Andover will forever be part of you. Stay connected. Attend alumni events. Become an Andover volunteer. Return to campus whenever you get the chance. Start planning for your Fifth Reunion in 2018!

We will miss all of you but are proud to see you go. Please keep in touch!

Debby Burdett Murphy ’86

Director of Alumni Engagement

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1. Matthew Deorocki, Max Carrillo-Ostrow, Francis LaRovere, and Alex Kramer 2. Myracle McCoy ’14 and Christopher Amendano 3. Chase Gottlich ’14, Fatoumata Diarra, Justin Wang, Charlotte Doran, Amanda ChatupronLacayo, and Kevin Fung 4. Hemang Kaul, MJ Engel, Katherine Lee, and Samuel Green

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11. Sierra Heneghan ’14, Sahil Bhaiwala, Suzanne Wang, and Haonan Li 12. James Garth, Pallavi Prakash, Victoria Everett ’14, Garrick Gu, Darlina Lui, and Michael May 13. Richard McAllister and Alexandra Bell 14. Joshua Hayward and Zach Merchant

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4 5. Alex Kwon ’14, Rachel Xiao, Rose Tang, and Harvey Wu ’14 6. Couples from left: Samuel Block ’14 and Jessica Lee, Scott Livingston and Dylan MacDonald, Jack Katkavich and Kristin Mendez, Conor Soules and Jordan Johnson, Tyler Olkowski and Gaelyn Golde, Max Kim ’14 and Rebecca Wagman, Seamus O’Neill and Claudia Giles, Alexander Demeulenaere and Susanna Rademacher, Pearson Goodman and Lucia McGloin, Jason Nawrocki and Veronica Harrington, Rory Ziomek and Meredith Collins ’14, Eddie Ellis and Marjorie Kozloff ’14, Austin Heffner and Cara Daly, Henry Kennelly and Amanda Simard, Stephen Fehnel and Abigail Keller ’14

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8. Angela Batuure, Malina Simard-Halm ’14, and Diana Tchadi ’14 9. Emily Carrolo and Peter Bensen ’14 10. Rashana Shabazz, Holly Delaney, and Shireen Aziz

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”Allons! the road is before us!“

Dean of Faculty Temba Maqubela’s chemistry metaphor set the tone. “Structure and Bonding, Thermodynamics Potential, and Kinetics Transformation. It is an imitation of life!” he instructed. “We are right at the beginning of the celebration and recognition of the good times—the realization of potential. You are merely changing from a localized bonding with Andover to a delocalized bond…. And as the blues man wrote, ‘Let the good times roll!’”

Madeline Silva ’13 eloquently demonstrated that “Andover… has been a place where I have very much found my voice….”

Senior Theo Agbi’s deep gratitude to the faculty was palpable: “In class you push us to our breaking points with assignments, and then you follow us out of class and do the exact same thing on the field. But you do it with love.” English instructor and alum Catherine Tousignant ’88 offered a wistful literary reflection on the ambiguous challenge of change, leaving the assembled with Whitman: “Allons! the road is before us!

It is safe—I have tried it—my own feet have tried it well—be not detain’d!”

But the evening belonged to Associate Head of School Becky Sykes, moving on after 40 years to head the Oprah Winfrey Charitable Foundation. With tears and hugs she accepted 40 red roses and “gifts of friendship and respect” from members of the Class of ’13.

S ee and H ear Senior-Faculty Convocation at www.andover.edu/magazine.

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1. Lauren Montieth ’14, Ashlyn Aiello ’14, Nolan Crawford ’15, Chris Teng, Yanlin Ho, Rebecca Cheng ’14, Michaela Barczak ’15 2. Josh Henderson ’15 3. Miki Nagahara 4. Sasha Scolnik-Brower 5. David Shin ’14 6. Josy Hicks-Jablons and Anna Stacy

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9. Classics instructor and chair Elizabeth Meyer and Andrea Vargas 10. Art instructor Emily Trespas and Saroj Gourkanti 11. Eric Ouyang, Samuel Koffman, and music instructor Elizabeth Aureden 12. Associate Head of School Becky Sykes 13. English/art history instructor David Fox and Scott Livingston 14. Didi Oyinlola and English instructor Vuyelwa Maqubela

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Baccalaureate 2013 The evening was rich with reflections. MJ Engel (right) bared her soul, embracing her various “performances” over her Andover years: “In the midst of this chaotic emotion and calm solemnity, one fact remains certain: we graduate tomorrow… It is impossible to melt all of our experiences into one single universal Andover experience, although we may find threads of each other’s stories in our common act of performing. And, once we peel back the layers and step outside of this performance, what are we left with? Each of us, the actor, the writer, and the director of all our future performances. I call that true freedom.”

Jeri Eckhard-Queenan (below), mother of Michael Queenan ’13 and two other PA grads, told a Masai story of

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“Buy the ticket. Take the ride.” many streams that lead nowhere, but of some that lead to a big river.

“Andover is a big river,” she said. She related her struggle to “learn to parent differently” as she stood on the river bank watching her children learn to navigate. “It was hard,” she admitted.

And then it was retiring history teacher Vic Henningsen ’69’s moment.

Mixing humor with characteristic sarcasm and concern, he gave the Class of 2013 much to chew on. Invoking the Wizard of Oz, he reminded them that they already have what they came for, that the diploma is only a symbol. Relish the journey, “take time to appreciate and say thank you to those who shared the voyage to this piece of paper, this symbol.” Quoting Thoreau, he regretted that they have been over-protected from real life and encouraged the Class of 2013 to take risks, try new things, be willing to fail at something. And siding with playwright Nora Ephron, he advised them to lean toward life in the moment, rather than always opting to delay gratification. Come down, he said, “on the donut side.” Then, quoting Hunter S. Thompson, he invited students to “Buy the ticket. Take the ride.”

And in a final, maternal moment, Rev. Anne Gardner (right) stepped to the lectern and in a sweet, clear soprano, sang a benediction to the almost-graduates: We are going. Heaven knows where we are going. We’ll know we’re there.

We will get there. Heaven knows how we will get there. We know we will.

S ee and H ear Baccalaureate 2013 with all the speeches at www.andover.edu/magazine.

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scientists, humanists, and Under a perfect blue sky, the entire Class of 2013 gathered for the last time to hear Head of School John Palfrey’s first Andover Commencement address.

Good morning. It is my great pleasure to address you all: alumni, faculty, staff, faculty emeriti, friends, family, students, and the graduating Class of 2013.

Graduates, I suspect you are experiencing both joy and sadness. I know that is how I experience Commencement: it is a day to be extremely happy for you, and it is a day when we realize acutely how much we will miss you.

You, the Class of 2013, will always have a special place in my heart. I have great affection for you. You are the first graduating class during my time as head 10

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of school. As you take your leave from Andover, you also take with you some amazing adults: five retiring faculty members as well as two iconic leaders at the school, Temba Maqubela, who is becoming the head of Groton School, and Rebecca Sykes, who is becoming the president of the Oprah Winfrey Charitable Foundation.

I am grateful for many things about the Class of 2013. I admire your high spirits and your persistent goodwill. You are a brilliant group of artists, scientists, humanists, and all-around great people.

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all-around great people.” “big, blue, and nice”—given to you by the admissions office when you were selected from extremely competitive pools of applicants—but you have also spoken your mind. You have found the right blend of respectful and rabble-rousing, serious and fun-loving. You have provoked us to be a better school. You leave us a stronger community.

I am grateful to the Class of 2013, also, for teaching me so much about Andover.

I have never enjoyed teaching so much as I did with 10 seniors this past winter. You showed me, up close, how creative, clever,

well-spoken, and visionary you can be.

You gave me a sense of what you can do with this extraordinary Andover education that you’ve received.

I have loved the chance to see you, more or less each Wednesday, assembled, in your diverse and joyful way, in Cochran Chapel for All-School Meeting. I have marveled at how well you play the cello; how well you perform comedy on stage; how well you sing and dance works from every imaginable tradition. I have been moved by the art that you post along the walls in Elson that I pass every day on

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the way to my office. I have loved seeing you spike the volleyball and strike out opposing batters and clobber walk-off homeruns. You have talent galore. I am grateful for the introduction—hopeful, inspiring, and challenging—that you’ve offered to me and to my family as we start our own Andover education.

There are two scenes that I am sure I will remember about the Class of 2013. The first comes from the depths of a cold and snowy winter. It had been snowing and snowing and snowing some more—when along came the biggest snowstorm of the year, Winter Storm Nemo, the fifth highest snowfall in the recorded history of the Boston area.

We all know that students are required to shovel the spaces outside their dorms—a good practice for life in general.

The scene that I will remember was not just the feet of snow, but the crew of students who charged out with their shovels, bundled up from head to toe, to shovel out the administrative buildings and the classroom buildings and the steps to the chapel and the Addison, alongside the OPP staff who had come in over the weekend to operate the plows and dig us out. The shovel crew included senior faculty members, staff, and students of all ages. It was the scene of a strong and considerate community of people who go above and beyond what’s required of them to make Andover a better place.

The second vignette is covered not with the whites and grays of a massive snowstorm but with brilliant sunshine.

Just a few weeks ago, on these same lawns, a small group of students worked with faculty to organize the first ever—some are calling it the “First Annual”—Spring Arts Festival. Students here work harder than they should, in many cases, and the experience is more stressful than is healthy. But for an afternoon, that stress was swept aside by a broad arc of balloons that spanned the Vista between Foxcroft and Bartlet, a never-before-attempted avant-garde dance that involved paint on feet and a big sheet of plastic that looked like a slip-and-slide, bands, and lots of face 12

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Inset left: Richard Levy and Will Kim Above: Lily MacRae, MJ Engel, Madeline Silva, and Garrick Gu Above right: Flanking Head of School John Palfrey and Trustee President Peter Currie ’74 are the recipients of the five major awards announced at Commencement: Gabriele Fisher (Madame Sarah Abbot Award), Cameron Morose (Non Sibi Award), Piper Curtis (Yale Bowl), Emily Field (Faculty Prize), and Rolando Bonachea (Aurelian Honor Society Prize).

Above right inset: Jennifer Elliott, dean of Abbot Cluster and instructor in history and social science Right: Christopher Amendano, Andrea Vargas, Jonathan Thompkins, and David Jordan Right inset: Susanna Rademacher and Claudia Giles Below right: Ayaka Shinozaki, Stephanie Kim, and Emily Jia Below: Harrison Roche, Aaron Finder, Paul Turiano, Andries Feder, and Lazola Nyamakazi Left: Jessica Vocaturo and Giovanna Pickering

paint. It was memorable because of the expressiveness and happiness of all those who participated, but also because it was something created from the imagination— brought about from nothing, in the midst of many other demands on the time of an Andover student.

Parents: thanks to each one of you. These students are remarkable, in part, because you are remarkable. Thank you for what you have sacrificed in giving us the great joy of spending one, two, three, or four years with your children. You have sacrificed much, not just in terms of tuition dollars and contributions to the Parent Fund and your time in coming to Andover to see your children.

Most important, you have sacrificed in terms of the time we got to spend with your children while they were not with you. You have given us a tremendous gift—the chance to be a big part of their coming of age, as scholars and as people.

I want to leave you, seniors, with a few parting words about your Andover experience and what comes next. Just as Commencement is always marked by the tension between the gladness of accomplishment and the sorrow of a time that will not return, there is much else about today that is marked by two hardto-reconcile themes. It is much like when a jazz trio or singers in Fidelio come to a part in their music where the notes are dissonant and unstable; our job is either to resolve them, with a consonant chord thereafter, or to live with the dissonance— perhaps even learning to enjoy the dissonance itself.

The first of these tensions is pride in what you have done and the humility that you should hold dear as you leave Andover.

You have each worked extremely hard during your high school years. That is part of what makes Andover, Andover. You deserve to be proud of yourselves for what you have accomplished. You have prepared yourselves better than almost anyone else on the planet for what comes next. When you get to college, wherever you go and whenever you get there, you will know what I mean.

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At the same time, as you leave us, I urge you to bring with you a strong and healthy dose of humility alongside the pride of being an Andover graduate. One of the things that I love about this school is that people of all ages seem ready to learn at all times. There is a characteristic openness and joy in finding out new things, about how to create ways to improve the world. This is one of the reasons why people seem to work so hard and to sleep so little, no matter how old we are, on this 500-acre plot of land. There is a hunger to improve here at Andover that I hope you will never lose. Part of our shared commitment to diversity comes from the sense that others, from other places and perspectives, know things and can do things that we cannot—yet—do or know ourselves. Though you are the great Class of 2013, remember that you are in fact the third Class of ’13 in the long and rich PA history. This humility is essential not just for you, but also for us as teachers and as heads of school.

Second of the tensions: I hope that you will recall, when you think back on Andover, what you have learned about how to succeed, but also how to fail. You would not be here today if you were not wildly accomplished—you are—and I trust that your Andover experience has affirmed this characteristic in each of you.

I trust that you will recall also the times when you have taken a risk at Andover and failed at something—or at least had an outcome that you did not expect. While you’ve been here, you most likely have taken on things that you never thought you would try. I hope that you’ve managed to skin your knees a few times along the way, that you have found in yourself the force of character to pick yourself up, and that you’ve become more confident in yourself as a result. I hope that we have been there for you, as adults, when you’ve really needed us, but that we’ve been at 14

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Above inset: Clan MacPherson bagpipers Above: Arianna Chang, Ben Croen, and Julius Bright Ross Above right: Susannah Hyde, Julia Kichorowsky, Emily Carrolo, Jing Qu, Rachel Andresen, Parker Thomas, and Sara Nunez Right: Jaeduk Kim, Richard Levy, and Saroj Gourkanti Far right inset: Hemang Kaul Far right: Peter Solazzo, Garrick Gu, Lucy Frey, Parker Thomas, and Julia Kichorowsky Bottom inset: Rochelle Wilbun and Didi Oyinlola Below: Saroj Gourkanti, Justin Wang, Kevin Newhall, Mark Meyer, Haonan Li, Harvey Molé, Julie Doar, and Ali Belinkie

a safe enough distance when you really needed to do it on your own.

If we’ve done our job right as educators, this tension between success and failure should foster in each of you a sense of entrepreneurship. I don’t mean that each of you must found your own nonprofit or your own Silicon Valley­—based tech startup—although I hope that some of you will do so and will make us proud through your work. I mean entrepreneurship in the sense that you will take the great gifts that you have honed through your time at Andover and put them to great use to do well and to do good in the world, to realize your personal dreams and to serve others in the true spirit of non sibi, Andover style— much like the students who grabbed a shovel in Winter Storm Nemo to create a team to help OPP and the students who put on the First Annual Spring Arts Festival.

A final tension: Though you leave today in physical terms, I hope you will remain connected in other ways to this place and this time in your life. I hope that you will continue to be involved in the life of your school—Andover—for life. As trustees Peter Currie and Chris Auguste (both here with us today) said to you at the senior dinner with alumni in May, “Use the Andover network and find comfort in those friendships. Stay connected.” You have been students here for one, two, three, or four years, but you will now be alumni for a lifetime.

We have much work to do at Andover to continue to provide the best possible education we can for those who come after you in this increasingly digital age. In this work, we need your help. In the years to come, it is my hope that Andover will continue to thrive as an intense, focused, warm residential school that uses the best of the digital to connect to its alumni body and to students all around the world.

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with us through Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr—or using whatever means works for you. I hope that you will continue the great work of the alumni who come before you—alumni who help Andover to be every bit the school, the community, and the private school with a public purpose that we aspire to be.

My Commencement wish for you is that you will each find a way to hold these sometimes dissonant, sometimes consonant ideas in a way that feels harmonious and fulfilling to you. I wish for each of you, more than anything, that your postAndover life will be productive and happy, full of joy and meaning.

In closing, I borrow words from one of my predecessors, a principal from Abbot Academy, Marguerite Capen Hearsey, who told her class of 1940: “We have come now to the real good-bye, and there is little more that I can say or would say at such time in your personal lives and in this unprecedented and unpredictable world, than ‘good-bye’ with all its original, reverent significance— God be with you.”

Class of 2013: We will miss you, I will miss you. Congratulations, and thank you.

—John Palfrey Head of School June 9, 2013

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Top: Annika Neklason, Michael May, James Garth, A.J. Pisch, Pallavi Prakash, Krissy Pelley, Garrick Gu, Carolyn Nigro, Nathaniel Smith, and Anna Harrison Above inset: Gaelyn Golde and Tyler Olkowski Above left: George Avecillas and Demetri Papageorgiou Above right: Barbara Cleary, Nona Velez, Zelly Atlan, Erin Wong, and Nikita Singareddy Right: Amanda Simard, Stephanie Petrella, and Jacklyn Murray Below: Patrick Naughter, Joshua Hayward, David Crane, William Merchant, and Sahil Bhaiwala Below inset: Head of School John Palfrey and Aaron Finder

Major prizes and awards earned by members of the Class of 2013 Commencement Day Prizes

DEPARTMENT PRIZES & AWARDS

Aurelian Honor Society Prize Rolando I. Bonachea

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Faculty Prize Emily L. Field

Architecture Award Jay H. Reader

Madame Sarah Abbot Award Gabriele S. Fisher

John Metcalf Prize Parker M. Thomas

Non Sibi Award Cameron T. Morose

Morse Prize Natalia C. Slattery Holland C. Delany

Yale Bowl Piper L. Curtis

GENERAL PRIZES & AWARDS Achievement Prize Alexandra M. Bell Ayars Prize Nathaniel C. Smith Fuller Prize Anjali M. Krishnamachar Isabel Maxwell Hancock Award Patrick F. Naughter Kingsbury Prize Demetrios Papageorgiou Richard Jewett Schweppe Prize Lazola V. Nyamakazi Abbot Stevens Prize Molly J. Engel Sullivan Prize Rashana R. Shabazz Van Duzer Prize Samuel L. Green

Betsy Waskowitz Rider Art Award Kristine L. Pelley Saroj Gourkanti Thompson Prize Rachel E. Andresen Carolyn J. Nigro Video Award Rashana R. Shabazz Pamela Weidenman Memorial Prize Alexandra M. Donovan Sohyun Lee ATHLETICS Abbot Athletic Award Amanda A. Simard

CLASSICS

MATHEMATICS

SCIENCE

Catlin Prize Emily A. Hoyt Connor J. Fraser David H. Crane Amelia A. Trant

Bernard Joseph Award Justin C. Wang

Advanced Chemistry Prize Chayakorn Pongsiri (First) Gregory F. Young (Third)

Cook Prize Connor J. Fraser Declamation Prize (Latin 520V) Patrick M. Niedzielski Dove Prize Patrick M. Niedzielski Weir Prize (New Testament Greek) Garrick H. Gu (Second) ENGLISH Charles Snow Burns Poetry Prize Annika J. Neklason John Horne Burns Prize for Fiction Annika J. Neklason Charles C. Clough Essay Prize Connie C. Cheng Draper Prize Stephanie D. Petrella

McCurdy Prize Nickhil R. Nabar (First) Jing Qu (Second)

Dalton Prize in Chemistry William H. Bloxham Graham Prize in Science Emily L. Field

MUSIC Milton Collier Prize Dakyung Song Charles Cutter Prize Miki C. Nagahara Alexander G. Scolnik-Brower Fuller Concert Band Prize Collum E. Freedman Vijay G. Rajkumar Ayaka Shinozaki Fuller Jazz Band Prize Patrick M. Niedzielski Samantha V. Martinez Bassett Watt Hough Prize James L.W. Garth Vincent W. Lau Ainsworth B. Jones Prize Tiffany C. Lam Katherine E.A. Shih Carl F. Pfatteicher Prize Anna C. Stacy Lauren E. Kim

Means Essay Prize Anna C. Stacy

Edward P. Poynter Prize Jason L. Teng Josephine J. Hicks-Jablons

Press Club Award Lawrence K. Kemp Giovanna M. Pickering

HISTORY & SOCIAL SCIENCE

Schubert Key Kayla E. Maloney

Class of 1946 Economics Prize Emily L. Field

Robert S. Warsaw Music Prize Sirus K. Han Lydia C. Kaprelian Mari A. Funabashi

Raymond T. Tippett Memorial Award Rory P. Ziomek

Arthur Burr Darling Prize Shun Sakai Dawes Prize Chien Hong L. Png Grace Prize Gabriele S. Fisher Marshall S. Kates Prize Sung Woo Hong Lauder Prize Matthew L. Deorocki

Music in the Community Skanda K. Koppula Yeo Bi Choi Eric Ouyang

Marsh Prize in Biology Lillian E. MacRae Emily R. Carrolo Scoville Prize in Science Sam Khalandovsky Wadsworth Prize in Biology Emily L. Field Julius G. Bright Ross Wadsworth Prize in Physics 400 Anna B. Harrison (Third) Wadsworth Prize in Physics 550/580 Gregory M. Cameron (First) Gregory F. Young (Third) THEATRE & DANCE

Phelps Award Hailey Novis Seamus J. O’Neill

Harold J. Sheridan Award Nathaniel C. Smith

Independent Research Prize in Biology William H. Bloxham

N. Penrose Hallowell Award Susannah M. Hyde Dance Prize Madeline M. Silva WORLD LANGUAGES Neuman Prize (Chinese) Raeva S. Kumar James Hooper Grew Prize (French) Maia S. Hirschler Rozenn Y. Carrio Stevenson Prize (German) Angela M. Leocata Piper L. Curtis Ross R. Bendetson Benjamin C. & Kathleen S. Jones Prize (Russian) Nicole Y. Ng Stephanie D. Petrella Donald E. Merriam Prize (Spanish) Alexandra M. Bell

R ead more awards at www.andover.edu/magazine.

R ead 2013 college matriculations at www.andover.edu/magazine.

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Video: Water and Wine (I'm not Sure This Isn't Blade Runner) —Virginia Fu ’13

Freedom—Bo Hyung Yoon ’13

parting arts and letters Fruit No more my father says to my prodding spoon, there’s a train coming from the fruit fields I’d like to catch.

You’ve barely eaten I say brushing bits of cracker out of his mustache; I’m tired of your trains.

But you’ve never tasted fruits like these, he says fingering the lip of his bib.

Give me an apple and some red wine; I’ll show you.

In his trembling hands he slices a piece, dunks it in the wine and lifts it up to my mouth.

I’ll feed you before I go.

Frame—Didi Oyinlola ’13

—Demetri Papageorgiou ’13

Illuminating the Past—Rachel Andresen ’13

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tea my mother’s hands, soft against the burnt mud of the clay pot, the crumble of brittle leaves falling stiffly through her fingers. the water simmers. the leaves whisper. they sigh and they sink and they settle— the tea steeps. shades of earth burn my tongue when I drink from a cup too small, and the golden liquid is quiet gentle more bitter than bittersweet, think too hard and you will miss it— the taste of home.

Breathing—Sohyun (Sarah) Lee ’13

—Rachel Xiao ’13

The 20’s: Conservatism, Contract and Consumption—Katie Chapman ’14

Portraits of a Filipino Family—Sierra Mari Jamir ’14

Unconscious Subconscious—Molly Magnell ’14

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”[L]ook to those around you and cherish these last moments that we have together as a class. Congratulate each other and remember the idea of this purposeful community, the one that held us all closely together during our time here.

I am truly proud of everything that we, as a class, have accomplished and the mark that we leave on this Academy.“ —Hemang Kaul

School President Commencement Address S ee and H ear School President Hemang Kaul’s Commencement address at www.andover.edu/magazine.

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