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Discover the identities of these lucky alums in “Reunion Unions,” a feature on page 30.

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Triple Threat Teacher, coach, dorm counselor: the triple threat is an enduring tradition at Andover. Yet few have demonstrated the level of commitment to each role as energetically and capably as Paul Kalkstein ’61, now a class secretary.

For 36 years, Paul served PA as an innovative English teacher, and was among the first to harness the power of technology in the classroom. A highly successful coach of boys’ varsity basketball and lacrosse, he also served as director of athletics in the 1980s. And along with wife Marnie, Paul’s life in the dorms extended well beyond the typical eight years to more than 24. The reason for such dedication?

Students were indisputably at the center of Paul’s experience. “So many of them were eager and optimistic, and they intimate a brighter future for all of us,” he says.

There’s another facet to Paul’s PA connection: donor. He has been an unflagging supporter of PA for years. “Marnie and I are appreciative that Andover gave us a wonderful life on campus.

Our three children, Bart ’88, Molly ’90, and Emily ’94, received first-rate educations at Andover, and each of them gratefully supports the school today.”

Now in his 50th Reunion year, Paul has taken a further meaningful step in support of his alma mater. “In recognition of all that Andover has meant to the Kalksteins and in anticipation of all it will mean to others, we decided to make a gift of a charitable annuity,” he says. “The tax and income benefits are so substantial that Marnie and I chose to increase the size of our gift—and our annuity will keep us in touch with the school as the years roll by.”

To learn how you can benefit from an Andover planned gift, contact David Flash at 978-749-4297 or dflash@andover.edu.

Flying High in Gotham The Andover banner shares the staff with Old Glory on a wind-whipped December night in Herald Square. Inside, alumni, parents, and trustees came together to share stories, enjoy performances by three accomplished young alums, and celebrate the Academy (more photos in BLUEprint, pages VI, VII).

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A Deep Commitment to Understanding Islam

Vimeo

BlueLink

Alumni Directory

Linked In

Twitter

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A critical part of PA’s global mission

Q&A: The Honorable George Bundy Smith ’55

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Looks back 50 years to the Freedom Rides

Write a Poem, Save a Frog

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Kerry Kriger ’92 makes some very strange noises

Andover’s Social Media Mariners

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Navigating a new world order

Reunion Unions

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Destiny could be waiting at your next alumni event

A User’s Guide to eReaders

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From library director Elisabeth Tully

Morgan’s Gift

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A daughter’s ultimate act of non sibi

Faculty Showcase: Artist Undistracted

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Therese Zemlin’s sabbatical journey

BLUEprint, the newsletter of The Campaign for Andover

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Honoring legacy and opportunity

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Dateline Andover .......................6 Sports Talk....................................16 Old Blue .........................................29 On Course....................................37 Connection..................................40 Andover Bookshelf ................44 Class Notes ..................................53 In Memoriam ..........................120 Tales Out of School.............124

Susan Goodwillie Stedman ’59 ...........................................77

Citoyenne du Monde Yichen Zhang ’82..............................99

Wendy Cogswell

A Year that Helped Mold a Life

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FROM T HE EDIT O R WINTER 2011 Volume 104 Number 2 PUBLISHER Tracy M. Sweet Director of Academy Communications EDITOR Sally V. Holm Director of Publications DESIGNER Ken Puleo Senior Graphic Designer ASSISTANT EDITORS Jill Clerkin Sharon Magnuson DESIGN ASSISTANT Sally Abugov CLASS NOTES COORDINATOR Joanne Smith CONTRIBUTING WRITERS David Chase, Charles Donovan ’39, Jason Fry ’87, William Harrold, Joe Lemire ’01, Jamie Love ’06, Dana Mackenzie ’75, Amy Morris ’92, Christopher Shaw ’78, Paula Trespas, Elisabeth Tully PHOTOGRAPHERS Kezi Barry ’02, Wendy Cogswell, Art Durity, Neil Evans, Sally Holm, Adam Levine ’11, Amy Morris, Michael Malyszko, Ken Puleo, Dan Shvartzman ’02, Gil Talbot, Yuto Watanabe ’11, Dave White © 2011 Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

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With this issue, Andover magazine has achieved one of the most important goals I set when I took over the editor’s chair in October 2008: a substantial majority of the feature contributions to this issue were written by alumni and faculty. It’s no secret that a robust and intriguing alumni publication requires far more than the entertainment of its readership. It must be embraced by and “owned” by that alumni body. It must reflect who you are, who you have become, who you are becoming. And it must not be just about you, but of you.

You are about to encounter a variety of subjects, passions, and personalities as rich and diverse as Andover itself: digital-media consultant Jason Fry ’87 on how Andover players reflect on the social media revolution, newly appointed history department chair Christopher Shaw ’78 on the importance of integrating Islam into our curriculum, recently retired PA history instructor Derek Williams ’65’s Q&A with George Bundy Smith ’55 on his participation in the Freedom Rides, science writer Dana Mackenzie ’75 on a fellow alum’s environmental efforts, Sports Illustrated’s Joe Lemire ’01 on Big Blue spirit, and Charles Donovan ’39 on his pride in his Andover education.

And other faculty contributors have infused this issue with gifts of their own: library director Elisabeth Tully, who makes it her business to stay on top of the information technology revolution; Director of Stewardship David Chase, whose Old Blue column appears regularly, sheds light into neglected corners of our sumptuous history; and, of course, we are always indebted to the diligence and devotion of our class secretaries.

We hope to fuel this trend and encourage more contributions from our unmatched alumni and faculty groups—especially important as we begin compiling the Fall 2011 issue. Andover will honor the 70th anniversary of Pearl Harbor and our community’s participation in World War II—on both the war and the home fronts. We are sending out a call for your stories, memories, and thoughts from that devastating and inspiring time. Submissions can be about you, classmates, or their families. What bound us together as a community? What worked to tear us apart? How did we survive and triumph for the greater good?

Please e-mail your WWII story to andovermagazine@andover.edu by April 1. Submissions also may be mailed to: Editor, Andover magazine, 180 Main St., Andover MA 01810-4161.

Thank you for all your help and enthusiasm these past two years. Please keep reading…and writing!

—Sally Holm

Cover: Gifu Japanese lanterns—made of handmade paper printed with designs from nature delicately stretched over fine wood frames—are lit from within. The work, called The Bed Project, was created on 2003 by PA art instructor and widely exhibited sculptor Therese Zemlin and formed the basis of much of her work | Winter Andover 2011page 38. during her fall sabbatical.

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Macro Mystery M Can you identify the location of the photo below?

If you think you know, send your answer to: andovermagazine@andover.edu Winners of the Fall 2010 Macro Mystery are listed below.

Congratulations for the second time in a row to Dr. George Church for the first correct answer!

George Church ’72 Susan D. Ezell, (OWHL director, 1990–2000)

Fall Macro Mystery Photo Answer: The elaborate compass is painted into the lower right quadrant of the large 1929 mural of Andover

by American artist Stuart Travis that graces the east wall of the Freeman Room. It is one of three large murals Travis painted that are still displayed on campus. The second, which depicts Native peoples, can be found in the stairwell of the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology; the third is a panorama of evolution displayed in the Gelb Science Center.

Dear Editor, I arrived at Andover the year after Dr. Fuess’s proposal to abolish fraternities (“Secret Societies,” Spring 2010) and heard several accounts of the ensuing furor. A most controversial event, indeed, which sounded almost like a campus revolt had taken place.

History instructor Fritz Allis noted in his book, Youth from Every Quarter, that almost the only prominent fraternity alum who supported Dr. Fuess was my uncle, Allan V. Heely ’15, who was a PA English instructor for 10 years prior to becoming headmaster of Lawrenceville in 1934. He opined that the societies were “all bad because they were affronts to the real spirit of the school.” While the fraternities did not exactly fight over me, I realized that just about all the school leaders, doers, and students of note belonged—as well as some who saw non-fraternity boys as the great unwashed.

Dear Editor, In this age of disappearing “print” media, I have to take the time to compliment the staff for putting together a terrific magazine. The quality of the articles, the variety of topics covered, the use of pictures and the “feel” of the paper stock...it all combined to give the reader the feeling of a most professional product.

Many congratulations on a job well done.

—Richard Pechter ’63 Atlanta Dear Editor,

Maybe I could have talked Uncle Allan into pulling strings for me with PAE. But even in my youth I realized that a reluctant bid given to a not overly popular boy would have been a bummer deal for both sides.

As a widow of Robert O. White ’41, I am privileged to receive your magazine. I look forward to reading it with pleasure and great admiration. Your articles are timely and interesting, even to an outsider. The most important feature, however, is your positive spirit and pride in Andover! Congratulations!

—Leroy P. Heely ’47 Brunswick, Maine

—Mrs. Robert O. White Smith College ’46

ERRATA Fall 2010 In a photograph on page 29 from the opening All-School Meeting in September, we neglected to identify the distinguished faculty accompanying Head of School Barbara Landis Chase down the center aisle. They are, from left, instructor in biology Tom Cone, who is in his 44th year of teaching at Andover; Marc Koolen, instructor in biology; Tom Hodgson, instructor in philosophy and religious studies; and Rev. Anne Gardner, director of spiritual and religious life.

PLEASE SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS WITH US Andover, the magazine of Phillips Academy welcomes your comments, suggestions, and involvement.

Letters may be edited for length, grammar, and style.

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Appalachian Spring

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A moving and beautiful production, set to the famous Aaron Copland orchestral jewel and choreographed and directed by instructor in dance Judith Wombwell, featured the Andover Dance Group and the Department of Theatre and Dance in collaboration with the Department of Music.

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Trustees Tackle Building and Brainstorming at Fall Meetings

In thanking Israel and Tang for their thoughtful generosity, Head of School Barbara Chase described Bulfinch as “an iconic building, housing legendary teachers past and present, and touching every Andover student.” The project is now in the design phase, and efforts to secure the final $2.8 million are underway.

Designed by architect-builder Asher Benjamin and built in 1819, Bulfinch Hall served over the years as a gymnasium and a dining hall prior to becoming the home of the English department. The facility will be renovated to include updated and more flexible teaching areas, converting what is currently a worn structure into an efficient and inviting space for student learning and faculty collaboration. “This is tremendously important to the Academy,” said Chase. “We look forward to providing the quality teaching and learning environment that our faculty and students deserve.”

Navigating between meetings at the Andover Inn and George Washington Hall, trustees also tackled an ambitious agenda that included workshops on Andover finances and the endowment, as well as a generative discussion on academic innovation and outreach programs.

Among other business: Jane Fried, assistant head for enrollment, research, and planning and dean of admission, and Jim Ventre, director of financial aid and admission operations, presented new research on tuition and price sensitivity. The study examined a number of data points, including trends at peer schools, affordability thresholds, and price sensitivity of the market.

Chief Investment Officer Amy Falls ’82 reported that the endowment returned 14.5 percent in fiscal year 2010. She expects Andover will finish in the top quartile of its peer group.

The board also reviewed architectural designs for the recently acquired boathouse property (see related story in BLUEprint, page I).

Adam Levine

The renovation of Bulfinch Hall got a philanthropic boost with a new gift from Board of Trustees Treasurer Thomas Israel ’62, which, when combined with the designation of a portion of Board President Oscar Tang ’56’s campaign commitment and initial support of $1 million from earlier donors, puts total funding for the project at more than $4 million.

Stanley S. Shuman ’52 Charter Trustee (2002–2010); Alumni Trustee (1998–2002)

Faculty and Colleagues Feted At a harvest-themed dinner during the fall meetings, trustees and faculty gathered in Paresky Commons to celebrate a number of achievements and milestones. Dean of Faculty Temba Maqubela and Dean of Studies John Rogers awarded teaching foundations to senior faculty members Carroll Perry (economics), Nina Scott (English), Jacques Hugon ’79 (mathematics), and Marc Koolen (biology).

Stanley Shuman ’52, who retired from the board in June, was honored with gifts and accolades for his eight years of service as a charter trustee and four years as an alumni trustee. Board President Oscar Tang read from the resolution: “This Academy has benefitted from your thoughtful counsel, seasoned through a long career in finance and civic engagement in the public and private sectors, through corporate and foundation boards, government commissions and kindred positions of trust…. You have established the gold standard for attendance and commitment to board work, careful analysis, and articulate persuasion.”

With fundraising for the Addison Gallery building project now complete, Trustee Sid Knafel ’48, chair of the Addison Gallery Board of Governors, and Brian Allen, director of the Addison, were recognized for their leadership in the $22-million fundraising effort. With their colleagues, they will continue to work toward the $8 million endowment initiative for the Addison.

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Biology instructor Marc Koolen receives a congratulatory hug with Dean of Studies John Rogers as Board President Oscar Tang applauds Koolen’s teaching foundation award at the trustees dinner.

Koolen has taught at Andover since 1974.

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Definitely, Not a Tent What art instructor Emily Trespas heard Jon Stewart say in a recent NPR interview—“Creativity comes from limits, not freedom”—struck the theme chord for her fall Art 500 project, Not a Tent. In late September, she charged her 12 students with creating site-specific “Christo-inspired” installations in the he courtyard bounded by Kemper Auditorium, Elson Art Center, er, er and G.W. They were allowed a few basic tent-like materials— — stakes, twine, plastic tarps—with one specific parameter: theyy could not build a tent.

To prepare, Trespas (upper right) had taken them to thee Addison Gallery, shown them the film of Christo’s “Running Fence” sculpture in California, and arranged a meeting with artist and architect Charles Thornton ’05.

Divided into three groups, the students set to work, learning to create ideas that traveled from electrical impulses to words, to designs, to paper, to mini models, and finally to fullblown structures assembled in the art center and installed outside. Once they had come up with designs, they could have three “wishes”—materials that were not part of the original package. Trespas had two goals in mind: to help initiate a collaborative bond among the students who would spend the academic year working together, and to encourage creative problem-solving with limitations. Whatever the goals, it was about the process, not the product.

They worked for several weeks with stops and starts, breakthroughs and frustrations, wind and even rain. Trespas had her own struggle to let them learn from their mistakes.

Finally, their creations stood in the courtyard just in time for Parents’ Weekend, catching the curious—the fans and the detractors—a bit off guard.

One group constructed a horizontal set of screens, titled An Evolving View, that faced a well-traveled walkway. Another designed a delicate hanging structure, named Untitled, onto which words and moving patterns could be projected. The tthird group produced Evidence of a Struggle, melting old LP vinyl records into a scene of deconstructive chaos.

At the conclusion, students wrote reflections, revealing what they had learned about themselves and the collaborative process. The art in the courtyard was temporal—high winds and rain saw to that. But the young artists seem to have taken away something permanent.

“I enjoyed [the group thinking and talking through ideas]…so much because it is where the creative and the logical overlap,” one wrote, expressing a pervasive theme.

—Sally Holm

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Andover Gets Pumped for Pink in Middlesex Matchup

Sally Holm

To honor Coach Olivia Achtmeyer’s work in the fight against breast cancer, her former and current varsity field hockey teams put their rivalry aside long enough to coordinate a pink and white showdown on the turf of Phelps Stadium in October. Proceeds from the sales of tickets and baked goods were donated to Achtmeyer’s “Runway for Recovery,” a nonprofit she founded after losing her mother to the disease in 2001. The foundation hosts an annual fashion gala to help fund counseling services for children who have lost their mothers to breast cancer. Achtmeyer taught and coached at Middlesex School before joining Andover’s English department last fall.

Paresky Commons Renovation Earns LEED Silver Certification for Sustainability The renovation of Paresky Commons has earned a LEED Silver certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), a nonprofit organization that promotes sustainable design, construction, and operations of buildings. LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design.

Sustainable standards, such as environmentally and socially responsible building practices, drove the 15-month renovation project, resulting in the reuse or recycling of more than 90 percent of all construction debris.

“We wanted to earn the LEED rating to certify our considerable sustainable initiatives using a nationally accepted standard,” says the project’s chief overseer, Director of Facilities Michael Williams.

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Gallery renovation—with solar screens and a green roof—the USGBC’s nod to the Paresky renovation “confirms that Phillips Academy has been engaged in significant sustainable initiatives in all of our projects for a very long time,” says Williams.

Among the dining hall’s most notable upgrades is an innovative food waste pulper-extractor system, which dehydrated and compacted more than 97 tons of organic matter for composting in 2010. Williams credits the system as a primary factor in a 47 percent decrease in the Academy’s incinerated waste from 2007 to 2010.

Since Paresky’s reopening in March 2009, Senior Food Services Director Paul Robarge has instituted a number of operational shifts toward sustainability, including “trayless” dining, the use of environmentally friendly cleaning products, and an aggressive recycling program.

Messiah Inspires Quiet Generosity Each December for the past decade, Philip Akel ’93 has driven from his home in Binghamton, N.Y., to attend the Academy’s annual holiday performance of Handel’s Messiah. Concert attendees are asked to bring food donations for the local Neighbors in Need food pantry. Akel, whose family used to own the Binghamton Giants supermarket chain, loads up his SUV with a very generous quantity of groceries and quietly delivers it to Cochran Chapel before attending the concert. This year was no exception.

Says Akel, “I have a great fondness for this school, and I still feel as much a part of this community as I do my hometown.”

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Philip Akel ’93 and girlfriend Bridget May brought a large donation to Cochran Chapel before the Messiah concert.

Parents’ Weekend 2010 Classic sunny, cool New England fall weather greeted the approximately 1,200 parents who joined their sons and daughters on campus October 29–31.

A few of the weekend’s many highlights included: a tour of the newly reopened Addison Gallery; a cocktail reception for parent volunteers and Non Sibi Association donors; open houses offering varied summer, interim year, and School Year Abroad opportunities; student concerts and recitals; classroom presentations for parents by their children’s teachers; student health and wellness sessions; a college admissions panel; and two gatherings in the Oliver Wendell Holmes Library, one on the future of reading in the digital age and the other on the Academy’s rich history, as revealed by items from its archives.

Yuto Watanabe

A full schedule of athletic contests and four sold-out performances of the everpopular Grasshopper Night, a variety entertainment show produced, directed, and performed by students, rounded out the three-day event.

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D ATE LINE AND O VER Andover Makes Triumphant Debut in China Girls Math Olympiad For the first time since 2007, when the United States began competing in the China Girls Mathematical Olympiad, an Andover student not only qualified to compete in the taxing international competition but scored first among U.S. contenders.

The commanding performance of PA senior Jae Eui Shin earned her a gold medal on behalf of the U.S. and helped usher her four-member team to a second-place finish behind China.

The competition, which took place August 9–13 in Shijiazhuang (40 miles southwest of Beijing), drew 180 high school girls from 20 countries, including Great Britain, Russia, and Australia. The tournament focused on eight problems requiring skills in algebra, combinatorics, geometry, and number theory.

Despite the rigors of travel and competition, Shin was exhilarated by her first international Olympiad. “It was a very unique and precious experience,” she says. “It was more than just a math competition—it was a two-week trip around China and Hong Kong, during which time I made lasting friendships with my fellow teammates and coaches.”

Gold medalist Jae Eui Shin ’11 (fourth from left), her U.S. teammates, and other competitors in the 2010 China Girls Mathematical Olympiad await their flights home from Beijing.

The international showings of Shin and fellow student Wenyu Cao ’11 (who won a silver medal in the 2009 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) and a gold medal in the 2010 International Informatics Contest) have helped cast Andover as a first-rate contender in mathematics on a worldwide stage, says math instructor Don Barry.

The United States began competing in the IMO in 1972, but it wasn’t until 1990 that an Andover student—Tim Kokesh ’90—first made the team, Barry says. Since then, substantial numbers of PA students have gone on to compete in the United States of America Mathematical Olympiad, but it wasn’t until 2009 that a PA student, Cao, made an international team.

Neil Evans

Taking Steps Toward Better Health The Academy’s fourth annual Wellness Week in early November comprised more than a hundred classes and workshops, with topics ranging from gender awareness and meditation to cyber safety and learning to salsa. Dr. Laurence Steinberg, an adolescent psychologist, was Wellness Week’s keynote speaker (see page 14).

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Reaccreditation Inspires Thoughtful Self-Study Michael Malyszko

Phillips Academy is poised to complete its 10-year reaccreditation this winter. The New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) Commission on Independent Schools will make a final recommendation at its February meeting.

Michael Williams oversaw dozens of major campus building and renovation projects during his tenure. The Paresky Commons work, through which Williams toured trustees, recently was honored with a LEED Silver certification.

As is customary in the year leading up to reaccreditation, Phillips Academy completed a self-study and then hosted a visiting committee, chaired by Thomas Sturtevant, headmaster of Northfield Mount Hermon School. The 15-person committee spent three days on campus last fall interviewing faculty and staff and poring over documents that ultimately would inform their report and recommendation for reaccreditation to NEASC.

Longtime Director of Facilities Leaves for Global Opportunity After nearly two decades serving as the chief strategist behind Andover’s campus planning and stewardship efforts, Michael Williams, director of facilities, has accepted a position with the Aga Khan Academies. As senior manager for property development, Williams will be based in Gouvieux, France, but his work will extend globally as he works to build 18 residential academies in Africa, the Middle East, and Central and Southern Asia.

“It has been a privilege…to participate in Phillips Andover’s reaccreditation. We appreciate the comprehensiveness of the materials that were provided, the hospitality we were shown, and the commitment to excellence that pervades the Academy,” the report reads.

“Phillips Academy is a school that could easily rest on its laurels.

Instead, we found a school in which all the constituents not only lived its mission, but also were committed to continually improving their practice…”

His Highness, the Aga Khan, initiated a program to establish a network of schools dedicated to expanding access to education of an international standard of excellence. The academies, which focus on pre-primary through higher secondary education, are planned for key locations. The first such school, the Aga Khan Academy in Mombasa, Kenya, opened in August 2003.

More than 150 faculty and staff played roles in the self-study process, serving as researchers, interviewers, writers, and committee chairs.

The self-study was coordinated by Bill Scott, instructor in mathematics. Head of School Barbara Landis Chase offered “profound thanks to every constituency of the Academy for commitment to the highest purposes of this school, for the hard work it takes to achieve our most important goals, and for the cooperation, patience, and compassion shown toward the young people and adults who live and work here every day.”

Reflecting on Williams’s service to Andover, Steve Carter, chief operating and financial officer, said that colleagues will miss Michael’s “expertise, strategic vision, and meticulous approach to campus planning. In his years at Andover, he has overseen dozens of multimillion-dollar facilities projects and managed a large in-house staff and numerous contractors.”

“Michael’s ability to take a project from vision to the thing itself has made this extraordinary campus ever more functional and beautiful,” added Head of School Barbara Chase. “We salute him and thank him for nearly two decades of service to Andover.”

In addition to the completion of a campus master plan in 1996, some of the more visible building initiatives completed during his time at Andover are: major renovations, including Paresky Commons, the Addison Gallery, the Andover Inn, and Cochran Chapel; renovations in multiple dormitories; Abbot campus restoration projects that included upgrades to Draper and Abbot halls; new construction of the Gelb Science Center, the Shuman Admission Center, Harrison Rink, and the power plant; and reconstruction of the iconic Memorial Bell Tower.

Williams and his wife, Susan Montgomery, will always remain members of the Andover family through their son, Josh Williams ’03.

—Tracy M. Sweet

Gil Talbot

As of January 3, Larry Muench became the new director of facilities.

Muench most recently has served as associate director of operations and capital projects and has reported directly to Williams for the past six years.

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Inset: Peabody workduty student Apsara Iyer ’12 and museum director Malinda Blustain bury time capsules near the building’s entrance.

High Demand for Peabody’s Resources Spurs Renovation When amateur archaeologist Robert Singleton Peabody, Class of 1857, founded the country’s first (and only) archaeological museum on a secondary school campus in 1901, little could he have imagined the types of changes that would be part of its largest renovation in more than a century.

“The renovation also gives us additional classroom and meeting space, as well as the repository for our extensive collection of books and journals,” said Peabody Director Malinda Blustain, who oversaw the project.

To commemorate the renovation, the Peabody’s 30 work-duty students, under the direction of assistant collections manager Marla Taylor, buried two time capsules on the museum grounds in October, preserving for future generations a period of time for the museum marked by a dichotomous surge in demand for its resources (500,000 artifacts, 25,000 photographs, thousands of documents, and a 6,000-volume library) in an infrastructure hobbled by its own antiquity.

Stuffed with objects, photographs, and documents, the canisters’ contents create a portrait of the museum, the Academy, and the world at large in 2010, including some cheeky (a BP gift card) and some earnest (an Operation Iraqi Freedom lapel pin). On top of papers detailing campus statistics and administrative and student rosters are stuffed a Lady Gaga T-shirt, a deflated World Cup soccer ball, opposing news editorials on the proposed “Ground Zero Mosque,” a Tea Party Gadsden flag, and Head of School Barbara Landis Chase’s BlueCard.

—Amy Morris

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Longtime Peabody supporter Marshall Cloyd ’58 funded the six-month project, completed in mid-January. Construction included the additions of a second stairway, a fully accessible firstfloor bathroom, an entrance ramp, and retrofits that brought the museum into compliance with modern building codes. The compliance allows patrons to once again utilize the second-floor library, which, due to issues of egress and access, had been shuttered from any meaningful purpose for decades.

Peabody Names Award for Longtime Volunteer The R.S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology honored its longest-serving volunteer in October with a Davis Hall dinner reception attended by friends and supporters. Museum director Malinda Blustain presented Eugene Winter of Lowell, Mass., an inaugural award named in his honor.

Blustain says the Eugene Winter Award will be presented in the future to those volunteers who exhibit the dedication and longevity exemplified by its namesake.

Over the course of his 60 years of volunteering at the museum, Winter, 82, is credited with safeguarding the Peabody’s vast collection of Native American artifacts, most notably in the 1980s during a time when the museum was starkly understaffed. In 1990, he was named the museum’s honorary curator, a position he holds to this day.

all Presentations Brace Fellow Fa Fall “Seek My Face, Hear Myy Voice: V Foreign Domestic Workers in Hong Kong,” a 25-minute documentary, Seyoung umeentaryy, was created byy Sey youngg Lee ’12 and presented in the School Roo Room om of Abbot Hall on November 2. The film explores the issues faced by the t city’s 270,000 foreign domestic workers, many of whom are vulnerable rable to exploitation and abuse.

“No More Shame, No Mo More re Blame: Women and AIDS in South Africa,” a November 15 presentation reseentation by Kerry Lanzo ’11, examined the complexities of battling ing HIV/AIDS HIV IV/A /AID IDSS in in South S th Africa, Afr Afriica, why whhy women are at a much higher highher risk, and why a significant cultural shift is imperative. e.

Three additional 2010–2011 –20111 Brace Fellow presentations are scheduledd during dur urin ingg winter wint wi nter er and and spring terms.

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Ice Hockey Teams Swaps Skates for Sleds In their second annual sled hockey matchup, Phillips Academy boys’ and girls’ varsity ice hockey candidates took on the Northeast Passage (NEP) University of New Hampshire Wildcats in November at the Harrison Rink. Players put aside skates to compete on special sleds, pushing themselves forward using cut-off hockey sticks with metal picks on the ends. A favorite of the Paralympic Winter Games, sled hockey follows traditional ice hockey rules and regulations.

Andover clearly has improved since last year’s 13–1 loss, but ultimately fell short at 3–1. Proceeds from last year’s event were used to buy a new sled for the NEP program.

The unusual benefit event began in 2009, spurred by Eric Matlin, a PA rink supervisor with an interest in NEP. The nonprofit organization “creates an environment where individuals with disabilities can create the same freedom of choice, equality of life and independence as their non-disabled peers,” according to its website, www.nepassage.org.

NEP has been affiliated with UNH since 2000, embracing multiple skill levels in a variety of sports throughout New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Maine.

A bit off balance, Anthony Baldassari ’11, PA’s varsity hockey team captain, gives sled hockey a shot.

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Carl Wilkens Humanitarian Aid Worker

Randall Kennedy presented information and insights on affirmative action at All-School Meeting on September 29. Audience reaction varied widely, but there seemed to be consensus that Kennedy’s presentation provided students a good framework for further discussions on the controversial subject.

Carl Wilkens moved with his young family to Rwanda in spring 1990. When the genocide began in April 1994, he refused to leave. The only American to remain in the country, he risked his life to bring food, water, and medicine to groups of orphans trapped around the city.

Kennedy says his research and scholarship is predicated on broad engagement with people of diverse perspectives. “If you are socially isolated,” he told a New York Times reporter, “you are more vulnerable to stereotypes and myths, and you won’t have the opportunity to have conversations with someone who has a different social background than you.”

Kennedy is the author of Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity and Adoption; Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word; and Race, Crime, and the Law. His visit was funded by the All-School Meeting speakers fund.

—Carlos Hoyt, associate dean of students Erin Gruwell Education Activist

The audience sat spellbound as Erin Gruwell, the high school teacher portrayed in the 2007 film Freedom Writers, spoke about several of her former Long Beach, Calif., students, who came from broken homes and neighborhoods plagued by gangs and violence. Gruwell also showed clips from Freedom Writers, which dramatized what happened in the classroom as she helped transform students deemed “unteachable” into critical thinkers, aspiring college students, and citizens for change. She received a spontaneous standing ovation.

Funded by the Jewish Student Union, Gruwell’s October 20 presentation was cosponsored by the Abbot Academy Association, CAMD, the Office of the Dean of Studies, the Everett Gendler Fund, the Sidney Paley Fund, and the family of Sarah Stevens ’11.

—Rabbi Michael Swarttz, Jewish chaplain

Wilkens’s deeply personal stories about the Rwandan genocide created a strong connection with students, empowering them to feel that they, too, could stand up for their beliefs. Since his October 6 presentation at All-School Meeting, STAND, a student-run antigenocide coalition, has garnered many additional members. Wilkens’s visit was sponsored by STAND and funded by an Abbot Academy Association grant.

—Hannah Finnie ’11 and Emilie Tanski ’11, STAND copresidents Nancy Sizer Educator and Author

In early November Nancy Sizer engaged the community on important matters considered in The Students Are Watching: Schools and the Moral Contract, a book she coauthored with her late husband, Ted Sizer (PA headmaster, 1972–1981). Read last summer by seniors and faculty, the book’s teachings are being used to enhance student-faculty connection and collaboration. The All-School Meeting audience also was enlightened and entertained by anecdotes about Andover’s rich history of innovation, courage, and community.

A career teacher who has worked in public and private high schools, Sizer also has taught at Brown University and currently teaches at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Her visit was sponsored by PA’s Committee on Community Expectations.

—Kathryn Dolan, instructor in athletics Murray Nossel & Paul Browde “Two Men Talking” Performers

Johannesburg 1974: A teacher asks two rival schoolboys to tell each other a story. Decades later, they meet by chance in New York as an Oscar-nominated filmmaker and a psychiatrist—and set out to transform the world through their real-life storytelling.

Students crowded into Tang Theatre to enjoy a dynamic and often humorous exchange between Murray Nossel and Paul Browde as they wove their life stories—which took place between South Africa and New York City— and touched on issues of personal identity, HIV/AIDS, being Jewish in South Africa, and the creation of a lifelong friendship.

A particular highlight was a post-show conversation with the two men. Their October visit was sponsored by Gay Straight Alliance, Jewish Student Union, and CAMD, and funded by an Abbot Academy Association grant.

—Frank Tipton, instructor in history and social science; advisor for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues Laurence Steinberg Adolescent Psychologist

Dr. Laurence Steinberg, an internationally renowned expert on psychological development during adolescence, was Wellness Week’s keynote speaker on November 10.

Steinberg’s research has focused on a range of topics in the study of contemporary adolescence, including brain development, risk-taking, and decision-making, and parent-adolescent relationships, adolescent employment, high school reform, and juvenile justice. His valuable insights and advice about developmental changes that likely were being experienced by many in the audience were very relevant and well-received.

Following his All-School Meeting presentation, Steinberg met with faculty for a followup conversation in Paresky Commons. While on campus, he also hosted a workshop at a Parents of Students of Phillips Academy (PSPA) meeting in Kemper Auditorium. Steinberg’s visit was funded by the Hosch Fund.

—Carlos Hoyt, associate dean of students Uganda Martyrs Choir Native Singers, Dancers, and Musicians

Hundreds from the PA community and beyond enjoyed performances by the Uganda Martyrs Choir. Energetic and inspiring, the 30 singers, dancers, and musicians were directed by Michael Mukisa. “The choir was very special in that they made an extra effort to explain the meanings of their songs, the names of their instruments, and the history of their dances,” said Elizabeth Oppong ’12.

“Audience members were invited to wear the traditional garb and learn a few of the dances.

Those brave enough to go forward had a great time.”

Based in Waltham, Mass., the choir is a major force in unifying and mobilizing Boston’s Ugandan community. Their two PA performances, funded by an Abbot Academy Association grant, were made possible through the “Celebrating the Cultural Legacies of Catholicism” project initiated by Oppong.

—Mary Kantor, Catholic chaplain S ee and H ear the Uganda Martyrs Choir at www.andover.edu/magazine

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Buenos Aires Non Sibi Day 2010 ended as it began with alumni making and serving breakfast in homeless shelters—first, as the sun rose over Brisbane, and almost 24 hours later as it rose over Honolulu.

In between—from Alaska to Argentina, from Addis Ababa to Andover—alumni, students, parents, faculty, and staff cleared paths, cleaned rivers, rescued wildlife, read to children, helped feed and clothe the struggling, and welcomed home troops.

In China, alumni raised money for children to attend school. In Korea, they organized a bazaar to aid Pakistani flood victims. In Mumbai, they donated books to classrooms. In 20 countries and 23 states, some 1,700 members of Andover’s global family devoted Saturday, October 2, to service.

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SPORTS TALK

Bleeding Blue A Chronology of SuperFandom

by Joe Lemire ’01

Wednesdays and Saturdays had always been for playing, not watching. As someone who participated in a sport every season of every year at Andover, I rarely had the chance to watch my friends and peers in their own competitions.

John Hurley

But on a November Wednesday afternoon my senior year, a few days after the football season had ended with the Andover-Exeter game, two Big Blue teams had simultaneous playoff games: varsity field hockey in Siberia and varsity boys’ soccer behind Graves Hall.

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As a day student with a car and a Phillipian columnist needing a story idea, I recruited friends and shuttled between the two games, documenting a minute-by-minute diary of the events. Lo and behold, Andover won both games, we ran into blue shark–toting Mr. David Chase everywhere we went, and all of us quickly caught the “fan” bug.

Along with fellow fan ringleaders in the Class of 2001—Harris Ackerman, David Auld, Eric Bakkensen, and Parag Goyal—we began attending home ice hockey games and quickly learned that old Sumner Smith Rink, much to our delight, had outstanding acoustics. We branched into other sports. They’d come to my basketball games. We all went to girls’ games.

We made road trips. Our chants and yells were sometimes coordinated, often contagious, always fun.

Soon we had such a routine that we wanted to formalize our group with something more tangible: T-shirts! We printed two dozen for spirited seniors and one for Mr. Chase. Each shirt read “Andover SuperFans” across the front, and on the back were our nicknames and the definition of a fan: “n. an enthusiastic devotee of a sport or pastime.”

Quinones, a dancer, member of the stepteam SLAM, and big Andover fan and her pals—classmates Julia Dean, Audrey McMurtrie, and Haley Scott—made plans to revive the group. Quinones approached Mr. Chase, who as the last SuperFan standing, had continued to wear his T-shirt adorned with his nickname, Sharkie.

Our final SuperFans road trip that year included a drive to a Friday night varsity girls’ lacrosse game at Exeter. I invited Dan Shvartsman ’02 to join us as we roamed the sideline with boisterous spirit. The outing made such an impression, Shvartsman became the group’s torchbearer. The SuperFans, founded on a lark by a bunch of soonto-graduate seniors, would live another year!

Mr. Chase greeted the idea enthusiastically, as did every friend and fan Quinones e-mailed with an invitation. As a result, the reincarnated SuperFans is 50 members strong and planned to debut their new T-shirts at the first home boys’ basketball game after winter break. “We’re not too cool to cheer,” Quinones says. “We’d rather be a part of something than just attend it.”

Honored: Amanda Brisco ’10, as Women’s Soccer All-Conference Second Team, Rookie of the Year and as NESCAC Women’s Soccer Player of the Week in October

Little did we know that it would persist eight more years before fizzling out, amidst mild concern about declining enthusiasm surrounding Andover athletics. Fandom at boarding schools always faces obstacles.

There’s a much smaller local parent fan base to organize spirit events. And many students don’t grow up learning about NEPSAC rivalries the way they would at public high schools competing against neighboring towns.

Even now, Mr. Chase happily remains just an unofficial advisor whose only authority is having final approval over the nicknames printed on the SuperFans’ T-shirts. “I’ve left it in the spirit of how the group had been created,” he says. “Andover kids don’t need another activity thrust upon them. The impetus has to come from the students.” After all, that’s where true Blue spirit always has resided—and always will.

Bucknell’s Howie Kalter ’07, as Collegiate Water Polo Association Southern Division Player of the Week in October

A new culprit may be increased competition for students’ attention and free time. Social media sites like Facebook and Twitter emphasize community, so that digitally the user feels connected to groups without leaving the dorm. While many colleges with lagging attendance are incentivizing fans—Boston University, for instance, now has a Terrier Rewards program that offers prizes for students who attend the most sporting events—the keys are student inspiration and community.

Joe Lemire ’01 is a reporter and writer for Sports Illustrated, where his beat is major league baseball. He was SuperFan enough to work his Andover assignment in between covering the World Series and the December MLB trade meetings in Orlando.

The SuperFans were born of the camaraderie of friends. We tried to create an atmosphere that boosted the spirits of everyone, whether competing or cheering. And a rebirth is on the horizon. Dining in Paresky Commons on the second day of classes in September, senior Amber Quinones and a few friends reminisced about their Andover journey.

“We realized something was missing,” Quinones recalls. “No SuperFans last year. I had wanted to be one as a freshman.” They set out to recreate that.

PA Swept: Interschols, by PA’s 2010 girls’ cross-country team, for the 6th straight year

Selected: Boys’ cross-country runners Patrick Wolber ’11, Renat Zalov ’11, Nick Kearns ’11, Matt Appleby ’11, Tim McLaughlin ’11, and James Hamilton ’12, to the NEPSTA Division 1 All–New England team

University of Chicago’s Alex Clifford ’07, as first-team to the 2010 All–University Athletic Association soccer team Stanford’s Erika Roddy ’07 and Carly Villareal ’07, as women’s crew cocaptains Radcliffe’s Rachel Rauh ’07 (coxswain) and Olivia Coffey ’07, as women’s crew cocaptains Tallied: Cory Schneider ’04’s first NHL win for the Vancouver Canucks since his 2008 season, on October 17, 2010 Inducted: Baseball and basketball great Ed Mackey ’42, into the inaugural Ipswich, Mass. High School Hall of Fame

Far left: Gunga celebrates his 25th birthday at the Andover-Exeter pep rally in November with a Lion King spoof.

Writer and SuperFan Joe Lemire stands at the far right with fellow SuperFan founders (from left) Harris Ackerman, David Auld, and Eric Bakkensen.

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A DEEP COMMITMENT TO UNDERSTANDING ISLAM

by Christopher L. Shaw ’78 Instructor in History and Social Science

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he crowd was disappointing that evening, even for the night before vacation; few students had both the time and the inclination to sit through a forum on the “Great Pakistan Flood of 2010.” Undeterred, Scherezade Khan ’12 stood up in Kemper Auditorium and made the pitch for donations. She described the 20 million souls displaced by the flood— more people than were affected by the Indian Ocean tsunami and the Kashmir and Haiti earthquakes combined.

She and Aazim Jafarey ’11 had chosen the Kashf Foundation as the recipient of any money raised, based on its commitment to families and its strong reputation. They had invited seven teachers from across the curriculum to comment on the flood and its impact in one of the most volatile regions of the world. How could a developing nation as geopolitically important as Pakistan, with an estimated 12 percent of its citizens in such great need, have generated such a tepid global response? They posed questions not only as Andover students and emerging scholars; they also stood up as Pakistani-Americans and brilliant examples of the burgeoning Islamic presence on Andover Hill.

Arabic instructor Hafida Bourote’s Arabic 100 class reviews in the week before final exams.

Over in Cochran Chapel, the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies has offered upper-level courses on comparative world religions, including Islam, for decades. In the late 1990s, under the leadership of Susan McCaslin and Diane Moore, the department began to offer an advanced elective, Islamic Cultural Studies, that emphasizes the pluralism inherent in the many manifestations of Islam that flourish around the world. The course delves far deeper than the Shi’a-Sunni divide, exploring Islamic culture from Lahore to Houston, from “Al-Qaeda and the Taliban to Muslim Hip-Hop and the Sisters of Islam.” Moore is a leading scholar in this field, having published Overcoming Religious Illiteracy: A Cultural Studies Approach to the Study of Religion in Secondary Education and having chaired the task force

of the American Academy of Religion, which just issued its “Guidelines for Teaching about Religion in K–12 Public Schools in the United States.”

The thrust of those guidelines, she notes, is decidedly nonsectarian. The second volume of Moore’s book is forthcoming and features the Andover course and her experiences creating and teaching it.

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Islam at PA is not new. The very normalcy of a strong Muslim pattern in the Academy tapestry is perhaps what is most remarkable to campus visitors—at least non-Muslim ones.

Andover in the 21st century has graduated some 2,500 students who have studied Islamic history in depth as ninth-graders; has played a vital role in the development of Islamic Studies curricula at secondary schools in South Asia, East Africa, and Germany; supports a strong and permanent Muslim Student Union; and currently enrolls three sections of Arabic in the Division of World Languages. Two of the last 10 elected school presidents have been Muslim. Kids who observe Ramadan—the month of daylighthours fasting that ranks among the most sacred tenets of Islam—can anticipate a series of invitations to pre-dawn meals hosted by faculty members in their homes. Routinely, students gather for daily prayers in the western stairwell of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Library, a space of their own choosing that is both private and acoustically “live,” with its smooth, pale marble walls.

Today, more students than ever arrive at PA with a basic working knowledge of Islam from middle schools.

Few, however, have addressed the questions posed in History 100 with the depth and rigor that we require. ment currently teach History 100, World History 1000–1550: When Strangers Meet, which begins with “The Rise and Reach of Islam.” Those who designed the course back in 1997 to 1999 took particular satisfaction in the tenor and depth of the difficult conversations that took place on campus following 9/11; virtually all of our uppers and lowers that year had already engaged with, and debunked, the stereotypes that define many Americans’ views of Islam. They embarked on a deep conversation about the multiple reasons for terrorism and what maintaining a “free” society demands in the post–Cold War era. Today, more students than ever arrive at PA with a basic working knowledge of Islam from middle schools. Few, however, have addressed the questions posed in History 100 with the depth and rigor that we require. Students’ deep understanding of the historical importance of community writ large (whether in Arabic or Sanskrit or the “King’s” English), often requiring the suppression of individual identity, proves to be a more challenging idea for 14-year-olds than the pluralism of Islam; the vast majority of our kids have never experi-

Christopher Shaw has taught history and economics at PA for 22 years. He earned a PhD degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

enced being part of a faith community that routinely subsumes the “I” within a more important “we.”

Teaching Islamic history is challenging, in and out of class. Soon after the debut of History 100, I found myself in a tense confrontation with a student in the African Studies Institute, a threeyear theme-based multidisciplinary program jointly funded by the Abbot Academy Association and the International Academic Partnership (IAP).

Hassan was one of 12 Africans who joined the PA students in a unique summer program devoted to African Studies through language study, literature, history, science, and the performing arts. A Tanzanian citizen at the Mzizima School in Dar es Salaam, Hassan lived with the rest of us in a dormitory at South Africa’s University of Fort Hare in the Eastern Cape, attending morning academic sessions of our own design and conducting field research in the afternoons.

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When he heard that this tall, white American taught Islamic history, his initial surprise slowly reverted to a cool, silent resentment—the kind that only adolescents can fully conjure. When I finally asked him about his attitude toward me, reluctantly, in a low voice, he admitted that he considered me unqualified: I was not Muslim, I was not “prayerful”; therefore I could not possibly understand, let alone teach, the underlying tenets of a faith and a culture that defined him and everyone he knew. It took several hours of gentle, patient discussion on both our parts to reach a common view of the distinction between teaching faith and teaching about a faith community and its role in history. Hassan remained appropriately skeptical but, in a graceful gesture of trust, actually invited me to watch him pray one early morning. He became the teacher and I the student as I squeezed into the small space he had chosen, sat to the side, and looked on as Hassan lowered his head to the prayer rug and began the shahadah, the declaration of faith.

Hassan’s world is not so different from ours with respect to the daily visibility of Islam. In 2011 America, the experience of sharing public space on the street or in a store with women wearing the hijab, or headscarf, is familiar enough to most of our kids that it scarcely bears mentioning. Examining the history of veiling, however, from the hijab to the burqa, and its connotations for the social status of women in the Abbasid era (c. 750 to 1258 C.E.) sheds light on some of the conundrums 21st-century Muslim women face in their choice of clothing.

Our new instructor of Arabic, Hafida Bourote, wears a hijab daily. She and her husband, Hamid Faiz, a member of the technology department, moved to campus from Methuen this past year. Bourote describes her experience as a practicing Muslim in the Merrimack Valley as mostly positive, but 20

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she speaks glowingly of the Academy, how welcome she has felt in her first year on the faculty and how much she enjoys teaching Andover students. She juggles three sections, two of beginning Arabic and one of Arabic 220, an advanced course covering second- and third-year studies. She describes her students as an evenly divided mix of those who seem curious about Arabic culture and those devoted to the language itself. She continually reminds students of the difference between “Arab” and “Muslim,” that many Arab Christians and Jews live in the Middle East and that the world’s roughly one billion Muslims inhabit virtually every region of the planet. Bourote stepped in last spring to replace our first instructor of Arabic, Mohammed Harba, who left the Academy at the behest of the U.S. Marine Corps to become the first Iraqi citizen to enlist as a Marine (and, incidentally, one of few Andover instructors—perhaps since the Civil War—to leave campus mid-year for active duty). Prior to his PA appointment, Harba split his time between Harvard graduate studies and serving as a cultural consultant and translator for the Marine Corps. Last fall, he agreed to speak to our ninth-graders about his own experience growing up in Iraq, his views on the American presence there (he was both positive and grateful), and the challenges he

faces as an oft-assumed terrorist in the United States. It was a spirited and memorable evening as students both challenged and expressed support for Harba’s endorsement of the Iraq War and U.S. policy in the region.

Mohammed Harba, Hafida Bourote, former school presidents Ali Siddiqi ’06 and Faiyad Ahmed ’10, Scherezade, Aazim, and all of our Muslim students from the United States and abroad are vital, endemic expressions of Andover’s commitment to fostering global citizenship. As rich as their individual contributions are, they also are merely members of an increasingly complex school community. The crowd was small that November evening, but the impact that they and their peers have on all of us who live and work here defies measure.

Dr. Shaw directed the IAP from 2001 to 2008. Currently, along with teaching, he serves as a complementary house counselor in Hearsey House, coaches Outdoor Pursuits, and contributes as a member of the Global Perspectives Group, the Multicultural Advisory Committee, and Admission Interviewers and Readers. In 2011–2012, he will begin a six-year term as chair of the Department of History and Social Science. He is the father of Turner Shaw ’11.

Bourote describes her students as an evenly divided mix of those who seem curious about Arabic culture, and those devoted to the language itself.

Kezi Barry ’02

one-line opinion: “The judgments are reversed,” citing Boynton v. Virginia.

DW: And when you walked out of jail, you went back to law school?

GBS: Yes. I had gotten permission from the dean of the law school to delay my exams while I went on this trip to Alabama.

DW: Reportedly your view was: “Sticks and stones will break my bones, but law exams will kill me.”

Q&A DEREK WILLIAMS: Could you trace the path

that led you to Andover?

GEORGE BUNDY SMITH: I was born in New

Orleans in the 9th Ward. But by the time I was 3, my mother and father had divorced, so I grew up in Washington, D.C. One day a person came down from Exeter. That got me interested in prep schools.

GBS: That’s a very true statement. [Laughter].

schools unconstitutional. I literally had to stop myself from shouting for joy. I thought if I became a lawyer, I could help in that effort. So that was one of my objectives at Andover.

DW: How did you first get actively involved in the struggle for civil rights?

GBS: When I was in college [at Yale] I went from door to door in New Haven soliciting people to become members of the NAACP. DW: Was there a group of African Americans

at Yale?

DW: How did you keep up with the movement afterward?

GBS: I just tried to study so that I could deal with civil rights after law school. I went to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund in July 1962.

I spent a lot of time in the South, particularly Georgia and Alabama, dealing with sit-ins, demonstrations, and some school cases. I was coming up against prejudice; I did not appreciate that.

I had always wanted to become a judge so I started clerking for judges.

George Bundy Smith ’55 Looks Back 50 Years to the Freedom Rides Interviewed by Derek Williams ’65 Andover gave me a full scholarship, without which I would not have gone.

DW: How would you describe the culture shock,

and the contrast in racial climate between Andover and life back home?

GBS: Washington [was] a very segregated society.

The only contact I had had with white people was at a church camp in New Jersey. We did not have to sit in the back of the bus, but everything else was segregated—all the public accommodations, libraries, theaters, restaurants, bathrooms. There were places that we could not go, period.

When I came to Andover it was a culture shock. I was the only African American in my class, and I can remember being invited into someone’s room. I sat there for about five minutes, then excused myself.

I was so uncomfortable. That [was] my first experience that close to white youngsters.

DW: Can you recall how the social climate changed during the 1950s, while you were attending the relatively insulated institutions of Andover and college?

GBS: I remember Tuesday, May 18, 1954. I walked into Andover’s library and picked up the New York Times. The Supreme Court had declared segregated

GBS: There were very few in the class of ’59, five or six out of a thousand—but law school was different. William Sloane Coffin Jr. was there. He had come to Andover on a few occasions. He was a very good speaker and very much involved in the civil rights struggle. We used to picket the Woolworths and other stores in New Haven.

In May 1961, the Freedom Rides began. Whites and blacks went on a couple of buses to Alabama; they were thoroughly beaten. All the newspapers carried the headlines. Rev. Coffin called me. A group of us flew to Atlanta and took a bus from Atlanta to Montgomery. We spent the evening at the home of Martin Luther King Jr., had dinner there, and discussed whether or not we would go on to Jackson, Miss., the next morning. We decided that, yep, we ought to go. So we went to the bus station. We all sat down at a lunch counter, and 11 of us were arrested.

But not beaten. Never got to Jackson. In fact, I didn’t get to Jackson until the summer of 2010. [Laughter] DW: That’s what you call a long journey. How long were you in jail?

GBS: Just a couple of days. A few of the professors at Yale were responsible for raising bond. We had two trials, were convicted of breaching the peace and unlawful assembly. Eventually the Supreme Court of the United States took the case. Its

I subsequently served in the Civil Court, the Supreme Court, and the Appellate Division. Governor Cuomo appointed me to the New York Court of Appeals in 1992 [where] I served for 14 years.

When my term ended, I retired from the bench and came here to Chadbourne & Parke.

DW: As a student, a parent, and a trustee of Phillips Academy, how well do you think the institution has met the challenges of a rapidly changing society?

GBS: I think Andover has done an excellent job.

It’s coeducational. Having more African Americans, Latinos, minorities in general—that has done wonders. When I was there, there was no African American on the faculty. The Andover of today has looked at the world and said, “We need to change.”

In October, I was in China. The young people looked enthusiastic. Everything about them says, “We’ve got a purpose.” American students have got to have that same purpose, maybe a little better.

That’s what institutions like Andover can do, and ought to do, for America.

Derek Williams, recently retired after teaching history at Andover for 30 years, interviewed Smith in New York City on December 1, 2010.

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Write a poem, save a frog

By Dana Mackenzie ’75

That may seem like a stretch, but Kerry Kriger ’92, founder and director of Save the Frogs!, the world’s first charitable organization devoted to amphibians—believes that conservation begins with education. “For kids it’s easy, because they are so open-minded,” he says. When he speaks at schools, Kriger demonstrates his frog calls, and pretty soon the whole classroom is chirruping and tongue-clicking along with him.

Kriger believes that amphibians—frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, and caecilians—are the most neglected animal group on most endangered species lists. Even more than birds, they are “the canary in a coal mine” for environmental damage. They live and lay their eggs in streams and ponds, which concentrate pollutants. Even a tiny amount of poison can disrupt their life cycle catastrophically. “One thing we’re working on is atrazine, the second most common herbicide in America,” says Kriger. “A concentration of 2.5 parts per billion is enough to turn male frogs into females. It’s the DDT of the 21st century, and we want to get it banned.”

Pesticides are not the only problem facing amphibians.

Loss of habitat is another, and so is chytrid fungus, which causes a fatal skin disease that already has wiped out 100 species of amphibians. The original source of the disease is unknown—Kriger speculates that it might have been a Pacific island—but by exporting millions of frogs for pets, zoos, food, and bait, humans have spread the fungus far beyond its original enclave. “The sick frogs escape or their water gets released into the environment, and the disease spreads,” he says.

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after graduating from the University of Virginia he traveled the world for several years.

Along the way he discovered his passion for the environment, and especially for amphibians.

To study them, he went to Griffith University in Australia, where the tropical rainforests are alive with frogs.

There, out of necessity, Kriger learned most of his frog calls. If one wants to study, for example, the scarlet-sided pobblebonk (named for its “bonking” sound), first it must be found. Sweet-talking the frog in its own language is the best way to coax it out of hiding. A hearty “bonk” or two will do the trick.

After getting his doctorate, Kriger could have continued in academia, but he was not satisfied with the degree of impact being made by amphibian science. “Our recommendations were not getting implemented, and we needed a way to translate the science into action,” he says. “One of my goals is to make sure scientists know it is their responsibility to go outside their normal routine, to make sure that the public education gets done, and to make sure that members of the public become active and force politicians and businesses to clean up their acts.”

So Kriger decided in May 2008 to found his own organization. “A lot of bigger groups, like the World Wildlife Foundation, may have amphibian programs, but they come and go,” he says. For a long time, Save the Frogs! existed only in Kriger’s suitcase.

In 2009, Kriger launched Save the Frogs Day, held in April a week after Earth Day. In its second year, Save the Frogs Day grew to include 85 events in 21 different countries, from Nepal to South Africa to Canada to Australia. A poetry and art competition at his website, www.savethefrogs.com, attracted

Won’t They?

Listening to frogs Violins in the night My children will see them Won’t they?

Sitting by a stream As it rushes by It’ll always flow Won’t it?

774 entries from 26 countries (see winning poem at right).

Then in 2010 he set up an office in Santa Cruz, Calif., and hired his first employee. With a strong network of environmental organizations in the area, a large marine sanctuary nearby, and several endangered amphibian species (such as the California Tiger Salamander and the Santa Cruz LongToed Salamander), the central California city is a perfect location.

Kriger promptly persuaded the mayor of Santa Cruz to issue an official proclamation recognizing Save the Frogs Day. He successfully petitioned the five-star Restaurant Gary Danko in San Francisco to remove frog legs from its menu. “They became the first restaurant in the world to do so,” Kriger says. “The story got mentioned in the Chicago Tribune and made the front page of Le Monde in France. It may be the first time that people in France—the world’s number one country for frog consumption—have even thought about the issue.” Subsequently Kriger persuaded Wegmans, a 76-store supermarket chain, to stop selling frog legs. He hopes that the example set by these high-end restaurants and groceries will inspire others to follow suit.

In November 2010, Kriger journeyed to Korea to speak at an amphibian conservation conference in Seoul and visit several toad habitats threatened by development. He was stunned at the amount of public interest in saving amphibians there.

In 2004 in the town of Wonheung, for example, 2,000 people tried to prevent the bulldozing of an area with a large population of Asiatic toads. Although the demonstrators

Nothing is forever Things always have an end We won’t always be together I know it The frogs did no harm They deserve a second chance The clock is ticking faster Make haste Take nothing for granted And help where you can To do nothing is to regret To look away and forget —Isabel Johnson Age 13, USA

failed to stop the housing development, the government has established a park on the site for environmental education.

“I was quite amazed by the fact that 2,000 people gathered to defend a pond. Would that happen in America?” Kriger asks.

There is something timeless about amphibians. The sound of frogs chirping is a dependable sign of spring in many places.

Amphibians were the first animals to live on land, paving the way for reptiles and birds and mammals. They outlived the dinosaurs. They survived meteorite impacts and other giant extinctions. But will they survive humans? With friends like Kerry Kriger, it seems their chances are improved.

Dana Mackenzie ’75 is a science writer living in California.

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Navigating a new world order

Andover’s Social Media Mariners

by Jason Fry ’87 Social media is remaking not just business but our personal lives, changing the rules of the game for how we share information and form friendships and how companies and organizations interact with us.

To navigate this complicated new world order, Andover magazine interviewed six Andover alumni involved in social media (profiles on the next page). They are Pat Kinsel ’03, Marc Hustvedt ’97, Meredith Chin ’01, Chelsie Gosk ’00, Adelaide Polk-Bauman ’04, And Jesse Bardo ’03. All were interviewed separately via e-mail, with their answers edited and condensed.

PAT KINSEL: Although most companies see the importance of social media, few executives understand what it means, and they throw money at the problem in the same way companies hired SEO [search engine optimization] consultants 10 years ago. Most companies rely on a combination of three options: interns, recent college graduates, or overpriced digital-marketing consultants.

I believe companies will come to rely more on “net natives” in-house. Many students and/or recent graduates are being given the reins to represent major corporations via social-media channels, while others are using those channels to build new global brands. These people have been on Facebook since it launched.

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They understand how their friends use these services, and they understand how they do and don’t want to be contacted by corporations.

MEREDITH CHIN: Social media will evolve into something that isn’t its own department because everything will have “social” ingrained in it. It’s not one person’s or one group’s responsibility to think about how something will affect fans or consumers. As more technologies have built-in social layers, every part of an organization will have to consider how to optimize for those experiences.

CHELSIE GOSK: Social media will become a more routine part of everyone’s lives, but it’s also ever-changing. Not everyone has time to keep an eye on the influencers, community particularities, and new trends. There’s strategy involved, and speed is essential. So social-media experts will continue to be relevant. Will people get more savvy?

Of course. That will raise standards for what constitutes a social-media expert, which is a good thing.

JESSE BARDO: The companies that create buzz with social media—like Old Spice with its YouTube campaign and Boloco with how it handles negative comments—get individuals excited, and they share with those around them. Those who have moved hesitantly into the space do the same things they brought to print or TV, but over different channels. This does not make me excited as a consumer—there is no authenticity.

MARC HUSTVEDT: Too many companies focus too heavily on numbers.

Almost every social-media service has some sort of metric that everyone latches on to, with the implicit assumption that bigger numbers are better. Twitter followers, Facebook Likes, YouTube subscribers—you name it. And companies often spend money in the traditional media-buying manner to inflate those numbers. But does it matter that you just got 50,000 new followers if you don’t know who they are and don’t converse with them?

ADELAIDE POLK-BAUMAN: Right now seeing value in social media for many requires restructuring of goals and changing definitions of success in reaching people and manipulating conversations. Unfortunately, many see this as too much of a risk.

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KINSEL: Social media is ultimately just opening up and communicating directly with your customers. Many companies are unwilling to recognize this and still try to manufacture/ control their online presence. To truly leverage social media, companies must adopt a new culture and truly engage their customers. If traditional media is a lecture hall, social media is a bazaar: you place your shiny object in the center in hopes that everyone comes running, asks questions, and shouts for their friends to come over and check it out. Because you only get one shot to get your message out via traditional media, it’s much more important to have a well-thought-through plan. With social media, you have endless opportunities— so long as each attempt represents a genuine effort to share meaningful information with your audience.

BARDO: For me, there is not much of a difference at this point. I believe my public and private selves are pretty similar. You can’t escape being put in Flickr photos, in a Facebook album, or on YouTube anymore. While you may not think you are creating a presence, everyone around you is, and therefore you are involved.

CHIN: The beauty of Facebook is that you have control over what you’re sharing and with whom. For instance, you can share your mobile phone number only with your family, with one or two people, or you can decide you want all of your Facebook friends to be able to call you. It’s up to you.

GOSK: I don’t have an open Facebook profile, but that’s as private as I get. When you work in social media it’s all out there—so embrace and enjoy.

POLK-BAUMAN: I don’t think anyone truly has a private self anymore, whether you’re engaged in social media or not.

We need to accept that once you put something out there, it’s out there.

GOSK: I expect everything to be more visual, more mobile, and less private.

CHIN: Technologies are going to become more social, and the Web is going to become increasingly organized around people. It won’t just be algorithms that recommend or suggest things to us, but our friends and the people we trust.

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PAT KINSEL ’03 Formerly of Microsoft, currently working on a startup Pat Kinsel’s first job after college was for a Boston-area financial firm, where he became interested in online strategy and wound up leading a project to develop custom trading software. The experience taught him that he “could and should” focus on startups, and he ran or consulted with several new companies, ending up at Microsoft in March 2009. There, he worked to integrate social search with the company’s Bing search engine, which led to Docs.com, an effort to bring online versions of Microsoft Office into Facebook.

Kinsel left Microsoft in December, moving back to Boston to take the reins at a new startup. “We’re going to be working on social search,” he says, adding that “there is an immense amount of data within social services like Twitter, Facebook, Flickr etc., but most of this information is indiscoverable and disassociated. We hope to solve that problem.”

MARC HUSTVEDT ’97 Cofounder, Tubefilter Marc Hustvedt studied both computer science and economics at the University of Michigan, a combination that stood him in good stead at airClick.net, the startup he cofounded during his first summer after graduation. Settling in Los Angeles in 2005, he was struck by the radical shift in the entertainment industry’s business models. Through alumni events, he reconnected with Drew Baldwin ’99, a fellow veteran of a PA improv troupe.

Hustvedt and Baldwin teamed up and soon realized that the industry really needed a place to chart and document the new emerging industry. Tubefilter quickly grew from a little blog into a must-read trade publication and the seed of monthly Webvideo meetups, with social media helping fuel it.

In 2009 the two launched the Streamy Awards, devoted to Web-video content. The Streamys are now in their third year, and Hustvedt and Baldwin are now focusing on a product they hope will “make more sense of the sea of Web shows that seem to pop up every day. When faced with an abundance of choice in what to watch, the value of a good filter increases remarkably.”

MEREDITH CHIN ’01 Corporate Communications, Facebook Meredith Chin has been at Facebook since graduating from Penn State in 2005 and is a four-year veteran of the company’s corporate communications department. (For those keeping score, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg unfortunately went to Exeter, but cofounder Chris Hughes ’02 is an Andover grad.) Chin’s responsibilities include communicating Facebook’s changes to the press and the network’s users, which involves everything from creating content for Facebook’s corporate blog to crafting marketing materials for site tutorials.

Chin is keenly interested in music and often speaks about its intersection with technology. “Any artist, big or small, has the potential to reach millions of people by building a presence on Facebook and engaging with their fans,” she says.

CHELSIE GOSK ’00 Social Media Manager, The Daily Beast After graduating from Colby in 2004, Chelsie Gosk started working in the corporate public relations department at publishing giant Conde Nast. In 2008 she started up and then managed the social-media channels for The New Yorker.

A year later, she moved over to The Daily Beast, the high-profile online magazine showcasing the talents of Tina Brown and Barry Diller. She now serves as director of audience development and business development, a portfolio of duties that recently grew to include bringing together social-media efforts at The Daily Beast and merger partner Newsweek.

Yes, Gosk acknowledges, The New Yorker taking to Twitter was greeted with some amusement by snarky Gothamites—but that “was great for promotion. At The Daily Beast, we had to get more creative at launch because we were introducing a brand to a competitive market filled with online news destinations.” Her advice for anyone who wants to get more plugged in to social media? “It’s like a foreign language—immersion is best.”

ADELAIDE POLK-BAUMAN ’04 Public Relations Associate, J Walter Thompson and Diamond Information Center After graduating from Wellesley in 2008, Adelaide Polk-Bauman worked in public relations and marketing for Chanel, New Line Cinema, Mantra Public Relations, and Kaplow Communications before joining the Diamond Information Center and J Walter Thompson.

At Kaplow, she helped fashion, luxury, and technology brands bring their message to consumers, working on programs for the likes of Avon Mark, American Express, Rowenta, Timex, Netflix, LeapFrog, MediaBistro, and Hearst’s Skiff eReader.

Asked how luxury brands’ approach to social media differs from that of more mainstream brands, Polk-Bauman says they tend to face more hurdles, such as legal issues that restrict usage of their brands. “Ultimately I think luxury tends to hold conversations that could be out in the social-media sphere closer to its chest in order to control them,” she says.

JESSE BARDO ’03 Director, edSocialMedia After graduating from Wesleyan in 2007, Jesse Bardo went to work at Northfield Mount Hermon school where he started a fan page for NMH on Facebook. That led to a project called NMHBook, which cut publication costs and increased the number of applicants actually interviewed.

Through his work at NMH, Bardo started talking with edSocialMedia, an online gathering place for information about how to use social media at independent schools and colleges.

EdSocialMedia throws one-day social-media “bootcamps” featuring hands-on social-media training, runs social-media cafés at educational conferences, and offers Facebook seminars and private consulting.

HUSTVEDT: The second-generation Internet natives who are still in elementary school will drive the next wave of social media. Their understanding of media devices will be much more pervasive than the segregated-screen model we still have today. For many people, a phone is still a phone (or at best a mobile device), a TV is still a TV, and a computer is still a computer. But once we are living with a truly ubiquitous Internet, we’ll have much broader spheres of contact with people. If we start adding real intelligence into our social-media communication—it’s still rather unsophisticated these days—that’s when it gets interesting. Imagine sending a question to one of your networks that’s routed to people who actually would have an answer. Social media is about to become a whole lot smarter.

KINSEL: From a technology perspective, nearly all services will adopt Facebook as their primary means of authentication and user identification. They will broadcast your activity back into Facebook, making it an even more centralized place for you to discover content from across the Web and to manage your multitude of services. It will become increasingly common for you to land on a website for the first time but see a completely personalized experience. From a business/social-media perspective, all companies will have a unique presence online that they own and control. This will bring new types of companies online…especially brickand-mortar businesses that can easily create a Facebook page or Twitter account, but don’t have the expertise or resources to build a website.

BARDO: I think that as social media becomes mostly mobile, the Web will become mostly app-based. Every school and business will have an app, and those apps will work for your attention via social media. Your phone’s home screen is going to be a very competitive space.

Jason Fry is a writer, editor, and digital-media consultant in Brooklyn, N.Y. WHERE IS HE NOW? CHRIS HUGHES ’02 Cofounder, Facebook Chris Hughes ’02 became chief digital organizer for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, then launched the nonprofit Jumo.com—which he describes as a “social network for the social sector”—in February 2010. Unprecedented in scope and purpose, the new site is a hub for thousands of charitable groups and organizations. Along with providing financial and volunteer support, site visitors are encouraged to promote favorite charities or causes within their own social network—and to share experiences and feedback with individual organizations.

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“Trust yoursel f.

You know more than yo u think you do. ”

W

it, Wisdom & Wisecracks from Andover We conclude our series of famous words uttered by Andover men and women, compiled by Fred R. Shapiro, editor of the Yale Book of Quotations.

“Captain, it is I, Ensign Pulver, and I just threw your stinking palm tree overboard. Now, what’s all this crud about no movie tonight?”

Pediatrician, au thor, activist, and Ol ympic rower in The Co mmon Sense Book of Baby and Child Care (1946) Dr. Benjamin Sp

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frightened to “She has been too tegy, but now a carr y out any stra before her. She road is opening up r chest— he clasps her hands on ding heart— un she can feel her po the admission if as , en Th . ds and no ngue, she itself loosens her to ish, a few gl begins to speak, En first, then a at words, of apolog y ation …” an great flood of explthe Garcia Girls Lost How From her book (1992) s nt ce Ac eir Th

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“Ilsa, I’m no good at being noble, but it doesn’t take much to see that the problems of three little people don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.”

In the film Mist er Roberts (1955) Jack Lemmon

“Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.”

’43

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“The stuff that dreams are made of.”

“What hath God wrought!”

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First intercity message transmitted by electric telegraph, invented by Morse, May 24, 1844

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novel, Elsie Ve nner: A Romance of Destiny (1860)

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Oliver Wende ll Holmes Sr. Class of 1842

Paleontologist Marsh in the American Journal of Science (August 1889)

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Winter Tales

by David Chase Winter is our chief season, a testing time full five months long. Many love it—snow, Arctic blasts and all. For seniors, it is hard work and anticipation, yet also a season of senior solidarity.

In the 21st century, seniors celebrate at their Hundred Days Party, launching the Commencement countdown.

At Abbot during much of the 20th century, the great Senior Winter event was a three-day skiing and skating trip to Intervale, New Hampshire. In the 19th century, Phillips seniors threw themselves a grand winter-term dinner following a long sleigh ride through the

countryside. Seniors boarded enormous horse-drawn sleighs, heading out midst huzzahs and a hale of snowballs courtesy of the underclassmen.

The cartoons on this page decorated the 1892 Senior Dinner program.

After a four-and-a-half-hour, back-road sleigh ride, the class reached Lawrence’s Franklin House, there to feast.

The menu began with littlenecks, then consommé, salted almonds, and celery; a fish course of baked trout à la Bordelaise with salad and potatoes Parisienne; next boiled Philadelphia capon

in celery sauce; venison in red wine accompanied by peas, Hubbard squash and more potatoes; entrées included beef tenderloin, oyster patties, chicken salad, roast grouse and banana fritters à la Phillips, all washed down with punch; for dessert, pistachio ice cream, Charlotte Russe, angel cake, chocolate cake, sponge cake, oranges, figs, grapes and a sweet titled Diplomatic Jelly; finally coffee; then eight toasts. The program over, on to dance. The Class of 1892 headed home at dawn. Even their mascot Fritz was dog-tired.

{Note: The 1892 banquet menu is real, but I am afraid Fritz is fiction.}

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And Other Tales of Enduring Romance A

n o i n u e R s n o i Un

Ma Many a Andover romances began with chance meetings on thee Great Lawn or in classrooms, the dining hall, or gym.

Butt dozens of happily married alumni couples barely—or neve verr never—knew each other as students. Here are just a few tale es o tales of those who met years later at reunions or alumni even e tss and quickly rediscovered their common bond. events Fo or thes s and so many other reasons, don’t miss your next For these reunion or the next alumni event in your area! re Madelon Curtis Harper ’69 & Stephen Harper ’69

Sa Sandy andy n y Urie ’70 & Fr Frank ran nk Herron ’70 0

Farah Peterson ’01 & Eugene Sokoloff ’00

Joan “Whippie” Whipple ’64 & Henry “Terry” Trimble III ’64

We did not know each other at Andover. Our senior year was the first year of “coordination” between Andover and Abbot. Sandy took a Spanish class on the PA campus and often ate dinner afterward at Commons. Frank was less on the ball. He was only dimly aware of a whispered-about Shangri-La to the north—Terrabbot Incognita. He does not recall setting foot on the campus.

Ever. Really.

We got to know each other over the years through participation in various alumni activities. In other words, we fell into a pattern of chatting every five years—at reunions—whether we needed to or not. Probably the most provocative conversations were in 1995 and 2000. By that time both of us were divorced.

The romance began in 2005, and we were married in April 2007. On our honeymoon we hiked across the narrow waist of England along Alfred Wainwright’s Coast-to-Coast Walk.

Since that 220-mile trek, we’ve been pretty much in step.

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“I am sooooo bored.” And with that she abruptly left the Friday night gathering at our 25th Reunion— having just spent the last half hour talking to me! Well, you can’t win them all, I thought.

Later that night, I was looking through the Abbot Class of 1964 yearbook and noticed a picture of the cute girl I had been talking to so unsuccessfully earlier. She had lived in the same Long Island town where my brother and sister currently live. The next day I saw her in the lunch line and decided to talk to her again—about Locust Valley.

This time we enjoyed each other and spent the rest of the day talking and walking the beautiful Andover campus. A year later from that Friday night we were married. We are blessed with a daughter who is now 17 and have been married 20 years.

Still living in southern Maine, we go back to Andover every reunion.

They say timing is everything, and it certainly was for us! Stephen and I met at our 30th Reunion on June 12, 1999 (my 48th birthday).

I had decided to attend at the last minute. When we all assembled for our class photo that Saturday afternoon, he was standing behind me—the photo is testament to that moment! Later that evening we met, talked, danced, exchanged e-mails, and then parted ways. Not long afterward, we had our first date in Boston’s North End (he had returned from California to attend the reunion) and reminisced over the yearbook for hours. That’s how it all began…

On a surprise trip to Paris, Stephen proposed to me on the Pont Neuf on June 12, 2001 (my 50th birthday).

We were married by Rev. Mike Ebner ’70 in Cochran Chapel a year later and held our reception at the Andover Inn. We will forever be indebted to Andover for helping us grow as individuals and for bringing us together when the time was right!

Farah: Eugene and I met for the first time in April 2006 at a Manhattan event for young alums. Right away I knew I wanted to get to know him better. I called to ask him out to dinner, and over the next few weeks we wandered through art museums and made Central Park our own.

Eugene: But just a few months after meeting, my job moved me to Moscow for a year.

Farah: Being pulled apart after that sublime beginning was difficult, but the depth of our phone conversations made us more intimate friends than we might have become had we just been dating. When Eugene returned, I started my PhD at Princeton and he started a master’s at Columbia.

Eugene: Later when we found out we had gotten into the same law school, I was ecstatic. At Yale’s admit weekend, my mother asked me if it was time to take out the family ring.

I had a thrill of total certainty. When Farah walked up a few moments later, it was all I could do to keep from asking her right then!

Amy Broaddus ’72 & Jocko MacNelly ’72

Joan Harney Wiles ’64 & John C. Wiles ’64 Amy Mueller Christodoulo ’98 & Peter Christodoulo ’98

John and I first met at our 20th Reunion during the Alumni Parade.

Suddenly he was walking next to me, and I remember thinking that he was kind, intelligent, and very interesting.

Naturally we tried to figure out if we had ever seen each other before, finally deciding we had performed together at Glee Club concerts but had never met.

That Saturday was magical for us.

We spent the whole day and evening together going to the business meeting, the picnic, afternoon activities, and dinner and dancing later. It was so much fun getting to know John and finding out that we had so much in common. By Saturday night, I knew I wanted to see this wonderful man after reunion weekend!

We attended our 25th Reunion as newlyweds. And we brought our 4-year-old son, Christopher, with us to our 30th! Thank you Abbot and Andover not only for the excellent education but for the opportunity to begin a fulfilling and loving partnership—the best thing that’s ever happened to us!

Jocko: The fall of my senior year was a time of Beethovenian storm and stress, inspired by a thoroughly remarkable Abbot girl who made known her preference for music of a less symphonic cast from the MacNelly heart. She also had a friend whose name was Amy Broaddus.

Amy: Jocko’s dorm, Stowe House, is less than a block from where my parents still live. Often as not, of a fall evening, Jocko would “waylay” me, and we would stand on the sidewalk talking. It always seemed clear to me that we were perfect for each other; there was an ease and familiarity that felt just right.

Jocko: For 35 years, I never forgot those deep, deep eyes.

Amy: In the fall of 2006, Jocko saw my name in the Andover Bulletin; thus began a pre-35th Reunion exchange. Whenever I would laugh in a particularly delighted way as I read e-mail, my daughter Abby would ask, “Jocko?”

Jocko: I thought I was keeping a healthy cynicism about our prospects, but the moment I saw her at reunion I wanted only one thing: to come back to the next one with her.

Amy and Jocko were married in August 2009 at the Log Cabin.

S ee stories and photos at www.andover.edu/magazine of couples who met as Andover students and later married.

New submissions to andovermagazine@andover.edu are welcome!

—Jill Clerkin

Nina Rutenburg Gray ’74 & Jack Gray ’74

Amy: Clare Ferraro Johnson ’98 said it best during a toast at our wedding last October: “At Andover, Amy and I played lacrosse together and, unfortunately for Peter, Amy was too busy checking out the boys’ lacrosse team to stumble into the Phillipian room where Peter spent most of his time.”

Peter: Luckily for us, our story doesn’t end there. At our Fifth Reunion we shared a laugh and exchanged contact information. Over the next few months we became quite good friends, despite Amy living in Washington, D.C., and me in New York City.

Amy: In 2003 I traveled to Manhattan for a Juvenile Diabetes Walk, and, in a truly non sibi way, Peter came along. By the end of the walk, my sides hurt from laughing so much.

Life has been exceedingly more fun since Peter came into it!

Peter: The merriment continued as we lived in New York City, bought our first home in Boston’s South End, and now endure routine tube strikes in London. We’ve found stability and love in each other. Amy is my rock—and now she routinely reads the paper.

Part of PA's first coed class, Nina and I moved in the same artsy circle that ate meals in upper left at Commons, but we were just casual acquaintances.

Our 10th Reunion was beastly hot, so all windows were open at midnight when I was on my way to join a swimming party at the gym.

I spotted Nina brushing her teeth in Foxcroft's ground-floor bathroom and was hooked with her insouciant remarks regarding appropriate expectations of privacy at reunions.

At the time we were graduate students in New York. A casual summer walk in Central Park led to a rerendezvous later that Saturday at the nightclub of the moment in Tribeca.

I knew the doorman, and we were ushered quickly through the scrum of socialites, investment bankers, and drug dealers vying for entry—I had skills. Two days later I was Nina’s “plus one” at a top-drawer opening at the Met’s American Wing. She had skills as well.

Married for two years by the time of our 15th Reunion, we were assigned adjoining singles. Dragging those single mattresses together to make a faux-forbidden love nest in an Andover dorm had a mysterious caché.

Reunions are special times for us.

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Library Director Elisabeth Tully Offers

A User's Guide to eReaders Does it seem like you are hearing about eBooks every-

What’s so great about eReaders?

where? EBooks have been around for a long time, but

They must be doing something right, since more than 40 percent of individuals who own the devices report that they read more than they did before. Owners of eReaders read far more than the average, and do two-thirds of their reading on the devices. They like the fact that they can carry dozens of books in a single, lightweight device, obtain desired content virtually instantly, change the font size at any time, and easily look up definitions of unfamiliar words.

They applaud the book-like reading experience made possible by “e-ink,” which minimizes the eye fatigue commonly associated with reading on computers.

they have only recently become impossible to ignore.

The game-changer was the introduction, in late 2007, of the Amazon Kindle. Since that time new devices and applications have been introduced at a dizzying rate.

Even if you don’t have an eReader yet you might want to learn what all the fuss is about, since a recent study

by Bain and Company concluded that 25 percent of all books will be sold in digital form by 2015.

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Nevertheless, the Bain and Company study predicts that the iPad and similar Android devices (computers that support reading applications) quickly will become more popular than singlepurpose eReading devices such as the Kindle, the original Nook, and the Sony Reader. The brand new Nook Color is a hybrid device that doesn’t fit neatly into a category but is likely to change the eReader landscape.

Which device is right for you?

Because some of the devices (notably the Kindle and the iPad) feature proprietary file formats, it is complicated to change devices without losing access to your content. Consequently, it is important to choose your device carefully. The most important questions to ask before you buy an eReader are: 1. What kind of reading are you going to do? It is important to distinguish between electronic content and the devices that may be used to read (or listen to) it. Electronic content includes everything from electronic versions of encyclopedias and other scholarly publications to full-length novels currently on the New York Times best-seller list. The electronic content in some cases is indistinguishable from the original publication and in other cases is “enhanced,” incorporating features (like hyperlinking and embedded videos) not possible in print. EReading devices facilitate reading, they really are not very good at note-taking, highlighting, cutting and pasting, etc. If you want to read text, the eReaders might be a perfect solution. If you want to do research, examine diagrams, or interact with your text, you will probably be better off with another device, such as the iPad or Samsung’s Galaxy Tab, which offer eReader functionality along with multimedia capability.

2. Where do you expect to get your eBooks? Think about how ypically boryou currently get the books that you read. If you typically row books from friends or the library and you want to continue ld avoid the to get “free” books in one of these ways, you should Kindle. The library programs being developed for eBookss (the ormat major player at the moment is Overdrive) use a file fo format es workk with (epub) that does not work with the Kindle but does ermits loanboth Nooks and the Sony Readers. The Nook also permits vely pur rchase ing from “Nook to Nook.” If you plan to exclusively purchase upportt your content for your eReader, any of the devices will support deevices needs, and all of the “bookstores” associated with the devices are amply stocked.

4. Would you like to be able to read the same content on multiple devices? If you can imagine yourself starting a book at home on your eReader and then reading a chapter on your computer during lunch at work and then picking it up again on your smart phone while waiting at the dentist, you will want to be sure that you can synch across devices. Synching means that no matter which device you choose, you will be taken to the furthest read point on any device. This is a little frightening, but it is extraordinarily useful. The Kindle and Nook are both good at this, and the iPad can do it within certain constraints.

Should you buy now or wait?

This is the hardest to answer. No question, this is a very rapidly evolving marketplace. Devices are proliferating, content is becoming available in enhanced formats, and prices are dropping. Standalone eReaders may well prove to be a transitional technology as more users come to expect their devices to serve many purposes.

However, eReaders are relatively inexpensive and are excellent at doing the thing they do best—delivering a pleasant reading experience for full-length books. If that is the kind of reading you expect to do, I’d encourage you to take the plunge.

Elisabeth Tully has been director of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Library (OWHL) since 2001. More than 75 electronic reference products at the p f pp OWHL provide access to archival resources such as full-text newspapers dating back to the 18th century. The collection also includes electronic books, downloadable audio books, and DVDs in support of curricular and recreational interests.

ers on your 3. Do you intend to read magazines and newspapers device? The common eReaders are optimized for readingg fullementeed on length texts in black and white. The e-ink as implemented ing the eir apthese devices does not support color, greatly limiting their ks. (In plicability for textbooks, magazines, and illustratedd book books. he launch launnch of early November a Chinese company announced the nited a device with color e-ink, but it is not yet available in the Un United scriptioons” States). While several major newspapers offer “subscriptions” ucto owners of traditional eReaders, they haven’t been very su sucpubbcessful. Newspapers and magazines are scrambling to pubndroidd lish editions optimized for the iPad and similar Android al, but products. These editions have tremendous potential, will not be compatible with standard eReaders.

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You’d never know to look at her now: bright-eyed and energetic, Morgan Madera ’99 is the picture of health. But on September 17, the 28-year-old lay on an operating table hooked up to a battery of humming and gurgling machines, a surgical team of 20 about to remove two-thirds of her liver. It was a day she had been looking forward to for months.

Morgan’s Gift A daughter’s ultimate act of non sibi In January 2010, Morgan’s father, Neal Madera, had a cold. Nothing serious, but it lingered. By late February his appetite had dwindled, and his wife, Marge, noticed a yellow tinge to his skin. A visit to his local doctor quickly revealed that the symptoms were liverrelated—most likely a fixable blockage caused by a bile duct stone.

Neal wasn’t particularly worried. After all, he was only 60 and in good shape.

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Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) for a battery of tests. Within hours he was introduced to his surgical team.

As one of the doctors explained, the bile ducts at the base of Neal’s liver were being squeezed by a “growth,” and the bile backup was damaging his liver. Plastic stents, a temporary solution, were implanted to reopen the ducts.

A death sentence

The next day, a lead BIDMC transplant surgeon—flanked by a half-dozen colleagues and interns—announced the diagnosis: cholangiocarcinoma, a rare

by Jill Clerkin and deadly form of bile duct cancer.

“The chief surgeon started drawing on a whiteboard. I heard ‘malignant,’ ‘terminal,’ ‘nothing we can do for you.’

It was surreal, as if my brain had separated from my body,” says Neal of the numbing minutes that followed. An oncologist, on standby, entered to discuss palliative care.

Assessments by specialists from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Lahey Clinic were equally grim: Neal’s life expectancy was set at seven to nine months. The retired lawyer and former Tuxedo Park, N.Y., mayor was advised to go home, get his papers in order, and update his will.

Neal and Marge have three daughters, Meghan M. Bent ’94, Caitlin M. Fawcett ’95, and Morgan. Caitlin, a primary care physician at BIDMC, had been tracking her father’s charts with great concern and was there when the death knell was delivered. “When Caitie started crying, I knew it must be serious,” says Neal.

Devastated yet determined, Caitlin quietly began investigating research programs throughout the country that dealt with cholangiocarcinoma.

April for Neal was filled with a blur of tests, needles, and nasty procedures.

Marge, often overwhelmed by feelings of helplessness, provided her husband emotional support and managed transportation, appointments, prescriptions, and day-to-day care. In their spare time, the couple, happily married for 35 years, drove around looking at cemeteries.

“Much to our joy, Dad was accepted into the Mayo program, and his name was placed on their national organ transplant waiting list,” says eldest daughter Meghan. “The bad news was that the typical wait time for a donor liver for a person with my father’s blood type was 12 to 24 months.”

Unbeknownst to Neal, his family flew into action that day. Fearing he might die before a cadaver liver became available, his three daughters, sons-in-law Michael Bent and John Fawcett ’95, and a close childhood friend volunteered to be screened as possible living donors, a process involving extensive blood work. All eventually were disqualified—except Morgan.

Post-treatment tests confirmed the tumor had not grown.

In June, Neal learned of Morgan’s intentions. “I told her multiple times that she did not have to do this, that it is very risky, that it would be painful, and she would have a big scar. But she never waivered.”

When he returned to Mayo on July 5 for a particularly invasive brachytherapy procedure, Morgan was with him.

She underwent a long, tedious series of tests and met with doctors, psychiatrists, and social workers. Over and over they explained the procedure, the risks, the recovery, giving the young woman every opportunity to p out. “But I never had any doubts,” opt says M Morgan. “I never freaked out, and

It takes a family

“I am not letting my father go down this way,” proclaimed Caitlin at a family gathering.

In mid-April, having discoviscovered a possible avenue of hope hope, she FedExed his voluminous medical records to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Within a week, Caitlin received a call saying her father “may” be a candidate for a rare procedure: a liver and bile duct transplant.

The next day, April 24, Neal and Marge were off to Rochester for a week of extensive testing, which confirmed that the cancer had not spread— yet—outside of his bile ducts. It was Dr. Gregory Gores who uttered these six magical words: “I think we can help you.”

“She was adamant about being the donor from the very beginning,” says Marge. “My first thought was Morgan’s proclivity to think of others before herself…so non sibi ! Our girls learned well from their experiences at Andover, and each had stepped up for her dad. I was very concerned and apprehensive, but it quickly became clear that waiting for a deceased donor was not an option.”

On May 22 Neal returned to Mayo as an outpatient for four weeks of intense radiation and round-the-clock chemotherapy. His wife never left his side.

Above: Eleven days after the surgeries, the Madera family—Morgan, Neal, Marge, Meghan, and Caitlin—gathered for some fresh air in front of Mayo Clinic’s elaborate doors.

Left: That same day, Neal and Morgan flanked bronzes of two of the clinic’s founders, brothers William J. and Charles H. Mayo. “It doesn’t show,” says Morgan, “but it was a very emotional time.”

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I never cried. It’s hard to explain, but I felt very at ease, even excited to be able to do this for my father.”

She returned to Boston for what amounted to four weeks of basic training—to tone up and increase her endurance. She followed a strict diet; no alcohol allowed. Her employer, a prestigious architectural and interior design firm in Cambridge, was flexible and supportive. She cut back on her hours to allow time at the gym and called upon the discipline she’d learned while rowing and playing field hockey at Andover.

Meanwhile, further tests and procedures and three weeks of oral chemotherapy had taken a physical and emotional toll on Neal. There were setbacks coupled with trips by ambulance to the emergency room. Still, they waited for a deceased donor as Meghan, whom Neal describes as a

“living situation comedy,” kept everyone’s spirits up.

Neal returned to Minnesota at the end of August for more tests and meetings with doctors, psychologists, and psychiatrists. His condition had remained stable, but doctors did not want to wait any longer. On September 3, father and daughter were told to prepare for the transplant, scheduled for September 17.

Two final hurdles

A critical biopsy revealed Morgan’s liver was “pristine,” and on September 16, Neal underwent a “staging” operation to be sure the cancer had not spread.

That night, donor and recipient saw each other briefly. “I was quite sedated,” Neal recalls, “but I remember holding her hand. Morgan bent down to kiss me on the cheek and told me not to worry—imagine that!” She visited him again the next morning, just a few hours before their surgery. Calm and determined, Morgan simply said, “See you later.”

In a four-hour procedure, 67 percent of Morgan’s liver was removed by a team of 20. In an adjacent operating theater, with his own m massive surgical team, Neal underw went an eight-hour liver and bile d duct transplant; bile ducts were s supplied by a cadaver donor.

Above: Numerous PA friends returned to campus in mid-November to surprise Morgan at the Andover-Exeter games—her first major outing since surgery. From left are Liza Trafton ’99, Tysie Sawyer ’99, Morgan, and Kirsten Lewis ’99.

Right: Neal, well on the road to recovery, and wife Marge are delighted to have their hands full with visits from their five grandchildren; two are Caitlin’s children, and three belong to Meghan.

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“It was 10 hours of sheer tension in that waiting room,” recounts Marge.

“Meghan, Caitlin, and I survived by lots of positive thinking!”

Life goes on

When Neal awoke in the recovery room, he “felt pretty good” despite 65 staples on the outside and countless stitches within. Morgan felt just as she’d been warned: “Horrible, like I’d been hit by 10 Mack trucks!” Yet 36 hours later, with the assistance of a nurse, she walked to the opposite end of the hall to visit her father. Neal was astonished.

“Morgan,” he said. “You saved my life.”

Two days after the transplant, pathology confirmed that all margins were negative. Neal was declared 100 percent cancer-free. At five years, he has a 55 percent survival rate—compared with 0–1 percent had he undergone a standard chemo and radiation protocol. He will take anti-rejection medication for the rest of his life.

Morgan remained in the hospital for one week, Neal for 10 days. Within eight weeks of surgery, both Morgan’s remaining liver and the portion transplanted into her father had regenerated and become almost fully functional.

By mid-November, Neal had resumed many normal activities, but Morgan’s recovery was a bit slower. “I’m feeling great now,” she says, “but I’m still a bit sore and tire easily.” After a long Thanksgiving weekend with her parents, she returned to Tsoi/Kobus & Associates, where she is a marketing manager. Appreciative of her more normal daily routine, she has, she says, “a new perspective on life.”

The 1999 Pot Pourri documents a playful tribute Morgan paid to her parents: “Dude & Nonna: I can’t thank you enough for all the opportunities you have given me. One of these days, I’ll be able to pay you back somehow.”

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ON C O URSE

Elizabeth Meyer’s Latin 600

To the hypnotic beat of the Black Eyed Peas, nine seniors and uppers have gathered around the coffee table in Elizabeth Meyer’s living room, their sometimes classroom.

They are listening for strains of Latin— classical Latin—not in the beat, but in the meaning. “What are they saying to each other?” Dr. Meyer asks. “He’s obsessed?” Adam laughs. Discussion ensues. Meyer poses another question: “What is the fundamental problem in a romantic relationship that is not mutual? What does each one want from the other?” Ben quotes from a poem read earlier in the term: “iucundum amorem vs. aeternum foedus amicitiae, a pleasant love affair vs. an eternal bond of devotion.” “He’s making her pledge something she can’t do,” Emma speaks up. “Oh yea! Just like Catullus and Lesbia!” says Mike, referencing an earlier lyric ode. With sweet rolls, laughter, and a liberal dose of enthusiasm, Latin 600 is energetically in session.

The discussion turns to today’s ode: Cleopatra’s fall. In fluid Latin, Meyer reads aloud the first stanzas. A student volunteers: Another beautiful woman, desperately loved, threatened and pursued by powerful men who would both idolize and murder her. Eric picks up the translating: “but seeking to perish more nobly, she neither feared the sword in a womanly fashion, nor did she seek hidden shores…” Meyer observes: “As Cleopatra loses power, she seems to gain strength of character…yes?” Agreement all around.

Eric continues: “And she has dared to gaze upon her fallen city with a serene face, brave enough to handle the rough serpents…”

They discuss Cleopatra’s triumph over Caesar in her choice of suicide by asp rather than escape or public execution.

The Black Eyed Peas not far behind, Meyer brings the Bard to the discussion: “’Tis paltry to be Caesar; Not being Fortune, he’s but Fortune’s knave, a minister of her will and it is great.” “What’s that from?” she asks. “Shakespeare!” comes the ready chorus. “And what’s he saying?” Ben’s analysis: everyone dies, regardless of rank or power.

“Like Ozymandias,” Eric chimes in, quoting Shelley: “‘Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’” Another quotes Hamlet: “Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him…” Someone suggests the same theme in Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan.” Meyer offers up Virginia Wolff with a quote from Mrs. Dalloway—“Big Ben was beginning to strike, first the warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable…”—pulling the ancient threads of mankind’s longing for immortality toward the present.

Meyer delves into its corollary: “So, if we have to die, do we believe that we must enjoy what we can of life while we have it, as the poet Horace believed? Or do we take the more modern view that because life is so difficult, we should focus on the afterlife?”

The Greek Epicureans and pagan Romans at the one extreme, the later Roman Christians at the other. The discussion is so lively that 90 minutes fly by.

Classics 600 is a rich mix of history, philosophy, literature, psychology, and culture— from ancient to pop. Meyer, a smart, unpretentious Midwesterner with a PhD, is a master at integrating multiple resources, keeping her students on the edge of their seats. (More frequently those seats are the antique desks in the second-floor classics room in Pearson Hall, where busts of the ancients peer down from immutable pose.) And she is passionate about her subject. Why study Latin today? “For the same reasons you should learn to play the violin—because it’s beautiful and you love it. You can’t experience literature fully unless you can read it in its original language, and the Greeks and Roman

wrote some damn good stuff no matter what you think of them!” And lest the reader think that Latin is the purview of geeks and intellectual snobs, Meyer is quick to point out that her class sports three varsity hockey players, a varsity baseball and lacrosse player, a Phillipian staffer, and the school president.

This is the first time Classics 600—a yearlong course—has been offered at Andover.

The focus this fall is lyric poetry. Meyer is determined that they appreciate not only the beauty of the art, but the deeper themes so that they can make these philosophical connections themselves. For instance, “If human suffering and death are inevitable, what are our options? We learn from Vergil that empathy can lighten if not alleviate pain, and from Horace that instead of obsessing about the future, we should pluck and enjoy each day like a ripe fruit—carpe diem.”

Meyer’s other passion is teaching. She takes an intense personal interest in her students, attending their athletic contests, their theatre and music performances. The rapport is real.

Ben Burke ’11 calls his “second mother’s” love of Latin contagious. “Ms. Meyer’s passion for Latin shines through, and regardless of how you felt entering the class, she makes you want to learn Latin. She takes you away from Andover to ancient Rome, and listening to her I see the fall of the Republic and the birth of the Empire or Augustus himself.”

Emma Zanazzi ’11 loves the classics so much she is thinking about teaching the subject herself. Katie Ellinger ’12 is inspired by the relevance: “We talk about Latin poetry, written 2,000 years ago, as we would about poetry from 20 years ago. We look at the language and artistry and talk about the contemporary cultural influences on it. She’s not just teaching us about some dry ancient history; it’s current and relevant and relatable.”

Carpe Diem, Indeed!

“Every single day, I’m really missin’ missin’ missin’ you… And all those things we used to, used to, used to do…”

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In Latin 600, tempus fugit.

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FACULTY SH O WCASE

Zemlin’s The Bed Project

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Therese Zemlin’s Sabbatical Journey ing a vision.” It is the gift of time that has fueled this new journey—time to think, to see, to experiment, to pursue the searching of her creative mind.

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with a worn exacto knife. Sculptor Therese Zemlin is at work—deeply engrossed in her…sabbatical.

She is plumbing the depths of life and its visual manifestations in paper, allowing the evolution of discovery to lead her into new combinations of forms she has not resolved. Of her work, critics have written that it allows us to see “an artist move from developing a vocabulary to articulat-

Gingerly now, she is attaching delicate paper cut-outs along two- to three-foot strands of thin wire with tiny magnets.

The three joined strands lay flexed in anticipation until Zemlin carefully lifts them from the table. Springing to life, they tumble, coil, and twist to find their shape “like a slow waterfall,” comments their creator. “I like it,” she says finally, tying the object to a string she has hung from the ceiling. “There is a sense of movement, though the path is unpredictable, where the strands start to interact with each other.” From these bits of wire and paper, printed with fragments of photographs of leaves, trees in winter, paintings of the Dunhuang Grottos in China Zemlin first saw on a faculty trip there in 2004, the work takes on a remarkable sense of life. It is a magical moment, one of many that began more 15 years ago.

Back then, Zemlin constructed elegant Japanese Gifu lanterns of handmade paper and wood (see cover and fig. 1), sometimes patterned with images from nature. Philosophically, the Minnesota-

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born artist is deeply tied to the environment, which motivated her to create works that critique genetic manipulation of nature. That work led to an interest in the negative spaces at the openings of the lanterns (fig. 2), which evolved further to an interest in the negative spaces between the branches of leafless trees or the veins of dragonfly wings. These spaces became patterns that, when cut out and joined together, formed clusters of cell-like shapes, and with shading began to look like positive spaces, almost anatomical structures (fig. 3). They reminded Zemlin of her father’s work. A highly respected anatomist, Willard Zemlin wrote a classic text on speech pathology—for which he had enlisted his daughter’s artistic talent.

from this sabbatical is the large piece using the outer rims of the same cut paper to mimic the form of a bacterial culture in a petri dish (fig. 4). As it “grows” across her studio wall, the piece takes on a “life” of its own. Zemlin confesses that she usually does not know where it’s headed. She follows where it leads her… where the rich complexity of mind, emotion, experience, vision, and spirituality has time to play out into something both simultaneously abstract and real.

teaching and not making art,” she explains, “I feel like a fraud. My teaching is not as much from direct experience.” Looking through old sketchbooks

Time is the gift of a sabbatical, a term or a year off from teachFig. 4 ing to pursue intellectual growth earned by Andover faculty after at Zemlin draws deeply from the natural and least five years of service. Though recently made her realize that she felt the philosophical, and also is intrigued by she’s been teaching art since 1991 (at like “a shadow of that person [who the concept of empty space. She is particu- Andover since 2002), this is her first. It populated that book]. But now,” she says larly attuned to the notions of mindfulness seems it came just at the right time. “In with a quiet smile, “I know how to get and art as meditation, which perhaps ex- the course of the last eight years of teach- it back.” She not only got it back, but is plains why she chooses images from Chi- ing I felt conceptually that my work was working toward a one-person show this nese paintings as templates for substantial running on fumes,” she admits, “making spring at NKG, a respected gallery of pieces of her explorations. Another work it much harder to maintain momentum contemporary art in Boston, and is eafor the development of ideas ger to bring fresh energy and ideas to her and a deeper degree of work.” Elson classroom.

Zemlin says she needs to have —Sally Holm five different things going on at once to be really creative— Figure 2 and the freedom to pursue Iris #1 2005 where they take her. That has 35 x 46” Cut and layered Iris Prints with pastel meant many long, solitary Figure 3 Iteration Wall Installation #2 days in the yawning studio of 2010 Approx. 60 x 72” the Lawrence mill building, Cut and glued digital prints on Japanese paper, insect pins days she seems to have loved.

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Eastern Influence

Asia Council Launched Led by cochairs Henry Cho ’83 and Yichen Zhang ’82, the newly minted Andover Asia Council held its inaugural meeting in Hong Kong on November 15, 2010. Council members were joined by Board of Trustees President Oscar Tang ’56 and Head of School Barbara Chase, as well as Bill Leahy, director of admission, and Bill Harrold, director of Asia relations.

The mid-fall meeting was the result of almost two years of planning and preliminary meetings between alumni leaders in Asia and Academy representatives to define the council and its mission. Members represent geographically diverse regions, including Beijing, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Philippines, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, and Tokyo.

The Asia Council will work with the Academy to strengthen Andover’s presence in the region and enhance its communications and connections with alumni and parents. The council has agreed to focus on five strategic areas: admissions, alumni and parent relations, faculty initiatives, student summer experiences, and philanthropy.

Following the Asia Council’s inaugural meeting earlier in the day, a regional reception was held at the American Club in Hong Kong. Here, Board President Oscar Tang ’56 and Head of School Barbara Landis Chase join some of the Asia Council members in attendance. From left are Tang, Henry Cho ’83 (cochair), John Charlton ’59, Yichen Zhang ’82 (cochair), Chase, W. Gage McAfee ’61, Stephen King ’83, Chien Lee ’71, Jake Lynch ’86, Joseph Bae ’90, and Harold Kim ’82.

Asia Council Members Henry Cho ’83 (cochair), Hong Kong Yichen Zhang ’82 (cochair), Beijing/Hong Kong *Joseph Bae ’90, Hong Kong Anindya Bakrie ’92, Indonesia Benjamin Cha ’91, Hong Kong

The full council (list at right) will meet at least once a year, with the Executive Committee meeting two to three times a year.

John Charlton ’59, Hong Kong *Alicia Eastman ’93, Hong Kong Daniel Fujii ’82, Japan

Nobuhisa Ishizuka ’78, Japan Lillian Kiang ’96, Hong Kong *Byung-Pyo Kim ’79, Korea Harold Kim ’82, Hong Kong Samuel Kim ’81, Singapore Stephen King ’83, Hong Kong *Chien Lee ’71, Hong Kong (Andover charter trustee) Jake Lynch ’86, Shanghai W. Gage McAfee ’61, Hong Kong

*Bryan Miller ’66, Singapore Nikki Ng ’98, Hong Kong William Schultz ’79, Philippines Ing-Nan Shen ’85, Shanghai *Danforth Thomas ’75, Japan Scobie Ward ’84, Hong Kong *Xiang-Dong Yang ’83, Shanghai/Hong Kong *Executive Committee

—Bill Harrold, director of Asia Relations

Alums Honored during Expanded Leaders’ Weekend

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At the Leaders Recognition Dinner on Friday night, six alumni were honored with Distinguished Service Awards by Alumni Council President Susan Urie Donahue ’73 and Secretary of the Academy Peter Ramsey. Sharing the stage are (from left) David A, Othmer ’59, Susan Watrous Wagg ’56, Johnson B. Lightfoote ’69, Marjorie Wellin King ’75, Richard B. King ’75, Ramsey, Donahue, and Joseph C. Mesics ’53.

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Leaders’ Weekend brought nearly 280 alumni and guests to campus in early November in an unusual pairing of alumni meetings and the annual fall AndoverExeter games. Director of Alumni Affairs Debby Murphy ’86 decided to combine the events on alternate years, when Andover plays host to the fabled rivalry, in hopes of increasing young alumni participation and encouraging school spirit. The weekend was judged a hearty success as alumni enjoyed sparkling fall weather, a “new” Addison Gallery and Andover Inn, a wonderful dinner to honor veterans on Veterans Day, productive alumni council meetings, and four victories out of five on the playing fields.

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First Auction Shaping Up to be a Winner!

A Shelby Cobra car, a week in Provence or Scotland, Celtics playoff tickets, courtside Lakers seats and a gourmet dinner, behind-the-scenes passes at MTV—Bid on Blue, the Andover Auction to Support Financial Aid, promises bidding opportunities on these items and much more. Fine art, theatre tickets, and adventure travel are just some of the offerings auction organizers hope will entice alumni, parents, and friends to support scholarships for deserving youth from every quarter.

“Bid on Blue is an opportunity for the worldwide Andover community to join together— virtually or in person—for a fun and spirited auction to support financial aid,” says Janet Cathcart, auction director. “Educating and inspiring youth from every quarter is more than a slogan; it’s a mission. But it’s also expensive to maintain, and this is an opportunity for everyone to support this worthy cause.”

The global online auction begins October 14 and runs through November 3, 2011. “Start the Bidding” parties are being planned for October in areas around the country, including Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, New York City, Washington, D.C., Miami, and

Hatcher ’05 Receives National Honor; Invites Former CAMD Dean as Guest One reason Kevin Hatcher ’05 (far right) invited Bobby Edwards (right) to be his guest when Hatcher was honored with a $2,000 scholarship at the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) gala in Washington, D.C., in October, was that Edwards lived in the city. But that wasn’t the main reason. The m two met when Hatcher arrived at Andover from innercity Detroit as a 13-year-old struggling, hee ean says, with his sexual identity. Edwards, then dean of Community and Multicultural Developmentt (CAMD) “always made himself available. I wass in by denial and afraid,” Hatcher remembers. “Bobby was the first black gay man I knew and could look n up to. He was proud of who he was. It had an impact on me.” bian, The scholarship from HRC, the largest gay, lesbian, tion bisexual, and transgender civil rights organization in the country, will help Hatcher in his senior year rs at Emory University in Atlanta, where he majors in French and is active on campus in the Office e

Charlottesville, Va. The auction dinner— including live auction, silent auction, and remote bidding—is planned for November 5, 2011, on campus in the Smith Center. All events are open to the entire PA community and to anyone else who believes in the accessibility of an Andover education.

Andover’s commitment to students from across the socioeconomic spectrum is embodied in its need-blind admission policy. The Board of Trustees not only adopted the policy in 2008, they maintained it despite the economic downturn. Having the vision and confidence to stay the course in challenging economic times has been a distinguishing factor for Andover and a point of pride for alumni. Andover’s goal is to secure need-blind admission in perpetuity, but until the endowment goal is met the Academy must continue to rely on annual, current use funding to support students in this comprehensive way.

For more information about Bid on Blue, to donate an item, or to learn how you can help, contact Janet Cathcart at 978-749-4672 or jcathcart@andover.edu.

for LGBT Life. He also holds a full-time job with AID Atlanta, the city’s largest HIV/AIDS service organization, where he works with gay African American men to help reduce the spread of HIV infections.

“I fit everything in,” he admits, adding, “I cultivated my capacity for hard work at Andover.” In May, he’ll learn the outcome of his application for a Fulbright Scholarship.

“Kevin is extraordinarily confident and capable,” says Edwards, “and I am enormously impressed with how comfortable he is in his own skin.” Edwards, who acknowledges his role in Hatcher’s life, w ssays, “We have a responsibility as educators to be positive examples of living life authentically b aand to model the true diversity of the world.”

SStill mentoring, Edwards is now associate director of admission and director of financial d aid at McLean School of Maryland, a K–12 school in Potomac, Md. “When I lay down my head for the last time,” he says, “it will feel good to know I wasn’t just taking up space all these years.”

—Paula Trespas

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the Buzzzzz

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South African astrophysicist Lerothodi Leeuw ’88 is part of an international team that discovered a new method thod of studying the history of the universe and had a paper published in the November issue of Science…

Cleopatra takes center stage (again) thanks to a well-received new biography by a Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff ’78…

President George H.W. Bush ’42 and cellist and past parent Yo-Yo Ma were among this year’s recipients named to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom…

Frank Stella ’54 has been awarded

the National Medal of Arts…

Medal of Honor–winner Capt. Tom Hudner ’43

(U.S. Navy ret.) tossed the coin at the start of the 111th annual Army-Navy game in December…

Pianist Sophie Scolnik-Brower ’08 has released

her first CD with her mother, flutist Julie Scolnik, called Salut d’Amour & Other Songs of Love… Lambros Theofanidis ’08 has won a $47,500 grant from the Penn Green Fund to make his fraternity, the Castle, greener; he willll repay the fund through ugh cost savings… Twoo alums from the Classs of ’94, Tanya Sheehan an

and Eric Gottesman,

have joined forces to create an art exhibition at Johnson

& Johnson World Headquarters in New Jersey…

Tim Richards ’81

has been named head of Pomfret School in Connecticut… Ranie Pearce ’79 celebrated her big 5-0 by swimming across the Strait of Gibraltar last July… … Susan Vernon ’75 has won na world championshipp title in “Traditional Weapons” from the world’s largest martial arts organization, the American Taekwondo Association… Who is the top Association ranked player play on the World Poker Tour?

Tou Former Wall St. derivatives trader Andy Frankenberger ’91… Tailor ’9 Dortona ’12 danced Dor

down Broadway in November No in the vener venerable Macy’s anksgiving Day Than

P Pa Parade… rade d … de Sleepy Hollow Books, the creation of Amy Spaulding ’83, published its first title last fall called Yuri’s Brush with Magic… Gibby “Trey Green” Greenway ’95

released his second album, The Awesomeness, in October… His classmate Lon Haber’s original musical, Project: Wonderland, was nominated for five Ovation awards… On the acting side of film, Tom McDonell ’04 has the lead in the new Disney film due out this spring, Prom… and there has been an unconfirmed sighting of A. Montague Fitzpatrick ’40 at a French resort cavorting with the Sarkozys.

Pamela Paresky Zuker ’85

Andover Vets Honored on November 11

Tom Beaton ’73 (right) shares a moment at the Alumni Veterans Day Dinner with guest speaker Cmdr. Rob Patrick ’88. The two have teamed up with several other alums to organize an Andover military affinity group.

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With Old Glory snapping in the wind above Flagstaff Court, Andover students, faculty, and staff gathered to pay tribute to the PA men and women who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces. Veterans Day was further marked by a dinner and program that evening in McKeen Hall that featured Cmdr. Rob Patrick ’88, a highly decorated navy flyer who now commands the Red Lancers of Patrol Squadron TEN. Patrick was introduced by assistant dean of faculty Nancy Lang ’83 and army veteran Tom Beaton ’73. Beaton and

Patrick have formed a dynamic friendship that has led to some remarkable Non Sibi Day projects benefiting, among others, orphanages in Djibouti and military families in Florida.

Earlier in the day Patrick, Beaton, Marine Maj. Seth Moulton ’97, and armed services enthusiast Harry Flynn ’75 met on campus to launch a military affinity group. They are organizing Andover veterans and active duty military to encourage connections among them and to help students explore education and career opportunities in military service.

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Phillips Academy Alumni Events, October 2010–January 2011 Highlighted by the first gathering of the new Asia Council (see story, page 40), alumni events drew hundreds of alumni, parents, and friends to a rich mix of opportunities to reconnect and share commitment to Andover. In May, the venue list will add Moscow, with Malinda Blustain, director of the R.S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology, in attendance.

Upcoming Events

Campus Events

January 10

Miami, Fla.

Regional Event

January 15

Andover

Alumni Hockey Game

January 11

Atlanta

Regional Event

June 6

Andover

Commencement

February 12

Greater LA Area

Regional Event

June 10–12

Andover

Reunion Weekend

February 23

Washington, D.C.

Young Alumni Event

March 16

Charleston, S.C.

Regional Event

March 16

Sarasota, Fla.

Regional Event

March 17

Naples, Fla.

Regional Event

April 27

Boston

Campaign Celebration

May 15

Moscow

Regional Event

Martha’s Washington, Vineyard D.C.

For additional listings, please visit the Office of Alumni Affairs event calendar at www.andover.edu/alumni.

Hanover, N.H.

Santa Monica

Hong Kong

Santa Monica

Santa Monica

A NDOV ER BO O KSH ELF The Chill of Night

U.S. Peacefare

by James Hayman ’59

Dane F. Smith Jr. ’58

Minotaur Books

Praeger

Closely following his successful debut novel, The Cutting, Hayman continues the gripping story of Portland, Maine, detective Michael McCabe. In this crime thriller sequel, McCabe must race to find a serial killer before he strikes again, while also grappling with his own unresolved rage toward his ex-wife.

The Last Banana: Dancing with the Watu

by Shelby Tucker ’53 Stacey International

After writing two books about Burma, traveler Tucker chronicles his 16 visits to sub-Saharan Africa over the past 43 years.

Hosted by an Oxford classmate who lives in Tanganyika, Tanzania, Tucker comes to know the native watu (folk) and their history and shares tales of his adventures and perspectives.

The War Lovers

Professor Smith, former U.S. ambassador to Senegal and to Guinea, surveys the U.S. government agencies charged with peace-building initiatives. Smith provides a history of such efforts; examines the roles played by the National Security Council, Department of State, Department of Defense, U.S. Agency for International Development, and U.S. Institute for Peace; and offers recommendations for reform.

The First World War

by William Kelleher Storey ’83 Rowman and Littlefield

As the book’s subtitle, A Concise Global History, suggests, Storey provides a global perspective on the social, technological, political, and military history of World War I. Part of its publisher’s “Exploring World History” series, the book puts a human face on the war and its extensive worldwide impact.

by Evan Thomas ’69 Little, Brown

Subtitled Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898, acclaimed historian Thomas’s latest work examines the powerful personalities involved in America’s rush into the Spanish American War. Thomas’s perceptive insights into man’s pull toward war provide vital lessons for today. In the book’s acknowledgments, Thomas calls PA history instructor Kathleen Dalton “Roosevelt’s most insightful biographer.”

Lifestyle Modification to Control Heart Disease

by Donald S. Shepard ’65 Jones and Bartlett

Shepard examines published scientific research addressing the effectiveness of treating heart disease through lifestyle modification, including its cost-effectiveness and the disparities in treatment based on gender, race, and geographic area. The research suggests that lifestyle modification is effective and economical but underutilized.

The U.S.A. Pavilion: Expo 2010 Shanghai

by Frank Lavin ’75 Editions Didier Millet

Lavin, former U.S. ambassador to the Republic of Singapore (2001–2005), served as chair of the U.S. pavilion steering committee for World Expo Shanghai 2010. This official U.S. pavilion commemorative book, which was edited by Lavin, is packed with designs, colorful photos, maps, and commentaries.

Capital Rising

by Peter Cohan ’75 and U. Srinivasa Rangan Palgrave MacMillan

Subtitled How Capital Flows Are Changing Business Systems All Over the World, this book documents how the globalization of venture capital and investments impacts worldwide business activities and entrepreneurial competitiveness. Capital Rising also covers recommendations and implications for managers, capital providers, and policymakers.

Seahawk Hunting

by Randall Peffer, faculty Bleak House

Peffer’s second book in his Seahawk Trilogy continues the daring exploits of Capt.

Raphael Semmes of the Confederate navy. The Civil War is in full swing while Semmes, surrounded by the enemy, waits in Gibraltar for delivery of his new ship, the fastest commercial raider of its time. Intrigue, destruction, and desperation abound.

—These capsule notices were prepared

by Sharon Magnuson.

Been published recently? Please send your book to Sharon Magnuson, Office of Communication, Phillips Academy, 180 Main St., Andover MA 01810-4161.

After your book is announced, it will be donated to the Oliver Wendell Holmes Library. Autographed copies appreciated! Regrettably, due to the high volume of books written by alumni, we cannot announce self-published books, but will forward them to the OWHL.

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The newsletter of The Campaign for Andover

‘Breaking Boundaries’

by Victoria A. Harnish Fifty-five years after an Andover oar first sliced through the waters of the Merrimack, plans are underway to provide crew with a new location on the river. “We have outgrown where we are,” says Pete Washburn, crew coach, math instructor, and parent of seven Andover alumni. “The new spot will put us on a stretch of the river that is much more conducive to rowing.”

The additional land also will provide Andover with opportunities to host more crews.

Acquiring used boats from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton back in 1955, Coach Bill Brown ’34, P’62, ’65, ’68 established crew at Andover in spring of the following year.

(Brown passed away on November 14; see In Memoriam on page 120.) The program quickly took hold and thrived for decades.

Andover Boathouse

In the late 1970s, though, Andover was at a crossroads. Needing both a new boathouse and a new coach, the Academy had to decide whether to continue or disband the sport.

In perhaps the nick of time in 1979, Andover found Washburn, who at the time was teaching and coaching with his wife, Kit, at St. Mark’s School in Southborough, Mass. The Washburns were asked to take a leap of faith as the school began to navigate crew’s future. “I had a good feeling that Andover would decide to keep the program,” says Washburn.

“This is not a sport that easily dies.”

That commitment is evidenced in the stories told by today’s rowers.

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captain agrees: “‘Breaking Boundaries’ is my motto,” says Katie Fanikos ’11. “It’s important to push yourself a little harder than you did last time.” Both Danziger’s and Fanikos’s mothers rowed at Andover.

“I was a lacrosse player, and I expected to continue that,” says Fanikos. But after picking up an oar in the spring of her junior year, she quickly became impassioned about the sport. “It’s an individual sport as much as it is a team sport,” she says. “You work as hard as you can because you know everyone on your team is doing the same.”

Danziger also entered Andover as a lacrosse player. “My mother [Lucy Danziger ’78] wanted me to row, but I rebelled my first year here.” It was Danziger’s best friend who convinced him to give it a try. He took up the sport his lower year, stuck with it, and plans to row at Dartmouth next fall.

a stellar example of adaptive reuse. “The boathouse will be extremely functional and useful as the program grows,” she says.

The development plan will largely be one of restoring the landscape—currently a parking lot—and sprucing up the building to serve as a boathouse.

One week before Bill Brown’s death in November, trustees reaffirmed their support of the crew program by giving a green light to the project, which should be completed within three years.

Changing the lives of many students, crew is here to stay at Andover. “Whenever something seems difficult, I just remind myself, ‘500 meters to go,‘” concludes Fanikos.

Henry Kennelly, a lower, is a beginner, having rowed for the first time last spring. “As a very competitive person, I believe crew is the ultimate competition,” he says. “There are no refs to make calls, no time-outs. It’s all about your attitude and your commitment.” Kennelly’s father was an Olympic rower.

Collegiality permeates every discussion about crew at Andover.

There is a true sense of family on the water. “Coach Luc [Kathryn Lucier Green] fosters a welcoming environment,” says Fanikos.

“She’s incredibly inspirational and provides us with the motivation we need to keep up the energy.”

Last spring, Green led her team to its strongest recent showing at the New England Interscholastic Rowing Association (NEIRA) Championship Regatta. Winning, though, is not what Fanikos focuses on during the race. “I need to think about the girls I’m rowing with and push myself as hard as the rest of the team.”

As Andover prepares to relocate up the river, “utilitarian” is the word often used to describe the new boathouse. “I frequently remind our students that the boathouse does not make you fast,” says Washburn. “We are not interested in a palace, but we do look forward to additional space.” Though many won’t still be rowing for Andover when the project is completed, the students are most interested in the new course and increased storage space.

“Andover will have a six-lane course and a much straighter, flatter one,” says Danziger with excitement. Additionally, this new course will provide a much better spectator-experience with wider, more open views of the river.

In August 2010, Andover announced that it had entered into an agreement with a General GMC truck dealership in Methuen, Mass., to purchase its building and surrounding 5.8 acres.

Describing the proposed facility as “elegant industrial,” Trustee Building Committee Chair Shelly Guyer ’78 views this project as

Friends of Andover Crew “When my daughter first started crew at Andover, she came home and said, ‘I’ve figured out what I want to do for the rest of my life,’ ” says Sam Darby. “She was hooked on rowing the very first day.” Today, Michelle Darby ’07 rows for the University of Washington. Her father continues to keep Andover’s crew fans updated regularly. Friends of Andover Crew formed as a way to help parents understand the sport and a means to organize in support of their children on race days. It has since evolved into a group of more than 1,800 alumni, parents, and friends who connect through e-mail and meet at races. Darby keeps the friends informed with regular newsletters and a comprehensive website, where they can find race stats, photos, and the history of crew.

He and crew devotees already are making plans to celebrate the completion of the new boathouse. “The 2006 Andover Henley boat hopes to race the 2003 Andover Henley boat when the program takes to the water in its new location,” says Darby.

To learn more about Friends of Andover Crew, visit www.andovercrew.com.

Support for the Boathouse ................................................................................................... $6,500,000 To learn more about how you can contribute to the boathouse project, please contact Christine Adams, director of development, at 978-749-4288 or cadams@andover.edu. To make a gift online, visit www.andover.edu/boathousegiving.

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Chip ’85 and Burwell Schorr Create Their Second Endowed Scholarship Fund

by Victoria A. Harnish With a hearty laugh and a warm, charismatic personality, Chip Schorr ’85 exudes compassion and generosity. Though he is a gregarious man, he tends to keep his philanthropy private. “Making a gift is very personal,” Schorr says. “As a rule, my wife and I choose to give anonymously.”

WINTER 2011 Volume 2, Number 1 BLUEprint is published three times a year by the Office of Communication as an insert in Andover, the magazine of Phillips Academy.

Editor Victoria A. Harnish Director of Campaign Communications vharnish@andover.edu

At Andover, though, Schorr hopes to encourage fellow alumni to support the school. “The two years I was there were life-changing in terms of the trajectory the school put me on, the things I learned, the eye-opening opportunities, and the phenomenal classes,” he says.

“For me, giving to Andover is all about acknowledging the incredible experience.” In honor of his 20th Reunion, Schorr created the Paul C. Schorr IV Scholarship Fund.

Schorr describes his first trimester at Andover as one of his most difficult anywhere. “Sitting in Nat Smith’s math class, I wondered what I was doing there. About seven years of math lessons were packed into those first few months.” Now a senior managing director of a corporate private equity group, Schorr can’t escape math. “By the end of my upper year, Mr. Smith had me scoring fives and sixes on those exams. He transformed my skills and changed my life.”

That gratitude to Andover and to Nat Smith—a faculty member for 40 years—led Schorr and his wife, Burwell, to create their second endowed scholarship fund at Andover—this one in Smith’s name. “It’s incredible to think about the way in which Andover faculty dedicate their lives to the school and its students,” explains Schorr, a member of the Financial Aid Taskforce.

“Everyone who graduated from Andover had a teacher who helped to change his or her life in some way.”

A Nebraskan living in New York City, Schorr harkens back to his great-grandfather’s support of health care and hospitals during the Depression. “Philanthropy always has been something we do—like breathing and eating. I’m trying to instill this in my own children.”

He maintains his connection to his home state by attending nearly all University of Nebraska–Lincoln football games. “Football is a religion in Nebraska,” he comments. The university is another priority for Schorr, where he and his sister named the computer science center in honor of their parents—both UNL alumni.

“I was fortunate because my family could send me to Andover,” Schorr says. “The Nathaniel Baldwin Smith Scholarship Fund hopefully will open avenues for students who don’t typically know about a school such as Andover.”

Assistant Editors Jill Clerkin Stacy Gillis Contributing Writer Barbara LeBlanc Designer Ken Puleo Photographers Neil Evans Michael Malyszko Gil Talbot

Pianist Maxwell Meyer ’08, the first Paul C. Schorr IV Scholarship student, spoke and performed at the New York City celebration of The Campaign for Andover in December. Meyer, of Spearfish, S.D., shared with guests his gratitude to Chip Schorr and all who support Andover. The following is an excerpt of his speech.

I’m a tangible example of youth from every quarter. I applied in 2005 as a Midwestern kid with a passion for jazz music. At that point, as a sophomore, I had taken all of the AP classes in my local high school.

Fortunately, Andover came on my radar—perfectly timed. I visited campus and fell in love with it.

I come from a very proud, hard-working, middleincome background, and it wouldn’t have been an option for me to attend Andover had it not been for a lot of you in this room—and a few individuals in particular.

I mean it when I say there’s not a day that goes by when I don’t think about my supporters who have been there for me the whole time. My main benefactor is from the Midwest and has a passion for jazz music as well. I am incredibly grateful for his generosity and that of others.

I’m in a study group at Harvard with television anchor Charlie Gibson. His parting advice this semester was ‘Whatever you do in life, matter. Have an impact.’

That’s exactly what all of you in this room do.

Visit www.andover.edu/nyclaunch to hear Meyer’s full speech and jazz performance.

© 2011 Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.

Honoring Nancy Rockwell’s ‘Brief but Spectacular Life’

by Stacy Gillis For Nancy Rockwell ’76, non sibi was a way of life, not just the motto of the school she loved. It’s what defined her life and how her life’s mission lives on in Andover students today, 28 years after her death. “Non sibi was the perfect fit for Nancy,” reflects her father, John Rockwell. “She was deeply influenced by the transformative quality of education at Andover, and she devoted her life to helping deserving children. Her legacy today breathes life into Andover’s ideal of educating youth from every quarter.”

In July 1982, Nancy Rockwell and her husband, co-instructors of an Outward Bound expedition, led a group of inner-city students on a hiking trip in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. As a storm approached, she directed her group to safety, but was struck and killed by a single bolt of lightning. “Nancy loved nature, and she loved helping kids who needed a second chance, so it was somehow more tolerable that she died doing something she loved,” explains her father.

As a memorial to Nancy, her parents established a scholarship fund in her name to send deserving students to Andover, who, despite unusual life and financial circumstances, would benefit from the opportunities afforded by an Andover education. Twenty-one Rockwell Scholars have graduated from the Academy to date. On November 2, 2010, caring, compassion, and commitment came together as the Rockwell family joined Head of School Barbara Landis Chase in welcoming friends, donors, current and past scholarship recipients, and faculty to celebrate the success of the Nancy G. Rockwell ’76 Scholarship Fund and Nancy’s legacy.

may not be Andover alumni but share the same values,” says John. “They want to help because of the type of person Nancy was and because this scholarship is a reflection of her.”

Friends like Tom and Kate Chappell, cofounders of Tom’s of Maine natural personal-care products, are glad to be a part of the Rockwell family tradition of giving. “Kate and I support the Nancy Rockwell Scholarship because Nancy’s personal philosophy of helping others to have a chance is embedded in her family’s legacy,” explains Tom. “John and his wife, Lorraine, have consistently shared their abilities and kindness in service to others.”

Drew Rockwell, Nancy’s brother and parent of Louisa ’06, reinforces Nancy’s commitment to children who grow up in unfortunate circumstances. “The teamwork among a school, a family, and generous donors ensures that deserving young people will continue to have an opportunity at Andover and that Nancy’s dream will be fulfilled,” Drew says. Current Rockwell Scholar Chris Kerrigan ’11 agrees.

“I realize that none of the amazing Andover opportunities would be available to me if not for the generosity of the Rockwell family and friends. Without this scholarship, I would never have been able to experience the thrill of AndoverExeter weekend or throw a Frisbee on the Great Lawn—not to mention face the rigor of an AP Chinese course.”

It is a tribute to Nancy and her enduring non sibi spirit that a large number of the fund’s contributors, many of whom returned to campus for the celebration, have no direct affiliation with the Academy. The fund has grown substantially in recent years; John has personally reached out to friends and business associates.

“Life is about relationships, not transactions.

I have wonderful friends and colleagues who

John Rockwell greets Britta and Don McNemar at the Nancy G. Rockwell ’76 Scholarship Fund dinner.

Don McNemar, Phillips Academy head of school from 1981 to 1994, was Nancy’s professor at Dartmouth College prior to joining Andover’s faculty. “It is wonderful to return to Andover 32 years after I met Nancy at Dartmouth and see her work continuing,” he says. “She lived a brief but spectacular life, and she inspired all of us to carry on her work so that deserving young people have the opportunity to experience Andover, where non sibi values make a difference.”

The scholarship currently supports three students at Phillips Academy. The Rockwell family and Academy’s goal is to raise additional funds to support a Rockwell Scholar in every graduating class far into the future.

To make your gift to the Nancy G. Rockwell ’76 Scholarship Fund, please visit www.andover.edu/rockwell or contact Gail Mansfield in the Office of Academy Resources at gmansfield@andover.edu or 978-749-4290.

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Integrative Learning Widens Lens Beyond Single Subject

by Barbara LeBlanc Lorenzo Conte is a faith-filled upper with a restless mind. An active member of Phillips Academy’s Christian Fellowship, he sought to examine the beliefs that he expects will always be a driving force in his life.

“I wanted to place my faith in a broader global context,” says the day student from Methuen, Mass. “I wanted my beliefs to be grounded.”

In the fall, Conte signed up for Global Islams, a course taught by philosophy and religious studies instructor Diane Moore that not only explores the faith’s many dimensions, but also views it through music, history, art, literature, social realities, and the media. Conte came to recognize the pervasive influence of religion on any society and found a framework to challenge his own beliefs and assumptions. In the end, his faith was strengthened in a new way.

“Problems such as global warming, violence, poverty, and terrorism require a widely integrated understanding of the confluence of issues, the confluence of forces that are involved in order to arrive at creative solutions.”

“It’s the best class I’ve taken to date,” he says. “Some classes avoid the big questions. In this class, you confront them.”

—Diane Moore

Conte’s enthusiasm illustrates what Moore and other advocates say is the power of integrative learning. “The tremendous human challenges of our global society need a different kind of knowledge,” says Moore. “Problems such as global warming, violence, poverty, and terrorism require a widely integrated understanding of the confluence of issues, the confluence of forces that are involved in order to arrive at creative solutions.”

enrich the discourse, offering students an innovative learning mechanism.”

Dean of Faculty Temba Maqubela attributes this need for integrative teaching to the global environment in which today’s students are living. “The explosion of information through technology and new discoveries and the access students have to such information in a rapidly shrinking world requires an approach to learning that must integrate the expertise of all faculty,” says Maqubela. “Faculty from varying disciplines provide examples that

Thanks to a grant from the Abbot Academy Association, Moore and English teacher Seth Bardo will introduce next winter a new course, Global Encounters, which they hope will serve as a model for expanding integrative learning at the Academy. The grant will provide seed money for the type of integrative learning that the Academy plans to continue as it seeks to endow these programs.

Moore and Bardo will teach the class as a team, leading students in exploring globalization and its effects around the world.

Students who complete the first course can take Global Connections, a spring course in which students will continue learning about the effects of globalization while also engaging in a service-learning project of their own design.

Working with Chad Green, director of PA’s Community Service Program, the class will offer opportunities for service in nearby Lawrence, Mass., during the first year and add South Africa and India or China in the second and third years.

Bardo first used this method two decades ago, when he introduced Hard Rain, a look at the Vietnam War through fiction and film, with art instructors Jim Sheldon and Shirley Veenema, now art department chair. He also collaborated with art teacher Elaine Crivelli on Rosebud, a course exploring themes of American identity.

“It quickly became apparent that teaching was enriched if you paired up with a teacher of a different discipline,” he says.

“Kids always are looking for connections.”

More than five years ago, when his students started raising points they had learned in a class with Moore, Bardo gave her a call. The result was Suffering, Resistance, and Hope, a multidisciplinary examination of global conflict.

Morissa Sobelson ’05 attributes experiences in that class to her success as a student at Tufts University; as an intern in the New York City Urban Fellows Program; and in her current job as an advisor to New York’s deputy mayor for health and human services. “It provided me with the intellectual underpinnings to think across the worlds of science, social science, and health to find ways to help people,” she says.

When you look at maps showing New York City’s highest poverty, homicide, and school drop-out rate areas, you are really looking at a single map, says Sobelson. “We can’t address these problems as a people or a government if we deal with them in isolation. You need to look at the environment as a whole. I believe I bring that to my work, and I don’t know if I would without the experiences I had at Andover.”

To learn more about how you can support Andover’s faculty and the innovative learning experiences they provide, please contact Christine Adams, director of development, at 978-749-4288 or cadams@andover.edu.

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CAMPAIGN TRAIL | DECEMBER 7, 2010 | The Campaign for Andover | Gotham Hall | New York City

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4. Alumnae from the Class of 1996: Katherine Jollon, Megan Kultgen, Julie Redfern, and Regan Clarke 5. John and Hee Jung Moon ’84 6. Laura Mistretta Kirk ’00 and Chidozie Ugwumba ’99 7. Alex Donner ’70 and his orchestra

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Drive to 1,000 An ambitious new initiative to increase the number of Samuel Phillips & Sarah Abbot Society members—those who have remembered Andover in their wills—is underway.

The Gift Planning Committee will focus on Project 1,000 over the course of the next two years.

• Bulfinch Hall, designed by Asher Benjamin to replace the Academy schoolhouse that burned in 1818, is the oldest classroom building on campus. From the 1840s through the early 1930s, it served as a gymnasium and a dining hall; it has been the English department’s home base since 1938. Renovating and expanding Bulfinch Hall is a priority in the current campaign.

• Tuition covers about 53 percent of the cost of educating today’s students; the remaining 47 percent comes from philanthropy. Thus, all students receive some form of financial assistance. The true cost of educating each student at Andover is approximately $72,000 per year.

Charles Hirschler ’72, P’13, vice-chair of the committee, believes that with 19,000 “reachable” alumni, 1,000 total members is attainable. “It’s a nice round number, 50 percent more than today’s membership, and it seems a good goal given the loyalty of our alumni base,” says Hirschler. “In addition, estate gifts are a wonderful second pillar to the Andover Fund.”

The society currently consists of 675 members and, while the majority have qualified for “Sam & Sarah” membership by making a revocable provision in their wills or trusts, approximately one-third have established life income gifts. These mutually beneficial arrangements provide lifetime income for the donor along with an immediate tax deduction.

“Past experience tells us that we’re only aware of one-third of the estate provisions for the Academy, so we know that the numbers are out there,” observes David Flash, P’14, Andover’s director of gift planning. “Our hope is that by making more Andover supporters aware of the critical role of estate gifts, those with existing provisions will self-identify and those who are interested in creating a new legacy will contact us so that we can help them do so.”

To learn how you can join the Samuel Phillips & Sarah Abbot Society, please visit www.andover.edu/giftplanning or contact the gift planning office at 978-749-4297.

• Andover’s student to teacher ratio is 5 to 1.

• This school year, the Academy admitted 14 percent of applicants, marking its most selective year in history.

• In FY10, 96 percent of donors from the youngest 20 classes gave online.

Abbot Alumnae Tea In October, Betsy Parker Powell ’56, P’84, ’90, Mae Concemi Bradshaw ’62, and Natalie Gillingham Schorr ’62, P’95, ’99 hosted a tea for Abbot Academy alumnae. Nearly two dozen women gathered in the School Room of Abbot Hall to enjoy each other’s company and a presentation by Blake Hazzard Allen ’66. Allen spoke about her work as project leader of an institute funded by the U.S. Department of State that provides leadership training and development for Pakistani educators. She referred to Abbot Academy as “the mother ship,” the grounding for her later life and work.

• In FY10, 58 percent of our new donors gave online.

• Class agent Roger McLean ’48 led his class to 73 percent participation in the Andover Fund—one of the highest in FY10.

• As of mid-December, The Campaign for Andover secured $216 million in gifts and pledges toward its $300 million goal.

For regular updates, please visit www.andover.edu/campaign.

Alumnae from the Class of 1966 attending the tea included, from left, Beverley Armsden Daniel, Beth Humstone, Blake Hazzard Allen, Ruth Sisson Weiner, and Paula Cortes.

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II—you’ll understa pass the entrance exami gle-engine aircraft in WW mine…provided I could encouraged for this man. ily friend, counseled and n tio Francis Biery ’27, a fam lec pronouns, it seems, col c bli pu nt in a life, triggered by ch in the OWHL me ear mo res h his hig e e of Th use • g kin me, ma Penn, and the navy cam in 2010’s late ing Andover, Dartmouth, effort returned to mind ect is Th refl of ts. ss and tes Cla us th vio i ou pre mn of ver’s alu ss Address at the Dartm birthday card from Ando in my delivery of the Cla board illips summer in a sentimental Ph uel Sam Dartmouth’s president, of t sho bef us was a gorgeo ’s 50th Reunion— ore 43 19 ether tog e cam me ng to office. The card’s cover thi ps and families. Every dashed up those ste s, ate had ry ssm Bie cla s es, nci ste Fra tru ps. of Hall and its ste le, presentation on by canbination of content, sty was dazed, surrounded I t. com tes nt l ere efu diff fat a the in of know started together in on the day geting Andover. “Do you es of 675 men who had tar tim ls oo and s sch e live vat the pri m fro didates nd of the nths and years after, as 23 in combat. In the mo s?” he whispered in the sou t un los no and pro e 39 en 19 ativ str on ” the dem htest idea… mendous experience giv was. “Don’t have the slig ge filtered through the tre he ssa me ich con my wh I f— s, dea eer k. car ally n bac tot s fired e and later civilia t, these, and those!” Franci this class in WWII ser vic was my reply. “This, tha n ser ved. he was gone. cluded my mission had bee “Remember them!” Then the navy, I met by re there. months before entering monstrative pronouns we l De era m. sev , exa 42 h 19 glis In En the I took former Andover French this day, that the rtmouth’s main street my I am convinced, even to Da . on me ept nce acc cha did ver .

Class of 1901. do An d my life e F. French, Dartmouth ey may have forever change 3 and 4 instructor, Georg ver y proud are e pronouns did the trick. Th said to me, “W he was about to leave, he or a new try as t try d Jus on sed about sec res a exp for be B n er no Pla anything bett uld Co ” re. eri the Failure would have had exp wn in do life you of presence in my life has would now shape my cation? Andover, whose edu somewhere else. Andover ver do An an ld never equal: nt. ences and exposure I cou never left me for a mome ing in a sitt , glish old ar-ye 14 a g 5 dazzlin a naval aviator, taught En • Morning chapel at 7:4 the slightM. Donovan ’39 served as t es ins arl duty aga Ch vyy hea con the bal p the elo m d fro wn, Pa., helped dev sto Pott in h ool numbered seat, monitore glis Sch En ll all Hi e rec at Th ortation consult’s Latin assignment. Or and operated his own transp ry, 0 ust 70 est glance at next period ind g the sin to lea n ck atio tru t and solvent. He and y Basford’s exhort American industry efficien p val kee instructor Emory Shelv e to “th e for ctic , pra bly nsi ing po rketing executive, and turity and act res e a son, Michael Hall, a ma hav assembled to develop ma e, ” thi s.

Ru llar e, do wif n his llio t affairs of mi e “are worth on le, assistant dean of studen ues of maturity,” he cried, ghter, Mary Donovan Co dau a who danced ool of Law. Montague Fitzpatrick, the Mercer University Sch nd fou • Or who can forget A. con and for weeks, confusing through the Academy , messages, in sign-ins and sign-outs n ing the administratio

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Triple Threat Teacher, coach, dorm counselor: the triple threat is an enduring tradition at Andover. Yet few have demonstrated the level of commitment to each role as energetically and capably as Paul Kalkstein ’61, now a class secretary.

For 36 years, Paul served PA as an innovative English teacher, and was among the first to harness the power of technology in the classroom. A highly successful coach of boys’ varsity basketball and lacrosse, he also served as director of athletics in the 1980s. And along with wife Marnie, Paul’s life in the dorms extended well beyond the typical eight years to more than 24. The reason for such dedication?

Students were indisputably at the center of Paul’s experience. “So many of them were eager and optimistic, and they intimate a brighter future for all of us,” he says.

There’s another facet to Paul’s PA connection: donor. He has been an unflagging supporter of PA for years. “Marnie and I are appreciative that Andover gave us a wonderful life on campus.

Our three children, Bart ’88, Molly ’90, and Emily ’94, received first-rate educations at Andover, and each of them gratefully supports the school today.”

Now in his 50th Reunion year, Paul has taken a further meaningful step in support of his alma mater. “In recognition of all that Andover has meant to the Kalksteins and in anticipation of all it will mean to others, we decided to make a gift of a charitable annuity,” he says. “The tax and income benefits are so substantial that Marnie and I chose to increase the size of our gift—and our annuity will keep us in touch with the school as the years roll by.”

To learn how you can benefit from an Andover planned gift, contact David Flash at 978-749-4297 or dflash@andover.edu.

Flying High in Gotham The Andover banner shares the staff with Old Glory on a wind-whipped December night in Herald Square. Inside, alumni, parents, and trustees came together to share stories, enjoy performances by three accomplished young alums, and celebrate the Academy (more photos in BLUEprint, pages VI, VII).

Micheal Malyszko

Paul and Marnie Kalkstein

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