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FACULTY EMERITI
FORMER FACULTY
ABBOT AND PHILLIPS
John Anderson
1936
Portsmouth, NH; Aug. 31, 2016
Carl E. Krumpe Jr.
Sherman F. Drake
Middlebury, VT; Sept. 21, 2016 Sherman Drake, instructor in mathematics at Andover for 34 years, passed away at age 94. Drake graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1944 and served as an engineering officer aboard the USS Missouri for two and half years, which included engagements in Iwo Jima and Okinawa. When the Japanese surrendered on board the Missouri in 1945, Ensign Drake was the officially designated band officer. Following service on Guam during the Korean War, he returned to Annapolis to teach marine engineering and coach soccer. In 1953, Drake came to Andover to teach mechanical drawing and navigation as well as a variety of other math courses. He and his wife, Dottie, were known as a pleasant and congenial couple who were very welcoming to new faculty. Drake cared deeply about his students and the Academy. “He was famous for his academic rescue of innumerable math dropouts,” noted Frederick Peterson ’34 in a 1987 Andover Bulletin article about Drake and his teaching career. Along with coaching stints in baseball and cluster softball, Drake coached the girls’ varsity soccer team to New England Prep School Championship honors in 1981, 1983, 1984, and 1985. “The record speaks for itself,” wrote Peterson, “but what it does not say is even more important: the extraordinary bond linking players and coach, the zest, the fun, the understanding, the devotion to the game and to one another.” During his time at Andover, Drake served as housemaster in five dorms. From 1953 to 1974, Drake served in various Naval Reserve command posts in Boston and Salem, Mass., retiring with the rank of captain. He also taught in the Andover-Exeter School Year Abroad program in Barcelona in 1963 and 1978. Following his retirement in 1987, he and his wife moved to Centerville, Mass., on Cape Cod. Drake is survived by his wife, Dottie; a daughter, Carol Chamberlain; three sons, Thomas, William, and Jeffrey; and nine grandchildren.
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Exeter, NH; Nov. 1, 2016 Longtime Phillips Academy instructor in classics, history, and English and former classics department chair Carl Krumpe died at age 83. After graduating from Wabash College in 1955 with a BA degree in classics, Krumpe served in the U.S. Army, living on bases in the United States and Europe. After discharge, he earned a master’s degree in classics at Brown University. In 1960, Krumpe began a 38-year career at Andover. “Carl was truly ‘a man for all seasons’— musician, organist (he had his own pipe organ installed in America House!), opera buff, and probably the most literate colleague I’ve ever had,” wrote instructor in classics Nick Kip. “His sterling example of academic dedication, along with his affable and thoughtful nature, inspired me and countless others to the best of professional and personal standards.” Divorced in 1967 and raising his three children on his own, Krumpe met his second wife, Elizabeth, through his student David Epstein ’72—Elizabeth’s son. A mere two months after Epstein covertly arranged a dinner party to bring them together, the couple got married in Cochran Chapel. Former student Malcom P. Galvin III ’86 remembers Krumpe fondly. “He embodied everything that makes the Andover faculty exceptional,” said Galvin. “He was a perfect blend of scholarship and passion [combined with] the demeanor and motivation to connect meaningfully with the young minds in his care.” Krumpe, who was also a cluster soccer coach for many years, will long be remembered for his off-campus contributions as well. In addition to acting as the master of the town of Andover’s spelling bee, he hosted a classical music radio program, gave recorder lessons in adult education programs, and served as organist and choir director at multiple area churches. Krumpe retired from the Academy in 1998. Predeceased by Elizabeth in 2005, Krumpe is survived by his children, Michael Krumpe ’76, Andrew Krumpe ’77, and AnnaJean Krumpe ’80; two stepchildren, David Epstein ’72 and Catherine Epstein ’80; and 10 grandchildren.
John Anderson, former director of college counseling at Phillips Academy, died following complications from Parkinson’s disease. He was 66. After graduating from Colgate University in 1971, Anderson attended the University of California at Berkeley and in 1974 earned an MEd degree at the University of New Hampshire. He then began a nearly 40-year career working with college-bound high school students and their parents. Following longtime positions at Earlham College in Indiana and Kenyon College in Ohio, Anderson became director of college counseling at Andover in 2002. “John and I were colleagues for many years, both in Ohio and at Andover, and I was delighted when he was chosen to succeed me as college counseling director,” said Faculty Emeritus Carl Bewig. “John was the consummate admission professional and one of the kindest, most thoughtful people I have ever known. He was always held in the highest esteem by the college admission/college counseling community.” “He knew the business and was smart and creative,” said Faculty Emerita Anne Ferguson, former senior associate director of college counseling. “He mentored countless young deans from Kenyon as well as other schools. When people had questions about their careers or about admission matters, they called John. He always took the time to assist whoever needed him. “When John moved to the secondary school side of the coin, he was equally invested in the students whom he counseled. John’s meetings with students frequently ran overtime because he took such care listening to them and trying to assist them with whatever happened to be on their minds, college or otherwise. He was one of the most genuinely kind and gracious human beings I have ever known—warm, funny, smart, devoted to his family, the soul of integrity, and a good friend.” Anderson is survived by his wife, Nancy; son, Nathan; and two grandchildren.
Louis P. Dolbeare
Seattle, WA; Oct. 15, 2016
Wendy Snyder MacNeil
Lincoln, MA; July 20, 2016 Photographer, filmmaker, and former Abbot Academy instructor Wendy Snyder MacNeil died at her home with her family at her side. While a student at Milton Academy, MacNeil studied painting and drawing with American artist Elizabeth Saltonstall. After graduating from Smith College, she earned an MAT degree in visual studies from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. It was in graduate school workshops led by Bartlett Hayes, then director of the Addison Gallery of American Art, and Phillips Academy art instructor Gordon “Diz” Bensley that she was first drawn to photography. In 1967, MacNeil began teaching at Abbot Academy, where she created a popular new photography program; photographers Wendy Ewald ’69 and Francesca Woodman ’76 were two of her protégées. “When I first met Wendy, I was a senior thinking about a career in politics or international relations,” said Ewald. “I was making my first silver print with Wendy and seeing large-format portraits she made of Haymarket in Boston—portraits of butchers, vegetable vendors, and customers. I was thrilled by their sharper-than-life quality, the way she captured the light, and the precision of her composition. Wendy made herself a vehicle for us to learn who we were and to reveal it in our photographs with depth, but without pretense or flourish. We learned that being an artist was serious business, and that it had to be truthful.” In 1973, MacNeil was appointed assistant professor of art at Wellesley College. She joined the faculty of the Rhode Island School of Design in 1976, where she continued teaching until 2007. MacNeil’s remarkable platinum-palladium prints have been collected by New York’s Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art and by Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, among others. The donation of her work to Ryerson University in Toronto was celebrated in 2016 with the exhibition and catalog Wendy Snyder MacNeil: The Light Inside, Photographs and Films. MacNeil is survived by her husband, Ronald, and children Jazimina and Noah.
Louis P. Dolbeare, 100 years and 18 days old, would-be flâneur-writer, poetaster, sometime urban planner, househusband, family man, and dissembler since adolescence, died of cancer with loving family by his side. Following his 1940 graduation from Amherst College, Louis moved to Washington, DC, to work at the Office of War Information. He was sent to Paris after its liberation in 1944 and was in the City of Light in uniform to celebrate V-E day the following year. In 1948, Louis earned a master’s degree in city planning from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. He and his family then moved to Philadelphia. After a 28-year career in planning, he retired at age 61. In 1977, he and his wife, Cushing, moved to Washington, DC, so that she could devote herself to housing activism. A lifelong Democrat, Louis was active in Americans for Democratic Action and the American Institute of Planners. Though conventional in many ways, he was also a homeopath, an agnostic, and a prodigious writer of letters and, in later years, obituaries for his many friends whom he outlived. Louis is survived by his children, Mary and Niles, and four grandchildren. —The Dolbeare Family Lothrop Withington Jr.
Plymouth, MA; Aug. 1, 2013 1937 Albert E. Van Court
North Hollywood, CA; Feb. 5, 2012 1939 Nancy Lambert
West Newbury, MA Patricia Goss Rhodes
Paradise Valley, AZ; June 26, 2016 1940 Arthur F. Horwitz
Aug. 1, 2016
John Sharpless Klein
Jacksonville, FL; July 28, 2016
Robert Deormand McLaughry
Hanover, NH; Sept. 7, 2016 Muriel Ponzecchi
San Francisco, CA; Dec. 21, 2015 1941 Louis V. Sorrentino
Providence, RI; June 25, 2016 1942 W. Farrar Brown
Gainesville, FL; June 8, 2016 W. Lawrence Eccles Jr.
Chevy Chase, MD; Sept. 9, 2016 William S. Stiles
Marblehead, MA; Sept. 12, 2016 1943 Betty-Lou Monett Hess
Libertyville, IL; Jan. 21, 2014 Wagner P. Thielens Jr.
New York, NY; Aug. 6, 2016 1944 Emily McMurray Mead
Lebanon, NH; Aug. 5, 2016 Emily “Amie” Mead, an avid golfer and diehard Republican, passed away following a brief period of declining health. She served Abbot and Phillips academies in numerous ways and was class secretary for many years. A graduate of Barnard College, Amie was a campaign volunteer for GOP presidential candidate Gov. Thomas Dewey, worked on John Lindsey’s successful run for mayor of New York City, and was appointed to the Board of Visitors of the Manhattan State Hospital by then Governor Nelson Rockefeller. In 1967, the Meads moved to Hanover, NH, where Amie continued her civic involvement. In 1986, she moved to Washington, DC, to work on George H.W. Bush ’42’s presidential campaign and was appointed to Bush’s senior staff. The Meads returned to New Hampshire in 1993 and started the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy, a nonprofit, nonpartisan independent think tank focused on state and local public policy issues. Amie was predeceased by her husband, Edgar, and eldest son, Thorn. She is survived by her daughter, Mary; son, Malcolm ’85; and six grandchildren. —The Mead Family
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