The Quill Magazine, Fall 2006

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Quill The Pike School Magazine

Fall 2006

A Message from the

Head of School Rates of Exchange In my Eighth Grade American History class, I have to remind my students that in the 1700s, it took weeks or months for information to spread across the Atlantic or from Massachusetts to Georgia. It is always a jarring concept for them because they have grown up in an era when news travels around the globe in mere seconds. Another example of changing times involves family communication. When I was in college, I made a collect call home once a week to speak to my parents, and I rarely if ever talked to my siblings. Today, my children, who are spread out over hundreds of miles, communicate with each other virtually every day, whether by text message, cell phone calls, or instant messaging. The challenge we all face today is understanding that our ability to contact each other more easily does not automatically translate into better communication.

There are many issues that electronic communication does not address effectively. We build in meeting time for our teams of teachers because we feel conversations are the best way to share information and plan for the needs of our students. We are fortunate that our parent body is so willing to be part of the conversation about their children that they make the time to be here for Back to School Nights, conference days, concerts, and much more. This year we have asked parents to identify topics they would like to learn more about in discussion groups. We are looking forward to all of these conversations, as we believe that by meeting and talking face to face, we can more effectively work together and understand each other better.

Enjoy this issue of The Quill, and welcome to the conversation.

As you will see in this issue of The Quill, we are not opposed to using electronic forms of communication to share information about the school. We know you will find our new Website more informative and user friendly than its predecessor. I want to call your attention to a link on the Head of School page that will serve as a way to get answers to quick questions you may have or to make suggestions for the Admin Team to consider. We are confident that our director of communications, Cliff Hauptman, will see that our site remains vibrant and alive. We believe that this form of communication is useful for conveying factual information and a feeling for the school to prospective families.

Bobbie Crump-Burbank

At Pike, we have always emphasized the importance of good communication. In my opening remarks to new families each spring, I stress one of the values attached to our mission statement that says, “We believe children develop best when there is an active and willing partnership between school and family.” On the front page of a recent Chronicle of Higher Education, a headline read “The Medium is the Message.” There were two stories connected to the headline. The first was entitled “E-mail is for old people” and explained how college students were ignoring traditional email in favor of text messages or communication through their MySpace pages. The other article, “Hot Button Recruiting” described how college coaches, who are not allowed to call recruits, are flooding them with text messages. These two examples show how we can be swept away by the rising tide of technology. How many of us are spending longer hours on the job because of the hundreds of emails that pop up on our computers? How many of our emails, voicemails, text messages, etc. are important and help us do our work? How do we at Pike plan to use the tools at our disposal most effectively?

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Volume 13 No. 2 Fall 2006 The Quill is a publication of The Pike School Office of Development, Alumni Affairs, and Communications.

Office of Development, Alumni Affairs, and Communications Tara L. McCabe Director

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Cliff Hauptman Director of Communications Christen Hazel Director of Annual Giving and Alumni Outreach Alison Brandi Development Associate Our Mission The Pike School seeks to develop within its community a life-long love of learning, respect for others, the joy of physical activity and a creative spirit.

A Pike education is a journey that prepares students to be independent learners and responsible citizens.

Editor-in-Chief Cliff Hauptman Contributing Writers Debbie Anderson Bo Baird Betsy DeVries Jan Dragin Christen Hazel Susanna Poland ’04 Joan Regan Laura Russell Design/Layout Cliff Hauptman The Pike School 34 Sunset Rock Road Andover, MA 01810 Tel: 978-475-1197 Fax: 978-475-3014 alumni@pikeschool.org www.pikeschool.org On the cover: Students raise the new Pike flag on Pike Pride Day. (Photo: Cliff Hauptman)

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Graduation ‘06

The Ninth at Pike

by Susanna Poland ’04, Joan Regan, and Betsy DeVries

An Alumni Event for the Ages

by Christen Hazel

Departments Facing Page

Message from the Head of School

2 Upper School News 4 Middle School News 6 Lower School News 22 Alumni News 28 Class Notes

Upper School

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Pike School Orchestra Makes Its Debut The strings section of The Pike School Orchestra rehearses at an early-morning practice session.

Betsy DeVries

Two summers ago, Jacob Shack ’07 met with Larry Robertson, director of fine arts, and Laura Russell, head of Upper School, to propose starting an Upper School orchestra. Jacob polled Upper School students to see how many would be interested and if they would be willing to commit to regular early morning rehearsals.

Students from Grades 6-8 responded enthusiastically to Jacob’s call, and all year this group of musicians rehearsed under the direction of Mr. Robertson and Fran Mellin, librarian. Different configurations of the ensemble performed at several events during the year, including the Grade 9 and Grade 8 plays and Closing Exercises.

Affinity Groups Launched

Traveling to the Galapagos

Young adolescents have a strong desire to explore their identity and their place in the community. Part of a young person’s identity is connected to their heritage or cultural background. Starting this fall, students have two kinds of forums in which to explore these issues. Open to all students in Upper School and led

by Mary Crockett and Amy Salvatore, the Multicultural Group provides an opportunity for students of all backgrounds to discuss the issues that affect all of us with regard to race, ethnicity, and culture. For students of color, the Affinity Group provides a safe place to discuss their individual experiences in the community. This group is led by Kavita Mundra and Betsy DeVries.

Last spring vacation, English, math and biology teacher Tina Morris was invited to work with Dr. Frank Sulloway, an expert on Darwin and evolution, and scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, on a research project in the Galapagos Islands.

She studied the Galapagos hawk and its adaptation to the changes in vegetation that have occurred in the past fifty years.

The trip enabled her to bring back material to use in her Grade 9 biology class when they study evolutionary adaptations and biodiversity of organisms, as well as Darwin’s theory of evolution.

Math in the “Real World” In order to demonstrate the real-world applications of math to their students, Grade 6 math teachers Lori Lindsay and Liza Waters took the entire class on a “Math Walk” through the town of Andover last spring. Designed by Miss Lindsay, the walk challenged the students to decipher clues, interview businesspeople, and solve problems in order to make their way through town.

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The Galapagos hawk

Upper School Student Council members found out that some kids their age who live only 20 minutes away face some very different challenges from Pike kids. With the guidance of council advisor Judith Elefante and director of development and alumni relations Tara McCabe, the student council researched philanthropies that might be able to use the funds the group would raise during the year. In the spring, the council concluded that the monies they raised from bake sales, “dress-down” days, and other activities would benefit the Growing Responsibility and Independence in People Project (GRIP). Located in Lowell, GRIP serves homeless teenagers, helping them develop the resources and lifetime skills to be independent and responsible citizens. The Pike students instinctively understood that this program’s mission closely matched the values taught at Pike. When GRIP’s director, Rachel McNamara, accepted the student council’s check at last year’s Closing Exercises, the audience was clearly moved by the way the Pike students and their faculty advisor had connected to such an important program.

Cliff Hauptman

Student Council Takes GRIP on Social Action

GRIP Director Rachel McNamara (left) with Pike Student Council members and Council Advisor Judith Elefante (far right).

Speech Team Does It Again

Model UN

The Pike Speech Team, led by Middle School Speech Coach of the Year Bob Hutchings, took first prize in speech in the national speech and debate competition for the second year in a row. Seven students represented Pike’s passion for speech by taking home numerous individual prizes from the Claremont, California, competition. All during the school year, the 40 team members prepare, rehearse, and perform different types of speeches. They compete in several different genres, including interpretation events and public address speeches.

As we become more connected to the global community, we would like our students to have greater opportunity to learn about other countries and the issues we face as global citizens. This fall, the Upper School offers a Model United Nations club, which provides students with an opportunity to research, discuss, and debate the issues different countries face in the global community. Students assumed the role of a representative of a particular country and then researched and prepared briefs, which they presented at a regional Middle School Model UN conference on December 2 at Northeastern University.

NAIS Presentation In March, three Upper School teachers traveled to Boston to the annual conference of the National Association of Independent Schools to present Pike’s advisory program to independent school educators from around the United States and the world. The presentation was entitled “Designing and Implementing an Effective Middle School Advisory Program: Getting Beyond Snacks.” Advisory design team members Judith Lais, Paul Heinze, and Lisa Galluzzo shared the process the Upper School faculty used to develop Pike’s effective, thoughtful, and comprehensive advisor program. The presentation was well-attended, attesting to the fact that many independent schools are looking for better ways to serve their students’ affective needs. After the presentation, Upper School head, Laura Russell, received follow-up phone calls from several of those who attended the presentation and others who had heard about the presentation through word of mouth.

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Middle School

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Recess Rules For the past year, faculty and students have been working to make sure that recess is enjoyable for everyone. Rather than imposing teachers’ rules, the Middle School faculty want students to take responsibility for making recess work. This fall, students created their own list of recess guidelines to make recess fun and safe for everyone.

Here are a few: Remember the Golden Rule: “Treat others the way you want to be treated.” Include others so no one feels left out. Make rules clear and stick to them. Talk out problems instead of fighting. Win and lose gracefully.

Cliff Hauptman

Faculty help students live by these guidelines, and it does take practice. Recess is an opportunity for students to apply the problem-solving skills they learn in Open Circle. Pike wants to be sure that every child has recess niches where he or she can blow off steam, compete for the NFL, or chat on a bench with a friend.

To expand opportunities, teachers lead activities such as blob tag and kickball each lunch recess to teach new games and draw a variety of students from different grades.

But an essential aspect of recess is the chance for children to play independently.

A stroll around morning recess will show them playing tag around the play structure, shooting baskets, and playing with magic cards. New this year are guitar sessions by the grandstands. And a few groupies hang out with them. Recess does rule.

Interns in Turn Dividing their time between Middle and Lower School, six new interns join Pike: Nyvette Grady is one of the recipients of The Pike School Intern Scholar Grant.

She was born and raised in Holyoke, MA, and during secondary school attended Northfield Mount Hermon School. For the past four years, she has dedicated herself to educating college women outside of the classroom in her position as resident director at Wellesley College. She is

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passionate about social justice issues and was certified to be a counselor at the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center last summer. Nyvette’s interest in teaching was sparked through her work at the Butler Center, a high-security juvenile detention facility for teenage boys in Westborough, MA. She will be interning in the Lower and Middle School art room as well as in Grade 3.

Rachel Kellar joins us after recently graduating from Bates College where she earned her BA in Sociology. While at Bates,

Rachel gained classroom experience working each semester in a local elementary school. Rachel loves to travel and spent the fall of her junior year studying in Wellington, New Zealand. Originally from the Hudson Valley area in New York, Rachel will be interning in Grades 4 and 1.

Carolyn Kenney was graduated from Boston College where she majored in theology and music. After college, she spent a year in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps as the director of social services at a church

Karachi Workshop Would you take a snake from this charming fellow? Sharon Libront and Bo Baird declined during their stay in Pakistan this summer, where they ran a week’s workshop in Karachi for educators ranging from classroom teachers to college professors to members of the national assessment board.

Uganda. Sharon Libront, Carolyn Fugalli, and Katie Dulong led a workshop in Nairobi this summer with faculty from the primary school. Attendees came from East Africa, India, and Pakistan. A common project between our two schools is in the works. Stay tuned as we help students to understand that they are global citizens.

A student who arrived late at school asked, “Where is my class?” Her science class was nowhere to be seen. When she walked out back, she heard high-pitched voices from the woods. Emerging from the undergrowth were Tina Morris and her Ninth Grade science students. Had they seen a Fourth Grade science class? No. Voices still in the woods they identified as Mr. Arsenault’s Seventh Grade class high on the ropes course. So her search continued.

At the corner of the lower soccer field she saw what looked like Mrs. Miller and her merry band. Shovels and trowels were exhuming soil samples for close inspection on a tarp. Beneath the grass they discovered grubs, earthworms, stones, and flecks of mica. This unit on the properties of soil is the result of the close collaboration this summer between Becky Miller, Ed Santella, and Ian Foster, the three Middle School science teachers. They, along with PE teacher and naturalist Joan Regan, built bridges between their programs. Studying water in Third Grade, soil and birds in Fourth, and landforms in Fifth enable the Pike campus to be a wonderful laboratory for investigation. Students learn the skills of observation and measurement as well as interpreting data. Our hope is for a new generation of environmentalists.

Scholar Grant. She studied biology and environmental policy at Brown University and worked in environmental policy consulting at Abt Associates in Cambridge, MA, following college. In addition to her interest in science, she has always enjoyed teaching. Her prior experiences include working at an environmental education center, tutoring adult English language learners, and serving as a reading buddy.

Anita will be interning in Grades 5 and 1 this year.

Stefanie Tetreault joins us after spending the last ten years in corporate America.

During that time, she worked as a legal assistant in Boston and as a personal assistant in Los Angeles. While working, Stefanie attended Lesley University through the adult baccalaureate program, graduating with her B.A. in American Studies. Stefanie will be spending this year in Kindergarten and Grade 3.

Bo Baird

A close partnership is building between Pike and the Aga Khan Primary School in

Science Collaborations

on the West Side of San Antonio, TX. For the past 2 years, Carolyn has been teaching religion at St. John’s Prep School in Danvers, MA. She will be interning in Grades 2 and 4.

Kimberly Orefice was graduated from Fairfield University where she earned her B.A. in Communications. Having always gravitated towards children, it is no surprise that she is pursuing a career in elementary education.

Kimberly will be interning in Grades 1 and 3.

Anita Pahuja is the second of this year’s recipients of The Pike School Intern

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Lower School

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Journal Writing: A Mirror on Growth

In Memoriam

There’s nothing simple about a simple sentence from a young child’s point of view. Children need to master numerous skills before they can write a simple sentence independently. They need to recognize letter symbols, associate the symbols with sounds, discriminate between similar configurations, manipulate a pencil to form letters legibly, and blend sounds together, all while holding an idea in their head.

As students try to integrate all the skills inherent in the writing process, how can teachers help them recognize that they are growing steadily as writers? Pike’s permanent journals provide children with a mirror that reflects their growth over time. At Pike, students begin making two or three entries a year in their permanent journals, beginning in Pre-Kindergarten and continue this practice through the end of Fifth Grade.

When Carolyn Tobey asked this year’s First Graders if they remembered from Kindergarten what permanent journals are used for, Helen answered, “To write in and draw pictures so that you can remember what it was like when you were little.”

What a wonderful concept! Carolyn agreed with Helen and encouraged her students to enjoy their earlier entries before writing new ones. “What’s fun,” she told her class, “is looking back at your writing or drawing.

You’re able to see how you’ve gotten better as a writer.”

Photos by Cliff Hauptman

As First Graders flip through earlier entries, excited voices say, “Want to see my second picture?” and “Look at these!” Meandering through their writing from earlier grades, students see their growth reflected back to them in easily recognizable form, a mirror on their development.

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Ruth E. Wight Caron 1950 ~ 2006 After a courageous seven-year battle with breast cancer, Ruth Wight Caron died on November 17th. Trained as a school psychologist, Ruth joined Pike’s faculty as the Lower School learning specialist in 1999. She met regularly with colleagues to discuss children’s needs and led discussion groups for faculty on a variety of topics related to learning styles. Ruth enjoyed meeting with parents and led parent workshops on friendship, learning styles, and Open Circle. Over her seven years at Pike, Ruth’s presence contributed to a higher level of understanding of children’s needs and how they learn. She is greatly missed.

Ruth is survived by her husband of twenty-four years, Richard E. Caron; her son, Jamey Caron, a Pike graduate of the Class of 2003; her mother, Reverend Helen Wight; her uncle, Joseph Rogers; her aunt, Ruth Rogers; and many other relatives and friends. Donations in her memory can be made to the American Cancer Society or to Grace Chapel Children’s Ministries, Grace Chapel, Lexington, Massachusetts.

Teaching in Tanzania While at the AKNS, Sarah worked with children, parents, and teachers. She team taught in nine different classrooms, planned lessons, designed learning centers, and developed literature lessons. Collaborating with the AKNS librarian, she organized nursery-level books and library materials to make them more accessible to young children. They also worked together to help teachers use the library and its resources more effectively with children.

Sarah presented workshops for the AKNS faculty on classroom management and age-appropriate assessments. She also

designed orientation meetings for parents about the value of hands-on learning in the classroom.

Sarah’s work in Tanzania has strengthened her belief in the importance of global partnerships in which we develop better understandings of one another. She continues to share her experiences with Pike faculty and students through meetings and assemblies, and is hopeful that there will be an opportunity for Pike to host visiting teachers at the Lower School level in the future.

Jurika Dancikova

“I have always been passionate about global and humanitarian issues. As an educator, my interest is in engaging the spirit and challenging the intellect of my students,” wrote Sarah Bardo, Pike Pre-Kindergarten teacher. Sarah returned to Pike this fall after consulting and teaching for five months at the Aga Khan Nursery School (AKNS) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, through the International Academic Partnership (IAP) program. Sarah was the first early childhood teacher to spend time at the AKNS through the IAP.

In the photo above, Sarah Bardo is seen teaching a class at the Aga Khan Nursery School in Tanzania. At right, she shows her Pre-K class at Pike mementos of her trip, including the above photo.

Non Sibi Solum returning students shot up to share that it’s Latin and means “Not for oneself alone”. When he asked if anyone had walked in The Hike for Hope in the past, hands flew up again. Mr. Waters told the Lower Schoolers that participation in that event is one way that Pike families choose to help others and live out our motto, Non Sibi Solum.

Debbie Anderson

Building awareness of the importance of service to others begins in Pre-Kindergarten at Pike and continues for the duration of each child’s educational experience here. Mr. Waters, Head of School, attends a Lower School assembly each September at which he teaches the children the meaning of the school motto, Non Sibi Solum. This year his visit was on the morning after Pike Pride Day. He began by asking if anyone knew the language or meaning of the school’s motto.

While new students listened, hands of many

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Graduation ‘06 The Pike School held its 70th graduation exercises Wednesday, June 14 for a class of 70 eighth- and ninth-graders, “a wonderfully poetic coincidence,” remarked Head of School John “Muddy” Waters.

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Attended by about 350 family members and friends of the graduates, the Closing Exercises were held in Harding Gymnasium, festooned with blossoms in the traditional peach, white, and green of Pike graduation ceremonies. The procession of faculty and students entered with appropriate pomp and circumstance to the accompaniment of Elgar’s stirring composition played by the Cantabrigia Brass.

Welcoming remarks by Waters reminded the audience that “much has changed in our world” since the graduating students entered Pike as Pre-Kindergarteners, “but not much has changed as much as the students sitting before you have in the last 11 years.” Recalling that he used to enjoy reading to them before they acquired the skill to read to themselves, Waters read to them one last time, selecting passages from Robert Fulghum’s All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. He told them “The Pike School’s mission is to develop within its community a lifelong love of learning, respect for others, the joy of physical activity, and a creative spirit. Many of the ideas from Mr. Fulghum’s book fit into those categories, and we are proud of all of you for having learned those important lessons. You eighth- and ninth-graders are living proof of our commitment to our mission.”

In addition to a number of academic and athletic awards presented to graduating students on the evening of Friday, June 9, six additional awards were presented at Wednesday’s ceremonies.

• Francis Hamilton of Andover received the A. Daniel Phelan Award for meeting life’s experiences with a positive spirit and good humor, thereby becoming an inspiration to the Pike community. The prize is named for Dan Phelan, a Pike teacher from 1990-1996.

Hamilton will attend Lawrence Academy.

• Nicholas Poland of Andover was awarded the Nicholas Grieco Prize, which honors one of Pike’s most loyal families and is given to the ninth grade student who, in the opinion of the Upper School faculty, has achieved notable academic improvement and personal growth at Pike, having been a positive influence on fellow students. He will attend Phillips Academy in Andover.

• Christine Goglia of Andover received the Alumni Prize, established to honor Pike alumni and awarded to the eighth grader who, in the opinion of the Upper School faculty, has achieved notable academic improvement, demonstrated an ability to assume responsibility, and displayed friendliness to faculty and fellow students. She will attend Governor Dummer Academy.

• Talene Bilazarian of Andover was the recipient of the Margaret J. Little Award, given to the student who best demonstrates integrity, generosity, and thoughtfulness, thus exemplifying the spirit of The Pike School. The award commemorates Margaret Little, teacher and Pike’s second Head of School. Bilazarian will attend Concord Academy.

• Phillip Picardi of North Andover received the David A. Frothingham Award for contributing with distinction to the betterment of the school and/or community. Established in 1994, this award honors Pike’s sixth Head of School. Picardi is expecting to attend Central Catholic High School.

• Carolyn Calabrese of North Andover was given the Head of School Award for exhibiting unusual qualities of leadership in non-academic affairs, while setting a school standard for scholarship. She will attend Phillips Academy in Andover.

This year’s graduation speaker was alumnus Ali Siddiqi of the Pike Class of 2003.

Siddiqi, who was graduated this year from Phillips Academy, was the Academy’s school president and a speaker at his own graduation. “Actually,” he told the Pike audience, “I think my dad was more excited for this graduation than he was for my own.”

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Siddiqi’s speech echoed Waters’s in its theme of change and durability. “We all share this great school that connects us, makes us one,” Siddiqi told the new graduates. But “buildings and classrooms come and go....people come and go….the world around us is constantly changing….What gives me comfort… strength…and faith in this institution is that despite these changes, there is always a constant….It stays in the halls, it stays in those fields, and it stays in the gym. And that is the mission of this school. This school was founded to bring kids here and give them the best, most comprehensive education possible….It seeks to bring you here while instilling in each of you the beautiful trait of Non Sibi Solum, not for oneself alone.

“You see,” Siddiqi explained, “you can have your athletic achievements, make honor roll for the rest of your life, and stay friends with Pike classmates until you are old men and women. But when you come back to this place after having graduated from The Pike School, it is the transcending principle of ‘not for oneself alone’ that will make you proud.

And that is a part of this school that will never change.”

Preceding and following Siddiqi’s speech, The Pike School Orchestra and Graduation Chorus, led by Fine Arts Department Chair Larry Robertson, performed. Head of Upper School Laura Russell, Eighth Grade Team Leader Susan Cameron, Ninth Grade Team Leader Betsy DeVries, Pike Board Chair Gary Campbell, and Waters presented the certificates of graduation to the students:

Head of School Muddy Waters (top) and alumnus Ali Siddiqi ’03 address the Pike community at last May’s Closing Excercises.

Left: Awardwinning graduates pose with Muddy Waters and Board Chair Gary Campbell ’69.

Ninth Grade William Abisalih (Latin Prize and Boys Athletic Award winner) Liza Brecher Carolyn Calabrese Alexander Cope (Cynthia E. Pike Award winner) Alexander Matses (Kerri Kattar Athletic Award cowinner) Sinead Oliver Phillip Picardi Nicholas Poland Ellen Rullo Analise Saab

Eighth Grade Taylor Angles Annie Arnzen Kaitlyn Barnett Lara Bhaiwala (Spanish Prize winner) Talene Bilazarian Shane Bouchard Cameron Brien Calvin Chao Sarah Clarkson Taylor Colliton Kelly Comolli Shannon Comolli Leonel Contreras Benjamin Corman Rainer Crosett (Alice L. Jablonski Science Prize winner) David Dlesk Zainab Doctor Kyle Doherty Hilary Evans Meredith Farahmand Mary French David Gilbert Christine Goglia Alice Grant (Girls Athletic Award winner) Hilary Greene Frances Hamilton Julie Helmers (English Prize winner and French Prize cowinner) Tennyson Hunt Penelope Jones Katherine Koppel Stone Lauderdale Caroline Leed

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Governor’s Academy

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Alexander Letwin Michael Levenson Max Lindauer Danielle Loranger Iain MacNaughton Ryan McKinnon Mari Miyachi (History Prize cowinner) Marina Moschitto (Kerri Kattar Athletic Award cowinner) Taggart Muggia Morgan Pearce Cameron Poole Vinay Rajur Carly Rauh Sarah Reilly Spenser Rose Alexa Sarmanian Erik Scott Gregory Serrao Jacob Shack Sahil Singhal Eric Sirakian (History Prize winner and French Prize cowinner) Naomi Smith Emma Sundberg PeterThompson Liam White Julie Xie John Yang-Sammataro James Yuschik From top: The Ninth Grade; the Pike Chorus performs at Closing Excercises; Graduates receive congratulations from Board Chair Gary Campbell ‘69 and Eighth Grade Team Leader Susan Cameron; Awards are handed out by Head of School Muddy Waters.

Lawrence Academy

Brooks School Concord Academy Phillips Academy in Exeter

Pike Ninth Grade

Milton Academy Brewster Academy Pingree School Central Catholic High School

Dana Hall School Groton School Holderness School North Andover High School Tabor Academy St. John’s Preparatory School St. Mark’s School Summit Country Day School in Ohio

The Ninth at Pike

by Susanna Poland ’04, Joan Regan and Betsy DeVries

“Usually when I go canoeing I paddle away from the dock, and at the end of my trip I paddle back to the exact same dock. On this trip we are leaving the dock and not coming back! We are finishing somewhere else completely. All on our own out here in the middle of nowhere! This is really a different thing altogether.” Joe, a Pike graduate, articulated his groups’ shared realization during the Ninth Grade St. Croix River trip. This weeklong voyage, which opens the year for the Ninth Grade each September, not only binds the students together as a team, but also serves as a metaphor for the entire year. Just as the St. Croix River provides a passage between Canada and the United States; so does the Ninth Grade year at Pike provide a steppingstone between middle and secondary school. During the trip the students learn to take care of themselves.

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navigate class I and II rapids. Like the river, the Ninth Grade year is a journey.

Students conduct biological field work in three separate outdoor sites, analyze the historical themes of the 20th century around The Ninth Grade year focuses on guiding the Harkness Round Table in humanities, students towards academic independence. On develop their own photographs in the dark the St. Croix, the students practice balancing room, design and teach their own lessons self-reliance with teamwork. To build fires, in geometry, and create a play highlighting cook meals, wash dishes, pitch the tents, and the musical, artistic, and theatrical talents of paddle their canoes in challenging waters, each each performer. They are the scientists, the student is forced to push beyond their own scholars, and the artists learning from reallimits while relying heavily upon their peers time experience. for support. In the classroom the students must use the same skills as they face the Because the grade is small (the past few challenges of freshmen courses. Because years have seen between 7 and 10 students the course work is at high school intensity, per class), teachers are able to mold the it earns them the same academic credits courses to meet the needs and appeal to in their next school. Biology, geometry, the interests of the individual students. humanities, art and language include primary Susannah ’04 remarked, “I loved bio source work, independent study, and active class, and was really eager to do some lab participation. Small classes leave no room for work when we were studying anatomy. slacking or passivity. A network of nurturing I remember jokingly pestering Mrs. teachers provides a springboard from which Morris about this, and a few days later the young adults launch into independence. she had a whole lobster—she had picked

it up at the grocery store on her way to school that morning—and we made a class of dissecting it!” The Ninth Grade musical also draws heavily from student individuality. The show is a culmination of the music and theatre curriculums in which students write scripts, design sets, create characters, and produce their own show. In some measure because they are the oldest in the school rather than the youngest as they might have been elsewhere, they have both permission and opportunity to step out of their comfort zone. In art the students are encouraged daily to develop their creativity in a rich visual arts program which often works in concert with the themes in the 20th Century humanities course. Last year, the Ninth Graders had a unique opportunity to meet with Ernest Withers, renowned Civil Rights photographer, and discuss his art and how through art he affected history. The number of students, the tight student-teacher relationships, and the inter-departmental communication and cooperation give the Ninth Grade program its flexibility to explore and deepen understanding. Given the opportunity to own their identity because of the small class size, students emerge with a distinct sense of self.

It is the explicit intent of this program to provide the students as many opportunities as possible to explore and experience the world outside of Pike. Throughout the year, students reach out to veterans, scientists, and artists in the Boston area, as it supports their coursework. The small group and high teacher/student ratio also permit frequent field trips. These include expeditions into the region to explore the differences between barrier islands, planted pine plantations, old orchards, and wetlands. For January physical education, they make weekly trips to a nearby indoor rock gym. Rock climbing builds problem solving skills, balance, agility, strength, teamwork, and determination.

Like the river in the fall, the rocks in the winter provide a microcosm of the year.

Students learn to explore their fear, to try again, to support one another, and to dare to do more. Trips to museums result from the collaboration of the art and history curriculums, supporting the idea of artists as social barometers.

Socially, the Ninth Grade program is not typical of middle or high school environments. The innate intimacy of the group reduces the pressure of cliques that often define Eighth Grade friendships, and because students work closely as a group, they Out of the classroom, Ninth Graders get to know each of their classmates well. are considered the student leaders of the Social ties that existed in previous years are school, and are asked to put communityreplaced by a network of students working minded ideas into action. The advisor together. Simultaneously, as students delve program encourages students to take charge into their individual interests, they have the of an area of school life in which they have freedom to be independent. Regarded as older a personal interest and put their ideas into and often off doing ‘older things’, they tend action. An initiative might involve working to form “older sibling” relationships with with the head of the Upper School to plan students in other grades. Correspondence assemblies, creating a cartoon on recycling with friends outside of school varies the to promote ecological awareness, or social scene as well, so friendship possibilities working on a school literary publication. are no longer limited to school. “I kept up

Photos by Betsy DeVries

Participation in outdoor and performance experiences provide a distinctive team-and self-confidence building aspect to the Ninth Grade at Pike.

with a bunch of my friends who graduated after Eighth [Grade],” comments Nick ’06, “and actually my best friends just live in my neighborhood.”

The secondary school application process for Ninth Graders differs in significant ways from that of Eighth Graders. Those who are repeating the process often remark that not only have their ambitions changed, but their added experience facilitates articulating these ambitions to admissions folk.

Familiarity can also make the application process less stressful. More accustomed to speaking up and asking good questions in small discussion classes, a Ninth Grader presents as an articulate and poised candidate. Some choose to enter high school as tenth graders who have fulfilled their ninth grade requirements. Others choose to repeat freshman year in their next school. Students who opt for the latter option get greater flexibility in their course selections (already having fulfilled basic requirements) and an advantage on sports teams. In each path, the graduates carry the necessary preparation for the transitions.

Because they are a year older regardless of which grade they matriculate into, they get to skip much of the freshman fog.

Ninth Grade students leave Pike feeling strong. Each June, the group reflects upon hopes and fears people had entering the year, and the conclusions always carry the same themes: as budding adults they grow personally, strengthen academically, and form strong relationships that anchor the experience. Graduates emerge better prepared to lead, to explore, and to question.

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An Alumni Event

for the Ages

by Christen Hazel, director of annual giving and alumni outreach

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The Main Attraction...

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On April 28, 2006, Pike celebrated two milestones...80 Years of Academic Excellence and our first official Downtown Boston Alumni Reunion.

Thanks to an active and energetic Alumni Council, over 100 alumni and former faculty journeyed to The Hampshire House in Boston and bonded with others sharing a common interest...our Pike experience.

Backdrop...

Mingling in “The Library” of the Hampshire House, alumni perused the stacks of yearbooks, old photo albums, and other relics of the past (including the jeans that Renee Kellan Page ’79 wore in Godspell!).

Easels displayed enlargements of black and white photographs from Pike’s archives. One poster, of girls in gingham dresses and boys in plaid shirts and striped ties, all smiling and squinting in the sunlight on the lawn in front of the administrative building in Shawsheen, echoed a time in Pike’s far distant past.

Other images included the balloon launch in the Upper School field on Sunset Rock Road, 3 boys getting ready for an upcoming potato sack race, young students posing with a wheelbarrow full of buckets and shovels on Arbor Day, and Mrs. Palmer preparing a student for his role in Grease.

A Star-Studded Cast of Characters...

Some alumni traveled from as far away as Pennsylvania (Bill Drake ’69 and Robert Jablonski ’68), Maine (Allan Breed ’69) Connecticut (Claire Coward Wilkes ’81), New Hampshire (Jennifer Fines Jones ’92 and Dan Miner ’69) and New York (Catriona Logan Sangster ’83) and as close as a few city blocks (Matt Shaer ’97 and Karen Queen Stern ’88).

Alumni who were graduated in the 1940s and ’50s traded stories with alumni who graduated in the 1970s. Alumni who attended Pike in the 1990s shared a few laughs with their former teachers. Those who remember the “old” Pike located on the corner of Hidden and Porter Roads reminisced with others who “made the move” to the school’s current location on Sunset Rock Road. Many teaching legends also attended, including Theda Logan, Diana Appleton, Steve Batzell, Carolyn Tobey, and Pam Palmer.

Enter Stage Right...

During a brief program at the podium, Alumni Council Chair Renee Kellan Page ’79 welcomed everyone to the event. As director of alumni outreach, I mentioned how eager Pike is to reconnect with alumni and provide an enriching series of events for our graduates. Head of School Muddy Waters spoke of how wonderful it is to see so many alumni at a Pike event for the first time. Chair of the Board of Trustees Gary Campbell ’69 offered his perspective on Pike yesterday, today, and tomorrow. While much has

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Behind the Scenes...

The overwhelming success of this reunion is a direct result of Pike’s enthusiastic Alumni Council which includes all class agents and other alumni committed to reconnecting alumni to Pike and each other.

Thanks to a ton of outreach efforts, a buzz about this event ensued. In the months leading up to the event, a dedicated group of eleven alumni from all decades met twice a month to sign invitations, plan the details, and call their fellow classmates. A flurry of emails, phone calls, and written replies flooded Pike’s Office of Alumni Affairs during the week of the reunion. The rest is history and, we hope, prelude.

The Encore...

The plans for another exciting Downtown Boston Alumni Event in Spring 2007 are well underway. Look for upcoming details on our new alumni section of the Website

(coming in early 2007) at www.pikeschool. org. If you’re interested in joining the Council or helping to plan this event, please contact me at 978-475-1197 x207 or chazel@pikeschool.org. Whether it’s been seven years or sixty-seven years, we look forward to seeing all of you.

2006 Event Committee

Renee Kellan Page ’79 Gary Campbell ’69 Leslie Stecker Dumont ’70 Stephanie Gardner Ginsberg ’81 Joyce Nassar Leary ’56 Connie Weldon LeMaitre ’49 Dana Limanni-Tarlow ’81 Paula Muto-Gordon ’76 JoAnn Kalogianis Nikolopoulos ’84 Kristin Tomaselli ’87 Dana Willis ’64

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Attendees (minus a few who slipped in under the radar) Christopher Andrews

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Diana Appleton John Barker

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Suzanne Goldberg Barnhart Stephen Batzell

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Vanessa Bogosian Mae Concemi Bradshaw

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Allan Breed Benjamin Brown

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Oliver Brown Lyman Bullard

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Gary Campbell Matthew Clark

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Suzanne Costello Alyssa Daigle

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Lisa Demeri Kimberly Depelteau-Tracey Denault Donovan William Drake Leslie Stecker Dumont Craig Durrett

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Mark Elefante

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Pam Ford

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Brian Fore Stephanie Gardner Ginsberg Timothy Haarmann Justin Harper John Howard Robert Jablonski Mark Jaklovsky Nolden Johnson Jennifer Johnson Jennifer Fines Jones David Kagan Karen Kagan Shawn Kravetz Joyce Nassar Leary Thomas Lebach Linda Wilkinson Lebach Cornelia Weldon LeMaitre Theda Logan Lynne Tatian Lynch Edna Maggio Edna Studley Margraff Daniel Miner Paula Muto-Gordon

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JoAnn Kalogianis Nikolopoulos Renee Kellan Page Pamela Palmer Yogi Pappas Pappadopoulos Folly Patterson Allan Reeder Miriam Ganem Reeder Patrick Riordan Christopher Rogers Barry Rowland Renee Sanft Catriona Logan Sangster Matthew Shaer George Stern Wendy Stern Karen Queen Stern Dana Limanni Tarlow Tom Tavenner Robin Leary Taylor Carolyn Tobey Kristin Tomaselli Claire Coward Wilkes Dana Willis

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Former faculty Steve Batzell, Paula Muto-Gordon ’77, former faculty Pam Palmer, Renee Kellan Page ’79.

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Claire Coward Wilkes ’81, Stephanie Gardner Ginsberg ’81, Dana Limanni-Tarlow ’81, Suzanne Goldberg Barnhart ’81, Christine McCarthy Moeller ’79

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Robin Leary Taylor ’88, Karen Queen Stern ’88, Bojay Taylor, Ben Stern.

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Oliver Brown ’97, Matthew Clark ’94, Benjamin Brown ’94, Former faculty Diana Appleton, Former faculty Theda Logan, and Matthew Shaer ’97.

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Wendy Stern ’59, George Stern ’55, Connie Weldon LeMaitre ’49, Joyce Nassar Leary ’56.

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Catriona Logan Sangster ’83, Mark Elefante ’84, Shawn Kravetz ’83, John Barker ’83.

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Bill Drake ’69, Dan Miner ’69, Chris Andrews ’69, Gary Campbell ’69, Allan Breed ’69.

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Linda Wilkinson Lebach ’59, Thomas Lebach ’57, Mae Concemi Bradshaw ’58.

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Dana Willis ’64, Christopher Andrews ’69, Lyman Bullard ’69

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Paula Muto-Gordon ’77, Tom Tavenner ’77, Kim Samson, Folly Patterson ’78

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Linda Wilkinson Lebach ’59, Wendy Stern ’59, Edna Studley Margraff ’55, Lynne Tatian Lynch ’66

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Head of School Muddy Waters, Renee Kellan Page ’79, Gary Campbell ’69

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David Kagan ’81, Former Faculty Pam Palmer, Dana Limanni-Tarlow ’81

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Double Pike A Double Education by

Jessica Hellmann Solomon ’94

When I left Pike in 1993, I never dreamed that I would return more than a decade later to take my place alongside previous teachers and participate in educating future Pike graduates.

I was filled with a genuine love of learning, a passion for social justice, and a belief that I could achieve anything I set my mind to.

These were qualities that were nurtured in me by a dedicated and compassionate staff (along with, of course, my very loving and supportive parents). I was taught that effort and hard work are inherently valuable and that I had gifts that the world could benefit from. When I decided to pursue a career as an educator, there were myriad paths to consider.

However, as I pondered how to advance towards my professional goals, it seemed natural to return to the very place where my affinity for school had first been cultivated.

Pike is part of an elite group of schools that participate in Lesley University’s Collaborative Teacher Training Program, which enables would-be educators to pursue advanced degrees while immersing themselves full-time (culturally and professionally) in an academic institution. I enrolled in this program filled with enthusiasm and was endlessly excited to return to Pike as a teacher. When I first arrived back in the community, I had to adjust to a vastly different (and much improved) physical environment from the one I left.

After I figured out how to negotiate the terrain, there was the matter of calling my old teachers by their first names. I was amazed at how many of them were still at Pike, and after getting over the awkwardness of conversing with them as contemporaries, I was overwhelmed with a sense of privilege to be considered their colleague.

My internship exposed me to the innerworkings of the Pike professional community.

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Jessica Hellman Solomon ’94 with the Third Grade class she now teaches at the Rashi School in Brookline, MA.

the level of dedication that my teachers had. As a graduate student, I was vastly impressed by their commitment not only to their students, but also to their craft.

Pedagogically, they are on the cutting edge.

Walk into any classroom and you will see evidence of differentiated instruction, multicultural curriculum, and inquiry-based learning. And the students are the better for it. The school is preparing them to be critical thinkers with compassionate hearts. It is empowering them with the notion that they are endowed with unique capacities that will enable them to operate as responsible citizens in their local and global communities. It is equipping them with the skills they will need to be savvy in a technologically sophisticated world.

And while the students benefit greatly from Pike’s passionate dedication to their success, the teachers do also. They are a part of a professional circle that believes in the strength of its vision and the clarity of its purpose.

Pike is empowering teachers to attend the conferences and workshops that permit them to stay current on the latest educational theories. It is encouraging them to be participants at professional meetings that allow them to network with other educators and expand their own teaching repertoires. It is providing them with funds

to obtain the resources required to educate the “whole” child. It offers a forum for teachers to candidly voice their concerns about both the school’s present and its future. The dialogue is frank and ongoing and lending itself to the advancement of Pike’s mission.

For another moment in time, I was a member of this remarkable community. I got to be a part of its evolution and part of its history. I have always been grateful for the academic and social foundation that Pike afforded me, and my gratitude has grown immeasurably since I was given an opportunity to experience my own education from a different vantage point.

My most fervent hope is that I was able to give back in some small way.

I cannot end without thanking my lead teachers, Ed Santella and Mimi Addesa, and the director of the Pike collaborative program, Margaret Szegvari. Their tutelage and support enriched my thinking and my practice. Pike’s partnership with Lesley University (and its participation in the collaborative program) speaks to its commitment to providing success for children vis-à-vis the training and professional development of high-quality educators. Once again, I am indebted and truly touched. Thank you, thank you, a million times: thank you!

Roberta Waterston Britton ’51

by Jan Dragin Roberta Waterston Britton is a multi-media artist, a former Pike School art instructor and parent of Pike alumna Christine (Kerry) P. Corcoran ‘78.

Her late mother Alice Atkinson Waterston was also a former Pike art teacher.

Q.: In 2004 you exhibited in a three-person show at the Holderness School’s Edwards Art Gallery with your mother and daughter. Your multi-media pieces featured sticks. You said then that you’d been influenced by colors and textures you’d seen on a trip to China in 2000, while you were in a printmaking program at Massachusetts College of Art. RWB: I’m still working in sticks. What fascinates me about them: you have to go out and look for your sticks. I go to the

beach and walk through the woods. Just that experience is wonderful. It becomes part of the process. You find interesting shapes. Going through beaches, the wood is already smoothed out by water and has a nice patina on its own and sometimes I leave it bare without color added. Now I’m thinking of moving on, using wood burning tools instead of painting the sticks. It’s exciting knowing I’m going to try this. I’m eager.

Q.: What was it like to have a gifted artist for a mother? How did she influence you?

RWB: My mother taught at Pike herself.

At one point I decided, no, I’ll never be an artist because my mother was. I went on to pursue a major in art history instead but had been painting from an early age with my mother. It was passed down to me, and now to my daughter. Kerry is a printmaker.

At Pike I painted with her there when she taught. I never went out painting with my mother except maybe once. More than anything I was influenced by her work.

We have many of her work in our family homes. What I remember about my mother was her discipline and that she was very prolific. She got up and painted almost every day.

Q.: What have you learned from your daughter?

RWB: Kerry draws beautifully. Very loose.

There’s a quality in her drawing that’s exceptional. That was informative to me, to be looser.

Artist Roberta Waterston Britton ’59 and her husband, David Britton. Background image: detail of “Vieques Sticks,” 2004, by Roberta Waterston Britton.

Q.: For a number of years you were head of the art department of The Governor’s Academy (formerly Governor Dummer Academy) in Byfield, Massachusetts. You’ve given private instruction, taught at Waterville Valley Elementary School and at The Pike School. You’ve studied art history, art education, painting at the Haystack School, pottery, sculpture, silverwork in San Miguel D’Allende.

What forces and experiences shaped you as a student at Pike?

RWB: I was under the guidance of an easygoing, wonderful art teacher who gave

me space to go where I wanted. If I had crazy ideas, she said, “Oh, go ahead and try it.”

Pike felt art was important.

Q.: When did you decide to pursue art extensively?

RWB: I think it happened when I was married and living in Aspen with my husband and child. I started painting there and thought.

“I’d like to do this.” When we moved to Waterville Valley to open a ski resort, I got an external degree at Goddard.

Q, Your brother Sam Waterston is one of our most beloved actors. Your father was a linguist in the British Intelligence Service leading up to the German rearmament in 1930. He immigrated to New York City, was an editor for Oxford University Press, taught modern languages at the Brooks School in North Andover, went on to earn a doctorate at the University of Paris, and became an intelligence officer for the British air force during World War II. He returned to teaching in New England. He was a mountaineer. What inspiration! What about the rest of your family?

RWB: My father also was very interested in drama and theater. My whole family was involved and interested in the arts, which had a profound influence on us. My younger sister Ellen Waterston is a writer and poet, who published a book And Then There Was No Mountain. Her poetry has been in many publications. She leads writing workshops. My other brother, George, followed my father in linguistics.

Q.: Paint the canvas of your life.

RWB: I’m almost seventy. You wonder how life passes by so quickly. I had a health scare.

That woke me up in many ways. You start to appreciate even more what you have– although an artist typically does appreciate life and one’s environment deeply and emotionally.

Philosophically, what I believe in is that the environment is the most important thing we have. Art is a deeper way to become connected to your environment, the world around you, or your own inner soul, to help you connect to who you are.

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Doug Segal ’75

by Jan Dragin Quill interviewed Pike alumnus, film producer, and writer Doug Segal from his home in Los Angeles.

His credits as an associate producer, co-producer, and producer include: Angus (1995), starring Charlie Talbert as Angus, Kathy Bates and George C. Scott; City of Angels (1998), with Nicholas Cage and Meg Ryan; Three Kings (1999), with George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, and Ice Cube; and Bulletproof Monk (2003), with Yun-Fat Chow and Seann William Scott.

Doug Segal ’75. Background image: artwork from City of Angels promotional poster.

Q. Who or what was your first muse?

D.S.: Four of us kids grew up in North Andover. My dad had a huge influence on me creatively. He was a great host of parties and very funny. I remember watching him as a kid, how he captivated a room, how all eyes went to him.

Q.: When were you first aware of your own creativity?

D.S.: At Pike, I remember doing a school play, No, No, A Million Times No, probably about Sixth Grade. I was playing across from Wendy Bixby, I think. She was taller than I and generally more developed, if you know

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what I mean. I was playing this villain and she was my henchwoman. I’m telling her my villainous plot, and I remember while I was telling her this, the audience began to laugh.

I couldn’t figure it out until I realized my eyes were right at her breasts. I got it at that moment, then played it more, like a gag. They laughed more. “This feels good,” I thought.

Q.: And you never looked back?

D.S.: After Pike, at Phillips Andover, I did more theater. I went to the University of Colorado for a year, mostly for the skiing.

As a liberal arts major, I did a couple of theater pieces. I decided I’d pursue acting and transferred back East. My father wasn’t happy about my choice. He said, “Why pick acting? You could do anything you want in life. Why struggle?” I kept at it and, when he became very ill, I told him, “I want to tell you why I want to pursue acting. It’s because of you, seeing you entertain and make people laugh.” I don’t know that he was ever happy about it, but I do think it was a secret wish of his, too.

be in development. She was a tough cookie but said, “I like you. We’ll see if we can find something.” In 1991 she gave me the exiting development director’s position on Cool Runnings, about the Jamaican bobsled team in the 1987-88 Olympics. After that, I was associate producer and directed the additional audio with George C. Scott and Kathy Bates for Angus.

Q: How did you come to work on City of Angels?

D.S.: Dawn had remake rights to the movie Wings of Desire, which she was developing as a romantic comedy. At this time my brother was dying of AIDS, and based on his illness and my father’s death, I was a big advocate of the notion that life is short and we should live it to its fullest. I went to Dawn and said, “This movie should be a romantic tragedy, not a comedy. All the angel wants to do is experience life– taste, touch, love.

But with that, he also has to experience pain because that’s part of the beauty of life.”

Dawn resonated with this because she’d studied Buddhism. In Buddhist philosophy I went on to New York University as a drama the human soul only grows through pain student and studied at the Lee Strasberg or love. Dana Stevens wrote the screenplay Theatre Institute. I never felt good as an with two endings. In one Meg Ryan’s actor, so I started writing and directing. In character lives, in the other she dies. To say my senior year, I wrote a musical that I also what we really wanted to say in the movie, produced and directed. After I graduated we knew, as unpopular as it might be, that NYU, Anna Strasberg asked me to teach she had to die. We pitched it to Dawn acting in their youth program, a great and that became City of Angels. The irony opportunity. I liked the alternative musicals of it all is that, while we were making the and started writing these shows for the kids. movie, Dawn was diagnosed with a brain tumor and she died without ever seeing the Q. How did you make the jump to Los Angeles, to finished film. films?

Q.: And now your work is taking another D.S.: By the late 80s my wife, Susan, an turn—back to the future? actress, and I had lived in New York about 11 years. We decided, “Let’s never wonder I’ve gone back to doing more writing. ‘what if ’” and moved to LA. Our neighbor Two years ago I cowrote and produced a in LA ran a temp agency and sent us out on television pilot for Fox. Now I’m pitching a jobs. I got sent to Disney and other studios new show of my own and writing a prequel working as an assistant. to The Lion King for Disney. I see myself shifting away from producing and returning Q: And that’s how you met Dawn Steel? to the thing that was always the greater interest to me, the creative. It’s a tough D.S.: Right. Dawn was the first woman business, and having a sense of what people to run a major Hollywood film studio. I are looking for can be an asset. But in the began working with Dawn as a full time end, I have to write what I really want to assistant, although I’d told her I wanted to write and hope it finds its audience.

Allan Breed ’69

by Jan Dragin Allan Breed makes museum quality reproduction American 18th century furniture, using traditional tools and techniques. He is considered a national expert in the field, consults with museums, auctioneers and collectors, is widely published, lectures at museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Winterthur, and teaches others his craft from his Berwick, Maine studio and the Breed School.

Q.: Clearly a fine copy might be more attainable for more people than an original Brown piece. But what about the value of reproductions—even fine reproductions?

School, I’d gone to the University of New Hampshire as a history major and took courses in history, art, art history and architecture.

A.B.: They are a good investment for those who can’t afford originals but want the same quality craftsmanship and appearance of the original. It’s also a fairly common practice for those who have originals to commission a copy to be made if they sell the original.

Others may be collecting things that are hard to find, such as complete sets of chairs. A copy may be the only way to have a complete set.

In the summer of my freshman year, in 1973, I went to the MFA and asked if I could get a job working on furniture. I wanted to learn about restoration. Like museums usually do, they asked if I could volunteer. I worked that summer at the MFA and the following summer, at which point they paid me. I got to know a lot of the museum people and learned a lot about American furniture, but it was just me and their Italian cabinetmaker Vinnie working, and Vinnie taught me about traditional cabinetmaking as he’d learned it in Italy. I loved it.

A well-known family sold a lot of furniture at Sotheby’s recently. One tea table sold for $8 million. I’m making a copy of it for $10,000.

Most people won’t know the difference. It will last forever.

So you can either find an original for $8 million or get someone like me to make one for $10,000. A Ferarri that acts like a Ferrari for a 50th of the cost.

Allan Breed ’69 instructing a student at his school in Maine. Background image: detail of a bedpost carved by Breed. See his Web site at www.allanbreed.com. for more about the school and examples of his work.

Q.: We saw an article in the May 2002 “Maine Antique Digest” that described a custom copy you made of a Nicholas Brown secretary. Your piece sold for $40,000. How does that compare to the original?

A.B.: Well, the original Nicholas Brown piece is valued at $12.1 million.

Q.: Did you also take formal courses in furniture making?

A.B.: I taught myself. When you fix it, you take it apart. I’d have to make a leg or a drawer as a replacement on pieces.

You have to be really observant, look Q.: And the Breed woodworking school? How did you really closely, with a magnifying glass. You decide to teach others to make period furniture? have to let the piece tell you what to do The pieces themselves taught me how to A.B.: For years, I would lecture at a make things.After UNH, I started doing symposium or a Sotheby’s in New York and restoration. What I’d learned at the MFA teaching a couple times a year. But I decided also told me what the dealers needed. I I’d start teaching people how to make this got referrals. Dealers began coming to stuff. I started a school in my shop, teaching me. I was doing extensive restoration for classes of six to eight people at a time. I private clients and for museums by the time offer six classes on different period pieces, I was 20. with historical background and discussion on design and construction, then woodworking Q: Must be in the genes? experience in making the pieces, such as a Newport ogee-skirt tea table, a Massachusetts A.B.: My great uncle was a woodcarver Federal tall post bed, and carving in the from Sweden. He did a lot of restoration Newport style. work at places like the Old North Church.

When I was really small, Dad belonged Q.:Your work has been exhibited at galleries and is to Massachusetts Archeological Society. in the permanent collections of museums throughout He’d take me on digs. I had a little trowel.

New England. But your history with museums goes I’d sit and dig, pulling old stuff out of the back even further. ground. It was about what came before you. I just realized that fairly recently. I A.B.: When I was 19, I was the youngest chose to do what I love: I tell my kids, person to work in the restoration lab of the “Do what you really love and you’ll be Boston Museum of Fine Arts. After The good at it.”

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John P. Margolis ’75, AIA

by Jan Dragin John Margolis is an architect, interior and landscape designer, and exhibiting watercolor painter. He is a trustee at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, a member of the National Council on Architecture, and the Regional Cabinet at Washington University in St. Louis. He also believes it is important to leave a lasting legacy of some kind before departing this earth.

His experience at Pike instilled that idea and the notion that each individual has the capacity to make a difference in the world.

Q. Why did you go into architecture?

J.M.: Some go into architecture because they like to build, to create places that transcend mere function, or to leave legacies. But I think many architects also need to find ways to order their personal chaos. Some may even have learning disabilities and conquer them by ordering the environments around them. I was always a slow reader and gravitated towards things symmetrical and well balanced. This evolved into a recurring pattern in my architectural designs. In my firm we always consider the architecture, the interiors, and the garden design as a unity. We never conceive a building plopped on the ground and then just turn away.

Q.: When did you know you wanted to be an architect?

John Margolis ’75. Background image: detail of hall in Margolis-designed home. View more of his work at www.margolisinc.com

Q.: What guides you?

J.M.: I believe my architectural work strives for a certain kind of timelessness, creating a complete unity between the built-form and the landscape. I hope to create places offering a kind of tranquility—a refuge from the jagged edges of life. Some say that today we should subscribe to the chaos theory because it more accurately represents the way we actually live. I don’t follow that thinking. I believe that platonic forms are more inherently attractive and enduring as an architectural standard. It represents the kind of higher ideal to which we all aspire.

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J.M.: I’ve always had a sense of purpose.

Pike emphasized that. In Second Grade I knew I wanted to be an architect. I took all the equivalent courses at Pike such as art and drafting. In part, my father and mother planted that sense of purpose in me. She earned her Masters in history while raising a family. He was a popular humanities professor at Boston University and a . practicing artist. He’d teach Moby Dick on one day, art history another day, and music appreciation on another. He’d tie them all together in his infamous lectures that would wow people into an epiphany.

Q.: Your family was what you’ve described as turbulent—and profusely artistic.

J.M.: With my father a professor, our means were modest, but our house was full of music and art, artists, educators, and musicians. My three half-sisters are all involved in the arts or education. My halfbrother, Hal Curtis, also a graduate of Pike and an avid athlete, had his own brand of artistic talent.

Q.: Your architectural illustrations and watercolor landscapes that tend to be quite small compared to the scope of some of your architectural projects.

Had you ever painted in large format?

J.M.: My art teacher in Lower, Middle, and Upper Schools at Pike was Marietta Amy. Mrs. Amy saw my capabilities and suggested I participate in a project with other Pike students to paint a large mural at Lawrence General Hospital for a nursery.

I believe the mural is still there to this day.

After the hospital murals, Mr. Clark, our drama teacher, asked if I’d like to do the set design for Guys and Dolls. My architectural interest emerged as the painting assignment required that I cover large areas very quickly. There I learned about scale and the proper solution to fit the need.

I was always in a supporting role. I was never the one on stage. I wasn’t going to be the James Spader (my classmate for ten years at Pike) in Wind in the Willows, driving a little car down through the audience and bringing everyone to their feet because of his uncanny stage presence.

Q.: You designed your previous oceanfront home in Beverly Farms in that expansive, unified environmental vernacular—described by the Boston Globe as a villa.

J.M.: It was conceived as an entirely new house on a one-and-a-half acre property sited on the Atlantic. I had to make the home stand up to the surrounding estate properties. Traditional in design, it also had contemporary bones, but with 18th century Directoire influences. The entire composition inside and out was based on the Golden Section. I started at the ocean and built back, with lawn and gardens on three levels.

Q.: You’re renovating another house now. And you’ve moved your practice from Boston to Beverly Farms. How do you view your career: No longing for the top of the marquis?

J.M.: We’re at a time right now when a lot of architects are like celebrity chefs. I may never be that, but this seems to be the path I’ve chosen: being integral to the process without having to play the celebrity role. I want to continue leading my life towards an enduring legacy of creativity. The Pike School nurtured that in everyone who passed through her doors.

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What is The Pike School Board of Trustees? by

Gary Campbell ’69, Chair, The Pike School Board of Trustees

The Pike School has been in operation since 1926 and was incorporated in 1944.

Today, it maintains its status as a 501(c)(3) public charity that serves the general community. That status allows us to be exempt from corporate income tax; it also allows individuals to make charitable contributions to Pike and deduct them from their federal income taxes.

refine our strategic goals and make sure they remain aligned with our mission.

This is something that is done through the Board as a whole, although we have, in the past, created ad hoc strategic planning committees.

The second function is to ensure that the school has the fiscal resources available to achieve our strategic goals. The Board Even though some regulatory oversight of approves the yearly budget, which sets Pike comes from both the Andover School both tuition and expense increases for Board and the state of Massachusetts, the following years. This work is done ultimate responsibility rests with the Board first through the Finance Committee of of Trustees. The Board is analogous to the Board, and then specific proposals the Board of Directors of a for-profit are voted on by the Board as a whole. corporation, but instead of answering The Finance Committee also sets the to shareholders, our Board answers to investment policy for the school and makes the community at large via the Attorney recommendations on capital structure. An General’s office of Massachusetts. increasing percentage of income derives from fundraising, which is overseen by the The Board of Trustees has three major Development Committee. This committee functions. The first is to create the mission helps organize the Annual Fund, the Golf of the school and then craft a strategic plan Tournament, the Alumni Council, and any that ensures that the mission is fulfilled. major Capital Campaigns that the Board Our current strategic plan was written in approves. Board leadership is absolutely 2001, and even though we have achieved crucial to the success of any fundraising many of its objectives, there are still others initiative. The work of the Facilities that remain unrealized. Every year we Committee also comes into play here, since

it constantly assesses the need for physical plant improvements and recommends capital expenditures to the Board. Lastly, the Audit Committee of the Board engages the school’s auditors, ensuring that all applicable state and federal laws are obeyed regarding finances and that our financial statements reflect acceptable accounting practices.

The Board of Trustees also selects, supports, nurtures, evaluates, and sets compensation for the Head of School. This is a vitally important relationship, and the best schools exhibit a true partnership here. The Board is responsible for setting strategy, and the Head is in charge of operations. It is crucial that the Board respect this boundary. We can never attempt to micromanage, as it would undermine the Head and cause great dysfunction of the institution. The Committee on Trustees is responsible for this part of the Board’s work, also making sure that the Board evaluates itself, recruits and assimilates new trustees, and provides for the succession of new officers.

The Board also has an Executive Committee made up of the four officers and the Chair of the Committee on Trustees. This committee acts on behalf of the full Board between meetings and sets the agenda for upcoming meetings.

Finally, the Outreach Committee offers assistance on the school’s communications, admission, and marketing policies and makes sure they are consistent with the mission.

If any member of the Pike community has questions about how the Board functions, please do not hesitate to get in touch through the school.

The newest Pike Board members are, left to right: Larry Keene, Marcy Barker, Konse Skrivanos, and Andrew Chaban.

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1942

Margaret Howe Ewing ’42 wrote: “As we drove by Lawrence and Shawsheen this summer on 495, I wondered what has happened to Pike classmates i.e. Ann Weston, Alan Titcomb, Harry Dow, and others. Those were innocent and fun-loving days, and the school was the center of our lives. Weren’t we lucky?

’44 1944

Elizabeth Howard ’44 wrote: “I was in the first or second graduating 8th grade and still in the Insurance building in Shawsheen. My classmates were Nancy Eliad, Frank O’Reilly, and Salley McCartney, as I recall. I went to Miss Butler’s Kindergarten and all the way through the 8th grade. I loved the 75th anniversary book.

Burnham Riggs ’44 just turned 72 years. He says, “I can not believe it! Life today is so different than it was in those days at Pike so be sure you enjoy them all. Believe me, life is a fast mover...but be smart, articulate, kind, and be ready for all possibilties. I also think strongly that you all should join a military branch for 2 years.

It will be fun and enjoyment if you let yourself stay loose.

I feel strongly that stipulation should be part of your growth.

You may think that its not a meaningful activity, but it is and will be a very useful time spent.”

’51 1951

Timothy Horne ’51 recently returned from a family trip with daughters Tara ’76 and Tiffany ’96 who, along with other friends, spent a wonderful 10 days at a villa in Portofino, Italy, followed by a week-long

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private cruise to Croatia. He writes, “The beauty of Croatia, along with the Dalmatian Coast, is bound to attract many tourists in the future as the word spreads. It combines a rugged mountainous landscape with pristine medieval cities and villages, perfect weather, with the lovely Adriatic Sea all around. Our trip ended with a stay in Dubrovnik, a wonderful walled medieval city, and, I believe, the second largest city in Croatia.” Unfortunately, Tiffany ’96 had to cut her visit short in order to return to classes at Boston College where she is pursuing her Masters Degree in Social Work.” Nancy Eastham Iacobucci ’51 and her husband Frank retired from the Supreme Court of Canada, and moved back to Toronto (2004). She writes, “He is now working harder than ever —‘retirement’ is not a word he knows! He is with a large law firm and is also chair of a major newspaper publishing company, among other activities. But he does take time to enjoy our six grandchildren (age 8 months to almost 5 years) - they are the delight of our lives.”

1958

Mae Concemi Bradshaw ’58 went to Abbot and then Connecticut College “For Women” and then Suffolk Law School. She is an attorney licensed in MA, NH, ME, and FL. She concentrates her practice in estate planning, estate settlement and litigation, and small business. She writes, “I love what I do. I live at the Harbor in Rye.” Frank Hirsch ’58 retired from teaching after 40 years in Bedford, MA. Barrie Hogan Landry ’58 has been involved in an institute to build a girl’s leadership school in Rwanda. Before that she worked at an inner city school for girls. She has 3 grown children (2 girls and a boy) and 4 grandsons. She is still married to the boy next door, who also grew up in Andover.

Cool of Marblehead, the most luscious perennial garden in the universe. She writes, “Summer by the water, amidst the flowers, ferns, grasses, and what-have-you has been a dream.”

’60

1960

Marc Garnick ’60 is actively practicing medicine and teaching at Harvard Medical School and Beth Isreal Deaconess Medical Center. He is a professor of medicine at Harvard. He was recently named editor-in-chief of Harvard’s Perspectives on Prostate Diseases. He is married to Bubbi Kates Garnick and they have two sons, Alex and Nathaniel. Marc is on the trustee board of Bowdoin College and the University of Pennsylvania.

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1959

Adair Miller ’59 would be delighted to see old classmates for a cocktail reunion—low key—“before we all retire into the sunset.” He is still working full time in Manhattan for Citigroup, living an hour away.

Sharon Seeche Rich ’59 has created, with the help of Ellen

1963

Jean Haley Hogan ’63 earned her associate bachelor’s from Mount Holyoke and her M.A. in architectural preservation at Boston University. She is divorced with 3 children in college. She is the owner of Jean Hogan Interiors. Jean is active at the Concord Museum where she is currently president of the board.

Tara ’76, Tiffany ’96, and Tim Horne ’51 enjoying an evening at the world-famous Hotel Spendido located on a hillside in Portofino.

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1966

Guy Randlett ’66 writes, “I always remember the best teacher I ever had—Mrs. Hornidge...not to mention Mrs. Somers, Mr. King, and Mrs. Dunbar—all great, too. In spite of their best efforts, I’ve raised a family of lobstering and guiding hunters! www. mainetrophymoose.com.

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John Petralito ’67 presently resides in Ocala, FL with his wife Ellen. Theye are parents of 4 children and 3 grandchildren.

He is the owner of a small business in Ocala, FL, and his wife is a nurse with the local hospice organization there.

has 2 daughters at Pike. He writes, “I have seen quite a few Pike alums over the years– usually on playing fields of secondary schools. All the best.”

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1970

Leslie Stecker Dumont ’70 is living in North Andover with her husband Bill and two daughters, not far from where she grew up in Boxford. Her daughters Sarah and Emily are at Pike. She writes, “They love the school as I did.” Bill works for Remax Partners in Andover, and she is a senior project manager for a company in Salem N.H. She writes, “Hi to all. Come back and visit!”

Martha Rogers Gurry ’68 is married to Kevin Gurry and has two children–Abigail is a senior at Holy Cross and Jay is a freshman at the U.S. Naval Academy. Both graduated from Brooks School. They are members at the North Andover Country Club in North Andover, MA, the Abenaqui Country Club in Rye, NH, and the Ocean Reel Club in Key Largo, FL. She writes, “I love to play golf!!”

’69 1969

Christopher Andrews ’69 writes in September, “Liz and I are headed to Italy for two weeks. My first time there, and I’m really looking forward to it.” Raymond Stecker ’69 runs a wealth management firm, Boston Research & Management in Manchesterby-the-Sea, MA. He has 2 daughters, Kelly (a sophomore at Harvard) and Hadley (a sophomore at Middlesex) and a wife named Candy. His sister Leslie Dumont ’70 currently

enrolled in the Midwestern Talent Search program at Northwestern University. Kevin and his wife are hoping they will have a genius NFL football player on their hands!! He writes, “I fondly tell him of my days at Pike and how much fun Pike was. I remember a teacher by the name of Mr. Palmer. We learned a lot and played a lot (basketball in the pit was always fun).”

’77 ’78 1977

Kevin O’Meara ’77 spent 9.5 years in the US Army and over 12 years with Schneider National (largest logistics and truckload firm in North America). He recently accepted a new position with the Whirlpool Corporation. At 1975 Whirlpool, he is the director Jill Kwass ’75 writes, “Great of supply chain operations logo!” for North America and is responsible for ensuring all 1976 those beautiful Kitchenaid and John Donahue ’76 went to Whirlpool appliances get to Austin Prep, Bridgton Academy, your home on time and damage and U. Maine, Orono. He is free! He has over 600 people married and living in Lowell who report into his organization with his wife, Wendy, and 5 and is traveling quite a bit. children...two sets of twins...

He recently returned from a Dan and Liam (7), Brendan and great trip to Hong Kong and Katherine (13) and Jonathan China where he was working (16). He writes, “Did I say I was with suppliers to one of their quite busy?” He is a senior VP divisions. He writes, “It is an at Hilb Rogal & Hobbs, the 7th amazing event to see that part largest insurance intermediary in of the world go through the the country. He has worked at modernization transformation HRH for the past 21 years with in a very short time.” His responsibilities for commercial family (wife Barbara and son account development. Jodi Kyle) recently located to Saint Ristuccia Kemos ’76 lives in Joseph, MI, which is a great Dracut, MA, with her husband small town right on the eastern and three children. She has shores of Lake Michigan. They a daughter who is a junior at are ninety minutes north of Bishop Guertin High School Chicago, which provides great and a son, Jimmy, in 8th grade access to one of America’s and another son, Zakary, in most active and exciting cities.

6th grade—both at a catholic His son, Kyle, is now 13 (the school. Kathleen LeMaitre age Kevin was when he was at ’76 writes, “I love not straying Pike) and loves football. He also far from Pike, as I live just 40 took his SATs this year and is

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minutes away and my parents still live in the same house on Sunset Rock—still bring my kids to Pike to run around the fields and playgrounds!” She sees Amy Burns ’77 a lot and they have plans to meet up with Lynn McKusick ’76, whom they haven’t seen for 30 years.

She writes, “Are we really that old?!”

1978

George LeMaitre ’78 is working in Burlington, MA, at his dad’s medical device company, LeMaitre Vascular. Keith Rauseo ’78 is director of operations at Entegrity Solutions Corp., Nashua, NH; member of Tewksbury School Committee (current chair); chair, Tewksbury Scholarship and Education Fund Committees; member, Tewksbury Historical Commission; and director, Tewksbury Historical Society. He and his wife, Maura, have 3 sons: Jefferson (13), Matthew (12), and Benjamin (9).

’80 ’81 1980

Bradley Winer ’80 is married with 2 kids and is living in Charlotte, NC. They bought a house on Cape Cod and spend their summers up there.

1981

David Kagan ’81 and his wife, Gatey, are new parents. Kipley Chase Kagan was born on June 1, 2006. The photo (next page) shows Kipley at two weeks old with her bunk mate, Gus Kagan, age 10.

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Notes with Pike friends over the last year. She saw Pete Longo ’87 at the gym. It was 6 am! He is doing well. She hopes all her Pike friends are well. She reconnected with Amy Elefante ’86 who is living in NYC. She writes, “I need to make a trip there to her, too! Hugs!”

Kipley Chase Kagan, daughter of David Kagan ’81, at two weeks old with her bunk mate Gus Kagan, age 10

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1988

’82 ’86 ’83 ’85 ’87 ’84 1982

Shelley Sim Sim-Herold ’82 is a senior V.P. officer institutional equity at A.G. Edwards.

1983

David Sullivan ’83 sees George McCarthy ’82 and Chris Twomey ’93 often. He has friends in common with his old teacher and JV basketball coach, Kent Damon, and sees him a few times a year. Nicole Grieco Butterfield ’82 and David had a long talk at a 25th Andover Reunion.

1984

Kurt Ehrig ’84 was married in August of 2004 to Kristina Castelli. They are still happily married, have bought a house on Long Island in New York, and have a happy and healthy 6-month-old son, Alessandro.

He is still working in finance at Merrill Lynch as a financial advisor in Rockefeller Center.

He writes, “212-382-8592 if anyone wants to catch up!”

Daniel Gordon ’84 just got married 9/9/2006! Paula McCarthy Haas ’84 and her husband, Greg, live in West Newbury. They have 3

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daughters, Kate (5), Ally (3) and newest addition Emily, who was born September 8, 2006.

1986

Ashley MacVaugh ’86 has continued her equestrian career placing 5th at the Pan American Games in 3-day eventing, 1985 and placing 20th at the Rolex Kendell Longo Quarles ’85 Kentucky 4-Star event. She is works as the director of public running a teaching, training, health for the town of Boxford and sales business in South and was recently married in June Hamilton, MA. 2006. She has two stepchildren, Tanja (14) and Jacob (9).

1987 Monica Mullick Stallings Kristin Tomaselli ’87 is doing ’85 writes, “Friendships that well. She enjoyed reconnecting begin at Pike run deep. Just last weekend my nursery school pal Andi Gardner Fern ’85 and her family spent the afternoon at our home in PA. It was heartwarming to see our children play together as we once did.” She is currently a fifth year doctoral student at Wharton Buisness School and her husband, Scott, is a first year MBA. They look forward to graduating together in 2008 with their children in tow: William (3) and Amelia (1.5)

A visual greeting from artist Lisa Demeri ’81

Naima Amirian AmirianWhite ’88 got her DVM from Oklahoma State in 1999 and undergrad in equine science from Colorado State University. She practices vet medicine in NC and serves as regional public health trainer for USDA. She lives with husband Nick on a farm with 10 horses, 6 dogs, and 1 cat. Kier Byrnes ’88 and his band, Three Day Threshold, was invited to record at Camp Street Studios, formerly known as Fort Apache Studios, where Radiohead, Hole, The Pixies, and Uncle Tupelo record. Look for a CD out this fall (more info at www.myspace. com/threedaythreshold). Closer to home, he just saw Nick LaPierre ’88 and is trying to recruit him

to get in and play drums on occasion.

Three generations of the McDonald family have strong ties to Pike. Miriam McDonald, second from left, is a former Pike trustee and the mother of Shaunielle McDonald ’90, far left, and Raegan McDonald-Mosley ’92, here with her husband, Damian Mosley, and their five-month-old son. In front, is Shaunielle’s daughter, Naimah ’16.

’89 1989

Katie Baldwin ’89 is currently living and working in York, Maine and would love to hear from some Pike friends! She writes, “Susan Sullivan ’89 I’m not too far away!” Katieb@ maine.rr.com Martha Previte Previte-Botten ’89 is living in San Diego with her husband and their dog Indy. She is a staff attorney with the San Diego Superior Court and her husband is an archeologist at the Scripps Research Institute.

’90 ’91 1990

In May 2005, Tyler Leeds ’90 and his wife and celebrated the birth of their son, Cameron. He is currently working for Fidelity Investments in Merrimack, NH and residing in Derry, NH. He hopes all is well with the class of 1989. Shaunielle McDonald ’90 is doing well and is working with her mother in the RE business locally. Her daughter, Naimah, is in her second year at Pike- WOW. She is loving Kindergarten.

Shaunielle is still very involved with music and singing. She is currently directing 2 choirs, including Brooks School Gospel Choir and performing as much as possible. She writes, “It’s great to be back at Pikealbeit differently as a parent. I’d love to hear from classmates who are local.” Sisters Raegan ’92 and Tiffany ’89 are doing well. Tiff and her husband Jamal reside in Atlanta. Raegan and her husband Damian live in Harlem, NY and have a 5 month old son- future Pike class of ??

1991

and a certificate program in international law at the London School of Economics. Travis is playing rugby and competing in trial advocacy competitions.

Lorraine Montopoli Caiazzo ’94 married her husband, Matthew Caiazzo, on 9/25/2004. Their first baby is due on 10/12/2006 (it’s a boy)! She is working as a software developer in Burlington, VT. In May 2006, Matthew Clark ’94 and his fellow ’94 classmate Ben Brown graduated from Tufts Dental 1992 Anthony Correnti ’92 is living School in Boston. Ben will be doing public health dentistry in Long Island, NY with his in Oregon, and Matt will be at wife, Noel. He is doing his a residency program for one last year of ophthalmology residency and currently pursuing year at UMASS in Worcester.

Heather Kellett ’94 is back in a fellowship, hopefully back in the U.S. after spending six years the Boston area. in Frankfurt and Amsterdam.

She is working with KPMG 1993 Transaction Services in NYC Allison Lowrie Sowers and lives near Vanessa Buia ’94 ’93 is living and working in in Chelsea and sees her often.

Chicago. She was recently She looks forward to meeting elected class president at the up with other Pike grads in 10th year reunion at Exeter.

NYC! Travis Jacobs ’93 is attending his final year of law school. He did an internship at the U.S. Mission to the EU this summer Marcel Faulring ’91 and his wife Megan were married in Dec. 2004. They reside in Salisbury, MD. He graduated from the University of North Dakota in 1997 with a B.S. in Aeronautics. He is currently a Captain at Piedmont Airlines (US Airways Express). He writes, “Please keep in touch!”

Courtney Peck Kenaley ’91 is working at a 24hr. emergency veterinary hospital.

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’94

1994

Vanessa Buia ’94 writes, “Things are great here. BUIA Galleries is entering into its 4th season and everything is going strong and developing beautifully. Otherwise, I’m enjoying a fantastic start of fall in NYC.” Gina Finocchiaro ’94 is now an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and serving as the associate pastor of a congregation in Madison, CT where she focuses her ministering to youth, families and children - with lots of other pastoral duties mixed in! She writes, “Always got me busy!”

’95 ’96

1995

Weston Lowrie ’95 is in the Graduate School of Aeronautics/ Astronautics at the University of Washington in Seattle.

1996

Erin Fitzpatrick ’96 graduated from Phillips Andover 1999, Boston College 2003 and George Washington University 2005 with an M.A. in International Relations.

Lisa Kletjian ’96 has been living in NYC for 3 years and working in the tv/film industry. She is currently a video editor with the The Quill

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History Channel, in addition to being an independent curator for avant-garde film screenings.

Christina O’Neill ’96 has had a busy past year! She has been working as a consultant for Keane in Boston while pursuing her global MBA at Suffolk. She has also recently gotten engaged and is planning to wed in September 2008. Gillian Parr ’96 Recently moved with her fiance Johan Bjarneman from Toronto to Luzern, Switzerland where they are making the most of the beautiful Alps. After a year of Tsunami Rehabilitation work at a non-profit in South India, Shalini Umapathy ’96 has returned to the U.S. to start the MBA program at University of Chicago and is excited to reconnect with old friends.

’98 is working as an in-house cinematographer at NBC where he shoots film and video for NBC’s on-air promos.

1999

Ariel Axelrod-Hahn ’99 just graduated from Wellesley College with a B.A. in Russian area studies and is currently in a post-bac program at The University of the Arts studying ceramics. She writes, “No spouse. No children, although my family did recently acquire a new cat. I will possibly be returning to the Boston area next year. Don’t ask for money.

Do feel free to call me if you are in the Philly Center City area.” Arlen Galloway ’99 is in his first year as an assistant basketball coach at Washington College. He graduated from 1997 Kenyon College with a B.A. Matthew Sullivan ’97 is a in political science. While at Navy Lieutenant stationed in Kenyon, he was a Merit List Mayport, FL. Scholar. During the summers, he spent two of them working 1998 as a basketball coach and Elizabeth Edmonds ’98 has counselor for Sportszone taken a job as a futurist at Faith Basketball Camps in Derry, Popcorn’s Brain Reserve (a NH, and two as a program marketing and public relations director for New England firm) in New York City. She Frontier Camp in Lovell, ME. recently ran into Luke LaSaffre Sasha Parr ’99 just graduated ’98 at a party and in July had from the University of dinner with Sara Lentini ’98 Richmond in ’06 in French/ who is studying intellectual International Studies/Russian property law. She writes, All and moved to Arlington, VA, the best, E.E.” Sarah Wilkens to work. Jarrett Wetherell ’99 ’98 was graduated in 2002 was graduated from Phillips from Concord Academy. She Academy in June 2002 and from was graduated magna cum the University of Pennsylvania laude from Regis in ’06 and in May 2006. William Waters is now a full-time student at ’99 graduated from Bowdoin Suffolk Law School. During in May. After a summer-long her junior year at Regis, job hunt, he ended up at Kent she attended the American School teaching US History and University in Washington, DC, coaching. “Sounds familiar I and interned for Congressman bet...,” he writes.

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2000

Laura Denison ’00 is studying abroad at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic.

Zoe Lantelme ’00 is currently enrolled at Scripps College in CA. She takes half her classes there and the other half at Pomona. She writes, “I love it here - the sun, water and hot dry weather is where I like to be!” She is majoring in Women’s Gender Studies and Film and will be studying abroad in New Zealand come Spring.

2001

Bethany Gostanian ’01 is currently a junior at Trinity College in Hartford, CT, and majoring in the classics. She is spending the fall semester in Athens, Greece, at Arcadia University’s Center for Hellenic Studies and Research. Allison LeSaffre ’01 is a junior at New York University dancing Broadway dance NYC. She is working as a teacher assistant in the NY public schools and majoring in communications/ broadcasting. She is having the time of her life in the city. Julia Wetherell ’01 was graduated from Loomis Chaffee School in 2004 and is now a junior at Georgetown University McDonough School of Business. Rachel Shack ’01 is a junior at Duke University, member of the women’s lacrosse team, and selected as a Baldwin Scholar. She spent the summer in Washington, DC, completing an internship at Octagon Worldwide, a sports marketing and entertainment agency.

Amy Campbell ’03

2002

Melanie Kress ’02 is currently a sophomore at Barnard College in New York City. She is studying art history, mathematics, and sculpture and is doing an internship with a fashion house.

She is the assistant director at Columbia’s fashion show, continuing a job she had done at Phillips Andover.

2003

Colin Calabrese ’03 is at Cornell University’s College of Engineering. He may major in chemical engineering. Amy Campbell ’03 is currently a freshman at Colby College playing field hockey and lacrosse. Sara Snyder ’03 was graduated from Noble & Greenough School and is now at Stanford University, class of 2010. Emilie Lantelme ’03 graduated this past May with honors from Lawrence Academy.

She is currently attending University of Denver. She is looking forward to the skiing and hockey season there. She saw Todd Eudaily ’03 the other day - he too is at DU. David Shack ’03 is in his first year at U Richmond Honors Law Program.

He is enjoying all aspects of college life. David graduated from GDA in 2006 and was elected to Cum Laude Society, recipient of AP Scholar Award, and GDA Animation Award.

’04 2004

Andrew Lowrie ’04 just completed his junior year at Brewster Academy. While there, he continues to be magna cum laude, taking AP History. This year he is taking AP Physics and AP Calculus. He is on the sailing team in the fall, lacrosse in the spring, and snowboarding in the winter. Susannah Poland ’04 is a senior at Phillips Academy.

She is pursuing human bio/ neurology, philosophy/the study of religion, and music.

She spent a month with family friends in France this summer and hopes to have a few more serious adventures of the like before heading off to college.

Anna O’Neal ’05 is starting sophmore year at the Governor’s Academy and loves it! She made select chorus and over the summer traveled to Iceland with ten friends. She is playing soccer and will be doing a musical in the winter. She writes, “Come and see me!”

’06

2006

For 5 weeks in the summer, Scott Dzialo ’06 was an exchange student in China. He lived with a host family in Beijing. For the first four weeks, he studied Chinese, and the last week he traveled around the south of China. It was the best trip he has ever taken. Audrey Wilson ’06 is still 2005 attending Pingree. She misses James Campbell ’05 is talking to everyone from Pike, currently a junior at Brooks but not too much has happened School. Lydia Dallett ’05 had a with her life. She writes, “And, I fabulous summer volunteering like the new logo, but I miss the at a soccer camp in Dorchester. ‘fighting quills!!’” Jamie Aponas She learned some great dance ’06 is in her sophmore year at moves. Now she is finally back Lawrence Academy in Groton. at Phillips for what she thinks She is having a lot of fun and is going to be an exciting year. learning a lot. She is playing JV Especially because she just made soccer and enjoying the season. varsity soccer!! Oh yes, and she She writes, “I’m missing Pike and and her friend are pulling a team all my friends there. I can’t wait together for a diabetes walk on for the Thanksgiving concert Oct. 15th through Six Flags. reunion at Pike!” Alina Pechacek Kevin Kress ’05 is enjoying ’06 says hello to everyone. This the “small school in the big year she transferred to Phillips outdoors.” He is enjoying cross Academy Andover as a new 10th country and downhill, mountain grader. School is going really well, biking, and trail maintenance. and she is enjoying it. Alina is He is studying wilderness first playing JV1 Field Hockey this fall responder and orienteering. He and hopes to try squash in the is looking forward to skiing 5 winter. days a week and an avalanche forecasting trip to Jackson, WY. 2007 Max LeSaffre ’05 is a junior Shane Bouchard ’07 writes, “P.A. at Governor’s Academy. He is is great! Just started classes a few enjoying high school and all weeks ago, and they are really that it has to offer. He is playing fun! I had a good summer too.” basketball and golfing with his He went on an Outward Bound classmates. He writes, “Looking course out of Boston Harbor forward to the college hunt.” and on a church mission trip to Middlebury, VT, both of which

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were great experiences. He is in the orchestra at P.A. and is continuing with the speech team with Mr. Hutch. He is also rowing in crew this fall—really fun! He writes, “Overall, life is good and I can’t wait for the first Pike reunion! See you then!” Cameron Brien ’07 is studying at Tabor, working on the crew of the Tabor Boy schooner and sailing on Buzzard’s Bay. Alice Grant ’07 writes, “Things are great here at Brooks, I love it! Classes are fine. Sports are good too, I’m playing varsity soccer with Marina Moschitto ’07. We’re the only freshmen. Can’t wait ‘til revisit day!” Naomi Smith ’07 is at Brooks right now and loves it! She writes, “It’s definitely the right place for me. What’s funny for me about the new Pike logo is after 10 years I was at Pike, the year after I graduated they changed the colors. And Brooks colors are also green and white so green and white will be my school colors for 14 years in a row.” Jacob Shack ’07 is now a freshman at Phillips Academy and very involved in the music program. He is participating in the PA Symphony Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra.

He is also teaching Lawrence middle school students to play violin. Jacob is a member of the New England Conservatory’s Youth Philharmonic Orchestra and is going on a tour with this group to China in June.

Coming Soon to a Screen near You

The Pike School’s new Web site is in the making and will be launched early in 2007.

In it you will find information about the school, its denizens, and its happenings kept current to an unprecedented degree.

It will be useful, informative, and entertaining.

It will make you proud to be a member of the Pike community.

It will be a most rare and welcome site.

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