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To RSVP for these events, please contact Deb Thurston at dthurston@pomfretschool.org or 860.963.6129

Pomfret’s 2015 Schwartz Visiting Fellow

PLAYWRIGHT CHERYL L. WEST Sunday, January 25, 2015, 4:00 PM

Hard Auditorium, Reception to follow presentation in the Main House RSVP: Director of Marketing and Communications Michelle Hovestadt mhovestadt@pomfretschool.org, 860.963.5951 The 2015 Schwartz Visiting Fellow is award-winning playwright Cheryl L. West. The prolific, Chicago-born West is the author of numerous plays, among them Before it Hits Home (1990), Holiday Heart (1994), Jar the Floor (1994), and Pullman Porter Blues (2012).

Her awards include two “outstanding” nods for Before it Hits Home; NAACP Best Play for Jar the Floor; and the Playwrighting Award from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1995-96. Her list of work also includes television and film screenplays and adaptations.

Pomfret students will also be presenting scenes from her play, Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy.

Background Photo By: Thomas Wheatley ’15

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Why POMFRET?

By Head of School Tim Richards P ’15

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Preparing Students for the Unknown Learning to Solve the World’s Dilemmas For Reasons Old and New, the Library is “the Place to Be” New Faculty is an Experienced, Eclectic Group

DISTINCTIVE BOARDING SCHOOL EXPERIENCE

16 Lessons Learned While Helping Others

398 Pomfret Street • PO Box 128 Pomfret, CT 06258-0128 860-963-6100 www.pomfretschool.org

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Athletics 24 Alumni/ae Athletes in Action 25 Five Senior Griffins Sign National Letters of Intent 25 Gridiron Pointers from a Super Bowl Veteran

Bruce Bannon, former Linebacker for the Miami Dolphins, Visits the Hilltop 26 Preseason Venue in Barcelona for Soccer Hopefuls 28 Fall 2014 Varsity Athletics Team Photos MEASUREMENT OF ACHIEVEMENT

30 Alumni/ae of Color & VOICE Reunion Fifty Years of “Blazing a Path”

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Generosity In Action 34 What Inspires Giving?

Donor Profiles of Four Committed Young Alumni/ae

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Class Notes 51 Faculty/Staff News 52 Marriages 52 Births 54 Obituaries

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Community service can be life-altering, on both ends of the outreach pendulum 18 State of Mind, Way of Life

20 Fall Theatre: Almost, Maine 21 Fall Dance Performance 22 P.S.ART Gallery

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Gatherings

Michelle Hovestadt mhovestadt@pomfretschool.org

Head Writer Betsy Walker P ’13

Contributing Writers Tim Richards P ’15 Jamie Feild Baker Chip Lamb, P ’09, ’11

Class Notes & Gatherings Editor Deb Thurston dthurston@pomfretschool.org

Contributing Photographers Robin Cook Lindsay Lehmann Deb Thurston Betsy Walker P ’13 Photos by current students are credited by photo.

Designer Jordan Kempain Pomfret Magazine is published by Pomfret’s Marketing and Communications Office © 2014 We welcome letters from readers on subjects related to the School. We also welcome letters to the editor and suggestions for future articles. Submissions may be edited or shortened for publication. Please email submissions to: mhovestadt@pomfretschool.org.

Pomfret School does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, handicap, gender, sexual orientation, age, or national origin in the administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, financial aid, or other programs administered by the School.

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Why POMFRET?

By Head of School Tim Richards P ’15

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hy Pomfret? I am frequently asked this question by prospective parents who want to know why they should send their children to this School, rather than any number of other good schools. What is the value-added in a Pomfret education? There are a host of valid answers to this important question; I invariably respond by referencing the quality of the faculty, the learning experiences, and the terrific student body. It has also become a given for me to mention the power of the Pomfret community in shaping the whole child.

A woodcarving of the African proverb “It takes a village to raise a child” graces a bookcase in my office, a formidable link to one of my predecessors who saw its relevance to who we are as a school. I keep it there as a reminder of the value of community. When Anne and I first came to campus, we were overwhelmed by the pervasive kindness and generosity of spirit we encountered during our first visits to the School, and nearly four years into our tenure at Pomfret, this feeling persists. I have, however, learned from experience not to take it for granted.

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I witness the power of this community when we come together formally during the week to sit in Chapel, take meals together, and gather for School Meeting. I observe it in many of our traditions: the Sundial Ceremony, Mashamoquet Day, Form Olympics, the Halloween Pageant, Powder Puff, Lessons & Carols, Relay Rejuvenation, and Moving Up, to name a few. On a more micro level, I see it every day in the classroom, in advisory, on the playing fields and courts, in clubs and activities, and at dramatic performances. We purposefully script meaningful interactions with our students into the fabric of what we do, and so it is no surprise that I continue to hear the familiar refrain about the centrality of community at Pomfret. Yet the longer I spend at this School, the more clearly I understand and appreciate that while we plan so much of what we do, it is in the seams of our daily lives, in those moments we don’t plan, the core of our Pomfret experience becomes most abundantly clear. It is here that we deliver so much of the value-added.

I know that there are other fine schools that “do” community well.

That said, I struggle sometimes to articulate how the unusually strong sense of community at Pomfret is truly different. What is it?

Is it geography—are we close because we are bound to each other as a function of our relative isolation? Is it tradition—does this all happen as a result of the design of our curricula and programs,

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and the meaning we seek to bring to it all? Or is it simply in the DNA of the School to be this way—does the emphasis on community make us a better school? I suspect the answer lies in a combination of these factors, and likely many more. And yet— dare I say it—Pomfret is not perfect. Despite our efforts, this sense of community is fragile, and can be fleeting. Indeed, this deep and abiding communal spirit that is so elemental to those who know Pomfret was put to the test this fall. Some of these trials were self-imposed; others were events over which we had no control.

However they manifested themselves, these struggles were real, unwelcome, impactful, and unforeseen.

Malcolm Gladwell once said, “Adversity is the best teacher”; our own experience suggests that he was right. Adversity showed itself early on in the school year when a handful of students displayed great insensitivity to members of our community, precipitating a bit of an identity crisis. Was this what we looked like? This was not the Pomfret School we have come to expect, know, and love, nor the Pomfret that we celebrate at every exuberant turn.

Yet what is at the core prevailed. It became clear that the majority of the student body was feeling the same deep disappointment as the adults—and we watched as our student leaders stepped up to address the issue. In one of the most powerful moments I

have witnessed at a boarding school in thirty years, they staged a “take back our community” School Meeting. Students publically condemned the troubling behaviors of their insensitive peers, and took action to demonstrate the power of a communal voice. It brought to mind Henrik Ibsen’s line from his 1882 play, An Enemy of the People: “A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.” And take the helm these young people did, and the healing of a wounded community began. This early and defining moment of the school year was not one that we saw coming, not one we planned for, yet it was Pomfret at its best.

Just three weeks later our community was again rocked, this time by a tragedy, as we lost a beloved senior to a car accident while he was home on Fall Family Weekend. The loss of one of our own was a debilitating blow, but out of this unwelcome and clearly unanticipated tragedy something powerful and positive emerged.

As we began the process of mourning, as we struggled to come to grips with the passing of a popular and respected student athlete, we found that we could find comfort, love, and strength in each other. With this tragedy, a clarity of perspective returned to the community as we took time to be with each other, to discuss what it really means to be a part of this community, and to cherish the time that we have together. Since the heartbreaking loss of this student, I have seen a return to the shared fundamentals of community that so inspired and attracted Anne and me to Pomfret in the first place. For the second time in a month, I witnessed our School being defined by community, again in a way that we could not have planned. Why Pomfret? This is why.

Any comprehensive list of essential character traits that will serve our students well as they enter college and the world beyond would include “integrity,” “empathy,” and “resilience.” These indispensable aspects of a healthy and contributing member of society are central to the Vision of the Pomfret Graduate that we developed as part of our Strategic Plan. But they are neither instinctual nor automatic; they are the consequence of a community effort to nurture, encourage, and reinforce them in all of our students. These traits, invaluable to the individual, proved essential to our community as we worked to find our way this fall. I was reminded that while we can be as intentional as possible in designing learning opportunities, the most powerful learning experiences that occur in a school community often happen spontaneously in the context of living, working, laughing, and struggling together. It took a collective sense of empathy and integrity to face the challenges we did this fall, and together

was reminded that while we can be “asIintentional as possible in designing learning opportunities, the most powerful learning experiences that occur in a school community often happen spontaneously in the context of living, working, laughing, and struggling together.

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those skills helped us find the resilience we needed to build our community back up.

It is in those unscripted seams of our community where much of the most profound and meaningful growth occurs: an informal conversation between classes about the ills of social media; a spontaneous 10:00 PM dorm cookout; an impromptu trip to Target; a tearful conversation about the shortness of life after a service of remembrance. The value-added of a Pomfret education exists in those moments that are not planned, and even, as we have learned this fall, in lessons we would never want to plan. No school leader would have scripted the events we experienced this fall, but I would imagine that every school leader would hope to witness the powerful coming together and growth that our community experienced as a result of these unfortunate, even tragic curveballs that life threw at us.

As an educator I have an almost endless supply of optimism when it comes to our students. As a school leader, I maintain that same sense of hopefulness for the community I am privileged to serve.

We will surely be confronted with more obstacles and setbacks as the year continues, but as we navigate these unchartered waters, I will be more confident than ever that I know what makes the Pomfret School community so distinctively different. And more than ever before, I will be able to answer that pressing question, “Why Pomfret?”

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Preparing Students for the Unknown

By Jamie Feild Baker, Founding Director, Grauer Institute

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he Grauer Family Institute for Excellence and Innovation in Education is charged with leading the Pomfret community in addressing issues and advances in teaching and learning that are born of the fundamental paradigm shift of the world evolving from an industrial society to an information society. What and how we teach must change to prepare students intellectually, socially and emotionally for a technology-driven, information-saturated, interdependent world. We are preparing students for futures that are unknown to us today.

We are living in a world of radical change that comes at us at a rapid pace. Knowledge is being created at truly unprecedented rates. In creating the Knowledge Doubling Curve in the 1980s,

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polymath Buckminster Fuller calculated that until 1900 human knowledge doubled approximately every century. By the end of World War II, knowledge was doubling every 25 years. Today different types of knowledge have different rates of growth but, on average, human knowledge is doubling every 13 months.

According to an IBM study titled The Toxic Terabyte, in the near future the evolution of the internet and smart devices will lead to the doubling of knowledge every 12 hours. The unfathomable amounts of information, data, and knowledge that come at us so fast challenges, changes, and at times, even undermines our competencies and abilities. It absolutely demands rethinking the traditional way we have done school.

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What and how we teach must change to prepare students intellectually, socially and emotionally for a technology-driven, informationsaturated, interdependent world. We are preparing students for futures that are unknown to us today.

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The fast creation and re-framing of knowledge has created an “update society” where apps are redeveloped overnight, textbooks are out of date before they are published, and our understanding of the world and its systems is constantly evolving. According to Richard Foster at the Yale School of Management, by 2020, 75% of companies on the S&P 500 index will be those we didn’t know about in 2013 because they were just an idea in conceptual or embryonic form. Schools must prepare students for jobs, even whole industries, that have not yet been invented.

Carrying a lot of information in one’s head is no longer the coin of the realm as we carry in our purses and pockets powerful computers that give us access to information and knowledge in almost real time. How one validates, synthesizes, makes connections, applies, remixes, and expands knowledge in a collaborative setting represents the distinctive skills that are most necessary and most valued when content knowledge is, without a doubt, essential but no longer efficient.

The increasing rate of societal change, knowledge creation, technological advancement, global volatility, and ambiguous conflict continually reminds us that the future for which we are preparing Pomfret students today is largely undiscovered and unknown. Thriving in the unknown future requires us to develop students who have deep abilities to learn continuously, adapt, discern, think critically, creatively, collaborate effectively, communicate across multiple media channels, and work toward

solving ill-defined problems. We must engender in our students curiosity, habits of mind, drive, and the ability to learn continuously so they are perpetually current and competitive.

How can Pomfret students best master the types of problemsolving, leadership, understanding, and cooperation that they will need to succeed? Experience is the best teacher. For deep learning we must create opportunities and environments that are more like sandboxes or practice fields where students learn to collaborate and apply by doing, observing, gathering feedback, iterating.

Deep learning uses content to discover and create knowledge and insights by actually delving deeply into and working through meaningful problems and issues. Deep learning includes doing real work for real audiences. Deep learning moves from abstract retention to concrete, demonstrative output and expression. What doesn’t change is that learning occurs in the supportive, caring Pomfret community where relationships are valued and true. The relationship between the teacher and student propels learning. The relationships between students are fulfilling and enrich learning.

We all have much to “learn, unlearn, and relearn.”

Part of what I bring to Pomfret is well-cultivated knowledge of deep, experience-based learning and its benefits. Over the last three years, I have worked closely with John Hunter, inventor of the World Peace Game and one of a few teachers who enjoys “rock star” status in education circles. We have worked with hundreds of teachers from a myriad of independent schools to help them design and implement more relevant, deep, engaging, and intellectuallydemanding learning for students. This requires that we all unlearn traditional ways. I am lucky to have such a close friend and colleague in John. I was happy to host his visit to Pomfret this fall and appreciate his agreeing to serve on the advisory board of the Institute. I look forward to regularly sharing the thinking, work, and influence of the Grauer Institute as our work progresses.

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(l-r): Sophia Clarke ’15, Daniel Chung ’15, Ross Ackeif i ’15, Jamie Feild Baker, John Hunter, Gabriella (Gaby) Araya ’15, David Altman ‘16

Learning to Solve the World’s Dilemmas

By Jamie Feild Baker, Founding Director, Grauer Institute

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ohn Hunter’s World Peace Game offers a dynamic, exciting, meaningful learning space that challenges students to generate and play out solutions for the world’s dilemmas. A Virginia-based, elementary school teacher known nationwide as an educator-activist, John Hunter is motivated by the belief that experience is the best teacher. “Too often in school we seek to pre-load students with all the knowledge that they might ever need, filling them full of content with no practice field for exploring the application and interesting combinations of sequencing and leveraging that knowledge. We fall short in creating opportunities for students to apprentice themselves to the real world,” Hunter explains.

The World Peace Game is a multi-dimensional matrix made of four tiers of plexiglass and contains a world ecosystem riddled with a host of situations and issues in flux and urgent. Game play is combined with readings from Sun Tzu’s The Art of War. Hunter’s fourth-grade students can understand and use this text to look beyond the paths to power and destruction, beyond the path to war, yet sometimes, through war as the path to peace. “I have found the game to be a vehicle not only for stimulating higher level critical and creative thinking, but also as a laboratory for eliciting the best in human intentions, not

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always without conflict, as conflict is a necessary element in creating stability and a solid foundation,” says Hunter.

In this geo-political simulation, there are complicated and intentionally poorly-defined problems that the nation teams as well as ethnic and tribal bodies are charged with solving. The game’s mechanics demand that contradictory elements co-exist because life is like this. Students are repeatedly and systematically confronted with issues and evidence that refute or undermine their prior understanding. They must work to combine the facts and evidence of a new reality to their own current beliefs and perspectives. If they stubbornly hold to a position which the facts no longer support, they quickly experience the consequences of failure to adapt.

“The ingenious, innovative, and often unpredictable solutions the children develop are astounding and delightful. They are usually solutions which adults often never conceive of because of the ways in which our thinking is configured and confined,” explains Hunter. Children have an inspiring creative flexibility, much more of a positive can-do attitude, and a persistence in making things all right. The game allows students to arrive organically at collaboration as an effective problem-solving aid. As their thrill in problem solving together heightens, they seem to move into

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a state of hyper-collaboration, or “flow,” as described in Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s insightful 2008 work, Flow.

A consistent by-product of the problem-solving undertaken in the World Peace Game is a greater awareness of, and capacity for, caring for others, be they of a competing country, a different religion or ethnicity or a different class such as the nomadic, displaced people in the game. Compassion is not taught; it is allowed by the consideration of the perspectives of the various people who make us the dilemmas in the game. The children develop deep understanding of empathy and compassion viscerally, experientially in emotionally-charged and conceptually challenging circumstances that unfold in the game.

In the World Peace Game, a key aspect of its design is to allow space for a deep, extended, continuous review of the student’s ideas and thoughts. With sufficient time to think things over, brainstorm, and reflect, students can often resolve even the most difficult problems.

Allowing lengthy, unfettered thinking, musing, contemplation, and day-dreaming where one is at leisure to turn ideas, configurations, and constellations of thoughts over, over, and over in one’s mind used to be seen as a virtue and commanded a certain amount of respect and admiration in our culture. “At one time, we respected deep thinkers. Not now. Speed and correctness have become the goal in education. Those not presenting with the correct answer with work neatly and quickly completed find themselves at the end of the line. Depth over time—stimulation of and support for longterm thinking—by simply slowing down the pace of the learning process may seem counter intuitive to attaining the maximum results in the limited time we have with students, but that is the intended method in the World Peace Game. Slowing time to think, reflect, creating circumstances that require depth of thought, and more practice with many situations yields results beyond textbook answers and more lasting learning than determining A, B, C, or D on a multiple choice test,” Hunter explains.

The relationship between teacher and student is fundamental to critical and higher level thinking skill development. “I throw my students into this complex matrix knowing they will be successful

Keun Young (Michelle) Kim ’16, John Hunter

because of our trusting and reciprocal relationships. Relationships encompassing emotional safety, trust, mutuality, caring, generosity, empathy, and compassion are basic elements in a teacher’s toolkit and are of as great, or greater importance, than subject matter content. Intellectual or interpersonal risk-taking comes readily in a trusted space, a deliberately fostered environment of psychological safety where children are allowed and supported in simply being themselves, accepted as they are and given time to discover their potential further,” says Hunter. Recognition and respect for the validity of outcomes non-measurable by traditional means is also a prime ingredient in bolstering freedom from the fear of failure which hinders so many students’ learning. Relationships where risk-taking, failure, and success are all accepted as normal parts of the learning process are the keys to serving students well. Ultimately the success of a classroom, or a whole school, depends not solely on academic policy or specific pedagogy, but more fundamentally on the intentional cultivation, support, and maintenance of trusting, caring relationships.

The World Peace Game is a successful teacher because students willingly fall into the fiction. The game is invigorating, fun, and highly engaging, capturing the hearts and minds of students. The game creates an open space for the application of knowledge and skills, for the combination of disciplinary knowledge and expertise that varies from player to player, and for real experience and opportunities to become better at teaming and collaborating, communicating and negotiating, winning through cooperation, and learning what real-time feedback in the form of a stalled or failed effort looks like and feels like. Students work hard, not for a grade, but to save the world. They learn through playing roles, intensely and intently solving complicated world problems. “The truth we must hold dear and clear,” he says, “is that this fiction will be reality for our students soon enough.”

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For Reasons Old and New, the Library is “the Place to Be”

By Betsy Walker P ’13 Newly appointed Library Director David Ring says that the Henry B. du Pont ’16 Library, now in its forty-fifth year, “continues to evolve along with the needs of our students who [are graduating] into a world far more interactive than even its forward-thinking architect might have imagined.”

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erhaps more than any other academic facility on a school campus, a library leads a double life. From the outside, it is the traditional symbol for what it means to be scholarly and well-educated. Yet behind those walls, and in and around the stacks and study carrels, there is a kind of constant revolution transpiring. Information is information, but in the past two decades there has been a massive transformation in how it is sought, disseminated, and reimagined. Thanks to years of mindful academic and educational stewardship, along with last

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summer’s major upgrade, Library Director David Ring feels that the du Pont Library (built in 1969 and designed by renowned architect Louis Bakanowsky) is well-positioned to maintain a robust and vibrant presence in the life of the School.

David sees the work as much a rethink as it was a renovation. “Over the past summer,” he explained in a recent update, “the staff of the library, collaborating with the academic deans, teamed up with members of the public spaces committee, facilities, and external experts to reimagine what the du Pont Library could—and should— be to carry on its mission as the academic hub of the campus.”

Predating the internet, “the library necessarily housed thousands of volumes, both circulating and reference. It also served—as it still does—as an excellent venue for focused study.” In 1996 the Digital Arts Labs were brought in “to address shifts in the types of curriculum necessary for the modern student.”

It is David’s ongoing mission to acquire dynamic resources and to develop the skills of students and faculty to navigate and assess the

incredible volume of information to which they now have access. To faculty, immersed in the planning of Project: Pomfret in December, he offers “not only a comfortable physical space but also a plethora of excellent resources.” Referring to accessing the world’s newspapers online, he reminds them, “Keep in mind that the ‘paper’ part is more a legacy term than a physical descriptor.” And in keeping with the times, David tells the students, “be cool and follow the library on Twitter.”

With a grateful nod to recently retired Library Director Kathe Atwood’s “foresight,” David said, “[we] added vastly to our electronic resources. The internet and WiFi now make it possible for the virtual du Pont Library to be open around the clock and yearround. Students are now able to access our resources from their dorm room and from their homes, no matter where in the world they live.” With the space previously taken up by books and periodicals now on virtual shelves, “the du Pont has been able to open up more physical space to meet the needs of today’s students who require a place to sit down with their laptops, and work collaboratively—and sometimes noisily—on group projects.”

The first floor now has modern lighting fixtures that are both attractive and bright. And to assist patrons and serve as a functional workspace for library staff, a new custom-built circulation desk greets visitors as they enter the refreshed space. The students now enter the library and audibly exclaim, “Wow! This is so cool.” And while being cool is, well, cool, the purpose is to create a space where they want to be and where they can do the work that is required of them.

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Living and learning in a different, non-digital world: the School House Library, c. 1955

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hanges in the library also mean a new Assistant Library Director hat for Beth Jacquet. A master organizer with a B.A. in Latin and Greek languages and civilizations and an M.A. in history and culture who taught Latin and history here from 2002 to 2010, Beth seems to have been the logical choice. In an email inviting colleagues to a “big reveal” gathering to show off the library’s facelift, she included this note of thanks: “We won’t be doing any Ssssshing, but you’ll do plenty of Oooohing and Ahhhing…There are many, many people to thank for being integrally involved in this project—suffice it to say that it could not have happened without the kind of support that is all too common here at Pomfret and that we ought not take for granted.”

(l-r:) David Ring, Junko Pinkowski, and Beth Jacquet

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“With Junko Pinkowski continuing as a part-time library assistant and Heather Andren working in archives,” said Dean of Faculty Bobby Fisher, “the du Pont Library team is excited be an integral component of the Pomfret School learning community.”

Top (l-r): Lydia Mann, Melanie Haas, Quinn Brueggemann, Grace Dickinson, Rachel Hudson, Ana Almeyda-Cohen, Matthew Goethals Bottom (l-r): Tie Watkins, Katie Watkins, Kwesi Adarkwa, Greg Osborne ’03, Marcus Smith ’89, Michelle Hovestadt

New Faculty is an Experienced, Eclectic Group

By Betsy Walker P ’13 From Ghana to the Bronx and from Motown to J.P. Morgan, the thirteen newest members of the faculty and administration bring to Pomfret a world of experiences and perspectives.

This fall the School welcomed to the Hilltop a lively assemblage of thirteen new teachers and administrators. It is a diverse group, with hometowns ranging from a community in Ghana to Memphis, Tennessee. College-wise, they hail from Princeton, Williams, Middlebury, Colby, Smith, Colgate, Wesleyan, and Centre College in Kentucky. There are graduate degrees in their midst, ranging from mechanical engineering and an M.B.A. to Spanish and Portuguese

language and culture, theology, and sports leadership—from (in no particular order) Harvard, Stanford, Northeastern and Purdue (Illinois). Two are currently pursuing graduate degrees at Dartmouth and Middlebury (in cultural studies and English, respectively). And they are switching from venues as far-ranging as a classroom in Shanghai to the corporate environs of Motown and J.P. Morgan.

There is also an array of varsity athletes (soccer, ice hockey, crew and lacrosse). They all love the great outdoors and the great indoors (many amateur chefs, one lover of Dostoevsky and John Coltrane).

And it comes as no surprise that arriving with them will be a number of beloved pets. Dogs: Duncan, Lulu, Sawyer, and Scout. Cats: Beatrice and Lucy.

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Throughout the fall the Class of 2015 focussed on raising money in its commitment to raising hunger awareness, an effort which also involved filling up the shopping carts and delivering the goods to local food pantries. (l-r): Lucy Richards, Caitlin Wood, Pavel Pylaev, Chris Jackson, and Tim Offei-Addo.

Lessons Learned While Helping Others

By Betsy Walker P ’13 Community service can be life-altering, on both ends of the outreach pendulum When Director of Community Outreach Anne Richards P ’15 was approached earlier this year by the Pomfret Public Library needing young volunteers for a Walktober event, her community service crew was primed and ready. Not only was this the desired balance of outreach and connectivity, for Anne, the request was a tremendous validation of her efforts, in the past two years, to bring Pomfret’s commitment to service out from behind the brick façades and stone walls. “People are starting to see us through the eyes of the community,” she said. “We are becoming a consistent presence, which is really important, and also important to these kids.”

According to Anne, she now gets calls and “emails all the time” from local organizations in need of volunteers. “The word is out,” she said, “about us and how we want to make a difference.”

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comprises students from all grades, is scheduled after classes, and is offered each term as an alternative to athletics. Yet far beyond being a stand-in for sports, CST is establishing its place as a relevant and rewarding piece of the education equation. With the added heft of former Alumni/ae Association President Paul Fowler ’64 and Alumni Association Executive Council (AAEC) member Mac Bayly ’99, community outreach is becoming a key component in the Strategic Plan’s vision of the Pomfret graduate.

The goal, says Anne, is “to provide every member of the Hilltop community with the opportunity to serve others.” Appropriately, there are many faces of outreach on the Hilltop. In tandem with the mixed-grade CST, each grade selects a signature cause. Prior to Thanksgiving, The Class of 2015 raised $500, and with the money bought and delivered food to a local food bank. The Class of 2016 puts its group energy year-round into cancer awareness. Throughout the year there are numerous school-wide initiatives as well, and the reminder that the need never goes on vacation. When most students and faculty were gone for Thanksgiving break, Anne was still busy coordinating volunteers to help with delivering food to the TEEG Food Pantry in nearby North Grosvenordale in the two days prior to Thanksgiving.

Photo By: Caed Anthony-Jones ’15

On September 29, members of the CST joined forces with the local American Red Cross for one of two blood drives held annually on the Hilltop. Pictured donating blood is Tyler Phipps ’15.

Other CST mainstays have included behind-the-scenes assistance at the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp in Ashford, Connecticut, and running the very successful winter concession stand fundraiser.

Money raised selling hot cocoa and refreshments enable the team to bring holiday gifts to needy families. Pictured (l-r): Chris Rackey ’15, English teacher Bridget Tsemo, Anh ( Jason) Vu ’16, Kaylee Arzt ’16, and Jadan Villaruel ’16.

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On October 4, the CST helped out at the Pomfret Public Library’s Walktober event, the Woodland Fairy Walk. The venue was the looped walking trail that begins and ends behind the library.

Pictured are Anh ( Jason) Vu ’16 and English teacher Bridget Tsemo.

A third successful initiative, launched last spring, is the Sterling Backpack Project, a collaborative effort with the local Access Agency to provide healthy weekend snacks for children at the nearby Sterling Community School. Members of the CST collect and deliver donated snack food every Wednesday to the school, where they sort it and fill backpacks for children from needy families to take home on Fridays. Pictured are Xinwen (Coco) Zhang ’15 and Molly Wicker ’16.

Dig Deeper: To find out more about the mission and projects of Pomfret’s CST, visit www.pomfretschool.org/CommunityService To learn more about the Sterling Backpacks, go to www.pomfretschool.org/SterlingBackpacks

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A year ago, Goal Number One for School Counselor Carolyn Wagner was to establish meditation and mindfulness as an antidote to the many stresses of school and campus life. Having seen and experienced the benef its of guided relaxation (which seeks to unclutter the overstressed mind) she spoke about the enormous potential for such an approach to help students “soothe their own stress.” Meditation and mindfulness, she added, “lead to ways to cope. I want us to be able to help kids learn to live a balanced life.” A year later, the School is at the threshold of that goal.

State of Mind, Way of Life

By Betsy Walker P ’13

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n an end-of-year email to faculty last summer, with the subject line “Strategic Plan accomplishments 2013-2014,” Associate Head of School Pam Mulcahy applauded her colleagues with an impressive checklist of goals met in each of the four Strategic Plan priorities. Under Distinctive Boarding School Experience, Pam noted, “Piloted mindfulness programming: Carolyn Wagner, Anne Richards, Rich Dempsey.”

Mindfulness, for School Counselor Carolyn Wagner, represents a state of mind that should be as much a part of our daily lives as a good long run or a “cuppa” her favorite tea. Carolyn has been a student of meditation for more than seventeen years. As Pomfret’s counselor for the last eighteen, she has been a quiet, steady advocate of meditation as a path to health and well-being, long before the two were promoted to official status as components of the School’s Strategic Plan. And in collaborating with Assistant Head for Student Life Rich Dempsey and Director of Community Outreach Anne Richards P ’15, the three did indeed craft an agenda for altering the daily heartbeat of the School.

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For Anne, yoga—the ying to Carolyn’s mindful yang—serves a similar purpose. A practitioner for fourteen years, she has been teaching it for seven. Upon arriving at Pomfret four years ago, she quickly began to advocate its benefits for young athletes. “I have worked consistently every year with the boys and girls crosscountry teams,” she said. “They believe it helps prevent injuries and helps develop mental and physical stamina.” Like Carolyn, she has been quietly crusading to make it a more permanent fixture in the School’s student life program.

Meditation, mindfulness, and yoga are now key components in the Health and Wellness curriculum. Since the beginning of the school year Carolyn’s followers have been gathering on Mondays in Parsons Lodge. Carolyn’s meditation sessions are open to the School community, and while schedules don’t always permit (Head of School Tim Richards attends when he can), her invitations make each event sound irresistible. “Tonight,” says one,” we will practice a metta (loving kindness) meditation.” Another promises, “We will begin with a mindful meal at 6:00 in the Lodge. Mary Dempsey [Rich’s wife, a registered dietician] will guide us through the process.” And perhaps the most comforting message of all: ”All are welcome—even if you are not experienced.”

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A session of anti-gravity yoga. “ Yoga is a practice that allows the individual to learn about their mental as well as physical being,” says Anne.

Yet easy comfort food for the brain and spirit, this is not. Carolyn’s specific mind-body realm is Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, or MBSR, which promotes “guided” meditation. In layman’s terms, a mindful, head-to-toe MRI body scan. A trained facilitator, she explains, is there to prompt the “noticing of sensations, feelings of hot and cold, touch, pain and tingling.” Its impact on the brain is measurable, and “it’s pretty exciting to see the changes in the brain in people who meditate.” Carolyn has completed the fourth session of a five-year MBRS program offered at UMASS in Shrewsbury, where the potential for stress reduction and attitude adjustment came to light in the 1970s at the UMASS Medical School Pain Management Clinic. The process is now known and taught worldwide; Carolyn’s group last summer included healthcare providers from seven countries, including a doctor from China, a yoga teacher, and an attorney. Once she completes the program she will be a certified MBSR facilitator—a rarity in secondary schools, she says. In fact, according to a story that ran a year ago in TIME magazine, there are only approximately 1,000 facilitators worldwide.

Anne is equally inclusive, inviting students, athletes, actors, and faculty to her weekly sessions in the Schoppe dance studio, where body configurations range from the basic Downward Dog to the more advanced Sideways Crow. “Yoga is a practice that allows the individual to learn about their mental as well as physical being,” she says. She has also succeeded in bringing it more mainstream; in December for Project: Pomfret, Anne, Spanish teacher Jillian Forgue, and Assistant Athletic Trainer Laura Chandler taught “Y Yoga,” a look at the history and evolution of the practice as it traveled over time from East to West.

In the long-term, the benefits and results of this more proactive approach to the hectic spin of life on the Hilltop could be nothing short of revolutionary. From yoga, Anne says, “students see growth in their bodies as well as their minds. The practice relieves stress, prevents injury, they sleep better, have more energy,” she adds, “and have a more positive outlook on life.”

In the long-term, the benefits and results of this more proactive approach to the hectic spin of life on the Hilltop could be nothing short of revolutionary…The practice relieves stress, prevents injury, they sleep better, have more energy, and have a more positive outlook on life.

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Carolyn would agree. Years ago she was counseling a student—an outstanding rower who, for health reasons, had to stop competing.

For such a high-performance athlete, the transition to a non-active life was traumatic. The girl, she said, “shut down emotionally.” To her attuned eyes, Carolyn thought MBSR might help, and it did.

The change in the unhappy student from before the first sessions to after, having been coached on how to cope with the changes in her life, “was an incredible transformation.”

It is interesting to note that when Carolyn and Anne are asked to assess the benefits of incorporating a meditation-and-yoga matrix into the school culture, their comments come across as if they are sitting side by side, finishing each other’s sentences. The power of meditation, Carolyn says—or was it Anne, on the power of yoga— is that “it brings one intimately in touch with one’s true self. It gives you a different sense of confidence and empowerment, and faith that everything will be OK.” Power up, Pomfret.

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n November 13-15, 2014, Pomfret Theatre presented Almost, Maine by John Cariani on stage in Hard Auditorium. One of the most popular plays in schools throughout the country, Almost, Maine is a whimsical look at love in nine different scenes set on the same winter’s night in the windswept isolation of Aroostook County, not far from the Canadian border. Despite the frigid temperatures, Almost, Maine is populated by warm, compassionate and quirky people. Just like us, they are at the mercy of their own feelings. They fall in and out of love, struggle with life-changing dilemmas, and find moments of pure magic in a world that can be both harsh and unforgiving.

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Our Pomfret School actors immediately responded to the challenges of the script. They were courageous and bold when honestly confronting the topics raised in this play. They supported each other by listening carefully and allowing the mystery of love to be the universal and guiding experience that makes the play work. Finally, they discovered through the performances that our audience also wanted to share in the telling, and that our need for romance, acceptance and understanding is what makes us all human.

-Chip Lamb, Theatre Director and Arts Department Chair

Fall Dance Performance

T The Cast Doug Braff ’16 Brittany Cameron ’16 Nick Fulchino ’15 Alex Koo ’16 Colin LeSage ’18 Amanda Lim ’17 Izzy McCarthy ’15 Summer Staff ’15 Nemo Tran ’16 Annie Vance ’16 Elli Xiao ’18

he Fall Dance performance on November 7 featured a three-part solo performance

by Sage Min Peng ’17. “My dance was called ’Younger,’” said Sage. “It was about the things I have experienced at Pomfret. With friends and adults helping me,” he added, “I enjoyed this journey.” Pictured, on either side of Sage (who also appears in the background), are Colin LeSage ’18 and (Izzy) McCarthy ’15.

Also dancing in a separate piece were members of the cast from the fall play, Almost, Maine.

The guest dancers were Doug Braff ’16, Alex Koo ’16, Colin LeSage ’18, Nick Fulchino ’15, Summer Staff ’15, (Izzy) McCarthy ’15, Amanda Lim ’17, Brittany Cameron ’16, and Elli Xiao ’18. Digital Arts teacher Chris Atwood prepared the video installations, and Town Meeting was the band.

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Pomfret’s Off-Campus Art Gallery at Silver Circle Studio in Putnam, CT

L ’ATELIER AU CHATEAU October 3 - 26 The first P.S. ART show of the school year featured works by Pomfret students who attended the L’Atelier au Chateau painting and drawing program in France in the summer of 2014. JP and Beth Jacquet (studio art teacher and assistant library director, respectively) took a dozen Pomfret students to France— specifically, to a chateau in the village of Mussy-sur-Seine—for the fourth summer sojourn of l’Atelier au Chateau. From their arrival at Paris’ CDG Airport to the final adieux, the two weeks (from July 3-17) of daily instruction (drawing and watercolors) while embracing and exploring—with characteristic Jacquet gusto—local culture, food, scenery, landmarks, and events (including the Bastille Day fireworks and the hounds at Val des Choues) are documented on the L’Atelier Facebook page and at www.drawingsinfrance.com

Celebrating a Classmate’s “Legacy of Excellence and Artistic Talent” October 29 - November 30 Contributing Artists

On the evening of, October 29, the Pomfret community gathered at P.S. ART for the opening reception of an Alumni/ae Art Show.

All proceeds from the show benefitted the Patrick D. Wood ’01 Memorial Prize, founded in 2006 by Pat’s family and the School to honor his unique character and admirable accomplishments.

The prize is awarded at the end of the school year, in the form of a scholarship, to a local student who has been admitted to Pomfret.

The show ran through the month of November.

Everything on display—photographs, works in mixed media, works on paper, and jewelry—was generously donated by Pomfret alumni/ae in an effort to raise awareness of and money for the Patrick D. Wood ’01 Memorial Prize.

Four current Pat Wood Scholars were in attendance: Gregory Rice ’17, Evan Clarkin ’16, Dylan Clarkin ’16, and Caed Jones ’15.

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(l-r): Lauren Jerr ’02, Rachel (Schoppe) Rogers ’02, Stacey Rogers ’02, and Pat’s twin sister Libby Wood ’01

Rob Campbell ’01 Jared Vincent ’01 Casey Arbor ’01 Lilly Rand ’01 Alexandra Sweet ’01 Alex Arguimbau ’01 Anthony Luckino ’01 Joanne LaComb ’01 Libby Wood ’01 Ritsuko Hirai ’98 Amanda Schoppe ’99 Bennett Konesni ’00 Elaine Chen-Fernandez ’03 Chelsea Weiss Baum ’03 Poon Watchara-Amphaiwan ’03

POP: POP: Paintings on Photographs

Collaborative Photography and Painting Exhibit (Student work from the classes of Lindsay Lehmann & JP Jacquet)

December 5, 2014 - February 1, 2015 Silver Circle Art Center 75 Main Street, Suite 3, Putnam, CT Gallery Hours: Wed-Sat 11:00AM-5:00PM, Sun 12:00-4:00PM

For up-to-date information and upcoming show schedules, visit:

www.pomfretshool.org/PS-Art

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Athletics Alumni/ae Athletes in Action Fall 2014

Hunter Temple ’53 competed in the Ironman World Championship triathlon on September 7, 2014, in Mont Tremblant, Canada, and placed 2nd in the 80+ age division. The race was a half ironman distance of 70.3 miles, which consisted of a 1.2-mile swim, 56-mile bike ride and 13.1-mile run.

Congratulations to Felice Mueller ’08, for her third-place finish at the 2014 World Rowing Championships (Women’s Quadruple Sculls) in Amsterdam on August 30, 2014. Felice, along with Laura Dunn ’05, then secured a first-place finish with the University of Michigan Alumni Eight boat in the Head of the Charles Regatta in October 2014.

one of sixteen Yale student-athletes named to the 2013-14 ECAC Hockey All-Academic Team on July 10, 2014. Then, on August 3rd, she was selected to attend Hockey Canada’s National Women’s Development Team selection camp, which took place August 8-17 at Canada Olympic Park in Calgary, Alberta. This is the second year in a row that Jaimie was selected for this camp.

Jamie Samociuk ’11, a senior on the women’s soccer team at Sewanee, was named the Southern Athletic Association (SAA) Women’s Soccer Offensive Player of the Week for the week of October 6, 2014. Although she did not score a goal, Jamie played a big role in Sewanee’s 2-1 double-overtime win against Centre, perfectly placing two passes to teammates.

Jaimie Leonoff ’11 continues to be recognized for her sharp hockey skills. A senior goalie on the Yale women’s hockey team, Jaimie was

Pomfret Alumni/ae Playing College Athletics During the Fall 2014 Season Jay Barry ’14 — football at Hamilton College Alex Gerew ’14 – field hockey at Stonehill College Mae Hanson ’14 – crew at University of Connecticut JD Hayward ’14 – soccer at St. Anselm College Nate Kremer ’14 – golf at Hamilton College Khalil Murphy ’14 — football at Lake Forest College Katherine Pearson ’14 — crew at University of Tennessee Josh Smiley ’14 – football at University of Massachusetts Hannah Thoms ’14 – field hockey at Wheaton College Noah van Dyke ’14 – crew at Dartmouth

Hunter Temple ’53

Felice Mueller ’08

Jaimie Leonoff ’11

Jamie Samociuk ’11

Meredith Anthoine ’13 – soccer at Bentley University John Cunningham ’13 – soccer at Connecticut College Keith Ducharme ’13 – football at Bentley University Charlie Gruner ’13 – soccer at Wesleyan University Kevin LeBlanc ’13 – football at University of Rochester Naja Lewis ’13 – volleyball at Wesleyan University Andrea Nicholson ’13 – soccer at Trinity College Amanda Proulx ’13 – soccer at Connecticut College Taylor Sulik ’13 – football at Worcester Polytechnic Institute Mackenzie Dunphy ’12 – soccer at Nazareth College Lilah Fones ’11 – field hockey at Wesleyan University Zach Kennedy ’11 – golf at Gettysburg College Kyle Lasewicz ’11 – soccer at Bentley University Danny Metzgar ’11 – football at St. Lawrence University Jamie Samociuk ’11 – soccer at Sewanee, University of the South Jaclyn Tules ’11 – crew at Bucknell University

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Bruce Bannon, linebacker for the Miami Dolphins in the midseventies—and a veteran of Super Bowl VIII—shares experience and perspective with Pomfret athletes.

NLI Signers—Seated, (l-r): Kyra Smith, Juliette Lawless, and Makenna Newkirk.

Standing, (l-r): Jake Canepari and Cam Giles.

Five Senior Griffins Sign National Letters of Intent Seniors Cam Giles, Makenna Newkirk, Kyra Smith, Juliette Lawless, and Jake Canepari are singled out for NCAA scholarships for next year.

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t was an exciting senior moment in Parsons Lodge on the afternoon of Friday, November 14, when four outstanding athletes from the Class of 2015 gathered with family, coaches and a roomful of friends to sign National Letters of Intent (NLI) from the colleges or universities who have recruited them to play their respective sports next year. The next day a fifth joined their ranks.

All told, the fab five who signed on the NCAA dotted line were: Cam Giles, who will be playing Division 1 golf for Bryant University; Makenna Newkirk, selected to play Division 1 ice hockey for Boston College; Kyra Smith, who will also be playing hockey for BC rival University of New Hampshire; Juliette Lawless, who will play basketball for Mount St. Mary’s University; and Jake Canepari, who will play Division 2 lacrosse next year at Rollins.

Griffins connected with a Dolphin on October 1, when former NFL linebacker Bruce Bannon visited the Hilltop for a bit of a locker-room debrief and pep talk. Bannon, who was with the Miami Dolphins in 1974 when they defeated the Minnesota Vikings 24-7 at Super Bowl VIII, was a standout All-American at Penn State in the 1970s. There was a personal reason for his showing up: Director of Diversity and Community Relations Steve Davis was a PSU teammate. Together they share memories of having played at the 1972 Cotton and Sugar Bowls.

Bannon caught the eye of the Dolphins’ legendary Don Shula when post-college he played—briefly—for the New York Jets.

He spoke to the students about transitioning to college, and about the importance of being prepared. “You have to make yourself ready,” he told Coach Henry Large’s squad. “Hard work and preparation go a long way.” Much of his advice dealt with sportsmanship, teamwork, and the qualities that make a successful athlete. The key traits of a great player, he said, are “intelligence, good hands, and intensity.” One thing that playing for the Dolphins taught him was that when the game begins, “you have to come in ready. When you’re not ready, you hurt the team.” Also helpful: “the desire to excel, and be part of a team.”

Bannon graduated from Penn State in 1973 with a BS in geology and is now an aerospace and defense industry consultant. He pointed out that since “some guys make it and some don’t,” everyone needs the “backup” of a college degree.

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Preseason Venue in Barcelona for Soccer Hopefuls

By Betsy Walker P ’13

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hirty-eight varsity and junior varsity soccer hopefuls— eighteen boys and twenty girls—mixed conditioning with culture at the end of the summer when they “preseasoned,” from August 19-27, in Barcelona, Spain. Along with training sessions and three scheduled matches against local soccer clubs, the Griffins also had plenty of opportunities for sightseeing in and around Barcelona and visiting a number of iconic cultural venues, from Camp Nou Stadium (home of FC Barcelona, a national soccer club) to Antoni Gaudi’s famously unfinished cathedral, Sagrada Familia. Patrick Burke, boys’ varsity head coach and History Department chair, Pablo Montoro Alonso, boys’ junior varsity head

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coach and Spanish teacher, and Erin Fisher, girls’ varsity head coach and Director of Academic Support, were the three chaperones.

The trip was not part of the tryout process, Patrick said, but simply a great opportunity for the students to get conditioned, bond, and build team spirit. And a way “to get everyone playing soccer together and competitively.”

For complete details on the Barcelona trip, go to: www.pomfretschool.org/Barcelona

BARCELONA DIARY

Commentary and photographs by Pablo Montoro Alonso

SATURDAY, AUGUST 23 “The boys and some of the girls travelled to the nearby town of Sant Gabriel for the boys’ first game. It was a good and even game, but the locals were luckier in front of the net.”

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20 “Our first training session this morning with a local Spanish coach, followed by lunch and a tour of Camp Nou soccer stadium, home to FC Barcelona.”

SUNDAY, AUGUST 24 “In the morning we drove up the mountain of Montserrat to visit the monastery and enjoy the views (despite the clouds). In the evening after dinner we walked from the hotel to Camp Nou, the largest soccer stadium in Europe, to see FC Barcelona’s opening Liga game against Elche.”

“Not many high school kids can say that they have had the chance to see [soccer great Lionel Messi] play and score two goals at an official game at the Camp Nou. This was the best way to end a wonderful and very complete day.”

THURSDAY, AUGUST 21 “The day began with a ninety-minute practice. In the afternoon we visited the Camp Nou stadium and the FC Barcelona museum. Our guide took us on a bus tour around the city, finishing at the Olympic stadium and then Montjuic Castle.”

MONDAY, AUGUST 25 “We organized a visit to the famous Parc Güell, designed

by Antonio Gaudi, overlooking the city. The kids were amazed by the design.”

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Fall 2014 Varsity Athletics Team Photos

VOLLEYBALL Fall 2014 NEPSAC Class B Tournament

BOYS SOCCER Fall 2014 NEPSAC Class B Tournament

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GIRLS SOCCER Fall 2014 NEPSAC Class B Tournament

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BOYS CROSS COUNTRY Fall 2014 4th Place at New England Tournament

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Measurement of Achievement

Alumni/ae of Color

Fifty Years of “Blazing a Path”

By Betsy Walker P ’13 The year was 1963; the headmaster at the time was Jay Milnor.

Jay was known as a progressive, forward-thinking leader.

He had embraced both the concept and mission of A Better Chance (ABC), which NPR recently called “a bold educational experiment in the early 1960s … at the height of the civil rights movement.” Through the barely-opened door of this ’experiment,’ one thinks Jay may have glimpsed a tremendous opportunity for the entire School: a better chance, perhaps, to serve as a role model and to prepare conscientious citizens of the world. A year later, Pomfret welcomed its first four students of color. In June of 2013, Head of School Tim Richards P ’15 and his wife Anne attended ABC’s fifty-year celebration in New York City, when Pomfret received ABC’s Legacy Award as one of the sixteen original ABC schools. The award, which now sits in Tim’s office, reads in part, “for exhibiting leadership by opening doors … [and] blazing a path for others to follow.”

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Fifty years in ninety minutes: a tall order for the organizers of the Alumni/ae of Color Reunion. But in the time allotted for the opening presentation in Hard Auditorium on the morning of Saturday, October 4, participants representing the many faces of diversity and inclusiveness on the Hilltop did a remarkably thorough job. The significance of the gathering was not lost on Steve. “I don’t know all of you, but I know all about you,” he told the more than thirty who had returned. “You all have a second chance to make an impact here at Pomfret.”

VOICE is the campus organization that, for thirty years, has been lending support to all students who consider themselves part of a minority. From the memories and perspectives, a living mosaic began to emerge of the embracing arc of diversity at Pomfret. Tim began with a reading of his inaugural 2013 Chapel talk, “Guest or Host,” on the challenges (and rewards) of building a culture of inclusivity on the Hilltop. From building it to living it, Assistant Head for Residential Life Rich Dempsey segued into the residential life master plan where wellness,

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character, leadership and inclusivity are no longer qualities just beyond our fingertips but the familiar warp and woof of the School. Rich was followed by seniors Rachel Godfrey (School President) and K.C. O’Hara (prefect, head waiter and VOICE co-chair) discussing campus life as well as their Encampment Program experience the previous summer on the Chicago campus of the University of Illinois.

For a grand finale, members of VOICE gathered onstage to narrate a powerpoint retrospective. The scenarios, complete on their own, provided the visiting alumni/ae with a re-entry to life on the Hilltop. Among the moments of reconnecting (“I can’t get past all the hugs!”), there were also frank discussions about the challenges faced by these teenaged trail blazers: It was no secret that the transition to Pomfret and the boarding school culture could be overwhelming. All expressed gratitude for the lifelines from faculty members, whose presence and nurturing attention created, for these young adults, a safety net

“In 1984 when VOICE was formed by ten students, it was a pioneer in its own right. These ten built an organization which at the time served as a model for independent schools nationwide. And today’s VOICE remains so positioned, and thus is still emulated by others.

There were concerns in the mid-1980s to address. VOICE confronted these issues with determination and grace. We remain in its debt and have great respect for what VOICE has contributed to Pomfret since 1984.” — Gerrit Keator, Pomfret School Headmaster, 1979 - 1989 According to VOICE faculty advisor Ginny Eaton, it was Desi DelValle ’85 who in 1984 “found the courage to act on a vision: to create a safe space for those at Pomfret who had issues; who felt isolated or overwhelmed by the strange environment everywhere around them.”

Also, Ginny says, in its three decades on the Hilltop, VOICE has existed as “a support group for any student who feels that he or she needs some help adjusting to the Pomfret community, or who would like to help making Pomfret a homier place.” Among other projects, VOICE members organize the annual Basket Fundraiser and Carnation Sale, which supports member activities and helps offset the cost of sending faculty and students to diversity conferences and workshops.

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APPROACHING THE BENCH The weekend concluded on Sunday morning with a gathering around the Martin Luther King, Jr. bench, a gift to Pomfret School from the Afro-Latin Society, the first student of color support group. John Irick ’65 and Carl McAulay ’68 spoke. “This brought a close to a memorable weekend,” said Steve Davis, “but a new beginning to an old relationship.”

The ABCs of heroism

“You all have a second chance to make an impact here at Pomfret.”

—Director of Diversity and Community Relations Steve Davis

While it is easy to recognize then headmaster Jay Milnor as a visionary, what may have been more remarkable, at the time, was the quiet heroism of the young men (the School was not yet coed) who weathered the challenges—unimagined to the majority of their schoolmates—of leaving behind friends, family, and familiar turf for the promises of a Pomfret education.

The Saturday evening dinner honored the many individuals who walked together down that challenging road.

“I felt included and accepted by students and faculty”

of normalcy. By the simple gift of just being there, said one, “we knew they had our backs.”

The rest of the day included an informal faculty-student reunion Saturday afternoon in Parsons Lodge (and time spent poring over Ginny Eaton’s vast collection of lovingly assembled photographs and VOICE scrapbooks), a service of remembrance in Clark Chapel, and the 50/30 Celebration dinner that evening.

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John Irick ’65 P’12 was recognized as the “First American Student of Color to Graduate from Pomfret School.”

When he first visited Pomfret in the spring of 1964, John was a local hero in his own right. At Wilkinson High School in Orangeburg, South Carolina (a Deep South community embroiled in the struggles and politics of desegregation), John was student council president, a star quarterback, and had become involved in NAACP-supported activities. He did not know the school on the Hilltop existed until Matt Hobbs ’64 visited Wilkinson as part of Outreach ’64, a student-sponsored

exchange program intended to expose students firsthand to the Civil Rights movement. The two became friends.

Together they picketed, marched, and attended sit-ins.

Matt returned to the Hilltop an impassioned supporter of Civil Rights; John followed for a visit, and was offered a scholarship for the following year.

A “groundbreaking” young student Carl McAulay ’68 was honored as a “groundbreaking” alumnus and as one of the “first American Students of Color to attend Pomfret School.”

John Irick ’65 P ’12 was not the lone star in that first diverse year of 1964-65. As a result of the Outreach initiative, three more students of color—Jim Parker ’67, Carl McAulay ’68, and Martin Bolton ’68—entered Pomfret in the fall of 1964.

Carl attended the reunion, and was honored as a trailblazer and “groundbreaking” alumnus.

Service of Remembrance Honorees John H. Hopkins, Jr. ’68 Gerald B. Matthews ’68 John S. Daniels ’69 James R. Edwards, Jr. ’69 Hack Garrison, Jr. ’70 Vern V. Dundy ’71 Joseph “Joe” Mannas ’72 Gregory L. Andrews ’73 Charles E. Benford ’75

“They are a monument to the spirit of Pomfret.”

Marshall ’70 and Ginny Eaton were presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award for their “Exceptional Contribution and Devotion to the Effort of Diversity at Pomfret School.”

“The Eaton house was like the Underground Railroad,” said Bob Fuller ’87. “They were a gift to all students of color. Marshall and Ginny had a ‘cover charge’ when students came to their house. That ‘cover charge’ was honesty. If you didn’t have honesty, you might as well walk out the door and never come back. Marshall was a pillar of consistency. All teenage boys needed someone like Marshall.” The Eatons, Bob added, “were like lifeguards. They would jump into deep waters and rescue students.

They are a monument to the spirit of Pomfret.” According to Steve Davis, Ginny has donated her 14,000 photographs, all catalogued, to the School. “She has contact information on more than 400 students of color and VOICE students in her cell phone.

She and Marshall are in regular contact with most of them,” he adds, “and they all affectionately still call her Mom.”

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Matt Bourdeau gives to make sure the experiences he had at Pomfret “continue for others.” Now a senior at Bentley University majoring in economics and finance, Matt sees the Pomfret Fund as a catalyst of transformation. He is still grateful for the opportunity he had to travel to Bolivia in 2011 with the GriffTones, and says he would not have been able to go without alumni/ae support via the Pomfret Fund. The trip, he said, was a game-changer. “Pomfret put me at ease and pushed me to explore my singing and my a capella potential.” Today he is an active member of Off the Clock, Bentley’s a capella group.

Saleem Ahmed gives in grateful memory of the encouragement, support, and the willingness of his teachers (among them his piano teacher Bill Pratt) to let a talented young musician make his music. “Mr. Pratt gave me a piano and said ‘Go!’” he recalls.

Saleem has been able to combine his love of music and business sense, and is now a CEO for a startup music label company.

Pomfret, Matt says, “gave me so much that [to give back to the School] is what I think I should do.” His gift to the Pomfret Fund “impacts more than just the place. You support not just the institution but the individuals with your gift to Pomfret.”

Saleem loved the people at Pomfret and “forged strong relationships that continue to this day.” He relished the faculty bonds—playing cards after dinner with Dean of Students Dolph Clinton ’92; and the advisors who “treated me like family.”

“Pomfret allowed me the freedom to explore my passions,” he says. “I give to keep that spirit alive.”

Taylor Houghton ’12

Kendra Seward Sumner ’03

Taylor Houghton gives for the strength of community, character, and care he feels he got from the Hilltop — and for the brownie care package he received during his first round of college exams. “Pomfret helped develop me into who I am today,” he says. Now at Harvard, Taylor says the School helped him “learn how to connect with people from different backgrounds and cultures.” He is also intensely grateful for faculty who treated him like one of their own. “Mrs. Browne spent extra time explaining problems; Mr. Rossolimo and Mr. Andrén gave better lectures than some I’ve had at Harvard.” And Mrs. Chase, he says, “sent me a brownie care package during my first set of Harvard exams.”

Kendra Summer gives because of her memories and her continued connections to the Hilltop. Now a dance instructor at Marianapolis Prep School in Thompson, Connecticut, Kendra’s calling became her passion at Pomfret. She says she loved everything about the School: the atmosphere, her friends, playing soccer, and discovering dance. The program was starting, and Associate Head of School Pam Mulcahy was her dance instructor. Her relationship with Pam and her husband, Bruce Paro, continues to this day.

Pomfret supported him, Taylor says, “and I need to support Pomfret. If everyone would give $20 it would make such a difference.”

Kendra says the giving opportunities (see page 62) are “tangible examples” of what a gift to the Pomfret Fund can do. “Pomfret wouldn’t be Pomfret,” she says, “without the help and support of others.”

Visit www.pomfretschool.org/YoungAlum for more alumni/ae profiles.

Visit www.pomfretschool.org/giveonline to make a gift or pledge online.

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s the electronic communications and social media world continues to grow, Pomfret has expanded its distribution mediums to meet the needs of our students, faculty, parents and alumni/ae. Do you still prefer print? Great! We will continue to publish the Pomfret Magazine three times a year. However, to gain more frequent updates on Pomfret happenings, both on campus and from our global community, here are numerous ways you can stay connected:

Website:

www.pomfretschool.org

Pomfret Alumni/ae Network:

Mobile Site:

Online Publications:

www.pomfretschool.org/mobile

Alumni App: PO M FR ET A

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Available from Droid & iPhone in the online App stores Blog:

pomfretschool.wordpress.com School Fan Group:

facebook.com/pomfretschool Alumni/ae Group:

facebook.com/pomfretschoolalumni

School Twitter:

twitter.com/PomfretSchool

linkedin.com/groups

issuu.com/pomfretschool Video Galleries:

vimeo.com/pomfretschool Photo Galleries:

pomfretschool.smugmug.com School Pinterest:

pinterest.com/pomfretschool Connect with us on:

plus.google.com Photo Galleries:

instagram.com/pomfretschool

Do you know of a student for whom Pomfret would make a great fit? Send them our way!

Contact our Director of Admissions Carson Roy for more information: croy@pomfretschool.org ~ 860.963.6121.

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PA C E S Pomfret Alumni Career Exploration Series

Looking For A Career-Specific Professional Mentor And/Or Network? www.pomfretschool.org/CareerMentoring

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Find fellow alumni/ae from a number of career fields willing to share their career advice and experiences.

Use as a springboard for making connections with Pomfret alumni/ae in your field of choice.

Learn how to be part of Pomfret’s Alumni/ae Career Expo and/or other networking events in Boston, New York, and other major cities across the country.

Volunteer to be a career mentor/advisor, networking event host, or speaker.

Alumni/ae Association Career Networking Chairs George Santiago ’75 and Mac Bayly ’99 and Advancement Office Staff Liaison Tammie LaBonte P ’05 are waiting to hear from you!

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lass notes featured in this issue were received prior to October 15, 2014.

Notes received after this date will be published in the Winter 2014-15 issue. Class notes are appreciated and may be submitted via your Class Agent, the Pomfret School website, or by e-mail to: Deb Thurston, Class Notes Editor, at dthurston@pomfretschool.org We encourage and welcome appropriate news items and photographs from all alumni/ae and friends. Please note that not all submissions are guaranteed to appear based upon subject matter, photo reproduction quality, and space availability. Also, we reserve the right to edit for consistency and style but we will give every consideration to each author’s individual writing style.

Class Agent: Solicits financial support for the School, keeps classmates up-to-date with Pomfret events and news, gathers news for Class Notes Class Secretary: Makes social contacts, gathers news for Class Notes

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1938

No class agent at present. If interested, call the Advancement Office.

No class agent at present. If interested, call the Advancement Office.

1936

Congratulations to Roger Angell, who was honored at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY on July 26, 2014 for a lifetime of published work. He received the J.G. Taylor Spink Award, the highest honor given by the Baseball Writers Association of America.

Roger has been a contributing writer for The New Yorker for more than 50 years.

No class agent at present. If interested, call the Advancement Office.

1937 CLASS AGENT:

Seth B. French, Jr.

Charlie Ferguson is doing very well at age 96.

He is still painting and running his art gallery, the Red Barn Gallery, on Fishers Island, NY. He recently published his memoirs, A Path Less Traveled: The Memoirs of Charlie Ferguson.

Pomfret is, of course, mentioned quite a lot.

Signed copies of the book are available to Pomfret alumni/ae for purchase; please contact the Advancement Office.

1939 CLASS AGENT:

William P. Rowland, mickrow@comcast.net

1940 1937 — The newly-published book of memoirs by Charlie Ferguson ’37

75th Reunion (Alumni/ae Reunion 2015 - May 1-3)

No class agent at present. If interested, call the Advancement Office.

1941 CLASS AGENTS:

Francis O. Lathrop, Jr. Paul F. Perkins, perkins.paul.mary@gmail.com

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1942

No class agent at present. If interested, call the Advancement Office.

1943 CLASS AGENT:

Junius L. Powell, Jr., jaywakerobin@gmail.com

1944 No class agent at present. If interested, call the Advancement Office.

1945

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(Alumni/ae Reunion 2015 - May 1-3)

No class agent at present. If interested, call the Advancement Office.

1946 CLASS AGENT:

Robert A. Brunker, brunkerranch@fire2wire.com

1947 No class agent at present. If interested, call the Advancement Office.

1948 No class agent at present. If interested, call the Advancement Office.

1949 CLASS AGENTS:

Stuart J. Bracken, bjsjb@comcast.net Winslow M. Cady, suecady@sunflower.com CLASS SECRETARY:

Tony LaPalme, 207-967-4582

Tony LaPalme has been trying to locate and get in touch with the following classmates: Arthur Hall, Ed Lowry, and Tom Richards.

If you have any news or contact information on any of these gentlemen, please call Tony at 207-967-4582.

Several members of the Class of 1949 celebrated birthdays in August 2014: Dick Feldon, Bindy Banker, Tony LaPalme, John Flender, and Roger Chappelka. Also belated birthday wishes go to Tom Richards (September), and to George Blagden and Win Carrick, who celebrated in October.

Morgan Gilbert traveled to England for an enjoyable two weeks in July with his daughter, son-in-law, and their two children. He wrote, “My daughter Diana’s older half-brother, who has a teenage son in boarding school in

England, keeps a three-bedroom apartment in Wimbledon which is vacant all summer. We took advantage of free lodging to take the whole family to London, covering the greater London area, with day trips to Oxford and Cambridge, and a longer visit to Bristol where we have friends. I knew England and Scotland quite well in the 1950s and ‘60s, but visits since have been infrequent. [I noticed] the touristic parts of London we visited seemed much as they were decades ago, but the weather was decidedly warmer, and we experienced only a half day of rain (in Cambridge) throughout the trip. The other major and less welcome change is that England is now quite expensive; prices marked in pounds were very similar to those in the U.S. in dollars, but most actual costs were 1.7 times higher!”

1952

Steve Heartt reported, “[My wife] Cathy and I flew to Lisbon, Portugal during the first week of June 2014. After several days, we drove south to the Algarve, Portugal’s southern Atlantic coastline. For eight days we loafed from east to west: from small fishing villages (fresh caught fish on outdoor grills along a harbor side) to a posh resort at Albufeira. Portugal is a small, friendly country off the main tourist paths.

Good weather, good value for the Euro; we want to go again. Then we went back to Lisbon for a few more days before flying to Paris for a week. At the end of June we drove east to a small French village in the foothills of the Alps where we have rented a small apartment for July and August during each of the past five summers. It feels like home now. We have French friends, play some golf, and gain a little weight at superb restaurants. At the end of August, we returned our rental car to Paris by way of a week in Provence, a week in the Dordogne region, and another week in Paris before flying back to the USA in September.

We count our blessings every day, and we’ve already made plans for returning to France next summer.”

Frederick K. Gaston III, fgaston@optonline.net Edward K. McCagg, tedmccagg@earthlink.net

Bruce Lee is negotiating the e-book publishing rights to his books Pearl Harbor: Final Judgment and Marching Orders: The Untold Story of World War II.

1950

65th Reunion

(Alumni/ae Reunion 2015 - May 1-3) CLASS AGENT:

William O. Sumner, sumnerb27@cox.net

1951 CLASS AGENT:

Rolfe Floyd III, rolfe@plaidpajamas.com

CLASS AGENT:

Charles V. Henry III, henry@henrybeaver.com

Dave Lyon wrote, “I have retired at age 80 (but still a ski bum) and have a large home within walking distance to the ski area at Stratton, Vermont. Lynne and I have turned it into a four bedroom B&B. Any Pomfret student or alumni that is looking to ski, bike, hike, or kayak, we will give a 20% discount. Look us up at yogabnb.com and Trip Advisor. Besides the skiing, we also bike and kayak. We have five kids and 10 grandchildren.”

1953 CLASS AGENTS:

1954 CLASS AGENTS:

Chester K. Lasell, cklasell@aol.com William H. O’Brien III, whobrien@snet.net

1955

60th Reunion (Alumni/ae Reunion 2015 - May 1-3) CLASS AGENTS:

John J. Huss, johnandsallyhuss@verizon.net William A.W. Stewart III, williamstewart325@gmail.com CLASS SECRETARY:

E. Brooks Robbins, ebrrob@comcast.net

Brooks Robbins wrote, “Meg and I find ourselves enmeshed in family matters almost all the time – grandchildren are, or are soon to be, teens involved in sports where they live, daughter in Rye, NY and son in Tampa, FL. We get up to a family place in Eastern Ontario during the summer, and we have a condo in Manchester, VT. We are both involved in our town’s successful recycling program. Meg gives tours of a Quincy house in Quincy, MA while I am involved with the New York Marble Cemetery, Manhattan’s oldest nondenominational burying ground – keeps us going!”

Hardy Eshbaugh reported, “I have been officially retired since 1998, and when my wife, Barbara, is asked about my retirement, she responds, ‘He failed that course.’ One of my passions has always been teaching, so that is what I continue to do after more than 46 years in higher education here at Miami University.

I teach an occasional graduate seminar on Contemporary Issues in Ethnobotany and

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various courses in our Institute for Learning in Retirement. I am no longer doing research, but I pursue my scholarship writing and giving lectures. In May 2014 I gave a talk on a ‘Contemporary View of the Genus Capsicum (chili peppers)’ at the annual meeting of the Society for Economic Botany in Cherokee, NC. Just now I am checking the page proofs of a book chapter I wrote titled ‘The economic botany and ethnobotany of Mark Catesby’ that will soon appear in ‘The Curious Mister Catesby: a “Truly Ingenious” Naturalist Explores New Worlds.’ Catesby was the first naturalist to travel in the New World and his book, published in the earlier 1700s on the natural history of the Carolinas, Florida, and the Bahamas, provides the first-hand colored illustrations and documentation of many plants and birds of the New World. We have made some interesting trips in the past two years that included a birding trip to Colombia; a visit to Morocco with our daughter, her husband, and our granddaughter, who helped us navigate the country since she could read and speak some Arabic; and most recently to South Africa to visit my sister whom we had not seen is six years. Our son, David, lives in Portland, Oregon, while our three other children, Steve, Wendy, and Jeff, live in Montana. We have seven grandchildren ranging in age from 4-24 who live in Montana. This gives us an excuse, although none is needed, to make frequent trips to the west. Those trips west allow for fly fishing, rafting, and hiking on our visits. I am very much looking forward to my 60th Pomfret reunion next year!”

Will Stewart wrote, “The news of the 60th reunion reached me as I summered in St. Huberts, New York. Liz and I look forward to the event and seeing all ambulatory classmates. I spend the other ten months in Kiawah, South Carolina when I am not in Mexico, England, Spain or other dangerous places. It’s time for more check-offs on the bucket list. I look forward to hearing all of life’s stories.”

John Huss reported that after sixteen years with the Manchester Historical Museum (six as president), he has retired from its Board, but will remain active as the museum’s curator.

He remains as the Chair of the Essex County Club’s History Committee, and spends as much time as possible in the company of his grandson, Xavier, and granddaughter, Adele.

Their parents, Carroll and Rob Huss ’96, live in nearby Essex, MA. Elder son John Huss ’94 and his wife, Sonya, had their first child in August 2014, which means another trip soon to Santa Monica, CA for John and his wife Sally.

Bill Hoag wrote, “[My wife] Lil and I split our time between the townhouse in Bethel, CT and the house in North Eastham on Cape Cod.

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The Cape is beautiful this time of year (fall), quiet and peaceful. In May 2014 we went on a three-week trip to Germany and Italy. We took one of the Viking cruises down the Rhine from Amsterdam to Basel. Then we spent 15 days traveling through Italy. [It was] an interesting trip, although tiring at the end. Next time we will concentrate on one major city, instead of trying to squeeze too much in a short time.

We are kept busy with our various interesting clubs and groups. We are in our sixth year of a diverse wine-tasting group and we are hosting this month’s meeting and serving South African wines, which should be a new experience for the group. Life is centered around our six grandchildren and their activities. Two play competitive national ice hockey, which takes us to Chicago, Canada, Detroit, and every other rink in the Eastern half of the country.

We feel like groupies following a rock band. It is interesting that our second oldest grandson played [with his school’s team] at the Pomfret rink. I couldn’t resist the trip up to see the ‘new’ rink and campus again. Far different!!

We thoroughly enjoyed it. We are fortunate to have both our children and grandkids living nearby. One is ten minutes from our house in CT (which might be too close at times) and the other is in RI – which makes a nice stopover on the way to the Cape. They all spend summers with us at the Cape. We are both very fortunate to have our health - with minor aches and pains. The days of jogging are gone.”

1957

Michael Hard reported, “I just lived a dad’s dream, spending a weekend with my two sons.

I drove from Salt Lake City with one for five hours to get to our destination (the lodge at Red River Ranch in Torrey, Utah), and then drove for six hours with the other son to a meeting the next day. I dearly love being with my daughters-in-law and grandchildren but, for years, have wanted some relaxed, quality time with my sons. We fly fished, sat in front of a huge fire drinking some great wine and also visited the nearby Capitol Reef National Park, one of the least known and least visited parks of spectacular red cliff and canyon country in the west. I am really looking forward to our [60th] reunion at Pomfret next May.”

1961

1956

CLASS SECRETARY:

No class agent at present. If interested, call the Advancement Office.

CLASS AGENT:

Horace H. Work, hwork3@gmail.com

1958 CLASS AGENT:

Galen N. Griffin, Gnbayern@aol.com

1959 CLASS AGENT:

Jeb N. Embree, jeb.embree@essexfinancialservices.com

1960

55th Reunion (Alumni/ae Reunion 2015 - May 1-3) CLASS AGENT:

Benjamin A. Fairbank, Jr., baf@texas.net

Sire Management Corporation, of which Jud Reis is president, announced that Sire Partners was awarded the 2014 InvestHedge Smaller Manager Specialists 5 Year Award. The fund had the best annual performance from August 2009 to July 2014 and a Sharpe Ratio of 1.15. In 2013 Sire Partners received the 2013 InvestHedge Award for the best 20 year performance record for a fund of funds. Congratulations Jud!

CLASS AGENT:

George M. Walker, gwalker1942@comcast.net

Members of the class of 1961 were sorry to learn that their classmate, Ray Agar, had passed away in 2004. Pomfret shares in the sorrow surrounding the news of this loss. Ray will be remembered in May 2015 at the Service of Remembrance on Alumni/ae Reunion Weekend.

1962 CLASS AGENT:

I. Howell Mallory, ihmallory@gmail.com

Toby Condliffe, toby@condliffe.net

Toby Condliffe and Howie Mallory met for breakfast on Martha’s Vineyard on Labor Day 2014. Howie was visiting friends and it was his first visit to the Vineyard. Toby has vacationed there since 1952 and invites classmates to visit anytime they are on the island.

Howie Mallory wrote, “I returned to Vietnam in April 2014, 44 years after I departed in 1970 from my US Navy duty station in Danang. It was a noticeably transformed country trying to catch up with the more developed world.

Very beneficial for me to find some closure. I wonder how likely anyone will want to return to Iraq or Afghanistan in 44 years. Back in Aspen, Colorado, I am on two land conservation boards and very active in open space and agricultural land protection efforts.”

1963 CLASS AGENTS:

Charles W. Fleischmann, cfleischmann@baipollock.com Anthony C. Lame, aclame@info-unlimited.com CLASS SECRETARY:

Charles W. Fleischmann cfleischmann@baipollock.com

Deke Simon announced, “After five years of grad school, clinical training, supervised private practice and two state exams, I am now a licensed marriage and family therapist. I feel pride, relief, and most of all, a deep conviction that this is the work I will do for as long as I can. I practice in my newly redecorated office in Santa Monica, CA, and despite the title of the license (Marriage and Family Therapist), I focus my work on individuals and people in couple relationships. Onward!”

1967 — Andrew Sereysky ’67 and his wife, Joan, at their summer home in Portugal

1967 CLASS AGENT:

Michael S. Petty, sundancepetty@gmail.com

1964

John Charnay reported, “I am writing a new book and working on new movies, as well as helping consulting clients raise funds and increase visibility. Would love to hear from alumni here in Southern California! I am open to LinkedIn invitations and my email address is charnayj@gmail.com.”

CLASS AGENTS:

Peter W. Clement, piperdad@comcast.net John A. Dix, jpalmfrond@gmail.com Charles W. Findlay III, cwfindlay3@gmail.com Paul D. Fowler, paulfowlercms@aol.com

Barbie Lazear Ascher announced, “On February 28, 2015, after 13 years as a widow, I am marrying the wonderful Strobe Talbott. Hooorrraaayyy for both of us!”

Michael Petty was the keynote speaker at a Lewis and Clark convention in Knoxville, TN in October 2014.

Mark Constantian wrote, “My papers on the connection between abuse and neglect in childhood, damage to body image, and ‘addiction’ to plastic surgery were published in the journal Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in October 2014. I also have new data that indicates that bad plastic surgery can cause PTSD, especially if the patients have been traumatized as children. I hope to present that next spring. I went to the UK to present this work and other courses at the British Association of Plastic Surgeons.”

1965

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(Alumni/ae Reunion 2015 - May 1-3) CLASS AGENT:

William A. Hastings, wah99@verizon.net

1968 CLASS AGENTS:

1964 — Terk Williams ’65 (honorary class of ’64 member), modeling his 1964 Reunion hat after a bike ride in Jacksonville, FL. Show us YOUR Pomfret Hat!

1966

No class agent at present. If interested, call the Advancement Office.

Gregory W. Melville, greg476melville@gmail.com Robert R. Rich, robertrrich@gmail.com

Carl MacAulay wrote, “After graduating from Pomfret, I attended Tufts University and graduated with a B.S. in electrical engineering.

From there I went to work for Union Oil Company of California, whose name was later changed to Unocal. I worked for Unocal for 33 years, beginning as an electrical engineer and retiring as the VP of Human Resources.

Along the way, I received my M.S. in electrical engineering, but I also became a lay pastor.

When I retired in 2005, I went into the ministry full time. I am currently a senior associate pastor at a Foursquare church in Anaheim, CA known as The Rock.”

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1969 CLASS AGENT:

Richard G. Levin, rlevin99@charter.net

Reg Carroll wrote, “[I worked at] Vitro Labs in Silver Springs, MD, where my area was Command and Control Missile and Gun Fire Control Systems. I was first tasked to fix a problem sailors were having following the drawings; the documentation was very difficult to follow. I worked converting older Navy warships for use by the Saudi Government Saudi Naval Expansion Program (SNEP), removing technology we did not want foreign governments to have. The drawings that I created I discovered were still being used with little change in the 1990s, when I worked for San Diego’s Allied Signals Bendix Corp. Next I went to Northrup Service Corp in Rosslyn, VA, where I worked on the solid rocket booster retrieval program and a project to convert the MK-5 rebreather helmet to the MK-14 Closed Circuit Saturation Diving System. The purpose of this was to extend the range of Navy divers down to 2000 feet with the use of a diving bell. Having a B.E. in electrical engineering, I wanted to design circuits, so I went to E-Systems Greenville, TX Division in 1977 as a junior design engineer. I was to develop a system that automatically activated the flight recorder when the pilot spoke. The main thing about this job was that because of my drawing experience at Vitro Labs, my supervisor told me that they had selected my drawing to be sent to a company that was trying to develop a computer-aided drawing system to replace the LeRoy pin system that was currently being used. In 1980 I wanted to leave the country, so I joined the Navy hoping to see, first-hand, some of my [work] from Vitro Labs. I picked the USS Enterprise [in part] because I skipped Pomfret’s Thursday dinner to be first at the TV so we fourth formers could watch ‘Star Trek.’

When the Enterprise went on deployment I was awarded the Communications Division Officer position. A clash with the CS senior chief caused me to be reassigned as CM Division only, but it was the CS division sailors that caused me to look at that division. About two years after leaving the Navy, I learned that that CS Division Senior Chief went to Leavenworth as being the main damage source to the U.S. as a key element of the Walker Spy case. [Following the Navy] I went to Magnavox Government System in Fort Wayne, IN working on aircraft encryption radios. The cold weather got to me so I moved to San Diego and General Dynamics. Later in 1995, I interviewed with Matsushita Electronic TV Division and I was hired as a Quality Control Engineer in charge of new product design.

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TV menu and universal remote control. I am no longer working; I now volunteer recruiting minorities to volunteer in medical clinical trials and I work as a community activist.”

Carl Rohde wrote, “My life has never been in one straight line. A year ago I joined a non-profit group in Bridgeport, CT called Haiti Works! Our purpose is to improve the emergency response and firefighting ability of the people of Haiti. Last year, we shipped a fire truck from CT to Haiti. We are now scouring the Northeast to find another fire truck to send there. We are also seeking to build a Firefighters Academy in Haiti in order to train and provide jobs for the Haitian people. We are working with U.S. Southern Command, the Department of Defense, USAID, Confederation des Travailleurs Haitien (Haiti’s largest union), and the Haitian government to accomplish this.

This academy will provide a firefighter training facility for the entire Caribbean area. I have also been working to create a movie library of interviews with people who have contributed to the world in unique ways. One of the people I will film is Pomfret School’s very own Hagop Merjian. As an educator, coach, husband, parent, and citizen, Hagop’s life has been one of sustained contribution to the people around him and the larger world community.

These movies are made to challenge, inspire, and inform the viewer from the standpoint of the person being interviewed. And these documentaries are intended to be a testament to that person’s vision and contributions. Lastly, I am working on two inventions. The first one addresses oral motor muscle functionality.

The other is an innovative casting system intended to improve on the gypsum/plaster and fiberglass casts being used today. Our system is air-permeable, can be remolded as the broken limb or digit requires, and is easily applied, even in battlefield conditions. I remain happy and well; I share my time between Litchfield and Stamford, CT.”

Adam Berenson welcomed his fourth grandchild, Leander Adam Falk, on February 21, 2014.

Charles Campbell had a wonderful time seeing the premiere of the latest film by Mark Lipman ’70, titled “States of Grace” [see class note for 1970]. His sister, Susan Campbell ’73, also saw the film when it showed in Seattle.

Ridley Pearson’s most recent spy thriller, The Red Room, was published in June 2014. It is the third book in the Risk Agent series. He hopes his fellow Hilltoppers will enjoy it!

Carlie Berlin reported, “My article, ‘A Shadow of a Magnitude: The Furniture of Thomas Cook and Richard Parkin’ on little-known but important Philadelphia cabinetmakers Cook & Parkin (active 1819-1833), was published in the 2013 Chipstone Journal American Furniture.

This scholarly journal is the publication of record for the field of American decorative arts.

I will lecture on the subject for the Decorative Arts Forum at the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco on the weekend of May 16, 2015.

Information about my eponymous antiques business can be found at www.AmericanAntiques.net. Our middle child, Henry (11 years old), will dance the role of the Prince in the New York City Ballet’s production of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker at Lincoln Center in 24 performances throughout the month of December, opening Thanksgiving weekend. We renovated and moved to a town house in the Hamilton Heights section of Harlem almost a year ago and are very happy with all this space!”

1972 CLASS AGENTS:

James M. Bergantz, jbergantz@verizon.net Milton L. Butts, Jr., nekbone@excite.com

1970

45th Reunion (Alumni/ae Reunion 2015 - May 1-3) CLASS AGENTS:

Richard A. Bensen, boopx2@gmail.com Gilbert H. Judson, gjudson@jmj.com

Mark Lipman’s latest film, “States of Grace,” won the Silver Prize for documentaries at the Mill Valley Film Festival in October 2014, as reported by Charles Campbell ’71.

1971 CLASS AGENT:

Jacques P. Bailhé, jbailhe@verizon.net

1971 — Adam Berenson ’71 with his newest grandchild, Leander Adam Falk

1973 CLASS AGENT:

David A. Rosen, rosend@rcbhsc.wvu.edu

Rob Michaels reported that his oldest daughter, Sarah, was married on July 4, 2014 in Austria.

1974 CLASS AGENT:

David D. Dixon, David.D.Dixon@wellsfargo.com

1975

1983 — Joining Ned Hallowell ’83 (center) for his wedding are classmates (l-r): Christopher Scott, Jim Enelow, Wendy Reeder Enelow, Jeff Goldings, and Alex McLean

40th Reunion (Alumni/ae Reunion 2015 - May 1-3) CLASS AGENTS:

Andre B. Burgess, Burgess797@aol.com Timothy S. Matthews, tbmatthews@md.metrocast.net

Chris Boak wrote, “Working on digitizing pictures.

Looking forward to our reunion next May!”

1981

1976

Eric L. Foster, eric.lindh.foster@gmail.com

CLASS AGENTS:

CLASS SECRETARY:

Richard S. Cody, richcody@hotmail.com Michael R. Nelson, mike55nelson@gmail.com

Sarah Armstrong Scheide, rscheide@comcast.net

Mary Paganelli keeps busy in Tucson, Arizona with her work for Tohono O’odham Community Action (TOCA) on the Tohono O’odham Nation.

She is the Chef Consultant for the organization’s traditional foods cafe, The Desert Rain Cafe.

The Cafe was featured in Edible Baja Arizona Magazine, in the 2015 Arizona Official State Tourism Guide, and on an episode of the national television show “Flip My Food with Chef Jeff.”

Mary’s most recent book, The Food Lovers’ Guide to Tucson, was published by GlobePequot. Mary visited Pomfret over the summer and enjoyed the beautiful campus. She says, “So many changes since 1976 – all good! Greetings to all classmates and an open invitation to visit if you’re ever in Southern Arizona.”

1982

CLASS AGENT:

CLASS AGENTS:

1983 — Ned Hallowell ’83 and his new wife, Sara, on their wedding day

CLASS AGENTS:

Bradley R. Painter, bradnora@aol.com

Wendy Reeder Enelow, enelow1@sbcglobal.net Timothy T. Robinson, t.t.robinson@cox.net

Bob Mullarkey reported, “It was wonderful seeing so many classmates for our reunion [in May], especially Warren ‘El Cito’ Smith, who travelled all the way from Venezuela! For me, ‘three is the new two’ – I’m engaged!”

1980

CLASS AGENTS:

35th Reunion (Alumni/ae Reunion 2015 - May 1-3) CLASS AGENT:

1978

Linnea Corwin Elrington, linneaelrington@hotmail.com

CLASS AGENT:

CLASS SECRETARY:

Mark S. Breen, wxmanbreen@gmail.com

Martha K. Murphy, M2Murphy@aol.com

1979

David Hall wrote, “Five weeks after graduating from Pomfret in 1980, I put on the Army uniform as a cadet at West Point and, 34 years later, I just put that Army uniform and Silver Eagles away, retiring in June 2014! Looking forward to the next chapter!”

CLASS AGENT:

Robert K. Mullarkey, rkmullarkey@gmail.com

1983

CLASS SECRETARY:

1977 John B. Leeming II, john_leeming@msn.com Elwood E. Leonard III, elwood.leonard@hitchcock.org

Luis Cruz, lcruzesq@gmail.com Johanna M. Moffitt, JMMoffitt@aol.com

Ned Hallowell announced, “I was lucky to marry Sara Pratter on August 9, 2014. I also had the good fortune to become the stepfather to the wonderful Walker McGinley.”

Mara Cushwa wrote, “This fall I traveled to New York City and had the opportunity to meet Jessica Slosberg Benjamin for brunch.

It was a wonderful chance to visit and catch up. I was very pleased to hear about life and family for the Benjamins, as well as for a few other Pomfret friends with whom Jessica has had more recent contact. What a treat!”

And Jessica Slosberg Benjamin reported, “It was great to catch up with classmate Mara Cushwa over brunch in New York City during her weekend visit from Cleveland. It had been way too long but felt like no time had passed since our days in Upper 2 (okay, maybe a little time…).”

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1991 CLASS AGENTS:

Laurence N. Hale, lhale@weissandhale.com Abigail Gardiner Silk, agsilk72@gmail.com CLASS SECRETARY:

Caroline E. Waterlow, waterlow@mindspring.com

1983 — A fun Pomfret gathering in Sun Valley Idaho! (l-r): Henry Enelow ’16, George Enelow ’17, Wendy Reeder Enelow ’83, Ned Hallowell ’83, Benjamin Enelow, Jim Enelow ’83, Lisa Wood ’83 and Lisa’s son, Pierson Carlsen

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1989

1992

CLASS AGENTS:

CLASS AGENTS:

CLASS AGENTS:

Jeffrey P. Curran, jeff@curranonline.com Alexis Rosenthal Proceller, lexieproceller@gmail.com Nathaniel S. Reeder

Nathaniel M. Peirce, NMPeirce@yahoo.com K. Kelsey Hubbard Rollinson, kelshubbard@yahoo.com Catherine Moriarty Whittier, whittier@virginia.edu

Diana Heide Fredericks, dhfredericks@gmail.com Samuel L. Goldworm David Wyatt Wartels, wyattwartels@gmail.com

CLASS AGENTS:

1986

Toby Metcalf wrote, “Greetings Griffins – it was wonderful to see so many old friends from all classes at Reunion Weekend this year. As a member of Pomfret’s AAEC, I am fortunate to have many opportunities to return to the Hilltop, but reunion was quite special. For those who could not attend, please make an effort for our next one – you will not be disappointed.

Hockey season is already in full swing for us in Natick. I hope to see some Griffins at mile nine for the Boston Marathon in April 2015; come enjoy a beverage, deep fried turkey, and some deep fried bacon wrapped mac & cheese!”

CLASS AGENTS:

1990

Jeffrey H. Connor, jconnorman@aol.com David R. Salomon, dsalomon@eastendadvisors.com

25th Reunion

1987

CLASS AGENTS:

Jeff Curran’s company has launched a new product line, CurranCar (www.currancar.com).

It features luxury car mats, made from topquality durable materials, for any make and model of car.

1985

35th Reunion (Alumni/ae Reunion 2015 - May 1-3) CLASS AGENT:

Heather Julian, HJulian@alumni.princeton.edu

CLASS AGENTS:

Katharine B. Cowperthwait, kcowperthwait@aol.com Jonathan L. Hart, jonohart@earthlink.net

Edie Meyer wrote, “I’ve recently moved back to New York City after eight years of living in London. I’m working for a British tech company in NYC and recently caught up with Adam Foulke ’88.”

1988 CLASS AGENT:

Elizabeth Tilt Weiner, etweiner@aol.com

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Jim Zahansky was named Senior Vice President at Weiss & Hale Financial, LLC in Pomfret. He transitioned to this role in financial services after 17 years in the pharmaceutical industry, where he developed and implemented marketing and sales strategies and tactics for major US pharmaceutical brands. Jim is now working alongside Laurence Hale, who is a managing partner at the firm.

CLASS NOTES

1993 Michael G. Farina, michaelgfarina@gmail.com Sarah M. Flournoy, sarahflournoy@gmail.com

(Alumni/ae Reunion 2015 - May 1-3)

Marcus W. Acheson, kidach2000@msn.com Rachel Baime, racheldavisbaimeesq@gmail.com Laura H. Cowperthwait, lacowp@yahoo.com Jonathan G. Gengras, jonathan@gengras.net

Kimberly Cutter returned to the Hilltop on October 15, 2014 to talk with creative writing students about the personal components of writing, using her 2011 novel The Maid, as a basis of discussion. She was also the speaker for Pomfret’s Tuesday Night Speaker Series.

1989 — Pete and Maddy Metcalf, son and daughter of Sarah & Toby Metcalf ’89, enjoying summer in Skaneateles, NY. Daughter Lily was also paddling nearby.

1994 — John Huss ’94 with his wife Sonya and their new baby girl, Scarlett

1995 — Pomfret coach Waddy Rowe with Nick Mettler ’95

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1996

CLASS AGENTS:

CLASS AGENTS:

Karrie M. Amsler, karriemamsler@hotmail.com David Levin, levin.daniel@gmail.com Edward W. Wartels, EWartels@cresa.com Timothy L. Whipple, tim.whipple@gmail.com

M. Anderson Bottomy, anderson@bottomy.com Hillary Lewis Fryer, hillaryhlewis@gmail.com Michael A. Newton, manjr17@gmail.com Rebecca Holt Squires, rebecca.squires@gmail.com

John Huss wrote, “It was great seeing everyone who made it out for our 20th reunion in May, particularly Yuichi Shigeie, who came all the way from Tokyo. A couple of weeks later, I caught up with my old buddy Nawita Direkwut in Honolulu, who’s doing great and has a lovely wife and daughter. My wife Sonya gave birth to our first child, a girl named Scarlett, on August 24, 2014. It’s been an awesome and exhausting journey thus far.”

Rachel and Marshall Scallan were happy to announce the birth of their baby daughter, Adair Archer Scallan, who was born on May 27, 2014.

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20th Reunion (Alumni/ae Reunion 2015 - May 1-3) CLASS AGENTS:

Carson T. Baker, carsonbaker@pepsihv.com Whitney A. Cook, whitcook@gmail.com Nicholas D. Mettler, nick@nomoredirt.com Allison Glasmann Reiner, allison1176@yahoo.com Robert E. Thebault, rthebault@gmail.com Daniel J. Thompson, dthompson7@gmail.com

Nick Mettler wrote, “I had a lot of fun at the alumni soccer game [in September] seeing some old teammates and of course Coach Rowe... some things never change.”

Will Wiquist served as moderator for a debate on CCTV, the local cable access station in Burlington, VT, on August 12, 2014. The program featured three candidates seeking the Republican nomination for governor.

1997 CLASS AGENTS:

Miriam Jamron Baskies, baskies@me.com Joanna Kontoudakis, jkontoudakis@gmail.com Lindsay R. Larsen, Lindsay.Ruth.Larsen@gmail.com Hadley Weiss Rosen, hadley.rosen@gmail.com CLASS SECRETARIES:

Wheeler Simmons Griffith, wsimmons@ellisonandcompany.com Maurice P. Kane, powerskane@gmail.com Kyle V. Ritchie

Joe Phillips wrote, “I developed a mobile phone application with a business partner called The Fitness Games. It’s all about challenging people to exercises and exercise routines – turning fitness into a competitive game for people to stay motivated. There are social media elements, and it tracks and helps describe exercises in a way that everyone can understand. It is currently available in the App Store and can be downloaded to iPhones, iPads and iPods. We are currently

1996 — Adair Scallan, daughter of Rachel & Marshall Scallan ’96

testing the android version and will release on that platform soon. We are also promoting it at the IDEA World Conference in Anaheim.”

1998 CLASS AGENTS:

John E. Evans III, johne@adaptivearizona.com Christopher F. Hale, kiphale@gmail.com Stacy Durbin Nieuwoudt, stacy_nieuwoudt@yahoo.com Livia Skelly-Dorn Roustan, liviaroustan@gmail.com Sarah L. Welch, sarahlwelch29@gmail.com

Congratulations to Nick and Polly Carter Antol on the birth of their first child. Grace “Gracie” Marie Antol was born on July 4, 2014.

Brendan Mims wrote, “I currently live in West Orange, NJ with my wife, Nadezhda, and my [new baby] daughter, Blake Phoenix Mims. I’ve worked for the NYC Department of Education for the last eleven years. I’ve been a teacher, a dean, an assistant principal, and now I am a director of the new teacher evaluation system in the Chancellor’s Office.”

Kip Hale enjoys living in Washington, D.C. where he is senior counsel at the American Bar Association (ABA) Center for Human Rights and director of the ABA-International Criminal Court Project (www.aba-icc.org). He is happy to report that he and Conor O’Malley still have a hard time making new friends, so they spend a lot of time together given that they live only a few blocks from each other. Conor operates the new U.S. Squash office that opened up in DC. Amelia Vogler resigned from her corporate career at SAS Institute to pursue a professional career in energy medicine. Amelia is a Healing

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Touch Certified Practitioner who has been practicing healing touch (energy therapy) for eight years. She works from her private practice, The Healing Space, supporting local and distance clients as they discover how to fully embody their selves through physical vitality, emotional balance, mental clarity, and a deep connection to spirit. She teaches energy therapy and meditation classes locally and is beginning to bridge her corporate work into a consulting space for small business owners in healing fields. Amelia is to be married in June of 2015 and recently moved to Hillsborough, NC with her fiancé Blake, two dogs, Veda and Lucy, and the very fat cat, Meatball. She invites anyone to be in contact with questions about her work or just to say hi (yourhealingspace@ gmail.com) and sends blessings to her wonderful classmates and beloved faculty.”

1999 — Liz Leder ’99 and John Sabo were married in May 2014

1999 — Michael Patrick Jones, son of Theodore and Michaela Brown-Jones ’99

2001 — Stafford Everett Pillsbury, son of Lauren & Rory Pillsbury ’01

1999

2000

CLASS AGENTS:

15th Reunion

Lindsey Boardman Duerr, lasduerr@gmail.com Timothy A. Patrick, Jr., tpatrickjr@gmail.com Alysa Hill Paul, alysah22@hotmail.com Katrin I. Urban, katrin.urban@comcast.net Kelly L. Wentworth, wentworth.kelly@gmail.com

Congratulations to Theodore and Michaela Brown-Jones, who became the proud parents of a baby boy. Michael Patrick Jones was born on Sunday, June 29, 2014 at 3:16 pm. This is the second son for the couple.

Another congratulations to Tim Calabrese and his wife, Alexandra, who welcomed their first baby, Celia Rose Calabrese, on September 17, 2014.

(Alumni/ae Reunion 2015 - May 1-3) CLASS AGENTS:

Hilary M. Gerson, hilary.gerson@gmail.com Susannah Miragliuolo, spmiragliuolo@bcps.k12.md.us

2001 CLASS AGENTS:

Alexandra T. Arguimbau, alexandra.todd@gmail.com Andrew C. Brown, dsb914@yahoo.com Caitlin Rogers Connelly, rogers.caitlin@gmail.com Wendell Smith Scarisbrick, wendellscarisbrick@gmail.com

Liz Leder was married to John Sabo on Memorial Day, May 26, 2014, at Boettcher Mansion on Lookout Mountain in Golden, Colorado. A wedding in the mountains was appropriate after they met on a camping trip through mutual friends. Emily Webster ’98 was in attendance.

1999 — Tim Calabrese ’99 with his wife, Alexandra, and their new baby girl, Celia Rose 2001 — Jamie Calabrese Brätt ’01 with her husband Sasha, daughter Mina, and new baby boy Austin Schuyler Brätt 46

CLASS NOTES

2002 — (l-r): Brian Fellon, Jo Anna Galanti Fellon ’02, Christina Galanti Dickson ’02 (sporting Pomfret rugby shirts), and Tim Dickson on vacation at Long Beach Island, NJ

Lauren and Rory Pillsbury welcomed a baby boy, Stafford Everett Pillsbury, on July 12, 2014.

Casey Hammer Arbor, an art teacher at Asheville School in North Carolina, designed a tribute book for Jerry Richardson, the owner of the Carolina Panthers, to commemorate his leadership. Richardson was presented the 2014 Echo Award Against Indifference on September 10, 2014 and the tribute book accompanied the award.

Jamie Calabrese Brätt wrote, “We are proud to announce the newest addition to our family, Austin Schuyler Brätt, born on September 18, 2014. Our firstborn, Mina Joy, will be three in November and has been a spectacular big sister so far.”

2002 CLASS AGENTS:

Samuel A. Appleton, Smapple84@yahoo.com Christina Galanti Dickson, christina.dickson@bayer.com Jo Anna Galanti Fellon, jfellon@friedmanllp.com Michael J. Krents, mkrents@gmail.com John P. Lindsey, jlin845818@gmail.com William E. Walker II, will.e.walker@gmail.com Christopher J. Watkins, christopher.watkins@resourcepro.com.cn William R. Wentworth, williamwentworth3@gmail.com

Forbes Barber announced, “I married Christine Virginia Howard, daughter of Ted and Lynne Howard of Durham NH, on June 14, 2014 at the Corinthian Yacht Club in Marblehead, MA.

2002 — Forbes Barber ’02 and Christine Howard were married on June 14, 2014

Chris Schwartz ’03 was one of my groomsmen.

We recently purchased a condo in South Boston, MA. Christine enjoys her work as a director of development at Year Up, which is a cool organization involved in providing job skills training to urban youth, and I am a financial advisor at Beaumont Financial Partners, LLC. I am currently studying for the Certified Financial Planner (CFP) designation.”

Will Walker was pleased to announce, “I was married to Emily Boggs on June 28, 2014, in New Orleans, Louisiana. We are now living in Houston. Coincidentally, we got married the same day as Mike Krents, so neither of us were at each other’s wedding…”

Congratulations to Jo Anna Galanti Fellon, who was named one of NJBIZ’s “Forty Under 40” and was honored at an awards ceremony on September 29, 2014. The event celebrated forty of New Jersey’s most accomplished young professionals who have been excelling in their field. As a senior tax manager at Friedman LLP in East Hanover, NJ, Jo Anna was recognized for her “niche presence” in tax accounting knowledge and tax planning, and in developing client relationships.

Barbi McCoy wrote, “I was recently blessed to travel with a team from Highpointe Church in Thompson, CT to Masimba, Tanzania and a Masaai tribe living in that area to help in a building project to enhance their community outreach. With networking, construction skills and compassion, we worked together in putting up a roof, building benches, creating a pulpit and an offering box for this village’s new church.With memories and inspiration that transcended over all language barriers it truly was a magical time.”

2002 — Catie Romasco MacIlvane ’02 sharing a moment with her husband Kevin, son Luca, and new baby daughter Mila

Catie Romasco MacIlvane reported, “Mila Catherine MacIlvane was born on June 8, 2014, joining her two-year old brother Luca. We are currently living in the Dilworth neighborhood of Charlotte, NC.” Liz Malerba was named to the position of USET Policy and Legislative Affairs Director at United South & Eastern Tribes (USET) in Washington, DC on October 1, 2014. In her new role, Liz focuses on advancing USET’s policy and legislative priorities as identified by the Board of Directors on Capitol Hill and with the Administration.

2003 CLASS AGENTS:

Muhammed-Saleem R. Ahmed, Saleem.Ahmed17@gmail.com Mary J. Babcock, MaryJBabcock@gmail.com Chelsea Weiss Baum, chelseaweissbaum@gmail.com Edward D. Kunhardt Peyton A. Ladt, peytonladt@gmail.com Laura Keeler Pierce, laurakeelerpierce@gmail.com Christopher G. Pike, cpike10@gmail.com MacLean Pilsbury Spadaccini, mkspadaccini@gmail.com Kendra Seaward Sumner, ksumner@marianapolis.org Suparatch Watchara-Amphaiwan, suparatch@hotmail.com

Will Rawlings wrote, “I’ve been living and working in Copenhagen, Denmark for three years as a partner in the artist collective WOOLOO (wooloo.net). Last year, we were invited to be part of the ‘Ghetto Biennial’ in Port-au-Prince (Haiti), a Haitian art festival

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created after the 2010 earthquake. We created an installation that criticized the methods used by members of the Western art world to push their self-promotional agendas in such dire contexts.

The work is called ‘iGhetto’.”

Chris Pike wrote, “Over the past few months I have been working on the feature film Silence, which is being shot in southern MA and RI. With a highly talented and dedicated team ranging from Los Angeles to New York, to Boston, and even Portugal, this independent film is a thriller that will leave a strong impression on our audience in regards to the negative effects that can occur from the addiction to social media. I have had the pleasure of portraying Bruno, the lead role in this film. Silence will be released in the fall of 2015 and will be premiered in Sao Miguel, Portugal. For anyone interested in seeing the progress of this film please visit: www.silencethefilm.com or www.facebook.com/thefilmsilence/info.

Happy fall! Go Griffins!”

2005 — Nolan LaBonte Campbell, son of Evan & Alysia LaBonte-Campbell ’05

2005 2005 — Will Haydock and Sara Elliott ’05

2004

Davinia G. Buckley, dgbuckley09@gmail.com Timothy J. Deary, tdeary@pomfretschool.org Laura F. Dunn, laurafdunn@gmail.com Alysia LaBonte-Campbell, alabonte@rectoryschool.org Joshua W. Rich, JRich65@gmail.com Hyun-Yi Yoo, bona.h.yoo@gmail.com

Sung Min Choo, lctusmc@gmail.com Christian T. Ford, christian.t.ford@gmail.com Robert M. Saunders, rsaunders3485@gmail.com Etienne J. Vazquez, Etienne.j.vazquez@gmail.com

Breanna Dobbe wrote, “I am now the advertising coordinator for Goodwill Industries of the Greater East Bay, the publicity Chair for Relay for Life of San Ramon, and a teacher at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. I am also the CEO and founder of Synergia Effect, a 501(c)3 non-profit that turns physical activity into a method to fundraise for other health and wellness charities. We just received our acceptance as a federally recognized public non-profit organization, and will be launching a Kickstarter campaign to aid in the funding of our mobile application in the next couple of months.”

Congratulations to Sara Elliott, who was married to William Haydock on July 12, 2014 in Quogue, NY. Alysia LaBonte-Campbell and her husband, Evan, celebrated the arrival of their son, Nolan, on September 2, 2014.

2006 CLASS AGENTS:

2006 — Kasia Kolodziejczak ’06 and Luke Saar were married on June 28, 2014

CLASS NOTES

(Alumni/ae Reunion 2015 - May 1-3) CLASS AGENTS:

CLASS AGENTS:

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10th Reunion

Hillary Ross Charalambous, hillaryeross@gmail.com Michelle Gilmore Castiglione, gilmorem37@gmail.com Caroline McLoughlin Davis, ccm014@gmail.com Olivia T. Gray, olivia.t.e.gray@gmail.com Young Hoon Hahn, hahnyounghoon@gmail.com Maryam A. Hayatu-Deen, mahayatudeen@gmail.com Gregory E. Jones, Greg.jones.jr@gmail.com Katherine Winogradow Munno, kwinogradow@mac.com Caitlin M. Neiduski, cmneiduski@gmail.com Kathryn S. Nelson, nelson.kathryn.scott@gmail.com James E. Pinkham, jpinkham87@gmail.com Erin A. Wolchesky, erinwolchesky@gmail.com

Congratulations to Kasia Kolodziejczak, who was married to Luke Saar on June 28, 2014, at the Hartford Society Room in Hartford, CT. They had the pleasure of having Caroline McLoughlin Davis and Michelle Gilmore in attendance. Kasia and Luke now live in Farmington, CT, and Kasia is currently in her third year of medical school at NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Bates Parsons wrote, “My fiancée Leah and I are living out in Denver, working away while slowly but surely planning our wedding that is coming up in April 2015. She is in the security brokerage business, and I’m in mergers and acquisitions, so we are busy to say the least.

All is well and we are hoping to make it back to the Hilltop for a visit sometime in the near future!”

2010 — Marshall ’70 and Ginny Eaton visiting with former advisee Chris Kim ’10

2007 CLASS AGENTS:

Emily H. Detmer, edetmer46@gmail.com Julia D. Field, juliadfield@gmail.com Meredith E. Gagnon, meredith.gagnon@gmail.com Christopher P. Golden, chrisgolden07@gmail.com Holly A. Lorms, lorms.holly@gmail.com Shawn P. McCloud, shawnmccloud20@yahoo.com Nathaniel H. Proctor, nathaniel.h.proctor@gmail.com Else S. Ross, else.ross@gmail.com Darren A. Small, darren.allan.small@gmail.com Melissa A. Stuart, stuartm@bu.edu

Congratulations to Bryan Heckendorf, who received a Master of Science degree in mechanical engineering from Clarkson University on May 10, 2014.

Chris Golden moved to San Francisco in July 2014 to join NextGen Climate, a political action committee, as Digital Campaign Manager. He says, “After eight years in DC, I’m excited to be on the West Coast, while still being very involved in politics and at the forefront of the ever-changing digital campaign. I’m also excited to connect with Pomfret alumni in the Bay Area, and expand the geographic presence of the AAEC (Alumni Association Executive Committee).”

Lauren Peterson graduated from Villanova University in 2011 with a major in biology.

In May 2014 she graduated from University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law with a concentration in Health Law. She took the NY Bar Exam on July 29th and

30th and is now pursuing a career in special education law in Manhattan. During law school, Lauren interned with Project HEAL (Health, Education, Advocacy and Law) at Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, MD, supporting attorneys providing advocacy and legal services for children with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.

2008 CLASS AGENTS:

Alexandra D’Agostino, alidagostino@gmail.com Joanna A. Gaube, joanna.gaube@maine.edu Steven A. Harkey, steven.a.harkey@gmail.com Georgina L. Heasman, gheasman@gmail.com Emily F. Johnson, johnson.emily6@gmail.com Nicole A. Shirley, nicoleshirley717@gmail.com Charles H. Sullivan, charles.sullivan@me.com Sophia G. Welch, sophiawelch814@gmail.com

Meredith Colwell, a third year student at the University of Maryland School of Dentistry (UMSOD), has launched a new student organization with a classmate to help their peers become accustomed to life in the armed forces. Meredith started a UMSOD chapter of the national organization Tau Sigma Tri Service Military Dental Club. The organization offers students who receive military scholarships more opportunities to interact with their peers and learn from faculty members and alumni who served in the armed forces, as well as help students prepare for their leadership roles as future military officers.

Sarah Annicelli, Steve Cargill, Sarah Evans, Sarah Gately, Cam Clark, and Ali D’Agostino all celebrated Steve’s 25th birthday in Boston in September.

2009 CLASS AGENTS:

Thomas M. Atwood, tom.atwood@gmail.com Molly K. Downey, mollykathryndowney@gmail.com Zachary J. Golden, zgolden1@babson.edu Kathryn M. Kramer, katiekramer@gmail.com Haley A. Mitchell, 8hm12@queensu.ca Edward T. Ross, eddieross13@gmail.com Rebecca M. Smith, rmsmith.2291@gmail.com Samantha L. St. Lawrence, sam.stlawrence@gmail.com

2010

5th Reunion (Alumni/ae Reunion 2015 - May 1-3) CLASS AGENTS:

Gabriella W. Bucci, buccig92@gmail.com Mackenzie C. Deary, mackenzie.deary@gmail.com Maura J. Hall, maura.j.hall@gmail.com Ryan C. Johnson, ryanjohnsonc@outlook.com Kathryn G. Sheehan, kayla.sheehan22@gmail.com Samantha A. Slotnick, saslotnick@gmail.com Ryan C. Wainwright, rcw59@georgetown.edu

In October Chris Kim had lunch with former advisors Ginny and Marshall Eaton ’70 in Boston, and they had a great time! Chris has returned to the University of Notre Dame in Indiana after serving his two-year military commitment in Korea. Now in his junior year, Chris wants to major in finance.

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2011

2012

CLASS AGENTS:

CLASS AGENTS:

Muhammed-Jamil R. Ahmed, Muhammed-Jamil.Ahmed@uconn.edu Matthew D. Bourdeau, bourdeau_matt@bentley.edu Carlos H. Ferre, kenriferre@gmail.com Lilah T. Fones, lilahfones@gmail.com Czarina N. Hutchins, czarina.hutchins@fandm.edu Hannah P. Leo, hannah.leo@yale.edu Aidan P. McGloine, aidan.mcgloine@gmail.com Hamilton G. Morley, morley.hamilton@gmail.com Daniel R. Palumbo, dpalumbo@bowdoin.edu Margaret H. Thompson, mhthompson@quinnipiac.edu Raymond R. Zeek III, rrzeek@colby.edu

Elizabeth A. Bohan, ebohan@rollins.edu Ian J. Crouse, ijc2zt@virginia.edu Helen E. Day Sean P. Fitzpatrick, spfitzpa@colby.edu Caroline N. Hayssen, ceci.hayssen@richmond.edu Margaret Juna Kim, junakim@umich.edu Moira M. MacArthur, moiramacarthur6@gmail.com Jack W. Nicholson, jack.nicholson@richmond.edu Georgia W. Paige, georgiapaige@gwu.edu Sagar A. Patel, sap229@cornell.edu Sorrel M. Perka, perkasm@dukes.jmu.edu Biying Zhang, zhangbiying1992@gmail.com

Hamilton Herr graduated from Trinity College in May 2014 – after only three years – with a degree in chemistry. He is taking a gap year to prepare for medical school.

Cecile Lu wrote, “An interactive art/architecture installation that I helped to work on over the summer – ‘Swing Time’ – is now up and running

Alec Harris reported, “I have officially made it onto the University of Pennsylvania Varsity Sprint Football team as a walk on.”

2012 — Georgia Paige ’12 (left) and Julia Oswald ’12 are studying abroad in Cape Town, South Africa

2012 — “Swing Time” – an interactive art installation in Boston, worked on by Cecile Lu ’12

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CLASS NOTES

2013 — Director of College Counseling Bruce Wolanin caught up with Izzy Regine ’13 at Lake Forest College in September

in Boston, and will be there until around August 2015. Anyone in Boston, or near the Boston area, should definitely go check it out at the Lawn on D [adjacent to the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center on D Street]!”

Sam Zuckerman is currently studying Environmental Economics in a Central European context in Prague, Czech Republic.

He competed with the Czech National rowing team in Berlin, Germany at the finals for the European Champions Rowing League.

2013 CLASS AGENTS:

Alexandra R. Adams, aadams@millworkone.com Lindsay M. Barber, lindsaybarber@comcast.net Roxane J. Barbera, Roxybarbera@gmail.com Alyson J. Chase, chasealyson@gmail.com Hayden M. Clarkin, hayden.clarkin@uconn.edu Jordan P. Ginsberg, jordan.p.ginsberg@uconn.edu Alexis Gulino Daniel D. Kellaway, dkellaway@hamilton.edu Maximillian P. King, mpking93@gmail.com William F. Mackie, willmackie13@gmail.com Dylan G. O’Hara, Dylan.O’Hara@conncoll.edu Izabel M. Tropnasse, itropnasse@gmail.com

2014 CLASS AGENTS:

Bridget D. Bohan, bridget.bohan@furman.edu Gabriella M. Criscuolo, gabbycriscuolo@gmail.com Isaiah Henderson, isaiahhenderson95@aol.com Ryan S. Jackson, ryanjackson971@hotmail.com Hallie L. Leo, leoh@dickinson.edu Meghan J. MacArthur, x2014fxm@stfx.ca Annie J. E. Zalon, ajunezalon@yahoo.com Elise M. Zender, elisemariazender@gmail.com

Faculty / Staff News Congratulations to two of Pomfret’s faculty members who were married this past summer!

Sheridan Maguire [English, 2013 – present] and Mike Zimmer celebrated their wedding on August 2, 2014. Patrick Burke [History, 2010 – present] and former faculty member Kara Powers [Spanish, 2009 – 2011] were married on August 16, 2014 at The Rose Garden Lynch Park in Beverly, MA. The reception followed on the Lynch Park grounds at the Carriage House. They were surrounded by close friends and family including Pomfret faculty and friends Reb Brooks, Dolph Clinton ’92, Erin and Bobby Fisher, Waddy and Melissa Rowe, Tim Deary ’05, Pablo Montoro Alonso, and Sheridan and Mike Zimmer. Bobby Fisher officiated their wedding.

Congratulations to former faculty member Elliott Bennett [Science, 1995-1998], who was promoted to assistant principal of Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School in August 2014. She had been a science teacher at the school since 2000.

Former faculty member Hamilton Clark [Admissions/College Counseling, 1974-1977] was selected as head of school at the American Community School in Beirut, Lebanon in August 2014.

Faculty members Sheridan Maguire & Mike Zimmer were married on August 2, 2014

Former faculty member Victor Cahn [English, 1976-1978] published his latest book, Walking Distance: Remembering Classic Episodes from Classic Television, in July 2014 through Wipf and Stock Publishers. In his book, Victor revisits memorable episodes from eleven classic television shows, including The Twilight Zone, Maverick, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Fugitive, and All in the Family.

He offers his perspective on an integral part of mid-twentieth-century American culture, providing background for each program, reflections on why these series were influential when originally broadcast, and why they continue to be enjoyed decades later.

Former and present faculty members Kara Powers and Patrick Burke on their wedding day (photo by Forevercandid Photography)

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Births Sonya & John Huss ’94 Scarlett Huss August 24, 2014 Rachel & Marshall Scallan ’96 Adair Archer Scallan May 27, 2014 Nick & Polly Carter Antol ’98 Grace Marie Antol July 4, 2014 Theodore & Michaela Brown-Jones ’99 Michael Patrick Jones June 29, 2014 Alexandra & Tim Calabrese ’99 Celia Rose Calabrese September 17, 2014 Pomfret faculty members helped celebrate the wedding of former music teachers Sarah St. Denis and Greg Pearce (center) on November 1, 2014 Jillian & Carson Roy [Director of Admissions, 2011 – present] were pleased to announce the birth of their son, Grady William Roy, on October 4, 2014. He weighed in at 8lbs 5oz.

Both Grady and mom are doing well, and daughter Campbell is a proud and loving big sister!

Former faculty member Craig Gemmell [Biology, 1988 – 1992] will be the 12th Head of School at Brewster Academy in New Hampshire beginning July 1, 2015. Craig is currently assistant head of school at Groton School in Massachusetts.

Marriages

Sara Pratter & Ned Hallowell ’83 August 9, 2014 Christine Howard & Forbes Barber ’02 June 14, 2014 Emily Boggs & Will Walker ’02 June 28, 2014

Sasha & Jamie Calabrese Brätt ’01 Austin Schuyler Brätt September 18, 2014 Lauren & Rory Pillsbury ’01 Stafford Everett Pillsbury July 12, 2014 Kevin & Catie Romasco MacIlvane ’02 Mila Catherine MacIlvane June 8, 2014 Evan & Alysia LaBonte-Campbell ’05 Nolan LaBonte Campbell September 2, 2014 Faculty Jillian & Carson Roy Grady William Roy October 4, 2014

William Haydock & Sara Elliott ’05 July 12, 2014 Luke Saar & Kasia Kolodziejczak ’06 June 28, 2014 Faculty Sheridan Maguire & Mike Zimmer August 2, 2014 Faculty Patrick Burke & former faculty Kara Powers August 16, 2014 Former faculty Sarah St. Denis & Greg Pearce November 1, 2014

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CLASS NOTES

Former staff member Jillian Roy with her daughter Campbell and new baby son, Grady William Roy

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riday, November 14, 2014 was Brenda Hart’s last day of a nearly forty-year run as Assistant to the Head of School.

Since 1976, while overseeing generations of the Pomfret community come and go, Brenda maintained the ebb and flow of the routines and the demands of whoever was in charge of running the School (in her time she assisted Per-Jan Ranhoff, Burton MacLean, Gerrit Keator, Pat Bassett, Brad Hastings ’68, and Tim Richards). “It is hard to imagine our office without Brenda in it,” said Associate Head of School Pam Mulcahy.

“Her nearly forty years of service to the School, students, headmasters and faculty have been distinguished by good humor, outstanding work ethic, careful attention to detail, graciousness in the midst of every situation, wisdom and compassion. We will miss her.”

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Obituaries

Visit our website at www.pomfretschool.org/Obituaries for detailed tributes.

Remembering those members of the Pomfret community who have passed

To request a printed copy, call the Advancement Office at 860-963-6129.

Peter Daland ’39 October 20, 2014

Ogden Nield ’52 July 4, 2014

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CLASS NOTES

William R. Proctor, Jr. ’39 October 6, 2014

Douglas T. Putnam ’49 August 23, 2014

Charles J. Hinckley ’69 October 6, 2014

Don A. Pope ’73 April 20, 2014

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e were saddened to learn that Wyatt “Wye” Garfield ’43, beloved alumnus, former faculty member, and former trustee, passed away on August 4, 2014 after a brief illness. Wyatt was an outstanding role model to many at Pomfret, and he will be missed by all who knew him. He joined the Pomfret faculty in 1948, teaching both English and math for over a decade, serving as Admissions Director and as a very successful crew coach. During Wyatt’s tenure as crew coach in the 1950s, Pomfret won the Worcester Regatta trophies six times in 12 years.

His passion and loyalty for the School never wavered, and this was reflected in his many years of service to Pomfret. Wyatt served on the Board of Trustees from 1961-65 and had been an Honorary Life Trustee since 1995. He was a Class Secretary/Agent for many years and also served on the Alumni Council. In 1999, Wyatt was the recipient of the prestigious Alumni Award and was inducted into Pomfret’s Athletic Hall of Fame in 2011.

Wyatt Garfield ’43 August 4, 2014

Wyatt shared his life with his wife, Kitsy, and their six children. They divided their time between homes in Mystic, CT and Cuttyhunk, MA. Wyatt is part of a legacy of relatives who have attended Pomfret, including his brother Newell Garfield, Jr. ’42, cousins Stanton Garfield, Jr. ’43 and George Garfield ’46, and nephews James King ’65 and John King, Jr. ’67.

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n October the Pomfret community was hit hard by the loss of Joe Robichaud ’15, a second-year senior who passed away during October break near his home outside of Quebec. Joe was a beloved student, classmate, and friend. He was also a forward for the Griffins varsity hockey team. Recruited to play hockey, Joe brought to Pomfret his immense talents as an athlete. But more than being a leader on the ice, he quickly became a leader in the community. Joe had a strong sense of his own individuality; tattooed across his back were the lines from William Ernest Henley’s poem Invictus:

I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.

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October 19, 2014

During his short time here on the Hilltop, Joe earned a spot as a respected athlete (wearing jersey #10) and as a senior prefect, but he also clearly valued his Pomfret experience. In the serendipitous scheduling of Chapel talks, he got a chance to speak to the community a week before he died. In the spirit of how he viewed life according to Joe, we got to see how he viewed life, he showed himself to be a true Griffin—passionate, respectful, and someone who will be forever worthy of our esteem.

“We should do the right thing,” he said, “and be kind to one another because we never know who among us is having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year. Spread love. Smile.

Laugh. And don’t be afraid to thank the people around you for what they do for you.”

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n September 17, 2014, Pomfret held a special reception at the Yale Club of New York City, featuring a presentation by Professor James E. Rothman ’67, Trustee and recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

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Professor James Rothman ’67 and Board of Trustees Chair Charlie Wilmerding P ’11, ’14 (l-r): Andrew Sereysky ’67, Ben Lubin ’52, Jeff Oppenheim ’67 (l-r): Susan Shehan P ’15, ’17, Christina Galanti Dickson ’02, Jo Anna Galanti Fellon ’02 (l-r): Chet Lasell ’54, Jud ’60 and BB Reis

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(l-r): Jane Linhares ’14, Lindsay Barber ’13, Hollis McLoughlin ’14 and Will Mackie ’13

Northeastern & Boston Universities Gathering September 18, 2014 2.

Clockwise from lower left: Brian Miller ’12, Peter St. Lawrence ’14, Mike Daly ’13, Anna Bagley ’13, Ollie Adekanbi ’13, Margaret Therrien ’11, Mike Wolak ’12, Zach Bellerose ’12, Cayman MacDonald ’12, Molly Mead ’14

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Former Faculty Luncheon October 29, 2014

On October 29, 2014, thirteen of Pomfret’s former faculty members and spouses convened on the Hilltop for their annual reunion. (l-r): Hagop Merjian, Agnes Merjian, Jan Hrasky, Joanie Pratt, Jim Goodwin ’66, Linda Goodwin, Steve Danenberg, Mary Danenberg, Bob Sloat, Caroline Sloat, Don Hinman, Mary Lou Hinman, Ben Williams, former Headmaster Jay Milnor, Bill Mees, Beverly Morton, Phil Morton, Head of School Tim Richards, Ann Hinchman, Warren Geissinger, Walter Hinchman, Director of Advancement Melissa Bellanceau, and Anne Richards.

San Francisco Reception September 26, 2014

(l-r): Director of Advancement Melissa Bellanceau, Head of School Tim Richards P ’15, Chris Golden ’07, Diane & Phil Rettger ’75, David Hall ’70 & his wife Marta, Libby Wood ’01, Alex Sweet ’01, Matt Hobbs ’64, Liz Sadler ’05, Michael Gray P ’17. Missing from photo: Nick Mettler ’95.

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Head of the Charles October 19, 2014

(l-r): Faculty member Louisa Jones P ’04 with Kim Carlson Benner ’80 and Laura Keeler Pierce ’03 at Pomfret’s tent at the Head of the Charles in Boston.

Boston Area Paddle Party New Canaan, CT Paddle Party November 14, 2014

Front row (kneeling) (l-r): Jerry Craft P ’18, Winnie Goodrich ’05, Meg Campbell P ’01, ’07 Back row (l-r): Autier Craft P ’18, Patrick Connors P ’17, Nancy Goddard Smith P ’13, Pete D’Agostino ’07, Paul Fowler ’64, Sheryl Santiago, David Still ’05, George Santiago ’75, Steve Cook ’64, Amanda Barnes Zampiello ’94 with baby Morgan, Geoff Zampiello, Lide Banks Goodwin ’92, Charles Goodwin, and David Weil

November 21, 2014 Front row (l-r): Mike Newton ’96, Katie Hartz Allen ’91, Laura Keeler Pierce ’03, Danna Day ’92, Elsie Wolcott P ’18, Dick Fates ’63, Louisa Jones P ’04, Ellie Dorr, Cooper Hastings ’01 Back row (l-r): Will MacKay, Chad Cooper ’96, Vassar Pierce, Dana Strom ’00, Glenn Dorr

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Fall Family Weekend guests were entertained by the Pomfret GriffTones and other arts performances during an all-school dinner (l-r): Grandparents Bill and Fran Matthews with Steve, Hunter ’16, and Lyn Rehn (l-r): Hasung Song, MK Song ’17, Michelle Song, and Trustee Shelley Hwang Lisa Charles-Jordan and David Jordan with their daughter, Alexsa Jack ’18 (center)

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The boys varsity soccer team at the bonfire and pep rally Abby McThomas ’16 with her father, Steve McThomas, and their furry friend, Austin Bill, Amanda ’15, and Maria Kewer

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