Spring 2012 Magazine for Seven Hills School

S P R I N G

2 0 1 2

SEVEN HILLS EA R LY C H I L D H O O D E D U C AT I O N

THE

ready for a lifetime of discovery

SCHOOL

THE

SEVEN

HILLS SCHOOL

Development Office 513.728.2400

www.7hills.org

email: alumni.news@7hills.org Fax: 513.728.2409

02 16 28 31 48

Contents

Front cover: Riley Moser, Kindergarten Back cover: Doherty pre-K Mini Pig Marathon, May 2011

Chris Garten Head of School

Vol. XXXV No. 2 Spring 2012

Chris Hedges Editor Director of Communications

Seven Hills is a publication of The Seven Hills School.

Early Childhood Education at The Seven Hills School

By Head of School Christopher Garten

School News Duke Snyder Profile By Kathy Deubell

Alumni Profiles, News and Class Notes Upcoming Alumni Events

Kathy Deubell Writer Susanna Max Photography Management Carol Brueggemeyer Graphic Designer

Margo Kirstein Director of Development Nancy McCormick Bassett ’83 Director of Alumni Relations

Thank you! Over $17.6 million raised for students and teachers through The Critical Assets Campaign

teachers

8.2 million raised $

On December 31, 2011, Seven Hills successfully completed The Critical Assets Campaign for endowment. This was the culmination of four years of effort, spearheaded by the Board of Trustees and supported by the efforts of dozens of volunteers. The Critical Assets Campaign has added more than $17.6 million to the school’s endowment, an achievement that has had a powerful impact on our ability to sustain the excellence of this school.

Endowment for Faculty Salaries Ensuring the Next Generation of Excellence

curriculum

1.2 million raised $

The Critical Assets Campaign has added endowment to support faculty salaries.

Endowment for Professional Development Maintaining a Vital Learning Community

The new endowment funds secured by The Critical Assets Campaign have enabled us to double the annual budget for professional teacher training.

Endowment for Curricular Innovation Preparing Students for a Complex Global Community

The Critical Assets Campaign has endowed a new program to provide summer grants to teachers who create innovative curriculum units.

Endowment for Financial Aid

students

2.6 million raised $

Supporting a Wide Range of Students

The Critical Assets Campaign added new endowment for financial aid which has, in turn, made possible a 20% increase in need-based financial aid.

unrestricted endowment

5.6 million raised $

1

early childhood A T

S E V E N

H I L L S

S C H O O L

A Visit to a Small Planet – By Chris Garten, Head of School Some of my favorite places to visit are our Early Childhood classrooms. In truth, even after 35 years in teaching, this is the division of the school in which I have the least experience. So, over the past three years, I have made a priority of trying to learn as much as I can about what makes our Early Childhood program so distinctive. As part of this effort, I had several opportunities this past year to

“shadow” some of our youngest students through their day. What follows is a kind of journal recording some of my observations.

One is struck, first of all, by the visual appeal of the learning spaces in pre-K and Kindergarten.

Despite slight variations, most of our classrooms have generally the same configuration. A large central area dominates for “circle time,” where the day begins and ends and where, at other times, students are engaged in whole group and small group activities that prompt inquiry and interest.

The other areas of the room are arranged into a series of centers and work stations designed to expose students to stimulating, high interest materials and activities that promote core academic and social skills. The

Spanish • • • • • • art • • • • • • music • • • • • • drama

2

engaging the whole child

materials available in these centers are changed periodically to provide opportunities to explore the particular thematic strands that students pursue during extended content units. Kitchen areas provide space for students to conduct experiments and to undertake art projects. Often the “cooking” units are more about measuring, reading and following directions than producing edible results!

• • • • • • physical

education

••••••

library skills • • •

A unique strength of Early Childhood education at Seven Hills is

especially eager to make sense of the world around them, and

instruction provided by specialist teachers in Spanish, art,

they respond powerfully to opportunities to explore new topics

music, drama, physical education, and library skills. This is a

through movement and the arts.”

critical part of our early childhood program. As Head of

To provide the integrated learning experience that helps young

Doherty Patti Guethlein explains, “Pre-K and Kindergarten children are at a critical time in their development.They are

children thrive, the Program is set up to emphasize continual

E X P L O R I N G T H E W O R L D O F L I T E R A C Y B Y

K A R A

M E A D O R

SEVEN HILLS PRE-K TEACHER

The Reading Area is a comfortable space that gives students frequent opportunities for language exploration. The environment is rich in print materials including letters, word puzzles and picture books to stimulate verbal exploration. While pre-K children most often listen to the rhythm of language as stories are read aloud, Kindergarten students are making sense of the sound/symbol relationship as they begin to read on their own. Some read occasional words, others read whole books, but each takes pride in his/her newfound skill in unlocking the mystery of the written word.

In the Math Center, neatly arranged baskets of materials provide experience with such key numerical skills as sequencing, measuring, counting, patterning, sorting, graphing,

••

and estimating. Early pre-K experiences in numeration and conservation of numbers lead naturally to Kindergarten-level math lessons as pre-K students experiment with counting, grouping, inventorying, adding, and subtracting at “cash registers” and “grocery stores” and countless other simulations of real-life numerical experiences.

Spanish • • • • • • art • • • • • • music • • • • • • drama collaboration between the core teachers and specials teachers.

Lessons about Greek gods in core classrooms are enhanced by

Each room contains a host of opportunities to learn through one’s senses. In pre-K, a “sand table,” laden with tactile materials like clay, sand, corn kernels or beans and a host of vessels for collecting, decanting, grouping, measuring, and exploring cause and effect, stimulates the senses. These kinesthetic and spatial experiences are crucial to building students’ conceptual understanding of the properties of matter, an experience especially critical for their future study of science and math, not to mention the development of the fine motor skills, which are the precursor to letter formation in Kindergarten. Project-based study begins in early childhood classrooms, creating the pathway for the integration of reading, writing and math. Around Thanksgiving, the Kindergartners embark on their Mayflower continued. . .

• • • • • • physical

Spanish

education

•••

Doherty Spanish teacher John Krauss loves to hear his

“Will you please read to me?” This is a familiar request in the pre-K classroom where a child’s love of literacy, the ability to read and write, is nurtured through inspiration and imagination. Children learn through exploration, gaining literacy and language skills through books, but also by playing rhyming games, singing songs, working alphabet puzzles, and sharing simple poems.

Books are located throughout the classroom, as words and pictures are incorporated into all aspects of a child’s day at school. The classroom brims with materials that promote experimenting with writing—from letter stamps to markers and traditional writing tools. Students trace or write words that correspond with lessons and themes in the classroom. Children find joy in making birthday cards for Mom or learning to write fun messages that can then be delivered to friends through classroom mailboxes.

art class. As Carolyn Fox, Head of Lotspeich, explains,

Spanish greetings outside of class or parents recounting dinner

“Connecting lesson topics adds dimension and depth to early

table conversations at which children share new Spanish phrases

As an Early Childhood educator, I am moved every day by the invaluable impact early literacy development has on children. My little learners just

childhood learning.”

about the weather, days of the week, or favorite colors.

know it’s FUN!

opportunities to produce crayon drawings of superheroes in

youngest students exchanging

continued. . .

3

A Visit to a Small Planet continued project. Through reading stories and their own writing, they learn not only of the Mayflower but a lesser-known ship, the Speedwell. Since

reflecting on the preparations they would make for their sailing adventure and the feelings they would likely experience as a passenger.

Measurement and scale are introduced as they construct a model of the Mayflower, incorporating practical math applications.

In the Science Center, which is stocked with measuring and observational tools and artifacts often linked to the current content unit, students have frequent opportunities for observing and exploring, experimenting and predicting. Our fiveyear-olds anticipate the hatching of a chick’s egg in Kindergarten by taking measurements, making predications and observations, and tracking results, often referring to the calendar as the time nears.

this ship was unable to complete the journey, children write, pretending to be a passenger

The Writing Center gives students a chance to work on letter recognition and vocabulary

Spanish • • • • • • art • • • • • • music • • • • • • drama

• • • • • • physical

In the Dramatic Play Area, students are encouraged to explore their emotional experience through active, imaginative roleplaying. The scenarios they explore not only help develop their creativity and imagination, but they also hone their communication and problem-solving skills.

At the Art Center, students develop not only their creative expression and their visual

education

••••••

library skills • • •

There’s no doubt that children in our earliest grades are

children know by heart, and read it partly in English and then

enthusiastic about learning to speak a second language.

substitute Spanish words in places. Children light up as they realize

“Storytelling, conversation, listening and lots of visual cues are

they know the meaning of the Spanish words without being told.”

important foundations for teaching language to young learners,”

Lotspeich’s Spanish teacher Megan Hayes employs the high-energy

John explains. “I’ll take the Hungry Caterpillar, a book the

44

acquisition as well as the fine motor skills involved in copying and writing. By Kindergarten, children see themselves as authors. They write in journals and dictate and illustrate their own stories with confidence. They write notes to each other and anticipate eagerly the author visits that enrich our library each year.

Spanish

foreign language method TPRS or Teaching Proficiency through

early childhood A T

S E V E N

perception skills, but also fine-tune their motor skills and build an emerging awareness of color, shapes, and spatial relationships as well. In the Block Area, students refine their understanding

of patterns and spatial relationships and engineer elaborate imaginary cities.

In all of my visits, I have been struck by how purposefully each day’s learning activities are

••

H I L L S

N U M B E R S E N S E L E A D S M AT H R E A D I N E S S B Y

In order for children to be successful with future math skills, they need to have a strong foundation in number sense: the awareness and understanding of numbers, how they relate to each other and how they are used to solve basic math problems.

planned out. On the day of my most recent visit, the classes had, for several days, been involved in a sustained exploration of the oceans and of sea life. Every area of the classroom had been laid out to make this exploration as rich and as stimulating as possible. The Science Center was teeming with sea creatures: mollusks and octopi, starfish and shells of every conceivable size and shape. Students were asked to sort and classify these objects by size, shape, and color; like field biologists-in-training, they matched the objects with images on cards to identify them by name and function. Later, they were encouraged to count and to record observations of shells and to measure and make predictions about relative size and volume. In visits to Kindergarten classrooms, I saw similar thematic threads, Asian artifacts and jungle habitats, rich content themes continued. . .

• • • • • • physical

education

•••

Reading and Storytelling. Using a word bank of new vocabulary

context, much the way they do when they learn their native

learned through emphatic gestures and context clues, Megan

language. “Use of this very active holistic approach involving

has students orally “construct” and repeat an elaborate, high

reading, gestures, movement, repetition, and a great deal of

interest story to reinforce target vocabulary and grammatical

active student participation encourages a natural process in

structures. In this way children experience Spanish words in

language acquisition and builds confidence to experiment using the language,” explained Megan.

C O H E N

SEVEN HILLS KINDERGARTEN TEACHER

S C H O O L

Spanish • • • • • • art • • • • • • music • • • • • • drama

T H E R E S A

T O

continued. . .

Building on lessons learned in pre-K, our Kindergartners strengthen their number sense as they begin to use numbers in the context of daily life.

Beginning each day using the calendar and weather chart, the children strengthen their identification and sequencing of numbers, patterning, counting and skip counting. Our children are asked to go beyond the memorization of numbers and to understand how much or how big/small a number is by using the abacas, manipulatives, counters, the 100’s board and bead chains in various activities. Throughout the year, math concepts are integrated into our units of study, giving children hands-on experiences using the math skills they have learned to help conceptualize numbers, measurements, and amount.

Children use conventional and unconventional tools to measure distance, height and length—for instance, the length of their own “wingspan,” or the distance a balloon-powered rocket travels.

Helping a child to develop number sense through meaningful experiences lays the essential foundation for future success and confidence in the study of math as he progresses through school.

5

early childhood A T

S E V E N

H I L L S

S C H O O L

A Visit to a Small Planet continued that engaged students in exploring, even more fully, the lively world beyond their immediate experience.

Part of this is the Kindergarten’s Flat Stanley project: classrooms were adorned with postcards from around the world as students followed the travels of this character, documenting his peregrinations on maps and graphing which continents are most often visited.

In the Writing Center, pre-K students used stencils to outline the shapes and names of the sea creatures on display, which provide the fine motor and language experiences necessary for the sentences and stories they begin to write in Kindergarten.

The Dramatic Play tables were festooned with colorful maps and lithographs depicting vibrant undersea landscapes. On each table sat dozens of plastic figures representing all manner of undersea life, crustaceans and dolphins, seahorses, anemones, sharks, boats, bathyscaphes, and divers.

Handling these thoughtprovoking objects, students were encouraged to tell each other rich, imaginative stories of the interactions between fish and divers. I was stunned, frankly, by the sophistication of the vocabulary: in a brief exchange I heard from students about “plankton” and “vertebrates” and “diving bells.”

Spanish • • • • • • art • • • • • • music • • • • • • drama

art 46

• • • • • • physical

Later these stories would be captured as students dictated their narratives to their teachers and then illustrated them in picture books.

In another center, students traced and cut out the parts of a sea turtle and fastened them together

education

••••••

library skills • • •

In pre-K and Kindergarten, art class is a time to explore, to

Doherty art specialist Mimi Stricker said, “Our youngest artists

experiment, and, in the words of Lotspeich art specialist Jody

develop kinesthetically by feeling the texture of paint or

Knoop, to “get messy.” According to Jody, “Providing stim-

squeezing clay between their fingers. As a group, the children

ulating projects with rich resources and compelling examples of

wonder, ‘What will happen when red and yellow

art work, produced both by other students and by the Masters,

are combined?’ They conduct the experiment and predict the

inspires young children to develop their visual imagination.”

outcome and, in the process, add to their palette of skills.”

E N G I N E E R S B Y

AT

J E N N Y

W O R K C A R R

SEVEN HILLS KINDERGARTEN TEACHER

with brass brads to create moving limbs and head. I was amazed by the students’ persistence at these difficult fine motor tasks and even more so by how effectively they are taught to collaborate, to talk together and to share tools and strategies. One student laid out all of the paper and scissors they would need; another, especially skilled with scissors, helped one of his friends but later advised, “You have to cut the rest yourself; this is your project.”

During these extended units, students get valuable experience in working as part of a team.

The culminating product for this unit is a vast marine mural that will decorate one long wall of the classroom. Students will each produce individual elements: papier-mâché jellyfish, starfish and sea turtles. All the students will be

••

part of the planning and the execution. Circle time and small group meetings provide time for planning and discussion.

Watching our teachers over a series of visits, I was struck, once again, with how critical is the social component of learning. According to educational researcher Anne Epstein, social and

Spanish • • • • • • art • • • • • • music • • • • • • drama

music

emotional learning has four components: 1. emotional self-regulation and selfawareness: students learn to act with greater forethought and less impulsiveness 2. social knowledge and understanding: students build their awareness of social norms and customs 3. social skills: students learn strategies for interacting with others, especially perspectivetaking and empathy 4. social dispositions: students express their personality traits --- though shaped by innate temperamental differences, these can be influenced by environment.

Epstein suggests that in our eagerness to prepare students for increasingly rigorous academic challenges, it’s easy to overlook the social continued. . .

• • • • • • physical

education

•••

Young children love movement and

teacher Robin Wilson. These experiences also initiate students

respond powerfully to the rhythms in

into a lifelong ability to appreciate and respond to music. In

music. “Pre-K and Kindergarten music classes are designed to

pre-K and Kindergarten, students are asked, “What does the

permit students to explore rhythm and pitch through a series of

music tell you? How does it make you feel?” Up on their feet,

eurhythmic experiences that help students feel comfortable

children sway slowly to quiet classical music or kick up their heels

expressing themselves through music,” said Lotspeich music

to a rowdy country song.“In pre-K and Kindergarten, concepts of

continued. . .

After decades in Early Childhood education, I can attest to the simple truth that play is a child’s work. Every moment is meaningful and purposeful.

It just happens to be fun. I especially love watching my little engineers in the block area as they construct a tower or a city. I watch them explore the world of shape, weight, counting, planning, measurement, symmetry and cooperation. I watch serious faces as they negotiate the direction of the project, experiment, and learn through trial and error. Children bring their own unique personalities to the task, and their collective imagination guides the process. A construction concept may change as the structure evolves, and language and logic skills are important to the conversation. I love hearing the detailed stories that describe their structure, the process and problems, and the thrill of the final product. They are always eager to start over and try again with a new idea and an improved set of skills.

7

A Visit to a Small Planet continued dimension of learning. In fact, she points out, educational research shows emphatically what every experienced teacher already understands, that “social and cognitive skills are inextricably linked.” Academic progress depends on social-emotional elements like listening, task persistence, and flexible problem solving. Clearly, young children who are emotionally secure and have positive social experiences are much better prepared to become able learners.

future learning. This starts, most formally, in the highly ritualized “circle time,” which begins each school day. Students are assigned a spot.

They are encouraged to sit quietly, to look at whoever is speaking. Each student is given a job, an area of responsibility, and they are

Throughout my visits, I have seen countless examples of the subtle ways by which skilled teachers help socialize students to support their

Spanish • • • • • • art • • • • • • music • • • • • • drama

• • • • • • physical

beat and rhythm are explored through movement: clapping hands and tapping toes. Improvisation happens with drums, jingle bells and rhythm sticks,” explains Doherty music teacher

48

music

encouraged to support one another in fulfilling these community obligations. Circle time is used to reinforce the rules of conduct that the class has developed together. Students are taught to acknowledge one another, to listen, to be supportive, to wait their turn, to give each other proper acknowledgment and respect.

This plays out, even more fully, in hundreds of interactions that teachers orchestrate in the course of each school day. Teachers model caring behavior by responding attentively to children who are angry or upset. They encourage students to identify and share their feelings with one another. “How would you feel if someone said that to you” or “You know how it feels to have to wait for something you really want to do.” Over and over again, teachers affirm and recognize positive behaviors: “You did a great

education

drama

••••••

library skills • • •

Lights and…..ACTION! Children are pretending they’re astronauts walking

on the moon; then they become rodeo cowboys, then robots!

Maria Eynon. “Music instruction—so important to enhancing

Character Quick Change, a favorite dramatic play exercise for

reading, math and thinking skills—takes place all throughout the

our youngest students, encourages creative expression with a

day for pre-K and Kindergarten children.”

early childhood A T

S E V E N

H I L L S

T H E B Y

Over and over again, students are encouraged to think through the consequences of their actions. When conflicts arise, they are asked to assess each other’s motivations and to differentiate between accidental harm and intentional harm. In the most skillful way, teachers teach their students how to resolve conflicts and to settle interpersonal differences on their own.

In a very thoughtful position paper published in 2009, the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), the authors

O F

G I N G E R

R U B I N

SEVEN HILLS PRE-K TEACHER

S C H O O L

job waiting for those scissors.” “Thank you for sharing the blocks with Steven.”

W O N D E R

“ W H Y ? ”

enumerated the teaching practices at the core of the education of young children. These practices define the “optimal balance of adultguided and child-guided experiences.”

1. To help children develop initiative, teachers encourage them to choose and plan their own learning activities.

2. To stimulate children’s thinking and extend their learning, teachers pose problems, ask questions, and make comments and suggestions.

3. To extend the range of children’s interests, teachers present novel experiences and introduce stimulating ideas, problems, experiences, or hypotheses.

4. To adjust the complexity and challenge of activities to suit children’s level of skill

When young children are challenged to wonder, suppose, question and ideate through purposeful work, we see the development of the critical habits of mind, such as curiosity, creativity and mental flexibility. When a tower tumbles down or an ice cube melts, the teacher stands back and waits for the inevitable question: “Why did that happen?”

When colors blend and simple shapes in space begin to look like letters or a story is developed, the teacher is tapping into the natural curiosity of children through purposeful classroom and curriculum design. Often the question leads to the next question rather than the answer; this is meaningful and complex learning. Pre-K children are fascinated by the “whys” of the world.

When educating earliest learners, it is vital to foster and allow time for children to marvel at the world, explore nature, and manipulate ideas. There must be time and space to truly linger over “why.”

continued. . .

••

Spanish • • • • • • art • • • • • • music • • • • • • drama

• • • • • • physical

education

•••

purpose. By re-enacting scenes from favorite books or creating

encourages children to experiment creatively with new ideas,

mini plays from their own imaginations, students learn while

roles, and emotions. Performing as part of an ensemble enables

they play. “In every creative dramatics class are subtle but

children to exercise skills for problem solving with peers.” When

important lessons, such as being part of a team, patient listening

children explore through creative dramatics, there’s no limit to

and empathy for others,” says Doherty and Lotspeich drama

where their imaginations might take them.

teacher Russell White. “Early childhood dramatic play

continued. . .

Photo by Leigh Taylor/The Cincinnati Enquirer

Some years ago, Pulitzer Prize winner and historian Barbara Tuchman said, “Every government needs great askers.” This is especially true today.

So the next time your children ask why the sky is blue, wonder right along with them.

9

early childhood A T

S E V E N

H I L L S

S C H O O L

A Visit to a Small Planet continued and knowledge, teachers increase the challenge as children gain confidence and understanding.

5. To strengthen children’s motivation to persist and willingness to take risks, teachers provide experiences for children to be genuinely successful and to be challenged.

6. To enhance children’s conceptual understanding, teachers use various strategies, including intensive interviewing conversation, and encourage children to reflect on and “revisit” their experiences.

7. To encourage and foster children’s learning and development, teachers avoid generic praise and instead give specific feedback.

The NAEYC monograph makes abundantly clear how critical is the role

Spanish • • • • • • art • • • • • • music • • • • • • drama

phys-ed

• • • • • • physical

To fulfill this critical role, teachers of children this age must have a keen understanding of

education

••••••

library skills • • •

For pre-K and Kindergarten students, movement and learning go

Marty Gerhardt, “Students engage in problem solving every day

hand in hand and our children move a lot. Physical

as they try moving their bodies in new ways: catching a ball or

Education classes focus on providing sensory experiences,

learning to skip.” Even in physical education, topics from core

large motor activities, motor planning, as well as important

classes are reinforced. “In addition to valuable motor skills, we

social skills like following directions and problem solving.

also reinforce concepts children are learning in homeroom—such

According to Doherty Physical Education specialist 10 4

of a skilled teacher in “stimulating, directing, and supporting children’s development.” Early Childhood teachers are responsible for “fostering a caring learning community through their teaching.” Teachers must “know each child well” and also develop partnerships with the other caregivers who are most significant in a child’s life. Working in grade-level teams, our teachers take responsibility for orchestrating a sequence of carefully-planned experiences designed to foster the growth of each individual child. The art of teaching young children is in knowing how to direct each student’s exploration into the learning activities best suited to his current level of development in a given domain.

“ME” BECOMES “WE” B Y

S U S A N

S E T T L E

SEVEN HILLS PRE-K TEACHER

Our pre-K classroom is a community—a place where learning takes place through positive relationships between and

“the predictable sequences in which children acquire specific concept skills and abilities.”

They must also have the creativity and imagination to design activities to “build on prior experiences and understandings.”

It is the teacher’s primary responsibility to “plan the environment and to schedule daily activities to promote each child’s learning and development” and to “arrange firsthand, meaningful experiences that are intellectually and creatively stimulating, [that] invite exploration and investigation and engage children’s active sustained

••

teachers who are experienced and highly trained, whose practice reflects robust and ongoing professional development, so the curriculum constantly evolves and is never stagnant. I see teachers with a deep knowledge of each child, who develop strong personal relationships with parents and other caregivers and seek to forge an active working partnership. involvement.” In the best early childhood programs, teachers present children with opportunities to make meaningful choices and to “assist and guide children who are not yet able to enjoy and make good use of such opportunities.”

This is what I see, time and time again, in my visits to our classrooms. I see Early Childhood

I see small class sizes and ample support personnel that permit the low ratios that facilitate individualization. I see teachers remarkably skilled at adapting the curriculum to the unique developmental needs and interests of individual learners. I see a program that is committed to developing the whole child, where academic, physical, and social development are equally valued. I see a carefully balanced continued. . .

Spanish • • • • • • art • • • • • • music • • • • • • drama

• • • • • • physical

education

•••

Katie Forster. “For those of us who teach Physical Education, the

library

best part of our jobs is watching children master new skills; they

lucky our students are to have such rich resources—from pre-

beam with pride as they exclaim ‘I did it! I didn’t give up!’”

literacy board books to short story paperbacks to chapter books

as letters, numbers, colors and shapes—by integrating them into our active play,” explains Lotspeich Physical Education specialist

Thousands of books await our pre-K and Kindergarten children as they enter the world of reading! How

and eventually to Middle School texts—there is something

continued. . .

among children and adults. Children are taught skills they need for making friends, solving social problems and sharing.

Although there is plenty of opportunity for independent work and play, most centers and activities are intentionally designed to encourage and build social interactions and success. Children quickly learn that the world they find at school is a very social place. The instructional items and activities found here are for the community. There will be sharing, turn-taking, negotiating, compromising, problem solving and countless other new concepts that will be required, rehearsed, executed and possibly mastered by some standards, prior to the time they move on to Kindergarten. For most children in pre-K, this is a new experience. Teachers have a very critical role in providing guidance in this important transition from the very egocentric child of early age 3 to the child age 4-5 who prefers cooperative play. Everywhere you turn in our pre-K classroom, there are rich opportunities to build on these life-changing skills.

As teachers, we take pride in the accomplishments of our students. We know that these skills are a prerequisite to lifelong social and academic successes.

11

A Visit to a Small Planet continued program that includes both sequenced academic readiness activities and ample opportunities to explore. I see a rich array of special classes in Spanish, physical education, library, art, drama and music, and a skilled counselor, who orchestrates a developmental guidance program and provides to parents expert advice about the social and emotional development of their children. I see a spacious and well-designed facility, equipped with high-interest learning materials that foster a multisensory approach.

I see open spaces conducive to exploration and discovery, well-equipped playgrounds and outdoor spaces that promote active play, and indoor “muscle rooms” to speed the development of gross and fine motor skills.

Above all, I see learning activities that are carefully designed and sequenced to foster core academic and social skills. What may often seem like play really lays down the necessary foundations for future learning. The learning materials our teachers select are substantive, learning activities are intentional, and the program has been developed with regular input from Kindergarten and other Lower School teachers to ensure that the skills our students acquire are truly those that are the most critical to their future growth and development.

Spanish • • • • • • art • • • • • • music • • • • • • drama

library 12 4

• • • • • • physical

education

••••••

library skills • • •

for everyone! By second grade the library will be a place for

important mission is to help develop a lifelong love of books and

digital research and discovery, but for now it is all about

reading. A welcoming library, brimming with a rich store of

nurturing a love of the written word.

interesting and exciting books and materials, helps to awaken a

At the heart of the library program are the teacher/librarians

child’s curiosity and encourages her to explore books. Literacy

who know every child well and nurture his or her reading interest. Lotspeich librarian Marcia Snyder asserts, “Our most

development begins for most children by ‘reading’ and interpreting the illustrations and progresses from there.” In the

early childhood A T

S E V E N

H I L L S

S E N S O R Y I N T E G R AT I O N I N E A R LY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT B Y

S C H O O L

In a typical year at Seven Hills, 30 to 40% of our graduating seniors earn National Merit recognition. That’s a remarkable record of achievement. But of those seniors recognized, more than 60% typically began their careers right here in our Early Childhood program. Clearly getting off to the right start means a great deal!

Spanish • • • • • • art • • • • • • music • • • • • • drama

• • • • • • physical

education

•••

library, familiar books greet children like old friends, and new

and steps through the door of our school library. The children

books introduce them to unexplored worlds and ideas. Together

immediately sense this is a comfortable place and feel welcomed

these books, both the familiar and the new, open their world a

– by committed librarians, certainly, but also by the hundreds of

bit wider. According to Doherty librarian Linda Wolfe, “A child’s

interesting characters in our books – some who are old friends

literacy journey begins on the lap of someone they love. The

and others who are eagerly waiting to get acquainted.”

adventure continues when he or she climbs down from that lap

M O S E R

SEVEN HILLS LOWER SCHOOL COUNSELOR

Educational experts, who rarely agree on anything, are unanimous in their assertions about how critical Early Childhood is in establishing the habits of mind and the emotional resilience so necessary for future learning. We take great pride, as a school community, in all that our students achieve as they mature. So it’s easy to miss, sometimes, how much of who they are and what they have achieved started in their earliest schooling.

••

M I T Z I E

Sensory integration involves brain processing of various senses—touch, taste, feel, etc.— and body responses to these senses. Christy Isbell, author of Sensory Integration: A Guide for Preschool Teachers, describes it this way: “The brain constantly focuses on sensory information—screening, organizing, and responding to input—so that the body can function.” An infant, for instance, practices sensory integration when she puts something in her mouth to discover what it is. She is trying to make sense of her world.

This is sensory integration.

It is the means through which children learn. As their nervous systems mature, so do their sensory systems.

Attention to this is important for every child but critical for some. Our classrooms, muscle rooms and gym, art and music rooms are all filled with resources that stimulate the senses: touch, sight, hearing, taste and smell along with vestibular and proprioceptive. The children are working with materials that require large motor balance and the means to explore texture, temperature and weight.

Children develop core strength and motor planning through heavy muscle work.

“Squishy” boards provide resistance, children work an object through a maze. Playdough, sand, and shaving cream provide very different experiences in forming letters.

Early Childhood educators have long known the importance of movement and small and large motor development to learning, but new research argues for even more carefully-designed activities that provide sensory experiences. For this reason, our Early Childhood classrooms incorporate a wide range of activities that provide a balanced “sensory diet.”

13

early childhood A T

“My favorite activity at

school is reading chapter

books and doing super hard math problems.”-

timothy

“ What we particularly admire about early childhood education at Seven Hills is how teachers allow each child to develop at his or her own pace—into

my teacher is so so nice..

- c a l l ie

14

I feel proud at school when I am finished with my whole math.

- Sophie

the little person they

Our children have become self-assured, inquisitive individuals who love going to school every day. They have learned to be are meant to become.

good citizens of the school and have developed friendships that may last many, many years.” Tushar and Ami Kothari

S E V E N

“

H I L L S

S C H O O L

T

he early childhood program at Seven Hills has given

our children, Winnie and Peter, intellectual, emotional and social confidence. Their confidence has been developed and fostered both in group settings among their peers and through individualized attention from their outstanding teachers.”- Drs. Peter and Susan Cha

“I like working at the writing center because I write cool things.”

-

Everett

what I love best about my school is that it’s different. It’s like a home..- Sabrina

“our

classroom has a jungle and an ocean.”

- Samantha

voices “our teachers

I T

helpful.”

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single

are really

- cecilia

“I feel proud when I donate things to other people and make pillows for them.” - Andres

Looking back

From Bill Markovits and Nancy Greiwe (parents of “lifer” Alex Markovits): “Seven Hills’ pre-Kindergarten taught

S TA R T S B Y

W I T H J U D Y

A

S I N G L E

S T E P

A R N O L D

SEVEN HILLS LOWER SCHOOL COUNSELOR

step.” For our youngest students, the primary emotional challenge is that of separating from home to join the community of the classroom.

Every morning, these children leave the embrace of Mom or Dad to be welcomed by their “other parent”—their teacher. The degree to which this is difficult is dependent, to a great extent, on a child’s temperament and on the expertise of the caregivers. We see the extrovert who comes in boldly, greeting her teacher and her friends with barely a wave goodbye to Mom or Dad, as well as the boy who needs just one more hug in order to feel secure enough to start his day. That need for safety and security, the most basic for human development and growth, must be met before learning, friendship and independence can follow. Our skilled teachers, with smiles and a few words, know just the right

Alex principles that he has come to value throughout his time at school: be kind to one another; don’t be afraid to

amount of encouragement to give to each student.

try something new; and be respectful of those who are different from you. Pre-school was fun, engaging and

In minutes, and with just a few “single steps,” the school

interesting, and set the tone for Alex’s future at Seven Hills. Mrs. Balskus (who Alex was lucky enough to have again in the fifth grade!) and Mrs. Reenan were both master teachers who brought out the best in their students.

Many friendships, established in pre-Kindergarten, are still with Alex today, as he prepares to graduate in May.” From 12th grader Alex Markovits: “As I look back, about to graduate from Seven Hills, I will always fondly recall the warm and nurturing environment in pre-Kindergarten. I met some of my best friends there and looked forward to coming to school each day. I remember babbling to my parents each day about all I’d learned and the fun activities that Mrs. Balskus and Mrs. Reenan had planned for us. Pre-school certainly provided the starting stimulus for my growth, both as a student and as a person.“

day has begun.

School News S T R A T E G I C

P L A N N I N G

Seven Hills Launches New Strategic Planning Effort 2 0 1 2 - 2 0 1 3 S T R AT E G I C P L A N N I N G P R O C E S S

STEERING COMMITTEE

Co-Chairs Shannon Carter ’67 Beth Schiff Trustees Steve Baggott Patrick Rogers Jen Stein Sarah Steinman Administration Christopher Garten Susan Marrs

Mission Review

Faculty Tracy Hickenlooper Jennifer Licata Anne Ramsay

T H I S S P R I N G the Seven Hills Board of Trustees has initiated a strategic planning initiative. The goal is to produce a new Strategic Plan, which will establish Seven Hills’ strategic priorities for the next five years (2013 – 2018).

The planning process will be led by trustees Shannon Kelly Carter ’67 and Beth Schiff, who have engaged a strategic planning consultant, Bruce Shaw, the former Head of The Shady Hill

Parents Ron DeLyons Rica Ligeralde Alumni Tory Parlin ’63

Focus Groups & Constituent Surveys

School in Cambridge, MA, and former president of the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS).

In addressing the faculty at a meeting in March, Beth Schiff stressed the importance of a highly inclusive process. “We want a plan that sets a clear direction, consistent with the School’s core values and mission and that addresses the most important strategic issues facing the School. We also want to be sure that the goals of the Plan are thoroughly researched and widely shared. Accordingly, we have sought to design a process which creates ample opportunity for all members of this community to share their perspectives.”

As part of the effort to gather perspectives from as many stakeholders as possible, the Steering Committee will be hosting a series of open

Planning Retreat

Task Force Meetings

Draft Plan

meetings and focus groups with a variety of different constituents. In May, they will send an electronic survey to the full school community.

Then, beginning in September, there will be a Board Retreat and a number of Task Force meetings to hammer out the key strategic priorities. These recommendations will be sent to the full Board for consideration next March and April.

Board Chair Jane Garvey stresses the School’s commitment to ongoing planning. “The Strategic Plan of 2007 focused on securing the resources to sustain the strength of the Seven Hills teaching faculty and provide for ongoing professional training and curricular innovation.

Now we have the opportunity to build further momentum by developing a compelling vision for the next phase of Seven Hills’ evolution.”

Board Deliberations

Plan Adopted and Shared

april • • • may • • • june • • • july • • • aug • • • sept • • • oct • • • nov • • • dec • • • jan • • • feb • • • march • • • april • • • may

16

2012 2012 2012 2013 2013

23

School News N A T I O N A L

Two Seven Hills seniors named candidates in 2012 Presidential Scholars Program

M E R I T

S C H O L A R S

100% of Seven Hills National Merit Semifinalists were named finalists!

Seven Hills seniors Izzy Arjmand and Jonathan Tiao have been named candidates in the 2012 Presidential Scholars Program, one of the nation’s highest honors for graduating high school seniors.

Presidential Scholars are selected on the basis of academic achievement, personal characteristics, leadership and service activities. The Commission on Presidential Scholars will make final selection of up to 121 Academic Scholars (including one male and one female from each state) and up to 20 Arts Scholars. The U.S. Department of Education will announce the 2012 Presidential Scholars in May.

13

Congratulations to our National Merit semifinalists (nearly one-quarter of the class of 2012), all of whom were named finalists in the 2012 scholarship competition. Those finalists are (at right, front) Ginger Johnson, Kate Harsh, Izzy Arjmand, Betsy Johnson, Courtney Linne, Sharon Liao; Olivia Koster, Adair McWilliams, Jonathan Tiao; Alex Baggott, Alex Ferree, Harrison Addy, Alex Markovits.

Congratulations, too, to Claire Duncan (right), who was named a finalist in the National Achievement Scholarship Program, and to Allie Scheiber (far right), who was named a Scholar in the National Hispanic Recognition Program.

100%

finalists

17

School News Habitat for Humanity spring break trip

Spain: latest in foreign study opportunities

ser vice

Over spring break, 23 Upper School students spent March 14-29 in Spain as part of the Seven Hills Spanish Exchange Program. Following a three-day stay in Madrid, the students spent eight days in Burgos where they each lived with a Spanish family and attended Colegio La Salle High School with their exchange partner, sitting in on classes conducted in Spanish.

Twenty-three students from Burgos, Spain, spent September 22-October 2 at Seven Hills, attending classes with their exchange partners and living with their host families.

Students make a difference on “Alternative Spring Break” A group of Upper School students and their chaperones took the opportunity to spend part of Spring Break 2012 making a difference in a Scioto County community. From March 19-23, on Upper School’s second community service spring break trip in two years, the team of Seven Hills students and faculty volunteered with Scioto County Area Habitat for Humanity, located approximately two hours away.

This trip presented an opportunity for students to recognize, act, and reflect upon the needs of an Ohio community that is different from their own. In addition to the good work they did with Habitat for Humanity, while in the area, the group engaged in activities with local park officials to learn about the natural features of the Scioto County area—including nature walks, reptile workshops, and a visit to a working farm.

18

news For more rs, classroom

no of our students’ ho events, photos l ia ec activities, sp see our bi-weekly and more, please Seven Hills Buzz, online publication, /buzz. at www.7hills.org

School News Seven Hills to launch individual iPad program for Middle, Upper in 2012–13

Providing the iPads to every student in Middle and Upper Schools will enable teachers to place even greater emphasis on inquiry-based learning. Students can conduct extensive electronic research and gather live data to answer complex questions. Students will have immediate and portable access to e-textbooks and note-taking software that even more fully develops individual study habits and productivity.

During the current school year, a pilot program in grades six and nine and in individual classes schoolwide enabled students and teachers to explore the learning opportunities of the iPad 2.

Valuable feedback from participants in the pilot program led the School to expand the individual iPad program.

Head of School Chris Garten said, “At Seven

Hills we place a great deal of emphasis on

real-life problem solving. We believe this type of learning not only prepares our students for future academic successes, but also helps them build the leadership and workplace skills they will need throughout their lives. Putting powerful educational tools, coupled with creative and innovative curriculum, in the hands of our teachers and students broadens horizons and truly brings classroom lessons to life.”

Two Upper School students have qualified for the extremely challenging American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME). To be eligible for the national exam, both students were required to take the American Mathematics Competition (AMC) test in their respective grade levels. Sophomore Brian Hu scored in the top 2.5 percent of the country on the AMC 10 test. Senior Izzy Arjmand scored in the top five percent on the AMC 12 exam.

“It is great to see such creative, critical thinkers further exploring their passion for math and challenging themselves at the next level,” said Anne Ramsay, Math Department Chair.

ipad

Starting in the 2012–2013 school year, Seven Hills will equip every student in grades 6–12 with an iPad 2 to use at home and on campus during the school year.

American Invitational Math Exam

Freshen your decor and help your Resale Shop at the sam e time! Drop off your donations Monday through Saturday between 9:00am and 3:00pm or we can arrange pickups of large item s. Spend an extra few minutes loo king around the Shop—you’ll find a trea sure of your own! Open thr ough: June

23, 2012 Reopening : July 30 , 2012 Closed: June 24-Ju ly29

inquiry-based learning, critical thinking and

19

School News Frederick Hauck Scholarships

Cum Laude Society Congratulations to new members of Cum Laude Society

scholarships

The Seven Hills School has awarded the 2012

Frederick Hauck Scholarships in Math and Science to sixth

graders Natalie Choo and Michael Barresi, seventh grader Calvin O’Brien, ninth grader Pearce Kieser, tenth grader Andrew Ligeralde, eleventh grader Bethany Buck, and eleventh grader Sara Johnson.

20

The Upper School honored its new inductees in the Seven Hills chapter of the Cum Laude Society, a national honor society which recognizes academic excellence, at the Cum Laude Dinner on April 11. New members are juniors Allie Baretta, Bethany Buck, Grace He, Katherine King, Priyanka Parameswaran, Claire Romaine, Leah Yuan; seniors Alex Baggott, Courtney Linne, Allie Scheiber, Suhel Singh, and Jonathan Tiao. The event also honored the members who were inducted last year as juniors: Izzy Arjmand, Emily Bedell, Alex Ferree, Ian Grosghal, Sharon Liao, and Alex Markovits. Guest speaker was Sandra Smythe.

Head of School Chris Garten said, “Modeled after Phi Beta Kappa at the college level,

World-renowned nuclear scientist and philanthropist Frederick A. Hauck established the Hauck Scholarships at Seven Hills in 1983 to recognize students who are demonstrating outstanding achievement and commitment in mathematics and/or science.

the Cum Laude Society recognizes academic excellence in some of this country’s most

Winning students entering grades 9-12 receive a one-year scholarship of $1,000 to be applied to the 2012-2013 tuition at Seven Hills Upper School. Winning students entering grades 7-8 receive a grant of $250 to be applied to tuition in an approved summer enrichment program.

today means that these students are being recognized as among the best of the best in

prestigious high schools. Membership is strictly limited to schools with exemplary academic programs, and Seven Hills is one of just a handful in Ohio. Induction secondary education in the nation.”

It’s a tradition at the event for faculty members of the Cum Laude Committee to address each new member with remarks compiled from quotes from the student’s teachers. Those remarks may be found in The Buzz (April 20) posted on our website at www.7hills.org.

www.7hills.org/buzz

School News Studying marine biology in Florida Keys

For the fourth year in a row, Gerber Analytics, LLC has named The Seven Hills School one of Ohio’s top five Academic Champions. Seven Hills achieved

seacamp It was a great opportunity and unforgettable experience for 27 sixth, seventh and eighth grade students and chaperones Jen Licata and Dan Dinger, who immersed themselves in their Marine Biology Study Trip to Newfound Harbor Marine Institute at Seacamp, located on Big Pine Key in the Florida Keys.

While on their marine adventure, students snorkeled near coral heads, swam with nurse sharks, kayaked near mangrove islands, dissected algae to discover the biodiversity within the algae and learned about near-shore ecology.

One of Ohio’s top five Academic Champions the highest performance rating among ranked Cincinnati-area schools. The School is also the only co-ed program in the state to earn the Academic Champion honor four years in a row. The annual Gerber Analytics study identifies the best schools in Ohio based on the Ohio Graduation Test (OGT), which evaluates the performance of tenth graders in math, reading, social studies, science and writing.

This year, just 84 schools, or 8.2 percent of the schools in Ohio, had at least 91 percent of their tenth grade students pass the test. At Seven Hills, 100 percent of the students passed all five subject-area tests, the highest proficiency rate in Cincinnati. Overall, 96 percent of students scored “Accelerated” or “Advanced” on all five of the subject tests, and Seven Hills was cited for excellence in nine of the 10 performance categories.

what is being done to help them survive after being injured by boats, fish nets, water pollution, etc. “Students were able to meet some of the ‘patients’ of the hospital,” said Jen Licata. “It was an amazing experience for everyone involved!”

In addition to rating Ohio schools based on proficiency rate, the report calculates a Performance Index Score (PIS) for each school, determining the overall performance of the school. Seven Hills achieved a PIS of 116.1, the highest in Cincinnati and the third highest score in the state of Ohio.

“This analysis represents the hard work of so many motivated students and deeply committed teachers,” said Head of School Chris Garten. “We’re proud that our students

are prepared to succeed not only on standardized academic tests, but also in real-life problem solving situations.”

Students also visited The Turtle Hospital to learn about various species of sea turtles and

21

School News I

N

T

E

R

N

A

T

I

O

N

A

L

D

I

N

N

E

R

International Dinner & Family Night Seven Hills families came together March 9 to celebrate the rich diversity of our school community at the Fourth Annual International Dinner. Families enjoyed a wide variety of edu-tainment activities from different countries and cultures.

Performances included Bollywood and Indian folkdances by Rohan Patil and Neil Badlani, a Chinese love song sung and danced by members of Upper’s Chinese I class, Pamána dance troupe, a celebration of friendship by Upper School’s Chinese II class, a presentation by Spanish teacher Megan Hayes, a Chinese dance presented by visitors from the Hua Xia Chinese School in Mason, and a Scottish bagpipe presentation.

hotos See moreatiponal Dinner

rn from our Inte at ight online & Family N .org/buzz, www.7hills 2012 issue.

March 16,

22

School News T I T C O M B

A W A R D

G R A N T

R E P O R T S

From San Salvador to Guatemala:

2011 Miriam Titcomb Memorial Fund grants for faculty enrichment Since 1978, the Miriam Titcomb Fund, an endowed enrichment fund established by alumnae, has made it possible for over 100 Seven Hills faculty and staff to have meaningful travel and study experiences. These adventures are personally and professionally inspiring for our faculty and staff, and their increased scholarship and enthusiasm enriches the entire school community. The recipients of 2011 grants were Genny Serrano and Terry Betts.

From left to right is Genny’s family: Mother-in-law, Virginia Serrano; husband, Luis Serrano; daughter, KiAna Serrano and Genny Serrano.

Admissions Assistant Genny Serrano received a grant for her project, “Bridging the Gap of Two Families and Cultures.” She and her young daughter traveled to El Salvador to visit her husband and his family and learn about El Salvadoran culture.

“On July 3, 2011, my daughter KiAna and I departed the United States for Aguilares, San Salvador, El Salvador, with the goal of being totally immersed in the El Salvadoran culture.

We were easily able to accomplish this by visiting my husband and living with his family for two weeks,” Genny told us.

“We were able to experience native food including pupusas, a thick corn tortilla stuffed

with cheese, meat and other fillings; curtido, a salad that is similar to cole slaw; as well as various fruits found in El Salvador. We were able to spend time with our extended family and friends at a beach, local market, pools and shopping areas. I am still not fluent in Spanish but the experience has increased my willingness to use what I have learned!”

Of the memorable experience, Genny concluded by saying, “We were truly honored to be able to reside with ones so willing to share their home, time and possessions with us, however humble it may have been by U.S. standards. We will never take the availability of running water, ease of transportation, energy or security for granted again.”

Doherty school nurse Terry Betts received a Titcomb Fund grant to participate in a medical

mission trip to Guatemala last summer with her daughter, Amy Betts (’07).

“My trip to Guatemala was a great opportunity for me to work with Caring Partners International and use my nursing skills to help people in a country where good medical care is hard to get. I was able to work alongside my daughter, Amy (’07), who, using her Spanish skills, acted as a translator for me as well as others on our team of 28 people,” said Terry.

“Our main purpose, since the medical clinics were held in two local churches, was to help [the local clergy] reach out to people who may never before have stepped through the door of a church.”

Terry continued, “Over 2,000 people came for medical care but were also presented with the gospel of Jesus. My take away—I am now sponsoring a young girl named Jhiré, helping to provide for her schooling and spiritual growth.”

Terry Betts and her daughter, Amy, who served as translator

Amy Betts holding Terry’s sponsored child, Jhiré and Terry holding Jhiré’s sister

23

School News

2012 grants

The Miriam Titcomb Memorial Fund 2012 grant recipients announced

24

Pi Day! Congratulations to the fifth grade winners of Pi Day medals for memorizing digits of pi (and thank you to the Dads who volunteered to be pied by the winners): Jonas Keller won the Gold Medal for memorizing 236 digits of pi, and he pied Dennison Keller.

Max Lane won the Silver Medal with 118 digits of pi, and he pied Drew Logan. Neil Badlani won the Bronze Medal with 110 digits of pi, and he pied Jonathan Theders.

The following faculty are recipients of 2012 grants from the

Miriam Titcomb Memorial Fund.

Doherty music teacher Maria Eynon has been awarded a grant for her project, “A Musical, Historical, Cultural Heritage Journey.” Over a two-week stay, she will visit England and Wales and explore their rich historical and musical heritage.

Upper School science teacher Linda Ford has been awarded a grant for her project, “Kenya: Wildlife and People in Integrated Landscapes.” She will participate in Earth Expedition’ s “Kenyan classroom” to study that country’s sustainable approaches to human-wildlife coexistence.

Upper School art teacher Diane Kruer has been awarded a grant for her project, “Muses and Museums,” a cross-country trek to “follow the art trail across the United States, stopping along the path to see art museums, art centers, sculpture parks, galleries and cultural centers.”

Max Lane, Jonas Keller and Neil Badlani

Annual Giving A T

S E V E N

H I L L S

Your new or increased annual gift will help secure a

S C H O O L

$50,000 grant!

The Seven Hills School has received a conditional grant of $50,000 from The Edward E. Ford Foundation to support instructional innovations in global awareness and ongoing technology training for teachers!

To secure this annual giving grant opportunity, Seven Hills must raise, by December 1, 2012, $50,000 from new gifts or increases in gifts from last year.

Please make your new or increased gift to The Seven Hills Fund today! You may make a safe and secure gift online by visiting www.7hills.org/giving.

Special Opportunity for Lotspeich Alumni!

The Lotspeich Alumni Endowment for Faculty Salaries has been created to honor the memory of beloved teachers who have taught at Lotspeich over the years, as well as to support the current team of outstanding, world-class Lotspeich teachers.

In order to name and endow the fund, the goal is . Donations may be directed toward any of four specific funds within this overall endowment; please contact the Seven Hills Development Office at 513.728.2430 for more information and to make your gift.

$25,000

Your gift to The Lotspeich Alumni Endowment for Faculty Salaries will count as your annual gift for fiscal year 2012, which ends on June 30.

The 2011-2012 Seven Hills Fund Goal=$1,050,000

$140,000 left to go We’re striving to get as close as possible to 100% participation in annual giving by all members of the Seven Hills community. Every gift makes a difference! Please visit www.7hills.org/giving.

{

$1,050,000 $1,000,000 $900,000 $800,000 $700,000 $600,000 $500,000

Your generosity makes $400,000 possible the full richness of the Seven Hills $300,000 experience. Gifts to The Seven Hills Fund provide $200,000 the margin of excellence, all the unique learning experiences that make us who we are as a school: the tools and technology for hands-on, inquiry-based instruction and the materials and equipment for inspiring arts programs and inclusive athletic teams.

QUESTIONS? Please contact Meridith Oberklein Spille ’95, Director of Annual Giving, at 513.728.2438 or meridith.spille@7hills.org.

25

School News B

O

O

K

S

F

O

R

L

U

N

C

H

Books for Lunch 2012 presents David Henry Hwang A high point of the school year came with the visit of Books for Lunch guest author David Henry Hwang, Tony Award-winning playwright of M. Butterfly, screenwriter, and librettist.

Books for Lunch 2012 included a Lecture Luncheon and book signing at Cintas Center on February 3, a Dinner with the Author at the home of Lisa and Dirk Schneider, an assembly with Upper students, and meetings with students in the Young Family Library.

We are grateful for the generosity of the event’s sponsors and for the efforts of Committee Chairpersons Nancy Silverman and Kari Ellis and their parent committee, which made Books for Lunch 2012 such a success.

David Henry Hwang delighted his audiences with his humor, candor, rapport with the students, and stories from his Chinese-American background and his career as a writer.

Speaking on the subject of “Don’t Forget To Fail—the Artist’s Journey,” Hwang told the students that he rarely speaks at schools—usually only six times a year and then only at universities. He was pleased with the exchanges he enjoyed with our students.

“Realize the importance of risk,” he said. “Risk is what leads to growth. If you aren’t failing regularly, you aren’t working hard enough or risking enough and you don’t learn and grow.

26

“You need to try something uncomfortable. That can be an important turning point in your life. Your life is an artistic project: learning how to grow and not being afraid to fail. Art recreates the artist. There’s a symbiotic relationship. Writing ends up pointing to something in my life.”

Dinner hosts Dirk and Lisa Schneider, David Henry Hwang, Chairpersons Nancy Silverman and Kari Ellis

Hwang had two pieces of advice about playwriting: “The best way to learn theater is to see a lot of plays” and “The audience is always right.”

Author David Henry Hwang says to budding writers,

“Your life is an artistic project: learning how to grow and not being afraid to fail.”

The author met with Upper School students in the Young Family Library to talk about his experiences and sign books.

School News W

The boys swim team finished third in the MVC. At sectionals, two swimmers qualified for districts, with one of them qualifying in two individual events. One swimmer was named to the All-League First Team.

Varsity tennis coach Tim Drew was recognized by the Ohio High School Athletic Association (OHSAA) and the Ohio Tennis Coaches Association (OTCA) with the Sportsmanship and Integrity Award for tennis in the state of Ohio. Tim has been coaching boys and girls tennis and teaching science at Seven Hills for 23 years, achieving records of 260–125 for the girls and 313–86 for the boys.

During his tenure, he has been named MVC Coach of the Year 16 times and City Coach of the Year five times.

Both the boys and girls varsity soccer teams have been awarded the Team Academic Excellence Award by the Ohio Scholastic Soccer Coaches Association for maintaining a team grade point average of 3.0 through the season.

The boys varsity basketball team had a tough 2011-12 season with no returning starters and one of the toughest schedules in Div. IV. Coach Willie Hill said, “The players competed hard in every game and showed great character and sportsmanship.” AllLeague honors included one Second Team and two Honorable Mentions. The future is bright, as our junior varsity and freshman teams had great seasons.

Ellie Wilson

For detailed sports news visit www.7hills.org/buzz.

E

R

S

P

O

R

T

S

The junior varsity basketball team finished with an 11-7 record overall and 8-5 in the MVC. The freshman team finished a successful regular season with a 10-3 record and won the MVC tournament!

The girls varsity basketball team had a regular season record of 14-4, including big wins over Cincinnati Country Day, Madeira and CHCA. All-League honors included one First Team, two Second Teams, and two Honorable Mentions. Three players were named to the All-District team.

Hillary Goldsmith

Athletic Director Duke Snyder’s significant contributions and example of character and sportsmanship were recognized by the Miami Valley Conference at the MVC All-Star Recognition Program at CCDS on March 4, 2012. League President Theresa Hirschauer announced the creation of the Dick Snyder Sportsmanship Award, which will be given to one athlete from each league school “who displays character, integrity and sportsmanship during the season. Each winner is nominated by his/her respective Athletic Director.”

See the article on pages 28-29.

T

The gymnastics team’s scores improved with each meet, meeting its goal this season for a team score of 115. The team placed seventh at the city meet. One gymnast’s achievements at one meet included placing first on vault, beam, and floor and being named the First Place All-Around Gymnast.

The cheerleading team had a great season with 14 girls on the squad. The squad had several first-year cheerleaders, as well as girls who have cheered all four years of Upper School. One cheerleader was named to the All-League First Team.

The sixth grade boys basketball “Team Robinson” completed a perfect season with a 19-0 overall record.

Along the way, their achievements included a CYO League title and first place in the Bethany School Tournament, and they ended the season with a CYO Division II City Tournament Championship!

The seventh and eighth grade girls basketball team had a great season, finishing with a record of 16-2 and advancing to the championship game in the MVC Photos by Keith Neu Girls A tournament.

Roderick McFarland

The girls swim team had a very successful season, finishing fourth in the MVC. At sectionals, four girls qualified for Districts, with two of them qualifying in two individual events. At the State meet, one swimmer placed ninth in the 200 IM and she medaled in the 500-Yard Freestyle, placing fifth in the state. She was named All-League Female Swimmer of the Year, and she was one of four swimmers named to the All-League First Team. Another swimmer placed 13th at the Diving Sectionals.

The winter sports season was marked by many team and individual honors. Before we report news of the winter season, we want to share other exciting athletic news.

Reena Sen Gupta

Winter 2011-12 Sports Highlights

N

Harrison Addy

Winter Sports Honors

I

29

DUKE SNYDER

M O D E L O F C H A R A C T E R , I N T E G R I T Y A N D S P O R T S M A N S H I P By Kathy Deubell There are in the lives of institutions—the fortunate ones—individuals whose contributions are so significant that they are transformational to the very nature of the institution, its values, mission and character. Richard “Duke” Snyder, who is stepping down from his position as Athletic Director in June after 38 years at Seven Hills, has been such a presence at our school.

Duke 1979 yearbook photo

Duke today

Duke Snyder came to Lotspeich as a physical education teacher in 1974, the first year of the merged Seven Hills School, when the Upper School was barely coeducational. He became Seven Hills Athletic Director in 1979.

It’s an understatement to note the significant growth in the Seven Hills athletic program since then.

A modest man, Duke is quick to acknowledge the vital role that his “teammate,” wife Marcia, and their children—Jennifer ’90, John ’96, and Kristen ’01—played in the success of the Seven Hills athletic program. Seven Hills athletics is truly a family affair for the Snyders.

The expansion and enhancements of indoor and outdoor athletic facilities for athletes, coaches, and fans have been a source of great pride for members of the school community through the years, as Seven Hills hosts three seasons of full schedules for Lower, Middle, and

28

Upper School competitions, as well as citywide sports events. These facilities have been made possible by the generous support of individuals who are devoted to our school and its athletes.

respected among athletes, coaches, athletic directors, and parents in Southwest Ohio for his integrity and character. This is our way of paying tribute to him.”

Today the Upper School alone has 34 teams in 14 different sports, which compete in the Miami Valley Conference and other leagues, capture numerous league championships, and make regular appearances in state tournaments.

Approximately 80 percent of our Upper School students play at least one sport, and Seven Hills’ no-cut policy is an important factor that distinguishes our athletic program. Seven Hills is known for the sportsmanship of its athletes and coaches, and the school has repeatedly earned the Harold Meyer Sportsmanship Award, as well as league sportsmanship recognitions.

Athletics at Seven Hills are characterized by a culture of sportsmanship, teamwork, camaraderie, support of all individual and team efforts, and respect for all players and coaches.

Generations of Seven Hills athletes, coaches, and fans attribute that culture—a hallmark of Seven Hills—in large part to Duke Snyder. It’s a culture and an influence that will continue to define the Seven Hills athletic program and benefit its athletes for generations to come.

The Miami Valley Conference recognized Duke Snyder’s significant contributions at the MVC All-Star Recognition Program at CCDS on March 4, 2012. League President Theresa Hirschauer announced the creation of the Dick Snyder Sportsmanship Award, which will be given to one athlete from each league school “who displays integrity and sportsmanship during the season. Each winner is nominated by his/her respective Athletic Director.” The first Seven Hills recipient of the Dick Snyder Sportsmanship Award is senior Claire Duncan.

In announcing the new award, President Hirschauer said, “Mr. Snyder is universally

The plaque marking his induction states: “Seven Hills Athletic Director and Head of the Physical Education Department; Personification of the Seven Hills values and sportsmanship in thoughts and actions; Beloved coach (Varsity Boys Basketball 1981-93, Cross Country 1983-88, Track 1983, Golf 1989); Dedicated teacher of the importance of winning in life and inspirational mentor to many; SWOBCA Coach of the Year 1989-90; Miami Valley Conference President 1996-98.”

This description came to life in the words of the alumni and others who shared their experiences with Duke Snyder as students, athletes, teachers,

Seven Hills formally expressed that belief on August 15, 2010, when Duke was inducted into the Seven Hills Athletic Wall of Fame.

In presenting the Wall of Fame plaque to Duke, Scott Kaufman (’86), who is now the District Athletic Director for Wyoming High School, said, “Today we honor the service and commitment that you have given to the students, athletes, coaches, teachers, staff and administration of Seven Hills for so many years, the programs you have helped build, the opportunities you have created for so many kids, and the passion with which you have done it year in and year out.”

Claire Duncan, first Seven Hills recipient of the Dick Snyder Sportsmanship Award, with Duke at MVC All-Star Recognition Program, March 4, 2012

and fellow coaches at his induction–the culminating activity of Seven Hills Sports Day, a day of alumni vs. varsity sports competition, earlier on August 15. The many members of the Seven Hills community who gathered to honor Duke nodded their heads in affirmation as one speaker after another recounted their experiences and expressed their gratitude to their teacher and mentor, coach and colleague.

1987 alumnus Jonathan Hawgood served as master of ceremonies, and speakers included Head of School Chris Garten, former Headmaster Peter Briggs, boys soccer coach Terry Nicholl, and the following alumni athletes, some of whom continued careers in athletics after graduation: Isabelle Kalubi (’00), Benjamin van der Horst (’05), Marty Mueller Gerhardt (’85), Scott Kaufman (’86), and Elliott Anderson (’85).

In addition to the speakers at the induction ceremony, comments from alumni and colleagues were displayed on posters. Here are a few of them: “What has always stood out to me the most about Duke throughout the years is his overwhelming kindness.” (Marty Gerhardt ’85,Doherty P.E. Teacher & Athletic Coordinator) “His investment in us never tempered or watered down his position of authority. It only enhanced it, strengthened it.” (Elliott Anderson ’85)

“All I know is that everything I do, every decision I make, is done with me asking the question, ‘What would Duke do?’” (Scott Kaufman ’86) Some of the letters from alumni sent for Duke’s “memory book” were read. The following are brief excerpts from two of the letters.

Warren Anderson, Class of 1982, wrote, “Whether we were winning or losing, Duke was an excellent coach–a basketball coach, yes, but more importantly a life coach: a ‘here’s how you should think about yourself’ coach; a ‘here’s what being a family man is all about’ coach; a ‘here’s what it means to be part of a community’ coach.”

Barb Frey, longtime Athletic Administrative Assistant and currently a member of Upper’s Support Services team, shared this quote by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.: “Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.” Barb said, “When I heard this, I immediately thought of Duke.”

Many members of our school community would agree.

At Duke’s Wall of Fame honoring in August, 2010, (from left) Head of School Chris Garten, Isabelle Kalubi ’00, Former Headmaster Peter Briggs, Benjamin van der Horst ’05, Jonathan Hawgood ’87, Marty Mueller Gerhardt ’85, Dick Snyder, Scott Kaufman ’86, Elliott Anderson ’85

29

Summer at Seven Hills Anything but typical!

Transform your child’s summer from uninspiring to unforgettable!

All children in the Greater Cincinnati area are welcome!

With over 120 programs for children ages 3-18, our Summer Program is hands-on, adventurous, energetic, creative, and offers a full spectrum of activities!

Sign up for one week‌or all eight!

To learn more

visit www.7hills .org/summerpr ogram

D AV I D

Alumni News

H O L T H A U S ,

T H E

E N Q U I R E R ,

S A T U R D A Y

J A N

2 1 ,

2 0 1 2

Confident Woman around mad men Wyant changed corporate makeup of P&G. If you were a woman working at Procter & Gamble in 1967, you were probably either a secretary or a researcher knocking on doors to interview housewives. Peg Wyant had other ideas. Wyant was the first woman hired directly into the

fast track of marketing at the world’s largest consumer products company. It was a ground breaking move, and she had her eyes on even bigger goals.

At the job interview, “I remember asking them if I could be president of P&G,” she recalled. “I had no reason to think I couldn’t be.”

Wyant shared stories about her early days at P&G at an intimate lunch hosted recently at the company’s downtown headquarters.

She described an almost Mad Men-like atmosphere at 1960s P&G, a time when marketing and advertising was dominated by men in gray flannel suits. It’s hard to imagine that time now at a company that today almost routinely makes the “best employer” lists put together by “Working Mother” and other magazines.

But that was the atmosphere, confirmed by one of the people who interviewed her in 1967, John Pepper.

Pepper, at the time a young brand manager, did go on to be president of P&G, as well as its CEO

and chairman. He still remembers a brochure he was given as a new hire in 1962 that described management opportunities in marketing. It talked about becoming a “brand man,” not a “brand manager.”

The first page read, “New men tell us that before joining the company it was difficult to understand the extent of the opportunity provided for growth and advancement.”

“At that time, it was part of the culture,” Pepper said. “But she changed that. Peg was a trail blazer.”

Dealing with the glass ceiling from day one

It was into this environment that Wyant ventured, not planning to stay very long.

Despite coming from something of a blueblood Cincinnati family – her father, Timothy Hogan, was a lawyer and federal judge, and she attended

Seven Hills School with children of P&G’s chief executive – she only wanted to work in Cincinnati long enough to earn her way to the East Coast.

From the moment of her first P&G employment test, the confident, outspoken Wyant made it clear she wouldn’t be stereotyped.

“They started giving me a typing test and I said, ‘Don’t bother, I can’t type.’”

“I still can’t believe I got the job,” she said, “because there was a lot of prejudice.”

She got the job, but that’s not where the prejudice ended. As an ambitious young woman in a maledominated corporate culture in the ’60s, she was a target. A colleague told her point blank, “I’m not going to cooperate with you.”

Finding lunch partners was a problem. Her

weight dropped to 95 pounds, she said. “No one asked me to lunch.”

She went to lunch with a secretary once, which raised eyebrows. “Someone called me aside and said, ‘We don’t do that.’ ”

Changing minds while gaining ground Wyant’s drive was quickly evident, and she soon was promoted into management. She married someone who worked for her – a definite corporate no-no.

That was Jack Wyant, who went on to found Blue Chip Venture Capital, Cincinnati’s largest venture firm. But he couldn’t be married to his boss at P&G, so he was moved from the packaged soap and detergent division to what was then called the toilet goods division.

31

Alumni News

A L U M N I

At the time, company policy called for pregnant women to take medical leave three months into their term. When she became pregnant, Wyant ignored that and kept it quiet as long as she could, nearly six months, because she was up for another promotion.

But after the birth of her second child, she decided to quit – managing a career and children was too much.

“Procter didn’t help,” she says. “They didn’t know what to do.”

She told Pepper, then in senior management, that she was going to quit. Not wanting to lose her, he enlisted his wife Francie to find some help for the Wyant children and she stayed.

Wyant ended up working 17 years at P&G, eventually becoming a consultant on strategy to John Smale, who was CEO in the ’80s.

She believes Smale chose her over highranking executives because she thought differently. Many of the male execs above her had military backgrounds and were educated on the East Coast.

“John was determined to figure out what Procter & Gamble should be in the next millennium,” she said.

“He didn’t want a yes man.”

She left P&G in 1986, moving on to start several companies, including Grandin Properties, which owns historic, renovated apartment buildings in Hyde Park, O’Bryonville, Covington and elsewhere;

32

P R O F I L E

–

P E G

W Y A N T ,

and Isabella Capital, a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage, usually women-owned, companies.

H I L L S D A L E

A B O U T P E G W YA N T

With her foray into venture capital, Wyant broke into another old-boy network.

P E G W YA N T ’ S C A R E E R

“The venture capital world in the ’90s was every bit as backward as the corporate world was in the ’70s,” she said.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP:

Wyant’s example paves way for other women

P&G emerged from the Dark Ages to become a model for hiring women and minorities.

S TA RT E D AT P & G A N D THEN VENTURED INTO

•

in marketing at P&G •

She was the first woman to report directly to the CEO

•

The company recently built a child-care facility downtown that can provide day care for 200 kids.

Five of its 11 board members are women, and 12 of the 42 members of its Global Leadership Council – its top management – are women.

She was the first woman hired

She founded P&G’s strategic planning and new ventures group in 1979

•

She owns Grandin Properties, which markets renovated apartments.

“We’ve learned to close our eyes and not look, but listen, to what the performance is,” said Linda Clement Holmes, P&G’s global diversity officer.

Women make up more than 40 percent of P&G’s management ranks around the world, she said.

The promotion of Holmes to P&G’s upper tier was itself a sign of progress – she reports directly to chairman and CEO Bob McDonald.

And P&G has gone on to hire women in other, less-enlightened parts of the world, including Saudi Arabia, where separate entrances and separate floors are required for women.

Reproduced with permission from The Cincinnati Enquirer/Amanda Davidson.

L

U

M

N

I

P

R

O

F

I

L

E

Catching up with David Mou I always knew that I had a great education at Seven Hills, but only in retrospect can I really appreciate how excellent my teachers were. Many of my Upper School teachers were just as inspiring and capable as the best professors at Harvard. Still today, the roots of my current

–

D

A V

I

D

M

O

U ,

2

0

0

4

Q&A

A

Alumni News

interests can be traced back to Seven Hills.

Tell us briefly about your work and studies.

A. Currently I’m in the third year in the joint MD MBA program at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Business School. This past year has been my clinical year, so I’ve been running around the hospital for most of my waking hours. Perhaps predictably, given my background in neuroscience research, I’d like to specialize in something that involves the brain. Psychiatry, neurology, and neurosurgery are the top contenders. I also have an interest in health care policy and education.

During my free time, I’m the CEO of a venture capital-funded web startup company called ScholarLocker.com, which is an academic social network where medical school students can freely share notes, study guides, and advice with each other.

What aspects of your work and studies are you most passionate about?

A. I became interested in some of the larger, systems-based questions once I entered medical school. I took a health care policy class, which revealed to me many of the great challenges facing health care today: skyrocketing costs, sub-par quality, and lack of universal standards.

I’ve encountered a patient who kept his cancer

diagnosis from his family out of fear that the cost of treatment would eat into his daughter’s college fund. I’ve met a 23-year-old diabetic patient who had forgone treatment because she couldn’t afford the drugs, which resulted in 17 ambulance rides to emergency rooms. In a very real sense, the system is broken.

Conventionally, the vast majority of medical school classes have focused on the science behind illness. As a result, physicians can certainly effectively prescribe the right drug at the right dose, but not everyone can address a different set of important concerns: what if the patient can’t afford care? How can the system be restructured in a way that decreases costs and increases quality? In addition to learning the science behind medicine, I feel a certain responsibility to help motivate and effect change at the policy level, as well. I published a piece in the New England Journal of Medicine last year detailing how health care policy education is lacking in most medical schools. I think an MBA would better equip me with the tools necessary to understand the complex financial, political, and social problems.

How did you discover your passions and the drive to effect change?

A. I got a lot of help along the way. I’m not sure my own ‘discovery’ is as important or

unique as the environments that enabled me to discover. I think that most everyone would do great things if they were given the opportunity; and I have been very fortunate to have received so much support from Seven Hills and Harvard. What’s most important are not my inherent abilities, but rather the educational environments that encouraged me to develop and pursue my interests.

What gives you the most satisfaction?

A. The thing I’ve appreciated the most is how directly we affect someone’s life in the hospital.

A patient can enter the hospital dying from an infection, and we can completely solve the problem and the patient can go home in a week completely healed. Never in my life have I been able to see the impact of my effort so quickly, and never has the impact been so great. It makes the many years of studying worthwhile.

Is there anything you would like to share with your Seven Hills teachers or about your Seven Hills experience?

David Mou ’04 (left) with his brother Danny ‘04 Many of my Upper School teachers were just as inspiring and capable as the best professors at Harvard. Still today, the roots of my current interests can be traced back to Seven Hills. Mr. Turansky’s political theory class sparked my interest in human behavior and psychology, which led me to major in neurobiology. Every day, I try to emulate Mr. Abineri’s clarity of thought and commitment to rigorous thinking.

T.S. Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, which I first studied in Ms. Loveland’s [now Mrs. Brown] English class, remains one of my favorite poems.

What is one talent/skill you have that would surprise people?

A. I like playing Ultimate Frisbee, although I’m not particularly good at it. It’s a very inclusive and friendly game and something you can pick up with little or no experience. Most college students drop it after graduating, but I still like to toss a disc around whenever I get a chance.

A. I always knew that I had a great education at Seven Hills, but only in retrospect can I really appreciate how excellent my teachers were.

33 31

Alumni News S A N

F R A N C I S C O

A L U M N I

G A T H E R I N G

Our San Francisco area alumni gathered at Restaurant LuLu on Wednesday, February 1, 2012. Alums enjoyed visiting with each other and Susan Marrs, Assistant Head of School, who, at the group’s urging, shared stories and updates on current and past faculty.

SanFran (above) Paul Silverman ‘85 Michelle Leshner ‘86 Bradley Potts ‘81 Nancy McCormick Bassett ’83 (left) Bradley Potts ‘81 Rachel DeGuzema (middle) Scott Berning ‘96 Christine Safreno Laura Griffith ‘03 Holley Horrell ‘03

(above right) Ted Colebrook Cynthia Perry Colebrook H’68 (left) Missy Wyant Smit ‘94 Susan Marrs Sarah Shepard Hoffman ‘94 (right) Connie Burton ‘77 Tina Said H ’72 Paul Keister Mary Griffith

B O S T O N

A L U M N I

G A T H E R I N G

The Seven Hills Road Show visited Boston on October 6, 2011. Our Beantown area alumni enjoyed the view from the Top of the Hub and the opportunity to reminisce with Assistant Head of School Susan Marrs.

(above left) Jess Seminelli Peter Wojda ‘06 Chris Dowling Asia Reid ‘05 Katie Donovan ‘06 (above right) Carrie Stroud Coutre ‘91 Melanie Finn Sureau ‘01

(above left) Erin Blackwell Neal Grabowski ‘05 David Mou ‘04 (above right) Jacob Chudnovsky ‘97 Irma Zoepf Stephen Zoepf ‘97 (right) Jess Seminelli Peter Wojda ‘06 Seth Rau ’08 Justin Rau ‘10

Boston (far right) Susan Marrs Rebecca Lindy Coll ‘83 Nancy McCormick Bassett ‘83

35

Alumni News

In Memory of

Janet Pease Heffner

H ’44

The Seven Hills community was deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Janet Pease Heffner (H ’44) on December 29, 2011. A lifelong Cincinnati resident, she will be missed by her husband of 63 years, William Bennett Heffner, Sr., her three children, Nancy Heffner Donovan, William Bennett Heffner, Jr., Susan Heffner Monnier (Basel), sons-in-law Stephen Patrick Donovan, Jr. and Charles Edward Monnier, daughter-in-law Laurie Lanz Heffner, grandchildren, Katherine Pease Donovan (’06) (Boston), George Bennett Heffner, Philippe Edward Monnier and Christophe Allan Monnier and her large and loving Pease family.

“Mom was very grateful for the nurturing foundation Hillsdale provided, equipping her for life and a successful graduation from the University of Michigan in 1948. Her wonderful Hillsdale friends, Jane Eha Sikes Hageman and Carol Straehley Schoenheit, remained close through all these years. The Seven Hills reunions were unique occasions to reminisce and celebrate the specialness of this wonderful institution. Mom always said Hillsdale made the difference in her life,” said Nancy.

Janet’s Seven Hills legacy continued through her daughter Nancy (Secretary, Board of Trustees, 1998-2007, and Co-Chair, The One and All Campaign) and granddaughter Katie (’06). In 2001, Janet’s family made a gift to fund the Janet Pease Heffner Alumni Conference Room in support of the construction of the new Upper School building.

Additionally that year, Nancy and son-in-law, Steve, along with their family, were instrumental in establishing The Donovan Arts Center, the school’s fine arts building.

At the Memorial Service in Spring Grove’s Norman Chapel, her family and friends gathered to remember Janet.

A N

E X C E R P T

F RO M

“ A

L I F E

B E A U T I F U L LY

“When you have used adjectives and phrases to describe our Mother, we’ve heard you say: ‘loyal,’ ‘gracious,’ ‘gentle,’ ‘tolerant,’ ‘brave,’ ‘very kind,’ ‘positive,’ ‘a bright light.’ We simply would say, ‘a Beautiful Mother, a Lady.’

In her final days she told us that she had the most wonderful life – how could it have been better? That she wasn’t afraid of dying. Like every other time in her life, she approached this phase with resolve, inner strength and calm.

Mom showed us how to live – how to speak to others, how to listen, how to treat others. She showed us the way and we will miss her every day.

So special, so loved, so remembered. We will hold you in our hearts, now and forever. Mom, you did a beautiful job.”

36

L I V E D, ”

W R I T T E N

B Y

J A N E T ’ S

DA U G H T E R

N A N C Y

As granddaughter Katie said at Janet’s service, “Despite her lengthy medical records, she left this world without a single gripe or complaint. She awoke each morning, thankful for the day, for her family and for all her blessings. I will always remember her as the woman who never had anything wrong with her. And, I will forever keep with me her enduring message of optimism and positivity.” Friends and family would all agree.

Janet had many interests and affiliations with which she shared her energy and enthusiasm, including the Presbyterian Church of Wyoming, Kappa Kappa Gamma, The Junior League of Cincinnati, Cincinnati Woman’s Club, Wyoming Golf Club, The Ohio Society, Children’s Hospital Thrift Shop, Salvation Army Camp Swoneky and Christmas Caravan.

The Seven Hills community will miss our friend Janet Pease Heffner. To her family we send our heartfelt condolences.

Alumni News Young Alumni Classes 1991-2011 Help Seven Hills rise to the Challenge (the deadline to give is May 30, 2012)

Seven Hills, Summit and CCDS are competing to see which school will have the highest percentage of young alum participation in Annual Giving.

participation is the key It’s not how much you give, it’s that you give! All it takes is a $5 minimum donation to Seven Hills to have your gift count. Seven Hills won the first Challenge in 2009-2010 and we want to do it again!

Make your donation safely and conveniently on our website at www.7hills.org/thesevenhillsfund.

Thank you! Go Stingers!

Medusa Trio performed at Seven Hills

The Seven Hills community was treated to a special concert performance on Saturday, March 3, by the Medusa Trio, featuring Seven Hills alumna Olga Krayterman ’04, Beiliang Zhu and Alexander Tatarinov.

They performed works for the piano, cello and violin by Beethoven and Shostakovich. Olga is a Doctor of Musical Arts degree candidate at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, where she also completed her Master’s in 2010 and her Bachelor’s in 2008 with High Distinction. She began her piano study in her native Belarus at age six and continued her musical education in Cincinnati after immigrating to the U.S. with her family in 1995. Pictured from left: Chris Garten, Head of School; Susan Marrs, Assistant Head of School; Olga Krayterman ‘04; Barbara Scarr, Upper School Science teacher; other two Medusa Trio members Alexander Tatarinov & Beiliang Zhu. 37

Alumni News reunion 2012 october 19 &20

CPS & Hillsdale classes of ’37, ’42, ’47, ’52, ’57, ’62, ’67, ’72 Lotspeich classes of ’36, ’41, ’46, ’51, ’56, ’61, ’66 Seven Hills classes of ’77, ’82, ’87, ’92, ’97 The classes of 2002 & 2007 will celebrate their reunions on Saturday, November 24.

Friday, October 19 12pm-2pm: Luncheon for 50+ reunion classes, Cincinnati Country Club, Free of charge 5:30-8pm: Cocktail Reception, Commons, Hillsdale campus Tours available 5:30pm-6pm upon request, Free of charge Saturday, October 20 5pm-7pm: Cocktail Reception for classes 1952-1982 with Cincinnati Country Day reunion classes Stone Creek Dining Company, $30 per person

W E L O O K F O R WA R D T O S E E I N G Y O U T H I S FA L L !

C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S

38

T O

T H E

C L A S S

O F

1 9 8 7

O N

Y O U R

2 5 T H

R E U N I O N

Alumni News

C O N G R AT U L AT I O N S , C L A S S O F 1 9 6 2 , O N T H E C E L E B R AT I O N O F Y O U R 5 0 T H R E U N I O N !

T H E

F O L L O W I N G

Hillsdale 6 0 t h

1952

R E U N I O N

Phoebe Bowman 513-871-3965 Helen Schroth Ferguson 513-871-5160 5 5 T H

1957

R E U N I O N

Judy Hauser Adams jamesradams@ymail.com Susan Steman Laffoon slaffoon@fuse.net Margaret Parlin O’Malley momalley63@comcast.net Naomi Tucker Gerwin nstoehr@cinci.rr.com

R E U N I O N

R E P S

Hillsdale 5 0 t h

1962

R E U N I O N

Barbara Anderson Landen PastelLass@aol.com

4 5 t h

1967

R E U N I O N

Nancy Pechstein Aubke nancy.aubke@cancer.org

4 0 t h

1972

R E U N I O N

Drew Gores dgores@fuse.net Jan Asbury Pogue janpogue@cinci.rr.com

H E L P

M A K E

T H I S

W E E K E N D

S even Hills 2 5 t h

R E U N I O N

2 0 t h

1992

R E U N I O N

Tom McElhinney tmac3333@hotmail.com Marc Shotten mshotten@hotmail.com

F O R

Y O U R

C L A S S

S even Hills

1987

Jonathan Hawgood jtbellmaker@fuse.net Heather Shelley McIntyre heather@heathermcintyre.com

S P E C I A L

1 5 t h

1997

R E U N I O N

Liz Raskin elizabeth.raskin@gmail.com

1 0 t h

2002

R E U N I O N

Steve Newman stephen.w.newman@gmail.com If there is not a name listed for your class, reps are still needed.

INTERESTED IN BEING A REUNION REP FOR YOUR CLASS?

Contact Nancy McCormick Bassett ‘83 Director of Alumni Relations nancy.bassett@7hills.org 513-728-2432

39

Alumni Class Notes 1937 Our condolences to family and friends who lost loved ones as reported in this issue. Please visit the Seven Hills website for obituaries. www.7Hills.org/obituaries

75th Reunion

1938

Genevieve “Genji” Hart Pennington (H) (Cincinnati) died on November 16, 2011.

1939

Grace Cleveland Hamilton (H) (Glendale, OH) died on August 21, 2011.

1952

1947

1953

Mary Louise High Haney (C) (Cincinnati) died on November 6, 2010.

65th Reunion

1949

1944

Beverly Ferris Schoel (L) shared her memories and love of Lotspeich.

“It is my great pleasure to have the opportunity to remember Lotspeich at this time. I do remember Mrs.. Lotspeich well. She gave me rides to school for a period of time and was very firm in telling me (often) that if I didn’t stop singing ‘Mairzy Doats’ in the car, she was going to put me out. I would stop until next time. My experiences at Lotspeich, while not always good at the time (I misbehaved a lot), instilled in me a love of learning, a love of reading which I do to excess even now. Miss Sluss’ fourth grade was my very favorite and to this day I will tell anyone that fourth grade is the most important time in elementary school where you learn responsibility, how to study, when you start to ‘grow up’…Mrs. Lotspeich, did indeed, make a difference in my life.”

Janet Pease Heffner (H) (Cincinnati) died on December 29, 2011.

Suzanne Armstrong Beutler (H) (Ann Arbor, MI) writes, “I continue to enjoy painting, husband Fred and our art business. He is a photographer. We have been enjoying our other activities—tennis, music (trumpet and cello), and travel.”

1941

Elizabeth “Libby” Prince Yungblut (H) (Sarasota, FL) died on July 16, 2011.

1942

70th Reunion Susan J. Finke (L ’36, H) (Traverse City, MI) writes, “I left Washington and moved permanently to northern Michigan. I’m at my cottage in Leland for the warm months, and a retirement home in Traverse City for the cold ones. This puts me closer to family and many old friends.”

Mary Ellen Sprott Foster (C) (Boise, ID) shares, “[I’ve] been in Idaho six years, but Ohio is still my home.”

40

1946

60th Reunion CPS Reunion reps are needed to help coordinate your 60th.

Katherine Crone (H) (New York, NY) exhibited three pieces in the “9x9x3: New Visions” show which featured the selected works of the Textile Study Group of New York.

Susan Riggs Groel (H) (New Vernon, NJ) died on December 12, 2011.

1954

Ellen Caldwell Sewell (H) (Cincinnati) writes, “I continue working and serving on several Boards. I’m traveling a lot to Ft. Mill, SC, where my son Rob and family live, as well as Euless, TX, where my daughter Susan lives. My middle child Mike and family live in Cincinnati .”

1957

55th Reunion Hillsdale Reunion Reps: Judy Hauser Adams jamesradams@ymail.com Susan Steman Laffoon slaffoon@fuse.net Margaret Parlin O’Malley momalley63@comcast.net Naomi Tucker Gerwin nstoehr@cinci.rr.com CPS Reunion reps are needed to help coordinate your 55th.

Margaret Parlin O’Malley (L ’51, H) (Burt Lake, MI) shares, “Mary Slade (Sladie) Martin Morrison (H ’57) and I met for lunch in Northern Michigan this fall. A really nice ‘mini-reunion.’ Looking forward to our 55 th in October.”

1960

Sandra Currier Andrews (C) (Seven Valleys, PA), writes, “Louise Kahn Jenks hosted our 50th reunion on October 9, 2010. It was wonderful to see friends from CPS.”

1962

50th Reunion Hillsdale Reunion rep Barbara Guthridge Landen PastelLass@aol.com CPS Reunion reps are needed to help coordinate your 50th.

1963

Ellen Brooks Ernisse (H) (Lahauna, HI) writes, “We have finally moved into our new home! Come to Maui!”

1965

Sue Levinson Stern (C) (Newport Beach, CA) shares, “Still happy living in Newport Beach, CA. I’m busy doing volunteer work, traveling, playing golf and, most importantly, enjoying our nine grandchildren—the last three being triplets.”

pace! Daughter Caroline got married in the middle of Hurricane Irene this summer and continues her Ph.D. work at Penn. Son Tripp lives and works in Washington DC. “ Poppy Yeiser Hawkins (H) (Cincinnati) writes, “Keeping busy with four grandchildren, several volunteer positions, and my newest hobby— running. I participated in my first half-marathon in January.”

1968

Robin Hawley Wood (L ’62, H) (New Providence, NJ) shares, “My husband David and I continue to enjoy tutoring kids. I am even occasionally called upon to resurrect my high school Latin, which I love!”

Congratulations to Margo Taft Stever (H) (Sleepy Hollow, NY) on the publication of her new chapbook The Hudson Line in January. In praise of Stever’s new chapbook, The Hudson Line, poet Denise Duhamel says, “Margo Stever’s poems are brutal and tender, the natural world enmeshed with the mythic. She is a storyteller at heart, a poet of place and purpose. The Hudson Line is a vibrant and valiant telling, embracing both darkness and desire.” http://www.mainstreetrag.com/MStever.html.

1967

45th Reunion Hillsdale Reunion Rep Nancy Pechstein Aubke nancy.aubke@cancer.org CPS Reunion reps are needed to help coordinate your 45th.

Kathy Oechler Whitbeck (H) (Williamsburg, VA) writes, “Hunt and I have moved from New York City to Williamsburg, VA—a very pleasant change of

Judy Robinson Williams (’67), Cackie ScifresAustin (’67), Weenie Schweitzer Rush (’68), Kathy Dowd Baumann (’66), Missy Kinne Norton (’66) enjoying a mini Hillsdale reunion on The Sea Dream through the Caribbean.

1971

Katharine Pechstein Durant H) (Murphy, NC) writes, “I married Edward Willison Carroll III in April 2010. My daughter and son-in-law, Megan and Steven Blalock, made me a proud first-time grandmother with the birth of Benjamin Jackson Blalock in February, 2011. My son, Stuart P. French, just graduated from high school with high honors!

So bummed out to have missed attending our 40th reunion.”

INTERESTED IN BEING A REUNION REP FOR YOUR CLASS?

1972

Contact Nancy McCormick

40th Reunion Hillsdale Reunion reps Drew Gores dgores@fuse.net Jan Asbury Pogue janpogue@cinci.rr.com

Bassett ‘83 Director of Alumni Relations nancy.bassett@7hills.org 513-728-2432

CPS Reunion reps are needed to help coordinate your 40th.

1974

(Pictured Eileen Gould and husband Robert Dwyer.)

Congratulations to Eileen Gould (C) (New York, NY) on receiving one of the United Hospital Fund’s 2012 Hospital Auxilian and Volunteer Achievement Award in March. She was selected for the award based on extraordinary service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. She is the patient editor of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center’s Bridges newsletter for cancer survivors. Eileen is also coordinating a pilot program for the center called Art Expressions, which brings artists in residence into the hospital to

Eileen Gould and Cindy Bardes Galvin C ’74 at the award ceremony on March 16.

41

teach free-of-charge workshops, like watercolor and knitting, to outpatients at the hospital.

1977 INTERESTED IN BEING A REUNION REP FOR YOUR CLASS?

Contact Nancy McCormick Bassett ‘83 Director of Alumni Relations nancy.bassett@7hills.org 513-728-2432

35th Reunion Reunion reps are needed to help coordinate your 35th.

1980

Jill Rubenstein Simon died on January 15, 2012.

1982

30th Reunion Reunion reps are needed to help coordinate your 30th.

Mary Wommack (Albuquerque, NM) writes, “I’m still in New Mexico, teaching school and playing Cuban salsa. I am also working with youth tennis programs. My kids are 19 and 16, so I’m contemplating the next stage of life. Might even catch up with old friends!”

1984

Murray (Cincinnati) and Katie Monroe welcomed Miriam Aniela on February 17, 2012. Dad, Mom and daughter are doing well. Congratulations!

basketball skills to good use when he coached his sons’ sixth grade basketball team to winning the tournament and taking home the championship trophy.

1986

Congratulations to Betsy Gaines Quammen (Bozeman, MT) and The Tributary Project, her non-profit group, for being honored at the Sacred Land: Green Pilgrimage Network conference in Assisi, Italy.

1987

25th Reunion Reunion reps: Jonathan Hawgood jtbellmaker@fuse.net Heather Shelley McIntyre heather@heathermcintyre.com

1990

Congratulations to Sara (McCormick) and Mark Oliphant (Columbus, OH) on the birth of Mary Grace “Molly” on November 5, 2010.

Molly joins big sisters Lizze, 6, and Abby, 4.

1991

Allison Hawkins Bolger (Chicago, IL), husband Michael, and big sister Madeline welcomed Eleanor Grace on June 9, 2011. Congratulations!(Pictured below Eleanor and Madeline Bolger.)

1992

20th Reunion Reunion Reps: Tom McElhinney tmac3333@hotmail.com Marc Shotten mshotten@hotmail.com

1993

Benjamin Glassman (Cincinnati) and his wife Jennifer welcomed twins, Sam and Rosie, on October 21, 2011. Congratulations!

1996

Twins run in the family—congratulations to Michelle Glassman Bock (Washington, DC) and her husband Patrick on the birth of their twins, Liesl and Lily, on April 1, 2011.

1997

15th Reunion Reunion Rep: Liz Raskin elizabeth.raskin@gmail.com Sarah Pogue (Cincinnati) participated in the 2011 Hyde Park Art Show displaying her oil and watercolor portraits. She graduated from Carleton College with a B.A. in Studio Art and Education. She continued her studies in Cortona and Florence, Italy.

Sarah’s portraits hang at the University of Cincinnati Medical School and in numerous private collections. www.sarahpogue.artspan.com

1999

Congratulations to Michael and Molly Marrero Aquilino (Chicago, IL) on the birth of Lucy on August 21, 2011.

2000 1985

Congratulations to Elliott Anderson (Elgin, IL), who put his Seven Hills Athletic Hall of Fame 42

Alex (Houston, TX) and Peyton Popp welcomed Henry Martin on July 6, 2011. Friends from the class of 2000 gathered in Houston to meet Henry

Alumni Class Notes 2004

Susan Keller (Sommerville, MA) will be running the Boston Marathon this year!

and congratulate Alex in person. Charlie Black (’00), Erik Crew (’00), Walter Sullivan (’00), Alex with Henry (’00), Eric Clemons (’00) and Ben Nacev (’00)

2001

Cece Gehrig (New York, NY) has a new job at Amazon as Fashion Director of endless.com.

Congratulations!

2002

10th Reunion Steve Newman stephen.newman@gmail.com Best wishes to Carina Peschiera and Jonathan Behrens on their marriage on May 7, 2011. Other Seven Hills alums in attendance were Stephanie Peschiera ’04, Lumen Sivitz ’02, David Barrett ’02, Keri Robertson ’02, Laura Kahle ’02, Addison Lanier ’02, Seb Hue ’02, and Sadie Ferguson ’04. (pictured right)

Congratulations to Claire Rubin (New Orleans, LA) on her marriage to Ashton Prat on December 10, 2011, at the University Club of Cincinnati. Beth Rubin ’07 was the maid of honor. Other alumni in the wedding were Jenna Harris ’04, Ellen Houston ’04, Attie James ’07, John Rubin ’02 and Lauren Weber ’04. (pictured right)

2007

5th Reunion Reunion reps are needed to help coordinate your 5th.

Donthink design is the product of Collin Arnold (New York), Designer and Director specializing in branding, typography, and not for profit/ philanthropic design. He works with clients both large and small in many industries, including Nickelodeon, Oxygen TV, HBO Movie, Habana Entertainment, and Bistro Lafayette, among others.

He currently serves as Designer and Director at a marketing and advertising agency in New York City.

Collin has received awards from AIGA, the University of Dayton, Procter & Gamble, and Nestle, and he has been published in Orpheus Magazine.

When not designing, he can be found outdoors enjoying what nature he can find in the city, exercising, reading, attempting to cook, volunteering, or photographing the world around him.

THE

OVERTONES

The Overtones, including Beau Garrett ’08, Brian McNamara ’09, and Ian McNamara ’11 with friend Will Kippins ‘08 Mariemont, sang the national anthem at the Bengals vs. Ravens game on January 1, 2012.

43

Alumni News

Alumni Class Notes

Our condolences to the families and friends who lost loved ones reported in this issue.

2009

Congratulations to Sarah Scherer Hall (Okinawa, Japan) and her husband Corporal Phillip Hall on their marriage on February 19, 2010. Lucy Osborn ’09 (pictured with Sarah) served as maid of honor.

Sarah writes, “I am currently living in Okinawa, Japan, and am a full-time student. I am interning at the marketing department of Marine Corps Community Service. I will be graduating almost a year early from University of Maryland University College with my Bachelor’s in Communications with a minor in Asian Studies. My graduation will be in August of 2012.”

Young Alumni Board The Young Alumni Board is comprised of Seven Hills alumni who have graduated within the last 20 years. The purpose of the Board is to support, engage and provide a voice for the School’s young alumni through networking, social events and ongoing communication. This year the group is involved in an Annual Giving participation challenge with Cincinnati Country Day and Summit alumni. The Board also hosted the annual Holiday Party on December 23, 2011, and will co-host a spring event with CCDS and Summit to celebrate the conclusion of the challenge.

2010

Jake Davis (Atlanta, GA) was named University Athletic Association’s Basketball Player of the Week for November 29, 2011.

1st row left to right: Sophie Beckwith ’06, Rob Seiver ’03, Caroline Bahlman ’06, Lucy Schmidt ’00, Hannah Wheatley ’05 2nd row left to right: Kyle McNeil ’06, Jess Reid ’08, Clay Jamison ’06, Meridith Oberklein Spille ’95, Andi Fischer Simon ’98, David Levy ’99 Not shown: Heidi Black ’98, Allyson Fish ’93, Liz Okin Lorenz ’00, Tyler McIlwraith ’03, Kelly Myers ’91, Cassie Iseman Wissel ’02, Julie Witten ’94

44

Alumni News H

Young Alumni Holiday Party The annual Alumni Holiday Party, hosted by the Young Alumni Board, was held on December 23 at The Stand in Mt. Lookout. This is a favorite event for alums to reconnect and celebrate the holidays.

O

L

I

D

A Y

P

A

R

T

Y

Alumni News 5

T

H

R

E

U

N

Class of 2006- 5th reunion

2006

The Class of 2006 celebrated their fifth reunion on Saturday, November 26, at Neons in Over the Rhine— a good time was had by all!

P R I Z E

Katie Donovan, Liza Zimmerman, Leah Robertson, Laura Hoguet, Leah Hoffheimer, Caroline Kalnow and Anna Wulsin 46

W I N N E R S

Liza Zimmerman Cole McIlwraith Meredith Decker Leah Hoffheimer Anna Wulsin

I

O

N

C

L

A

S

S

O

F

2

0

0

6

Alumni News A

L

U

M

N

I

B

A

S

K

E

T

B

A

L

L

G

A

M

E

S

Alumni Basketball Games

It was a great night for Stinger basketball as alumni players from a wide range of class years, families, and fans came together for the Seventh Annual Alumni Basketball Games December 27!

Alumni Mens Basketball (front): Matthew Bittner ‘09, L.T. Burke ‘09, Brian McNamara ‘09, David Stirsman ‘82, Ian McNamara ‘11; Coach Willie Hill, Andy Barr ‘05,

Jonathan Coleman ‘07, Howard Konicov ‘84, Alex Hill ‘10, Anthony Clark ‘10; Rob Stern ‘96, Carlton Sugarman ‘96, Miles Hill ‘11, Scott Whitehead ‘99, Bryan Ayers ‘98; Adimu Hunter-Woodard ‘11, Fran Chatfield ‘10, Edmund Schweitzer ‘10, Max Davis ‘11, David Bittner ‘07, Sean McKibben ‘09; Jordan Harris ‘05, Gavin Tabor ‘05, Justin Harris ‘03

Alumni Womens Basketball Girls team IDs (front): Robin Robinson ‘82, Kathy Moebius ‘07, Olivia Carey ‘09, Suzanne Kahle ‘08; Emily Rogers-Fightmaster ‘10, Sarah Evans ‘10, Katie McNamara ‘11, Sondra Polonsky ‘09; Tyler McIlwraith ‘03, Sarah McHugh ‘03

Willie Hill

P.G. Sittenfeld ’03

Glenn Shillinger

Alex Derkson ’03

Benjamin van der Horst ’05 Duke Snyder

48

47

S A T U R D A Y

•

J U N E

2 3

•

2

0

1

2

T H E S E V E N H I L L S S C H O O L A L U M N I A S S O C I A T I O N & ATH L E T I C B O O S T E R S P R E S E N T 3 R D

A N N UA L

Alex Bibler Memorial Golf Scramble & Luncheon S A T U R D AY, J U N E 2 3 , 2 0 1 2

7:00am Registration, unlimited range balls 8:00am Shotgun start, 4-person best ball scramble 12:30pm (approx) Lunch and awards This event is in memory of Alex Bibler ’06, who was a member of the Seven Hills golf team and had a lifelong love of the sport. It is sponsored by the Alumni Association and Athletic Boosters to provide an opportunity for the past and present Seven Hills community to reconnect.

Alex Bibler Memorial Golf Scramble & Luncheon Saturday, June 23, 2012 7:00am Registration, unlimited range balls 8:00am Shotgun start, 4-person best ball scramble 12:30pm (approx) Lunch and awards

Walden Ponds Golf Club 8:00am Shotgun start 12:30pm Lunch & Awards $100 per player Includes: greens fee, cart, unlimited range balls, 2 drink tickets & lunch $10 of each player’s fees will go to the Alex Bibler Scholarship Fund. $30 lunch only- Non-golfers welcome! Join us for lunch. $10 of each non-player’s fees will go to the Alex Bibler Scholarship Fund.

Cash Bar To maintain a shotgun start there will be no more than 72 golfers.

All registrations must be received by June 1.

R E G I S T R A T I O N

Register online: www.7hills.org/quicklinks/Bibler Memorial Scramble. When registering, you will have the opportunity to list foursome, pair or single.

Pairs and singles will be matched.

Questions or to register via phone: Nancy McCormick Bassett ’83 Director of Alumni Relations nancy.bassett@7hills.org 513.728.2432

THANK YOU TO OUR GENEROUS SPONSORS OF THE 3RD ANNUAL ALEX BIBLER MEMORIAL GOLF SCRAMBLE & LUNCHEON

Baldwin Gilman LLC The Bibler Family Clayton L. Scroggins Associates, Inc. Congresswoman Jean Schmidt Fifth Third Bank J.T.M. Food Group Jancoa Janitorial Services, Inc. Schiff-Kreidler-Shell The Resale Shop

Y O U D O N ’ T H AV E T O B E A G O L F E R — J O I N U S F O R L U N C H A N D F U N !

48

Tri-State Centers for Sight, Inc. UC Health

Alumni Events \

U S T Y, A U G S U N D A

1 2 1 2, 2 0

ts Day r o p S s l l i H Sevenmni and Varsit y Teams f o r A lu

Road Red Bank 0 0 4 5 , s u Camp H il ls d a le (co-ed): ll: Volleyba ym G Kalnow ool Upper Sch 5pm

Soccer: pm pm Guys:5 :3 ls Gir er cc so l o o Upper Sch tspeich Lo d in eh b field,

Tennis el Courts Carol Brest entrance l o ho First sc Bank d Re off of 3pm

to their game utes before in m 0 3 e iv should arr ange positions.

All players players. arr ded for all vi ro p e b l T-shir ts wil sters. by the Boo it provided e open. u fr d n a Cold drinksncessions will also b y, Co you will pla let us know ss e tt ‘8 3 to d n a n informatio ormick Ba For further contact N a n cy M cC ss e tt @ 7 h il ls .o rg a se .b a cy ple 432 nan

513.728.2

E R S O C C

•

Y B A L L V O L L E

•

I S T E N N

Upcoming Alumni Events

2 0 12

ND THE TION A A I C O S S T UMNI A PRESEN THE AL OSTERS O B C I T AT H L E

REMEM BER

WHEN. ..REME MBER

THEM!

A n Ev e n i n g w A l u m n i a ni tdh S e v e n Hi l l s Fa c u l t y T U E S D AY , M AY 2 5pm-7pm

2, 2012

A opportun ity for 197 5-2011 alu Upper Sch mni and th ool faculty e to visit and reminisce Tuesday, M a y Hillsdale C 22, 2012 ampus on the deck----w (Hillsdale C eather perm ommons if itting inclement w eather) COCKT AIL S AND LIGHT

S E E

Y O U

BITES

T H E R E !

Tuesday, May 22 An Evening with Seven Hills 1975-2011 alumni and faculty 5pm-7pm Hillsdale Campus Deck (weather permitting, Hillsdale Commons if inclement weather) 5400 Red Bank Road Thursday, June 14 Young Alumni Challenge Celebration with Summit & CCDSs Time & Location TBD Saturday, June 23 3rd Annual Alex Bibler Golf Outing 8am Shotgun start 12pm Lunch/Awards Walden Ponds Golf Club 6090 Golf Club Lane, 45011 Sunday, August 12 Alumni Sports Day Soccer: Girls 3pm, Guys 5pm Tennis: Co-ed 3pm Volleyball 5pm Hillsdale Campus 5400 Red Bank Road 49

Hillsdale campus 5400 Red Bank Road Cincinnati, Ohio 45227 Doherty campus 2726 Johnstone Place Cincinnati, Ohio 45206 Intellectually vibrant, individually attuned, future-ready learning for students grades pre-K through 12.

Non-Profit Organization U.S. Postage PAID Cincinnati, OH Permit No. 9695