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ST. ANDREW’S MAGAZINE | YEAR 2022 VO L U ME 44, ISSUE 1
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COMING HOME, MOVING FORWARD Getting to Know Joy McGrath ’92, St. Andrew’s Fifth Head of School
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QUITTING WAS NEVER AN OPTION
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INCHING OUR WAY BACK TO NORMAL
A conversation with Oscar-winning screenwriter, director, and producer Will McCormack ’92
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HEAD OF SCHOOL’S MESSAGE
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CAN’T HELP BUT CONNECT 48
ALUMNI REFLECTION BY RICHARD LAMBERT ’69
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CLASS NOTES
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IN MEMORY
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THE LAST WORD
Powerhouse Saints Athletics from the Late 1960s
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{ Students enjoyed a Battle of the DJs dance on the terrace of the O’Brien Arts Center on October 1. Photo by William Lin ’24. } ON THE COVER: Students and faculty jump into Noxontown Pond on October 30. This publication is printed with vegetable-based soy inks on paper with 10% post-consumer waste. Please complete the process by recycling your copy when finished.
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Letter from the Editor Our theme for this issue is “togetherness,” and in it we’re celebrating all the ways in which medical advances against COVID-19, and all that we’ve learned over the past two years of attempting to operate a school within the confines of a pandemic, have allowed us to come together as a community once again this school year. In years past, togetherness was something we all took for granted. Today, togetherness is something we have to work for, strive for, make sacrifices for. And just when it feels like we might finally be able to go back to getting together without having to think so damn hard about it, we seem to stumble upon another setback. Doesn’t mean it’s not worth the work and the sacrifice, of course. I’ll take this cobbled-together, quarantine-riddled mid-pandemic life over the salad days of our homebound isolation in the spring of 2020, back when we all thought it would take just “two weeks to slow the spread”—and I’m extremely grateful for What will become our lifelong all the people at St. Andrew’s, and in this world, who have made it possible for us to stagger-step back toward gathering and normalcy pandemic-born habits? My in general. That list includes the Health Center team (shout out in hope, and my guess, is that particular to Annette Rickolt ’87 for answering every single one of my panicky personal texts over the past two years, on top of many of us will be more everything else she deals with each day); the folks who set up in inclined toward togetherness the squash courts each Wednesday to rapid-test the entire SAS in the decades to come... community; the facilities care team that keeps our spaces sparkly clean and disinfected; the person who invented the at-home rapid test; and my kids’ teachers and their endless willingness to adjust and/or reapply my toddlers’ masks. See page 40 for a short photo essay on how we’re operating on campus this fall (Torrey toddlers not pictured). A few weeks ago, I was ruminating with said toddlers’ pediatrician about the ways in which the pandemic might leave anything permanently imprinted on each of us. I have been thinking about my maternal grandmother, who was born in 1923 and who, for her entire 85 years of life, saved even the smallest pieces of leftover food (a solo heel of bread, a few spoonfuls of soup, a solitary olive)—a habit she apparently picked up during the Great Depression. What will become of our lifelong pandemic-born habits? My hope, and my guess, is that many of us will be more inclined toward togetherness in the decades to come—that we’ll hoard, and treasure, even the smallest opportunities to mix and mingle and gather with our loved ones. Because it turns out that what Joni Mitchell has been telling us for fifty years now, is the truth: you just don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone. In partnership,
Liz Torrey Director of Communications
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Mission Statement of St. Andrew’s School In 1929, the School’s Founder, A. Felix duPont, wrote: The purpose of St. Andrew’s School is to provide secondary education of a definitely Christian character at a minimum cost consistent with modern equipment and highest standards. We continue to cultivate in our students a deep and lasting desire for learning; a willingness to ask questions and pursue skeptical, independent inquiry; and an appreciation of the liberal arts as a source of wisdom, perspective, and hope. We encourage our students to model their own work on that of practicing scholars, artists and scientists and to develop those expressive and analytical skills necessary for meaningful lives as engaged citizens. We seek to inspire in them a commitment to justice and peace. Our students and faculty live in a residential community founded on ethical principles and Christian beliefs. We expect our faculty and staff to make our students’ interests primary, to maintain professional roles with students and to act as role models at all times, to set and maintain healthy boundaries with students, to encourage student autonomy and independence, to act transparently with students, and to support each student’s developmental growth and social integration at the School. Our students collaborate with dynamic adults and pursue their passions in a co-curriculum that includes athletics, community service and the arts. We encourage our students to find the balance between living in and contributing to the community and developing themselves as leaders and individuals. As an Episcopal School, St. Andrew’s is grounded in and upheld by our Episcopal identity, welcoming persons regardless of their religious background. We are called to help students explore their spirituality and faith as we nurture their understanding and appreciation of all world religions. We urge students to be actively involved in community service with the understanding that all members of the community share responsibility for improving the world in which we live. St. Andrew’s is committed to the sustainability and preservation of its land, water and other natural resources. We honor this commitment by what we teach and by how we live in community and harmony with the natural world. On our campus, students, faculty, and staff from a variety of backgrounds work together to create a vibrant and diverse community. St. Andrew’s historic and exceptional financial aid program makes this possible, enabling the School to admit students regardless of their financial needs.
Grace Gahagan ’10 Edith “Sis” Johnson P’11 Monica Matouk ’84 P’18,’21,’23 Joy McGrath ’92 Head of School
L. Heather Mitchell ’92 Paul F. Murphy P’17,’19,’22 Khalil G. Saliba ’81 P’12,’14,’18 Laurisa S. Schutt P’18,’23 Staci Williams Seeley P’17,’22 Jennifer B. Thomas P’22 TRUSTEES EMERITI
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Students practice martial arts on the grass docks with the guidance of religious studies teacher Jason Kunen. Mr. Kunen is trained in several different martial arts and has even selfpublished a book on the topic: Meditations on Zen and Martial Arts Philosophy. This outdoor martial arts session was just one of more than 20 activities offered during the school’s annual Pond Day on October 30. On Pond Day—held one Saturday morning each October—students and faculty explore and enjoy the school’s 2200 acres, Noxontown Pond, and the many natural resources contained therein. 4 / TALK OF THE T-DOCK
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Angela Osaigbovo ’24 and Zoey Honsel ’24 place an order with Waffle’n Joe, a local food truck that serves, you guessed it, waffles and warm drinks. SWAG (St. Andrew’s Weekend Activity Group) often organizes for local food trucks to come to campus on Saturdays and Sundays—a weekend option that’s been more popular than ever in our pandemic years. Visit page 40 to view more photos of school life and get a glimpse of how St. Andrew’s has been operating this fall. 7
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Lia Miller ’23 competes in a crosscountry race in Bellevue State Park on October 15. Saints girls crosscountry took home the Delaware Independent School Conference Championship this year (the team is seen here in the smaller photo with their championship medals). At the DISC race, XC powerhouse Tatnall took the top two spots, while the Saints claimed the third, fourth, and fifth spots. The finish by the next two SAS runners determined the Saints’ final standing. Great runs by Emma Hopkins ’23, who finished at 11th, and Caroline Meers ’24, who finished right behind at 12th, propelled the Saints into the top spot and won the team the DISC Championship! 8 / TALK OF THE T-DOCK
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During the Saints boys soccer team’s tremendous run in the state tournament this fall—see page 20 for the full story—the further along in the tournament the team went, the louder the stands got, and the more alumni who came out to support. The Saints made it all the way to the championship match, which was held on the first day of Thanksgiving break—so the student body was not around to cheer on their team, but more than 60 alumni, seen here, showed up to take their place! In 2021, the championship title was not to be, but the spirit and sportsmanship of the 2021 team lifted up the entire school and even our alumni family this fall. 11
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Message from the Head of School
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... as we have returned to our full schedule— what any alumnus would recognize as business as usual at St. Andrew’s— we have felt how special it is to be together doing the ordinary things St. Andreans have always done.
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n July 1, I began my third incarnation at St. Andrew’s, as head of school. I was a student here from 1990 to 1992, I was a faculty member from 1999 to 2007, and now I have been given the humbling charge and extraordinary honor to lead this school. I have discovered that when you are a head of school, people are interested in your journey, and one question I have been asked repeatedly is, “What about St. Andrew’s is the same today as when you were a student here?” The answer is one I shared with the students in our first all-school assembly on Opening Day. St. Andrew’s is the first place, the first organization, the first institution I had been part of, where every single person had chosen to be there. As a new student, I realized that being at St. Andrew’s isn’t compulsory; it isn’t required. Every day we are here, every single one of us knows: being here is a choice. This makes a huge difference because every day we wake up knowing that we are opting in to St. Andrew’s. One thing that has changed at St. Andrew’s since my previous tours of duty is that the week leading up to the Cannon Game—our annual football game against Tatnall School—is “Spirit Week.” When faculty member (and SWAG advisor) Kristin Honsel circulated the calendar for the culminating weekend of Spirit Week, she included the following exhortation: “Community is built because we show up for each other… so, OPT IN!” I don’t think this was a coincidence—the spirit of “opting in” has animated the campus this fall. The pandemic has taken so many choices away from us. But as we have returned to our full schedule—what any alumnus would recognize as business as usual at St. Andrew’s—we have felt how special it is to be together doing the ordinary things St. Andreans have always done. We have family-style meals, chapel, and school meeting, as usual. But this year, it is impossible to take our customs and habits for granted. Students and faculty have been able, once again, to show up for each other. Together, we have celebrated glorious victories and rued gut-wrenching losses on the playing fields. Together, we have mourned the passing of loved ones and celebrated the arrival of holidays in the chapel. Together, we have shared each other’s burdens and cheered each other’s birthdays in the Dining Hall. Nothing could be more ordinary than these moments. And yet, after the last two years, nothing could be more extraordinary than the privilege of showing up for each other and opting in. Like anyone else, I cannot wait for the pandemic to recede into distant memory. At the same time, I hope we always remember to show up for each other. It is in this embrace of our rituals—however ordinary they may be— that we make meaning and find purpose in the opportunity of daily life at St. Andrew’s and beyond. J
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From the Mail Bag A Lovely Tribute The spring 2021 issue of the SAS Magazine was awesome—it was a lovely tribute to Tad and Elizabeth Roach. I have been on campus a number of times since I graduated in 1976—but hadn’t really comprehended all of the renovations and improvements until I read “A Campus Transformed.” —Sue Moon ’76
A Source of Great Pride and Cheer
The Best Cookies Saints hopped on to the SAS Alumni Facebook group to discuss the recipe for Elizabeth Roach’s famous chocolate chip cookies, as published on the last page of the spring 2021 issue [the below are all excerpts from this Facebook post]: Ginna Purrington ’94: Show of hands: how
I wanted to thank you for the great profile of Steve Ockenden ’64 in the recent issue [fall 2020]. There are so many important topics in that piece, especially about pandemic preparation. Also the many magnificent photographs of the school continuing to function in energetic and innovative ways despite the pandemic. These are a source of great pride and cheer to alums everywhere. —Rob Colburn ’80
many people have already made Mrs. Roach’s secret cookie recipe? Dark brown sugar? Smacking the pan? I’m clearing my Sunday.... I know Abi (White) Moon ’93 is all over this. Brian Bullard ’97: I was thinking the same thing!!
How long would it take before those cookies start popping out of ovens everywhere??? Sue Moon ’76: I plan to make them. Intrigued by the “smacking of the pan”! Heather Evans Williams ’94: Ummm, where
A Quality Magazine that Facilitates Relationships
does one find this recipe?
Attached please find a photo of Don Harting (left) and John Mincks, both Class of 1974, taken by Don’s wife Laura on May 15 at Don’s house in Downingtown, PA. John, who lives in Williamsburg VA, dropped by for a visit. As you can see in the photo, we had been poring over similar reports in the Class Notes section of St. Andrew’s Magazine. Before the photo, we had played a round of disc golf at the newly installed course at Shamona Park in Uwchlan Township. (John won, just to get even with Don for outrowing him in the VI Form.) Thank you for all you do to produce a quality magazine that facilitates relationships between and among classmates and SAS. I have served as editor of several publications so I have some idea of how much work goes into a publication such as St. Andrew’s Magazine. In the fall 2020 issue, I particularly enjoyed the brief profile of Joy McGrath, the conversation on leadership between Joy and Tad Roach, and the many photos illustrating how the school coped during the pandemic. Sincerely yours, Don Harting ’74 •
back page of the latest magazine—and it’s on my list!
Nadejda (Stancioff) Mishovsky ’85: It’s on the
Abi (White) Moon ’93: I just got my magazine!!
Woo hooo Ginna Purrington ’94: These may be the best cookies I have ever made.
DON HARTING ’74 AND CLASSMATE JOHN MINCKS IN MAY 2021.
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Talk of the T-Dock A Classic Game to Kick Off the School Year Right
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Each school year, the night before the first day of classes, St. Andrew’s kicks off the first evening study hall with an all-school assignment; since students have not had classes yet, they do not, in fact, have any homework to do during this first study hall. This allschool assignment has traditionally taken the form of an essay or reflection. This year, however, Head of School Joy McGrath wanted to try something new; she asked the Math Department to develop an assignment based on mathematical thinking that would be accessible for students at all grade levels. “We wanted to come up with an assignment that had multiple entry points,” explains Dean of Math & Science Dr. Harvey Johnson ’97. “We wanted students to be able to relate to the assignment without requiring a specific set of skills.” This led math faculty to design an assignment around tic-tac-toe—specifically, the version of the game known as “ultimate tictac-toe.” Ultimate tic-tac-toe is built on the classic 3x3 grid, but within each square is another tic-tac-toe grid. Players must win each smaller game in order to claim the bigger square as their own. Furthermore, each placement of an X or O determines which grid the opponent can play in for their next turn. Thus, ultimate tic-tac-toe turns a simple game into one that is more strategically complex. “There’s a whole branch of math called game theory,” explains Dr. Johnson. “Game theory can be applied to games like ultimate tic-tac-toe to see if there is a best strategy that you could use—and there’s a mathematical definition for what ‘best strategy’ means.” “Although the all-school assignment might not be exactly the type of problems students typically solve in math classrooms, the goal of the assignment was for “students to feel like math is accessible and valuable,” notes Dr. Johnson. “Hopefully some of the skills that they practiced in this exercise will resonate with them throughout the year. Often we get a problem and we’re trying to think: What’s the best route? What’s the most efficient way to get to the solution? And how can I show my work on the way? That’s what we’re doing in the math classroom.” It appears that the all-school assignment brought some fun to the first study hall of the school year. “Ultimate tic-tac-toe seemed boring at first,” says senior Nick Oxnam ’22, “but as I began playing I started to notice that it was very strategic and engaging. I played with my roommate against the hardest AI, analyzing it and hoping for a tie. When we started watching its moves, we noticed that the AI was sophisticated enough to run through a huge amount of possible moves and it used different strategies to beat its opponent. Our excitement about trying to simply tie with the computer, not even to win, felt exactly like the excitement of finishing a challenging problem in math class. We had to understand the rules, what was possible, and choose our best path, just like our math curriculum teaches us [to do].” Nick was not alone in finding the game engaging; in a survey students were asked to complete after the assignment, 80% of students responded that they would like to see an ultimate tic-tac-toe tournament at St. Andrew’s. Perhaps SWAG (the Student Weekend Activity Group) has some planning to do! You can read the all-school assignment and play ultimate tic-tac-toe “against the computer” at standrews-de.org/tic-tac-toe. •
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“G’Owen Strong” in Honor of Owen Strong ’07
Stacia Smart visits campus on bike tour to raise funds for glioblastoma research On Tuesday, September 21, the student body gathered in front of Founders Hall to welcome cyclist Stacia Smart as she streaked up the Main Drive on her racing bike. This fall, Smart undertook a 1,100-mile solo bicycle tour along the East Coast in order to raise funds for glioblastoma research; her tour was in honor of St. Andrew’s alumnus Owen Strong ’07, who died from the effects of glioblastoma on January 11, 2020. Smart’s journey—dubbed the “G’Owen Strong Tour”—began at Owen’s alma mater Tufts University in Boston. Her stops along the way were places of significance to Owen: New York City, where Owen was raised; St. Andrew’s, which he, his sister Leda ’10, and his father Ed ’66 all attended; and the Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC, where Owen was treated at the Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center. “The purpose of G’Owen Strong is not only to raise money with the goal of improving the lives of those affected by glioblastoma,” Smart said in a chapel talk given to the school community on Wednesday night. “It is also about paying Owen’s gifts forward: creating a positive impact wherever possible, and ultimately, making the most of what this life has to offer.” “Owen will always be a part of this family, and we all miss him,” said Head of School Joy McGrath to the crowd that greeted Smart upon arrival, which included Owen’s family. “He was such a decent human being, and such a joyful person. We are all here to salute you today for what you’re accomplishing on behalf of glioblastoma research, Stacia. What’s incredible about what you’re doing is you’re taking... a moment that has been, for all of us who know Owen, a moment of total devastation and loss, and turning it into hope and positivity and energy. You are teaching us how to take moments like that and from them, create beauty and purpose in our lives. We’re grateful for this opportunity to acknowledge that and learn that from you, Stacia. Thank you for including us.” A sea of students in navy blue G’Owen Strong t-shirts welcomed Smart with noisemakers, pom poms, and plenty of state-tournament-level Saints cheering. The SAS vestry announced that they raised $1,000 through that week’s chapel donations for glioblastoma research; the G’Owen Strong Tour will divide its proceeds between the Tisch Brain Tumor Center and the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City (where Owen also received treatment). Students also presented Stacia with zinnias grown in the school’s Organic Garden. “[This ride] has certainly been a test,” Smart said in her chapel talk, “but I know, thanks to Owen, it is nothing that I cannot handle. It’s really hard sometimes to have the motivation to carry onward when your goal seems so far away and you’re being pulled in many directions. But, I would remind myself of the end goal that would bring me back to the present. Back to the purpose of what each workout represented. Back to the positive impact I hope G’Owen Strong will have on others.” Smart finished her bike tour on October 9 in Durham as planned, and in the end raised more than $200,000 for glioblastoma research. “This is only the beginning, so please stay tuned,” Smart noted in an Instagram post on October 21. You can read Smart’s chapel talk in full at https://www.standrews-de.org/front-lawn/podcasts, or learn more about the G’Owen Strong Tour on Instagram @g.owenstrong. •
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Talk of the T-Dock Exploring St. Andrew’s Local Native Foodways Alumni-led Native Roots Farm Foundation visits campus
WHAT TO WATCH
Gather is now available on multiple streaming services. Visit https://gather.film for more information.
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In mid-November, St. Andrew’s welcomed Delaware’s Native Roots Farm Foundation (NRFF)—and its co-founders Courtney Streett ’05 and John Reynolds ’06—to campus in recognition of Native American Heritage Month. NRFF works with tribal, public, and private partners so that people from all backgrounds can celebrate local Indigenous communities and their relationships with plants. Its mission is to celebrate Native American roots, protect open space, and nourish the community with sustainably grown produce. Ultimately, NRFF’s goal is to secure land to build a public garden and sustainable farm to educate visitors about native plants and farming techniques used by the Delmarva peninsula’s first inhabitants. While on campus, Streett and Reynolds connected with students and faculty over dinner and a movie. Ms. Streett collaborated with SAGE Dining Services to create a seasonal and local dinner menu in the Dining Hall that was a modern version of what Eastern Woodlands tribes eat around this time of the year. The menu included venison stew, vegetable stew, succotash made from the Three Sisters—the three main agricultural crops of Indigenous people in North America: winter squash, maize, and climbing beans— and cranberry cookies for dessert. Following dinner, students and faculty moved to Forbes Theatre, where they enjoyed a showing of the documentary film “Gather” and participated in a discussion of “the version of US history that’s been taught to us, how food has been used as a weapon against Indigenous communities, and how food is medicine,” NRFF noted on their Instagram account (@nativeroots_de). Students remained in Forbes after the film and discussion to talk further with Streett about the work of Native Roots Farm Foundation, Indigenous culture, foraging, and food. Dean of Diversity Education Devin Duprey ’10 noted, “In our practice of Allyship To All, one of our themes of the year, and our quest to seek proximity, we are now able to ask ourselves, ‘What does it mean for us to be a part of the ‘restorative revolution’?’ Our student and adult community look forward to future collaborations between NRFF and SAS, and we’re excited to think about what we can cultivate together both on campus and in our extended Delaware community.” “We’re so proud of Courtney’s work to shine a light on the history of Native communities here on the Delmarva Peninsula, and her efforts to create a way forward through education,” shared Dean of Student Life Will Robinson ’97. “We’ve been in conversation with her about Native Roots Farm Foundation since the summer and we feel so fortunate that she and John were willing to come to campus, share their work, and spark a needed discussion. We hope it’s the first of many in the years ahead.” The week of the visit, the student vestry decided to donate all funds raised in chapel that week to NRFF. Concessions during the Cannon Game also benefited the foundation. School co-presidents Aunyae Romeo ’22 and Liam Hurtt ’22 presented Streett with a check at Thursday’s School Meeting. “John and I are feeling inspired and energized after engaging with the St. Andrew’s community,” said Streett. “We hope the conversations we had on Saturday continued on campus and off campus when students went home and gathered around their Thanksgiving tables.” •
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Recommended Reads from Our Science and Math Faculty
(and Other Media)
DEAN OF MATH & SCIENCE HARVEY JOHNSON ’97
Mathematics for Human Flourishing From the publisher: “In this profound book, written for a wide audience but especially for those disenchanted by their past experiences, an award‑winning mathematician and educator weaves parables, puzzles, and personal reflections to show how mathematics meets basic human desires— such as for play, beauty, freedom, justice, and love—and cultivates virtues essential for human flourishing. These desires and virtues, and the stories told here, reveal how mathematics is intimately tied to being human.” The Joy of X listen wherever you get podcasts
From Apple Podcasts: “Acclaimed mathematician and author Steven Strogatz interviews some of the world’s leading scientists about their lives and work.”
BIOLOGY TEACHER DAN O’CONNELL P’19,’24
Intelligence Squared intelligencesquaredus.org/podcasts
“This podcast is great because you are guaranteed to hear a debate—not just one side of a particular issue.”
Making Sense samharris.org/podcasts
“This podcast gets wonderful guests but the star is always the host, Sam Harris, who speaks more precisely and clearly than most people write. Topics include science, tech, and social issues. Harris is trained in neuroscience and philosophy. He is also a gadfly so if you don’t like having your ideas challenged—from both sides of the political spectrum and sometimes in hyperbolic terms— you might not like Harris.” Bioscience Talks bioscience-talks.aibs.org
MATH TEACHER KIM KLECAN P’25
The Light Ages by Seb Falk
“Fascinating detailed account of medieval science, including the transition to clocks with equal hours.”
“The title tells you what you need to know. This podcast dives deep into subjects you probably did not realize existed, through interviews with research scientists themselves. Some guests are better than others at communicating to a non-expert audience.” MATH TEACHER JON TOWER
Ologies listen wherever you get podcasts
“Also strongly recommended by Ms. Roz!” From Apple Podcasts: “Humorist and science correspondent Alie Ward asks smart people stupid questions and the answers might change your life. Take away a pocket full of science knowledge and charming, bizarre stories about what fuels these professional -ologists’ obsessions.” ENGINEERING TEACHER WILL REHRIG ’11
The Overstory by Richard Powers
“This novel will deeply move you and forever change the way you look at trees!”
American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West by Nate Blakeslee “This gripping true story following the lives of the Druid wolf pack, and their leader O-Six, makes me want to pack my car and head west to Yellowstone National Park. I have never seen a wolf and I worry this extraordinary book might be as close as I ever come.” PHYSICS TEACHER MARK HAMMOND P’09,’12
GothamChess YouTube channel
“Whether you play regularly, or are a wood-pusher like me, you'll enjoy this informed but nutty take on chess. Includes reviews of professional as well as amateur games in a fun format.”
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Talk of the T-Dock Saints Football Makes Up for a Lost Season
MICHAEL LILLEY ’22
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The 2021 Saints football team has had one of their best seasons in many years. Coach Patrick Moffitt has the Saints playing at a high level, scoring a lot of points, and keeping teams out of the endzone. The team started off 4-0 overall, and even after a tough loss to Tower Hill, responded in their next game to improve to 4-0 in the conference. (DIAA realigned Delaware high school football conferences in the summer of 2021 and SAS and Tower Hill now compete in different conferences.) In their first four games, Saints defense only allowed a total of 13 combined points, and Saints offense scored a combined 144 points. Anyone who has played or been around football understands that football is a team sport, but this season has seen a lot of individual success and individual school records broken. These successes began in the first game of the season when kicker Tony Wang ’22 kicked two field goals to tie the school record for most field goals (2) in a game. His first attempt, a 42yard kick, was one yard short of tying the school record for longest field goal. When asked for his highlight of that game, Tony answered, “Actually, punting—that was my first time punting in a game.” Tony splits his fall season between the football and soccer teams, and is setting records on “the other field” as well. In a September 14 soccer match, against Wilmington Christian, he netted five goals to tie another school record for most goals in a soccer game. The football team’s loss to Tower Hill was tough to swallow—as such a loss is for any SAS team—but rather than allowing the game to diminish their momentum, seniors Michael Lilley ’22 and Brandon Graves ’22 turned setback into motivation. In their very next game against Glasgow High, the quarterback and wide receiver put on one of the best shows two athletes have had while wearing SAS uniforms. During the game, Michael was able to find Brandon early and often, and the two connected on four different scoring plays. “I figured once we were scoring 50-plus-yard touchdowns on multiple drives, we were putting up some pretty historic numbers,” Michael recalled. The first was a 56yard lob pass down the right sideline; the second broke the longest pass completion record by one yard with an 87 yard pass and catch; the third was an outside screen pass where Brandon was able to make a defender miss; and the final one was
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and Heads Into the Record Books another screen pass where Brandon broke a tackle and outran the safety for a fourth Saints touchdown. Michael threw for one more touchdown, giving him a total of five touchdown passes on the day. These five TD passes and 355 total yards passing, and Brandon’s 286 yards receiving and his four receiving touchdowns, are both single-game St. Andrew’s records. Brandon’s 286 yards also set the all-time single game record for the state of Delaware. What’s even more impressive? These record-setting performances were accrued in only three quarters; the game was called early due to darkness. Season-long records have not been safe either. Brandon’s season total of 12 touchdown receptions and 869 yards receiving on the year are both new school records for a single season. Michael’s 112 pass completions and 203 passing attempts are also a school single-season record. He came up just short of the school record of 1,632 passing yards and 20 touchdowns, but still finished with impressive numbers of 1,573 passing yards and 19 passing touchdowns. All of that being said, all three athletes were still focused on the team. “It would have been a lot of fun to break the single-season passing touchdown record, but the team always came first,” Mike said. “Making the state tournament and trying to have a deep run was on the forefront of mind.” “Making the state tournament was huge,” Brandon concluded. “Not everyone [in Delaware] believed in us—except the guys on the team. It was a confidence boost and great for this community to see our success and play for a state title in a long time.” •
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TONY WANG ’22
BRANDON GRAVES ’22
All stats reported here as of November 14, 2021.
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Boys Soccer Makes Thrilling Run to State Championship Game
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The boys soccer team made a run in this year’s state championship tournament, all the way to the final match—the first time the team has reached the final since 1981. The story of how the team fought to get there is just short of incredible. Saints soccer looked like a lock to make the state tournament with three matches left in the regular season; in late October they had a record of 8-3-1 and needed one more win. Then, the team lost a close match against Appoquinimink 0-1 and then tied Wilmington Friends 1-1. In the final match of the season, the team dropped a heartbreaker in the waning minutes of double overtime to rival Tower Hill School. The Saints also lost Jared Horgan ’22 and Head Coach Matt Carroll to red cards in that match, meaning they would be without both if the team did in fact make the state tournament—and having dropped two and tied one, Saints soccer was now on uncertain ground as to where they stood. The team rallied around each other, just hoping for one more match—and they were given that shot by the state selection committee, but faced a difficult hill to climb as the twelfth and final seed to make 20 / TALK OF THE T-DOCK
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the tournament. The team took on a mantra of: “One match at a time.” In the first tournament match against fifth-seed Delaware Military Academy, the Saints rose to the occasion with everyone contributing and helping to keep DMA out of the net through regulation. Talan Esposito ’24, as a defender, saved two sure goals to preserve the 0-0 tie. Ike Lawrence ’23 dominated in the air and was able to win many 50/50 balls to give the Saints extra possessions. The Saints thought they had a game-winner when Flynn Bowman ’22 scored a goal, but it was called back. After 2OTs and still no goals on either side, the match went to the dreaded penalty kick shootout that has been the Saints’ Achilles heel in the state tournament for more than a decade. (The team has lost in PKs in state tournament games for at least six of the last ten years.) This time, the curse was broken as Tony Wang ’22, Jake Kelly ’22, Lawrence, and Crawford Seeley ’22 all scored to give the Saints a victory. Crawford’s goal put the team up 4-3; to win, goalie Emmanuel “Ema” Appenteng ’23 had to make one more save, or if not, Liam Hurtt ’22 would have to score one more goal. Appenteng, who can be heard every match directing and encouraging his teammates, seized the opportunity to put the match away, saved DMA’s final PK, and the Saints mobbed Ema in celebration. “The Saints truly deserved this victory after having a goal called back in regulation time, plus not having all of our starters,” said Assistant Coach Jay Hutchinson after the game. “As one of our faithful fans who showed up and stayed until the joyous end remarked: ‘they played so beautifully as a team—no one player stood out—they played as one.’ Every single player had a foot in this cursebreaking win.” The quarterfinal match was against fourth-seed Wilmington Friends School. In their two regularseason matches with the Quakers, the Saints had lost 0-3 on September 25, and tied 1-1 on October 28. The team was thus hoping to build off of the tie and learn from it to pull the upset. The match was close from start to finish; both teams created opportunities in the first half but neither team was able to score. The tie at halftime played into St. Andrew’s strategy: the Quakers had been a strong offensive team all season, but if the Saints
defense could hold and allow the offense to score one goal, the Saints believed they would be able to take the win. Early in the second half, this strategy came to fruition when Wang found the back of the net. The Saints were up 1-0 and looking to hold on for the next 25 minutes. The clock creeped along, but the defense held strong. Appenteng recorded another shutout in goal and the Saints won 1-0, setting up a semifinal match against ninth-seed Newark Charter School. Newark Charter and the Saints had been on similar tournament journeys: Newark Charter had been the lower seed in both their matches and had shocked one-seed Saint Mark’s in their quarterfinal match. Both teams were looking to continue their dream run on Wednesday night under the lights. Kickoff was a little after 8:00 p.m., and after what had been a warm November Delaware afternoon, temperatures began to drop quickly. The turf was slick, which meant the ball would skip more and be harder for players to make cuts without slipping. To add to the mystique of the match, a low, small patch of fog hovered over the field, moving back and forth across each half of the turf, almost as if it was following the action.
”‘THEY PLAYED SO BEAUTIFULLY AS A TEAM—NO ONE PLAYER STOOD OUT—THEY PLAYED AS ONE.’ EVERY SINGLE PLAYER HAD A FOOT IN THIS CURSING-BREAKING WIN.” For the first five minutes of the game, nerves were running high and both teams struggled to control the ball. Finally the Saints settled in and crossed the ball into the box ten minutes into the game. Newark Charter failed to clear the ball, and Jared Horgan ’22 took a one-timer that found the
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went just wide of the net. From there the Saints controlled the ball, and when the final whistle blew, the entire team sprinted to their fans. The scene was euphoric: players were hugging each other and their friends in the stands. The Saints were moving on to the state finals! After the match Coach Carroll addressed the team: “You deserve it, you’ve earned it, and now you have to go take it. We’re now at a point where anything can happen.” In the state championship game against twoseed Caravel Academy, it looked as if the Saints had a strong chance to win when the score was once again 0-0 at halftime. Unfortunately the clock struck midnight for the Saints in the second half, and Caravel pulled away for a 4-0 victory. The Saints did not walk away with the first-place trophy, but from where they had stood merely two weeks earlier, second in the state was an impressive achievement. While it is easy to give the team’s goalscorers a lot of the attention, the Saints defense was key the entire tournament with Kelly, Read, Esposito, and Crawford working as a cohesive team to help vocal goalie Appenteng record three straight shutouts on their way to the DIAA final. •
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together. This year, we’re feeling more grateful than ever for every chance we’re given to get together and be together with our fellow Saints, both on campus and off.
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Saints in the News Studio Art Teacher Navanjali Kelsey Displays Works in Philadelphia In the summer of 2021, St. Andrew’s studio art teacher Navanjali Kelsey completed her Masters of Fine Arts degree at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA) in Philadelphia. Her artwork was on display this past fall in the Anne Bryan Gallery in Philadelphia, as part of PAFA’s annual thesis exhibition. In May, Kelsey was awarded PAFA’s Deena Gu Watercolor Purchase Prize for “Dancer,” a work in China marker, watercolor, and gouache work. Another of her works, “Physically Enhanced By a Special Spider Derived Serum,” seen right, has been selected to be one of 30 pieces in the Oxford Art Alliance’s 2021 National Juried Exhibition. Kelsey’s work explores the space she inhabits between Indian and Western cultures through the lens of memory. •
Charlotte Oxnam ’19 Named a “25 Under 25” Tech Innovator in Chicago In September, Charlotte Oxnam ’19 was named one of 25 Chicago tech leaders to watch by ChicagoInno (a branch of Chicago Business Journal that covers technology and entrepreneurship in that city). Oxnam, currently a student at Northwestern University, is the founder of Cue the Curves, “an online community for plus-size women and clothing brands,” reads the ChicagoInno citation. “It gives a platform for users to discover and discuss their favorite brands, and find brands that fit their style. Its goal is to help make the shopping experience for plus-size women less isolating by connecting a community that can talk and bond over fashion. The company took the top prize at Chicago Startup Week this spring.” Check it out at cuethecurves.com. •
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Saints in Service For one of this fall’s community service offerings, students and faculty created a new Adaptive Athletics program for local special needs students. (The program was organized as a temporary replacement for longtime SAS community service program Adaptive Aquatics, which has still not be able to return to campus in the wake of the pandemic.) Saints have been traveling to Middletown High School to teach and play bocce with teenagers with special needs on Wednesday afternoons. The program culminated in early December with a bocce tournament for athletes co-sponsored by Special Olympics Delaware. Sixth Form students Sunny Trivits ’22 and Madison Macalintal ’22 have been responsible for getting the Adaptive Athletics program up and running this fall, and helped to organize the bocce tournament. “The weekly practices became highlights of both the Middletown and the St. Andrew’s participants’ weeks,” said Sunny. “And I think the athletes got a sense of what it means to work together towards a common goal.” Special Olympics Delaware is hoping to expand the bocce program to other schools in the area later this school year, and this winter, St. Andrew’s is working to partner with SODE once again for an indoor kickball program for special needs athletes. •
Sonal Bhatia ’22 Wins Fourth Annual McLean Science Lecture Competition On November 12, the school community enjoyed the fourth annual Peter K. McLean Science Lecture Competition. Begun 2018 by current Science Department Chair Ashley Hyde, this competition invites students to submit presentations on a STEM topic of their choosing in a variety of fields: physics, astronomy, chemistry, engineering, computer science, environmental science, biology, and medicine. Four student finalists are then selected to give their presentations to the school community in Engelhard Hall. This year’s finalists and their talks were: • Adele Auchincloss ’23, Nerve Detecting Prosthetics: Replicating Human Touch • Derek Ike ’23, The Future of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence at Boston Dynamics
Paul Eichler ’82 Honored with NFPA/HFSC Bringing Safety Home Award In June, Paul Eichler ’82 was recognized by The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Fire Sprinkler Initiative and the Home Fire Sprinkler Coalition (HFSC) with the 2021 Bringing Safety Home Award. This award recognizes outstanding efforts by a safety advocate who diligently promotes the importance of home fire sprinklers. Paul, who is an Operations Battalion Chief with the Anne Arundel County Fire Department in Maryland and a volunteer member of the Dover Fire Department in Delaware, chairs the Delaware Fire Sprinkler Coalition and has been a champion for the lifesaving benefits of fire sprinklers for many years. •
• Heidi Seo ’23, How Artificial Intelligence Revolutionizes Biology: AlphaFold 2 • Sonal Bhatia ’22, Asteroid Orbit Determination (And Why On Earth We Should Start Caring About It) The finalists’ talks were then judged by a panel of science faculty, with Pearl Mallick ’22, last year’s competition winner, as a student vote. Sonal Bhatia ’22 was selected as the 2021 winner, and her achievement was announced at the school’s Thanksgiving dinner on November 19. Watch all of the presentations at youtube.com/sasdelaware. •
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MOVING FORWARD Getting to Know Joy McGrath ’92, St. Andrew’s Fifth Head of School By now you probably know—if you’ve read a recent issue of the St. Andrew’s Magazine, glanced at an SAS social media post from the past year, or visited our newly redesigned school website—that Joy McGrath ’92 became St. Andrew’s fifth head of school in July 2021. Joy is not only St. Andrew’s first female head of school and the first head of school who is an alumnus; she is also the first head of school born and raised on the Delmarva peninsula. EARLY YEARS ON THE FARM Joy’s family roots in Delaware and the Eastern Shore of Maryland go back several generations. Born at Kent General Hospital in Dover, Joy was brought home to a house “a stone’s throw from here, near a place called Taylor’s Bridge”—about seven miles due east of St. Andrew’s campus. Soon after, the family settled on their grandfather’s small vegetable farm in Smyrna. “My grandfather was famous for his tomatoes, and he was very fussy about the varieties he grew,” Joy says. These early years on the family farm were formative. Joy is the oldest of three, followed by brother Joshua and sister Hope ’01. They spent much of their childhood outdoors, exploring the fields and waterways around their home, learning the names of trees and plants, and camping. And, from a young age, they were expected to help on the farm and in the house. “I had a very traditional Delmarva upbringing. I spent a lot of time in the kitchen with my mother and grandmother, cooking, canning and preserving, and I learned to sew,” Joy recalls. “In fact, when I was accepted to St. Andrew’s, I got a copy of the dress code in the mail, and I spent the rest of the summer sewing jumpers and dresses. And it was 1990, so I would make a matching scrunchie for my hair.” Joy also had many opportunities to hone her baking skills—well known to a certain generation of alumni—winning ribbons for her treats at the Delaware State Fair.
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I fell in love with St. Andrew’s.... Here was a place where everybody had chosen to be—everyone here opted in, and for that reason, among others, it felt really different.
JOY BOARDS A BUS TO BOSTON, ON HER WAY TO START HER FIRST YEAR AT HARVARD IN THE SUMMER OF 1992.
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“I can remember at a young age feeling a particular sense of accomplishment in completing a task—whether weeding a bed of flowers or learning to make pie crust.” Joy recalls. “I saw how hard my parents and grandparents worked, but I also saw the pride they felt when a job was done well.” That sense of achievement—of working toward a goal not only for oneself, but for others—is an important part of the St. Andrew’s experience, too. CONNECTING TO THE SAS MISSION “St. Andrew’s prepares you for college, of course, but what we mean when we say that is: St. Andrew’s prepares you to be a positive contributor to all the communities and endeavors you join after graduation,” she continues. “To that end, we ask students to take turns waiting tables during family-style meals, do jobs around the dorm, and take responsibility for the community by cleaning up, opting in, and participating in community life.” As a student, Joy felt an immediate connection to St. Andrew’s because of these rituals of life at the school. And as an alumna, Joy feels a deep connection to the school’s mission and values—particularly St. Andrew’s commitment to being a school “open to all, regardless of means,” in the words of its founder A. Felix du Pont. “I would never have been able to attend St. Andrew’s without generous financial aid,” Joy notes. Today, 43 percent of students attend St. Andrew’s with the help of financial aid, and stewarding the school’s historic commitment to scholarship is one of Joy’s foremost priorities as head of school. She notes that alumni and parents have a critical role to play in sustaining the school today, not only in terms of their financial support, but also as ambassadors who can reach students and families who may not even be aware that boarding school is an option. This was Joy’s path to SAS; the idea to apply to St. Andrew’s came to Joy from an unlikely source: her orthodontist. His son, Bob Kidd ’93, was enrolled at the school, and Dr. Kidd not only suggested but insisted that Joy consider applying to St. Andrew’s; he told Joy that he would not take her braces off until she went on a tour and called thenDirector of Admissions Joan O’Brien P’84 GP’15,’17,’19,’22 to set up the visit. Christina Court ’92, now a good friend, was her tour guide. “I fell in love with St. Andrew’s,” Joy says. “Here was a place where everybody had chosen to be—everyone here opted in, and for that reason, among others, it felt really different.” Joy almost wasn’t admitted to the school; it was late in the spring when she applied, and she was only accepted after a bed was located on M (now Mein) Dorm. “It was a really lucky set of circumstances that led me here,” she continues. “My enrollment was a low-probability event. I was taking a lot of secretarial classes in public school in the ninth and tenth grade, and I think I would be in a very different place today, if I hadn’t ended up at St. Andrew’s.”
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At St. Andrew’s, Joy sang in the chapel choir and was the VI Form head of jobs (a position that no longer exists). St. Andrew’s also presented her with her first opportunity to participate in sports—as a cross-country runner and as a coxswain. “Sports are a very important part of my life because of my St. Andrew’s experience,” Joy notes. “Our approach to athletics—where every student participates and we resist specialization—is now very rare. Because of my own experience, I’m very committed to both our education model, and our athletic model—and I’m excited to continue to nurture and develop both. After St. Andrew’s, Joy attended Harvard, and gives credit to St. Andrew’s for easing her transition to that institution, not just academically, but socially as well. “I think one of the things I learned at St. Andrew’s was how to be a friend,” she says. “So much of the St. Andrew’s experience takes place in dorms, on athletic fields, in our arts facilities, in the Dining Hall—these are places where so many St. Andreans have developed lifelong relationships with peers and with faculty members.” All of which is why Reunions have always been a highlight of Joy’s St. Andrew’s experience, both as an alumna and as a faculty member—she treasures being able to see friends and former students from every Reunion class. SUPPORTING THE MISSION, CONNECTING TO STUDENTS Her appointment as head of school is Joy’s second return to St. Andrew’s as an employee since her graduation in 1992. The first was in 1999, to work in fundraising and communications. She stayed for eight years, ultimately becoming the school’s director of advancement, and credits then-Head of School Tad Roach P’04,’07,’13,’18 as one of her most important mentors. “It was a great opportunity,” she recalls. “The thought that I could make any kind of difference to the success of St. Andrew’s was really important to me, and I was willing to work around the clock to support Tad and the mission of the school.” Joy was involved in many aspects of the school’s program: teaching English, creating the school’s Organic Garden, and living on Schmolze Corridor (formerly C Corridor)—the first woman ever to
JOY AND TY POSE WITH STUDENTS AND A PHOTO OF THE ROCK (LONG STORY) ON POND DAY THIS PAST OCTOBER.
serve as a dorm parent on a boys’ dorm. “Being a dorm parent is an incredible opportunity to have the trust of families and kids to engage in their personal growth,” she says. “One of the things you do as an educator in a high school is try to prepare students to stand on their own two feet when they leave the school, and here, I think a lot of that happens on dorm.” She often cooked and baked for her Schmolze residents—see page 80 for her famous “A-Game Brownie” recipe—and had a tradition of having students over for breakfast every Sunday morning before chapel. “I loved being a dorm parent,” she continues. “The kids were in and out and cooking and studying and asking questions. My parents operated their house in a way that we never knew who was going to be at dinner—if you needed a meal, you could show up at our house and eat. We always had this sense of the home as a place where everyone was welcome at the table, so it never occurred to me [when I was a dorm parent] that I was opening my home to students all the time. It just seemed like a normal way of life. If I could have moved back up on Schmolze as head of school, I would have. But, happily, we have a wonderful dorm parent there today in religious studies teacher Jason Kunen.” Her current on-campus residence is just slightly larger than the Schmolze apartment, and she’s excited to once again have students coming and going from the head of school’s house. “As we continue to deal with COVID-19, I hope that we’ll be able to welcome even more students into the house throughout this year,” she says. In the meantime, she’s spending time with students in the
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JOY WITH HER FAMILY (L TO R: JOSHUA MCGRATH, MICHAEL AND JOAN MCGRATH P’92,’01, JOY, AND HOPE MCGRATH ’01) AT HER INSTALLATION AS HEAD OF SCHOOL IN OCTOBER 2021.
dining hall, in chapel, and at School Meeting, and can often be seen zipping around campus on her bike, cheering at “all the athletic competitions I can possibly attend.” STRENGTHENING THE MISSION Today, a few months into her new role, Joy is focused on strengthening St. Andrew’s culture and investing in its mission. “Short-term, we’re learning to cope with COVID,” she explains. “Resetting our culture in the current public health conditions is my absolute top priority this year. For me, that means getting back to chapel, family-style meals, and School Meeting”— all of which were either altered in format or disbanded altogether during the prior 18 months of the pandemic. “The COVID precautions we put in place this year were designed to resuscitate those traditions. One of the great strengths of this school, at our small scale and size, is that we can gather the whole community together. If you think about the five family-style meals, two chapels, and School Meeting that occur each week, that’s a minimum of eight times every week where every single person in the community is in one room. That’s an incredible opportunity, and I think it’s the basis of how we live together here, and of our culture of kindness, love, and engagement. We ask the students to really support each other, and lean into the culture, and we have to be able to gather together to do that.” In the long term, Joy is focused on marshaling the resources necessary to keep St. Andrew’s, its financial aid program, and its culture thriving for the next ninety years. “Our mission is incredibly
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ambitious, particularly with regard to accessibility and financial aid,” she explains. “The type of residentially intensive education that we provide is also resource-intensive. It’s expensive, and what we do here is not going to get simpler. So, the continued growth of our endowment through philanthropy and investments is a major priority for me. I want to make absolutely sure that St. Andrew’s always has the resources, both financial and human, to carry out our mission and to serve students in the future as well as we have served students in the past. That’s the responsibility of any head of school, and I take it very seriously.” A SENSE OF PLACE In many ways, St. Andrew’s was also a launching pad for Joy to discover people, places, and cultures beyond Delmarva. Her first stint at St. Andrew’s led to her work at Yale, where she served as the first director of development at Yale College (the undergraduate college of Yale University), and later as chief of staff to the university’s president, Peter Salovey. In these roles, she traveled frequently to countries across Africa, Asia, and Europe. And on her own time, she looks forward to her annual summer pilgrimages, during which she walks ten to twenty miles each day on ancient pilgrimage routes in the United Kingdom. “Those walks, during which I am completely alone, are really important times for me to unplug and connect to nature,” Joy says. “The paths I walk on have been followed by thousands of pilgrims who were searching for meaning and spiritual growth. You very much feel that spirit on the windswept hillsides, or when you stop in the small churches, cathedrals, and ruined monasteries that dot those routes—they are spiritual homes for travelers and seekers.” Today, returning to St. Andrew’s feels like coming home—in more ways than one—but southern New Castle County has changed dramatically over the past 30 years. In 1990, the year Joy arrived at St. Andrew’s, Middletown had a population of just under 4,000 people; its population today is nearly 23,000, a six-fold increase. Route 1 now cuts across the back of what was the McGrath family farm. “Middletown has completely transformed around us, and is at St. Andrew’s gates,” she notes. “When Ashley Plaza was built at the end of Silver Lake
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Q&A Road, people laughed because it was so far from Middletown proper, and now it’s relatively close to the center of town.” Joy notes that it is important to her that students get to know the 2,200 acres of woodlands, waterways, and fields the school occupies. “The school’s ecosystem and natural surroundings are why our founder chose to locate St. Andrew’s here. A St. Andrew’s education includes time spent on and around Noxontown Pond, on the trails, and at the farm. We take care of our environment and students are engaged in many programs to leave this ecosystem better than we found it,” Joy points out. “Neuroscientific research has shown us that nature is an important context and counterpart to the proper functioning of the human brain. It is such a benefit to our students and faculty to have this incredible environment all around them. So I’m very interested in developing programs that take advantage of this resource.” EMBRACING TRADITIONS—AND EVOLUTION From Joy’s perspective as our newly installed head of school, however, it seems the more the surrounding region has changed, the more St. Andrew’s has stayed the same. “So much of the DNA of the school is persistent,” Joy said. “I sit today at family-style meals and think: this is not very different from when I was a student. The core traditions feel very much the same. And we continue to strive to be the kind of community I encountered in 1990: a place where students, from near and far, come to learn about themselves and expand the boundaries of their worlds.” In important ways, however, the school has changed, and Joy embraces its evolution. “Certainly over the past 30 years, St. Andrew’s has become a more inclusive place,” she says. “We’ve always been committed to bringing kids from different backgrounds into one place, but now we pay much greater attention today to how we support belonging for all students.” The school is known for its “culture of kindness”—“a phenomenon that begins and ends with the student body,” Joy notes—and buttresses that culture with a variety of forms of faculty support that might be unfamiliar to some alumni of the 20th century: a counseling program; regular opportunities for both students and faculty to engage in equity and inclusion work; chapel services in a wide variety of religious traditions; a curriculum that represents a broad diversity of voices, stories, and perspectives; and more. “This work—to make St. Andrew’s even more inclusive, even more excellent—is never completely finished,” say Joy. “We are always building on the efforts of students, faculty, and alumni who have come before us. Every generation strives to fulfill the school’s mission of ‘faith and learning,’ and we must set high standards for ourselves. But this is work we do together, as stewards of the school, to ensure we leave it even stronger for the next generation.” J
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Q: Favorite Time of Day? A: The morning. Q: Favorite Book of All Time? A: Bleak House by Charles Dickens. Q: What superpower would you want? A: To fly. Q: Favorite baked good or dessert? A: Blackberry pie. Q: Favorite type of music? A: Country. Q: What’s your spirit animal? A: An osprey. Q: Favorite way to destress? A: Walking. Q: Favorite place you’ve traveled to? A: Ghana. Q: What’s your greatest weakness? A: I don’t like to miss sleep. Q: What’s your guilty pleasure? A: Schitt’s Creek. Q: If you could have a meal with anyone, dead or alive, who would it be? A: Pauli Murray. Q: Do you believe in astrology? A: No. Certainly not. Q: Favorite high school memory? A: Winning a medal at Stotesbury. Q: Three words that describe you? A: Direct, nerdy, hardworking. Q: The happiest moment of your life? A: Getting married to my husband. Q: Chocolate or vanilla? A: Chocolate. The above Q&As are excerpted from the Friday, October 22 edition of the studentpublished newspaper, The Cardinal. COMING HOME, MOVING FORWARD / 33
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Quitting Was Never an Option A conversation with Oscar-winning screenwriter, director, and producer
Will McCormack ’92 Welcome to the first installment of a new St. Andrew’s Magazine series: If These Walls Could Talk, in which current students interview an alumnus who previously resided in their dorm room. For our inaugural story, Will Dulaney ’23, Kyle Share ’23, and Zach Atalay ’23—all currently roommates in Sherwood 234—interview Will McCormack ’92, who lived in Sherwood 234 during his V Form year. McCormack has lived and worked in Hollywood since the late 1990s. In February 2021, he won a Best Animated Short Oscar for his film If Anything Happens, I Love You, which he wrote and directed with Michael Govier. Will, Kyle, and Zach talked with McCormack over Zoom in late October 2021 about his time at St. Andrew’s and on Sherwood, his work in Hollywood, and of course, what exactly it feels like to win an Oscar.
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KYLE: Will, who was your roommate in this room? WILL M.: My roommate was a guy named Jenks Whittenburg ’92, who’s now a computer science teacher at the rival Friends School. He works with the enemy! We talk all the time. He’s [originally] from Amarillo, Texas. At that time in my life, I had
It’s a really, really tough business.... Being in the arts is synonymous with rejection and failure, but there’s so much growth in that. ... it’s so character-building to stay with something and to not give up. never met anybody from Texas, and he had a cool accent, and he was a really good bass player, so I just thought he was the coolest person I had ever met. We actually were roommates together in college, too, and then we lived together in Manhattan [after college]. WILL D.: Have you kept in touch with a lot of your St. Andrew’s friends post-high school? WILL M.: Yeah, there’s a bunch of St. Andreans I have kept in touch with, from the Class above me and the Class below me, too. I’m friendly with Greg Gourdet ’93, who’s gone on to become a renowned chef, and Thad McBride ’91, who was an incredible soccer player—he played at Princeton and went to the Final Four [in 1993]. I wish I [kept in touch]
more, but you get older, and you get a little busy. But the friendships that I made there—they have lasted and they do endure. I’m sure you guys know this, but St. Andrew’s is an intense bonding experience. Those friendships can last forever. ZACH: Do you have any moments or memories from St. Andrew’s that have just stuck with you? WILL M.: At that time of my life, my sisters had gone off to college, and my parents were getting divorced. I felt very lonely, [but] at St. Andrew’s, I really felt like part of a family. I made such great friendships, and [I was] supported by the faculty. I wasn’t the best student, honestly. I struggled my first year there. But people really rallied behind me and I found my way. That’s what I remember most—feeling like a part of a community, and that I belonged, and that I mattered, at a time when I needed that. It’s interesting. I work in storytelling now; I get paid to tell stories. I remember falling in love with literature back then—for the first time in my life, really reading books, and feeling like I was a writer. Mrs. Roach and Mr. Roach told me I could write and that meant a lot to me, because I idolized them. They were the coolest. I remember feeling like, “Oh, maybe I have something to say.” Dead Poets Society had just come out then, so [my friends and I] also had our own Dead Poets Society. I can’t tell you where, because that would be a betrayal to the other members. WILL D.: I think you can confide in us. We can start it up again. KYLE: What was chapel like back then? Now it’s two services a week, one Wednesday night and one Sunday morning. WILL M.: That’s what we had. I really liked chapel. It can be a grind some days when you don’t want to go, but I also remember feeling like it was important, and a time to reflect. There were really good speakers, and there was music. I’m not totally a religious person, per se, but [chapel] felt very ruminative and like a place for gratitude. I liked it, actually. ZACH: Do you have any questions for us about the St. Andrew’s of today? WILL M.: It’s amazing—you guys are on a laptop in your room, yes? ZACH: Yeah. Actually, on an iPad.
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WILL M.: An iPad. Amazing. Do you have phones? Are you allowed to use them? ZACH: In our rooms, yes. WILL M.: But you can’t bring them around. WILL D.: We’re not supposed to. WILL M.: That’s a whole new universe at St. Andrew’s, for me. I’m so old; I’m pre-internet. One thing that I find very encouraging is that it seems like young people are way more engaged than they were when I was your age. Do you find that, among your fellow St. Andreans, there’s a measure of hope or despair about the world, or both? Do you find that [your peers] are engaged and willing to take action on whatever it is that matters to them? KYLE: I think there’s a lot of both. For example, we have this program called the Environmental Stewards, where students come together to initiate environmental change. We’ll even write petition letters to Congresspeople. ZACH: I feel like, for the most part, St. Andrew’s is a breeding ground for ideas. There are a lot of open-minded people here, who are willing to change.
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KYLE: So what brought you from St. Andrew’s, to Manhattan, to LA? How did you get started working in film? WILL M.: At St. Andrew’s, I was really sporty. I played football and basketball and baseball. I didn’t start performing until college. I read for a Shakespeare play—I was taking a Shakespeare class at the time and loved it—and I got the part, and fell in love. I acted a lot at Trinity. So I first arrived in California as an actor. But secretly, I had really always wanted to be a writer. I transitioned to writing and directing and producing as I got older. ZACH: All of us watched If Anything Happens, I Love You. Kyle and I were crying by the end of it. I got the urge to text my mom that I love her. What gave you the idea for that story? WILL M.: That’s a great question. I think, whatever story I’m working on, I’m wrestling with [something] in my own life. I’ve always been really interested in grief and how people endure loss. I’ve had a lot of loss in my life. And I had become a new dad two years ago, and I thought: it’s impossible for me to imagine losing a child. I kept reading in the paper over and over and over again about kids getting shot in schools. So I thought, “What would it be like to tell a story about parents who are facing a loss that is inconceivable, but that happens all the time?” When you write a movie, you have this corkboard, and you put out all the cards about each scene and how it goes. On top of the board, we had a proverb: “When your parent dies, you bury them in the ground. But when your child dies, you bury them in your heart.” We really wrote from that place and we just stayed true to it. We wanted to honor the parents who lost kids. The script was 11 pages long and we spent a year on it, for a couple of reasons: I wanted to make sure that we got this right. You don’t want to make a movie about a subject like this and get it wrong. So we were really scrupulous and detailed and nuanced, and we also tried to be really open-minded. It was daunting, because it’s a hard story to tell. But my partner and I really found a way into the story through these shadows. [They’re based on] this Jungian idea of “shadow souls”—feelings or experiences that our bodies can’t connect to because we’re in too much pain from loss. Once we found QUITTING WAS NEVER AN OPTION / 37
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those shadows, the story started to open up. It was heavy, man. But what a great experience. ZACH: You said you were storyboarding on a corkboard. I’m curious about the entire process—how does it work, to turn your initial idea into an actual movie?
WILL AND HIS WIFE, ACTRESS EMILY ARLOOK
WILL M.: When you make a movie, it is helpful to see each scene on an index card. On the wall, you can see the movement of it. After a year with the script, we started with general artwork, and then you have what’s called an animatic, which is just storyboards that are in motion. Then you go into actual animation. Once we had enough money to do that, we animated it in about five months. All our animators were recent Cal Arts grads, all their first jobs out of college. All women. We were all of us making a movie for very little money, but everyone was there for the right reason. And it was one of those times when nobody wanted the movie. We got rejected 50 times. We didn’t get into major film festivals. Everyone said the movie was too sad. Everyone said nobody would watch it. The movie actually exploded on TikTok. There was a TikTok challenge where kids from all over the world were filming themselves before the movie, during the movie, and after the movie, seeing whether they would cry or not. We ended up being the number one movie on Netflix in 16 countries. We made this movie for almost no money in my kitchen with just four people, and we were beating Netflix movies that cost $200 million. It was incredible. Totally rewarding.
ZACH: I bet you get this question a lot, but, what does it feel like to win an Oscar? WILL M.: I’m not going to lie. It feels great. Really great. I don’t do what I do to win awards. It’s too hard. I do it because I really love it and I feel I have to do it. My favorite part of working is working. It’s not doing an Academy Award campaign and doing all the publicity and interviews. It wasn’t like, “Oh, I won an Oscar and now I’ve made it.” I’ve already made it in Hollywood. I make money at what I want to do, and I support a family through the arts. More than anything, the greatest part [of winning an Oscar] was that so many people filmed themselves watching us win, or took photos of their families next to us on the TV, and sent us their reactions—hundreds of people, people that I hadn’t heard from in years. I felt this entire supportive community of all these people who had loved me and supported me along the way. I was overwhelmed by how many people cared, who were a part of my journey. That was an incredible feeling. I felt so rich in spirit. ZACH: Well, congratulations. I think you really hit it with that movie. WILL M.: Thank you so much. KYLE: I was looking at your IMDB page earlier—what is it like to work on huge films, like Toy Story 4, or Elf? WILL M.: Totally exciting and totally terrifying. To work on a movie that costs $250 million is scary. I worked at Pixar for two years, and I learned a lot about screenwriting, storytelling, and animation. My friend Rashida Jones and I had made a movie called Celeste and Jesse Forever, and it had done pretty well. They had invited us up for a screening and we did a Q&A there after the film, and then we had a couple of meetings about Toy Story 4, and we got the job and worked on the [screenplay] for two years. It was one of those pinch-me sort of moments; the Toy Story movies are iconic. We were basically building the blueprint for the story. There’s a lot of discovery and a lot of wrong
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roads taken, which leads you back to the right road. It’s really exploratory and a lot of fun. They spend one to two years on a story at Pixar before they even go into any visuals. That’s why those movies are so good. They spend years on them. KYLE: Where did you meet Rashida Jones? WILL M.: We dated in 1999 for three weeks. My sister Mary is an actor and they did an indie movie together and then we dated for three weeks and then we broke up. We’re like a sister and a brother who dated briefly. ZACH: I don’t know if that’s the best analogy for that.
camera—because it’s all one cookie jar. I think I’m a better writer because I’ve acted, and I’m a better director because I’ve produced. I would also say that the story you’re afraid to tell is the one you should write, because it’s the one people need to hear. And, from a practical level, find people whose work you love and try to work with them. If you
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WILL M.: Yeah. Good point. As for Elf, I just had a little part in it as an actor, and it actually got cut. It was cool to be in a movie with Will Farrell—he’s one of my idols.
who were a part of my journey. That was an
ZACH: Who else do you look up to in the moviemaking world?
incredible feeling. I felt so rich in spirit.
WILL M.: When I think about the producers and the filmmakers and the storytellers and the people that I admire, [they all have] a courage and a newness and a boldness. I think whenever anyone breaks through in this business, it’s because they’re doing something that feels brand new. Often, what becomes successful is something you’ve never seen before. KYLE: Building off that, what advice would you give to a student who is trying to pursue film or writing or acting? WILL M.: Rashida’s dad is Quincy Jones, and he has been a big influence on me. He told me that the reason why he made so much money is that he always did what he loved. I think if you’re going to work in the arts, I think passion for what you do is paramount. It’s a really, really tough business. There’s a lot of failure and rejection and disappointment. Being in the arts is synonymous with rejection and failure, but there’s so much growth in that. It sounds a little hokey, but it’s so character-building to stay with something and to not give up. For me, fully quitting was never an option. I was going to be a part of storytelling, no matter what—I just didn’t know how, exactly. That’s something I would also say to someone who is just starting out: have a little pliancy. Be good at more than one thing. If you’re an actor, know how to direct; if you’re a producer, know how to run a
overwhelmed by how many people cared,
can’t work with them, work for them until you’re working with them. ZACH: Are you working on anything right now that you’re excited about? WILL M.: I’m writing a movie for Dayton Ferris, the directing team who did Little Miss Sunshine. I’m directing another animated short with the same team [that did If Anything Happens, I Love You]. It’s another sad, short film. I produce TV with Rashida. And I’m also directing an animated feature—I can’t say what it is, but it will be announced very soon. I have a whole bunch going on, and I’m just really lucky. I can’t believe I get paid to write movies. St. Andrew’s instilled [in me] that joy and that vigor for storytelling and writing, and I bring that to my work every single day. I had a hard road and it wasn’t always easy, but to be where I am now, to live in LA, to work in the industry that I do, and to have my wife, and my son—I’m lucky. I’m supergrateful. KYLE: Thank you. It was awesome talking with you. WILL M.: You guys asked great questions. I don’t even know you, but I’m proud of you. ZACH: Thank you. I needed to hear that. WILL M.: We’re SAS brothers forever. J
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Despite the curveballs that COVID-19 continues to lob at us all, everyone in the St. Andrew’s community has been playing their part to make this school year as close to “normal St. Andrew’s” as possible, while also keeping each other healthy. What this looks like in practice is shown on these pages. Seen here are students in Mr. Torrey’s English 3 class; last year, this classroom’s seminar table was split into its component parts and students were physically distanced throughout the room. Other classes were moved to tents outdoors, or set up in larger, nonacademic spaces on campus (like the Warner Gallery). This year, all classes are back to their standard classrooms and configurations. As of December 2021, all community members are required (by the state of Delaware) to wear masks at all times when indoors, except when eating or drinking and in one’s dorm room.
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Third-party testing company Quidel comes to campus each Wednesday to rapid-test every single member of the community. (This is a service offered to all schools in the state by the Delaware Division of Public Health.) Testing is set up in the Durkin Fleischer Squash Center and concludes by 2:30 PM so that the squash team can practice. This weekly testing—in conjunction with indoor masking and a fully vaccinated student and faculty body—has allowed for most of the rest of school life to return to normal. Interscholastic athletics returned for the fall semester after a hiatus in 2020, and students were able to give Parents Weekend arts performances without masks on—including Zhenia Khalabadzhakh ’22 (seen left), who performed a funny and poignant dance that conveyed the emotional and social impact of the most stringent COVID precautions, represented by resistance bands tied around her wrists and ankles. Her dance concluded with a joyful flinging-off of the 42 / FEATURE STORY
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Students continued to spend much of their social time outdoors this fall—this has always been the case at SAS, and the impulse to “get outside” has only strengthened during the pandemic. Seen here are a silent disco on the Garth—one of SWAG’s most popular weekend activities—a truck pull up the Main Drive during the annual Fall Fest, and a bonfire on the Front Lawn. However, this year, students have returned to congregating as a school in the traditional indoor spaces— Engelhard Hall for School Meeting, Chapel for chapel, and family-style meals in the Dining Hall (last year, School Meeting and Chapel were held on the Front Lawn or on Zoom, and we did not have family-style meals). Students are seen left in Engelhard at the very first School Meeting of the year, on Opening Day in September. 44 / FEATURE STORY
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From the Archives We have no idea what is happening in this picture. Do you? Write in and tell us and receive some SAS swag as a prize! Hint: This photo was found in the 1989 yearbook.
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Powerhouse Saints Athletics in the Late 1960s
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Although St. Andrew’s may be best known for its academics, athletics were a vital aspect in the lives of many SAS students—including mine. During my five years at the school, we had amazing athletes and terrific teams; incredible opportunities and outstanding coaches. Recently, I’ve been poring over my five SAS yearbooks—from 1965 through 1969—and am convinced certain teams from these years were some of the best in SAS athletic history. At that time, athletics was central to our daily experience; every student was required to participate at the varsity, JV, or thirds/intramural level during all three seasons. And back then, there were fewer sports offered, so the player pools—and competition—were bigger. I was fortunate to have terrific coaches during my five years at St. Andrew’s: Webb Reyner, Blackburn Hughes, and let’s not forget Bull Cameron, who founded the wrestling program and started working with me and my teammate Cary Lea ’68 during our very first winter season in 1964. I earned varsity letters in wrestling for five years, tennis for four years, and soccer for two years. During the pandemic, I have talked at length with Webb Reyner, who was my wrestling coach, and more importantly St. Andrew’s first athletic director. Coach Reyner’s memory at almost 88 astounds me. He remembers details of each competition, each team, each player. It’s also been particularly fun to talk with Bob Colburn, who served as athletic director as well as assistant football coach and head baseball coach for 55 years (he’s still assistant-coaching baseball at SAS). Although he didn’t coach me, he remembered me as an athlete, student, and St. Andrean. He also remembers the stats of so many teams and players. In the late 1960s, football and wrestling were the most dominant sports in terms of winning records. From 19651969, the football team posted a record of 34-7-2. This included two undefeated seasons in 1968 (6-0-1) and 1969 (7-0).
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The ’68 team was led by quarterbacks Scott Ross ’70 and Doug James ’69. Other notable players on these teams were Mike Chapman ’69, Bill Knight ’69, Tim Magulies ’69, Willy Smith ’69, Dave Olson ’70, Tom Stephens ’70, Bill Strong ’70, Tom Hooper ’71, and Peter McCagg ’71 among others. In this same five-year period, the wrestling team compiled a record of 48-7, beating perennial and national prep champions the Hill School two years in a row. The team went 21-0 during the 1966 and 1967 seasons. Over those years the Saints won four conference championships and twice were fifth place (out of 52 teams) in the national prep tournament. The 1967 team (11-0) won the conference championship by over 50 points over second-place Tatnall. Our team consisted of Wally Green ’69 (95 lbs), me (103 lbs), Steve Vente ’69 (120 lbs), Keith Martin ’67 (127 lbs), Mike Chapman ’69 (138 lbs), Cyrus Hogue ’68 (145 lbs), and Henry Smith ’67 (165 lbs) with second place medals awarded to Jay Davis ’68 (145 lbs), George Heiner ’67 (180 lbs) and Dave Skinner ’67 (heavyweight). I’d wager this was possibly the best wrestling team in school history. The 1966 team (9-0-1) was bolstered by the following Delaware Independent Tournament performances: me, Keith Martin, Cy Hogue, and Gardner Cadwalader ’66 were champions, while Angus Davis ’66, Mike Chapman and George Heiner placed second. Some individual records: Keith Martin had 22 straight wins; my brother Chris Lambert ’70 had six pins in a row and at least ten during his three years on varsity; Mike Chapman became National Prep School Champion in 1968; and Dave Olson placed fourth in the national prep tournament that same year. Pretty spectacular. Cadwalader was no doubt one of St. Andrew’s best-ever athletes. He earned four varsity letters in football, wrestling, and crew, and was co-captain of the football team in his senior year, placing second team All-State. He wrestled three years, and went undefeated
and won the state heavyweight championship in the last two. Tennis was another strong sport in this era of St. Andrew’s. In 1964, the varsity tennis team went 7-1 and finished second in the Delaware state tournament. The 1965 team went undefeated at 10-0 and won the state championship. Captained by Steve Mills ’65, the team consisted of Larry Rockwell ’65, Chris Hunt ’65, Jon Smith ’65, and Robb Romaine ’65. Saints tennis captured the state championship again in 1967 and 1968. According to Bob Colburn, over the school’s history, boys tennis has won 20 state championships; and girls tennis eight state championships. (Overall, St. Andrew’s has won 42 state championships in seven different sports.) St. Andrew’s and we student athletes were fortunate to have such great coaches who fostered so many winning teams. Bull Cameron, Chester Baum, Dave Washburn (who, with Bob Colburn, led the 1969 undefeated football team while Coach Reyner was on sabbatical). These men and many others taught us and developed our talents and skills—and sportsmanship. It’s important to remember that our coaches did this in addition to their duties in the classroom and on dorm, in the Dining Hall, and much more. Anyone who has participated in athletics at St. Andrew’s—which, considering the school’s athletics participation policy has become slightly more relaxed but has not disappeared, is every alumnus!—should feel proud not only of the history of sports at SAS, but proud in representing the Saints athletically. And ideally, what remains most vivid in our minds is the fun of the competition and the camaraderie of our teams. I encourage you to reach out to your old coach and teammates. Glory days only get better in our memory, but more than that, when shared and remembered together! Get YOUR yearbooks out! J
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St. Andrew Was a Fisherman… AND THIS SPRING & SUMMER, SO WERE MANY ST. ANDREW’S ALUMNI!
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Another Trip, Another Time
Marshall Craig ’62 Recalls the Trek to His 1958 SAS Move-In Day
In 1955, fresh off the boat from a military tour in Germany, our family
Find more reflections from Marshall Craig ’62 on his blog, www.craiglit.life/casual-observations
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purchased a snazzy blue two-door Customline Ford for about $1900. It had a front bench seat, a column gear shift, an AM radio, crank windows and no air conditioning. Long car trips were few; they taxed the family budget. But one stands out in my memory. In the fall of 1958 the entire family—parents, three sisters, and I, minus Colonel, our dog—piled into the Ford to drive to Middletown, Delaware. I was being delivered, sight unseen, to St. Andrew’s, an Episcopal all-boys boarding school, where I was to be molded for the next four years, a scholarship student. We packed a basket of food for lunch—tuna sandwiches, chips, and apples, washed down with a thermos of lemonade. There were no McDonald’s, Cracker Barrel, or IHOP. Howard Johnson restaurants, featuring fried clams and 28 flavors of ice cream, were an expensive proposition for six mouths. An Army-issue dark green footlocker stenciled with my name joined the basket of food in the car trunk. The remaining necessities were AAA maps and a roll of toilet paper. At 55 MPH and with many two-lane roads, the overland trek from Alexandria, VA took three hours... and there were hostilities. In the front seat, skirmishes erupted between my mother, the map reader, and my father, the wagon-master. “Bill, we should have turned off at the Baltimore exit!” “Dammit Peggy, I thought we were going to avoid Baltimore! I’ve got to pull over and look at the map!” “Here, you take the darn map!” Wedged between the wagon-master and the map-reader on the front seat, the smallest member of the entourage squeaked, “I have to pee.” As there were no roadside loos in those days, peeing en route was an al fresco affair. Those who needed to pee would pile out, car doors left open for a modicum of privacy, and business would be done. Hence the TP. In the back seat, I was squished between my two older sisters, all of us sweltering in the heat. I wore pressed khakis; a white, short-sleeved nylon shirt; a tie featuring a Siamese dancer; and a sport coat recently bought at Robert Hall. Their advertising jingle remains to this day an irritating earworm: “When the values go up up up/And the prices go down down down/Robert Hall this season/Will show you the reason/ Low overheads – Low overheads” etc. The totally inorganic coat erupted with tufts of nylon thread from snags on anything rougher than a baby’s bum. Hot and itchy, I wriggled between my sisters. They objected
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strenuously to management from the front seat. Hostilities abated when my father pulled off to the side of the road and threatened confinement to barracks upon return. For the remainder of the trip, vertical lines reaching to the moon were drawn between backseat combatants. Any object passing through the plane, invading a neighbor’s space, brought outrage and further supplications to the adults. We arrived at St. Andrew’s School hot, disheveled, and a quart low on family happiness. We slid off the sticky car seats, got out and gaped up at the ivied walls that were my future. That fall drive in 1958 was a one-way trip for me in more than one sense. It was a trip from which I would never return. J
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Our Grand Alumni From your emails, notes, and Facebook posts, it’s obvious that many of our alumni are crazy about their grandkids and that one of the first, if not THE first, outing many of you took post-vaccine was a visit to your grandchildren!
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A Miracle Among Us He sits buckled in facing me across the generations, outdoors on a warm Colorado evening, smiling, facing each of us reciting our nicknames. He calls me Popi and Teri is Mimi. He quietly feeds himself, Listening to the English conversation, A week after hearing his family’s Spanish conversation in Texas. He welcomes part of a banana But pushes away a second Hearing his mother’s Spanish encouragement. Making decisions Learning what he can control. Always listening Learning two names for everything. He hears distant sirens And contemplates their significance. He watches movement in the trees And wonders what causes it.
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Alumni Athletes
Lindsay Garner ’14 ran the NYC Marathon on November 7 and raised more than $17,000 for pancreatic cancer research in memory of her mother, Kitty Garner P’14. She may have bumped into Liza Bayless ’11 and Forrest Brown ’11 (not pictured) in the same race; during their marathon training, Liza and Forrest raised more than $5,000 for the Women's Prison Association.
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40th anniversary Santa Barbara Triathlon this summer—a one-mile ocean swim, 34-mile bike course and 10-mile run.
Melissa (Batie) Lahey ’91 competed in the Ironman 70.3 World Championships in St. George, Utah on September 18. The flatlander was humbled by the hills but had a great experience racing with the world’s top pros and age group athletes.
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Alumni Rowers Represent SAS at Fall Regattas Those in the rowing community know the Head of the Charles Regatta (HOCR) is one the largest rowing events in the world. More than 600 rowing clubs and 11,000 athletes—Olympians, high school rowers, masters up to 87 years old, and everyone in between—compete each year at this twoday regatta in Cambridge, MA, which features 65 events. The Head of the Charles returned to Cambridge this October for the first time in two years, the regatta having been cancelled in 2020 due to COVID-19 safety concerns. Over the years St. Andrew’s has been well represented at the Head of the Charles, and this year’s regatta was no exception. Many recent St. Andrew’s graduates were competing for their respective universities and had a lot of success on the water. Last year’s Saints girls rowing captain, Amrit Chapman ’21, made the trip to the Head of the Charles by winning a seat in the Georgetown University varsity 4+, having dismantled all the competition in the varsity 4+ race at the Occoquan Chase in Virginia the week prior. Amrit and her crew brought home a medal, placing fifth in their race at HOCR. Two other former St. Andrew’s rowers battled it out in the Saturday afternoon women’s club eights race. Colgate senior Alex Hopkins ’18 stroked the Colgate first varsity 8+ and former SAS captain Christine Wu ’20 rowed in the 6-seat in a Dartmouth varsity 8+; Colgate and Darmouth placed 15th and 9th, respectively, in the 31boat race. The big highlight of the weekend was Margaret Murphy ’19 coxing Princeton University’s women’s lightweight 8 to a gold medal. Winning gold is one thing—defeating the local Boston schools at HOCR is another, because of their familiarity with the four-mile course. In the men’s collegiate eights event, Espen Wheeler ’19 sat in the stroke seat of the Bates College varsity 8+ and earned a medal for a fifth place 58 / CAN'T HELP BUT CONNECT
finish out of 40 boats. Xander Atalay ’20 rowed in the five seat of the University of Virginia varsity 8+ and that boat finished 14th in the same event. Just two months into his first year at Trinity College, Matt Mitchell ’21 made the varsity 4+, and rowed in the two seat at HOCR, while Nick Wilmerding ’20 sat six seat in Yale’s V3 lightweight 8+. Other Saints currently rowing in college (but who did not compete at this year’s HOCR) are Kate Butcher ’21 at University of Pennsylvania, Liz Hall ’21 at Rollins College, Shap McCoy ’20 at Hamilton College, Claire Miller ’18 at Georgetown, Parkie Moseley ’20 at Wesleyan University, Alyse Ray ’20 at the US Naval Academy, and Tad Scheibe ’20 at Williams College. While our recent graduates shined, SAS alumni also came out for the grand- and senior-master races. Steven Brownlee ’77, Peter Jacoby ’77, Michael Kadick ’75, and David Strong ’75 competed on behalf of the St. Andrew’s Alumni rowing club, as did Molly Higgins ’93, who coxed a 4+ that included George Shuster ’63 and his brothers. Additionally, Bella Miller ’14 rowed in the two seat for Bates College in the alumnae eights race. The Bates boat placed 16th out of 47, and was the top DIII finisher in the race. In other alumni rowing news, in late October, two full St. Andrew’s alumni eights competed in the Head of the Schuylkill Regatta in Philadelphia.
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SAS rowers (photo top right) included John Morton ’65, Jud Burke ’65, George Shuster ’63, Andy Parrish ’66, Billy Paul ’64, Ernie Cruikshank ’62, John Schoonover ’63, Mike Kadick ’75, Bob Dunn ’74, Tom Schreppler ’78, Richard Cookerly ’78, Pete Jacoby ’77, Steven Brownlee ’77, Dave Strong ’75, Gordon Brownlee ’75, and Molly Higgins ’93. Chris Walsh ’75 also competed, in a Georgetown alumni eight. The “Noxontown Navy” has gathered together for regattas for 13 years running, and in recent months a number of the alumni rowers have faced some adversity. Realizing that this regatta might be the last time the two boats would row alongside each other in race, and with a starting position ahead of the 1960s boat, the 1970s alumni boat decided to “row slow” and waited for the 1960s boat to catch up. Choosing camaraderie over competition, the two boats rowed the rest of the 2-plus mile course sideby-side. “At the point when my leg drive was becoming rubbery enough to threaten this rower’s resolve,” a member of the 1960s boat shared via email to the Nox Navy a few days after the race, “I glanced over to see you all and in that moment was able to muster a second wind that lasted through the remainder of the race. Your nobility epitomizes what it is to be an oarsperson and a St. Andrean. Experiencing that moment with you will ever be the high point of my rowing career. Thank you.” A member of the 1970s crew wrote in response: “It was an amazing day shared, a privilege to bear witness... and to be associated with both crews. SAS is an everlasting gift to all of us.” •
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Class Acts
CLASS OF 1958
The Class of 1958 watched the film “Dead Poets Society” in preparation for their 15th consecutive monthly class Zoom, and then discussed Dead Poets as a lens on their experience at St. Andrew’s in the mid-to-late 1950s. Class member comments follow: “One thing for sure, the Dead Poets film stirred up a lot of memories and good conversation, both during the Zoom and after.” “...economically, we really were far more diverse than the Welton Academy Class of 1959. Sure, there were the wealthy, but there were also several sons of impervious church men and underpaid military among us. And we all had jobs.” “We had a far less elitist and more diverse student body than the small group that formed the core of the movie.” “After reflecting [during] our Zoom, it occurs to me that one of the biggest omissions or failings of the film was that the group of students that served as its core did not include a Bulent Atalay, a Simon Weatherby, or a Serafin Diaz ’57. My point is that all the students in this central group were whites from the US. But clearly we St. Andreans had a more diverse student body even back at the time in which this film was set. Adding them would not have been an anachronism. So without expanding the core group of students or over-
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complicating the script, it would have been possible to show students with quite different perspectives on things like poetry and bending the rules. A Turkish student (such as Bulent) might have had a more conservative cultural background and expressed reservations. An English student, especially one as skilled at writing as Simon was, would have had deeper immersion in poetry and literature than his American classmates, acquired before coming to the US. A student of color might have come from a culture with a strong oral literature tradition, such as the griot, and could have offered comments in class from a different angle, even challenging Robin Williams, and thus provided him an opening for a different teaching moment response.”
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The Class of 1960 also watched Dead Poets and discussed this film over Zoom. “How many of us have mused: Bull Cameron jumping on a desk and shouting ‘Oh Captain, My Captain…’” “All [these] memories took me back even more than the original movie did.” John Hassan ’60 shared a photo memory (seen right) of putting a faculty member’s car into the Garth—one of the great senior pranks in school history, oft repeated over the decades.
CLASS OF 1983
The Class of 1983 Virtual Book Club recently read The Beauty of What Remains, by Steve Leder—a book suggested by Sarah Stivers ’83, who invited her classmates to join her in exploring grief, “as we are in our middle age now and losing our parents, etc.” Classmates Jenny Kern, Hunter (Fite) Torres, Beryl (Friel) Eismeier, Andy Kelly, Caroline (Rumsey) Paxton (and SAS Director of Alumni Engagement Chesa Profaci) joined Sarah for the contemplative, not just social, virtual book discussion. “The gifts we gave to and received from each other that evening were a result of the St. Andrew’s experience,” Sarah writes, “where we learned stewardship, empathy, compassion, listening, sharing, courage and the benefits we realize through showing and sharing our sorrows and fears.”
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CLASS OF 1984
Class of 1984 Class Agent Kudos: Dan del Sobral, long time Class Agent for the Class of 1984, asked his Class: “...I am fine staying on [as Class Agent], but I wanted to check and see if anyone had a desire to take over from me….” The responses were a resounding show of support and gratitude: “Please know Dan that yours are the only appeal letters I receive that I look forward to and enjoy reading. I imagine others may feel the same. Thank you for your (continued!) service to the SAS community!” “The reason we donate to SAS is not exclusively because of Dan’s missives, but it is causal. And he has done a fine job of keeping us connected. So, while there is ample historical example of the downside of appointments for life (Caesar, Napoleon, Idi Amin, etc.), I hope I speak for all of us in thanking you Dan for taking on a new term.” “Dan, you have not only gotten us to support SAS financially, you have brought us back together to support each other. I am so grateful for that.”
A “Thirty-Six Year Celebration” for the Class of 1985! Win Goodbody ’85 shares that, “In July 2021, the Class of 1985 organized an impromptu weekend party at the home of classmate Polly Dolan in Gladwyne, PA. Variously billed as ‘PollyPalooza,’ ‘The Gathering in Gladwyne,’ or ‘Get Silly in Philly,’ the idea took shape in April via a weeks-long Class email thread which more ‘responsible’ class members silently endured, hoping it would stop. Polly turned our dreams into reality when she generously offered to host. The turnout was strong (20 people), including several 1985-ers who had not been seen (by us) in 36 years. One international traveler came all the way from South Africa! (Thank you, Louisa Potter!) Under a hot sun and assisted by BBQ, live music, and a pool, time melted away. (But unfortunately, our hair did not grow back.) There was lots of reminiscing and catching up, and a good, nay, great time was had by all. Most agreed it had been far too long since they woke up on someone else’s front lawn in an unfamiliar pair of shorts, listening to the sound of Carl (Smith) playing guitar. Discussions about a 2023 follow-up rendezvous are already quite advanced, and we hope to draw an even larger crowd next time. Don’t worry, Class of 1985, you’ll be hearing all about these exciting plans in exhaustive detail. On an email thread. For the next two years. And remember to REPLY ALL, people. Always REPLY ALL.”
Attendees included: Alexandra (Sargent) Capps, Ann Sawyer Chilton, Michael Collins, Polly Dolan, Wendy Downing, Steven Gewirz, Amy (GibbonsNeff) Hitt, Win Goodbody, Graham Houghton, Buttons Kelly, Pier Kooistra, Daphne (Edmundson) McCabe, Sam McIlvain, Bill McTear, Dejda (Stancioff) Mishkovsky, Louisa Potter, Dave Phillips, Austin Reed, Ken Simpler, Carl Smith, and Kim Stoddard.
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1 Bill Helm ’59, Philip Goiran ’59, Mose Price ’59, Gordon Appell ’60 and John
Jaeger ’59 met up in Maine for a summer lunch. 2 Allan Hubbard ’61 and BillEd Stevenson ’62 met up for lunch in Edmonds, WA and snapped a selfie at
the Edmonds Veterans Memorial Plaza this fall. Allan recently moved to the Pacific Northwest from the East Coast. 3 Peyton Williams ’66 and Corky Schoonover ’68 got to exchange a few words before a concert by the Skip Castro Band, of which Corky is a member, in Charlottesville, VA this summer. Peyton notes that “Corky does a great job as their drummer.” 4 Andrew Reynolds ’68, John Schoonover ’63, and Corky Schoonover ’68 at Corky’s 70th birthday in Charlottesville, Va. 5 1971 classmates Rob Seyffert and Peter Hildick-Smith embarked on a 50th Reunion road trip this summer that included a visit with classmate Preston Gazaway in Ocean City, MD, and a pit stop at SAS to walk around campus and revisit “memories of our time there,” as Rob put it. 6 Virginia (Olson) Ashpole ’79 picked up Letitia (Hickman) Green ’80 at a Budget Rent-A-Car in St. Louis, MO, during a recent trip through the Midwest. “Virginia and I have known each other since I was 15 and she was 14! Roomies at St. Andrew’s!” Letitia wrote in the caption of this photo on Facebook. 7 Class of 1983 friends met up in Vermont earlier this year: (front row) Caroline (Rumsey) Paxton, Denise (Collins) Waite, Amy Burnham-Brown; (middle row) Jay Cogswell, Katie Magill, Tim Wainwright; (back row) Andy Kelly and Karl Pupke. 8 1983 classmates Sarah Stivers and Nancy Beth (Soles) Garrett met up in Indiana at the West Baden Springs Hotel, where Sarah and her jazz combo headline. Nancy Beth and her husband have been on the road, traveling and sightseeing all over the country in a fifth-wheel RV for almost two years. Their last stop before heading to their new permanent home in Tennessee was the French Lick Resort, which includes the West Baden Springs Hotel. 9 Casey Zimmer ’89 (far right) is seen here in Mattapoisett, MA, with (L-R) Mia Alwén, Chip Dietrich ’89, Shannon and Adam ’89 Stegeman P’17,’19, and Libbie Zimmer. 10 Christina (Robbins) Cain ’90 and her husband Mark dropped off their daughter Zoe in Berlin on August 9; Zoe will be spending a year abroad in that city and will live with Alexa von Dewitz ’88! “Grateful for friendships that span decades,” Christina said. 11 Several members of the Class of 1989 pulled together a mini-reunion at Evert and Marijke van Buchem’s home in Maryland in June: (back row) Allison Hamilton-Rohe, Megin (Adams) Myers, Teresa (Morgan) Cordova, Victor van Buchem, Casey Zimmer; (front row) Catherine (Soles) Pomeroy, Sara O'Connor, Marijke. Earl Walker ’90 also stopped by later in the day. 12 Also this summer, Victor van Buchem ’89 and his family caught up with former SAS faculty Bob and Carol Stegeman and son Sam ’91 in Williamstown, MA. 13 On his way from Portland, OR, to Yellowstone, Victor also reconnected with Chauncy (Gardner) Pogue ’89 in Sun Valley, ID… 14 … and earlier in the summer, also attended a “soccer match at Subaru Park in Philadelphia. Thanks to Taylor Cameron ’90 for hosting his former coach Evert “Scooby” van Buchem P’89 and showing off a beautiful stadium! The Philadelphia Union defeated my Columbus Crew 1-0, but a good time was had by all,” Victor writes. •
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the SAS griffin on it. So Allison introduced herself—to SAS faculty member Matt Harris. “He sings a mean AC/DC and does a pretty great Tom Petty, too!”Allison noted. 2 1993 classmates Camille Cranson and Manuel Fullana Morales met up in Puerto Rico, where Camille
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in my new place in Raleigh, NC. We randomly ran into Chike Lawrence-Mitchell ’05 earlier in the day and he came out later to get drinks with us. Chris and Brendan recognized him immediately since he was a senior on their dorm freshman year. Small world!” 4 Louisa (Hemphill) Zendt ’78 P’03,’05,’09 bumped into Forrest Brown ’11
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Alumni Achievements
Ana Cutter Patel ’86 has been named the US representative for Front Line Defenders. Based in Dublin, Front Line Defenders is an NGO that provides rapid and practical support to human rights defenders at risk around the world. In this role, Ana will contribute to advocacy and policy making on behalf of human rights workers in collaboration with US-based human rights organizations.
John Morton ’65, also known as Dak
A new series of paintings by Rob Seyffert ’71, titled “Dawn New York City,” was on display at the National Arts Club in NYC throughout the month of November.
and “Bespin Boba” to his fans at various Comic-Con and Star Wars gatherings the world over, may be the first St. Andrean to have his own action figure. John played Luke Skywalker’s gunner Dak Ralter in The Empire Strikes Back, and Hasbro released Dak as part of its Star Wars “Black Series” this fall. In the same movie, John also filled in occasionally as Boba Fett, including in the Bespin hallway when Darth Vader tortures Han Solo—hence Morton’s secondary Star Wars nickname. Even John thinks the action figure is “a pretty good likeness.”
Nicholas Sabloff ’00 helped to develop
a Thomas & Friends “Friendship Set” for Mattel Toys—a set of five trains designed to help preschoolers build socio-emotional skills like caring for others, being brave, and showing kindness. The set also comes with tips and activities to assist parents and caregivers with a smooth back-to-school transition for their little ones. Nicholas is senior vice president for editorial strategy and digital content with the PR firm Weber Shandwick.
Toby Whitmoyer ’89 has been teaching marketing modules to students enrolled in the Emilio Bacardi Leadership Program at Harvard Business School; Toby is global marketing and innovation officer for Bacardi.
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COME TOGETHER WITH YOUR FELLOW SAINTS ON CAMPUS IN JUNE 2022. All alumni are welcome to Reunion Weekend and A Celebration of Tad & Elizabeth. Registration for all events will open in March 2022 (watch your email and/or mailbox). Reunion Weekend on-campus housing is reserved for 2022 Reunion years.
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JUNE 10-12, 2022
JUNE 8-9, 2022 • CLASS OF 2020 GRADUATION CELEBRATION (Class of 2020 alumni only)
JUNE 10-12, 2022 • REUNION WEEKEND
Our first in-person, on-campus Reunion will celebrate not only this year’s Reunion-year alumni, but also alumni who missed their on-campus Reunions in 2021 and 2020.
JUNE 11, 2022 • A CELEBRATION OF TAD & ELIZABETH ROACH We honored Tad and Elizabeth virtually last June; we’ll celebrate them in person with a Saturday evening event this June!
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Class Notes 1952 As Hurricane Ida approached New Orleans this summer, Robert Young and his wife Nell evacuated NOLA to Nashville, where they visited with their granddaughter and her family until their electricity came back on. There are two noteworthy items concerning the photo of Robert and his family shared below: one is that included in the photo are four generations of his family, and the second is the remarkable irony of the name of his great-granddaughter seen at right: Ida!
1957 Class Agent George Brakeley submits these notes: “We lost Dick Hall in June in Williamstown, MA, where he and Heleny had been living for several years, after many years spent in Washington, DC. The service was held at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Williamstown on June 19, with Susan and Tim Bloomfield and George Brakeley on hand to represent the class and the school. “You know the expression that a given place is ‘in the middle of nowhere,’ right? Well, Saratoga, Wyoming, fills that description to a T, and that’s the town to which Janet and John Cogswell are in the process of relocating, after years in Buena Vista, CO. “Our fifth Class Zoom call took place on June 24 with Mike Quillin, Tim Bloomfield, Jack Kramer, Bill
Nuckols, John Cogswell and George Brakeley signing in. Sam Wyman and Mike Bateman sent regrets. Bill was at home in Finland, where it was 8 PM in full sunshine and only an hour or so of dusk expected around midnight. As usual, he did some marketing for Finland, rated the ‘happiest country in the world.’ “And let us not forget that our 65th Reunion is right around the corner. Yes, we’ll all be 82 or so, and yes, some of us live a good ways from Middletown, so travel may be less than appealing, but let’s do our best to be there. You’ll be getting the details from the school sometime soon.”
1958 Bulent Atalay reports: “Although we were fully vaccinated, we took a trip to Southern Turkey this summer with considerable trepidation. The temperatures in Southeastern Turkey were frequently above 110ºF and the pandemic was still raging. But we did get to see the 12,000-yearold Neolithic temple complex in Gobeklitepe (‘Potbelly Hill’) and the 2100-year-old colossal statues atop Mt. Nemrut. But perhaps the highlight was in tracking down the grave of my grandfather. Having survived eight months of fighting alongside his childhood friend Kemal Ataturk
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in the Gallipoli Campaign, he had died of cholera while fighting against Lawrence of Arabia. The date was June 29, 1916. In Southwest Turkey, where the temperatures were milder (above 100ºF but less than 110ºF) we visited the Greco-Roman ruins of Ephesus, Prien, and Hierapolis. The last is in Pamukkale, ‘Cotton-Castle,’ that the great Chester Baum ’36 (St. Andrew’s English teacher par excellence) would have pointed out as an oxymoron.” (See page 56 for a photo from the trip!)
1960 Brian Fisher and Jeff Stives discovered they live less than an hour away from each in Florida, met for lunch... and then met again for another lunch a few days later! Brian and his wife Flo also embarked on a five-week trip visiting friends “we hadn’t seen in several years or in one case, 42 years.” Brian writes, “Sometimes it was a one-hour visit and in other cases it was four days. One person was a former customer while I was with IBM. He greeted me with, ‘Why are you here? Did someone tell you?’ I had no idea that he didn’t have much longer to live. I just wanted to see him again. There were others who I didn’t think I would get to see again. In fact, one person even said, ‘This will
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Barry Benepe ’46 Honored with a LiLY Legacy Award Barry Benepe was honored in October at The Lifeforce in Later Years (LiLY) Legacies Gala. LiLY celebrates the connections between generations and grants LiLY Legacies Awards—honors given to individuals who have made a profound impact on our culture. Barry’s LiLY Legacy Award citation reads:
p Anush Parikh ’95 and Jason Diefenthaler ’95 probably be the last time you see me.’ That was a little morbid, but it was just so wonderful to visit with everyone— our old church, our old house, old friends, seventh grade classmates, our granddaughter, and others. It was good to be out and among friends again.”
1969 Richard Lambert, Rob Sides, Peter Caloger, and Tim Iliff made a trip to Alabama for the pandemicpostponed memorial service for their classmate and friend, Peter McGowin. “Appropriate that the service took place during SAS Reunion Weekend,” Rob noted.
1995 Anush Parikh and Jason Diefenthaler caught up in Florida in June.
1998 Longtime St. Andrew’s wrestling coach and friend of the school Fred Carpenter passed away on June 9. At his memorial service in Middletown on June 17, there was an outpouring of memories and gratitude from alumni who had played on his teams. Luke Baer drove up from the Outer Banks to honor his coach, as well as his deceased teammate and classmate Michael Evans. “I was fortunate to get away from work for just enough time to make it to Fred Carpenter’s memorial service today,” Luke writes. “His family was incredibly gracious
“Over the course of his long career, Barry Benepe has had a beneficial impact on the quality of life in our cities and towns. His greatest contribution so far is perhaps, in 1976 with colleague Bob Lewis, founding the ‘Greenmarket’, the network of New York City out-of-doors farmers’ markets that continue to provide city dwellers with ‘locally’ grown fresh produce. Some locations, such as Union Square, have two or more markets a week—and the trend has spread to cities and towns all over America! “He is a licensed architect who worked at several architectural and planning firms starting in the 1950s. In the early 1960s, he was a planner in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, designing and overseeing the engineering of a series of pedestrian walkways and public squares; it was a radical departure from the job he was hired to do—design new highways and malls—but won the support of the municipality. “Back in America, he did design and planning work for New York City’s urban renewal agency, creating plans for the Upper West Side. By then, planning had evolved from Robert Moses’ brutal slum clearance, and the projects that Barry worked on sought to rehabilitate existing buildings for low-income housing and preserve others, as well as tear down some tenement buildings on the basis of their poor design. He created a design that would integrate the American Museum of Natural History and other institutions into the neighborhood and streetscape, made renderings of multifunctional street amenities and benches and designed ways to improve that area’s walkability. “In 1968, Barry brought his planning expertise to Newburgh, NY when he was hired as the city’s first planner. He discovered that the Newburgh Urban Renewal Agency was tearing down chunks of the early-19th-century streets that had attracted him to the city in the first place. He fought for plans that would harmonize with the existing neighborhood and save rather than destroy the historic buildings. He was successful in proposing a mixedincome housing project and spearheaded the creation of the East End Historic District, which stopped the bulldozers and saved many buildings of historic significance, such as the Dutch Reformed Church, the County Courthouse, and several homes along Grand and Montgomery Streets. “In the late 1970s, he started spending time in Woodstock, NY and had a hand in creating its first zoning map, which incorporated contour lines, floodplains, and water bodies. It was at this time that he hired Bob Lewis to work at his planning firm. The two men began talking about how to save the farmland that was vanishing around them: a conversation that ultimately led to the founding of Greenmarket in New York City. “Today, Barry remains active in local planning efforts, serving as vicechair of Saugerties’ Comprehensive Planning Committee and a member of its Historic Preservation Commission. He is also a founder and active organizer of the Saugerties Farmers’ Market.” •
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p Asia Cadet ’14 and humble, as was always the way with Coach Carps. His daughter, Susan, reminded me of something he always used to say: ‘You can’t control the wind, but you can adjust your sails.’ She encouraged everyone to think about Coach’s life as an amazing game that we could all be thankful to have been a part of—an experience that we had collectively won together. I couldn’t have put it better.” Luke shared a photo of a St. Andrew’s collage on display at the service. “The shot of the team from 1996 was my first year wrestling,” Luke adds. “I’ll never forget that squad.” Luke Baer also caught up with Than Court and watched Than’s son (and Luke’s godson) in his Little League baseball game with Than’s family, including SAS baseball legend Larry Court ’62 P’92,’92. That’s a home run pit stop!
2014 Asia Cadet writes, “I recently graduated (Class of 2021) from the University of Virginia Law School. I will be starting my professional career with Latham & Watkins Law Firm in their Washington D.C. office as an associate.”
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2020 Katerina Kourpas was recently featured on Princeton University’s Instagram account; as part of the school’s #TellUsTigers campaign, Katerina shares how her studies at St. Anne’s and St. Andrew’s—and in particular, her leadership of the Adaptive Dance program at SAS—has influenced her work at Princeton today: “Most fifth graders I know usually do not get excited about dissecting owl pellets in their science class. Nor do they rush home to research the organelles of the cell they learned about that day. Yet that was me, the little scientist in my brain trying to satisfy her intellectual curiosity. However, never did I think that I would find myself blending my academic STEM endeavors with my greatest extracurricular passion: dance. Dance has been a creative outlet for me since I was 4. Nevertheless, as I grew older, I became more cognizant of the stereotypes regarding the physical appearance of a dancer, and that many opportunities to experience dance are not available to people with physical or intellectual disabilities. A defining experience that sparked my interest in biomedical research stemmed from the Adaptive Dance program I founded in high school. The program broke down stereotypes and made dance accessible to students with disabilities throughout my home state of Delaware. As the lead instructor, I taught the fundamentals of dance and choreographed specific dance routines for Adaptive Dance students that were integrated into our main shows. Leading the program was tremendously rewarding as students showed great growth and excitement; nothing made me happier than nurturing the same passion I have for creative movement & expression in the next generation of dancers. This experience inspired me to study neurodevelopment and to advance pediatric healthcare solutions to improve the lives of children, including those with disabilities. At #PrincetonU, I am excited to dive deeper into science and hands-on laboratory work, extend the pediatric cardiology research I conducted last summer at Nemours Children’s Hospital, volunteer at Princeton Medical Center, tutor high school students via the Princeton Neuroscience Network and dance with the student-led eXpressions Dance Company. Princeton’s strong commitment to serve humanity continues to transform the fifthgrade ballerina into an aspiring physician with the hopes of blending both passions in the pursuit of public good.” •
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In Memory You may have noticed we’ve been experimenting with our In Memory section in recent issues. We’ve stopped printing full obituaries for deceased alumni in the magazine, but you can still read these obituaries, and leave a comment or reminiscence, on the St. Andrew’s website at standrews-de. org/inmemory. Our hope is that in these pages, the In Memory section can instead become a space where the school and its alumni can honor and share their own remembrances of departed St. Andreans. If you would like to submit a remembrance of a deceased alumnus or former faculty member, you can do so via email to Chesa Profaci (cprofaci@standrews-de.org).
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Matthew J. M. “Doc” Ellis Mansfield, MA September 10, 2021
“Losing a friend makes one recall the times spent together. Doc and I had five years at SAS. Yes, there was a II Form back then—and at that time St. Andrew’s was all-boys, and all had job and dining table assignments, chapel, and compulsory football—in which Doc played center. Doc also wrestled in winter and played catcher for the baseball team in the spring. He and Duke LeCompte ’52 competed for the highest batting average. Doc was also a founding father to Gabby Smith’s Alpine Climbing Club. (That’s a 1952 inside joke.) I also learned early in our acquaintance how very effective wrestling coaches Baum and Cameron were. Doc and I had a school yard altercation that turned physical. Doc put some well-learned and executed moves and holds on me that quickly settled the fracas, but Doc was very magnanimous in victory. After that, we became even better friends.”—Cale Boggs ’52 “Doc and I were the ‘co-stars’ of the baseball team in 1952. (Hey, I’m writing this, so I can make anyone a star.) I pitched, and he was the catcher, so he resorted to his infinite wisdom to call whatever pitch he wanted me to throw—except on one occasion. I had always wanted to strike out a
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batter using a knuckleball. So I spoke to Doc, and we decided we would ‘engineer’ this in a game we were playing against Seaford. Mid-game (we were comfortably ahead), I got two strikes on a guy who seemed other than fearsome at the plate, so Doc set the plan in motion by calling for a ‘knuckler.’ And I would not be relating this tale if the plan had failed. I tossed the finest ‘knuckler’ anyone could hope for, and made the batter look helpless. Doc and I rejoiced with vigor, but it is unlikely that anyone else there knew what was happening. Isn’t it strange what one remembers from almost 70 years ago? Strange, but good.”—Julien “Duke” LeCompte ’52
Norman M. Smith Harpswell, ME July 15, 2021
“I recall two situations about Gabby [Norman’s nickname at SAS] during our years at SAS. One was the situation wherein, sometime well after bedtime ‘lights out’ he painted lipstick on the stuffed moose head mounted on the wall in the Dining Hall. You might vaguely recall that in our 1952 yearbook there was a photo of ‘Knee High’ (being both short in height and weight) up on a tall ladder, with Ma Heater (expert cleaner, head of the school’s laundry) holding the ladder while Knee High removed the lipstick from the moosehead’s largemouth-lips. The other occasion was that Gabby was the stroke-oar when
we won the Schoolboy National Championship [today as the Scholastic Rowing Association of America National Championship] event: the four oared shell with coxswain.” —Carter Werth ’52 “We lost a great classmate and sailor.”—Pickett Wright ’52 “When looking back, I think we all have some incident or person that defines the various stages in our lives. For me, Gabby Smith has always been a central figure of my prep school years. I cannot think of St. Andrew’s without seeing Gabby front and center. From decorating moose lips to running laps to reduce demerits, Gabby is there, filling my recollections of those wonderful years. I can see him now at the dining table, quietly hatching his next improvement of the SAS environment. It is so sad to realize that he has left us. God bless you, Gabby.”—Doug Brodie ’52
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Charles C. “Charlie” Knight Haverford, PA July 22, 2021
During the Class of 1958’s monthly Zoom, Jerry Wigglesworth recalled a St. Andrew’s spring dance which led to a discussion about the band and Charlie “Stormy” Knight ’58. Charlie wasn’t on the Zoom but added this to the story on a subsequent email exchange in June, a little over a month before he died:
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“I do remember the band playing for the school. As I recall, it was going slowly until halftime, when George Brakeley ’57 and the smaller group took over, giving me, Stormy, the chance for a drum solo, which brought the house down. I felt like a hero. As to Lester Lanin’s trumpet player, Rex Stewart, who was brought in as a special favor: he staged in my room until called for the show, so I got to know him a little. He even called me up to the bandstand to join them for two numbers. On the way back to the room, he said, ‘That was great. Do you plan to drum for a living?’ Having said yes, he went on to tell me what that would be like. After that, I never gave it another thought. Rex Stewart was Duke Ellington’s cornet player for years and became a major jazz historian. Thanks for remembering, Wig!—Stormy (haven't used that name in 64 years)” Jim Thomas ’58 visited Charlie in June and wrote, “Have been up to visit Charlie Knight and his wife M'Lou in Haverford, PA. Spent about half a day with them talking and remembering old times on Noxontown Pond, particularly mucking around in Pell's Cove catching frogs, and roaming over the school farm all the way to the head of the pond. We had a good time together those many years ago. Was good to see an old friend.”
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Thomas S. Snyder
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An anonymous classmate made a donation supporting the financial aid program in honor of Tom, and wrote the following: “This gift is made in memory of Thomas Stephens Snyder, Class of 1964, who died on Friday, October 1, 2021 at his home in Columbus, Georgia, surrounded by his family. Tom always had a heart for those who found themselves in unfortunate circumstances. May this gift and others in memory of him remind us of Tommy’s humanity and his desire to see more St. Andreans
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who come from humble beginnings.” Other classmates shared the following: “I bade farewell to Tom last night. He has reached the end of the tether to life from his string of chemo cocktails and has called in hospice to assist with pain in his passing. He asked me to thank all of you who shared time and memories with him throughout his last year. He leaves to join our other mates from the Class of 1964. Pax vobiscum, my friend. We will miss you.”—John Parrish ’64 “At St. Andrew’s and at Reunions, Tom was always a true gentleman and a pleasure to be with. He and I were part of a St. Andrew’s group that went to Haiti and the Dominican Republic in 1963 or 1964. On our way to Idlewild airport, Tom’s parents invited our group to stay overnight at their house on Governors Island.”—Mike Gerzso ’64 “A good man who passed too soon. A toast to Tom and wish him Godspeed on his journey.”—Randy Brinton ’64 “Tom has been so brave, and it is very hard to say adieu to one of our cherished classmates.”—Barry Sabloff ’64 “Tom was the noblest of us.” —Dennis Blair ’64 “Such a gentleman.”—Mike Moseley ’64 “We have lost a really good man and a wonderful friend. I am deeply saddened.”—Curt Coward ’64 “Tom had been planning a trip to Philadelphia in early October. When he realized that this was no longer possible, he called me and apologized
for the disruption to my schedule. The word ‘gentleman’ has been used repeatedly to describe him. This exemplifies why. Even as he knew he was headed into hospice, his concern was for others, not himself.”—Steve Ockenden ’64 “Tom was one of the guys who, whether you were having a good day or a bad day, you were having a better day when he was around.”—Sandy Dillon ’64 “The sadness and struggle are over for Tom, with a bright eternity free from pain. My prayers are with all who loved and cherished you, Tommy— may we share your loving kindness with those in each of our circles of family and friends!”—Bill Hammond ’64 “I had a wonderful and bright talk with Tommy several months ago. He was cautiously optimistic, awaiting more test results to see if his therapies would give him more time. And then he genuinely asked how we were doing. That was pure Tom. Although his therapies failed him all too soon, his grace, his humility and generosity never did. I will cherish that talk with him.”—Curtis Snyder ’64 “Manifest in his demeanor of gentility and grace, Tom epitomized what it is to be a child of God.”—John Morton ’65 “I am deeply saddened to learn about Tom. To be at SAS in his time was a privilege and delight. I pray God to hold Tom tight as he goes into eternal life, and grant to us who will mourn now the lively hope that
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we will gather with Tom and all the Saints in a great reunion that has no end. Blessings.”—Rev. Ned Gammons, St. Andrew’s Chaplain, 1961-1972 “I miss Tom as a Maine lover and companion. The canoe he gave me I will christen with his SAS nickname. Tom was on my wavelength and I on his. If we can’t continue our affection on this earth, I’ll go to the stars and, as before, we’ll find one another at a reunion in the cosmos. One of the special joys of my seventh decade was reuniting with Tom when he became a part-time inhabitant of rural Maine several years ago. We regularly went back and forth between his place on the bank of the Penobscot River and ours in Jonesboro, a 214 miles round trip. What was so special? Rediscovering one of only three remaining school chums who started SAS in the fall of 1959 and graduated in 1964. When we reconnected in 2019, we discovered how our lives had encountered similar, if differing, hardships and trials. We also saw how differently the world looked to us compared to our views then. Almost without our noting, our friendship, language, and honesty with one another had deepened. “Tom told me how hard his dyslexia had made it for him to ‘keep up’ both at Princeton and then Harvard. The volume of reading required was beyond his capacity to keep up. I recounted my despair after tearing both ligaments in my knee our VI Form year; how adrift I was except for the support George Broadbent ’41 [then a faculty member]
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gave me as he encouraged me in a new direction. We mutually confessed that our early years as adults had been spent living roles and relationships others expected of us, rather than listening to and following our true selves. Thankfully, that came later for both of us. “One important quality about Tom never changed—his empathy for others. You can see that in the way he is smiling up at me as I’m cutting my birthday cake in the East Dorm on my 12th birthday (p. 27 in our Yearbook and seen below left). It’s also reflected in what he wrote to me in that same 1964 Yearbook: ‘…Maybe I’ll join you in a march on Washington sometime.’ On a far broader and more serious scale, he was instrumental in establishing the House of Mercy, was active in prison ministry, and served on the board of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Columbus, GA, his hometown. “Tom’s genuine interest in others of all stripes is a special quality I always admired. In August 2019, Tom joined us from Enfield when John ’64 and Susie Parrish drove five hours from Boston to visit. We cruised the Gulf of Maine in a lobster boat captained by my neighbor, and were joined later that evening by a young cigar-smoking friend of mine, Tony Saldaña. Tony is as far removed from Princeton and Harvard as you can imagine, but he’s a great farmer. After a dinner of oceanfresh soft-shelled lobsters, steamed to perfection, Tom brought out his own choice cigars and shared smokes and stories with Tony far into the night. Tony returned from Mexico the following year with special cigars for Tom. “Another Tom story took place mid-May in Maine when he was kind enough to bring his three grown children, Ben, Mary Catherine, and Laura, to meet my wife Sherith and me. Tom had begun his chemo treatments, but was still keen on finding a new Maine home for himself in Orono, home of the University of Maine. Tom didn’t need another lobster boat ride across very cold water where only hardshelled lobsters were available, but his
daughters and son were keen to go. We were lucky to get a sunny though cool day, and they loved seeing the sheltered cove on Roque Island where Franklin Roosevelt anchored his sailboat on the way to Campobello Island, along with the eagles and curious seals who tagged along. This was a different Maine than they had seen visiting Tom’s Princeton classmates in Northeast Harbor. “The day before our lobster-boat ride, Tom and I joined a Zoom call with our two remaining II Form classmates: Barry Sabloff and John Parrish. We shared the most honest and frank conversations about our years at SAS that I have ever experienced. What a tonic for the soul Tom was for all of us! I miss my Maine man, but will remember him often and always with a joyful heart.”—Steve Rutter ’64
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Richard E. “Rick” Hall ’89 Laurel, MD May 20, 2021
Late-1980s alumni exchanged these thoughts over email after hearing of Rick’s passing in May: “He cared deeply for so many. #SASlove”—Jill Caron ’87 “Some people are born family, and some people become family through their actions and their heart. You will be truly missed, Rick.”—Mary Unruh ’88 “First time in over a decade that I haven't received a birthday note from Rick. The silence is heard. RIP my friend. As he would always say in every post, #SASlove.”—Julie Leopard ’88 “Rebecca (Wendell) Watters ’89, Howard Moorin ’89, and I got together yesterday after way too long, to reconnect and raise a glass to Rick. It meant so much. I hope to reconnect with each of you (my classmates) sooner than later, in one way or another. This community is a bedrock and I appreciate you all so much.” —Amy Wilson ’89 “I was profoundly saddened to hear of Rick’s passing. Rick wore his heart on his sleeve. I felt like I had a pretty good window into his life over the years as a result of his frequent social
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media posts. He clearly had a deep passion for any number of subjects— SAS, social justice, Georgetown, sports, friends and music, to name a few. Although he faced more than his fair share of challenges, I was encouraged to see and hear that he was enjoying some very positive recent developments. My hope is that Rick left us with a full, happy heart. Don’t let a day go by without thinking about how fortunate we are to be alive and in the presence (actual or virtual) of loved ones. Carpe Diem!”—Dixon Shay ’89 “Rick often came up in my family as he was behind the lens of one of my family’s best three-generation photos at the Jersey Shore in 1989. Taken the day after Rick and I went to an INXS concert at the Meadowlands (Ziggy Marley opened). To echo Dixon’s sentiments, enjoy what you have and who you have while you can.”—Colin Murray ’89 “Headed to SAS this week for graduation and plan to find a moment to just pause and take a moment to remember Rick and his undying love for St. Andrew’s.”—Jennifer Sheppard ’89 “I think Rick would be right chuffed, as they say, that we want to honor him this way. Miss and love you all, you are a cornerstone community for me, and this all brings it into high relief.”— Andrew Hill ’89 “Rick and I were co-Eagles fanatics and I know that continued until the very end. Tad, Elizabeth, and I spoke about him this weekend, remembering his enthusiasm for all things basketball and Georgetown. I know we would all prefer to be connecting and reconnecting over a happier reason, but it’s heartwarming to see all of the names popping up on my email.” —Peter Hoopes ’89 “Others have said it better, but he was a kind and gentle soul who never judged, only supported. I’ll miss his humor, his laugh, his deep care for SAS and all of us, and his bear hugs.” —Corinna Calhoun ’89 “Rick was instrumental in helping us through (my wife) Donielle’s recent bout with cancer. His tireless and often
cheeky efforts to keep our greater Class family together will always bring a smile to my face and I will always be in his debt for helping us through some tough times. To each of you, thank you for being a part of my extended family and for making me a better person and a better human being. May you be blessed with peace, happiness, and joy.”—James Borghardt ’89 “Rick was an amazing guy, always thoughtful, supportive, and passionate about the things he loved. I am very sad to hear of his passing, but look forward to keeping him in our hearts and thoughts. Great to hear from so many of you!”—Bill Spire ’89 “Rick showed me nothing but kindness and a great welcome, as did all of you. I owe both an introduction to my wife and 25 years in the U.S. to my all-too-brief year at SAS. You’ll be glad to hear that my kids don’t have my accent.”—Jerome Ranawake ’89 “So, so shocked by the tragic news but heart-warmed to see everyone in our class coming together to share our concern for Rick, his family, and our SAS friends. My heart goes out to all. Hang in there everyone. See you soon on the Zoom.”—Emilie Sinkler ’89 “I haven’t been great about staying in touch—it certainly isn’t that I don’t deeply appreciate my SAS experience and all of you. I last saw Rick in Michigan nearly 20 years ago when he was out there supporting the Georgetown sailing program just down the road from where I was living and working at the time. Of course, Rick reached out to me and we met up to chat, reminisce, and catch up. Rick was always nice and sincere to a fault, and he clearly loved SAS (and Georgetown) immensely. Orland Campbell ’89 gave me a call about Rick this past weekend, after he talked to Patrick Montgomery ’89. Those calls and the depth and breadth of the responses from all of you really is heart-warming. Rick, and each of you, are on my mind.”—Alec McCandless ’89 “It broke my heart to receive the news, but then I read how easily you’re all recalling all of his great loves and drawing inspiration from his love of
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SAS. I can’t think of a better picture of a life well-lived, no matter what. Thanks, Rick, for showing us the way.”—Grace An ’89 “Rick was the best kind of friend and my one and only SAS roommate (senior year on Voorhees, next door to Darron [Mills ’89] and Howie [Moorin ’89]. We enjoyed many a game of backgammon and mini-pool, in addition to all our sports talk and intellectual pursuits. Our shared enjoyment for basketball and baseball allowed us tons of practice and game time together at SAS and we both later became referees as adults. We held a deep Delawarean bond, along with Catherine [Pomeroy ’89], Casey [Zimmer ’89] and Adam [Stegeman ’89]. Rick loved my parents and my family as much as his own. So glad the pandemic brought the Class of 1989 together through our virtual chats this past year. May we all be as good a friend as Rick.”—Victor van Buchem ’89 “Rick was the first person I met at SAS. He came right up to me, introduced himself, and immediately began introducing me to classmates. I wasn’t quite sure who or what he was. Welcome committee? Class president? Ambassador? Turns out it was just Rick being Rick. Remarkably, he knew even as a young teen that connection to others is what matters most, and Rick was a life-long, gifted, extraordinary, connector of people.”—Ari Ellis ’89 “Rick was unfailingly friendly, which the older I get just seems more and more impressive.”—Robb Ellis ’89
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RICK'S SAS BASKETBALL TEAMMATES IN JERSEYS AT THE MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR RICK HALL ’89
“A true loss indeed—will miss his genuine spirit and kindness.”—James Lai ’89 “I hope we will continue to stay connected, to St. Andrew’s and to each other. It’s what Rick would have wanted, I believe. This is a good time to thank you all for making my one year at SAS one of the best years of my life. Hopefully, I will be able to travel back to that magical place again some time soon and meet with some of you. Carpe diem. Sending all my love from Frankfurt.”—Sophia von Rundstedt ’89 “Rick started trying to recruit my youngest son to sail for Georgetown when he was in eighth grade. For years every time I posted something about a good result at a regatta, Rick shamelessly tagged his good friend who is the head coach at G’town with a comment like, ‘Keep watching this one!’ I think Rick loved the idea of bringing SAS and Georgetown together. My son ended up at a different school, but Rick never stopped cheering for him. He was always so supportive of everyone in his SAS family, and our children. And every year, during college sailing nationals, Rick and I would have FB Messenger open all day so we could comment to each other after every surprising result. That event happens in early June, and I will feel his absence deeply. I know we will all feel his absence at reunions. My biggest hope is that wherever he is, he is feeling all this love and seeing how he has once again brought us all back together.”—Kristen (Zilling) Kreuzkamp ’89
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“I’m sorry not to have commented yet, but as Wade alluded, everytime I started to type something, nothing seemed worthy. Kristen, I love that story. Rick was the ultimate cheerleader, and I think that trait just grew stronger and stronger the older he got. Rick never gave up on anyone, even me, no matter how much cause I gave him to in our time as roommates and adolescents. The first time my wife Libbie came with me to a Reunion, Rick greeted her like a long-lost cousin and escorted her around the quad, introducing her to everyone. And every time I saw him from then on out in the coming years, he’d look at me somewhat crestfallen with a confused, ‘Hey, where’s Libbie? Why isn’t she here?’ He was the most sincere, unwaveringly optimistic, welcoming person I know. If anyone comes through Delaware and wants to pour one out for Rick, let me know if you want some company. In the meantime, thank you to Allison [Hamilton-Rohe ’89], Keary [Jenkins ’89], Victor, Catherine, and everyone else who is helping put support structures in place for us to grieve, remember, and memorialize our classmate and friend.”—Casey Zimmer ’89 “Just pulled out the old Yearbook from 1989 and wanted to share a couple of Rick’s senior quotes: Now you can look the word up Again and again, but the dictionary Doesn’t know the meaning of friends. And if you asked me, you know I couldn’t Be much help, because a friend is Somebody you judge for yourself. (Whodini) The song came and went Like the times that we spent... (Bruce Hornsby)” —Wade Cooper ’89 “The news of Rick really hit hard. His loss—like his being—brings community together. I remember he was one of the first people who reached out to me when I arrived at SAS as a new IV Former. I’d always
gone to slightly rough public schools and was terrified of how potentially snobby and mean ‘private school’ kids would be. He was truly a bridge! Helped me feel welcome and at ease, as did everyone else, once I got in the swing of things, of course. Rick had a knack for noticing when people needed a little support.”—Mika Court ’89 “I feel both numb and deeply saddened. Rick was among a group of five or six classmates that really went out of their way to help me settle in and feel more ‘at home’ during my first year at SAS when I entered as a IV Form student without knowing anyone at the school. He was remarkably approachable, downto-earth, and loyal, and made my adjustment to the environment at SAS much easier and more comfortable. Rick also was unusually observant about those around him and seemed determined that no one was ever going to be unhappy in his presence except perhaps when losing to him in a pick-up basketball game. I remember a weekend I spent with Rick at his family’s home, in New Jersey if I remember, that was very generous and thoughtful. I expected that one day Rick would be an overwhelmingly popular mayor of a small town somewhere in which he literally knew the name and favorite ice cream flavor of everyone in the town. Gone from our sight, but never from our thoughts and hearts.”—Paul Leighton ’89 “Rick’s kindness and love for his many, many friends inspires me. Though we hadn’t seen each other in years, he reached out to me a few months ago to inquire about the boarding school my son attends. He just wanted to hear about it and connect with me. Rick was all heart.” —Melissa Mills McLoota ’89
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Former Staff
Fred Carpenter
Middletown, DE June 9, 2021
Former Head of School Tad Roach wrote to the community in June: “As a few of you know, Fred was a major influence and mentor for the children and adolescents of Middletown throughout his distinguished career as a public school teacher, coach, and mentor. He was the kind of person who honored and recognized the dignity and potential of all his students at Silver Lake Elementary and his soccer players and wrestlers at St. Andrew’s. I loved watching him and Donald [Duffy], work together for years in the wrestling room. His baseball card club at Silver Lake and the youth wrestling program he created for the community brought so many outstanding students from a wide diversity of backgrounds together. He was kind, generous, patient, and humble. Years ago, I was proud to join Donald in honoring Coach Carpenter as he was inducted to the Delaware Wrestling Hall of Fame next to the greatest St. Andrew’s wrestler he coached, Earl Walker ’90. The first time I met Earl was when Fred brought him to a community service open gym one winter afternoon. Fred Carpenter was a saint.” “Kind, generous, patient, humble—I can attest. Super sweet dude; I will always remember him fondly.”—Joe Frazier ’94 “He was my first soccer coach and so much more. Such a kind person who saw the best in all of us. He even coached me in wrestling, and I was part of that baseball card club.” —Victor van Buchem ’89 “So many great memories playing soccer for him. ‘Confidence in your skills, boys. Confidence in your skills.’”—Jenks Whittenburg ’92 “Thank you Mr. Carpenter. Well lived.”—Reynolds Lockhart ’91 “The pinnacle of my soccer career was spent under Coach Carpenter. Thank you.”—Jarrett Sell ’92 “I was fortunate enough to have wrestled under Fred during my time as a student at St. Andrew’s from 2005-
2009 and then later coached alongside him from 2011-2014. ‘Carps’ (as he was lovingly referred to by his wrestlers) embodied so much of what I think makes St. Andrew’s a special place. It was a fastidious attention to detail—he would never forget to gift my parents a bottle of authentic maple syrup he procured over the holiday break every year, which made ‘making weight’ a bit of a challenge. It was an endearing spirit, a relentless optimism. It was the understanding that winning wasn’t everything, that there were lessons to be learned in humility, and that how you dealt with adversity reflected who you were as a human being. It was a wry sense of humor, throwing out a joke pre-practice as the team huddled around him and Duffy to listen to the plan for the day (I think we all can remember why we can’t see elephants hiding in trees). It’s people like Coach Carpenter who make you give thanks for the opportunities granted to you
by an institution like St. Andrew’s. Thank you, Coach Carps. You really helped guide a young man through the trials and tribulations of high school and helped shape me into the type of teacher and coach I eventually grew into being.”—Dan Primiani ’09 “I don’t even know where to begin. Fred was an amazing person who has to be one of the more selfless and generous people that I have ever met. As a young coach in the ’80s and early ’90s at SAS, I could not have had a better assistant to counsel me, teach me, and, yes, temper me or put a ‘seat belt’ on me when it was needed. He was the perfect person to have in your corner in that second chair of a wrestling tournament. In fact, he was just the right person to have in your corner period. Dan Primiani ’09, we have never met, but you capture beautifully what Carps meant to so many. Truly a wonderful human being.”—Ashton Richards ’78 J
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Nelson T. “Tom” Nordquist White Horse Beach, MA June 2, 2021
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Duncan Charles “Chuck” Merriwether Naples, FL April 24, 2020
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C. Henry Roth II Houston, TX April 25, 2021
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Richard M. “Dick” Hall Williamstown, MA June 11, 2021
Trustee
Henry H. Silliman, Jr. Greenville, DE April 17, 2021
Alan L. Webb
Westminster, MD June 30, 2021
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David T. “Tom” McCune
In Memory as of November 1, 2021. Visit standrews-de.org/ inmemory to read full obituaries and leave remembrances for departed Saints.
Oakland, CA June 28, 2021
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Ms. McGrath’s “A-Game Brownies” “There's the mix. And then there’s the A-Game.”
A-Game Brownies, a la Joy McGrath PREHEAT OVEN TO 325°. Line an 8 x 8 pan with waxed paper and spray with nonstick spray. INGREDIENTS 14 T
UNSALTED BUTTER
½ heaping cup
UNSWEETENED COCOA
1 slightly heaping cup SUGAR (granulated) 3
LARGE EGGS
2½ tsp
VANILLA EXTRACT
½ cup
ALL-PURPOSE FLOUR
1 pinch
SALT
DIRECTIONS Melt butter, whisk in cocoa. Whisk in sugar, then eggs and vanilla. Add flour and salt, stirring into mixture using a large rubber spatula. Scrape the batter into the pan and spread it evenly. BAKE 30-40 MINUTES. Do NOT overbake. Cool IN THE PAN completely, then use a small metal spatula to loosen brownie from pan and invert onto cookie sheet. Peel off liner and reinvert onto a cutting board. Cut into 2-inch squares. These keep one week in airtight container, if you do not live on a dorm.
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ONE SENTENCE IS ALL IT TAKES.
With as little as one sentence, you can have a lasting impact on St. Andrew’s School. One sentence is all it takes to create your legacy gift to St. Andrew’s. With another sentence or two, you can designate your future support for a special purpose or to create your own fund. •
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The simple sentence is: “I, [name], of [city, state, ZIP], give, devise and bequeath to St. Andrew’s School, DE, Inc. [written amount or percentage of the estate or description of property] for [its unrestricted use and purpose, i.e., financial aid, faculty support...].” Include this sentence in a new will or living trust, or add it to existing documents through an amendment called a codicil. It’s easy—and also amendable and augmentable. •
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It’s that simple to have a lasting impact! If you already have St. Andrew's in your estate plans, or want to learn more about planned giving, please contact: Gordon Brownlee at gbrownlee@standrews-de.org or 302- 285-4270, or Chesa Profaci at chesa@standrews-de.org or 302-285-4260. More information about planned giving is also available at www.standrews-de.org/cornerstone.
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