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24 GLOBAL WARMING GETS A HEALTHY DIALOG WITH

TOP LEADERS, THANKS TO GREG DALTON’S VISION

After seeing the effects of global warming firsthand, Greg Dalton transformed his journalism career into spearheading balanced conversations about climate change. This new forum called Climate One has attracted right, left, and center on the subject, with an openness to dialog. Thanks to Dalton’s work, the United Nations, Google, Chevron, the Sierra Club, politicians, environmentalists, and more are coming together on the biggest problem facing humanity.

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BORN TO TAKE CHARGE, CYNTHIA CHAPMAN REACHES TOP 50 WOMEN ATTORNEYS IN THE U.S. With a natural instinct to make things happen, Cynthia Chapman’s long list of accomplishments all started with her acceptance to Stevenson School. While Chapman holds a degree in art history, it simply polished her chops for graduating cum laude from the University of San Diego School of Law. Now a prominent Houston attorney with her husband and law partner Mike Caddell, she has found balance with family and career.

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LED MARK STROSS TO THE WORLD’S LARGEST SCREENS As a boarding student at Stevenson School in the mid-1970s, Mark Stross stumbled upon his passion for computer programming. Though he was challenged with dyslexia and the notoriety of his celebrity parents, Stevenson gave him the freedom to learn how to think on his feet and become accountable. From then on, Stross developed an obsession for the next big idea, which ultimately led him to inventing larger-than-life video displays found at sports arenas.

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JALIL AFRIDI PROMOTES PEACE IN HIS HOME COUNTRY OF PAKISTAN The first kid from his tribal region of Pakistan to study in the United States, Jalil Afridi returned home in 1997 to work with his father on their English-language newspaper, The Frontier Post. With a mission to engender mutual understanding on all sides of the conflict, Afridi realizes it’s no small challenge but continues to use facts and dialog to combat myths and misunderstandings.

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DEPARTMENTS 3 LETTER FROM THE EDITOR 4 LETTERS 5 CONTRIBUTORS 7 ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT

Alumni continue to inspire others, make a difference, and shine with exceptional personal achievements.

13 CAMPUS NEWS

Creativity has no boundaries with Stevenson students and a new Carmel Campus meal program.

16 SPORTS WRAP

Athletic champions continue to make the Pirates a regional threat in a wide range of sports.

18 FACULTY NEWS

Stevenson faculty continue to push the envelope to enrich both the classroom and each student’s life.

20 THE PIRATE REVIEW

An outstanding collection of authors and restaurateurs.

45 THE 2009–10 ANNUAL REPORT

An extraordinary community of supporters.

71 ALUMNI AT LARGE

Stevenson Alumni are a diverse group and everyone has a story to tell.

92 VIEW FROM THE BACK PORCH Frank Stephenson encourages each

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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

We are excited to bring our second issue of the new Stevenson Alumni Magazine to you and hope that it will be as enjoyable to read as our first edition. It was certainly just as much fun to produce. Finding good alumni stories and following them through to these pages reminds our staff just how interesting, diverse, and inspiring our Stevenson family is. The feature stories of our alumni in this issue are, of course, much different from those in the last one. However, each alumnus exhibits the same degree of passion needed to achieve something worthwhile. And, importantly to us, they all shared a willingness to help our staff bring the stories to life. Cynthia Chapman allowed us into her office and home to grab the beautiful images for our cover shot. Jalil Afridi sent us copies of his newspaper through FedEx to give his story visual context. Mark Stross turned us on to the magic of lights with a discussion at reunion weekend, and Greg Dalton provided mountains of background information so that we could really understand his journey. In addition, each of our alumni spotlight stories and our alumni book and restaurant reviews in this magazine were possible only with the help and patience of those connected alumni. Alumni news notes kept coming in, so check out your classmates and keep the news coming.

those of your alumni friends with us. Give us a lead for a spotlight. Ask us to review your book, or wine, or art, or restaurant, or performance. Write us a letter (or email) and tell us how we are doing or comment on one of our stories. In short, we need you to help make this magazine fun to read and to make it a publication we can all be proud of. In a natural evolution for our Annual Report magazine of the past two years, we have included this year’s Annual Report of Contributors in the final pages of this magazine. You will still find the complete list of all those generous individuals, families, companies, and foundations that supported Stevenson School during the 2010 fiscal year. And you will see information about endowed funds, prizes, awards, and college matriculation. It is our chance to thank you for supporting Stevenson. We hope to hear from you soon, or see you at a holiday party, alumni games, or reunion weekend. Or perhaps you will just stop by to see the old campus and get your picture taken in front of the fireplace in Douglas Hall. We will be sure to welcome you back. As alumni teacher Justin Clymo always tells me, “It’s a good day to be a Pirate.” Jeff Clark Director of Advancement & Editor

And although the feedback we received from all of our readers after the first magazine was overwhelmingly positive, we still need the help and participation of our alumni. Share your own stories or

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LETTERS

Spring/Summer 2010 Stevenson Alumni Magazine

To the Editor: Coming to Stevenson last year was the best decision I have ever made in my life! I already read the (last) Alumni Magazine and it was great to see all those successful Stevenson graduates. I love to hear news from Stevenson and I look forward to the next one! Zuzana Vuova ’10 Editor’s note: Zuzana came to Stevenson for 12th grade from the Czech Republic; she is a freshman at the University of Rochester.

To the Editor: I just wanted to thank you for including Bryan and me in the inaugural Stevenson Alumni Magazine and the lovely story on Orbit Baby. We were so honored and so enjoyed reading about our fellow alumni. Kris Polaha was a good friend of ours and I was thrilled to see him on the cover. I am happy to say that I played his wife in his first play at Stevenson and worked with him in several plays thereafter, and I have followed his career with great enthusiasm over the years. Bravo on a fabulous first edition; we look forward to many more.

Editor, We arrived home last week and discovered the Stevenson magazine in the box of mail retrieved from the post office. You’ve done a fantastic job creating an alumni magazine worth reading from cover to cover. Though it was disappointing to not find news from classmates, there were some great stories and it was fun to catch up on the lives of folks I knew way-back-when at Stevenson. 1965 was never known as a class of organizers... perhaps it’s time to start thinking about our 50th Reunion in 2015. Keep up the good work!

Best wishes, Farrah White ’94

Chip Gardes ’65

Editor’s note: Resident faculty member Matt Arruda and his wife Gabi have an Orbit Baby for their son, Ben, and they highly recommend it!

Editor, As a Stevenson employee and proud parent of Stevenson graduate, ESU student, and Pace University sophomore Peter Cofresi ’08, I was delighted to see his picture on the cover of “Face of Pace,” the University’s magazine for prospective students. And I admit to some confusion when I see this and the Stevenson Alumni Magazine side by side. Great magazines, both, as I am sure you will appreciate. Go Pirates! Peggy Cofresi

To the Editor: The last magazine you guys did was BEAUTIFUL! I thought it was a very hip and savvy way of bringing light to some of the neat things Stevenson alumni are doing. It is definitely a flashy way to review everyone.

Antja Thompson ’96

WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!

Editor’s note: Antja works with the Stanford University Alumni Association.

With such diverse alumni, your personal stories and experiences embody the school’s mission to lay the groundwork for a fulfilling life. Hearing about your personal achievements and life experiences lets us share in the rich and exciting lives of Stevenson alumni. As Robert Louis Stevenson wrote: “To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.” So turn on your computer, and shoot us an email! Please email your letters to the editor, personal stories and high-resolution images (300 dpi) to alumni@stevensonschool.org.

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CONTRIBUTORS

JAMES TEMPLE James Temple is an award-winning reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, who has been covering business in the Bay Area for more than a decade. His writing has appeared in Wired, Bloomberg Markets Magazine, and the San Jose Mercury News. He’s a graduate of Ohio University’s E.W. Scripps School of Journalism.

JANET KORNBLUM Janet Kornblum is an award-winning, nationally-known journalist with an investigative background. At USA Today, she covered a wide-range of topics ranging from social networking to caregiving, green issues, health, science, and breaking news. As a founding writer and editor for CNET News, she has a deep understanding of the Internet — from the nuts and bolts on up. Janet is now a full-time independent journalist, writer and investigator.

DAN FROST Dan Frost is a veteran journalist who writes on a freelance basis for the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and other publications. As a staff writer at the San Francisco Chronicle, he covered technology and media, with a front row seat at the rise and fall of the dotcoms, as well as their resurrection in the form of Web 2.0. But don’t let the technology specialty fool you: Dan is a versatile generalist who has covered sports, social ventures, the environment, education, police, and politics.

PAM FRANCIS Pam Francis is a lifestyle and portrait photographer in Houston, Texas, who is passionate about photographing people. Pam’s work has been featured in national advertising for Continental Airlines, Southwest Airlines, American Airlines, 7 Eleven, Chevron, and Purina, to name a few, and can be found on the pages of TIME, BusinessWeek, TexasMonthly, and many more publications. With Pam, you get energy, fun and an eagerness to shoot great stuff. Her promo piece tells it all: “I’ve shot everyone from Bush to Obama. Ya think I can handle shooting something for you?”

PAUL SCHRAUB Paul Schraub is a professional photographer based in the Monterey Bay area and specializes in a wide range of photography, including architecture, portraits, promotion, lifestyle, art reproduction, food, products, and even dogs. With 25 years of shooting, Schraub is capable of meeting most any photographic challenge.

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STEVENSON WANTS TO HEAR FROM YOU Stevenson School publishes two alumni magazines each year, and we need your help to make it happen. Your personal stories and experiences embody the school’s mission and hearing about your achievements and journeys lets us share in the rich and exciting lives of Stevenson alumni. Simply email your personal update and any current photos to be included in the Alumni at Large section to alumni@stevensonschool.org. Photos must be high resolution/300 dpi and please identify the people. Here are some topic ideas: • News about your personal and professional life (i.e. accomplishments, awards, promotions, education, travel, etc.)

• What you do for fun

• Personal passages or quotes

• Published pieces (books, articles, etc.) and works you’ve developed or produced (include art, music, patents, etc.) which we will proudly feature in “The Pirate Review.”

• Births, marriages, and deaths in our Stevenson families

• Website links relevant to your life and work

• What you do and where you work Finally, please share your thoughts about how Stevenson can serve you better. Thank you. Go Pirates! Frank Stephenson Director of Alumni Relations fstephenson@stevensonschool.org

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CHRIS BAUMGART ’70 Helps Save the Historical Hollywood Sign Pebble Beach realtor Chris Baumgart ’70 has played a role in the preservation and care of the Hollywood sign for many years as a member of the Hollywood Sign Trust. With the famous sign recently in peril, Chris took on the role of fundraiser to secure funding for that preservation. As deadlines approached, Chris made a final call and was invited to the Playboy Mansion for lunch, where Playboy founder Hugh Hefner came to the rescue, donating nearly $1 million to save the cultural landmark from urban sprawl. “All of us here who love the sign, and those who admire it from around the world, say hats off to Hugh for keeping the dream alive on Mount Lee,” said Hollywood Sign Trust Chairman Baumgart at the press conference. The Hollywood sign is on the southern side of Mount Lee in Griffith Park. Two years ago, developers put the land, which had been zoned to build luxury homes, on the market, which prompted the “Save the Peak” campaign. Baumgart

said Hefner wrote a check for $900,000 to cover the remainder of the $12.5 million needed to buy the land, which will now become part of Griffith Park and the City of Los Angeles. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger joined Baumgart and city officials at the podium to announce the news, completing efforts by conservationists to save the 138 acres of land behind the Hollywood sign.

Getty heir Aileen Getty, Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson, Norman Lear, and The Tiffany and Co. Foundation. There were also thousands of smaller donations from people around the world. ©2010 KABC-TV/DT. All Rights Reserved

“It’s not just to preserve the land around it but also to protect the environment,” Schwarzenegger said during the news conference. “The Hollywood sign will welcome dreamers and artists and Austrian bodybuilders from around the world to continue coming over here for generations to come.” “We have today a true Hollywood ending. We saved the peak,” said Will Rogers, president of the Trust for Public Land. Dozens of movie studios and celebrities donated money to the campaign to buy the land and preserve it, including J. Paul

Chris Baumgart ’70 with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announcing the news of preserving the Hollywood sign

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Sally Russell ’83 was born in San Francisco and raised on the Monterey Peninsula, one of California’s most picturesque areas. She’s a fourth-generation native and comes from a bohemian bloodline. Her great-great uncle was a cofounder of Carmel, which is still a haven for artists today. Her affinity for vivid colors, organic textures, and playful patterns is the result of growing up in a place that is undeniably magical; but she credits her parents with cultivating her creative spirit by encouraging her to explore her talents and never complaining about the messes she inevitably made.

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color. She approached art [as] she did tennis, with passion and intensity; she gave it her all and remained everyone’s friend and humble in the process.” At Stevenson, Sally led the girls’ tennis team to many victories, including CCS playoffs. She was voted most valuable player and awarded the Sportsmanship Award for two consecutive years. She was Spirit Queen, Letterman’s Club president, and the recipient of the Headmaster’s Award at graduation. “I have the fondest memories of my years as a student at Stevenson. It provided me a wellrounded education in a very supportive environment and many wonderful lifelong friendships.” Following her graduation in 1983, Sally studied fine arts and studio arts at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and the University of California at Santa Barbara. She also studied textile design at San Francisco State University.

Sally’s ceramic dinnerware and textiles are sold in boutiques across the country and at www.sallyrussellstudio.com.

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Suzanne Rumbaugh began teaching art at Stevenson in 1977 and three years later Sally walked into her class. “There are always exceptional students,” says Suzanne, “and you can’t ever tell them that. But Sally was one of them from the very beginning. She was fearless and determined, and she loved challenge and

Sally’s products made the “O” List in the April 2008 edition of Oprah Magazine.

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In the mid-1990s, inspired by the works of Viola Frey, Niki de Saint Phalle, and Joan Brown, Sally began her exploration in clay. She was drawn to the irregularity of hand-building and the ease of acquiring texture. She soon developed a signature style, mixing shapes, textures, colors, and patterns; and became fascinated with the interplay of these elements and the unlimited possibilities they create. Her bold ceramic totems were conceived; her papier-mache sculptures and whimsical totems, some reaching 12 feet in height, grace homes and commercial buildings from Big Sur to New York.

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In addition to her sculpture, and initially as a way to finance her fine art, Sally created a line of ceramic dinnerware and home textiles. She was able to bring her hand-built organic touch and playfulness to everyday, functional objects, which she sells online and to boutiques across the country (www.sallyrussellstudio.com). Her work made the “O” List of Ms. Winfrey’s favorites in the April 2008 edition of Oprah Magazine. “I’ve always played with irregular textures, colors, and patterns,” she says, “and bringing these elements to everyday

“Sally’s totems are pure vitality and joy,” says one of her collectors.

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objects seems to be a natural extension of what I am already doing with my fine art.” Sally lives in Carmel Valley with her husband and their 6-year-old daughter, and in September she became the new art teacher at Stevenson’s Carmel Campus. “It’s a wonderful juggling act,” she says, “and very stimulating. I am excited about working with the children and cultivating an environment in which they can be imaginative and expressive. My hope is that I can inspire children to be fearlessly creative.”

In September, Sally became the new art teacher at the Carmel Campus.

Sally with her husband, Chuck Drake, daughter Lucy and their darling dog Kenzie.

Her whimsical ceramic totems, some reaching 12 feet in height, grace homes and commercial buildings from Big Sur to New York.

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CHRIS DALHAMER ’88 The United States Golf Association returned to Pebble Beach Golf Links to host the United States Open Championship for the fifth time this past June. USGA officials raved about course conditions and the preparations by Golf Course Superintendents Association Certified Golf Course Superintendent Chris Dalhamer, Stevenson class of 1988. Mike Davis, USGA Senior Director of Rules and Competition and the man famous for the final course setups for the U.S. Open, said, “In my 20 years of coming to Pebble Beach, I have never seen the course in better condition.” Dalhamer is a 13-year GCSAA class A member and has been the head superintendent at Pebble Beach for five years. He worked the previous two years as superintendent at Spyglass Hill Golf Course and three years prior to that as superintendent at Carmel Valley Ranch. Chris also worked at Pebble Beach from 1995-1999 as assistant superintendent. He earned a bachelor’s degree in business and plant science from Cal State University Chico and an associate’s degree in ornamental horticulture from Monterey Peninsula College.

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“It’s hard to say who is the most important person at the Open,” Davis said at the U.S. Open Media Day. “Obviously the players are the ones who make the drama. But in my mind the most important person at this Open is Chris. At the end of the day, it’s all about this golf course and how it’s presented, and if Chris does his job well, it really goes well.” Davis and Pebble Beach co-owner Arnold Palmer worked with Dalhamer to fine-tune the golf course for the Open. When the tournament ended, it was clear that Chris had done his job well and the golf course was again the real star.

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A memo from

ESTHER TANG ’00 POAG: Promise of a Generation

IF THIS FALL YOU FIND YOURSELF IN DUBAI, you might see me, disheveled and uniformed, scurrying about a fumy gas station. The weather will still be uncomfortably warm, drivers will be loathe to roll down windows over an inch, and I certainly won’t be earning princely sums. So what gives? Is the economy so awful that American university graduates are now pumping gas in the Middle East? Let me explain. Almost exactly two years ago, while in a café in Dubai, my friend Adela Acevedo looked me squarely in the eyes and said, “The distance between reality and racism is two minutes in a Dubai taxi.” All six friends seated together paused mid-sip; the conviction was stinging. We were all ashamed to admit that we had had numerous angry outbursts while interacting with the city’s taxi drivers. We were all supposedly educated, respectful, and mature adults. Some of us had even majored in international business in Ivy League schools. So whatever character flaws and biases we had developed, we needed

to suss out. After all, how could we self-espoused “future leaders” condone destructive behavior from anyone, especially ourselves? So began Promise of a Generation (POAG), my nonprofit that facilitates candid exchanges of ideas, experiences, and concerns with the purpose of fulfilling the promise of every generation to improve the world. Along with cofounders American-expatriate Adela and two Emirati women, Aida al Busaidy and Aysha al Hashimi, I poured my non-work hours into establishing POAG. We erected four focus pillars for exploration in the United Arab Emirates, starting in Dubai: Family: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly; exploring stereotypes, challenges, couples & child development, and bliss. Environment: Running Out of Oil and Water; exploring the natural and manmade environment. Service Class: In Their Shoes; exploring the everyday experiences of the service class.

Education: Maximizing Human Potential, Young and Old; exploring formal education and continuous development. The third pillar brings me to our opening scene. Instead of only talking and reading about the plight of laborers, more than 70 POAGers have arranged to quietly experience one of the worst jobs in town: attending petrol pumps. Volunteers range in age, income, social status, language, and work experience. As always, POAGers gather not to change someone else’s opinions, but to be transformed through interaction with others. This past June, we organized the POAG China-United Arab Emirates Forum, which brought Emiratis to China for the first time. The UAE travelers included

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At Beijing sponsor Ernst & Young’s boardroom, Adela is sharing what she hopes the Forum will achieve — building meaningful relationships spanning business, public service, and family.

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The Co-Founders of POAG: Esther Tang ’00, Aysha al Hashimi, Adela Acevedo, Aida al Busaidy

employees from the Ministry of State, a $62 billion state investment company, The Executive Council, and a prince from India. Chinese delegates included people from the banking regulatory commission, entrepreneurs, officials, corporate lawyers, students, and a monk. I was especially proud of this forum because for a long time I had hoped to use contrarian thinking to build game-changing relationships. As I write this piece in mid-September, just last night in Dubai POAG held one of its finest events yet: the community commitment and impact panel. We featured ten spectacular UAE service organizations, including the region’s first-time bank, a social media website for volunteers, assistance for laborers, a school for special-needs children, and a citizen humanitarian sheikha. Past events include a discussion on identity with Saudi-born Korean-Jordanian comedian Wonho Chung, a seminar contrasting Arab and Western concepts of beauty, a Q&A evening with regional business

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Left to right: Wael al Sayegh, Yousuf al Hashimi, Esther Tang ’00, Shaima al Tamimi, Adela Acevedo, Mohammed Kazim, and HRH Prince Alex von Ary at Shanghai on the Bund.

icon Gerald Lawless, and a sustainability discussion with the zero-carbon, zero-waste MASDAR Future Energy Company director. Early on at POAG we wrote seven aspirational statements. If you agree with these, join us by living out our declarations. They’re not easy to follow, but here’s a tip from POAG: If you feel weak, try donning a worker’s uniform for a day. 1. Just because a clear and easy solution does not exist today for some of life’s biggest challenges, we shouldn’t stop seeking for a better tomorrow. 2. Personal accountability and self motivation move us from complaining

about our situation to contributing toward a solution. 3. We need productive debate and discussion because our collective improves when we challenge one another’s ideas. 4. Seek first to understand before forming an opinion, especially about complex sociopolitical issues. 5. Stay thirsty for wisdom, not just isolated information. 6. Default: Respect one another. 7. Strive to see people, including ourselves, as we truly are, not as stereotypes.

Esther graduated from Stevenson in 2000, Cornell University in 2004, and Oxford University in 2008. She expects to receive a master’s degree from Peking University in 2011. In between, she has worked in Texas in economic development and in Dubai in private equity. While at Cornell she was president of her class, in which capacity she addressed 20,000 classmates and family members at graduation before introducing the keynote speaker, former President Bill Clinton. She hopes to relocate to California before the end of the calendar year. To find POAG on Facebook, search Promise of a Generation.

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Congressman Sam Farr read about the new Hot Lunch Program at the Carmel Campus (see page 14) in the Monterey County Herald and requested a meeting with Campus Head, Molly Bozzo and Dory Ford of Aqua Terra Culinary to learn more about the program. Mr. Farr is an active advocate of healthy school lunch programs in public schools, and after their meeting visited with students and teachers in the classrooms. 2010 ALUMNI MAGAZINE

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A New Lineup for Lunchtime Carmel Campus students might not know they’re at the forefront of a new trend in school lunches, but they do know that they like it. Parents are now ordering daily lunches from Aqua Terra Culinary, a new age food service on the Monterey Peninsula that focuses on fresh meals rooted in sustainability. Each meal is made from organic ingredients with much of it coming from local farms and farmers markets. The meals are also healthy — without processed ingredients high in fructose, corn syrup or excess sugar and salt, the meats are hormoneand antibiotic-free, and the milk is also organic. This new hot lunch program has created much talk in the community and was featured in the Monterey County Herald on September 15, 2010. What’s more, there

are rave reviews from students and staff alike. “I loved the flavor of the chicken, and the cookies were really sweet,” said Ajda, a sixth-grader. “The green beans were yummy,” chimed in her friend Lily, also in sixth grade. Classmate David, who opted for the vegetarian meal of edamame, potatoes and green beans, concurred: “Everything was fantastic,” he said. This is the beginning of healthy habits, particularly needed in a day and age when childhood obesity is a real problem. Developing a taste for vegetables and fruits, and not for fast food, helps kids make better eating decisions. The menus are also adjustable for kids with special needs, such as those who are vegetarians or have food allergies. Story edited from the Monterey County Herald, September 15, 2010. Original story by Kathryn McKenzie Nichols.

CLASS OF 2016 PUBLISHES BOOK Last spring, the 6th grade class of 2016, along with English teacher, Kathryn Koontz, published a collection of student edited essays in their book, From the Experience of Others. The book represents the cumulative thinking from what

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they learned in history and English, and answers the big question, “What can we learn from the experience of others?” The book can be purchased directly from the publisher, Blurb, at www.blurb.com.

JAZZ IN JAPAN Jackie Choi ’12 and Cole Clark ’11 completed a 15 day tour of Japan as part of the Monterey County High School Honors Vocal Jazz Ensemble this summer. Stevenson instrumental music teacher Eddie Mendenhall ’90 also accompanied the tour for the 6th straight year. Jackie remarked about her experience, “The tour was ridiculously fun, and meeting all the Japanese people was a lot of fun. It was a pretty sweet two weeks, since we were either sight seeing, practicing, eating, or performing.” In past years, Taylor Herhusky ’08, Russell Sterten ’06, and Trevor Steer ’05 have participated on this same tour. The vocal ensemble and the Monterey County High School Honors Jazz Band participants were selected by audition and 31 students from six different schools practiced and performed from May through September. Their season culminated with performances at the famous Monterey Jazz Festival in September.

LITTLE BOY BLUES Students Beau Bayless ’12 and Byron Greene ’11 performed at the Monterey Bay Blues Festival in June. Beau played keyboards and Byron played guitar and sang with the “Blues in the Schools Band” (BITS), a collection of the top high school blues musicians in Monterey County sponsored by the Blues Festival.

STUDENT COUNCIL GIVES BACK Last Spring, with guidance from Student Activities Director, Michaelle Sims and Technology Coordinator, Topher Mueller, the Carmel Campus student council purchased school supplies for twelve students in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. Without these supplies and the corresponding scholarships provided by Rotary International, the students may not have continued their education past the 6th grade — when free education is discontinued. Our students were thanked with souvenirs from Guatemala and a photo of the class they helped.

Well-used desktop computers from the Carmel Campus were donated to Loaves, Fishes & Computers of Seaside, to be reused for the local community. Students in grades 2–5 are now using new MacBook laptops for project work, educational games, research, journaling, and more. The laptops are used solely in the classroom, where the students learn to be responsible with technology.

GET THE DEBUT ALBUM FROM SAM RADSERESHT ’11 Senior Sam Radseresht has been entertaining the Stevenson student body and faculty since his arrival as a freshman. At one of the first school assemblies that year, the young freshman Sam showed off his guitar playing, folksinger chops with a cover of Paul Simon. Since then, he has added more instruments and songwriting to his repertoire, and even composed the score for last spring’s Stevenson play production of The Tempest. Sam brought his musical talent to the studio this summer and recorded his first album titled “Vivid Minds” during the first few weeks of June at the Metropolis Studios in Chiswick, London. The eleven original songs on the album took over 60 hours to record. “I usually completed two songs over a 12-hour day’s worth of

recording,” said Sam. This was truly a solo album as he played all the instruments (drums, bass, piano, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, and synthesizer) and supplied all the lead vocals, background voices, and harmonies. The album is available on iTunes and Amazon, and can be purchased at the Stevenson Campus Store for ten dollars. Half of the proceeds will be donated to the SPCA of Monterey County. Sam, who hopes to attend the Berklee College of Music in Boston, loved the experience. “I would like to say making this album was an emotional, musical, and exhilarating experience. It helped me grow as a studio musician and as a songwriter.” We know we will hear more from Sam. Stay tuned.

Sam’s album, “Vivid Minds,” is available on iTunes and Amazon and can be purchased at the Stevenson Campus Store for ten dollars. Half of the proceeds will be donated to the SPCA of Monterey County.

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CLAIRE MARGOLIS ’11 WINS PRESTIGIOUS EQUESTRIAN COMPETITION At the Finals, 36 of the best riders (open age group including adults) on the West Coast competed over two grueling days on several challenging medals jump courses for the Hudson and Company Medal. The top four riders qualified for the “work-off,” where they were shown a new course including many specific tests. Claire entered the work-off in third place, but emerged victorious after a flawless performance.

As Hudson and Company 2010 Medal Finals Champion, Claire won a custommade saddle from England, a horse cooling blanket, a horse saddle pad, a silver frame, a photo session certificate, flowers and a big blue ribbon. Of course Van received lots of attention and kisses from his family, and plenty of apples and carrots.

On September 17 –19, Claire Margolis had a Championship finish on her Belgian Warmblood gelding, Van, at the Sonoma Horse Park, where she won the 2010 Hudson and Company Medal Finals. This achievement represents eight years of training, and a season-long accumulation of points from wins at other equestrian events this year to earn a qualifying berth at the Medal Finals.

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SWIMMING The girls and boys swimming and diving teams both swam to MTAL Championships last spring. The girls team, led by senior Molly Anderson’s two individual first place finishes, won the Championship meet held at Carmel High. The boys finished second at the same meet but earned the conference co-championship by beating Carmel head to head during the season. The boys were led by junior Connor Stuewe, who had two individual victories and set a new school record of 1:44.93 in the 200 free at the Championship meet.

GIRLS SOFTBALL Stevenson Girls Softball continued to dominate the Mission Trail Athletic League (MTAL) last spring. The senior led team won their 5th consecutive league championship with a 5-3 win over cross-town rival Santa Catalina in the last game of the season.

CONNOR STUEWE ’11 NAMED TO USA SWIMMING 2009–10 SCHOLASTIC ALL-AMERICA TEAM Connor Stuewe was named to USA Swimming’s 2009–10 Scholastic AllAmerica team. The team is made up of high school student-athletes who have a GPA of 3.5 or higher and who have achieved the required time standard in at least one event. Each year, USA Swimming recognizes its members who excel both in the classroom and in the

pool. Stuewe placed 6th in the finals at the Central Coast Sectional (CCS) swim meet in the 100 Backstroke with a time of 53.12, setting a new school record. He placed 11th in the 500 Freestyle in consolation finals, breaking the school record in preliminaries with a time of 4:40.44.

BOYS GOLF The Stevenson Boys Golf team fought their way to a ninth CCS Golf Championship at Rancho Cañada Golf Course this past spring. Leading the Pirates was sophomore Skyler Finnell who shot a stellar 65 to finish second as an individual. By winning the title, Stevenson qualified for the NorCal championships where they finished one stroke short of making the state tournament. With their top five players returning, a golf power is in the making.

LACROSSE Tyler Allen ’10 and Dylan Osborn ’10, were both named to the United States All-American prep lacrosse team. Allen, who broke the Stevenson single-season school record for goals last season, was a first team All-American selection, while Osborn was an honorable mention pick. Allen will play lacrosse this year at Colorado College while Osborn will attend the University of Denver.

SAILING Domenic Bove ’11 and Hanna Sanford ’10 (in photo) won the Stevenson Trophy on May 8, against 12 other pairs from Monterey Bay schools. Stevenson’s victory is the first since the spring of 2005, when David Kurtmen and Emily Sayrs won the trophy. The contest was started by Stevenson in 2001, when Coach Jack McAleer put up a trophy to foster high school sailing on Monterey Bay. Regattas have been held every spring and fall. Eight Monterey Bay schools competed: Monterey, Pacific Grove, York, Pacific Collegiate, Scotts Valley, San Lorenzo Valley, Santa Cruz and Stevenson. Conditions were ideal: moderate winds under sunny skies on a race course about

a half-mile from Monterey Harbor, off Monterey’s Wharf 2. The regatta concluded the sailors’ most successful effort in recent years. Stevenson earned 12th place of the 60 schools competing in the six major regattas of the Pacific Coast Interscholastic Sailing Association.

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THE FAMILY BUSINESS When Bain Smith was a student at Stevenson from 1988–1992, he was pretty sure that he wouldn’t want to go into the family business. His dad, Biff Smith, is one of Stevenson’s most celebrated faculty members and most colorful characters even today. Bain grew up at Stevenson and when he left for Middlebury to attend college, he was ready to be independent, wanting to do something in English but not wanting to teach. At Middlebury, Bain leaned on his Stevenson football experience with Coach Jeff Young to captain the Panthers and was named two-time All ECAC Conference and earned a degree in English with a Spanish minor. He kept his football dream alive after college and moved to Barcelona, Spain to try out for the Barcelona Dragons of the World Football League. Although he didn’t make the team, Bain loved Barcelona and stayed for a year, tending bar, speaking Spanish, and living the European life. California called Bain home, and over the next 12 years he gained the valuable lessons of the business world, starting with sales for a dot.com, then moving to financial planning and managing portfolios for four years. Wanting to be

DAN POWERS ’77 HONORED Dan Powers ’77 was one of three teachers in the Monterey area honored with an “Outstanding Teacher Award” for the 2009–10 school year. He was honored at a recent Rotary Club of Monterey luncheon for his 20 years of excellence in teaching and commitment to his students and to the Stevenson community in general.

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more creative and editorial, Bain began to write and went to work for Red Brick Media, owned by ’89 Stevenson grad Elliot Easterling. Bain worked as senior copywriter for two years, then finally realized that the further he got from Stevenson, the more he liked it. Finally, fully prepared and thankful for his time away, Bain returned to Pebble Beach in 2009 to teach and coach part-time at Stevenson. This year he moved on campus with dog Lula as a fulltime resident faculty member in Day Hall, teaching English and coaching football and soccer. He is engaged to finance Moira but still feels like a high schooler sometimes when surrounded by his older mentors like Coach Young. However, Bain draws energy from teenagers on campus to feed his enthusiasm, which sounds not surprisingly like his father. “Look at my Dad,” says Bain. “He is ageless.” The family business is in good hands.

TOM SHEPPARD WINS BRETNALL AWARD At the SSATB Annual Meeting this summer, Stevenson Director of Admission Tom Sheppard was selected as the 2010 William B. Bretnall Award Winner. The Bretnall Award is named for distinguished educator and first SSAT Program Director William B. Bretnall, and is given to an educator who has contributed significantly to the field of independent school admissions.

It’s a Great Day to be a Pirate! Justin Clymo doesn’t have time to sit still very long. The ’93 grad returned to Stevenson this fall to tackle the Director of Student Activities job, one of the school’s most time-demanding positions. Teaching world history and helping coach cross-country and basketball are also on his plate along with raising a family.

He followed that with nine years of teaching and coaching at a high school near Sacramento, and then at Palma High School for two years. During that time he was involved with “Imagine College,” a group providing advocacy and scholarships for students at Seaside High to attend college.

He believes in the Stevenson model and carried it in his education career where he started as a full-time assistant basketball coach at his college alma mater UC Davis that included an NCAA Division II National Championship in 1998.

He believes his experiences allow him to bring a fresh approach, objectivity, and an outside context back to Stevenson. Our students are already feeling the energy. As Justin loves to say, “It’s a great day to be a Pirate.”

Jon’s team completed three homes as part of the Women Build program, which provides homes for mothers who earn less than 50,000 rupees ($1,000) a year. The cinder block homes are typically 200-300 square feet with a hall, 1-2 bedrooms, a kitchen, and a bathroom.

R AND A KEMMERE E Y CULTUR IT N U M M CO History faculty member Jon Kemmerer traveled to Ullalu, India, a slum of 20,000 people just outside Bangalore, this summer to join a two-week home building project as part of his professional development supported by the Wickersham Family Fund.

“While it is obviously a slum—it lacks basic sewage, garbage is everywhere, dogs and goats roam the streets, people live in squalor—Ullalu is a dynamic community-oriented place, and I struggled to refer to it as a slum.” What seemed to make this experience different from walking through an American “slum” was the sense of safety, welcoming, and generosity. The slum dwellers seemed to positively

TRETTER TAKES TWO Science Department Chair Mark Tretter attended two faculty development workshops this summer, thanks to the Alexander F. Victor Foundation Faculty Grant for Math and Science. The first was a five-day immersion into teaching practices and a curriculum overview of AP Environmental Science, at the Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut. Mark was most intrigued about how to make the study of our immediate, local environment a critical part of the class. Mark also traveled to North Texas State in Denton to the “Biennial Conference on Chemical Education” for a series of programs known as “Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning” (POGIL) activities. POGIL uses small student groups to solve a concept problem using seed information and guided questions from teachers, which Mark plans to implement this year.

regard what Jon’s team was doing for the community, not any specific individual. It is precisely this recognition of the community as paramount that Jon finds most striking about India. “As a developing nation, India has an economy poised to become one of the world’s strongest. Yet, contrary to the example of the United States’ celebration of the individual, my experience in India suggests that, as an ancient, diverse and paradoxical culture, India may achieve this economic might while still maintaining a strong belief in the community over the individual.” Only time will tell.

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Introducing a collection of alumni authors and restaurateurs. From Antarctica to Carmel-by-the-Sea, we invite you to sit back and enjoy reading more about the unique accomplishments and business ventures of alumni. The Pirate Review provides an opportunity for alumni to share their work and create a forum.

DISPATCHES FROM JUVENILE HALL Coauthored by John Aarons ’76 and his colleagues Lisa Smith and Linda Wagner. Subtitled Fixing a Failing System, the 182-page paperback book was published in 2009 by Bantam Books.

To all who teach or coach, or interact with youth in any way, the final sentence of Dispatches from Juvenile Hall is a powerful reminder: “And be aware that all of your interactions with teenagers mean something to them – that each of your words and actions matters – it all matters.” And therein lies the sense of hope that runs through this sobering account of troubled youth distilled from real-life stories and written by John Aarons ’76

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As one review asserts, “Heated discussions have arisen over the societal factors that lead to juvenile criminality and the ways that public institutions are failing to curtail it. A team of experts with decades of collective hands-on experience presents a book that cuts through the hype and paranoia to offer real solutions … cuts through the war between ‘soft on crime’ and ‘hard on crime’ to deliver an alternative that is ‘smart on crime.’ “ And as Mark Salzman, author of True Notebooks, says, “At last, a book about the juvenile justice system that leaves readers feeling both informed and encouraged. This extraordinary volume will be appreciated by anyone concerned with the problem of juvenile crime, and

who would like to see our methods of dealing with it become more effective, more efficient, and more just.” John graduated from Stevenson in 1976 and from the University of Oregon in 1984 with a BA degree in social science from the Wallace School of Community Service and Public Affairs. In 1987 he earned a master’s degree in counseling and corrections, also from the University of Oregon. He lives and works in Eugene, where he is a counselor for disturbed and delinquent youth and families. In addition to writing Dispatches from Juvenile Hall, John and two colleagues designed a program, “Developing Options to Anger,” to address anger and the associated violence. He also teaches part-time as an adjunct instructor at the University of Oregon. John and his wife of 19 years, Pamela, have a 17-year-old daughter, Anna. They spend much of their free time on their 27-foot sailboat Windhorse II.

JOURNEYS IN THE SOUTHERN OCEAN By Klaus J. Porzig ’65 Fulfilling a long-standing interest in Antarctica, Klaus Porzig ’65 took his camera to the region and in 2009 produced a 78-page book of photographs and commentary entitled Journeys in the Southern Ocean. “It was more than a trip to Antarctica,” he says, “hence my choice of the title. It was a journey in the physical landscape, a journey in the fragile wildlife ecosystem, and a journey through time and the history of man’s exploration of the region and tragic exploitation of its wildlife. The region is impressive not just for the massive icebound Antarctic continent but also the vast Southern Ocean with its many islands. I view the book not as a travelogue but a portfolio of images highlighting these journeys.”

The book is available through www.blurb.com (www.blurb.com/ bookstore/detail/897756); the site also lets you view the book in its entirety without having to purchase it. Klaus graduated from Stevenson in 1965 and earned BS and MD degrees from Stanford University. Until his recent retirement, he was an oncologist in practice in San Jose and at the Stanford University Cancer Center, where he was a clinical professor of medicine. He has been a member of Stevenson’s Board of Trustees since 1981; in 2005 he received the Alumni Association’s Day Family Award for Contributions to the School.

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<< Located at Ocean Ave. & San Carlos in the Doud Craft Studios, Carmel-by-the-Sea. Open-faced avocado on country toast with salt and local olive oil

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UNFUSSY FOOD STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART Jay Dolata ’95 With its motto “Slow down... say no to fast food!” Carmel Belle aims to serve the highest quality ingredients sourced as close to the Monterey Peninsula as possible without sacrificing quality.

serves as a side salad with a light lemon vinaigrette, and a crisp Albariño from Bonnie Doon Vineyard serves as the perfect complement, a healthy pour in a cute drinking glass.

Eating at Carmel Belle is like having the innkeeper at a quaint country French bed and breakfast prepare you a wholesome picnic lunch.

Carmel Belle celebrates the perfect tomato, oven roasted with a drizzle of California olive oil; the beautiful and simplistic combination of peach, pecan and goat cheese; the sublime wedge of artisanal cheese next to country-style paté and grainy mustard; a meatloaf sandwich with homemade ketchup. It’s homey, unpretentious and a breath of fresh air in the increasingly complicated world of dining.

A chicken salad sandwich, for instance, is an unassuming combination of tender rotisserie breast meat pulled from the bone, chilled and arranged on an exceedingly fresh French baguette. Crescents of red apple bristle along the edges, anchoring small, thin-sliced slabs of brie and the slightest smear of housemade aioli. No fancy sauces or seasonings are necessary, or missed. A generous handful of peppery arugula

Story edited from the Monterey County Herald, July 2, 2009. Original story by Mike Hale and Melissa Snyder .

Jay’s mother planted the seeds of Jay Dolata’s food career, always stressing the

“You couldn’t ask for simpler fare, yet each component is absolutely top shelf — hand selected from small farms, where painstaking efforts have been made to create something worth remembering, and eating.” – Melissa Snyder, Monterey County Herald Restaurant Reviews, July 2, 2009

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Jay Dolata ’95 and his wife, Chloe

importance of cooking simply and using only the freshest ingredients — little did she know she created a food snob. At Stevenson School, Jay regularly left campus with his best friend, Christo Reynen ’95, and ate their way around the Monterey Peninsula, developing a taste for fine food. While attending St. Mary’s College, Jay met his wife, Chloe. After living in Berkeley and Detroit, they moved back to Carmel. They enjoy spending time with their daughter Brogan and dog Elroy.

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A MINOR MIRACLE IN SAN FRANCISCO Kevin McNeely ’71 This restaurant may be one of San Francisco’s minor miracles. Down an alley in the borderland between Union Square and the Tenderloin sits a beautiful white building that could almost be referred to as sprawling. Even if you experienced the era of Trader Vic’s (formerly housed here) this beautiful restaurant will be new to you. The décor, from the long outdoor patio that leads to the cavernous dining room to the upstairs bar and veranda, evokes the exotic civility of the French colonial era, including Southeast Asian rattan furniture, large ferns, shuttered windows and languid ceiling fans. The bilingual menu speaks with a strong Asian accent with lots of ginger, lemon grass, cilantro and mint. Entrées include a roast chicken with lemon grass glaze, and an unforgettable wok-seared filet mignon. Brined and grilled pork chops, wonderfully aromatic thanks to grilled coconut, are served on a bed of broken rice and fried egg. Upstairs, the bar scene is as hot as the spicy peanut sauce accompanying the chicken skewers on the abbreviated lounge menu, and it

touts a creative and exotic cocktail menu. Desserts include flourless chocolate cake that is as rich and dense as Vietnamese coffee. Review from www.Gayot.com

Kevin McNeely knew the restaurant business was not for the faint of heart, but when a friend of 25 years was looking for a “local” partner in San Francisco, he jumped in. McNeely’s new business partner Jean DeNoyer started the first Le Colonial restaurant on 57th Street in NYC and together they established Le Colonial in San Francisco in 1998 on 20 Cosmo Place near Union Square. “I was betting on his experience,” says Kevin. “He has owned restaurants all over the world and has been highly successful. Le Colonial is no exception to this.” The partnership in Le Colonial gives the McNeelys good reason to spend time in San Francisco and reconnect with their Stevenson friends.

“The décor evokes the exotic civility of French colonial Southeast Asia; entrées are a celebration of interesting flavors. ” – www.gayot.com

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S I N O T L A D G E R G , E N O TE G A N M I I L M C R A H T W I L W A B O L G E H T G N I . S S U N C O I O T F U L RE O S E L B A K R O W N O E ple T A B E By James Tem D 2010 ALUMNI MAGAZINE

IN THE SPRING OF 2007, Greg Dalton ’82 arrived in an inflatable Zodiac on the shores of a small village on the Chukchi Peninsula, a boot of a landmass that kicks into the Bering Strait on the far edge of the Russian Far East. The only things distinguishing the community from the barren landscape were a collection of small, modular homes and racks of seal meat drying in the sun. Dalton, 46, was then Chief Operating Officer of San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club, the nation’s oldest public affairs forum. He was on the nearly two-week tour of the Russian Arctic with members of his organization, as well as dozens of academics, journalists, and other interested citizens, to take a firsthand look at some of the first repercussions of a warming planet. Standing in the village, Dalton and a few fellow passengers struck up a conversation with an indigenous man and his daughter about their changing lives on the edge of the Arctic Circle.

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Spring 2007 trip to the Chukchi Peninsula, aboard the Kapitan Khlebnikov Icebreaker (top) and Dalton at Whale Bone Alley (below).

The pretty young girl had long dark hair twisted into pigtails, the bangs pinned back by a pair of stylish shades on the top of her head.

warming is happening or whose fault it is, but what do we do now? How do we practically confront the biggest problem facing humanity?

“Wow,” she suddenly squealed, interrupting the conversation as she ran off in pursuit of an unfamiliar insect. It was a butterfly.

Climate One isn’t advocating marches on Chevron’s Corporate headquarters or return to a preindustrial lifestyle. Nor does it say businesses will sort the problem out in the free market if only they’re freed from the shackles of regulation.

To Dalton, it seemed like an innocent childhood moment, until her father said: “We didn’t used to have those.” Butterflies migrate to avoid the cold. The biologists on the trip read their presence as a startling sign of just how much global warming is already transforming complex ecosystems. Not in theory, in reality. Not in the future, today. “That was the moment it became tangible,” Dalton said. “Watching a girl see a butterfly for the first time. It’s a moment of wonder, but it was also a moment of extreme change and alarm.” It was one of many such experiences for Dalton during the trip. By the end, the stark evidence of receding ice cover, transformed flora and fauna patterns, and the uprooting of ancient ways of life, demanded a change in his own.

REASONABLE DIALOG Dalton had spent the majority of his career as a journalist who operated by the industry’s rules of objectivity. But with global warming, he believed balanced storytelling was giving undue weight to a side of the argument whose claims had long since been discredited by the scientific community.

Instead, it says: “Here are the facts and this is the political reality. Let’s talk.” And, surprisingly to some, people actually have. That includes Sierra Club Chairman Carl Pope and Chevron Chief Executive David O’Reilly, giants in environmentalism and energy who met for the first time for a Climate One program in 2009. O’Reilly shocked some in the audience by agreeing with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change findings that the evidence of global warming is unequivocal and very likely rooted in human activity. Perhaps more surprising still, he agreed to work with Pope to lobby against protections for the coal industry in climate change legislation under consideration at the time. O’Reilly marked the pledge with an onstage handshake.

Indeed, while his epiphany about the importance of global warming occurred amid butterflies and polar bears in the Arctic, his environmental work stretches back decades to a day on Carmel Beach. He has an early memory of walking through the sand with his mother in a march led by famed nature photographer Ansel Adams. Dalton would later learn it was in support of Proposition 20, which established the California Coastal Commission, a body that regulates the use of land and water along the state’s coastline. His demanding classes and erudite teachers at Stevenson provided an intellectual foundation, and planted a deep curiosity, that would also propel his life in this direction.

AN INTELLECTUAL FOUNDATION The arc of Dalton’s career doesn’t surprise longtime friends, who think his life has been leading toward a role like this for decades. 2.

Shortly after returning from the Arctic, Dalton formed Climate One, an offshoot of the Commonwealth Club that seeks to promote a reasonable and healthy public dialog about climate change. The starting point of the conversation at Climate One isn’t whether global

“It’s just a culmination of everything, all of the experiences he’s had and everything he’s felt,” said Dave Laurance ’82, a classmate of Dalton at Stevenson School who is now an elementary school principal. “It’s very hard for him to go through an experience without really internalizing it.”

1. Greg Dalton, Founder, Climate One, with Dave O’Reilly, Chairman and CEO, Chevron and Carl Pope, Executive Director, Sierra Club. 2. O’Reilly, Dalton and Pope. 1.

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1. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger talks backstage with Greg Dalton 2. September 27th at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Dalton talks with State Senator Fran Pavley, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, and former Speaker of the California Assembly Fabian Nunez. The legislators discussed renewable energy, green jobs and a (since-failed) proposition to roll back California’s landmark law limiting greenhouse gases. 3. Q & A session with Hillary Clinton at a sold-out Commonwealth Club crowd of 1,500 at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis, in October 2010. Clinton commented on global flashpoints – Afghanistan, Iran, and Mexico – while also addressing climate change and clean energy.

One of the most formative experiences at the school was working as the station manager for KSPB FM during his senior year, which whetted his appetite for journalism. After graduating from Occidental College, he co-authored a book on arms control and then set off on an international reporting career. In late 1999, he landed at the Industry Standard, a San Francisco magazine well regarded for its coverage of the emerging dot.com industry, where he rose to the rank of international editor. But as the industry imploded, so did the publication. “We had been venture capital funded, overexpanded, and became a smoldering crater in the ground just like a lot of the companies we covered,” he said. At that point, he parlayed a volunteer position with the Commonwealth Club into his role as COO, which he held for six years. In that capacity he moderated a discussion with Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker writer and author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe. The conversation, and her seminal book on global warming, inspired him to help organize the trip to the Russian Arctic.

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“That level of sophistication was special at Stevenson,” he said.

“DUCK OUT OF WATER” In addition to founding the group, Dalton regularly moderates the discussions, acting as host of Climate One’s monthly television show and weekly radio broadcast. He also works behind the scenes to organize the programs, find new distribution outlets for the shows, and coax executives, politicians, and environmentalists to join the conversation. “His work with the Commonwealth Club was enormously useful in doing what was basically a start-up,” said Forrest Sawyer, the former co-anchor of Nightline, who serves as an advisor to Climate One. “He had a lot of contacts and he’s got a great EQ (emotional intelligence). All those assets were brought to bear on this mission.”

Which isn’t to say that he was a natural in all his new duties. Sawyer noted that interviewing subjects as a print reporter is quite a different task from moderating discussions in front of audiences. But Dalton sought advice from him, analyzed the approach of Charlie Rose, and studied the work of the guy he calls “the master,” Edward R. Murrow. “He was a bit of a duck out of water,” Sawyer says of Dalton, “but now he’s swimming around just fine.”

“COOL THE TEMPERATURE” In fact, Climate One has racked up a number of additional successes under his watch. The United Nations used the forum to release a report exploring the impact of climate change on the world’s poorest

These aren’t small challenges, and Dalton doesn’t kid himself that Climate One can single-handedly shake sense into the world on this topic. The victories are small in relation to the problem, but he hopes that every one nudges the popular consciousness a little closer to where it needs to be.

people. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus took the stage to discuss how the U.S. military can stimulate, and benefit from, advances in clean energy. Google CEO Eric Schmidt used a Climate One appearance to unveil the Google 2030 Energy Plan, a road map for the nation to swap fossil fuels for geothermal, solar, and other renewable energy sources over the next two decades. Last December, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the IPCC, participated in a Climate One TV program at the UN climate summit in Copenhagen. They agreed on the importance of cities and states taking the lead on clean-energy policies, setting the example as nations bicker over meaningful international rules. “What Greg has been able to do is broaden the debate and to a large degree cool the temperature on the debate,” said Will Travis, executive director of

4. Hillary Clinton talks backstage with Dalton and his wife Lucia Choi. 5. Pebble Beach Campus students Chris Culcasi ’11, Alec Aivazis ’11, Jeff Grossman ’11, and KSPB Director Matt Arruda at the September 27th Climate One event.

the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC), who keeps in close touch with Dalton on global warming issues. “It’s not that he doesn’t have environmentalists there; it’s that he also has the secretary of the Navy talking about the implications on national security,” Travis added. “He’s presenting information in a creditable, calm, and thoughtful way.” BCDC, which regulates development along the San Francisco Bay, closely monitors global warming trends because of the potentially devastating impact on the region from rising sea levels. Consider this chilling prediction: Unless protective measures are taken, downtown San Francisco, most of Silicon Valley, and the Oakland and San Francisco airports could be submerged by the end of the century.

“We’re not saying, ‘back this law, block this one, save these trees,’ so it’s hard to point to specific outcomes,” Dalton said. “But we are connecting the leaders who are driving the conversation and moving the conversation forward about how this is doable and necessary.” “If we can get Chevron and the Sierra Club to at least talk about their areas of disagreement and agreement, that’s a start,” he said. James Temple is a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle. Reach him at jtemple@sfchronicle.com.

Greg Dalton ’82 is Vice President of Special Projects at the Commonwealth Club and founder of Climate One, a division of the San Francisco public forum focused on clean-energy policy. He lives in San Francisco with his wife Lucia Choi and their son and daughter, Kai and Claire.

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Master of her own Destiny BY DAN FROST

Obstacles don’t mean much when Cynthia Chapman sets her mind to doing something. There’s very little the Houston attorney and Stevenson alumna seeks that she does not achieve, whether personally or professionally. The hurdles she’s leapt have come in all shapes and sizes. She quickly learned how fragile life is when the sudden death of her father, who was only 38, thrust her into responsibilities at the age of 8. And as a professional — when she represented a group of poor Mexican families who lost their children in a horrible bus fire but were thwarted at every turn by big law firms manipulating the Mexican legal system — Chapman found a way to bring the case to trial in the U.S., ultimately attaining a $30 million settlement. 30

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The National Law Journal declared Chapman one of the top 40 lawyers under age 40 in 2002, and has also named her one of the top 50 women attorneys in the country. She has taken on Ford Motor Co. in the Firestone case in several Latin American countries, and she challenged the U.S. government for its role in the Branch Davidian debacle in Waco. Perhaps one of the first examples of Chapman’s stop-at-nothing

determination came with her acceptance into Stevenson School. Chapman was living in a Kansas City suburb, when a family in Carmel hired her mother Carol to paint a portrait. They went west for a week and while Carol painted, Cynthia went to school with one of the family’s children. Unbeknownst to her mother, she filled out an application to Stevenson School and was accepted almost on the spot. Thanks to her mother’s art career taking off and a scholarship to attend Stevenson, the move from the Midwest to Carmel took only a little coercing. Mother and daughter left Kansas City and never looked back.

Making partners of art, love and law Chapman, now 45, and Mike Caddell, her husband and business partner, crossed paths for years before they actually met. Chapman’s mother Carol had befriended Caddell when he bought one of her paintings sometime around 1986 in Carmel.

For the next eight or nine years, Carol often told Cynthia that she wanted her to meet her interesting friend – especially as Cynthia went to law school, and entered the legal profession – but Cynthia rolled her eyes. “I’d say, ‘Mom, I know what I want to do. I don’t need to talk to Mike Caddell,’” Cynthia says. They didn’t even meet when fate put them on the same case together, Caddell as a lead plaintiff’s attorney in a $1 billion class action suit involving Shell Oil and polybutylene pipe, and Chapman as a young associate helping one of the defendants. But a year later, they happened to be in Carmel at the same time, and Carol brought them together on (Cynthia remembers the date) September 22, 1995. “Within 20 minutes,” Cynthia says, “I had fallen madly in love with Mike Caddell, and vice versa, and we were married a year later.”

Tieing the Knot in Big Sur. The night before their wedding, guests were evacuated from their hotels in the middle of the night due to fires in the Los Padres National Forest. Even though it was scary, the wedding went on thanks to a friend who was a volunteer firefighter, who was able to get permission for everyone to go back for the wedding, which turned into quite an adventure for all the guests. 1. Mike and Cynthia on their wedding day, October 19,1996, in Big Sur. 2. Alexandra Anka ’84 and Cynthia the day after the wedding. The helicopter in the background was due to the fires in Big Sur.

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Trying monumental cases with integrity Some of her earliest cases for the new partnership, Caddell & Chapman, were among the most dramatic. Rodriguez v. Salant involved a dozen Mexican families whose children died while working at a U.S.-owned maquiladora, or factory. Many other lawyers refused to accept the case, but Chapman took it. Her outrage remains clear even today.

company should be held accountable in the country where it made the decisions that led to the accident. At the end of the trial – before the jury could agree to a verdict – the company settled for $30 million. Chapman stays in touch with the families, who taught her a lot about life. “These people are not distracted at all by

precipitated rollovers, the U.S. was not the only country where people were hurt. Chapman and Caddell took the case in Mexico, Venezuela and Colombia, and despite numerous complications, political meddling and security concerns, they managed to secure a good outcome for more than 200 clients. “Back then, Mike and I weren’t as selective as we are today,” Chapman says. “We have a long list of cases come to us now.”

“U.S. corporations set up these maquiladoras on the other side of the border to take advantage of tax benefits and other benefits,” she says. “They don’t have to pay their laborers very much, and there are no U.S. child labor laws.” Working conditions are poor.

Of course, not only do they not take them all, but they don’t win them all, either. Perhaps the most notorious of all was the Branch Davidian case, which stemmed from the ill-fated federal raid on David Koresh’s compound in Waco, Texas in 1993. Chapman and Caddell represented the estates of children who were killed at the compound that day.

The children lived in an impoverished farming community, and a bus drove them each day to a factory that manufactured clothes to be sold in the United States. On the way to the factory, the exhausted driver crashed the bus into a ditch, where it caught fire, yet the bus did not have adequate emergency exits. “These kids burned alive,” Chapman says. “They suffered grueling, grueling deaths.” Salant Corp. hired top-notch lawyers – former Texas state Supreme Court justices among them – to try to keep the case in Mexico. “In Mexico,” Chapman says, “it isn’t going anywhere. Limitations on damages are very strict. Instead of recovering for one family $2 million, which I would get in the U.S., I would get $2,500 in Mexico, no joke, because it’s based on the plaintiffs’ wages, and these kids weren’t paid very much.” She and Caddell worked tirelessly, and the case went before the Texas Supreme Court three times before a trial was ordered in Texas. The logic was that the

The case was loaded with larger-than-life Texas characters, including Judge Walter Smith, who Chapman remains convinced was so biased against the Branch Davidians — long a hugely unpopular cult in Waco — that she and Caddell aggressively sought his recusal. “While Mike and I openly expressed our belief that David Koresh was an evil person, the surviving followers of Koresh with whom we met were kind, considerate and vulnerable. I didn’t meet a difficult or unlikable Davidian. Your heart went out to these people,” Chapman says. “Our case was whether what the FBI did was right or wrong. Our take is that there are a lot of good people in the FBI, but to this day, we believe the FBI shot first.”

(Top) Cynthia and Alex (pictured right) at her law school graduation in 1992. (Below) Stevenson Girls Varisty Field Hockey, 1983, Cynthia is in the center, Alex on the left.

anything materialistic,” she says. None of them left their small farming village. One woman made a leather jacket, which Chapman keeps on a chair in her office; they gave Caddell a pair of cowboy boots, which he always wears to court when he’s starting a big trial. That case made a name for the firm in cross-border litigation, even though neither Caddell nor Chapman speaks Spanish. When it became known that Firestone tires on Ford Explorers

The case had what Chapman describes as an almost incomprehensible number of twists and turns, from mysterious juror

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faculty. The spirit of the faculty doesn’t change. It has that fabric. It’s open-minded.” Teachers there put her in advanced classes, giving her the confidence that she was bright and could achieve great things. After that, she says, “I thought, I could do anything I want to do. I have a lot of potential. Then I got after it. I became interested in my academic future. To this day, I think it’s why I can be so ambitious.” Chapman was just the sort of person who made a lot of friends. “She was the captain of the field hockey team, she ran track—she’s good at everything she does,” says her closest friend from Stevenson days, Alexandra Anka ’84. “She was always the top of her class.” “She’s always been take-charge,” Anka recalls. “Even when we were young, we’d get an idea in our head, and that would be it.”

Upon graduation, Chapman went to UCLA, and Anka went to UC Berkeley, and “neither of us were terribly happy,” Anka says. One day Chapman called with a new plan: “’OK, we’re going next year to Middlebury!’ ‘We are?’ ‘Yes we are!’”

3. 1. Cynthia with her daughter, Clea, and son Chapman in Egypt earlier this year. 2. Cynthia, Mike, Clea and Chapman hiking last summer on Kangaroo Island Australia. 3. Cynthia visiting Alex in Milan in 2006.

recusals, to astounding developments surrounding infrared evidence. Ultimately, the government won, and Chapman’s frustration is evident to this day. The case was so challenging that Chapman jokes, “I told Mike, the next time you want to take on the U.S. government, it’s going to be with your next wife.”

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Discovering life’s potential at Stevenson “It really didn’t matter who you were, who your family was, whether they had money, what country club you went to — you could be anybody at Stevenson,” she says. Now that she’s a trustee for the school, she knows the secret: “It’s the

They did, but the California girls couldn’t take a Vermont winter. So Chapman transferred to sunny UC San Diego where she completed her degree in art history. Her mother thought she’d pursue a life in art, but Chapman knew early on she was headed for the law. To her, it made total sense: Art history gave her analytical skills, honed her writing, and gave her a solid liberal arts education. She graduated cum laude from the University of San Diego School of Law in 1992, and went to work at a big firm in the city. But once she met Caddell, life changed dramatically – she moved to Houston, where he had a thriving practice, and joined him as a plaintiff’s lawyer.

Photo by Pam Francis

Cynthia in her home, which is right across from her office.

Caddell is an outsized figure on the Houston legal scene. He was an early supporter of Bill Clinton’s presidential bid, and often took Cynthia to the White House for Christmas dinners. His friends include the maestro of Houston’s ballet company, and the city’s former mayor Bill White, recently a candidate for Texas governor. He also sits on the board of his family’s construction firm, which among other things builds U.S. embassies around the world.

Balancing life and law, but family comes first Chapman thought about writing a book on the Davidian case but never had the time or energy to pursue it. But now a writer has taken an interest: Her 12-yearold son Chapman. “My son wants to write a novel next year, so as I drive him to school in the morning I tell him these stories,” she says. Chapman, a seventh grader, is her oldest; she also has a daughter, Clea, 6, in first grade.

“While all of this legal work is really interesting, nothing means more to me than my family. Being a mother, being a wife,” Cynthia Chapman says. How does she do it? “You have to be really efficient with your time, and efficient in other ways as well. While I might like to live in a neighborhood with a house and lots of grass, I live in a high-rise across from my office, which lets me take my kids to school, pick my kids up, and have lunch with them during the summer. My commute is taking my child to school, and picking my child up.” She has resigned from civic boards— nearly all but Stevenson’s—and cut down on her socializing to give her more time with the family. They also travel the world, occasionally going to embassy openings that Caddell’s family firm worked on. The kids have been to Australia, Europe, Egypt, Morocco, St. Petersburg, and more, with five weeks in Brazil and Africa on tap for next year. Mom and dad are plugged into the firm, of course, but say it’s better than just staying home.

It’s all about balance. Her friend and colleague, Dallas attorney Alan Loewinsohn, says that while he is a complete control freak about both his work and his kids, he trusts Chapman with both “major pieces of complex litigation without giving it a second thought, and as for her personally, she is the godmother of my two children.” “And I happen to know a few things about her children, who are remarkable in no small measure not only due to good genes, but also as a testament to her rare ability to combine a relentless dedication to the practice of law while being able to balance her even greater dedication to her children and her marriage.” Talk about the scales of justice. Chapman knows something about balance. “I just constantly fight to stay in balance,” Chapman says. “I think about it several times a week. Am I in balance? Not every day is able to net out, but every month, I ask, did I do enough work on that brief? Did I spend enough time with my kids? I think I net out much of the time.”

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First pitch of a game at Nationals Park, home of the Washington Nationals in 2008. The signage seen here is controlled by the software Stross developed.

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ON MARK STROSS’ LIFE & CAREER. BY JANET KORNBLUM

It was in a tiny room tucked away at Stevenson School where Mark Stross ’80 accidentally discovered his gift for computers. In that academic-building room, he found a dilapidated teletype machine. It was the mid 1970s, well before the personal-computer revolution and decades before Stross, 47, was to become what he is today: Executive Vice President of Technology Development for ANC Sports, a man known as a pioneer in LED video systems and a visionary for developing software that runs the huge, interactive visual displays at sports arenas around the country. Back then, Stross was a young teen who had entered Stevenson in the eighth grade, not because he was academically brilliant, but because his parents, a film producer and actress, “were trying to find a place for me to get the academic support that I required to make me a functioning, decent citizen.” It may be hard to believe now looking at Stross from the vantage point of his successes — visionary, programmer, father, happily married man raising four children, composer of electronic music, and the type of man more than one person calls best friend — but school was a challenge. Stross had dyslexia, jumbling words and letters into incomprehensibility. A dyslexia expert in England (Stross lived in Switzerland for much of his childhood before Stevenson) had diagnosed Stross as extremely bright. But the dyslexia was coming between him and his grades. He was getting “slammed academically,” he says, making Cs and Ds his first two years and yet, trying harder than his peers. But this strange, noisy teletype machine was to change his life. He didn’t know it at the

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“I had no idea what I was doing,” he says. He was programming — without realizing it. He says he had this “desire to figure out the math and how the program actually interconnected itself. How math actually connected the dots was really intriguing to me.” Not only did he learn he was good at computers. But that machine taught him another lesson: He could learn from his weaknesses. He could even turn them into strengths.

Mark and his dad in 1972, on a movie location in England

time, but he had discovered an earlygeneration computer, crude by today’s standard, a wonder by standards then. It was hooked up to the Naval Postgraduate School in nearby Monterey via a huge modem, the kind you have to go to computer museums to see now. And it spat out simple programs as long as there was paper. (FYI to the headmaster: Stross was the one swiping paper from the boys’ room). Stross understood this machine intuitively. He got into a game about Star Trek. A Star Trek fan, he simply wanted to correct the game. The lines were wooden. He wanted to add humor. So he “started augmenting it,” he says.

“I ALWAYS WANTED TO CREATE LARGERTHAN-LIFE IMAGES. I THOUGHT I WAS

Most people travel a straight line to find an answer. But Stross found he could pluck answers from places that most others couldn’t. It was just the way his brain worked.

WHEN I WAS A KID.

Stross explains it like this: “It’s almost like the pictures come in my head all unraveled from a jumbled mess and it’s so clear.” It was a gift.

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GOING TO BE MAKING FILMS ON THE WORLD’S LARGEST SCREENS I HAD NO IDEA THAT I WOULD END UP WORLD’S LARGEST SCREENS.” 2.

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This habit of studying a problem, examining it, analyzing it, sometimes obsessively, has become one of his greatest strengths, his friends say. Because once he learns, he changes.

True, dyslexia chopped letters and sentences into a mysterious language and made him stutter as a young man. But he was realizing that it also was helping him when it came to computers and programming.

1. Mark directing public service with his Mom at Art Center. 2. Mark’s senior picture from the 1980 Spyglass (right).

Because of that, he now says his disability was also his “best achievement because it ultimately made me successful.”

Stross “has this uncanny ability to morph and evolve almost at will to what is needed for any given situation,” says his close long-term friend Jason Norris. “If he needs to change, he changes. It is an evolutionary process I think Darwin would be astounded by,” adds Norris, who also happens to work for Stross at ANC as Business Director of Systems Development. If dyslexia taught Stross about the need for change, boarding school gave him the skills he needed to do it. “When you go to boarding school and you’re deprived of your parents, you run out of excuses,” Stross says. “When things go wrong you actually have to think on your feet and be accountable. I failed a great number of times at Stevenson. And I learned how to pick myself up.” 3.

3. Stross at his 10 year Stevenson reunion. 4. Stross is featured in an industry magazine. 5. Stross in orange t-shirt, directing his mom, his dad is in the background sitting in director’s chair, 1986.

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3. Cowboys Stadium signage controlled by the software developed by Stross. 1. 1. The longest LED ribbon system in the world at the Cowboys stadium in Dallas, Texas which Stross’ VisionSOFT controls 2. Operating system at Quicken Loans Arena, home of the Cleveland Cavaliers. 2. 3.

It helped that his mother taught him that “a great man is created by himself, not by others,” he says. “That was something I always clung to from a very young age.” His parents also taught him that great success was obtainable — just by being who they were.

“ULTIMATELY ALL THE SUPERSTARS I MET IN MY LIFE WERE STILL PEOPLE. I REALIZED THAT SUCCESS WASN’T MYTHICAL; THESE WERE REAL PEOPLE WHO HADN’T GIVEN UP AND PURSUED A DREAM. THERE WAS A LOGICAL PROGRESSION.” 40

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His father, producer Raymond Stross, and mother, actress Anne Heywood, travelled among the show business elite. The young Stross would on occasion find himself in the company of Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Charlie Chaplin, and others.

the love of his life, Kathleen Deyo Stross, a physical therapist who specializes in the treatment of dizziness/vertigo and balance disorders.

“Ultimately all the superstars I met in my life were still people,” he says. “I realized that success wasn’t mythical; these were real people who hadn’t given up and pursued a dream. There was a logical progression.”

He founded Toaster Marmalade, a television production company he ran out of his garage, in 1989. His low-budget shows included Weird Television, Mysteries from the Other Dominion, and Movie Magic that he did for the then-fledgling Syfy and Discovery channels. Because he was using pro-consumer equipment instead of mastering shows on multimillion-dollar equipment, he could produce them on a shoestring budget. Unfortunately, the business manager he had trusted embezzled funds, he says.

He wanted that success. And he wanted to do it without being in the shadow of his famous parents. “I had two larger-than-life parents. They always were important. And I adored my parents. But when you are a kid [in Hollywood], you’re always ‘the kid of.’ So for me as I was growing up, I wanted to go off and do my own great thing.” That knowledge and drive to make it on his own have helped him on his path. But it hasn’t always been easy. There have been great successes as well as some failures along the way. He had an “epically bad marriage,” in his own words, but in 2004, he married

And he tried making it in Hollywood. He dreamed of creating spectacles.

He also found he didn’t have the temperament to hack it in Hollywood. “The truth is, with my nature, I was not predisposed to being a very good Hollywood pitchman… and survive the mind games that went on,” he says. He also founded Playable Television — real interactive TV that used touch screens — back in 1995. It was ahead of its time. But it ultimately led him to ANC Sports.

4. 4. LED ribbon signage system at the Verizon Center, home of the Washington Wizards and Capitals. 5. The new Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh. VisionSOFT controls all of the displays, including the LED signage in the concourse creating the opportunity to syncronize all the displays with one sponsor, animation, statistic, etc. 6. The Verizon Center scoreboard and two levels of LED ribbon signage, all controlled through VisionSOFT.

“I always wanted to create larger-thanlife images,” Stross says. “I thought I was going to be making films on the world’s largest screens when I was a kid. I had no idea that I would end up in sports on the world’s largest screens.” At ANC, he not only can go to a stadium and see the fruits of his labors, but he is able to pursue another passion — mentoring and working with others. “Most of what I do today and in my positions is to empower people to actually do their job,” he says. Stross has discovered that he’s “very good at guiding people to solutions they would not actually find on their own. I’m good at visualizing what technology should be like in the future and allowing my team to jump-start the future a little sooner. Hence, what I’ve done in sports.”

Norris says Stross has an uncanny ability to “assess an environment and rise to the occasion of what’s necessary.” That includes knowing how to help those who work for him. “He’s the best boss I’ve ever had. And that’s not just puffery. Fundamentally he cares. He’s got your back.” Plus, he adds, “He is very kind and very forthright. Very polite.” Adds Greg Kunin ’80, who first met Stross while they were students at Stevenson: “Mark is a very loyal person and he’s someone you can really relate to. I find the most interesting people in life are those people who tend to keep that inner child in them, and they tend to be very passionate about what they’re doing and what they’re involved with and the world around them. Mark has that.”

“I think I’ve just begun my journey. At 47, I finally now have the toolset to be successful. I think I took 20 years of my life to become comfortable in my own skin,” Stross says. So what’s next? Expect anything. You might find Stross doing a TED talk, moving up in the company, or teaching. “The more I help other people grow, apparently the more successful I become,” he says. He’s learned from his mistakes. He’s more balanced, more mature. He’s happy. Today he feels younger than he did 10 years ago. Who knows? He says he might be ready to take on Hollywood again.

7. Maddie Deyo, Angelica Stross, Spencer Stross, and Ryan Deyo 8. Mark and his wife Kathleen in Colorado 8.

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PROMOTING PEACE AMID THE BLOODSHED: Jalil Afridi’s Newspaper Confronts Myths and Misunderstandings in the Tribal Regions of Pakistan

he nearly decadelong Soviet assault on Afghanistan killed or maimed millions of Afghans, and sent millions more fleeing into neighboring countries for safety. Jalil Afridi’s father Rahmat Shah Afridi watched the human tragedy unfolding on the Pakistan side of the border, as desperate, poor and crippled refugees

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streamed into his homeland. He determined that the reality of the war and its repercussions needed to be chronicled for his community. A little more than four years after the initial invasion, he launched The Frontier Post (www.thefrontierpost.com), a newspaper dedicated to promoting free speech, mutual respect, and democracy in central Asia. It circulated throughout the Pathan (Pashtun) community on both sides of the Afghan border.

But the publication’s mission soon expanded beyond covering the conflict that inspired it. The Frontier Post turned its critical gaze toward controversial domestic topics, including corruption within Pakistan’s government and its relationship with the emerging Taliban rulers in Afghanistan. Against this backdrop, Jalil arrived at Stevenson in the fall of 1990, just one year after the Soviet armies rolled out of Afghanistan.

FACTS AND DIALOG American teenagers around the time were using their allowances to vote Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby” to the top of the Billboard music charts. Jalil’s thoughts were centered on somewhat weightier topics, like how religious fundamentalism was sweeping over his homeland, giving birth to organizations such as the Taliban, and how years of martial law were upending the lives of everyday Pakistanis. In 1992, Jalil and Stevenson teacher Susan Parrish met to discuss these issues and more with the late Benazir Bhutto, then Pakistan’s prime minister, during her visit to Pebble Beach. Inspired by his teachers and classmates at the school, he decided to absorb as much knowledge as he could in America so that he could return to Pakistan to help take his father’s newspaper to the next level. He wanted to use facts and dialog to combat the myths and misunderstandings that take root in a news vacuum. “It was at Stevenson where I learned to face challenges and learned to cope with them,” Jalil said. “But above all, Stevenson taught me to become innovative and to find solutions to problems instead of pondering over them.” Jalil graduated from Stevenson in 1993 and earned a degree in international relations and management from Pepperdine University in 1997. He returned to Pakistan prepared and eager to work at his father’s newspaper. But his lofty ambitions were soon tested by a hard personal lesson about the constraints on journalism under an authoritarian regime.

A STEEP PRICE Jalil’s family hails from the Khyber Agency, one of eight regions of Pakistan known to most foreigners as tribal areas. It spans 1,000 square miles on the border of Afghanistan.

“IT WAS AT STEVENSON WHERE I LEARNED TO FACE CHALLENGES AND LEARNED TO COPE WITH THEM, BUT ABOVE ALL, STEVENSON TAUGHT ME TO BECOME INNOVATIVE AND TO FIND SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS INSTEAD OF PONDERING OVER THEM.” Khyber is best known for its namesake pass, a historic trade route through which many invaders, from the Persians to the British, entered in unsuccessful attempts to seize control of parts of the country. Jalil’s father Rahmat is the son of a wealthy transporter and landlord. He started his Englishlanguage newspaper in 1984 in the Khyber town of Peshawar. Today, The Frontier Post publishes 12–16 pages daily, reaching 39,000 readers throughout Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Jalili and his father

The newspaper scored a major coup in 1986, when it uncovered a scandal about the wife of President Mohammad Zia ul-Haq. General Zia, as he was known, took power in a military coup in the late 1970s and ruled the country mostly under martial law. The national exchequer, essentially the country’s national bank, handed his wife 3 million rupees for an eye operation, according to the publication. The newspaper followed up with hard-hitting stories about government officials profiting from the drug

Jalil and the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Yousaf Raza Gillani

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“It makes me so sad seeing the people of this region disliking the U.S. government and vice versa,” he said. “Today, the U.S. government thinks that the millions of people living in the tribal areas of Pakistan are bad people or terrorists, and they don’t see that there is a Stevenson Pirate here!” In one bright spot of news, Jalil’s father Rahmat was released from prison in 2008 by the present president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, the husband of Benazir Bhutto, the former prime minister whom Jalil visited in Pebble Beach. She was assassinated in late 2007 as she sought to return to power.

Jalil with his wife Shandana and their baby Shayan

“I AM THE FIRST KID FROM THE TRIBAL AREAS OF PAKISTAN WHO HAS STUDIED IN THE UNITED STATES AND I WANT TO BE THE FIRST PERSON FROM THE TRIBAL AREAS OF PAKISTAN TO BRING ABOUT LOVE AND PEACE AMONG THE PEOPLE OF THE U.S. AND TRIBAL AREAS.”

trade, and providing support for the Taliban. But The Frontier Post soon paid a steep price for its intrepid reporting. In 1999, Rahmat was convicted without evidence on charges of 9c (carrying contraband), was sent to jail, and spent more than nine years in prison for a crime he never committed. Amnesty International would identify him as “a prisoner of conscience.” Jalil took over as managing editor, and continued his father’s mission undaunted. Just before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the newspaper accused former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of accepting money from Osama bin Laden. “During my father’s imprisonment, I used to think of my days at Stevenson and was always reminded that fighting the

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challenges in life is the real task of life, and one should keep on sailing through in life with honesty and hard work,” Jalil said.

ONLY TOO PRESCIENT As America invaded Afghanistan, The Frontier Post and Jalil himself issued stark warnings about a spiraling conflict, prophecies that would prove only too prescient. “NBC interviewed me in 2001 and I informed them that this war of the USA was going to be very long and eventually involve the tribal areas of Pakistan,” Jalil said. “And that’s exactly what happened.” He is heartbroken that yet another war that started in Afghanistan has bled into his homeland, and that there is so much suffering and hatred all around.

Her death is symptomatic of the widespread violence that continues to ravage the region, underscoring the importance of the Frontier Post’s mission to engender mutual understanding on all sides of the conflict, Jalil said. But that, of course, is no small challenge.

“My area has become a pool of blood and I am unable to do anything, except report news stories of what is happening and publish photographs of the events,” he said. “I tell my people that Americans are lovely people and I tell Americans that tribal people are lovely people. Nobody seems to trust each other and everyday people are dying.” “Amidst all of this I miss the beautiful noise of wind passing through the pine trees of Stevenson,” he continued. “I am the first kid from the tribal areas of Pakistan who has studied in the United States and I want to be the first person from the tribal areas of Pakistan to bring about love and peace among the people of the U.S. and tribal areas.” Jalil welcomes contact from Stevenson friends; his email address is afridijalil@gmail.com.

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ANNUAL REPORT 58 years since its founding, Stevenson School continues to uphold the tradition of educating young people for leadership and contribution. We are privileged to witness first-hand an extraordinary community of supporters

giving so generously of their time, talent

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T E AC H E R S & T E AC H I NG Endowed Funds for Faculty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Annually Supported Named Grants for Faculty . . . . . . 49

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ST U D E N T S & L E A R N I NG Endowed Funds for Students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Annually Supported Named Grants for Students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

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Class of 2010 & Their Colleges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Pebble Beach Campus Awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 8th-Grade Graduates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Carmel Campus Awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

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SU P P O RT I NG ST E V E N S O N School Leadership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

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Parent and Alumni Leadership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Alumni Awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Giving Leadership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

YO U R SU P P O RT Gifts to Stevenson: Sources and Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Corporations, Foundations, Trusts, & Funds . . . . . . . . . . 61 Samuel F.B. Morse Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Gifts In Memory & In Honor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Current Parent Donors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Stevenson Fund Parent Volunteers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Alumni Donors by Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Alumni Parent, Grandparent, & Friend Donors . . . . . . . 68 Stevenson Fund Faculty & Staff Volunteers . . . . . . . . . 68 Faculty & Staff Donors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

S P E C I A L P R OJ E C T S KSPB Radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Run in the Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Art & Wine Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

PRESIDENT’S LETTER

Dear Friends of Stevenson, The Annual Report of Contributors for fiscal year 2010 prominently takes its place for the first time within the pages of our new Stevenson Alumni Magazine. This shift does not diminish the importance we place on this stewardship publication. Rather, it increases the potential readership, beyond the names found on our contributor rolls, to the larger Stevenson community. It gives us all the opportunity to say “thank you” in a very public way to those who supported Stevenson during this past year. This support, chronicled in the pages that follow, helped Stevenson reach its fundraising goals for fiscal 2010. Fundraising, in tandem with revenue from full enrollment and prudent budget controls, allowed us to post a balanced budget during a difficult economic period without compromising our academic quality. In fact, we made strides during the year to improve our overall quality, notably much-needed work on Talbott Hall and the Lindley Science Building at the Pebble Beach Campus and Smart Board additions to classrooms at the Carmel Campus. Many of you stepped up with gifts to support these projects and we are indeed grateful. Of course, the list of colleges and universities where our graduates gain admission continues to be a yardstick by which Stevenson’s quality is roughly measured. I can happily report that Stevenson graduates continue to gain admission to many of the most prestigious schools across the United States and globe. I am also pleased that our college counseling staff works its hardest to help our students find their

best college match regardless of national rankings. You can see our complete list on page 52. Generous donor support helps Stevenson School achieve its mission and prepare our students for a lifetime of leadership, accomplishment, and joyful living. From family-endowed funds for faculty enrichment or student scholarships to unrestricted annual-fund gifts that helps us purchase microscopes, potting clay, and soccer balls, we can succeed only with the help of your charitable contributions. That success will also be shaped by completion of Stevenson’s facilities Master Plan which focuses on the student residential experience, increasing residential faculty, and the wellness, fitness, and athletic education of the entire Stevenson community. You will hear much more about that plan in the coming months. As we close the books on 2010, we are already preparing for an exciting 2011. Encouraged by recent, substantial gifts and pledges, the Board of Trustees has agreed to move forward on the renovation and expansion of Casco Dormitory and the planning for construction of new faculty residences on Faculty Drive. The future for Stevenson is bright and it is Stevenson people (students, faculty, and you) who are the key to fulfilling our promise and realizing our vision. Thank you for helping us on that journey. Sincerely,

Joe Wandke President, Stevenson School

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FACU LT Y E N R I C H M E N T Stevenson is grateful to the following alumni and friends for creating endowments at the school that support faculty enrichment and recognize faculty achievement. Each year, income from these funds supports faculty travel and research, formal education, and personal interests, the pursuit of which are integral to good teaching and the maintenance of an exciting curriculum and environment for learning.

The Abercrombie Family Fund Established in 2001 by Mr. James Kinney in honor of his daughter, Mary K. Abercrombie, and his grandson, John D. Abercrombie ’00, this fund supports continuing education, research, and special projects for Stevenson faculty. 2010 recipient: Erin Duffy The Don L. Dormer Coach’s Fund This award was established in 2003 by Don ’71 and Deke ’03 Dormer, Don and Kevin ’71 McNeely, Robert Ricklefs ’59 and Roger Ricklefs ’57 in memory of Don L. Dormer, a Stevenson parent, grandparent, and former trustee. The Don L. Dormer Coach’s Award is given each year to recognize a Stevenson coach who teaches the lessons of teamwork and sportsmanship and who cajoles and inspires the team to reach their greatest potential. 2010 recipient: Bill Hankison

The Rob Klevan Fund The Rob Klevan Fund for Faculty Enrichment was created in 2002 by Mrs. Sally Anderson and Tim Anderson ’95 to recognize the work of the Stevenson Fine Arts Department and former chairman and longtime music instructor Rob Klevan. 2010 recipient: Cole Thompson The Matthew ’01 and Nathan ’05 Lorenzen Endowment Fund Established in 2005 by Julie and Lee Lorenzen, this fund supports the Pebble Bech Campus faculty enrichment program at Stevenson. Contributions support the school’s efforts to offer enrichment opportunities — continuing education, research, and special projects — to faculty. 2010 recipient: Jack McAleer

The Edward E. Ford Foundation Fund This fund began in 1981 as a grant from The Edward E. Ford Foundation to establish the school’s first endowed faculty enrichment fund. 2010 recipient: 2010 General Faculty Fund

The McMahan Family Fund This fund began with a gift to the school in 1988 from The Catherine L. and Robert O. McMahan Foundation and the McMahan family to promote excellence in teaching by supporting faculty enrichment. 2010 recipient: Kevin Schroedter

The Haynes Family Fund The Haynes family has chosen to honor the memory of its aunt, Brenta Haynes Slater, by establishing an endowed fund at Stevenson. The annual income from the fund is used for faculty enrichment and professional development, particularly in support of English Department activities. 2010 recipient: Mary Pendlay

The John Farrell Powers Fund This fund was established in 2004 by David and Paula Rosen and their son, Oliver ’98, in honor of John Powers, who taught English and Latin and coached golf at Stevenson from 1969 to 2003. This award supports faculty members who wish to further their education, enriching the classroom experience for all students. 2010 recipient: Germano Diniz

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The Gari Ann Truscott Fund The Gari Ann Truscott Faculty Enrichment Fund for the Carmel Campus was founded in 2003 by a group of Stevenson families, with the lead gift from Alan and Joanna Silverman, in recognition of former Head of Lower and Middle School Gari Ann Truscott’s many contributions to the education of K-8 students. Income from the Fund supports faculty attendance at classes geared toward new credentials and advanced degrees, conferences that keep teachers on the cutting edge of educational practices, and programs that enhance foreign-language teachers’ exposure to the languages they teach. 2010 recipient: Amy Spencer The Wickersham Family Fund The Wickersham Family Fund for Faculty Enrichment was established in 2001 by Mr. Grover Wickersham ’67. Income from the fund supports faculty research, travel, and continuing education that will benefit Stevenson teachers, students, and the school community. 2010 recipients: Jon Kemmerer & Jeff Young

A N N UA L LY S U P P O R T E D N A M E D G R A N T S The Mildred Hitchcock Huff Charitable Trust Faculty Grant for the Humanities This faculty grant began in 1988 in honor of Mildred Hitchcock Huff, who established the charitable trust to provide annual contributions to an established and worthy organization. 2010 recipient: Phil Wenzel

The McNeely Award for Teaching Established in 1987 by former trustee Don McNeely, this award honors the teacher who has done the most to help students realize their potential. The recipient is chosen by the president, the head of the Pebble Beach Campus, and five students from the senior class. 2010 recipient: Zekai Akcan

The Alexander F. Victor Foundation Faculty Grant for Math and Science This award began in 1988 and is given in honor of Alexander F. Victor to a faculty member who has shown excellence in teaching mathematics or science and has made an important contribution to the school during the academic year. 2010 recipient: Mark Tretter

BRUCE DINI ’77

Faculty, History and Economics Teacher

WHY I GIVE... “When I came here in 1976, the Headmaster, Gordon Davis, offered me a scholarship of sorts. I remember Mr. Davis sitting me down in his office and telling me very specifically about the importance of giving back while I was at Stevenson. Whether it was playing three sports a year, helping out with drama, student government, or getting the best grades I could, he impressed upon me the responsibility to be an active part of the Stevenson community. He said that even if I weren’t the best at something, that my commitment to the school would be valued, and that in the long run I would wind up getting back more than I gave. He was so right. I have never forgotten that conversation, and it has made a profound and lasting impression on me throughout all aspects of my life. The opportunity to attend Stevenson was a privilege, and now working here is gift. I am honored to have joined a faculty that has 100% financial participation in the Stevenson Annual Fund. If my humble contribution can help a student attend Stevenson, then I am gladly helping fulfill a promise I made almost 35 years ago.”

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ST U D E N T S & L E A R N I NG The permanently endowed funds listed here support Stevenson students and programs year in and year out.

The Balestreri Family Scholarship Fund This fund was created in 1998 by the Ted Balestreri family for deserving students who otherwise would not have the opportunity to attend Stevenson. The Patsy and Bill Brandt Endowed Scholarship Fund Established in 2001 by Andrew Dunigan ’83, this fund is for the benefit of qualified students in need of financial assistance and to honor the Brandt family.

The Admiral Pullen Scholarship Fund This fund was established in 1990 to support students needing financial assistance in remembrance of Admiral Pullen for his years of dedicated teaching at Stevenson.

The Gage Rankin French Memorial Scholar This fund was established by family and friends in 1990 in memory of Gage French ’88 to give a deserving student the chance to experience the Stevenson community that meant so much to Gage.

The Ricklefs Scholarship Fund Created in 1982 by a group of dedicated alumni to honor the memory and commitment of Stevenson’s founding headmaster, Robert U. Ricklefs, this fund supports students needing financial aid.

The Hotchkis Scholarship Fund In 2001, former parent and longtime trustee John Hotchkis, through the Elizabeth Bixby Janeway Foundation, established the Hotchkis Scholarship Fund to make a Stevenson education possible for deserving students with financial need.

The Coach Wilson Scholarship Fund Established by Coach’s family in 1993 and supported primarily by alumni and alumni parents as a tribute to his life and many years of service to the school, this fund provides tuition support for students with financial need. This fund was made possible by matching grants from the William McCaskey Chapman and Adaline Dinsmore Chapman Foundation. Students recognized are called Chapman Scholars.

The Jackson-Akiyama Fund Providing financial aid for deserving Stevenson students, this fund was created in 1999 by longtime Stevenson trustee Michael Jackson ’68 and his wife, the Rev. Diana Akiyama. The Perocchi Family Scholarship Established in 2001, this fund is awarded annually to benefit a qualified student affiliated with the Boys & Girls Club of Monterey County. The McNeely Award for the Most Improved Student This fund honors the graduating senior who during his or her career at Stevenson has shown the most improvement academically, as a leader on campus, and as a person. It was established in 1972 by former trustee Don McNeely and graduate Kevin McNeely ’71.

The Merritt-Haynes Grant for Student Achievers Founded in 1999 by the Merritt and Haynes families, this fund honors students whose hard work allows them to take advantage of the many opportunities at Stevenson.

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The Colburn Family Scholarship Fund Established in 2006 by David Colburn ’76, this award supports a boarding student whose family proves financial need. The Hopkins Scholarship Endowment This scholarship fund was established in 2004 by Bryant Riley ’85 in memory of his friend and classmate, Charles Stanford “Chuck” Hopkins, to support Stevenson’s commitment to diversity and to perpetuate at the school the life of giving that Chuck clearly established for himself before his untimely death in 1986. The Glen and Lavina Stinson Scholarship Fund This fund was created in 2000 by the Stinsons to give deserving students the opportunity of a Stevenson education.

The David M. Hulme Scholarship Endowment This Scholarship Fund was created in 2009 by Samuel T. Reeves in honor of his grandson David Hulme ’09, who attended Stevenson. The Nathan Krissoff Endowment This fund was created in 2007 by family and friends to perpetuate Nathan’s name and memory at Stevenson. A member of the Class of 1999, Nathan was killed in action in Iraq on December 9, 2006 in service to his country. The Class Memorial Fund This Fund was created in 2009 by Allen Burnham ’66 in honor of Peter Gallo ’64, who was killed in Vietnam; and by Todd Vacarro ’93 in memory of four classmates: Kawika Chetron, Jennifer Guy, Hydeus Kiatta, and Amy Yoshioka. Income from the Fund is used to support student financial aid. Gifts given in a person’s memory and designated by the donor for The Memorial Fund will be added to the Fund’s principal and to the Memorial Fund Log. The Señora Maria Vargas Scholarship Fund Alumni, trustees, and faculty colleagues created this scholarship fund in 2007 as an expression of their respect and affection for Maria, and to honor her contributions and devotion to the lives of her students and the life of the school during 45 years of teaching Spanish at Stevenson. Her legacy of high expecations, hard work, and good manners will live on in perpetuity at Stevenson through students receiving scholarships in her name. The Alumni Council Fund This fund was created in 2006 by Alumni Association leaders Jim Flagg ’74, Steve Zahm ’82, and Cynthia Chapman ’83; and is supported by members of the Alumni Council. Income from the Fund goes to student financial aid. The Sybil Fearnley Memorial Book Fund Created in 2007 by the Class of 1957 in honor of the School’s first English teacher. Income is used to purchase resources for Ricklefs Library in her name.

The Hamish Tyler Fund for the Performing Arts Created in 2001 to support the school’s dramatic arts programs, this fund provides the opportunity for scholarships, enhanced production values, and artists-in-residence. Gratitude goes to the Safwat Malek and Lee Caplin families for providing the lead gifts to establish this fund.

The Adelaide and Mark Hornberger ’68 Fund for the Arts This fund was created in 2005. It supports deserving programs and/or individuals to promote the fine arts at Stevenson.

The Larson Endowment Nancy and Bill Larson and their children, Troy ’04 and Travis ’11, created this fund in 2005 to support Stevenson’s interscholastic sailing program.

A N N UA L LY S U P P O R T E D N A M E D G R A N T S Monterey Peninsula Foundation Youth Fund Since 1980, the fund, formerly the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am Youth Fund, has supported financially aided day students from Monterey County attending Stevenson. The funds are used for the Laptop Subsidy Program that provides computers required for academic work at Stevenson.

The Maggie and Richard Tsai Grant for Scholarship This scholarship was established by Maggie and Richard Tsai in 2005 to provide the equivalent of three full tuitions for resident students each year for ten years, enhancing the school’s efforts to strengthen and diversify the Stevenson student population.

Pebble Beach Company Foundation Providing financial aid for deserving students has been the focus of yearly grants from the Pebble Beach Company Foundation to Stevenson School since 1983. The students selected over the years have been consistently the scholars, athletes, and school leaders who make significant contributions to the school and their fellow students.

The Dr. William B. Rolland Scholarship Award This award was established in 2006 by Ms. Jennifer Miller ’06 and her parents Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Miller. This award supports boarding students whose families demonstrate financial need.

The Dunspaugh-Dalton Foundation Scholarship The scholarship is an annual award to support middle school students attending the Carmel Campus who, without financial help, would be unable to attend the school. William McCaskey Chapman and Adaline Dinsmore Chapman Foundation Since 2001, this foundation has contributed to a program that provides support for day students from the Monterey Peninsula. Students chosen are those of exemplary personal characteristics with the ability and ambition to do well academically and contribute significantly to their class and school.

RICHARD & MARGAUX FUCHS

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WHY WE GIVE... “The single most important reason we support Stevenson is for their continued commitment of enriching our children through the growing and evolving programs in academics, athletics and the arts.”

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SU P P O RT I NG T H E F U T U R E CLASS OF 2010 GRADUATES & THEIR COLLEGES Aasim Ali Boston University

Po-Hao Chen University of California at Davis

Jeffrey Michael Holden University of Denver

Hak Ma Boston College

Tyler Thomas Allen Colorado College

Michael Cheng University of Southern California

Julia Ferry Holden The Ohio State University

Melissa Jane Somerton MacEwen Tufts University

Yvonne Priye Amabeoku University of California at Irvine

Nicolas P. Cho Lehigh University

Alyssa Lora Holloway Westmont College

Maxwell Tyler MacKinnon Southern Methodist University

Alisa Elaine Anderson University of Denver

Benjamin Justin Chodosh Boston University

Chen-yi Hsu University of Rochester

Douglas Scott Margison II Clemson University

Molly Ann Anderson Texas Christian University

In Na Chung University of Pennsylvania

Doreen Hsu University of California at San Diego

Victoria Renee McElroy University of California at Santa Cruz

Mary Kathryn Azzopardi Boston University

Lauren Lynch Clayton Boston University

Ashley Verena Hunter Monterey Peninsula College

Chloe Michele McNally New York University

Peter Cameron Bailey English Speaking Union

Chrishane Natasha Cunningham Boston University

Jihye Hwang New York University

Hillary Leah Merry University of Wisconsin, Madison

Henry Lucien Barrett Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art

Amanda Alegria de la Vega Tovar Azusa Pacific University

Kathryn Ray Kavner Boston College

Natasha K. Mikhail University of Colorado at Boulder

Nicholas John DeFilippi Furman University

Yang Hee Kim Colgate University

Kyle Warren Miller University of California at Davis

Joseph Daniel Edwards DiGiovanni Hampshire College

Kelley Elise Knowlton Regis University

Daniil Andreevich Moiseev University of Oregon

Matthew Brian Djubasak Oregon State University

Evan Wendon Kort Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Hala Claire Murphy Loyola Marymount University

James George Donnelly University of Colorado at Boulder

Akari Kubo Georgetown University

Duc Anh Nguyen Santa Monica College

Caroline Joslyn Felix University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Wei Geng Kwek (Singapore Army obligation)

Matthew Edward Olivier Chapman University

Jeffrey Stephen LaRocque University of Oregon

Dylan Thomas Osborn University of Denver

Nicholas Yu Hin Lau University of Connecticut

Shimin Ou New York University

Merna Herbert Leano San Francisco State University

Brooke Howland Palmieri University of California at Los Angeles

Deborah Jia Wen Lee The London School of Economics

Catherine Eva-Marie Palmieri University of Southern California

Lindiwe Cara Banda Lewis Cambridge School of Visual & Performing Arts

Hsuan-An Pan Otis College of Art and Design

Madison Westlake Basham University of Puget Sound Alexander Adrian Bennett University of California at Santa Barbara Brian Nathaniel Bhaskar Gonzaga University Jessica Lee Bittman University of Colorado at Boulder Cheyenne Audra Bluhm California State University, Chico Brooke Elizabeth Bowhay Pepperdine University Ryan William Bown Gonzaga University Ian Reid Bradley Occidental College

Quinn Lawrence Flagg San Francisco State University Yonn Zher Foo (Singapore Army obligation) Neele Katharina Fortkort (Returned to Germany)

Elise Alohilani Breschini University of San Francisco

Trevor Gay New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

Lauren Elizabeth Brown Santa Clara University

Jamie Marissa Gerber University of Oregon

Spencer Meyer Budden Baylor University

Timothy William Healy University of San Francisco

Katherine Calley Evergreen State College

Hilary Hickingbotham University of Vermont

Patricia Margaret Cava University of Puget Sound

Corinn Leeanne Hillstrom University of Puget Sound

Ai Ling Chen University of California at Los Angeles

Kei Zhun Ho University of California at Irvine

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Mackensie Sayre Lintz University of British Columbia Andrew Lu University of Chicago Rachel Erin Luba University of California at Los Angeles Kenneth Lui University of California at Irvine

Joonyoung Park University of Pennsylvania Maruhan Park Harvey Mudd College Jennifer Pennell University of San Diego Clare Bryce Peyton American University Shelly Anne Place New York University

Dana Jenine Prelsnik University of San Diego

Peter Camden Shelling University of California at Santa Cruz

Abigail Tills The University of the Arts

Alexander Patrick Welton Dartmouth College

Kristen Elizabeth Procter American University

Jennifer Marie Sillcox University of San Francisco

Cameron Toler Gonzaga University

Sam Nevada Wilcoxon Brown University

Logan B. Randolph Middlebury College

Jake E. Skeen Gonzaga University

Maren Elizabeth Toor Fordham University

Helen L. Williams University of Edinburgh

Pierce Henderson Raymond Bentley University

Clayton Hoon Sohn United States Military Academy

Wallace Franklin Trask New York University

Tyler Leland Woods Stanford University

Ryan Douglas Riparetti Purdue University

Wendy Campbell Sokolow Santa Clara University

Skylar Vagnini San Diego State University

Matthew Charles Woolf Loyola University Chicago

Prin Samritpricha Southern California Institute of Architecture

Christine Patricia Stepanek University of California at Los Angeles

Megan Caroline Volpano Boston University

John Preston Wright Arizona State University

Michelle Hana Stepanek University of California at Los Angeles

Zuzana Vuova University of Rochester

Po Kuan Wu University of California at Riverside

Britney Alysse Satow University of California at Davis

Jack W. Straton Polytechnic Institute of New York University

Catherine Wang Columbia University

Peter Feng Xu University of Washington

Kristen Larrat Schifferli Wake Forest University

Ji Young Suh Northwestern University

Eric Erjie Wang California Institute of Technology

Chih-Chieh Yu University of Pennsylvania

Elizabeth Frances Schrier Northwestern University

Kameryn Akemi Tanita University of Denver

Kellen Ann Shade University of California at Davis

Hannah Lee Taube University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Hanna E. Sanford University of St. Andrews, Scotland

Jospehine Wang New York University Alanna Lee Weisberg Harvey Mudd College

PEBBLE BEACH CAMPUS AWARDS JOHN LYON REID AWARD FOR SCHOLARSHIP This award was established by John Lyon Reid, a founder and architect for Stevenson, as a “Hope for the Future” award. It is given to the senior who ranks highest in scholarship. 2010 recipients: Christine Stepanek & Michelle Stepanek THE PRESIDENT’S AWARD The President’s Award is given to deserving seniors at year’s end. The award honors those whose careers at Stevenson and whose individual natures have brought the greatest good to the school community. The recipients are voted upon and selected by the faculty. 2010 recipients: Brian Bhaskar, Patricia Cava, Benjamin Chodosh, Chrishane Cunningham, Jihye Hwang, Logan Randolph, Clayton Sohn, Kameryn Tanita, Catherine Wang, Sam Wilcoxon, Tyler Woods THE SUZANNE RUMBAUGH ART AWARD Begun in 2005 to recognize retiring art teacher Suzanne Rumbaugh, the Suzanne Rumbaugh Art Award honors her dedication to the fine arts program at Stevenson and is presented annually to recognize a Stevenson artist. A selected piece of art from the student’s portfolio will be permanently displayed at the school and the student will receive an

honorarium contributed by the Student Council. 2010 recipient: Matthew Woolf OUTSTANDING ATHLETE AWARD This award is given to the boy and girl athletes who represent the best in athletics at Stevenson. The coaches recognize those students who have demonstrated outstanding athletic ability and exceptional performance and skill. They are the most exemplary athletes in the Stevenson community. 2010 recipients: Brian Bhaskar, Dana Prelsnik & Megan Volpano ROBERT F. FORD SPORTSMANSHIP AWARD The Robert F. Ford Sportsmanship Award is the most prestigious athletic honor and is presented to the boy and girl athletes who have demonstrated outstanding sportsmanship. These students best represent qualities of citizenship, enthusiasm, and fair play, displaying dedication to their teams and sport. 2010 recipients: Sam Wilcoxon & Alisa Anderson GAGE RANKIN FRENCH ATHLETIC ACHIEVEMENT AWARD This award is given to the “unsung hero” of Stevenson sports, the student who demonstrates dedication to sports, to fellow

teammates, and to the spirit of good sportsmanship. 2010 recipient: Maren Toor ROBERT U. RICKLEFS SCHOLAR AWARD This award was created by alumni to honor the memory and the ideals of the school’s founder. Each year a committee of alumni selects the Ricklefs Scholar for the coming year from among students nominated by the junior class and faculty on the basis of scholarship, extracurricular involvement, and leadership. 2010 recipient: Tobin Paxton ROBERTSON SCHOLAR The Robertson Scholar award is given to a senior who exemplifies a blend of scholarship, involvement in the school community, and leadership. It was created in recognition of Merle Green Robertson, who taught MesoAmerican archaeology at Stevenson and is a renowned researcher in her field, and her late husband, Lawrence “Robbie” Robertson, Stevenson’s longtime dean of students. 2010 recipient: Tobin Paxton

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PEBBLE BEACH CAMPUS AWARDS JOHN LYON REID SCHOLAR The John Lyon Reid Scholar award is given to a member of the rising junior class who successfully blends scholastic achievement, involvement in the life of the school, and leadership. It was created by Stevenson alumni in honor of the memory of John Lyon Reid, one of the school’s earliest benefactors and architect of most of the buildings in the Pebble Beach Campus’ academic quadrangle. 2010 recipient: Chrystal Jurado BANK OF AMERICA AWARDS Fine Arts: Akari Kubo Liberal Arts: Alexander Welton Science & Mathematics: Sam Wilcoxon Art: Prin Samritpricha Computer Studies: Maruhan Park Dance: Helen Williams Economics: Kathryn Kavner, Deborah Lee, Shimin Ou English: Henry Barrett, Melissa MacEwen Foreign Languages: Christine Stepanek, Michelle Stepanek History: Peter Bailey, Andrew Lu Mathematics: In Na Chung, Joonyoung Park, Ji Young Suh Music: Jihye Hwang, Eric Wang Science: Nicolas Cho, Chih-Chieh Yu Theater: Brooke Bowhay

STEVENSON COMMUNITY HONORS Angie Hannas Memorial Award: Chrishane Cunningham Arnold Bowhay Award for Laboratory Science: Melissa MacEwen Chuck Hopkins Awards for Activities: Maryclaret Ndubuisi-Obi History: Akari Kubo Languages: Claire Margolis (French), Ji Young Suh (Japanese), Maryclaret Ndubuisi-Obi (Latin), Zuzana Vuova (Spanish) Mathematics: Sam Wilcoxon Outdoor Education: Hilary Hickingbotham Performing Arts: Brooke Bowhay (Dance), Jihye Hwang (Music), Peter Bailey (Technical Theater/Radio), Cheyenne Bluhm (Theater) Philip P. Perkins Residence Award: Kameryn Tanita Publications: Ji Young Suh Science: Chih-Chieh Yu The Sybil Fearnley Award in English: Alexander Welton Visual Arts: Henry Barrett

Louis Armstrong Award: Jack Straton, Wallace Trask Nathan Krissoff ’99 Award: Catherine Wang National School Choral Award: Benjamin Chodosh National School Orchestra Award: Eric Wang National Thespian Society: Jeffrey LaRocque ATHLETIC AWARDS Baseball: Ryan Bown Basketball: Brian Bhaskar, Megan Volpano Cross-Country: Carolyn Bruckmann, James Silvestri Field Hockey: Clare Peyton Football: Jeffrey Goodman Golf: Jay Burlison, Skyler Finnell, Deborah Lee Lacrosse: Tyler Allen, Dylan Osborn, Charlotte Vetter Sailing: Domenic Bove, Evan Kort Soccer: Alisa Anderson, Peter Shelling Softball: Megan Volpano Swimming: Molly Anderson, Connor Stuewe Tennis: Logan Finnell, Kyle Miller Track: Alanna Weisberg, Tyler Woods Volleyball: Patricia Cava, Charlotte Vetter Water Polo: Sarah Gonzales, Connor Stuewe

OTHER AWARDS English-Speaking Union: Peter Bailey Good Citizen (DAR) Award: Chloé McNally John Philip Sousa Band Award: Ai Ling Chen, Britney Satow

CUM LAUDE S OCIET Y Cum Laude Society is the national academic honor society for independent schools. The Stevenson Chapter, which was founded in 1963 in the school’s 12th year, made Stevenson the youngest school ever to be granted a charter. Its membership is drawn from among the top-ranking scholars in the junior and senior classes, with a limit on the number imposed by national headquarters. Present Members Elected from the Class of 2010 Nicolas Cho Joonyoung Park Clara Posner Christine Stepanek Michelle Stepanek Eric Wang Alanna Weisberg Sam Wilcoxon

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New Members Elected from the Class of 2010 Ai Ling Chen In Na Chung Akari Kubo Deborah Lee Andrew Lu Rachel Luba Melissa MacEwen Chloe McNally

Shimin Ou Brooke Palmieri Maruhan Park Elizabeth Schrier Ji Young Suh Catherine Wang Alexander Welton Chih-Chieh Yu

New Members Elected from the Class of 2011 Domenic Bove Matthew Bruckmann Andrew Chen Andrew Clark Jeffrey Goodman Hyunu Kim Claire Margolis Tobin Paxton

8TH GRADE G R A D UAT E S CA R M E L CA M P U S AWA R D S

Kazim Apaydin Kyle Bender Gabriella Catania John Culcasi Jo Erickson Gabe Fuente Aaron Grech Ashley Grech

Brandon Huelga Ben Hyman Kat Johnson Jack Levitt Joey Luba Alanna McEachen Eli Meckler Drew Miller

PRINCIPAL’S AWARD This award honors outstanding leadership, citizenship, and scholarship. It is presented to a member of the 8th grade graduating class. 2010 recipient: John Culcasi ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON AWARD This award recognizes the student with the highest grade-point average in the 8th grade graduating class. 2010 recipient: Eli Meckler

Shoopie Panholzer James Provost Chloe Reimann Mila Rich Caitlin Stuewe Emily Termotto Brett Ziebell

FACULTY AWARD FOR PERSONAL, SOCIAL, & ACADEMIC GROWTH This award recognizes a graduating 8th grade student for improved academic standing and commendable behavior. It is awarded to a student who has attended Stevenson for a minimum of two years. 2010 recipient: Caitlin Stuewe

LAURA McCOY ’09

Alumni, currently attending University of Notre Dame

WHY I GIVE... “To this day, I am grateful to those that helped provide me and my friends the opportunity to come to Stevenson. Thus, I support Stevenson so that the school can continue to add to its compelling, diverse community and provide scholarships and aid to deserving students from around the country and world.”

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Annie Lee ’09, Molly Wa

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2010–1 1 S CHO OL LEADERSHIP SUPPORTING STEVENSON Molly Bozzo, Head of Carmel Campus

Efrem Zimbalist, III ’64 Los Angeles, California

Stephen Eimer Los Angeles, California

Doug Otto Ventura, California

Jeffrey D. Clark, Director of Advancement

Board of Trustees

Edward F. DiYanni, Chief Financial Officer

Mary Abercrombie Boise, Idaho

W. Brewster Ely, IV San Francisco, California

Dr. Klaus J. Porzig ’65, Secretary Portola Valley, California

Davis J. Factor, Jr. Carmel, California

David S. Rosen Venice, California

James Morgan Flagg ’74 San Luis Obispo, California

Richard Ming Hsing Tsai Taipei, Taiwan

Mark R. Hornberger ’68, Chairman San Francisco, California

George R. Walker Monterey, California

John F. Hotchkis, Treasurer Los Angeles, California

Steven C. Zahm ’82 Santa Barbara, California

Dr. Michael L. Jackson ’68 Los Angeles, California

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Senior Staff

Michele A. Grogan, Head of Pebble Beach Campus Erik Olson, Dean of Students

Ted J. Balestreri Monterey, California

Thomas W. Sheppard, Director of Admission

Chris Baumgart ’70 Pebble Beach, California

Joseph E. Wandke, President

David J. Benjamin, III Monterey, California

School’s Council

Cynthia B. Chapman ’83 Houston, Texas

Brian D. Call ’74 Carmel, California Trustee Ex-Officio

Jan Clark Incline Village, Nevada

Joseph E. Wandke, President Pebble Beach, California

David D. Colburn ’76 Northbrook, Illinois

Trustees Emeritus

Theodore J. Day ’66 Reno, Nevada

Robert J. Derr Alamo, California

P. Andrew Dunigan ’83 Dallas, Texas

Vincent Ma ’83 Hong Kong, China Steven A. Merksamer ’65 Sacramento, California

Albert Tao Parent Sponsors Club Mary Ann Franscioni Pirate Parent Club

Thomas F. Moran, Vice Chairman Chicago, Illinois

2010–1 1 PARENT & ALUMNI LEADERSHIP PIRATE PARENT CLUB EXECUTIVE BOARD Pebble Beach Campus

Nicole Prehn, Events Chair ECC – 5th Grade

Mary Ann Franscioni, President

Cameron Davi, Events Chair 6th – 8th Grade

Eva Meckler, President-Elect Kay Fernandez, Treasurer Kristina Olfson, Communications Secretary Lisa Hyman, Hospitality Coordinator Kristen Pilegaard, Volunteer Coordinator Caron Frisone, Run in the Forest Chair PARENT SPONSORS CLUB BOARD Carmel Campus Albert Tao, President Patty Parker, Vice President Lori Rosenblum, Treasurer Christina Rodgers, Room Parent Liaison Achel Johnson, Recording Secretary Carmel York, Corresponding Secretary

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Beth Ingram & Tracy Sanborn, Hospitality Chairs Heaven Coming & Lauren Keaton, Program Chairs Katherine Wenglikowski, Parent Mentor Program ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Cynthia B. Chapman ’83, President William J. G. Griffith IV ’89, Alumni Stevenson Fund Chair Reunion 2010 Organizers Tom Henry ’60 Mike Zelinsky ’60 Michael Clark ’65 Chris Baumgart ’70 Trent Saviers ’70 Buzz Lynn ’80

Bill Palmer ’80 Kelly Baker San Filippo ’90 Chrissy Coolidge ’00 Matt Herrmsen ’00 Jameson McFadden ’00 Esther Tang ’00 Elizabeth Benjamin ’05 Ashton Clarke ’05 Josh Little ’05 Ryann Madden ’05 Kirsten Olsen ’05 Reunion 2010 Class Representatives Thomas Henry ’60 Michael Zelinsky ’60 Michael Clark ’65 Christopher Baumgart ’70 Christopher Connally ’70 Brent Lloyd ’70 Trent Saviers ’70 Pierre LaMothe ’75 Jacques Lord ’75 Thomas Davies ’80 Buzz Lynn ’80 Bill Palmer ’80 John Weaver ’85

Laura Chernova ’90 Nina Parker ’90 Kelly Baker San Filippo ’90 Steven White ’90 Brooks Foster ’95 Neelam Jain ’95 Jennifer Kiatta ’95 Michael Colhoun ’00 Chrissy Coolidge ’00 Matthew Herrmsen ’00 Cynthia Ling ’00 Esther Tang ’00 Elizabeth Benjamin ’05 Ryann Madden ’05 Ricklefs Scholar Selection Committee Hillary Joseph Fredrickson ’92 Robert Frisone ’82 Richard Stout ’62 Farrah Kinney White ’94 Peter Wilson ’92

ALUMNI AWARDS THE SAMUEL KAHN AWARD The Samuel Kahn Award was established at Stevenson in 1964 by Mrs. Rosalind Kahn in honor of her husband, an engineer, a graduate of Purdue, and former president and owner of the Market Street Railway Company, in San Francisco. Three of their grandchildren graduated from Stevenson: Steve Gardner ’67, Tom Gardner ’69, and Peter Margolis ’72.

alumni for their service to society. Merle taught anthropology at Stevenson from 1968 to 1977, during which time she and her husband Robbie took students to the Yucatan Peninsula to explore Mayan ruins and conduct research. She was a proponent of experiential education before it became popular; it remains an important aspect of a Stevenson education today.

struggled to survive, and in the mid 1950s Willametta Keck Day and her family began an association with the School that continues to the present. At every significant moment in the School’s history Mrs. Day and her sons Robert ’61, Matthew ’63, and T.J. ’66 have been instrumental in Stevenson’s growth and development. The Alumni Association is honored to create this Award in their name.

The Kahn Award is given each year to a member of the 10th Reunion Class who exemplifies in life after Stevenson the values the School has taught from its beginning: to do one’s best, to pursue one’s passion, to serve others. In Mrs. Kahn’s words, the purpose of this Award is to “recognize and encourage the work and promise of youth.” In this sense, the Kahn Award recognizes all members of the tenth reunion class for the good things they have already done and the good things they will do in the future.

This year’s recipient, Gary Novack graduated from Stevenson in 1970, earned a BA in Biology and Physics from UC Santa Cruz in 1973 and a PhD in Pharmacology and Environmental Toxicology from UC Davis in 1977. For the next ten years he conducted and directed research and taught at UC Davis, UCLA, UC Irvine, and UC Berkeley; and worked with Allergan Pharmaceuticals in Irvine. In 1989 he became president of Pharma•Logic Development of San Raphael, California.

This year’s recipient, Tom Henry is a member of the Class of 1960 and is celebrating his 50th Reunion. After graduating from UC Berkeley he entered the world of investments and made it his career. When The Alumni Association began raising money for the School 40 years ago he became an active supporter, and continues to be one today. Also, he served on the Ricklefs Scholar Award Selection Committee for nine years, was a member of our San Francisco Leadership Advisory Group, and was an early supporter of our Business Directory.

The recipients of this year’s Award from the Class of 2000 are Esther Tang and Matt Hermsen, who have defined their purpose in the world and are working toward their goals, one to help shape a more peaceful world, the other to make his business and community better by his presence. What they have in common is a commitment to Stevenson that is strong and enduring, and a loyalty to and affection for their classmates that is inspiring. Whatever is asked of them they do, and they do it with enthusiasm. Matt earned a degree in Economics at Pitzer College and returned home to Seattle to build a real estate and property management business; Esther graduated from Cornell, earned an MBA at Oxford, and spent the past year studying law in Peking. She is a founding member of POAG (Promise of a Generation), an organization fostering intercultural interaction to facilitate and improve understanding in the world (www.poag.ae). The Alumni Association is proud of them and grateful to them for all they do to make Stevenson and their world a better place. THE MERLE GREENE ROBERTSON AWARD The Merle Greene Robertson Award was established by The Alumni Association in 2003 to honor a great teacher and recognize

He is a board certified medical writer and has authored over 280 publications and abstracts in clinical pharmacology, ophthalmology, dermatology and neurosciences. He is also a member of societies and associations focused on these subjects and also on neurology, glaucoma and sleep. Along the way Gary has had a second career in service to others, as a member of the Boy Scouts of America, the Irvine Animal Services Commission, and the Foundation Fighting Blindness. And for the past 22 years he has served on the UC Santa Cruz Alumni Council and the UC Santa Cruz Foundation (of which he is currently President), as Vice-President of the Alumni Associations of the University of California, and as a Regent of the University of California system. He is also an alumni parent; his daughter Rebecca Novack is a member of the Stevenson Class of 1999. The good name of Stevenson School is carried forward by its alumni. The Alumni Association is proud of Gary’s accomplishments and service to others. THE DAY FAMILY AWARD The Day Family Award was established in 2004 by The Alumni Association to honor the Day family and to recognize alumni for their contributions to Stevenson. For the first twenty years of its existence Stevenson

Tom is also an alumni parent. His son Richard Henry graduated from Stevenson in the Class of 1986. Great schools are built on the faith and commitment of their alumni. Tom is an example of that truth and the Alumni Association is very pleased to honor him with the 2010 Day Family Award.

STEVENSON FUND REUNION YEAR GIVING AWARDS LINDSAY JEFFERS ’65 ALUMNI FACULTY AWARD FOR REUNION PARTICIPATION The Lindsay Jeffers ’65 Alumni Faculty Award is presented to the reunion class with the highest percentage of attendees at Reunion Weekend. Lindsay Jeffers, Class of 1965, reflects the most important relationship at Stevenson; the one between the faculty and their students. As an alumnus and faculty member, Lindsay Jeffers has been a part of the Stevenson community for 45 years and has shown through his own participation that staying connected with classmates and the School enriches both community and the individual. This award celebrates our alumni who return home to reconnect with each other and with Stevenson. 2010 recpient: Class of 1970

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A LU M N I AWA R DS FRANK KEITH COMMUNITY AWARD FOR NEW DONORS The Frank Keith Community Award honors the reunion class with the highest percentage of new donors to the Stevenson Fund during its reunion year. Over his 48 years as a fixture in the Stevenson community, Frank Keith has touched student and alumni lives and continues to demonstrate that pitching in and giving back does make a difference. Mr. Keith has always inspired people to be larger than themselves and to give back to their community as he has with his long time support of the school’s

annual fund. This award honors Frank Keith’s sense of philanthropy and community and acknowledges the class which has most inspired new alumni to give back. 2010 recpient: Class of 2000 JOE WANDKE PRESIDENT’S AWARD FOR CLASS PARTICIPATION The Joe Wandke President’s Award recognizes the reunion class with the highest percentage of giving participation during its reunion year. For the past 28 years Joe Wandke has continued the work begun by Robert Ricklefs and Gordon Davis, along with the

help of alumni and other supporters to build Stevenson into the school it is today. These efforts can be seen in Stevenson’s exceptional progress in academic and athletic programming, faculty compensation and benefits, the physical state of campus and most importantly, Stevenson’s reputation as a world class educational institution. Joe Wandke has long championed alumni causes and values the leadership that they have shown throughout Stevenson’s history. The President’s Award for Class Participation honors this leadership and support. 2010 recpient: Class of 1965

LEGACY CIRCLE The Legacy Circle honors those donors whose cumulative gifts demonstrate a remarkable commitment to Stevenson over our 58-year history. $1,000,000 + Mrs. Lee DeHaven Atwood Dr. Thomas G. Atwood ’64 Mr. & Mrs. Ted J. Balestreri Mr. & Mrs. H. Matthew Day ’63 Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Day Jr. ’61 Mr. & Mrs. Theodore J. Day ’66 The Willametta K. Day Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Davis J. Factor Jr. W. M. Keck Foundation Mr. Samuel F. B. Morse Mr. & Mrs. Doug Otto Pirate Parent Club/Sponsors Club Mr. & Mrs. David S. Rosen Mr. & Mrs. Leo Rosen Mr. & Mrs. Alan F. Shugart $500,000 – $999,999 The Bechtel Family Foundation Mr. Gary H. Bechtel ’69 Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Bonner William McCaskey Chapman and Adaline Dinsmore Chapman Foundation Dunspaugh-Dalton Foundation, Inc. Edward E. Hills Fund Mr. & Mrs. Mark R. Hornberger ’68 Mr. & Mrs. John F. Hotchkis Mr. & Mrs. Thomas F. Moran Mr. & Mrs. Milton C. Mumford

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Mr. & Mrs. Lee Newell Mr. & Mrs. Richard M. H. Tsai Mr. & Mrs. George R. Walker $250,000 – $499,999 Anonymous Jean Arthur Estate Braun Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Jan F. Clark Mr. & Mrs. David D. Colburn ’76 The Edward E. Ford Foundation Hayward Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Homer M. Hayward Grover Hermann Foundation The Mildred Hitchcock Huff Charitable Trust The Elizabeth Bixby Janeway Foundation Mr. Peter E. Marble Dr. & Mrs. Gerard B. Martin The Merrion Foundation Estate of Norman Wm. Miller Monterey Peninsula Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Carl Murray Mr. & Mrs. William L. Perocchi Mr. John Lyon Reid Mr. Andrew N. Rosen ’75 Mr. David Sheu Mr. & Mrs. Dean C. Storkan The Talbott Family Mr. Robert S. Talbott ’66

$100,000 – $249,999 Mrs. Mary K. Abercrombie Mr. Howard E. Allen The Sally E. Anderson Family Foundation Mrs. Sally Anderson Mr. & Mrs. Timothy R. Anderson ’95 Anonymous Mr. & Mrs. David J. Benjamin, III James G. Boswell Foundation Ms. Cynthia B. Chapman ’83 & Mr. Michael Caddell Mr. & Mrs. Pierre Tie-Min Chen Mr. Briggs S. Cunningham Mr. & Mrs. Michael Dell Michael and Susan Dell Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Derr Mr. & Mrs. Ze’ev Drori Mr. P. Andrew Dunigan ’83 Edgecliff Foundation Mrs. Claire E. Flagg Mr. & Mrs. Morgan Flagg Mr. & Mrs. Peter J. Fluor ’66 Mr. & Mrs. Robert H. Grant Mr. & Mrs. Gilman B. Haynes Jr. Hornberger + Worstell, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Allan Hunt-Badiner Mr. & Mrs. Bob Igleheart Mr. Darius N. Keaton Mr. James S. Kinney

Dr. Steven W. Kuan & Ms. Vivian Chiang John Lindsley Trust Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Lee Lorenzen Mr. & Mrs. Joseph A. Mark Mr. & Mrs. Leonard H. McIntosh Catherine L. & Robert O. McMahan Foundation Mr. & Mrs. James A. Merritt Monterey Peninsula Foundation Youth Fund Mr. Kenneth Olivier & Ms. Angela Nomellini Mr. Hyeon Joo Park & Mrs. Mi Kyung Kim Pharmaports LLC Mr. & Mrs. Robert N. Pomeroy Mr. Samuel T. Reeves The Reveas Foundation The Rosen Family Foundation Mary Sargent Estate Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth C. Schley Mr. James L. F. See & Dr. Irene Tan Mr. Paul Shoen Mr. & Mrs. Glenn E. Stinson The Alexander F. Victor Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Joseph E. Wandke Mr. & Mrs. Derek Wang Mr. & Mrs. Grover T. Wickersham ’67 Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Zahm

S I LV E R A D O S O C I E T Y The Silverado Society gives special recognition to those Stevenson supporters whose significant gifts help the school reach its annual goals for endowment, annual giving, and capital efforts. Founders Circle ($25,000 +) Mrs. Mary K. Abercrombie Anonymous Dr. James D. Atwood ’62 Mr. & Mrs. Ted J. Balestreri Mr. & Mrs. Peter E. Blackstock Ms. Cynthia B. Chapman ’83 & Mr. Michael Caddell Mr. & Mrs. David D. Colburn ’76 The Willametta K. Day Foundation Mr. & Mrs. H. Matthew Day ’63 Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Day Jr. ’61 Mr. & Mrs. Theodore J. Day ’66 Mr. & Mrs. Michael Dell Michael and Susan Dell Foundation Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Hornberger + Worstell, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Mark R. Hornberger, ’68 Mr. & Mrs. Thomas F. Moran Mr. & Mrs. Seth Neiman Mr. Kenneth Olivier & Ms. Angela Nomellini Mr. & Mrs. Doug Otto Mr. Hyeon Joo Park & Mrs. Mi Kyung Kim Mr. Andrew N. Rosen ’75 Mr. & Mrs. David S. Rosen Mrs. Gloria Rosen The Rosen Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Dean C. Storkan Mr. & Mrs. Richard M. H. Tsai Mr. & Mrs. George R. Walker Whale Beach Foundation Stevenson Circle ($10,000 – $24,999) Mr. Robert H. Aughtry ’66 Mr. & Mrs. David J. Benjamin III Mr. Ron Blank & Mrs. Kimberly Terk Murphy Mr. & Mrs. Saroj Chayavivatkul The Church in the Forest Community Foundation for Monterey County Mr. & Mrs. Daniel A. Decker Mr. P. Andrew Dunigan ’83 Fremont Bank Foundation Mrs. Hope Hayward-Eisank ’83 & Mr. Walter Eisank Ms. Wendy A. Hayward ’86 & Mr. Richard Wendling Mr. William E. Hayward ’81 & Dr. Adriana Hayward Nancy Eccles and Homer M. Hayward Family Foundation Grover Hermann Foundation Fund Mr. Deven D. Hickingbotham ’74 & Mrs. Renee Zupon Hotchkis Foundation

Mr. & Mrs. John F. Hotchkis Mr. & Mrs. Mark B. Hotchkis ’88 Mrs. Dorothy P. Howze The Mildred Hitchcock Huff Charitable Trust Mr. & Mrs. Charles Hulme Mr. & Mrs. Howard Hyman Mr. Michael W. Kidd ’72 Ms. Marcia Kimpton Mr. Travis C. Larson ’11 Mr. Troy T. Larson ’04 Mr. & Mrs. William L. Larson Mr. David M. Lewis ’77 Mr. & Mrs. Charlie Lin Mental Insight Foundation Monterey Peninsula Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Peter W. Nielsen ’73 Mr. Jang Hee Park & Mrs. Jung Hyun Sung Pebble Beach Company Foundation Mr. & Mrs. John Place The Reveas Foundation Schwab Charitable Fund The David B. Terk Foundation The Alexander F. Victor Foundation Dr. Sang Oh We & Mrs. Oh Kyeong You Mr. & Mrs. Steven C. Zahm ’82 Presidents Circle ($5,000 – $9,999) Mr. & Mrs. Timothy K. Allen ’78 Mr. & Mrs. Timothy A. Bergholz ’79 Miss Ai Ling Chen ’10 Mr. Eric Chen & Ms. Cheer Tu Mr. Li-Hung Chuang & Mrs. Charn-Herng Juang Class of 2010 The Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Eubanks Focus Management, Inc. The Glenview Trust Company Mr. & Mrs. Eugene D. Hill III The Hill Family Charitable Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Dean Hoffman ’86 Mr. & Mrs. Charles B. Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Michael Kavalauskas Mr. Leng Kee Kwek & Mrs. Fong Wee Ong Dr. & Mrs. David Lee Mr. Michael Chu & Mrs. Ying Liu Mr. Christopher H. Lord ’81 Mr. Vincent W. H. Ma & Mrs. Lily Ma ’83 Mr. Carl S. Maggio Mrs. Gerard B. Martin Mr. & Mrs. Gerard B. Martin Jr. ’81 Mr. Joseph E. P. Martin ’79 Mr. & Mrs. William J. Martin ’84 McCombs Foundation

Mr. & Mrs. Kevin McQuillan The Merrion Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Carl Murray Mrs. Beth Myers Mr. Kip Myers Olander Family Foundation, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Ron Olander Mr. Ronald Provost & Ms. Kirsten Durfee Mr. & Mrs. Marc Randolph Mrs. Dorothy B. Roberts The Roberts Brothers Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Drew Rowley ’95 Mary A. H. Rumsey Foundation Mr. Curtis Sanford Ms. Karen Turner Sanford Savory Services, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Masamutsu Shinozaki The Paul F. Shoen Foundation, Inc. Mr. Paul Shoen Dr. Michelle Skeen Mr. Sug Jong Suh & Mrs. Chae Hong Moon Mr. Philip Tucker Mr. & Mrs. Grover T. Wickersham ’67 Sponsors Circle ($2,500 – $4,999) Anadarko Petroleum Corporation Mrs. Kim Archer Mr. & Mrs. John Cudahy The Mr. and Mrs. R.J. Derr Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Derr Mr. Thomas Donnelly Mr. & Mrs. Peter J. Fluor ’66 Mr. James Heerwagen & Ms. Hilary Schneider Mrs. Barbara Holden Mr. & Mrs. Robert Kavner Mr. & Mrs. Boniface Lau Mr. Chia-Tien Lee & Mrs. Chia-Lin Yang Ms. Laurie Leidig Mr. & Mrs. James E. Little Mr. Eugene Lu & Mrs. Iris Chang Dr. & Mrs. Fred Lui Dr. & Mrs. Samuel D. Lyons ’73 Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Margolis Dr. & Mrs. William McAfee Mr. Sam Mercer Mr. Steven ’65 & Dr. Linda Merksamer Ms. Kathy Morell Mr. Gilbert M. Neill Gilbert M. Neill Math Fund of the Community Foundation for Monterey County Mr. & Mrs. Charles R. Nemes ’70 Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Olson

Mr. Dong Won Park & Mrs. A.K. Ahn Park Mr. & Mrs. Ian Pennell Mr. & Mrs. William L. Perocchi Mr. & Mrs. John T. Rossi Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Sheppard Mr. & Mrs. John C. Steele ’66 Mr. Herbert Tam ’83 Mr. & Mrs. John Toor Mr. Lee Vandevort & Ms. Melissa Hanlin Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program Dr. Juergen Vent & Dr. Beatrice Schmitz Vetter Family Foundation Mr. Joseph Vetter Mr. John Vigliecca & Mrs. Laurie Dasher Mr. & Mrs. Larry Vollum Mr. & Mrs. Joseph E. Wandke Mr. & Mrs. Derek Wang Mr. Yun Jong Wang & Mrs. Jaekyung Kim Dr. & Mrs. Michael Woolf Hon. Hyun Joo Yang & Mrs. Jong-gyong Lee Mr. Jae Seung Yoon & Mrs. Ji Sook Hong Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Zahm Patrons Circle ($1,000 – $2,499) Anonymous Mr. Conrad Bailey & Ms. Diana Hoadley Mr. & Mrs. Douglas P. Basham ’77 Becker Family Mr. & Mrs. Robert Bittman Mrs. John Boething Mr. Andrew T. Bozzo ’89 & Mrs. Molly Bozzo Mr. & Mrs. Terry Budden Mr. & Mrs. Brian D. Call ’74 Ms. Patricia Casalou Mr. & Mrs. Ken Celli Mr. & Mrs. Jay Chen Dr. Jui-Pin Chen & Ms. Ju-Lin Ma Mr. & Mrs. Peter N. Chesebrough ’59 Mr. Keun Ho Choe & Ms. Won Young Lee Prof. & Mrs. Jeong-Wook Choi Mr. Ho Keun Chung ’86 Mr. Jeff Clark & Mrs. Dawn M. Clark The Danielson Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Lee Danielson ’66 Mr. & Mrs. Edward F. DiYanni Mr. & Mrs. Tom Dunnion Mr. Christopher Eagle & Mrs. Kristen Tsolis Major & Mrs. Henry W. Edwards IV ’82

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S I LV E R A D O S O C I E T Y Mr. Stephen F. Eimer & Mrs. Kevin A. Cartwright Mr. & Mrs. Jon F. Elliott ’73 Mr. & Mrs. William B. Ely IV Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Erickson ExxonMobil Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Davis J. Factor Jr. Mr. Oliver R. Fanjul ’06 Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Farmer Mr. & Mrs. John Fleige Ms. Gretchen J. Flesher Mr. Lai-Fuan Foo & Ms. Ling Fong Tong Mr. & Mrs. Henry J. Franscioni Jr. Frisone Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Frisone ’82 Mr. & Mrs. Richard Fuchs Mr. & Mrs. James Gay Mr. & Mrs. Martin Girard Mr. Robert M. Goodwin Jr. ’76 Mr. & Mrs. Bjorge Gretland Mr. & Mrs. William J. G. Griffith IV ’89 Ms. Michele Grogan & Mr. Pete Williams Harlan and Barbara Hall Fund of the Community Foundation for the Monterey County Mr. & Mrs. Harlan Hall Mr. Albert Ho & Ms. Jennifer Tsui The Hognander Foundation Mr. O. C. Hognander Jr.

Mrs. Katrina Holmes-Glick & Mr. John Glick Dr. & Mrs. Lee Fook Hong Mr. & Mrs. Michael Masakimi Hotta Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Hsu Ms. Susan J. Huang Mr. & Mrs. Jeong Joon Hwang ’00 Mr. & Mrs. Douglas K. Hyde ’75 The Ann Jackson Family Foundation Dr. Michael L. Jackson ’68 & The Rev. Diana Akiyama Mr. Thomas H. Jamison JBC Management Co. Dr. Jay Jensen Mrs. Claire Joles Dr. & Dr. Sungtaek Kim Mr. & Mrs. Gilbert Kort Mr. Peter T. S. Lam ’82 Mr. & Mrs. Derek M. Larson ’93 Mr. Zigmont J. Le Towt III Mr. & Mrs. Chi Keung Lee Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Lee Mr. & Mrs. Jim Levitt Mr. & Mrs. Mark Lindee The Herbert and Ruth Loewy Family Trust Mr. & Mrs. Peter H. Loewy Mr. & Mrs. Dave MacEwen Mr. & Mrs. Brett MacKinnon Mr. Vahid Manian

BOB TINTLE

Faculty, Science Teacher

WHY WE GIVE...“Rosemary and I give to Stevenson because we believe in the school’s mission. Specifically, we believe that Stevenson excels at educating future generations of leaders by fostering their passion for learning and achievement, by exposing talented students to a variety of experiences — educational, artistic, athletic, social, and leadership — and by instilling in them the ethical values that can make them exceptional citizens. Also, we are grateful for the employment and other rewards that Stevenson has provided us and for the way that the entire school community has treated us over the past 28 years.”

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Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Margison Mr. & Mrs. George D. Marshall Mr. George E. McCown Mr. Emeric J. McDonald ’80 Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Miller Mr. & Mrs. James Miller Morgan Winery, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Scott K. Morrison ’82 National Automobile Dealers Mrs. Frances B. Nelson Mr. & Mrs. Thomas B. Orradre ’94 Mr. & Mrs. John D. Perine Jr. ’61 Ms. Valentia Piccinini Mr. Gregory Pickert ’76 Dr. & Mrs. Klaus J. Porzig ’65 Mr. & Mrs. John Prehn Dr. Robert E. Ricklefs ’59 & Ms. Susanne S. Renner Mr. Roger U. Ricklefs ’57 Mr. & Mrs. Mark Roe Mr. & Mrs. Eric Schifferli Dr. & Mrs. Moris Senegor Mr. Won Sup Seo & Ms. You Chung Kim Mr. David Sheu Mr. Gary Sheu & Ms. Joyce Lin Mr. & Mrs. Alan Silvestri Mr. Jeffrey H. Smith ’68 Mr. Kevin & Dr. Linda Smith Dr. & Mrs. Alan Sokolow Dr. Lauren Speeth Mr. Frank P. Stephenson

Mr. Richard M. Stout ’62 Mr. & Mrs. Joe Straton The Louise A. and Walter H. Sullivan Foundation Mr. Walter H. Sullivan III ’68 Sun Valley Investments, LTD. Mr. & Mrs. Harry D. Sunderland Mr. Mike Thomas & Ms. Patty Powell Mr. & Mrs. James Thompson Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Robert F. Tintle Mr. Hsin-Hung Tsai Mr. & Mrs. Gary R. Vickers ’78 Mr. & Mrs. H. Reid Wagstaff Mr. & Mrs. Kim C. C. Wang ’67 Mr. & Mrs. Robert Weirauch Welton Family Foundation Dr. & Mrs. Patrick L. Welton Mr. & Mrs. Floyd Wenglikowski Mr. & Mrs. Robert Whitehead Dr. James K. Wickersham ’68 Mr. Nels P. Wiegand Mr. & Mrs. John G. Williams Dr. Vivian Wing Mr. & Mrs. Jon Winston Mr. Christopher R. W. Wong ’74 Mr. & Mrs. Donald Wood Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Woods Mr. John P. Wright ’10 Mr. George J. Wu ’90 Mr. Jin-Jang You & Mrs. Li-Fang E. Wu Mr. Seok Jun Yun & Mrs. He Sook Lee

GIFTS TO STEVENSON: SOURCES & PURPOSE 2009–10 GIFT SUMMARY BY FUND

2009–10 GIFT SUMMARY BY SOURCE

Unrestricted Annual Fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $855,841 Restricted Annual Fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474,605 Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244,500 Endowment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 801,488 Other non-budget . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41,026 Total support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,417,460

Trustees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $860,792 Parents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529,327 Alumni (does not include Trustees or Parents)* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163,747 Faculty and Staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33,164 Foundations and Corporations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 712,440 Friends (includes Alumni Parents, Grandparents, & Friends) . . . . . . . . . . 117,990 Total support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,417,460 *All Alumni Giving = $492,201

EXPENSES

6% 10% 9%

38%

15% 22%

REVENUE & SUPPORT

Academic Instructional / 38%

Tuition / 90%

General Administration / 22%

Contributions / 5%

Plant Maintenance / 15%

Income on Investments / 2%

Asset Purchase/Debt Service / 9%

Other / 3%

Student Support/Financial Aid / 10%

Other Operating / 6%

90%

CORP ORATIONS, FOUNDATIONS, TRUSTS, & FUNDS Anadarko Petroleum Corporation AT&T Employee Giving United Way Campaign Bank of the West Employee Giving Program Central Coast Silkscreen Christopher Lee Insurance Services The Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County The Danielson Foundation The Willametta K. Day Foundation Michael and Susan Dell Foundation Del Rey Car Wash, Inc. The Mr. and Mrs. R.J. Derr Family Foundation of The Ayco Charitable Foundation EB Dunnion Trust eScrip ExxonMobil Foundation Retiree Matching Gifts Programs Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Focus Management, Inc. Fremont Bank Foundation The Friends of the Forge, Inc. Frisone Family Foundation Galashiels Fund Limited

Gary D. Palma, D.D.S.,Inc. The Glenview Trust Company D&D Griffith Foundation Harlan and Barbara Hall Fund of the Community Foundation for Monterey County Grover Hermann Foundation Fund Community Foundation for Monterey County Hermsen Real Estate, Inc. The Hill Family Charitable Foundation The Hognander Foundation Hornberger + Worstell, Inc. Robert B. Hornberger Vineyards Hotchkis Foundation HPM Networks The Mildred Hitchcock Huff Charitable Trust J. Mark Bayless, DMD, Inc. The Ann Jackson Family Foundation JBC Management Co. Robert Kasavan Marketing Samuel H. Klein Family Foundation, Inc. Kurasaki Properties The Herbert and Ruth Loewy Family Trust

McCombs Foundation Mental Insight Foundation The Merrion Foundation Microsoft Giving Campaign Program Monterey Peninsula Foundation Morgan Stanley Morgan Winery, Inc. Mt. Airy Vision Center Nancy Eccles and Homer M. Hayward Family Foundation National Automobile Dealers Charitable Foundation Gilbert M. Neill Math Fund of the Community Foundation for Monterey County New York Life Insurance Olander Family Foundation, Inc. Pebble Beach Company Foundation The Pegasus Foundation Pfizer Foundation Matching Gifts Program The Placzek Family Foundation Pro Band Sports Industries, Inc. The Reveas Foundation The Roberts Brothers Foundation The Rosen Family Foundation

Ross K. Koda Living Trust Mary A. H. Rumsey Foundation Savory Services, Inc. Schwab Charitable Fund The Paul F. Shoen Foundation, Inc. The Louise A. and Walter H. Sullivan Foundation Sun Valley Investments, LTD. Target Tea.Zing, LLC The David B. Terk Foundation United Way of Santa Cruz County Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program Vetter Family Foundation The Alexander F. Victor Foundation Viewpoint Educational Foundation Wells Fargo Community Support Campaign Welton Family Foundation West Coast Hospitals, Inc. Whale Beach Foundation Yahoo!

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S A M U E L F. B. M O R S E S O C I E T Y In 1995, the Samuel F.B. Morse Society was formed in appreciation of those who have included the school in their estate planning or as a beneficiary in their wills. We thank the following friends who keep the school in their hearts and minds and who have made the future of Stevenson a priority.

Anonymous Jean Arthur Estate James D. Atwood ’62 Ted & Velma Balestreri Christopher P. Baumgart ’70 Andrew Blomquist Estate Theodore ’66 & Deborah Day Ross A. Dinkelspiel ’83 Charles & Sandra Eldridge III Davis J. Factor Jr. Fred N. Gaeden ’65 Beverly B. Harrison

David ’70 & Lynzie Haynes Gilman & Ruth Haynes Mark ’68 & Adelaide Hornberger Robert & Donna Igleheart Inca Trust Michael Jackson ’68 & Diana Akiyama Frank & Barbara Keith Ambrose J. Kinion Peter Emerson Marble Gerard & Mary Martin Thomas & Sherrie McCullough Knox & Carlotta Mellon

Eliot Merk ’61 Norman W. Miller Mellanie Moran Samuel Morse Carl & Victoria Murray Spencer & Dee Myers Red & Phyllis Niedfeldt Emile Norman John Lyon Reid Marion Ricklefs Roger Ricklefs ’57 Merle Greene Robertson

Leo & Gloria Rosen Mary Sargent Estate Gordon & Ramona Smith John C. ’66 & Cathy S. Steele Maria Vargas George & Patricia Walker Joseph & Marilee Wandke Peter & Grace Wang Grover ’67 & Jill Wickersham Richard & Nancy Zahm Efrem Zimbalist III ’64

G I F T S I N M E M O RY & I N H O NO R Gifts in memory and in honor provide a lasting tribute. Stevenson thanks the following individuals for their kindness in memory and in honor of others. In Honor Of Mr. Peter Bailey ’10 Mr. Conrad Bailey & Ms. Diana Hoadley In Honor Of the Carmel Campus teachers Mrs. Deborah Rich In Honor Of Mr. David D. Colburn ’76, Trustee Anonymous In Honor Of Dr. Michael L. Jackson ’68 Viewpoint Educational Foundation In Honor Of Mr. Charles H. McNab ’99 McCombs Foundation In Honor Of Eddie B. Mendenhall, ’90, Music Teacher Dr. & Mrs. Philip J. Lips In Honor Of Mr. Arthur C. Rubey ’97 McCombs Foundation In Honor Of Mr. Frank P. Stephenson Dr. Vivian Wing In Honor Of Mr. Alex Welton ’10, Presidential Scholar Mr. Ian Arnof

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In Honor Of the Class of ’17 & their 5th grade teachers: Kirsten Matsumoto, Olivia Perez, Kathryn Hagguist, Chris West, Gloria Elber, Jennifer Johnson, Katie Klevan, Bobby Walthour, Felix Perez, Louie Cofresi, Roxanne Crawford & Michaelle Sims. The Families of the Class of ’17

In Memory Of Mr. Morris A. Lewis Mr. Justin L. Jee ’99

In Memory Of Mrs. Sally Charles Mrs. Irvin B. Gardner

In Memory Of Ms. Mary McConville ’96 Ms. Judith A. Miller

In Memory Of David J. Donlon Mrs. Marcia Donlon

In Memory Of John F. Powers Mr. Justin L. Jee ’99

In Memory Of Jose F. Fernandez III Catherine & Warren Anderson

In Memory Of Mr. Tom Rich Dr. & Mrs. Aytac Apaydin Dr. Haleh Bassiri Mr. & Mrs. Guiseppe Catania Mr. & Mrs. Craig Coming Mr. & Mrs. James Culcasi Mr. & Mrs. John Eales Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Erickson Mrs. Veronica Fuente & Mr. Mark Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Michael Grech Mr. & Mrs. Al Huelga Mr. & Mrs. Howard Hyman Col. & Mrs. James O. Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Jim Levitt Drs. Daniel & Renee Luba

In Memory Of General Clarence C. Harvey (Ret.) Mr. John G. Wales ’73 In Memory Of Mrs. Florida Mae Kidd Mr. Michael W. Kidd ’72 In Memory Of Mr. Nathan M. Krissoff ’99 Miss Chrissy Coolidge ’00 D&D Griffith Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Robert N. Hammond Mr. & Mrs. Abraham Krissoff Mr. Adam D. Kubryk ’99

In Memory Of Roger Lim Mr. & Mrs. Ted T. Lim In Memory Of Dr. Henry Littlefield Mr. Adam D. Kubryk ’99

Dr. & Mrs. John McEachen Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Meckler Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Miller Mr. & Mrs. John Pak Mr. Josh Piestrup Mr. Ronald Provost & Ms. Kirsten Durfee Mr. & Mrs. Peter Reimann Mr. & Mrs. Steve Schroeder Mr. & Mrs. Randall Stuewe Dr. Val Termotto & Dr. Lily Kaykha Mr. & Mrs. Floyd Wenglikowski Mr. & Mrs. Mike Ziebell In Memory Of Mr. Robert U. Ricklefs Mr. Charles D. Daly ’65 In Memory Of Ms. Tamara Lynn Verga ’88 Mr. & Mrs. Tom Logan In Memory Of Mr. Ben R. Watson ’03 Miss Jennifer L. Pelino ’05 Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Pelino

CURRENT

PA R E N T D O N O R S Percentage reflects number of families participating in the Stevenson Annual Fund.

57.6

76 out of 132 families participated CLASS OF 2010 Mr. & Mrs. Timothy K. Allen ’78 Catherine and Warren Anderson Mr. Conrad Bailey & Ms. Diana Hoadley Mr. Richard Barrett & Mrs. Sue Gosin Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Barron Mr. & Mrs. Douglas P. Basham ’77 Dr. & Mrs. Philip Bhaskar † Mr. & Mrs. Robert Bittman Mr. & Mrs. Michael Bowhay Mrs. Jody Bown Dr. & Mrs. Thomas Bradley Mr. & Mrs. Terry Budden Ms. Patricia Casalou Dr. & Mrs. Tony Cava Mr. Eric Chen & Ms. Cheer Tu Ms. Eunsook Cho Mr. & Mrs. Leonard Chodosh Mr. Jeff Clark & Mrs. Dawn M. Clark Dr. & Mrs. Vincent DeFilippi Mr. Michael Djubasak & Mrs. Jean Angley Djubasak Mr. Thomas Donnelly Ms. Gretchen J. Flesher Mr. Lai-Fuan Foo & Ms. Ling Fong Tong Ms. Susan Gamble Mr. & Mrs. James Gay Dr. Richard Gerber & Dr. Laurie Gerber Kleinman Mr. Deven D. Hickingbotham ’74 & Mrs. Renee Zupon Mr. Albert Ho & Ms. Jennifer Tsui Mrs. Barbara Holden Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Hsu Ms. Susan J. Huang Mr. & Mrs. Robert Kavner Mr. & Mrs. Philip Koontz ’79 Mr. & Mrs. Gilbert Kort Mr. Leng Kee Kwek & Mrs. Fong Wee Ong Mr. & Mrs. Boniface Lau Dr. & Mrs. David Lee Mr. Eugene Lu & Mrs. Iris Chang Drs. Daniel & Renee Luba Dr. & Mrs. Fred Lui Mr. & Mrs. Dave MacEwen Mr. & Mrs. Brett MacKinnon Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Margison Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Miller Mr. & Mrs. Kevin E. Murphy

Mr. Kenneth Olivier & Ms. Angela Nomellini Mr. & Mrs. Robert Osborn Mr. William Palmieri & Ms. Christiane Carman Mr. Dong Won Park & Mrs. A.K. Ahn Park Mr. & Mrs. Ian Pennell Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Peyton Mr. & Mrs. John Place Mr. & Mrs. Marc Randolph Mr. Curtis Sanford Ms. Karen Turner Sanford Mr. & Mrs. Eric Schifferli Mr. Claus Shelling & Mrs. Alison Pratt Shelling Mr. David Sheu Dr. Michelle Skeen Dr. & Mrs. Alan Sokolow Mr. & Mrs. Jaroslav Stepanek Mr. & Mrs. Ed Stoutenborough Mr. & Mrs. Joe Straton Mr. Sug Jong Suh & Mrs. Chae Hong Moon Mr. Douglas R. Toler Mr. & Mrs. John Toor Mr. & Mrs. Derek Wang † Dr. Shiyao Wang & Mrs. Meizhen Chen Mr. Yun Jong Wang & Mrs. Jaekyung Kim Mr. & Mrs. Robert Weirauch Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas Welschmeyer Dr. & Mrs. Patrick L. Welton Mr. & Mrs. John G. Williams Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Woods Dr. & Mrs. Michael Woolf Mr. Jin-Jang You & Mrs. Li-Fang E. Wu

33.5%

53 out of 158 families participated CLASS OF 2011 Mr. John B. Aime Ms. Nancy Allison & Mr. Arlen Grossman Anonymous † Mr. & Mrs. Timothy A. Bergholz ’79 Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Bove Ms. Patricia Casalou Mr. & Mrs. Christopher L. Chancellor ’83 Mr. & Mrs. Jay Chen Dr. Jui-Pin Chen & Ms. Ju-Lin Ma Mr. Jeff Clark & Mrs. Dawn M. Clark Mr. & Mrs. Stuart A. Clark Mr. & Mrs. David D. Colburn ’76

Mr. & Mrs. John Cudahy Mr. & Mrs. James Culcasi Mr. Walter B. Gibeau Mr. & Mrs. Martin Girard Dr. & Mrs. Christopher González Drew & Myra Goodman Mr. & Mrs. Charles Guggenheim Mrs. Katrina Holmes-Glick & Mr. John Glick Ms. Marcia Kimpton Mr. & Mrs. William L. Larson Mr. Chia-Tien Lee & Mrs. Chia-Lin Yang Dr. & Mrs. David Lee Mr. Frank T. Lee & Mrs. Diana Lin † Mr. & Mrs. Charlie Lin Mr. & Mrs. Mark Lindee Mr. Michael Chu & Mrs. Ying Liu Mr. & Mrs. Peter H. Loewy Ms. Maryellen Lovell Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Margolis Ms. Kenya Numan Mr. Innocent Obi Mr. & Mrs. Amrish Patel Mr. Zhen Lin Qiao & Mrs. Ping Lee Mrs. Juley Ann Rosá Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Rygg Mr. Gary Sheu & Ms. Joyce Lin Mr. & Mrs. Masamutsu Shinozaki † Mr. & Mrs. Alan Silvestri Mr. & Mrs. Randall Stuewe Mr. & Mrs. James Thompson Jr. Mr. Tony Tollner Mr. & Mrs. Pedro van Riet Mr. Joseph Vetter Mr. & Mrs. Larry Vollum Mr. & Mrs. Derek Wang † Mr. & Mrs. Patarapol Waranimman Mr. & Mrs. Mark Wasserman Dr. Sang Oh We & Mrs. Oh Kyeong You Mr. & Mrs. Robert Whitehead Mr. & Mrs. Donald Wood Mrs. Nancy A. Zweng

46.2%

67 out of 145 families participated CLASS OF 2012 Mrs. Kim Archer Mr. & Mrs. Mark Barrow Dr. & Mrs. Mark Bayless Mr. & Mrs. Pete Bender † Mr. Ron Blank & Mrs. Kimberly Terk Murphy Mr. & Mrs. Louie Cofresi

Dr. & Mrs. Vincent DeFilippi Mr. & Mrs. Michael Dell Mr. & Mrs. Robert Douglass Mr. Christopher Eagle & Mrs. Kristen Tsolis Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Fernandez Mr. & Mrs. Steven Fine Ms. Frances Fisher Mr. & Mrs. Henry J. Franscioni Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Richard Fuchs Dr. Richard Gerber & Dr. Laurie Gerber Kleinman Mr. Robert M. Goodwin Jr. ’76 Mr. James Heerwagen & Ms. Hilary Schneider Mr. & Mrs. Richard Hewitt Mr. & Mrs. Eugene D. Hill III Mr. & Mrs. Tuong H. Hoang Mr. & Mrs. Bumshik Hong † Mr. & Mrs. Bryan Jaeger Dr. & Dr. Sungtaek Kim Mr. & Mrs. John A. King Mr. & Mrs. Chi Keung Lee Mr. Frank T. Lee & Mrs. Diana Lin † Mr. & Mrs. Charlie Lin Mr. Vahid Manian Mr. & Mrs. Jack H. McAleer Mr. & Mrs. Kevin McQuillan Mr. & Mrs. James Miller † Mr. & Mrs. Kevin E. Murphy Mrs. Beth Myers Mr. Kip Myers Mr. & Mrs. Seth Neiman Mr. & Mrs. Philip Niegos Mr. & Mrs. Robert Osborn Mr. Hyeon Joo Park & Mrs. Mi Kyung Kim † Mr. Jang Hee Park & Mrs. Jung Hyun Sung † Mr. & Mrs. Ian Pennell Ms. Valentia Piccinini Mr. & Mrs. Daniel B. Powers ’77 Mr. Ronald Provost & Ms. Kirsten Durfee Mr. & Mrs. Romi Randhawa Mr. & Mrs. Marc Randolph Mr. & Mrs. Ken E. Riley Mr. & Mrs. John T. Rossi Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Ryan Mr. Kevin & Dr. Linda Smith Dr. Lauren Speeth Mr. & Mrs. Gary Springfield Dr. Val Termotto & Dr. Lily Kaykha Mr. Mike Thomas & Ms. Patty Powell Mr. & Mrs. Akio Tosu † Mr. Lee Vandevort & Ms. Melissa Hanlin Dr. Juergen Vent & Dr. Beatrice Schmitz † Gift in Kind

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CURRENT PARENT D ONORS Dr. Mark Vierra & Dr. Kathryn Swanson Dr. & Mrs. Patrick L. Welton Dr. James K. Wickersham ’68 Mr. & Mrs. John Wilton Dr. Vivian Wing Mr. & Mrs. Jon Winston Mr. Jae Seung Yoon & Mrs. Ji Sook Hong Ms. Katherine Yuen Mr. & Mrs. Mike Ziebell Mrs. Nancy A. Zweng

49.5%

51 out of 103 families participated CLASS OF 2013 Anonymous Dr. John Astin & Ms. Katherine Trueblood-Astin Mr. & Mrs. Timothy A. Bergholz ’79 Dr. & Mrs. Philip Bhaskar Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. L. Bonaparte Mr. & Mrs. Ken Celli Mr. William Chan & Mrs. Dina Chau Mr. Taron Chang & Mrs. Christina Yu Mr. & Mrs. Saroj Chayavivatkul † Mr. Keun Ho Choe & Ms. Won Young Lee Prof. & Mrs. Jeong-Wook Choi Mr. Li-Hung Chuang & Mrs. Charn-Herng Juang Mr. Jeff Clark & Mrs. Dawn M. Clark Mr. & Mrs. Joe Conron Mr. & Mrs. Daniel A. Decker Mr. & Mrs. John Dennett Mr. & Mrs. Robert Douglass Mr. & Mrs. Dirk Etienne Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Eubanks Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Farmer Mr. & Mrs. John Fleige Mr. Michael E. Gilson & Mrs. Catherine V. Blake Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Goodman Mr. & Mrs. Bjorge Gretland Mr. & Mrs. Michael Masakimi Hotta Mr. & Mrs. Steve John Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Keig Mr. & Mrs. Joung Sig Kim Dr. & Mrs. Eugene Kozel Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Lee Mr. & Mrs. James E. Little Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Loken Dr. & Mrs. George I. Matsumoto Mr. Dennis McCarthy & Dr. Lynn Goldstein Mr. & Mrs. William Nelson Mr. & Mrs. Ricky Nguyen † Ms. Nina Phillips Mr. & Mrs. Erik Pilegaard

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Mr. & Mrs. Romi Randhawa Ms. Maureen Raynaud & Mr. Paul Hoyle Mr. & Mrs. Mark Roe Dr. & Mrs. Moris Senegor Dr. David Simonsen & Dr. Anne Marangoni Mr. Sug Jong Suh & Mrs. Chae Hong Moon Mr. Albert Tao & Ms. Thuy D. Nguyen Mr. & Mrs. Kenny Thaxton Dr. Mark Vierra & Dr. Kathryn Swanson Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas Welschmeyer Mr. & Mrs. Robert Williams Dr. Liang Xu & Dr. Xiaodong Hong Mr. Seok Jun Yun & Mrs. He Sook Lee

64.9%

24 out of 37 families participated CLASS OF 2014 Dr. & Mrs. Aytac Apaydin Mr. & Mrs. Pete Bender † Mr. & Mrs. Guiseppe Catania Mr. James & Mrs. Susan Culcasi Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Erickson Mrs. Veronica Fuente & Mr. Mark Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Michael Grech Mr. & Mrs. Al Huelga Mr. & Mrs. Howard Hyman Col. & Mrs. James O. Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Jim Levitt Drs. Daniel & Renee Luba Mr. Vahid Manian Dr. & Mrs. John McEachen Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Meckler Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Miller Mr. Josh Piestrup Mr. Ronald Provost & Ms. Kirsten Durfee Mr. & Mrs. Peter Reimann Mrs. Deborah Rich Mr. & Mrs. Randall Stuewe Dr. Val Termotto & Dr. Lily Kaykha Mr. & Mrs. Robert Whitehead Mr. & Mrs. Mike Ziebell

47.1

8 out of 17 families participated CLASS OF 2015 Mr. & Mrs. Timothy A. Bergholz ’79 Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Davi Jr. ’88 Mr. & Mrs. Henry J. Franscioni Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Frisone ’82 Mr. & Mrs. John A. King

Mr. & Mrs. Eddie B. Mendenhall ’90 Mr. Albert Tao & Ms. Thuy D. Nguyen Mr. Dominick Veliko-Shapko & Mrs. Fatima Sabanova

38.5%

10 out of 26 families participated CLASS OF 2016 Mr. & Mrs. Mark Barrow Mr. Clark Brown & Ms. Rosa Lopez Mr. & Mrs. Christopher L. Chancellor ‘83 Mr. & Mrs. Owen L. Dunsford Dr. & Mrs. George I. Matsumoto Dr. & Mrs. John McEachen Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Miller Mr. & Mrs. David Parker Mr. Stephan M. Pratt & Mrs. Manon Lapointe-Pratt Mr. Brien Wilson & Dr. Xi Zhao-Wilson

66.7%

86.7%

13 out of 15 families participated CLASS OF 2019 Mr. & Mrs. Steve Adams Mr. & Mrs. Greg Barr Becker Family Mr. & Mrs. Henry J. Franscioni Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Michael Kavalauskas Dr. & Mrs. John McEachen Mr. & Mrs. Blake Pintar Mr. & Mrs. Eric Pompey Mr. Stephan M. Pratt & Mrs. Manon Lapointe-Pratt Dr. & Mrs. Leland Rosenblum † Mr. & Mrs. Scott Scheid Mr. & Mrs. Albert Stegall Mr. John Vigliecca & Mrs. Laurie Dasher

70.8%

17 out of 24 families participated

16 out of 24 families participated

CLASS OF 2020

CLASS OF 2017

Mr. & Mrs. Brian Ackerman Mr. James & Mrs. Susan Culcasi Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Davi Jr. ’88 Mr. Carey Dickerman & Mrs. Carmel York-Dickerman Mr. Timothy Gonzales & Ms. Ann Mather Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Keaton Mr. & Mrs. Jim Mali Ms. Ann McBride Dr. & Mrs. James Oh Mr. & Mrs. John Pak Mr. & Mrs. Mark B. Peterson † Mr. & Mrs. John Prehn Mrs. Deborah Rich Dr. & Mrs. Leland Rosenblum † Mr. David Schmittgens & Mrs. Kim A. Ataide Mr. & Mrs. Steve Schroeder Mr. Dominick Veliko-Shapko & Mrs. Fatima Sabanova

Mr. & Mrs. Alex Agacanyan Dr. & Mrs. Aytac Apaydin Dr. Haleh Bassiri Mr. & Mrs. Craig Coming Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Davi Jr. ’88 Mr. & Mrs. John Eales Mr. & Mrs. Philip Koontz ’79 Dr. & Mrs. Eugene Kozel Dr. & Mrs. James Oh Mr. & Mrs. John Pak Mr. & Mrs. Donald B. Roberts Ms. Teresa Romo Mr. & Mrs. Scott Scheid Mr. & Mrs. Steve Schroeder Mr. Michael Smelser & Dr. Nancy Baker Mr. & Mrs. Floyd Wenglikowski

40%

6 out of 15 families participated CLASS OF 2018 Mr. & Mrs. Owen L. Dunsford Mr. Timothy Gonzales & Ms. Ann Mather Mr. & Mrs. David Johnson † Mr. & Mrs. John Prehn Mr. & Mrs. Ed Stoutenborough Mr. & Mrs. Patarapol Waranimman

† Gift in Kind

73.9

17 out of 23 families participated CLASS OF 2021 Mr. Andrew T. Bozzo ‘89 & Mrs. Molly Bozzo Mr. & Mrs. Craig Coming Mr. & Mrs. Jean de Marignac Mr. & Mrs. Germano Diniz ‘88 Mr. & Mrs. Eric Heiser

Mr. Thomas June & Ms. Amy June Mr. & Mrs. Matthew McCann Mr. & Mrs. Richard Nalwasky Mr. & Mrs. Erik R. Olson Mr. & Mrs. Amrish Patel Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Rodgers Mr. & Mrs. Basil J. Sanborn ‘90 Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Sheppard Mr. & Mrs. Ed Stoutenborough LCDR & Mrs. Michael Touse Mr. Fred Watson & Mrs. Susan Alexander Mr. & Mrs. Rich Weber

84.2

16 out of 19 families participated CLASS OF 2022 Mr. & Mrs. Jason A. Andrade Becker Family Mr. & Mrs. Alexis Copeland Mr. Keith Dodson & Mrs. Catherine Broz Mr. Aaron Eden & Ms. Corrina Canepa

Mr. & Mrs. Grant Elliott Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Keaton Mr. & Mrs. Tim Ketter Ms. Laurie Leidig Mr. & Mrs. Robert McCormick Mr. & Mrs. Donald B. Roberts Mr. David Schmittgens & Mrs. Kim A. Ataide Mr. & Mrs. Steve Selbst Mr. Won Sup Seo & Ms. You Chung Kim Mr. & Mrs. Todd Stornetta LCDR & Mrs. Michael Touse † Gift in Kind

STEVENSON FUND

PA R E N T VO L U N T E E R S Parent Development Council Chair Sarah Pennell

3rd Grade, Class of 2019 Mary Ann Franscioni

7th Grade, Class of 2015 Jennifer Bergholz

11th Grade, Class of 2011 Gail Bove

ECC, Class of 2022 Catherine Broz

4th Grade, Class of 2018 Melissa Ackerman

8th Grade, Class of 2014 Mike Ziebell

1st Grade, Class of 2021 Kerri McCann

5th Grade, Class of 2017 Katherine Wenglikowski

9th Grade, Class of 2013 Kirsten Matsumoto

12th Grade, Class of 2010 Sara Pennell Christiane Carman

2nd Grade, Class of 2020 Lauren Keaton

6th Grade, Class of 2016 Chris Chancellor

10th Grade, Class of 2012 Deirdre McQuillan Sarah Pennell

SCOTT & JACKIE BECKER

Current Parents Carmel Campus

WHY WE GIVE... “We feel Stevenson instills a love of curiosity and learning into students and encourages students to reach their best potential without stress or a constant fear of failure. We appreciate the integrity, honesty, and sense of community that are reinforced at school. We are confident that this school will prepare our children to compete successfully on a global scale, while instilling important social values that will make them productive compassionate adults.”

Dylan ’19 and James ’22

with parents Scott and

Jackie Becker

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ALUMNI DONORS BY CLASS 1954 Norman L. Ward (12) 1956 Alexander N. Greenwich Thomas M. Smith * (28) 1957 Robert N. Lea Ph.D. * (25) Roger U. Ricklefs * (27) Gerald W. Stratford * (22) 1958 Keith G. Dahl * (27) F. Anthony Placzek * (32) 1959 Peter N. Chesebrough * (27) Robert E. Ricklefs * (21) 1960 Jon I. Akselsen Thomas G. Henry * (20) 1961 Robert A. Day Jr. * (16) John D. Perine Jr. * (21) Terald A. Zall * (15) 1962 James D. Atwood * (31) † Thomas S. Jones * (14) John R. Martin (21) Richard M. Stout * 1963 H. Matthew Day * (16) Elliott C. Roberts Jr. * 1964 Guy R. Henshaw * (13) Nathaniel O. Owings (20) Gordon J. von Richter (16) Braly Zumwalt * (11) 1965 Michael F. Clark (14) Charles D. Daly * A.W. Chip Gardes M. Michael Handler * (10) Lindsay A. Jeffers * (28) Robert E. Linscott Jr. (13) Steven A. Merksamer * (21) Klaus J. Porzig * (28) 1966 Robert H. Aughtry * Lee Danielson * Theodore J. Day * (19) Peter J. Fluor * (21) Jacob G. Schurman, IV * (11) John C. Steele (16) William L. Yeates

1967 Kim C. C. Wang (15) Grover T. Wickersham (18) William M. Winton * (26) 1968 Mark A. Coffey * (22) Joel K. Harris (23) Geoffrey B. Haynes * (21) Mark R. Hornberger * (29) Michael L. Jackson * (26) Allan E. Johnson * (15) George H. Kelley * (23) William V. Kondrat, III * (30) Robert L. Lenci * (25) William S. McCreery * (26) Jeffrey H. Smith * (10) Walter H. Sullivan, III * (26) James K. Wickersham * 1970 James H. Doyle, III Clinton Kelly Richard L. Li * (12) † Charles R. Nemes * (20) James A. Schaeffler * (23) C. Alan Yates * 1971 Michael Dilley Don L. Dormer * (26) Robert Kasavan * (28) John Lyddon (11) Allen M. Olinger, III * (14) 1972 Jefferson L. Anderson, II * (18) Philip M. Coniglio Jr. (13) Michael W. Kidd * Peter B. MacDonald 1973 Jon F. Elliott * (31) Benjamin P. Gleichner * (25) Thomas E. Jackson * (19) Samuel D. Lyons (20) Peter W. Nielsen S. Michael Stringer * (17) John G. Wales Jeffrey G. Walker * (22) 1974 Brian D. Call * (23) Mitchell S. Gagos * (15) Deven D. Hickingbotham * (28) Randall G. Keith * (28) Jerome F. Politzer Jr. * (20) Christopher C. W. Wong

1975 Paul C. Belza Albert J. Houston * (17) Douglas K. Hyde * (24) Andrew N. Rosen (11) Christopher M. Winn * 1976 David D. Colburn * (19) Robert M. Goodwin Jr. * Loren E. Hunter * (17) Gregory P. Pickert * 1977 Thomas Allen Douglas P. Basham * (16) Kevin T. Burke * (14) Bruce Dini * David M. Lewis * (17) Daniel B. Powers * (23) 1978 Timothy K. Allen * (23) Stuart K. Cohen * (22) Gary R. Vickers * (10) 1979 Jennifer L. Bergholz * (19) Garth H. Harley Jr. * (21) Laurence W. Hunter * (15) Kathryn G. Koontz * Joseph E. P. Martin * Mark J. Monro * (22) William H. Osborne * (15) 1980 Fred C. Begun Thomas W. Davies * (22) Emeric J. McDonald * Kevin R. Murray * (14) Glenn H. Snyder (20) 1981 Kim A. Ataide * Anne M. Findley (13) Christopher H. Lord * (15) Gerard B. Martin Jr. * (19) Carol L. Nilsson * (19) Jenifer L. Stoner 1982 Callie J. Chandler Robert E. Colyear * (17) Victoria C. J. D’Amelio * Major Henry W. Edwards, IV Robert D. Frisone * Ross K. Koda * (16) Peter T. S. Lam * (14) Scott K. Morrison * Steven C. Zahm * (18)

1983 Christopher L. Chancellor * Cynthia B. Chapman * (10) Ross A. Dinkelspiel * (20) P. Andrew Dunigan * (11) Ryan H. Dwight * (10) Michael P. C. Kellogg Vincent W. H. Ma * (21) † Chauncey E. Schmidt, II * Herbert Tam 1984 Ian C. Hendry * (22) Barton W. Kaplan William J. Martin * Darrin M. McMahon * 1985 Eric L. Baggiolini † Anne M. Bohlman * (13) Allison J. Keith * Michael M. Loleng * Takuma Maeda † Brenna S. O’Boyle 1986 Jonathan J. Beene Jr. Ho Keun Chung * John M. Compagno * (14) Wendy A. Hayward * (21) Molly D. Hoffman * (10) Sherief A. Ibrahim Brook E. Igleheart * (12) 1987 Sandra L. Fairon (12) Michael L. Gordon * (14) Alexander Janko * (12) Peter J. Lips * (10) Keith R. Nilsson (12) † 1988 James D. Burns * (18) Christian G. Cevaer * (12) Anthony Davi Jr. * Germano F. Diniz * Amy A. Figge * (12) Mark B. Hotchkis (13) 1989 Mia H. Bambace Peterson * † Andrew T. Bozzo * Christopher W. Dalhamer * William J. G. Griffith, IV * Shannon M. Karm Eric J. Le Towt Kai Peters Mark B. Peterson * † James B. Pfeiffer Kristina M. Roberts * Mark C. Schulze * (22) *Consecutive year donor

(##) Donor has given for 10 or more years, total years are in parentheses

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† Gift in Kind

1990 Class of 1990 Sarah N. Jacobson * Eddie B. Mendenhall * Matthew J. Olin Kelly B. San Filippo * Basil J. Sanborn * George J. Wu

1996 Gina D. Chappin * Bani I. Khalsa Pete S. Kiriputt *

1991 Nicholas O. Radov * (11) 1992 Lisa M. Birch * (13) Hillary M. Fredrickson * (10) David P. Fredrickson * (11) Aengus L. Jeffers * Stephanie A. Mann * Joshua C. Sobeck 1993 Shannon T. Edelstone * Laura L. Furmanski (11) Derek M. Larson * Miki Maruko Bryan T. White * William R. Winslow (10) 1994 Dana L. Allen * Karan Dehghani * Jan H. Karachale * Ted T. Lim P. Todd Novick Thomas B. Orradre * (10) Cira J. Sims Farrah B. White * 1995 Ryan A. Flagg Brooks M. Foster * (14) Neelam Jain * Katherine F. Klevan * † David T. Liu * Mary K. Reding * (12) Meredith A. Rowley John J. Wandke * (16)

1997 Dominic L. Boitano (10) Christina O. Clark * Zoe L. Johns * Elaina C. Ross * Michelle L. Storkan Amanda L. Woods 1998 Tina T. Galloway Jimmy Y. Jia Anthony T. Klevan * Da Yeon Lee Judah M. Padilla * Marjory M. Syed Hiroko Takahashi 1999 Justin P. Bates * Kathryn R. Holden Justin L. Jee * Adam D. Kubryk Sabrina A. Lea * (11) 2000 Diane M. Atwood * (10) Michael D. Colhoun * Christine E. Coolidge * Ashley N. Felsher Milcah Gaskin Matthew L. Glick * Matthew T. Hermsen * Jeong Joon Hwang Pamela J. Keindl * Jameson W. McFadden * William B. Riegel Wilhelm J. Schaeffler, II Esther Tang * Laura M. Wandke * (10)

2001 Christopher W. Gates Tyler E. Wood 2002 Connell P. Dunnion * Austin P. Krissoff Graham M. Lea * Lane Verlenden * Michelle J. Yang * 2003 Paul R. Del Piero * John B. McCreery Jayme M. Young * Olivia H. Yu * 2004 Jack R. Britton * Fatasha D. Fareed * Sophie T. Gates William W. Gifford * Austin J. Gilbert * John E. Kelly Troy T. Larson Kelly R. Wood 2005 Elizabeth Benjamin * Ashton B. Clarke Ryann A. Madden Kirstin L. Olson * Jennifer L. Pelino * Cory J. Schaeffler 2006 Oliver R. Fanjul Eric M. Johnson Peter G. Kauhanen * Jeremy B. Sandler Stephanie Tsai

ANDY BOZZO ’89

2007 Bridget C. Dunnion * Taylor H. Gilbert * Peter Ireland * David C. Kurtmen * Lok Ka Yeung * 2008 David T. Benjamin * Sarah S. Johnson Constance A. Ohlinger * Tyler J. Rosá * AnnaMarie G. Sintetos * 2009 Vivian S. N. Hui * Laura L. McCoy * Rebekah F. Mourao * Reed W. Thayer * 2010 Ai Ling Chen In Na Chung Class of 2010 John P. Wright 2011 Katelyn Bergholz Travis C. Larson Benjamin R. Rehm * 2012 Joshua D. Provost * *Consecutive year donor (##) Donor has given for 10 or more years, total years are in parentheses † Gift in Kind

Alumni, Current Parent Carmel Campus

WHY I GIVE... “When I think of key influences in my life, I think of Jeff Young, Rob Klevan, Cleve Thayer, Bob Tintle, Dale Hinkley, Bill Hankison, Maria Vargas, Biff Smith, John Powers, Jack Mac... the list goes on and on. They represented passionate teaching and helped me define my experience. They didn’t just care how I was doing in their discipline but also cared about me. That is what is totally unique to Stevenson.”

Molly and Andy Bozzo

with Sofia ’23 and Luca

’21

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A L U M N I PA R E N T, G R A N D PA R E N T & F R I E N D DONORS Anonymous Mrs. Joan Hately Anthony Mr. & Mrs. Daniel E. Armel Mr. Ian Arnof Mr. & Mrs. Alfred W. Arrivee Mr. & Mrs. Tim Barroca Mr. & Mrs. Scott Bartlett Mr. & Mrs. Michael Beeman Mrs. John Boething Mr. & Mrs. Mark Boitano Ms. Micki Brent Mrs. Tina Britton Mr. & Mrs. Charles H. Buck III Butte House Ranch Dr. & Mrs. John Callander Mr. & Mrs. Harvey Campbell Mr. Avram Chetron Church in the Forest Dr. & Mrs. David A. Clark Mrs. Shirley Ann Converse Ms. Janet E. Cooper Ms. Margaret Ann Costello Ms. Martha Craig Dr. & Mrs. Umberto D’Ambrosio Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Davis Mrs. Marcia Donlon Mr. & Mrs. William G. Doolittle Ms. Elizabeth Dunbar Mr. & Mrs. Tom Dunnion Mr. Peter Eichorn & Mrs. Janie Rommel-Eichorn Dr. & Mrs. Charles Eldridge III Mrs. Gail Factor Mr. Peter B. Fayroian Mr. John Fialkowski Mrs. Geri A. Flesher Mr. & Mrs. Gregory L. Foster Mr. & Mrs. Dave Frost Mr. & Mrs. John Gallo Mrs. Irvin B. Gardner Mr. & Mrs. Lee Gardner Mrs. Susan C. Garratt Mr. & Mrs. Albert Gayou Mr. Tim Gieseler & Ms. Debra Wollesen

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Mr. John A. King Mrs. Katie F. Klevan ’95 † Mrs. Kathryn G. Koontz ’79 Ms. Carolyn Kost Mr. Siegfried Krovelis Ms. Kriss Kvale Ms. Aaron Lichtanski Mr. Peter J. Lips ’87 Mr. Matthew H. Magers Ms. Willow Manspeaker Mrs. Kirsten Matsumoto Mr. Jack H. McAleer Mr. Robert McCormick Mr. Eddie B. Mendenhall ’90 Mr. David Miller Mr. Luis Miller Ms. Kathy Morell Mrs. Jenna Moscoso Mr. Christopher Mueller Ms. Yumi P. Namura Mrs. Liz O’Hara Mr. Terry O’Hara Mr. Erik R. Olson Ms. Mary Kay Orosco Mr. Kristofer D. Owens Mrs. Sneha Panholzer † Mrs. Yun Pavelchak Mrs. Mary Pendlay Ms. Olivia Perez Mr. Daniel B. Powers ’77 Mr. Stephan M. Pratt Mr. Ronald Provost Mr. Mark Ragan Rev. Dr. William Rolland Ms. Teresa Romo

Ms. Elaina C. Ross ’97 Mr. Sam Salerno Jr. Mr. Michael J. Sanborn Mr. David Schmittgens Mr. Kevin R. Schroedter Mr. John Senuta Mrs. Jennifer Sheppard Mr. Thomas W. Sheppard Ms. Riann Siciak Ms. Michaelle Sims Ms. Mary Skipwith Mr. Bain M. Smith Ms. Bernadette M. Sotak Mrs. Cidalia Sousa Ms. Amy Spencer Mr. Frank P. Stephenson Mr. Byron Stevens Mrs. Nancy Susott Ms. Michelle L. Taylor Mr. Cleveland H. Thayer Jr. † Mr. R. Cole Thompson Mr. Robert F. Tintle Mrs. Rosemary Tintle Mr. Mark Tretter Ms. Neethi Venkateswaran Mr. Richard Walker Mrs. Allyn Wenzel Mr. Phillip Wenzel Mrs. Chris West Ms. Aimée Whitenack Ms. Mary Ann Wilkinson Ms. Brianna Wright Mr. Jeffrey S. Young Mr. Mike Ziebell † Gift in Kind

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The 13th annual Run in the Forest attracted nearly 350 runners and walkers to the Del Monte Forest in September for a 5K walk/run and a 10K run. This community-building event celebrates the start of the Stevenson school year and brings together young and old, fast and slow from all over the Monterey Peninsula. The race concludes with a celebratory brunch buffet in Reid Hall. This event is possible due to the generosity of its sponsors, participants, and volunteers.

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Ms. Miriam Weiss Mr. Gordon Wells West Coast Hospitals, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Michael T. Whalen Mr. & Mrs. Michael Willetts Ms. Susan J. Willey Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Williams Mr. & Mrs. James R. Williams Ms. Nancy A. Williams Mr. Thomas Wilson Rev. & Mrs. Lamont Wiltsee The Yeh Family Mr. & Mrs. Richard Yeo

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Antonio Fernandez Kay & Andrew Fernandez Christine & John Fleige Mary Ann & Henry Franscioni Jr. Dee & Martin Girard Green Valley Floral Susy & Bjorge Gretland Paul Griffin Hahn Estates Winery Ksenija Bozica & Gus Halamandaris Lea Haratani Julie & Mike Hawkes Joan & Eugene Hill Linda & Kendall Jang Lisa & Steve John Anne & David Johnson Allyson & Robert Kavner Donna & Daniel Lee Kathryn & Stephen Loken Janet & Curtis Louie Margarete Schmidt & Michael Lozito

Douglas Margerum Margerum Wine Company Faith & Douglas Margison Adele & Jonathan Margolis Kim & Steve McIntyre McIntyre Vineyards Michele Miller Solana Montes Morgan Winery Marie & Seth Neiman Trina & Ricky Nguyen Letricia & Philip Niegos Pirate Parent Club Pebble Beach Company Pessagno Winery Post Ranch Inn Maureen Raynaud Cary & David Reynolds Gayle & Ken Riley Lauren & Mark Roe Ann & John Rossi

Karen Turner & Curtis Sanford Nancy & Scott Scheid Scheid Vineyards Shauna Redford & Eric Schlosser Laurel & Harvey Schrier Shannon Ridge Winery Sandra & Alan Silvestri Silvestri Vineyards Helen & Michael Spanos Cindy & Randall Stuewe Swenson & Silacci Talbott Vineyards Debbie & Dale Tills Yumi & Akio Tosu Kimberly & Mark Wasserman Kristina Olfson & James Wayman Teri & Robert Weirauch Jan & Michael Weisberg Elaine & Don Wood Colin Young Nancy Zweng

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Stevenson Alumni are a diverse group and everyone has a story to tell. Read on to learn about personal achievements, exciting experiences, and other adventures of fellow alumni.

We want to hear from you! Please email your personal stories and digital photos* for the Alumni At Large section to alumni@stevensonschool.org. *All photos become the property of Stevenson and must be 300-dpi, high-resolution images.

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WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! Please email your personal stories and digital photos* for the Alumni At Large section to alumni@stevensonschool.org. *All photos become the property of Stevenson and must be 300-dpi, high-resolution images.

1963 David Campbell ‘62 is beginning his 29th year as a professor in the Department of Psychology at Humboldt State University, and is currently studying psychology and climate change (http://users.humboldt. edu/decampbell/psyc.htm). He recently tried to “purchase” a two-handed tennis backhand with a series of lessons. Conclusion: difficult to change after 50 years of one-handed practice; better to emulate Roger Federer’s one-handed swing!

1964 Johns Hopkins University professor, research scientist, and psychopharmacologist Roland Griffiths ’64 was quoted heavily in an article that appeared in the Los Angeles Times and Monterey Herald on studies done by a West Coast research team associated with UCLA on the use of the psychedelic drug psilocybin, the active ingredient in “magic mushrooms,” by terminally ill cancer patients (http://www.montereyherald.com/ ci_16030055?source=email). He is involved in similar research at Johns Hopkins, where he is Professor of Behavioral Biology in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. An early advocate for truth in advertising about caffeine, Roland is an authority on the substance and its addictive qualities; and notes in relation to psilocybin that because the drug has “such a tarnished history… many oncologists are reluctant to refer volunteers” to help with the research. He earned a BS in psychology from Occidental College and a PhD in the same subject from the University of Minnesota. Lou Ogaard ’64 lives in New Mexico with his wife Sandra. He holds a PhD in botany from North Dakota State University and ran an environmental restoration

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program for the state for more than 20 years. He works with a nonprofit and runs a research and development program to convert algae to biofuel. He lived in Spain for three years while in the military during the Vietnam War and retired to Bolivia for two years. He holds dual citizenship in Bolivia and the United States. For 13 years while living in North Dakota he was head coach of soccer at Bismarck High School and won two state championships. He has two sons; one owns three motels in Oregon and Washington and the other will finish up his PhD in robotics next year at the University of North Dakota. He enjoys downhill skiing, hiking, camping, and tennis.

1965 Alfred “Chip” Gardes ’65 gaduated from Claremont Men’s College (now Claremont McKenna) in 1969 and married his college sweetheart, Kit. After a short and undistinguished Army tour in Japan as a translator, he began a 25-year career building, repairing, and inspecting boats. It was fun, but hard on the body, and in 2003 he went back to school to earn an MA in English. Since 2006 he and Kit have divided their time between teaching at Portland State University and various universities in China and Mexico. They live just outside of Portland, Oregon and welcome contact with alumni in the area. He can be reached at chipgardes@yahoo.com. Klaus Porzig ’65 recently published Journeys in the Southern Ocean, a portfolio of photographic images from his trip to Antarctica. The trip had multiple aspects to it: “a journey in the physical landscape, a journey in the fragile wildlife ecosystem, and a journey through time and the history of man’s exploration of the region and tragic exploitation of its wildlife.” The region is impressive, he says, “not just for the massive icebound continent but also

the vast Southern Ocean with its many islands.” The book is available on blurb.com. In the “bookstore” menu, enter “porzig” or “kporzig” or “journeys in the southern ocean” in the search field. The site also allows viewing the book in its entirety without having to buy it. The direct link is www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/897756.

1968 George Kelley ’68 is the owner of Stevinson Ranch Golf Club in Stevinson, California (www.stevinsonranch.com), the #5 ranked Best Public Course in America by GolfWorld magazine Reader’s Choice Awards 2010. With cottages and complete dining facilities available at the course, it’s a great getaway to reconnect with what’s important in life! George graduated from the University of Colorado in 1973 and played professional golf from 1973 to 1976, which included competing in the US Open in 1974 and the British Open in 1975. He is currently CEO of Greenway Golf, a golf course management company (www.greenwaygolf.com).

Klaus Porzig ’65 and his wife Ellen

1970 Brent Lloyd ’70 was honored with the Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center Distinguished Individual Citizen Award in Boise, Idaho. Mary Abercrombie, current Stevenson trustee and mother of J.D. Abercrombie ’00, received the same award in 1999. The award honors individuals for their leadership, vision, creativity, and philanthropy. Their gift of time and support enables Saint Alphonsus to improve the health of the community; they serve as role models for generations of leaders who follow them and support the ongoing mission of Saint Alphonsus (http://www.saintalphonsus.org/Foundation_events_distinguished.html).

1971 Kevin McNeely ’71 writes, “I always look forward to bumping into classmates and fellow alumni Skip Olinger, Don Dormer, David Chapman, Bobby Kelley, John Todd, Charlie Winton, Jack Cowden, John Liden, Winston Boyer, John Witkin (Water Buff!) around San Francisco, and always at Christmas time when Master Charlie Bates and Jeff Anderson collect the classes of ’71 & ’72 (and others) for a little holiday merriment...is it possible that our 40th reunion is coming up next June 10-12?!?... hope as many of us as possible will migrate back to campus to relive those halcyon times... Hannah Rose our nine year old keeps us on our toes and Rosemary and I after 20 years in Manhattan love living in the wine country... try our grape juice, Roessler Cellars and let me know what you think... our partnership in Le Colonial affords us an opportunity to see our San Francisco/ RLS friends.... I look forward to our June reunion and encourage the classes of ’70 & ’72 to join us for a spirited time!”

Mike’s first ride and Jeff’s 32nd. He thinks Jim has been involved for at least 15 years. About 250 men participate and they camp (set up a little city) on a different ranch each year. “On the ride we are all just men,” he says. “Egos are left at home (in most cases).” Jeff owns Anderson Inn/ Galley Bar & Grill in Morro Bay (www. andersoninnmorrobay.com).

1973 Kevin Ford ’73 is a member of the Board of Chaplains at M.I.T. and has been on a six-month sabbatical that has taken him to the U.S. and British Open Golf Championships (first things first!) and then to the Netherlands, Hungary, Slovakia, Austria, Czech Republic, England, Scotland, and Venezuela. He is spending October in South Africa, with a possible excursion to Victoria Falls and Zambia.

1974 And speaking of Jim Flagg ’74, his son Jack is a freshman at Stevenson; he is the 15th member of the Flagg family to enroll! Jim is president of Ocean Park Hotels (www.ophot.com), with headquarters in San Luis Obispo. Bill Burkett ’74 lives in San Francisco and is chairman of Evans Consoles, the world leader in the design and manufacturing of custom control room solutions for mission-critical and other technologyintensive environments (www.evansonline.com).

1975 After some years on the Monterey Peninsula, Whit Taylor ’75 has relocated to Southern California, to La Quinta, 30 miles east of Palm Springs, where he is working in commercial real estate investment and development.

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Jeff Anderson ’72 reported that he met up with Jim Flagg ’74 and Mike Winton ’74 during the 2010 Caballeros de San Luis Obispo Trail Ride, which takes place every Memorial Day weekend. This was

Author Phillip Wilhite ’76 lives in Oakland and recently published a new novel, Surviving Chadwick, that was featured on a new television program about books that aired on KRON 4 At The Bookstore in

John Aarons ’76 and his daughter Anna

mid-September (www.survivingchadwick. com). Phil graduated from UC Berkeley in 1980 with a BA in political science (he was also a member of the basketball team) and from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1997 with an MBA. A recent book review is at www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/ clarion/surviving-chadwick). Steve Routh ’76 is associate professor and chair of the Department of Politics and Public Administration at California State University, Stanislaus and a visiting professor at UC Davis. He recently received the Outstanding Professor Award for Distinguished Teaching at CSU Stanislaus. He graduated from Santa Clara University and received his PhD in political science from the University of California, Davis. He lives in Davis with his wife Carol. Robert Mackay ’76 retired from the Vallejo Police Department and is being a “stay at home dad” for now in Petaluma, California.

1977 David Lewis ’77 has joined Genea Energy Partners in Yorba Linda, California as its CEO. Genea is a Clean Tech Software-as-aService (SaaS) company focused on

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Bobby Clampett ’78 and John Louie ’11 team up at the First Tee

energy management in the commercial real estate sector (www.GeneaEnergy. com). Prior to joining Genea, David was founder and CEO of DLC, Inc., a leading Southern California-based consulting firm focused on financial project execution at a national level, with offices in Los Angeles, Orange County, San Francisco, Chicago, and Dallas. DLC initiated its consulting operation in 2001, and by late 2008 had grown to a firm of 300 professionals providing financial systems implementation, reporting, forecasting, operational analysis, and transaction support services to clients in the hardware, software, cloud computing, real estate, media, and consumer products industries (among others). The company was acquired by a private equity firm in December 2006 and David continued as the firm’s CEO until April 2010. Prior to DLC, David was founder and CEO of an executive search firm serving many of California’s Fortune 1000 companies. His management background includes extensive focus on scaling high-growth companies, talent acquisition, building business development teams, and finance. David holds BA and MA degrees in Economics from Georgetown University. He has been a member of the Los Angeles Venture Association, Vistage International (formerly TEC), TIGER 21 (where he

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serves on the member advisory council), and of the Alumni Council at Stevenson School. Genea’s Building Optimization Platform (BOP V2.0), released in March 2010, combines tenant energy management, energy monitoring, and analytical and reporting tools with direct interface and control of building energy systems to generate new revenue for commercial office building owners, measurably reduce energy spend, increase equipment life, and improve portfolio value while enhancing tenant environmental comfort. With an immediately addressable domestic market of more than 12 billion square feet of commercial office real estate representing $35 billion in annual energy spend, Genea’s product suite addresses an area of critical economic and environmental concern for property owners and managers by reducing energy consumption and improving their environmental impact profile.

1979 Donald Mackay ’79 is manager of 1st American Title Company in Healdsburg, California. Craig Lewis ’79 reports that his company Artisan Precast (www.artisanprecast.com) continues to expand and has been working with contractors all over the country

on fence and wall projects as diverse as private homes, schools, public parks, bottling facilities, fire stations, and military bases. He says its products are betterlooking, better-performing, greener, and integrally colored and therefore maintenance-free in comparison to traditional cinder block and concrete masonry units.

1980 Emeric McDonald ’80 sent a note from Yosemite: “At Yosemite National Park this past week I hiked up Half Dome and marveled at the glorious vistas. Though altitude can have a deleterious effect on cognitive ability, I was descending the formidable mountain just above the spectacular Nevada Falls when I crossed paths with an athletic man in blue mirrored sunglasses whom I was sure I knew. He passed me as I stumbled for the words ‘Coach Young.’ Spoken too softly, he did not hear me, but his lovely wife, who was nearby, said ‘Yes, it’s Jeff.’ Jeff Young, I boomed in an excited and stentorian voice. My self identification was followed by glad smiles and a happy embrace. We enjoyed a brief visit talking of Stevenson and of hiking in Yosemite. My senior year of 1979–1980 was Jeff’s first at the school and I remember well his positive and affirming style while coaching our

At Yosemite National Park, Emeric McDonald ’80 hiked to the top of Half Dome and while descending crossed paths wth Jeff Young.

Lesley built, managed, and grew MySQL’s worldwide volume sales and subscription renewal sales. She is a graduate of UCLA and lives in Los Altos with her husband Gary.

Rett Schmidt ’83 and his family

Lacrosse Team. We expressed mutual admiration of one another’s fitness and wished each other well over the remainder of the summer. As I continued my descent beneath a warm sun and clear blue skies, I reflected on the many gifts I have been so fortunate to receive in my life and that none are worth more than a person’s time patiently and generously given.”

1982 Most people dream dreams; Bernhard Heitz ’82 tends to live them! Last year he drove 14,000 miles through the United States to visit all the major league baseball parks and watch games. Lesley (Lloyd) Young ’82 is vice president for North American Sales at Huddle, a European company and the only true provider of intercompany collaboration in “the cloud.” She is former senior director of MySQL World-Wide Volume Sales at Oracle and VP Corporate Sales WorldWide at MySQL. Her goal is to use Huddle’s EMEA success and her experience running volume sales teams to grow a high-velocity, volume sales organization in North America. Prior to Sun Microsystem’s acquisition of MySQL for $1 billion,

Doug Luehe ’82 graduated in May from the National War College at Fort McNair, in Washington, D.C. with an MS in national security strategy. He is very pleased to hear good news about Stevenson water polo and swimming. He was a polo goalkeeper at West Point; and he credits his academic preparation at Stevenson with getting him past his freshman year at USMA, where he graduated in 1986 with a BS in mechanical engineering. After serving for five years as an active Army Engineer Officer, he entered the Reserves, became a project engineer for the National Park Service, and for the past 14 years has been an analyst with the Navy and Defense Department. He and his wife Deb have been married 24 years and have four children: Drew, Diana, Dallas, and Dustin.

1983 Dawn Woods ’83 visited the school recently with her two children Lea (15) and Marc (11). They live in Paris and Dawn works in real estate. She graduated from UCLA in 1988 with a BA in history. Rett and Molly Schmidt ’83 are returning to California after 10 years of living in Southeast Asia and working with the online industrial auction house GoIndustry. They bring with them their two children, Anne (3.5) and Spencer Walter, born August 5, 2010. Their big trip this year was tramping on the South Island of New Zealand, which was “totally spectacular.” Pictures can be seen on erett.com. Rett graduated with honors from Menlo College in 1989 with a major in philosophy and a minor in business administration; and earned a master’s of international management degree in 1991 from the Thunderbird School of Global Management, with emphasis on Southeast Asia and Mandarin Chinese.

Joe Workman ’83 is professor of chemistry at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. He recently received the Kirk Award for excellence in teaching. He is pursuing research in green chemistry; his projects, all of which involve his students, include green oxidative desulfurization of petroleum and environmentally benign synthetic oxidation chemistry. A graduate of Santa Clara University, Joe earned a PhD from Carnegie Mellon. During the 2001-2002 school year he was a visiting research professor at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, where he did work in organometallic chemistry; and in 2004, 2006, and 2008 he led groups of Centre students to New Zealand to study the physical science of volcanoes. He played a leadership role in Centre’s successful efforts to secure a high field nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer, which is accessible to students for study and research.

1984 Darrin McMahon ’84 was recently awarded a prestigious Humboldt fellowship that will enable him to live in Berlin for a year and work on his next book. An article in the September 15 Monterey Herald (Business Section) headlined “Chasing real estate fraud” focuses on State Real Estate Commissioner and current Stevenson parent Jeff Davi ’85, who was appointed to the position by Governor Schwarzenegger in 2004. The signing of Senate Bill 94 by the governor in October 2009 prohibited upfront fees for loan modifications and enabled Jeff’s office to quickly ramp up investigations of modification fraud cases and, more recently, short-sale frauds now that this type of sale is more prevalent. The Department of Real Estate investigates, but its enforcement powers are limited to revoking or suspending licenses and issuing “cease and desist” orders. But they do provide much of the groundwork when cases involve law enforcement. Jeff is “pretty much planning to leave,” he says,

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at the end of the current governor’s term but isn’t ruling out staying on if the new governor asks him to.

1985 Our best wishes and congratulations go out to Liz Dunn ’85 and Ivan Wright Thelin, who were married on July 9. Liz is director of product at Funny or Die, an online video comedy website, and Ivan is an environmental designer at Landor Associates in San Francisco.

1986 Karen (Norris) DeBellis ’86 is living very happily in the great Northwest near Seattle. She and husband Jay have three sons, John (6), Kalman (4), and Alex, who was born Christmas Day 2009. Karen earned a BS in communications from UC Berkeley and MBA and MPH degrees from Tulane. Marc Moran ’86 is tennis director at Club Sport in Pleasanton, California. He and his wife Cassandra live in Alamo with their two children, Madeline (8) and Maximilian (5). He graduated from Santa Clara University in 1990 with a BS degree in communications. Sandy Woods ’86 has been working and living in Macedonia since 2005 when his two-year Peace Corps experience ended. He is currently concluding a 15-month contract at USAID Macedonia as Education Office Director, and is now ensconced in his new job as Program and Training Officer with Peace Corps Romania. In September 2007 he married Emilija Kusakatova in Skopje; and last November they celebrated the birth of their son Victor Alexander Woods. He hopes to make it back for his 25th reunion in June 2011.

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1987 Greg Lippman ’87 is executive director of ACE Charter School, in San Jose, California, an elementary school catering primarily to Latino, poor, and Englishlearners (www.acecharter.org). The school was noted in an article headlined “Grading schools” that appeared in the September 14 San Jose Mercury News about the school’s improvement from last year in its Academic Performance Index score. Focused teaching helped the school gain 127 points this year, the highest increase of any school in the county. The school, which this year expanded to grades 5-8, uses an extended school day to, in Greg’s words, “intensely personalize the curriculum that every child is getting.” He has been involved with education for many years, as a teacher in San Jose and East Palo Alto, as leader of a $4 million construction project remodeling an elementary school site, and as co-founder of Downtown College Prep, a school whose mission is to help low-achieving students become the first in their family to graduate from a four-year college. Greg earned a BA in English from Princeton University and a master’s in the Arts of Teaching from Stanford. Oregon Ducks Unlimited has selected “Backwater Mallard,” by artist Peter Mathios ’87 as its 2011 Sponsor print. Proceeds raised from the sale of the print will directly benefit waterfowl and wetland habitat. Ducks Unlimited is the leading waterfowl conservation group in the world and has helped to create, preserve, and enhance millions of acres of wetlands throughout North America. Prints of this painting will be available sometime in late November or early December (www.mathiosstudios.net). Kimberley Mead ’87 is a freelance designer photographer in Austin, Texas

(www.kimberlymead.com). She has a BA degree in studio photography and graphic design from San Diego State University and a master’s degree in counseling from St. Edwards University in Austin. She also studied communication design at Parsons School of Design in New York. Her photos can be seen at (www.flickr. com/photos/creative13).

1988 Colleen (Finegan) Bailey ’88 is executive director of the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas. She has BA and MA degrees in theater from USC and Northwestern, respectively. Before accepting this position, she taught and directed dance and performing arts programs at Stevenson, Fountain Valley School (Colorado), and Sage Hill School in Southern California. Justine “Tina” Baldwin ’88 has begun her 18th year teaching elementary school. She is the producing director of Jaxx Theatricals (www.jaxxtheatricals.com), a musical theater company that she co-founded. The company produces shows in Hollywood and has an active youth outreach program with after-school classes and productions at sites across the county. Christian Cevaer ’88 has had a busy golf season in Europe, where he finished 4th in the PGA European Tour Iberdola Open in Mallorca, Spain; and in the top 25 in both the Czech Open and the Johnnie Walker Championship (in Scotland). With thanks to Dr. and Mrs. Dauphine, we can report that Marc ’88 is a Catholic priest in Watsonville; Nicole ’90 earned a PhD from Cornell and is working at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.; Carl ’92 is writing music; and David ’95 is a PhD student at UC Berkeley. Marie Mockett ’88 lives in New York with her husband and son Ewan Mockett Drummond, who was born in December

longtime friend Melissa Beuchat and they live in Las Vegas with JT’s five-yearold son Maxwell.

Erin Saluta ‘89 aboard the USS George H.W. Bush

1992 Anquinette Barry ’92 graduated from Columbia University in May with a BA in sociology, and has started a graduate program at the University of Washington pursuing a PhD in the same subject. She will earn her master’s along the way. In January 2010 Chris Ferrari ’92 launched Ferrari Public Affairs, a results-driven government and public relations firm with offices in Las Vegas, Reno, and Carson City. The firm provides local, state, and federal lobbying and regulatory consulting services to public and private-sector clients across the country (www.ferraripa.com). 2009. Her first novel, Picking Bones from Ash. was shortlisted for the Saroyan International Prize for Fiction and was a finalist for the Paterson Prize; and received some wonderful reviews, including from the Los Angeles Times (www.mariemockett.com). She graduated from Columbia University in 1992 with an AB degree in East Asian studies and languages. Shaun Saluta ’88 and her husband John Heafner have three children and live in Norfolk, Virginia. Shaun recently earned a degree in nursing and works with local public schools.

1989 Christi (Gibowicz) Doyle ’89 and her husband Tim are physical therapists and they recently returned from an exciting year abroad, half of which was spent working with a nongovernmental organization, Health Volunteers Overseas (HVO) in the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan. While in Bhutan they were able to go on two treks (one taking them to 16,000 feet), travel to central Bhutan to visit remote villages and basic health care units, teach the upand-coming physical therapy technicians, and treat some of the local people, one of whom was the Queen Mother of Bhutan.

It is still an astonishing place, pristine and culturally intact; every picture one takes could be submitted to National Geographic! From Bhutan, Tim and Christi went to India, Sri Lanka, Singapore, and Australia before returning home to Pacific Grove. Erin Saluta ’89 earned BA and MS degrees from Hollins College and CSU Sacramento respectively. She is a civilian employee of the U.S. Navy and, as a “fun boss,” she is in charge of recreation on an aircraft carrier.

1990 Patrick DeYoung ’90 and Stephanie Ghinn (Barnes) ’90 were married in 2009 and welcomed the birth of their daughter Cordelia on May 31, 2010. Pat is co-owner of Blue Moon Organics in Aptos (www.bluemoonorganicsfarm.com), and for the second year Outstanding in the Field used the farm as a venue location. Stephanie is the Lower School librarian at Santa Catalina School, which her daughters Alexandra and Fionnuala attend. J.T. Moran ’90 is a partner in his family’s law firm, where he focuses primarily on gaming matters, business licensing, and criminal defense. He recently married

After several years of working closely with directors to develop their films and commercials, Victoria Foster ’92 is now head of production at Voyage Media in Santa Monica, a company that creates competitive film, TV, and commercial pitches to help clients package their projects (www.voyagemedia.com). She is expanding their development services to be able to include non-industry clients who have cool ideas, and encourages alumni to get in touch with her if they’ve got a movie idea they want to get off the shelf! Darlene Kemp Prentice ’92 had a healthy baby girl on May 11, 2010 named Kayla Renee. She joins big brother James Andrew Kemp Prentice who is 3 years old. Darlene is an attorney specializing in family law and has her own office in Aptos. Her website is (www.dkemplaw.com). She has enjoyed reconnecting with her fellow classmates on Facebook. Jonathan Schiff ’92 is chairman of Schiff Development (www.schiffdev.com), a provider of dormitory housing in Macau. Primary clients are Macau’s gaming companies, for whom Schiff provides housing for import line-level workers. Jonathan is a graduate of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and of language and real es-

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James ’89, Scott ’94, and Michael ’99 Pfeiffer

tate programs at Middlebury College and Harvard University, respectively. Beginning in 1998 he spent several years in Chengdu, China, where he became fluent in Mandarin. Dr. Amy Lantis Stemerman ’92 is the medical director of the new Nancy Ausonio Mammography Center in Salinas. The center is completely digital; the equipment is more effective at detecting abnormalities in premenopausal women and those with dense breast tissue than

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anything before it; and it is a quick, painless, and practically paperless process. Courtney Slautterback Harwood ’92 and husband Harry announce the birth of their second child on March 6, 2010. Matthew Alexander (Zander) is named after Courtney’s brother Matt Slautterback ’89, who died in an auto accident while a student at Middlebury College. Zander joins his sister Cameron, who has already taken over his upbringing and guardianship!

Karan Dehghani ’94 reports from Frankfurt, Germany that he is an investment analyst with DWS, the largest mutual fund company in Germany and a subsidiary of Deutsche Bank, in which capacity he assists its director with his various responsibilities in government, education, and the private sector, including the World Bank, Leipzig Graduate School of Management, and The Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance at Yale University. Karan’s latest experience in global finance was contributing to corporate governance development in Bulgaria, Morocco, Jordan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and The Philippines. His team at the bank helps ensure that corporate governance codes are developed, implemented, and enforced in these emerging markets to improve transparency and shareholder rights in capital markets. In his spare time, he started a venture that helps young entrepreneurs

1993 Justin Clymo ’93 has joined the Stevenson community as a teacher and Director of Student Activities. He graduated from UC Davis in 1998 with a BA in religious studies and English. While there he met his wife Amy and was part of the basketball staff that won the 1998 Div. II National Championship. In 1999 he became head basketball coach at El Camino High School in Sacramento and taught computers, English, and AVID during his nine years at the school. He moved back to Salinas in 2008 to teach and coach at Palma. He and Amy have two daughters, Kailey (7) and Sydney (5), and a son Lincoln (9 months). Amy is an engineer for CH2M Hill.

Ken Tabuchi ’94 and Michiko with their son Towa

Kristoffer Polaha ’95 with his wife Julianne and their boys Caleb and Micah

Jen Jacobs Bolger ’96 and husband Jeff, with Benjamin Arthur

can be seen on Tuesday evenings at 9:00 p.m. on the CW Channel.

develop their business ideas and, because of his exposure to art at Stevenson, he also represents and supports a German artist named Hiro Yima (www.hiro-yima.de). Brad Robinson ’94 reports that he recently left his position as a craft beer specialist with K&L Distributors to take over as sales manager for Three Skulls Ales and Baron Brewing, a dual-brand microbrewery in Seattle that sells beer in Washington, Idaho, Oregon, Alaska, and New Jersey. He would like to reassure alumni who have sipped the beer he makes at home that while he gets to pick what beers the brewery makes, they definitely do not allow him to brew any of it! Ken Tabuchi ’94 reports that his wife Michiko gave birth to their firstborn son in July, and that they are saying good-bye to Tokyo after seven years there. They are relocating to Sydney, Australia through his company EMC, with which he has been an enterprise data storage support engineer for the past five years. He will continue to support its global customer base from Sydney. A big welcome home to Michael Tamburri ’94, who is returning to Washington, D.C. after spending the past four years in Jalalabad and Kandahar, Afghanistan. Working for a USAID implementing part-

ner since 2003, he remains professionally and personally dedicated to the stabilization of Afghanistan and its long-term prosperity. His time in Afghanistan, he says, “has been punctuated by the critical support of my Stevenson family, including Bob Anderson ’95, Pat Orosco ’94, Mary (Reding) Smith ’95, Josh Bonifas ’94, Erin Schelcher ’97 and Jalil Afridi ’93.”

1995 Ryan and AnneMarie Anderson ’95 have moved to Centennial, Colorado with their two children, Ginger and Grant. Ryan works with Fuller Sotheby’s International Realty in Greenwood Village (www.FullerSothebysRealty.com).

Kim Wagstaff ’95 is living in Ohio and, since 2007, has been working with JM Smucker. She was promoted recently to the position of marketing manager of peanut butter. She previously managed the Crisco brand and, before that, the Pillsbury brand in Canada. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan and, in 2002, earned a master’s degree in Spanish from Arizona State.

1996 Jenifer Jacobs Bolger ’96 and her husband Jeff welcomed their first child, Benjamin Arthur, on July 8, 2009. They live in Monterey and Jen sells real estate for The Jacobs Team along with her mom Joy. Their website is (www.JacobsTeamHomes. com). Jen graduated from Santa Clara University in 2000 with a BA in history.

Sarah Gurney ’95 lives in Boston and is a working artist. She graduated from RISD in 1999 with a BFA in printmaking, and has worked as an art conservation technician and in exhibition preparation for works on paper at the Museum of Fine Arts, and Boston and Harvard Universities. She married Howard Nager in 2002 and has a son, Milo, born in November 2008, and now a daughter, Hattie, born in August 2010. Kristoffer Polaha ’95 and his wife Julianne are expecting their third child in January. Kristoffer’s show Life Unexpected has been picked up for a second season and

Neelam Jain ’95 and Eric George Weber on their wedding day

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1997

Pirates Melissa Lee ’96, Janette Golomeic ’97 and Sara Prestigiacomo Cain ’96 at Kristi Marotta’s ’96 wedding to Allen Wang ’96

Dean Branscum ’96 graduated from Lafayette College in 2000 with a BA in government and law, and was a threeyear varsity letterman as a tight end on the football team. He lives in San Francisco and manages rice farming and wetland development in the Sacramento Valley. Melissa Lee ’96 works as a therapeutic companion for a child with special needs in Los Angeles. She is continuing her work toward her master’s degree in crosscultural education. During the summer she was a director for Camp Ronald McDonald for Good Times, a camp for children with cancer and their families (www.campronaldmcdonald.org). In August, she and fellow pirates Janette Golomeic ’97 and Sara Prestigiacomo Cain ’96 served as bridesmaids in Kristi Marotta’s ’96 wedding. The reception was held at Rancho Cañada, which was special because the last time they were all there was for their Stevenson graduation dinner with their families in 1996! Air Force Captain Patrick McClintock ’96 married Stacie Eakes on September 4 in Sacramento with the full support of Nick Harvey ’94, Angelo Micheli ’96, Chris Orosco ’96, Dean Branscum ’96, Aaron Snegg ’96, Forrest Casey ’96, Sam Harvey ’96, and Mike Nevis ’96. Patrick is stationed at Dover AFB (Delaware) flying C-17

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Globemaster IIIs. His recent assignment was a 120-day deployment to Al Udeid AB in Qatar, mostly flying combat missions in and out of Afghanistan. Stacie is a blues singer (www.stacieeakes.com); they met in Sacramento. Patrick graduated from the US Air Force Academy in 2001 with a degree in humanities and is currently finishing up his master’s degree, also in humanities. He remembers well the days of Benbow and Balfour dorms (some of his friends were the first to take up residence in Day Hall), and the Pirate football team going to the CCS playoffs two years in a row; and the lacrosse team traveling to San Diego, where they were runner-up for the state championship! Caitlin Smith ’96 and her husband Ronnie Turturici are thrilled to announce the birth of their daughter Cleo Campbell Turturici, born June 21. They are thoroughly enjoying being parents! Noel Walling ’96 works with Trion Worlds, Inc. and heads the user interface for a massively multiplayer online game in a future-earth setting. He and his colleagues have teamed with the SyFy channel and are developing an internal IP that they will turn into a show (www. trionworlds.com/en/games/syfy-actionmmo.php). He is formerly lead designer on the game EverQuest II at Sony Online Entertainment.

Congratulations to Dominic Boitano ’97, who announced his engagement to Courtney Daniels of Hermosa Beach. They will be married in Carmel next May. Dominic is working with a real estate pension fund advisor/developer (LDC) in Irvine, California, and Courtney is an occupational therapist at a local school district. LDC’s primary client is a large pension fund with a $20 billion real estate portfolio, and they’ve been helping them with a number of big assets across the county. His work has involved the valuation of more than $3 billion in assets and the provision of strategic advice on the restructure of more than $1 billion in debt. One of his current assignments has him working as the primary asset manager for two funds that own more than 10,000 lots in Northern California and Phoenix. Amanda Foster ’97 lives in San Francisco and works with a life science technology company as a sales account manager at UC San Francisco. She also attends San Francisco Law School through an evening program and is student body president and a member of the Delta Theta Phi Sorority. She is a certified scuba diver and enjoys diving in Cozumel. She previously

Dominic Boitano ’97 and fiancee Courtney Daniels

Kimberly Smith ’97 at Machu Pichu

worked as a scientist at the Buck Institute for Age Research, where she focused on C. elegans, a model organism used in aging studies (and the first multicellular organism to have its genome completely sequenced). She participated in several published research projects, including Compounds that confer thermal stress resistance and extended lifespan that appeared in the August 25, 2008 edition of Experimental Gerontology. She earned a BS degree in entomology from UC Davis in 2002. Kyle Krasa ’97 has his own law firm in Pacific Grove and specializes in estate planning, including wills, trusts, and probates. He earned a BA degree in English from St. Michael’s College, Vermont in 2001 and a JD degree from UC Davis in 2004. His wife Amanda is a biologist with the Monterey County Health Department, and they are proud parents of 4-monthold Jonah Bing Krasa. Bianca Sams ’97 reports that her cooking show/blog is up and running, and she invites everyone to go see it at www.fingerlickinkitchen.com. She encourages people to subscribe to the feed, tell friends, follow her on Twitter, and leave lots of comments. And if you know any businesses or people that might want to sponsor her, please send them her way! Or simply tell her recipes you want to see. She has also finished the first draft of Black Irish, a play she’s been working on

Aaron, son of Renee Yung ’97 and Roger Fong

for a little while that has had a first reading and may be headed toward production next year. Auditions continue to hum along, and a graduate program in acting is in the wings. Following Stevenson, Kimberly Smith ’97 trained as an operating room/surgical technician and is currently working as a surgical technician at the Sharps Hospital in San Diego. In 2007 and 2008 she had the pleasure of working with Esperanza, a volunteer organization that has a surgical and community outreach program in Bolivia. She worked with her father, a retired general surgeon, for two weeks each year operating on indigent patients in small villages on the 14,000–foothigh altiplano, in the Andes in southern Bolivia. On each occasion, they did 90 major surgeries, including gallbladders, hernias, varicose veins, and complicated intestinal procedures. They were also able to visit and hike Machu Picchu in Peru and see Iguazu Falls between Argentina and Brazil.

Peter Burchett ’98 is Director of Financial and International Planning with Paramount Pictures in Los Angeles. He is a graduate of Villanova University and he earned MBA and JD degrees at Penn State University. Brittany (Holley) Brubaker ’98 is living in New York City with her husband Scott and they are expecting their first child, a baby girl, in November. Brittany is getting her master’s degree as an adult nurse practitioner at Columbia University. Congratulations and best wishes to Derrick How ’98 and Antoinette Orzano, who were married in May at Eglise St. Roch in Paris, France, and who traveled to the Greek islands of Crete and Derrick How ’98 and Antoinette Orzano at their wedding in Paris

1998 Jasmine Bradley ’98 is finishing up her doctorate in clinical psychology from John F. Kennedy University. She earned a BA in psychology from Williams and an MA in clinical psychology from the University of Hartford. Her brother Max ’07 will graduate from Princeton in 2011.

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Rebecca Novack ’99 and dad Gary ’70

Santorini before returning home to San Francisco. Alumni in attendance were classmates Josh Morgan, Kit Steven, and Morgan Smith. Derrick is Vice President of Acquisitions and Development for the commercial division of Legacy Partners in Northern California, where he is responsible for the strategic management of all office, industrial, and land acquisitions and development in the region. Antoinette is a New York native and works as U.S. controller with Opentable.com. J. Scott Pfeiffer ’98 and his wife Jennifer recently welcomed another baby girl. Stella Stephanie Pfeiffer was born September 5, 2010, coming in at 7lbs 7oz and 21.5 inches long. Their other daughter Grace is now 2 years old and appears to be enjoying her new sibling. Scott is a senior manager in Deloitte Consulting’s Customer Strategy & Technology Practice in San Francisco. Jennifer is a marriage and family therapist with her own practice. Filmmaker Ryan White ’98 won a silver medal for his documentary Camp Unity at the Philadelphia International Film Festival in June of this year. Also featured in the film about the return of the arts to war-torn Iraq is original music written and sung by Sandee Young ’06. The film

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was accepted into the Montreal Film Festival and also the Carmel Film Festival. Its executive producer is alumni parent Joanne Storkan.

in new-product development of robotic surgery platforms.

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Special thanks to class representatives on Team 2000 for collecting all this news!

Samantha Lieberman ’99 is development manager for the San Francisco Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, a nonprofit organization that raises money for breast cancer programs and research. She is engaged to Joseph David Spector; they were married October 23, 2010 in Pebble Beach. She graduated from CU Boulder in 2003 with a double major in anthropology and political science.

Bernard Anderson ’00 has lived in the Bay Area for the past three years. He graduated from UC Santa Barbara and received his MBA in the spring of 2010 from San Jose State University. He is an officer with Morgan Stanley Smith Barney and a writer; he also performs stand-up comedy in San Francisco as a hobby.

Rebecca Novack ’99 earned a BA in rhetoric and media studies from Willamette University and began working life as a legal assistant in a couple of law firms before moving into sales for luxury print media. In 2009 she joined a boutique medical publishing firm in New York as director of client relations, in which position she works with pharmaceutical and device companies in ophthalmology to provide medical writing projects and ad exposure within the pages of The Ocular Surface and Refractive Eyecare. She is a committee member of Ophthalmic Women Leaders and is also involved with the Glaucoma Research Foundation. In these capacities she crosses paths with her father Gary Novack ’70, recipient of the 2010 Merle Greene Robertson Award for Service to Society. Gary is a frequent contributor to the study of eyes through PharmaLogic, a company he created that consults in pharmaceutical and medical device development, primarily ophthalmology. Diana Le ’99 graduated from BU in ’04 in biomedical engineering and from USC in ’07 with an MS, also in biomedical engineering. She is an engineer at Intuitive Surgical in Sunnyvale, California, working

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Kristina Console ’00 works in business operations with Rhino Toys, an international toy company, and handles all national accounts for Target, Toys ‘R Us, WalMart, and Bed Bath and Beyond. She also works with their manufacturer in China. She anticipates going back to school for her master’s degree, all signs pointing to a degree in public policy at CSUMB alongside the Panetta Institute.

Jordana Friedrichs ’00 and Richard Horn on their wedding day

Michelle Singh ’01 and dad at US Open

Milcah Gaskin ’00 and Nicholas Torrez

And she’s still riding her horses and spending time with her many dogs; an aspiring Doris Day, you might say! Sean Donnelly ’00 recently finished up all the animation in the new documentary by Davis Guggenheim (director of An Inconvenient Truth) called “Waiting for Superman,” released by Paramount, which is in theaters now. It’s about the public school system in America. Sean’s documentary that he directed, “I Think We’re Alone Now,” about two obsessed Tiffany fans, was released on DVD in August. Jordana Friedrichs ’00 married Richard Horn January 31, 2010 in Tucson, Arizona; they had their first child, Isabella, in August. Milcah Gaskin ’00 and Nicholas Torrez were united in marriage on July 24, 2010 at St. Mary Magdalen church in Berkeley, California. Bridesmaid Laura Wandke ’00 and Chrissy Coolidge ’00 were in attendance; a fun-filled reception followed. Milcah and Nick met at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and have recently moved back to the Bay Area after spending three years in Dallas.

Matt Heligman ’00 works in the finance department of a global marketing firm based in San Francisco. He’s been very lucky, he says, in that his job has given him the opportunity to work in various locations around the globe. In fact, he’s spent much of this year in places like Geneva, London, Paris, Singapore, and Tokyo. He recently started work on a new project in Dubai, which is taking up quite a bit of his time at the moment. Next year he’s hoping to relocate overseas, but he’s not yet sure where he’ll be going. On a personal level, he’s been married for almost three years. He and his wife met at Syracuse University, where they both got their undergraduate degrees; and they are now working on their MBAs, which they should finish in December. He’s becoming a serious runner; he ran his first marathon last December and is preparing for the Florence Marathon in November. Matt Hermsen ’00 reports that he and Shannon are expecting their first child, a boy, in December. Allison (Morgan) Walker ’00 and husband Jon welcomed their first child, Dylan James Walker, on March 19, 2010. They are enjoying him immensely and take great pleasure in watching him explore the world. And they love the new magazine that Stevenson has started and can’t wait for the next issue! Come to Minnesota!

Anna von Schubert ’00 married Christian Zanders July 24, 2010 at her family’s winery in Germany. Esther Tang ’00 reported that China played host to the first Promise of a Generation China-UAE Forum (POAG) from June 26 until July 1. The forum, held in Beijing and Shanghai, was designed to build new cross-cultural relationships and enhance understanding between like-minded Emirati and Chinese leaders of tomorrow. POAG is a UAE nonprofit organization committed to greater understanding and cooperation among Emiratis and their global partners in their respective economic, political, and cultural destinies. It uses an informal network of influential opinion shapers to carry out its mission (www.poag.ae).

2001 Freya Bass ’01 studied natural resource allocation and wilderness land management at the University of Montana. Since finishing school, she has been all around the world and has spent three years living in the Middle East (primarily in Israel and Egypt) teaching sustainable methods for desert food production and construction. She then spent two years teaching in southern Oregon through the North American School of Natural Building. She is currently back in school studying for her master’s in agricultural education and

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graduates of CU Boulder and Wheaton College (Massachusetts), respectively. Elizabeth Walker ’01 married Joshua Nelson September 18, 2010 at La Playa Hotel in Carmel. Guests included Christiane DeSalvo ’01 and Tiffany (Velasquez) Walker ’01. Elizabeth and Josh traveled to Fiji and Tonga for their honeymoon, and they are building a home in Carmel Valley. Elizabeth has been working as a labor and delivery nurse for the past year.

2002 Joe Stave ’01 and Crystal Mangold ’01 with Higgins

PTE (Professional Technical Education) at the secondary level, at the University of Idaho, where she also manages the university’s five-acre organic farm. Elena Crevello ’01 is living in Los Angeles and is launching a 13-episode web series titled Freckle and Bean, which she wrote, produced, and stars in. It was directed by fellow Stevenson student David Spiegelman ’01 and launches on their website, www.FreckleandBean.com. Armando Dominquez ’01 reports that following Stevenson he joined the US Marines and served for five years, during which time he served in Iraq (in the Fallujah area where Nathan Krissoff ’99 was killed) and worked in intelligence there and in Japan. He also did a lot of crosstraining with law enforcement agencies in the service, including US Customs border protection in San Ysidro, California and in the LAPD Gang Unit out of the 77th Street Division in South Central Los Angeles. He is working on a degree in administration of justice and is involved with NPO volunteer services focused on peer counseling, communications, and conflict resolution; and he is a father.

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Debbie Lin ’01 and her husband Jamin Burdett were married in May at The Peninsula Beverly Hills. Cindy Ling ’00 was Maid of Honor and Tiffanie Gallo ’01 attended. Debbie is in the last year of her MA degree in media studies-management at The New School and has a new product, BoOXERS©, boxers for men and shorts for women made from bamboo fiber and organic cotton available through www.dbyj.com. She also ran in her first half-marathon, this for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Team in Training. Benjamin Lee Lorenzen was born to Matt and Emily Lorenzen ’01 on December 3, 2009. He weighed in at 10 lbs and was 20 inches long. He was born at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Gatos. His grandparents Julie and Lee Lorenzen are reveling in their new job. Best wishes and congratulations to Crystal Mangold ’01 and Joe Stave ’01, who are engaged to be married and are planning a fall 2011 wedding. Crystal is working as a property manager for her family’s real estate company in Monterey, and Joe is working for a lettuce co-op in Salinas as a market analyst. They are

Casey Curtis ’02 graduated from San Francisco State with a BA in English and an MA in creative writing. He is an active poet who is currently exploring the city and working at an organic grocery store. Kevin Drever ’02 played Division I baseball at Santa Clara University and graduated in 2007 with a BS degree in economics. He graduated from Troy University with an MS in international relations in June 2010, and is living in Grovetown, Georgia.

Benjamin Lee, born to Matt and Emily Lorenzen ’01

Emergency Medicine, both on the topic of patients who are frequent users of emergency departments. He has two more publications currently in press in the Journal of Emergency Medicine and Western Journal of Emergency Medicine. He earned a BS degree summa cum laude in physiological science (with a minor in classical civilizations) at UCLA.

Casey Grover ’02 with daughter Kai Julia at his graduation

Casey Grover ’02 is a resident in emergency medicine at Stanford University. He graduated in June from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, achieving the degree of doctor of medicine. Along the way he was president of the UCLA chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha, the national medical honor society. He and his wife Reb Close were married in 2007 and are proud parents of a daughter, Kai Julia Close-Grover, born November 13, 2009. He published an abstract in the journal Academic Emergency Medicine and an article in the Western Journal of

Leina Al-Rabadi ’03 at her graduation from medical school

Nate Smith ’02 is playing on the Nationwide and European golf tours. He finished 9th in the Mexican Open Bi-Centenary, which included shooting 65 and 70 on the final two days; 16th in the Fort Smith Classic in North Carolina; and 58th in the Czech Open. In September, he won the WNB Golf Classic in Midland, TX. Joshua Soros ’02 is working in Central and South America as a teacher of English as a foreign language while helping to save endangered animals and build communities with clean and safe drinking water. He has been joined in this effort by his girlfriend from Russia. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2006 with a BS in communications.

2003 Leina Al-Rabadi ’03 graduated from medical school on June 3, 2010, from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland with an MB, Bch BAO. She is currently engaged in a year of research in colitis at the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at UCLA

We remember Benedikt Heinrich Bringewald ’02 It is with great sadness that we report that Benedikt Heinrich Bringewald ’02 died in an auto accident in Germany on August 27, 2010. He was 26 years old. His brother Bernhard ’04 wrote that Benedikt loved his two years at Stevenson, spoke about them often, and was always ready to help the school in any way he could. A brilliant student, he was also a fine musician and was involved in the pep band, orchestra, and musical. Some of his favorite memories of Stevenson were of winter break in Tahoe, a Pinnacles hike, and the junior class prank with ice. He loved his classmates and his hall mates in Atwood Hall and Day Hall. A favorite quote was: “serva ordinem et ordo te servabit” (keep order and order will keep you). For those wishing to contact Bernhard, his email address is bhbringe@gmail.com.

prior to starting residency training in July 2011, she hopes in the field of pediatrics. Chelsea Curtis ’03 earned a BA in child development and psychology from Cal Poly State University in San Luis Obispo and a teaching credential at Chico State University. She is looking forward to teaching kindergarten through 2nd-grade. Bryan Drever ’03 earned BS degrees in economics and finance with a minor in history from Santa Clara University in 2007; he works with Organic Girl (www. iloveorganicgirl.com) in Salinas. Kristin Goecke ’03 visited Stevenson recently on her trip around the world. She earned her medical degree from the University of Goettingen this year and intends eventually to be a surgeon. Sara Ittelson ’03 has returned to the West Coast to pursue a two-year MBA/ MEd program at Stanford University. She graduated from Northwestern in 2007 with a BA in communication studies. At Northwestern she was financial vice president for the student body, chairing a committee that allocated more than

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2004 Alyson de Guigne ’04 graduated from USC in 2008 and is hoping to break into the entertainment world in Los Angeles, as is Colby Katz ’05, who graduated from George Washington in 2009. Troy Larson ’04 graduated from Santa Clara with a BA in history and is an MBA candidate, Class of 2011 at Middlebury College, Monterey Institute of International Studies.

Michael and Ashley Schelcher ’04 and their dog Hagrid, with Joe Wandke and former faculty member Wally Ramsey

$1 million a year to fund student-organized programming. After graduation she worked for two years in management consulting with McKinsey and Company in its Chicago office. With McKinsey and Company, Sara worked for major companies across the country and had the opportunity to spend three months in India. Upon completing her time at McKinsey, Sara joined the central office of the Chicago Public Schools. She spent a year

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as chief of staff to the chief performance officer of the schools. In this role, Sara supported the rollout of a comprehensive performance management system across the district. After business school, Sara hopes to continue her work applying better management to education environments. Charles Liu ’03 graduated from Columbia in 2007 with a BA in biochemistry and then did two years of research on renal stem cells. He started medical school at SUNY- Stony Brook in the fall of 2009 and is now in his second year. After graduation he hopes to stay in the New York City area for his residency training. Michael Nilmeier ’03 is a premed student at San Diego State University and is directing his energies toward becoming a primary-care physician. During the summer of 2008 he worked on the USNS Mercy, a 900 foot-long floating hospital that serves more than 60,000 patients in South Asia with a staff and crew numbering 1,275.

Merritt Moses ’04 wrote to Mr. Miller to thank him for his support prior to and following her matriculation at college. She graduated from USC (and loved every bit of being there) and has been living in Madrid, Spain the past two years and working with a media conglomerate Grupo Prisa. She worked with IBM from 2008-2009, and she is almost finished with her MBA. Matt Ryan ’04 graduated from Lafayette College in 2008 and will graduate from Santa Clara University School of Law in May 2011. During the summer of 2010 he worked as an intern in the Superior Court of California, Santa Clara. Navy Lt. JG Michael and Ashley (Guzik) Schelcher ’04 attended a football game at Alumni Field. They are expecting their first child in late December. Ashley graduated from UCLA in 2008 with a BA in English. Michael’s initial assignment following graduation from the Naval Academy in 2008 with a BA in history was to the USS Carter Hall, in Virginia Beach, where he became the ship’s engineering officer. Re-assigned to San Diego and subsequently to Bahrain, he is currently in navigator and legal training programs and has been assigned to the USS Thach, a frigate out of San Diego. He reports that Naval Academy and Stevenson classmate Will Gifford ’04 is a “top gunner” in training, flying FA-18s out of Lemoore AFB in Visalia, California.

Nathan Lorenzen ’05 with parents at his Berkeley graduation

Jack Britton ’04 is living in New York and working with Major League Baseball. In March 2010 Kelly Wood ’04 earned an MS degree in construction engineering and management from the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Stanford University. During the past summer she was a leader on her second Bike and Build trip across the United States, riding from Nags Head, North Carolina to San Diego, California to support affordable housing. On her first trip she rode from Jacksonville, Florida to San Francisco. She met Andrew McGraw in 2006 while volunteering with Americorps in New Orleans. They were married October 10.

2005 Amanda Berry ’05 visited us recently. She graduated from MIT in 2009 with a BA in Political science. She lives in Boston and works with CSN Stores (www.csnstores.com). Catlin Erwin ’05 earned a BA in politics with honors from NYU in 2009 and is working in investment banking in New York with Bank of America. Sam Given ’05 graduated from UCLA’s Ray Bolger Musical Theatre Program in 2009, spent a year performing in Los Angeles, and is now living in New York. He is a proud member of Actor’s Equity. Recent credits include “Backwards in High Heels” with the Fullerton Civic Light Opera, “The

Aaron Magid ’05 teaching English in Guangzhou, China

Nutcracker Workshop” (Center Theatre Group), and “La Cage Aux Folles” (Pacific Repertory Theatre). The highlight of his L.A. experience was performing in the Hollywood Bowl Production of “Rent,” directed by Neil Patrick Harris during the past summer. Alex Hungerford ’05 has been traveling in Central America and the Caribbean, in the process of which he and his friend Lauren spent two weeks helping rescue turtles from poachers on an island on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. They also climbed Mombacho Volcano. More recently and for two months they have been volunteering with children in local Granada schools. “I cannot stress how poor these kids are and how much help they need,” he wrote. “Most live in oneroom wooden houses with a sheet of tin for a roof, and they come and go from classrooms and schools as they please during the day and the teachers are often just supervisors to make sure there aren’t fights.”

to children ages 5-15. Between USF and China he spent a year researching social and emotional intelligence, focusing on nonverbal behavior (body language) and lie detection. And on his way to China he spent a week each in Israel and France. He will soon be teaching an upper-level class for Chinese business people trying to improve their English. He finds every day an adventure and invites people to his blog at aaronmagid.wordpress.com. Immediately after graduating in May from USC’s School of Architecture with honors, Sam Pitnick ’05 and three other students from USC flew to Istanbul, Turkey to submit their proposals to an eight-member panel of judges considering

Nathan Lorenzen ’05 graduated from UC Berkeley in December 2009 with a BS in statistics; he works with Playdom, in Mountain View, California as a campaign manager. Aaron J. Magid ’05 graduated from the University of San Francisco with a BA in psychology and is currently living in Guangzhou, China and teaching English

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students with language-based learning disabilities; it has its own teacher training institute and runs workshops on learning differences attended by teachers all over the country (www.windwardny.org). Bob Wei ’06 graduated from Bowdoin College in May with a BA in mathematics and computer science; he is working in New York as a technology consultant with Accenture.

Bob Wei ’06 at graduation from Bowdoin, with Maggie ’08 and family

environmentally and culturally aware designs for a new eco-tourism destination in central Turkey. Also competing were four students from Istanbul Technical University. At a banquet dinner after all the presentations had been considered, Sam was awarded First Place (www.globalspasummit.org/index.php/ summit-2010/presentations). Part of his prize was to be an internship with a hotel group in Asia, which did not work out. His job search is focused presently on Los Angeles and San Francisco.

entrepreneurship and management and organization. She lives in Newport Beach, California and is working at a commercial development company doing property management. Jeremy Sandler ’06 is a teaching assistant at the Windward School in White Plains, New York. Windward is a prestigious lower and middle school that works with

Sandee Young ’06 has moved to Bakersfield where she is working in a two-year internship with the (national) Centers for Disease Control. She wrote and sang original music for Camp Unity, a documentary by filmmaker Ryan White ’98 that won a silver medal at the Philadelphia International Film Festival in June and was shown at the 2010 Montreal Film Festival, and more recently at the Carmel Film Festival in October.

2007 Max Bradley ’07 is a senior at Princeton University and was in touch recently. He is grateful for the support he received

2006 Andrew Berger ’06 signed a minor-league contract with the Arizona Diamondbacks as a free agent and is pitching for the Yakima Bears, in Washington state, which is Short Season A in the Northwest League (www.lehighsports.com/sports/baseball/ release.asp?release_id=9205). Andrew graduated from Lehigh in June with a BS in finance. Stephanie McGregor ’06 graduated in May from the University of Southern California with a degree in business administration and a concentration in both

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James Clappier ’07 somewhere in the Pacific during the Pacific Cup

A page from the children’s picture book that Linda Liu ’07 hopes eventually to publish

Benny Cheung ’05 visits Stevenson with his mother, brother, and sister

here and reports that he is working with a group of Princeton alumni from the Class of 1956 in a college awareness and counseling program for kids in Trenton public schools. So far this year he has worked with about a dozen kids to find suitable colleges for them and help them through the application process. They will be the first in their family to go to college, and most receive a significant amount of negative energy regarding it from their parents. His friends think it’s random and out of the blue that he’s spending so much time with the project, but he considers it a holdover from the influence college counselor Dave Miller had on him and his hope that he can have a similar influence on someone else. Gerritt Cooper ’07 is studying anthropology and Spanish at UC Santa Barbara. He spent the past full school year in Santiago, Chile, and between semesters he traveled to Patagonia, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay. James Clappier ’07 participated in the Pacific Cup sailing race from San Francisco to Kanehoe Bay, Hawaii, which began July 5. He and his roommate Cody Spruce sailed the 27-footer Furthur, and finished second out of six boats in his division (Double Handed 1) in a time of 13 days, 17 hours, 18 minutes, and 45 seconds—43 minutes ahead of the third-place finisher (www.pacificcup.org/2010entrypub). They set a record as the youngest crew to

have ever sailed in the Pacific Cup. James was captain of Stevenson’s sailing team during his junior and senior years; he is currently a member of the sailing team at Eckerd College. Photos and video from the race are available at http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Team-FURTHUR-Ocean-Racing/243712454578?ref=ts. Linda Liu ’07 is in her senior year at Parsons School of Design and, as part of her academic program, she is involved in a yearlong project to create a children’s picture book that she hopes eventually to publish. Her goal is to work in illustration and character design in the film industry. Michael Magruder ’07 writes, “It is incredible to think that almost four years have gone by since I left Stevenson. As I emerged from Pebble Beach, something on a more global scale also emerged; the financial crisis. On September 15, 2008 Lehman Brothers filed for the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history. I now find myself as an employee of Legacy Asset Management Company — the company responsible for the world’s largest derivatives unwind with over 100,000 counterparty contracts and 1.7 million transaction legs. To say I am learning an incredible amount is an understatement. I think back to my senior year economics class with Dan Powers; at the time I struggled with the concepts of supply and demand, now I am working with traders to price complex credit derivatives

such as credit default swaps — what a change! Coach Powers’ invaluable advice has been instrumental to my growth within the world of finance. I remember nearly every class starting with the adage, ‘If you want a girlfriend, read the Wall Street Journal.’ While a date isn’t exactly what I am concerned with, Coach’s wisdom has landed me a position with one of the most historically significant companies of our time.” Michael will graduate in May 2011 from the Stern School of Business at NYU. Laura Prelsnik ’07 has been playing Ultimate Frisbee for three years and this summer she traveled to Prague to play in the World Ultimate Club Championships. The games happen every four years and the location changes for each championship. Barrio, her coed club team from Tucson, missed making it to Worlds by one point, but Duke of Wellington, a team from New Zealand, asked her to play for them. She jumped at the chance (of course, she did!) to play in such a highly competitive tournament. Ranked 27th out of 40 teams going in, Duke ended up placing 17th! It was amazing to see so much spirit and love for the game of Ultimate, she wrote, especially in such a beautiful place as Prague, and she feels lucky that she was able to participate because it really was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

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graphic design for several companies, and is engaged in this work in an internship in Australia. Carter Hickingbotham ’08 is a junior at Occidental and is majoring in economics and Spanish. This is his third year as a member of the Oxy Lacrosse Team; their fall season is in full swing. He may graduate a semester early, in December 2011.

Chelsea Verhasselt ’07 at the World Cup

Robert Bronte ’07 is a senior at UC Berkeley and is majoring in two subjects, political economics and Japanese. He plans to move to Japan upon graduation in May 2011. Chelsea Verhasselt ’07 spent the past year studying abroad in Barcelona, Spain during fall semester 2009 and then Cape Town, South Africa for spring semester 2010. During the summer break she enjoyed the World Cup and worked at the Economic Policy Research Institute, where she focused mainly on macroeconomic issues and social cash transfers to stimulate further development in southern Africa. She mostly worked on projects for South Africa and Mozambique, and she assisted in an economics class offered to South African parliamentarians. She is in her senior year at Santa Clara University. Jackie Nicora ’07 walked on to the Santa Clara University softball team three years ago and this year was named to the Pacific Coast Conference All-Coastal Division first team. A star catcher while at Stevenson, she plays outfield for the Broncos and batted .285 this season while leading the team in sacrifices and ranking third on the team in hits.

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2008 Heidi Blair ’08 is a junior at Colby College. Since June and until December she is studying in Santiago, Chile. During Colby’s January Program she lived in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Joy Chen ’08 is a junior at California Institute of Technology and is majoring in biology. She is spending the first semester at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Kathryn Cogert ’08 is in a five-year program at the University of Washington leading to two BS degrees, one in bioscience and the other in chemical engineering. She plans to pursue a career in biofuels. During the past summer she was involved in an internship at EdiniQ, in Visalia, California, a research company involved in the production of cellulosic ethanol. Wil Gieseler ’08 is entering his junior year at Chapman University and is spending it abroad at the University of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia. He is a film production major, and he spent part of the past summer in Texas working as 1st assistant director on an independent film. He has also been doing computer

Sarah Johnson ’08 is studying abroad at the University of Manchester, England, for the fall quarter, and will return to UC Santa Barbara in the winter to continue pursuing her major in sociology and minors in music and professional business writing. She loves her time abroad and has been traveling in northern Europe. Santa Clara University junior Kendall Keith ’08 is studying history at The College of Global Studies at Arcadia University, part of University College Dublin, in Ireland. In the small-world department, she joined the basketball team there and discovered that the coach is a Fordham University classmate of Matt Arruda, Stevenson’s boys’ basketball coach! Maryam (Mimi) Rastegar ’08 loves UC Berkeley; it has been a perfect fit for her. She is entering her third year and majoring in English, and has internships with Amnesty International and Youth Speaks, both in San Francisco. University of Colorado (Boulder) junior Emily Talley ’08 finished fifth in the Big 12 Women’s Golf Championships, tying for the second-best Big 12 showing ever by a CU female golfer. The only better performance by a Buff was a fourth place in 1999. Maggie Wei ’08 informed us that she has been admitted to the Georgetown University Medical School through a special program that guarantees admission to selected students after their sophomore year in college.

Christina Hsu ’10 is settling in at the Univ. of Rochester and has recently completed her first excursion, a train trip to Toronto (the city across the lake!) to visit friends. Mark Ma ’10 is having a great time at Boston College and is enjoying the football games and “the amazing community and the nice, caring people.” He sees Kat around campus and is in contact with classmates at BU, including Ben, Aasim, Chrishane, and Mary.

Dana Prelsnik ’10 and family at move in day for University of San Diego

2009 Charles Windon ’09 was in touch with Mr. Hankison recently. He is in his sophomore year at Carnegie Mellon and he reports that university is keeping him busy. Early on, he wrote, his intent was to study pre-medicine, which would take him toward medical school, but he discovered that passion is an important aspect of learning, and that he didn’t have it for science and mathematics. So he began to look back and analyze his Stevenson years and the enjoyment he got from being in Bill’s English class and in his studies of history; and he decided to change his major to ethics, history, and public policy, a major that is more along the lines of law school. More important, he remembered what Bill had told him, that “you have great writing skills, but if you just push yourself a little more you can be outstanding.” This self-reflection helped him get back on track, he said, and to realize that what was missing for him in science was the eagerness with which he attended Bill’s classes to discuss the reading of the day. He thanked Bill for his support, and concluded that he is “very blessed to have had a few years in your presence both on and off the golf course.”

Honorable Mention pick. Dylan is a freshman at the University of Denver; Tyler matriculated at Colorado College. Brian Bhaskar ’10 walked on and made the rowing and crew team as a freshman at Gonzaga University. He is on the No. 1 novice rowing team that recently defeated Washington State. Ben Chodosh ’10 is a freshman at Boston University and was a member of every Stevenson vocal group, including the Jazz Choir. He auditioned for four a cappella groups, was accepted to all four, and he chose the group known as The Dear Abbeys (www.dearabbeys.com). We hope he will be in performance when Stevenson’s annual East Coast college tour lands in Boston so we can cheer him on! Hilary Hickingbotham ’10 is a freshman at the University of Vermont and is thoroughly enjoying the school and the environs of Burlington.

Also having a great time is Hillary Merry ’10, who loves being a Wisconsin Badger and even got to see President Obama during his September visit to Madison. Logan Randolph ’10 reports that he worked this summer in Washington state with a mountaineering guide service (www.RMIguides.com) and climbed every day. He is the youngest guide they’ve hired in years, he says, and he enjoyed every minute of it. He attends Middlebury College.

2011 Connor Stuewe ’11 has been named to the USA Swimming 2009–10 Scholastic All-America Team. Members of the Team have a GPA of 3.5 or higher and have achieved the required time standard in at least one event. Connor’s primary events are the backstroke and 200 and 500 freestyle; he currently holds the Stevenson record in the 100 backstroke and the 500 freestyle.

2010 Tyler Allen ’10 (son of Tim Allen ’78) and his classmate Dylan Osborn ’10 were named to the U.S. All-American prep school lacrosse team. Tyler, who broke the school’s single-season record for goals, was a First Team selection; Dylan was an

Connor Stuewe ’11 currently holds the Stevenson record for the 100 backstroke

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View from the Back Porch BY FRANK STEPHENSON, DIRECTOR OF ALUMNI RELATIONS

A Way of Life On the first Monday of the month following formal dinner, the resident community gathers in Erdman Chapel for Vespers, which historically consisted of talks by people from outside the School. A couple of Vespers I hear about often from alumni, in fact, were talks by folksinger Joan Baez and General LeMay, about Vietnam. At the time, Stevenson was about half the size it is today; it was all boys, and boarding students outnumbered day students 2 to 1. Vespers was a way to bring the outside world to our community. Vespers has evolved, and has become a moment each month in our resident life in which we remind ourselves of who we are as human beings and as a community. And in the past two years, senior students have participated. A talk was given this year by Maggie Colburn ’11, daughter of David Colburn ’76, who spoke about her journey to Stevenson and what she has learned over the course of her years here. “We cannot change our past,” she said, “we can only learn from it. We also cannot look to the future because it is out of our hands. We must focus on the present because that is what counts. Our mind controls who we are and who we want to become. And don’t think about yesterday because you’ll miss out on something that is taking place in the present.”

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In a book I read recently, How We Decide, the argument is made that true learning comes from failure, and that what should really concern us is the attitude we convey to our children about that. Do we fear failure or embrace it? If it is bad to fail, why try, why not just live as comfortably and safely as we can within selfimposed parentheses? I wasn’t here during his time, but I’ve read as much as I can about what Mr. Ricklefs believed were the purposes of education and the ends of a life well lived. And the admonition that comes back to me over and over again from him is “Do your best,” which I see as an implied invitation to each of us to reach as far as we can and beyond. “He who learns must suffer,” says Aeschylus. “In the time of your life, live,” says Saroyan. “I invite you to live in the moment,” says Maggie. That’s wolf talk, according to Mark Rowlands in his book The Philosopher and the Wolf. Perhaps that’s what we need these days, more wolves and fewer simians.