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A lumni Horae ST. PAUL’S SCHOOL | ISSUE IV 2022-23

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Kathleen C. Giles EXECUTIVE EDITOR

Karen Ingraham EDITOR

Kristin Duisberg DESIGNER

Cindy L. Foote SECTION EDITOR

Kate Dunlop

SENIOR WRITER

Jacqueline Primo Lemmon

PHOTOGRAPHER

Michael Seamans EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTORS

Ian Aldrich Jana F. Brown Jim Graham Alan Murchie ’81

ALUMNI ADVISORY BOARD

Elise Loehnen ’98 David M. Foxley ’02 Dana R. Goodyear ’94 Jonathan D. Jackson ’09 Malcolm Mackay ’59 Diego H. Nuñez ’08 Published by St. Paul’s School

KRISTIN DUISBERG

More than 700 alumni and guests celebrated Anniversary Weekend 2023 in Millville.

READY FOR THEIR NEXT STEP

In June SPS celebrated the graduation of 142 members of the Form of 2023.

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CONNECTING AND RECONNECTING

Members of the Form of 1953 reconnect before the boat races on Turkey Pond. PHOTO: Michael Seamans

IN THIS ISSUE 2

FROM THE RECTOR

THE SCHOOL TODAY

The Form of 2023 graduates; faculty comings and goings; student standouts; athletics and more.

SPOTLIGHT

In 1976, one of the School’s first girls crews broke barriers — and won a national championship. REVIEWS

“Sacred Muse” Charles Scribner III ’69

“On Our Best Behavior” Elise Loehnen ’98

FACETIME

ALUMNI CONNECTIONS

PROFILE

Harvey Sloane ’54 reflects on his careers in medicine and politics.

Caroline La Voie ’88 begins her term as Alumni Association president with parent perspective and commitment to connections. Ray Joseph ’90 brings leadership, activism to new role as Alumni Association vice president.

PROFILE

IN MEMORIAM

Chance Emerson ’18 juggles roles as college student and indie rocker.

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JACQUELINE PRIMO LEMMON

KRISTIN DUISBERG

Alumni in the art, health and legislative sectors joined Rector Kathy Giles for a panel conversation about work in service to the greater good.

Form Directors Porter Hopkins ’48 and Haley Fuller ’18 found some surprising commonalities when they sat down to talk about their high school experiences.

SPEAKING ABOUT SERVICE

COMMON GROUND

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FROM THE RECTOR

The Importance of Holistic Learning KATHLEEN C. GILES

the challenges before us. Such wishful thinking will not get us very far. This world is very much with all of us. So the work of the School must continue to focus our faith and our resources on guiding students toward building purposeful lives in service to the greater good — building lives that value goodness, truth, and integrity in personal and in civic life, which was the intended outcome of a liberal arts education as first conceived by the ancient Greeks, and not what is being maligned in parts of our society today.

We live in rapidly changing, complex times. These past

In my meetings with alumni, I hear over and over

summer months have brought us devastating wildfires on

again the value they place on the lifelong gifts of their

Maui; a possible military coup attempt in Russia with on-

St. Paul’s School education. I hear about the experience of

going war in Ukraine and now, the disruption of global

being awakened to the beauties of nature and to deep and

food supplies; controversial legal rulings by the United

lasting friendships. Alumni across the decades talk about

States Supreme Court; serious flooding throughout the

the lifetime joy of intellectual curiosity sparked by a certain

country, including destructive floods in neighboring

course or subject. They express enormous gratitude for the

Vermont; and multiple indictments of a former president.

personal curiosity kindled by living in a community full

Artificial intelligence is ubiquitous as it seems to be

of different kinds of people from different backgrounds,

morphing into the proverbial genie that has escaped from

brought together around this dynamic of holistic learn-

its lamp. The impact of these and other turbulent events

ing — learning that gets measured only in small part by

are part of what our teenage students will carry with them

the grades and test scores argued to be the hallmarks of

as they begin their year at St. Paul’s School. I am always

“merit” in recent court rulings and media analyses. No

conscious of the fact that when I see disturbing images on

alum with whom I speak wants to rejoice in past grades

my screens, our 14- and 15-year-old students are seeing

or test scores as the ultimate litmus test of their personal

the same images, but without the life context through

“merit.” Everyone with whom I speak wants to talk about

which I try to interpret them.

the way their experience in our community, diverse in

It is easy to yearn for the days before cell phones — or

all ways as it has been for decades, transformed them

to believe that by removing smart devices or blocking

as people, about how the intensity of spiritual, intel-

internet access from adolescents, we can resolve some of

lectual, emotional, and physical growth changed them

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forever. None of this transformation takes place in isolation, focused only on individual achievement. None of it is possible without the dynamic and diverse community of learners who come together every year from around this world to participate in each other’s education and give life to the deep traditions of learning and being that continue to define St. Paul’s School and keep it relevant. It is incumbent upon all of us to make sure we build the strongest possible community for the kind of holistic learning that current and future SPS students need to understand the world into which they

“SO THE WORK OF THE SCHOOL MUST CONTINUE TO FOCUS OUR FAITH AND OUR RESOURCES ON GUIDING STUDENTS TOWARD BUILDING PURPOSEFUL LIVES IN SERVICE TO THE GREATER GOOD.” will become not only citizens but also leaders. To be credible then, they have a lot to learn now. Living in our fully residential educational setting — a veritable living laboratory in values and community building — will continue to give them a wonderful head start on becoming the citizen leaders for whom eagerness to bear the burdens of others, long the hallmark of leaders in this democratic society, is second nature.

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“THIS CAMPUS IS TRULY BREATHTAKING IT MIGHT NOT BE SOMETHING I THOUGHT ABOUT EVERY DAY ... BUT OFTEN I WOULD TRY TO JUST APPRECIATE WHAT WAS AROUND ME. I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS TAKING MY PARENTS AROUND CAMPUS FOR FAMILY WEEKEND, I SAID [TO THEM], ‘THAT’S MY FAVORITE BRIDGE ON CAMPUS.’ APPARENTLY, THAT’S A PRETTY CRAZY THING FOR A HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT TO SAY.” — Natalie Thayer ’23 Alumni Horae | Issue IV 22/23

Ready for Their Next Step FAITH NINIVAGGI

KRISTIN DUISBERG

he weather for Graduation Weekend might have been speakers Rector Kathy Giles and Student Council Presiunseasonably cold, but the palpable warmth of feeling dent Natalie Thayer ’23. shared by those who had gathered to celebrate the At the beginning of her remarks, Giles urged the graduating students to take a moment Form of 2023 more than comto honor the loved ones who pensated as families, friends, un“LET’S CELEBRATE THE weren’t able to attend the cerederformers and other members WARMTH, GOODNESS mony in person, saying, “Let’s of the SPS community convened celebrate the warmth, goodness on School grounds Saturday, AND JOY OF THOSE and joy of those beloveds and June 3, and Sunday, June 4, for BELOVEDS AND FEEL IT feel it today in our love and gratBaccalaureate, Graduation, and itude for them.” Thayer spoke traditions old and new to send TODAY IN OUR LOVE AND about the deep and abiding 142 Sixth Formers on to their GRATITUDE FOR THEM.” connections she had made with next adventures. — Rector Kathy Giles her formmates and the fact that Indeed, the warmth of human what she would miss most about connection was a thread that ran through the remarks offered by the weekend’s speakers, St. Paul’s School was, “you, the people. Although we will who included Molly Mitchell ’06, a television screenwriter stay in touch and there are many reunions that await us, who delivered the Baccalaureate address, and Graduation we will never be together in quite the same way again.”

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During her Baccalaureate address on Saturday afternoon, Mitchell acknowledged that leaving the connectedness of the St. Paul’s community for almost any other location is inevitably a “shock to the system.” She urged graduates to lean into that experience, fortified by the knowledge that they are leaving the School “fiercely independent, unflaggingly curious, community-minded and — most of all — prepared.” In her Commencement remarks, Giles marveled at the manner in which the Form of 2023 continued — in the words of Secretary Ridder Morton ’23 — “to bleed positivity” in the face of considerable challenges, including COVID-19 and the influence of social media. The connectedness that had helped the graduating class navigate these challenges, she noted, had been beautifully captured by cellist Yo-Yo Ma during his Conroy Visit to the School in May, when he exhorted members of the SPS Orchestra to use their “full bow real estate” when they played.

“Focusing exclusively on playing one’s own part correctly, with shorter strokes that produce quicker and more basic sound, may make mistakes less noticeable, but truly limits the expression of the beauty and spirit with which the music was written and the joy that comes with experiencing that beauty and spirit together, with others,” she said. Following the awarding of diplomas and the joyful tossing of roses, the graduates shared hugs and handshakes with SPS faculty members and then headed to Coit for lunch before leaving School grounds.

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HEARD IN CHAPEL

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DO WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY. GIVE IT EVERYTHING YOU’VE GOT. CHASE YOUR DREAMS WITH RECKLESS ABANDON. DON’T GIVE IN TO DOUBT. DON’T TWIST YOURSELF TO CONFORM TO THE SHAPE OF OTHERS’ EXPECTATIONS. ... ALLOW HARD CONVERSATIONS TO BE TENDER. LET THE CONTENT BE CHALLENGING BUT YOUR APPROACH BE COMPASSIONATE. … EMBRACE YOUR INNER EARNESTNESS. YOU MIGHT THINK IT’S ‘CRINGE,’ BUT TRUST ME, IT WILL SET YOU FREE WHEN YOU CAN PRACTICE A HEALTHY DISREGARD FOR THE IMPOSSIBLE.” — MOLLY MITCHELL ’06 Baccalaureate Address, June 3, 2023

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AMPLIFYING ACADEMICS AND THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE

Introducing Dean of Academic Affairs Megan Drinkwater JACQUELINE PRIMO LEMMON

alking with Dean of Academic Affairs Megan Drinkwater feels like catching up with someone you’ve known for so long that you can’t remember where you met. She listens with full and unhurried attention, is thoughtful and intentional with her words, and her enthusiasm for her new position at St. Paul’s School is palpable when she speaks. “I’m here to see what St. Paul’s School is doing, because I know it’s doing it well. Everybody knows it’s doing it well,” Drinkwater says. “My main role this first year is to observe and absorb and then see where that leads.” Drinkwater joined the SPS community in July from Agnes Scott College, a small college historically for women in Decatur, Georgia, where she taught classics for 17 years and served as department chair for 14. In her new role, she will help each academic program reexamine

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its priorities, strengths, goals and impact. She also will work with department heads and teachers in determining what benchmarks are appropriate for their areas. Her ultimate goal, she says, is to help the School amplify and communicate the alignment between its academic programs and the overall student experience. Bringing to bear her work at Agnes Scott, where she also served as director of the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Professional Development and sat on committees for curriculum and institutional effectiveness, Drinkwater emphasizes that she’s here to facilitate conversations with teachers and within departments about how they measure their success. “What do you think are the right benchmarks?” she asks. “We want to make sure all the programs have what they need to create the best student experience.”

Drinkwater will work closely with Dean of Faculty Lori Bohan P’24,’25 and Director of Studies Sarah Ludwig. “We have some new energy and a lot of institutional knowledge,” Drinkwater says. “Lori used the [phrase], which I really like: ‘We have lanes, but they’re perforated lanes,’ because a lot of times they’re going to overlap.” Though she has spent much of her career working at the college level, Drinkwater says she always knew she would return to the world of independent boarding schools. She attended the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut, then went on to earn her bachelor’s at Cornell and her doctorate at Duke, both in classics with a strong focus in Latin. Between degrees, she interned at St. Stephen’s School in Rome — where she met her now-husband and developed a strong allegiance to the AS Roma soccer team. Her brother, David, graduated from SPS as a member of the Form of 1989, and her mother, father and stepmother have all worked in independent secondary schools. “It’s in my blood. Definitely,” she says.

“I’M HERE TO SEE WHAT ST. PAUL’S SCHOOL IS DOING, BECAUSE I KNOW IT’S DOING IT WELL. EVERYBODY KNOWS IT’S DOING IT WELL. MY MAIN ROLE THIS FIRST YEAR IS TO OBSERVE AND ABSORB AND THEN SEE WHERE THAT LEADS.” While preparing for the return of students, Drinkwater settled into her office and home on the grounds and anticipated the arrival from Georgia of her husband and teenage son, a rising 10th grader at Proctor Academy, with whom she was looking forward to sharing the beauty of SPS. “I went for a walk around the grounds after dinner last night. I called my brother and sent him some pictures of the pond,” she says. “The water was really still, and you could see the reflection of Sheldon.” Drinkwater smiles as she describes the moment — the experience of capturing not just the natural beauty of Millville but also some of her first impressions of her new home.

New Year, New Roles for SPS Faculty This fall, several longtime faculty members are stepping into new roles at the School. Lori Bohan P’24,’25 came to SPS in 2000 as a mathematics teacher and has taught at nearly every level of the School’s math curriculum over the course of her career. From July 2016 to June 2023, she served as dean of studies while continuing to teach math classes; in July 2023, she was appointed dean of faculty, replacing the Rev. Michael Spencer P’18,’23. Bohan lives on the grounds with her husband, Chief Advancement Officer Scott Bohan ’94, and their children, Conley ’24 and Meg ’25. Also changing roles is Chris Smith, who joined SPS as an associate director of admissions in 2014 and served as associate athletic director from 2020 to 2023. In July, Smith became the School’s athletic director, succeeding Dick Muther, who will return to teaching mathematics this fall. As head coach for boys and girls squash, Smith is widely credited with taking the SPS squash program to renown on the national level. In June, Sarah Ludwig was named director of studies. Ludwig joined the SPS community in 2016 as director of Ohrstrom Library, a position in which she has taught humanities courses and served as chair of the Visitors Committee. As faculty adviser for The Pelican during the 2022-23 academic year, she played a central role in increasing the scope and frequency of the School’s student newspaper.

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MICHAEL SEAMANS

Celebrating Faculty Milestones Offering thanks and commemorating members of our communty and what they have given to the School. JANA F. BROWN

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Matt Soule ’77 | Retired

The son of a well-known local doctor, Soule was a Concord kid who grew up near the SPS grounds and was Beloved humanities teacher finishes out a a member of the final cohort to attend the School as a day stellar 42-year career at SPS student for First and Second Forms. He joined the residential community as a Third Former and excelled as a For decades, Matt Soule ’77 taught “The Great Gatsby” to student-athlete before heading off to Princeton. In the his Humanities IV students, and the good news, he says, fall of 1981, Soule returned to his hometown as a teachis that analyzing the Fitzgerald classic never got old. ing intern at SPS, mentored by English Teacher Richard “People [would] ask me, ‘You’re Lederer and Classics Teacher Chip teaching that again? Don’t you Morgan. He split his time between “I UNDERSTOOD THAT ever get tired of it?’” Soule says. “But the Admissions and English DepartI tell them … the issues of social I WANTED TO TEACH ments for two more years before class and power and ego and the settling into full-time classroom life, AND WANTED TO American dream touch classes in difwhile coaching football, hockey and BE PART OF THE ferent ways. Every group has a difbaseball. Before long, Soule couldn’t ferent chemistry, and that changes imagine himself anywhere else. COMMUNITY AGAIN how they respond to those classic “As a student, I loved St. Paul’s for FROM A DIFFERENT themes.” the great teachers, great role models, The 2023-24 Fall Term will repregreat friends,” Soule says. “I wanted PERSPECTIVE.” sent the first time in more than 40 to return, but to be honest, I saw years that Soule will not be in an SPS classroom, marvel- that first year back as sort of an in-between year. I didn’t ing as his students dissect the nuances of Jay Gatsby’s know quite what I wanted to do, but the more I got into world, following his retirement in June. It’s a milestone it, the more I wanted to stay and the more I understood he’s been edging toward since fall 2018, when he shifted that I wanted to teach and be part of the community from full-time teaching to associate faculty. again from a different perspective.”

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THE SCHOOL TODAY Soule’s perspective shifted again when he married his wife, Tricia, in 1995 and the couple started a family. Their two daughters, Magdalene ’15 and Christina, grew up on SPS grounds and Soule began to see the School through their eyes. “It was almost like two different existences at St. Paul’s, which was pretty cool,” he says. There were other changes, too, including teaching at School Year Abroad in Barcelona during the 1990-91 academic year. Soule also took a hiatus from the classroom from 2000 to 2006 to serve as executive director of the SPS Alumni Association. Those years proved to be an “important break” for the newly married faculty member, who was able to take a step back from the daily grind of boarding school life to be more present for his growing family. At the same time, he was able to witness firsthand the commitment and passion of alumni from a new vantage point. Still, he says it was an easy decision to return to teaching after six years away. In addition to teaching Humanities IV for many years, Soule, who held the Form of 1923 Chair in English, taught electives from Shakespeare’s Tragic Heroes to World War II to Contemporary American Fiction. His style in the classroom was always that of moderator to student-led discussions, an approach that allowed young voices to shine in a respectful environment. Humanities Department Head Kevin Brooks, Soule’s colleague since 2007, says he appreciated Soule’s commitment to designing and implementing lesson plans that keep students engaged and productive, while emphasizing the development of analytical writing skills. In recent years, the one-time mentee had come full circle, serving as a mentor to fellows in the Penn Boarding School Teaching Residency Program. He also was long an unofficial mentor for new faculty members, including Brooks. “When I was new to St. Paul’s School, Matt was generous with his time and his insight on the SPS humanities curriculum,” Brooks recalls. “When I served as head of the Humanities Department, Matt was always willing and eager to help with interviews, committees, curriculum work and anything else that needed to be done. I will always be grateful for the opportunity to learn from Matt.” Throughout his extended tenure, Soule was a thoughtful coach and adviser to countless students, alternating through most years between head and assistant coaching duties for boys varsity hockey and most recently acting as head hockey coach for the boys JV. He also served at various times as head of house in Conover Twenty, Manville, Foster and Armour. For now, Soule is living in Manchester with his wife and enjoying time with their daughters and extended family, with an eye on moving to the Southwest in the future. He knows that writing (particularly short stories) will be part of his routine, but is ready to let the rest of his own story unfold. 14

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Staff Milestones In June, St. Paul’s School recognized the contributions of four staff members who retired during the 2022-23 academic year. Bob Brodeur began work at St. Paul’s School in December 2000. A computer technician in the IT Department, he retired in January, after 22 years at the School.

Clark House Health Center nurse Donna Dana started her St. Paul’s School career in October 1999. She retired in January after more than 24 years of caring for students.

Bill Potter, who joined the St. Paul’s School community in August 2006, retired in June after 17 years of providing support to the Arts Department as the School’s arts technical director.

After 25 years, Bonnie Roy retired from St. Paul’s School as an administrative assistant in the Dean of Students Office. She joined SPS in August 1997 and stepped down in September 2022.

Tim McGinley | Retired SPS Director of Environmental Health and School Safety steps back Prior to arriving at St. Paul’s School in December 2010 as assistant director of security, Tim McGinley already had enjoyed a successful 30-year career in the fire service, including 22 years with the City of Concord. When he retired from the Concord Fire Department that year, he was recognized for “keeping the state’s capital a safe place to live and work.”

limit access to buildings and adding to the School’s fleet of automated external defibrillators (AEDs). “I’ve always been proud of the automated defibrillators, and maybe that goes back to my 30 years in the fire service and responding to enough cardiac arrests,” McGinley says. Today, the campus has 16 AEDs, and each year faculty members are trained in their use as well as how to perform CPR. The COVID-19 crisis brought a new layer of responsibility for McGinley, who became part of a small COVID-focused task force that included Bassi, Dean of Students Suzanne Ellinwood P’18,’20 and Vice Rector for School Life Theresa Ferns ’84, P’19. The group was in constant communication with infectious disease experts at Concord Hospital as pandemic-related best practices evolved. Like many at SPS and elsewhere, McGinley had to pivot during the pandemic, and part of his role became helping the safety officers and the full School community understand the protocols involved when a COVID exposure was reported, how to safely interact with those who were exposed, and how to minimize risk of disease spread. A longtime staff member, McGinley transitioned to the faculty side in the summer of 2021, when he moved His second retirement, from SPS, comes after nearly 13 to the grounds to become head of house in Warren and years at the School in which he filled numerous roles, all an adviser to seven students. It was yet another position with the mission of keeping the comhe took on with good humor, applymunity healthy and safe. He leaves ing his student-centered approach “A BIG PART OF THE SPS with his legacy of thoughtful to safety and well-being. service, kindness and collegiality — “A big part of the experience [at EXPERIENCE [AT SPS] along with concrete improvements SPS] is working with these incredIS WORKING WITH to programs and services that will ible kids,” McGinley says. “As my endure for many years to come. THESE INCREDIBLE KIDS. job evolved, it brought me more to McGinley says he considers himthe student side than was originally AS MY JOB EVOLVED, self lucky to have found such satplanned, and that [was] wonderful.” isfaction in the second act of his IT BROUGHT ME MORE Though you have to coax the decareer. His responsibilities as SPS tails out of him, McGinley’s career TO THE STUDENT SIDE director of environmental health has been sprinkled with honors. In THAN WAS ORIGINALLY addition to numerous citations for and school safety included oversight of the School’s safety officers his work, he was named Concord’s PLANNED, AND THAT as well as life and fire safety issues, firefighter of the year in 1994, and [WAS] WONDERFUL.” building inspections, OSHA comin 2020 was a recipient of the SPS pliance and handling of hazardous Toland Award, which recognizes materials. And that’s just scratching the surface. “gallant spirit and a true commitment to the School.” “Tim [was] a rock-solid colleague for many years,” says It’s not surprising that the distinction came in the midst SPS Medical Director Dr. John Bassi P’17,’19,’21. “He is of his exceptional work to keep St. Paul’s safe during the guy who walks into a room with a smile on his face, the pandemic. asking how he can help. He is simply one of the nicest, In retirement, McGinley looks forward to spending most sincere men you will ever meet.” more time with his wife, Donna, their four children — McGinley names among his proudest achievements including SPS Registrar Kristen Palizzolo — and six the development of a safety manual for facilities employees, grandchildren. The couple now live in Hopkinton … working with Bassi and others on a behavioral health close enough for McGinley to venture back to SPS on and emergency response plan, augmenting the School’s occasion to cheer on the athletic teams, enjoy music CCTV coverage on campus, implementing a swipe/ and theater performances, and catch up with the many key card door entry system throughout the grounds to friends he has made during his tenure. Alumni Horae | Issue IV 22/23

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math and theology at Fairfield Prep while also holding an adjunct position teaching astronomy at Fairfield University. In 1998, longtime SPS faculty member Walter Hawley A mindful presence for his students was looking for someone to take over the School’s astronand colleagues, Pacelli marks a omy program. Pacelli was eager to learn. quarter century at SPS “I essentially came to St. Paul’s and got a really good education from Walter about how to use astronomical Gazing at the night sky has long been a form of meditation equipment,” Pacelli says. “I came in with the thought that for Rick Pacelli. The idea of mindfulness is something the this was the kind of place where I could finish my career.” Through the years, Pacelli has earned the respect of St. Paul’s School science teacher also has tried to instill in the School community for his thoughtful approach to his students during his 25 years at St. Paul’s School. his work and his dedication to his students. In addition “I start every one of my classes with a quick minute of to teaching core courses in physics meditation,” says Pacelli, who holds and astronomy, Pacelli has taught the David E. Drinkwater ’89 Chair many electives. He created the class “IT’S A MISSION OF MINE in STEM. “I ask my students to try In Tune with Nature with his close to use that minute to let go of all TO TRY AND HELP friend and late colleague Toby Brewthe other things that could distract AS MANY STUDENTS AS ster, an opportunity Pacelli called them. It’s a mission of mine to try to help as many students as I can incor- I CAN TO INCORPORATE “one of the joys of my career.” He also has co-taught The Science of porate meditation and mindfulness MEDITATION AND Mindfulness and Meditation with into their lives because I believe it’s a colleague and Dean of Student Supskill that will help them forever.” MINDFULNESS INTO port Kate Daniels. During his long tenure at the THEIR LIVES.” For many years, Pacelli has been School, Pacelli has been able to juggle integral to the SPS Chapel program as many responsibilities by practicing his own mindfulness. the School’s verger. In that role, he is responsible for recruitWhether as a teacher, adviser, coach, colleague, spouse, ing and coordinating student Chapel Wardens, who serve parent or friend, Pacelli is present in every role. Trained as as community greeters at morning Chapel and at other an engineer, he found an affinity for teaching while workspecial services throughout the year. Pacelli, too, is among ing as a church chaplain in Connecticut, where he became the friendly faces in the Chapel, helping visitors find seats involved in educational programming. That discovery led and often leading processions into the hallowed space. to Pacelli’s first independent school job: he taught physics,

Rick Pacelli | 25 years

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Fellow Science Teacher Theresa Gerardo-Gettens P’09,’11 says, “Rick’s genuine concern and care for students and their well-being are unwavering.” His reputation as a trusted adviser led one student to comment, “If you need advice and someone to listen, seek out Mr. P. He is full of deep wisdom and kindness.” Grier Stockman ’09 recalls Pacelli inviting her to stay with his family for the first few days of Christmas Break during her Sixth Form year so she could take the SAT in New Hampshire instead of back home in New Jersey. He even drove her to the test early in the morning during a snowstorm to make sure she got there safely. Pacelli also has been a valued mentor to studentathletes, most recently as coach of the varsity softball team. He has twice (2006 and 2018) been a recipient of a Form of 1973 Mentor Fellowship, recognizing his “strong rapport with students and an outstanding ability to inspire and motivate them,” and has made use of sabbaticals to become certified as a mindfulness instructor and to shadow astronomers at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. Additionally, Pacelli has found time to serve as a member of the Faculty Liaison Committee, to lead “meditation evenings” for faculty and staff as part of the School’s professional development curriculum and to be an adviser to several student affinity groups, including the Angler’s Club. Aaron Bembenek ’07 never had Pacelli as a teacher,

but the two became close friends as a result of their mutual love of fishing. For years, they have bonded on annual fishing trips to northern New Hampshire, and Bembenek has come to appreciate Pacelli’s exceptional kindness. He recalls a time when he stopped by Pacelli’s house to find him in the front yard, cutting flowers for a student who was in the hospital. “It’s long been clear to me that I have a lot to learn from Rick,” Bembenek shares, “but he’s always treated me as an equal with something to offer, which is empowering, especially for a young person.” Pacelli is grateful for the years he’s been able to share his own qualities, while learning from others within the SPS community. He credits his wife, Barbara, for supporting him through the many demands of boarding school life, saying, “I know I would not be the teacher I am without her.” Those demands include more than a dozen summers teaching ecology and yoga and serving as the chaplain for the Advanced Studies Program, in which all three Pacelli children (Ben ASP ’04, Alicia ASP ’06 and Clare ’13) have been involved as students and/or interns. The ASP, Pacelli says, is an extension of the relationship-building he has treasured at the School for the last 25 years. “I love my colleagues,” he says. “I have made some of the best friends of my life here. With the students, the most important thing is earning their trust and letting them know I am here to help them.”

A NEW TAKE ON THE NEW CHAPEL

LEGO replica welcomes prospective students to SPS More than a year and 100,000 LEGO bricks in the making, this scale replica of the Chapel of St. Peter and St. Paul was a gift to the School from Alex Brigham ’87, P’22,’24. Brigham, who describes the model as a symbolic and literal representation of “creativity, engineering, respect and play — all values that the School embodies,” commissioned the piece with the intent that it be displayed in the SPS Admissions Office, one of the first things a prospective student will see upon their visit to the School. Brigham and his wife, Kendra, drove the replica from Detroit, where it was built, to the School in May, and a group that included Brigham’s son Sebastian ’24 and Rector Kathy Giles carried it from Sheldon Terrace, up the Sheldon steps and into the Rotunda — carefully. The 30-inch by 60-inch sculpture weighs approximately 120 pounds and is held together only by the interlocking structure of the LEGO bricks. Brigham’s gift will have a permanent home in the Fleischner Family Admissions Center when that building is completed in winter 2024-25.

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BIG-PICTURE THINKING

William Mao ’23 reflects on his four years at SPS JIM GRAHAM

s he advanced through photography classes during his four years at St. Paul’s School and prepared for a senior exhibit of his portfolio, William Mao ’23 realized that it’s impossible to fully see a picture until you step back and ponder it. Perhaps a photo of a study lounge bathed in late afternoon sunlight evokes the weight of long days in a way that you hadn’t noticed before. An image showing the shadows of maple leaves on a classroom wall makes you realize how being immersed in nature is integral to learning and life at SPS. A casual snapshot of friends on the docks at Turkey Pond finds you reminiscing about how your form grew closer together, and then imagining the lives that you may share again in 10, 20, even 50 years when you return for Anniversary. Mao sees his St. Paul’s School experience in this way.

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“Going on runs and walks on the trails these past few weeks, sitting on the docks with my friends and really getting to know people, it makes me appreciate what an incredible and unique experience this really is,” Mao noted as he prepared his photo exhibit at the Crumpacker Gallery the week before graduation. He arrived from San Francisco in the fall of 2019, excited by the academic challenges, and the chance to make friends from around the country and the world — but also daunted by the prospect of being so far from home and fitting in among so many confident, highachieving classmates. Now, he’s graduated as one of the School’s top students and is bound for Harvard in the fall. “I remember when I first moved in here and my parents left, and I’m thinking, ‘Okay, I’m here in New Hampshire, and they’re going to be on the other side of the country.’ ”

Mao says. “Even though I knew I was in a unique and special place, it was still a little intimidating.” But his classmates and the community soon put any jitters at ease, Mao says. By the time he graduated, he had been elected vice president of the Student Council; served as the photo editor and a writer for the School’s student newspaper, The Pelican; and had written and edited for The Partisan, an online publication of student editorials and columns across the political spectrum. He was captain of the cross country team and played varsity tennis and squash. At graduation, Mao was awarded some of the School’s most prestigious honors: The Ellsworth Greenley Prize for excellence in artistic work; the Ambassador Duke Spanish Prize; and the Clifford Gillespie Medal for “honesty, integrity and eagerness to undertake the tasks, great and small, that make the School a better place.” He was recognized for perfect attendance throughout his four years and was one of eight students in the Form of 2023 elected to the Cum Laude Society as a Fifth Former. Today, Mao says he has a deeper appreciation for why his father, John Mao ’87, remains so close with his formmates, and encouraged his son to apply to SPS. “Whenever my family travels anywhere, it always seems like my dad will know someone from his time at St. Paul’s, and he’ll try to get together with them,” Mao says. “That’s

“GOING ON RUNS AND WALKS ON THE TRAILS ... SITTING ON THE DOCKS WITH MY FRIENDS AND REALLY GETTING TO KNOW PEOPLE, IT MAKES ME APPRECIATE WHAT AN INCREDIBLE AND UNIQUE EXPERIENCE THIS REALLY IS.” always impressed me, how [he and his friends] have stayed in touch. So, I was really excited to take the leap and come here, too, because it felt like not only a great way to try new things but also to meet so many new people and make friends from all over the world.” Mao says it was the people he met at SPS that he will remember most. And he counts the connections he made with fellow students and faculty mentors as important to his overall well-being and personal growth as it was to his success as a student, athlete and member of the SPS community. In the process, Mao says SPS taught him valuable lessons. “It’s about embracing the uncertainty of life,” he said. “My work here has been about stepping out of my comfort zone and trying new things, without knowing how they will go, necessarily. This has been an incredibly valuable lesson for me, and one I hope to keep.”

Sixth Form Standouts When it comes to making a mark on college and beyond, Mao has plenty of company among his 2023 formmates. In case you missed these stories elsewhere: In May, Ashley Zhou was named a U.S. Presidential Scholar, the School’s second in as many years. Zhou was selected as one of 161 finalists from a pool of 5,000 students invited to apply for the U.S. Presidential Scholars program, widely considered the nation’s highest academic honor for high school students, on the basis of their academic performance and college-preparatory standardized test scores. Zhou, who is headed to Columbia University in the fall, was profiled in the winter issue of Alumni Horae for her work as head of the SPS Mindfulness/ Meditation Society and the Yoga Club and as co-editor of The Pelican.

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In April, Matthew Grady was one of 60 graduating high school seniors to be named a Class of 2027 Morehead-Cain Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The first collegiate merit scholarship program in the U.S., the Morehead-Cain provides a fully funded four-year educational experience at UNC-Chapel Hill, including leadership training summer enrichment opportunities — a perfect fit for Grady, a Wyoming native and lacrosse standout who also served as a 2023 captain of the boys varsity hockey team, head of the Chinese Society and head of the John Winant Society.

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During Spring Term, student artists Samantha Seeley and Ella Raniolo created original pieces for donation to the School’s Permanent Collection as part of their work in Advanced Portfolio Drawing and Painting. Seeley’s work, a digital triptych that marries elements of nature and technology, was displayed in the entrance to the Lindsay Center for Mathematics and Science. Raniolo’s pencil drawing of a great blue heron hangs in the Friedman Community Center’s Raffini Commons.

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THE SCHOOL TODAY SPORTS STANDOUTS

Cami Bell ’24 and Ryan Doherty ’23 Recognized with Loomis and Gordon Medals JANA F. BROWN

hen field hockey-ice hockey-lacrosse standout “I was shocked when they read my name,” Bell says. “I Cami Bell ’24 suffered a broken wrist in the look up to all the girls who were ahead of me and they’re New England hockey quarterfinal hockey amazing athletes. I just feel so honored to be part of game against Nobles and Greenough in March of 2022, the history of the Loomis Medal and all those who came before me.” she did the logical thing. “I knew I wasn’t going to be able to sit still for more Already committed to Yale to continue her education than five seconds,” says Bell of the injury that required and play ice hockey beginning in the fall of 2024, the surgery and ruled her out for the spring lacrosse season, Barre, Vermont, native has excelled in her three (primary) “and I knew I could not just sit and watch my friends play sports. In field hockey, the lefty has used her ambidex— so I decided to do track.” trous ability to make herself a force with a right-handed stick, and in lacrosse Bell often Though a novice competitive draws the toughest defensive runner, Bell competed in the “I FELT I HAD A TEAM assignment: shutting down oppo100-meter and 200-meter sprint AND COACHES WHO nents’ top scoring threats. events and the 4x100-meter relay. She also was a member of the But it’s on the ice where Bell is REALLY SUPPORTED ME, 4x400-meter relay squad that set perhaps the most formidable. In WANTED ME TO BE a St. Paul’s School record during the winter of 2023, she helped the 2022 NEPSTA championship SPS win the Lakes Region and THE BEST I COULD, meet. Not bad for an injured NEPSAC Large School TournaAND ALLOWED ME TO lacrosse player. ment championships. As a Fifth TRY NEW THINGS Former, she led the team in scorRyan Doherty ’23 has displayed ing (28 goals, 13 assists), was a similar commitment to athletics AS AN ATHLETE.” Lakes Region and All-NEPSAC at SPS, earning a reputation as a — Ryan Doherty ’23 selection, and was named to the team-first player who makes New Hampshire All-State team. those around him better. During his SPS tenure, the hockey-lacrosse standout was the She will captain the field hockey and ice hockey teams as one his coaches could count on to play where his teams a Sixth Former. needed him most, including skating both as a forward “Cami is a dream to coach,” says Heather Crutchfield, and on defense in hockey. who coaches Bell in field hockey and lacrosse. “She loves “His athletic intelligence, understanding of time and her teammates, loves to work hard, thrives on a challenge space and overall skill set enabled Ryan to make the transi- and loves to win. She is full of grit and determination and tion from offense to defense look seamless,” says Danny is the ultimate sportsperson.” Murphy, head coach for the SPS boys varsity hockey team. As the Gordon Medal recipient, Doherty “epitomizes Those anecdotes only begin to tell the story of the athletic leadership, athleticism and sportsmanship,” Davies excellence Bell and Doherty have exhibited during their Cabot, the SPS boys lacrosse coach, says of his 2023 time at the School. Both athletes were honored at the co-captain. In addition to setting single-season and career year-end awards ceremony during Graduation Weekend; scoring records in lacrosse in only three seasons with the Bell with the Loomis Medal and Doherty with the Gor- Big Red (and being limited by injury to only nine games don Medal. The awards are the highest athletic honors as a Fifth Former), Doherty completed his SPS career without having a single penalty called on him. He bestowed each year by the School. In earning the Loomis as a Fifth Former, Bell became was named a Lakes Region All-Star in both ice hockey one of a select number of girls in SPS history to receive and lacrosse as a Sixth Former and a New Hampshire AllState player in ice hockey. In addition, his 2023 season the top athlete award as an underformer.

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SPS OLYMPIANS DISPLAY KATE DUNLOP

Thomas Charlton’s reason for donating his 1956 Olympic gold medal for rowing to St. Paul’s School was as powerful as it was simple. While the 1956 Yale graduate might have earned the medal with other members of Yale’s eight-man crew, the Form of 1952 alumnus wanted to honor the place where he had learned the sport. In May, in recognition of Charlton’s act of generosity, the School installed a permanent exhibit in the Athletic and Fitness Center that features his medal and honors all the SPS Olympians known to the School. Located on the left side of the AFC’s Barker Court, the Olympic wall lists alumni who have represented their sports and their countries in Games spanning nearly a century — from polo in 1924 to rowing in 2020. Those who earned medals are recognized separately, and Charlton’s gold medal, one of only two won by an SPS athlete (Alfred Lee Loomis Jr. ’31 collected gold for sailing) is showcased with photos and coverage of his accomplishment. Gordon Medal winner Ryan Doherty ’23 and Loomis Medal winner Cami Bell ’24.

scoring totals of 48 goals and 37 assists — in 15 games — boosted Doherty’s career numbers to 105 goals and 55 assists, setting a new career standard for SPS boys lacrosse and helping him earn All-NEPSAC and USA Lacrosse All-American recognition. Doherty will play Division I lacrosse for the University at Albany, where he plans to double major in business economics and finance with a minor in political science. Having grown up in Concord and developed his skills in the city’s youth athletic programs, Doherty got to know Cabot and SPS lacrosse assistant coach Scott Bohan ’94 through those sports clubs. It was his familiarity with their coaching styles, along with the rigorous academics, that brought him to SPS. “I felt I had a team and coaches who really supported me, wanted me to be the best I could, and allowed me to try new things as an athlete,” says Doherty, who also credits his younger brother, Carter, with helping him develop his skills. “Without that, I don’t think I would be where I am in my lacrosse career.”

The display includes the name of every SPS Olympian athlete who was known to the School at the time of its installation. Since that time, the School has learned of at least one additional athlete whose name will be added to the wall. If you think we’ve missed someone, please contact Director of Alumni Relations Steve Donovan at sdonovan@ sps.edu so that information can be included when the display is updated. SEE THE COMPLETE LIST OF NAMES Alumni Horae | Issue IV 22/23

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Connecting and Rec For the more than 700 alumni and their guests who came to the School grounds on June 9 and 10, Anniversary Weekend was a chance to spend time together in a place that will forever represent one of their homes in the world.

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here were receptions for the Hargate Society, the XIX Society and affinity groups. There was a presentation about the School’s infrastructure and opportunities to get back into the classroom for a taste of what today’s students are learning. On Saturday afternoon, there was a thought-provoking conversation among Rector Kathy Giles and three alumni in reunion years about what it means to serve the greater good. Alongside this programming, alumni on grounds for Anniversary 2023 enjoyed the typical moments of the weekend: an alumni service in the Chapel of St. Peter and St. Paul, a parade by forms down Rectory Road, a 5K fun run and afternoon boat “races” on Turkey Pond. Most importantly, however, there were ample opportunities for formmates and friends separated by miles and years to laugh and visit, share stories of their time together at SPS and reflect on the various paths the School had set out for each of them. FORM OF 1948 — PORTER HOPKINS

Four formmates attended our 75th Reunion: Dick Sawyer and his wife, Lou, came from Newbury, New Hampshire with their daughter, Karen Sawyer ’74; Henry Sprague and his wife, Diane, came from Michigan; Patti and Porter Hopkins traveled from Cambridge, Maryland; and Clacky King came up from Easton, Maryland, along with Easton resident Stuart Hartmeyer ’80. Clacky’s daughter, Toni King Callahan ’76, came by for a visit at the lunch table, and Albie Neilson’s son, Will Neilson ’73, joined us at the parade. On Friday, we gathered for cocktails and dinner in the dining hall, along with a few other forms that had previously celebrated a 50th Reunion. Saturday’s highlights included the Alumni Chapel Service, followed by the Parade (we led the way), lunch in the Upper, and dinner at the Rectory, where the Rector dined at our table. It was (L. to r.): Clacky King, Dick Sawyer, Henry Sprague, and Porter Hopkins. a real treat, during Saturday’s lunch, to peruse Harry Havemeyer’s book, “A Special Friendship,” which celebrates his relationship with Archie Douglas, starting at the Buckley School in New York, and continuing through graduation from SPS and Yale. The book contained great pictures of SPS and Yale hockey teams, too. Saturday’s weather was off and on with showers but highlighted the grounds and its blossoms beautifully. I would like to compliment the staff for their friendliness and helpfulness, and the Rector for her gracious hospitality. FORM OF 1953 — JAMES HAMMOND

The ’53 contingent attending our 70th Reunion, excluding wives, numbered 11. This was a higher turnout than expected, and those present looked pretty energetic under the circumstances. Michael Maude traveled the farthest, coming from England. He was enthusiastically greeted on his first return to SPS since graduation. Sam Wolcott was second, coming from Montecito, California, and he introduced us to his delightful new wife, Carolyn. On Saturday morning, we gathered at Chapel and heard the beautiful, familiar music and prayers — it was a lovely performance, as usual. Later, the Rector’s dinner, in the Rectory, featured a delicious meal; Rector Kathy Giles delivered a stimulating address on the state of the School, which is solid in every respect, financial and otherwise. And, relating to financial status, she complimented us for setting a record for 70th Reunion contribu(L. to r.) front: Paul Phillips, Brewster Righter, Tim Clark, Ed Meyer, Jim Hammond; tions to The SPS Fund with $85,488. The margin of surplus was Row 2: Michael Maude, Jim Van Alen, Ned Baldwin, Steve Colgate, Sam Wolcott, substantial, not likely to be exceeded soon. For this, much credit and Peter Paine. is due to the generosity of Peter Paine and Sam Wolcott. After dinner, we said good-bye, happy to have had what may be our last opportunity for fellowship at this wonderful institution that shaped our lives. 26

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FORM OF 1958 — GUY RUTHERFURD

We gathered Wednesday, June 7, at the York Harbor Inn for a pre-reunion, 25 strong. So great to see so many classmates we had not seen in five or more years, including Ginny and Andy Hall from San Francisco, Bob Strawbridge from Jackson Hole, and Jana and Bob Bowler from California, as well as many others. On Thursday morning, many headed to the Black Point Inn on Prouts Neck (home of our SPS Board of Trustees president, David Scully ’79); on Friday, some went to the Ogunquit Museum of American Art while others drove to SPS for a (L. to r.) front: Melissa Walters, Tony Nicholas, Larry D’Oench, Frederick Appell, Calvin meeting of the Hargate Society. The School organized a Farwell, Lars Egede-Nissen, Allan Ayers, Fred Winthrop, Chris Clark; Row 2: Jon Butler, dinner for us at Coit (what we knew as The Upper). David Michael de Havenon, Dave Ross, Phil Bradley, Henry Chalfant, Andy Hall, Rob Bowler, Guy Rutherfurd, Patrick Rulon-Miller; Row 3: Jay Hatch, Emory Sanders, Ellis Wisner, Barry and family drove up from Gloucester and Georgia and Harry Armistead. Not pictured: Dave Barry, Zandy Clark, Henry Farnum, Bob and Mike de Havenon arrived from New York. Strawbridge and Peter White. Saturday morning, we attended an alumni memorial service in the Chapel of St. Peter and St. Paul and Em Sanders arrived in time for the Parade. With 35 of us flying “The Greatest Class” flags, we walked from the Chapel to Coit (the Old Upper Dining room) for a sandwich lunch. Returning to the dining hall brought back lots of memories. Class photos were taken after lunch. After, Patrick Rulon-Miller and I toured the campus, spending time in Lindsay, and talking to several members of the Form of 2022. What a lively and intelligent group of youngsters! We so wished the School were in session so we could interact with the students. Saturday night, 32 of us dined at The Common Man in Concord. Entertainment started with Tony Nicholas’s traditional recital, followed by Chris Clark and Jon Butler singing songs and Henry Chalfant playing the jarana. We are all so thankful for the hard work of Allan Ayers, assisted by Phil, Andy and Melissa. They made our 65th reunion so enjoyable and successful. FORM OF 1963 — HENRY LIVINGSTON

Wasn’t that a spectacular weekend! Many thanks to Maggie and David Gordon for their extraordinary effort. Walker Lewis had the presence of mind to acquire, wrap and present a Bill Abbé watercolor of the School to David and Maggie for their five-year effort on behalf of 1963. One of the most interesting parts of the weekend has to have been the many stories told over dinners and lunches. Many of us admitted to outright mischief, at a minimum. Julien McKee would admit to nothing except teaching himself Italian. Meanwhile, John Ahlgren filled in multiple events with humor and charm. Our goalie Rick Tilghman recounted becoming so toughened by the hockey world that he just had to join the Marines to get shot at some more in Vietnam. Certain of us produced tales of pressing the limits of surveillance and perimeter to discover paths that led to dark places. For those of you who missed this reunion, you’ll have to come to the next to enjoy these. Dave Gordon produced a full copy of our Sixth Form Show, (L. to r.) front: Rick Tilghman, Cassius Webb, Steve Gould, David Gordon, “Cinderella” … a sensational hit, except, of course, amongst the mas- Tex Laidlaw; Row 2: Ryland Howard, John Ahlgren, John Reigeluth, Dudley Blodget, Bill Crane; Row 3: Bill Funk, Jerry Nelson, Bill Wright, John Gaines, ters. Yet another showstopper was formmate Rev. Cassius Webb’s Brink Thorne; Row 4: Walker Lewis, Bill Stewart, Scott MacLeod, Jim Taylor, homily, part of the Saturday morning Alumni Service, filled with the Henry Livingston, David Evans, and Dick Hawkins. Not pictured:Julien McKee. incantations of John Knox none of us have forgotten (“Oh Bray for the Beast”). Bill Wright showed once again the power of his memory by recalling names and events. Steve Gould, looking very fit, reunited with John Gaines, having not seen him since he was best man in John’s wedding. Dave Gordon read a list of those gone heavenward, and it surprised some of us as to how many had passed on. We thank Advancement staff members Melissa Walters and Diane Heitmiller, who carried the ball for the School in attending to numerous details and assistance to many of us throughout the weekend. Some noted that, although thoroughly grateful for all the School put out for us, producing meals and events on campus, that the student body, Halcyon/Shattuck race day and flagpole ceremony were missed. Notable distances traveled to be there for the weekend include John Reigeluth from California, Ryland Howard from Texas, Bill Stewart from Colorado, Jim Taylor from Montana, Bill Funk from Oregon and Walker Lewis from Idaho. Our form director reported that reunion participation rate stood at 75%, with $1 million raised before the reunion. Alumni Horae | Issue IV 22/23

FEATURE FORM OF 1968 — WALKER WAINWRIGHT

Fifteen members of the Form of 1968 assembled in Meredith on Lake Winnipesaukee on June 9 and 10 to mark the 55th anniversary of our graduation. While our numbers were small relative to the 100,000 or so motorcycle aficionados celebrating the 100th edition of Laconia Motorcycle Week, I believe that we outdid this group in terms of distances traveled. Dave Tandy joined us from London, Chip Waters from Bermuda, Dean Auslander from the Philippines and Niko Sullivan had freshly returned from a 3-person catamaran trip from Mexico to the Marquesas. Moreover, the email traffic generated in anticipation of our gathering included a note from Patrice Gaunard from Paris who was our formmate as a Weicker Scholar in 1964-65. A number of others contributed their thoughts for our Chapel service. We enjoyed an excellent dinner on Friday, and despite the traffic jams created by the motorcyclists, we all made it to the School in time (L. to r.) front: Chip Waters, Dean Auslander, Jonathan McCall, Rick King; Row 2: David Tandy, George Marvin, Walker Wainwright, Bruce McMillan; for the parade on Saturday morning. In recognition of the anticipated Row 3: Jim Colby, Jim Robinson, Tucker Hood; Row 4: Niko Sullivan, Eric arrival of the bones of our late formmate Christopher Gray at the Pope, and Deane Evans. Lindsay Center, we sported buttons courtesy of Dave Humphreys and Bill Benson (both of whom were sadly not able to join the festivities). After lunch and our traditional service for classmates who had passed over the previous five years, we returned to Meredith for an excellent dinner at Lago Restaurant before departing the next day. While we missed those who could not attend, the consensus was that the weekend had been a success. As Patrice closed his note, “Let’s be happy to be still alive and let’s enjoy it!” FORM OF 1978 — NORA TRACY PHILLIPS

Thirty members of our form gathered, including four from the Los Angeles area. Els Collins, Michael Haney, Kaja McGowan and Rob Rout had not been to an Anniversary Weekend in many years and having them join us “reunion regulars” was joyous. Each of us has lived life for a long time now, and we’re all at a precipice, trying to figure out how best to cross this river that separates a lifetime of work and striving from the other side where they tell us there will be more living for oneself and rest. On Friday morning, Jon Old arranged for tours of the Canterbury Shaker Village and nearby Cold Garden Spirits, a bourbon distillery. Those who were able to get to campus by late afternoon sat in a big circle in the common room of (L. to r.) front: Amy Nobu, Curtis Starr, Els Collins, Kaja McGowan, Lisa Hughes, the Squash Courts and had an open and moving conver- Lita Remsen, Edie Farwell, Electra Lang, Linda Richards, Katie McCammond, Chip Olsation about what surprising things we’d learned in the 45 ney; Row 2: Angus Beavers, Nora Tracy Phillips, Quarry Bingham, Paul Eddy, Michael Haney, Judd Nelson, Tim Steinert, Jon Old, Joan Dalton, Tom Luz, Carolyn Reveryears since we graduated from SPS. Saturday, we shared a comb, Rob Rout, Kevin Foley, Frank Hunnewell, Jess Baily and Jon Sweet. lovely dinner and danced together, along with special guest/ Not pictured: Cynthia Crosby ’77, Andrew Rose and Thor Thors. former science teacher Mike Burns, at the Carriage House at the Kimball-Jenkins Estate in downtown Concord. Finally, orchestrated by Michael Haney and his wife, June Christopher, a large contingent of us stayed together at a gorgeous Airbnb farm. The house had a wrap-around porch, whereupon many members of the form (including those who had stayed at the hotel in Concord) gathered for breakfasts, Sunday afternoon lunch, swimming, walking and talking together in the sunshine until the proverbial cows came home. Conversations were peppered with stories of funny/strange/moving things that happened “back in the day,” many of which were news to the majority of us. The nostalgia probably came most powerfully in simply being beside and hearing the familiar voices of those who had been so large a part of our lives for a few years so long ago. Our form has diverse interests and abilities, yet we remain respectful of one another and tightly bonded, probably significantly more so now than we were on Graduation Day. I hope we will enjoy the freer pace of life that is supposed to come with being 65+. Hopefully it will allow for more chances to get together with one another in smaller groups than are the norm at a reunion. It’d be wonderful to convince a few more members of the form that coming back to a reunion at SPS is more meaningful and less scary than they imagine. 28

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(L. to r.) front: Jeremy Wintersteen, Samuel “Q” Belk, Katherine McMillan, Carey Esser, Sil Read, Molly Wheelwright, Lili Andrews, Liz Green Standen, Andy Eshelman, Charlie Marburg, Bailey Hartmeyer, Clive Altshuler, Rob Deans; Row 2: Steel Stillman, Dwight Ku, John Campbell, Gary Hodder, Liz Morison Dickinson, Linda Fairchild, Rowan Carroll, Richard Jenkins, Al Kulch, Kevin Gover, Sarah Starkweather; Row 3: Bill Smithy, Charlie Rouse, Sarah Cecil, Homer Chisholm, George Estes, Spero Latchis, Fred Rockefeller, John Vaskov; Row 4: Ben Dewey, Will Neilson, Horace Henriques, Bob Lindsay, John Hood, Tom Drake, Read Roberts, Craig Gourley, Rob Houghton, Mark Walsh; Row 5: Jose Maldonado, Peter Hoversten, Alex Tilt, Bruce Crutcher, Greg LaNouette, Joel Backon, Peter Homans, John Speers, Arthur Humphreys; Row 6: David Vogt, Mark Lewis, Ladd Connell, Kim Otis, Peter Patton, Spencer Morris, Bob Stuart, Bill Matheson, Jim Brooke, Allan Griffin, and Hal Granger. Not pictured: Andy Carpenter, John Milkey, Mike Prentice, Alden Stevens, Hul Fulweiler, Mary Wardrip, and Terry Wardrop.

Hood). SPS organized a very nice dinner at the CrumpSPS welcomed 67 members of the Form of 1973 back acker Boathouse where we were joined by Roberta Tenney; to Millville for our 50th Anniversary. It was our largest the evening concluded with fireworks on the docks and on gathering since our 25th and perhaps the largest 50th in Chapel lawn. The time the Form of 1973 spent at SPS was characSchool history. Our formmates came from near (Mary and Terry Wardrop still live in Concord), far (Q Belk came terized by a period of enormous change at the School, from New Zealand with four cases of fine Chardonnay) especially for those who came in as First Formers. By the and virtually everywhere in between (25 states, neigh- time we graduated, there was no Lower School, a relaxed dress code, less Chapel, fewer boring countries and other conSeated Meals, the first minoritinents). One group of 24 alums “OUR TIME AT SPS ty student to be elected as Sixth and spouses came two days prior Form president (Jose Wiltshire), to Mills Falls on the shore of Lake FOREVER BOUND US a new curriculum with many Winnipesaukee to spend time hikTOGETHER, AND WE more options, and women were ing, golfing and dining. LOOK FORWARD TO everywhere. Fifty years brings The schedule on Friday includabout a lot of changes in circumed a memorial service in the Old MAINTAINING stances and perspectives, and Chapel before our Fourteenth OUR BONDS.” everyone had at least one interRector welcomed us to a fine dinesting story to tell. Just one timely ner in the Upper (now Coit). We example: we learned that Charlie were joined by Marcia and Bill Matthews ’61, Geroge Carlisle and Sue Fortier. Saturday Cole was responsible for transforming the sport of rock included Chapel, the parade and a luncheon at the Upper climbing in the world due to his invention of new materi(oops … Coit) followed by several interesting panels. als, his design of the shoe worn by rock climbers, and his There were plans to recreate the famous attempt by Al pioneering of literally thousands of routes on mountains “Knievel” Tilt to jump Library Pond on his bicycle, but across the globe. Bill Matheson and Rowan Carroll have OSHA intervened. In the afternoon, we headed to Turkey established a fund to provide climbing shoes for students Pond, where the form launched one eight to remind the who use the fabulous rock-climbing facilities in the SPS younger alums who were fielding boats what a serious gym. Our time at SPS forever bound us together, and crew was. There was also one four, ably coxed by Deebie we look forward to maintaining our bonds and sharing Symmes (the former Olympian who is the wife of John continued experiences wherever we are. FORM OF 1973 — ROB DEANS

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(L. to r.) front: Sarah Dennis, Anne Noel, Jocelyn Sands, Fiona Sanders, Denise Goodman, Sally Bryan, Icy Frantz, Stewart Murchie; Row 2: George Wozencraft, Jos Nicholas, Carol Moheban Bonpon, Lisa Thors, Tod Brainard, Charlie McKee, Matthew Baird, Joel Potter; Row 3: Ellen Hotchkiss, Tony Kieffer, Victoria Labalme, Tracy Burke, Greg Selch ’84; Keith Pattison, Tsugu Tamanega, Jen Groman, John Bohan, Sandy Hertz, Karin Wolman; Row 4: Nat McCormick, Jamie Lister, Brennan Starkey; Row 5: Greg Lee, Chris Potter, John Pleasants, Bill Craddock, Jeff Mallas, Richard Kennelly, Paul Linn, Peter Hertz; Row 6: Standing: Susan Emery, Dana Emery, David Victor; Row 7: Dan Grout, Diane Vivona and Kirk Mead.

FORM OF 1983 — ICY FRANTZ

The echoes from our 40th reunion celebration dinner at the Concord Country Club are sadly beginning to wane – the band was loud, the dance floor was bursting and Brennan Starkey and Diane Vivona’s talent (among others) was on full display — but the 40 years that have passed certainly did not diminish the energy, spirit and stamina in this group. For me, one of the highlights of the weekend was the memorial service organized by Stewart Murchie at the Tracy Theater (designed by Mathew Baird); with, miraculously, the sun shining overhead. Together, we paid tribute to our formmates who are no longer with us: Peter Hatfield, Barry Harris, Raymond Guth, Jonathan Tracy, Laura L’Esperance, George Packard, Bettina Unhoch Pike and Cam Sanders. It was a time of reflection, an opportunity to offer our remembrances, and a chance to consider the connections we made so long ago when we walked the halls in the Schoolhouse, struggled to understand the words of Paul Tillich, attempted to stay awake in the wooden seats of morning Chapel and laid out on the docks on an early spring day. We sang “Love Divine” and “Ripple” — not well — and Sara Dennis and Tony Kieffer shared powerful pieces. Sallie Bryan concluded the ceremony, reminding us that although we each had our own experiences at SPS — some great and some not — now can be a time to forgive, engage and embrace. With more than 40 in attendance (as well as some brave plus-ones) hailing from as far as Paris and California, we paraded, talked, danced, played roof ball, danced, ate, laughed, danced, sang and loved our weekend back in the hamlet of Millville together. FORM OF 1988 — CAROLINE LA VOIE

The small-but-mighty group of 1988 reunion attendees had a great time and hope more of you will join us in five years! Friday afternoon started with a XIX Society reception at the Crumpacker Gallery and, while there, we got to admire art by Christine Pillsbury’s daughter, Ella Pillsbury ’23. Friday night brought all classes together for dinner under a tent on the Chapel Lawn and then continued downtown. Saturday morning began with Chapel. Our ’88 choir members joined in and I did a reading. Then it was parade time! We had a lot of fun and good times with the HUGE groups from the forms of ’83, ’78, ’93 … WHERE WERE THE ’88s? NGL, you missed a fun time! There was a fascinating afternoon alumni panel discussion entitled “In Service to the Greater Good,” boat races and a lovely dinner at Sheldon. A shoutout to our honorary form members, Katy Lukens (L. to r.): David Lukens, Caroline La Voie, Alison Cody, Lydia Smyers, Wilkie Cook, Blair Enders and Tim Kelly. and John La Voie — and the huge LEGO chapel that was just donated by Alex Brigham ’87 was quite amazing! The weekend ended with a spectacular fireworks show on the pond. It is fun to go back — I loved seeing our formmates, and I also met so many great people in other forms. It is just a downright special place and a special weekend. 32

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FORM OF 1993 — BEN SAUNDERS

Anniversary Weekend was a tremendous experience for those of us who returned to campus. For those of you who could not join us, you were deeply missed. The separation of Anniversary and Graduation Weekends had a notable effect on the general atmosphere. There was a lot more time to just wander around and enjoy each other’s company. That culminated with a dinner in the Reading Room of Ohrstrom, at which Josh Crosby and Charlotte Pharr led the formmates in a pass-the-mic session. One after another, everybody took a turn to share memories and reflections, whether lighthearted or emotional. As an attendee of every 1993 reunion, I can say this was perhaps the most impactful event we have shared. If you weren’t there, make sure you are for the 35th— form bonding is at an all-time high.

(L. to r.) front: Amanda Li Hope, Charlotte Pharr Vishnyakov, Amrik Chawla, Felix Ho, Isabel Corbin, Josie Smith, Teddy Smith, Ed Smith; Row 2: Stacy Pryce Mockenhaupt, Vivienne Mockenhaupt, Orsi Gorgenyi, Madeline Wang, Susanne Stingl, Elizabeth Gerstner, Kate Jernigan, Megan Zug, Helene Lesterlin, Sophie Vos; Row 3: Brevy Cannon, Steve Lemay, Kristine Kaneko, Rosy Keyser, Josh Crosby, Page Sargisson, Toby Robbins, Louise Smith Goff, Liesl Goff; Row 4: Matt Miller, Ian Simmons, Jason Woodard, Adrian Smith, Alberto del Pilar, Ben Saunders, Fred Winthrop, Chris deCenzo and Joe Craigen.

FORM OF 1998 — WILL DICK

The Form of 1998 enjoyed a great reunion weekend, with 46 members in attendance and another 55 guests in tow. Alex Kumin Solomon got the award for most distance traveled, flying in from Hong Kong for the occasion. Dana Chapin Anselmi had the easiest commute on Friday, walking across the Chapel Lawn as SPS’s dean of admissions. There were too many great conversations to recount and so many people that made a tremendous effort to make it back to Concord. Amongst others, it was amazing to see Amanda Walton, who made her first trip back to SPS since our graduation. Other highlights included dinner at the Rectory on Friday, the dance floor at Tandy’s, trekking out to the dam, a beautiful Saturday dinner outside under the tent on Chapel Lawn, and a touching memorial for our classmate Caroline Thompson. I hope to be in touch with people again soon before the 30th!

(L. to r.) front: Antonio Lora, Liz Bozek, Sarah Pena ‘00, Alma Pena, Milo Pena, Johan Pena, Richard Theriot, Dana Anselmi, Amanda Walton; Row 2: Pete Ransmeier, Andrew Persson, Nicolai Shuman, Isa Pena, Ed Pena, Connor McGee, Kate Esselen, Alexandra Kumin Solomon, Amanda Meigher Mariner, Kaitlin Obernauer, Jeff Grappone, Margaret Meyers, James Pierce, Will O’Boyle, Eddie Blumel, Ben Flynn, Jorde Gabarro, Torsten Karlsson, Stefan Karlsson, Urika Karlsson, Inger Karlsson ’00; Row 3: Blair Baldwin, Matt Hayes, Jimmy Crumpacker, Chuck Calhoun, Charlie Smith, Will Dick, Amanda Wynn, Chris Eastland, Gina Sumilas,Kate Walker; Row 4: Pat Fox, Megan Sullivan, Natty Clapp, Lisa Sullivan Ballew, Ethan Leidinger and Jennie Maxon.

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FORM OF 2003 — MELODY LAM

The Form of 2003 was well represented, with 27 formmates coming from near and far (Quentin Reeve from Sydney and Mark Lewis from Amsterdam). It was a pleasure to see Andrew Kearns, who was Greg Kearns to us in school — he was renamed when he became a priest. Twenty years later, our shared experience is why we are still “formmates.” These are the friendships formed just as our minds, bodies and values were being formed. During our weekend together, we learned that Gordan Stillman is a photographer and will marry a painter this summer. (L. to r.) front: Nelle Koch, Celia Koch, Vivian Koch, Will Surzyn, Chris Surzyn, Avie Lee, Henry Huang, after years in residency, just passed his Cora Lee, Audrey Huang, Haley Huang, Tristan LaFlame; Row 2: Carlin Heinecke, Bridget board exam to be a radiologist. Emma Atcheson is taking Heinecke, Emma Koch, Lauren Surzyn, Tim Surzyn, Elora LaFlame, Lizi LaFlame, Gordon some well-deserved time off from her career as a trader to Stillman; Row 3: Christina Hoppe, Gillian Heinecke, Maggie Randolph, Wistar Wilson, Ben DeLoache, Melody Lam, Anthony Farrar, Nick Travers, Ben Cooley, Zoe Huang, spend time with her four kids. Frances Cha is doing a tour Michelle Webb, Henry Huang; Row 4: Andrew Kim, Irene Kim, Brittany Kearns, Andrew of Asia this summer promoting her novel. Kearns, Max Hyatt, Laura Keeler, Jordan Katz, Quentin Reeve, Albert Zue, Avery Zue, In the science building, we remembered the marine Abby Zue, Frances Cha and Soon Ho Lee. biology trip with Mrs. Bryan to Key Largo and scuba diving with barracudas. Walking through the arts building, we remembered “viz diz” and the new lens it gave us through which to see the world. As we reveled in the “new” gym, we remembered all the weekend trips to games at other schools. Stepping into Schoolhouse brought back all the mind-opening discussions we had around the Harkness table, punctuated with bagels, cream cheese and apples between classes. We had a great picnic under azure skies on a crisp emerald field. We clinked beers, caught up and played with each other’s kids. Their personalities shone so clearly, with some chasing Frisbees and squealing, some studying blades of grass ... they reminded us of what a tapestry of uniqueness we were when we were young at SPS. For those in any form who wonder about returning to SPS for a reunion, consider these lines by T.S. Eliot: We shall not cease from exploration / And the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time. We returned to SPS to know the place better and, perhaps, to make better sense of where we are today. We look forward to our 25th reunion, and beyond, when we may come to know the place even better. FORM OF 2008 — DOROTHY MACAUSLAND

It was exciting to see so many faces — about 30 — after so long, especially since this was our first post-pandemic reunion. We all missed each other and the campus! It was especially great to see the new faces of our form, which include Andy Hsu, Trent Blossom and Stephanie Ross’s children! Hats off to our travelers who came from afar to attend: Jay Gurney from Denver, Lucy Bannon from Dallas and Ben Karp from New Orleans. We were honored to have Massachusetts State Senator John Cronin represent our form and discuss his career in public service in the alumni panel “In Service to the Greater Good” on Saturday. We thank him for his service! After, many of us gathered at the crew docks to watch the alumni races and jumped in Turkey Pond. We ended up having a full day together that ended at Tandy’s Pub in Concord, where many of us hit the dance floor with the Form of 2003 and others until closing. While we missed the excitement of having the current students and faculty there, it was great to have the campus to ourselves and to stroll along our favorite paths in the woods. We got a lot of steps in!

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(L. to r.) front: Courtney Bogle Longley, Campbell Brofft, Robert Deans, Andrew Tilt, Jay Gurney, Jason Bourgea, Cecily Sackey, Christopher Beisswenger; Row 2: Lucy Bannon, Ben Karp, Brownen Callahan, Charles Plimpton, Samantha Kerr; Row 3: Jamie Wilson, Stephanie Ross, John Cronin, Peter Gamber, Heather McCarrick, Dorothy MacAusland and William Morris.

FORM OF 2013 — SUREN NANNAPANENI

Nearly 70 members of our form came back to SPS over the weekend, and some covered many miles to do so: Josh Ward made the trek from Denmark, Anna Kimball came from her semester in Milan and Tucker Albright joined us having just moved back to Florida from Taiwan. Friday night after dinner on campus, we met up at a home rented by several formmates; we learned that Charlotte Cooley has been busy working on a new documentary and that Max Krieg is on the team that redesigns the (L. to r.) front: Charly Plaisir, Carter Ballentine Allison, Deirdre Collins, Kristin Ramcharan, Tucker Albright, Julia Davis-Porada, Anna Kimball, Ellie Holmes; Row 2: Emily Bresnahan, Emily Old, Caroline Army’s physical fitness test. Griffiths, Alice Fort, Tamara Bascombe; Row 3: Anna Belk, Michaela O’Connor, Joey Howard, Jacob On Saturday, we gathered at the Lower Ruttenberg, Richard Bradley, Elouise Cram, Charlotte Cooley, Susannah Cooley; Row 4: Georgia School Pond Docks and spent several hours Nicholas, Charlotte Ward, Ali Walton, Cort Weatherly White, Suren Nannapaneni, Denzell Jobson, hanging out, chatting and swimming. After Adrielle Jefferson, Daniel Prada; Row 5: Naomi Sand, Noah Baily, Jon Linen, Jackson Israel, Thomas Brew, Raven Young, Liam Garrity-Rokous; Row 6: Kobby Adu-Diawuo, Eli Brewster, Sarah Garvin, watching the fireworks from Chapel Lawn, we Connor Drinon, Flurin Domenig, Ethan Rheault, Alois Henriques, Matthew Fisher, Spencer Gorsch, rented out Wow Billiard & Bar, then danced Charles O’Neill, Luc Yuki Marrie and Galen Lansbury. the night away at Tandy’s. Even though it had been several years since seeing some formmates, it felt like no time had gone by — it’s amazing to see how close the form is 10 years out. Given so much of the form now lives in New York, we hope to have more regular casual meetups. FORM OF 2018 — HALEY FULLER

Fifty members of the Form of 2018 came to Millville to spend time with old friends, reconnect with formmates and return to a place that has meant a lot to us as we start new chapters in our lives. From the Friday and Saturday night dinners on-campus to our informal gathering at Wow Billiards, we had a great time reconnecting and talking about college experiences and jobs, and laughing about old memories while making new ones. We were thrilled that Cole Sias traveled from London to be with us. Along the way, we learned that Ben Leach is pursuing his master’s in public health and is researching drug use and treatment while working as an EMT helping to reverse overdoses, and that Avery Van Ingen works for a consulting firm in D.C. that fundraises for Democrats in the House of Representatives. A few fun memories were trying to remember the origins of nicknames and reminiscing about a certain Physics V class, hours spent playing hockey on Gordon and the pond, promposals and the delivery of our favorite Concord pizza — Sal’s, of course. (Thank you, Sofia!) We also learned that we really went through a lot individually, as a form and as a school during our years at SPS, and through all the ups and downs, these are the people who were by our side through it all. We saw each other at our worst and our best — and five years after our graduation, the Form of 2018 still embodies our form word (compas(L. to r.) front: Rick Tilghman, Cassius Webb, Steve Gould, David Gordon, sion) and will continue celebrating wins and Tex Laidlaw; Row 2: Ryland Howard, John Ahlgren, John Reigeluth, Dudley supporting each other when times are tough. (L. to r.) front: Emily Albright, Shealyn Jenkins, Sonna Obiorah, Rowan Macy, Rose Knight, Isabelle Gorrivan, Willa King, Emily Mitchell; Row 2: Katherine Emery, Graham Lee, Justin Li, Sanjna Chetan, Macrina Wang, Ruthie Covo, Elizabeth Hobbs, Rasika Iyer, Kate Tapscott; Row 3: Lauren Neal, Matthew Denham, Luke Bryant, Regan Fisher, Serena Liu, Ally Cong, Eda Keni, Eva Carpenter; Row 4: Cole Sias, Jack Little, Colin Chase, Jack Parker, William Boffa, Sam Pratt; Row 5: Avery Van Ingen, Ethan Ruttenberg, Aidan Spencer, Ben Leach, Jake Demers, Chance Emerson, Wyatt Ellinwood; Row 6: Garth McLaughlin, Jordan Michaud, Ryan Peck and Hayden Dieterle.

Blodget, Bill Crane; Row 3: Bill Funk, Jerry Nelson, Bill Wright, John Gaines, Brink Thorne; Row 4: Walker Lewis, Bill Stewart, Scott MacLeod, Jim Taylor, Henry Livingston, David Evans, and Dick Hawkins. Not pictured:Julien McKee.

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FEATURE

SPS Alumni Speak about Service Anniversary Weekend panel event touches on careers in the public sphere and the role of collaboration. JACQUELINE PRIMO LEMMON

From left: Rector Kathy Giles, Kevin Gover ’73, Rebecca Haffajee ’98 and John Cronin ’08.

he notion of service to others is woven into the very fabric to bear the burdens of others, it does so — “conspicuously,” of St. Paul’s School, from a School Prayer that exhorts us she said — without defining or limiting who those “others” to be “eager to bear the burden of others” to a mission are. “How do you approach collaboration with people who squarely focused on educating students to build purposeful have widely different points of view from your own?” she lives in service to the greater good. Following panel conver- asked the panelists. sations earlier in the year focused on nonprofit leadership Haffajee, who became interested in health policy as an and the arts, during Anniversary Weekend SPS wrapped up undergraduate at Duke and now focuses her research and its examination of what it means to policy work on issues related to sublive a life in service with a conversation stance abuse and the U.S. overdose “PUBLIC SERVICE IS among reunion attendees working in crisis, agreed that Giles’ question the art, health and legislative sectors: reflects a very real challenge. “But REALLY NOBLE AND Kevin Gover ’73, undersecretary for how I approach it is by listening a lot REALLY HONORABLE ... museums and culture at the Smithand respecting other people’s points sonian and former director of the of view,” she said. Even if you end up WE SHOULD BE National Museum of the American staying confident in your position, ENCOURAGING Indian; Rebecca Haffajee ’98, prinshe continued, at the end of the day YOUNG PEOPLE TO cipal deputy assistant secretary for you learned something from someplanning and evaluation in the U.S. one else and had the opportunity to RUN FOR PUBLIC OFFICE.” Department of Health and Human consider a new perspective. — John Cronin ’08 Services; and John Cronin ’08 a Cronin, who attended St. Paul’s Massachusetts state senator and School while the U.S. was engaged in former U.S. Army officer. the war in Iraq and attended college The standing-room-only event, held in the Friedman at West Point, said that having something in common — a Community Center’s Raffini Commons on Saturday, June 10, shared goal, experience or, in his case, a military oath — was moderated by Rector Kathy Giles, and the wide-ranging boosts camaraderie and collaboration. “I think of my infanconversation touched on everything from the reclamation of try platoon that I served with 10 years ago. I don’t know if Indigenous artifacts to military service to the social systems they’d vote for me, but I know we could sit down and have a that factor into substance abuse. Early in the conversation, beer and be proud of the work we did together. I think we’ve Giles noted that while our School Prayer calls on us to be eager got to get toward that as a country somehow,” he said.

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A citizen of the Pawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, Gover noted that he hadn’t as much pursued the idea of public service as selected a cause — the empowerment of the Native American Nation — that inevitably brought him into the sphere of service; working in roles in which communication and collaboration are critical to success. Among the Princeton grad’s other responsibilities today is ensuring the return of items from the Smithsonian’s 21 museums to the Native tribes from which they were taken. “Now, museums across the country and throughout the world are examining their collections and saying, ‘Should we really have this? And what are our obligations to the communities where this material originated?’” he said. Near the end of the discussion, Gover used a football analogy to emphasize that work in the public sector is important, no matter the size of the role: Everybody wants to be the quarterback, but there’s equal nobility in being one of the blockers that helps the quarterback score the touchdown. In conjuntion with the comment, his mention of Cliff Gillespie P’79,’81, the late SPS faculty member, science teacher and coach who was well known for his sports analogies, brought chuckles and murmurs of appreciation from the crowd. “Public service is really noble and really honorable,” said Cronin. “We should be encouraging young people SEE THE FULL to run for public office.” CONVERSATION

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COMMON GROUND

A Conversation with SPS Form Directors Porter Hopkins ’48 and Haley Fuller ’18 KRISTIN DUISBERG

uring the years C. A. Porter Hopkins ’48 attended St. Paul’s School, horses pulled plows to clear the snow from Lower School Pond, and there was no team for the Baltimore native’s favorite sport — lacrosse. Boys from the First to Sixth Forms would queue up at the Tuck Shop, in the Big Study, to telephone their families, and sent their clothes home in cardboard boxes to be washed, pressed and returned. For the four years Haley Fuller ’18 spent in Millville, cell phones were ubiquitous — but so were students’ reminders to one another to look up and greet each other as they walked the paths. A competitive figure skater at home in Connecticut, Fuller switched to hockey skates as a member of the SPS girls JV hockey team, and discovered her passion for journalism, even though publication of The Pelican — the student newspaper Hopkins helped launch in 1946 — was limited during her student years. Having graduated from St. Paul’s 70 years apart, Hopkins, a retired state senator from Maryland, and Fuller, who had to cut her Anniversary visit to Millville short to receive her master’s in journalism from Northwestern on Sunday, June 11, in many respects attended very different schools. But when the two form directors representing the oldest and youngest reunion forms sat down together at the beginning of Anniversary Weekend, they also found at least a little common ground.

HOPKINS: My older brother [Luke ’46] came to St. Paul’s School first. I grew up spending my summers in Maine, on a beautiful cove in Mount Desert called Gilpatrick Cove. And when the tide was up and it wasn’t rough or blowing too hard, a wonderful old gentleman would be out rowing his wife around and his name was Dr. Drury. He was the headmaster of St. Paul’s, and that was my 38

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introduction to the School. Of course, it was a very different place 70 years ago. There were no girls, for one thing. FULLER: You know, it’s hard to explain tangibly, but

when I was here you could still tell it had been an allboys school in the past … just in some of the ways that the genders interacted, social circles and things like that. But I’m so glad the School became co-ed, because this place has been so important to me, and I wouldn’t be who I am today without it.

HOPKINS: It was formative. We were here during a war,

and the country was just coming out of a depression. That colored a lot of my experience. We ate a lot of fish … more fish than most of us wanted to eat. After Chapel there would be reports, and then whole School study — and one of the things I most certainly remember was the

announcements of the guys that got shot, and who were missing in action. The war was very much a presence, but still … so many great memories, and great friendships that started here.

my friends and I used to get into — we were allowed to have shotguns, for one thing — but most of us went on to have meaningful lives and contribute to society. Unfortunately, when you get to be my age, you don’t see the same people coming back [for Anniversary], because they can’t make it or they’re gone, and that’s just a major fact of life. FULLER: It’s so interesting to hear you articulate it that But there are four or five of us here this weekend — I think way. I came here at a time when the School was under an there are about 20 of us around, incredible amount of scrutiny, still, from a class of maybe 100. I and that really played a role in “IT’S ALWAYS JUST SO still try to get back up here at my decision to become a jourleast every five years or so. nalist, in wanting to make sure BEAUTIFUL, AND IT JUST stories were told well and gave ALWAYS FEELS LIKE COMING people the benefit of the doubt. FULLER: This is maybe my HOME. PEOPLE WHO DIDN’T And at the same time, I was second or third time I’ve been incredibly lucky: I was given back since graduation. The GO TO BOARDING SCHOOL nothing but safety and care campus hasn’t changed much THINK IT’S SO STRANGE WHEN — I think some of the more from my teachers here. When I was sick, my adviser would I SAY THAT, BUT IT REALLY DOES recent developments had already come to the health center and started just before I was leaving FEEL LIKE HOME TO make sure I was okay. When I — but it’s always just so beautiCOME BACK TO THIS PLACE.” had a bad day, my head of ful, and it just always feels like house would make sure I coming home. People who — Haley Fuller ’18 didn’t have to worry too much didn’t go to boarding school about my work. I had great think it’s so strange when I say teachers and great friends and a great experience. that, but it really does feel like home to come back to this place, and I’ve only seen one of my friends so far. HOPKINS: I had wonderful teachers as well, though we called them masters. [Later in life], I was the editor of the HOPKINS: The setting and the beauty of this place … Maryland Conservationist and the Maryland Historical that’s one of the things that keeps bringing me back after Magazine, and I’d say my editing and writing came all these years — that and the people, the friendships. If I because of the English department and the English teachhad one piece of advice I’d give to myself back in 1948, it’s ers at St. Paul’s. Mr. Kittredge … he was the vice rector, but to maintain your friendships, no matter how. The friendhe also taught Latin and English. ships you make here, and certainly in college and beyond, too. Fortunately, I think I did a pretty good job of that. I probably shouldn’t tell you about some of the things Alumni Horae | Issue IV 22/23

SPOTLIGHT

The ’76 crew on Turkey Pond, spring 1976.

THE GIRLS IN THE BOAT In 1976, one of the School’s first girls crews broke barriers — and won a national championship JIM GRAHAM

Like most of her teammates, Marny Kittredge ’76 hadn’t known any female rowers, much less sat in a rowing shell, before she signed up for girls crew at St. Paul’s School in 1973. That’s not too surprising. Until the early 1970s, girls across the country had few opportunities in crew and in most other sports. But change was in the air, and in the water. St. Paul’s had launched its first girls crew just a year earlier, in 1972, and already, there was something about these girl rowers and their gritty athleticism, the mesmerizing sight of their shell slicing through glassy Turkey Pond and the rhythm of their powerful strokes that made Kittredge and a handful of others like her want to join them. “I was always athletic and sort of pushing the limits,” says Kittredge who had excelled in gymnastics, basketball, tennis and other sports growing up in Michigan. “I also love being on a team and the kinds of athletic endeavors that really challenge you to do things you didn’t think you could do. And crew seemed to have all of that.” Starting a girls crew program in 1972, the same year it introduced coeducation, put SPS at the forefront of a nationwide movement to promote parity between the sexes in sports. It was the year that the landmark federal Title IX law went into effect, requiring schools that receive federal funding to provide equal participation opportunities regardless of sex. While Title IX did not apply to SPS, the public campaign for its passage spurred a tremendous surge in participation in both public and private schools. For Kittredge and the other girls in the boat at SPS, however, participation wasn’t enough. They wanted to win. 40

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Just four years after the program started, the SPS girls took gold in the high school varsity eight race in the 1976 Women’s National Rowing Championships in Long Beach, California, beating the defending champions by two boat lengths and setting a national record by an astonishing eight seconds. The performance capped a season in which they went undefeated against high school competition — and also beat several highly ranked collegiate teams in open races. Coach David Harman knew his team was something special early in that season. “It was just one of those rare confluences of great athletes with a great work ethic that happened to come together at the right time and the right place,” says Harman, who also was the School’s director of counseling, an English teacher and a junior varsity hockey coach. A collegiate rower himself, in 1971 Harman had captained Harvard’s undefeated men’s varsity eight. Since 1974, SPS girls have won 14 first boat gold medals in the New England Interscholastic Rowing Association (NEIRA) championships — more than any other school — nine NEIRA team championships Points Trophies and four Peabody Cups at the Women’s Henley Regatta in England. Many SPS girls have gone on to row in college, and several have competed in the Olympics, including Alison Rusher ’14, who competed in the women’s quad in 2020, and Juliet Thompson Hochman ’85, who competed in the women’s eights in 1988. Samantha Magee Bowerman ’01 won a silver medal at the 2004 Olympics and a gold in the 2007 World Championships, rowing in the eights with Team USA.

Talk with members of the 1976 team today, and they will rattle off the names of their teammates without prompting, making sure you know that they share equal credit for that remarkable season: Ann Jenkins, coxswain; Jenny Stone, stroke; Pam Berry, seventh seat; Penelope (Place) Gleason, sixth; Jen Chardon, fifth; Karla Drewsen, fourth; Cindy Wondolowski, third; Kittredge, second; and Tilda Essig, bow. All were Sixth Formers. Two other SPS athletes, Elizabeth Higgs ’76 and Heather Potter ’77, also rowed in the nationals as a pair. But without a high school category for pairs, they raced against Olympians and collegiate rowers and missed making the finals. Forty-seven years later, members of the 1976 girls eight don’t necessarily recall their stroke rate, record-setting time or the other teams in the race. What they do remember is that it was painful, the hardest they had worked in their lives, and also the best that they had rowed as a team. Even now, they can still feel that sense of flowing as one, a magical experience they’ll always cherish. “Rowing is an easy sport to fall in love with,” says Drewsen, who went on to row at the University of Pennsylvania and earned the stroke seat — widely considered the most important in setting both the rate and rhythm of the boat — with the 1980 U.S. Olympic Team … the year, unfortunately, that the U.S. boycotted the Games. “I had played and enjoyed other sports, but in rowing, I could find the flow. I could push my body as hard as I could and be part of a team. And when you feel all the other women pushing in the boat together like that, it’s really something special.” Early in their season, the girls had heard there were some skeptics among older alumni about their ability to train and row competitively. But they also knew they could count on support from both the boys and girls rowing coaches, as well as from Susanne Fortier, who had been hired by the School to serve as its first coach for girls sports in 1971.

Jen Stone and Pam Berry rest as they await the finals

“We were breaking the barriers of limitations put on women. We did get some negative feedback from a few old alumni who didn’t approve of girls rowing — but did we show them!” says Gleason, noting the support the team received not just from their coaches but also from proud parents and many other advocates. Our sense of camaraderie and group focus pushed us to higher heights.” Essig was one of the few with rowing experience when she came to SPS. She had been a member of the girls crew team at the Baldwin School in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, which won the national championship in 1973. “When I was at Baldwin and saw girls out rowing for the first time, I could see that they had such a great spirit of camaraderie,” Essig says. “And I could just sense that they were all really engaged in what they were doing and working together. Even when they weren’t in the boat, the way they were as a team was something special. I was intrigued.” Essig recalls telling Fortier, who had been a three-sport standout athlete in college, that she thought the 1976 team had the potential to win nationals. As the team’s winning season progressed, Fortier and the coaches rallied the School behind them, and during a spring Chapel, the community learned that the team was Nationals-bound. Women first rowed in the Olympics in 1976, and rowers selected for the U.S. Olympic team were also in Long Beach for the Women’s National Rowing Championships. After their races, those athletes watched and cheered as the SPS girls eight covered the 1,000-meter high school course in 3 minutes, 27.9 seconds — a time that would have made them competitive in the open eight event. Harman wrote about the team’s reaction in the summer 1976 issue of Alumni Horae: “The girls rowed triumphantly back to the dock and proceeded to send both coxswain Jenkins and Coach Harman into the Pacific, in the winners’ traditional postrace dunking ceremony.”

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REVIEWS

SACRED MUSE Charles Scribner III ’69 Rowman & Littlefield, June 2023 At a young age, Charlie Scribner was given a wonderful gift: he was introduced to “The Creation,” Haydn’s 1798 oratorio. It became his favorite piece. He was at first captivated by its melodies, its orchestral color, and by Haydn’s signature compositional trick — his music always seems to move forward, to generate. How perfect for this musical depiction of our world’s ultimate generative moment. Over time, Scribner would see more: beyond even Creation, Haydn had somehow in his music pointed to, and offered glimpses of, the Creator himself. Haydn had shown us, of all things, God, and this was a wondrous gift indeed. In return, Scribner has offered us a rare gift of his own in his book “Sacred Muse.” As readers, we are taken on a lovingly guided tour through a rich gallery of artists, visual and aural, who have dared show us something of God. Scribner turns out to be the tour guide we’ve always wanted: He walks with us, lingering over each artist with quiet authority and with affection. As we listen to him, we feel as if a wise mentor or friend is at our side, sharing secret stories and insights and taking us right to the heart of the matter. And so we spend time with Rembrandt, who showed us Jesus of Nazareth in new and astonishing ways: his Jesus is soulful, human, Jewish; a Christ who offers the gift of presence. Later, we linger over Bernini’s unique fusion of the spiritual with 42

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the sensual; Bernini showed us a love between Creator and Created that is mystical yet embodied; a love that is nothing less than a union of souls. And later still we linger over Mozart, whose melodic gift equipped him uniquely to show us our earthly walk with the Divine One as, in Scribner’s words, “an ultimate consummation of joy.” Scribner calls his brief book “a preface to Christian art and music.” And that is perhaps its greatest gift of all. Designed to be read in one sitting, it invites and beckons the reader into new realms of discovery. God is everywhere and in everything, the author seems to be telling us — it’s simply for us to open our eyes, to see, to contemplate and behold, and perhaps to receive a final gift: to come to know God just a little bit more. — Reviewed by Alan Murchie ’81

ON OUR BEST BEHAVIOR Elise Loehnen ’98 Dial Press, May 2023 Google Elise Loehnen and nearly any biography you come across will note that she’s co-written or ghostwritten a dozen titles, including five New York Times bestsellers. “On Our Best Behavior” is the first book that Loehnen has published under her own name, and it turns out she has plenty to say. Her debut is a wide-ranging analysis of the history of religion and the patriarchy and contemporary perspectives on male and female cultural and societal roles, interwoven with reflections on

her own experiences as a woman, mother, wife, sister and daughter, all served up as a way of understanding how the Seven Deadly Sins have shaped a world in which women’s behavior is circumscribed to their profound detriment … and the distinct benefit of others. Loehnen devotes a chapter to each of the sins — sloth, envy, pride, gluttony, greed, lust and anger — as well as one to sadness, taking a deep dive on the interrelatedness between each so-called sin and her personal and cultural definition of goodness, writing, “once I saw how deeply embedded the Seven Deadly Sins were in my understanding of what it means to be ‘good’ … I couldn’t unsee their influence. When I made a list of the ideas and behavior I correlate with being good, these traits mapped perfectly onto them.” Loehnen traces the Seven Deadly Sins’ origins to the writings of a fourth-century monk named Evagrius Ponticus who identified eight “passionate” — or evil — thoughts (his list includes sadness) that he warned others must not be allowed to blossom into sinful actions. Two centuries later, Pope Gregory I synthesized these eight thoughts into seven Capital Vices, attributing their propagation to Mary Magdalene. Today, Loehnen argues, women equate self-denial with being good in ways that correlate to the Seven Deadly Sins. If sloth is a sin, good women are tireless and hardworking; if pride is a sin, good women strive to appear modest, minimizing and not too intimidating; if gluttony is a sin, good women are thin and as small as possible. While “On Our Best Behavior” identifies the roots of this system of oppression as patriarchal, Loehnen’s solution is not a pendulum swing but rather a bringing into equilibrium of the feminine and masculine impulses with which we all are born. In conclusion, she writes: “This requires no religious belief, only a faith that we cannot rebalance the world until we reconcile the ‘Masculine’ and its pursuit of truth, order and direction with the ‘Feminine’ and its tendencies toward creativity, nurturance and care. Each of these energies is critical, in each of us, regardless of our stated gender, in all spheres of life. We don’t take off our work clothes to put on our parenting clothes: We must bring our playful, generative and warm energy to work, and our directing and organizing energy home. It’s from there that we take flight.” — Reviewed by Kristin Duisberg

SPS – then, now and always ... John Hargate, Form of 1861, dedicated nearly 50 years to St. Paul’s School, first as a student and then as a teacher. The bequest he made of his estate will impact the place he loved forever. As you make plans to care for all the people and places that matter to you, consider including St. Paul’s School in your estate planning. Options for planned gifts include bequests; appreciated securities; gifts of retirement accounts; gifts of life insurance; and/or charitable income gifts, such as charitable gift annuities, charitable remainder unitrusts, or charitable remainder annuity trusts. Planned gifts of any amount qualify for membership in The Hargate Society.

To learn more about leaving a legacy at the School you love, contact Director of Leadership and Planned Giving Phillip Blackman at pblackman@sps.edu or 603-229-4781. Alumni Horae | Issue IV 22/23

FACETIME

Finding Adventures, Meeting Needs Harvey Sloane ’54 reflects on a lifetime of opportunities that include careers in medicine and politics — and a friendship with Muhammad Ali. JANA F. BROWN

In his remarkable life, Harvey Sloane ’54 has leaned into a variety of personal opportunities while creating many more for others. His story includes earning a medical degree from Case Western University; opening a community health center in Louisville, Kentucky, and founding the city’s first EMS service; and serving as the public health commissioner for the District of Columbia under mayor Marion Barry during the HIV/AIDS crisis. It also includes serving two terms as mayor of Louisville; running twice for governor of Kentucky; losing a narrow bid for the U.S. Senate in 1990 to longtime incumbent Mitch McConnell; and serving as a pallbearer at the funeral of his close friend, Muhammad Ali. In the midst of it all, he also found time to advocate for education for women in Afghanistan and to visit prisoners in Siberia who had been stricken with tuberculosis. Sloane, who has written about his life and times in a memoir called “Riding the Rails: My Unexpected Adventures in Medicine, City Hall, and Public Service,” says it all started in a classroom at St. Paul’s School, where reading “The Grapes of Wrath” inspired a series of hitchhiking travels across the United States the summer after his graduation.

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YOU MENTIONED THAT READING “THE GRAPES OF WRATH” AS A SIXTH FORMER WAS A TURNING POINT IN YOUR LIFE. WHAT WAS IT ABOUT THAT BOOK THAT GOT TO YOU?

It’s really about human beings and the basics of life. They took care of one another and they were generous to people. Once they got to California, it wasn’t the land of plenty they imagined; it was hard going. I felt after reading “The Grapes of Wrath” that I didn’t know what was going on in the country, and I had such a precious background. After seeing some of the migrants and their horrible health conditions, I turned toward medicine. THE BOOK INSPIRED YOU TO TRAVEL THE COUNTRY. WHAT DID THOSE EXPERIENCES TEACH YOU?

That first summer with Sam Sylvester [’54], my mother was totally against us hitchhiking. She said, ‘I’ll give you a bus ticket.’ We went down to New Orleans and there was a classmate, Cocie Rathborne, who had a lumber mill there and we worked there for a while. Then, after freshman year at Yale, I hooked up with David Salisbury [’54] to go to Alberta, Canada. I had a contact up in a place called Peace River, where we could do a construction job on the Alcan Highway. I also worked in Tijuana, Mexico, and with a blacksmith in Rawlins, Wyoming. It really broadened my life. HOW DID THE PEOPLE YOU MET AND THE THINGS YOU SAW INFLUENCE YOUR DECISIONS TO GO INTO PUBLIC HEALTH AND PUBLIC SERVICE?

First of all, there was a great need out there. My father had been in finance. My mother expected me to go into finance, and I just didn’t see that for myself. I wanted to help people — be a part of their solution and not just make money — and [traveling] reinforced that. Later in life, I did a variety of things, but the health background was always significant, so that’s why I [went into medicine]. WHAT LED YOU TO SETTLE IN KENTUCKY?

One of the most important moments in my life was serving two years in the U.S. Public Health Service and being part of President Kennedy’s Appalachian Health Program in Eastern Kentucky. First, because it was two years of public service after my [medical] training — I would recommend every person between the ages of 18 and 30 have a year or two of public service because it benefits each individual and the country. Second, this service introduced me to Kentucky, where I spent 26 years and raised my family.

Mayor Harvey Sloane ’54 at his desk in Louisville, Kentucky, circa 1973.

YOUR PUBLIC SERVICE HAS INCLUDED CREATING A COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER IN LOUISVILLE AND YOU ALSO SERVED AS THE CITY’S MAYOR. HOW DID THAT HAPPEN?

I ran the community health center for a couple of years and then I got into air pollution. We had a big problem in Louisville, particularly in the area I was working in because most of the industry was in that southwest part of the community. The existing authority put me on the Air Pollution Control Board. Then someone said, “Why don’t you run for mayor?” I hadn’t thought about it. We had a really grassroots organization, campaigning in neighborhoods. My wife and I went to 250 coffees and met a whole lot of people. YOU FORMED A CLOSE BOND WITH MUHAMMAD ALI. HOW DID THAT FRIENDSHIP EVOLVE?

In 1974, Muhammad Ali, who was from Louisville, won “The Rumble in the Jungle” in Zaire and regained the heavyweight championship. I wired him, “Come back, champion. Greatest of the world.” He came back and we had a great reunion for him and we formed a close friendship. When I became county judge, I married him and his wife [Yolanda] in our home in Louisville. I was also a pallbearer at his funeral. He was an incredible guy.

YOU RAN FOR GOVERNOR OF KENTUCKY TWICE. TELL ME ABOUT THAT EXPERIENCE.

I walked 1,000 miles around Kentucky, which was one of the great moments of life. [My wife], Kathy, joined me and my two co-chairs were the two most recognized people in the western world: Muhammad Ali and Colonel Sanders. In the last mile, Ali jogged in with me, sparred with the media, and said, “If you don’t vote for this guy, (and then he put his fist in the camera) ‘I’ll just knock you down.” I lost that one just by a couple of votes. There never has been a [Kentucky] mayor who’s won a governorship. THE TITLE OF YOUR MEMOIR INCLUDES THE WORDS “UNEXPECTED ADVENTURES.” WHAT DID YOU EXPECT FROM LIFE AND HOW DO YOU THINK THAT SHIFTED?

Oliver Wendell Holmes said, “It is required of a person to participate in the action and passion of their time or risk being judged not to have lived.” I wanted always to go to the point of the action where I could make a difference. I can’t explain everything, but it was just my nature.

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ALUMNI CONNECTIONS

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YOU DOWN. BUT IT’S BECOME

• Cybil Roehrenbeck ’99 – Montrose Park and Dumbarton Oaks Gardens, Washington, D.C.

WE HAVE TO BE CAREFUL. THERE IS A LOT OF NEGATIVITY OUT THERE, AND IF YOU CHOOSE TO FOCUS ON IT, IT WILL BREAK EASIER AND EASIER AS I GET OLDER AND OLDER TO LOOK FOR

IN SERVICE TO OTHERS

Sparks Day of Service n May, SPS families and alumni took part in the annual SPS Sparks Day of Service — a chance to honor the School’s tradition of service while making a difference in locations across the country. Our thanks to the dozens of community members who participated, and a special thanks to those who coordinated projects: • Tristan Besse ’02 – The Food Pantry, San Francisco, CA • Angus Beavers ’78 and Jon Sweet ’78, P’20,’21 – Jennings Beach, Fairfield, CT

• Ben Karp ’08 – The Neutral Ground, New Orleans, LA

THE BEAUTIFUL THINGS … YOU

• Jose Maldonado ’73, P’17 and Sharon Myrie P’17 – Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY

LOOK FOR THE GOOD THINGS

• Sofia Vivado ’11 – FDR Park, Philadelphia, PA

AND YOU APPRECIATE THEM AS THEY ARISE, BECAUSE THEY’RE ALWAYS THERE, YOU JUST HAVE TO BE LOOKING FOR THEM.” — KEVIN GOVER ’73

Under Secretary for Museums and Culture

at the Smithsonian, speaking at Anniversary Weekend, June 10

Joining cleanup coordinator Sofia Vivado ’11 (far right) in Philadelphia’s FDR Park were members of the family of Sean-Michael Williams ’25. From left are Timoy Barrett, Andrean Williams P’25, Jordan Williams, Dwayne Hall, Darlene Hall, Michael Williams P’25 and Lee Nentwig, Vivado’s partner.

REUNION UPDATE

Anniversary Weekend 2024

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t. Paul’s School is pleased to welcome forms ending in 4 and 9 to Millville May 3-4, 2024, to enjoy the full energy of the School alongside students and faculty while celebrating their reunions. Hosting Anniversary Weekend in early May enables the School to bring the SPS community together during springtime, while also reserving Graduation Weekend for graduates and their families, which has been a wonderful and well-received outcome of the last two years’ COVID-19 pandemic-related schedule changes. Stay tuned in the coming months for more information about accommodation options, registration and programming.

RECENT EVENTS

Summer Receptions

t. Paul’s School hosted a series of receptions for alumni, parents and friends this summer. A special thanks to our alumni and parent hosts who also welcomed the community into their homes in these locations: • Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts – Burke Ross ’69, P’95,’05,’06; Allyson Ross Pachios ’95, P’26; Christopher Pachios ’94, P’26; Ed Ross ’05 and Charlotte Ross Canet ’06 • Jackson Hole, Wyoming – Nancy Leon and Charlie Thomson ’60 • North Haven, Maine – Priscilla and Bill Kennedy ’65 and Zoe Williams ’10 • Prouts Neck, Maine – Lisa and David Scully ’79, P’21

FISHERS ISLAND, NEW YORK

IN MILLVILLE AND BEYOND SEPTEMBER 13 Excellence in Character and Scholarship Virtual Alumni Panel 18 Alumni and Parent Reception with Rector Kathy Giles San Francisco, CA 19 Alumni and Parent Reception with Chief Advancement Officer Scott Bohan ’94, P’24,’25 Los Angeles, CA 20 Alumni and Parent Reception with Rector Kathy Giles Seattle, WA 22-23 Alumni Volunteer Weekend St. Paul’s School OCTOBER 4 Alumni and Parent Reception with Rector Kathy Giles Chicago, IL 13–14 Family Weekend St. Paul’s School 18 Alumni and Parent Reception with Rector Kathy Giles Boston, MA

The kick-off to the SPS summer reception season was a July 8 event on Fishers Island, New York, hosted by Beth and Mark Andrews ’86.

NANTUCKET, MASSACHUSETTS

NOVEMBER 2 SPS Queer Alumni Seated Meal 6-15 Alumni and Parent Receptions with Rector Kathy Giles Hong Kong, Shanghai, Taipei, Seoul JANUARY 10 Excellence in Character and Scholarship Virtual Panel 16 Alumni and Parent Reception with Rector Kathy Giles Denver, CO

On Aug. 2, a crowd gathered at the White Elephant, where Chief Advancement Officer Scott Bohan ’94, P’24,’25 shared School updates.

KETCHUM, IDAHO

FEBRUARY 28 Alumni and Parent Reception Washington, D.C. Visit sps.edu/events often as more opportunities to connect are added and to register for gatherings. Follow us on social media

Rector Kathy Giles joined nearly two dozen alumni for a gathering in Ketchum, Idaho, on Aug. 9.

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BUILDING ON PAST SUCCESSES

Caroline Gilman La Voie ’88 Begins Three-year Term as Alumni Association President JANA F. BROWN

While she had always maintained great affection for St. Paul’s School, Caroline La Voie ’88 gained new perspective on her alma mater when her daughters, Agatha ’20 and Ellie ’21, became students. During their years at the School, she became increasingly re-engaged, and she liked what she saw. “I’ve had a chance to experience SPS 2.0,” says La Voie, who began a three-year term as president of the SPS Alumni Association on July 1. “It was my second version of the School, but this time through parental eyes. I remembered what a special place it is and wanted to get more involved in community engagement.” Though her new role will come with even more connection to the School — and a seat on the SPS Board of Trustees — La Voie previously served as form director for the Form of 1988 (2018-23) and vice president of the Alumni Association Executive Committee (202023). She also worked with Mona Gibson ’87 and others to launch Parents@SPS — now the SPS Parents Association — to facilitate communications between parents and coordinate events, and has volunteered with the XIX Society, which engages women and nonbinary SPS alumnae, since 2022. “My platform was literally having more parties, more engagement,” La Voie says of her reason for running for the Alumni Association post, and — quip notwithstanding — she has shown a great commitment to service not just at, but also beyond, SPS. She has served for the last five years as a class of 1998 agent at Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business. She also recently joined the MBA Council at Tuck and is involved with various other clubs and organizations near her home in Orinda, California. 48

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A 1992 graduate of Trinity College, La Voie previously worked in investment banking at Chase and Morgan Stanley, moving between New York, Connecticut and California, before settling at her current home outside of San Francisco. A soccer, lacrosse and club hockey player during her three years at SPS, La Voie is also a lifelong swimmer and still competes nationally at the U.S. Masters level. As Alumni Association president, La Voie says she is most looking forward to working with vice president Ray Joseph ’90, who chairs the SPS BIPOC Alumni Advisory Council, on continuing to grow the community engagement opportunities initiated both by the School and by her predecessor, Will Dunn ’02. “In my speech for the election, I mentioned that I wanted to work hard to engage the younger alumni,” La Voie says. “There is already a lot of great programming, but we want to make sure they stay involved and have chances to do that even more. I’m excited to work with everyone to make that happen.” La Voie is fortunate to have an inside track to connecting with young alumni. In addition to her daughters, she also is the aunt of four other graduates: Elizabeth ’18, Hunt ’18, Billy ’18 and Sam ’19 Hobbs. At one point all six La Voie/Hobbs cousins were enrolled at SPS at the same time. “That made my mom pretty happy,” La Voie notes, “when she arrived for one of the Family Weekends.” Over the next three years, La Voie plans to remind her formmates and all SPS alumni that there are many ways to remain involved with the School. From following SPS on social media to prompting them to tune into the livestream of Lessons and Carols in December, she’s eager to act as a link between the School and its greater community.

LEADING THROUGH VOLUNTEER WORK

Meet Alumni Association Vice President Ray Joseph ’90 JANA F. BROWN

On a January day in 1990, then-Sixth Former Ray Joseph ’90 and several friends led 400 or so SPS community members on a 2.5-mile march down Pleasant Street to the New Hampshire State Capitol to urge the state to adopt the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. Earlier in the day, Joseph had spoken on the subject in Chapel; when he arrived in downtown Concord, he presented a petition to the chair of the New Hampshire House of Representatives and delivered another speech, this time on the steps of the State House. “It was a defining moment for me,” Joseph recalls, “about being able to galvanize people for change.” Today, Joseph continues to lead through his volunteer work with charter schools and through his engagement with St. Paul’s School. Since 2021, he has served as chair of the School’s BIPOC Alumni Advisory Council, a group established to celebrate and advance inclusiveness among the alumni community. On July 1, Joseph began a threeyear term as vice president of the SPS Alumni Association. In that capacity, he will serve alongside President Caroline La Voie ’88, with a goal of increasing engagement. “It’s about bringing as many people into the tent as possible,” Joseph explains. “How do we make it more participatory? How do we help alumni feel like the Alumni Association is theirs?” As a New York native who came to SPS through the Oliver Scholars program, Joseph had a wonderful academic experience at the School and made many close friendships.

But, he adds, it was not always easy being a student of color at a New England boarding school in the late 1980s. “It’s hard to divorce [my experience] from the rites of passage of being a teenager,” he says. “At some point, one of my friends challenged me that my view of St. Paul’s was probably outdated. I said to myself, ‘You know what? He’s probably right.’ So I decided to get involved and refresh my experience.” In addition to the BIPOC Alumni Advisory Council, which has included planned programming for alumni of color, in 2021 Joseph was appointed to the Alumni Association Executive Committee. Through that experience, he says, he has been able to see the School from a new perspective, including witnessing the intention behind policies and strategic planning. He’s particularly impressed with the student-centered approach and the support system that exists today. “That’s not to say the School wasn’t student-centered [before], but its programming around supporting students and their maturation through high school didn’t exist when I was there,” Joseph says, pointing to the Living in Community (LinC) curriculum as just one example. “As part of that, there’s also more dialogue about the differences we all bring to the School, whether it’s socioeconomic or race. The School has a much more dedicated infrastructure [for that] now.” Outside of his work with his alma mater, Joseph is a married father of two girls, a long-suffering fan of the New York Knicks and an avid biker. He’s also a financial services professional, currently serving as head of research in the asset allocation division of Fidelity Investments. A dedicated community leader, he chairs the board at Bold Charter School in the Bronx. He previously served as board chair of the Odyssey Charter School in Altadena, California, and of Future Leaders Institute Charter School in New York and has sat on the Posse Foundation Los Angeles Advisory Board and the board of the Oliver Scholars. The last of these, he says, has been a theme throughout his life. “[The Oliver program] instilled in me a culture of giving back, a culture of community service and servant leadership.” Joseph looks forward to continuing that ethos in his new role with the SPS Alumni Association. “No matter what your experience was at SPS,” he says, “I want people to know you can come home to the Alumni Association because you’ll find friends there.” Alumni Horae | Issue IV 22/23

CHANCE

HAPPENING Chance Emerson ’18 navigates his identities as a college student, folk rocker — and role model for a new generation of musicians.

IAN ALDRICH

Last September, Chance Emerson ’18, a musician and third-year computer science and archeology student at Brown University, played a Thursday night show in New Haven, Connecticut, that wonderfully mashed together the two main parts of his life at the moment. The set put Emerson, a singer/ songwriter and guitarist whose self-described “spicy flannel rock” sound is backed by a four-person band, before 1,200 people as the opening act for the Grammy Award-winning group Blues Traveler. Not that he had any time to bask in the glory. After playing his final chords of the night, Emerson rushed backstage and parked himself in front of his laptop to finish a software engineering project that was the due the next day. “It’s happened to the other guys in the group, too,” he says. “We’re all STEM majors and sometimes after a show is the only time we have to finish some code or prepare for a midterm. Sometimes I just have to laugh. Who are we? This is not normal!” That duality is unlikely to change as Emerson enters his final year of college. In May, Emerson released “Ginkgo,” a 10-track album that features his most robust collection of original material to date. If all goes according to plan, there will be an intense lineup of shows that will extend deep into the year, starting with his July debut as an emerging 50

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artist at the 2023 Newport Folk Festival in Providence, Rhode Island. Which will mean more academic juggling as he continues to build on a music career that has already shown much promise. But Emerson is up to the task. That’s because the cowboy-hat wearing, Taiwanese-born 23-year-old long ago learned the skill of merging different identities. The son of a Taiwanese mom and an American dad, Emerson split his early years between Taipei and Hong Kong before moving to the United States to attend St. Paul’s School as a Third Former. Music was a defining force in his family’s home. His father constantly had something playing — the Beatles, Oasis, Norah Jones — while his mother compelled him to play an instrument. When the piano didn’t stick, an 11-year-old Emerson convinced his mom to let him try guitar. Emerson picked a heavymetal-style Ibanez electric. Emerson, who had an early love for 1970s rock, thrived at SPS in part because he was given the chance to delve deep into his music obsession. In particular, he credits the opportunity to play Eco-Fest the fall of his first year as a serious launching point. “I covered some Bob Dylan and Tom Petty and I just remember people started paying attention as I played,” he says. “Here I was at this new school, putting myself out there, and it really clicked with people.”

In the years since, SPS has continued to play a defining role in Emerson’s story. As a Fifth Former, he collaborated with Finn George ’17, who produced his first EP, “The Indigo Tapes.” SPS Director of Chapel Music Nick White and now-retired music teacher William Fletcher helped him develop his sense of music composition. The merchandise design for his tour season was created by Addie Dahl ’17, who also did the artwork for that first album. And at his shows, he often sees SPS alums in the crowd. Emerson says that kind of community support has been an inspiration. And as he dedicates more of himself to his music, he is working to pay it forward to a new generation of American musicians who look like him. “I’ve been able to draw on this unique life experience I’ve had to make the music I do,” says Emerson, whose music has been streamed more than 5 million times. “And in a genre that isn’t particularly diverse, here comes this kid out of Taiwan and Hong Kong trying to make his mark. A few younger musicians have reached out to me online and said, ‘you’re the first person I’ve heard in this genre who looks like me. Until I heard your songs, I didn’t think there was room in the industry for me.’ I’ve had so much generosity and help shared with me in my career, and I know what that feels like. I feel so lucky that I can help somebody in that way.”

IN MEMORIAM The section was updated July 5, 2023. Please note that deaths are reported as we receive notice of them. Therefore, alumni dates of death are not always reported chronologically. 1943 – Sanders Paul Jones May 19, 2023 1945 – Thomas M. Armstrong June 4, 2023 1946 – William B. White Nov. 3, 2022 1950 – Alfred Newbold Lawrence Jr. Jan. 17, 2023 1952 – Joseph H. Williams April 27, 2023 1953 – Gordon B. Fowler Sr. June 2, 2023 1953 – Peter D. Swords May 9, 2023 1954 – John H. Harrison Jr. April 2, 2023 1954 – Keith Lorenz Jr. April 5, 2023 1955 – Peter A. Barranco Jr. May 10, 2023 1955 – Henry Shaw Jr. June 15, 2023 1956 – A. Scott Harden IV May 13, 2023 1956 – Douglas C. Burger June 2, 2023 1957 – Stephen S. Barranco Sr. May 14, 2023 1960 – DeWitt L. Sage Jr. April 7, 2023 1961 – Owen S. Walker April 26, 2023 1962 – Alexander Whiteside May 16, 2023 1964 – David D. Patterson April 27, 2023 1975 – Richard D. Sawyer Jr. April 25, 2023 1976 – Elisabeth Claudy Fleischman May 27, 2023 1989 – David J. Goff April 23, 2023 STAFF Marjorie L. (Charpentier) (Piroso) Clarke April 19, 2023

1949 Frederick A. “Ted” Terry Jr. loving husband, father and colleague to many, died from complications from Parkinson’s disease on Jan. 13, 2023, surrounded by loved ones at home, at the age of 90. Born in Buffalo, New York, on May 24, 1932, Mr. Terry was the son of Agnes Tranter of Buffalo and Frederick Arthur Terry of Brighton, England. His father instilled in “Teddy” a certain English pride in sharing a birthday with Queen Victoria. The Tranter family lived in Buffalo, where Agnes’ father was the editor of the Buffalo Courier-Express and Mr. Terry attended the Nichols School for Boys. He entered St. Paul’s School in the fall of 1946; he later served as a form agent for a decade. An avid reader and history buff, Mr. Terry was valedictorian of the Class of 1953 at Williams College and graduated from Columbia Law School in 1956, where he was a Kent Scholar and articles editor of the Law Review. After clerking for the Honorable Sterry R. Waterman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Mr. Terry joined the firm of Sullivan & Cromwell in 1957, became a partner in 1965 and was the founding partner of the firm’s Estates and Personal group. He became Of Counsel to the firm after his retirement in 1999. Mr. Terry enjoyed his roles at Sullivan & Cromwell for 66 years, caring for his clients until just days prior to his death. He was a trusted counselor who loved his work and came to love his colleagues, many of whom became close friends. Mr. Terry also was a dedicated adviser to, and leader of, many charitable and nonprofit organizations. He was trustee emeritus of The Rockefeller University, which presented him with The David Rockefeller Award for Extraordinary Service in 2007 in recognition of his service on the committee on trust and estate gift plans and on the board of trustees.

He also served on the board of Natural Resources Defense Council for 17 years and was thereafter made an honorary trustee; was a former director of the Eisenhower Fellowships; and was a trustee of the Harold K. Hochschild Foundation, the McIntosh Foundation, the Isak and Rose Weinman Foundation and the Flagler Foundation. He also served as president and as a member of the board of Maidstone Club in East Hampton, New York. Known for his quick-witted humor, jovial spirit and boisterous laugh, Mr. Terry had an enthusiastic love for sports, both as a competitive player and an avid fan. Winning a point using his infamous “slice/spin” playing tennis on grass courts gave him immense pleasure, as did cheering on his beloved New York Yankees and Buffalo Bills. When he wasn’t on the tennis court or golf course, he could be found devouring the New York Times, reading a book about American history or watching a favorite classic flick. Mr. Terry is survived by his loving wife of 30 years, Barbara; her children, BJ Casey (Jack) and William DeMeo (Hyeyoung Shin); and grandchildren Charlotte, James and William Casey. He is also survived by his sister, Noel Griffin, and her sons, Geoff Griffin (Sandra) and Peter Griffin (Eileen).

1952 Joseph Hill Williams died peacefully on April 27, 2023. He was noted for being both an innovative energy industry leader and an avid conservationist. Mr. Williams was born on June 2, 1933, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and raised in Camden, South Carolina; he was educated at St. Paul’s School and Yale University. At SPS, he was active with the Library Association, glee club and choir.

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IN MEMORIAM In 1959, after serving two years in the U.S. Army in Germany, he joined Williams Brothers, a family-owned engineering and pipeline construction company, and predecessor to the publicly owned Williams Companies, headquartered in Tulsa. He retired in Charleston in 2009. Mr. Williams learned the family business from the ground up, spending seven years building pipelines across Iran in the 1960s. From 1979 to 1994 he served as chair and CEO of the Williams Companies, where he was noted for successfully and profitably refocusing the company back to its core energyrelated businesses in continental pipeline transportation and the gathering and processing of natural gas. In the late 1980s, he also built one of the earliest nationwide fiber optic cable networks through its decommissioned pipelines, an innovation that provided critical infrastructure underlying the telecommunications revolution. After returning to the United States from Iran in 1968, Mr. Williams noticed how rapidly the natural places he loved were being lost to development and became a local, state and national leader for conservation. He founded the Oklahoma Nature Conservancy in 1986 and became chair of the global board of directors for The Nature Conservancy. Most notable was his galvanizing leadership to preserve one of the last intact expanses of native tallgrass prairie in North America outside of Pawhuska, Oklahoma. He brought together business leaders, conservationists, scientists, ranchers, tribal leaders and others in a collaborative effort to purchase the 29,000-acre Barnard Ranch in 1989, which was later renamed The Joseph H. Williams Tallgrass Prairie Preserve. The preserve is now 40,000 acres with 2,500 bison roaming the native prairie. Mr. Williams was active in many other leadership roles. He served as chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City and on the boards of American Express, Prudential Financial Company, the Bank of Oklahoma, Orvis and the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. He was a life trustee of Yale University and received the Yale Medal. He also was a trustee of St. Paul’s School and The University of Tulsa. He was elected to the Oklahoma Hall of Fame and to the South Carolina Business Hall of Fame. Mr. Williams was a member of Augusta National Golf Club, Linville 52

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Golf Club and Yeamans Hall Club. He will be remembered for his passion for life and his worldview, his warmth and humor, and most of all, his integrity. His parting words on most occasions will live on in all he touched: “Go your best.” He is survived by his wife, Terry; his sons Joseph H. Williams Jr. ’76, Peter B. Williams and James C. Williams; his stepdaughters Margot T. Rose and Jennifer B. Ross; and seven grandchildren.

1952 Gordon Wilson died from complications due to a fall while in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 19, 2022. A resident of Hillsboro Beach, Florida, he was 88. Mr. Wilson was born in New York City on June 13, 1934, and adopted by John P. Wilson Jr. and Romayne Warren Wilson of Lake Forest, Illinois, where he grew up. He came to St. Paul’s School in the fall of 1948 and was on the crew, ice hockey, football and squash teams. A prefect, he was active in the Library Association, Cadmean/ Concordian, the Cum Laude Society, the Missionary Society and the Science Society. At Princeton University, he lettered for three years on the varsity hockey squad and majored in art history; he graduated in 1956 with honors. After serving two years in the Marines, he entered law school at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and graduated in 1961. The next year, he married April Donald. Mr. Wilson worked as an attorney for Chicago firm Wilson & McIlvaine from 1961 to 1968 and specialized in not-for-profit corporate law. A longtime proponent of wildlife preservation, he moved to Washington, D.C., to take on the role of deputy director at the African Wildlife Leadership Foundation from 1968 to 1972; he served on its board from 1988 to 2004.

He continued to work in Washington, D.C., as a trust and estate officer until the late 1990s, when he started with the investment advisory firm Gardner Russo and Gardner, where he worked until he retired in 2010. Mr. Wilson loved sailing, tennis, golf, scuba diving and bridge. He coached youth ice hockey for many years and played competitive squash. He is survived by his wife, April; his sons, Speke and Reid; and his grandchildren, Allegra, Abraham, Nina, Miles and Alec.

1953 Peter DeLancey Swords passed away unexpectedly on May 9, 2023, at Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital in New York City due to complications following a femur fracture after a fall. Surrounding him at his death were his loving wife Brenda and daughters Deirdre and Eliza. He was 88 years old and had recently survived pancreatic cancer; while undergoing chemotherapy, his appreciation of nurses and science reached a new high. A lifelong New Yorker, Mr. Swords entered St. Paul’s School in the fall of 1948 and sang in the choir; he graduated from Harvard University in 1957 and Columbia Law School in 1962. He served for two years as LTJG in the U.S. Pacific Fleet aboard the aircraft carrier USS Boxer while it was command ship for Operation Hardtack, the 1958 nuclear tests in Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. In 1966, while an associate at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, Mr. Swords’ strong convictions about racial equality and social justice led him to work with the Lawyers’ Committee in Mississippi, where he represented Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and many others. In 1972 he became associate dean at Columbia Law School where, with a colleague, he developed a course on nonprofit law that he taught for four decades. As a

pioneer of nonprofit law, he embraced a liberal view of “charitable purpose” to include not only relieving poverty, advancing education, and serving religion, but also serving “other purposes beneficial to the community.” Mr. Swords played a crucial role in defending the city’s nonprofit sector when in the 1980s the Koch administration proposed rescinding the nonprofit property tax exemption. He went on to cofound the Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York (now Nonprofit New York), an organization devoted to improving and protecting the city’s nonprofit sector. He subsequently served as their executive director and president until he retired in 2000. As a lifelong student of philosophy, Mr. Swords was deeply interested in ethics and morality, the philosophy of giving and how to reconcile competing public interests in society. He was a dedicated and long-serving board member and legal advisor to many organizations, including La Mama Theatre; Harlem School of the Arts; Correctional Association of New York; Early Music Foundation; Century Association Archives Foundation; Mountain Top Historical Society of Haines Falls, New York; and the organization of Amma, “the hugging saint.” He also was a great lover of art, and a diverse array of favorite music was a constant backdrop to his days (jazz, classical, opera, Armenian, rock and pop). He greatly enjoyed the beauty of the natural world on his daily runs in Riverside Park or gazing out over the magnificent Hudson Valley from his desk in the Catskills. Mr. Swords’ positivity impacted all who met him, from friends and colleagues to local store owners to his extended and adoring family. A unique and remarkable man, he will be remembered for his kindness, friendliness, optimism, desire to help others, curiosity and intellect and his smile. He will be forever missed by all who knew and loved him.

1953 Benjamin D. Williams III knew what was coming and wrote, “I have no regrets ... I have had more than my share of the best that life has to offer. When the lights go out, I’m going to find Nan. We’ve been apart too long.” He died on Tuesday, March 7, 2023, one day shy of his 87th birthday. Born in 1936 and the eldest of three children, Mr. Williams was raised by parents he called “the best possible examples of how to build a contributing and meaningful life.” His own children noted, “To grow up with Ben Williams was to understand that the responsibility of any earnest citizen was to know the name of as many living things on the planet as possible. To know another living thing’s name, nature and needs is to appreciate that your own desires and interests are far from paramount.” Mr. Williams entered St. Paul’s School in the fall of 1947 and overcame extreme homesickness to achieve recognition for his academics and leadership, all the while collecting not just knowledge and adventures but also the small creatures that enlivened the School’s grounds: owls, squirrels, raccoons, snakes, salamanders, crows, all manner of insects, even a groundhog. He served on the Student Council and as prefect, sang in the choir, and was an active athlete for Old Hundred, competing in ice hockey, baseball, boxing and football.

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Mr. Williams did his undergraduate work at Princeton and became a standout oarsman for the men’s heavyweight crew, rowing for the Department of the Navy after earning his degree in 1957. He competed in the U.S. Olympic trials in 1960, losing with his mates by mere inches to a University of Washington crew that went on to win the gold medal. As a Marine Corps officer after college, Mr. Williams served for a time as a drill instructor at Officer Candidate School in Quantico, Virginia, as well as a captain in the Ceremonial Guard Company in Washington, D.C., charged with protecting the President of the United States. He met Nancy Nielsen, who worked for the CIA, on a blind date. They married in 1961 and moved to Pomfret School in Connecticut, where they raised three sons. Though the family left the school in 1969 when Mr. Williams became head at Lawrence Academy in Groton, Massachusetts, Pomfret remained the center of the family’s orbit. As a school head, he was unparalleled in his attention to the needs of the Lawrence community, undaunted by the challenges of his time and remarkably forward-thinking. Dan Scheibe, the current head, writes, “Ben transformed Lawrence Academy. The programs and activities of the school today are grounded in the care and creativity he invested in the school over his tenure.” But Mr. Williams’ life was about far more than his vocation. A nationally and internationally known entomologist, his work was published in the Lepidopterist’s Journal. He joined Connecticut Audubon and Wyndham Land Trust as a volunteer and board member after his career in education and is among the many responsible for the vast trail network and protected lands that distinguish Wyndham County. Asked not long before his passing how he would like to be remembered, Mr. Williams replied, “Given the qualities which I have so admired, respected and valued in the fourlegged members of our family over the years, I’d like to be remembered as a good old dog.” A truly remarkable teacher, father, brother and friend, he is “beloved on the earth.”

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IN MEMORIAM

1954 Keith Lorenz Jr. died in Rockport, Maine, on April 5, 2023, at age 86. He was born in New York City on Dec. 3, 1936, to Helen Laimbeer, active in Republican Party politics in the Upper East Side, and Keith Lorenz, a lawyer. He attended Buckley School in New York City before entering St. Paul’s School as a First Former in the fall of 1948. At SPS, he rowed and played football, squash and tennis; he also was active with Cadmean Literary Society and Horae Scholasticae. Mr. Lorenz graduated from Harvard in 1958; one college summer, he tramped alone through the jungles of Chiapas, Mexico, where he encountered Mayan ruins. He spent two years in the U.S. Army, assigned to Frankfurt, Germany, and after his discharge, lived on the Left Bank in Paris for a year. Returning to New York, he worked at Forbes Magazine and then settled briefly in San Francisco. At the invitation of his former boarding school roommate who worked in Thailand for a Pan Am subsidiary, he flew to Bangkok and remained in Southeast Asia for 25 years. He first worked there as a copywriter and researcher at Grant Advertising, a Chicago-based firm with offices around the world, many of which provided cover for the CIA. As the war in Vietnam escalated, Mr. Lorenz became a freelance stringer for news organizations including NBC News, the London Daily Telegraph, VOA and Mutual Broadcasting. He changed his Bangkok base to Singapore, where he became the co-owner of a 100-foot Indonesian trading junk converted into a floating restaurant moored in the harbor that doubled as the Singapore Foreign Correspondents Club. Mr. Lorenz returned to New York in the mid-1970s and worked at the United Nations in the Office of Public Information, writing

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radio scripts for foreign broadcast. Missing the Far East, he returned as the Southeast Asia correspondent of the New York Journal of Commerce, a venerable Wall Street newspaper, covering international trade and investment. From there, he moved to Honolulu, where he worked as a writer for the East-West Center, at a think tank and at a graduate student institution. He devoted much effort endeavoring to assist the long-suffering Karen tribe of Burma, whom he had encountered on the Thailand border 20 years before, aiming to link them with international aid and human rights organizations. Mr. Lorenz remained in Honolulu for more than 30 years while also passing many summers in Mid-Coast Maine in an old farmhouse that he and his brother John ’51 had bought as a family domicile. In his last years, Mr. Lorenz met the former Ann (Andy) Collier Austin, previously of Boston and Chicago. They lived together in Rockport, Maine, for the rest of his life in a cozy house overlooking the picturesque harbor. Besides his partner, Mr. Lorenz leaves a nephew, John C. Lorenz, who maintains the family home in Morrill, Maine.

1955 Henry Shaw Jr. died on June 15, 2023, following a battle with cancer. Born in 1937 in Buenos Aires, he and his family relocated to Santiago, Chile, in 1941, where he attended St. George’s School. In 1950, the family came to the United States, where Mr. Shaw entered the Second Form at St. Paul’s School; there, he was active in the choir, glee club, and Missionary Society. As an alumnus, he served as a form director and a form agent to raise funds for SPS, and he joined the Hargate Society.

As a student at the University of Vermont, he was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity, competed on the debate team and earned a B.A. in English. He also helped run the UVM Alumni Fund and remained active as a UVM Alumni Representative for South Carolina. He was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant Army Infantry Platoon Leader, trained at Fort Benning Infantry Officers’ Leadership Course and qualified as an Airborne Ranger. He trained troops at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, in small-unit combat. After his Army discharge, he attended the University of Missouri and earned a Bachelor of Journalism in advertising copywriting. Returning to Rochester, he sold consumer products for Eastman Kodak. In 1963, he married Judith Nichols Vogt of St. Louis. In his career with Kodak, Mr. Shaw first worked the 1964 New York World’s Fair, followed by sales and marketing assignments in Jacksonville, Florida; Philadelphia; Rochester, New York; Dallas; and, for the last 40 years, in South Carolina, with additional responsibilities in Wilmington, Augusta and Savannah. As a young boy, Mr. Shaw enjoyed sailing small boats which he raced on Lake Ontario. In later years on Lake Murray, he sailed a Lido 14 with his sons, and never a harsh word was spoken between skipper and his crew. He looked forward to weekly tennis matches with friends who always remained a part of his life. As well as being an active volunteer in the Columbia community, Henry and Judy were avid travelers and made trips to the Pacific Northwest, British Isles, Western Europe and the Eastern Bloc. They attended a special reunion in Santiago with old chums from St. George’s, with a side trip to Tierra Del Fuego and Punta Arenas. Cruises down the Rhine, Danube and Douro Rivers were among the best. He is survived by his wife of 59 years, Judith; sons Henry III of Seattle and William Vogt (Deirdre) of Augusta; grandchildren Harry, Abigail Grace, Helen Lucille and Evelyn Marlow; and his sister, Helen Shaw Davis. He was predeceased by his parents Helen and Henry Shaw of Rochester, New York.

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passed peacefully on May 13, 2023, at age 86. He was born in Maplewood, New Jersey, to the late Albert and Helen (Coxe) Harden. Mr. Harden, known to friends and family as Scott, loved his time at St. Paul’s School and felt proud and lucky to have attended. He played the organ in the Chapel and sang in the choir, an early chapter of his lifelong love of music that eventually included singing in the NY Glee Club and in a men’s choir, as well as listening to classical music while conducting with a baton. He attended Hobart College in Geneva, New York, but it was while serving in the Navy that Mr. Harden found his life’s inspiration and fell in love with ships, sailing and all things nautical. After his service, he started his career in New York City working in the shipping industry as an oil tanker broker. Later, he started his own broker business, Nantucket Chartering. Mr. Harden and his family lived in Mendham, New Jersey, before moving to Nantucket, where he enjoyed sailing his Beetle Cat in Polpis Harbor. He later moved to Bath, Maine, where he enjoyed volunteering at the Maine Maritime Museum. He loved to play backgammon and was known for his uncanny good luck rolling the dice. He loved his dogs and always had a companion by his side. He was quiet but witty, generous to others, and he had a twinkle in his blue eyes. A great gift to his family was the lesson of finding a way to do what you love no matter where you may be. He is survived by son John Harden ’94 and his wife, Alison; daughter Philippa Nava and her husband, David; two of his sisters, Carrie Simino-Staples and Georgianna Hamilton; grandchildren Madoc and Grayson; and former spouse Elvira (Harries) Harden. A third sister, Helen Chenut, passed just six days after him.

passed away peacefully at age 80 on April 7, 2023, with his family by his side. He battled valiantly with heart disease for 25 years. At his core, Mr. Sage was a narrator of the world who had an acute ear for relaying the stories of others. Professionally, he was a documentary filmmaker: a writer, producer and director. His interest in humanity was sparked during his time in the Navy aboard the USS Independence, where he rose to the rank of LTJG. He was Officer of the Deck Underway, the youngest to hold the position aboard Independence. He often alluded to his time serving as fundamental to his understanding of people, himself and the world. After leaving the Navy, Mr. Sage’s career in documentary film took off. His films and screenplays were inspired by his innate interests, which included the performing arts, literature, the plight of refugees, fatherlessness, schizophrenia and mental health, music and opera. A proud yet self-deprecating man who understood awards and accolades were merely symbolic, he collected his share of them during his 45-plus-year career. His films and broadcast series were honored with the George Foster Peabody Award, the Robert Kennedy Journalism Award, the Dupont Columbia, major production grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and multiple Emmy nominations. A multiple Academy Award nominee, Mr. Sage won an Oscar in 1974 for his film “Princeton: A Search for Answers.” He also directed and produced Luciano Pavarotti’s historic trip to China titled “Distant Harmony,” the first time a major Western artist had been invited to perform in The Great Hall of The People at Tiananmen Square.

Like his father, a member of the Form of 1925, Mr. Sage graduated from St. Paul’s School and then went on to the University of Pennsylvania. He was the goalie of both schools’ JV hockey teams and sang with the glee club at SPS. But his essence had always been shaped by his time on Maine’s Mount Desert Island. A “summer kid” with the heart of a local, he was happiest while cutting ledges and dodging lobster pots along the coastline on his custom-built 26-foot open launch named “Almost Home.” As a man who knew how to hold court at a dinner party, he was known to inhabit several “characters,” including his “Down’easta lobstaman,” an accent inspired by his appreciation for Maine and perfected while in the Navy as the emcee of the aircraft carrier’s weekly variety show. He was known for his keen sensibility, sharp wit, inquisitive mind, deep appre ciation of creative performance, his pitchperfect impressions and accents, his empathy, and his immense love for his adoring family and friends. Mr. Sage leaves his wife, Marcia, of 50 years; children Mia, Dylan and Nicholas Sage; four grandchildren; his sister Linn Sage, a niece and nephew and many beloved in-laws who revered him.

1961 Owen Sullivan Walker died April 26, 2023, exactly four months after he fell and sustained a traumatic brain injury that led to a coma-like condition. In the interim, a steady supply of family and friends took turns reading familiar poems and essays in the hope of getting through to a magnificent mind fallen into quiescence. He was 79. Mr. Walker was born in New York City on Dec. 20, 1943, the youngest son of Hélène Sullivan Walker and Norman S. Walker of the Form of 1916. At St. Paul’s School, he flourished intellectually and socially, acting in Alumni Horae | Issue IV 22/23

IN MEMORIAM plays, competing in interscholastic debates, and serving as an elected member of the Student Council and president of the Mathematics Society and Concordian Literary Society. An Honor Scholar each year, he excelled in math; as a Sixth Former, he had reached the limits of the offerings at SPS in the subject and a Dartmouth professor taught him advanced topics. He made friends easily and often volunteered to tutor friends in math. At Harvard, Mr. Walker double majored in philosophy and math and then graduated from Harvard Law School in 1968. He joined VISTA and represented indigent patients civilly committed to Bridgewater State Hospital before moving on to work as a public defender in Massachusetts state courts. From 1973 to 1980, he practiced law at the firm Choate, Hall & Stewart. Also in 1973, he married Martine Chérau, and they became the parents of Daphne and Sophie. When Congress enacted provision for the office of public defender in each of the nation’s federal judicial districts, Mr. Walker leapt at the chance to serve in this capacity, applied and was appointed by the federal appellate court. He built up an office responsible for defending indigent people charged with federal crimes in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island. By 2004, the year he retired from the post, he was supervising 17 lawyers, 10 support staff and administering a $2 million annual budget. The trial defense work covered a wide range of federal criminal cases; with his tongue firmly in his cheek, he reported to his friends that he was “blessed with an absorbing job in a growth industry (the federal criminal justice system).” In more private moments, Mr. Walker took great pleasure participating in the amateur theatrics of Boston’s Tavern Club; in working at his family’s beloved ancestral place at Ashfield in western Massachusetts; in learning bird calls and spotting the songsters; in volunteer academic tutoring of the young and not-so-young in Cambridge; in listening to 20th century classical music; in taking demanding graduate classes in abstruse advanced math, applied and computer science and quantum mechanics; in supporting liberal politicians and policies. Most of all, he treasured taking pride and delight in his daughters’ company and lives, and in the love and companionship of his wife Alexandra Leake, whom he married in 56

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1990, and their daughter Eliza, who is now also a public defender. With the onset of the COVID pandemic, Mr. Walker instituted a weekly Zoom call with five other members of the Form of 1961, a valued linkage among isolated folk who relished talk of music, politics, history, personal lives and a little plain old gossip. His essential humanity and concern for the unfortunate or unlucky among us, coupled with his high intelligence, honesty and directness, were among his outstanding attributes. So was his readiness to laugh and give companionable delight to others. He is survived by his wife Alexandra Leake; daughters Daphne, Sophie and Eliza; three grandchildren; former wife Martine Chérau; and his brothers, Norman S. Walker ’43, James A.S. Walker ’45 and Bryce S. Walker ’52.

1961 Walter Thacher “Terry” Winslow Jr. athlete, attorney, performer, died of a sudden heart attack at his home in Chevy Chase, Maryland, on Nov. 22, 2022, at age 79. He was born to Walter Thacher Winslow and Frida Frazer Winslow (later Frida Burling) and attended D.C. public schools and Potomac School before entering St. Paul’s School as a Second Former in 1956. Mr. Winslow was an Old Hundred and Halcyon, playing Old Hundred soccer and track and varsity soccer, tennis and squash. He also was a member of the Acolytes Guild, Athletic Association, Attendance Committee, Cadmean Literary Society, Pelican Board, Le Cercle FranÇais, a Chapel Warden, secretary of the Missionary Society, and was a supervisor in the Old Upper. His brother David ’69 followed him to SPS, as did his nephew Ned Doubleday ’81 and Ned’s daughter Serena Doubleday ’15.

After St. Paul’s School, Mr. Winslow went to Harvard University, graduating in 1965 with a degree in American History. At Harvard he played varsity soccer and was a member of the Porcellian Club and the famous Hasty Pudding Club, of which he was president during his senior year. In Hasty Pudding productions, he discovered that performing on stage was one of the true joys of his life. It may have been his tenure there that led him to know a song to fit every occasion, and if he didn’t, he would write one, enlivening many a family celebration. After Harvard, he joined the D.C. Air National Guard Reserve and went through basic training before entering George Washington University Law School. His studies there were interrupted for a year when he was called up for active duty in Japan during the Korean Pueblo crisis. Returning home, he graduated in 1970 cum laude, Law Review and Order of the Coif. Mr. Winslow then spent six years at Wilmer, Cutler, and Pickering law firm in D.C. (meeting Mick Jagger as a potential client of the firm) before moving to the Federal Trade Commission. During a distinguished 20-year career at the FTC, he received the Presidential Rank Award for Meritorious Service as well as numerous FTC and Senior Executive Service awards. His time at the FTC included a stint as the acting director of the Bureau of Competition; an assignment to Sofia to assist the Bulgarian government with antitrust issues; and a year in Warsaw as a resident advisor to the Polish Antimonopoly Office. In 1996, he retired as the Bureau of Competition’s associate director for policy and evaluation. His experience in Poland had ignited his interest in global antitrust work, and he joined the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) as principal administrator in charge of their competition and consumer policy division outreach to non-member countries. During his years at the FTC, Mr. Winslow returned to his love of theater and singing and became deeply involved with the Washington Revels. Drawn by its eclectic celebration of seasonal traditions, he supported its formation in Washington and performed in the first D.C. Christmas Revels in 1983. In addition to being a talented singer and enthusiastic actor in 31 Christmas productions, he wore many hats throughout his 40 years

with Revels, serving at various times as editor, producer, board member and chair for multiple terms, and on the Cambridge Board for National Revels. To top it off, in the 1989 Christmas Revels, he was paired onstage with Diane Behrens as his dance partner, and they were married in 1994. After joining the OECD, he and Diane spent the next six years in Paris and traveled throughout Europe and Asia as he advised countries on transitioning their economies from socialism to capitalism and strengthening consumer protection. Mr. Winslow was particularly proud of being one of a handful of foreign experts to be asked to comment on the Chinese drafting of a competition law system. On their travels, the couple collected folk art and traditional costumes from around the world. Returning home to Chevy Chase, Mr. Winslow continued to serve the OECD as a traveling consultant. However, he always found time to perform. He played Ben Franklin in a historical musical written by a D.C. judge, sang Gershwin and Cole Porter with Hoope’s Troupe, and expanded his repertoire of folk characters and traditional songs on the Revels stage. When he retired from the OECD, he and Diane continued their travels with long trips to New Mexico, Chile, Cuba and Australia. Summers, though, were devoted to Cape Cod. From early childhood through his last year, Mr. Winslow spent summers with family and lifelong friends in his beloved Bass River community, where he honed his prodigious tennis skills at the South Yarmouth Tennis Club, which his father and uncle had helped found. Mr. Winslow is survived by his wife, Diane Behrens Winslow; sons from a former marriage to Caroline von Schrader Christopher T. Winslow of Washington, D.C., and Andrew E. Winslow and his wife, Nell, of Brooklyn, New York; sister Belinda Winslow of Santiago, Chile; brother David Winslow Burling ’69 and his wife, Hannah, of Lamy, New Mexico; and sister Lucinda Burling Emmet and her husband, Jeremy, of Boynton Beach, Florida. He was predeceased by sister Anne Burling of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and brother Matthew Poe Burling of Washington, D.C.

1962 Alexander Whiteside of Milton, Massachusetts, passed away peacefully on May 16, 2023, surrounded by his beloved family. He was 78. At SPS, Mr. Whiteside was an Old Hundred and a Shattuck and rowed in the first varsity boat. At the time of his death, he was form director and main agent. In 2020, he encouraged SPS to better recognize former faculty member John Walker’s importance to the School community and played a key role by writing a thoughtful inscription for a memorial plaque which now accompanies Bishop Walker’s portrait in Ohrstrom Library. Mr. Whiteside graduated from Harvard University with a degree in history before receiving his law degree at Fordham University and eventually earning a master’s in law from Boston University. After years of private practice that included working alongside his father, Howard Whiteside ’30, with the firm of Putnum, Bell, and Russell, Mr. Whiteside entered the public sector. He was appointed by Gov. William Weld to the position of Chief Counsel to the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development, where he remained for 16 years. Though his contributions to state government were significant, it is to the town of Milton that Mr. Whiteside made his most indelible mark during his life of public service. A town meeting member of long standing, his greatest contribution to the town came as a member of the Milton Planning Board, of which he was an integral member and frequent chair for more than 30 years. Even after his tenure as chair ended, he continued to provide time, energy and legal knowledge to the town, making vital contributions to a variety of issues. A man of honesty, integrity and indefatigability, Mr. Whiteside reached the apex of his political influence when most would have left town politics behind.

With a wry wit and an unflagging loyalty to friends and loved ones, he will be fondly remembered by those who knew him not only for his keen sense of justice, but the compassionate and loving nature barely concealed beneath a stoic façade. He was active until his last day, running with his dog, Gremlin, chopping brush, performing acts of household maintenance better left to professionals, never losing the strength and endurance for which he was so widely admired. He is survived by daughter Margaret Whiteside of Boston and son Alexander Whiteside Jr. of Milton, as well as sister Haidee Flinders. He was predeceased by his sister Lisa and their parents Howard Whiteside and Elizabeth (Swift) Whiteside.

1975 Richard D. Sawyer Jr. died suddenly at 65 from a pulmonary embolism on April 25, 2023, at his home in Diamondhead, Mississippi. He was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, on May 14, 1957. Mr. Sawyer was a gentle giant of a man, at 6'5" and over 250 pounds, who grew up at St. Paul’s School, where his father served on the faculty from 1962 to 1990. While a student at SPS, Mr. Sawyer played football, hockey and rowed for Shattuck. He was a member of the undefeated varsity football team in his Sixth Form year. He particularly loved every moment he spent on the ice or on the water. As a lifelong hockey fan, he had a vicious slap shot, followed the Bruins, skated whenever possible and was reminded of his own hockey career by a bad knee that plagued him over his lifetime. Mr. Sawyer earned a B.A. in sociology from the University of New Hampshire, followed by a M.A. and an Ed.S. (educational specialist) from James Madison University.

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IN MEMORIAM Prior to returning for his advanced degrees, Mr. Sawyer worked for several years in the head trauma program at the Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation Center in Fishersville, Virginia. For more than 30 years, he served as a school psychologist in the Richmond public schools. Upon learning of his death, his former supervisor wrote, “I can tell you without hesitation that he was an exceptional school psychologist, always focusing on what was best for the students he evaluated and advocating for services on their behalf … Dick was very much loved by his colleagues.” Upon his retirement, he and his wife, Denise, relocated to Mississippi, where he spent time enjoying lifelong hobbies that included reading, playing guitar and golf, and walking their dog, Amber. Mr. Sawyer’s life of service to others whom he helped and counseled is probably a reflection of the SPS School Prayer, which influences many graduates: “Grant, O Lord, that in all the joys of life, we may never forget to be kind. Help us to be unselfish in friendship, thoughtful of those less happy than ourselves, and eager to bear the burdens of others.” That prayer might be a suitable epitaph for him. He is survived by his parents, Richard ’48 and Mary Lou (Gilman) Sawyer, of Newbury, New Hampshire; his daughters Carly Sawyer of Charlottesville, Virginia, and Kaylyn Sawyer of Columbia, South Carolina; his stepson Erik Skogen of Savannah, Georgia; his first wife, Catherine Satterfield of Yorktown, Virginia; and his sister, Karen Sawyer ’74, of Telford, Pennsylvania. His wife, Denise, passed away three days after his death.

1980 Anne Robbins Hutchins-Orsi of Washington, Connecticut, died peacefully at her home on Monday, Feb. 27, 2023, from complications of multiple sclerosis, 58

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surrounded by loving family members. She was 61. Diagnosed with an exceptionally severe case of MS in 1990, Ms. HutchinsOrsi showed bravery and fierce self-determination during the entire 33 years she lived with the disease. She was born Feb. 1, 1962, in Glen Cove, New York, to the late Joan (Adams) and Waldo Hutchins and was the stepdaughter of the late Carol (Fennelly) Hutchins. She is survived by her loving husband of 23 years, James Monell Orsi. Throughout her life, Ms. Hutchins-Orsi had a unique style and presence, and she was known for her quick wit and sly smile. Her personality and spark were always prominent, even when MS made it difficult for her to walk and, eventually, to communicate. A natural and gifted athlete, she excelled at many activities; swimming and tennis were favorites of her youth. She also loved hiking, especially in the Adirondacks, where she spent many summers climbing the 46 high peaks. After Ms. Hutchins-Orsi graduated from St. Paul’s School, she received her undergraduate degree in architecture from Yale University. She applied her athletic gifts competitively at both schools; at SPS, she belonged to Isthmian and competed on the field hockey and tennis teams. A star field hockey player, Ms. Hutchins-Orsi ran with speed, grace and strength as a starting left wing all four years on the Yale team, including the 1980 Ivy League championship team. After college, she spent a month in a National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) survival program in Wyoming “just to try something fun.” After that adventure, she moved to San Francisco to work in landscape design before graduate studies at the University of Virginia, from which she graduated in 1990 with a master’s in landscape architecture. One of the highlights of her career as a landscape architect was as a designer with The Central Park Conservancy. She eventually started her own landscape design firm based in New York City. She and her husband spent the last 23 years of their lives together based in the town of Washington among the rolling hills of Litchfield County, Connecticut. In addition to her husband, Ms. HutchinsOrsi is survived by her siblings John Hutchins

(Anda) of New Canaan, Connecticut; Fred Hutchins (Maree Gaetani) of Stowe, Vermont; Elizabeth Hutchins of New York City; stepsiblings Andree Welsh (Jack) and John Devendorf (Connie); and many nieces and nephews.

1989 David B. Goff passed away peacefully on April 23, 2023, surrounded by his family at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston. Dr. Goff was born in Ridgewood, New Jersey, to Robert and Nancy Goff and grew up there. At an early age, he excelled in academics and music, mastering the piano and violin. After St. Paul’s School, he graduated from Dartmouth College in 1993 and from Georgetown University Medical School in 1997. He then completed six years of a neurosurgical residency before transitioning to radiation oncology at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, where he completed his residency in radiation oncology in 2004, followed by a fellowship at Beth Israel in Manhattan. Throughout his medical career, Dr. Goff cared for countless cancer patients, friends and people who were referred to him because of his knowledge and dedication to medicine. He treated all with compassion, respect and dignity. Dr. Goff ’s true love was his family — he lived for them and was always available for his daughters and son. They enjoyed trips to Killington, Vermont; Rye Beach, New Hampshire; Cape Cod, Massachusetts; Long Beach Island, New York and Disney World. His passions included surfing, skiing, gardening, hosting bonfires and making people laugh. He is survived by his loving wife, Anita; his children Ava, Hannah and Garrett; his mother, Nancy; and his brother, Jonathan. He was predeceased by his father, Robert.

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