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Hitting The Ground

Learning

By Lini S. Kadaba

T.J. Locke has been working tirelessly to fully understand all that is EA since taking over as the Greville Haslam Head of School on July 1.

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“There is greatness everywhere you look. It starts with this campus. It is nothing short of spectacular. The faculty and the students also have a tremendously strong national reputation.

Everyone knows that EA is a great school.”

—T.J. Locke, when asked what attracted him to The Episcopal Academy

When Thomas John “T.J.”

Locke gave his first chapel address in May, he included a telling anecdote that captures the educational—and arguably the life—philosophy of The Episcopal Academy’s new Head of School.

When a promising baseball player at his previous school was in the sights of major league scouts, Locke pulled him aside and asked him one of his signature questions: “What are you working on?”

“Everything’s fine,” the young man said. “I don’t need to really work at anything.”

That answer gravely disappointed the man known for his high expectations and to-the-core desire to continuously improve—not only the schools he leads but also himself. It is a perspective that guides, by all accounts, everything he does and will no doubt shape the future of EA. Locke, 41, emphasizes that Episcopal is overflowing with strengths—a tribute in large part to his predecessor, L. Hamilton Clark, Jr., Hon., who stepped down after 11 years to head overseas to the American Community School in Beirut.

“There is greatness everywhere you look,” says Locke, the 11th Head of Episcopal who came here from the top position at the Isidore Newman School in New Orleans. “It starts with this campus. It is nothing short of spectacular. The faculty and the students also have a tremendously strong national reputation. Everyone knows that EA is a great school.

“But we don’t ever want to turn into that baseball player that thinks he doesn’t need to improve,” he says. “We need to always be working on getting better each day.”

Locke is known to frequent classrooms and expects as much from his

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administrative team. Of course, he has a list of questions at the ready when he arrives in a classroom: “What are you working on? Why are you working on this? What do you need to do to become better? And how will you know? When kids have intelligent answers to those questions, no matter the age of the student, I know there is a lot of learning going on.”

Locke joins a strong administrative team, which now includes new Upper School Head Delvin Dinkins. Both Locke and Dinkins have hit the ground learning since starting on July 1.

“We don’t need to make any sharp right turns,” Locke says. “There is nothing that has to change overnight.

Are there things we can do better? I’m sure there are. But are there things we do right? I know there are.”

In fact, he is loath to form—or at least share publically—his opinions on specific EA programs or priorities until he has spent ample time on campus and talked with the various constituents.

That acknowledgment has won him fans among the teachers. Douglas Parsons, dean of faculty, was involved in the search and interview process.

“I think that’s why he’s such a big hit with faculty—because he’s taken that approach,” Parsons says. “He’s going to be a strong presence on campus.”

Born in

Washington, D.C., the older of two boys was always outgoing, always the performer, says his father, Tom Locke, a retired FBI agent.

Those extrovert skills no doubt served Locke well during his early years, when his family moved frequently because of his father’s job—and he was often the new kid. A stint in Connecticut made him a Mets fan, a fault (in some circles, at least) he has never

overcome. “I indoctrinated him early on,” allows Tom Locke, who now lives near Annapolis.

When he was 10 years old, Locke moved to Cherry Hill, N.J. At Cherry Hill High School West, he was a standout leader, being elected “governor” of his class both junior and senior year and taking the lead role in Our Town and The Importance of Being Earnest.

A strong student, he played on a high school baseball team that was ranked No. 4 in the nation by USA Today.

It was a preview of “the scholarly generalist” Locke calls himself today.

Close friend Eric Karn, the program manager for a Lockheed Martin plant who lives in Cherry Hill, was his middle school science lab partner and college housemate.

“He has a fantastic sense of humor, a sharp wit,” Karn says. “We’re trying to one up each other all the time.”

Locke was popular and had a circle of 20 buddies who became like “other sons of mine,” says the elder Locke. “He is probably one of the most loyal people to his friends.”

One hallmark, then and now, was his ability to get along with different groups of people with ease, say those who know him. “He could blend into almost any environment,” Karn says. “He could move among all the cliques.”

Gary Madeira ’72, chairman of Episcopal’s Board of Trustees, was struck by the 12-member search committee’s reaction to Locke.

“What was remarkable was that he had everybody in the palm of his hand,” he says. “He was instantly everybody’s pick. In particular, he really wowed the faculty in the room.”

Madeira credits not only Locke’s intellect but also “the genuineness of his personality.” scan the QR code to watch Dr. Locke’s Chapel Speech.

After graduating from Cherry Hill West in 1989, Locke entered Rutgers University, where he majored in English with a minor in education. Not competitive enough to play college baseball, he switched to club volleyball, serving as team captain his senior year.

Locke considered law school because, he says, of his ability to make a forceful argument. He also discussed the FBI with his father. But in the end, his passion was English, inspired by one of his teachers.

Locke wanted to teach. “I just loved the power of language,” he says, especially poetry.

In 1993, fresh out of college, Locke moved to East Brunswick, N.J., where he taught English to eighth and ninth graders. He also coached volleyball, leading the boys team to a state title and earning New Jersey Coach of the Year honors.

As a teacher, he wanted his students to love literature the way he did, to feel its ability to speak to the soul, as he says. A favorite text was A Tale of Two Cities, and he often taught with the help of films, popular music (another passion of this Bruce Springsteen fan), and poetry.

“Teachers definitely feel a connection to him as an educator.”

—EA’s Academic Dean Catherine Hall

“Many of my students are now teachers and coaches,” he says, noting that it is a particular point of pride for him.

Even then, he strived to constantly improve himself. “I never gave the same assessments,” he says. Administration noticed and quietly tapped him to invigorate the English department.

“The teachers were all 20 years older than I,” he says. But Locke won them over by making allies. He encouraged collaborative efforts, such as creating and grading tests and papers together, and discussed teaching as a craft.

“I loved it,” he says. “I just like problem solving.”

The Cherry Hill School District hired him away in 1999, launching him on what has been called a meteoric path. Six years later, after stops as an assistant principal and principal, he was appointed director of curriculum for the district. Over that same span, he earned his master’s in educational administration from Rutgers and his doctorate in educational leadership and organizational theory from the University of Pennsylvania.

At Penn, he was part of the inaugural group of 25 educators pursuing Ed.D.s through the Mid-Career Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership. Locke says the three-year experience made his critical lens sharper.

“He was one of the top students in the group,” says Peter Kuriloff, a professor of education and co-founder of the program. “He thinks carefully and thoughtfully about situations that arise.”

Locke also brings expertise to the spectrum of K-12 curriculum—an unusual background for heads of schools, according to Kuriloff. “This guy has a bigger view,” he says. “He understands social studies in grade 2 and how it relates to history in grade 12.”

Dinkins, a classmate at Penn, recalls Locke as a vocal leader in class with a

strong sense of ethics. At Cherry Hill, for example, Locke looked at ways to ensure the district’s most challenging academic programs included diverse students. “He always talked about those matters with a certain sense of personal integrity,” Dinkins says.

With his track record, Locke was poised to become a superintendent.

Instead, he changed course when a colleague suggested that independent school leadership might better align with Locke’s priorities.

“The one big difference with private schools is that if you dream it, you can make it happen,” Locke said.

Locke loves a challenge, in

2007, was embraced by Newman to lead them forward. Taking over the well-respected independent school that was struggling to regain its financial footing a year after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, Locke significantly improved Newman’s bottom line, increasing annual giving by 75 percent over his tenure, growing the school’s endowment to $30 million, and operating a balanced budget in each of his five years, according to school officials.

In addition, he bolstered its curriculum by integrating technology into the instructional program and adding a ninth-grade writing seminar, Singapore Math and study abroad. One of

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“He’ll be everywhere. You’ll think secretly there are two or three of him.”

—Dale Smith, who has known T.J. Locke for several years and is succeeding Locke as Isidore Newman’s Head of School

his crowning achievements was a new Global Studies program in the Upper School.

“Because he reads so much, particularly professional literature, he articulates a vision and inspires people to follow that vision,” says Dale Smith, Newman’s incoming head who has known Locke for several years.

“There’s a real wisdom and insight.

He’s able to look at a situation, dissect it, and understand it.”

Locke’s energy is legendary. “He’ll be everywhere,” Smith says. “You’ll think secretly there are two or three of him.” He even found time to participate in a school play—as the Wizard of Oz. Newman graduate and current parent Keith Miller says he has formed a strong friendship with Locke. “He’s an engaging guy who’s got a lot of humility,” he says. “There’s really no ego with T.J.” As his time at Newman wound down, he posted to social media: “Last faculty meeting tomorrow. Buy stock in Kleenex.” (The Gen-Xer blogs and is facile with both Facebook and Twitter.

Follow him @TJ_Locke.)

“He really loves people,” Miller says.

“That’s what brings the emotion and tears out of him.”

Locke’s growing family pushed him to look homeward. He and his wife, Lauren, wanted to raise their 9-year-old daughter, Katie, and 3-year-old twins, Teddy and Charlie, closer to her family in the Cherry Hill area.

“His life is his children and his job,” says his wife, a former Cherry Hill first-grade teacher. She vouches for his long days that can start as early as 4 a.m. and extend into the evening, with a break for dinner with his family.

“He never stops thinking about school,” she says. He is known to wake up in the middle of the night and email himself ideas.

At Episcopal, he says, he found a connection: “At the end of my inter-

views here, instead of just shaking hands, I wanted to hug folks.”

Parsons, for one, says Locke has a way of putting others at ease. “He gives you his full attention and makes you feel important,” he says. After his first chapel talk, Middle and Upper School students waited in line to high-five the new headmaster.

The school’s mission statement—to challenge and nurture—resonates with his leadership style, Locke says. “I hope to create that culture with my leadership team,” he says. “I hope to challenge them to think in new ways and to inspire them. At the same time, they should know I’m on their team. I care about them not only as administrators but as people.”

Locke places great value on professional development—part of the drive to constantly improve. He recently finished two online courses: “Charting a Direction for Online Learning” and “How to Teach Online.”

“If teachers are going to have to become trained in this arena, I’d like to have a sense of how hard it is,” he says.

“I think that helps me to stay grounded with faculty.”

Academic Dean Catherine Hall says one of Locke’s greatest assets is that he is a teacher at heart: “Teachers want a Head of School to really know what their walk is like every day, and to really know and empathize with the joys and struggles of teaching,” she says.

“Teachers definitely feel a connection to him as an educator.”

It does not hurt that Locke wants to find ways to tout what he calls the “magic” that happens on a daily basis.

“I know, if parents can see what I see, they would be blown away,” he says.

At a May meet-and-greet with the leadership of Episcopal Academy Parents’ Association, Locke was in his element, immediately connecting with parents and learning about their EA experience.

Echoing others, Sue King, the 201314 president of the parents’ association, praised his varied interests. “He’s interested in everything,” she says. “He’s into music. He’s into sports.”

Locke, say many, has the opportunity to focus inward, now that the school is well settled at Newtown Square. “I think he brings everything we’re looking for at this point in our growth,” says incoming EAPA vice president Pam Nickolas. “I think Ham drew the big picture. T.J. can color it in.”

One of his favorite colors, he says, is gray—as Locke loves to dive into the nuance of a situation. “When you work at a company where every part is people, you can’t just make policies and follow a blueprint,” he says. “You have to be flexible.”

Locke is clearly excited to be at Episcopal.

“This is exactly the kind of education I want for my own children,” Locke says. “I want them to be challenged. I want them to be nurtured. I want them to be happy.

“School,” he says, “should be a joyful place. I know that they will get all that here.” / / / / / / / / / / Lini S. Kadaba is an EA parent and former Philadelphia Inquirer journalist based in Newtown Square, Pa.

Welcome T.J. to EA

Mark your calendars

now for Tuesday, September 10 at 9 a.m. for Dr. Thomas John Locke’s installation as the 11th Head of School at The Episcopal Academy on the Clark Campus Green.

All are invited to celebrate this historic moment and to officially welcome T.J. and his family to EA.

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ONE for the Ages

By Sarah Baker

Meet Stacy Sloate ’13 With a mother in medicine, a father who started his own successful investment firm, and an older brother Jordan studying engineering at Drexel University, dinnertime at the Sloate residence offered not only nightly nourishment, but plenty of food for thought.

“It sounds a bit cliché, but I’m well-rounded because of my family,” says Stacey Sloate ’13, who will be a double major in biology and statistics at the University of Pennsylvania this fall and plans to be a veterinarian. “Our family dinner conversations veered off in many different directions every night.”

Sarah Baker ’01, the Form Dean for the Class of 2013, saw firsthand the fruits of those dinner conversations and Sloate’s tireless work in the classrooms at The Episcopal Academy.

In her salutatory address at

the 228th Commencement ceremony, Kristen Hinckley ’13 identified the unity of the graduating Class of 2013 as its single greatest achievement.

Kristen reflected the spirit of the class when she suggested, “Even though we have remarkable numbers of championships, scholars, and performances, the most important number of all of these is ‘one.’ One Class of 2013. A unique group of students who care for one another with respect, compassion and love.”

In the opening lines of her speech, Kristen had touched on the extraor-

dinary academic, athletic, and artistic achievements of her classmates; indeed, they are too many and too great to ignore. But in turning her attention to that which she found more remarkable—the character of her class—Hinckley stood as a very symbol of it. The 127 young Episcopal alumni who graduated from the school on June 6 value their oneness above their other manifold successes.

In contemplating the fiber of the Class of 2013, it is necessary to understand the climate in which the class entered the Upper School in the fall of 2009. Competition for a spot in that

“Stacey has a breadth of interests,” says Baker. “She’s an avid reader, excels in math and science, loves history, won PJAS science fairs, was on the robotics team, and even played some field hockey goalie.”

At EA’s 228th commencement exercise, Sloate’s all-around academic excellence resulted in her receiving four major awards: the Alumni Prize for English, the Excellence in Mathematics Award, the E. Lance Cave Award for Excellence in the Sciences, and the Phi Beta Kappa Award for Highest Scholarship.

“Stacey will do great things at Penn,” predicts Upper School history teacher Kris Aldridge. “She’s smart, she’s grounded, she’s very funny, and she’s comfortable in her own skin.”—Bill Doherty

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Meet Tim Pope’13 When he first arrived at The Episcopal Academy as a Steppingstone Scholar in sixth grade from Lingelbach Elementary School in Germantown, Tim Pope didn’t know a soul and really kept to himself.

Over time, Pope found his voice.

“EA changed my life,” says Pope. “It taught me many things, the biggest thing being the ability to believe in myself. I didn’t have that in me before EA.” Pope, in particular, credits EA teachers David Sigel and Jim Farrell ’82 with altering the course of his life.

“I’ll never forget Mr. Sigel and Mr. Farrell,” says Pope. “Mr. Sigel teaches way more than art. He teaches you how to accept yourself in your own skin. Because he believes in order to be a successful artist—or successful in anything—you need to be confident in who you are first.

“And Mr. Farrell, like Mr. Sigel, was someone I could talk to about anything.

And whether it was on the track, the crosscountry course, or in the classroom, his advice was always great.”

Pope, an accomplished artist who ran track and cross country at EA, will attend Albright College, where he will major in education and minor in art.

“I want to be a teacher,” says Pope. “I want to be someone like Mr. Sigel and Mr. Farrell who pushes young people to become the best they can be.”—Bill Doherty

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The class of 2013 valedictorian, Matthew Vegari and Kristen Hinckley, salutatorian.

freshman class was fierce, with so many applicants eager to join the community after the school’s tremendously successful first year on its new campus. This would be only the second class to open its Upper School career in the Class of 1944 Chapel and to graduate from the same pews four years later. The community swung on the hinge of past and future and, as ever in such a time of change, it expected greatness with palpable anticipation.

To look out over the Class of 2013 on graduation night was to realize how consummately the class had met and exceeded the challenge presented to it in the fall of 2009. Assembled was a group of young people that included 50 AP Scholars, 10 National Merit Finalists, and 105 varsity athletes. They had won 25 Inter-Ac championships in the course of their four years in the Upper School, and 50 of them had participated in an artistic production. Together, they had logged a total of 2,700 community service hours. Late summer will see these scholars, athletes, artists, and servants matriculate at 67 colleges

and universities nationwide, results that Matt Essman, Director of College Guidance calls “astounding.”

But as Hinckley noted in her salutatory remarks, it is perhaps more moving and certainly more in keeping with the spirit of the class to reflect less on its quantifiable success and more on its sense of shared purpose. Many senior classes manage to attain a kind of harmony, even a sort of action in unison, as they approach the culmination of their Episcopal experience.

What makes the Class of 2013 not only impressive but also extraordinary is how the class shared this unity by encouraging its development in the greater school community.

The class had achieved noteworthy unity as early as the May of its junior year, when at Moving Up Day Chapel, president of the senior class, Charlie Fox ’13, referred to his class as having already “solidified its union” and predicted that theirs would be a senior year of becoming even more fully the “men and women that they were supposed to be.” Fox was prescient, if

Meet MC Curran ’13 Entering her final high school lacrosse game, MC Curran was just five goals shy of scoring 200 career goals.

Most teenagers would have short early and often to reach 200. Not the team-first Curran, though.

“Instead, she set up her teammates and focused on winning the draw so that her team would have possession and win the game,” says EA girls lacrosse coach Amanda Vos Strache’ 99, whose team captured a third straight PAISSA title that day. “She ended the game two goals short of 200, yet her smile was larger than most because of the joy she shared with her teammates that afternoon. It was incredible to watch.”

Curran’s time at EA contained many incredible moments. She earned All-American honors and a scholarship to play for William & Mary. Off the field, Curran enjoyed success as a competitive Irish dancer, won the Dartmouth College Book Award, trained puppies for the blind for an organization called The Seeing Eye, and was a community service leader on campus.

“MC added so much to the daily life here at EA,” says Upper School history teacher Kris Aldridge, who is thrilled that Curran will be attending her alma mater. “She’s always giving 110% to whatever she is doing whether that is her studies, lacrosse, or doing community service work.

“She’ll excel at William & Mary. It’s the perfect school for MC.”—Bill Doherty

actually somewhat understated, in his prediction of what the class would attempt to achieve.

In fact, the Class of 2013 embarked upon its senior year with the impulse not only to nurture this kind of kinship within the class but also to foster it throughout the community at large.

To bend Charlie’s words to the curve of history, the class concentrated on guiding all Episcopal students to be the kinds of contributors and community members that they were supposed to be. From their very first day as seniors, the members of the Class of 2013 grew into their important roles as leaders, never forgetting that so many sets of eyes were turned expectantly toward them.

When the 10 senior members of the Esse Quam Videri (EQV) group met for their summer retreat in August of 2012, they concentrated their energy on developing a plan to help the members of the school unify out of love for each other and for the institution. EQV member Nelson Norley remembers, “We all knew that when times are

tough, EA comes together like no other community. We wanted to inspire that unity year-round.” With this objective in mind, the seniors drafted a three-pronged campaign that aimed at “generating unity, pride, and positivity throughout our Episcopal community.”

August, and especially the August of a senior year, is a time of great promise that begets big promises. The EQV initiative for Unity, Positivity, and Pride filled hearts with tremendous hope, but veterans knew to wait until the leaves turned to judge the effectiveness of the Class of 2013 in inspiring these three emotions on campus. And what these hopeful veterans found—in the fall, into the winter, and even throughout the spring—was that the impulse that had motivated EQV to strive for unity, positivity, and pride was found throughout the senior class and therefore found its reflection quickly in the rest of the student body.

The seniors proudly walked hand in hand with the Pre-Kindergartners as they entered convocation; the InterAc champion 2012-13 football team

adopted as its slogan “We Are One”; and EQV organized a pen-pal initiative between the Upper and Lower Schools. There were record numbers of attendees at Friday Open Mic Nights; the plays sold out; and the stands were packed at athletic events both at home and away. As the weather warmed, Upper, Middle, and Lower schools shared water ice on the Campus Green, with seniors scooping the treats.

And in the wake of the tragic loss of Paul Pratt ’14, which occurred when the members of the Class of 2013 were off campus already for their senior projects, most of the class returned to school to pack the chapel and the riverbanks to support their peers and assuage their own grief. As far as they were concerned, and as their peers agreed, they were one.

At commencement, Matthew Vegari, the valedictorian of the Class of 2013, devoted much of his speech to exploring the influence of the class on the school and of the school on the class.

An accomplished vocalist, Matthew used a musician’s metaphor to con-

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Caption for the graduation photograph at left hope it’s a good one.

vey his conviction that the class and the school would be forever united in an enduring echo. He asserted his faith in the influence of his class on the school by saying, “The Episcopal Academy will remember the Class of 2013. Our voices will echo down its halls, fill this chapel with cheers, and—with any luck—inspire the next generation of students.” He went on to examine the relationship from its other side, explaining, “More importantly, however, we will remember this school, too. While an echo lingers, it always reverberates back towards the producer of the sound.”

As though in answer to Matthew’s prediction, the Class of 2013 donated its senior gift monies to the Annual Fund for Financial Aid. In her presentation of the gift to Head of School Ham Clark, President of the Student Council Nisha Meyer ’13 explained that the class gave the gift “in gratitude for the opportunities afforded the members of the class by the school and in recogni-

tion that these opportunities should be made available to the greatest number of deserving students possible in the years to come.” The gift serves as material confirmation that the voice of the Class of 2013 will echo at Episcopal in the years ahead.

In Opening Chapel, Rev. Jim Squire began the 2012-13 school year by asking students to leave this place better than they had found it. The Class of 2013 took that exhortation seriously. In leaving this place so much better than they found it, the Class of 2013 ensures that it will never truly leave this place at all. / / / / / / / / / / Sarah Baker ’01 is an English teacher and the Form Dean for the Classes of 2013 and 2014.

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In it for the Long Run

By Joseph Santoliquito

Three EA alums—T ori Baena’10, Jim Farrell ’82, and Andrew

Keller’06—told us their stories about running in the 2013 Boston Marathon.

Despite this year’s race-day tragedy, all three are determined to return and run in Boston next April.

Everywhere they looked someone was offering yells of encouragement, a highfive to stir them forward, or were handing them something to fuel their run. A soothing popsicle or cold bottle of water. A piece of fruit.

The tunnel vision of a marathon runner girds against anything external puncturing their sanctuary of the few feet in front of them. The precise metronome of stride can’t be interfered with, along with the miles being counted. They can’t feel the frigid ribbed plastic water bottle, or taste the orange they were handed. They’re impervious. Claps and screams as they pass curbside spectators becomes white noise.

It’s like stepping into the running bubble of the world. Everyone is like you, and it doesn’t matter if you’re world class or a novice. They all feel the same pain, the same ache. They’re running separately, yet they’re running as one.

That’s the communal feeling three Episcopal Academy alums had running the 2013 Boston Marathon—one for the third time, two for the first.

What they failed to suspect—what the world came to know—was that they were running into a war zone that fateful day, April 15, when two pressurecooker bombs exploded, killing three people and wounding 264 more.

By then, Jim Farrell ’82, the Associate Director of Athletics and long-time geometry teacher at Episcopal, was done his race. Andrew Keller, a 2006 Episcopal grad and three-time all-Inter-Academic League cross-country runner for the Churchmen, was also finished.

Victoria “Tori” Baena was a corner turn from finishing what many marathoners consider the sport’s Holy Grail. The 2010 Episcopal alum and Harvard junior was running for the Phillips Brooks House Association, a Harvard-based community service outreach program. She almost ran right into the teeth of the chaos that afternoon.

The tragedy jostled their senses. It invaded their running world. With the news filtering out of Boston in drips and drabs, everyone Farrell, Keller and Baena knew wanted to know if they were okay.

As the first bomb erupted, their personal ordeals were just unfolding.

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Victoria Baena

Victoria Baena always loved to run. It’s a part of her. At Episcopal, she was on the crew team her freshman year, and ran cross-country all four years. She’ll be the first to admit she was never very fast, but all the women in her family are big runners.

The Harvard history and literature major who aspires to attend grad school in Europe with a career vision in writing, started training for the Boston Marathon in December 2012. She didn’t have to look far for inspiration.

“I’ve been running with my sisters since I was 11 or 12, and my mother ran the Philadelphia marathon, so I figured if my mother could do it, I could,” Baena said, laughing.

She got up to 20 miles by the end of March. It was like a selfimposed Marine boot camp. The rigors of Harvard’s curriculum can be overwhelming. Baena, though, kept at it. This was going to be her first marathon.

No one knew what was going on. Some people started saying there’s a bomb at the finish line.

Things were going great for Baena, when the tightness hit around mile 17, and looking at the four “Newton Hills” with 10 miles to go. The struggle started.

“You’re getting closer to Boston and it’s when the fans really show up and give you this support, and you need it,” Tori said.

“I saw that last hill, called ‘Heartbreak Hill,’ and at that point, I was thrilled. And yet, you still have five more miles to go.

Those last five miles were a huge struggle.”

That’s when Tori’s mother, Tisa, showed up on her left around mile 22 to run with her to the finish.

What began as a rainbow jamboree of picnics, lawn chairs, and smoky barbecues, lined with thousands of strangers that became friends during her journey, turned ugly.

“I had a smile on my face the entire way through,” Tori said. “It was painful, but having those spectators there cheering you on was the best. I wouldn’t have been able to do it if they weren’t

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there. We had passed the one-mile left marker and we were almost to Hereford Street and able to make the final turn to Boylston Street. All of a sudden, we see these people up ahead had stopped.

“No one knew what was going on. Some people started saying there’s a bomb at the finish line. We tried calling my father, because we knew he was there. But they told us the cell phone services were out, and we couldn’t get in touch with him. It’s unhealthy to suddenly stop like that after running all those miles. I started getting chills and seizing up. There wasn’t that much room to walk around.”

Finally, Tisa and Tori, when they heard that a second bomb went off, began walking back to Cambridge, over the MIT Bridge, with hundreds of others, who were bewildered, scared, nervous of what might happen next.

“I was terrified because my father was there and we couldn’t get in touch with him; I was so shell-shocked,” Tori said. “We finally got in touch with him after we crossed the MIT Bridge, about 20 minutes after we heard about the bombing.”

It turned out the longest 20 minutes of her life. Tori was physically and mentally empty. About 45 minutes later, Tori was reunited with her dad, greeting him with the tightest hug she ever gave him.

“I think the whole experience taught me how much I value my family and closest friends; I don’t know what would have happened if I didn’t have my mom there with me,” Tori said.

“It’s been a difficult process with all the spectators that were injured. They were so supportive. I’ve never been through anything like this before in my life. I was very lucky. It could have been my dad.

“I’m going next year to the Boston Marathon—and I’m going to finish. I’m going to do it. It will be really good closure. The marathon is a good symbol of how the city of Boston is giving.”

The 25.8 miles Tori ran in the marathon raised $2,725 to support day camps and summer enrichment for hundreds of underprivileged children throughout Boston and Cambridge.

Jim Farrell

In many ways Jim Farrell is Episcopal Academy, where he played for the Churchmen’s football, basketball and baseball teams. Farrell just finished teaching his 27th year at his alma mater, where he’s also served as a football, basketball, baseball and cross-country coach.

Farrell is a rare breed whose tenure has touched hundreds of young lives that came through the Episcopal hallways. On April 15, those many lives Farrell touched showed their gratitude through the simplest of gestures with hundreds of texts, emails and voice messages.

Anyone that knows Jim Farrell knows he’s an avid runner. A missed day is like an event in his life, something he badly has to compensate for. The running bug didn’t hit him until he graduated from Muhlenberg College.

Farrell ran his first marathon when he was 25, in what he calls a very slow 4 hours, 10 minutes. He ran it to finish it. It took him 11 years—a marriage and two children later—to run another marathon.

“It took some time but in marathon running, you learn how to hydrate and train properly, you learn to get better as you get older,” Farrell said. “It’s addictive, especially if you like to eat and stay fit. I get a little cranky if I don’t get my miles in. I’ll miss here or there, but I don’t miss very often.”

The aim was to make a weekend around the Boston Marathon during a visit to his son Jay, an 2012 Episcopal alum that was doing a graduate year at the Pomfret School in Pomfret, Conn.

Farrell got to see Jay play baseball that weekend and then headed to out Hopkinton, Mass., where the Boston Marathon begins.

Hopkinton is a large staging area littered with tents for the thousands that compete to register for the marathon. The morning of the marathon was a brisk 42 degrees, runner’s weather, with the sun creasing a high blue sky.

Perfect.

Farrell couldn’t help but notice a short, stocky 23-year-old with a crew cut who seemed oddly out of place. He didn’t have any

sweats, like the other runners, jogging in place to stay warm before a marathon official directed him to heat up in a tent.

Farrell finished the marathon in a personal-best time of 3:25.

After the race, with his head resting against the window of a courtesy coach bus heading back to pick up his car, his mind drifted, counting down the minutes to see Jay again. Gradually, the news spread throughout the bus.

“I heard there was an explosion at the finish line, and at first, you think it’s like a kitchen fire or something. The thought of a terrorist attack doesn’t hit you immediately,” Farrell recalled. “But I remember hearing the bus driver [over a walkie-talkie] saying there was an explosion. I got to my car, turned on my cell and I had all of these texts asking me if I was okay. I couldn’t put the two-and-two together. I must have run in 20 marathons and no one ever reacted like this.

“Thoughts go through your head. My son Jay is not the type of kid to worry a whole lot—but I got a text from him. As I’m getting in the car I see texts from 20 different people. It was surreal.”

Farrell made sure he got back to everyone, including Jay. Because Boston and the surrounding areas went into lockdown mode, it ruined the Farrell’s dinner plans. Jay had to be back in his dorm.

Instead, the two enjoyed a few slices of take-out pizza.

“Driving to pick up Jay I had tears running down my face, because so many people reached out to see if I was okay,” Farrell said.

“EA is like my extended family. It’s part of being a church-based school that comes across in everything we do. I got a real sense of that after the Boston Marathon. People heard I was involved in something and I had EA parents calling me, my wife calling me, almost everyone I know, it seemed, calling me.

“Then a week after the marathon, I’m watching TV and hearing about all of these heroic acts. And then I see the short, stocky kid with the crew cut. He took his shirt off and wrapped a tourniquet around one of the bombing victims. He ran with someone else’s number and he said, ‘I hope that Boston doesn’t hold it against me that I ran with someone else’s number.’ He wasn’t even supposed to run. Wow! I’m going back and running again. There’s nothing that will stop me.”

Farrell drove back from Boston Monday night. He had to return to Episcopal Tuesday for the Churchmen’s track meet that afternoon against Springside-Chestnut Hill.

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Andrew Keller

Andrew Keller wore that face again.

The kind of I’m-going-through-a-wall look he always had before he ran for the Churchmen. Keller was loading up mentally for his Boston Marathon when a familiar voice momentarily diffused his intensity.

Later, after finishing the race, Keller joined his parents, Craig and Joyce, at a restaurant at the Four Seasons in downtown Boston. They got a window table and found it strange when a woman walked by screaming into her cell phone, “Are you okay, are you okay?” Then someone leaned over the Kellers’ table peering intently outside the window, since the marathon finish line was a half-mile away from the hotel.

“I didn’t know what to expect and it took a couple of seconds to process on the way to the starting line who this guy was—it was Coach [Jim] Farrell,” Keller recalled. “He caught up to me on the walk to the starting line. I was soaking it all in and it was an incredible experience. My parents and I took the train up on Saturday and you’re treated like royalty if you’re running in the marathon. The weekend was surreal.

The restaurant was packed. The mood was festive, no one really knew what was happening. Everyone was drinking beers, eating hamburgers and showing each other their Boston Marathon medals.

“Then to see Mr. Farrell … when my family was looking at EA, Coach Farrell was a big reason why I moved to EA from Haverford [High School].”

The two wouldn’t see each other again that day.

I had to make sure Coach Farrell was okay; I had to check on him.

“But I knew that look,” Farrell said. “Andrew was a very intense runner and I saw it that day. It was great seeing him.

I didn’t know he was running and the great thing is out of the thousands and thousands running you happen to bump into someone completely out of the blue who you know and once coached.”

Keller finished the Boston Marathon in 3:01, though his target time was 2:55. He navigated over the four steep Newton Hills with a bit of a twist. Heartbreak Hill is the last and most daunting to traverse. Keller conquered it far easier than he expected, to the cheers of “Heartbreak is over, Heartbreak is over!”

Here, he miscounted the hills. He didn’t know he was running Heartbreak.

“Your brain is not really functioning up to the 20-mile mark,” Keller recalled, laughing. “It’s why I thought it was like one huge prank when I got over Heartbreak.”

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“You go from feeling unbelievable relief to not knowing exactly what was going on,” Keller said. “We heard something happened. At that point, you don’t realize how major this thing was. All we could see on TV were two big clouds of smoke.

Then it dawns on you why the woman was yelling into her cell.

But for the first 45 minutes, it didn’t seem like that big a deal at all. I had my cell phone with me and I started getting these text messages.

“When it came over the hotel intercom that we should stay in the hotel, that’s when you realized how serious it was. The huge contrast was going on a half-a-mile away. You go from something so uplifting to the strange sensation of cognitive dissidence. You feel bad for having a good time.”

Keller had to make sure he did one thing before he went to sleep that night.

“I had to make sure Coach Farrell was okay; I had to check on him,” Keller said. “He was a major part of my time at EA. You think back on the race. There are times when you want to give up and walk. I was afraid my parents, who made this great sacrifice to get me here, would see me and I couldn’t let them down. And you think about some of the people in your life, like Coach Farrell.

“It felt like an attack on the running community. I’m going back.

I’m training at the end of August because I don’t want to miss next year’s Boston Marathon. To me, it’s more a collective thing than an individual thing. You want to show you’re stronger than this.” / / / / / / / / / / Joseph Santoliquito is a sportswriter for CBS Philly and for CBS Max Preps.

Reders Prove Their Net Worth

By Matt Chandik

For a boy who just finished his

sophomore year at The Episcopal Academy, Colin Reder’s grasp and understanding of the history, expectations, and pressure associated with being a Churchmen lacrosse goalie is significantly more advanced than most.

EA has a lush legacy of goalies and Reder is quick to rattle off the names of greats that have preceded him in the Churchmen net. Recent standouts Matt Lerman, a member of a Syracuse team that made it to the 2013 national championship game, and Matt McMonagle, who enjoyed a standout career at Cornell, roll off

Reder’s tongue immediately. Then, of course, he mentions National Lacrosse Hall of Famer Brian Dougherty, the gold standard by which all other EA goalies are measured.

“There have been a ton of (quality) guys, so it’s a lot of pressure,” Reder said.

So would he like to see his name eventually mentioned in the same breath as those legendary Churchmen goalies?

“I would obviously love that,” Reder said. “I try to embrace it.”

With a year of starting experience under his belt, one in which he took over the starting job

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“Colin and I have become much closer over the years through lacrosse.

We help each other out, cheer each other on.” from junior Brian Zappala four games into the season, posted a save percentage of slightly better than 60 percent, and notched a record of 14-4 in 18 starts, Reder is off to a good start in his pursuit of his lofty goals. He has also verbally committed to the University of North Carolina. However, it’s still up for debate if he can ever become the best goalie in the Reder household, let alone in school history.

That’s because all his older sister Lindsey, a 2013 graduate who is Boston College bound this fall, did in her EA career was be named to the All-Inter-Ac team three times and help EA win three straight league championships to push its incredible streak to nine years in a row. Oh, and those three Pennsylvania Independent Schools Athletic Association tournament titles weren’t too shabby, either.

The elder Reder’s road to EA wasn’t quite as clear as her younger brother’s.

Lindsey started out at Agnes Irwin, where she spent kindergarten through ninth grade, before deciding that being an Owl wasn’t for her anymore. She found EA to be more what she was looking for academically, athletically, and socially and quickly made the move.

Acclimating herself to EA from AIS took a little bit of time, but luckily for Lindsey, she joined a loaded team that featured standouts like Taylor Trimble, now at Duke, Maggie Forker, now at Vanderbilt, and Blake McHugh, who won a national championship at Northwestern. That helped Lindsey get her feet wet and since then, she has been rock in the EA net.

As a senior, she earned first-team All-Delco and honorable mention All-American honors after posting 10 games with double-digit saves and fashioning a 51.5 save percentage for the nine-time reigning league champs.

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“It would be hard to find someone who works harder than she does,” said Amanda Vos Strache, Lindsey’s high school coach. “She never let expectations rattle her. She lacked confidence her first year and realized it held her back, so she found the balance to push herself without getting overconfident.

Her humility is part of what makes her so good and she’s all about the team.

Part of why she wanted to be so good is so she would never let her team down, especially as a goalie.”

While Lindsey was a stalwart in goal for three straight years, it took some time for Colin to regain his confidence after losing the goaltending job to Zappala (himself a gifted enough goalie to commit to the University of Pennsylvania after he graduates from EA next year). When Coach Andy Hayes made the decision to go with Colin after a 7-6 loss to co-Central League champion Radnor, it paid immediate dividends and provided a confidence boost to him.

“I had a really rough start to the year,” Colin said. “During tryouts and the first couple weeks, I just didn’t acclimate well to the high school speed. ... The first game I played in was Culver Military Academy (Ind.), which was the best lacrosse team I ever played against, so that was tough. The next game, we played Downingtown East and we kind of killed them and I got some wind behind my back and it was comfortable. I got to know the defense and they helped me out a lot. After that, it was just working every day and getting better.”

As a result, Colin was voted the second-best goalie in the Inter-Ac in 2013, behind only Malvern Prep senior Matt Barrett, a two-time All-American and Virginia signee. The two might eventually play against each other in the ACC, a league that Jen and Andy Reder will

be plenty familiar with as they’ll try to juggle seeing both of their children play for the next few years both in Newtown Square, Chestnut Hill and Chapel Hill. Life’s never easy for parents of one goalie, let alone two.

“Both (BC and UNC) are an hour flight, so that’s easy,” Andy said. ”It’s an unbelievable opportunity for us to watch the kids play. We may have to split it up, but we’ll try to get to almost every one of the games.”

Which begs the question as to whether the parents think it will be easier to divide their time between Massachusetts and North Carolina— while acknowledging just how tough it can be to watch when so much is riding on their children’s shoulders.

“No, I don’t,” Jen said with a laugh.

“At this point, I just try to sit back and watch the game and enjoy it. I know as they get to a high level of college, it’ll get more and more stressful. But as I try to point out, a player needs to get through a lot of players to get to the goalie. It’s a team sport.”

It is, but it’s nice to have one star goalie around. But to have two Division I level goalies in the same family?

Well, that’s downright fantastic.

“Colin and I have become much closer over the years through lacrosse,” says Lindsey. “We help each other out, cheer each other on, and have enjoyed being able to share the uniqueness of our (goalie) position. The next few years will continue to be fun for each of us even though we won’t be playing for the same school.” / / / / / / / / / / Matt Chandik covers high school sports for the Delaware County Daily Times. Follow him on Twitter (@ MattChandik).

Megan’s Journey to the Top

By Michael Bradley

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It didn’t matter that the first game

between the teams was a rout. That one wasn’t for the Inter-Ac championship. Episcopal’s first Inter-Ac championship. Ever. And when a fast start was countered by a collectively wayward shooting eye in the second half, Megan Quinn knew just what to do.

She called for the ball.

Three years ago, that would have been big news. Heck, even last year it would have been unexpected. But freshmen move on. Juniors become seniors. And teams that have toiled for nearly 30 years in the shadows of other teams learn how to be champions.

EA had ripped through Springside Chestnut Hill in the teams’ first meeting. But the encore wasn’t so easy. As the fourth quarter dawned, and the long shots refused to find their way, the Churchwomen sagged. Quinn noticed her teammates’ despair and took the lead.

“We started missing, and it got into our heads,” she says.

“The other seniors and I came up with a plan. [Springside] was coming back, and it was scary. I said, ‘Okay, guys, we need to get it together.’”

One key possession in the fourth was the stabilizer. EA worked the ball patiently until Quinn came open inside. The delivery was on time. The shot was true. Crisis averted. Episcopal won, 33-27, to capture the school’s first-ever crown.

It was fitting that the 6-2 Quinn’s monster performance—21 points, 13 rebounds, six blocks—was the primary reason for the win. “The team needed her the most there, and she stepped up,” coach Chuck Simmonds says. A couple weeks later, Quinn and EA were ascendant once more, capturing the Pennsylvania Independent Schools tournament.

Quinn always had talent. From the time she was a fifth grader, a tall fifth grader, the local basketball community was wise to Quinn. “My dentist even told me about her,” Simmonds says. She came to EA as a ninth grader, after finishing up at Tredyffrin-Easttown Middle School. Quinn was a “nice kid,” according to Simmonds, someone who never griped about hard work at practice or in the classroom. She was happy to defer during her freshman and sophomore years.

Even as a junior, when she was earning the Delaware County Player of the Year award and the second of her three all-InterAc first-team citations, Quinn was satisfied to remain in the background.

That had to change in 2012-13. Quinn, along with Meghan Hubley and Kristen Hinckley, was a senior. More than that, she was the best player on the team, and in the league. More than just scoring and rebounding responsibilities came with that. Quinn would have to show her teammates the way.

“I definitely think I have grown as a player and also as a leader,” Quinn says. “The other seniors and I learned how to be leaders. I became best friends with some freshmen on the team. We still hang out. It sounds crazy.”

Actually, it doesn’t. The true leaders bring everybody along.

That way, when someone is called upon to perform a task that is not part of their everyday job description, they feel comfortable, because their teammates’ support is implied.

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The biggest moments, however, are reserved for the biggest talents. Quinn was unstoppable against Springside. In the Independent Tournament semifinal against Shipley, she scored 22 points and hit three three-pointers. She had 23 in the final, a 52-44 win over Germantown Academy.

“She took the moment and made it hers,” Simmonds says.

“She did it for her teammates, not for herself. She wanted to go out with something big for the team.”

In late May, after the team had a lunch with the championship banner as a final celebration of the season, Quinn packed away her high school memories and began the next leg of her life’s journey. Although she hadn’t graduated yet, Quinn started two courses at Villanova—art and religion—where she will study business and play for coach Harry Perretta. Once again, she will be challenged to find her way, and she may sit out her first year to become comfortable. “I have to see how I fit into the system and what’s best for me and the team,” she says.

Perretta is confident Quinn is a perfect match for the program, which uses its bigger players on the perimeter, where Quinn is quite comfortable. Her ability to shoot from long range and handle the ball will make her a valuable asset.

“She has the perfect kind of game for us,” Perretta says.

“Our centers are not always back-to-the-basket, post-up players. They are big, athletic kids, and we move them away from the basket, so they can shoot, drive and pass. [Megan] is a center that plays like a guard, and that’s what drew us to her in the first place.”

A lot has changed since Perretta first spotted Quinn. She is still versatile pivot capable of doing a lot of things on the court. She is also a person willing to lead the way for her teammates and to step forward in the tight spots, when others often shrink.

In other words, Megan Quinn has grown up.

And into a champion. / / / / / / / / / / A writer and broadcaster, Michael Bradley is the author of 27 books and the parent of Bryan Bradley ’11.

Alumni@EA SAVE THE DATE November 9, 2013 6:00 p.m. Haines Lobby, Crawford Campus Center, dinner to follow in Tierney Hall, Crawford Campus Center

AND JOIN THE CELEBRATION as the Alumni Society presents its prestigious awards for 2013 to each of the following deserving recipients.

n Distinguished Alumnus Award Presented to “an alumnus or alumna, graduate or nongraduate, or honorary alumnus or alumna of The Episcopal Academy who has made a significant contribution in a particular area or in a broad range of achievement. This distinction could reflect outstanding career success, dedicated public service, or any combination of leadership effectiveness.”

2013 Distinguished Alumnus Recipient Benjamin R. Foster ’63

Ben Foster is an internationally recognized scholar of Near Eastern civilizations. He was the Class of 1963’s salutatorian and winner of the Markoe Award. The citation in the 1963 Tabula read, “This was a remarkable tribute to the Chairman of the Pound Committee—almost as outrageous a contradiction as calling Scrooge eleemosynary. In his quiet way, Ben was a contributor to the dances, to Tom [Frazer]’s putting green, a major constructor of The Epolitan and the Tabula, and an unselfish contributor to the well-being of his class, his classes, and the Academy.”

He continued his education at Princeton, but took a year off to study Arabic in Lebanon, where he was certified as a higher-level interpreter in Arabic, according to the standards of the British diplomatic service. He also traveled widely in Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Jordan, Iran, Egypt, Cyprus, and Kuwait before returning to graduate from Princeton in 1968. He started graduate school at Yale, but was drafted into the U.S. Army, and spent a year in Cu Chi, South Vietnam, working as an ammunition specialist. Returning to Yale, he received M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. degrees there and joined the Yale faculty. He is currently Laffan Professor of Assyriology and curator of Yale’s Babylonian Collection.

Ben is the author of numerous articles and books on the history and languages of the Near East, most recently Civilizations of Ancient Iraq (co-authored with his wife, Karen Foster, also a Yale faculty member), which received the 2011 Felicia A. Holton Book Award of the Archaeological Institute of America. On his 65th birthday, he was honored by Near East scholars from around the world through the publication of a special 500-page volume of studies, titled Opening the

Tablet Box: Near Eastern Studies in Honor of Benjamin R. Foster. The volume’s editors credit Ben as “[a] prolific writer, …the author of more than a dozen books and monographs, well over one hundred journal articles, more than seventy reviews, and numerous contributions to a variety of dictionaries, encyclopedia, and biographical compendia… These publications reveal an astonishing intellectual versatility, covering topics as varied as early economic history, cuneiform literature, authorship, Mesopotamian humor and wit, time and space, identity, and speculative thought.” They make special note of the fact that, “[s]ince the start of the Iraq War, [Ben] has written and spoken widely on the destruction of Iraq’s cultural heritage.”

n Alumni Award for Achievement in the Arts Presented for the first time this year “to an alumnus or alumna, graduate or non-graduate or honorary alumnus or alumna of The Episcopal Academy who has demonstrated outstanding achievement in the Arts, including, but not limited to the fields of music, dance, writing, painting, sculpture, production, architecture or other visual or oral arts.”

2013 Alumni Award for Achievement in the Arts Recipient M. Bruce Bennett ’57

Very early in life Bruce Bennett knew he would be a poet. He says: “I had always wanted to write, sensing somehow very early on that poetry was what I was born for.” Soon others knew this too. In his poem “After School” he describes his teacher, Mr. Balsley, telling him “You have poetry in you.”

Even his classmates recognized his gift; his Tabula page begins: “Bruce has always reminded us of rhythm and rhyme.”

Not only did Bruce Bennett become a poet, but he has been a poet and a teacher of poetry for his entire life.

After earning an A.B., A.M., and Ph.D. from Harvard, Bruce taught English at Oberlin College and then lived and wrote in Cambridge, England and Florence. In 1973, he began teaching poetry and creative writing at Wells College in Aurora, NY and is still there today, serving as Chair and Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing. In 1990, he was awarded the college’s Excellence in Teaching Award.

Bruce has written nine full-length poetry collections and more than 20 chapbooks. Recent publications include Something Like Karma, Clandestine Press, 2009 and Subway Figure, Orchises Press, 2009. His chapbook Web-Watching, Bright Hill Press, was the winner of the 2005 Chapbook Competition and Navigating The Distances, Orchises Press, was chosen by Booklist as “One of the Top Ten Poetry Books of 1999.” In response to Bennett’s poems, the poet X. J. Kennedy observed: “Coleridge said that poetry must give pleasure, a requirement that Bruce Bennett’s work has long filled to overflowing. It is one of the most enjoyable bodies of poetry I know.”

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Alumni@EA In addition, Professor Bennett was a founding editor of the magazine Field: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics and Ploughshares and served for many years as Associate Editor at State Street Press. He has also reviewed contemporary poetry for The New York Times Book Review, The Nation, and Harvard Review.

Bruce Bennett has accomplished what most of us only hope to achieve: he has made a career out of doing what he loves to do. Robert Frost, in his poem “Two Tramps in Mudtime,” writes: “My object in living is to unite/ My avocation and my vocation.” By uniting his avocation, his love of poetry, and his vocation, his writing and teaching, Bruce has built a long and distinguished career and has brought joy to countless readers and students.

where he worked for almost 20 years at Bethlehem Steel.

In 1987, he started an investment management company in which he remains fully-engaged.

Walter was awarded the prestigious 1785 bowl in 2000. He served on EA’s Board of Trustees from 1974-1980 and is currently Co-Chair of EA’s INSPIRE endowment campaign. In addition to supporting the Scholars and multiple endowment initiatives, Walter has contributed to annual giving at the highest advocate level for many years. He is an active trustee in many other charitable organizations.

So in the words of Mr. Balsley, Bruce Bennett “you have poetry in you.”

The 1955 Tabula description of Mr. Buckley ends: “His smiling face, thundering footsteps, and jovial temperament will be around the Academy long after he has left.” In truth, Mr. Buckley has not left. His legacies to the school include son, Buck ’78 (who is being inducted into EA’s Athletic Hall of Fame this year) and grandchildren, Alexa ’10 and Dutch ’14.

n Distinguished Service Award

n Alumni Community Service Award

Presented since 1986 “for outstanding service to The Episcopal Academy as demonstrated by loyal participation in its support activities and exceptional contributions of time, effort or personal resources for the advancement of the Academy’s principles and objectives.”

Presented since 1986 “for outstanding service to The Episcopal Academy as demonstrated by loyal participation in its support activities and exceptional contributions of time, effort, or personal resources for the advancement of the Academy’s principles and objectives.”

2013 Distinguished Service Recipient

2013 Community Service Recipient

Walter W. Buckley, Jr. ’55

Allan M. Chagan ’60

1999 is a benchmark in Episcopal’s commitment to providing an outstanding education for exemplary students who otherwise would be unable to attend the Academy. In that year Mr. Buckley gave the funds to establish the Buckley Scholars Program at Episcopal. “Believing as I do that the hope for upward mobility is what sustains a democratic society and that a secondary-school education is more important today than at any time in our history, it is in our own self-interest to provide a helping hand. Let’s make Episcopal the standard for excellence among private day schools.” Not only do the funds enable students to attend Episcopal during the regular academic year, but the funds also provide a stipend for summer-enrichment opportunities through study and travel.

To date the Program has benefitted 26 students who typically entered the Academy in the ninth grade and, all of whom, went on to prestigious colleges. Fourteen additional Scholars are currently attending EA.

The 1960 Tabula notes that Al’s “fervor” and “fire” contributed much to his class and Episcopal. Fifty-three years later, these same qualities are manifested in his leadership of Impact Thrift Stores, Inc., where, as he states in his 50th Reunion reminiscence, “we are out in the world, demonstrating the sermon, rather than preaching the sermon.”

On June 11, 2009, Walter established the Meagan F. Berry ’09 Scholarship for students with her positive attitude, quest for knowledge, and courage. Two deserving students are in this program.

Following his 1955 graduation, Mr. Buckley attended the Lawrenceville School and then proceeded to Cornell University where he earned his B.A. in history in 1960 and M.B.A. from Cornell’s Johnson School in 1962. His ongoing career includes two years on Wall Street, four years in Philadelphia with a privately-owned coal company, and then to Bethlehem,

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Al’s 35 years of entrepreneurial activities led to the 2001 founding of Impact of which he is CFO and treasurer. With stores in Feasterville, Hatboro, Montgomeryville, and Norristown, Impact repurposes donated gently-used furniture, clothing, and household items and puts them back into service. With 100 employees in the four stores, the mission of this non-profit organization is to financially support local charities through the net proceeds generated by its thrift store operations. The charities supported focus on families and children in crisis. Impact disperses more than $200,000 annually.

Following his EA graduation, Al earned his B.A. in history from Colgate University and his M.B.A. in finance from American University. His first service was to the nation, including one year in Vietnam, as an officer in the U.S. Army.

Al’s family connections to the Academy include: brothers, Jack ’58 (deceased) and Dean ’64, daughter, Heidi ’90, son, Matt ’95, and niece, Caitlin Chagan ’06.

n Young Alumni Award Presented since 2005 to “an alumnus or alumna who has demonstrated exemplary qualities in mind, body or spirit within 15 years of graduation from Episcopal. These extraordinary accomplishments may be achieved in academics, athletics, the arts, community service/spiritual life or any combination of the above.”

2013 Young Alumni Recipients Andrew P. Sparkler ’97

Andrew Sparkler is a co-founder, director, and former President of the Dave Nee Organization, a 501(c) (3) non-profit whose mission is to eliminate the stigma associated with depression and suicide. This mission currently focuses on promoting the diagnosis and treatment of depression among adolescents and young adults, with particular attention to law students and young lawyers. Andrew co-founded the organization after Dave Nee, his close friend in law school, died by suicide in June 2005 following a long and secret battle with depression. The Foundation’s flagship program, Uncommon Counsel, has reached thousands of law students by visiting law schools nationwide and presenting candid talks on the symptoms of depression and its prevalence among lawyers.

For his work with the Foundation, Andrew was awarded the 2009 Outstanding Young Lawyer Award, presented by the New York State Bar Association Young Lawyers section. This award is given annually to “a young lawyer who has rendered outstanding service to both the community and the legal profession and has a distinguished record of commitment to the finest traditions of the Bar through public service and professional activities.”

Andrew attended EA from 1990-1997; Brown University 1997-2001; and Fordham University School of Law 2002-05 where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal. He is currently the Senior Director of Business Affairs at the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP).

Prior to working at ASCAP, Andrew practiced entertainment law at Beldock Levine and Hoffman, LLP, and before that, he practiced employment law at Schulte Roth and Zabel, LLP. He currently lives in Brooklyn Heights with his wife, Erica, and their daughter, Hazel.

Sarovar Banka ’98

Sarovar Banka began honing his creative skills while a student at Brown University 1998-2002. He wrote and performed numerous sketches for a comedy group he cofounded.

In 2001, the first full-length play, Ashes, was performed locally in Providence, RI. In 2002, he won the Weston Award for Best Undergraduate Play at Brown with the full length, The Moral Implications of Time Travel, and the play received a workshop production at the Lark Theater in New York City.

He then wrote several one-act plays, which were produced

in New York—The Only Surviving Heir of a Once Great Maharaja, A Play for My Dentist, and lastly, The End of the Apurnas, which was performed off-broadway at Theater Row Studios. In 2007, Sarovar was invited to participate as a playwright in the Directors Lab at Lincoln Center Theater.

Concurrently with his work in theater, beginning as far back as his time at Brown, Sarovar wrote screenplays and made short films, serving in various capacities on collaborative projects, as a writer, producer, and director, and occasionally, as cinematographer and editor. In 2005, his short film Edgar played at several festivals in the U.S. Most recently, Sarovar wrote, produced, and directed his first feature film A Decent Arrangement, which was filmed in India and has shown in over 15 festivals, including Montreal and Mumbai to date. It was reviewed favorably in the Mumbai Mirror and Variety, the latter describing the film as “surprisingly accomplished” and “a wry twist on cultural confusion.” The film tells the story of an Indian-American man, who journeys to India to have his marriage arranged.

When he meets an American woman traveling through India and is set up with an Indian woman, who unexpectedly captivates him, he must confront complex cultural traditions as well as the leanings of his own heart. The film stars Adam Laupus and legendary Indian actress Shabana Azmi.

Sarovar currently resides in Los Angeles, where he is working on projects for film and television.

n The Young Alumni Spirit Award Established in 2005, this award is presented to an alumnus or alumna who has demonstrated exceptional loyalty, service and devotion to the Academy in Regional Associations, Reunion Planning and/or Class Fundraising. This award is typically, but not exclusively within 15 years of graduation from the Academy’ 2013 Young Alumni Spirit Award Recipient Jennifer (Williams) Weymouth ’96

Jenny joined the EA community in 1992 as a freshman and became an active member of her class. She was a Dora Khayatt Art Prize winner, Scholium editor, active community service member (Tuesday afternoon tutoring), member of the JV/V lacrosse teams, and varsity swimming member, captain 1995-1996. She graduated from Middlebury College in 2000 with a psychology degree. After working for the Steppingstone Scholars, Inc. in Philadelphia and The Steppingstone Foundation in Boston, she earned an M. Ed. from Lesley University in 2005. She then taught fourth grade at Buckingham Browne & Nichols in Cambridge, MA for three years.

Jenny was a class agent 2000-2003, and was a member of her 10th and 15th Reunion Committees. She served on EA’s Board of Trustees from 2009-2012, where she was a member

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Alumni@EA of the Development & Education Committee and was happy to represent views of both young female alumni and elementary educators around the board table.

Along with her parents and sister, Betsy Williams ’93, Jenny supports the work done by both Steppingstone Scholars, Inc. and The Steppingstone Foundation. Both organizations are “dedicated to helping educationally underserved students in the area achieve success.” Once accepted into the program, there is a rigorous 14-month preparation, after which the student may be admitted to one the best public, parochial or private schools in the area with continuing mentoring and support. Currently, EA has 17 such scholars with each having his/her own advisor.

In the 2006 report for annual giving, Jenny explained she supports EA because it “fosters life-long learning for all members of its community,” as a “thank you to its teachers and administration;” and because “EA introduced me to an incredible group of friends.”

She currently resides in the Boston area with her husband, Sandy, and with her two daughters, Lilly, July 2009, and Elsie, October 2011.

n 2013 Athletic Hall of Fame The distinguished honor of being inducted into The Episcopal Academy’s Athletic Hall of Fame has been presented since 2000. It is to honor those members of Episcopal’s community (students, coaches, teams, others) who, by outstanding achievement or service to Episcopal athletics, have made significant contributions to the athletic program at Episcopal.

Walter W. Buckley, III ’78 was a certified all-star and captain

of the varsity soccer and baseball teams in his senior year at Episcopal. In baseball, he was a three-year starter, earning first team All Inter-Ac and All-Main Line honors in 1977.

It was on the soccer pitch, however, that Buck truly excelled.

Playing on some of Coach Curt Lauber’s ’63 most accomplished teams (high praise, indeed), Buck was a four-year starter. Two of these teams went on to win Inter-Ac Championships (1976 and 1977), the latter accumulating a 15-1-1 record, the best in EA soccer history. Buck led his team in assists his junior and senior years. As recorded in the 1978 Tabula, “He was the team’s playmaker, and many times served as a steadying influence for the whole team.” Coach Lauber labeled the 1977 team “special.” Indeed it was, as it scored 61 goals and allowed its 17 opponents only seven goals. It had 10 shutouts and seven other games with one goal against. Buck earned first-team All-Inter-Ac honors in 1975 and 1976 and first team All-Main Line 1975, 1976, and 1977. In his senior year, the accolades poured in: All InterAc and League MVP, first team All-City and All-State, and regional All-American.

Moving on to the University of North Carolina, Buck continued his amazing run in soccer, starting in each of his last three

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years and was named defensive MVP in 1979 and 1980. He garnered an honorable mention All ACC berth in 1979, then first team All ACC and All South honors in 1980. He was named to the Mayor’s Cup AllvTournament Team three years at UNC. Buck capped his illustrious career with a prestigious invitation to participate in the Olympic trials in 1981.

EA has continued to benefit from “Buckley” athleticism as both daughter, Alexa ’10, captain girls lacrosse in 2010, and son, “Dutch” ’14, captain of boys soccer in 2013, have each excelled in their respective sports.

Erika (Acuff) Erndl ’96 It would be hard to imagine a place

where Erika’s speed would be more impressive than racing down the field in hockey, but swimmers who followed in her wake in the pool would willingly testify it was in the water. A star forward on Gina Buggy’s, Hon. juggernaut field hockey teams of 1993-1995, Erika contributed to an undefeated Inter-Ac Championship in her junior year. She was first team All-Main Line in swimming 1993-1996; second team in field hockey in 1994 (scoring 13 goals); and earned varsity letters in each for four years, and in track, her sophomore year. She was Athlete of the Week on multiple occasions.

She is probably EA’s most accomplished swimmer. Erika was a six-time first-team All-American and All-Inter-Ac in 1994 and 1995. Amazingly two of her school records still stand today in the 200-yard Individual Medley (2:05.4) and 100yard breastroke (1:04.21). She was presented with the John Kulp Award for greatest contribution to the swim team in her senior year. In 1993, Erika was PA State Champion in the 100-yard breaststroke, and in 1995 State and Junior National Champion in 50M-free.

At University of North Carolina (UNC), Erika was a five-time first-team and 12-time honorable mention All-American and team MVP in her junior and senior years. She was the Atlantic Coast Conference Rookie of the Year in 1997, co-captain in 2001, and All-Atlantic Coast Conference all four years.

Over the course of her tenure at Carolina she broke several team, conference, meet, and pool records in the 200- and 400-Individual Medley and in the 200-breastroke. In 20022003 she was selected as one of the Top 50 female swimmers in the ACC of all-time.

After a five-year hiatus, Erika decided to return to the sport in 2006. Some of her greatest accomplishments are making the 2009 US National Team by winning the gold medal in the 100 freestyle at the U.S. Open in 2009; in 2011 being named Florida Female Swimmer of the Year (Ryan Lochte was the male); and winning an individual silver medal in the 100 free and gold in three relays, while representing the U.S. at the 2011 Pan American Games. Erika is the current North Carolina record holder in six long-course events, all swims that were done since her comeback. (50-, 100-, 200-freestyles, 100-butterfly, 200- and 400-Individual Medley). (At UNC, you are permitted to break school records both before

entering and after graduation from UNC in the long course format, which is a 50-meter pool, but, not in short course yards, which is the course used in NCAA competition.) She currently holds the Florida State record in 100M-free.

Erika has attended the Olympic Trials a total of four times, 1996, 2000, 2008, and 2012, and was a semi-finalist four times, three of which were in 2012.

Erika holds National/American Masters, age 30-34, records in the 50M-SC (short course) free, 50Y-free, 100Y-free, 200Y-free, 100Y-butterfly; and world records, age 30-34, in 100M-SC free, 100M-SC Individual Medley, 200M-SC free, 200M Individual Medley, 100M free, 200M free, and 100M breastroke.

Quoting from Swimming World Magazine, December 10, 2012: “Beyond the competitive angle, Erndl is succeeding in the same fashion as Dara Torres (winner of three Silver Medals at age 41 at 2012 London Olympics). She is shining proof that age is just a number and though it will climb, it doesn’t mean you must slow down. Simply put, anyone watching Erndl swim and digesting what she has accomplished should be inspired.”

Norman G. FitzPatrick ’80 Only a 20-year career as a combat Navy pilot (retired as Commander June 5, 2004) could rival the heights that Norm reached as an athlete at Episcopal. He was a letter winner on consecutive Inter-Ac Championship basketball teams in 1978-1979 and 1979-1980. Norm was a versatile two-way star on the gridiron, starting at quarterback and earning All-Inter-Ac, All-Main Line, All-Suburban, All-Daily News, All-Bulletin and All-City, and second team honors as a defensive back in his senior year. He was named

by The Daily News to the second team defense All-Decade team, 1970’s and by Ted Silary as one of EA’s top 11 defensive players for two decades, 1978-1997.

In baseball, it could be argued that Norm was among EA’s best ever. In his junior year, he was All-Inter-Ac, All-Main Line and named All-City by the Bulletin and league MVP by the Philadelphia Journal. As a junior, Norm excelled at the plate (hitting .396, winning the Eddie Collins Bat for most hits, and driving in 16 runs); on the mound (a 5-1 record and 1.97 ERA); and in the field (credited with five outfield assists).

He was able to improve at the plate in his senior year, compiling a .804 slugging percentage and raising his batting average to .457, the best for all Main Line Schools, thus earning him the 1914 Gold Ball for highest batting average. As team captain, Norm was once again named All-Inter-Ac, All-Main Line, the Eddie Collins Bat winner, and received a special commendation for pitching a no-hitter.

Following graduation, Norm compiled a 7-1 record and a .356 batting average at the Naval Prep Academy and led his team in home runs. At the U.S. Naval Academy, he was a pitcher for two years until 1982 when an injury to his throw-

ing hand ended his baseball career. His competitive spirit, however, led him to join Navy’s very highly-regarded rugby team for which he lettered in 1984 and 1985. He was named Most Valuable Back at the Spring 1985 Eastern College Rugby Championships.

Once on active duty, he amassed 3,000 flight hours and was awarded the Navy and Marine Corp highest non-combat single-action award for heroism. He received the Meritorious Service Award for superior service, five Navy commendation medals, and five Navy achievement medals. On June 3, 1998, Norm was recognized by the PA Senate and House of Representatives for his having rescued an unconscious man from his burning car in July 1997.

Norman now works for Ameriprise as an investment consultant and is married to his high school sweetheart, Marylee.

He has three children: Allison ’06, Meghan (Merion Mercy ’08) and Norman Burk ’12. Allison was the Amy Willard award winner with 12 varsity letters at EA; 4 time’s Academic All-American at Bucknell ’10 in diving where she was All-Patriot League diver three times, captain as a senior and school record-holder for one meter board. Norman Burk was EA’s baseball captain in 2012 and currently, is a pitcher for University of Maine as a freshman with opponents’ batting only .122.

Dr. C. A. Wayne Hurtubise, Jr. ’49 These characteristics summarize Wayne’s outstanding sports career: athlete, consistency, teammate, versatility, and humility.

As a stellar athlete at EA, he earned 10 Varsity letters in three different major sports—football (two), basketball (four), and baseball (four). He was a member of football teams that won consecutive Inter-Ac Championships in 1947 and 1948. Wayne shared quarterback duties with Dick Catlett on the 1948 team that was 7-1 overall, 3-0 in the Inter-Ac and scored 130 points with only 21 against. As a guard on the basketball team, Wayne was a consistent leader, earning second team All-Inter-Ac in 1949. Quoting the Tabula, he “played a razzle-dazzle court game, featured by rapid dribbling, astonishing driving shots and remarkable ball-stealing tactics.” However, his star shined brightest on the baseball diamond, where he is considered one of the best second basemen in EA history. The team won, or tied for, the Inter-Ac Championship three consecutive years, 1947-1949, during which he also played third base, shortstop, outfield, and pitcher. In 1949, he pitched a no-hit game against Bryn Athyn (for which he credited his catcher, Jack Tompkins), and was the winning pitcher against Penn Charter in the final game (his seventh consecutive victory), resulting in the two teams sharing the Inter-Ac title. He was awarded the Eddie Collins ’35 bat (for most hits) in 1947 (.317 average) and 1948 (.325 average). Parenthetically, his golf score was in the 80s and he was an accomplished tennis player.

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Alumni@EA Wayne attended Haverford College, 1949-1953, and again excelled in the same three varsity sports. As a freshman he was called upon to become the quarterback, when both upperclassmen were injured; and he held that position for four years. Wayne was a guard on the basketball team for four years, averaging about 14 points per game, and served as captain both his junior and senior years. As Haverford’s second baseman for four years, he batted over .400 and was offered professional contracts by the Pirates, Braves, and Dodgers, the latter of whom had Jackie Robinson at that position with Junior Gilliam as backup. “What a thrill,” in Wayne’s words.

However, he chose to attend Penn Medical School, 19531957, on completion of which Wayne was assigned to be a battalion surgeon in Europe. “The first day of service I received orders from my CO to play baseball for a European All-Star baseball team. We toured Europe for three months, and to the delight of my CO won the championship.”

While practicing as a family physician for 37 years, Wayne also served as “School Physician” at EA for 25 years and at Agnes Irwin for 10 years.

Elizabeth Pillion ’01 is one of EA’s most accomplished and

versatile female athletes. As a senior, she was co-captain of the soccer, basketball, and lacrosse teams as well as team MVP in each of those sports. After playing on the freshmen and JV boys soccer teams, she became a star with the varsity girls for the next two years, helping the team to win the Inter-Ac title in the fall of 2000. Elizabeth was a four-year starter in basketball, as well as lacrosse where she helped lead the team to consecutive Inter-Ac championships in 2000 and 2001. She earned Academic All-American honors in lacrosse her junior and senior year, as well as All-American honors her senior year.

Elizabeth’s athletic prowess continued at Princeton, where incredibly she excelled on two nationally-ranked Division I varsity teams, lacrosse and soccer. During her four years of varsity lacrosse, she played in three NCAA Championship games, winning two national titles. She had 104 career goals and 46 career assists. Elizabeth was named to the All-NCAA Tournament Team in 2003 and 2004, was a unanimous AllIvy selection and first team All American in 2004 and 2005, and was team co-captain and MVP in her senior year. In her senior year, she was a semi-finalist for the Tewaarton Award, honoring the nation’s outstanding women’s lacrosse player.

After college, she played on the U.S. National lacrosse team from 2005 to 2008, where she and her team won the Prague Cup. Elizabeth walked on to the Princeton varsity womans soccer team as a sophomore. She played in three straight NCAA soccer tournaments, reaching the final four in her senior year, while guarding the opponent’s top offensive player in each tournament game that year.

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In recognition of her extraordinary accomplishments in both lacrosse and soccer, she was named Princeton’s top female athlete for both her senior year and for the decade. She ranks in the top 10 all-time athletes, (male and female) at Princeton (along with such icons as Dick Kazmaier, Heisman Trophy winner, and Bill Bradley). Elizabeth is featured in the NCAA’s Hall of Champions exhibit highlighting the greatest two-sport athletes.

1954 Boys’ Soccer Team

Quoting from the 1955 Tabula, as coach Jarvis “looked over his returning material, he realized the great possibilities of the team” with 14 returning letterman. It could repeat the 1953’s capture of the Inter-Ac title (only the second EA team to do so, and the first in 14 years). The 1954 team not only won the Inter-Ac title, “but compiled the best record up to that time by an Academy soccer team both in the Inter-Ac league and in overall totals.” It was 6-0 in the league with 20 goals scored to only one against for five shutouts. The season’s record— EA’s best—was 9-2-4 with 34 goals scored to 10 against.

“Along with the team’s outstanding success, there were a number of individual achievements. Bill Lukens, captain and center halfback, and Felix Jackson, goalie, were selected to the All-Inter-Ac and All-Philadelphia Scholastic teams. Howard Rockett, inside right, was named to the All Inter-Ac team and Jack Pinheiro, left fullback, received honorable mention.

The backfield, composed of Jackson, Lukens, Pinheiro, Ted Roberts (right fullback), Bill Rapp, right halfback, and Bill Kennedy, left halfback, was considered by some experts to be one of the best, if not the best, in the Philadelphia area. Up on the line, the scoring was done by Howard Rockett, with 14 goals, and Skip Sykes, inside left, and Rick Schlingmann, center forward, with five goals each. Joe Kopf, Jay Crawford, outside right, Bob Smith, outside left, also excelled, and Nick Whitridge, Manager.”

The team could not have achieved its enviable record without the knowledge, guidance, perseverance, and patience of its stellar head coach, Mr. John Jarvis, Hon. He held that position from the fall of 1949 through the fall of 1956.

After graduation, most of the team played and starred at the college level. *Harry Arndt ’55, three years varsity, Trinity College; Jay Crawford ’57, captain 1956; All-Inter-Ac; All-Philadelphia

team vs NY 1956. St. Joseph’s University, co-founder 1958 of its first team; captain 1960; All-League and District AllAmerican 1960; Soccer Hall of Fame; head soccer coach, Episcopal Academy, 1964 through 1971, winning Inter-Ac championships fall of 1966 and 1971. Inducted into EA Athletic Hall of Fame 2005; John Lloyd ’55, freshman, Wesleyan University; Joe Kopf ’55, varsity three years, Bucknell College; Bill Lukens ’55, varsity three years, Trinity College, captain, senior year. All New England as a junior; Bill Master ’55, varsity three year, Colorado College; *Walt Miller ’55,

freshman, Wesleyan College; Jack Pinheiro ’55, varsity three years, University of Pennsylvania, captain freshman; AllIvy; Bill Rapp ’56, captain 1955; All-Inter-Ac, varsity three years, Harvard, Ivy League Champions 1958 and 1959; Ted Roberts ’55, varsity three years, Kenyon College; Howard Rockett ’55, varsity four years, University of Pennsylvania, All-Ivy three years; leading scorer in Ivy League 1957; runnerup 1956; *Rick Schlingmann ’56, varsity three years, Cornell University, captain; *Bob Smith ’56, All-Inter-Ac 1955; varsity three years, University of Pennsylvania; Skip Sykes ’55, varsity three years, Amherst College, All New England and All-American 1958, head soccer coach, The Episcopal Academy, fall of 1961 through fall of 1963, winning Inter-Ac Championships, fall of 1961 and 1962.

individual talent. But No Prima Donnas here! In their Tabula they wrote: “The nucleus of the team was the whole squad.”

The letter winners were named, as they should be now: Dick Gleason ’69, captain, Bill Berlinger ’70, Bill Brown ’72, Paul Cox ’69, Craig Casey, manager, Eliot Dalton ’70, John Dautrich ’70, Rick Greenwood ’71, Ken Lefevre, Mark Lefevre ’72, Peter Munger ’70, Chuck Nelsen ’70, John Oster ’70, Dave Parker ’70, Steve Phillips ’71, Scott Schumacker ’72, Ted Stehle ’70, Don Tase ’69, Rusty Varley ’69, and Scott Welsh ’72. The Tabula also recognized that the two high points of their season were the victory over Malvern and Rusty Varley’s

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national record. And it concluded with, “It is impossible to express in words the tremendous significance of this accomplishment, and the pride the whole school, and especially the swimming team, had in Rusty.”

The 1968-69 Boys’ Swim Team

The 1998 Girls’ Field Hockey Team

This George Shafer, Hon., coached boys swim team was the

This team had one of the most successful seasons in the history of the program. They were comprised of highly-motivated and focused girls, who, under the leadership of coach Gina Buggy, Hon., went undefeated both in and outside of league with a final record of 15-0-2. This team was the middle of three consecutive Inter-Ac titles. A total of nine members of the team went on to play Division I field hockey, many of whom captained their collegiate teams. Led by co-captains Amanda (Billmyer) Vos Strache ’99 and Kelly O’Donnell ’99 (co-recipients of the field hockey award for leadership, dedication, and team spirit), the team was comprised of: Sa-

most successful in EA history. Although the sport had only begun at EA seven years earlier, the era from 1968 to 1970 was special and has never been equaled. In the process of garnering the first outright Inter-Ac championship, the team had a plethora of remarkable accomplishments. Coach and Dean of Faculty Jon Kulp, Hon., when asked about this team as a Hall of Fame (HOF) candidate, could not have put it better when he wrote, “In my 39 years at EA, I cannot think of any team not yet in the HOF that deserves this honor more than the 1969 swimming team. Their statistics alone of being the first to be undefeated in the league (beating powerhouse Malvern Prep which boasted All-Americans in four individual events, one of whom was a future Olympic silver medalist); have an 11-1 record while taking on the area’s best teams, including a win over the strong University of Pennsylvania freshman, while the only loss was to perennial Catholic League champ LaSalle by mere fractions of a second; having SIX Prep-All-American swimmers; setting 35 records (national, pool, school, and meet) all in one season, justifies their election to the EA Hall of Fame.” George Shafer, HOF Head Coach, emphasized, “Achieving All-American in swimming is not based on opinion but based on swimming a certified national top ten time in an event in a given year.” EA’s PrepAll-Americans for 1969 were: For 200-yd medley melay Paul Cox ’69, Rusty Varley ’69, Peter Munger ’70, and Ken LeFevre ’70 ranked 10th – their time would have ranked sixth among public high schools, and this record lasted at EA for 29 years; for 200-yd freestyle Rusty Varley ranked fourth for 400-yd freestyle, ranked first, set new National Prep School Record, for 100-yd breast stroke ranked ninth. For 400-yd freestyle relay Ken Lefevre, Ted Stehle ’70, Dick Gleason ’69, and Rusty Varley ranked seventh. Swimming is often thought of as an individual sport, but not by these boys. Their minds were set on team victory, and they were ready to swim whatever event their coaches asked them to in order to get the winning point total. There might have been more All-American honors if they had insisted on entering events that showcased their

mantha Ade ’99, Elizabeth Crewalk ’00, Catherine Devlin ’00, Kimmy (Gardner) Reinking ’00, Mercedes Griffin ’99, Danielle Guernsey ’00, Louisa Hall ’00, Kylee (Jakobowski) Newman ’99 (MVP), Christy (Laakman) Kaupinen ’99, Jaclyn Lange ’00, Amanda McDermott ’99, Catherine Rogers ’99, Morgan Stoviak ’99, Lise Tank-Nielsen ’00, and Sara (Weiner) Collis ’01.

Many of these players also excelled at the college level.

Samantha Ade, Cornell, four years; Amanda (Billmyer) Vos Strache, All-State and All-American, 1998, four-year varsity

Stanford, three-year All Pac-10; captain senior year. Assistant Coach EA field hockey for three years head coach EA girls varsity lacrosse, two years, both winning Inter-Ac titles; Kimmy (Gardner) Reinking, Cornell University varsity four years; regional All-American, 2002; highest scorer junior year; Kylee (Jakobowski) Newman, Penn varsity four years; outstanding freshman 1999; high scorer 2001-2002; second team All-Ivy 2001-2002; captain 2002; second team regional All-American 2002; Jaclyn (Lange) Hall, Penn varsity four years; 2003 co-captain, 2002 Most Improved Player, 2003 Diane Angstadt Award for Most Inspirational Player; Kelly O’Donnell, co-captain senior year, 1998-1999; All-State 1998, All-Inter-Ac 1997 and 1998, and first team STX/NVHCA High School Mid-East regional, All-American 1998. Made (USAFH) national field hockey festival U-19 team consecutive years while in high school and won bronze medal 1998. Played at Cornell for two years; Casey Rogers, Drew

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Alumni@EA University in Madison, NJ, Division III, 1999-2002. 1999 MAC Conference Rookie of the Year; 2000 MAC Conference All-Star team, first-team; 2001 MAC Conference Player of the Year, MAC Conference AllStar team, First Team, Division III Regional All-American, first-team, Division III National All-American, second team; 2002 MAC Conference All-Star team, first-team, Division III North/South Senior All-Star; Sara (Weiner) Collis ’01, Cornell University; varsity four years; Captain, Maccabi USA field hockey team 2005.

The selection of the first person to receive the alumni award for achievement in the arts was conducted by the new Arts Award Committee, comprised of Mary French, Hon., chair; Joe Buches, chair, Music; Matt Clayton ’98; Susan Coote, current and past parent; Bob Cronin, Hon., former chair, Theater; Lori Reed, former chair, Theater and Dance; Phil Spear, Hon., former teacher; David Sigel, chair, Arts; and Bill Rapp ’56.

All other alumni awards were decided by the new Awards Selection Committee. The members of which were, by title: Director of Alumni, Bruce Konopka, Hon.; a faculty/ retired faculty member, Robert Bishop ’58; one member each from the two immediate 50th Reunion Classes, Laird Evans ’62 and Jim Rooks ’63; one member each from the two immediate 25th Reunion Classes, Andrew Brenner ’87; and Kim (Zinman) Richter ’88; a member of the Alumni Society Board of Managers Nominating Committee, Ashley Lunkenheimer ’92; and Chair of the Awards Dinner Committee, Bill Rapp ’56.

Those to be inducted into the Hall of Fame were determined by the Athletic Hall of Fame Committee, Gina Buggy, Hon.; Jim Farrell ’82; Dick Fenimore ’71; Bill Keffer ’84; Adam Murray ’02; John Rettew ’50; George Shafer, Hon.; Bill Sykes ’54; and Kellen (Heckscher) Vengels ’97. //////////

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Former Board of Managers Reception

In attendance on December 11, 2012 were l to r; Karl Mayro ’84, Dave Acton ’51, Lloyd Pakradooni ’65, Dick Feimster ’72, Fred Dittmann ’71, Ned Lee ’79, Bill Rapp ’56, John Rettew ’50, Don Best ’70, and John Hodge ’62.

4th Graders Visit with Morrie Heckscher ’58 who is the Lawrence A. Fleischman Chairman of the American Wing at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. The American Wing houses one of the most comprehensive collection of pre-1900 American art anywhere.

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1. Speakers and Alumni Society Career Day Committee

Career Day 2013

Front row L to R; Steve Copit ’80, Matt Coote ’08, Pete Duncan ’53, Ed Jones ’87, President of Alumni Society, Clayton Platt ’73, Lee Allman ’84, Back row L to R; John Hanson ’78, Linda (Jacobs) Ricci ’84, Alexandra Golaszewska ’88, and Omar McNeill ’85, Keynote Speaker, Ashley Lunkenheimer ’92, Sue Petrocelli P ’10, and Karen Spofford P ’08 ’10.

Class of 2013 the chance to learn about networking and our new EA Networks, and to learn about careers in medicine, web and print media, government/politics, entrepreneurship, law, and non-profits and finance from a distinguished group of EA alumni and parents of alumni speakers.

The keynote speaker was Omar McNeill ’85 who is an attorney, has been a General Counsel, and now is a partner with Louie Freeh (former Director of the FBI) at Pepper Hamilton in Wilmington, Delaware. Omar was at Penn State for six months last year researching and writing the Freeh Report, in response to the Jerry Sandusky incident. Our seniors were enthralled with Omar’s remarks and his advice to “be fearless” and not to choose the “safe” route in building a career.

Episcopal has produced some very impressive graduates and the students were truly thankful to all of them for taking time out of their busy schedules to give back to the Class of 2013—and to EA. The speakers that day, in addition to Omar McNeill ’85, were: Karen Spofford P ’08 ’10 – Executive Coach, Powerful Execution, Inc. Sue Petrocelli P ’10 – EA Networks John Hanson ’78 – Hanson General Contracting, Inc., Philadelphia, PA Vince Powers ’84 – Founder and President, Powers Brand Communications LLC Karen Marston ’86 – U.S. Attorney’s Office, Philadelphia, PA Jeffrey Hunter – Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Matt Coote ’08 – Served on Mitt Romney Committee Courtney (Banks) Spaeth ’92 – CEO, National Security Assoc. Worldwide, LLC, VA Clayton Platt ’73 – Founder/Principal, Transforming Money Matters Lee Allman ’84 – Law Office of Lee Allman, Philadelphia, PA Steve Copit ’80 – Plastic Surgeon, Philadelphia, PA Susanne Long ’92 – Radiologist, Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia, PA Linda (Jacobs) Ricci ’84 – Founder, Decahedralist Strategic Consulting, New York, NY Alexandra Golaszewska ’88 – Owner, AlexandraGo, LLC, Philadelphia, PA

2. Omar McNeill ’85 was the keynote speaker.

3. Karen Spofford and Sue Petrocelli discussing networking skills with the seniors.

4. Vince Powers ’84 and John Hanson ’78 discussing the Entrepreneur session with the seniors.

On January 28, 2013, the Episcopal Academy held its Annual Career Day which gave EA’s

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Alumni@EA Los Angeles Regional January 22 at The California Club.

Special thanks to Greg Penske ’80.

Sarovar Banks ’98, Elizabeth Mihalek ’01, and Maytor McKinley ’99 Elizabeth Mihalik ’01, Blake Marymor ’04, Jonathan Richter ’84, Maytor McKinley ’99, and David Blenko ’72

San Francisco Regional January 23 at San Francisco Yacht Club.

Special thanks to Bob and Joanna Martin.

Lauren Patrizio ’97, Scarlett Campitelli ’94, Tobin Fisher ’95, and Alexis Longinotti ’95

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Alicia DeSantola ’95 and Chris Giles ’84

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Washington DC Regional February 19 at DACOR. Special thanks to Alan Lukens ’42.

Meg Gilley, Alex Nakahara ’06, David Talbot ’05, and Todd Fernley ’05 Alan Lukens ’42, Jay Brandegan ’68, Ham Clark, Christina Clark ’06, Nell Fortune-Greeley ’06, and Bob Bishop ’58.

London Regional March 22 at John ’83 and Kate Carrafiell’s home.

In attendance were; front row l to r; Kathleen Cannon P ’98 ’06 Kate Carrafiell, Pat Madara, Ali Newbold GP ’23, Jane (Armstrong) Pandey ’90, Ceci Clark. Back row l to r; Ted Madara ’82, Stefan Slowinski ’93, Bill Shearer ’74, John Carrafiell ’83, Ham Clark, Laurence Shearer ’76, and Brian Kelly P ’03 GP ’23 ’24.

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St. James School Community Service Days There have been two additional Commu-

nity Service Days, April 20 and May 18, since The Episcopal Academy Inaugural Alumni Community Service Event was held on March 9, 2013 at St. James Middle School, located in the West Allegheny area of Philadelphia. A hearty “EPISCOPAL” should be spelled out for all who participated: Ray Munder ’57 and his wife, Jill, David Dugery ’86, Bill Crockett ’86, Bill Keffer ’84 and his daughter, Sarah ’15, Megan Haley Noller ’93, Jen Whelan Kovatch ’93 and her daughter, Shelby, and Edna, Hon. and Len Haley, Hon. Projects for the three days included: building 10 storage bookshelves; demolition of two wooden camp platforms; creating a school supply storage area; planning electrical work; clearing a library workroom; sorting and cataloguing more

than 500 books previously unavailable to the students; transporting school supplies from the third floor to the basement level; removing and recycling trash from the building; distribution table giving free clothing to neighborhood children; preparing and serving lunch to more than 40 people. The remainder of the food was served to the students on Monday for lunch.

The following Facebook comment best described the spirit of the day: “Great day with my family of five and the larger Episcopal Academy Alumni going to help build a library at St. James in West Philadelphia. What an amazing day filled with history and a great future…I loved introducing my kids to this” —Joe Bongiovanni ’91 March 9 (top left) Sara Levetter ’93 with children Cleo, age 16, and Philip, age 13.

March 9 (top right) Joe Bongiovanni ’91 with his wife Anne, and children Quinn, age 8, Harrison, age 5, and Katherine, age 10 April 20 (bottom left) Front row: Matt Puppio, Sara Puppio, Ann Crockett, Holly Crockett. Back row: Andrea (Belefonte) Puppio ’86, Todd Pride ’85, Len Haley, Hon., Sara Levetter ’93, Bill Crockett ’86, and Lisa Crockett.

May 18 (bottom right) Al Chagan ’60 and Barry Pinhero ’60.

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The Third Annual Richard G. Crockett ’82 Memorial Alumni Golf Outing Despite chillier-than-expected

temperatures, the third annual Richard G. Crockett ’82 Memorial Alumni Golf Outing was a rousing success at White Manor Country Club back on May 13.

The tournament benefits all of the activities that the Alumni Board of Managers provides for today’s EA students. The foursome of David Grau ’93, Jay Bomberger ’79, Ed Jones ’87, and Will Forbes, EA’s technical services coordinator, defended their title and, much like the Miami Heat, have their sights set on a three-peat next spring. Thank you to all of those who helped make this year’s outing so successful. We look forward to seeing you all again next year.

The Crocketts

Curt Young ’54 and Jim Young ’79

Sasha Ballen ’92, Ashley Lunkenheimer ’92, Paige LeGrand, Karen Marston ’86

Alumni/Varsity Water Polo There was a great turnout for the Alumni Game on December

22, 2012. The Alumni won the event 15-12. There were members of the first water polo class of 1992. Some of those in attendance were Rich Clark ’04, Rob Havens ’04, Mike Good ’99, Josh Krotec ’96, Pace Duckett ’92, Anders Lindgren ’11, Ricky McEntee ’11, Jimmy McEntee ’11, and Brad Hahn ’11.

The “old faithful” foursome of ’54: ___________, Curt Young, ____________, and

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Hughes Cauffman ’34, Bill Lander ’43, Chick Hitchler ’43, Frank Nagel ’38

Class of ’48, 65th Reunion

Class of ’53, 60th Reunion

Class of ’58, 55th Reunion

Class of ’63, 50th Reunion

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Class of ’68, 45th Reunion

Reunion

Class of ’73, 40th Reunion

Class of ’78, 35th Reunion

Class of ’83, 30th Reunion

Class of ’88, 25th Reunion

Weekend 2013 Class of ’93, 20th Reunion

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Alumni Reunion

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Weekend Wrap-Up 1. Jim Rooks ’63 gave a wonderful chapel talk to the Upper School based on the Dr. Seuss book Oh, the Places You’ll Go!, on Friday, May 3, 2013 of Alumni Weekend.

2. Some of the Class of ’63 classmates walking from Chapel to Campus Center; L to R: Paul Stetzer, Jim Rooks, Charlie Ogelsby, Drew Jackson. In background Laird Evans ’62.

3. The Class of ’63 set up a display in the library of many things that the classmates have accomplished through the years, covering a few art forms, including, painting, writing, music, architecture and many other categories.

4. The Class of ’63 was very entertained with the video made by the third graders and Kim (Crawford) Farrell ’84.

5. Tom Bispham, visiting from Hong Kong talking with two third graders about the class letter writing project.

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6. Ric Simonson and Jim Rooks talking with third graders about the video they filmed.

7. A group of classmates listened intently while Lloyd Sammons, and a panel of other classmates: (L to R; Norm Cocke, Jim Rooks, Bill Spellman, Russ Etherington and Rick Tilghman,) talk about the Vietnam War, during Alumni Weekend.

8. Bill Richards is entertaining a group of third graders about their letter writing project.

9. Rob Austin, Dick Gordon, Ben Foster and Gardy Pearson at the Head of School Dinner on Alumni Weekend.

10. The Class of ’63 gift was presented to The Greville Haslam Head of School, Ham Clark, Hon. Front row L to R: Rick Tilghman, Norm Cocke, Drew Jackson, Ham Clark. Back row L to R: Curt Lauber, Corky Hart, Bill Spellman, Bill Richards.

11. Some of the class of ’63 with the ’63 banner just before the Chapel program during Alumni Weekend.

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12. Some class members at the Chapel program on Saturday night.

13. Jim Rooks presented this plaque to Ham Clark at the Head of School Class of ’63 dinner.

Jim found the plaque in the trash at the old campus 50 years ago.

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Parents of Alumni Spring Fling Over 80 parents of EA alumni gathered at the historic home of Jill and Tom

Durovsik P’09 and ’12 on April 5, 2013 to toast Ceci and Ham Clark. EAPA Parents of Alumni Committee Chair Diane Hillyard P ’05 and ’08 delivered a heartfelt tribute and old EA friends and new wished Ceci and Ham the very best of luck in their assignment in Beirut, Lebanon.

Tom Durovsik and Ceci Clark

Notice to Parents whose Children Graduated from EA Prior to 2005:

Cathy Nassau, Brian Kelly, Diane Hillyard, and Lindsay Leisenring wife of Ted

The EAPA Parents of Alumni Committee organizes events to reconnect parents of EA graduates with one another and EA. We’re a “fun-raising,” not “fundraising” group and would like to add you to our existing base of parents of the classes of 2005-2013. We have a number of terrific events in the works to follow up this past year’s Art and Cocktails at the Barnes, EA/Haverford/AIS Weekend Cocktail Party at Aronimink Golf Club, and Private Tour of the Antiques Show and lunch at the Union League. We’ve also put together group walks, holiday wreath-making, and on and on!

Please join the fun! For further information on events, go to www.episcopalacademy.org/ alumni/parents-of-alumni/index.aspx. So that we can invite you to our events, please send your name and class year of your child(ren) to parentsofeaalumni@verizon.net. We hope to hear from you!

scan the QR code for Kathy Leidheiser, Ken Leidheiser, Don Pettit, and Suzanne Pettit

more parents of alumni information

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2013 Episcopal Legacies

Nothing is more important to the future of our children and our country than education.

And few schools do it as well as Episcopal.

Invest in future generations through a bequest to The Episcopal Academy.

Three easy ways to leave a legacy: Make Episcopal the beneficiary of your IRA, 40l(k) or SEP by filling out a Change of Beneficiary Form from your plan provider. Any balance in your plan will go to Episcopal tax-free at the end of your lifetime.

Make Episcopal the beneficiary of a life insurance policy. Again, just fill out a Change of Beneficiary Form. Episcopal will receive the death benefit of your policy.

Ask your attorney to insert a bequest to Episcopal in your will or trust.

For more information, please contact Carolyn Jaeger, Director of Planned Giving. 484-424-1780 or jaeger@episcopalacademy.org.

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Scholars Luncheon The Episcopal Academy’s

ninth annual Scholars Luncheon was held on April 11 in the Middle School study hall.

The event is always a special gathering as generous and committed donors interact with talented and appreciative EA students. The students are delighted to meet adults who are interested in their success, and the donors always leave the lunch inspired by the young people they have met, knowing that their investment is paying off in a life or lives transformed.

Ham Clark, Aaron Bogle ’15. amd Charles Kurz The lunch started on a small scale nine years ago, but now fills the Middle School study hall as EA’s number of named scholars has grown to 77 students. Through the “Ever Episcopal” campaign and the continued generosity of our donors, 30 named scholars have been added to the program since its inception.

Each year, the luncheon has a featured speaker, an Episcopal graduate who received financial aid while attending the school. This year, Jerome Allen ’91 delivered a terrific message. Allen went on to earn his degree at the University of Pennsylvania where he also starred in basketball, and he later played in the NBA and overseas. He is now the head coach of the men’s basketball team at Penn.

Allen spoke with humility about the opportunity to come to EA, about the support he received while here, the emphasis on character development and how he now endeavors to teach character to his own players. He told the story about his mother cleaning hotel rooms in Philadelphia and about Jerome Allen ’91 Walter Buckley III ’78 how amazed he was that a complete stranger, an EA donor, would care enough to help give him the opportunity to attend Episcopal. He described the doors that the donor’s generosity opened for him, Dear EA Community how the gift he received is still paying dividends for all Members, his family, and he congratOn behalf of the EAPA Executive ulated our benefactors for Committee and the General Board opening so many doors for Members, I want to share the results our current scholars. of our successful fundraising activities Following Allen’s heartthis year with the entire EA community. felt and uplifting speech, Please accept my sincere thanks to all Walter Buckley III ’78, the of you that played such a significant vice chair of the Board of role in the financial success of our Trustees, announced that endeavors. Participation by parents, the board has created a school administration, and faculty, and new named scholarship in staff contributed to making it possible Ham Clark’s honor. The for EAPA to raise over $300,000, money first Clark scholars will be that directly benefits the gift of an named during the 2013-14 invaluable education for our students. academic year and will atEAPA President Susan Jen Reder and Treasurer Linda Kinzig presented the EAPA Wish List Allocation check to Head of tend the Scholars Luncheon Thank you for your generosity, School Ham Clark at the annual EAPA Luncheon held on May next spring.

23, 2013.

Jen Reder, 2012-13 EAPA President

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Laurie Smith to Take Over As Girls Cross Country Coach

From EA to Team USA Margaux Paolino ’16 (field hockey), Meredith Manley ’14 (soccer),

and Nick Mead ’13 (crew)—have all had the distinct honor of donning Team U.S.A. jerseys in 2013.

“I am exceedingly proud to have three Episcopal Academy athletes represent the United States in international events,” said Director of Athletics Regina Buggy. “There is no greater honor as an athlete than representing your country and we are so excited that Marguax, Meredith and Nick were chosen to do so.”

Paolino was the youngest member of the U.S team—a squad comprised of Senior and Junior U.S. National Women’s Indoor athletes—who competed in a series of friendlies against competitors from Argentina, Argentina U19 and Uruguay back on March 21-28. Despite her youth, Paolino was one of the offensive mainstays for the U.S. team, scoring five goals over the half-dozen games in Buenos Aires.

Manley, who earned All-Delco and All-Inter-Ac honors for her stellar allaround play for The Episcopal Academy’s 2012 Inter-Ac championship team, tested her skills on the world stage as a member of United States girls soccer team in the 19th World Maccabiah Games in Israel, the third largest international sporting event in the world.

“This is an extremely high honor and I am so proud of her,” says EA girls soccer coach Celeste Melanson. “Meredith will also be one of our captains on the varsity soccer team and is a fantastic member of the EA community.”

Mead, who will be heading to Princeton University in the fall, capped off his brilliant high school career by making the U.S. Junior National Rowing Team.

Mead rowed for Team USA in Lithuania August 7-11.

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Laurie Smith, Hon. will take

over as our head girls varsity cross country coach. Laurie has coached a variety of Middle School sports in the past including: field hockey, basketball, and softball.

Over the past several years, she has found her passion in coaching cross country and track.

Smith was the assistant varsity cross country coach for four years under Tim Gavin and assistant varsity indoor track coach for one year. She is in her seventh season as the head coach of the Middle School track team. Smith enjoyed a successful athletic career in high school and then at Amherst College, where she played defense on the field hockey team and earned All-NESCAC honors as a senior.

“Our girls cross country team will benefit from her prior playing and coaching experiences,” said Episcopal Academy’s Director of Athletics Regina Buggy. “A dedicated teacher, counselor, and coach, Smith will be an asset to our girls cross country program.”

Max Kelly ’06 Named EA’s Boys Varsity Water Polo Coach Former two-time

All-Inter-Ac water polo goalie for The Episcopal Academy before going to star at Occidental College in Los Angeles, CA, Max Kelly ’06 has been named the head water polo coach at Episcopal.

“As a former EA water polo player who excelled in his sport in college at Occidental, we are fortunate that Max had returned to the East Coast to share his knowledge and passion for the sport of water polo with EA student-athletes,” said Episcopal Academy’s Director of Athletics Regina Buggy. “Max is an in-house teacher here at EA who has had good experience as a coach and he is excited to move the program forward.”

Kelly is hoping to make as big a splash as EA’s head coach as he did in the water for the Churchmen. Kelly started in goal for three seasons (2003-05), was named all-league in 20042005 and earned Inter-Ac Most Valuable Player honors in 2005.

“I am excited to return to the EA water polo program as the boys varsity head coach,” says Kelly. “EA is where discovered

my passion for the sport; it helped shape my own development as a student-athlete and individual. This is a dream come true for me to be a teacher, mentor, and now head coach at my alma mater. I am confident that we will have a great season, building on the traditions of EA pride and excellence.”

Kelly is a key part of EA’s fine tradition in the sport. After leaving EA as a well-decorated athlete, Kelly attended Occidental College, where he started in goal from 2006-09 and earned Division III honorable mention All-American honors in 2006. He still holds Occidental’s school record for most saves in a game (21 saves vs. Claremont on November 1, 2008).

After his collegiate playing career ended, Kelly began coaching the sport he loves. He has served as the assistant coach at his alma mater since 2010 and has also been a coach for the Episcopal Academy Aquatic Club (EAAC) for the past three years (2010-12). Kelly has also been an assistant coach for the boys and girls team since 2012.

He was the varsity head water polo coach for the boys and girls swim team since 2012. That season, Penn Charter’s boys team won the Inter-Ac title and the girls team was undefeated in Inter-Ac play and finished second at Eastern Prep Championships.

A 2010 graduate of Occidental College, Kelly holds a degree in Diplomacy and World Affairs and will teach history at The Episcopal Academy’s Middle and Upper Schools.

Awards Aplenty for Kevin Gayhardt ’13 Following a season in which he worked tirelessly to frustrate some

of the area’s top scorers, Kevin Gayhardt ’13 received a slew of postseason accolades.

The 6-foot-4, 215-pound shutdown defender was an All-Eastern Pennsylvania Lacrosse Coaches Association and U.S. Lacrosse All-American. The University of Pennsylvania-bound Gayhardt was one of three EA players to earn 2013 All-American honors, along with teammates Tyler Chambers ’13 (Penn State signee) and Trupert Ortlieb (Providence College).

Gayhardt also earned Player of the Year honors from the Delaware County Daily Times and was named the Inter-Ac’s Co-Most Important Player (along with Malvern Prep midfielder Joe Carlini). In addition, he earned the Bo and Kelly Ryan Scholar-Athlete Award.

The avalanche of awards was certainly justified as Gayhardt collected 78 ground balls and caused 27 turnovers for the 15-5 Churchmen in 2013 and went 14 games in a row without allowing a one-on-one goal. He was the first EA boy to be chosen to play in the Under Armour All-American game (Current Duke star Taylor Trimble ’11 was the first EA girl—and first EA student-athlete ever—to be selected to play in the game).

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Faculty and Staff Honored for Leadership and Service The Episcopal Academy faculty and staff

gathered in the Competition Gym on June 5 for the yearend dinner. The dinner and awards ceremony celebrated the achievements and service of EA’s faculty and staff.

Ham Clark, the Greville Haslam Head of School who will leave EA at the end of the month to become the Head of School at the American Community School in Beirut, emceed the event. Clark was presented an engraved glass seal by Academic Dean Cathy Hall and a wooden team bench with the school shield on it, made by EA’s Manager of Maintenance Steve Muir, Hon. Four retiring faculty members—Marguerite DeSanctis,Hon., Peggy Donnard, Lee Pearcy, Hon., and Bill McArdle, Hon.—were recognized for their many years of outstanding service to EA. Mark Luff, Hon. received the Michael F. Mayock Distinguished Teacher-Coach Award, while Len Haley, Hon. was honored by Clark for his many years of community service.

In addition, four major faculty awards—the Class of 1940 Award, the Brian Edward Breskman ’06 Memorial Award, the Bishop William White Award, and the new Hirtle Innovation Prize—were presented that night. The winners are listed below, along with a brief description of each award.

Class of 1940 Award 2013 winners: Anna McDermott and Teddy Mathisen ’02 Description and purpose of the award: This award honors two teachers who have devoted their lives to the Academy.

The two awards are given to members of the Episcopal Academy faculty who, in the opinion of their colleagues, have made a significant impact on Academy students and stimulated students’ interest in academics, athletics, and student activities. The Class of 1940 Award is designed to encourage a sense of dedication to the teaching profession, thereby supporting the Academy’s objective to attract and retain highly qualified teachers.

presented each year at the final faculty party to one or more promising members of the faculty who have demonstrated excellence.

Bishop William White Award 2013 winners: Lee Billmyer, Hon. Description and purpose of the award: The Bishop William White Award is presented to “an effective and dedicated member of the faculty whose influence on the education and growth of Academy students extends beyond the classroom subject. Contributions to the community-at-large that have enhanced the reputation of that teacher and the Academy may also be considered. Any member of the faculty, who has completed three school years of service on the faculty, prior to the school year in which the Award is given, is eligible for the Award.”

Hirtle Innovation Prize 2013 winners: Silvia Davis, Brendan FitzPatrick, Hon., Nancy Haas, Hon., and Jeremy Hark Description and purpose of the award: Established in 2012 by the Hirtle family, the purpose of this prize is to recognize a faculty member or group of faculty who exemplifies best practices in innovative teaching and who is driven to create more innovative curricula and programming. This prize is geared to encourage a dynamic educational environment in which students thrive and the quality of the learning experience constantly grows. The prize, a cash stipend, will be awarded to teachers who have demonstrated excellence in innovation.

Brian Edward Breskman ’06 Memorial Award 2013 winners: Sarah Baker ’01 and Kelley Bethoney Description and purpose of the award: Established in 2007 in memory of Brian Edward Breskman’06, this fund pays tribute to the many outstanding teachers, coaches and mentors at The Episcopal Academy who impacted Brian’s life. Income from this endowed fund is intended to supplement a starting teacher salary. Geared to encourage talented academicians to remain in the profession as they continue to gain experience, this fund will focus primarily on young teachers who meet certain professional and financial criteria determined by the Head of School and Dean of Faculty. Stipends will be

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The Hirtle Award winners for their innovative fourth grade Egypt project are: (l to r) Brendan FitzPatrick, Nancy Haas, Jeremy Hark, and Silvia Davis.

Maggie Powers, Lower School Technology Coordinator, entered a contest sponsored by Google and won a “Google Glass,” an experimental device, worn like a pair of glasses, equipped with video camera, sound recorder, wifi, bluetooth, and cellular communication abilities so that where ever you go and whatever you are doing you can both transmit and receive information.

Maggie’s winning proposal to Google was expressed in a tweet, per Google’s instructions: “#ifihadglass I’d capture moments of discovery & learning each day w/my young students& help others see the world through their eyes #earlyed.” Google will not be releasing the product to consumers until 2014.

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A number of faculty and staff members were also honored for their years of dedicated service to the Academy. The following 13 people were recognized for their 10 years of service at EA with a framed certificate and the new designation as honorary alumni: Kris Aldridge, Mandie Banks, Buffy Brown, Kempley Bryant, Lisa Fox, Annelle Fratini, Carolyn Jaeger, Bruce Konopka, Matt Lake, Kathleen McCullough, Gretchen Simon, Geoff Wagg, and Elizabeth Welch.

Seven people will have their names added to the 20-year plaque next to the faculty room in the Crawford Campus Center. The newest members of the 20-year club are Julie Choi, Hon., Ellen Milewski, Hon., Steve Muir, Hon., Kristen Powell, Hon., Jennifer Rea, Hon., John Spofford’74, and Virginia Spofford, Hon. Engraved bibles were presented to the four newest members of EA’s 25 years of service club: Tim Gavin, Hon., Roberta Howlin, Hon., Tom Kossuth, Hon., and Phyllis Martin, Hon.

Alex Pearson, Hon., Director of Technology, is serving as an online mentor in Harvard’s classic humanities course, “The Ancient Greek Hero”, the first humanities course offered as a MOOC—“Massive Open Online Course”—through edX, a collaborative online course platform sponsored by Harvard and M.I.T. Alex took the course as an undergraduate over thirty years ago and went on to receive a Masters degree in Ancient Greek and Latin literature. He taught Latin and Greek for ten years before shifting his attention to the similarly arcane and engaging world of technology.

The edX version of the course is taught by Greg Nagy, the same professor who taught it during Alex’s undergraduate years.

New Manager of Campus Safety Hired Edward Jones ’87, President of the Alumni Society, presented honorary alumni certificates to: (l to r) Bruce Konopka, Betsy Welch, Geoff Wagg, Gretchen Simon, Kathy McCullough, Kris Aldridge, Kempley Bryant, Lisa Fox, Mandie Banks, Carolyn Jaeger, and Matt Lake. Missing: Annelle Fratini and Buffy Brown.

Joseph Shanahan has been hired as the new Manager of Campus Safety at The Episcopal Academy.

Prior to his August arrival at EA, Shanahan was a member of the New Jersey state police for 25 years, serving most recently as a Troop Commander for Field Operations of the New Jersey state police. In that role, he oversaw 340 enlisted troopers and is responsible for police coverage for 20 communities in seven counties in central New Jersey.

He also oversaw fixed-site security for the State Capital Complex, The College of New Jersey, Great Adventure, Wild Safari, N.J. State Aquarium, and Oyster Creek Nuclear Facility.

Previously, he served as a Field Training Officer and had supervisory oversight for School Resource Officers assigned to educational facilities throughout the state.

In that capacity, he was responsible for development and execution of active shooter training exercises and reviewing emergency action plans.

New 25-year members are: (l to r) Phyllis Martin, Hon., Tim Gavin, Hon., Tom Kossuth, Hon, and Bert Howlin, Hon.

Shanahan will be responsible for reacting to and implementing the findings of the 2013 campus security audit. He is a Delaware County native who holds a bachelors degree from Rutgers and a masters from Seton Hall.

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OnCampus

10 EA Students Are National Merit Finalists In 2003, Episcopal

Academy had 10 students named National Merit finalists, the highest number of finalists at any Philadelphia area independent school.

The finalists were Jameson Achuff, Karen Christianson, Julia Fay, Rohan Gulati, Christian Humann, Erin McCarthy, Alexander Rice, Daniel Schlaff, Stacey Sloate, and Anthony Thai. Of Episcopal’s finalists, Karen Christianson was selected as a winner of the National Merit Astra Zeneca Pharmaceutical Scholarship.

EA Announces New Cum Laude Members The following 12 students

were inducted into Episcopal Academy’s Cum Laude chapter: Jake Aronchick, Luke Brooman, Peter Cusack, Kaitlyn DiMarco, Kristen Hinckley, Catharine Hopkins, Claire Kneizys, Kathleen Larkin, Curran Reilly, Rachel Repke, Daniel Schlaff, and Alix Vadot. They join 13 students installed in the fall of 2012.

The society, founded in 1906, is an organization devoted to the recognition of superior scholarship while simultaneously striving to encourage qualities of justice and honor. Chapters are located in the United States, Canada, England, France, Spain, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. Episcopal’s chapter was founded in 1952.

Twenty percent of a chapter’s senior class may be elected to membership. No more than 10 percent may be elected to membership at the conclusion of junior year. Election is based on the student’s cumulative standing commencing with the sophomore year at Episcopal. Induction takes place during the Fall Honors Chapel Service. Additional students may be elected after spring semester examinations in the senior year.

Election is based on the student’s cumulative standing commencing with the junior year at Episcopal. Induction takes place during the final chapel service of the school year.

Pictured are: (l to r): in front, Anthony Thai, Rohan Gulati, Julia Fay, and Stacey Sloate and, in back, Christian Humann, Alexander Rice, Jameson Achuff, Karen Christianson, and Erin McCarthy.

Missing from photo: Danial Schlaff. All are Class of 2013.

The 2012-13 Cum Laude inductees are: (l to r) in front, Julia Fay, Kathleen Larkin, Shreya Reddy, Claire Kneizys, Rohan Gulati, Katherine Wu, Catharine Hopkins, Anthony Thai, Stacey Sloate, and Rachel Repke; and in back, Matthew Vegari, Karen Christianson, Curran Reilly, Mary Catherine Curran, Kristen Hinckley, Luke Brooman, Peter Cusack, Christian Humann, Anna Ochsner, Daniel Schlaff, James Achuff, and Jake Aronchick. Missing are: Christina Halcovich, Kaitlyn DiMarco, and Alix Vadot. All are Class of 2013.

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New Vestry Members Announced The newly elected vestry

members are: from III Form, Scott McConnell and Kendra Williams and from IV Form, Christy Palazzese and Chris Redden. They join Timothy Freese, Jack Keffer, Deirdre Meaney, Kristina Zahan, Tara Boyle, and Maria Kilcullen. Timothy Freese and Jack Keffer will be sharing the Senior Warden and Accounting Warden duties next year. After consultation with members with the different units of the school, the 2013-2014 Chapel theme is “Be Not Afraid.”

Trial By Fire The Episcopal Academy’s Mock Trial Team

made history this past spring by winning the Southeastern Pennsylvania Regional title with a decisive 7-1 victory over the Chester County champion Plumstead Christian School on March 5. The Best Attorney Award in the Southeastern PA title-winning match was given to Rohan Gulati and Best Witness Award to Shreya Reddy.

The impressive victory over Plumstead Christian School meant that EA headed to Harrisburg, PA. last March 22-23 to compete for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Championship.

EA’s Mock Trial Club meets to prepare for and participate in the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division Statewide Mock Trial Competition, acting the parts of attorneys and witnesses. The club travels to Delaware County Courthouse in Media to compete with other high school teams before a Court of Common Pleas judge where a jury’s decision results in victory or defeat.

The 2013-14 Vestry members are: (l to r) in front, Tara Boyle, Kristina Zahan, Deirdre Meaney, Kendra Williams, and Christy Palazzese; and in back, Chris Redden, Timothy Freese, Jack Keffer and Scott McConnell. Missing from photo: Maria Kilcullen.

Michelle’s Miles to Be Run On October 6 Michelle’s Miles has grown into so much more than a 5-K race during its first five years of existence.

Pictured are: (l to r) Katie O’Reilly ’14, Rohan Rajagopalan ’14, Greville Haslam Head of School Ham Clark, Catie Hopkins ’13, Shreya Reddy ’13, Matt London ’13, and Rohan Gulati ’13.

It’s become an annual celebration of the life of Michelle Deasey, a talented and dedicated Episcopal Academy third grader who unexpectedly passed away in late 2007. It’s a chance for family, friends, former classmates and teachers to gather together and remember Michelle’s infectious spirit, sportsmanship, grace, and courage.

The races begin at 9 a.m. on October 6 at the E. Newbold Smith ’44 Field. A portion of the race proceeds will be directed to the Michelle Deasey ’17 Memorial Scholarship Fund, while the rest of the proceeds support the Episcopal Academy Parents’ Association (EAPA).

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Haiti Trip Is Win-Win Situation Eight students—Carine Megerian ’14, Najah Majors

’13, Chelsea Lowe ’13, Brianna Belo ’14, Carolyn Bell ’16, Julie Lieungh ’14, Chester Thai ’14, and Connor Martin ’14—and two staff, Fr. Tim Gavin and Community Outreach Coordinator Becky Brinks, went to St. Marc’s, Haiti to strengthen the partnership between St. Marc’s School and The Episcopal Academy. The EA students taught the children different American games, helped complete the initial feasibility study for the Water Project, presented an art activity, and offered gifts to the students of St. Marc’s School. Our students learned from their Haitian counterparts that true joy doesn’t come from material wealth but from community and human relationships.

Middle School Model UN/PeaceJam Team Negotiates NYC! As part of their winter elective class taught by

Mrs. Susan Cannon (Hon.), globally-minded Middle School Model UN/PeaceJam students researched international peacemakers and created a service project in our school. For two weeks, from Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday to St. Valentine’s Day, they added a portrait they created to a bulletin board installation of Everyday Peacemakers in the Lower School lobby, hoping to inspire students and teachers.

Next they took on global challenges. These students participated from April 11-13 in Manhattan at the 8th Annual International Middle School Model UN Conference, touring the United Nations and New York City, negotiating with 1500 fellow delegates, and meeting students from as far away as Ghana, Italy, Mexico, and Turkey.

Representing the country Bulgaria, they participated as delegates to the following committees, working to provide equal access to medication, safety for women and children, secure global trade, and sustainable tourism.

Pictured are Chester Thai, Najah Majors, Chelsea Lowe, Brianna Belo, Carine Megerian, Julie Lieungh, Carolyn Bell, and Connor Martin.

World Health Organization Grace Kaufhold ’18 and Neha Mukherjee ’18 United Nations Children’s Fund Bobby Frazier ’17 and Daisy Learnard ’18 International Maritime Organization Jonathan Simen ’18 United Nations World Tourism Organization Felicia Zhu ’18 and Joshua Wang ’18 Bobby Frazier and Daisy Learnard earned verbal commendations in their committee for their creative and effective diplomacy, and all students learned how to become active citizens in their local and global communities.

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New Horizons

The Write Stuff

Horizons at The Episcopal

A positive pen-pal experience began with Sarah

Academy, run by EA Lower School teacher Rowena Lesher, provides a safe and enriching, tuition-free, six-week summer program for students with limited access from the city of Philadelphia. The purpose of the program is to transform lives by cultivating intellect, strengthening self-confidence, ensuring an enthusiasm for life-long learning and by broadening the notion of what is possible to achieve for Philadelphia’s lower-income public school students and families.

While The Episcopal Academy is the host school, all of the direct costs for Horizons at EA are funded through private donations from individuals, foundations and corporations.

Episcopal supports the program with in-kind donations of facility use, insurance costs, and some administrative support.

There is no cost to students. Only with the financial support of loyal partners can we build and sustain this transformational program.

The Episcopal Academy partnered with Young Scholars Frederick Douglass Charter School in the first summer of operation. Thirty rising Kindergarten and first-grade students have enrolled in the six-week program this inaugural summer.

An additional grade level will be added in each successive summer, eventually serving students in Kindergarten through 8th grade.

Having begun the program on June 17, 2013, the students spend at least 2.5 hours of the day engaged in Language Arts and Math, have daily swim lessons in the Athletic Center, and are engaged in various forms of enrichment classes such as art, garden education, tennis, science, animal friendship, and Zumba.

Baker’s junior American Literature class and Ginny Spofford’s first-grade class exchanging letters and pictures throughout the spring. They met for the first time this past May and enjoyed writing a story and drawing pictures together. The students formed positive relationships with each other and the hope is that this program continues during the 2013-2014 school year.

Top: Lily Hendrickson with Taryn Gallagher.

Brady Stallkamp is sitting next to her.

Middle: Isabella Brunetti with Silicia Lomax Caitlin Biddle with Namia Gallegos

Left: Caitlin Biddle with Namia Gallegos

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EA Captures Three Cappies The Episcopal Academy’s 2013 production

of The Love of Three Oranges earned three Cappies at the Eighth Annual Greater Philadelphia Cappie Awards at the Upper Darby High School Performing Arts Center back on May 5. Episcopal Academy won for Best Sound Design, with the crew of Brady MacManus ’15, Melina Walling ’16 and Sophie Walker ’15; Best Featured Actress in a Play by Margaret LeBoeuf ’13; and Best Lead Actress in a Play by Maria Burke ’14. The production received nine nominations in all.

In addition to the three winners, additional nominations were: James Costalas ’13 (senior male critic); Rebekah Achuff ’16, Declan Meaney ’15, and Melina Walling ’16 (prop design); Megan Kilcullen ’13 (comic actress); Connor Boyle ’13 (comic actor); Joanie Hofmeyr ’14 (supporting actress); and The Love of Three Oranges (best play). Episcopal was one of two schools that shared honors for the most 2013 Cappie awards (three). The Cappies is a national high school organization started to honor student casts, crews, and critics.

Pictured clocwise top to bottom: Maria Burke ’14 and Megan Kilcullen ’13 in a scene from The Love of Three Oranges.

The Three Oranges Next Next Bethany Bryant ’15 and

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“The Art We Sleep With” “The Art We Sleep With”

was a gallery show, curated by Audrey Regillo ’13 and Lauren Murray ’13, on display from Wednesday, May 22-31, in the Crawford Campus Gallery. Comprised of personal artwork and decor owned by members of The Episcopal Academy Class of 2013, the wide range of medium and subjects displayed the diverse style and personality of the graduating class. It gave insight into the mystery of teenagers’ private lives and interests through their choices of decor in their bedrooms. Each piece had a special meaning and importance to an individual, but together as a whole they told a larger story. “The Art We Sleep With” was a coming-of-age story of how students hold on to memories of the past while reaching for the future. Regillo and Murray believed that this exhibition encouraged students to reflect on their own personal style as they prepare to leave for college. The show united the Class of 2013 together before each member embarked on a new adventure. Regillo and Murray were featured in a June 21 Philadelphia Inquirer article (http:// articles.philly.com/2013-06-21/news/40121164_1_jonas-brothers-eiffeltower-teens) written by current EA parent Lini S. Kadaba.

Thoroughly Modern Millie Plays to Rave Reviews This year’s Upper School musical

Thoroughly Modern Millie danced onto Episcopal’s Crawford Campus Mainstage in early May. This high-spirited, Jazz Age musical took Broadway by storm, winning the Tony Award for best musical. It’s Manhattan 1922 and young Millie Dillmount, played by Caroline Hunter ’14, has just moved to the city in search of a new life for herself at a time when women were entering the workforce and the rules of love and social behavior were changing forever.

Filled with frisky flappers, dashing leading men, and a villainess audiences love to hate, EA’s version of Thoroughly Modern Millie was a resounding success

Pictured Millie cast members below are: (l to r) in front, Taylor Gary ’15, Megan Kilcullen ’13, Meredith McCarthy ’14, and Leah Marchant ’16; and in back, Bethany Bryant ’15, Jon Barr ’14, James Costalas ’13, Joanie Hofmeyr ’14, Jenna Cooley ’16, Sean Doyle ’14, Caroline Hunter ’14, Will Patterson ’16, Alex Greene ’14 (hidden), Kayla Coleman ’14, Paige Dunlap ’14, Katie Larkin ’13, and Barbara Maritsis ’15.

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Honorary Alumni Dick and Bunny Borkowski have moved to Cary, NC, although they return to the area periodically to visit Bunny’s 103-year-old mother who is living independently. Dick just played Teddy Roosevelt in a production of Arsenic and Old Lace and had a blast.

1933 Class Agent: Bart Linvill Please send us your news and notes!

Bart Linvill is in great spirits and was sorry he couldn’t make his 80th Reunion.

Save the Date 75th Reunion May 2 & 3, 2014 1940 Class Agent: Jack Hopkins Please send us your news and notes!

1941 Class Agent Needed Please send us your news and notes!

1942 Class Agent: Woody Woodring Please send us your news and notes!

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Class Agent Needed Please send us your news and notes!

Class Agent: Joe Gordon Please send us your news and notes!

Save the Date 80th Reunion May 2 & 3, 2014

Class of ’43 Alumni Reunion Weekend Wrap-Up May 3 & 4, 2013, 70th Reunion

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represented the Class of 1943 at their 70th Reunion. Bill still practices medicine every day, represents the Pennsylvania Medical Society at AMA meetings, and continues to serve on the trophy committee for the Devon Horse Show. Bill plans to spend August in New Hampshire.

Chick enjoyed reunion events with his daughter, Middle School science teacher Roberta Howlin. Among those missing from the 70th were Joe Gordon due to a nasty bout of bronchitis from which he has fully recovered; Malcolm Coates, who is still very involved with his special interests: a tuition-free middle school for low-income girls in Lawrence, MA, and an ABC project (A Better Chance), which brings inner-city boys to Masconomet High School in Topsfield, MA; and Don Gordon, who now lives with a daughter in Colorado.

Class Agent Needed Please send us your news and notes!

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1937 Class Agent Needed Please send us your news and notes!

1938 Class Agent Needed Please send us your news and notes!

Frank Nagle and his lovely wife, Alvina, held down the fort for the Class of ’38 at their 75th Reunion.

1939 Class Agent: Heyward Wharton Please send us your news and notes!

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take a moment to send us information for the next issue of Connections. We love to hear from you, and we are all interested in what you are doing with your life. Please send information (including photos) to Nancy Taylor, Hon., Alumni Secretary, at taylor@episcopalacademy.org or Bruce Konopka, Director of Alumni, at bkonopka@episcopalacademy.org.

To reach the Alumni Office, please call 484-424-1784.

1944 Class Agent: Doug Raymond

Save the Date 70th Reunion May 2 & 3, 2014

Bill Lander and Chick Hitschler

Episcopal second-grade classes and aftercare students made cards for the residents of Highgate at Paoli Pointe.

In the audience were Dick Lander and Mrs. Genevieve Muir, widow of Mr. John B. Muir, Hon. teacher at Episcopal from 1961 to 1987. He established the Muir Arts Foundation and was a parent of two sons who graduated from Episcopal.

1945 Class Agent Needed Please send us your news and notes!

1946 Class Agent: Winkie Bennett Class of ’46 Classnotes by Winkie Bennett: “David Forrest is hoping for his first great-grandchild. Tom Faison participated in recent Duke Hospital study covering the effect of exercise on aging. I am sure he excelled. Wild man Sandy Greer enjoyed ice and snow skiing on nearby golf course this winter. Price Heppe is bowling and playing tennis, winter and summer.

Condolences to the families of classmates who died in the past year: Diehl Mateer, Chuck Dennis, and Andy Warren.”

Frank Bowker writes: “My granddaughter, Melanie Kaczinski, graduated from Marquette on May 18.

She is entered in a graduate program to get a master’s degree and become a doctor’s assistant. This will help to alleviate the shortage of doctors that is expected to become serious with the implementation of the new health care plan.”

Don Cooper reports: “A new adventure for me last summer 2012, a week on a Wyoming dude ranch with family, where I became the oldest first-time dude on record. Here is the photo proof. I am in the white hat, second from the right, with other family

members, including my wife, Paula, in the black hat and shirt. Such a good time, we plan to do it again this year.

I also spent a day in Tubac, AZ, with classmate Sandy Greer and wife, Dotty, my only recent contacts with ’46 other than my occasional and always enjoyable phone chats with Winky Bennett.”

Wally Bortz ran in this year’s Boston Marathon and was about 19 miles into the race when the blast occurred. They stopped the race, and family along the course took him in and got him back to his hotel. Everyone is doing well, but it was an unforgettable experience.

Roger Whiteman and his wife, Mary, went to St. Martin’s Episcopal Church in Rosemont to see Dick Henderson’s icon of St. John, which he created and is hung in the church. He also saw some other works of Henderson while there. He does not recall him doing any artwork while at Episcopal.

Lee Haslam, Dick Chew, and John Montgomery were the art guys. Lee is now a great-grandfather.

1948 Ted Trump writes: “Sue and I just celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary this past April 27. See our pictures ‘then’ and ‘now.’ I had an usher named Bob Kane along with another usher John Loder, Haverford College ’53 classmate, in attendance.

We now have 15 years living in retirement on Cape Cod, having moved from our 34 working years in Bedford, NY, along with raising two neat boys, one now in CA and the other on the Big Island of HI.”

1947 Class Agent: Brooks Keffer

Class Agent: Dick Schneider

Class of ’48 Alumni Reunion Weekend Wrap-Up May 3 & 4, 2013, 65th Reunion Twelve members of the Class of 1948 plus twelve spouses and special friends—a total of 24—were on hand for our 65th Reunion held on May 3-4, 2013. The “distance” champions were Howard Wright, Henry Chapman, and John Bryant, who traveled, respectively, from Southport, ME; Washington, ME; and Cohasset, MA. It was very special that Howard brought with him his lively 15-year-old granddaughter Elizabeth. It was also noteworthy that in attendance were three first-cousin members of the class: Jack Arndt, Henry Chapman, and Art Judson.

On Friday afternoon, to kick off the Reunion, we gathered for cocktails at Dick and Peggy Schneider’s home in Gladwyne. Although it had been five years since we had been together, we instantly renewed our friendships as if we had never parted, recalled old times, and just “hung out.” As a

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ClassNotes particular treat, we shared lobster rolls that Howard created with fresh lobster that he had purchased at the dock in Southport as he was leaving Maine. On Saturday, we found ourselves together again, this time at the new Episcopal campus in Newtown Square. After an opportunity to look over the campus and sample the astounding variety of planned activities including the school play, Thoroughly Modern Millie (it received rave reviews), many attended the Alumni Chapel Service, and then everyone gathered at the Dixon Athletic Center for the All-Alumni Cocktail Party and Reception followed by the Class Reunion Dinners. We shared a special dining room with the Classes of 1938 and 1943. The dinner was absolutely marvelous. At the conclusion of the dinner, a number of class members offered nostalgic and engaging recollections of the times we had spent together at Episcopal that have been so significant to us during the past 65 years. Unexpectedly, Howard Wright read an amusing poem his mother had written at the time of our 40th Reunion, recalling the all-night party that took place in 1948 following our graduation, and Henry Chapman, also unexpectedly, offered a moving poem commenting on the passage of time and life: Do Not Stand At My Grave and Weep, by Mary Elizabeth Frye. It concludes: “Do not stand at my grave and cry. I am not there. I did not die.” Both poems may be found in the booklet that Episcopal will be sending to the class containing responses to the Class of 1948 Reunion Questionnaire. Members of the Class of 1948 who attended the Reunion were: Jack Arndt, Bob Atkinson, John Bryant, John Cable, Henry Chapman, Bill Frame, Fred Jones, John Rorer, Dick Schneider, Jim Stull, and Howard Wright.

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Howie Wright gave his lighthouse talk to the second grade on the Friday of Alumni Weekend, May 3. He was here for his 65th Reunion. Howie has been appointed by Maine Governor Paul LePage to the Federally-mandated IDEA Advisory Panel Part B. IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) governs how special education and relative services are provided to school-age children with disabilities.

Previously, Howie served on the former Maine Advisory Council on the Education of Children with Disabilities.

and in near original condition, was a step back in history. Down the road, Middleton Place, dating from 1675, with its gorgeous landscaped gardens, provided more interesting history, including family furniture, silver, china, books, documents, and portraits by Benjamin West and Thomas Sully.

Finally, in Philadelphia, we stayed at the Inn at the Union League where we enjoyed a perfect family dinner at the best restaurant in the city. Dick and Peggy Schneider ’48 took us to the new Barnes Foundation and the Philadelphia Art Museum. The latter, as always, was a treasure. In June, we will be in London for a few days on the way to Berlin for a mini-reunion.”

1949 Class Agents: Jim Blatchford and Stan Miller

Save the Date 65th Reunion May 2 & 3, 2014 Bob Martin reports: “In March, Joanna and I were in Washington for a few days to catch up with Foreign Service friends. Next was Charleston, SC, where we visited the Edmondston-Alston House on the Battery with its magnificent views of Charleston Harbor, the HeywardWashington House nearby with the priceless Holmes Bookcase from 1770, and a number of other interesting houses and lovely gardens, one of which featured two ancient Bulldogs, Agatha and Cedric, who ruled the roost. Outside of town, Drayton Hall, dating from the early 1700s, intact

John Wilbraham reports from York, England: “In a nutshell: In the past few years, we have had weddings, babies, and deaths. Lala and I have eight grandchildren, two of which, 16-yearold twin girls, live in Washington, DC. Their father, my eldest son Alex, is a lawyer. The youngest grandchild is two months old and lives in Russia where my son Rupert is with his Russian wife.

As I shall be 82 in June, I am largely retired but keep in touch with the film and theatre world. We recently went to London for the Sundance Festival. This

Missed an issue of Connections? is the second time Robert Redford has brought the festival to London. We continue to love our rescue dogs as you can see by the photograph.” (choose one dog photo of two in addition to wife photo)

1950 Class Agent: John Rettew Please send us your news and notes!

1951 Class Agent Needed

Jim Wheatley writes: “This past St. Patrick’s Day, Bob and Lois Lowry came through Albuquerque on their way back home from California, and we went off together to an Irish Pub and put down a few Guinness’s together. They stayed over, and we had a nice visit. My grandson is in the Navy and just completed advanced electronics training. He will be based in Norfolk, VA, and has been assigned to a destroyer. I do not get much of an opportunity to see classmates out here as I have not induced anyone to move to New Mexico. Beautiful state but we do need rain.”

1952 Class Agent: Craig TenBroeck

Jim and Pat Siegel reported that they visited Bob and Joanne Gerhardt in their wonderful home in the Villages, Florida. Bob is busy with his portrait painting, which Jim said was exceptional. Bob reported that Barclay and Muriel Beahm had also visited them and both were in good health and enjoying their winter vacation in Florida.

Barry Plotts recently visited Florida to attend the graduation of his grandson from the University of Florida.

Craig TenBroeck writes; “My wife, Jill, and I are planning a trip through the Great Lakes in July. We will fly to Chicago and board the Yorktown. We will cruise Lake Michigan to Saugatuck, Charlevoix, and Mackinac Island before switching to Lake Huron and Lake Erie.

Then we sail to Cleveland, go through the Welland Canal to Lake Ontario, and disembark in Toronto where we hope to meet my son-in-law’s parents before flying home to Pennsylvania.”

1953 Class Agent: Pete Duncan

Class of ’53 Alumni Reunion Weekend Wrap-Up, May 3 & 4, 2013 60th Reunion Another Episcopal Academy Alumni Weekend is now well into history. It was a great event with brilliant days.

My name is Pete Duncan, and I’m the Class Agent for the Class of 1953.

With the great help of Carolyn Jaeger, our class had a healthy turnout. It was our 60th anniversary. A number of classmates, some with spouses, took advantage of the many things available. For those who had not yet seen the new “EA” there were campus tours. The chapel was open, and it was easy to notice that this chapel was a far cry from the chapel that we left behind in Merion. Do you remember?

We had chapel every day. Currently chapel here is every other day. (I could swear I heard Greville Haslam rumble.) I spend a lot of time at EA, and I love the “life” of the place. The children in Miss Tierney’s third-grade class had sent out individual letters to folks like us hoping that some of us out here would send a letter back to the youngsters. Bill Crockett and

Past issues of Connections are available for viewing on the Academy’s Web site at www.episcopalacademy.org.

I both sent letters back. Bill’s goal: He wanted to see the youngster who wrote to him. I also wanted to see the “author” of my letter. Her name is Cecilia. Bill found his “author,” and Miss Tierney pointed out Cecilia to me. She spotted me and ran over. It started a wonderful time together as we looked at what seemed to be hundreds of paintings as we walked on with others through the hallway. Then Cecilia stopped. She pointed to a painting with pride. It was her painting. It was certainly worthy of congratulations from me. She was so proud of her work. The time with Cecelia was a high point in my Alumni Weekend.

Another special high point, 50 years ago, our classmates met in the old chapel on the Merion campus for a brief service. It gave us the opportunity to remember any classmate no longer with us. In our new chapel, that tradition continues. This year it was the Class of ’63 who moved in together. There was the beautiful organ and singing but then the same memory time, remembering those no longer with them. Remembering what it meant to me, I sat apart from them and listened. They had a number of classmates who were gone. Each one was remembered. It’s not a sad thing.

One after another they’ll remember some of the crazy or wonderful things that a classmate did. For the most part there were many smiles and laughs.

That session reminds them of their youth again, and that’s a nice thing. On Friday evening, in what has become a tradition for the Class of ’53, Eddie and Meredith Jones invited us to their home for hors d’oeuvres and drinks. At the appropriate time, Eddie announced, “It’s time to move!” And then we were

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ClassNotes on our way to the Guard House in Gladwyne for dinner where we all had a great time. On the following evening, we joined together once again on campus for our 60th Reunion Dinner hosted by the school. It was a great way to conclude our Alumni Weekend.

Here is an update from Lynne Graburn: “For an older alum, life has been busy. I’m tutoring in literacy twice a week, attending Rotary weekly, reading for a book club, going to a heated-pool exercise class thrice weekly, a balance class weekly (very helpful at this point), tried yoga briefly, drove to Philadelphia for the Penn Relays and discovered that my memory has allowed me to have run much faster there than the stopwatch ever did, came back down for our 60th, continued on down to Chestertown with Kirk, then up the Jersey Turnpike, NOT a fun venture on a Sunday afternoon in stop-and-go traffic but heard a couple of hours of Glen Beck–style perspective on the world, got home in time to see a Shen Yun dance performance (gorgeous costumes and choreography), spent Saturday morning with the Yale Day of Service building raised garden beds for a local institution (nice co-workers but seemingly unskilled at manual labor), then the afternoon selling t-shirts for Rotary at the Albany Tulip Fest (we WERE a Dutch colony originally), went to a Pete Seeger concert in the front row and enjoyed singing along when I knew all the words, and last night went up to Half Moon for a lecture by running great Jim Ryun on Unbroken, a book about the Japanese prisoncamp horrors of another running great, Lou Zamperrini. I’m sure it will be interesting—the book was—but the talk is not until next Monday. Life has been busy, interesting, and empty since my wife died in 2009. Haven’t been able to find any Baldwin girls up

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here, so I keep running in place as long and as productively as I can. Oh, and I’m trying to get my gardens in on my two acres of woods and gardens. I sleep well, mostly.”

Don Pillsbury gave a presentation to Jennifer Tierney’s ’91 third-grade class on Alumni Weekend, Friday, May 3, about his professional aerial photography business. He also got a chance to connect with Gracie McLaughlin, one of Ms. Tierney’s students.

Roy enjoys sailing and is a past commodore of Riverton Yacht Club, Riverton, NJ. In addition to club racing and cruising on the Chesapeake Bay, Roy and Suzanne sailed with the Little Ship Club of London and The Corinthians in Croatia, 2007. They also had an interesting trip to China, 2011, and a Danube River Viking Cruise, Nuremberg to Budapest, in May 2013.

Roy and Suzanne live in Riverton, NJ, with two cats.

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Class Agent: David McMullin

Class Agent: Bill Sykes

Joe Kopf is still working part-time

Save the Date 60th Reunion May 2 & 3, 2014

at a retirement home as a night attendant, helping people live a better life at an older age. He finds the work very rewarding. He is planning to go to Michigan for the summer to his summer home at Port Sanilac on Lake Huron, and this November he and his wife are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary with a two-week trip to France. Finally, Joe was a member of the 1954 EA soccer team, which will be inducted into the Athletic Hall of Fame this fall.

David Robb is thankful to be in Roy Vollmer and wife, Suzanne, recently celebrated the first-year birthday of granddaughter Alexandra Elizabeth Vollmer, born May 11, 2012, to Roy and Suzanne’s son Adam and his wife, Valentine Vollmer. Roy has retired from private architectural practice as well as teaching as a university professor. He is currently part-time volunteering as a boat builder and mentor at the Philadelphia Wooden Boat Factory’s program for inner-city high school youth.

reasonably good health and considers himself fortunate to be able to keep himself out of trouble, most of the time, by looking for and at old maps in Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee archives. He also serves on the boards of the Alabama Historical Association and the Friends of the Alabama Archives.

Dom Degnon reports: “We’re still living in southern Vermont where I am active with Community Theater, with the Dorset Players, now in their 85th season. In the past five years, I have served on the board, directed five major shows, acted in three, and produced the musicals Oliver and HMS Pinafore the last two springs, as well

as doing set design and construction.

All the years in the Domino Club have come ’round again. Daughter Martha is a freshman at Hartwick College, and as my wife, Catherine, and I rattle around our empty nest, I still try to figure out what I want to be when I grow up!”

Walter Buckley is expecting two more grandchildren, numbers nine and 10 this year. His oldest grandson, Dutch Buckley ’14, played a strong role on the excellent Episcopal lacrosse team this spring (only to lose the championship by losing two of their last three games). In the meantime, work occupies much of Walter’s time and declining energy!

1956 Class Agent: Bill Rapp Please send us your news and notes!

1957 Class Agents: John Clendenning, Howard Morgan, and Carl Deutsch

Walter Jeffords ’58, Jay Stetzer, Howard Morgan, and Dick Arnold got together in April in Vero Beach, FL.

Toby Rankin, Geoff Worden, Charlie Grigg, and John

Clendenning got together on May 1 for lunch in Connecticut followed by a somewhat raucous, challenging round of golf and then back to Toby’s house for drinks, dinner, and a lot of storytelling. A good time was had by all!

Bruce Bennett’s daughter Millicent and her husband, Giovanni, had a son on April 7. His name is Grover Matteo.

Both mother and son are doing well.

Ray Munder’s grandson, Troy Becker, will graduated from Notre Dame High School in Lawrenceville, NJ, this spring. He will attend McDaniel College, formerly Western Maryland, where he has received a four-year scholarship to play lacrosse.

1958 Class Agent: Bob Bishop

Class of ’58 Alumni Reunion Weekend Wrap-Up, May 3 & 4, 2013 55th Reunion Festive blue and white balloons under a clear, sunny sky welcomed classmates to Sally and Bob Bishop’s home of almost 40 years, just off Sugartown Road. In addition to classmates, we had invited Allan ’60 and PJ Chagan and Greg and Jennifer Smith (parents of Heather, Len Day’s granddaughter and a 10th-grade student at EA). Had lots of conflicts with a busy first weekend of May, not to mention some tough health issues. However, just invitations alone opened the lines of communication and I was pleased to hear from many of you—please keep it up. Richie and Joan Liversidge were the longdistance attendees that also included Joe Klumpp, Jim and Debbie Zug, Heatly Sebring, Bill and Pat Lamb, and Hunter and Pam McMullin. Joe, Zugs, Bishops, and McMullins also

attended the festivities at EA Saturday evening. Good conversation, lots of catching up, and a firm resolve to be back with many others for our 60th, which will also celebrate 10 years of EA at Newtown Square—you need to see it. And there will be a Head of School, new to all of us, just completing his fifth year.

News notes: 1. The large piece of land adjacent to EA bordering Rt. 252 and Goshen Road is being developed

by Toll Brothers—the school has a significant green buffer in between.

2. Heatly told us that Jim McDowell, to whom we dedicated our Tabula, passed away early in 2012. I’ll do some research and endeavor to get some space in a future Connections. 3.

1958 has at least three grandchildren connected to EA. 4. You guys continue to respond well to the Annual Fund— keep it up. I would love to see at least 20 of us listed in support this year.

5. Also, our Scholarship Fund is a splendid gift that continues to keep on giving. Keep it in mind. I’ll try to pass on info re: the 1958 scholar.

Jay Davis left Jupiter, FL, in early June to play three days of golf at Reynolds Plantation. From there, he is on to the U.S. Open at Merion and for part of the time he will be staying with his classmate Hunter McMullin and his wife, Pam. After that he is off to Connecticut and New Hampshire.

John Hill reports: “Here is a picture of a 1962 Piper Colt that my son Jean Paul and I restored. We enjoy spending

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for a break. He and his wife, Margaret, are slated to be grandparents in July— better late than never, y’all that have great-grandchildren already!

Don Metz said: “In June of 2012, I was a member of a fourman cycling relay team in the Race Across America (the RAAM), a.k.a. the toughest bicycle race in the world. Starting in Oceanside, CA, and finishing in Annapolis, MD, we crossed the country nonstop in six days, 13 hours, and 13 minutes, with an average speed of 19.04 mph. We eclipsed the existing 70+ age group record by 27 hours as well as besting the 60+ record by 3+ hours. I spent a much more relaxed winter of 2012-13 writing a book about our adventure.

More Than a Race will be available on Amazon in paper and eBook format in July-August of 2013. While competitive cycling still engages my time and energies, writing thoughtfully about the harsh realities of the RAAM convinced me I have no inclination to ever do it again.”

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Jim Zug won the US Hardball 70+ Singles Championship in February and the US Century (ages add up to 100) Father-Son Doubles Championships in April, which was his 20th national championship, going back to the Juniors just after he graduated from EA.

1959 Class Agent Needed

Save the Date 55th Reunion May 2 & 3, 2014 Richard Foster writes that he’s in France enjoying not very good weather, but he had a nice three-day trip to Dijon

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Class Agent: Maurice Heckscher

George Lilley writes: “The last of four

Ross Watson ’57, Rowley Watson ’59, and George Watson circumnavigated Amsterdam. They had seven days of perfect weather, good food and wine, and close friends—priceless.

grandchildren arrived in the Lilley/Grant family on March 28, in Raleigh, NC. Grandfather George happily reports the birth of Colin Joseph to Stacey and Joe Palumbo. The grandparents were present for the occasion.”

Alasdair Stewart has just been awarded a Paul Harris Fellowship by his Rotary Club in Peebles, Scotland, for service to Rotary and the wider community.

1962 Class Agent Needed Please send us your news and notes!

1963 Here is a shot from their self-drive trip on the Canal du Midi: two boats, six couples, and still speaking. Over the past 28 years, Ross Watson has organized a total of six self-drives.

1961 Class Agent: Cappy Markle

Stu Glasby and his wife, Colleen, flew south to Atlanta and for the next two weeks drove 1,700 miles to see children and grandchildren in the Atlanta area, Gainesville, FL, Savannah, GA, and back to Atlanta.

As they wound down this trip, they got to dine with Corky and Francie Wheat. It was wonderful to see them for the first time since the Glasbys’ 50th two years ago.

Class Agent: Drew Jackson

Class of ’63 Alumni Reunion Weekend Wrap-Up, May 3 & 4, 2013 50th Reunion The men of ’63 enjoyed to the hilt their visit to the new “old school” in May, with beautiful weather every day and enjoyable and stimulating activities throughout. The attendance list of those present for all or part of the festivities ran to 41 (count ’em!) classmates, including Rob Austin, Steve Ayers, Rick (Kinscherf) Berlin, Nick Biddle, Tom Bispham, Dwight Chalker, Norm Cocke, Dick Devereux, George Earle, Pancho Escayol, Russ Etherington, Ben Foster, Tony Geyelin, Dick Gordon, Bob Haines, Lewis “Corky” Hart,

Alumni Class Agent Program Update Chip Harvey, Drew Jackson, Rick Katzenbach, Curt Lauber, Brandy Lea, Pat Lunkenheimer, Hugh MacDonough, Bill Machold, Mike McLean, J. Newlin, Charlie Ogelsby, Bill Orr, Peter Park, Gardiner Pearson, Chris Raker, Bill Richards, Jim Rooks, Parke Rouse, Lloyd Sammons, Ric Simonson, Dan Sossaman, Bill Spellman, Paul Stetzer, Rick Tilghman, and Gery Treichler. Jump-starting the festivities at the Glenmorgan Pub at the Radnor Hotel on Thursday evening, we made some initial reconnections and witnessed the signing of a peace treaty between Hugh MacDonough and Lloyd Sammons, who were meeting for the first time in 55 years since their memorable dust-up during a Middle School final exam. The hair and body mass indexes of the assembled faithful had changed in some cases, but everyone was very recognizable.

Friday morning we assembled on the EA campus and attended an alumni service with the Upper School students and faculty in the beautiful Class of 1944 Chapel. Lessons were read by Rob Austin, Corky Hart, and Lloyd Sammons. Jim Rooks gave an address on behalf of the Class, and groups of student musicians provided beautiful string, vocal, and jazz performances. Afterward we had a briefing on what uses to expect for our new Class of 1963 Fund to Support a Global Perspective. After lunch (at which we were serenaded by the Upper School Vocal Ensemble), we visited with our pen pals from thirdgrade classes and watched a delightful half-hour student-produced video about the many differences between EA life in 1963 and the present day.

Then we held a class “meeting” in which we reintroduced ourselves to each other, and Lloyd Sammons moderated a discussion of the Vietnam

era, which impacted our lives in many different ways.

The biggest event of the weekend for us was our Friday evening class dinner on-campus, at the beginning of which we formally presented our class reunion gift to EA. We were joined by, and warmly acknowledged, a number of special people: Pat Lunkenheimer, representing the family of our departed classmate Karl; George, Hon., and Dede Shafer (George was one of our third-grade teachers!); and Bill Burdick, Hon. (who patiently taught us math in Upper School and coached soccer). We also recognized our longdistance travelers: Tom and Barbara Bispham (coming in from Hong Kong); Peter and Joy Park (England); Dick Gordon (Australia); and Eduardo “Pancho” Escayol (Argentina). We deeply appreciated their dedication to the Class. We also expressed our great appreciation to Head of School Ham Clark, Hon. and Ceci Clark for attending all of our events, congratulated Ham on his many accomplishments for Episcopal, and elected him an honorary member of the class—and Ham promptly made a contribution to our class’s reunion gift!

And we recognized the excellent work of EA’s Alumni and Development Office staff, without which our reunion would have been a mere shadow of itself.

Then it was back to the Glenmorgan for the post-game show.

On Saturday, we held a moving memorial service in honor of our deceased classmates: Rae Butler, Craig Fuller, Peter Jones, Rebby Kent, Karl Lunkenheimer, Bob Mueller, Bob Plusch, John Riely, Fritz Schroeder, Carr Steele, Bob Tait, Ed “Tommy” Thomas, and Stocky Warnock. Gardiner Pearson, Norm Cocke, and Drew Jackson read the lessons, and Charlie Ogelsby led the memorial

The Alumni & Development Office is always looking for interested alumni to serve as class agents. Class agents receive “insider information” about programs, sports, clubs, and classes and are responsible for sharing the details with classmates.

Additionally, class agents are expected to encourage classmates to make a gift to the Annual Fund.

Our goal is to strengthen the alumni connection with the life of the school, and we need class agents to help. If you are interested in serving as a class agent for your class, please contact Stephanie Ottone, Assistant Director of Annual Giving and Alumni Relations, at: sottone@episcopalacademy.org or 484-424-1782.

observations. Numerous classmates took the microphones to speak of our departed friends with respect, admiration, humor, and love. We were honored by the presence of Pat, Kurt ’95, and Ashley ’92 Lunkenheimer.

On Saturday afternoon, we held four unique symposia (open to all alumni) on topics on which our classmates have specific expertise: energy choices for the future, cardiology research, hedge funds and angel investing, and the nature of a life dedicated to the arts. Speakers included Rick Berlin, Tom Bispham, Norm Cocke, Dick Devereux, George Earle, Corky Hart, Bill Machold, and Bill Richards.

Throughout the reunion festivities, Classmates were able to peruse a 352-page “Tabula II” reunion yearbook (including a special reunion edition of The Epolitan, which was founded by members of our class), and an exhibit, in and around the Annenberg Library, of artifacts illustrating “Class of ’63 Creativity.”

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ClassNotes Saturday afternoon, a bagpiper led us into the Chapel again for a program honoring all reunion classes, and then we repaired to the Dixon Athletic Center for cocktails and dinner, accompanied by an all-faculty band.

Then it was “once more into the breach” at the Glenmorgan, and we began to wend our ways home.

logo designs at The Westtown School gallery for the month of April. I also made a presentation about my work as part of Westtown’s Shoemaker Lecture Series on April 7. Here is a poster from those events.”

last fall Bill Garver, Steve Morris, John Packer, and I were joined by our devoted spouses for a great dinner in Damariscotta, ME. It was a lot of fun and a great chance to share some stories of our days at EA!”

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1966

Class Agent: Loyd Pakradooni

Class Agent: Steve Dittmann

The blizzard of post-reunion emails shows that, for the Class of 1963, our Reunion Weekend was memorable, inspiring, moving, humbling, and uplifting—just like our great school.

Thanks, Episcopal!

Bob Hallett reports: “At the end of

Phil Gleason writes that he is still

June, I will be retiring as Executive Director of The Edward E. Ford Foundation: www.eeford.org, a position I have held for the past 11 years.

However, I have been asked to join the board and will do so. That opportunity will allow me to remain up to date with matters pertaining to independent education in America. I have spent the past 42 years as a teacher and administrator in independent schools and for me, at least, it has been deeply rewarding. In June, our son Timothy and his wife, Andrea, will welcome their third child and our third grandchild into the family. We are excited and lament they live in Cleveland. Our home is in Harpswell, ME, making for a long commute! Our daughter, Sarah, will be completing her master’s degree in Library & Information Science, with a concentration in Archives, from the University of Pittsburgh next December. Nancy, my bride of 41 years, has just become Vice President of the Maine Women’s Giving Circle, an organization devoted to charitable work focused on the needs of women and children in the vicinity of Brunswick, ME. Their mission includes education of the membership and public about the economic and social issues that affect the community. It is compelling work. Next year, we are planning to travel to Spain and Portugal and back to England where we lived in 1982. In time, I expect to return to furnituremaking and engage in other nonprofit opportunities as they arise. Finally,

practicing business and commercial law at Bernstein Shur in Portland, ME, 37 years and counting, but has reluctantly begun to think about “retirement”; he’s just got to figure out what that means. He keeps himself in shape by skiing and cycling and is the current Board Chairman at Bangor Theological Seminary. Phil’s wife, Mary Schendel, is an in-house lawyer at UNUM, a Portland-based disability insurance company. Their daughter, Hanna, is a Colorado College grad currently working several jobs in Denver, and their son, Henry, lives in Portland and works for a company that installs home and business security systems. Phil and Mary are looking forward to the 50th reunion of the Class of ’66 in 2016. Gentlemen, mark your calendars! And in the meantime, would love to see any classmates on their travels to Maine.

—Norm Cocke, Drew Jackson, Charlie Ogelsby, and Jim Rooks, Reunion Steering Committee

1964 Class Agent: Tom Zug

Save the Date 50th Reunion May 2 & 3, 2014 Joe Duncan and a partner recently started a business called Visiting Angels that provides at-home assistance with the activities of daily living to seniors and disabled individuals throughout Palm Beach County, FL. The goal of the service is to allow individuals to live independently in the comfort of their homes for as long as possible without the need and expense of institutional care. The need for such services by aging Baby Boomers and their parents in the retirement area of Florida is great, and Joe reports that the new business is rapidly growing.

John Langdon reports: “I had a show of my paintings, ambigrams, and

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1967 Class Agent Needed

Doug Harms, Oregon delegate, with Intel CEO Paul Otellini at the 2012 Republican National Convention. Doug

retired from the Navy 22 years ago and is now planning to retire from Intel this summer.

Ted Voorhees reports that this has been a busy year both professionally and family-wise. As Chair of the ABA Section of Antitrust Law, Ted has had an active international agenda that has thus far taken him to France, India, Australia, and Poland, with further trips scheduled to Pakistan, Brazil, and France, again, before his oneyear term concludes in August. On the family front, this past year brought the wedding of Ted and Melissa’s youngest of four children, Lucy (all four are married now), and the birth of his first granddaughter, Crosby, who joins her three cousins: Brandon, age six, James, age three, and Bernard, age one.

1968 Class Agent: Robert Mayock

Class of ’68 Alumni Reunion Weekend Wrap-Up, May 3 & 4, 2013 45th Reunion Chip Young reports on alumni weekend: “Thirteen members of the incomparable Class of ’68 turned out for events May 3 and 4 marking their 45th Reunion. Dinner Friday night at Chip Young’s house was followed Saturday night by an allclasses extravaganza (complete with a faculty band playing some serious hard rock) in the gym of the new campus. For some, it was their first reunion in decades. For everyone, it was a welcome chance to kick back, reconnect, and have fun. Clement Endresen and his wife, Nina, traveled from Norway where Clement sits on the Supreme Court. Don’t let that intimidate you. He is still the same down-to-earth, warmhearted individual

with a great sense of humor that he was back in ’68. Hats off to Nina and the other spouses and friends who were brave enough to attend and suffer through tales of our glory days.

Joining Clement and Chip at one or both events were Rick Crecraft, Peter Wilson, Doug Reddy, Alden Kent, Spike Buckley, Jay Branegan, Jay Brown, Jon Baird, Mark Hofmaier, Bob Mayock, Taylor Fernley, Andy Dayton, and George Cauffman.

Hopefully in five years, we can double that attendance. In the meantime, stay in touch.”

After 10 years working for the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Jay Branegan left the Hill in January following the primary defeat of his boss, Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana.

In February, Jay started a new job in the Washington office of the Natural Resources Defense Council, a major environmental group. Over Easter, he and his wife, Stefania, flew to the Galapagos for a weeklong cruise among the tortoises, Darwin’s finches, and blue-footed boobies, a trip sponsored by Jay’s other alma mater, Cornell University.

any and all questions. He has also written and illustrated an exciting wilderness adventure story for all ages.

It makes a great “anytime” gift!

David Fenimore spent the first five months of 2013 as a visiting professor in Spain at the University of the Basque Country in Bilbao, where he taught courses in professional communications and storytelling. Along with his wife, Amy Horne, and George School ’71, he shared an apartment with Tom McKoy and his wife, Ellen, during which time Tom spent a month walking the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route from Roncevalles to Santiago de Compostella. Passing through the cathedral town of Burgos during Holy Week, Tom was intercepted, wined, and dined by an entourage including his Bilbao roommates as well as visitors from Madrid, Bob Mayock, his wife, Teresa, and her mother, Carmen.

Medford Brown writes: “I just became a grandfather for the second time when my daughter-in-law gave birth to a daughter, Taylor, on March 17 in Fredericksburg, VA. The proud father, my son Jay, is a trial lawyer with a firm in Fredericksburg. His older daughter, Avery, turns two next week. My daughter Emily, also a lawyer, is now finishing up a clerkship with Justice Alito on the U.S. Supreme Court. Her husband, Chris, is a patent lawyer with Covington and Burling in Washington.

I am continuing to practice medical malpractice defense in Philadelphia.”

Rick Crecraft is still running a fullservice tree company that can answer

David and Amy Fenimore at Artxanda, overlooking Bilbao.

David and Amy with Tom McKoy in Burgos, Spain.

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ClassNotes Taylor Fernley was recently a guest speaker at Family Business Magazine and Stetson University’s TRANSITIONS EAST 2013 Conference in Tampa, FL. This three-day conference offered powerful sessions focused on delivering ideas attendees could put to work immediately to sustain and build their multigenerational family company. Taylor’s presentation for the “Getting Succession Planning Right” panel focused on Fernley & Fernley Inc.’s 125+ years and five generations of success and growth through proper succession planning.

He was also interviewed on Ideal Executive Forum Radio on May 16.

The interview focused on Fernley & Fernley and Taylor’s experience in the association management industry over the past 35+ years and lessons learned along the way.

Finally, Taylor will be completing his two-year term as the Chairman of the Union League Business Leadership Forum this summer. Taylor’s goal going into his term was to make the Business Leadership Forum the premier networking organization in Philadelphia, and with all that the Executive Committee has been able to accomplish, he has no doubts that the group will take that momentum and only grow and prosper in the years to come.

Mark Hofmaier recently attended the 45th reunion reception on Friday evening at Chip Young’s. Was great to see everyone and he connected with classmate Samuel (Todd) White in New York City. Mark is looking forward to other class meetings.

Tom McKoy reports: “On April 19, I finished walking 764 km of the Camino Frances from Roncesvalles, Spain to Santiago de Compostela, Spain. While I was in Burgos (which is about a third

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of the way along the Camino), Bob Mayock and David Fenimore and their wives, Teresa Chamizo Vega and Amy Horne, joined me and my wife, Ellen McCarthy, for some cervezas, vino, and encouragement. This photo of Bob, David, and me was taken at an inn near the Monasterio de Silos where the monks sing the service as a Gregorian chant. Nothin’ but the best… Tom.”

Domino Club when I was at EA, and I continue to be active on stage. My most recent role, in March 2013, was that of Horace Gilmer, the prosecuting attorney, in a production of To Kill a Mockingbird with St. Petersburg City Theatre, which is the oldest continually active community theater company in the state of Florida. Other than that, I fill my days enjoying the gorgeous weather here on the Gulf Coast of Florida.”

1970 Class Agents: John Dautrich and Ron Rothrock

1969 Class Agent Needed

Save the Date 45th Reunion May 2 & 3, 2014 Scott Bullitt writes: “I’ve been retired since September 2008 and moved into a beautiful townhouse in St. Petersburg, FL, in September 2009.

In August 2011, I traveled with a friend to Moscow for a week’s vacation. I was in England visiting friends over the Christmas and New Year’s 2011 period. In March 2012, I spent three weeks traveling around Australia and New Zealand with friends. In late August/early September 2012, I spent two weeks traveling around Spain and Portugal, then a week in England with a friend. My next big trip is an Alaska cruise in September 2013 from Anchorage to Vancouver, followed by a week motoring around western Canada—particularly Jasper, Banff, and Calgary. I was active in the

John Carpenter writes: “I am now retired, living in North Carolina, and married since December 2011 to my wife, Robin Morley. I enjoy teaching our state dance, the Carolina Shag. Did you know that North Carolina’s state motto is the same as Episcopal’s: Esse Quam Videri?”

Jay Lippincott and his wife, Margaret, have moved back to Philadelphia. They are living in a lovely house in Society Hill that was built in 1759. Jay and Margaret look forward to being closer to their son Win ’99 and daughter Katie ’03 and their first grandchild, Win’s one-year-old son Jack.

Bill Wood’s daughter Mia Wood ’99 was married on June 1 to Jeb Broomell ’99. They were in the same class together at Episcopal and reconnected several years ago.

1971 Class Agent Needed

Fred Dittman and Ted Coxe ’81 sang the national anthem at the May 30 Red Sox vs. Phillies game with their a cappella group, The Tonics. See more about The Tonics on Facebook and Twitter at tonics1990.

1972 Class Agent Needed

John Bonan writes: “Here is a photo of me along with two hoodlums who claim to be my sons, Andrew and Matthew, in Venice last year.”

1973 Class Agents: Rex Gary and Jerry Holleran

Class of ’73 Alumni Reunion Weekend Wrap-Up, May 3 & 4, 2013 40th Reunion The Class of 1973 was treated to a double celebration during our 40th Reunion as some of us came back to campus for the school-sponsored festivities on Friday and Saturday May 3–4, and still more gathered in Villanova for a very special dinner hosted by our classmate David Haas.

As usual, EA put on a wonderful display in early May with access to classes, sports events, a special Chapel service, and culminating with dinner on Saturday evening in the gym

(replete with a very fine faculty band playing some vintage rock!). About 10 members of the class enjoyed cocktails and dinner on Saturday and then eased on down White Horse Road adjacent to the campus to join a Five-School Party until the wee hours.

It was easily determined that we have aged better than the Fords!

the Washington, DC, area (and was in Morocco riding camels during our reunions); Alec Wyeth, who resides in Concord, MA, and serves as assistant supervisor in a local school district there; and Brad Dorrance, who now calls Lancaster, PA, home and has a private legal practice there.

On Saturday, May 18, through the immense generosity of David Haas, almost 30 classmates and 20 spouses and significant others revisited the site of our graduation party in June of 1973. David had pictures from our Tabula blown up and displayed for our perusal. We all agreed that even total loss of hair was an improvement over the styles we wore then (Claytie, that was a wig, right?). Departing Head of School Ham Clark, Hon. and his wife, Ceci, joined us as did Bruce Konopka from the Alumni Office. Ham shared some poignant recollections of his 11 years at EA’s helm and then elicited a slew of great stories from our class. A great number of fond (and some embarrassing) memories were recounted. There were several highlights beyond the storytelling: the uplifting presence of our three courageous classmates battling cancer and leukemia, accompanied by their incredibly strong wives— George and Kathy Church, Bob and Kristen Callahan, and Gil and Monica Mateer; the joy of seeing far-flung classmates Gary Hodder (Toronto) and Jim Brooke (Moscow); and the unveiling of the long-awaited class athletic shield (what’s 40 years among friends?).

have not seen me since end of eighth grade year, June of 1969, so a little catching up! I followed in my father’s footsteps, going from EA, to St. Paul’s School in Concord, NH, and then to Yale. In college, I focused on Latin American Studies, with a few years of Russian study. After a few years freelancing in Brazil, I was hired as a local reporter for the New York Times. I reported for the NYT for 24 years, with wonderful postings— West Africa, Brazil, Denver, Canada, Japan. In 2006, I took the buyout and moved to Russia, where I was the Bloomberg bureau chief for a year.

At the height of the boom, I ‘took a sabbatical’ from journalism, trying my hand at business—doing business development for Jones Lang LaSalle commercial real estate consultancy, then helping a friend with his Russia hedge fund. In summer 2010, I returned to journalism, taking over as the Russia/Ex-USSR correspondent for Voice of America. This has presented new challenges—radio, TV, and a weekly web column, Russia Watch. I write today from Dagestan, the ethnic/spiritual home of the Boston Marathon bombers. I am the proud father of three sons: James, 23, doing commercial real estate in Manhattan, and William and Alex, 21, juniors at Middlebury. They are focusing on Brazil and are relearning Portuguese.

All three were born in Rio and have maintained two passports. The other evening, I counted the countries. Since leaving EA, I have visited 95, almost all

During the lead-up to our reunion, several of our buddies who departed EA before Upper School expressed their disappointment at not being able to attend but promised to make every effort to join us in five years: Norman Asher, who is living and consulting in

Jim Brooke writes: “My EA classmates

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ClassNotes for reporting stories. Ideally, another 25 to visit!”

George Church writes: “Cathy and I have been in Central PA for decades now, started our firm in 1998 by buying assets of a 22-year-old firm where I’d worked in mid-1980s. I was honored as Fire Protection Contractor Magazine’s Contractor of the Year 2012 in August, complete with picture on the cover of our industry’s Rolling Stone. On Valentine’s Day 2012, I was diagnosed with stage-4 lung cancer, incurable (except by The Great Physician). Cathy and I promoted our #2s to CFO and COO to run the place, put our business up for sale, and turned our attention to fighting cancer and living the most out of every day. My oncologist calls it ‘the blessing of cancer,’ having time to wrap up affairs, mend fences, finish bucket list. Just got back from Cancun yesterday, and went to Amsterdam last year between diagnosis and start of treatments. So I’ll ask for prayers but hold the tears, all going well as it could. I’d like to thank classmate Jay Gibbs for sharing some genetic research contacts, and Gil Mateer and Clayton Platt for moral support.”

John Garrison reports: “I successfully married off both daughters: July 2011 and August 2012. We welcomed our first grandchild, Margaret Evelyn ‘Maggie’ Donough, on February 16, 2013! Grandparenting is the best, especially when you’re only 10 minutes away.”

David Haas said it best when he urged us to remember that while our relationship to Episcopal is important and we should always support our alma mater, it is our long-lasting commitment to each other as friends and classmates that is most special.

We shouldn’t wait until 2018 to all get together again!

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Gary Hodder is still litigating in Toronto. His son Matt, age 20, is a sophomore in college. His daughter Emily, age 15, is a sophomore in high school. Gary’s wife, Liz, is a pediatric nephrologist at Sick Kids in Toronto.

Gary states that they bought a house in Florida two years ago, “which has only exacerbated my excessive indulgence in golf and bourbon. And I still haven’t been able to get anyone to publish my poetry!”

Jack Kulp writes: “One could say my EA senior project, an internship at a Philly radio station, paid off because I’m about to begin my 18th year hosting the morning show on KOIT radio in San Francisco, and was just nominated for induction into the San Francisco Bay Area Broadcaster’s Hall of Fame. (What WERE they thinking?)

I also do freelance voice-over work when I can. Clients include The Walt Disney Company, Bank of America, Apple, Electronic Arts, and freebies for charities in need of a mouth and a set of vocal cords. Kim, a registered dietitian, and I have been married for 23 years and have two sons, a high school sophomore and a sophomore at The University of California, Davis.

In 1990, we put down roots about 20 minutes north of the Golden Gate Bridge…way too close to the Napa Valley for our (my) own good. I still have ties to the Philly area…my Dad in Coatesville, and my sister and her family live about five minutes from the EA campus.”

1974 Class Agent: John Spofford

Save the Date 40th Reunion May 2 & 3, 2014 Peter Quinn writes: “I’ll be changing jobs and returning to the tri-state area

by returning to the Peddie School. I was there between 1985 and 1996, at which point I left to become Headmaster down here at Wakefield.

I’ll be returning to Peddie as its Head this July 1. One of my great, first Peddie memories was walking into my interview in 1985 to find Ray Oram in the room, someone I had not seen for probably more than a dozen years, and had last seen when he was a biology teacher (although not mine— that was George Hebbard, Hon.) at EA! Maryanne and I are returning with our three children, members of Peddie classes of ’15 (and, we hope, ’18 and ’21). At Wakefield I have been very proud to count EA alumni Andrew Schaefer ’76 and Steve Brosnan ’90 among our parents and see Hank Woolman ’49 (who was a student of my father’s) at church pretty regularly.

I had a chance to spend some time with Ham Clark this winter and join everyone else in thanking him for very successfully leading the school to its spectacular new home.”

1975 Class Agent: Jim Cooke

Mark Bryfogle writes: “The United States Patent and Trademark Office approved my application for a microdistributed generation machine, and I was granted a utility patent which was issued in April: fluid-driven electrical generator, US 20110080005 A1. I am in the process of forming Anlage Distributed Generation, LLC, with the intention to develop and market the device. The immediate aim is to generate electricity at the 3 kW level in the home using natural gas service. Additionally this allows for the harvest of waste heat for indoor space temperature control, and reduction in electricity costs. It also provides for stability enhancement of the electrical grid in the face of increasing demand

and potential terrorist threats. I will likely be looking at crowd source funding in the mid-summer.”

Adam Finkel writes: “Maia Abigail Finkel, daughter of Adam Finkel and Joanne Booth, celebrated her bat mitzvah on April 6, 2013, in Pennington, NJ. Rob Bland, David Langfitt, and Martin Trimble from the Class of ’75 were in attendance.

Celebrating his 97th birthday was Adam’s father, Max.”

Jim Garrison has a book called Stone Houses: The Traditional Houses of R. Brognard Okie being published by Rizzoli International this Sept. Okie’s son Charles was EA ’34 with fellow architect Hughes Cauffman ’34 and Tony Ridgway ’34. Okie’s own house, featured in the book, is just across White Horse Road on Darby Paoli Road by the EA campus. These days, Jim’s paying work is with Vanguard as the project manager for their Malvern West campus. Look for the book on Amazon or BN.com!

Tierney, Chris, and Britt Murdoch, and in back, Jim Brown, John Williams, and Dave Crockett.

Jay Snider reports: “I purchased Airsoft Megastore (www.airsoftmegastore. com) in late December and am the active CEO. We are based in Irwindale, CA. I have been living in Los Angeles for the past six years and we enjoy it immensely. Terry and I have been married 30 years and have three boys.

Our oldest, Jamie, was engaged in March. Our youngest, Todd, will be attending Penn next year.”

1976 Class Agent Needed

Carleton Cole reports: “Daughter Whitney Cole Hall is a graduate of the University of Houston earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology this May.

Whitney is married to Joshua Hall who is the digital video ministry producer at Chapelwood United Methodist Church.

The couple, who reside in Houston, TX, are the proud parents of Emma Marie, who turned one in April.”

Peter Halpert writes: “This past fall, Chris Le Vine reports: “It was my 38th year in a row at the Kentucky Derby.”

With Chris are: (l to r) in front, Brian

went racing in the Mediterranean on The Blue Peter, a 50-meter classic sailing yacht, in Les Voiles de St

Tropez, with Susan and Jeremy Coote, EA parents. Now we’re working on putting together a crew to improve on our third-place finish.

Subsequently, we got together with them and their children, Matt Coote ’08, Sarah Coote ’09, Henry Coote ’12, and Jeffrey Coote ’17, over the Christmas holidays. I also dragged a few of them along to Flyers games this year. Regularly get together with my brother, Sam Halpert ’89, most recently for this Mother’s Day. We also teamed up in a racquet and tennis club tournament again this year. Sam just played in a golf tournament, paired with Chris Walling, the son of my classmate, Dick Walling. He also plays squash occasionally with Roly Morris III, the son of my classmate, Roly Morris.

I can’t quite put my finger on it, but I still think there’s something jarring about the notion of him teaming up with my generation’s next generation!

Correspond regularly with classmates Ed Ferrara, Steve Yermish, Rob McMenamin, and Richard Slade on Facebook. A number of us reached a milestone birthday this year; a few of them even admitted to it on the social network. Hats off to another EA guy— Bob Callahan ’73, the longtime coach of the Princeton men’s squash team, who is retiring. Being a Trinity College guy, I would regularly be rooting for his nemesis, but it was always great to see Bob patrolling the courts during those epic matches. I have quite a few Princeton friends, strange as it may seem, who played for Bob; their testaments to his coaching goes deep, and every time I visited Jadwyn, I came away certain Bob was the epitome of class, whether in defeat or victory.

As for me, I just coordinated a very successful exhibition in London of work by one of our Canadian artists, Tyler Udall. The show got terrific press, including a full-page feature in the London Sunday Times magazine,

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ClassNotes and was picked up nationally over here by The Huffington Post. Works by my gallery’s artists were recently acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the International Center of Photography in NY, and Kunstwerk–Sammlung Klein, outside Stuttgart, Germany. Our youngest artist, Andrew Fladeboe, was awarded a Fulbright to photograph in New Zealand. HERO magazine, in London, just published a 28-photo spread by our artist, Patricia Richards. The New York Times Magazine is working on a feature by another one of our artists, to appear this fall. Photographs from my personal collection were included in the monumental exhibition “War/ Photography,” organized by the MFA in Houston, currently at the Getty, and coming to the Brooklyn Museum of Art this fall. Interviews with me were published in the UK, Mexico, France, and here in the US, and I sat for a couple of portraits (occupational hazard of knowing artists). The big news: We are publishing a new book, Identities Now: Contemporary Portrait Photography. Three years in the making, the book will feature 366 pictures by 165 photographers from some 30 countries, and includes an essay I wrote on portraiture. Recent travel—St. Tropez, London a couple of times, Vail. Upcoming plans— Toronto, Montreal, London, Scotland, St. Tropez, Miami, LA. In 2014, I’m hoping to get to Oslo, Stockholm, Copenhagen, and St. Petersburg.

They can’t hit you if you’re not a sitting target!”

Doug Stein reports: “On January 2, I joined Victory Productions in Worcester, MA, as their CTO and chief of new business development.

At the same time, my wife and I also relocated from Lake Oswego, OR, to Warwick, RI. We’re a little closer to our kids, Fort Lauderdale, and Brooklyn,

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and back East after nine-plus years on the West Coast. We now have to learn about boats since we’re on the water with two mooring points and a dock. Everyone keeps suggesting ‘sea kayak,’ but I’d be grateful for sound advice from fellow EA folks with more water experience!”

77 Class Agent: Jim Alton

memories to compete nationally a few times a year. Looking forward to the 55-and-overs next season!

1978 Class Agent: Jim Borum

Steve Berger writes: “After many years of studying and rowing in the US and England, I came to Asia right after university in 1984 and have been here ever since. I worked for HSBC, JP Morgan, and now my own investment and advisory firm. I have lived and worked in either Singapore, Hong Kong, or Jakarta from 1985 to today.

Southeast Asia continues to grow and grow in importance to the rest of the world, while continuing to deal with its many internal challenges.”

Winslow Murdoch begins his term Peter Hare writes: “By chance, I met up with Jim Brown ’75 and Bill Brown ’72 in Atlanta at the Final Four in April. Jim is on the left, I’m in the middle, and Bill is on the right.”

John Nimick reports: He still lives outside of Boston where he is still all-in on squash and has had fun coming back to EA for a week or two the past four summers to oversee a squash camp run by the squash legend Peter Nicol. Loves the new campus and new squash facility. He promotes several major pro squash events each year, including one in Grand Central Terminal, one in Symphony Hall Boston, one on the waterfront in San Francisco, and a new one in Frankfurt, Germany. Wife Kate and John, 23 years and counting, have a son, Tyler, also into squash, who is finishing up his junior year at Brown. Personally, he is giving his seven-year-old hip replacement a run for its money both on the bike and the doubles squash court and still trots out his playing

as president of the Chester County Medical Society, a three-year term, in May. He has also been requested to serve a second three-year term as a volunteer board member of the Chester County Board of Health.

Lastly, Win recently retook his American Board of Family Medicine recertification exam, and scored 800 out of 800. He was recertified by his specialty board this past December for another 10 years.

Allen O ’Reilly has been living in the Atlanta area for almost 29 years, and has been an actor with Georgia Shakespeare for 24 years. He has been married to Teresa for 26 years

and has two sons: Evan, 19, who is a student at Drew University, and Aidan, 16. He is at present the education director for Georgia Shakespeare and has been in that capacity for nine years. Allen has done film work as well, most notably in Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius playing the famed sportswriter Grantland Rice. He has also done voice-over work and has an extensive resume as a narrator for audio books.

Allen loves living in the South and has adopted the local teams, especially the Falcons. He is especially passionate about golf and attends the Masters Tournament every April.

1979 Class Agents: Ned Lee and Chris Young Please send us your news and notes!

Save the Date 35th Reunion May 2 & 3, 2014 1980 Class Agent: David Reape Please send us your news and notes!

1981 Class Agent: Ben Thompson

Rex Dyer reports: “I returned home early one afternoon in April to find two geologists performing boring tests in my neighbor’s front lawn in Summit, NJ. Walked over to ask a few questions and who turns around to answer me but none other than Edward Brooks Keffer, III, my EA classmate from kindergarten through 12. Now that’s a trip! Ted works out of Flemington and was the expert consultant for the neighbor’s insurance company regarding potential oil tank leakage.

On a warm spring day, we caught up on the past 32 years, shared updates on fellow alums with whom we remain

in touch, and then conferenced in David Ebby, partner at Drinker, Biddle, and Reath in PHL. Lots of laughs recounting old stories about bad behavior in Delco club soccer games.

Time flies. Ebby has a freshman son at Bucknell, and I have a frreshman son at Johns Hopkins. Crazy!!”

John Madarasz was selected to participate in this year’s 2013 Chester County Studio Tour. It should be a really cool event in his new studio and gallery in Exton: www.chestercountystudiotour.com/ artist_info.html. Because his son is involved in scouting, he is also the Boy Scout Merit Badge Counselor for metalworking, welding, and soon to be sculpting for all of Chester County. “It feels great to be teaching young people about the great art of ornamental metalworking...hopefully I’ll be able to participate in some form of outreach program with EA as I’ve discussed before with the folks at the school.”

1982 Class Agents: Jim Farrell and Brooke McMullin

Bill Bagnell writes: “After 13-plus years at Planalytics, I left the company and have recently joined Procurian Energy, a subsidiary of Procurian, Inc. (formerly ICG Commerce). My son, Billy ’06, is still in Raleigh working while my daughter Margret graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University yesterday afternoon and my daughter Mary Cate just finished her sophomore year at Denison University.

On Tuesday, April 30, my son James and I attended the Admissions Open House, which not only provided some insight into EA but was also a lot of fun.

Finally, my niece, Lindsey Jane Craig, will be entering EA as a freshman in September.”

Brad Wilson was inducted into the District 11 Wrestling Hall of Fame on April 21 at the annual banquet at the Best Western Hotel in Bethlehem for outstanding contributions to the sport as the wrestling beat writer and sports columnist of The Express-Times of Easton, PA. He is still, however, living in South Philadelphia with his 13-year-old cat, Fred.

Celebrating turning 50 are John Minutella, Perry Baldwin, and Jim Viner.

On July 20, 2012, Charles Littleton and his wife, Fiona, adopted a sixyear-old boy, Leighton Isaac Ashley Littleton. He writes: “It has almost been a year now and we are all settling in as a family successfully. Adopting Leighton is the best step we have ever taken.

We are living in England, where I have been since 1997, in a commuter town outside London, but we are coming back to the Main Line this August to introduce English-born Leighton to his American family and some of my old EA friends.”

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ClassNotes 1983 Class Agent: Jamie Hole

Class of ’83 Alumni Reunion Weekend Wrap-Up, May 3 & 4, 2013 30th Reunion The Class of 1983’s 30th Reunion Weekend was a great success. Over the course of the weekend, close to half of our class returned to spend time together, many with their spouses.

Some of us see each other regularly, and some of us haven’t seen each other in 30 years. The mix made for a fun dynamic. I am happy to report, too, that not a single classmate has matured beyond the age of 13 (which is consistent with EA’s assessment of us in May of 1983). Kathy and Michael Jacoby hosted a class party at their home Friday evening. During the day Saturday, our classmate James “Bruiser” Flint gave the keynote address on campus for all reunion classes. Bruiser did a great job conveying to everyone in attendance how special his Episcopal experience was and how well it prepared him for success in his adult life. Later that day, we all enjoyed the reunion reception and dinner on campus. Afterward, we met up again for a class party at Barbara and Tom Riley’s home.

Everyone was extremely well-behaved and no poor decisions were made that jeopardized the Riley home. Thanks to the entire EA staff for putting together a terrific weekend! Thanks to the Jacobys and the Rileys for bookending the weekend with two perfect parties. Thanks to our classmates for participating, especially those that traveled long distances to be there.

Chris Brookins writes: “Unfortunately, I will be unable to make our 30th reunion as I’ll be with my family on our first Disney World vacation. While

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I’m fully prepared to need a vacation from this ‘vacation,’ I know my wife, Lisa, and our two boys, Reid, age four, and Parker, age six, will have a blast. Professionally, I continue to enjoy the Boston tech startup scene and am currently VP engineering and product management at Acquia, which is a commercial provider of cloud platforms and services for the opensource Drupal project. Translation: We help companies build, scale, and maintain very large social websites.

It continues to be a wild ride, as Inc. magazine recently named us the fastest growing software company in the US. I’m also having fun on the side mentoring several startups as a part of Boston TechStars, and still am playing tennis regularly when I am not shuttling my boys around to soccer, piano, swimming, or gymnastics, and soon tennis! My wife continues to enjoy her marketing consultancy that allows her to work at home while helping her clients develop and launch new products.”

Jon Foxman writes: “After EA, I graduated from the University of Vermont, albeit six and a half years later, with a BA in English and then from Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business with an MBA. Since then, I’ve worked mostly in wireless communications, founding and operating three venture capital–backed cellular telephone companies in non-major markets around the country. My current company provides cellular phone service under the Cellular One brand in Montana, East Texas, Central Louisiana, and the Gulf of Mexico.

Over the years, my wife, Karin, and I have lived in northern Virginia and Scottsdale, but moved home to the Philadelphia area about 10 years ago. We live in Bryn Mawr with our five children: Emily, Libby, Caroline,

Will, and Grace. Libby will graduate from EA this year, and Will is in the Class of 2018. I see some of the old crew pretty regularly but am looking forward to catching up with everyone at the reunion. A special shout-out to David Havens for his perennial Classnotes update allegedly from Richard Roberts—hilarious, but far too inappropriate to submit!”

Jamie Harper has lived in Oregon since 2000. With a Ph.D. in art history from Penn, he teaches Italian Renaissance art and serves as the director of undergraduate studies for the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Oregon. He is the author of several books, the most recent of which is The Turk & Islam in the Western Eye 1450–1750: Visual Imagery before Orientalism 2011. He is married to Roxi Thoren, a professor of architecture and landscape architecture, and they live on a woodsy hilltop in a house that they designed together. They have two children, Eleanor, age seven, and J.E.B., age five. Any similarities to Wednesday and Pugsley from the Addams Family are purely coincidental.

Jamie returns to Pennsylvania every summer with his family for a month at Pocono Lake Preserve, and keeps in touch with about a dozen of his EA classmates.

Andy Kahn writes: “After University of Michigan, worked in Asia for a year. Then lived and worked in Boston and got into banking, lending, and corporate finance, providing bond financing and loans to small companies. Then came out to San Francisco in 1991 with a San Francisco–based investment bank called Hambrecht & Quist. Got acquired by JP Morgan in 2000 and spun out in 2004 to start my own small company, lending to technology and life science companies worldwide.

Live in Belvedere, CA, just outside San Francisco. Got married in 1996 to a gal from Sacramento, a school teacher, and have four kids: Jacob, Rachel, Ethan, and Harrison. Hooked up with Richard Roberts about five years ago for the first time. Best friends again and am the godfather of his son, Charlie.

The only other guys I communicate with at EA are Gardner Walling and occasionally David Havens.”

Peter McTeague tells us: “As an aside, I had dinner with Paul Alfieri, Joe Moderski, Young Synn, and Betsy Smith last Monday in NY. It was a blast, and would only have been more interesting if Josh Berkowitz, David Havens, and Gregory McCurdy showed up too! Turns out too that Paul, Joe, and I all work in the same building.

Wow. I also recently reconnected via email with Cam Brown, and probably will catch up more with him in coming months. My family and I just moved back to Boston, and live in the Back Bay. Laurie and I have been married since 1991, and we have three boys; Ian, 12, Graham, 10, and Xander, 7.

We had been living for past 12 years in Wilton, CT, during which time I worked in Greenwich, CT, for an investment bank and my own hedge fund, and recently/currently in NYC for a large investment management co/ hedge fund, Fortress Investments.

I love my work, which is basically assessing/directing investments in the global macroeconomic/geopolitical landscape. But a few years ago started thinking about the important things, and not wanting to continue to spend 15 hours a week commuting from Wilton, I worked out a situation where I work three days from NY and two days from my home in Boston. Presto: Six hours or so of commuting. We were also finding Fairfield County a little tiring, and thought a great next chapter for us, and the kids, would be a city life

in Boston, where we lived from 1990 to 2000 while/after my wife was in law school. We’re thrilled to be living in the city, although still adjusting being here just six months. We’re also closer to Cape Cod where we have a weekend house, which is a very special retreat for the whole family. I love going to Fenway Park and watching the Red Sox, win or lose. My wife has set up a foundation to improve education by a three-prong approach: starting early, building executive function skills in addition to academics, and putting the child at the center of education design.

That’s basically a brief snapshot of the McTeague family; I’d love to hear from classmates: pmcfly@gmail.com to catch up or if visiting Boston.”

Tom Riley reports: “After 25 years in Washington, DC, working in various government and policy positions, including eight years in the White House, Barbara and I and our five children moved back to the area last fall. We live in Radnor, right down the street from where she grew up, and are enjoying catching up with our old EA friends. It was particularly gratifying to see that the distinctive spirit of the Class of ’83 lives on, manifesting itself in the (ultimately unsuccessful) effort to burn my house down during the party following our 30th reunion.”

Rich Roberts tells us: “I live just north of San Francisco in a cool little town called San Anselmo with my wife of 14 years, Courtney, 11-year-old daughter Lily, and four-year-old son Charlie. I really haven’t changed much at all (which is good right?). I’m drumming in a popular local band called Treehouse, playing tennis for the Lagunitas Club team, skiing in Tahoe, mountain biking, doing CrossFit, and goofing around with my kids. Andy Kahn lives close by—we get together just about every week and act like complete idiots.

When I’m not doing all that stuff, I

help companies manage their digital marketing as an SVP at an agency called BusinessOnline.”

Young Synn, now Michael Young Synn, lives in Ridgewood, NJ, with his wife, Sohee, and two children, Nicholas and Julia, and works at Broadridge Financial Solutions as an enterprise architect.”

Ken Vito reports: “Since finishing at EA, I graduated from University of Penn and then completed Penn Medical School. I then relocated to Cleveland to do a residency in otolaryngology–head and neck surgery at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation.

Now I am the managing partner of an ear, nose, and throat specialty practice in the suburbs of Cleveland and am enjoying a great practice in spite of the changes in the health care climate. I am celebrating my 22nd wedding anniversary with my wife, Liese, who attended medical school with me and is a gynecologist. We have two children. My daughter will be attending Cornell University in the fall for chemical engineering and my son attends a high school in Cleveland very reminiscent of Episcopal. I look forward to seeing everyone at the reunion.”

1984 Class Agents: Bill Keffer and Karl Mayro

Save the Date 30th Reunion May 2 & 3, 2014 Karl Mayro is celebrating his 25th year in real estate with Prudential Fox & Roach in Newtown Square. He also served as President of the Alumni Society from 2009 to 2011.

As a television news reporter for a CBS affiliate in North Carolina, Amanda Lamb had the opportunity to cover the

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ClassNotes John Yoo reports: “I visited Korea in April 2013 for the first time since emigrating. Best Korean food, which only makes sense. We were amazed by the modernity and international culture of Seoul. They even have soft pretzels there now, which makes us worry for the fate of Korean civilization.”

destruction left behind by Hurricane Sandy in the Northeast this past year and tell the powerful stories of the people who survived this devastation.

She followed North Carolina volunteers as they helped the victims get back on their feet. She is also continuing to write books. Her seventh, a children’s book, was published in February: I Love You to God and Back. Amanda, who spoke at EA in October, is now working on a book based on her mother’s battle with brain cancer and their profound journey together as mother and daughter from diagnosis to death.

1985 Class Agent: John Susanin

Caleb Milne writes: “Although I didn’t finish at EA, I have some news to share. I did 24 years in the Army National Guard and Reserves and retired as a captain and have worked close to 20 years for the city of Philadelphia as a hearing officer. I live in Old City, and I’d like to send my best to John Chadwick and family, Aldridge, McIntosh, Stellwagon, and hats off to David Casey for his service.

I have fond memories of playing football with Wade, Williams, Pride, Krafterson, and the old gang. My best to everyone. I have twins, Constance and David, age 5. David’s pretty mild, but Constance is like her dad and will be a wild one, in the best sense!”

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1986 Class Agent: Karen Marston

Jonathan Stinnett writes: “It’s been a good couple of months for EA alumni connections in Lower Manhattan.

Got together with fellow New Yorker Christian Red for a laugh-filled reunion with Mike Lisi who had come in from San Francisco for a business trip. I bumped into Drexel head basketball coach James “Bruiser” Flint at a fundraising event for my son’s AAU basketball program. I see Dolph Tokarczyk ’84 pretty often as he lives two blocks away and we share an elementary school. Sadly, the weekly email chain with ’86 classmates Bob Mascioli, Jamie Richter, Christian Red, and Lenny Simonian that began as a way to vent about Philly sports has waned, in lockstep with the dim playoff chances of our favorite teams.”

1987 Class Agents: Andrew Brenner and Ed Jones

lacrosse game versus Agnes Irwin this spring, connecting three generations of EA family together for an afternoon of EA sports.

Cori Burns writes: “I went to Hong Kong with my family, where we had dinner with Mike Hill. Mike seems to be enjoying Hong Kong. We were fascinated by the fact that he takes a network of escalators (I bet 2–3 kilometers of escalators) downhill and uphill to and from work each day. I am in San Francisco, married with two kids—age three and five. We keep busy enjoying the temperate weather, fabulous hiking, and great food in San Francisco.”

Philippe Lucas has a master’s degree in Studies in Policy and Practice from the University of Victoria and is a PhD student in the University of Victoria’s Social Dimensions of Health Program. He is a research affiliate with the Center for Addictions Research of British Columbia and a founding board member of the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies Canada and the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition. Philippe co-owns the kids’ store “Hip Baby Victoria” with his wife, Mary, who manages the shop. They are proud parents of a 4-year-old daughter, Sophie Lucas.

In January, Donal McGay and his wife, Valentina DeNardis, traveled to the Shaanxi province of China where they adopted a 3-year-old boy, Kyan, named after the ancient Greek word for blue or blue sky, who is doing well in his new environment.

1988 Class Agent Needed

Andrew Brenner, Jr. ’19, Ralph Brenner ’45, and Andrew Brenner watched Lauren Brenner’s ’16 JV

Class of ’88 Alumni Reunion Weekend Wrap-Up, May 3 & 4, 2013 25th Reunion

A chilly reunion weekend in May wouldn’t keep the Class of ’88 away!

On Friday evening, Stu Keener ’85 graciously opened up his Baggataway Tavern deck in Conshohocken for our class, which included Kathy Guerette, Dave Bergen, Heather Greenburg, Gordon Buchanan, Paul Chambers, Jeanette Fahey, Amy Davis, JJ Durant, Matt Evans, Adam Farber, Jason Freeman, Molly Gerber, Alexandra Golaszewska, Mike Goldstein, Jen Butler, Anne Brown, Chris Johnson, Michael Jordan, Bill Marvin, Andrew McLuckie, Mike Malone, John Morris, Dennis Nicholson, Lauren Sullivan, Anna Papageorge, Mike Paskin, Bill Reedy, Gerard Rosato, Mike Rothenberg, and Kim Richter.

Lots of laughs were had by all, straight into the wee hours of the morning.

On Saturday evening, Alexandra and Kim addressed the chapel service attendees, and spoke about the early days of coeducation at EA. Kim reflected on the many challenges for not only the new female students, but also administration, teachers, and the boys, and her appreciation for how diligently everyone worked to make it a smooth transition. Alexandra shared her gratitude to the teachers for their willingness to allow the girls to really branch out, particularly regarding new athletic teams. She noted that her casual discussion with a teacher led to the formation of the EA girls squash team. At the on-campus dinner, we were joined by Sean Casey, Brett Moore, and Andrew Snyder. The old stories and laughs picked up where they left off the previous night, and it was great to reconnect with the Shafers, Hon., the Haleys, Hon., Rev. Squire, Hon., and Tom Lees, Hon. Everyone is looking forward to doing it again in five!

one of the Hall of Fame events that has me in the middle (in green) along with Hall of Famers Lawrence Taylor and Rickey Jackson, pro basketball Hall of Famer Michael Jordan, and three other members of our staff.”

1989 Class Agent: Becky (White) Kreutz

Jennifer (Haines) Butler’s daughter Charlotte was the Little Red Hen in the play on Sunday, May 5, after Alumni Weekend. Proud grandfather is Rush Haines ’61.

Andrew Snyder enjoyed seeing some old friends at Reunion in May and cannot believe how quickly 25 years have passed.

Matt Evans also enjoyed himself at Reunion this year and will be returning to Philadelphia. He has accepted a position at St. Peter’s School in Center City. His family is thrilled to be able to take part in many more EA events next year and beyond.

Save the Date 25th Reunion May 2 & 3, 2014 Matt Asbell writes: “My news is that I’m going to be a dad. I am expecting twins in October! Also, in August, I will be presenting a presidential showcase at the American Bar Association annual meeting in San Francisco.

As part of the program, we will be showing a series of five short videos I co-produced for the ABA called ‘IP Is All Around Us.’ The videos illustrate the intellectual property in different settings: Red Bull Arena, the pharmaceutical laboratories of Imclone, AT&T’s archives, City Winery, and in the home of Grammy award–winning songwriter Julie Gold.”

Matt Cascarino lives in Saint Paul, MN, with his wife, Jen, and their 2-year-old son Wylie. Despite the inhospitable winters and the locals’ affinity for outdoor sports, Matt is happy to report that he still maintains his soft office hands.

Steve Strawbridge reports: “For the past five years, I have been the vice president of merchandising/licensing/ marketing at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. I came out to Ohio after 12 great years with the Philadelphia Eagles. I live in beautiful Hudson, OH, and have been married for 14 years to my wife, Lisa, and have two kids, Bryn,12, and Peter, 10, who are very active in every sport imaginable! Here is a photo taken at

Rebekah Kreutz and her family relocated to the San Francisco Bay area from Bozeman, MT, this July. It was a work-related move.

Ray Shetzline has passed 20 years of being a soldier/officer in the United States Army. His summer travel plans include deploying to Bagram, Afghanistan with the 101st Infantry Division.

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ClassNotes Ben Pearcy is designing the projections for a new Broadway musical, Big Fish, that opens at the Neil Simon Theatre in New York on October 5. Everyone should come see it!

Matt Silverman welcomed a new baby, Harry Basil Silverman, on February 18, 2013. He lives with his wife, Alycia Rossiter, and daughter Adelaide (3 1/2) in Hollywood, CA. After three years in Los Angeles, Will Walker, his wife, Sydney, and boys Wyatt, age 11, and Brooks, age nine, are loving the Southern California lifestyle, except the taxes. When Will isn’t trading equities for Capital Group, he coaches both of his boys’ lacrosse teams. He also is an assistant coach for a startup HS team (ironically coached by a Haverford School graduate; the Philly lax connection in LA is alive and well!). He’s also the incoming director of the Pasadena Tribe, the youth lacrosse program in the San Gabriel Valley. Lacrosse is very new to LA but growing rapidly, and he’s happy to be a part of a sport he’s known and played and loved since his days at EA. He still plays regularly in master’s (over 35) games on Sundays.

Will and Sydney make their home in Altadena at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains, where they spend lots of time outdoors enjoying all that Southern California has to offer.

Terry MacNeish writes: “My eldest child, Lilly, loves studying Latin at Harbor High School in Newport Beach, CA. I’d at least like Dr. Pearcy to know that he had a profound effect on my education at Episcopal, in the

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classics and elsewhere. I’m doing technology development for RED Digital Cinema. Engineering meets the movie biz—intriguing. My two girls, Lilly and Frances, are off to The Chewonki Foundation in Wiscasset this summer.”

1990 Class Agent Needed

Becky Demorest writes: “We moved back to the Bay Area in November 2011 after spending a year in Wrightsville Beach, NC. Ryan Michael Pollock was born on March 1, 2012, and big brother Luke just loves him! I recently joined a private orthopedics group in the Bay Area and am working part-time as a pediatric and young adult sports medicine physician. Life is good!”

Jodi Deckter writes: “I have been working in Japan for close to two years now, and today I made a name plate in Kanji (Japanese writing) to hang at my house. That is very common in Japan. But I unfortunately do not have a picture as it still had to go in the kiln and bake. I also bought my 10th flavor of Kit Kats. I have skipped the boring ones like dark chocolate and green tea and today I bought passion fruit Kit Kats. There are definitely some interesting things here, and I have enjoyed the opportunity to buy inexpensive sushi and travel so cheaply around Asia. I have been to Korea several times, China, and my

next trip will probably be to Thailand.

The picture of me was taken on the ferry to Miyajima Island, which is one of the more famous and historic places in Japan. It is right outside Hiroshima.”

Michael Floyd and his wife, Sharla, have two children, Henrietta born September 9, 2010, and Anna Lucrecia born July 16, 2012.

Scott Huston has been appointed to the board of the Chester County Conference and Visitors Bureau. Scott is president of the Graystone Society’s National Iron & Steel Heritage Museum and currently lives in Berwyn.

Brearley (Rauch) Kahn writes: “Photo of my son Heathly Fletcher Khan born on November 21, 2011. My husband’s name is Ali Kahn, we live in Los Angeles, CA.” Former EA Chaplain Recognized for Visionary Leadership—The City of Philadelphia, the national Alliance for Children and Families, and about 200 supporters all paid tribute to the Rev. John E. Midwood at The Union League, April 10, in honor of his life’s work. His wife, Faith, and their daughter, Lydia ’90, were there to help celebrate. Set to retire June 1 after a decade as executive director of

1991 Class Agents: Joe Bongiovanni and Holly (Sando) Rieck

Corps reserves and was recently promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel.

Chris Henderson and his wife,

Philadelphia’s Episcopal Community Services, John has always been committed to helping the city’s most vulnerable find paths to self-sufficiency.

“I grew up in the 60s, touched by social action movements,” he says.

“The impact of poverty, regardless of race, has gotten greater and greater and interested me for 50 years.” A citation from Mayor Nutter described how John “has embraced education as a major initiative spanning all ECS programs” and “has applied his creative vision to marry innovation with impact.” A local member of the Alliance for Children and Families called John “a proven leader in our field” and presented a commemorative plaque.

Assistant chaplain at EA 1970–1974, John recognizes the transformative nature of education. In fact, he says it’s a major factor in breaking the cycle of poverty.

Brett Miller just completed his first year as head boys lacrosse coach at Friends Central School. He is looking forward to building the program with the Friends League.

Catherine Rosato and her husband, Brendan, welcomed their second child, Sarah Geraldine Reilly, on March 13, 2013. They are still in the DC area where she is a member in the DC office of Cozen O’Connor, practicing commercial litigation.

John Stark just welcomed his third child, Gemma Elizabeth Stark, on December 19, 2012. Everyone is doing well!

Allison, welcomed Brooke Hamilton Henderson on February 9, 2013. Her older brothers, Graham ’23 and Rhoads, and sister Sydney are loving her.

1993 Class Agent Needed

Nancy Brown writes: “A picture of my 15-month-old son, Harrison McRae, wearing his EA sweater and my 5-yearold son, Alexander McRae. I live with my husband, Lorenzo McRae, in Washington, DC, where we are both lawyers. I prosecute health care fraud for the government and am also an adjunct law professor. I like catching up with some of my EA friends on Facebook, and I am looking forward to visiting the new campus soon.”

Michelle Petock was married to Ian Werner in April 2008. They had their first child, Henry Werner, born on February 11, 2011. They were married in Miami, FL, and they currently live in London, England.

1992 Class Agents: Charley French and Bill Dougherty

Pace Duckett and his wife, Suzanne, welcomed the birth of their first daughter, Margaret Elizabeth Duckett, on August 8, 2012.

Edward Floyd continues to work and reside in Manhattan. During the past year, he was promoted to partnership status at the law firm of Eaton & Van Winkle, where he is a litigator focused on international maritime and commodities trading disputes. Ed has also remained affiliated with the Marine

Class of ’93 Alumni Reunion Weekend Wrap-Up, May 3 & 4, 2013 20th Reunion From the Reunion Committee: “The Class of 1993 was eager to celebrate our 20th reunion as more than 40 classmates joined in the celebrations, including Kristen Abbonizio, Lewin Barringer, Bonny Barry, Steve Beers, Kara (O’Connor) Chisholm, Tracy (Demorest) Clevens, Mike Coffey, Karen (Ross) Cribbs, Chris Daniels, Stefanie (Raymond) Dill, Ted Farrell, Jeff Greco, Matt Greim, T.J. Griffin, Elissa Helt, Jake Hollinger, Doug Holt, JoAnne (Fortin) Hopkins, Rebecca (Blevins) Hyatt, Peggy Kauh, Jen (Whelan) Kovatch, Jackie MacNeish, Neysun Mahboubi, Sean Manion, Tanya (Weisheit) Mera, Betsy (Williams) Moore, Will Morris, Jason Moyer, Megan (Haley) Noller, Laurie (Norcross) Novosad, Andrew Oberwager, Mike Palumbo, Andrew Purcell, Dave Rosato, Leslie (Helt) Saltzman, Stefan Slowinski, Nicole (Barrett) Stratemeier, Paul Strid, Mike Thornton, Emily (Walker) West, Liz Williams, and Mike Zirilli. The festivities began with a casual get-together on Friday evening, which was generously hosted

by Liz Williams and her husband, Steve Jennings. Will Morris provided

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ClassNotes plenty of nostalgia for the group by presenting the very same slideshow he showcased during our senior year of high school. The celebration continued the following night as many classmates attended the chapel ceremony to support T.J. Griffin’s a cappella performance with fellow members of Philadelphia’s Orpheus Club. The rest of the evening flew by as classmates caught up with one another at the cocktail reception and reunion dinner.

It was a fantastic evening and we look forward to seeing everyone at the 25th reunion! Take care, dear friends!”

Lewin Barringer says: “After living in Italy for five years, I am back in the Philadelphia area teaching music and performing with the band Sunshine Superman. I also run one of YouTube’s most popular Home Recording tutorials and Equipment Reviews channels called Garageband & Beyond, which has more than 26,000 subscribers and more than 3,000,000 views. I am engaged to Valentina Raffaelli whom I have been with for eight years. We met in Tuscany, and I brought her home with me! We plan to get married sometime next year in Italy.”

Ted Farrell, Emily (Walker) West, and Andrew Oberwager, former vestry members of the Class of ’93, catch up on the latest news.

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Peter Hresko reports: “Well, a lot has changed.

I got engaged on February 22 and we are planning a September 2013 wedding in Philly.

My fiancée’s name is Linnea Marie Sassa and she’s originally from King of Prussia, PA. Funny story is we met in San Diego at a birthday party.

We started talking and realized she had gone to MDP in King of Prussia, where Mike Palumbo had gone.

Mike is one of my best friends from EA, so it was really one of these small world moments. Linnea and I moved from San Diego to Clarksville, TN, in December; I was relocated for work to be part of a hospital remodel and addition at Blanchfield Army Community Hospital at Ft. Campbell army base. Linnea is a nurse and found a position at the local hospital.

We expect to be here until spring 2015.

I’m attaching a photo of us from New Year’s this past year.”

Rectal Specialists. It was great to see everyone at the reunion!”

Chris Marvin wants to share: “The family is doing great and Evie and Alex are turning three and five in August. They are looking forward to some beach trips this summer and Alex had a great time running around the new campus during the reunion celebration with Stefan Slowinski’s children. I joined the IBM software group six months ago, and we’re working on setting up a new brand called MobileFirst. Additionally, I’m focused on selling into the Federal government accounts—it’s a big learning experience both being at a company with 425,000 employees and working with the government! Allison’s businesses are going great, and we’re all enjoying settling into our new home in Chevy Chase Village, MD. Please look us up if you’re in the area!”

Andrew Purcell

Laurie (Norcross) Novosad reports: “I was married to my husband, Bo Novosad, on August 15, 2009, and gained my two beautiful stepdaughters, Madelyn, now 14, and Emma, now 10. We had our son, Maxwell William Novosad, July 7, 2011. We moved to McKinney, TX, in July 2012 where I opened a new practice at the brand-new Baylor Medical Center McKinney as a colon and rectal surgeon with Texas Colon &

reports: “Here is a picture of our new addition, Andrew Walseth Purcell, Jr. (“Wally”), 6 lbs.

14 oz. and 20 inches long, born on May 10, 2013.

Melissa and Wally are doing well.

Everyone is healthy and happy!”

Tyrone Ross reports: “I am currently an assistant principal at Hardy Williams Academy Mastery Charter School, it is a K–6 elementary school in southwest

Philadelphia. My wife, Jennifer, and I just had our first child, Olivia Skye Ross, born on November 16, 2012 at the Birth Center in Bryn Mawr. I have also just finished graduate school and now have a master’s in education from Saint Joseph’s University.”

Leslie Saltzman opened her second office of Rittenhouse Women’s Wellness Center in February 2012.

The office is located in Narberth on Montgomery Avenue, and Jean Haab ’84 has joined the practice. Leslie reports that they are enjoying working together.

David Simmonds and his wife, Claire, have been married for almost 16 years and they have two children, age seven and nine. David owns a commercial real estate company in Austin, and the city is booming, so business is always busy and exciting. Claire works at St. Stephen’s Episcopal School in Austin as associate director of college counseling.

Nicole Stratemeier and her husband, Dan, had their third son, Kevin Paul, on November 26, 2012. He joins brothers Sam and Colby.

1994 Class Agents: Tema (Fallahnejad) Burkey, Anna (Morgan) Cassidy, Coryell (McIlvain) Urban, and Sarah (Glick) Johnson

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’24 and Dominique ’27, carry on the EA tradition.

Andrew Daniels and his wife, Pei Sun, are expecting their first child, a baby boy, on September 18. Andrew has just been promoted to research & development director at SunTrust Bank in Atlanta, GA, where he’ll own all of the modeling in their new Corporate Finance Division.

Sam Lubell will be curating an exhibition opening at the A+D Architecture and Design Museum in Los Angeles on July 27. The show is called “Never Built: Los Angeles” and the book for the show is Sam’s fifth.

Anthony Samango is the VP for Carson Concrete in Philadelphia.

Carson Concrete is starting the construction of a 40-story, castin-place concrete high rise at 30th and Chestnut Streets. This building will be constructed over an active railroad system and will have more than 850 living units. Anthony still lives in Philadelphia and spends time in Avalon, NJ, throughout the summer.

Ashley (Schuh) Medina writes: “My husband, Bryan, my son, Andres, born on March 28, 2009, and I welcomed our new addition: Ruby Darling, born on December 20, 2012.”

Adam Barrist recently broke away from “big firm” life, opening The Barrist Firm, LLC, with offices in Center City, Montgomery County, and southern New Jersey. His new law firm focuses on plaintiff personal injury and commercial litigation. Adam and his wife, Joy, and her two children, Alex

front real estate sales and things are going well. I recently returned from a deep-sea fishing trip in the Bahamas on Spanish Cay and continue my explorations of the Yucatan. I am planning to open another small restaurant in Cancún in the fall. Also in picture is David Stilley from Haverford class of ’92.

My brother Ryan Saylor ’01 is living in Los Angeles. He works for Sony and plays in two bands that are gaining popularity. We will both be uncles in September for the first time, sister is expecting.

Eric Kraus, also in the picture, is having great success with his career at Comcast and has two adorable kids.”

Coryell Urban reports: “I’m working part-time as a development associate for the Wayne Art Center, a great organization committed to enriching the community through the arts.

My role there includes building and strengthening relationships with patrons and business sponsors, educating donors about the Pennsylvania Educational Improvement Tax Credit program, and helping out with fundraising events and community outreach programs. I’m also busy with two young daughters, ages seven and five.”

1995 Todd Saylor is reporting: “I am still

Class Agents: Brooke (Doherty) Horgan and Katie Kurz

here working in Caribbean beach

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ClassNotes Marianna Allen and her husband, Adrian Ecker, were proud to welcome their first child, Pierce Michael Ashley Ecker, to the world on April 20, 2013.

Mom, Dad, and Pierce are doing well settling into their new lives at their home in South Philadelphia.

The Krotecs live in Wilmington, DE, where Cathy recently joined The Nemours Foundation as an attending pediatrician with Nemours Pediatrics and as an advisor for Nemours Health and Prevention Services. I am senior vice president at First Aviation Services, Inc.”

Stacy (West) Lick

Kurt Lunkenheimer and his wife, Brooke (Owens) Lunkenheimer ’98, welcomed their first baby, Zoe, who was born six weeks early on May 6, 2013, weighing in at 4 lbs. 8 oz., 17 3/4 inches long.

Jen Miller just graduated from a master’s program at University of Colorado in curriculum and design with a focus in technology after switching careers into teaching three years ago.

She has been teaching fourth grade for the past two years in Denver. This summer, she will be visiting her sister Katherine ’99 in Sweden with Laura Rooklin.

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Joshua Krotec writes: “My wife, Cathy, and son James and I are thrilled to announce the birth of Gwendoline Anne Krotec on March 25, 2013.

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and her husband, Jason, are proud to announce the birth of Evan Durant Lick, born on December 19, 2011. He looks quite handsome in his EA sweater.

The family lives outside of Tampa, FL.

Jessie (Noyes) McEntee writes: “After 13 years in NYC, where I see Priscilla (Farnum) Tuohy and Jamie Evans

2013. She has already proven to have the spunk one might expect from a fiery redhead! Katie is also finishing up her chief resident year in pediatrics at UCSF and will be starting a new job as a primary care pediatrician at Palo Alto Medical Foundation in August.

Elizabeth Shaw writes: “I am settling into life in London, having moved here from New York in December. I am very excited to be getting married in July and to involve longtime EA friends, Karen (Laakmann) Flaherty and Kristen Tiffan, in my wedding in the north of England. Karen will be hosting my bachelorette party in New York in June.”

1997 Class Agent: Julie (Manser) Ganz

a lot, I’m moving with my husband and two kids, ages four and six, to Westport, CT. I hope to go back to teaching once situated, and I’ve also written three novels that I need to shape and try to sell for publication.”

Dave McNeely saw Anders Beck play with his band Greensky Bluegrass in San Francisco in March. It was a great show, and he strongly recommends seeing them live.

David McNeely and his wife, Lia, have had a second child, Tess Clark McNeely, born on October 1, 2012. She joins her sister Helen Welsch McNeely who is 2 1/2.

Katie Padrez and her husband, Ryan, welcomed their first child, Lucy Tupper Padrez, into the world on March 10,

Christmas 2012 with the Browns included: (l to r) in back, Fred Brown ’02 and Jenny and Sam Brown; in the middle, Annie (Brown) Wagoner ’98 and Katie Flowers, Shipley ’08; and in front, Jack Wagoner, age 6, Thatcher Brown, age 1, and Sadie Wagoner, age 3.

Lauren (Imbesi) Caffray and her husband, Charles, welcomed their third child on December 20, 2012.

Lawson Spencer Caffray joins big sisters Charlotte, age four, and Camilla, age two. The girls are thrilled to have a baby brother!

Charles Peruto and his wife, Puja, just

works in the US Senate, where she’s communications director for Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY). They’re currently planning a Kentucky wedding, awash in bourbon and bluegrass.

had another baby, Amari Echo Peruto, on March 19, 2013. He has also started a new company, Peruto Development.

They are building houses along the shore in Margate, Longport, Avalon, and Stone Harbor.

Michael Weil got married in September and started a new job in October as an associate attorney at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in Philly.

1998 Class Agent: Rob Melchionni

Aneish Arora writes: “My wife, Caitlin, and I welcomed our first baby, Landon Edward Arora, into our home on March 29, 2013.”

Class of ’98 Christmas party, December 2012, included: (l to r) Katie (Harmer) Leubecker, John Salvucci (with Ella), Sarah West, Maura (Cannon) Dick, Tom Melvin (with Penelope), Brian Weber, Dave Rooklin, and James Decker.

Maura (Cannon) Dick and her husband, Will, still live and work in New York City. Maura is an executive director of Global Skincare Marketing at Clinique LLC, which is part of Estée Lauder Companies. They recently had their first child, William Cannon Dick (“Billy”), on May 8, 2013.

Ajani McMullen-Williams is enjoying a wild career as a yoga instructor. She obtained her 200hr Vinyasa teaching certification at

had another son, Tyler Raymond Melchionni, on March 7, 2013. Rob still resides in Center City.

Dean C. Vetsikas, CFP®, financial planning specialist at Morgan Stanley in Philadelphia, has been confirmed as a Certified Financial Planner™.

Dean’s practice serves the needs of corporate executives, entrepreneurs, attorneys, retirees, and closely held business owners. He credits Paul Rosenberg, Hon. of Episcopal Academy’s Science Department, who inspired Dean to follow a path toward a master’s in physics from the University of Washington in Seattle and dual BAs in mathematics and physics from The Colorado College, where he was named a Trustee Scholar. Dean serves as a director of the Dave Nee Foundation and co-founder of the Curtis Institute of Music’s Crescendo Club. He and his wife, Julia, live in Center City Philadelphia with their bulldog, Rosie. To learn more about Dean’s practice or to simply say hello, please visit his website: www. morganstanleyfa.com/deanvetsikas.

John Salvucci and his wife, Midge,

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welcomed a new daughter, Ella, on November 5, 2012.

Class Agents: Andrew Addis and Catherine (Hunt) Ryan

Reid Smith recently left his doctoral

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Yoga Sutra in Philadelphia where she practiced Ashtanga and Vinyasa styles religiously. The path of yoga has brought great fulfillment to her life both professionally and personally. She is the proud founder of a teen yoga program by the name of YogaTeens, which she currently teaches in the Philadelphia public school system.

Her adult class list includes studios, gyms, and office buildings throughout the Philadelphia area. For the past four years, she has enjoyed teaching the style of Vinyasa and aims to spread yoga to old and new mat dwellers everywhere! Email her to connect or look her up on Facebook: ajaniwilliams@yahoo.com.

Rob Melchionni and his wife, Dara,

studies to join FreedomWorks, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, DC, as staff writer and editor. In addition, he remains a regular contributor to The American Spectator, writing primarily on politics and civil liberties. In April, Reid became engaged to his beautiful fiancée, Moira Bagley, of Lexington, KY. Moira

Amanda (McDermott) DeGenova and her husband, Mark, have had their first child, Gennaro Hugh DeGenova, age 2½.

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ClassNotes Austin Freeman recently got married on March 16 to Mariana Duran. They are currently living and working in Chicago.

Mid-Atlantic. He is currently working with more than 30 families from Maine to Florida and reports that “life is good on all fronts, we’re very lucky!”

2000 Class Agents: Kimmy Gardner and Jack Meyers

Kylee (Jakobowski) Newman and her husband, Andrew, were blessed with the birth of their first child, a son, Jake Andrew Newman, born on January 9, 2013.

Drew Evans has just completed his Ben Rogers and his wife, Candice, and daughter, Addison Chandler, born on September 1, 2010, welcomed the arrival of Henry Baird Rogers on January 15, 2013. Ben works in Washington, DC, for HSBC Bank as a commercial relationship manager, and they live in Arlington, VA.

Rachael Garrett recently got engaged Ed Shaw was married to Gloria Franke on October 13, 2012. In attendance were: (l to r) Elizabeth Shaw ’96, Ed Shaw, Gloria Franke Shaw, Patrick Dee, and Benjamin Nero.

James Strohacker and his wife, Katie, welcomed James Becket “Jeb” Strohacker, Jr. on November 6, 2012. They moved back to the Philly area from Boston over the winter, as his yacht management business (www. becketco.com) is expanding into the

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1986. I help people with every aspect of personal finance such as debt, mutual funds, and life insurance.

I also am looking to develop other regional vice presidents in my organization. I currently reside in the Mt. Airy section of Philadelphia but am looking to move to Conshohocken near the end of the year where my office is located.”

to Graham Dow. She is receiving her doctorate in environment and resources from Stanford University in June, and this fall she will be doing a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard University at the Kennedy School of Government to examine agricultural technologies for sustainable development.

2001 Class Agents: Evan Coughenour, Drew Crockett, Sarah Baker, and Pete Tedesco

Jaclene Ashford reports: “I was just promoted to regional vice president at Primerica Financial Services in April. I was the first woman to get promoted out of my base shop office since

first year in the Wharton MBA program.

Drew took a school trip to Antarctica this past year.

La Camioneta, the first feature-length film by Mark Kendall, is set to be distributed this summer, with one-week theatrical engagements in NYC (May 31–June 6), Los Angeles (June 7–13), and San Diego (July 2–7), as well as screenings at the Wexner Center for the Arts (July 17), the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston (Sept 20 & 27), and the Phoenix Art Museum (Sept/Oct). More info will be announced soon: www. lacamionetafilm.com.

Bryan Koegel was the chairperson and emcee for the March of Dimes “March for Babies” in King of Prussia last month, and his brother Jon ’97 is getting married in June.

After being away in Taiwan for seven years, Peter Liu is back and going to Carnegie Mellon for his MBA. He is happy to be back in the States and has mastered his Mandarin, both written and spoken.

Jaclyn Paige Lees was married to Chad Allen Leck on June 27, 2009, at

St. Jude and The Nativity Episcopal Church in Lafayette Hill, PA.

from Episcopal were at the wedding: Nicole Haddad ’99 and Jordan Haddad ’07, Nick Lippincott ’67, Tony Morris ’67, Elizabeth Greig ’97, Will Greig ’06, Michelle (Petock) Werner ’91, Doug Petock ’98, and Sheena James. I’m finishing a PhD in computational linguistics at University of Cambridge (UK) while starting as a research scientist at Columbia University. Laura is an artist with several shows to her credit. We live in Manhattan and just brought home a new puppy.”

Danielle Pakradooni has been promoted to national marketing manager for Blue Man Group. They have nine productions worldwide.

Sara Weiner was married to Rocky Collis on August 6, 2011.

2002 Kendyl Leck was born on July 6, 2012.

Class Agents: Kevin Dugan and Tim Mahoney

Jeff Addis recently moved to Swarthmore from Connecticut. He was a sabbatical replacement at Wilmington Friends, teaching history, and will be teaching history next year at Tower Hill School in Wilmington, DE. He will also be coaching soccer.

In August he will be getting married to Erin Timm, who teaches English at Baldwin, in New Hampshire.

Kaveri B. Arora was

Tom Lippincott writes: “Last November, in Scotland, I married Laura Greig, with whom I attended Devon from K–2, 5th, and Merion 6th grades. A number of former students

married to Michael S. Turner on April 20, 2013, at the Fairmount Park Horticulture Center in Philadelphia. She is an associate in the New York office of the Baltimore law firm Venable. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and received a law degree magna cum laude from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University.

Tegan Henwood writes: “I am currently entering my second year as an associate attorney at Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin, in Philadelphia, where I concentrate on product liability, premises liability, dram shop, and amusement, sports, and entertainment defense litigation.

For the past five years, I have been living in Center City Philadelphia. My neighbors include Mike Walsh ’00 and Mike Keating ’98 and his wife, Ursula (Henwood) Keating. I often see fellow alums and Philadelphia area residents Dorota (Dziembowska) Brown, Andrew Brown ’01, Zosia Dziembowska ’04, Courtney Gatter, Whitney Petrosa ’04, C.J. Walsh ’98, Adam Murray, Caitlin (McKenna) Evans, and Drew Evans. This summer, I look forward to attending the wedding of Sara Erstad to Patrick Beehan in Philadelphia, along with Dorota and Andrew Brown, Amy Meissner, Tori (Lawson) Gregarios, and Irene Barrett. My youngest brother, Chris Henwood ’07, is working as a secondyear analyst at SEI investments in Oaks, PA, and is living in Wynnewood.

My cousin, Bridget Henwood ’05, recently completed her first year at Temple University Beasley School of Law.”

Adam Murray recently earned the prestigious portfolio manager title at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management.

The title is bestowed on a select few wealth advisors based on their experience, mastery of portfolio construction, ethics, and status within the firm.

Ted Oberwager graduated from Harvard Business School this spring and rejoined KKR in New York City.

2003 Class Agents: Julia Crawford, Ann Imbesi, and Caroline Cuckler

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and transcription markets with an online, freelancer-based work model. I am also training for my first marathon, the San Francisco Marathon.”

businesses. She recently got engaged and will be married next May in Miami, FL.

Catherine Hay writes: “I am wrapping up my first year in Winter Park, FL, outside of Orlando, where I work for Trinity Preparatory School as associate director of admissions. I recently attended Chapel during Alumni Weekend at EA and enjoyed catching up with faculty and former classmate Jamie (Zug) Oyugi.”

Andrew Brown was married to Emily Silver on May 4, 2013. EA folks in attendance were (l to r): Sean Seelinger, Billie Brown ’05, Andrew, Emily, and Rory Everitt, Shaan Sheikh, and Rocco Imperatrice.

Jason Eskin writes: “I’ve since moved back to Los Angeles where I work in the film biz again. It’s been a whirlwind adventure and through my work I’ve been able to eat at the most expensive restaurants in the world. My focus is on indie cinema in marketing and distribution. No kids or a wife yet, but I’ve been lucky enough to enhance my personal brand by surpassing the 500-friend mark on Facebook. I do try to keep my brain from growing lazy and, through chance, was connected about six months ago with a group of technophiles in NorCal. After raising a decent amount of VC funding, we are in the beta phase of launching the first Groupon for pets app on iPhone and Android. We’re really excited about it.

It’s not rivaling anything on the market, which should be exciting. Not sure if it’s the first ever app for pets, but this is the first Groupon-like app for them.”

Rory Everitt reports: “I moved to San Francisco last summer and love it here.

In January, I started work as a product manager at a new web and mobile startup, Rev.com. We are 12 people strong and disrupting the translation

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Christiana (Frieman) Voelker and her husband, Brad, are moving to Clarkston, MI. She has been promoted to project manager at McKesson.

2004 Class Agents: Nick Brown and Michael Ciccotti

Mary Bergstrom was married to

Heather Muir and Jake McKeon ’02 were married on November 10, 2012.

Some of those EA-related people in attendance were Steve Muir Hon., Robert Muir, Joy Muir, John Powell ’70, Elizabeth (Leonard) Zwillinger ’00, Justin Leake, Mary Ellen Dougherty, Adam Murray ’02, Dan Dougherty, Hon., Caitlin McKenna ’02, Kristen Guernsey ’02, Drew Evans ’02, Caitlin Gondek, Alex Henwood, Jennifer Robinson,

James Duggan on July 31, 2010.

Caitlin Devlin reports: “I was married to Greg Andreotta on February 11, 2012, at St. Thomas of Villanova Church, with a reception at the Union League of Philadelphia. We had a few EA grads in attendance, including Mary (Bergstrom) Duggan, Jocelyn Hanamirian, and Lauren Shugrue.”

Katie Harris recently founded her own art consulting company, Duende Arts. The company advises young and developed collectors and supports local artists in Greenwich, CT, by helping them show their works in local

Nick Brown, Courtney Robinson ’02, Matt Sutton ’05, Len Haley, Hon., Gordon Cooney ’77, Edna Haley, Hon., Brittany Sharkey, Ashley Battista, Heather (Muir) McKeon, Kate O’Donnell, Courtney Snyder ’02, Samantha McKeon, Kirsten Powell, Hon., Matthew Muir ’00, Steve

Iannocone ’02, Jake McKeon ’02, Ted Oberwager ’02, Jeff Rosenbluth ’02, and Tom Jakobowski ’02. Not pictured: Timothy Muir ’99 and Brian Muir ’03.

Zach Mondesire recently finished his

Class Agents: Nick Morris and Packy McCormick

first year of a doctoral program at Penn in Africana Studies as well as a pretty strong first season coaching the novice women in the Philadelphia City Rowing program. He recently traveled to Cairo and then to Juba, South Sudan to do some pilot research for his doctoral studies.

After eight years in the Bay Area, Alicia DeSantola has finally decided to buy a winter jacket. She is headed to Boston to pursue doctoral studies at the Harvard Business School with the intention of becoming a professor.

Lauren Zimmaro will be attending the University of Louisville this fall for her PhD in clinical psychology. Her primary research focus will be on mindfulness and health psychology in cancer patients.

2006

2007

Class Agents: Kelsey Reinhard & Warren Scott

Class Agents: Rahul Jha, Shane Isdaner, Annie Spofford, and Megan McFarland

2005

Sam Daly, USMC, deployed in March from Norfolk, VA, aboard the USS San Antonio (troop transport). He is serving as the fire direction officer for Kilo Battery, Battalion Landing Team, 3rd Battalion 2nd Marines. His battalion is attached to the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), currently operating with the 5th fleet in the CENTCOM area of operations (Middle East). They have made stops in Spain, Greece, Qatar (where they conducted bilateral training with the Qatari Armed Forces), and Bahrain. He was promoted to 1st lieutenant on March 18. He expects to return to the States in December.

Medha Khandelwal recently cofounded a website called Roomidex, which helps people find roommates in big cities. Unlike Craigslist, Roomidex makes finding a roommate safer and easier by showing users which people in their networks, friends, and friends of friends are also looking for a roommate in their city. Users can also search for roommates based on city, rent, neighborhood, and gender preferences.

Rachel Daddona recently completed her master’s degree in marine mammal science from the University of Miami and has spent the past several years in South Florida rescuing and rehabilitating stranded marine wildlife.

She is gearing up to spend this summer in Costa Rica working as a marine biologist with local nonprofits and teaching sea turtle biology, ecology, and conservation to college students on study-abroad programs.

Yasha Shahidi has just finished his first year of law school at Rutgers University School of Law, Camden. He finished among the top 10 students in his class and received first year honors as well as made it onto the dean’s

list. This summer, he will be working in the Office of General Counsel for ACE Group Insurance as a summer associate.

Christina Vick-Kell reports: “I’ve been in China for seven months, and after an initial stay teaching English to a developer in Nanning (Guangxi), have been living in Shanghai for the past three months. I recently got a job as an account executive at ad agency mcgarrybowen’s new Shanghai office, and it’s been quite the experience so far. The staff is small for now, so I’ve already gotten to work on tons of accounts (five big corporate clients in my first week here, with many more to come) in different capacities. Sometimes it’s a simple matter of translating pitches and communications from Chinese to English, sometimes it’s researching Chinese market trends for presentation to potential clients, and sometimes it’s thinking up completely insane global marketing possibilities. Every day, I get to do something new and my work has immediate impact, which is pretty cool for having just started.”

2008 Class Agents: Blake Shafer and Heather Hayes

Save the Date 5th Reunion November 29, 2014 Rachel Chung reports: “After graduating from Cornell University in May 2012, I took some time off and returned home to Newtown Square.

The following fall semester, I interned at WHYY, Philadelphia’s NPR member station, helping produce a music and performance TV program called On Canvas. This past spring, I received a job offer from Ernst & Young and will be starting work this coming

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ClassNotes August. More specifically, I will be a management consultant within their Performance Improvement division.

Although I intended to gather my belongings and move to the West Coast, I could not imagine leaving Philly again after having just returned to our City of Brotherly Love. Luckily, E&Y is a global firm so I will be working out of the Philadelphia office. It’s hard to believe it’s already been five years, but I’m looking forward to EA 2008’s reunion this coming fall!”

Elizabeth Leonard has started a business called BlueBridge Project.

It is a service-learning adventure company for high school students; www.bluebridgeproject.com.

Mark Nakahara writes: “I graduated from Penn in May 2012 with a degree in classical studies, and since August have been teaching Latin and Greek at Scranton Preparatory School, a Jesuit high school in Scranton, PA. In addition to teaching, I have served as moderator for the Classical Language Club and the Musicians Club, and I still play the viola occasionally for school functions.”

Kelly Zug was just awarded a Fulbright grant to teach in Bulgaria, starting in September.

spring. They row for Penn, and I row for Cornell. Sarah McGovern was there coxing for UVA but we couldn’t get her in the picture.”

Caroline Hanamarian has been named a co-winner of Princeton University’s 2013 Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize. This award is the highest general distinction conferred on an undergraduate.

Todd Harrity reached his third men’s national squash final, helping Princeton University, coached by Bob Callahan ’73, capture another Ivy League championship over powerhouses Yale and Harvard.

Dylan Mullen recently graduated from Loyola University Chicago and is starting her first job as an assistant digital planner at Carat, a leading media agency in New York City.

2010 Class Agents: Jake Butts, Kirsten Petrocelli, and Lauren Berry

Libby Eyre was a member of the Princeton University women’s squash team, which won their first Ivy title since 2009, and their sixth overall.

environmental exhibits for the festival of Expomarimba and with a local school to create an environmental and recycling program. As a backpacking trip lead for my school, I will be one of the leaders for the first backpacking orientation program being offered in August.”

Margaret Heil writes: “As a sophomore, one of my dresses was recently accepted into the Antoinette Westphal fashion show at Drexel.

I’m one of two sophomores to be accepted.

The show was on June 8 at the Urban Outfitters headquarters. I’m a fashion design major at Drexel and will graduate in 2015.”

Bruce Leto won the Haverford/Bryn Mawr College Student Concerto Competition and performed the 3rd movement of George Gershwin’s Concerto in F with the Haverford/Bryn Mawr Orchestra on April 19.

2009 Class Agents: Erin Flynn and Caroline Hanamirian

Kristen Robinson reports: “This

Meagan Berry writes: “Christine Davis ’12, me, and Elizabeth Picciani ’11 met up at the Clemson Invite this

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summer, I am working in Costa Rica through Crawford Hill’s ’70 Costa Rica Adventures as a senior practicum experience for my environmental conservation studies major at the University of New Hampshire. I am working with nonprofits to create

Alumni parent Jeremy Coote was at the Trinity vs. Amherst lacrosse game in April and got this shot of some recent EA grads. Pictured are: (l to r) Sam Lawlor ’12, Carl Lampe ’11, Henry Coote ’12, and Chase Growney.

Lauren Wilkinson reports: “I am just wrapping up my junior year at Franklin & Marshall College, on the executive board of the all-female a cappella group Sweet Ophelia, president of Ski and Snowboard Club, music chair of my sorority Alpha Delta Pi, and a member of the Concert Committee hosting Lupe Fiasco, White Panda, and Matt & Kim within the past year. I also enjoy hosting my own show, ‘Lauren@ Lunchtime,’ on F&M’s WFNM college radio.”

2011

Boston Marathon bombing and the Drexel team was rowing in support of his recovery.

Burk FitzPatrick was picked Hometown Philly Rookie of the Week for the week ending May 5 by Ted Silary. He is a pitcher at the University of Maine and is enjoying a good rookie season.

2013 Class Agent Needed Please send us your news and notes!

Class Agents: Jimmy McEntee and Haley Habenicht

Alumni Community Service Outreach Len Haley, Hon. has joined the Alumni and Development Office for a variety of tasks, including developing a community service program for alumni.

For more information, please contact Len at lhaley@episcopalacademy.org.

excellence in debating is presented to the winning team of the annual debate tournament. The names are engraved on the bowl, which is on display in the Annenberg Library.

2013 Class Agent Needed

Ned Dana is enjoying his sophomore year singing with Yale’s Out of the Blue. Highlights include performing for Aung San Suu Kyi and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Monique McKenny has been accepted and will participate in the Moore Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill for 10 weeks. She will be mentored by a professor in the Psychology Department as she works to better understand psychology research.

2012 Class Agent: Brian Metzler

Jordan Marinchak and her Drexel University crewmates were featured in an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer before the Dad Vail Regatta. Jordan’s cousin was severely injured in the

On May 21, eight Junto alumni returned to EA to judge this year’s MacBean Bowl. Alumni judges were: (l to r) Sean O ’Reilly ’12, Katie Gallagher ’12, Jackie Blickman ’12, Kyle Henson ’11, Brad Hahn ’11, Anders Lindgren ’11, Jimmy McEntee ’11, and Jack Freese ’11. EA participants included Connor Boyle, Katie O’Reilly ’14, Chester Thai ’14, Shreya Reddy, Daniel Saedi, Matt London, Pat McCarthy, Rohan Gulati, Nick Mead, Julia Fay, Dean Avgerinos, Anthony Thai, Steven Lucey, Matt Vegari, and Daniel Schlaff. After three rounds of debate with resolves covering topics from the sale of transplant organs to The Dream Act to Adderall, last year’s MacBean Bowl champions, Connor Boyle and Rohan Gulati, were pitted against the team of Julia Fay and Nick Mead. This year, Nick and last year’s finalist Julia came away with the hard-fought victory. Congrats to all participants on a great night of debate!

The Douglas N. MacBean Bowl for

Joanie Hofmeyr, EA exchange student from South Africa, met soprano Anna Netrebko at the Metropolitan Opera and saw Anna perform in The Elixir of Love.

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Forever Episcopal Paul Pratt ’14 He had a way of touching everyone around him—with his smile, with

Donations in Paul Pratt’s memory can be made to: Paul Pratt ’14 Memorial Fund The Episcopal Academy c/o Paige Peters LeGrand 1785 Bishop White Drive Newtown Square, PA 19073 The funds raised will be used to support worthy crew athletes.

his quick wit, and snappy remarks. With his candor and spontaneity. Paul Pratt had a way of impacting lives. It is why those who knew him, rowed with him, saw him every day, still find it hard to fathom that he’s gone.

Two summers ago, Pratt once accidentally severed two fingers and part of another on his left hand. The Episcopal Academy student was never supposed to row again. He did, not only making the Churchmen team, but making it onto their top boat and blossoming into one of the best rowers in his age bracket in the nation.

On May 16, Pratt was killed in a one-car accident on a curvy, dark road in Radnor. The next day, his friends and teammates decided to carry on without him in the prestigious Stotesbury Cup Regatta on the Schuylkill.

After finishing third at the Stotesbury, they kept pulling for Paul, winning the Scholastic Rowing Association of American National Regatta on the Cooper River in Pennsauken on May 24-25. Three weeks after that, they finished seventh in the U.S. Rowing Youth National Championships (June 7-9) on Melton Hill Lake, in Oak Ridge, TN. Though his teammates had lost Paul, what cannot be lost is the memory of a kid who found his niche rowing. And just as quickly as he found it, it seemed, it was almost taken away. The first week into the summer vacation between his freshman and sophomore year, he lost half of two fingers and a third of another on his left hand in a wood-splitter accident behind his home.

Pratt went into the summer with hopes of making the Churchmen’s heavyweight four boat in his sophomore year. He went from that to suddenly wondering whether he’d ever be able to even hold an oar in his hand.

“Paul had an incredible amount of strength, mentally and physically,” said Episcopal crew coach Molly Konopka, who has been the Churchmen coach since 1997. “There was some doubt whether or not Paul would row again after he lost his fingers. My first thought was if Paul was OK. My son first heard about it on social media, and I ended up calling the school if they had heard about Paul.

“It was pretty clear his freshman year that Paul loved rowing and it’s what he felt he could excel. It was the whole jumping the hurdle that his [recovery] would be substantial after the accident. But Paul stuck by it and came out his sophomore year—and not only that, he made the top boat on the team. We had some top kids in that boat, but Paul didn’t accept his situation. Paul wasn’t a kid who took ‘no’ very well.

Pratt never did.

“Paul was like my heart. He was like my sidekick,” said Kimberly Pratt, his mother, who has six other children. “He had a charismatic personality. Paul was a character who loved life. He was passionate about everything. Paul was an unfiltered, bull-in-a-china-shop kind of kid. We would go on 5-mile bike rides and he would want to ride a little more. He would say he wanted to do a little more. He went off one time, he came back and did 70 miles. He had that passion to love every day like it was his last. He had a bigger-than-life personality.

He led a worthwhile life.”

He was a workout machine. It was what spurred teammates Nick Mead ’13, James Konopka ’14 (Molly’s son), Jack Alden ’14, Guillaume Furey ’15 and coxswain Jimmy Larkin’ 14. After losing his fingers, Pratt began his road to recovery on an ergo rowing machine, showing his father how to use it. He found out he could still row.

“Paul realized then he could still row,” Furey said. “Paul liked to talk. He was idealistic and liked to engage people in long discussions about deep topics sometimes. Paul was also hilarious. He was never afraid to speak his mind, which gave him a funny edge.”

Then Furey laughed for a moment. He recalled a story from last winter. The two had gone to a Friday practice on a day it snowed. Few showed up that day. The next day, practice was optional. Pratt and Furey decided not to go.

At least that’s what Furey thought.

“There was Paul that morning; he found a way into my house, found me in the basement, woke me up to go to practice,” Furey said, laughing. “It must have been about 6, 6:30 in the morning. I woke up to this kid above me shaking me, ‘Wake up, ‘G,’ wake up.’

After about a 10-minute discussion, I decided not to go. That was Paul. He loved rowing and loved going to practice. He wanted me to get better. He wanted us all to get better. He worked so hard that he made everyone around him work hard. It’s been hard without him.

We all miss him. It’s why it’s so hard to talk about him.”

This year was the most trying season in Konopka’s coaching career.

“Paul’s coordination had to catch up to his strength, and when it did, he took off,” she recalled. “A lot of strength can take you far in this sport. Rowing is painful. He was OK with the pain—he loved it. He used to say he knew the pain was coming, and he said it made him push harder—that he could push more when it hurt.

“To be honest, after Paul died, it was hard for them to push their boat off even off the dock. But it’s a testament to what these kids wanted to do in memory of Paul. We won’t forget him. You never forget someone like that.”—Joseph Santoliquito

Charles Edward “Chick” Gallagher ’42

Charles Edward “Chick” Gallagher of Cold Spring, a 1942 graduate of The Episcopal Academy who went on to be decorated World War II combat photographer before a long career as a documentary filmmaker, died of cancer at his home on April 14, 2013 at the age of 88.

As the personal U.S. Army photographer to Generals Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley and Keyes in Italy, Gallagher captured the first pictures of U.S. troops entering Rome on June 4, 1944. He was later awarded the Legion of Merit, a Silver Star, two Bronze Stars, a service ribbon and a Purple Heart for his photography on the front lines.

His company, Unifilms, produced award-winning documentary films for clients such as the Pennsylvania Railroad, National Safety Council, National Science Foundation, Library of Congress, CBS News/Special Events and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), including five of the official Apollo mission films for the Goddard Space Flight Center. He was known for persuading celebrities to donate their voices to his films. Actors Richard Burton and Robert Preston narrated Gallagher’s film for NASA, The World Beyond Zero, about the unmanned missions leading to the Apollo space program. Gallagher’s films won him Highest Honors at the Venice Film Festival (three consecutive years) and at the Edinburgh Film Festival (two years), and Grand Prize (twice) for his work with the National Safety Council.

Gallagher also was a pioneer in experiential education. He and his wife, Stephanie Harris Gallagher, formed The Oceanics Schools in the early 1970s, to offer high school and college students a semester of work, study and travel onboard large square-rigged sailing ships in Europe, West Africa and South America.

Gallagher was an avid sailor on Long Island Sound, keeping a boat in Old Greenwich, Conn., and later in New Rochelle. In the early 1990s, he revived the defunct Overseas Yacht Club, based in New York City, and served as commodore for many years. In 2002, he formed the Calf Island Community Trust to preserve the island off the coast of Greenwich as a unique maritime, estuarine, wilderness experience and community resource.

Since 1995, Gallagher served as vice president of World City America, an initiative to capture a share of the $40-billion-a-year foreign-dominated cruise industry for the American economy and workers (americanflagship.com).

Gallagher is survived by his wife Stephanie of 46 years, son Blakeney Gallagher and daughter-in-law Catherine Eddy Gallagher of The Plains, Va., daughter Margaret Winston (Megan) Gallagher of The Plains and son John Peter Gallagher of Manitou Springs, CO. Gallagher was predeceased by his eldest son, Charles Edward Gallagher Jr.

Forever Remembered

Milestones Marriages 1996

Caitlin Devlin to Greg Andreotta February 11, 2012

John McGlinn to Brook Leach October 6, 2012

Births and Adoptions

1998

1983

Michael Weil to Greta Richter September 29, 2012

Chris Brookins and Lisa Brookins Parke Brookins age 6 Reid Brookins age 4

1999

Austin Frieman to Mariana Duran March 16, 2013

Rich Roberts and Courtney Roberts Charlie Roberts age 4

Edward Shaw to Gloria Franke October 1, 2012

1987

James Srohacker to Katherine Johnson May 21, 2011

Philippe Lucas and Mary Lucas Sophie Lucas September 27, 2008

Mia Wood to Jeb Broomell June 1, 2013 2000

Jaclyn Lange to Peter Hall June 16, 2012 2001

Sarah Weiner to Rocky Collis August 6, 2011 2001

Jaclyn Paige Lees to Chad Allen Leck June 27, 2009 Thomas Lippincott to Laura Greig November 17, 2012 2002

Kaveri Arora to Michael Turner April 20, 2013 2003

Andrew Brown to Emily Silver May 4, 2013 2004

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Donal McGay and Valentina DeNardis Kyan McGay age 3 1989

Matt Silverman and Alicia Silverman Adelaide Silverman age 3½ Harry Basil Silverman February 18, 2013 1990

John Stark and Serena Stark Ethan Stark May 21, 2007 Christian Stark March 7, 2009 Gemma Elizabeth Stark December 19, 2012

Becky Demorest and Joseph Pollock Ryan Michael Pollock March 1, 2012

Tyrone Ross and Jennifer Ross Olivia Skye Ross November 16, 2012

Catherine (Rosato) Reilly and Brendan Reilly Sarah Geraldine Reilly March 13, 2013

Nicole (Barrett) Stratemeier and Dan Stratemeier Colby Stratemeier June 25, 2009 Kevin Paul Stratemeier November 26, 2012

Laura Greig and Ian Werner Henry Werner February 11, 2011 1992

Pace Duckett and Suzanne Duckett Margaret Elizabeth Duckett August 8, 2012 Chris Henderson and Allison Henderson Brooke Hamilton Henderson February 6, 2013 1993

Chris Marvin and Allison Marvin Genevieve Marvin August 26, 2010 Tanya (Weisheit) Mera and Andrew Mera Milo Mera January 15, 2013 Geoff Michael and Heidi Michael Maxwell Murdy Michael November 26, 2012

1991

Laurie (Norcross) Novosad and Bo Novosad Maxwell William Novosad July 7, 2011

Nancy Brown and Lorenzo McRae Alexander Langston McRae age 5 Harrison Baxter McRae January 30, 2012

Andrew Purcell and Melissa Purcell Andrew Walseth Purcell, Jr. “Wally” May 10, 2013

1994

Ashley (Schuh) Medina and Bryan Medina Andres Matthew Medina March 28, 2009 Ruby Darling Medina December 20, 2012 1995

Marianna (Allen) Ecker and Adrian Ecker Pierce Michael Ashley Ecker April 20, 2013 Jeannine (D’Amico) Lemker and Michael Lemker Colin Lemker November 6, 2010 Kurt Lunkenheimer and Brooke (Owens) Lunkenheimer ’98 Zoe Lunkenheimer May 6, 2013 Michael Petock and Audrey Petock Keehan Petock November 16, 2009 1996

Josh Krotec and Cathy Krotec Gwendoline A. Krotec March 25, 2013 Stacy (West) Lick and Jason Lick Evan Durant Lick December 19, 2011

Jessica (Noyes) McEntee and JustinMcEntee Finlay McEntee November 25, 2006 Sadie McEntee December 14, 2008 Dave McNeely and Lia McNeely Tess Clark McNeely October 1, 2012 Katie (Gregg) Padrez and Ryan Padrez Lucy Tupper Padrez March 10, 2013 1997

Lauren (Imbesi) Caffray and Charles Caffray Lawson Spencer Caffray December 20, 2012 Michael Campbell and Lisa Campbell Henry Campbell August 11, 2009 Chas Peruto and Puja Peruto Priya Silen Peruto May 27, 2011 Amari Echo Peruto March 19, 2013 1998

Aneish Arora and Caitlin Arora Landon Edward Arora March 29, 2013 Maura (Cannon) Dick and Will Dick William Cannon Dick “Billy” May 8, 2013 Matt Haldeman and Lindsay Haldeman William Haldeman November 29, 2012 Rob Melchionni and Dara Melchionni Tyler Raymond Melchionni March 7, 2013.

Lexi (Krotec) Peskin and Aaron Peskin Charlotte Peskin February 17, 2012 John Salvucci and Erin Salvucci Ella Salvucci November 5, 2012 1999

Anna (McDermott) DeGenova and Mark DeGenova Gennaro Hugh DeGenova 2-1/2 James Strohacker and Katie Strohacker James Becket “Jeb” Strohacker, Jr. November 6, 2012 Kaylee (Jakobowski) Newman and Andrew Newman Jake Andrew Newman January 9, 2013 2000

Benjamin Lee Bird April 16, 2013 1937

Edmund Thayer, Jr. June 13, 2013 1940

George Reginald Bishop, Jr. July 4, 2012 1942

Charles E. Gallagher April 14, 2013 William Barcley Lex, Jr. February 27, 2013 1943

John W. Toebe March 25, 2013 1944

Ernest L. Ransome May 5, 2013

2001

Russell Hurd Crawford February 19, 2013

1932

John S. Dixon, Jr. December 22, 2012 F. Gardiner Pearson April 3, 2013 1936

1969

John David Lindsay May 8, 2013 1970

Richard S. Yusem February 6, 2012 1973

George L. Church, Jr. June 26, 2013 2007

Margaret M. Orr December 14, 2012 2014

Paul Lewis Pratt May 16, 2013

Rodman B. Finkbiner March 24, 2013 William N. Hawley September 23, 2012

Passings

David Simmons Waite April 20, 2013

1945

Ben Rogers and Candice Rogers Addison Chandler September 1, 2010 Henry Baird Rogers January 15, 2013

Jaclyn (Lees) Leck and Chad Allen Leck Kendyl Keck July 6, 2012

1966

Warren C. Nagle January 20, 2013 1946

1947

William P. W. Hancock March 12, 2013 John C. Henefer February 23, 2013 1954

Warren B. Scott June 12, 2013 George A. Vare, Jr. April 12, 2013

Nicholas Biddle, Jr. April 26, 2013

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LastWord

Oh, the Places We’ve Gone!

By James E. Rooks, Jr. ’63

Last May, I had the privilege of speaking for my 50-year reunion class at the annual alumni Chapel service. Preparing for my talk, I had a priceless resource: our 350-page Class history, in which scores of our classmates had written—with honesty, humility, and love—about their lives during and after Episcopal.

The result is a bit like the Dr. Seuss book Oh, the Places You’ll Go!—but viewed from the other end of the life experience.

Like modern-day EA students, we had unlimited opportunities for learning and growth. The question was always what we’d make of them. As our parents wanted, most of us went to college right after graduating, collecting at least 69 bachelor’s degrees, and another 30 diplomas from graduate schools. We’ve worked in a score of occupations, and we’ve had all of the ups and downs of working life.

Money and success have been important to us, of course, but some of us have pondered what success means, and the ways in which we personally might measure it, and have reached unconventional conclusions. Most of us have done some things that didn’t pay well. Our classmates have comforted the afflicted and afflicted the comfortable.

They’ve healed the sick, saved lives, and given life.

There haven’t been many perfectly smooth trajectories in our careers. Some of what we tried to do worked, and some didn’t. We learned that failure often alternates with success, and that failure is an essential part of learning. But learning that disappointment is inevitable doesn’t make it less devastating. Even as grown men, we’ve sometimes been sad, lonely, frightened, and unsure about what to do next—just as a 14-year-old might be.

Sometimes we cried. (I did.) We learned

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that when that happens, sitting around and waiting for things to improve usually doesn’t work. We have to “take arms against [the] sea of troubles.”

We’ve been in love. The lucky ones among us still are, or are again. Being in love is fun. Seventy of us got married.

Sixty-four of us have 160 children and 76 grandchildren. Most of our children are adults now, and they give us plenty of chances to mind our own business.

We’ve had losses. We’ve lost money, friends, opportunities, and careers, but those can all be replaced. We’ve lost many of our parents, some of our brothers and sisters, other family members and friends, 13 classmates, and several wives and partners. Those are harder losses. We’ve lost four of our children and one grandchild, and those are the hardest losses of all.

We’ve been religious in varying ways and times, in all of the principal denominations. Some of us live secular lives, but a few may sense the presence of what Salman Rushdie once called a “God-shaped hole” in their lives. It needs to be filled with something—even if it’s as simple (and as complicated) as a commitment to live a compassionate life.

We’ve been creative. Members of our class founded the Epolitan student magazine. We’ve painted pictures,

designed houses and other buildings, composed and performed music, written poems, stories, learned articles, books, songs and one musical, and made powerful music videos. We’ve invented new devices, and made beautiful photographs. We’ve made things with our hands, ranging from museum-quality ship models to full-size sailboats, and probably more than one children’s playhouse.

Some of us had boyish dreams of being soldiers, sailors, jet pilots, astronauts and pirates. By accident of history, 43 of us did get to wear our country’s uniforms. Fifteen classmates spent time in Southeast Asia, and all returned safely— not every EA class was that fortunate.

Most of us who served in the military had routine jobs, but a few classmates were in the thick of combat, fighting for their lives and for the lives of others.

Some performed other public service, whether or not officially recognized by the government. And a few classmates did something that every democracy needs— they told the government, “You’re wrong.”

They resisted the draft and spoke out against the war in Vietnam.

If we compared our classmates with a random group of American men our age, what we’ve done would look like an extraordinary record of experiences and accomplishments. But the fair comparison would be with other EA classes, and compared to them, I think we’re about average.

When I look at our classmates, I don’t see simply “old guys.” I see good friends and good company, but, most importantly, I see good men—who still have time to go to a few new places and have a few more adventures, and who still have the same unlimited opportunities for learning and growth that we had when we were students at Episcopal.

Off to great places! Today is our day!

Our mountains are waiting. Let’s get on our way!

This column was adapted from Jim Rook’s Alumni Chapel talk on May 3. The service may be viewed on the Academy’s YouTube channel at http://www.youtube. com/watch?v=1szkea72Fto.

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