2016 Spring Greetings - Wayland Academy

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I Remember: The Fine Arts

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Greetings Wayland Academy Greetings, March 2016 The Oldest Alumni Publication in America www.wayland.org Greetings is published for the alumni, parents, students, friends, and staff of Wayland Academy. We welcome letters concerning the content of this magazine and/or issues relating to the Academy. Letters must be signed and we ask that you include your address and daytime number for verification purposes. The editorial staff retains the right to edit at their discretion.

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I Remember: The Fine Arts

Send correspondence to: Greetings Editor, Wayland Academy 101 North University Avenue Beaver Dam, WI 53916 Or email the Editor at: amcdonnell@wayland.org

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Capstone Projects

Joseph A. Lennertz H`86 Head of School jlennertz@wayland.org

contributors

Andrew McDonnell Editor Director of Communications amcdonnell@wayland.org Judy Hill H`08 Director of Advancement jhill@wayland.org

Tyler Ratajczak Leadership Gift Officer tratajczak@wayland.org Kendall Vingua `02 Director of Alumni Relations kvingua@wayland.org

Kelly Neuert Director of Donor Relations kneuert@wayland.org Stephanie Levey Advancement Associate slevey@wayland.org

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Alumni in Fine Arts

Caitlin Shetterley Wayland Fellow cshetterley@wayland.org Leslie Walton `11 Wayland Fellow lwalton@wayland.org

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News & Notes

Some photography generously provided by Kristene G. Boucher `97 Art Instructor Cover Photo: George Pfoertner `80

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A GREETINGS GREETING

OSCAR W I LD E concluded the preface to his novel The

tradition of incorporating the “useless” into the curriculum

Picture of Dorian Gray with an oft-quoted phrase: “All art is

and life of the Academy. Some of the oldest documents in

useless.”

Wayland’s archives are programs from dramatic readings,

That is a troubling statement out of context, particularly from the pen of an artist. Taken in context, Wilde made a complex statement about the purpose and value of the arts (while pre-emptively scolding his critics, a neat trick). Less famous words preceded his aforementioned quotation: “We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.”

poetry recitations, and musical performances, as well as photographs of students performing in wild costumes on stage. Today, many students choose to do much more than merely fulfill their fine arts requirement in the classroom.

They spend their extra hours painting, acting, singing, and playing instruments with nothing at stake but the fulfillment inherent in the act of creation.

It is clear from the letters we received from many alums (p. 11) that the arts are central to the Wayland experience.

usefulness is not the sole source of value , in life and in education .

While devoted to the pursuit of “useful” knowledge (as so

In this issue of the Greetings, we are pleased to relate some of those memories and to feature a few alumni who have continued to create and perform beyond their student years.

many consider the realm of mathematics, science, and the tenets of grammatically sound writing) Wayland has a long

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Play On, Players

Fine Arts on Campus

The Wayland Academy Players staged The Addams Family, a macabre fall musical, on November 6 and 7, 2015. Tackling the lead roles in this dark comedy were seniors Madison Jewell as MorticiaAddams and Aryana Barudin in the role of Wednesday Addams. The swashbuckling Gomez Addams was played by Fischer Vickers `17, and Charles Stehno `16 performed as the glowering butler/creature of the night Lurch. In addition to those and other excellent acting performances, the pit, directed by Mrs. Amy Throndsen H`14, brought the musical to life. The performance was the ninth Wayland musical directed by Fine Arts Department Chair Christopher Mientus.

This spring will find the players presenting the theatrical version of The Philadelphia Story, directed by English teacher Martha Kesler H`08. All alumni, parents, and friends are invited to attend the production which will be staged on April 14-15 at 7:30 p.m. and a matinee performance on April 17 at 2 p.m.

1 Charles Stehno `16 Prepares for the role of Lurch 2 Morgan Mertig `17 as Grandma Addams 3 Fischer Vickers `17 and Madison Jewell `16 1

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Lessons & Carols On the evening of December 6, the Wayland community gathered together in Kimberly Chapel for the 51st Festival of Lessons and Carols. Keeping with tradition, the candlelit service wove together traditional Christmas hymns performed by student musicians and ensembles with readings from scripture

by Wayland students and faculty.

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Wayland Athletics by

LESLIE WALTON `11

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Success on the Courts & the Pitch The girls tennis program once again had a successful season.

Under the coaching of Andrew Borneman, three top players made it to State. Number one doubles team Madison Jewell `16 and Katie Schulz `16 qualified for the State Tournament after winning the SubSectional and placing third at the Sectional. Nicola Gabler `17 finished the season 15-3 playing number one singles and was Conference Player of the Year. Gabler made it to the State Tournament and won her first round match in a three set tie-breaker.

Head coach Jonathon Shoop and the boys varsity soccer team finished the season with a 11-5-1 record. Marco Silva `17 led the team with 25 goals throughout the season. Silva received the PlayInTheDells.com Athlete of the week award for his accomplishments with the help of our Wayland community. He received over 3,000 votes. Arjun Garcha `18 and Silva received national recognition by MaxPreps and received Wisconsin Player of the week awards. Captain Angel Heredia `17 led the Big Red with 14 assists and contributed five goals.

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beyond

Campus STEAM Students Get an ASYST

Model UN Trumps Chicago

Wayland’s robotics and engineering students traveled on a

The first weekend of February found a bus full of Wayland

school day at the end of January for a tour of ASYST Technologies

students bound for downtown Chicago to participate in the 2016

in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The visit was made possible by an invitation

Model United Nations Conference. English teacher James Cleary and

from former Wayland Trustee Fred Bishop `57, a member of ASYST

art teacher Kristene Boucher `97 again served as advisors for a team

Technologies’ board. ASYST offers engineering and manufacturing

that represented Wayland well at the event.

services for a number of companies and specializes in work for automobile manufacturers. Among their products are the components that allow headlamps on vehicles to switch between low beams and high beams.

Wayland students receiving commendations were Madison Jewell `16, Emily Luytan `16, Grace Rowley `18, Hannah Davis `19, Valentina Buccoliero `17, and Angel Heredia `17.

Jonathon Shoop, Wayland’s Math Department Chair, drove the students to the ASYST plant where they received a first-hand look at a fully automated plant and injection molding systems. They also toured Mikrotech, an affiliate of ASYST, focused on micro manufacturing and custom components for medical devices used in minimally invasive surgery.

Bishop spoke to the students about running a business and the challenges of entrepreneurship. Senior Charles Stehno said the trip was truly valuable. “We all had our separate interests,” said Stehno.

“Some of us wanted to go in there and focus on the business aspect and to learn an entrepreneur’s mindset but a lot of us were also interested in the technical background behind the company and seeing

Skaters Succeed at International Competition Three Wayland students were members of a synchronized skating team that captured third place in the Neuchâtel Trophy competition in Switzerland on January 31, 2016.

Jessie Neuman `16, Tessa Ostermann `16, and Belle Ostermann `19 competed as members of the Fond du Lac Blades Junior Synchronized Skating Team. The Blades qualified for the competition as one of three teams to earn a spot on Team USA and passed teams from Finland, Switzerland, and Italy to capture the bronze.

a lot of the machinery at work.”

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McKinstry Gift renews Roundy Room Thanks to a gift from Wayland Trustee John B.

able to reserve the room for classes. Last fall, for

McKinstry H`10, the conference room in the James

instance, history teacher Anna Stern’s Sub-Saharan

Johnston Memorial Chapel on the second floor of

Africa class used the room to have a meeting with

Roundy Hall has been renovated and refurnished

a Wayland parent, Lydia Sherman, who Skyped in

while maintaining its classic beauty and honoring

from Liberia to answer student questions about

its history. The renovations included repainting the

her efforts in establishing clinics throughout Liberia

room’s walls and ceiling, new lighting and carpets,

during the recent ebola crisis. The new equipment

new modular meeting furniture, and adding a video

also allowed Mr. Qi Shan, a member of the Wayland

conferencing system.

Parent Council, to join a council meeting by Skyping

The improved space has already proved to be a boon to the campus community. In addition to serving as the primary meeting place for

in from Beijing.

A celebration of the McKinstry Conference Room will be held later this year.

Wayland’s Board of Trustees, faculty members are

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and searched for large amounts of copper and powerful polarized magnets. They spent innumerable hours researching online, consulting sources, and converting a simple motor to a powerful energy source.

Sustainability

After doing numerous tests and calculating the numbers, they began to put what they learned to work.

The class initially hoped to power the school’s scoreboards and make portable USB charging stations for use around campus. Along

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the way, they destroyed over a dozen motors in their efforts to create their own power source by lining a rotating outer core with magnets to produce a current around a mass of copper wire. They experimented with small fan motors, car motors, and finally found that treadmill motors worked the best.

STEAM Turns Green With the help of the STEAM lab,Wayland Academy is increasingly becoming more eco-friendly. During the fall semester, students working with Mathematics Department Chair Jonathon Shoop in a new class, Manufacturing and Design, designed and created the very first functioning wind power system on campus.

The class used Vernier

From there, the students wanted to power a portion of the STEAM lab itself. With help from the Sodexo Maintenance staff, students constructed the windmill outside of Discovery Hall. Though the group will not be using a “homemade” turbine, they purchased one that produces 600 watts. It charges a 12V battery system to power the lab’s laptop charging station. Mr. Shoop said, “It is important to make

classroom kits funded through a

students feel that they are giving back in a way that has not been done

donation from Trude Roselle `65 to learn how to design a system and

before… I hope that our class of 12 students takes away a sense of

familiarize themselves with gear ratios and magnetic forces. Students

pride and accomplishment that the first turbine, the first solar panel,

worked through a series of physics equations and power conversions

the first system of eco-friendly power on campus was erected by us!”

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Ancient Learning, Modern Fun On January 28, 2016, a hotel ballroom in Madison, Wisconsin shook and shuddered beneath the weight of five hundred teenagers wrapped in bed sheets leaping, chanting, and shouting at the top of their lungs. The temperature in the room rose to saunaesque levels as the assembled pounded the floor with a vigor that hotel management could not have anticipated. What was it that drove these feverish students to deafen every adult in the room with their wild, joyous cheers?

WO U L D YO U B E L I E V E … L ATI N ? TE E N S C H E E R I N G F O R L ATI N ?

The students, garbed in togas and stolas (sorry, togae and stolae, in the nominative plural), were gathered in the ballroom to kick off the Wisconsin Junior Classical League (JCL) Convention, an annual event where students compete in a variety of academic and creative competitions, pausing only to elect new leaders and deliver earnest, impassioned speeches about how much they adore the Classics and this annual gathering. Twenty Wayland students were in attendance this year, along with their advisor, Dr. Keely Lake H`12, Wayland’s Latin and Greek teacher and Coordinator of Interdisciplinary Programs.

Forensics Returns to Wayland

This winter marked the return of Forensics to Wayland Academy. For those unfamiliar with this academic contest, Forensics in this instance has nothing to do with gauging the patterns of blood spatters. Rather, students in Forensics compete in public speaking and acting against other students throughout Wisconsin. Forensics features competitions in three tracks: Public Speaking, Acting, and Interpretation of Literature.

Dean of Students Linda Tyranski and English Teacher Elise Krause `04 are coaching the students through the winter season and as Greetings went to press, Wayland

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Over two packed days and nights, Wayland students competed in costume competitions, war machines (small catapults of their own design), chess, language and culture tests in various formats, as well as impromptu oration and art competitions.

Wayland arrived having won five consecutive JCL state championships in the small school category, and this year would be no different. The Wayland students departed with a sixth championship trophy, which they placed on the mantle above the fireplace in Swan Library.

Watch a few video highlights from the event online: tiny.cc/waylandjcl

students were already bringing home trophies, capturing first place in the first of ten meets they will attend this semester.

Tyranski said the impetus for re-launching Forensics at Wayland was to help fill a gap in the curriculum (public speaking) and an effort to meet the needs of students who have some truly unique skills, some of whom honed their talents in middle school Forensics prior to attending Wayland. “They really get to experience great teamwork,” said Tyranski, “It’s a unique experience outside the athletic arena.” The team meets three times a week, and students spend the other two weekday afternoons getting exercise in the Alternative Activities Program (AAP). Students participating in varsity athletics

also can compete in Forensics after making arrangements with the coaches.

Tyranski has seen tremendous growth in the participating students’ confidence. “It’s so remarkable to watch, since the start of the season, how they’ve grown,” said Tyranski.

“It takes a really different skill set to be able to emote in front of people.

Reading something is easy, but reading in a passionate heartfelt way is a different skill set.

It’s applicable to everything you do: speeches, presentations, in college and beyond; these are great skills.”

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From the bright lights on the stage, to the practice rooms in the chapel, to the quiet hours spent painting, sculpting, and creating: the arts are central to the Wayland experience for so many students.

Many of our alumni wrote in to share a few of their favorite memories of the arts during their time at Wayland Academy. We hope you enjoy them.

You can read more and share your own in the Alumni Facebook group: tiny.cc/waylumni

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I Re m e mbe r Beverly Dohmann H`64, always smiling, always giving positive feedback. Painting every day along with dear friends and brilliant artists Kay Wagenknecht `69 and Terrill Knaack `68. Field trips to artists’ studios. Creating pastel backdrops for prom. Piano lessons in the chapel with the sweet and patient Connie Koehne H`66.

Being encouraged to try acting. The arts were always an essential and beloved part of Wayland.

Annette Sampon `68

See a special update from Mrs. Dohmann on page 31.

I remember well being in the musical, “To High Heaven”, in the Spring of 1948.

It was a show totally written and produced

by Wayland staff and students. Does anybody else still remember the words of one of the songs: “Put your hands in your

lap, take a deep breath, and smile... at the hostess.” Mary Ellen Wieske directed the show and was also the speech teacher. Her class had a lasting influence on me.

Chuck McIntosh `48

The 1985 production of Grease, and the actor who sang Frankie Avalon’s role (Woojae “William” Hahn) – you could’ve heard a pin drop in the theater it was so beautifully done.

Jen Sanborn `85

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Being in the orchestra pit for “The Wizard of Oz” and “You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown” ...so much fun!

Anne Borgschatz `94

While a s t ud ent

For three years, my life at Wayland revolved around the Wayland Singers and theater. I loved both and made great friends with whom I remain in touch. Mr. Antonio Pavao was our director, and although we worked hard, we also had fun. Every January Short Term the Singers traveled for several weeks, putting on performances all over the Midwest and east coast. Theater allowed me to try my hand at acting, singing, set design, costuming and stage management. In three years I amassed 1000 hours and became a Ye Merry Player. Terrific experiences and memories.

Christine Baumann Lillesand `77

Favorite fine arts memory: illegal beds we used for our one act play (Claire Ptaschinski `07) or constantly trying to find a way to convince the teachers that fine arts WAS my sport or Thespian coffee house nights with Andrea Slosser `07 singing “All Out Of Love”...too many to choose from. So glad to hear these arts programs are still going strong!

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I was so wrapped up in fine arts that by my senior year that was the bulk of my schedule. I was in concert choir with Mr. Mientus for all four years and in Almost Famous for one awesome year… I also was a part of Handbells for four years and a part of seven out of eight theatrical shows… By the end of my senior year I had racked up 500 hours of service in the theater, received three medals from District Solo and Ensemble, took piano and voice lessons, and earned the Four Years of Dedication Award, and Most Dedicated Musician Award. Also I experienced fine arts outside of Wayland like going to the Beaver Dam Orchestra my freshman year with Mr. Mientus, Ted Shank `10 and Joe Liverseed `10. All of these experiences have followed me to college, which is how I picked up a theater minor.

Vivian Washington `13

…I remember Miss Mary Swan `25, my junior year English teacher. She was enamored of Shakespeare, and often traveled to Stratford-on-Avon in Canada. I got on the wrong side of her, however, when, on the final exam, she asked why Shakespeare wrote a certain play (don’t recall which one). I wrote that I thought (and frankly still believe it) that he wrote to entertain, and if he knew high school students would be analyzing (and being tormented by) his works these many centuries hence, he wouldn’t have written it at all! I passed the course…barely! Nevertheless, I think some of her subject matter rubbed off.

Certainly David Proctor H`07 was one of the best! His sense of humor was something else, and I thoroughly enjoyed participating on the technical side of his plays and musicals.

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Pillars `71

My senior year at Wayland I was fortunate to have Vern Sehloff as the yearbook advisor. In September he let me know this would be his final year of teaching, and the Pillars workroom became even more of a haven of excitement and fun than usual. For instance, he had a pair of inflatable female legs that he would put in the entrance to the dark room if someone was working and no one should go through the curtains into the room. This was a tad risky, and we could never let any of the powers at Wayland see the inflatable legs. I learned a tremendous amount from Mr. Sehloff in 1970/71. He was my classroom hero for many years.

We gave the yearbook out in May that year so we had tight deadlines to meet. For the first set of pages I invited the Freshman/Sophomore class to help put their section together.

COMPLETE CHAOS. 20 to 30 students milling around putting the section together.

Mr. Sehloff patiently dispensed his wisdom while I was silently tearing out my hair. Jostens switched comments for a few of the pages. The colors for the Pillars cover could have been better. My experience with developing pictures and working on the yearbook was amazing, mostly because of Mr. Sehloff.

Anne Zaboglio Muirhead `71

My senior year we put on a production of “Un Estudio en Blanco y Negro.” The play was completely in Spanish and if my memory serves me right we were lead by the one and only Mr. Schneider H`86. Great times.

Iman Aswad `97

My favorite Fine Arts memories at Wayland are of all the wonderful, talented, and just plain amazing students I have been allowed to teach over the years!

From my first “jazz band” of three kids to my current 25 piece concert band, it has been a joy making music here! Here’s to more great memories in the making!

Amy Throndsen H`14

They say that first impressions can

Please write the editor at

last a lifetime. For the next issue

amcdonnell@wayland.org or:

of The Greetings we hope you’ll write to share memories of your first days at Wayland Academy.

Whether it was your first meeting with a teacher, a dorm head, your

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new roommate, or a fellow student,

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or what you recall from orientation

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exercises or your first day of class, drop us a line and tell us all about it!

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Wayland Academy presents the 40th Annual Spring Gala and Auction Saturday, April 16, 2016 The Ruby Anniversary Gala will be an evening of entertainment and exquisite food and beverages.

One of Wayland’s most important fundraising events, the auction offers a diverse selection of dining experiences, travel packages, and auction items donated by alumni, parents, and friends of the Academy. In addition to supporting the Academy Fund, a portion of the funds raised at the event will underwrite new equipment and materials for the Arts at Wayland.

NEW THIS YEAR, the auction will feature mobile bidding on silent auction items. You’ll be able to update your bids and keep an eye on your favorite items without ever leaving your table.

Your participation is an opportunity to support your school while enjoying an elegant evening out. In addition, if you can’t attend the event in person, you will still be able to make a donation or bid via our online silent auction.

Purchase tickets to the event and preview auction items online: bidpal.net/wayland

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The Capstone Project independent research for all

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or well over a decade, Wayland has required seniors to complete a senior thesis, a tenpage argumentative essay on the topic of their choosing, as a graduation requirement.

The Class of 2016 is the last Wayland class to face this particular challenge. In its stead,

Wayland has launched a project wherein students in all four grades at Wayland conduct guided, independent research into a subject that snares their interest. It will culminate in a polished work by each student towards the end of each school year.

Dr. Keely Lake H`12, Coordinator of Interdisciplinary Programs, and Andrew Borneman, Coordinator of Faculty and Curriculum Development, have worked with Wayland’s faculty to introduce the capstone project into the school’s curriculum over the past three years. The goal is to further incorporate writing into every discipline, not just English and history. The capstone project helps students develop research and writing skills and creates another opportunity for authentic, student-driven learning.

Each student works with a faculty adviser who guides their research and writing over the course of the year. As students advance, the capstone assignment grows in scope and complexity. Freshmen produce a 5-7 page research paper, while sophomores must create a presentation to accompany a 6-8 page essay that reaches across at least two academic disciplines. Juniors write a ten-page essay with an argumentative scope that reaches two unlike disciplines. In addition, junior capstones must possess a quantitative component that utilizes data and statistics, and juniors must defend their work to a panel of faculty members.

The senior capstone, which will begin next school year, is composed of an overarching project that reflects a student’s academic or creative interests. While it will still have a written component, students will be encouraged to create something new or pursue a challenge not normally found within the Wayland curriculum.

The following are three examples of capstone projects currently underway.

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OLIVIA PUTNAM `18 The Effect of Meditation and Mindfulness on Focus and Study Skills Three years ago, Olivia Putnam was a participant in a study conducted by Dr. Richard J. Davidson, founder of The Center For Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, to test the effect of meditation on the brain. It exposed Putnam to both a new question and a means of exploration that she had never before encountered.

When it came time to select her capstone topic, she decided to pursue her own study of meditation and mindfulness, specifically, their effect on tension and focus skills.

Nearly a quarter of the Wayland student body agreed to participate in Putnam’s study. Her subjects agreed to take a digit span test (a test used to gauge someone’s short-term memory).

Half of her subjects then were asked to meditate for 20 minutes a day for ten days, while the other half served as a control group. After ten days, Putnam administered a second test and the results were compared.

Putnam is pleased with all she has learned along the way, even when the results were not conclusive. “It’s the first time I’ve done any real research like this,” she said, “but I’ve learned that I need a better reward for volunteers or a better way to track their activities.” Her goal for the project moving into her junior year is to expand her study to a broader group of people, build her results, and present them next year at the Capital Science and Engineering Fair.

EASTON MEIER `18 Wisconsin’s Drunk Driving Laws

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Because the freshman capstone is due later in the school year, Davis is still in the process of reading much of the research she has thus far gathered. “So far, I’ve looked at articles in Psychology Today, searched through JSTOR (an online academic journal repository that Wayland’s Swan Library subscribes to) and found articles about women in STEM careers and the challenges of navigating a math degree,” she said. In addition to these and other research materials, Davis hopes to conduct interviews and gather first-person accounts.

As she begins the writing process, Davis believes there is a solution to the scarcity of women in STEM professions. “I think it has to be through education. There has to be some kind of procedure to actively think about your mindset,” she said. “The only way you can really change this is through the root of the problem, and that has to start in education if it’s going to branch into the workplace.”

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COM M E NC E M E NT HONORS AN NOU NC E D Wayland Academy is pleased to announce the Valedictorian and Salutatorian of the Class of 2016. Congratulations to our Valedictorian, Emily Luytan (far right), and our Salutatorian, Madison Jewell (near right), both of Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.

The

valedictorian

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salutatorian honors are awarded by the faculty to the seniors who best fulfill Wayland’s motto of “Knowledge and Character.” In addition to high academic achievement, these students have demonstrated strong commitment to the school’s ideals.

Wayland’s junior marshals are four students in the class of 2017 elected to lead the school’s faculty and seniors to commencement. They are selected using the same high standards used to evaluate the senior class. This year’s junior marshals are: Valentina Buccoliero of Sao Paulo, Brazil; Paul Derr of Beaver Dam, Wisconsin; Kerry Zhu, of Jinan, China; and Lan Chi Hoang of Hanoi,

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Vietnam. (Below; clockwise from top left)

Wayland Academy’s 2016 Commencement will be held on Sunday, May 22, 2016 at 11 a.m. in Lindsay Auditorium.

On February 8-13, 2016 alumni

The Academy

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all areas of Wayland’s operating

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of our historic campus, student

Over the course of the week, the Class of 1956 led the way with

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27 gifts to the Academy Fund. On-

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To view the full Class Challenge results and Waylandtines videos, visit wayland.org/ Waylandtines.

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It Is Your Year.

Alumni Reunion Weekend 2016 October 14 - 16, 2016 Save the date to join your friends and classmates at Wayland Academy for Alumni Reunion Weekend 2016! All classes are welcomed back to campus (because we know you had friends in other classes).

Rally your friends together and start your planning today. More details are on the Wayland website and an invitation will be arriving in your mailbox soon. milestone reunion years :

50th: Class of 1966 25th: Class of 1991 10th: Class of 2006 Five year reunions will be celebrated by Wayland classes ending in “6”s and “1”s!

Please contact Kendall Vingua `02, Director of Alumni Relations, for more information or to get involved in the planning! Email: alumni@wayland.org Phone: (920) 356-2120 x.224 ALU

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most fulfilling aspect of my career has been that I did it my way. While in high school, a wealthy family friend advised me to make money in business first and then create art after that. I remember thinking: Why not have a fulfilling life as an artist and make money at the same time? Ultimately I followed my own direction and feel I am the wealthier man for it.

As a photographer, I have traveled the world and witnessed some of the most touching and heart wrenching moments life can offer. I’ve hung out of

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helicopters, scaled buildings, covered disasters, parades, funerals, made portraits of people from every walk of life and captured sporting highlights from pee-wee to professional. I’ve worked on long-term projects documenting relief efforts in remote villages in Ecuador (Causes for Change) and photographed the neighborhoods of Chicago for future generations (the CITY 2000 project) and the complete refurbishing of historic Wayland Hall. george pfoertner

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editorial and documentary photographer

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AL U M N I IN F INE A R TS The greatest achievement in my career has to be when I sang a Solo with Andre and Sandra Crouch in a concert in Kalamazoo, Michigan. I also sang for Pat Robertson’s Presidential Campaign, a great honor. Leading others to Christ is the single most important thing that I have ever done in my entire life! christina worley

`75

Qu ic k Ta kes I am so excited to have joined Playhouse Square, Cleveland. As the largest performing arts center outside of New York, I have had the opportunity to reach thousands of students and families with interactive and engaging programs, including Disney Musicals in Schools with the Disney Theatrical Group and the High School Musical Theater Awards through the Broadway League. Giving young artists the opportunity to perform at this magnificent venue and be exposed to the theater is truly the favorite part of my career.

In doing so, I am always thankful for my time at Wayland Academy and the opportunity to explore and grow in the arts. I am grateful to Peggy Jo Wilhelm, my mentor, instructor and vocal coach for always believing in me and guiding my steps. That I can do the same for other young people is truly fulfilling. sheffia randall dooley

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actress and assistant director of community engagement and education at playhouse square , cleveland

To me the most fulfilling aspect of my career in the arts is the way in which my images touch and inspire others. Nothing gives me greater joy than to know my images make a difference in the lives of the people who experience them.

It is that knowledge that lets me continually know that I am doing what I am meant to do. kristen westlake

`82

landscape photographer , fine art prints

I have directed close to 100 plays and musicals. I was managing/artistic director of Attic Theatre for 10 years. I serve Florida State Thespian Conference which hosts 7500 Florida high school theatre students each year as Program Director. I am on the board of trustees of David A. Straz, Jr. Center in Tampa, Florida.

My 47-year relationship with my partner ended in 2012 after he lost a battle with leukemia. And to show I could still memorize one hell of a lot of words... I played The Stage Manager in a production of Our Town and The Old Actor in The Fantasticks. don e . jones jr .

I love being on stage. Since my first show at Wayland Academy – West Side Story – I have been smitten with costumes, make up, lights, and the audience. But I have found that the most fulfilling part of my career is in arts education. I love seeing others find their voice and grow in confidence. I know that art can change lives and I have seen that happen with arts education.

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Bev Dohmann and Greg Hurst were my art and drama instructors at Wayland and influenced my interest in the arts. I had so many opportunities to attend plays in Chicago with the Hursts and to have personal mentoring from the Dohmanns. I was involved in plays, costumes, set, makeup, but most of all felt like I was part of a community.

I teach high school drawing, painting, and darkroom photography. Having an impact on teenagers who are trying to find their pas-

sion. I love hearing from former students who have chosen art careers, are employed in art careers, and are leading creative lives.

Former students stopping into my classroom when they are back in town to say thanks for getting them interested in the arts. Teachers often don’t realize the positive impact they have on students.

Karla Peterson `72 also teaches art in Wausau, Wisconsin, just a half hour from me. We have been able to stay in touch and to paint together occasionally, nice to have those relationships that were fostered in high school still intact. roberta hansel honl laine

`73

I’m so lucky to have made a career out of doing what I love. I am a fashion and fine art photographer. I studied under Victor Skrebneski. On his latest book, Aging, he used one of my photos of himself and Anna Nicole Smith on the cover.

I have a James Beard award for the photography in Charlie Trotter’s Meat and Game cook book. My metal silver toned print I exhibit at the Water Tower is a super highlight. I have three photos in the permanent collection at the Museum of Contemporary Photography. michael voltattorni

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I am so very grateful for the many blessings I receive and the many chances I get to express myself freely. I have so many moments to be grateful for and each one has prepared me for the next.

My experiences at Wayland prepared me in many ways to be able to do the work I do and the art I create. Mainly, it gave this “Rez girl” a perspective on life that I would not have had. I learned much about independence, relationships and responsibility in a community influenced by the international student body there. Mrs. Koehne and Mr. Staley prepared me well in music and nurtured me as a young musician. Without them, I don’t know if I would have survived high school. lyz ja akola

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I learned much about independence, relationships and responsibility in a community influenced by the international student body at Wayland.

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Lyz Jaakola `84, Roberta Hansel Honl Laine `73, Don E. Jones Jr. `46, Sheffia Randall Dooley `91

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To joyfully share with children & families music that contains messages of peace, love, gratitude, generosity, kindness and respect... has been incredibly fulfilling work.

Life is stressful. People are overwhelmed and over-stimulated. To joyfully share with children and families music that contains messages of peace, love, gratitude, generosity, kindness and respect, and to witness firsthand how having these songs to sing and jam and dance along with lightens their load and brightens their day and brings more love and understanding into their relationships — this has been incredibly fulfilling work as a songwriter, performer and educator, and an experience for which I am forever grateful.

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A few weeks ago I offered a mindfulness workshop, and one of the attendees was a woman who works with young children who have experienced trauma in their lives or families — loss of a parent, abuse, etc.

She has been using some of my songs in her work (Lovingkindness and Pebble Meditation, specifically), and she shared with me several stories about the role this music has played in helping children and families open up, release stress, explore difficult feelings and, ultimately, heal. I was deeply touched and happy to hear that my music is caring for people in this way. charity k ahn

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A L U M N I IN F IN E A R T S My life’s work as a volunteer in communitybased arts organizations has consisted mainly of figuring out what it takes to present a production that combines artistic merit with fiscal responsibility, then attending to the details that will bring it to life.

I have served on boards of directors for community concert associations, helped with fund-raising for a pipe organ in a church, and edited the monthly newsletter for the Wild Hog in the Woods, a cooperative, all-volunteer coffeehouse in Madison, Wisconsin that has been presenting affordable folk music concerts since 1978.

As a young mother, I helped to organize the Children’s Arts Council of Janesville,Wisconsin.With a foundation grant to get us started, we sold tickets for imported music, theater and dance productions to underwrite small grants to elementary schools for supplementary arts programs of their own choosing.

In more recent years I helped to found a traditional music festival to help publicize the restoration of an historic rail car at the Mid-Continent Railway Museum of North Freedom, Wisconsin… Restoration of the fish car was completed in 2008, but much to the surprise of its founders, the festival has continued since then as an annual event. Join us on August 20, 2016 in Mazomanie, Wisconsin for the 10th Annual Gandy Dancer Festival featuring bluegrass music along with family-friendly activities and local food and beverages. jo k arsten fabke

`56

I have had many fulfilling moments including knowing Andy Warhol when I lived in New York. Every time I paint is a fulfilling moment as well. andrew krance

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I think the most gratifying part of my art career has been meeting people who appreciate my work and the emotional responses I get when I do a pet portrait for someone.

My greatest achievement was the first time I was accepted into the prestigious “Birds in Art” exhibition at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Greetings March 2016

Art Museum in Wausau in 2000. My oil painting of turkeys crammed into a truck entitled “Happy Thanksgiving” is in the museum’s permanent collection. I also have a painting of two Golden Retrievers in the permanent collection of the American Kennel Club Museum of the Dog in St. Louis, Missouri. sally mutchow berner

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realistic oil painter

I started writing (terrible) songs while I was at Wayland, actually. I started my band, the Urban Hillbilly Quartet, right after college (it actually grew out of the disintegration of a couple other bands) and this Fall we have celebrated our 20th year as a band. As a band and a solo act I have released 12 albums of my songs for four different record labels. For the last eight years I have also been running a small label, House of Mercy Recordings.

Performing and traveling as a musician has taken me all over the US, Canada and Europe and has given me memories and experiences that have changed my life forever for the better... I’ve been incredibly fortunate to be able to simply do what I do — that is, create songs and perform them — and have other people care and be sincerely interested. I feel I’ve been given a very small flame to nurture — and that I’m still nurturing — and I’ve had the gift to pass that flame along to many others (as well as my own children) and that I hope they are able to continue nurturing and sharing their own creative flames.

In many ways I think my greatest achievement(s) are yet to come, but one memory that stands out to me again and again was my first tour to the UK. I was playing the 12 Bar Club in London as part of a tour supporting another artist, and I looked out into the audience and there were people there I had never seen before — I had no idea who they were — and they were singing along with the lyrics to my songs. At that moment I was so humbled and thrilled that my songs had become part of the soundtrack of people’s lives even across the ocean. That experience has fueled my desire to craft the best songs I possibly can. erik brandt

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In 1969 I began UW-Madison as an art major after four wonderful years sketching and painting under Mrs. Dohmann at Wayland.

I switched to interior design since the job opportunities at the time seemed brighter.

After working in that area for a number of years and raising a family, my desire was to enjoy a fine arts setting again.

The Milwaukee Art Museum had recently finished its Calatrava addition when I became a docent in 2003. The nearly 200 docents at MAM give tours to approximately 60,000 students per year. Most of the students are quite young and their enthusiasm as we discuss art is very contagious. It’s always fun to hear their impressions of what we are viewing. Each year I have been honored to give “Art in Medicine Through the Humanities” tours to Medical College of Wisconsin students, relating artworks to a variety of medical specialties and conditions. They are the most challenging and satisfying teaching experiences for me. joan prachthauser

`69

I have been involved in The Arts for a majority of my life. It is something deep within my family… I owned and operated a recording studio, Allegro Studios, from 1993 up to 2014. My father and I both were major contributors to The Janesville Performing Arts Center. I also have a band that has toured for over 20 years with almost every musician I wanted to meet and in almost every venue I had ever hoped to play in. We are still regulars at The House of Blues in Chicago.

I have written seven CDs between my solo recordings and The Blue Olives recordings. I have produced and participated in hundreds of other musical projects.

Currently I have put music on hold. The Blue Olives have only a couple gigs booked in 2016, and I have taken a position with a medical cannabis producer in New Mexico. dave turner

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Te d L a nd on `57

A r t and P l a c e T

he yellowish gravel road leading to

imaginable. At least one shop features a

pub and spent years undoing damage

Ted Landon’s art studio and home

few of Landon’s paintings. “I don’t care

wrought by neglect and vandalism.

much whether or not they make money,”

learned how to glaze windows and cut

he said.

over 500 panes of glass,” Landon recalled.

in Mineral Point, Wisconsin is an

adventure

that

climbs,

curves,

and

swoops before terminating at a Frank Lloyd Wright-esque structure perched on the edge of a limestone escarpment.

The windows of Landon’s living room and workshop peer across the hills of Wisconsin’s Driftless. After 50 years of

Painting is something he enjoys, but it is just one of many creative outlets for Landon, who plays music every day.

creating in this area, his art is profoundly

He has designed multiple houses in the

rooted to Mineral Point.

city (including his current home), worked

When Ted Landon first arrived here, shortly after finishing his degree in

on local stage productions, and recently penned his first novel: Tales of the Hen

“I

“Those were fun times.” After a few years, he stepped away to focus on other projects.

In the following years he invested in a variety of properties, owned and operated a quarry, and even bought an English double-decker bus that he used to give tours of Mineral Point. Through all of his ventures, though, he was creating on his own.

Ted Landon won’t philosophize to any great extent on his art, but he will expound with passion upon the subjects that drove him to paint. Landon glowed as he recalled the light reflecting off the green felt of a pool table in a billiards hall in downtown Mineral Point. Studying one of his paintings of a forest, he drew attention to the light streaking between trees across a snowy scene. He admired the light, but he won’t take much credit for his own depiction of the scene. As a friend of his in a downtown antique shop mentioned, “That’s Ted. Self-effacing.”

Seated at his piano bench with his African Gray, Birdy, on his shoulder, Landon recalled hating piano lessons as a child. He said, “My mother paid good money to a couple piano teachers when I was about 10 or 12, and I was so bad

art from Brown University, he was the

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House (for sale online at tiny.cc/henhouse).

one piano teacher actually cried. I got to college and in the rec room there was a

third artist in town. Today, one could be

In the early 1960s, Landon supported his

piano, and playing on my own terms, I got

forgiven for mistaking the entire town

artistic work through means as diverse

to play it my way.” When asked how often

for an artist colony. Downtown Mineral

as social work and packaging semi-moist

he now composed music, Landon replied:

Point is a vibrant stripe of steep streets

dog food. At the age of 22, he and a group

“Always. I could just play forever. It just

lined with shops selling every form of art

of investors purchased a historic inn and

goes on and on.” wayland.org

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Jea nne Fri nk ` 67

LEARNING TO S E E .

Learning to Think.

illuminating paintings in progress and completed works that hang on the walls. She has produced series of paintings that reflect her passions and travels, focusing on the Nile River, adobe structures in the southwest United States, and markets around the world, to name a few. Frink is fascinated by subjects that have historic continuity, that have featured in the lives and landscapes of human beings through thousands of years.

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While the majority of her work has consisted of oil paintings, she fter graduating from Wayland, like most of her classmates,

has spent more than ten years developing her skill in Japanese

painter Jeanne Frink `67 headed off to college. She majored

ink drawing. Among the differences between the two styles, she

in art, but she loved science and took extra classes in

noted,

geology and geography. “I needed something else to add to my took Frink nearly 20 years to complete her college degree. This

“It’s hard to know when it’s finished, an oil painting. You have to know when to stop.

was because she had become too successful.

With Japanese painting, when it’s done, it’s done. You have to

During one of her classes, a professor offered an opportunity to

set out knowing what to do.”

do some freelance graphics work for an outside company. Frink

Frink credits Bev Dohmann H`64, her Wayland art teacher,

repertoire,” she said. Unlike many of her classmates, though, it

picked up the opportunity, and the company liked her work so much, they asked if she would be willing to come aboard fulltime. Before she knew it, she was the creative artistic director of an advertising firm. She would continue in that work for twenty years before deciding to leave the field, finish her degree, start painting full time, and open her own studio.

Today, Jeanne Frink’s studio sits on the second floor of the Grain Belt Bottling House, part of an expansive and revitalized arts center on the northeast side of Minneapolis. Tall, arched windows pour light across her work and gallery space,

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with helping develop what Frink calls her “seeing tools”. “Bev was a really good instructor,” said Frink. “She wanted us trying different things; that’s very important when you’re learning. She would point out things like details that were important, touches here and there that add depth. And that’s key to the whole thing.”

Dohmann’s influence on her art is part of why Frink is now a passionate supporter of visual arts education in schools. “Everyone needs some introduction to it, because you don’t know what you’re capable of until you try it,” she said. “It’s a developmental process.

The visual arts teach you how to think.”

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NEWS & N OT E S

Eric Stanton Gefvert `73 (left) and Shane Wohlrabe `73 (right) in Prague

Charles McIntosh `48 writes: “I was sorry to read of the deaths of several classmates... I played on the 1946 championship football team with Karl Rauschert and Gordon Justice, and was Gordie’s roomate my first year. We had also been classmates at Evanston High. I remember the Pickards well: Judy and Julia were always at the top whether in academics or sports, and I got to know Tom when we vacationed together one summer in Evanston. Wayland years were wonderful times with really good people.

ington DC and back in September. Our group consisted of 4 WWII Vets and 84 of us Korea Vets. An awesome experience. Hope those of 1952 who are left are well. Those were great days!”

“After a stint in the Marines and graduating from UCLA, I married, raised two daughters, had a wonderful career in education, and continue to be active in the Catholic Church. Besides golf, teaching and directing bridge, I do some writing and watercolors, and am actively involved in a 55+ community in Annapolis, where we live. Would love to hear from old friends at chshmac@verizon.net.”

JoEllyn Phillips `52 has moved to a new retirement apartment.

Thomas Nissalke `51 writes: “Always nice to hear from Wayland friends.”

David Spengler `52 says: “All is well here. My son Erik served as my “Guardian” on my Honor Flight from Madison, WI to Wash-

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Fleurette Kram Hershman `52 reports that she enjoyed a wonderful visit with Wayland roommate/classmate Jerusha Barnum Fadial `52 last May.

Bruce W. Black `62 writes that he is living in the Chicago Loop and walking to work and has recently surpassed 30 years as a Judge. His first 15 years were in the Illinois Courts and he is now in U.S. Bankruptcy Court with plans to retire in 2017.

Mary Miller Righellis `65 writes: “Mary Jo Howard Croake `65 hosted a 50-year reunion gathering at her Madison home, including Mary Reier Ingols `65, Tom Koch `65 and myself. Fantastic fun!

Also included a trip to Wayland campus.”

Peter MacInnis `66 is living in Shanghai, pastoring an expatriate congregation with his wife, Elyn, with whom he has two daughters.

He has enjoyed hearing from so many of his classmates and encourages everyone to get in touch in advance of the 50th Reunion.

Eric Stanton Gefvert `73 writes that he and Shane Wohlrabe `73 traveled in September with their wives to central Europe to enjoy an 11-day Danube River cruise adventure. “The photo (above) has the classmates in Prague in front of the Astronomical Clock.

Wayland friendships do last a lifetime!”

Frederick J. Miller `73 writes: “I am very active playing competitive golf. I won the State Senior AM in 2014. I currently have a 2 handicap. Would love to have classmates contact me if in the Cleveland, OH area.”

Matthew Songer `76 writes: “We are finally grandparents after our first son, Jason, and his wife, Lori, had their first child. We are looking forward to my 40th reunion.”

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Erik J. Brandt `91 lives in St. Paul, MN with his family, teaches high school English and plays music professionally. In January 2016, Erik visited Phil Sadlo (Exchange Student 1989-1990) in Dusseldorf, Germany.

Natalie A. Wetzel-Rasmussen `91 writes “Thoughts of Wayland warm my soul. Life is full of family, friends, and managing two businesses. In 2016, Wetzel-Rasmussen Counseling Services (wrcslight.com) celebrates 12 years and Rasmussen Cottages will present its 90th season. I hope to attend our 25th reunion. Be well.”

Cyrus J. Maltman `95 writes “I am a firefighter paramedic with the City of Brookfield, Wisconsin Fire Department. I live in Sun Prairie, WI with my wife Andrea, and my awesome son, Max, who was born in March of 2013. I am the owner of my own photography company, started in 2013, based in Sun Prairie (cydigitalphotography. com). Hope everyone is doing well.”

Frank A. Clark `99 married Dr. Jennifer Clark on November 14, 2015 and had a wonderful honeymoon in France and Italy.

Eric Davis `01 and Ashley Kuenzi Davis `01 are proud to announce the birth of their daughter, Marian Elizabeth Davis, who was born on July 24, 2015.

Jeffrey Boness `03 and his wife Stephanie had a son, Alexander Frederick Dalton Boness, born on October 20, 2015.

Maja Stevanovich `03 writes: “In November I started as the Global Manager of Public Relations and Communications at ManpowerGroup. I am also an avid member of the University Club of Milwaukee.”

Zachary Schwartz `10 is a first year med student at Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans. He writes that he is “Absolutely thriving on the academic challenge and interaction with faculty and classmates, including a research project in orthopedics.” Zach was recently commissioned a 2LT, MC, United States Air Force.

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Exchange Student Phil Sadlo (left) and Eric J. Brandt `91 (right) in Dusseldorf

DEAR CL ASS OF 2015 , Listen up. This is an open letter to you from the class of 1960.

Let me tell you how fast 55 years go by.

It goes by in a blink... in 5 minutes.

In 1960: There was no color TV

No Twitter

There were no computers

A gallon of gas was 28 cents

There were no iPhones or smart phones

A cheeseburger was 25 cents

There was no YouTube No texting (thank god)

A six-bedroom home was $11,000 Tuition to the University of Wisconsin was $100 (one hundred dollars)

No selfies (thank god) The class of `60 had a lot of laughs, and unbounded optimism. We graduated and rocketed into the `60s and beyond with the Beatles, Rolling Stones, and the Green Bay Packers.

So good luck class of 2015! Here’s to your next 55 years.

– Fred Burton `60 lives in San Diego and thoroughly enjoys global warming.

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WAY L A N D O N TH E ROA D Since we last wrote, Head of School Joe Lennertz H`86 traveled to Wayland Gatherings around the United States. Events included gatherings in Boston, Chicago, Houston, Naples, Florida, Sarasota, and Scottsdale, Arizona. If you are interested in hosting an event in your area in the year ahead, contact Director of Alumni Relations Kendall Vingua `02 at alumni@wayland.org.

Clockwise from top left: Scottsdale, Arizona; Chicago; Sarasota; Houston; Boston; and Naples, Florida.

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years ago, seated with faculty on the stage of Lindsay Gym at graduation ceremonies, I watched my son David `79 receive a special award. After accepting, he

crossed the stage, took me in his arms and said, “Thank you, Mom. I love you!” On January 23, 2016, after driving eight hours, Dave was with me on stage once again, as I was honored by having my watercolor and pen and ink of Beaver Dam’s historical ‘spring house’ in Swan City Park chosen for the covers of the popular magazine LocaLeben. This celebration was also a fundraiser for our Beaver Dam Area Arts Association in the Seippel Homestead and Center for the Arts where I served on the board and as Chairman of the exhibit committee from its grand opening in 1996 to 2005.

Thank you again, Wayland, for all the beautiful memories of all the precious times I spent with you, my fellow teachers, friends, parents, students, and especially my fantastic art students. And from Dave: Wayland was the beginning of a fabulous career, where he was considered to be a leading expert in the nation in the poultry, deli industry from which he is now retiring. Again, thank you. Creativity is God’s gift to all of you, when you share it with others, it is your gift to God. With fondest memories and prayers, Mrs. ‘D’ Bev Dohmann H`64

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In Memoriam

1940s Dorothy Roberts Whitney `40 peacefully passed away on September 26, 2015.

Philosophy from the University of Chicago. He was a Professor of Sociology at Oakland University from 1970 until he retired in 2001, and he was a Korean War veteran of the U.S. Army. He was a director, actor, and owner of a theatre company in Chicago, IL. He is survived by his wife, Dottie; daughters Kyle Ellis, Katherine Bell, Karole Calugaru and

Sophia Stavropoulos Smocke `41 passed away on December

Kendra Scorsone; ten grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

1, 2015. She graduated from Beaver Dam High School and completed several courses at Wayland. Sophia is survived by her children, Christopher, Deborah, and Meredith, two grandchildren and numerous other relatives and lifelong friends. She was preceded in death by her husband, Gene in 2007; as well as her brothers, George Stavropoulos `36 and Harry Stavropoulos `40.

Charles W. Johnson `48 of The Villages, FL passed away on October 25, 2015. After graduation, he joined the Army where he was an MP. After his service, Charles joined the Waukesha County Sheriff’s Department as a deputy sheriff and later became a detective for 18 years. In 1969, he became chief of police in Jefferson, WI where he retired after 16 years and moved to Florida in 1985. He is survived by his

Thomas Bardenwerper `45 died on August 18, 2015 in Cleveland, GA. After serving in the US Navy during WWII, he returned home

children, Kay Hoff, Carol Renz, and Paula Brick; five grandchildren; and one great granddaughter. His wife, Ellen, preceded him in death in 2013.

to serve on the Wauwatosa, WI Police Department from 1949-1955.

He is survived by his wife, Dorothy Hunt Bardenwerper `45, five children, 12 grandchildren, and 14 great-grandchildren. He was

1950s

preceded in death by his parents and three brothers, including Fred

Robert McPherson, Jr. `53 of Grand Chute, WI died on Septem-

Bardenwerper `47.

ber 24, 2015. Bob graduated from Ripon College. After marrying Sara (Sally) Spicer in 1960, they moved to Miami where he sang with the Miami-Dade Opera and other Florida companies, before moving to New

Frances Smith Schwarz `46 of Mesa, AZ passed away on Septem-

York to study at the Manhattan School of Music. Bob had a long ca-

ber 23, 2014, at a hospice care facility. Her loving husband of 65 years,

reer singing with numerous East Coast opera companies, and following

Harry Schwarz, preceded her in death. She is survived by her step-

his retirement he and Sally returned to Wisconsin in 1997 where they

mother, Doris Smith; daughter, Pamela F. Millett; son, Chuck Schwarz;

owned a small business and were active in their church. He is survived

and two grandchildren. She would recall great memories of her days at

by his wife, Sara; son, Robert; and many other relatives.

Wayland.

Stephen Schlafer `55, of Greenville, AL, died on December 2, 2014.

Bill E. Bezdek `47 of Clarkston, MI passed away on September 1,

Stephen was a former member of the Army National Guard. His broth-

2015. After graduating from Wayland, Bill received a Bachelor of Science

er, Frand Schlafer `59, preceded him in death in 1992.

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Susan DeVore Williams Richards `59, of Rochester, MN died

niece. The completion of this book, with help from family and friends,

October 6, 2015.

was a testimony to her spirit and passion for life. She is survived by her hus-

An impeccable dresser and filled with joy, for years she was an administrator at the University of Minnesota and a spiritual director and author.

band of 49 years, Carl Rogat; three children: Sheryl, Jonathan, and Aaron Rogat; one granddaughter; and a sister, Fleurette Hershman `52.

Her best-known books include “Sunset Coast,” “Prayer Works,” and “Dogs, the love they give us.”

Peter Detweiler `64 of Lexington, NC, passed away on January 21,

Susan is survived by her husband of 10 years, the Rev. Canon Kenneth

2016. Peter was a graduate of Princeton University and received an

D. Richards; daughters, Kimberly Ward, Kathryn Archambault and Jen-

MBA from Wake Forest University. He served as a lieutenant in the U.S.

nifer Daley; son, David Richards; six grandchildren; and numerous other

Navy. After early retirement from IBM, Peter enjoyed teaching yoga

relatives.

and tai chi at the J. Smith Young YMCA. He was preceded in death by his parents. Peter is survived by his longtime companion, Nan Day; sis-

1960s James H. Nelson `60, of Rockford, IL, passed away on August 28,

ters Nancy Detweiler Metzger `68 and Carol Detweiler McClellan; seven nieces and nephews; and three great-nephews. His brother, Steven, followed him in death on February 8, 2016.

2015. Jim attended Wayland Academy and graduated from East High School. He enjoyed his years at Wayland, and it played an important part in defining his life. He is survived by his wife, Suzanne “Sue”; children, Jayne, Peter, and Drew; seven grandchildren; sister, Christine Bauer and brother, John Nelson.

Steven Detweiler `65, Professor of Physics at the University of Florida, died suddenly on February 8, 2016 during his morning run on the UF campus. Professor Detweiler received his undergraduate education at Princeton University and his doctorate in Theoretical Physics at the University of Chicago. Following postdoctoral fellowships, he joined the

Carol Kram Rogat `61 passed away on April 14, 2015 after a threeyear struggle with cancer. She graduated from Miami University with a B.A. in French and English in 1965. At the age of 48, she went back to school and in 1993 graduated from Lewis and Clark College with a Master of Public Administration. She was able to complete this in two years despite working full-time and shepherding some of her own children through college.

faculty of Yale University, attaining the position of Associate Professor before joining the University of Florida’s Astrophysics group in 1982, where he spent the next 34 years. He was widely published in the areas of gravitation and black holes, credited with over a hundred scholarly articles, and intended to retire in May of this year. He is survived by his loving wife, Sandy Fisher; his daughter, Catherine Seibert Detweiler; his son, David Logan Detweiler; two beloved grandsons; two sisters; and numerous nieces and nephews. His brother, Peter, predeceased him.

Carol was a public school teacher of French and English in Des Moines, IA and later in Portland, OR. Despite the debilitating effects of her illness, she completed and published the galleys of a children’s book called “Helpful Harriet” that she dedicated to her daughter, grandchild, and

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Employees & Friends of Wayland Robert Edward McMillan, of Shelburne, VT died on October 9,

Emil Robert Fischer, a businessman, sportsman, and philanthro-

2015 of complications of Alzheimer’s. Bob is survived by his wife of 58

pist, died peacefully in Naples, FL on May 10, 2014, surrounded by family

years, Katharine “Penny”; two children, Stephen McMillan `78 and

who loved him. He is survived by his wife, Gail Fischer; his daughters,

Susan McMillan `79; three grandchildren; a sister; many nieces and

Catherine Fischer; Laura Fischer; Dr. Jennifer McKnight-Lupes; Linda

nephews; and so many friends. He was predeceased by his son Mark

Fischer; Leslie Fischer `77, aka Dr. Bobby Holliday; his son, Kurt

McMillan `76.

Randall Fischer; and numerous other relatives and friends. He was preceded in death by his stepson, Gregory Boulanger `84.

Ronald Allen Blomberg passed away on December 7, 2015. In 1966, he became the basketball coach and Athletic Director at Wayland

Jackie J. Braatz died on January 20, 2016. Jackie was a 1968 gradu-

Academy. After four years, he joined the Milwaukee Bucks organiza-

ate of Columbus High School. She was an administrative assistant at

tion where he continued his camps as the Milwaukee Bucks Basketball

Wayland Academy from 1980 to 1998 and later at Edgewood College in

Camps. He was inducted into the Wisconsin Coaches Hall of Fame in

Madison. Jackie retired from the LaCrosse Outreach Foundation after

1980. He is preceded in death by his wife, La Verne, and two sons,

12 years. Jackie loved all animals, especially horses, and enjoyed riding.

Douglas and David. He is survived by a son, Steve Blomberg `70

Survivors include her two sons, Jim and Ron; two granddaughters; and

and daughters, Christine Blomberg Murphy `67 and Barbara

numerous other friends and relatives.

Blomberg Marshall `70; nine grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

Donna Sue Genereaux passed away peacefully on February 7, 2016, surrounded by her husband and dear friends in their one last great Dr. John O. Burtis, University of Northern Iowa Communication Studies professor, passed away on December 7, 2015 at Hospice Home in Waterloo, IA with his wife Kris and other family members and close friends at his side. He was 60 and had been a professor at UNI since 2000. John leaves a great legacy, especially in speech communication.

act of love and loyalty.

Survivors include her devoted and caring husband, David; daughter, Heather Genereaux Kuenzi `90; one grandson, other relatives and many close friends.

He coached and directed students who won more than 20 individual or team national championships in speech or debate from 1980 to 2000.

In 2000, the Kansas State University Forensics Program named its forensics tournament traveling sweepstakes award the “John O. Burtis Sweepstakes.”

Nancy Ann Kasper of Beaver Dam passed away peacefully, surrounded by her loving family, on October 21, 2015. She graduated from Carroll College in Waukesha in 1962, where she met the love of her life, David W. Kasper H`81. They married in 1963 at Christ King Church

He is survived by his wife Kris Pond-Burtis, sons Walter Burtis `08

in Wauwatosa. After living in Milwaukee, Mukwonago and Menomonee

and James, two grandchildren, and numerous other relatives.

Falls, they moved in 1968 to Beaver Dam, where David taught math at Wayland Academy for 37 years. Nancy was a warm and bright presence in the Wayland community and will be deeply missed and fondly remem-

Robert “Bob” Kastenmeier, friend and supporter of Wayland Academy through the Kastenmeier Scholarship Fund, died at his home in Arlington, VA on March 20, 2015. Mr. Kastenmeier was a liberal Democrat from Wisconsin whose 32 years in Congress were marked by his early and staunch opposition to the Vietnam War. He was a World

bered by innumerable alumni, faculty, and friends.

Nancy is survived by her husband, David; three sons, Timothy Kasper `83, Paul Kasper `85, and William Kasper `86 (Rebecca Vandenberg `85); and three grandchildren.

War II veteran who represented the Madison area starting in 1959. He is survived by his wife, Dorothy. She said her husband’s main interest had always been world peace, “and I think the people will remember him for that.”

Ralph Kurt William Wiedenhoeft passed away on October 31, 2015 in Beaver Dam, WI. His wife, Arleen Wiedenhoeft died on February 10, 2016 in Beaver Dam, WI. They are survived by their children, including William `74, Glenn `75, Paul `77, and Chris `78.

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by Charles Asher Starkweather, Class of 1898. In it, the fastidious day student describes, as noted in an introductory page, “What a Boy of 19 yrs. Saw At A Boarding School,” in 1897. Starkweather chronicles the daily weather, his expenditures, football scores, written correspondence, and how many miles he rode on his bike each week. Small jokes are interspersed throughout the carefully documented passing of days, including at one point the listing under March 32nd (“Failed to Appear”).

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I Remember...

The Beginning They say that first impressions can last a lifetime.

For the next issue of The Greetings we hope you’ll write to share memories of your first days at Wayland Academy. Whether it was your first meeting with a teacher, a dorm head, your new roommate, or a fellow student, or what you recall from orientation exercises or your first day of class, drop us a line and tell us all about it!

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