The Gryphon: The Cambridge School of Weston Magazine, Fall 2012 Issue

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THE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL OF WESTON MAGAZINE

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Jane Moulding Head of School Eun Lee Koh Director of Communications Rachel Stoff Associate Director of Communications Jan Miner Director of Development Hannah Taytslin Director of Alumni Relations Contributors Arlo Furst ’04 Communications Specialist Katherine Friedman Director of Annual Giving and Parent Relations Julia Glassman ’09 Designer Kristin Reid

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The Cambridge School of Weston is a coeducational college preparatory school for grades 9-12 and post graduate study. Inquiries for academic year admission should be directed to Trish Saunders, director of admissions, at (781) 642-8650.

The Gryphon welcomes class notes and photographs by alumni, parents and friends.

Please e-mail submissions to alum@csw.org; call (781) 642-8647, visit www.csw.org or send to: Alumni Relations The Cambridge School of Weston 45 Georgian Road Weston, MA 02493

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The Head’s Message

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News and Notes

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Features 126th Commencement Ceremony

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Reunion

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Progressive Education Lab

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Global Council

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Alumni Profiles

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Report on Philanthropy 2012

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Class Notes/In Memoriam

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To contact the editor, e-mail gryphon@csw.org.

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Website: www.csw.org

Global Connection: CSW Forges Sister School Relationship

IMAGES: FSC ARTWORK INSERTED BY LVI

This magazine in printed on 100 percent PCW paper produced using wind power.

with the Yihai School Cover: Students in the “Ordering Chaos” class take on the Marshmallow Challenge, in which they have 18 minutes to build the tallest free-standing structure they can out of 20 sticks of spaghetti, one yard of tape, and one marshmallow, which must be placed on top.

Above: Beechna Lee ’13, “Sleeping Forest,” Digital Collage

Jane Moulding: True Innovation in Education

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Education is such a hot topic these days. Everywhere we look, someone is weighing in on how to do it, how to do it better, and how to do it right. We believe we are getting it “right” at CSW by offering an education rooted in a deeply progressive philosophy where students are at the center. We live, however, in a highly competitive world. To be truly progressive and open to necessary change, our good practice must be to evaluate, question and think more deeply about what we can do better.

So what is our vision, for our next 125 years? I offer you our thoughts on several key areas: • Teaching and professional growth and learning. As educators, we need to devote even more time to learning about how our students learn and how we can improve as teachers and learners. We need to devote significant time to learning new approaches, refining old ones and harnessing the tools of technology in ways that help all students learn better. The Progressive Education Lab, which launched this fall, is not only training new teachers who enter the profession, but contributing to professional growth of the teachers who mentor them.

• Project-based and individual learning. We must continue to place students at the center, allowing their passions to guide their learning, while providing deep opportunities in core subject areas and equipping them with foundational skills necessary for their lives ahead. We will continue to understand the cognitive diversity of our learners and be open to new tools and methods available to ensure that our students remain passionate and engaged.

• Interdisciplinary learning. Breaking down the barriers between traditional subjects is vital. The “synthesizing mind,” one of Howard Gardner’s “Five Minds for the Future,” places emphasis on skills that help students pull out concepts that can be applied in many areas, rather than one simple fact or equation. During the past few years, while refining some of our long-standing interdisciplinary courses such as Food and Culture, Dimensions of Time and Art and Idea, we have added Ordering Chaos and other courses that bridge two seemingly disparate subject areas to show how concepts are related.

• Building communities that harness all the vital tenets of social justice. CSW’s highly developed sense of community remains vital to our core. Teaching collaboration and teamwork, as we learn to function within a healthy democracy, will ensure that our graduates can work in any arena, in any part of the world. We’re committed to remaining a school that emphasizes justice and equity in our curriculum, in all aspects of the resources we use. We will continue to work towards becoming a school that fully serves and prepares our students for an increasingly multicultural world.

• Global engagement. It is important that we understand our role as teachers and learners, contributing in all ways possible to a peaceable world through highly developed skills of negotiation and conflict resolution, fluency in languages beyond our native tongue, and perhaps most importantly, cultural competence. In the past few years, we have added Mandarin to our curriculum, partnered with educational institutions in Beijing and Shanghai and remained focused on increasing the diversity of our student and faculty body.

Can we sustain our focus on all of these areas? Is our vision the right vision for the future? I believe that I can answer “Yes” and “Yes,” because we have an extremely loyal alumni body, devoted parents and determined students and teachers—a community that relishes new ideas and innovation. I hope this edition of The Gryphon shows you CSW in action in some daring and disciplined ways. I hope you will stay connected and do all that you can to help us sustain our vision and claim the ground as a thriving, innovative and dynamic institution.

New Dorm Opens to Students and Residential Life Faculty Warren House, the campus's newest dormitory, opened to residential life faculty and to students in August, welcoming 24 girls from across Massachusetts, several states and four countries, who now call the new dorm home.

Warren House officially joins Trapelo, Aleph, and the Barn as one of four dormitories for boarding students at CSW, and replaces White Farm, the historic farmhouse that previously served as a boys’ dormitory. White Farm currently serves as faculty housing.

“I think Warren House is perfect for CSW because it give us a modern and eco-friendly living space,” said Chloe Knopp ’14, a Warren House dorm leader. “I love having a leadership role in this brand new dorm and being able to help my peers while enjoying the new beautiful space.”

Faculty and staff celebrated the opening of the new school year at a reception in the new dorm's common area and kitchen. Innovative and special features in Warren House include a teaching kitchen, a computer and group study room, a second floor roof deck for special events and student use, outdoor community space, and summer storage space for students and faculty.

Designed by Eck MacNeely Architects, Inc. and Windover Construction, the cost-effective dorm was built with sustainable and environmentally friendly features, with many green elements such as foam flush toilets, LED lighting, and highly efficient heating and cooling throughout with individual controls. CSW alumna Jennifer Pinck ’73, of Pinck and Co. was Project Manager.

For students in the boarding community, these are tremendous new benefits that will enable increased residential life programming and exceptional space for extra dinners and events during school breaks and holidays. The addition of Warren House has allowed CSW to grow the boarding enrollment.

Warren House was named after local philanthropist Fiske Warren, who in 1931 originally sold a 25-acre parcel to the school that eventually became a major part of the school's campus.

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CSW Students raise more than $5,000 for Walk for Hunger More than 30 students from The Cambridge School of Weston took part in the 2012 Walk for Hunger in Boston raising $5,288, about $800 more than last year. Students walked nearly 20 miles throughout the greater Boston area to help raise money for the hungry.

Mei Swartz ’12, who lead the school’s Community Service Club last year, organized a CSW group to participate in the Walk for Hunger.

“I love being a part of a community of people who are all coming together for one cause,” Mei said. “It makes me happy to see people from all walks of life connecting with a similar goal.

Everyone is cheering everyone else on. I believe food is a basic human right, and that it’s my social responsibility to try and help.”

More than 40,000 people walked in Project Bread’s 44th annual Walk for Hunger and raised $43.6 million. The money will go towards feeding hungry people at more than 450 food pantries and food salvage programs across Massachusetts.

walk summer arts Back Row, from left to right: Orion Morrison-Worrell ’13, Ethan Reilly ’13, Paul Xi ’15, Vicky Tang ’14, Lexi Welch ’15, Douglas Hamilton-Grenham ’12. Front Row, from left to right: Jon Tai O’Connor ’13, Sara Kohlberg ’12, Isabella Dorfman ’13, Mei Swartz ’12.

Snapshots from Summer Arts at CSW A New Look for CSW The Cambridge School of Weston new logo and website debuted earlier this fall, giving the school a fresh look and visual identity.

Over the past year, the community weighed in on several logo possibilities and website designs, with the goal of creating a look for the school that reflects both the school’s history and its character as it is today.

The resulting logo features a cleaner, more modern Gryphon and wordmark. The design of the website echoes the handmade collage elements of CSW’s award-winning view book, The Insider’s Guide to CSW. The new logo also has several versions, which allow additional flexibility for use and design, as well as additional hand-drawn Gryphons in various colors.

The logo and website was designed by Stoltze Design, the designers who produced the school’s admissions recruitment suite. The new logo will be transitioned into all CSW mailing materials, campus signage, banners, and on school merchandise.

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Summer Arts completed a successful second season at The Cambridge School of Weston. The arts program, which debuted last summer, provided opportunities for children ages 6 to 15 to choose from various arts courses, like painting, drawing, writing, animation and video production, dance, and the performing arts.

Social Justice Day Explores Labor Practices At this spring’s Michael H. Feldman Social Justice Day, The Cambridge School of Weston community debated and discussed themes related to labor practices, consumerism, economic disparity and the world economy, and issues related to what we are willing to pay for products.

As part of the day, the community watched “China Blue,” a 2005 documentary by Micha Peled, which followed the life of one factory worker in China. After viewing the film, the school divided into four groups – factory owners, factory workers, wholesale buyers and consumers – in which they discussed international labor standards, World Trade Organization compliance, as well as examined the role that consumers in the United States and elsewhere play into market system.

Formerly known as Law Day, Social Justice Day was established in 1975 by Shirley and Roger Feldman in memory of their son, Michael Feldman ’67. Each year, the event explores various viewpoints on important legal and social justice issues of the day and creates opportunities for student discussion and debate. Students are pivotal in choosing the focus of the day, researching and preparing materials, and educating the CSW community about the chosen topic.

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Dance Concert is ‘Beyond Words’

Acclaimed Indian Theatre Director Directs ‘Charandas Chor’

The student and faculty dance concert, “Beyond Words,” in its 43rd year, featured choreographed works by students and faculty members.

More than 30 students participated as dancers or choreographers, four students were featured musicians and/or composers, and students also served as technical crew and lighting designers.

The choreography varied widely in style and content.

Student-choreographed highlights included Jennifer Lu ’14’s powerful solo piece, “Burning of the Flame,” based on a traditional Chinese dance. The dance utilized Jennifer’s passionate physicality and acrobatic strength. Sara Kohlberg ’12’s piece “Earth and Air,” with live vocals written and performed by Diana DeMuth ’12, explored the landscapes created by three dancers who moved together with weighted gravity and took flight on fabric streamers that had them soaring into the upper areas the stage and over the audience.

CSW dance teacher Nailah Bellinger choreographed “When Consciousness Springs Forward” for nine students who moved with emotional intensity. Dance department chair Martha Gray delighted the audience with her whimsical piece “What’s Under the Bed?” in which students danced with air mattresses, channeling a “Muppets”-like playfulness.

Mark your calendars for this year’s upcoming concert, scheduled for the last weekend of Mod 5, on March 8 and 9, 2013.

The Cambridge School of Weston welcomed the acclaimed theatre director Robin Das, of the National School of Drama in New Delhi, India, last spring as a visiting theatre professor to direct the school's spring production of the classic Indian play “Charandas Chor,” or Charandas the Thief.

“Charandas Chor” was written by popular Indian playwright Habib Tanvir in 1975 and is based upon an Indian folktale. Focusing on the adventures of a thief who cannot tell a lie, this comic morality tale draws heavily on Sanskrit literary and performance tradition.

CSW students incorporated elements of American culture to re-tell the story as it relates to current American politics and modern relationships.

Das is one of the most prominent directors of contemporary Indian theatre. His frequent travels have taken him to Warsaw, Poland; Canada; and all over India to direct short-term theatre workshops. The National Academy of Music, Dance and Drama awarded him for having a significant influence on the development of stage design in India.

Counterclockwise from bottom left: “Burning of the Flame” choreographed by Jennifer Lu ’14; “When Consciousness Springs Forward” choreographed by Nailah Bellinger; “Head to Head” choreographed

by Shari Quashie ’12; “Believe” choreographed

by Nina Barresi ’14; “Africa Lives” choreographed

by Alysa Thomas ’15; and “Earth and Air” choreographed by Sara Kohlberg ’12.

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Religion Explored on Diversity Day The Cambridge School of Weston’s Diversity Committee, headed

by Lizzie Yang ’12, hosted the school’s annual Diversity Day this past May, exploring the theme of religion.

The day began with three panelists that each identified with one of the three major Abrahamic religions. Patrick Foley, Najibia Akbar, and Rabbi Alan Ullman spoke at the panel. Patrick has been teaching theology and history in Boston for the last 17 years and joined CSW in September as the chair of the history department. Najiba serves as the Muslim Chaplain at Wellesley College and as the Director of Youth Programs at the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center in Roxbury. Alan is a well known Torah teacher and scholar in Boston.

This year, the committee’s aims were to educate the community on the historical and spiritual elements of various religions and help members of the school community reflect on the role of religion or lack thereof in their own lives. The committee also aimed to prompt respectful and intellectual discussion of religion and help the community develop a consciousness about the effects of action and words on others, particularly in religion.

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Wearing Different Hats

Julie Johnstone is our new Assistant Head of School for Internal Affairs. Julie will coordinate school programs, lead administrators in planning and addressing the needs of the community, she also managed day-to-day operations during Jane’s sabbatical.

Aaron Hirsch is now Dean of Student Life. As he continues to manage the residential life program, Aaron now assumes overall responsibility for both day and boarding students.

Lee Koh has become our Director of Communications. Lee and her husband Jordan Mueller will continue to live on campus and work in the residential life program as dorm associates.

sports Sports Wrap Up The Cambridge School of Weston’s boys baseball, boys and girls tennis, girls lacrosse, and co-ed ultimate frisbee teams each enjoyed a successful 2012 spring season.

The baseball team saw tremendous growth and improvement throughout the 2012 season. After losing eight seniors from its 2011 championship squad, the team was comprised of many players new to the game of baseball. Accordingly, the team focused its energies on learning the fundamentals of the game, creating and maintaining a positive atmosphere, and having fun in the process.

CSW finished the regular season with a record of 3 wins and 7 losses and narrowly qualified for the MBIL playoffs, where they lost in the first round to a very talented Brimmer and May team.

Josh Zaleznik ’12 and Jason Bair ’14 were selected to the MBIL All-League team.

The tennis team had one of its most impressive seasons in recent years. CSW finished with a 9-2 overall record, and a 6-2 league record. The team had remarkable depth, with the doubles teams only losing two matches all year out of 22 possible matches.

The team had a great attitude throughout the season, and every player played in and won league matches. Isaiah Krieger ’12 and Sam Hoenig ’15 were named MBIL League All-Stars.

The girls’ lacrosse team saw great growth as a whole this season. Their stick skills, communication skills, and overall endurance improved a lot over the course of the season. CSW also witnessed its first-ever girls lacrosse home game with a tremendous amount of support and cheer from the community.

There is a lot of potential for next season with a continued focus on commitment, energy, and learning to play as a team.

The Ultimate Frisbee A-team had another terrific season led by senior captains Ben Meltzer ’12 and Matt Hamilton ’12. The team finished their regular season with a 9-5 record and showed amazing camaraderie during three weekend tournaments. The Ultimate Frisbee B-team showed significant improvement throughout the course of the season, with plenty of players picking up a Frisbee for the very first time and quickly mastering the basics. Their season was highlighted by an unforgettable game against Pingree School’s B-team, which CSW won by the score of 15 to 14.

Britney Wilson ’08 Meets the President You could almost feel Britney Wilson ’08’s awe and enthusiasm leap off the front page of The New York Times, where she was pictured shaking hands with President Obama at Barnard College’s commencement ceremony last May. So, how did Britney feel on stage, beaming her familiar, mega-watt smile, when she stood toe to toe with the President of the United States? Britney says she is still gleaming from her experience on the Barnard podium. “I got in trouble for hugging him twice, but I couldn’t help it,” she said.

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Head of School Jane Moulding and Math Department Chair Evelina Galper presents Seung Hyun Kim ’14 with an award from the American Mathematics Competition for his achievement.

Students Win Top Marks in the American Mathematics Competition

Mathematics teacher Agnes Voligny is now Dean of Faculty.

Visual arts teacher Tom Evans has taken on the role of Coordinator of Special Projects as he moves our key strategic initiatives forward by pursuing partnerships with outside entities, working with development in major gifts work, and further integrating the goals and practices of our arts programs.

Seung Hyun Kim '14 and Joseph Blackman '13 earned some

of the nation's highest scores in the American Mathematics Competition, the first in a series of tests that determined the United States team for the International Mathematics Olympiad.

Seung Hyun earned the 7th highest score in the nation, out of some 40,000 test takers nationwide, and placed first in Massachusetts. He scored 140 out of a possible 150. Joseph scored 108 out of 150, placing him among the top 5 percent of all test-takers in the nation.

David Mountcastle is the new Senior Associate Admissions Director and the Director of International Admissions.

Mark Santa Maria is now chair of the English department.

Mark, with his wife Denise, moved onto campus this year as a dorm associate.

Jane Berkowitz, English teacher, and Nick Reynolds, history teacher, also moved onto campus this year. Jane will continue to serve as dorm associate, while Nick takes on additional duties as residential life faculty.

Academic Dean Sidra Smith has taken on the additional position of Residential Administrator and will be living on campus.

Lisa Hirsch is acting chair of the Theatre department.

Jeffrey Rosen ’12 Performs at Symphony Hall Jeffrey Rosen ’12 was among a select group of students to perform at Boston’s Symphony Hall in March, as part of the 2012 Massachusetts All-State Band Festival and Concert. This was the second year in a row that Jeffrey has been selected to play in the concert.

He was selected through two rounds of competitive selection process. “I was really excited to play at Symphony Hall again this year,” Jeffrey said. “It really was a great honor.”

History teacher Rachel Hirsch has been appointed Senior PEL Coordinator, leading the teacher training program CSW initiates this year with four news fellows.

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Associate Director of College Counseling Davin Bergquist joins CSW from the Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles, where he was Associate Director of Admission and Enrollment Management.

Previously, Davin was the Assistant Director of Undergraduate Admissions at Tufts University. Davin received his B.S. in public relations and psychology from Syracuse University.

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The Development Office welcomes Katherine Friedman, our new Director of Annual Giving and Parent Relations.

Previously, she was a Development Associate for Individual Giving at the Center for Reproductive Rights and was a volunteer for NYC Alliance Against Sexual Assault. Kate earned her B.A. from Syracuse University in magazine journalism and women’s and gender studies.

Julia Cornue returns to CSW as a full-

time mathematics teacher. With a B.A. in mathematics and statistics from University at Albany, State University of New York, Julia is currently pursuing a master’s degree at Harvard University Extension School in mathematics for teaching.

Greg Cummings joins the theatre

teaching team. Greg worked most recently in New York at The Albany Academies where he was arts chair and was involved in advancement work.

Greg received a B.A. from SUNY Brockport, a M.A. in Arts Education from Wesleyan University and a M.P.S. in education from Cornell University.

Patrick Foley joins CSW as the new

history department chair, after seven years as a history teacher and department chair at City on a Hill Public Charter School in Roxbury, Mass.

Patrick received a M.A. in teaching from Simmons College, and he earned both his B.A. and a M.A. in Ministry from Saint John Seminary School of Theology in Boston. His wife is CSW science teacher Melodie Knowlton.

Ryan Frace is also a new history teacher at CSW. Ryan was an assistant professor at Wellesley College for seven years and before that he was an instructor at University of Chicago and Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Talented Youth summer program. Ryan earned his B.A. in history from Penn State University, and received both a M.A. and Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago.

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The Communications Office welcomes Arlo Furst ’04 in a full-time role as the new Communications Specialist. Arlo will also continue his work with Progressive Education Lab program as the program coordinator and will continue to coach Ultimate Frisbee. Arlo earned his B.A. from Colorado College and is a familiar face to many as he is an alumnus of CSW. Bill Hills returns to the CSW languages

department to teach our final year of Latin classes. Bill previously taught Latin at CSW and at other schools in the Boston area. Bill earned his bachelors degree from Princeton University and a master degree from the University of Massachusetts.

The Development Office welcomes Ben O’Clair, the new Development Associate. Ben’s professional experience has been in database management and grant writing, and while at school he did intern work in communications, development and admissions. Ben received a B.A. in liberal arts from Sarah Lawrence College.

Antonio Quintero joins the languages department as a Spanish teacher.

Antonio spent this past year teaching in Spain at Auxiliar de Conversacion.

Previously, Antonio worked at the New Hampton School in New Hampshire as a Spanish teacher, student advisor, and dorm resident. Antonio received his B.A. in Hispanic studies from Trinity College in Connecticut.

The English department welcomes Megan Schumacher. Megan previously taught English at Friends’ Central School in Philadelphia, and has taught at schools in the Chicago area. Megan has a B.A. in English and communications from Chestnut Hill college (Philadelphia), a M.A. in English from DePaul University, and M.Ed. in secondary education from University of Pennsylvania.

Thaddeus Thompson joined CSW as

the Director of Major Gifts last winter.

Previously, he was the Associate Director of Development at the Fletcher School at Tufts University. He has a B.A. in anthropology and environmental studies from Trinity College in and a masters degree in law and diplomacy from The Fletcher School.

Johára Tucker is our new Director of

Stacey Serrette is our new Assistant

Dean of Student Life. She comes to CSW from the Emma Willard School in Troy, N.Y., where she was a house parent, community service coordinator and basketball coach. Stacey lives on campus as as a residential life administrator. Stacey received a B.S. in sports management from St. John’s University.

Donnie Smith joins CSW wearing two

hats: Assistant Director of Admissions and dorm parent. Donnie was a program associate in A Better Chance’s regional office in New York City. While earning his degree from Earlham College, Donnie worked in the school’s admissions office and he has experience interning in several educational institutions.

Rachel Stoff is our new Associate

Director of Communications. Rachel previously worked with CSW as a senior account manager with Regan Communications. Rachel is the founder and principal of RP Worx, a firm dedicated to public relations and cause marketing. Rachel is a graduate of Whittier College, and holds a post-graduate certificate in public relations from UCLA, Hannah Taytslin is our new Director of Alumni Relations. Hannah earned an M.A. in management from Carnegie Mellon University, while working as a development associate at the Carnegie Museum of Art. Hannah’s professional background includes development experience in the arts, education, and corporate sectors. Hannah earned her B.A. from Brandeis University and has a certificate in paralegal studies from Boston University.

Social Justice and Multicultural Programming and a new dorm associate. Previously, Johára was the Assistant Dean of Students and history teacher at the Pomfret School in Connecticut. She also lead their community service program and served as the associate director of online communications. Johára earned her B.A. in government from Wesleyan University and her J.D. from New York Law School.

Po-wei Weng joins the languages department as a new Mandarin teacher.

Po-wei has taught in several Connecticut schools, including Wesleyan University, where he taught Chinese language and music. He earned a diploma in Peking Opera from the National Kuo-Kuang Academy of Arts (Taiwan), a B.Ed. from National Taichung Teachers College (Taiwan), a M.A. in musicology from National Taiwan University and a M.A. in ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University.

Michael Westfort joins CSW as the new Director of Academic Technology.

Previously, he was the Director of Information Services at the Academy of Notre Dame de Namur. Michael has two graduate degrees in operations and informational technology from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and in instructional technology from San Francisco State University. Michael earned a B.S. from Rochester Institute of Technology.

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Commencement

Under the rumble of thunder and an increasingly darkening sky, The Cambridge School of Weston awarded diplomas to the Class of 2012 at its 126th commencement exercises on June 8. Despite the impending downpour, family, friends, faculty, and staff who gathered for the ceremony cheered as 86 seniors, 58 of whom have been at CSW for all four years, received their diplomas.

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Commencement photography by Russ Campbell Photography.

Visit www.russcam.com/csw2012 for more photos.

“No single ceremony can honor or account for all that these seniors have experienced during their time here,” said Jane Moulding, Head of School. “No single embrace can fully thank the teachers and staff who have challenged and befriended them during that time. No single statement can truly acknowledge all the love, effort and devotion of parents and family.”

The senior class comes from all across the United States, from as close as Weston to as far as California, and 13 of the graduates count their home in four other countries: China, Malaysia, South Korea, and Taiwan.

Each year, members of the senior class ask two fellow classmates to speak on their behalf at graduation. The Class of 2012 chose Eli Dalven ’12 of Arlington and Kate Scrimshaw-Hall ’12 of Sherborn. The senior class also selected two faculty speakers: Awa Diop, French and Spanish teacher, and Brian Walker, English teacher.

Students also chose a group of teachers to award them their diplomas. It is a great honor for these teachers to represent their faculty colleagues in presenting the diplomas. The seniors selected: Tom Evans, dean of faculty & visual arts; Evelina Galper, mathematics; Doug Healy, history; Jane Berkowitz, English; Todd Bartel, visual arts; Awa Diop, French and Spanish; Craig Dorfman, English; Marilyn Del Donno, science; Ted Munter, English and Anne Rearick, visual arts.

The class also chose LeeAnn Brash, mathematics, and Tad Lawrence, science and visual arts, to read their names.

As a traditional farewell for the class of 2012, Jane closed with some words from Nikki Giovanni, one of her favorite poets.

“There is always something to do,” Jane quoted. “There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don’t expect you to save the world, I do not think it is asking too much for you to ... share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those

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Eli Dalven ’12

among you who are visionary, and remove from your life those who offer you ... despair and disrespect.”

Brian Walker, English Faculty

“We live in a time of increasing global connectedness – the world is shrinking and forcing us closer together, whether we are comfortable with it or not. When you get to college, you will see more of what you experienced on CSW’s Social Justice and Diversity Days – both planned and spontaneous, intellectual and emotional. And, you will meet people who don’t look like you, who speak a different language, sing a different national anthem, and even have different heroes and aspirations.

“As a school, CSW is committed to issues of social justice.

But, I’m asking you to do more than just pay lip service to a slogan. Do more than just show up when you have to. Make it mean something. Demand social justice not because it’s trendy or the flavor of the month – not because it’s a liberal idea or because it reflects the ideas and ideals of a particular political party – but because it’s right.

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“Because what we’re talking about are human beings. Human beings being slaughtered in the streets of Damascus and Detroit and everywhere in between. Human beings unfortunate enough to be born too dark or too light, too Muslim or too Christian, too straight or too gay, too rich or too poor. You don’t have to leave CSW and start a non-profit. You don’t have to invent a new widget or feed the hungry. You don’t have to go to country Y and help build a hospital or even donate to a battered women’s shelter. In truth, you don’t have to do much of anything along those lines. You don’t have to, but… you can.”

Awa Diop, Languages Faculty “May you always allow yourself to try, to make mistakes, to stumble, to fall, and dare I say to fail, for the action of failing does not make us a failure. It is an indication that something, somewhere, did not work, so it is also an opportunity to attempt to do that thing over again, but differently.

“How many times did some of us fall, before learning how to walk? How many ‘M’s’ did it take some of us to babble the word ‘mommy’ with triumph? Yes, failure may be an unpleasant feeling, but it is nonetheless a process and a learning experience. And learning, as we very well know, is not always easy, especially when we have not yet figured out how it is we learn in the first place. You should, therefore, respect your own unique, individual process, compare yourself with yourself, and appreciate your own progress.

“Always persevere, don’t let go; hold on tight to yourself, keep your eyes on your goals and know that there’s a long road ahead.”

“CSW is precious in its uniqueness. It comes from the students here, and an overall sense of independence, which we share. It’s the passionate, quirky faculty, who care so much about us. It’s through a synergy of arts and academics, and our dedication to social justice. But I’ve always struggled to describe just exactly what CSW is, and what we do here. There’s no quick answer that does it justice. So each time someone asks, I take a long pause to collect my thoughts.

“I’d say that we march to the beat of a different drum here, but you don’t need to be a drummer to notice that there’s a distinct rhythm at CSW, and it runs deep. You can feel it on campus. Most of us dance to it. We start swaying and nodding our heads on day one. To me, rhythm is the lost element, quintessence, ether, umami; it’s the pulse and soul of sound.

It’s beyond what and why; it’s how. Rhythm doesn’t confine itself to being merely form or function, process or product. It is all of these things, all at once.

“Getting up for school every day for four years doesn’t seem so bad when everyone’s grooving when you get here. It may seem chaotic and confusing when you’re in the middle of it, but when you step back and view the whole, a profoundly different pattern emerges; one that challenges expectations but nevertheless keeps the beat. We intuit the pulse of a mod; we know the feeling when it’s halfway over, seemingly moments after it began. If we listen closely, we can hear the rhythm of the daily schedule, never duplicated, but always familiar.

“The CSW groove is layered and organic. It breathes. Its irregularities make it beautiful, and unique.”

Kate Scrimshaw-Hall ’12

“I commonly lose people I love, not to the grave, but to someplace new. Since I was 7 years old, my family has been caring for foster babies. I think we have now reached 32 babies.

They stay days, weeks, months, a year. They come and they go so much so that I remember things not in years but in babies.

When it is time for them to leave, to go onto a more permanent home, I know it’s for the best. I know it is right in my head, but not in my heart. They are part of my family.

“What if we were those babies? We once were. Our parents remember our tiny feet and little wisps of hair. But eventually

our feet grew and our real hair came in. We learned to walk and talk and turn everything upside down. We lost our teeth and our baby fat and getting sung to sleep at night. We lost those things so we could get new things like attitudes, and opinions, and our periods. Now, we leave behind what we made together at this school.

“I think CSW knows about losing things. Half of the emails I get have ‘Lost’ in the title, or more rarely ‘Found.’ Some of them are found, but I’m willing to bet there are a few things out there in CSW-land that will never be found. Someone’s gold ring. ‘It was my grandmother’s. Please. Help me find it.’ An earring back.

A navy blue sweatshirt with holes in the right sleeve. It was somebody’s favorite. They are forever lost between the seats of the theatre or buried beneath the mud that spring brought to the quad.

“I am strangely comforted by that. I like that a little piece of me will always be lost here.”

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Reunion 2012 After a stormy week of commencement activities, the sun shone brightly for Cambridge School's reunion weekend, with the main event on Saturday, June 16. Over 120 alumni attended with friends and family for three days of memories, laughter, and new friendships. All classes were welcome to attend, and special events honored the milestone classes ending in 2 and 7.

The Class of 1962 celebrated 50th Reunion with dinner on Friday at Gibbet Hill Grill, hosted by Steve Webber ’62. A separate dinner for the class of 1972 was held at Cambridge's Elephant Walk restaurant. Saturday morning's festivities were kicked off with a lovely brunch hosted by Nick Kaufman ’62 , followed by a delicious BBQ lunch on the quad delivered by Redbones. On Sunday, Jenny Rose ’77 hosted brunch at her home to celebrate the class of 1977.

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Meet the “PELlows”

B O L D LY P R O G R E S S I V E :

The Progressive Education Lab

at CSW The Cambridge School of Weston welcomed its inaugural cohort of fellows of the Progressive Education Lab (PEL) this fall, marking the beginning of the two-year teacher education program that aims to teach and prepare future progressive educators.

The four PEL fellows, Sam Egilman ’07, Aspen Golann ’05, Hallie Herz, and Dana Wolfson, arrived on campus in early September and moved into their new dorm rooms in White Farm eager and ready for orientation – not as high school students but aspiring teachers.

PEL is a two-year fellowship that provides a dynamic, hands-on, experiential training not typically found at traditional universitybased education programs. A collaboration of four leading progressive schools – CSW, the Putney School in Vermont, the Unquowa School in Fairfield, Conn., and the Calhoun School in New York City – PEL aims to make teacher education truly progressive. Like the students they will eventually teach, the fellows – or “PELlows” as they are affectionately called – will engage in experiential learning, risk taking, original thinking, and weave social justice into their learning.

“What we couldn’t plan for, of course, was just who these teaching fellows would be and what they would bring to our schools,” said Rachel Hirsch, senior PEL coordinator and history teacher at CSW. Rachel took time off from teaching in Mod 1 so that she could focus on overseeing the PEL program on campus.

“We could not have imagined a more delightful, inquisitive, and astute cohort of future educators as we have with this group.”

Each fellow is paired with a mentor teacher at each school and will work intensively and closely with a wide range of teachers and educational programs. Science teachers Tad Lawrence and Marilyn DelDonno, math department chair Evelina Galper and visual arts teacher and former dean of faculty Tom Evans are serving as mentors this year.

In their first year, the fellows will rotate from school to school to learn about various topics in progressive education: integrated studies at CSW, project-based learning at Putney, the city as school at Calhoun, and museum collaboration at Unquowa. In their second year, each fellow will be offered a paid teaching position at one of the four schools.

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and Culture class for an up-close look at integrated studies and collaborative co-teaching, in addition to observing classes and teaching in all disciplines. By the second week of the program, the fellows helped develop and teach a part of the Food and Culture curriculum.

PEL joins a national movement to pull teacher training into elementary, middle and secondary schools, where fellows have access to teachers and hands-on learning. Currently, a majority of teacher training takes place in college and university-based programs—away from the classrooms and the environments where the teachers would actually teach. Some school leaders have found that this kind of training has created a disconnect between theory and practice.

Aside from passion for teaching and learning, the program only has one pre-requisite, a college degree. In preparation for the launch of PEL, CSW connected with more than 50 colleges and universities and asked that they promote the program at their schools. There were over 130 inquiries online, a blend of recent graduates and current seniors from small liberal arts colleges, large universities, a few graduate schools, and current teachers who are looking for a unique teacher-training experience different from the work they are currently doing. The applicants had diverse education and employment backgrounds.

“I want to continue to learn and teach in a progressive environment so that I can impact my students’ educations and lives the way many of my teachers have impacted mine,” said Dana, about her aspirations after PEL. “I hope to inspire and encourage students to be excited about learning, to find strength and confidence in their ideas, questions, and interests, and to know that they have the opportunity and ability to continue to be active students for the rest of their lives.”

Sam Egilman ’07, of Foxboro, Mass, graduated in 2011 from Skidmore with a bachelor of science in business and management and a growing interest in the field of education. Sam has taken on teacher assistant roles at Skidmore Early Childhood Center and the Thacher Montessori School in Milton, Mass., and has coached athletics at CSW. He has also provided in-depth research for consulting firms and served as a mentor for college students looking to enter the business field.

Aspen Golann ’05, of Boston, graduated from Kenyon College in 2010 with a bachelor of arts in studio art. She took a gap year before attending college and studied art at Massachusetts College of Art and the Rhode Island School of Design. She also studied Russian language and literature at Reed College before attending Kenyon College, where she was a writing tutor and president of the college’s art club. After graduation, she was an assistant teacher at a Montessori School in North Carolina and worked as a graphics designer at a fine arts gallery and as a designer at a design firm.

Hallie Herz, of Damariscotta, Maine, is a 2007 graduate from The Putney School in Vermont, and studied Barnard College before attending Bates College, where she earned her bachelor of arts degree. While in college, Hallie developed a deep interest in outdoor leadership and education. She was a member of the Bates Outing Club, leading advanced-level canoeing trips. She has led wilderness white water canoe trips in Northern Ontario, and has taught campers river rescue, navigation, and teamwork skills.

Dana Wolfson, of Florence, Mass., received her bachelor of arts degree in environmental studies and visual arts from Bennington College in 2011. Dana was a founder of the Bennington Sustainable Food Project, and as a college student, she helped establish a student garden, an internship program, and worked closely with the school’s dining services to integrate healthy and sustainable foods into their menu options. Since graduation, Dana has immersed herself in both indoor and outdoor classrooms, working in elementary school gardens, and teaching classes on food distribution and nutrition.

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Q&A Q&A with the Global Council

The Global Council grew out of a vision from the Board of Trustees as they sought ways to support global engagement, a key strategic initiative of the school. They hoped to connect with and engage leaders and thinkers from the international community, and to help prepare our students to be active contributors to the world. The group, composed of current and past trustees, alumni, and global thought leaders, convened on campus for the first time last fall and will hold its second meeting in November. We spoke to current trustee Eduardo Tugendhat ’72 P’07 and former board chair John Butman P’02, the co-conveners of the Global Council, on their vision for the group.

How did you become involved with the Global Council?

John Butman: This idea had been gestating for many years,

developing from an exercise to define our core theme. Global engagement is an area that I care a lot about. I wanted to be involved and I was part of the shaping of the council. I want to make it known that Eduardo and I purposefully called ourselves “co-conveners,” because this council is not board-driven, nor do we want to be seen as board-driven. We are all members of the leadership group, just as faculty, students and other alumni are, and we are all part of the mainstream.

Eduardo Tugendhat: I was part of the working global engage-

ment group that tried to come up with concrete suggestions as to what global engagement truly means, and what type of pilot program would make sense. This group is exceptionally unique for a secondary school. That says a lot about the caliber and commitment of CSW. What are some immediate and long-term goals of the Global Council? What does it mean for The Cambridge School of Weston?

ET: We want to use the council to build international networks

and alliance, to facilitate connections within our community, to form partnerships with educators and groups worldwide, such as our partnership with the Shanghai Theatre Academy last year.

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We see this group as a platform to bring all sorts of projects and ideas into reality. As [Head of School Jane Moulding] encouraged all of us to do in the past, we wanted to think bigger.

with lots of different disciplines. There is certainly room for more people to add value to the Council.

JB: The Global Council should be seen as a resource that can help connect students, faculty, and alumni to each other and to additional resources all over the world. The council can be a platform for ideas, programmatic or independent projects. The idea of mentoring in a specific area of expertise is high on our list. We hope to make the Global Council directly and widely accessible to the community. Students and other members of the community will be presenting proposals for our first project, and this will give us the chance to determine the kinds of projects we will take on. We will review this together at our next meeting in November. Longer-range possibilities could mean sponsorships from other partners, for instance, another study abroad to China or other parts of the world. It is certainly thrilling to think of ideas to expand our reach as a leader in progressive education.

ET: We want to encourage the CSW student community utilize the Global Council and the resources we offer.

How do you plan to contribute personally to the Council and help fulfill one of the key strategic initiatives of the school?

ET: In my case, all my work is international. I have worked in 80

countries and I usually have projects in 14 to 15 countries at one time. I would like to help create networks and opportunities to help students and alumni. For instance, I can help connect students with resources for their capstone or for other fields of study, like a multi-disciplinary course that might have international dimension. Everyone on the council has a variety of experiences and expertise. This is a place where we can challenge ideas and have a great dialogue. We can each add something new.

How can the CSW community become more involved with the Global Council?

JB: The Global Council is a really great way to be involved without the commitment of being on a board, and without the restriction of residing locally for hands-on participation. Previously, there was no mechanism to support that type of participation with CSW. The Council has members from all over the place

Michael Fleming ‘81 Home: Beverly Hills, Calif. • Title: Executive Director, The David Bohnett Foundation • Expertise: Social Justice, performing arts, foundation relations, education Tanya Henderson P’13, P‘14 Home: Cambridge, Mass. • Title: Public Policy Director, Women’s Action for New Directions • Expertise: Human rights law, gender law, civil rights

Global Council Members Supratik Bose Home: Cambridge, Mass. • Title: Principal, Project Paideia • Expertise: Urban designer, India/America relations, Higher Education, Technology, Business/Finance

Peggy Kuo P’10 Home: Taipei, Taiwan • Title: Vice President, DBTel Incorporated • Expertise: Multinational business, Telecommunications

John Butman P’02 Home: Concord, Mass. • Title: Idea Platform, Inc., Global Council Co-Convener • Expertise: Writer, world-wide consultant, strategic planning

Matt Liang Home: Boston, Mass. • Title: Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Professor of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health • Expertise: Medicine/Public Health research, teacher/mentor, science

Hannah Clark Steiman ’98 Home: Cambridge, Mass. • Title: former Clinton Foundation Communications Manager, Clinton Global Initiative • Expertise: Writer, Teaching, International Partnerships

Pattie Maes P’13 Home: Cambridge, Mass. • Title: Associate Professor, MIT’s Program in Media Arts and Sciences • Expertise:Science, Technology, Computer-based Arts and Media

Tom Evans P ’06, P ’10, Faculty Home: Holliston, Mass. • Title: Faculty, Visual Arts • Expertise: Progressive Education, Youth, Development, Integrated Studies

Sacha McVean ’85 Home: Shanghai, China • Title: Elementary Principal, Shanghai American School • Expertise: International Education, world-wide American schools

Vilnis Ezerins ‘78 Home: Cape Coral, Fla. • Title: Chairman, SoftServe Software • Expertise: International Business Development, Technology, Entreprenurism

Meredith Ogilvie-Thompson P’14 Home: East Hampton, N.Y. • Title: Executive Director of Tusk Trust • Expertise: Conservation/Environmental Education, Africa, writing/journalism

Jillian Poole ’48 Home: Arlington, Va. • Title: Founder, The Fund for Arts and Culture • Expertise: Cultural Exchange, Central & Eastern Europe, Nonprofits William Sun Home: Shanghai, China • Title: Vice President, Shanghai Theatre Academy • Expertise: Performing Arts, Education, Internationalist Lori Taylor, Past Faculty Home: Cambridge, Mass. • Title: Founding Member, Actors’ Shakespeare Project • Expertise: Arts Educator, Alternative Youth Programs Eduardo Tugendhat ’72, P ’07 Home: Vienna, Va. • Title: Founder and CEO, Carana Corporation • Expertise: Economic Development, Global Council Co-Convener Peter von Hippel ’48 Home: Eugene, Ore. • Title: Professor of Chemistry Molecular Biology, University of Oregon • Expertise: Science, Education, Technology, Government Linda Wang Home: Beijing, China • Title: Board Chair, YiHai Real Estate Holdings Co. Ltd. • Expertise: Education, China, Philanthropist Yi-Ming Wei ’09 Home: Taipei, Taiwan R.O.C. • Title: University of California-San Diego, Student, environmental engineering • Expertise: Young alumni relations, environmental education Jane Moulding (ex-officio) Home: Weston, Mass. • Title: Head of School of The Cambridge School of Weston • Expertise: Progressive Education

Zach Feuer ’96 Home: New York, N.Y. • Title: Owner, Zach Feuer Gallery • Expertise: Visual arts, art dealer, contemporary art

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Seth Jacobs ’82

For this historian, it began with a “Documentary History of the United States,” a book that ignited his passion for history. Seth, now a professor at Boston College, is working on a new book titled “Rogue Diplomats” and balances life as a political and cultural historian of 20th century United States and father to two daughters, including Miranda Jacobs ’15.

Seth’s original trajectory was not towards education. After graduating from Yale University, he worked as an actor in Chicago. One afternoon, on his way to perform Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, he bought a used copy of A Documentary History of the United States by Richard Heffner to read during his long, cross-town commute on the train.

He realized he didn’t know about the history of his own country. He got hooked and followed a gut feeling that the subject would never bore him. He eventually pursued a master’s degree in history, a Ph.D. followed, and the rest of his journey is “history,” as they say.

When Seth began as a junior at The Cambridge School of Weston, he admits he had the awkwardness of many typical teenagers. In his words, he was overweight, he had acne, but his time at CSW was a transformative experience that changed his life.

“Aside from getting married and having children, going to CSW was the luckiest thing that’s ever happened to me,” Seth said.

The school was a perfect training ground for his experience as an educator. He was profoundly influenced by his teacher Robin Wood, whom he touts as the best teacher and mentor in his life. Robin, a beloved teacher and former theatre department chair, who died in 2009, and other teachers instilled in him a willingness to contribute to his community and to a world greater than himself for the first time.

As a professor, he finds it challenging to convey the tenets of progressive education to his students, but is determined to share and exemplify concepts whenever he can.

“Students are so afraid of getting the wrong answers,” Seth said.

“If their major goal is not to displease the teacher, therein lies the adversarial relationship between student and teacher. I wish that I could make students understand that there is no one right answer, and not to be afraid to ask, engage and question – the CSW way.

There needs to be more schools like CSW!” The size of Seth’s classes at Boston College range from 750 students in lecture halls to much smaller groups in his history classes. Seth has asked his students to call him by his first name, which some students have yet to adapt to because of Boston College’s formal and traditional structure. He has also tried to bring the student’s guards down and to appeal to them on their own level by holding office hours in the student coffee shop.

“As the only middle-aged guy in the popular shop, I look so pathetic, the students see me as vulnerable, and look to rescue me by coming and talking to me, about anything really.” When Seth offered regular office hours to students, hardly any students showed up.

In his Vietnam class, he coordinates visits from Vietnam veterans to address and interact with the students. Every year, his students say it is the best part of the class. Their presence enables Seth to get the point across that there is no typical Vietnam vet, they each have had varied paths and careers since the war.

“One of the wonderful things that I learned at CSW was to be compelled to think of things that really matter, as opposed to the way someone is dressed, or a comparison to a list of superficial things that so many people obsess with. It was clear that there was no cookiecutter mold of what students should look like.”

Seth encourages his students to question him, even in his area of specialty. He is disheartened by students who spent their years in high school steeped in rote memorization and believe that his-

torians cannot be challenged or can have opinions as anyone else.

His daughter Miranda came home earlier this year affected and emotional after a long campus-wide discussion about race and class that arose following the death of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed teenager in Florida who was shot and killed in February. Seth recalled how his daughter had learned so much from the discussion and how through these discussions, she was able to engage, question, and openly discuss a difficult and serious topic. He credits CSW for remaining open to the needs of students and faculty and for providing a safe space where inquiry and examination is embraced.

Like his daughter, Seth also performed with the Pocket Players.

And, although she is only a sophomore, he is already thinking about the questions he will ask her when she starts to think more deeply about college.

“How much interaction will she have with professors that specialize in the fields that she’s interested in?” He said he may need to come to terms with the fact that most schools are not like CSW. “Contrasted with different schools, even colleges and universities, it’s just hard to stack up to CSW, in the personal care and in the genuine interest that faculty has in a student.”

“People may think I’m being melodramatic, but that’s the truth,” he said. “And, I’m a historian now.”

Sam, a senior at Haverford College, recently won a prestigious physics award, completed a graduate level courses at Cambridge University, and received multiple grants for summer lab exploration at Harvard University. His passion for science was ignited at The Cambridge School of Weston, where Sam began at the age of 13, after skipping the 8th grade.

Sam Rodriques ’09 Sam always knew that he wanted to be a scientist. By the time he was a junior and senior at CSW, the bulk of his time was spent in independent study exploring areas of science that fascinated him.

“The Mod System really allowed me to take a hard look and explore science in whatever direction I wanted,” Sam said. “Having the opportunity and support for independent study taught me really important skills, plus I was able to have a very unusual class schedule and go nuts with them – in science, that’s what you have to do.”

At Haverford, Sam is majoring in theoretical physics, and he may make it a double major with applied mathematics. He recently concluded a year abroad in the United Kingdom at Cambridge University where he studied both fields. For any rising senior, this was most certainly a challenging program. However, Sam was studying at a graduate student level.

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program as an undergrad. Besides, communication is really the most important thing in science.” He said he felt lucky to be in one of the few programs at the university that enables freedom to choose an area of study.

Over the past year, Sam has given lectures on quantum information theory using presentation and teaching skills that he says he learned while at CSW. His experience as a Teaching Assistant in physics and other classes gave him the perspective on things you don’t learn from a textbook. He also credits CSW for pointing him in the direction that he has gone in science.

“In physics, you approach a problem by thinking very hard,” Sam said. “Through the Mod System, I was able to intensely focus on one subject area at a time and think very deeply. My teachers at CSW always pushed me in different directions and although I didn’t know what area would interest me in the long run. The fact that sciences were very integrated with other disciplines has stayed with me – this interest in studying a combination of parallel areas, to look at problems in a number of ways.”

Sam is interested in using applied math and physics to tackle problems in biology, sociology and even economics. The very nature of studying them requires an interdisciplinary approach.

He speaks passionately about his discovery of similarities in fundamental principles that crossover in each of these areas. He will be dedicated to identifying systems that look different but behave the same, and move into other fields aside from physics.

He says he may end up returning to Cambridge University to

further pursue interdisciplinary research in applied math and physics, as the school has one of the best and well-known programs in the field of research.

The summer before Sam’s senior year at CSW, he secured his first research job, wiyh the help of CSW’s alumni office and physics department. He was placed in a Harvard professor’s laboratory, and he studied silicon meta-particles in a dye used in MRIs, to investigate whether the dye would assist in seeing features more clearly.

“That phenomenal experiential teaching in science definitely helped me get going on a scientific journey,” he said. He enjoyed the hands-on laboratory work at CSW, where he built instruments and electric motors for the first time. He knew that he could try anything he was interested in, just for the mere sake of trying it.

After Haverford College, he plans to pursue post-graduate study, potentially at Cambridge University, and pursue a doctorate degree in a related science. Eventually, he would like to teach and remain involved in scientific research.

“Teaching is the only way to learn something very well,” said Sam. “Because I had the formative experience with progressive education, it gave me much more of a social perspective, and helped empower me to shape who I am. It gave me a sense of power that I’ve needed to succeed in any educational career. I wouldn’t trade my CSW education for anything.”

Tara Flippo ’90 Known to her students at the University of New Hampshire as “the games lady,” Tara has spent years creating the perfect fusion of outdoor education with diversity and cultural awareness training for students and adults.

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Tara’s passion for outdoor experimental education and social justice began during her years at CSW. As a student, she participated regularly in the Wilderness Trips during Mod breaks and was immersed in classroom discussions about equity and justice.

“The wilderness program pushed me to be a leader as a student at CSW,” Tara said. “The robust program stretched me, I learned real leadership abilities. I was hooked from that point. It was a community within a community, and it was

“I’m very proud of CSW and my education. It was a really natural fit for me,” Tara said. “When I hear about all the discussions about social justice on campus, it very much reflects my values all these years later.”

very innovative. I was able to be part of the greater community, but also be connected to my interests.”

Tara, an avid canoer and kayaker, spent eight years at Project Adventure working on outdoor course management, before landing at the University of New Hampshire as an assistant clinical faculty in the Outdoor Education Program and as the youth and student programs director at UNH’s Browne Center for Innovative Learning.

For the past five years, Tara has taught students team building through ropes courses. She also serves as the SEED (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity) program director. Her course is required for outdoor education majors, and it’s not surprising that she works and teaches at a university with the country’s first and longest-standing outdoor education major.

“I have long been interested in using experiential education to look at the injustice in the world, and address real issues,” said Tara. “I believe in making educational change in our own way and practices.”

Tara designed a dialogue-based outdoor education model.

Under this model, participants discuss issues like stereotypes, sexism, ageism, and other prejudice while engaged in the game.

The games help build teamwork, trust, and help create a safe space for participants to share their thoughts.

Her games include asking students to juggle objects, while reflecting on these items as a metaphor to the issues and circumstances that we juggle in life. She begins the discourse among participants by asking questions such as “What are we juggling?” and “What are we using as stepping stones?”and “Where is the balance?”

Over the years, Tara has developed diversity workshops that have built up a true following, so much so that she found herself becoming the “trainer” to a cohort of colleagues on social justice and diversity issues. She expresses a passion that she and others have in running these workshops.

Tara recently found a way to promote the trainings that she has developed to the greater community, through her newest effort Social Change Training and Consulting. She can now share her resources and extend her expertise to other schools, individuals or companies.

“Although it is very much a side project, it made sense to have something to refer folks to,” she said.

Tara believes in the value of progressive education and sees a lot of parallels between progressive ed and the experiential learning work that she does.

For Tara, creating a positive and inclusive community is at the heart of every team building course. She said that CSW did a good deal preparing her for her career and her work in building community.

“I’m very proud of CSW and my education. It was a really natural fit for me,” Tara said. “When I hear about all the discussions about social justice on campus, it very much reflects my values all these years later.”

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donor report

Annie Cheng ’12, Mixed Media

HOW TO READ THIS REPORT Each year, the Report on Philanthropy provides a listing of all the donors to The Cambridge School of Weston for the previous fiscal year. This report recognizes all donations made to our Annual Fund, special funds and programs from July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012. Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of this report. Please contact the Development Office at 781-642-8645 if our records need to be updated.

THANK YOU FOR CARING Dear Alumni, Parents, and Friends: The 2011-2012 year has been one of great accomplishment at The Cambridge School of Weston. I want to extend my sincere appreciation to all who made this year possible, to all who supported our annual fund, special programs, and challenge grants.

The Trustees, faculty and staff spent the last several years envisioning a future for CSW based on four strategic initiatives: Health and Wellness, Learning and Teaching, Social Justice, and Global Engagement. Here is a brief report on our year: • Health and Wellness: Health and Wellness is more than just a curriculum or a facility, but a way of life at CSW. We convened groups through the year to think of ways to refine our curriculum, review our campus master plan, and consider the location for a new gymnasium. Architerra, the architectural firm that designed our award-winning Garthwaite Center for Science and Art, assisted us with our work. We also looked at new partnerships to integrate peace and justice in our academic programs, as well as ways to integrate locally grown, sustainable foods in our dining services.

• Global Engagement: Last fall, we launched the Global Council, an auxiliary board comprised of 20 members from around the world. At its inaugural meeting, the group brainstormed ways to support international projects for our students and faculty. The group also identified 21st century skills that schools will need to instill in our students to prepare them for the global work force. Last school year, we partnered successfully with the Shanghai Theatre Academy on the Confucius Project, a language and theatre program through which our students studied Mandarin and studied traditional Beijing Opera. And, in the spring, Head of School Jane Moulding and our former Dean of Faculty Tom Evans traveled to Beijing to establish a partnership with the Yihai School that will help us provide study abroad opportunities for our Mandarin program and professional development opportunities for our faculty.

• Social Justice: The faculty and administration reviewed policies around financial aid to help increase access for all students to fee-based courses. Donors have been generous in their support, and we will focus some of our future philanthropy efforts to increase the aid we are able to distribute to families in need. This past year, the school hired a new Director of Social Justice and Multicultural Programming to help support domestic students and families of color at CSW and provide additional programming on social justice and multicultural issues for all students and faculty.

• Learning and Teaching: Last year, we received a $250,000 grant from the Edward E. Ford Foundation grant to establish the Progressive Education Lab with three other independent schools. The grant had a matching requirement, and I am pleased to report that we met our first $100,000 bar on June 30.

Thanks to all the “charter donors” who contributed towards this effort. This fall, PEL launched with our first four fellows, two of whom are CSW alums! In addition, we have revised our math curriculum and hired a new Director of Academic Technology.

We have also established working groups to helps us further refine our teacher evaluation system, educational partnerships, and other programs to enhance our missions. And last, one of the most exciting developments, especially for alumni who may have been boarders during their time at CSW, we just opened Warren House, our new, green dormitory, which currently houses 24 girls and three residential life faculty families.

I hope many of you will have the opportunity to visit campus in the coming year, to see how we are growing and thriving. In the pages ahead are the names of the many people who helped support our operations and special programs this past year.

Your gifts of nearly $1.75 million were instrumental to sustaining our operating budgets and special projects. The entire Board of Trustees joins me thanking you for your support and in taking part in shaping the future of our school.

Anki Wolf ’67

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D O N O R S O C I ET Y G I V I N G Society giving reflects gifts and pledges (cumulative totals) for Fiscal Year starting July 1, 2011 and ending June 30, 2012.

Gryphon Society $25,000 and above

Anonymous Diane Garthwaite James and Shelley Drake Hawks Polly Howells Raymond Lifchez Christian Nolen and Susan Denny Karl Sims and Pattie Maes Steven H. Webber John Weltman and Cliff Atkins 1886 Society $10,000 and above

Walter and Alice Abrams Geeta and Kamesh Aiyer Steven Berez and Peggy Lowenstein Jian Xing Che and Shuhong Chen Sean and Julie Dalton Kirk and Laurie Davis David M. Dixon, Jr. William Elk and Sheila Watson Jiangxin Hong and Huixue Yang Heather Korostoff Murray Joseph I. Smullin Adam and Jane Stoneman Stein Yong Tang and Jianjun Ding Nathalie and John Thompson Peter Thorne and Katherine Gross Peter H. von Hippel John Welch and Elizabeth Breen Head of School Society $5,000 and above

Anonymous Gary Ardell and Laurie Glader Arthur and Anne Berndt Katherine Chapman and Thomas Stemberg Nicholas and Erika Christakis Charis San Antonio Cooper and David Cooper David Edelman and Miriam Adams Magomed Gadzhiev and Dzhamilat Umailova

Dr. Stephen J. and Anne Stuart Galli Chris and Barbara Gootkind Mr. and Mrs. Amory Houghton Jr. Xunze Kuang and Yamei Qu B. Keith and Ellen Law Quan Long and Biejia Lu Richard and Rosemary McCready Robert H. Metcalf Larry Nathanson, M.D. Rowan O’Riley James and Mindy Pasco-Anderson Richard and Margie Perse Dr. Bebe Poor Jonathan and Amy Poorvu Charles Phillips Russell, II Robert Scheuer Elizabeth Stuart Eduardo Tugendhat Arthur and Susan Vogt Eric von Hippel Marilyn Spinoza Weinberg Windover Construction, Inc. Arthur Gilman Society $2,500 and above

Melville and Rebecca Blake Athos Bousvaros and Margaret Lotz Cold Brook Fund Toby Dewey and Susan Morley Donna Kargman Donaghy J. Anthony Downs and Jin-Kyung Kim James and Karen Durham Heather Ellis Aaron and Caroline Falk David and Nina Fialkow Mrs. John A. Hadden, Jr. Roger M. Hewlett Beom Jin Kim and On Mi Park Matthew H. Liang Harry McCracken Martha Miller Jane and Linton Moulding Martha C. Nussbaum Michael Pappone and Diane Savitzky Sam and Charlotte Perkins Deborah and Arthur Pressman Marcia Stone Riesman John and Victoria Rizzi

Markus and Laura Stamm Susan J. Ward Richard and Patricia Waters

William B. Gruener Thomas L. Hall Steven Hamburg and

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Sarah Barker Snowden Henry and Paula Ivey Ann Hersey Lisa B. Hickler Sarah Jane Liberman Horton Seth Jacobs L. Robert and Lisa Reich Johnson Arthur and Kate Kilmurray John and Joan Kimball Marilyn Coburn Kincaid David C. Kluchman Curt Kohlberg and Allegra Manacher Tony and Colleen Lapinsky Rob Laverdure John Lees and Ellen Curren Caroline E. B. Lewis Harlan Lieberman-Berg Daniel Loeb and Deborah Piltch Christopher H. Lutz Paul Gregory and Charlo Maurer Jo-Ann Thomas and Megan Michalak David G. Mugar Julianne Wright Neaverson Larry Nirenberg and Catherine Ziehl Elias P. Norton Anthony Ogilvie-Thompson Jennifer B. Pinck Dr. William R. Pokross Robert D. Poor Susan S. Poverman Richard and Michele Powers Richard and Karen Ruben Andrés Saldaña and Elizabeth Miller Trish Saunders Robert and Judith Scherzer Susan Schiro and Peter Manus Nancy Getting Secker Sarita Shah Jonathan B. Skinner Mary Ann Stevenson Stoltze Design Nina Susman Gerard and Mary Carlton Swope Richardson V. Turner Ellen Schaefer Velline Joan Thompson Walther Peter Washburn Roger Weiss Dr. Ruth Westheimer Alexander and Anne White

John French Society $1,000 and above

Andrew Jackson and Marianne Jackson Adams Benjamin Alimansky Anonymous (3) Architerra, Inc. Brian and Julia Austin Roger C. Avery Alma Bair and Allan Weiss Adrian and Laura Bishop Timothy Blackman and Amy Travis Bruce P. Bogert Richard and Cathy Boskey Maggie Ziskind Brenner John and Nancy Butman Martin Carmichael III and Dr. Lisa Gruenberg William and Eunice Carson Christine Marston Chamberlain Dean and Evelyn Cirielli Jennifer Jones-Clark and Al Clark James and Amy Cook Howard Cooper and Jane Karol Elizabeth and Jack Culbertson Joan and Ronald Curhan Thomas J. Davis L. Peter Deutsch Edith Lockhart Di Francesco Patrick Dinardo and Susan Schwartz Rachael Dorr R. Carl Drisko and Allie Altman Polly Ellerbe Lelia Orrell Elliston Vilnis A. Ezerins Zachary Feuer David and Kathleen Fischoff Edwin J. Fitzpatrick FLIK Meredith Jones Fountain Freiner Co. Dennis Friedland Amy Cody and John Furst Jack Gantos and Anne Lower Daniel Ginsburg and Laura Lechner Mary Lemann Goldman Benjamin and Anne Gord Lise Gordon Jim and Kate Greer

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Year

Year

ar Amount

Dollar Amount

Dollar Amount 100%

30%

$840,000

1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s

90% 25%

80% 70% 55%

60% 50%

20%

50%

49%

48%

15%

40% 10%

30%

TOTAL

$36,550 $48,514 $87,069 $18,456 $27,975 $10,650 $3,630 $515 $233,359

$808,633 $800,000

$803,126 $770,466

$760,000 $740,000 $720,000

$712,360

$700,000 $680,000

20%

5% $660,000

10% 0%

$640,000

0% Class of 2012

Class of 2013

Class of 2014

Class of 2015

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

2011-2012 Parent Participation in the Parent Fund by class year

Alumni Unrestricted Gifts to the Annual Fund in Fiscal Year 2011-2012

Daniel H. Wolf Arthur Young and Janet Rickles Ellen L. Ziskind

Agnes Voligny Frank N. von Hippel

Adolphus Cheek $500 and above

Anonymous (2) Margaret M. Baillie Jeffrey and Suzanne Barrow Bruce A. Beal Laura Bell Lutz and Gaby Bethge Scott and Marianne H. Bickerton Sally and Carl Brotman Stephen C. Buck Karen Buck-Gilbert and Mr. Scott Gilbert J. Samuel Chase Gary and Doris Christelis Elizabeth Coolidge and Elisabeth Sackton Mark CotÊ and Joann Stemmermann Mark Culliton and Mary DiCicco Henry and Christine D’Angelo Janet and Edward Dee James Denvir and Rangeley Wallace Lisa Wood Esherick Mr. and Mrs. David J. Feldman Fidelity Foundation Nancy Tarlin Flescher Richard Frankel and Lisa Bloom Ann Bennett Garthwaite Will Haible Rev. and Mrs. Lyle G. Hall Emily Hancock Gregory and Elaine Hawkes Kaiko Marie Hayes James and Pam Hayes-Bohanan

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$817,437

$820,000

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Kate Heaton Todd and Ann Helmus Aaron Hirsch and Kristin Brown Bertram Holman and Randy Foster James and Christianne Humphrey Michael and Sharon Jacques Jane Reisman Jampolis Vali and Jean Kahn Nicolas J. Kaufman William Knopp and Carolyn Lackey Philip and Lisa Landa Robert and Patsy Lawrence Richard Lewis and Joanne Morreale Jianzhong Lin and Xiaoxia Yu Samuel Sebaduka Mbowa Michele Millon Janet M. Miner Moors and Tom Myers Joanna Nelson Eric and Elizabeth Olson Silvia Arrom and David Oran Mary Field Parker George Perkins and Polly Carpenter Lorraine Re Francesca M. Rivera Charlie Rose and Carol Downs Binth Rustad Philip Sadler Steve Scrimshaw and Megan Hall Dr. Christopher W. Seidler Joyce Meyers Seigel Nevin Shalit Kay Silberfeld Stephen and Robin Smith Ronney Marcus Traynor Kathy Logan Tugendhat

Faith P. Waters Jonathan Weisbuch, M.D. Robert Weisskoff and Ann Marie Lindquist Conrad J. White Peter S. and Carolyn H. White Peter and Robin Wolf Maurice Wood and Shelly Ziegelman Mark and Theresa Wright Hildegarde Washburn $250 and above

Bonnie and John Alexander Lemis and Mubeyyin Altan Anonymous Daniel Arons and Sarah Scully Kate Tuttle Asselin Craig and Elaine Barger John Andrew Bernstein Robert H. Bird Judith Tarlin Bogage Edward M. Borges Robin Briggs Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Brooks John Brouder and Carol Greenwald Meredith Naylor Bunting Mark and Allyn Callahan Warren C. Carberg Ira Carmen and Toni Putnam Tom and MaryAnn Case Chesterbrook Community Foundation Inc. John and Cynthia Clemson George and Julia Cohan Emilie Speare Coolidge Rev. Earl Orlando Darlington

David N. Deinard David DeLong and Susan Gladstone David Dove and Leigh Tiedemann Thomas and Ellen Draper Andrew W. Duback Steven Duback Eastern Bank Charitable Foundation Jay Eberle and Nancy Knoff Samson Egilman David and Deborah Ehrens Emilie S. Welles Foundation Amy Fitzpatrick Robert Friesen Melissa Franklin and Paolo Giromini Michal Ann Goldman Fred Gordon Jonathan C. Guest David and Loril Gunn Scott and Nikki Haas Marc and Vivian Haefele Bito Hamilton Kelsey M. Henderson Christopher Hess and Jennifer Aliber Christopher H. Hodgman John Holleran Brian Holmes and Janet Goguen Allen E. Hopper James Gray Gallery Allan W. Jayne, Jr. Jennifer A. Borislow Insurance Agency, Inc. Edwin M. Johnston Serge Karpovich Kim Storey and Douglas Katz Peter and Tara Keppler

07-08

08-09

10-11

09-10

11-12

Unrestricted Annual Fund Gifts 5-Year Review

04-05

Warren and Laura Kerper Jean Kilbourne Steve and Ceci King Sacha Knop Keith and Susan Kwiatkowski Dinah Lane Hope Jensen Leichter Allison V. Lenk Audrey J. Lenk Jon Levin Alfred B. Lewis, M.D. Stephen and Janet Lipkin Stephen Logowitz and Dorothea Black Leo and Helen Martinuzzi Judith Lindau McConnell Day and Hunter McDowell Jordan McGinty Jade McGleughlin and Sue Hyde Christopher Meehan Joshua Meltzer and Joanne Holdridge Marc Mitchell Matthew Jones Montgomery John Clark Moore, Jr. Susan Brooks Morris Till Mueller-Ibold Claribel and Philip Newbold George Peper Dennis and Jane Piechota Janet Axelrod and Tim Plenk Thomas and Dianne Riley Sandra Weisberg Ropper Sheldon Rosenberg and Mary-Jude Dean Becky Dennison Sakellariou Malcolm and B. J. Salter George and Ann Wheeler Saunderson Dea Savitzky

Freema Shapiro Priscilla Tilly Shaw David J. Smith Trumbull Smith Christopher St. John Matthew and Betsey St. Onge Philip S. Sternstein Eric and Elaine Stilianos John and Sia Stovall Siri Striar Carla Turner Tardif Thaddeus Thompson Marcia Tugendhat Wendy M. Van Der Bogart Hoyt Walbridge, Ph.D. Stephen Alastair Wanta and Jessica R. Wolf Spencer Warncke and Teresa Belmonte John and Kimberly Wass Mary-Lou Cohen Weisman Alissa Wilson John D. Wright John C. Young Dori F. Zaleznik Fred and Carole Zayas Charles Zettek, Jr. Friends Society $100 and above

Robert Abbe and Elizabeth Baker Albert and Susan Adams Jane Aibel Elanna Allen Thomas and Carole Allen Brian and Rosi Amador Webster Anderson Monica Andrews Anonymous William G. Ansley, Jr.

Frank J. Araby Montserrat Brooks Archbald David Aronson and

Mr. and Mrs. Garth F. Dimon Nancy Dodd Jonathan Dorfman and

Maureen Fagan Eric and Barbara Baatz Judy Bailey Phoebe Barnes Andrew and Peggy Barresi Jose F. Barreto Geoffrey M. Bartlett Rudolf L. Benfey Tom and Carol Benjamin Grace-Elizabeth Field Bergen Alan and Judith Bernstein Daniel Bernstein JoAnne Heit Bertrand Annie Bickerton Mike Bliss Jane Ira Bloom Benjamin G. Bolles Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Bookbinder Don Born Edmund A. Bowles Albert V. Bratt, Jr. Cathy Siebold and William Braunlin Arthur M. Brendze Peter A. Bridgman Gilbert and Marjorie Brodsky Kathleen Brown and Kevin Whalen Christine Brudevold Jane Burkhardt Jeanne Camin and Jim Anderson Roger L. Caro Renelle Cavicchi Mourad Chaouch and Alanna Nelson Liang-Yeu Chen and Yun-Wei Kuo Julia Swope Child Katherine Dillon Clark Patricia A. Clark Ruth Ingersoll Clough Emily Cobb Elizabeth Cohen Peter and Kym Cohen Richard Colten Roger Conrad Jenna Corman Laurie Cormay Cowden Stephen H. Crolius Andrew Crump Ruth Miller Curwen Bruce and Pamela Shanley Daube Megan T. Davis Marilyn Del Donno and Shawn Carignan

Anne Blumberg Nicholas Druar Andrew Edmonds, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Franklin G. Edwards Alexander Egilman Judith Ellen and Jesse Tauriac Susan Ennis Jesus and Laura Estrada Tom Evans and Anne Priestley Jeff and Mary Farbman Shirley Feldman Ketylia Felix Angel Fernandez-Chavero and Filomena Ayala Charles D. Forsythe Heather Chapman Turner Frazer Richard G. Freedberg William Freedberg Elaine Lavalle Freeman Elizabeth Friedland Evelina and Yevgeniy Galper Rhys Gardiner Eben and Win Gay Alexis S. Gershwin Alan Gerstein Melissa Bowen Gibbons Dwight and Helaine Golann Deborah Goldman Lynn Goldsmith and Betsy Goldman Sarah Porter Goldstein Daniel Gordon David "Digger" L. Gordon Peter G. Gosselin Amy and Martin Graves Martha Gray and Jerry Cathey Deborah and Steven Greenberg Mary Grenham and Jane Hamilton Helen Greven Zenith Gross Marvin and Joanne Grossman James Guttmann Jean P. Guyton Helena S. Halperin Edward J. Hamilton Dr. Richard J. Hanelin Paul Harrison and Katherine Hall Susanne M. Harrison Nancy A. Haskell Nancy Gersh Hegyi Salt Hem Stanley Henshaw Bruce Herrmann and Erin Hoffer John Herzan

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Endowment Contributions 2% Finance and Other Revenue 2% Other 3%

Parent Benefit 13%

Summer Program 2%

Contributions 5% Capital Giving 7%

Parents of Alumni 6%

Current Parents and Grandparents 38%

Trustees 13%

Alumni 27%

20011- 20012 Annual Fund by Constituency

Christopher and Elizabeth Hickey Thomas L. Hinkle Rachel Schorr Hirsch Thomas L. Holzman Robert K. Hower Priscilla Huntington Jonathan Ingersoll Shawn and Sharon Johnson Susan B. Smullin Jones Peter Josephson Adriana Cortese Juliao Douglas Kahn Thomas and Karen Karon Leonore Katz-Rhoads Sarah Kaufman Joseph and Devonia Keller Deborah Kelsey John and Deborah Kernochan Ian Angus Kerr Henry W. Keyes Phillip King Thomas B. Knapp Eun Lee Koh and Jordan Mueller David Kohlberg William C. Kuker Sigbert and Barbara Kydd Greg Lambrecht and Lee Manuel Cynthia Lang Robert and Lindsey Lanigan John Lapham and Annie Hoffman Lindsey C. Lawrence Jeffrey Lee and Debra Squires-Lee Matthew H. Lee Gloria Welch Legvold Elizabeth F. Leigh Henry Lerner and Phyllis Scherr Dr. Lois Levin Nancy Lindau Lewis Orlando and Kelley Leyba Jesse and Stacey Liberty Charles Lin and Margaret Moody Lillian Lin Jacob and Christine Lindeman Jean Lindquist and 32

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Michael McCallum Kuo-Chang Liu and Mei-Hua Chang Thomas Lotas and Kimberly McDowell Christopher and Julie Lovell Sally Mack Tony Mack Justin Mackay-Smith and Meredith M. Mackay Paul Malamud Jennifer Rosenberg Malnick Helen Wright Marden Tracey Marks and Michael Gravitz Thomas E. Martin Sharon W. Mastenbrook Nyssa Matson-Keats Patrick McCabe and Caroline Fisher Robert Hunter McDowell Mr. and Mrs. Scott McLinn Sarah Ladd Meiklejohn Amy Meneely Philip and Cynthia Merkle Harry C. Meserve Microsoft Matching Gifts Michael Miller and Melissa Zieve Jennifer Francis Mintzer Michael Mou Robert H. Moench Claire Moise David Mountcastle Esther Greenleaf Murer Stephen Neubert and Wendi Quest Jill Nevins Lai P. Ngan William and Linda Novak Martin and Ursula Nowak Robert and Megan O'Block David Olem Lt. Col Allison E. Palmer, USAF Esther Miskolczy Pasztory John and Geraldean Paterson Donna Patterson

Based on audited draft financials available as of 8/23/12 Pending final approval by audit committee

Tuition and Fees 83% 2011-2012 Revenue Sources

Andrew Peccles and Robin Blackburn Streit Karen L. Pick Steve S. Piltch Linda Pompa Daniel Potash and Phoebe Low Joseph and Kathleen O'Brien Powers Louisa Putnam Stephen M. Rabb Catherine Ramsey Piper Rankine Joan Everett Reals Heather Heath Reed Jackie Reizes John and Carol Repsher Gordon Reynolds Katherine and Craig Richardson James and Claudia Richter Michael and Karin Rivard Michael Robbins and Iku Oseki Louis Rodriques and Robbie Burnstine Jennifer Rose Geoffrey and Lynne Rosenberg John C. Rosenthal Craig Ross and Denise Nelken Jordana Ross Paula Rossen John Sabelli Emanuel and Cynthia Sachs Amy and Rick Sands Stephen and Patricia Santos Anthony and Priscilla Sapienza Eugene and Joan Savitt Rebecca Savitt David S. Schafran David Schmitt Lawrence Schmutz and Joan Oustifine Bernie and Trish Scozzafava Jeremy Seeger and Kimberly Shaknis Blanche Seelmann

David T. Sewall Joan Shagan Jo Schein Shane Arthur Sharenow Hanna Sherman and Daniel Sheff Ed Shirley and Marge Schneider Jody Shuman Jack and Nancy Sieber John A. Simpson Martin D. Skinner Charles Slotnick and Laura Woolpert Nancy Smalzel Fenwick Smith Howard Smith and Anne Levine Michael and Rebecca Smith Sidra Smith Stephen and Judith Smith William and Marcia Smith David H. Smullin Diane Sneider Todd Sostek Peggy G. K. Sovek Michael and Judith Spock Peter Steven and Elizabeth Segal Douglas A. Stone Mark and Eunice Sullivan Marilyn Arnold and Michael Sussman Leslie M. Swartz Augusta Talbot Lloyd Tarlin Caroline Parker and Luis Tercero Valentine Loring Titus Elizabeth A. Toupin Jeffrey Y. Treistman and Polly S. Young David and Beth Trumper Gail and Alain Valles William and Donna VanderClock Lara E. Vapnek Robert Vickers Lydia Vivante John and Jane Vose

Continued Friends Society ($100 and above)

1949

Mr. and Mrs. Tom Walker Susan Stebbins Ward

Ann (Nancy) Sears Wilke Elizabeth and Jesse Williams

John W. Warrington, Jr. Carver L. Washburn Robert Wasserman Ronald Webber and Jeanne Trubek Ying Chun Wei and Hsiu-Mien Wei Hsu Jeffrey Weinberg and Betsy Kirschbaum Robert Weinreb Margaret Flint Weir Duscha Schmid Weisskopf Steven and Enid Wetzner Marnie Wells White Margaret Hall Whitfield

Gail Williams Maurice Williams Perry Forbes Williamson Andrew Winter Adam Wright Charles Wright and Susan Brokaw Glenn Wright Christopher Yannoni and Janet Powers Wenhuang Ye and Danyi Chen Shimboon Yoon Emily Yozell George and Froma Zeitlin Linda H. Zonana

Webster Anderson Grace-ElizabeBtehrgen Katharine Bigelow Emilie Coolidge Thomas Hall Mary Parker Edith Smith Terence Terman Maurice Williams

1950 Robert Bird Edward Borges Richard Colten Sonya Norton Carver Washburn

1951 A LU M N I A N N U A L F U N D D O N O R S Alumni Giving by Class Year

1945

1935

Roger Hewlett Thomas Knapp Alfred Lewis Nancy Lewis Susan Lichten

Julianne Neaverson

1938 John Moore

1939 Helen Marden

1940 Bruce Bogert Emily Cobb Robert Ehrmann Priscilla Huntington John Nichols

1941 Albert Bratt Ham Hamilton Robert Scheuer

1942 Edmund Bowles Judith McConnell Marcia Riesman Duscha Weisskopf

1944 Peter Biggs Lindsay Ellms Robert Moench Rudolf Benfey Marilyn Weinberg

1946 Margaret Baillie Laura Heller Serge Karpovich Hope Leichter Larry Nathanson Roberta Selleck Elizabeth Stuart Faith Waters Richard Wheeler

1947 Donald Born Elaine Freeman Caroline Lewis Susan Poverman Valentine Titus

1948 Ruth Curwen Joan Esch Benjamin Goldstein Gordon Groves Christopher Hodgman Cynthia Hollingsworth Priscilla Shaw Peter von Hippel

Horace Briggs Kay Intrator Elizabeth Packard Alan Rubin Arthur Sharenow Mary Swope Katharine Tugendhat Margaret Whitfield Ann Wilke

1952 Julia Child William McClellan Richard Richards Mitchell Rudnick Kay Silberfeld Peggy Sovek Philip Sternstein Gerard Swope

1953 Margery Brenner Ira Carmen Thomas Davis David Deinard Alexis Gershwin Sylvia Hammer Esther Murer Robert Metcalf

1954 Bruce Beal Sandra Behrens JoAnne Bertrand Mike Bliss Elizabeth Elliston Alan Gerstein

Mary Goldman Jean Guyton Joan Shagan Margaret Spier Joan Walther Conrad White Linda Zonana

1955 Joan Curhan Donna Donaghy Susanne Harrison Nancy Haskell Jane Jampolis Thomas Scammell Adam Stein Nina Susman Lloyd Tarlin Frank von Hippel Mary-Lou Weisman Nathaniel Wing Lucy Yarian John Young

1956 Maria Dawidoff Henry Keyes William Pokross

1957 Roger Avery Thomas Benjamin Richard Freedberg Donald McKay Nancy Secker Ellen Ziskind

1958 Judith Bogage Jane Burkhardt Heather Frazer Ross Hall Thomas Hinkle Allen Hopper Alex Newton Gay Quereau Martin Skinner Ronald Webber Ruth Westheimer

1959 Judith Bailey Lisa Esherick Helena Halperin Susan Jones Lois Levin Christopher Lutz

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David Mugar Jonathan Skinner John Stein Eric von Hippel

1960 Richard Frankel Ronney Traynor Harry Meserve Robert Wasserman Robert Weinreb Carroll Brownlee Rowley Elliston Anne Schink Loris Bickum

1961 Marc Haefele Susan Morris Esther Pasztory Geoffrey Bartlett Ruth Clough Perry Williamson Steve Berrien Arthur Krim Esther Heitler

1962 Steven Webber Polly Howells Joseph Smullin Mary Poor Judith Armell Richardson Turner William Gruener Nicolas Kaufman Nancy Flescher Lorraine Re Binth Rustad Ann Saunderson Michal Goldman John Bernstein Becky Sakellariou Susan Ward Karen Pick John Simpson Richard Hanelin Leonore Katz-Rhoads Stanley Henshaw Nancy Hegyi Margaret Weir Anita Simpson Sabra Lee John Lyons Nancy Politzer Sarah Rosen-Webb George Saunderson

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1963 Christine Chamberlain Sally Brotman Emily Hancock J. Chase Christopher St. John Jonathan Ingersoll Charles Appleton John Bowditch Jeffrey Smith Carl Brotman

1964 L. Peter Deutsch Ellen Velline William Haible Dinah Lane Robert Hower Justin Mackay-Smith Joseph Magnet Peggy Tramposch Jon Fletcher

1965 Walter Abrams Marilyn Kincaid Daniel Wolf John Bunting Meredith Bunting Paul Malamud Claire Moise Stephanie Beal Arthur Brendze Deborah Goldman Sandra Cathey Susanna Elliot Sarah Kindleberger James Simmons Robert Simons Meredith Mackay-Smith

1966 Charles Russell Marc Mitchell John Herzan Edward Hamilton Sarah Meiklejohn Louisa Putnam Heather Reed Glenn Wright Donalee Wood Nancy Crawford

1967 Anki Wolf Fenwick Smith Augusta Talbot

David Schmitt Stephen Rabb James Harris

Earl Darlington Elizabeth Drabik-Fredd Stewart Haviland

Till Mueller-Ibold David Preston Joshua Rosenbloom

David Dixon James Eidelman Sarah Jane Horton

Ralph Rabin

Lisa Hickler Aubrey Langford Claire LeMessurier Bara Levin Thomas Martin Marilee Meyer Thomas Ouellette Cynthia Payne Robert Poor Daniel Potash Deborah Rosenkrantz John Sabelli Douglas Stone Jeffrey Treistman Nina Wishengrad Eduardo Tugendhat

Andrew Jackson Michael Smith

Ian Angus Kerr Christopher Meehan Linda Pompa Kaiko Hayes

1973

1978

Mary Barnett Sarah Goldstein Lillian Lin Christopher Lovell Phoebe Low Linda Nathan Allison Palmer Jennifer Pinck Lawrence Rogovin Jo Shane Peter Talbot

Martin Cox Vilnis Ezerins Maya AndreaGrillo Massar William Hogan Elizabeth Leigh Allison Lenk Nancy Marshall

1968 Arthur Berndt Polly Ellerbe Hoyt Walbridge Sandra Ropper Thomas Holzman Quita Davis Gina Kaiser Paul McMahon

1969 Allan Jayne Jonathan Guest Charles Zettek Donna Patterson John Rosenthal Roger Conrad Peter Gosselin Sarah Kaufman Todd Sostek Patrick Moyroud Roy Farber Thomas Graham Elizabeth Gaines David Owen

1970 Catherine Clark Nicholas Flanders Douglas Kahn Sophia Parker Jacqueline Reizes Kate Rothery Phoebe Williams Jean Lindquist

1971 Kate Asselin Margot Barnet Anthony Capoccia Robert Friesen Matthew Hickler Marvin Lewiton Susan Shapiro David Smullin Robert Vickers Emily Yozell

1972 Benjamin Asher Jane Ira Bloom Peter Bridgman Christine Brudevold

1974 Roger Caro Stephen Crolius Elizabeth Culbertson Adam Gross Matthew Lee David Sewall Sarah Speare Marcia Tugendhat Wendy Van Der Bogart

1977 Alice Armen Rachel Cox David Massar Michele Millon Elizabeth Ott Jennifer Rose Christopher Seidler Jody Shuman David Smith Sarah Underwood William Wexler Marianne Adams

Frank Araby Robin Briggs David Hannon Lucy Iannotti Jill Nevins Catherine Ramsey Edward Rose Nevin Shalit Robert Sternstein Gail Valles Frances Witte-Holland Cassia Wyner Kim Zeldin

1980

Ellie Harrison Joanna Nelson Stephen Wanta John Warrington

Philip Butler Katherine Cahouet Lelia Elliston Kate Heaton David Hofmann Tracey Marks Peter Mumford

Doris Barton Paula Whitney Best Megan Davis Amanda Hill David Kohlberg Sarah Mendelsohn Jennifer Mieth

William Ansley Laurie Cowden Mary DiCicco Abra Horne Hilary Ince Seth Jacobs David Kluchman Tony Mack Harry McCracken Jennifer Mintzer Catherine Musinsky Siri Striar Carla Tardif Lydia Vivante Mark Culliton

1983 Andrew Edmonds Charles Forsythe Anthony Marill

1979

1975

1976

1982

1981 Montserrat Archbald Laura Bell Benjamin Bolles Edith Di Francesco

1984 Gordon Reynolds

David Varon Benjamin Alimansky

Amber Espar Nicholas Loss-Eaton

1988

1998

Sacha Knop Jonathan Kornfeld John McLaughlin Francesca Rivera David Tomasetti

Hannah Clark Steiman Phillip King Casey Selzer

1989 Megan Michalak Peter Washburn

Charis Cooper

1991 Jose Barreto Samuel Mbowa Tina Woolston

Katherine Clark Scott Haas Lesley Rankine Erik Rosengren David Schafran Sarita Shah

Dravida Bock Eleanor Buck Stephen Buck Liam Davis Meredith Fountain Amy Graves Jennifer Malnick Eliana Menzin Margaret White Adam Wright

David “Digger� Gordon Martin Graves Deborah Grohe Stephen Magro Robert McDowell Matthew Montgomery Suzanne Rivera

Jessica Case Amanda Davis David Fera Ariel Hall Kenneth Johnson Elias Norton

2001 Jenna Corman Michael Dove Martha Fischhoff Robin Gordon-Leavitt Kelsey Henderson Alexis Iammarino Adriana Juliao Kara Zabatta

2002 1993 Jeff Farbman Libby McLinn Prang Lai Ngan Janos Stone Shimboon Yoon

Vali Kahn Christopher Lathrop Amy McGovern

Jeffrey Brodsky Jeremy Butman Andrew Crump Max Geller Daniel Gordon Jennifer Orlin David Valdini Katherine Weisman Gwendolyn Williams

2003 George Olesky

1995 Elanna Allen

1996 1987

2000

1992

1994 1986

Mattie Eisenberg Joseph Hoyt William Kuker Darcy Poor Mary Vyn

1990

1985 Nancy Dodd Melissa Gibbons Tasha Lennhoff David Olem Tilo Shimada-Brand Lara Vapnek Andrew Winter

1999

William Fertman Zachary Feuer Nicole Stone Alissa Wilson

1997

2004 Ann Bickerton Lucy Bickerton Kathryn Case Elizabeth Cohen Rachel Fischhoff Vera Kelsey-Watts William Popp Max Roseglass

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Continued Annual Alumni Fund Donors

2005 Nicholas Druar Zachary Fallows Jordana Ross Jacob Sagrans

2006 Jordan McGinty

2007 Carra Cheslin Ben Duffy Samson Egilman Mary Gordanier Adam Wolfe Alexander Wong Berman

2008 Harlan Lieberman-Berg Gregory O'Block

2009 Ella Holman Sarang Khalsa

2011 Alexander Egilman William Freedberg Heather Lipkin Lia Ryerson

Rebecca Savitt John Alexander Olivia MacLennan

2012 Matilda Alexander Aundre Bumgardner Eleanore Carson Brianna Cusanno Eli Dalven Emily D'Angelo Jeffrey Dinardo Arielle Drisko Charlotte Ennen Fredrick Gootkind Molly Harrison Adrian Hoffman Minsu Kim Yi-Wen Liu Nariko Marvit-Suyemoto Tempest McCabe Benjamin Meltzer Gyoungheui Oh Sarah Rosenberg Ben Rosenfeld Jamie Sarafan Sarah Schnebly Kandice Simmons Leah Strickman Mei Swartz

A N N UA L F U N D D O N O RS Current Parent Giving

by Class Year

2012 Marianne Jackson Adams and Andrew Jackson Geeta and Kamesh Aiyer Bonnie and John Alexander David Aronson and Maureen Fagan William Braunlin and Cathy Siebold Pierre and Elizabeth Bumgardner William and Eunice Carson Sean and Julie Dalton Henry and Christine D'Angelo Jack DeMuth Patrick Dinardo and Susan Schwartz R. Carl Drisko and Allie Altman William Elk and Sheila Watson 36

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Heather Ellis J. Shea Ennen and Candace Clampitt Chris and Barbara Gootkind Mary Grenham and Jane Hamilton David and Loril Gunn Steven Hamburg and Sarah Barker Todd and Michele Hamilton Paul Harrison and Katherine Hall James Hawks and Shelley Drake Hawks Michelle Hutnik Andrew Hyams and Tracey Hyams Andrew Jackson and Marianne Adams Michael and Sharon Jacques William Kaiser Steve and Ceci King

Curt Kohlberg and Allegra Manacher John Lapham and Annie

Amy Fitzpatrick Edwin J. Fitzpatrick Dennis Friedland

Kathleen Brown and Kevin Whalen Mourad Chaouch and

Maurice Wood and Shelly Ziegelman Charles Wright and Susan Brokaw

Jonathan and Amy Poorvu Peggy Rose Geoffrey and Lynne Rosenberg

Jared Hill Lisa Hirsch Rachel Hirsch

Hoffman Jianzhong Lin and Xiaoxia Yu Peter Marvit Patrick McCabe and Caroline Fisher William McHenry and Paige Williar Joshua Meltzer and Joanne Holdridge Martin and Ursula Nowak Rowan O'Riley George Peper Rock Pulak and Alice Rushforth Eric Rosen and Gwen Marceline Sheldon Rosenberg and Mary-Jude Dean Stephen and Patricia Santos Lawrence Schmutz and Joan Oustifine Keith Schnebly and Elizabeth Reading Steve Scrimshaw and Megan Hall Charles Slotnick and Laura Woolpert Markus and Laura Stamm Patricia Suyemoto Leslie M. Swartz Peter Thorne and Katherine Gross Jeffrey Weinberg and Betsy Kirschbaum John Weltman and Cliff Atkins Dori F. Zaleznik

Elizabeth Friedland Ricardo and Beatriz Gomez Sanchez Benjamin and Anne Gord Jill R. Halperin Gregory and Elaine Hawkes Todd and Ann Helmus Bruce Herrmann and Erin Hoffer Jiangxin Hong and Huixue Yang James and Christianne Humphrey Heather Korostoff Murray Xunze Kuang and Yamei Qu B. Keith and Ellen Law Tony Loreti and Shelley Bertolino Thomas Lotas and Kimberly McDowell Richard and Rosemary McCready Jade McGleughlin and Sue Hyde James and Mindy Pasco-Anderson Samuel and Charlotte Perkins Richard Perse and Margie Perse Beth Radcliffe and Terry Greene Richard Reilly and Joanne Loomer Maryann Thompson and Morton Rosenthal Emanuel and Cynthia Sachs Andrés Saldaña and Elizabeth Miller Robert and Judith Scherzer Judy Scribner-Moore Steve Scrimshaw and Megan Hall Karl Sims and Pattie Maes Stephen and Eve Smith Stephen and Robin Smith Mary Ann Stevenson Eric and Elaine Stilianos John and Sia Stovall Mark and Eunice Sullivan Roderick Thomas and Sandra Teare Eric and Jessie von Hippel John and Kimberly Wass John Weltman and Cliff Atkins Christopher Yannoni and Janet Powers

Alanna Nelson Gary and Doris Christelis John and Cynthia Clemson Peter and Kym Cohen Mark Coté and Joann Stemmermann Andreas Dewitz and Lilla Rogers David Edelman and Miriam Adams Aaron and Caroline Falk Evelina and Yevgeniy Galper Lise Gordon Daniel Grossman and Sarah Bansen Christopher and Elizabeth Hickey Brian Holmes and Janet Goguen James Hullett and Eileen Heaney Tina Johnson and Timothy Neves Thomas and Karen Karon Warren and Laura Kerper Beom Jin Kim and On Mi Park William Knopp and Carolyn Lackey Sigbert and Barbara Kydd Greg Lambrecht and Lee Manuel Robert and Lindsey Lanigan Jesse and Stacey Liberty Quan Long and Biejia Lu Armando Martinez and Liliana Mangiafico William McHenry and Paige Williar Hank and Melinda Miller Martha Miller Michael Miller and Melissa Zieve Martin and Ursula Nowak Anthony Ogilvie-Thompson Addison and Stacey Parks Richard and Michele Powers Michael and Karin Rivard John and Victoria Rizzi Charlie Rose and Carol Downs Paula Rossen Richard and Karen Ruben Grant and Barrie Sanders Michael and Rebecca Smith Peter Steven and Elizabeth Segal Yong Tang and Jianjun Ding Arthur and Susan Vogt Roger Weiss Kevin Whalen and Kathleen Brown Elizabeth and Jesse Williams

Mark and Theresa Wright Arthur Young and Janet Rickles

Chris Schaffner and Ann Sussman Jeremy Seeger and Kimberly Shaknis Nancy Smalzel Howard Smith and Anne Levine Gail and Alain Valles Spencer Warncke and Teresa Belmonte Richard and Patricia Waters John Welch and Elizabeth Breen Peter and Robin Wolf

Aaron Hirsch Ben Ibbetson Julie Johnstone Melodie Knowlton Eun Lee Koh Jennifer Kusch Carl LaCombe Robert Laverdure William Lawrence Amani Marshall Stephanie McMurray Amy Meneely Janet Miner Constance Mortara Jane Moulding David Mountcastle Jordan Mueller Ted Munter Randi PerreI Julie Pickard Melissa Price Jen Quest-Stern Anne Rearick Nick Reynolds Sheila Reynolds Alison Safford Trish Saunders Bill Schirmer Steve Scrimshaw Sidra Smith Diane Sneider Gin Stanley Hannah Taytslin Matthew Thayer Thaddeus Thompson Agnes Voligny Michael Weinstein Chenyu Xu

2013 Monica Andrews Alma Bair and Allan Weiss Jeffrey and Suzanne Barrow Timothy Blackman and Amy Travis Melville and Rebecca Blake Richard and Cathy Boskey Steve Carter Katherine Chapman and Thomas Stemberg Jian Xing Che and Shuhong Chen Nicholas and Erika Christakis James and Amy Cook David Cort and Joanna Gelband Jonathan Dorfman and Anne Blumberg James and Karen Durham Jay Eberle and Nancy Knoff Jesus and Laura Estrada Ralf and Andrea Faber

2014 Brian and Rosi Amador Brian and Julia Austin Eric and Barbara Baatz Alma Bair and Allan Weiss Andrew and Peggy Barresi Todd Bartel and Talin Megherian Emilia Bohac

2015 Gary Ardell and Laurie Glader Daniel Arons and Sarah Scully Laura and Chris Backley Adrian and Laura Bishop Athos Bousvaros and Margaret Lotz Barbara Bushey Dean and Evelyn Cirielli Elizabeth Coolidge and Elisabeth Sackton Howard Cooper and Jane Karol Kirk and Laurie Davis David DeLong and Susan Gladstone Toby Dewey and Susan Morley David Dove and Leigh Tiedemann J. Anthony Downs and Jin-Kyung Kim Susan Ennis Bruce Fairless and Carol Ryan Richard Frankel and Lisa Bloom Magomed Gadzhiev and Dzhamilat Umailova Jack Gantos and Anne Lower Jonathan and Katherine Glass Stephen and E. Libby Hanna James and Pam Hayes-Bohanan Christopher Hess and Jennifer Aliber Seth and Devora Jacobs Frances Keene Peter and Tara Keppler Matthew Killough and Kimberly Becker Arthur and Kate Kilmurray Keith and Susan Kwiatkowski Philip and Lisa Landa Jeffrey Lee and Debra Squires-Lee John Lees and Ellen Curren Richard Lewis and Joanne Morreale J. Tevere MacFadyen and Lisa May Larry Nirenberg and Catherine Ziehl Eric and Elizabeth Olson George Perkins and Polly Carpenter John and Michelle Pless-Joseph

Faculty and Staff Giving

Diana Baruni Jane Berkowitz Annie Bickerton Bob Blinn Sherrill Bounnell LeeAnn Brash Sandy Brash Gustavo Brasil Rhona Carlton-Foss Renelle Cavicchi Denise Chamberland Karen Chiasson Marci Cohen Jim Cook Geraldo daCosta Troy Davis Marilyn DelDonno Gabriela Diaz Awa Diop Tom Evans Linda Foley Carey Foster Martha Gray Gary Hawley Salt Hem

PA R E N T AU C T I O N A N D B E N E F I T

Auction Planning Committee

Allie Altman P’12 Rosi & Brian Amador P’14 Laura Backley P’15 Alma Bair P’13, ’14 Doris Christelis P’14 Lise Gordon P’14, ’16, Co-Chair Anne Lower P’15 Meg Lotz P’14

Margie Perse P’13, Co-Chair Nancy Smalzel P’15 Benefit Volunteers

Bonnie Alexander P’10, ’12, ’14 Evelyn & Dean Cirielli P’15, ’16 Laurie Davis P’15 Megan Hall P’09, ’12, ’13 Chris Hess P’14 Paula Rossen P’14

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Imagine Benefit a Huge Success Last May, an overwhelming number of CSW parents, faculty and staff, and community members came together to support “Imagine” the 2012 Parent Benefit and Auction. The gala event raised more than $100,000 for faculty support. The evening included spectacular student entertainment, stylish cocktails and a lively auction featuring the amazing talents and quick wit of Jack Gantos P’15 and his assistant Allie Altman P’12. Auction co-chairs, Lise Gordon and Margie Perse, planned a fabulously successful event.

Alice Rushforth P’12 Sarah Scully P’15 Leslie Swartz P’12

Susan Ennis Tom Evans and Anne Priestley Meredith Jones Fountain

Addison and Stacey Parks James and Mindy Pasco-Anderson

Diane Sneider Markus and Laura Stamm Peter Steven and Elizabeth Segal

Lois Levin ’59 Nancy Levy Bernice Lewiton*

acknowledging what the school had taught her and had helped her accomplish. She was the first

Sue Vogt P’15 Liz Williams P’14

William Freedberg John Furst and Amy Cody Jack Gantos and Anne Lower Rhys Gardiner Diane Garthwaite and Matthew Liang Melissa Franklin and Paolo Giromini Chris and Barbara Gootkind Benjamin and Anne Gord Lise Gordon Mr. James Greer and Ms. Kathleen Gilligan David and Loril Gunn Steven Hamburg and Sarah Barker Gregory and Elaine Hawkes James Hawks and Shelley Drake Hawks James and Pam Hayes-Bohanan Todd and Ann Helmus Salt Hem Snowden Henry Christopher Hess and Jennifer Aliber Aaron Hirsch and Kristin Brown Brian Holmes and Janet Goguen Andrew Hyams and Tracey Hyams Tina Johnson and Timothy Neves Julie Johnstone and Sue Austin Thomas and Karen Karon Peter and Tara Keppler John and Joan Kimball Heather Korostoff Murray Philip and Lisa Landa John Lapham and Annie Hoffman Tony and Colleen Lapinsky Jeffrey Lee and Debra Squires-Lee John Lees and Ellen Curren Barry and Nancy Levy Dr. Matthew H. Liang Jesse and Stacey Liberty Daniel Loeb and Deborah Piltch Richard and Rosemary McCready Amy Meneely Robert H. Metcalf Martha Miller Michael Miller and Melissa Zieve Janet M. Miner Christian Nolen and Susan Denny Mr. Elias P. Norton Robert and Megan O'Block

George Perkins and Polly Carpenter Samuel and Charlotte Perkins Richard Perse and Margie Perse Jennifer B. Pinck Deborah and Arthur Pressman Melissa Price and Matt Thayer Beth Radcliffe and Terry Greene Peggy Rose Sheldon Rosenberg and Mary-Jude Dean Paula Rossen Richard and Karen Ruben Alison Safford Andrés Saldaña and Elizabeth Miller Trish Saunders Robert and Judith Scherzer Bernie and Trish Scozzafava Steve Scrimshaw and Megan Hall Dr. Christopher W. Seidler Jack and Nancy Sieber Nancy Smalzel Howard Smith and Anne Levine Stephen and Robin Smith

Mary Ann Stevenson Eric and Elaine Stilianos Leslie M. Swartz Thaddeus Thompson Peter Thorne and Katherine Gross Arthur and Susan Vogt Agnes Voligny Susan J. Ward Richard and Patricia Waters John Welch and Elizabeth Breen Elizabeth and Jesse Williams Anki Wolf Maurice Wood and Shelly Ziegelman Arthur Young and Janet Rickles Architerra, Inc. Eastern Bank Charitable Foundation FLIK Freiner Co. Jennifer A. Borislow Insurance Agency, Inc. Stoltze Design Windover Construction, Inc.

Susan MacDonald and Patrick McGowan Thomas Martin ’72 Day and Hunter McDowell Robert Metcalf ’53 Thomas Michalak Janet Miner Marjorie Noon ’39* Celeste Nossiter ’70 Michael Pappone Janet Parker ’52 Marcia Riesman ’42 John Rosenthal ’69 Nancy Secker ’57 Kay Silberfeld ’52 Newlin Smith* Gregory Speiser* George St. John, Jr* Priscilla Strauss ’33* Mary Swope ’51 John Thompson Claire Steinert Thorn* Marc Tieger Judith Tieger* Eduardo Tugendhat ’72 Robert Vickers ’71 Hildegarde Washburn* Steve Webber ’62 Mary-Lou Weisman ’55 John Weltman & Cliff Atkins Ramona Wheeler ’70 Conrad White ’54 Doris Winder ’48 Natalie Wolf Robin Wood* Ellen Ziskind ’57

alumna to honor the school in this way.

Benefit Supporters

We would like to thank the following businesses and members of the CSW community for their generous support of the Imagine Benefit Auction.

Geeta and Kamesh Aiyer Brian and Rosi Amador Daniel Arons and Sarah Scully David Aronson and Maureen Fagan Laura and Chris Backley Alma Bair and Allan Weiss Daniel Bernstein Annie Bickerton Adrian and Laura Bishop Richard and Cathy Boskey Athos Bousvaros and Margaret Lotz Kathleen Brown and Kevin Whalen Karen Buck-Gilbert and Mr. Scott Gilbert William and Eunice Carson Thomas and MaryAnn Case Katherine Chapman and Thomas Stemberg Nicholas and Erika Christakis Gary and Doris Christelis Dean and Evelyn Cirielli John and Cynthia Clemson Elizabeth Coolidge and Elisabeth Sackton Mark Coté and Joann Stemmermann Sean and Julie Dalton Henry and Christine D'Angelo Kirk and Laurie Davis David DeLong and Susan Gladstone Toby Dewey and Susan Morley Gabriela S. Diaz Patrick Dinardo and Susan Schwartz Jonathan Dorfman and Anne Blumberg R. Carl Drisko and Allie Altman James and Karen Durham David Edelman and Miriam Adams William Elk and Sheila Watson

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G I F T E D F U N D S A N D P R O G RA M S The Patience Lauriat Society

The Patience Lauriat Society recognizes all constituents who have provided for CSW in their bequests, annuities or other planned giving instruments.

Realized gifts are directed to the school’s endowment fund, unless otherwise specified.

Anonymous (6) Walter Abrams ’65 Margaret Muller Baillie ’46 Thomas Benjamin ’57 Arthur Berndt ’68 Joanie Bernhardt John Bernstein ’62 Martha Blout Mollie Boring ’43* Carl ’63 and Sally Brotman ’63 John Butman Ellen Callmann ’44* Warren Carberg Christine Chamberlain ’63 Jeanette Cheek* Mildred Crowell*

Robert Cunningham ’37* Joshua & Lisa Davis Sherlie Dayton ’47 Polly M. Ellerbe ’68 Elizabeth Penn Elliston ’54 Diane Garthwaite Martha Gilson* Nancy Aub Gleason ’52 Amy R. Goldstein ’70 Martha Gray and Jerry Cathey Gordon Groves ’48 Holly Ehrich Henderson ’59 Roger Hewlett ’45 Elizabeth Hitz ’50 Christopher Hodgman '’48 Amelia Hopper* Polly Howells ’62 Priscilla Huntington ’40* Caroline Huntington ’35* Jane Jampolis ’55 Caroline Wood Jewett* Mary Jane Kelly ’35* Jean Kilbourne David Kohlberg ’76 Arthur Krim ’61 Patience Lauriat*

Provisions in a bequest or other deferred gift make up more than $2.35 million in projected future gifts pledged to the school.

Individuals who contribute planned gifts to CSW are invited to become members of the Patience Lauriat Society, an honorary association of individuals whose planned gifts have already been received or will someday accrue to The Cambridge School of Weston. The society is named after Patience Lauriat ’46, who left a portion of her estate to CSW to create an unrestricted endowment fund. Her gift to the school was her way of

Gifted Funds

Fund for the Arts Hans and Herma Biermann Science Fund Dance Project Fund Faculty Salary Improvement Initiative Music Programs Fund Progressive Education Lab Summer Arts at CSW Preston K. Munter Fund for Shakespeare Skype Technology/Global Engagement Youth Understanding Multimedia Comprehensive Capital Campaign Gifts In Memory

In memory of Holly Hickler by Blanche Seelmann In memory of Robin Wood by Doris Barton ’76, Irene DellaCamera, and Lynn Goldsmith In memory of Roslyn Brogue Henning by Jonathan Skinner ’59 In memory of Valerie O’Leary by four Anonymous donors Gifts In Honor

In honor of Anki Wolf ’67 by Carl and Sally Brotman ’63 In honor of Aundre Bumgardner ’12 by his parents Pierre and Elizabeth Bumgardner In honor of Betsy Goldman ’01 and Dan Feldman ’04 by their mother Lynn Goldsmith In honor of Colton Josephson ’05 by her parents Peter and Rebecca Josephson In honor of James Clark ’05 by Catherine Clark ’70 In honor of Jim Kapteyn by James Harris ’67 In honor of Lloyd Tarlin ’55 by Betsy Tarlin, Judith Tarlin Bogage ’58, and Nancy Tarlin Flescher In honor of Michael Taxin by Shirley Feldman Gryphon Fall 2012

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Progressive Education Lab Charter Gifts Anonymous Peggy Lowenstein and Steven H. Berez Sally and Carl Brotman Sheila Watson and William Elk Nancy T. Flescher Stephen and Anne Galli Diane Garthwaite and Matt Liang John F. Herzan Polly H. Howells David C. Kluchman Gloria Legvold

Jane and Linton Moulding William R. Pokross Mary A. Poor Lorraine Re Marcia S. Riesman Sarah Rosen-Webb Becky Sakellariou Nina M. Susman Peter H. von Hippel Susan J. Ward Steven H. Webber Margaret M. Weir

Progressive Education Lab Giving Hits $100,000 Mark.

Thanks to the generous support of nearly two dozen donors and a $250,000 matching grant from the Edward E. Ford Foundation, CSW and three partner schools and have been able to launch the Progressive Education Lab (PEL). In June, we met the $100,000 mark in giving for PEL. The two-year teaching fellowship places aspiring teachers in the classroom, alongside experienced mentors, and provides experience-based, hands-on training not typically found at traditional university-based education programs.

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V O LU N T E E R S Parent Volunteers

Miriam Adams Bonnie Alexander Allie Altman Brian Amador Rosi Amador Laura Backley Alma Bair Robin Boots-Ebenfield Valerie Brathwaite Sioux Brokaw Kathleen Brown Doris Christelis Evelyn Cirielli Ellen Curren Laurie Davis Mary-Jude Dean Shelley Drake Hawks R. Carl Drisko Karen Durham Maureen Fagan Amy Fitzpatrick Michelle Flowers Jack Gantos Susan Gladstone Lise Gordon David Gunn Loril Gunn Jill Hai Megan Hall Pam Hayes-Bohanan Chantal Healey Ann Helmus Todd Helmus Chris Hess Elizabeth Hickey Melanie Hoenig Devora Jacobs Seth Jacobs Laura Kerper Warren Kerper Kate Kilmurray Jin-Kyung “Kay” Kim June Kinoshita Philip Landa John Lees Stacey Liberty Meg Lotz Bousvaros Anne Lower Anne Mackin Allegra Manacher Lee Manuel Charlo Maurer Margaret Moody

Timothy Neves Larry Nirenberg Mindy Pasco-Anderson Charlotte Perkins Samuel Perkins Margie Perse Richard Perse Deborah Piltch Janet Powers Lizbeth Radcliffe Kathryn Rapperport Victoria Rizzi Sheldon Rosenberg Paula Rossen Karen Ruben Alice Rushforth Carol Ryan Elisabeth Sackton Steve Scrimshaw Sarah Scully Lilly Siu Nancy Smalzel Michael Smith Robin Smith Stephen Smith Kim Soderberg Debra Squires-Lee Ann Sussman David Sylva Leigh Tiedemann Sue Vogt Kimberly Wass Patricia Waters Liz Williams Paige Williar Shelly Ziegelman Alumni Volunteers

Lydia S. Paxson ’38 Marjorie Moench ’40 Jennifer Hamilton ’43 Arnold Simmel ’43 Larry Nathanson ’46 Paul E. Sapir ’46 Elizabeth R. Stuart ’46 James A. Biggar ’48 Ruth M. Curwen ’48 Christopher H. Hodgman ’48 Priscilla W. Shaw ’48 Doris M. Winder ’48 Terence C. Terman ’49 Carver L. Washburn ’50 Katharine Tugendhat ’51 Robert H. Metcalf ’53

Conrad J. White ’54 Rachel Schwartz ’55 Beatrice Scribner ’57

Sarita Shah ’86 Julia H. Bovey ’87 Suzanne M. Rivera ’87

Ronald J. Webber ’58 Helena S. Halperin ’59 Lois A. Levin ’59 Jonathan B. Skinner ’59 Eric von Hippel ’59 Anne B. Schink ’60 Ronney S. Traynor ’60 Arthur J. Krim ’61 Nancy T. Flescher ’62 William B. Gruener ’62 Robert G. Guernsey ’62 Nancy L. Politzer ’62 David D. Stebbins ’62 Sally L. Brotman ’63 William W. Haible ’64 Elisabeth Leyre ’64 Heather H. Reed ’66 Philip Y. DeNormandie ’67 Melanie Friesen ’67 William D. Keyserling ’67 Elizabeth M. Sweezy ’67 Anki Wolf ’67 Sally Kingston ’68 Christopher Waring ’68 Nancy Williams ’68 Robert S. Loss ’69 Douglas Kahn ’70 Robert J. Friesen ’71 Rob B. Moir ’72 Nina Wishengrad ’72 Christopher W. Lovell ’73 Stephen A. Wanta ’75 John W. Warrington ’75 Andrew Jackson ’76 Richard Mirsky ’76 Marianne J. Adams ’77 Friedrich Glauner ’77 Richard J. Hill ’77 Jennifer Rose ’77 Allison V. Lenk ’78 Daniel J. Mack ’78 Andrea F. Pluhar ’78 Cora Wen ’78 Frank J. Araby ’79 Lucy Iannotti ’79 William R. Rising ’79 Christopher M. Freeman ’80 Steven K. Hart ’80 Robin L. Bailey ’81 Edith Di Francesco ’84 Sarah Jane Horton ’81 Mark H. Culliton ’82 Gordon O. Reynolds ’84 Tilo T. Shimada-Brand ’85

Hilary J. Schroeder ’87 David A. Varon ’87 Hannah Adams Cross ’88 Joshua S. Weisbuch ’88 Meredith G. Weisman ’88 Jonathan P. Sherman ’89 Jennifer V. Hanks ’90 David Quiles Guilló ’91 Jessica K. Costa ’92 Meredith L. Fountain ’92 Daniel M. Shuman ’92 Laurel D. Kirtz ’93 Jamal E. Davis ’94 Benjamin Wolfgarten ’94 Ssanyu Nutt-Birigwa ’95 Erica Hruby ’96 Hannah E. Clark Steiman ’98 Suchitra D. Swift ’98 Mary Ramsey ’00 Jenna J. Corman ’01 Elizabeth S. Goldman ’01 Annie Bickerton ’04 Jacob Sagrans ’05 Steven P. Grant ’06 Cornelia Thompson ’07 Harlan E. Lieberman-Berg ’08 Britney Wilson ’08 CSW thanks the members of the school’s community who have contributed their time, energy and resources as volunteers.

Parent involvement, both current parents and parents of alumni, strengthens the CSW community.

The development office also wishes to acknowledge all the alumni who stay connected and help CSW remain a vibrant, dynamic school. The list above is compiled in a sincere effort to recognize all volunteers for the 2011-2012 school year. We regret the instances where constituent involvement has not been captured. If your name is not included, please contact the development office for corrections.

Class of 1962 50th Reunion Giving Judith Armell John Bernstein Nancy Flescher Michal Goldman William Gruener Richard Hanelin Nancy Hegyi Stanley Henshaw Polly Howells Leonore Katz-Rhoads Nicolas Kaufman Sabra Lee John Lyons Karen Pick Nancy Politzer

Mary Poor Lorraine Re Sarah Rosen-Webb Binth Rustad Becky Sakellariou Ann Saunderson George Saunderson John Simpson Anita Simpson Joseph Smullin Richardson Turner Susan Ward Steven Webber Margaret Weir

Honoring a Milestone Members of the class of 1962 banded together to raise nearly $100,000 for CSW in honor of their 50th milestone reunion. Over $45,000 was designated specifically to support the Progressive Education Lab – a testament to our alumni’s enduring belief in the value of a progressive education. In recognition of their generous and loyal support over many years, a classroom in The Klutchman is being dedicated in honor of the class of 1962. Members in attendance at Reunion voted overwhelmingly to choose the classroom in which teacher Howe Derbyshire taught.

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class notes

We Want to Hear From You! This issue of The Gryphon includes class notes that were submitted between September 30, 2011 and August 27, 2012. Everyone is invited to submit news to the alumni office. Please send your news (including photos) via email to alum@csw.org.

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great grandchildren, most living nearby. So life is good!”

Ham “Bito” Hamilton ’41

reports that at age 89 he is suffering from generalized corporeal decay. He hears from Bob Pierce ’42 and Arnold Simmel ’43 occasionally. His children and grandchildren are all doing well.

His grandchildren are in the Peace Corps, medical school, and law school.

Julie Tams ’46 writes: “Hi

classmates! Ron and I are still well and active, going on a boat trip up the Maine coast next month. We now have 15

Eric Terzaghi ’54 and his wife, Betty, played host to Bill Wasserman P’75 P’78, former faculty and trustee, and

his wife as they visited New Zealand last fall. “Eric and Betty were magnificent New Zealand hosts; they have a deer ranch there. We kept in touch during our three weeks of travel, and Eric was a wonderful mentor. This fall, I have been doing some fund raising for our congressman, John Tierney, and ran into a familiar name from CSW. I called, and it was indeed Frank von Hippel ’55 of CSW. We had a fine conversation.”

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Jillian Hanbury Poole ’48

writes: to “classmates and anyone who happens to remember this British war refugee.” Since graduation, she pursued a passion for the arts, first as an actress, then as the head fundraiser for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Arts, and as the head of an organization that sends senior arts administrators to share best practices with colleagues in post-communist countries.

“Why did I do this, especially the last 20 years? Because of

what I learned at CSW, particularly from John French. He stressed that in life, it is important to do what you love, and give what you can to make a difference. You don’t return favors, indeed often you can’t, but what was given to you, you give to others.

You pass on and share what you have learned. That’s what I got out of CSW. To those who now share this extraordinary school, do consider devoting part of your life to passing on and sharing what you have shared and learned here.”

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Brandeis, which I love to do, not professionally any more, but as a volunteer. Hope you are all well and happy.”

Heli Spiegel Meltsner ’56’s new book “The Poorhouses of Massachusetts: A cultural and Architectural Study,” was published in Spring 2012.

Donald McKay ’57 reports

that his 50th reunion at Oberlin in 2011 and the retirement of Barney Frank (D-MA),United States Congressman, and good friend of 45 years, reminds him that he is not getting any younger!

Judith Goldston ’51 writes

Dan Shearer ‘57 came back

that great nephew, Dylan Thomas Parker has settled in New York where he has been successfully employed in two separate industries and recently received his Masters from The New School.

to campus in August for the first time since graduating!

He toured the campus, saw what has changed, and shared memories of his time here.

Dan and Debbie just celebrated 50 years of marriage and both of their children are doing well.

Bob Frigoletto ’54 wrote to tell us about a mini-reunion of alumni from his class. Led by Connie White ’54, the group gathered in Boston to share memories old and new.

Carol Singer Rabinovitz ’55

writes: “Mickey and I live in Plymouth, Mass. half the year and in the winter in Florida.

Pretty lucky. I am still totally active raising money for

Mike Koskoff ’59 writes: “Hey everyone, my daughter, Sarah, has followed up on my interest in theater and movies.

She has a movie coming out this fall called ‘Hello I Must Be Going.’ It was the opening selection at Sundance this year! My role --- part of it was filmed in my house. You can can find the trailer online.

Hope you all are well.”

partly because it’s been the primary commitment during my adult life, but also because of a serendipitous connection to the Cambridge School.

Remember ‘comments’ on our report cards? Jeanette Cheek once said of me, ‘If she finds something that fires her interest, she will do very well.’ To my surprise when I read her obituary several years ago, I discovered that early in her adult life she had been a member of the national board of the League of Women Voters.

I hope she would be pleased that I am carrying on the tradition.”

Known as Nancy while at CSW, Nancy Politzer ’62 has been using the name Zinnia for about 10 years. She writes in her 50th high school reunion bio: “After 15 years in a wheelchair, Zinnia hit the ground not quite running, but walking fast through a series of adventures.” After CSW, she attended the New England Conservatory, Emerson College, and Lesley University, and has worked as a research assistant at several Boston medical schools, as a speech therapist, a head teacher in a classroom for language impaired children, and work for management consulting companies and nonprofit public health organizations. Zinnia champions the

causes of the disabled, who are still not as widely accepted and visible in society as other minorities.

anyone interested you can see the voyage just taken in writing and video on my blog: www.mangoandme.net.”

Joseph Magnet ’64 was profiled in University Affairs for his human rights and constitution making work in the Horn of Africa. Check out the article online!

Mark Ettlinger ’71’s son Jack is a contestant on “Canada’s Got Talent.” His performance is on YouTube.

1970s David Pollitt ’70 reports: “In

June of 2009, I set off from Riviera Beach, Florida on my 47-foot racing catamaran ‘Shearwater’ with the intention of circumnavigating the globe.

On May 22nd 2012, I completed my solo voyage around the world by returning to the exact spot from which I had embarked almost three years before – a life long goal, born in my young years spent on the waters off Woodshole, Cape Cod. All the ‘anchors’ of land-life had to be let go: a house sold, a successful conducting career ended. I returned with an even greater realization of my miniscule presence, a fleeting presence, on this miraculously gifted globe – a human being ever more humbled. Future plans, now being created, call for a combining of my performing life with my voyaging life in a one-man theatrical presentation, a ‘docushow,’ if you will. For

David Holzman ’71 writes:

“My cover story on ‘Accounting for Nature’s Benefits: The Dollar Value of Ecosystem Services’ just came out in Environmental Health Perspectives, the journal of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Among other things, for this article I interviewed one of my professors at Berkeley, who is now President Obama’s science and technology advisor.” The article can be found online.

Nina Wishengrad ’72 lives

and writes in Amherst, Mass.

She had a great time at the Class of 1972 reunion and would love to be in touch with more former classmates.

Drop her a line at ninawishengrad@comcast.net.

Greg Stone ’75 writes: “I

have published a book recently and I have also given a TED talk, which you can find on their website. Still remember my wonderful days at CSW, Niki Crowell and

marine bio.”

Joshua Rosenbloom ’76

writes: “In July I finished a six year stint as Associate Vice Provost for Research and Graduate Studies at the University of Kansas. Later this month (August) I will be moving to Washington, DC, where I will be taking a position as a program officer at the National Science Foundation for the next two years. In addition to these career changes, this Fall marks a new phase at home as our youngest children will be heading off for college.”

Maggie Harris ’79 dropped a

note to let us know that she has three talented children: Jude Malenda, 10, who plays piano by ear; Julian Malenda, 8, who plays the viola and performs; and Roman, 6, who plays violin. All live in New York City in the Peter Cooper Village. She writes: “Cambridge School was a good place.”

1980s Jonathan Alkema ’81, who has been living in San Francisco since 1989, is taking a break from software development to spend time in the studio as a metalsmith and lapidary. He enjoys making unique pieces of jewelry for

1960s Anne Barker Schink ’60

writes: “Life is good. I spend time with my daughters and grandchildren and I am still working part time as a consultant in volunteer management. In June, I was elected to the national board of the League of Women Voters. I am thrilled to be able to serve,

Helen Wilson ’66’s new exhibition of her paintings opened the Lori Bookstein

Fine Art gallery in New York earlier this month, and will run through Nov. 10.

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specific people and occasions, using ethically sourced materials and remaking old family pieces into new wearable treasures. He thinks quite a lot about Cambridge and CSW these days as his old family house has recently been sold, leaving his links to old times in the realms of dreams, inspiration, occasional evenings with Marc LaRhette ’81 and Facebook.

Seth Jacobs ’82 writes: “My

wife Devora and I recently celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary in Paris with our two daughters, Miranda and Sophie. Also, my third book just left the bindery and is available on Amazon and elsewhere. The title is ‘The Universe Unraveling: American Foreign Policy in Cold War Laos.’ Hope all is well on your end!”

Tasha Lennhoff ’85 writes:

“Under my pen name Tasha Turner, I am writing a book ‘The Satmar Vampire’ this year with co-author Beth-Ann Mason. It will be based on little known Jewish mythology of vampires and takes place towards the end of World War II ending up in Brooklyn.

Not sure when the book will come out yet, but hoping before the end of 2012.”

Jim Hamilton, Jr. ’95 sent this picture from the Lesley University graduation, with Aaron Tieger ’93 on the left and Jim on the right. He writes: “We both received our masters in counseling psychology. All is well on my behalf. I will be looking for a position as a school counselor in the fall. Miss you all!”

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1990s Tara Flippo ’90 writes: “In

the past five years at the University of New Hampshire, I’ve deepened my work in social justice education. This fall, I launched a new consulting business called Social Change Training & Consulting. I would love to hear from you if you know an organization that would benefit from experiential social justice training. Also, I am still the Youth & Student Director at UNH’s Browne Center for Innovative Learning. I would love to see some CSW Alumni take advantage of our amazing facility!”

Aaron Tieger ’93 writes, “In May I graduated from Lesley University with a masters in counseling psychology (along with Jim Hamilton ’95!) and by the time this goes to press will have started working for Riverside Community Care in Somerville, facilitating therapy groups for clients with major mental illness and histories of substance abuse and trauma.

This will eventually lead to my certification as a licensed mental health counselor. Also, by year’s end, my 14th book of poems, Chaos Flowers, will have been published by Skysill Press. Skysill previously published my 10th book, Anxiety Chant, and I’m extremely grateful to be working with

them again. Hello to all the people I’m not already friends with on Facebook!”

Kirsten Erick Geer Wilcox ’93 writes: “This fall, I am

returning to my position teaching footwear design and construction at the School Of the Art Institute Of Chicago.

Oh yeah, and I changed my name, too!”

Will Fertman ’96 writes: “A lot has happened recently. I was married in June to scientist/rockstar Dr. Minda Berbeco in a small ceremony in Winchester, Mass. She and I now live in Berkeley, Calif., where we eat avocados and perform experiments.”

In July, Andy Duback ’97 visited campus while doing some work in the area. We toured the campus and visited some of Andy’s old haunts, including the darkrooms, where he spent so much of his time as a CSW student. Andy is a professional photographer living in Maine with his wife, Alison, and their two young children, Evelyn, 3, and Fiona, 7 months.

2000s On August 29, 2012, Morgan Peissel ’00 was one of a three-man international team aboard the 31-foot Monzun

Belzebub II, which completed the crossing of the infamous McClure Strait in the Canadian Arctic, the first sailboat ever to achieve this feat. On this ‘Passage Through Ice’ international sailing expedition, Morgan was accompanied by his Canadian cousin Nicholas Peissel, and their Swedish captain, Edvin Buregren. The crew has spent the last three months at sea sailing from Newfoundland, Canada to Greenland, and through the Canadian Arctic to track the depleting polar ice cap and bring awareness to climate change. Morgan writes, “Our approach to sail across a historical stretch of water that has traditionally been frozen is meant to be a clear visual example of the extent of declining polar ice.” After his return to Boston in the fall, Morgan will begin to prepare his next Himalayan expedition, in quest of the elusive Himalayan “blue bear,” one of the rarest subspecies of bear in the world.

Martha Fischhoff ’01 writes: “This spring, I graduated from the University of Wisconsin at Madison with an master’s degree in gender and women’s studies. Now I am preparing for my next adventure. I’m moving back east to New York, where I’ve accepted a teaching position in the History Department at the Fieldston Ethical Culture School in the Bronx. I’m excited about this new challenge and glad to be returning to the classroom!”

Kara Langione Zabatta ’01

Boston from Florida and we are currently living in Waltham, not too far from CSW, with our cat Whiskey Jack. I was sorry to have missed our 10 year reunion in June, but I will hopefully make the next one!”

John Butman, CSW past

parent and trustee, sent in this update on his son, Jeremy Butman ’02: “You may have heard about the movie ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild,’ which opened recently, won Best Picture at Sundance and the Best First Feature at Cannes.

My son, Jeremy, worked on the movie and also, in his work as writer-philosophersocial observer, conducted an interview with the director Ben Zeitlen, which has been published at The Atlantic.”

Check out the article online.

Mike Golubitsy ’03 writes,

“Recently completed an Audio Engineering Fellowship with the New World Symphony and just got a job at the Colburn School in LA, where I’ll shortly be moving for the second time.

Would be happy to connect with CSWers in the area - I’m always up for a hike! mike617@gmail.com” Arlo Furst ’04 wrote about his summer adventure: “My sister Madeline ’06 and I

traveled to Portugal in June.

We spent some time in Lisbon, exploring the narrow, cobblestone streets and eating delicious dinners of fresh fish, pork and shrimp. We then made our way to the coast and visited the city of Porto before making our way to the Southern Algarve region where we volunteered at a small, private farm for two weeks through the WWOOF program and managed to get in a fair amount of beach time as well. It was fantastic! In Lisbon, we wandered upon another Cambridge School!

We did some investigating and found out its an intensive language school. It even had a Gryphon as its logo!”

In the wake of impending climate change, Carra Cheslin ’07 spent the summer braving extreme heat in her new home of Washington, D.C. Carra works as the Environmental Specialist for the D.C. Department of Parks and Recreation and feels privileged to have the opportunity to provide environmental education programming to the city’s diverse range of communities.

Ben Crowell ’08 was in Cannes and wrote to let us know that his “little movie” was screening at the festival there. He sent hugs to every single teacher at CSW for helping him get there: “I honestly, would not be here without them.”

Jacob Sagrans ’05 was

awarded a competitive twoyear scholarship for foreign students earlier this year from the Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Nature et les Technologies for his dissertation project “Connecting then and Now: Performance and Reception Histories of Selected Late-Renaissance and Early Baroque Compositions.”

Jacob is a Ph.D. student in musicology at McGill University in Montréal, where he studies under the supervision of Dr. Julie E. Cumming.

Anneke Reich ’09 and Max Kennedy ’07 were cast mem-

bers in Brandeis Theater Company’s “Ordinary Mind, Ordinary Day,” a new work adapted from the short stories of Virginia Woolf by Adrianne Krstansky and Abigail Killeen, directed by Adrianne Krstansky and Eve Kagan, with music composed by Max and Anneke. The show was performed in February at Brandeis’ Spingold Theater Center.

Congratulations to Bree Cusanno ’12 who was awarded the Gloria Gillis Lynn Memorial Scholarship to attend New College in Florida in recognition of her commitment to Medfield Public Library.

Sarang Khalsa ’09 writes: “I

recently received a surprise care package from my brother, Grush Khalsa ’05, and his girlfriend. He had included a bronze gryphon necklace that Charlotte Fairless ’11 made during her capstone. I’m so happy to wear it and haven’t taken it off since. It’s such a cool reminder of the far too uncommon high school experience I was fortunate to have – not to mention I get to brag more often about having the best mascot ever. I hope CSW is fairing well. I really do miss it!”

Anna Logowitz ’03 sent this note: “I recently finished year-long sailboat restoration project. My 50-year-old wooden beetle cat (a good friend since before CSW days) is fit for the high seas with 2,800 new fastenings and 50 percent new woodwork. In other life, I am working towards my masters of arts in Teaching English at Smith College. I would love to hear from CSW folks!”

writes: “I finally have something to write in about! I got married in March to the love of my life! It seems after all this time I am finally maybe starting to become an adult.

We recently moved back to Gryphon Fall 2012

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IN MEMORIAM Our condolences to the family and friends of Ann Carter ’34, who died on December 28, 2011.

Our thoughts go out to the family and friends of Harriet Naughton ’37, who died on September 23, 2011.

Our condolences to the family and friends of Edgar “Eddie” Driscoll ’38, who passed away on November 1, 2011.

We send our condolences to the family and friends of Rudy Benfey ’44, who died on February 20, 2012.

Our condolences to the family and friends of Elizabeth Freeman ’44, who died on January 30, 2012.

We send our condolences to the family and friends of Betsy Aub Reid ’44, who died in February 19, 2012.

Betsy, Franny ’49 and Nancy ’52 all attended CSW. Their mother Elizabeth Aub was the architect for the school’s Trapelo dormitory.

Our condolences to the family and friends of Marilyn Spinoza Weinberg ’44 who died on May 20, 2012. (See Tribute Article.)

Our condolences to the family and friends of Angelica Bodky Lee ’47, who died on August 18, 2012. She was the mother of Matthew Lee ’74.

Our thoughts go out to the family and friends of Carolyn “Lynn” Frost ’48, who died on August 15, 2012.

We send our condolences to the family and friends of Carol Cohen Becker ’52, who died on October 12, 2011.

Our condolences to Sandra Maley Caruso ’56, whose husband Dee recently passed away.

We send our condolences to the family and friends of Doug Erskine ’57, who died on March 21, 2012.

Our condolences to the family and friends of George Edwards ’61 who died on October 23, 2011.

George Kinuthia Saitoti ’63,

Kenyan Internal Security minister who was to stand for the country’s presidency, was killed in a helicopter crash outside Nairobi on June 10, 2012. We send our condolences to his family and friends.

Charles “Chuck” Woodard ’64 passed away in July 2010.

CSW apologizes for the misprint in the last issue of The Gryphon. We extend our heartfelt condolences to his wife, Lynn Woodard, daughters Hannah, Rory, Sarah and son Nathaniel. Lynn is releasing their two girls, Hannah and Rory, into the wider world, Rory to college and Hannah to post college work. Sarah and Nathaniel, his children from a previous marriage, are well with children of their own.

Our condolences to William Keyserling ’67, Paul Keyserling ’70 and Beth Keyserling-Kramer and to the family and friends of Judith “Judy” Keyserling ’63, who died in February

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Our heartfelt condolences go out to the family and friends of alumni James Freedman ’75, who died on May 19, 2012.

Our condolences to Dave Hertz ’89 on the loss of his mother, Dorothea Hertz.

Dorothea died on May 19, 2012 in Florida.

Our condolences to the family and friends of Dedalus Wainwright ’89, whose father William died on August 17, 2012.

We send our heartfelt condolences to dance department chair Martha Armstrong Gray, whose father Robert Whittle Armstrong died on Sept. 5 at the age of 95. Our thoughts are with Martha and her family.

A TRIBUTE My Days with Marilyn: A Tribute to Marilyn Spinoza Weinberg ’44 1927-2012

By Jane Moulding

It is hard to believe that I knew Marilyn only for a brief time, about eight years or so. For me this relationship encapsulates not only all that is special about CSW, but also that which is unique about my role as head of school. I met Marilyn with the sole goal of learning more about the early history of The Cambridge School, but when Marilyn died earlier this year, I lost a dear friend and advisor.

I write this tribute for Marilyn, for her husband, Robert, and for those of you who may still remember this elegant, strong, and intelligent woman. And, perhaps even more importantly for all of us who care deeply for CSW, its history and its future. Thank you to Christine Chamberlain ’63, alumna and trustee, who interviewed Marilyn in March 2011 and whose wonderful prose I borrow on heavily.

My relationship with Marilyn began over tea and in the Weinberg’s gorgeous home in the Sherry-Netherland Hotel overlooking Central Park, in November 2007. We talked for several hours and she showed me who she was because of those early formative years at Cambridge School, as she always called our school. Here’s what she told Christine about CSW: “My father chose the Cambridge School for me, with my input, because other schools we knew did not provide the type of education that I found thrilling or stimulating. I was always a little avant garde. I went to the Cambridge School for four years, and I loved every day. I ran the work program and the co-op store. I had a ball.”

Marilyn admired John French, Hans Biermann, Thora Ludy, and her favorite, Hildegard Washburn. She recounts: “The wonderful teachers there encouraged me to find the things I wanted. Those teachers at the Cambridge School weren’t afraid of anything.”

Stories like these flowed from Marilyn each time I saw her.

Each time we met she would ask me about the finances of the school, what kind of teachers we attracted, and the state of the buildings and the campus. We talked a lot about what it meant to be a progressive school now, compared to what it was in the 1940s.

Since the age of 40, Marilyn had lived with tremendous pain from arthritis. In all of my visits to Marilyn, I never saw the pain get her down, even though I knew it was excruciating and

changed her life. Marilyn was a brilliant optimist, who took care of people. Each time she called me “darling,” I felt special and knew what a wonderful friendship we had developed. I will never forget Marilyn. Her life and learning make her an emblem of our school. Towards the end of the interview with Christine, Marilyn said: “I think all the teachers essentially taught me the same thing: to be independent and to think for myself. The underlying questions at the Cambridge School were: ‘What do you want to do with your life? What do you want to make out of it? What do you want to learn? Where do you want to go?’ You were not pushed to get married; it was to DO something with your life that was important. I think I've had a good life and I attribute a tremendous portion of that to the Cambridge School.”

CSW certainly prepared Marilyn for a very successful life in finance; and perhaps more importantly it prepared her to be a generous and thoughtful human. Farewell, darling Marilyn.

You will not be forgotten here.

Marilyn Gryphon Fall 2012

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announcements

KINDLE RAFFLE: The Cambridge School of Weston is online! Are you? Email your name and class year to KindleRaffle@csw.org. You will receive our monthly e-newsletter and help us be green. You could win a brand new Kindle, loaded with five books, selected by a CSW faculty member of your choice! Winner will be announced in the Spring 2013 issue of The Gryphon magazine.

Global Connection: VOLUNTEERS NEEDED: Alumni volunteers are needed to help with event hosting, planning, and outreach. If you are interested in reconnecting with classmates by writing letters or sending emails to gather current contact information, hosting local or regional events, or helping out in various other capacities, please contact Hannah Taytslin, director of alumni relations, at htaytslin@csw.org or 781-642-8647.

CSW Begins “Sister School” Relationship with Yihai School

CALL FOR HOSTS: The Alumni Office will be hosting Consultative Dinners in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Florida, Manhattan, Brooklyn and in the Boston area beginning January 2013. If you're interested in hosting an event for 8 to 15 people, please contact us at alum@csw.org or 781-642-8647.

Upcoming Events CSW PRESENTS “A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM,” Nov. 1-3, 2012: The theatre department presents its Fall Main Stage Production of Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ at the Robin Wood Theatre in the Mugar Center for the Performing Arts. Check the events calendar on www.csw.org for details.

ALUMNI EVENT, December 7, 2012: An alumni event hosted by Johara Tucker, director of social justice and multicultural programming, in Houston, Texas. Details to be announced. Stay tuned!

BOSTON BALLET PRESENTS THE NUTCRACKER, December 14, 2012. Join CSW alumni, faculty, and friends for a magical evening as Boston Ballet presents its world premiere of Mikko Nissinen’s “The Nutcracker” at the historic Boston Opera House. Tickets are available for a discount at $55 each (a $81 value) and the evening includes a pre-show social hour with light bites and a cash bar. Contact Hannah Taytslin at htaystlin@csw.org for details.

EVENING OF THE ARTS, December 19, 2012: Join us for a celebration of the arts at The Cambridge School of Weston, featuring the End-of-Mod Art Show, the Wearable Arts fashion show, and performances in theatre, dance, and the Rock/Pop Ensemble.

BOSTON CELTICS GAME, January 16, 2013: Join CSW Alumni, Faculty, and Friends as we root for a Celtics win against the New Orleans Hornets. Seats are on the promenade level, offering a clear view of the parquet floor and special access to concessions and restrooms. Tickets are available at a discount for $35 each ($53 value). Contact Hannah Taytslin at htaytslin@csw.org or 781-642-8647.

REUNION, Saturday, June 15, 2013. Featuring special tributes to Martha Armstrong Gray, who is retiring after 45 years at CSW, and honoring milestone reunion years ending in 3 and 8.

CSW Online MyCSW: (mycsw.csw.org) is our internal web portal, where you can access the alumni directory, class notes, and other news and information. Please contact the alumni office at alum@csw.org for a username and password.

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Rachael Dorr P’07, Secretary

Bob Metcalf ’53

Eric von Hippel ’59, P’13

Chris Gootkind P’12

Jane Moulding, Head of School

Ben Alimansky ’87

Shelley Hawks P’12

Diana Baruni, Faculty Representative

Kaiko Hayes ’81

Christian Nolen P’10, Chair of the Board

Raekwon Walker ’13, Boarding Student Representative Susan Ward P’10, Treasurer Sheila Watson P ’12 John Weltman P’12, ’13, Co-Vice Chair of the Board

Christine Chamberlain ’63

John Holleran

Margie Perse P’13

Erika Christakis P’11, ’13, Assistant Secretary

Jennifer Jones-Clark P’05

Deborah Pressman P’10

Jean Kilbourne P’05

Sarita Shah ’86

Tad Lawrence, Faculty Representative

Peter Thorne P’12

Doris Christelis P’14, Parent Representative Mark Culliton ’82, Assistant Treasurer

Rick McCready P’13

Susan Vogt P’14

Lysander Christakis ’13, Day Student Representative

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Eduardo Tugendhat ’72, P’07

Paige Williar P’12, ’14, Parent Representative Anki Wolf ’67, Co-Vice Chair of the Board

The Cambridge School of Weston and the Yihai School, a K-12 school in Beijing, officially entered into a sister school relationship this spring, paving the way for future study abroad and cultural exchange opportunities in China for CSW students and faculty.

The partnership underscores CSW’s commitment to building a globally engaged curriculum that raises student awareness and appreciation for environmental, economic, social and political issues around the world.

“This relationship provides a lot of opportunities for both our students and faculty to learn and study in China,” said Jane Moulding, head of school.

Linda Wang P’13, president of the Yihai Education Group and parent of Fredy Xin ’13, Yin Xiaofeng, Yihai’s middle school principal, and Zhao Xiaomei, a school official, came to CSW last June to officially solidify the relationship with an agreement signing ceremony. The school officials from China toured the CSW campus, met

In the agreement, both schools committed to exploring “ways to deepen the relationship between our institutions through mutually beneficial joint programs, project partnership and faculty/student exchanges in the future.”

The agreement could mean that students currently enrolled in Mandarin classes may have opportunities to travel to the Yihai School in Beijing to study Chinese language and culture. Elementary students at the Yihai School may also have opportunities to attend the Summer Arts program at CSW. CSW began exploring a partnership with the school during a trip to China in April. Ms. Wang invited Jane and Tom Evans, dean of faculty, to visit the school. They toured the campus, met with faculty and students, and attended a coming-of-age ceremony for the school’s senior class at the Great Wall of China.

“We have been looking to build a partnership with a K-12 school in China that values creativity in education

with faculty and students, and sat in on visual arts and Mandarin language classes.

and community, much like CSW,” Jane said. “During that school visit, we began to see a lot of possibilities.”

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Thompson Gallery Celebrates 100 Years of Collage “Collage at 100,” a three-part exhibition series celebrating the centennial of collage in painting, opened at the Thompson Gallery at The Cambridge School of Weston this fall. The three-part exhibition will run through June 16, and will highlight work from more than 100 professional artists, including the celebrated contemporary collage practitioner Michael Oatman, in the final exhibition of the series.

“It is thrilling for our teaching gallery to take the pulse of contemporary collage after its inception 100 years ago,” said Todd Bartel, visual arts teacher and Thompson Gallery director. “We received over 500 applications for this show, and I reviewed over 3,500 works of art. This exhibition is sure to be one of our most popular and densely concentrated shows.”

“Strange Glue, Traditional & Avant-Garde Collage,” the first show in the series, assembles the work of contemporary artists as it traces the transition from traditional to avant-garde approaches to papier collé.

The first show runs through Nov. 20.

The second part, “Strange Glue, Collage & Installation,” will showcase contemporary collage strategies that either border upon or require overt installation tactics. It will examine the work of 24 contemporary artists as it demonstrates the connections between the flatness of collage and the physicality of installation. The show will launch with an artist’s reception on Dec. 19, running through Feb. 22, 2013.

Michael Oatman’s “Another Fine Mess,” the final show in the exhibition, assembles the work taken from his days as an emerging artist at the Rhode Island School of Design in the 1980’s through to his monumental “maximum collages,” a term he coined to refer to his installations, including work made specifically for “Another Fine Mess.”

For more information on the exhibition and scheduled hours, contact Todd Bartel, gallery director, at 781-398-8316 or thompsongallery@csw.org.