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The Hammonasset School
Summer 1988
rumors. He said almost nothing, except to
explain that he and Marlene were going to do
a self-portrait. Their creation turned outto be
a finger painting that Jackson Pollack would
have been proud of. When their hands were
covered with every color possible, they
hugged each other. Ted then walked to the
podium, picked up his diploma, and began to
set one corner of it aflame with a Bic lighter.
Quickly he stopped, before any damage had
been done, grinning as he walked of the
stage: "Scaredja, didn't I?"
Graduation 1988
"... 1could come back to
Hammonasset any time, in
my dreams, in real life, and
always be convinced it was
a great place for human
beings."
Graduation Speeches. Tammy Green talks about her daughter Laurie at this
year's ceremony while Laurie (second from left) and family look on.
Returning to
Hammonasset
I started getting weepy even before
Don Grace got up there and started his
opening lines. The food's good, the spirits are high, everybody has forgotten
whatever bad moments may have come
up during the year.
Things truly got started for me with
Chris Anderson's presentation.
Don
Barkin was speaking for him, and noted
quickly that Chris was one of the few
people he's had to throw out of his class
("most people left on their own"). The
explanation was simple: "Chris was funnier and
more interesting than I was." Don went on to
compare Chris to a balloon with air escaping
through a stretched-out mouth. Chris is like the
high-pitched whine, backed by the intense energy
which could let go at any moment and fly uncontrollably all over the room. After such a release,
everything is flat for a while. According to Don
B., that's what may happen at Hammonasset
next year if somebody doesn't replace Chris.
Jecca was next. I had never seen her
before, and I judged her too quickly. After a few
standard testimonies about how wonderful
everything was, she asked her parents to stand
up. "Now I'd like everyone to clap for them," she
said. It was genuine. She wasn't just doing it like
an actress would at the Academy Awards.
My first exposure to Ted Barber lived up to
the expectations I'd formed from letters and
Bud L. said something about how Mike
Campbell had been spotted participating in a
group backrub, despite Mike's constantly
professed rejection of Hammonasset's
touchy-feely side. Tom Clinton began his
own remarks with a small sign that read "APPLAUSE" on one side and "QUIET" on the
other. Stephanie Davis' yearbook page, an
open letter describing her feelings about
race relations at the school, was read aloud
with perfect appropriateness by Sousan.
Then came the one that really caught
my throat. This was when I knew I could
come back to Hammonasset any time, in my
dreams, in real life, and always be convinced
it was a great place for human beings. No-
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A videotape of the 1988 graduation is available at a cost of $29.
The tape, which was produced by
Jay Hawley of Hawley Productions,
can be ordered by phone (889-3465)
or by writing to: Hawley Productions, 25 Park Street, Norwich, CT.
Please enclose a check made out to
Hawley Productions for the correct
amount.
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Headmaster's Letter
As a teacher of U.S. History, I am
looking forward to offering an elective in the
fall on the presidency. One of the books I will
be using is Ted White's The Making Of A
President Nineteen Sixty, in part because I
am interested in how the political landscape
has changed in the last quarter century. Of
those changes, the relationship between
political activism and youthful drug use is one
of the more intriguing ones.
The decade of the 1960's was a turning point for our nation. Key political leaders
were assassinated, our involvement in Southeast Asia waxed and waned dramatically,
and a counterculture movement was
spawned. Two ofthe central elements ofthat
counterculture were drug experimentation
and political activism, particularly regarding
the Vietnam War. In many ways, marijuana
use came to be a symbol for those under 30
of a willingness to look at the world in new
ways and to reject traditional notions of politics, war and patriotism. Youthful drug use
and political opposition to the war became, in
some ways, interdependent.
The decade of the 1980's has been a
different story. It is not simply that all the
major aspirants to the presidency have
embraced anti-drug rhetoric (following the
lead from the minority community that drugs
siphon off energies for political and economic improvement). More importantly, there
is no popular connection being made between drug usage and political activism.
Enough elements of the 1960's counterculture have been absorbed into mainstream
American life that the counterculture has
ceased to exist as a separate entity. (Also, in
the absence of a unifying negative issure like
Vietnam, no set of positive political goals
captured the minds and hearts of counterculture folks.) If anything, the popular wisdom
now seems to be that drug usage and experimentation are antagonistic to political involvement, particularly from th~ emerging
adults in our society.
"It matters little which candidates we elect.. .if we
cannot support and guide
our elected officials with
widespread political involvement."
As Head of The Hammonasset
School, I share some of the concerns of
popular wisdom on this. I worry that just as
drug (including alcohol) use has made many
of our adolescents passive learners, so that
same drug use will produce a generation of
political non-participants. Republican forms
of government do not survive or flourish
without an informed and active citizenry, and
America is no exception.
It matters little which candidates we
elect this fall or any other fall if we cannot
support and guide our elected officials with
widespread political involvement. For the
sake of American life as it should be shaped,
I hope adolescent energies will not be so
diverted by ongoing drug/alcohol use. Our
youth and our nation deserve better than
that.
- Donald Grace
(Returning to Hammonasset cont.)
body was going to take my glow from me
now. And I didn't even know this student
before, never laid eyes on her. Amy
DeStefano. Maybe you know something
about her past. I didn't. I just sat there with
my jaw dropping down, listening to my heart
pound, smiling wider and wider, as her little
sister, the only other one up there at the
podium, about age twelve, started in on a
speech with a little kid voice but no trace of
nervousness: "OK, I'm Amy's sister, and I
like wanted to say a few of the words that
come to mind when I think about Amy, so I
sort of wrote a poem about her. It's called
"Sister."
Maybe you know me well enough to
know that I'm bought by little kid's voices.
They transport me directly to Central Park in
New York, where Holden is watching Phoebe
go for the gold ring at the carousel. "Crazy
kids," I think, "they can do no wrong." Cynicism and disparagement about the world
completely drain from my body when I first
catch wind of voices that sound like Amy
DeStefano's sister's voice. She had me.
The poem was simply a list. "SISTERFunny. Smiling. Strange. Honest. Beautiful. Fun ... " Little kid words. Nothing fancy.
"Interesting. Smart ... " No hero worship, just
pure and simple admiration. "Hard-working.
Loud ... " Through the whole poem you could
feel a tone that said, "she wasn't like this a
couple of years ago." Pretty soon I didn't
even hear the words any more, the rhythm
was so beautiful, the words so heartfelt and
confident. "... Loving." I just about lost it. The
tears were right at the edge.
James Drobynk's name was announced,
and he bounced up out of the back row as
though he had just gotten the chance to play
"Wheel of Fortune." He just picked up the
goods, checked the signature, and said
"Thanks alot" before jogging back to his chair.
Don Barkin read a great poem for Kate Florey:
The Good Student
I only know when we went out
to the woods to fathom the autumn sky,
she found more in the clouds than I
and thanked me, though I can't think why.
When Justin Gunn walked up with his
parents, emotions were running higher for
me than ever. Justin remains my hero since
I watched him nestle a soccer ball into the
upper right corner of an impossibly-guarded
net, while playing as a freshman for the
Guilford High School state championship
team. Like lots of people who have watched
him operate, I'm a slave to his charm and
poetic movement. His procrastination and
unused potential are easy to overlook when
you're face-to-face with him. So when his
mom read a poem, which touched on, among
other things, his skateboarding and his habit
of greeting people with the word, "Yo," I was
almost limp. But then his dad took the mike
and really got to me. "There are two entities,"
he began, "which have made it here tonight."
Emphasis on the "entity" part. "One of them
almost had to get out. And the other almost
had to drop out." A few more words of praise
and explanation. "But I am really proud," he
wrapped up, "of both the school and the
student for succeeding here. My congratulations to both." I was a puddle. They had to
mop me up. It was too much for me already,
and we hadn't even gotten through the H's in
the alphabet yet.
A few more light moments. Anna Hoberman gushing. Paul Birdsall imitating Brett
Kronberg's hair-combing. Margriet Mitchell's
father talking about his first visit to the school:
'We arrived about 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
I gather that's the time you all call happy hour
around here." His sincerity in talking about
the change in his daughter over two years
(not to mention the change in him) might
have been the best publicity statement ever
issued about Hammonasset.
Jeremy Pinchot's father said that four
years had helped him feel more like Jeremy's
friend than like his father. He gave Ham-
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A Hammonasset Spring
Spring on the field. A finer moment for
this year's Lacrosse team.
Graduation. Seniors Margriet Mitchell
(second from left) and Eva Weisbrod (far
right) celebrate at the Graduation Picnic
with teacher Deac Etherington and Vicki
Abel.
Spring on the courts. Tennis team
member Andy Cober struts his stuff on
the court.
<·· Students recognized for artwork.
From left: Jennifer Hellen (second place
in photography, Shoreline Alliance for
the Arts' Future Choices '88); Eva Weisbrod (John Slade Ely House Prize for
her woodblock print in the Greater New
Haven Area High School Students' Art
Exhibition); Anna Tessler (Little Apple
Show Award for her drawing, Future
Choices); Heather Bradley (second
place in drawing, Future Choices); Sean
Bien (Viewer's Choice Award for his
photograph, Future Choices); Ted Barber (First Place in both painting and
prints, Future Choices).
A bevy of Madison Rotary Scholars.
From left to right, Jeremy Pinchot, Tom
Clinton, Ted Barber, Stephanie Davis,
Kate Florey and Zeb O'Neil Not pictured: Heather Bradley
Earth Day. Simon Clifton and teacher
Sousan Arafeh take a wailing at the
Save the Whale Booth on the Ecology
Class sponsored Earth Day. Proceeds
from the booth will go towards adopting
a whale.
Harvard Book Prize. Harvard Alum
DonGracepresentsStephanieGeorge
with the Harvard Book Prize.
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Some Poems About Some Graduates
The main business at Hammonasset graduations is that seniors can ask faculty, friends or parents to speak for them when they get their
diplomas. English teacher Don Barkin responded by writing the following poems:
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Poem
What they want always is to find truth,
as a compass wants to know North,
as a falling leaf finds the earth.
Like compass and leaf they are unaware
that this is their nature, and that it's rare
to hunt the truth as if it were there.
Maybe one in a hundred will stand at a
well
and stare down in the dark to the bottom
until
something deep glimmers, coin or shell.
Old fool, young brute, pretty face:
they wear many disguises in many
places.
But all descend of the same sparse race
who love what's so because it's so
and believe it is possible to know.
***
IN MEMORIAM
Thane Fatone 1970 - 1988
A Little Teaching
(is the right amount)
A flower knows what it needs to know
- to love the sun and bloom slow
and suffer frost and zealous rays.
It knows these things from its earthlodged days.
And it makes a gardener a better man
who tends his plot as best he can
though chill and drought (when love is
duty)
till q. flower can say what it knows of
beauty.
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(NOTE: The poem "The Good Student" is included in John Henderson's
article, "Returning to Hammonasset'~
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The graduates and their plans
for next year are: Joyce Arafeh (Evergreen State University), Chris Anderson
(undecided), Jecca Auchterlonie (undecided),
Ted Barber (Art Institute of Chicago), Heather
Bradley (College of Wooster), Sarah Bramhall
(Northeastern University), Mike Campbell
(Susquehanna University), Tom Clinton
(University of Notre Dame), Mike Conway
(Eastern Connecticut State University),
Stephanie Davis (Academy of Business
Careers), Amy DeStefano (undecided),
James Drobnyk (undecided), Kate Florey
(Oberlin College), Jill Goldstein (undecided),
Laurie Green (undecided), Justin Gunn
(undecided), Jennifer Hellen (undecided),
Michelle Henderson (Fashion Institute of
Technology), David Hennessey (Southern
Connecticut State University), Anna Hoberman (Connecticut College), Mada Holtzman
(University of the Pacific), Brett Kronberg
(Southern Connecticut State University),
Martin Lewis (Norwich University), Greg
Lowrey (University of Connecticut), Mike
Macionus (Clark University), Margriet Mitchell (Lynchburg University), Ingrid Morral (undecided), Zeb O'Neil (Elizabethtown College), Jeremy Pinchot (Lynchburg University), lan Rogers (Gettysburg University),
Kristin Sullivan (University of New Hampshire), Myriam Valderrama (undecided), Eva
Weisbrod (University of Wisconsin).
(co-authored by Sousan Arafeh)
lan in a quiet mom:
a quiet sky-a sonic boom.
lan in class on the edge of his seat;
he listens a bit, then jumps in with both
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feet.
lan when there's a small child around:
he'd been lost to himself, but now he is
found.
lan when lan is just being he
is the big calm shade of a summer tree.
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(Returning to Hammonasset cont.)
monasset lots of creditforthe change. Tucker
Gifford told a classic Tucker story about lan
Rogers on Nantucket, concentrating on the
amount of luggage (four duffel bags!) lan
thought was necessary to keep himself in
shorts and bare feet all summer.
Finally, Sousan made a kind of summing-up of lan that could only happen at a
Hammonasset graduation. For some people
it was probably the highlight of the evening .
"Take a look at lan," she said, leading him
out from behind the podium to expose his
madras jacket, short pants and bare feet.
"See how lan is directly connected to the
earth - there's no interference from shoes
or socks or long pants. And now let me
explain what happens when Ian speaks. The
idea begins here -" she pointed at the
ground--- and travels up to here-" the heart
- "with nothing much getting in the way.
Then it stops briefly to get mixed up a little bit
-" she circles her fingers around where his
heart was- "and then it just pops up and out
-" her hand followed the direction, straight
up the neck and out the mouth. It was clear
she wants us to know that the brain is not
involved. The description was perfect, even
for those of us who knew only of lan what we
had seen that night. His face and the crowd's
reaction showed Sousan was right on. It was
a wonderful moment.
-John Henderson
(Note: John Henderson taught at Hammonasset from 1982-1986. He is currently
teaching at a Cambodian Refugee Camp in
Thailand and attended the graduation on his
recent visit to the States)
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Reflections from Bud Church, ·
the New Assistant Director of Admissions
I have often said that The Hammonasset School is the best secondary school in
Connecticut. As I turn over the admissions
office to Chris Moses, I want to say it again probably not for the last time!
" ... we are the best because
we dare to be different in
ways that really matter."
This time, though, I want to say it
through the words of a student who came
to Hammonasset as a 9th grader two
years ago, then last year transferred to a
well-known boarding school in Connecticut. After a couple of months, although
academically she was doing satisfactorily
at the other school, she wanted to come
back to Hammonasset.
As part of the readmission process, I
asked her to write a statement about her
experience at the boarding school and why
she wanted to return to Hammonasset. Below
is what she wrote:
"It was hard adjusting, but once
I did I started to dislike it for reasons
other than being away from home.
The people seemed 'fake' to me always competing to have more
clothes, more money, and other
material things.
The schedule here is so pressing. I get up at 6:00 a.m. and am
moving until 11 :00 p.m.. I'm never
alone, and I'm always being pushed
to be somewhere else 10 minutes
ago.
I started to think about how at
Hammonasset if I needed space,
there were places to go or even
people that I could deal with. I just
can't get away here.
The people here also seem to
care too inuch about sports. They
would rather see a kid make varsity
than pass a course.
I feel at this age I should be
home, and at a school that I love
very much. I miss the people, the
differences in people and the style
at Hammonasset.
Hammonasset gave me confidence and courage to be myselfnot a copy of someone else. I felt
comfortable there. I felt positive
about everything when I was going
there, and I'd love to feel that way
again."
"Space." "Confidence." "Courage."
Feeling "positive" about everything. Not
being "fake" but being oneself. All schools
say that they give kids space in which to
grow and be themselves; all schools want to
develop confidence. These are the cliches
of the educational world. For a variety of
reasons, however, schools often don't practice what they preach even when they think
they do. All too often schools get in their own
way and fail in the most important lessons of
all, the human lessons without which all else
is hollow. The kids know when that's happening to them. Hammonasset is different;
it actually practices the cliches. The kids
know that, too.
""What a mistake schools
make when they confuse
quantity and pressure with
rigor and excellence."
After being back for a couple of
months, I asked this student one day if she
found Hammonasset easier or harder than
the boarding school. She replied:
"It's not a case of being 'easier'
or 'harder.' I feel welcome here. I
I feel relaxed. I don't get as much
work but what I get I want to do
right. At the other school, I just
wanted to get it over with. In algebra, for instance, at the other school
I'd get forty problems mostly the
same and after the first few I'd hate
it. I didn't care if they were right or
not; I just wanted to get them done.
But here Paul gives five or ten
problems and I work at them trying
to figure them out and get them
right. It's a lot better. Besides, Paul
is better at explaining things!"
What a mistake schools make when
they confuse quantity and pressure with
rigor and excellence. Yet those are the
schools that parents have been programmed
to consider "the best." That brainwashing
makes a really good school like Ham monas-
settougher to sell. That's why word of mouth
is so important to get out the good news
about Hammonasset.
And that's where you come in. Chris is
going to need your help. Like the student
above, all of you as parents and alums have
your own version of the special ways Hammonasset promotes learning and positive
human development. Tell people about it.
Tell people about the Open Houses. And
give their names to Chris. We are still uncomfortably far from our admissions goal of 55
new students. We need to take in over 20 to
meet it. The good news is that we are slightly
ahead of last year at this time; but we can't
count on the August flurry that we had last
year. So think of names, talk to people, and
give Chris a call.
I have found in my 31/2 years of admissions that Hammonasset sells itself once we
get people to visit. It is not easy to sell in the
abstract. That is one of the ironies of being
the best secondary school in Connecticut;
we are the best because we dare to be
different in ways that really matter. But it is
that very "difference" that makes outsiders
suspicious until they become insiders like
yourselves. Consequently, we will never
stop needing your help getting people to the
door. Your are the best marketing tool we
have. Don't let the best school in Connecticut down. Spread the word!
-Bud Church
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Faculty and Staff Comings, Goings & Shifts
While four valued members of the faculty and administrative staff have left, the 1988-89 school year marks an expansion in
administratiion, coaching, phys. ed., academic and arts faculty-a sign of the increasing health of the school.
OUT-GOING FACULTY AND STAFF:
With five Hammonasset years under her belt
(the past three as Director of Development)
Rachel ('86) and Sarah ('88)Bramhall's
mother Sharon is leaving the community to
investigate the field of Human Resources.
Science and math teacher Dan Dorsey, a
dedicated member of the community for the
past three years, is going back to school to
learn how to teach- the right way. Beginning in September, he will be pursuing his
Masters in teaching from Harvard, his alma
mater.
Fe Zamora, who spent the last year teaching
Spanish, is forsaking the unpredictable New
England climate and relocating under the
guaranteed sunshine of Boca Raton, FL,
where her husband has been transferred.
After only a year along the shore, theater
director Die Wheeler returns to a full-time
existence in the "center of the universe"Middletown, where he is now the full-time
Artistic Director for Oddfellows Playhouse.
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the opening day of school!
Die Wheeler may be leaving, but...
IN-COMING FACULTY AND STAFF:
Joyce Birdsall (sister of phys. ed. director,
coach and math teacher Paul), steps into a
newly created phys. ed. and coaching position that will allow for a full-fledged female
sports program. Joyce graduated from
SUNY-Cortland and has taught in the Darien
Public School System and at Tuxedo Park
School in NY.
Barbara Movahhed will be teaching Spanish part-time. Barbara, who has taught in the
Guilford Public School System and in Michigan and New York public schools, received
her M.A. in Education from the University of
Michigan and her B.A. from Western Michigan University.
The new posters on the admissions office
walls signal the changing ofthe guard, as Director of Admissions Bud Church reclaims a
permanent teaching bay and officially becomes Assistant Director of Admissions.
Christine (Chris) Moses, fresh from a stint
atthe Blake School in MN, has taken over the
Admissions Office. Chris lettered in diving at
the University of Oregon and graduated from
Princeton University.
With the hiring of Barbara Saez, the Director
of Development position goes to full time.
Barbara comes to us from Yale-New Haven
Hospital, where she is Associate Director of
Development. In addition, she has extensive
experience in school development, having
served as Associate Director of Development for Quinnipiac College and as Assistant Grants Administrator for Southern Con-
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necticut State University. She earned both
her M.A. and B.A. from Rhode Island
College.
Judi Sprague will teach theater and English,
as well as direct the theater productions.
Judi has been teaching drama at the Greater
Hartford Academy of the Arts and directing
productions at Daniel Hand H.S. in Madison
for the last three years, in addition to teaching at the Center for Creative Youth at
Wesleyan University. She has her B.A. from
Sophie Newcomb College, her M.F.A. from
Corpus Christi University and is currently
working on her doctorate.
Allan Uzwiak will teach science. Allan, who
has been teaching in the Milford and Danbury
Public School Systems for the past four
years, was recently nominated for a number
of distinguished teaching awards, including
Connecticut Teacher of the Year, the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science and
Math Teaching, the Celebration of Excellence Award offered through the State Board
of Education and the Outstanding Biology
Teacher Award offered through the National
Association of Biology Teachers. Allan attended Penn State University, graduated
from the Western Connecticut University and
is currently working on his Masters in
Education.
Excitement in the Arts Barn abounds with the
threefold expansion of the optional credit private music lesson program run by Melissa
Blacker. In addition to Melissa's piano, recor-
... Judi Sprague is stepping in!
der and voice lessons, Tom Randall will be
offering lessons in guitar, mandolin and
banjo, while Sue Zoellner-Cross will be
teaching bassoon, flute, clarinet, oboe and
saxophone.
Tom Randall earned a B.A. from Wesleyan
University and is a graduate of the RobertoVenn School of Luthiery (instrument building). Tom performs throughout New England in various acoustic and electric ensembles and brings fifteen years of teaching experience to Ham me nasset. He teaches popular styles including rock, jazz, pop, blues,
classical, fingerpicking and flatpicking. Tom
also builds instruments in Chester, CT.
Sue Zoellner-Gress holds a B.A. from the
Hartt School of Music and an M.A. from the
Yale School of Music. Since 1984, she has
held the position of Assistant Principal Bassoonist with the New Haven Symphony
Orchestra. Sue also performs around CT in
many other orchestras and ensembles.
In addition, four current faculty members
will take on newly created administrative
posts this fall. Ruthann Aylor will focus on
faculty and student needs as Assistant Head;
Bud Lichtenstein will coordinate the college
counseling program as Director of College
Guidance; David Rynick will be a liason for
the Arts Barn folks as Coordinator of the Arts;
and Sousan Arafeh will be the Coordinator of
Computer Education.
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1987-1988 Development Annual Report
ALUMNIIAE
Alumni/ae Art Show
Digital Equipment Corp.
Morgan Stanley & Co.
Sarah Coletti 74
Katherine DeVinne 74
David Griswold 74
Cheryl Clark 75
Deac Etherington 75
Aleta Adkisson Griswold 75
Elizabeth Karter 75
Gael Kronenberger 75
Stephen Lafferty 75
Betsy Levine 75
Nancy Beers Marshall 75
Carol Schmitt 75
Justus Addiss 76
Viola Maxfield Bargnesi 76
Robert Hageman 76
Lynne Ide 76
Bruce Lyon 76
Marcy Matthaei 76
Dianna Miller-Noyes 76
Katharine Morse 76
Elizabeth Murphy 76
Whitney Bobbitt 77
Barbara Barrows Carnemark 77
Anne Cassidy 77
Debra Kierys Collett 77
Laura Wakem Coyne 77
Gerald Davis 77
Katharine Wakeman Forline 77
Charles Hine 77
Faith Repich McCann 77
Lisa Morris 77
Richard Riggs 77
Stephen Young 77
Susan Addiss 78
Suzanne Smith Baker 78
David Carr 78
Charles Hoblitzelle 78
Lisa Hannum Holmes 78
William McVicar 78
Alexander Murphy 78
Curt Peterson 78
John Zinsser 78
Jennifer Haggin Balboni 79
Keith Comeford 79
Diana Wakem Leonard 79
Wendy Murray 79
David Portugal 79
Lynn Frankes 80
Susan Ganley 80
David Hymer 80
Chris Lacock 80
Terry Wight 80
Brooke Adamson 81
T. Lincoln Downey 81
Eric Greimann 81
Virginia Hambley 81
Laura Miranda Hansen 81
Suzanne Morse 81
Todd Murray 81
Gabriel Chin 82
Virginia Freas 82
Todd Little 82
Heidi Ray 82
Jennifer Bennitt 83
Debra Gann 83
Thomas Landry 83
Kristen Emack 84
Dana Lowry 84
Lisa Nadel 84
Susan Romano 84
Troy Greenwald 85
Keith Marland 85
Rachel Bramhall 86
Sam Mathis 86
Kathy Sheehan 86
Heather Vaughn 86
Marla Zullo 86
Jill Sarnowski 87
Leah Lubin 87
Alice Sarsheen 87
PARENTS
Dr. & Mrs. Mehadin Arafeh
Mr. & Mrs. William Baskin
Mr. Frank Blackford
Mrs. Vivien Blackford
Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin Bramhall
Mr. & Mrs. Roger Campbell
Mary Capers
Mr. & Mrs. William Chamis
Dr. & Mrs. Gail Chandler
Mr. & Mrs. John Ciastko
Mr. & Mrs. James Clinton
Mr. & Mrs. Rodney Gober
Mr. & Mrs. Sally & Rob Cole-Whitten
Mr. & Mrs. William Conway
Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Costantini
Mr. & Mrs. Carlo DiGirolamo
Mr. John Drobnyk
Ms. Carole Dubiell
Dr. Joan Duncan (in honor of
Paul Birdsall)
Mr. & Mrs. John Duncan
Mr. & Mrs. John Duncan Ill
Mr. & Mrs. Charles Falconer
Mr. & Mrs. Michael FitzGerald
Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Florey
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Gammons
Mrs. Sandra Geaman
Mr. & Mrs. Howard Gilbert
Mr. & Mrs. Leopold Godowsky
Mr. & Mrs. Alan Goldstein
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Goralski
Mr. & Mrs. William Green
Mr. & Mrs. Moses Gunn
Mr. & Mrs. John Gwinnell
Mrs. Phyllis Hanbury
Mr. & Mrs. Travis Hedrick
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Hellen
Mr. & Mrs. Charles Henderson
Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Hennessy
Mr. & Mrs. William Hincks
Mr. & Mrs. Harvey Hoberman
Mr. & Mrs. Terry Holcombe
Mr. & Mrs. David Huelsman
Mr. & Mrs. William Hull
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Johnson
Attorney Frank J. Kolb, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Paul Kronberg
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Lane
Mr. & Mrs. Henry LeMay
Mr. & Mrs. Porter Lewis, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Robert London
Malcolm & Judith Luber
Dr. & Mrs. Raymond Macionus
Mr. & Mrs. Peter Marchese
Gerry & Claire Matthews
Mr. & Mrs. Armand Mauro
Mr. & Mrs. Howard Miner
Mr. & Mrs. Sherman Mitchell
Mrs. Nancy Moroso
Joyce Morral
Gail Mulcahey
Mrs. Denise O'Neil
Mr. & Mrs. Russell Potts
Mrs. Edwina Ranganathan
Mr. & Mrs. Joel Reed
Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Rogers
Mr. & Mrs. Henry Rosenberg
Mr. & Mrs. Stuart Rosenberg
Mr. & Mrs. Lee Schacter
Eva Shorter
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Spencer
Mrs. Priscilla Sugarman
Mr. & Mrs. David Sullivan
Drs. Jtschar and Wanda Tidhar
Edwina Trentham
William Trousdale and
Priscilla Meyer
Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Walsh
Mrs. Christine Warnk
Mr. & Mrs. David Weisbrod
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1987-1988 Development Annual Report
FACULTY AND STAFF
GRANDPARENTS
FOUNDATIONS
Sousan Arafeh
Mr. & Mrs. Donald Aylor
Don Barkin
Mr. & Mrs. Paul Birdsall
Melissa Blacker
Sharon Bramhall
David Brown
Bud Church and Sandy Lynn
Daniel Cohan
Dan Dorsey
Mr. & Mrs. Larry Finman
Mr. & Mrs. Tom Fregeau
Bonnie Garmisa
Mr. & Mrs. Donald Grace
Delma Hueffman
Sandra Kopell
Janet Kresl
Mr. & Mrs. Bud Lichtenstein
Janet London
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Mangler
Mrs. Dorothy Martin
Mr. & Mrs. Ray McDonnell
Marina Melendez
Parrish Protheroe
David Rynick
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Sansone
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Tucker
Die Wheeler
Mr. & Mrs. Joe Zamora
Mr. & Mrs. James English
Jean Kinne
Mr. Herbert Meyer
Mr. & Mrs. James Richie
Rodney Robertson
The Florence and John Schumann
Foundation
The Hunter Grubb Foundation
The Maguire Foundation
The Parkson Foundation ·
The Thomas J. Lipton Foundation
TRUSTEES
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Adelstein
Mrs. Louise Ames
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Bennitt
Mr. & Mrs. Stuart Burt
Mr. & Mrs. Rodney Gober
Mr. & Mrs. Louis Connick
Mr. & Mrs. Charles DeVinne
Dr. & Mrs. Wayne Downey
Mr. Edwin Etherington
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Fenn
Mr. & Mrs. Edward Katzenberger
Claire Matthews
Joyce E. Morral
Mrs. Constance Pike
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Rosenbaum
Mrs. Hannah Spencer
John Stewart, Sr. and
Jacalyn Diesenhouse
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Tietjen
Mrs. Dorothy Stroud VanDeusen
Connecticut College Seminar
ALUMNI/AE PARENTS
Mr. & Mrs. William Andrews
Mr. & Mrs. Henry P. Bakewell, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin Bramhall
John A. Carr
Mrs. Elisabeth Craven
Mr. & Mrs. Edwin Etherington
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Gifford
Mr. & Mrs. Peter Karter
Captain & Mrs. Earl Maxfield, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Robert McKenzie
Mr. & Mrs. Frederick Murphy, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Norman Oestreicher
Mr. & Mrs. Zane Ray
Dr. & Mrs. Richard P. Spencer
Mr. & Mrs. John Usher
Mrs. Loretta Wakem
The Hammonasset School wishes to
thank its supporters for their generosity
during 1987- 1988.
FRIENDS
Molly Coulter
Mr. Norman Sivin
MATCHING
Automatic Data Processing
Foundation
CIGNA Foundation
Fireman's Fund Insurance Company
Foundation
Mobil Foundation, Inc.
Norton Co. Foundation, Inc.
Pfizer
Southern New England
Telecommunications Corp.
The Bristol-Myers Fund, Inc.
United Technologies
US Trust
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The Importance of
Being an Alum
Every year the one constituency of
Hammonasset which grows in substantial
numbers is the Alumni group. In June of
1974 it consisted of 22 people. In June of
1988 the number of Alumni has risen to 717.
And as long as the school exists, it will keep
on growing.
Alumni have a relationship to their school
which is unknown to anyone else. Students
are IN the school, know it as it is this minute,
relate to it on a day to day basis. All Alumni
know that, because that's where they've
been, too. But the ongoing relationship between a school and its former students is
unique. There is a tie to teenage years, to
individual friends among faculty and students, and even to the physical space- the
Commons, the Arts Barn, the woods, the
gym- that may become tenuous, (or even
one that some people might just as soon
forget!!!) but it never is completely broken.
But Alumni have the quietest voice. You
are not right 'on sight', and you have vast new
commitments and interests in your lives.
And you should. And we really are thrilled
and pleased to hear what you are doing, and
to learn from so many of you that Hammonasset is part of the reason that your lives
are on the track that they are. We would like
to hear from you ALL, but that won't ever
happen. But from the messages that do get
to Hammonasset we have a picture of the
Alumni group that is exciting, busy, .and
contributing in many ways to the various
communities that are lucky enough to have a
Hammonasset graduate in their midst.
But you DO have a role in
Hammonasset's life, and it's part of the process that makes the school work. Your opinions about the school- where it's going, and
where it ~ be going - are part of the
process that guides the changes and directions. That's one reason we're so very glad
that a Hammonasset Alumna now serves as
a member of the Board of Trustees. When
you visit the school, or come to Reunions, or
write us your news and ideas, we take what
you have to say very seriously, and we put it
to work. And when you share with us some
of your success, in terms of the dollars which
you so generously provide each year, you
strengthen the school in a very specific way.
We hope that you, as a graduate, or a
former student at Hammonasset, think of
your relationship with the school not as an
obligation or a requirement- as something
to be met every year- but as p. partnership
between you and a very important place in
your life. Hammonasset needs that partnership if it is to go on doing the remarkable and
exciting job of educating fine young people,
as it educated you.
"... we have a picture of the
Alumni group that is exciting, busy, and contributing
in many ways to the various communities that are
lucky enough to have a
Hammonasset graduate in
their midst."
Hammonasset is a busy place, and
things move at a pretty active pace most of
the time. But we are never too busy to visist
with you, by letter or phone or in person. And
never, we hope, too busy to say thank you for
your support and partnership whatever form
it takes.
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Alumni/ae Notes
SUMMER 1988
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Seth Clark is living in Costa Mesa, CA,
engaged in map-making work involving
computers. David Griswold and his wife
Aleta Adkisson Griswold ('75) are in Chapel
Hill, NC. David works for Telex Computer
Products in the Airlines Systems Group, and
Aleta is a Registered Nurse at Duke
University's Neuro Intensive Care Unit. Their
son Cyrus just turned 9! They would love to
hear from any Alums, and are at 315 Creeks'
Edge; (919) 942-2255.
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Gael Kronenberger is getting married in
September, and has bought a house in the
South End of Hartford. She's working at
United Bank and Trust as the Planning Manager. Betsy Levine by this writing will have
completed her classroom hours for her apprenticeship as an electrician. "It's been a
long haul!" She enjoys reading what everyone else has been doing, and wishes she
weren't so far away (San Francisco) from
reunions. (We do too.) Nancy Beers
Marshall is actively involved in a therapeutic
horse back riding program - instructing,
editing the newsletter, advertising, etc. We
hope to see her when she's in Connecticut
soon. Good note from Russell Payne, who
was a post-grad student in '75. He says; "In
the '75 yearbook under the heading "Some
Theater," there is a photo of a bearded young
man in boots with an umbrella. "As far as I
know this is the only evidence of my time at
Hammonasset." His affection and appreciation of the school come across clearly in his
note, and he asks that we include his address. It is 2 Forest Street, Bellows Falls, VT
05101, or by now it may be 2 Morse Street,
Springfield, VT 05156, depending on his job.
Thanks for writing, Russell.
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Justus Addiss and Alison Johnson ('78)
have just finished remodeling their kitchen,
with a new floor, some plumbing, paneling
and painting, doing all the work themselves
on their house in Middletown. Viola Maxfield
Bargnesi is living in Ivoryton with her husband Robert. They bought a 1900 Victorian
home to restore. (Maybe Justus and Alison
have a few suggestions!) Viola is still riding
horseback; her own Shiloh passed on, as did
Sibyl, last February.
She's working at
Maxfield's Carpet Cleaning as Office
Manager. Bruce Lyon is living in a microscopic apartment in Guilford, managing the
Amazing Store in Orange, putting up with the
Q Bridge daily. Bruce says he's saving for a
down payment on a dwelling closer to work.
Dianna Miller-Noyes writes: "escaped Vermont for a few weeks in the dead of winter for
the Yucatan. My husband Doug, and 2
friends and I rented a VW Bug and explored
the jungles, ruins sites and beaches."
Dianna's still the Alumni Director at Marlboro
College, and sends congratulations to H'sset's
Alum President Liz Murphy for all her hard
work.
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Whitney Bobbitwrites from Florida that after
graduating from F.I.T. in 1982, he worked at
Lockheed Space Operations at Kennedy
Space Center for 4 years as a computer
programmer. He's now working for Grumman Melbourne Systems. Whitney has a
wife and two daughters, and although they
enjoy the Florida climate, they spend vacations in Colorado skiing. He adds, "I owe a
great deal to Hammonasset for where I am
now." Thanks, Whitney, and come to Connecticut when you can! Anne Cassidy plans
to be married in September, and she and her
fiance, Tom, have bought a house in Windham, ME. Anne's still working for Gordon
Clapp Travel in Portland, and has been promoted to Senior Travel Consultant, handling
travel for L.L. Bean and other companies.
She sends Hellos to Heloise Hambley and
Charmagne Eckert, and all the Class of '77.
We've learned that Heloise Hambley has
added Levy to her name, but we know noth-
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ing more. Heloise, will you fill us in when you
can? (And congratulations!) Steve Young
didn't send any news of his own, but says,
"Keep the good news coming!" We'll try;
hope everyone else will too!
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Lots of news from '78. David Carr has his
own business selling gourmet food, in Philadelphia, where he lives "with my #1 Lorraine
Carboni." He says skiing, going on a cruise
to Bermuda and time at the shore hardly
leaves time for working out, going to clubs
and enjoying life! Sounds OK. Good letter
from Charmagne Eckert, one of the bicoastals with a base on the West Coast and
also in New York. Charmagne graduated
from NYU in 1982 with a BFA in Drama, and
has been involved in stage, film, and -yes,
even commercials. She also works as a
production manager for commercials and
feature films, "an enjoyable, lucrative and
loaded-with-contracts way of feeding myself
between roles." Priscilla Hine, married last
October to Noah Hume, is living in San
Francisco, teaching Kindergarten atthe Town
School. She says Hello to Lory Spitzer and
Jim Russell, wherever they may be. Lory's
in Boston, but we can report only that Jim is
no longer at Ethel Walker. We don't know
more. Lovely story and picture in the New
Haven paper brought us up to date about
Sheila Mayfield's wedding on November 21
to Chris Morris. Sheila's brothers Alvin
Bess and Mike Mayfield were in the wedding party. After a trip to France, Sheila and
Chris have settled in Los Angeles, where
she's a senior budget analyst at USC, and
Chris is with Drexel Burnham Lambert.
Sandy
Congratulations to you both!
Murphy's living in Brooklyn and is an engineer for TAMS Consultants, Inc. We'd like to
quote extensively from the Art People column from The New York Times of last January 22: "... the artists John Zinsser and
Philip Pocock have ... started a magazine of
their own that contains nothing but interviews with artists ... Volume 1, No. 1 of The
Journal of Contemporary Art came out last
month in bookstores around the city, and
includes interviews with 10 artists of the
moment, including Sarah Charlesworth, Jeff
Koons, David Reed, Jack Goldstein and
Wolfgang Laib." This is a desktop publishing
venture, and sells for $5 a copy. "We wanted
to document a particular moment in the art
world," John is quoted as saying. "You're
talking about a group of people who are very
verbally facile, who spend a lot of time thinking about the verbal discourse that is the
foundation of their work." Look for the Journal. Another Hammonasset first!
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Jennifer Haggin Balboni is a journalist with
a newspaper in San Francisco called
ASIANWEEK, covering Asian American
politics. She's halfway through the coursework for her Master's in Political Science,
and will travel to Cambodia in September to
do her thesis. She and her husband plan a
trip to Italy and Greece to celebrate 5 years
of marriage as well. Keep us posted where
you go next. Somebody told us that Gary
Brink is the son of Pat of Saybrook's famous
Country Kitchen, where you can get the
world's best clam hash. Might want to check
it out. Sarah Johnson, a graduate of SUNY
at Albany, summa cum laude, has been
selected as a member by Outstanding College Students of America. Closer to home,
Shimika Higgins is a Service Assistant for
Connecticut Blue Cross, and is living in New
Haven, and Diana Wakem Leonard is also
in the health field as a pediatric and rehabilitation specialist in Occupational Therapy.
Diana works in the Great Falls, MT Hospital,
and helped start a pediatric therapy clinic
and a handicap equestrian program called
Blue Sky Challenged Equestrians. David
Portugal writes from Illinois that he's just
opened a fourth telemarketing office. He's
also planning a motorcycle trip to Maine and
Canada and back toIL.
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Susan Ganley has moved back from Florida
to Waterford, but is currently both working
and living at a hotel in Newport, Rl. Chris
Lacock received his BS in Business Economics from SCSU last December, and is
currently a 1st Lieutenant in the U.S. Army.
After he completes training at Fort Benning,
GA, Chris will be stationed at Fort Carson,
CO, with the 4th Infantry Division. He says Hi
to all his friends from H'sset. Terry Wright
was - at least in April - housesitting in
Niantic, but expects to move back to NYC at
the end of summer to work as an applications
programmer. Terry also sends a Hi! to all his
classmates he hasn't seen in ages. David
Hymer married Therese Humphrey last
August ('87) and they are living in San Diego.
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Brooke Adamson was seen one Saturday
evening, managing the crowds at Wine and
Roses Restaurant in Saybrook, and it was
great to catch up with her. She's living in
Chester, and working for The Brian House as
a supervisor for retarded adults. In whatever
time's left over, Brooke travels, paints and
studies sign language. She's also looking for
Jim Russell's address, so we'll do the best
we can. Virginia Hambley has been in-
valved with a citizen's action group called
Fair Share in Eugene, OR, as well as other
peace and environmental groups. She's
studying math and writing at community
college, but expects to be in Port Townsend,
WA by October, to study boat building. It's
great to know that Virginia's health is so
greatly improved; she says "the world is
certainly much more recognizable, and quite
manageable to me now." Jay VanDeusen
has left his job as a salesperson for a large
airfreight company to become a carpenter
and is now a foreman for Frazer Construction
Co. in Churchville, MD. He has just been
married- or expected to be when he wrote!
- to Sally Sayre, a math teacher at Edgewood High School in Edgewood, MD. Congratulations to you both!
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Gabriel (Jack) Chin expected to graduate in
May from The University of Michigan Law
School, and become a law clerk for a Federal
Judge in Denver. From there he will return to
NYC and work for Skadden, Arps, Slate,
Meagher and Flom, the largest law firm in the
city. Gigi Freas is in the Washington DC
area, working in a computer company as an
information specialist. She'd been back in
Belgium for a 6 month seminar in International Economics, and has plans to go to
Australia by the end of the year. Sends
Hellos to Sarah, Lisa, Tom, Julie, Todd and
Alice. In March, Todd Little wrote that he'd
just become unemployed, a tough break as
the film writers strike was getting under way.
He reported a great year with art direction
work on "The Golden Girls" and "It's A Living." He loves Hollywood, but he'd also like
to get back into theater work. He lives "in a
great little house with my two cats" but says
"very few alumni contacts here." (There ARE
lots of Alums in L.A .. Check the Directoryit might help.)
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Debbie Gann is back from England, and
graduated from Yale last May ('87), with a
degree in History of Art. She's now working
at theW. Graham Arader Ill Gallery in Philadelphia, selling antique prints and maps.
She was in NYC in May to help Lisa Nadel
('84) celebrate her graduation from Barnard,
along with Adam a bunch of Hammonasset's
finest. Debbie would love to hear from friends,
if any are nea Phila. (215) 232-6385. Tom
Landry just got back from Nicaragua where
he worked for 3 months in a soils testing lab
outside of Managua. Tom's still in the Amherst
area, and sees Annie Harris ('84) often. Jill
von Staats graduated from Salve Regina
College in Newport this May, with a degree in
Anthropology.
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Kris Emack is in her second year of teaching
4 and 5 year olds in Boston. She's moved to
a new school in the Prudential Building, 5
minutes away from home. Kris has seen
Laura Gibbons and Marybeth Averill, and
says they're great as ever. Lisa Nadel
received her degree in Art History from Barnard/Columbia in May (see '83's notes), and
is living in New York. The Long Wharf
Theater Program lists Damon Pearce as a
member of its Box Office Staff, so look for him
if you're in New Haven.
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Kathy Sheehan has successfully completed
her second year at Elizabethtown College,
and was a Big Sister to 3 children from an
inner city area, nearby. The program was
sponsored by the college. Heather Vaug_hn
wrote last winter that she loves Hampshire,
and hoped to travel to Britain this summer.
She plans to make the next Reunion, and we
hope she does, and everyone else does too!
Marla Zullo has finished a year at SCSU as
a Studio Arts Major. She says, "I'm psyched
to be there, and things are going well."
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Alice Sarsheen-Smith just finished her first
year at the College of the Atlantic in _Bar
Harbor, ME, studying Botany, and contmuing to pursue her love of art, and the many
ways to express it.
THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR
NEWS! IT'S A GREAT JOY TO
HEAR FROM YOU, LEARN
WHAT YOU'RE DOING, AND
WHATHAMMONASSETMEANS
TO YOU! KEEP WRITING!
... MORE ALUMNI NEWS ...
Hammonasset Alums
Go Over The Top!
For the firsttime ever, Hammonasset's
Alumni have gone WQOQ the goal of $2000
set for their Annual Fund Contribution! Last
year, 1987, you provided your school with
$1 ,877, which was a 30% increase over the
year before. And THIS year you beat your
own record, contributing $2.220.50, as of
June 30!!
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
The same number of contributors were
involved, although not always the same
people. 79 of you sent in your hard earned
dollars, and 29 of you had not made gifts in
1987. But another 29 did not¥§! contribute
this year.
Special thanks to the Class Agents
who solicited donations in letters. They are
Kathy DeVinne, '74, Liz Murphy, '76, Wendy
Murray, '79, Pam Fowler, '81, Kris Emack,'84,
Troy Greenwald, '85 and Kathy Sheehan,
'86.
But every one of you who helped gets
out thanks. Your share makes a significant
difference.
And for those we haven't heard from
YET, there's an envelope enclosed in this
newsletter. It's never too late!
Remember The
Alumni Art Show?
The first Alumni Art Show, engineered
and successfully managed by Doug Noyes,
'79 and Leif Nilsson, '80, is now history, but
exciting and stimulating history, that made its
mark last February and March. The WinterSpring Newsletter gave the details, but there
is still positive comment and feedback from
what was a very stimulating Show.
There are now murmurs of the pcssibility of a secondshow. All very indefinite atthis
point, but when the initial show is sue~ a success, it only makes sense to try agam.
For those of you who might be interested in showing some of your work in the
Visual Arts, or in any areas of creativity fiction, poetry, drama, design, musical composition, architecture, etc ... - start thinking.
We will let you know what's up as soon as we
know more. And we'd welcome ideas, suggestions and even help.
Alumni Directory
Everyone who has sent a contribution to
the Alumni Fund received a copy oft he 198788 Directory, plus at least one updated list of
address changes. There are a few copies
left for anyone who would like to know who's
where in the world.
Copies, with updates, are available for
$1 - because it does cost something to
prepare, print and mail - from the Alumni
Office, HammonassetSchool, P.O. Box844,
Madison, CT 06433. And we'll consider you
a contributor to the Alumni Fund in the bargain. Just use your Fund envelope, or write
us directly.
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Hammonasset Alumna
Joins Board of Trustees
AttheAnnual Meeting of the Ham monasset School Corporation on May 19, new
Trustees were elected for three-year terms.
One of those joining the Board is Lynne Ide,
'76, the first Hammonasset graduate to be a
regular member of the governing body of the
school. It is a great step forward for the
Alumni group, and Lynne will be a tremendous addition to the Board.
While Lynne was at Hammonasset she
was known as Chit. She went to Mt. Holyoke
College, from which she graduated as a
Sarah Williston Scholar, magna cum laude,
and Phi Beta Kappa in 1980. A year of extensive travel in India followed before Lynne
joined the Connecticut Citizen Action Group
(CCAG), where she has done fundraisin_g,
campaigning during elections, commumty
organizing, lobbying and administration. She
is now Co-Director of CCAG at its headquarters in Hartford. In 1987 she received the
Consumer Service Award from the American
Trial Lawyers Association for work on insurance reform.
Lynne was married to Andy Woodcock
on April 30 of this year. Andy is a reporter for
the Norwich, CT Bulletin, and they are living
in Windham, CT.
Lynne's term of office began July 1, and
she will serve on the Long Range Planning
Committee, in addition to being another voice
for the Alumni. Liz Murphy, also '76, will
continue to represent the Alumni Association
by virtue of her position as President of that
organization.
The Hammonasset School Newsletter
SUMMER 1988
The Hammonasset School Summer Newsletter is sent free of charge to alumni, parents and friends of the school. Please send
Alumni news and correspondence to Connie Pike, The Hammonasset School, P.O.,
Box 844, Madison, CT 06443.
Donald Grace, Headmaster
Bonnie Garmisa, Editor
Sharon Bramhall, Annual Giving
Connie Pike, Alumni Notes
Contributors
Don Barkin, Sharon Bramhall, Bud
Church, Bonnie Garmisa, Don
Grace, John Henderson, Connie
Pike
photo credits: "The Bakkhai" - Peter
Allison; Sports- Chris Wiegman;
Earth Day - David Brown; others Bonnie Garmisa
Special Thanks to Amy Cooper from
Advanced Office Systems
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Euripides' 0 uNoeo '\~~~flai"
Directed by Die Wheeler and presented in the spring of 1988 on four sites around the
Hammonasset campus.
Andy Dailinger (left) and Evan
Blackford portray wise men five times
Some writhing Maenads
Melina Mackall walks through the city of
Thebes.
their own age.
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