Morgan Park Academy Magazine

Morgan Park Academy Magazine
Chicago, Ill ino is 60643
November 2004
Demetrios Douros: our man at the Olympics
Morgan Park Academy Magazine
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STORIES
November 2004
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Demctrios Douros: ou r mnn nt the Olympics
18905: Co-education and the crime against nature ........ 1
1890s: Park Ha ll is destroyed by fire ••.....••......•••............ 7
19005/ 19405: An MPA/ MPMA Hollywood tale ................ S
19405: Bill Getz, OJ An MPMA classmate
remembers Johnny" .•••....•••....•.....••.....••..•••••• ••..••..•..•.•••..•• 9
1920s: William Droegemueller,
1928 Olympic Medal Winner ........................................... 10
19405: World War II: cadets write
the colonels at MPMA .................................................... 12
19605: Frederic B. (Ted) Withington, " The new
Morgan Park Academy, a personal recollection " .••....... 18
19605: The first post-military championship •••......••...... 25
2000s: Barry Kritzberg, " Demetrios Douros,
ou r man at the Olympics " ............................................... 26
The
smiling
young man
on the front
cove r Is
Demetrios
Douros
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had much t o
smile about,
for he had
the honor of
playing for
the Greek
baseball
t eam in the
2004
Olympics at
At hens and
you see him
here at the
opening
ceremonies.
His st ory is
on page 28.
An·
other
Olympian,
William Droegemueller [241 , is featured in this issue also. The story
about the 1928 sliver medallist is on page 10.
2000s: Alex Shoushtari, " I w i sh I had known " •.....•••.•••• 28
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Editorial st aff:
Events & such ...•.....•....••....••....••...••.....•.....••.......•........... 30
Edi t or: Barry Kritzberg
Taps ................................................................................. 32
Alumni/ ae support ......................................................... 33
Scholarship fund established to
honor the memory of Dick Ayers ................................... 34
Class notes ..................................................................... 35
Pathway brick campaig n ................................................ 41
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Annual report .................................................................. 42
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Co-education and the
crime against nature
Francis W. Parker, in Democracy and the Common School
( 1894), stated the rationale for co-education in very simple
terms.
"Why should boys and girls be taught together from
kindergarten to the university?" Parker rhetorically asked.
"Because," he responded, "they are to live together, to help
each other throughout life, and must understand each other. The
isolation of the sexes in school has begotten mistrust, misunderstanding, false - nay even impure - fancies. The separation
of the sexes in school is a crime against nature."
Not everyone in the academic world, however, viewed the
situation with the progressive eyes of Francis Parker. In the
early days of the University of Chicago, for example, there were
hints of future contention. The University News (January 6,
1893) quoted an article from the Chicago Herald which
suggested that there might be cause for alarm in some circles.
The Chicago women, who comprised only twenty-five per cent
of the enrollment, were "securing a far greater proportional part
of the honors."
Co-education, for a variety of reasons, did not seem to be
the "natural" thing that some hoped it would be. The University
of Chicago Weekly reported (June 27 1901) that Northwestern
authorities were also "becoming alarmed" at the increased
attendance of women, which rose from 36 to 50 per cent in just
a decade.
"The objection is not on the basis of scholarship, as the
women stand quite as high as the men," the Weekly commented,
"but on account of the unavoidable social distraction and the
fact that a college for men is more influential than one for
women, because its graduates take a larger part in the affairs of
the nation." The article also stated a similar danger might soon
confront the University of Chicago, where enrollment (as of
July I, 1900) was 1788 men and 1708 women.
The increase in the number of women attending the
University of Chicago was steady and sure, but it should be
noted that the following percentages did not include those
attending the College for Teachers nor those attending during
the summer quarter. It can be assumed, then, that the actual
number of women on the campus was even higher than the
figures indicate.
92-93
24%
94-94
33%
35%
95-95
36%
96-96
97-97
37%
98-98
38%
43%
99-99
When Morgan Park Academy became a part of the University of Chicago in 1892, it followed the dictates of the charter of
the university and admitted girls on an equal basis with boys.
It was not exactly a revolutionary idea, but it was not one
that met with universal acceptance.
When Lucinda Foot passed the entrance examinations for
Yale (at the age of 12) in 1783, for example, she was denied
admission because she was a woman. "The feminine mind," as
historian Edward Slosson explained, "was thought incapable of
the serious learning and logical thought involved in the study of
the ancient languages, higher mathematics, and natural sciences."
Oberlin, which opened in 1833 with twenty-nine men and
fifteen women, was the first co-ed college in the world,
followed by Antioch (1849), Lawrence (1849), and Cornell
[Iowa] (1857). Many state universities were co-ed from the
start, with Iowa (1856), Kansas (1866), and Minnesota (1868)
leading the way. Most state universities were co-ed by the end
of century.
When Mt. Holyoke female seminary opened in 1837,
however, it took in nearly 100 students and turned away many
more. There was much opposition, nonetheless, to the very idea
of higher education for girls. W.S. Tyler, a Mt. Holyoke trustee,
commented that the seminary was criticized as "unnatural,
unphilosophical, unscriptural, unpractical and impracticable,
unfeminine and anti-Christian, in short all the epithets in the
dictionary that begin with 'un-' and 'in-' and 'anti-' were hurled
against it and heaped upon it."
By the time the University of Chicago opened its doors in
1892, there were more women in co-ed institutions (13,058)
than in women's colleges (12,300). It was clear, a decade later,
that the trend toward co-education would continue, for 26,990
women were then attending co-ed schools, while only 16,744
had opted for women's colleges. By 1913, the trend was even
more marked, for 55,564 women were enrolled in co-ed
colleges, while only 19,142 chose the female seminaries.
Co-education seemed less popular in the east, but (according to the 1916 Report of the US Commissioner ofEducation)
some 60 per cent of the 563 colleges in the nation were co-ed.
At the beginning, however, co-education at the University
of Chicago (and also, therefore, at the Academy) seemed to be a
reasonable way for both boys and girls to acquire higher
education. An editorial in the University News (December 4,
1892) noted, for example, that "co-education at the University
had solved itself without posing as a problem. It came naturally.
It seems to approve itself in the nature of things and will
doubtless continue naturally without further comment."
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The presence of women on the Midway clearly did not
make everyone happy. There was even a "rumor" of the
formation of an anti-co-education club at the university. The
University o/Chicago Weekly (July 4, 1895) called it merely a
rumor, but then, oddly, named thirteen students - all male as members.
Life was by no means easy for women in the academic
world. Florence Bascom, the first woman to get a PhD from
Johns Hopkins (and only the second woman in the US to earn a
doctorate in geology), was required to do five years of work
(even though she already had her MA), while only three were
required of men pursuing the same degree. Granting her the
degree, it was said, "was by special permission and that doesn't
mean the free admission of women." In fact, when she was
allowed to attend graduate courses at Johns Hopkins in 1889, it
was with the proviso that she must be behind a screen so that
she would not "disrupt" the work of the men.
When Prof. Sidgwick proposed to the Cambridge faculty
senate (May 21, 1897) that the university follow the lead of the
University of London and accept women as degree candidates,
it was greeted with horror and outrage. Sidgwick's proposal was
voted down by a 3-1 margin and Charles Whibley declared that
"Cambridge exists for men and for men alone." The Cambridge
undergraduates riotously celebrated the victory by throwing
fireworks and smashing windows.
In the small, remote world of Morgan Park Academy,
however, co-education seemed to be progressing nicely.
"The ladies of the Academy very pleasantly entertained
their gentlemen friends Friday evening at Morgan Hall," the
University News reported (February I, 1893). When a literary
society was formed at MPA in 1893, however, it was for men
only. The women promptly formed their own literary society
and soon there were social occasions where the two societies
found it convenient to join forces. Girls were admitted to the
MPA tennis association in 1896, and no one seemed to give it a
second thought.
There were, to be sure, certain social advantages in a co-ed
Academy. "Coasting," the University 0/ Chicago Weekly
reported (February 10, 1898), "is now a favorite mode of
exercise with the Academy students. Morgan Avenue Hill will
no longer be used; Rinaldo Hill is now used." There was also a
report of a sleighing party, sponsored by the ladies of the senior
class, which continued at the home of Miss Margaret Gilman, at
23rd and Michigan. Morgan Park was "not reached again till an
early hour in the morning."
While Academy students were cavorting in the usual coeducational ways, there was some ominous brow-furrowing
among the trustees of the University of Chicago.
The board expressed concern about the wisdom of continuing co-education at the Academy. They did not object (officially, at least) to boys and girls having fun and learning
together, but they did worry about finances, and so co-education at MPA became (at least on paper) an economic issue.
William Rainey Harper, reviewing the first decade of the
Academy under the auspices of the University of Chicago in the
President s Report (1902), noted that the number of boys
enrolled increased each year, while the number of girls did not.
"Especially was this the case," the report continued, "in the
attendance of girls who roomed in the Academy's dormitory;
and since the Academy was a boarding school rather than a day
school, the attendance of pupils not resident in the village was
judged to be the index of its real material strength. In the Fall of
1899 the number of girls in attendance not living with relatives
was twenty-six - exactly the same as it had been six years
before." The one girls' dormitory, by way of illustration, was
only "half full," while both boys dormitories were at capacity.
"Most parents in this part of the country," the report concluded,
"were unwilling to have their daughters from 14 to 18 years of
age away from home at a boarding school for both boys and
girls."
This statement, made after the decision was made to
abandon co-education at the Academy, sounds plausible, but
"half full" seems a bit disingenuous, for Park Hall, the girls'
dormitory (until it burned down in 1895), was designed to
house thirty girls. Twenty-six, by most people's arithmetic, adds
up to bit more than half.
The inclination to transform Morgan Park Academy into an
all-boys school was perhaps in the minds of the all-male
University of Chicago trustees from the outset. A board meeting
(April 24, 1897) suggests, at any rate, that girls were not
regarded in the same light as boys.
"After discussion [the minutes read] it was voted that
dormitories at MPA be designated for occupancy by boys and
girls be received only as they find quarters in private families
and the dean was instructed until other arrangements can be
made to aid girls in finding places in private families."
Such a policy, obviously, might discourage girls from
applying, for it made going away to a boarding school that much
more difficult.
Charles Thurber, the dean of MPA, offered a different
picture of the enrollment at the Academy. He wrote (September
15, 1897) to Harper that the west wing of Morgan Hall was set
aside for the ladies "because it was thought to be doubtful
whether both buildings could be filled with young men and
because there was considerable demand for accomodations for
young women."
Some six weeks later Thurber wrote to Harper suggesting
that a decline in enrollment could be countered by advertising.
"The great majority of people that have ever heard that there is a
school at Morgan Park for boys [italics added] think it is the old
Military Academy."
The issue, as Thurber saw it, was that the Academy was not
drawing boarding students effectively from the western states.
There were 101 students from Illinois, but only 27 from all
other states. He also noted, in his letter to Harper, that there
were 42 girls and 86 boys. Of the day students, 32 (13 girls, 19
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John Dewey's co-educational University Elementary
School, on the Midway campus had, that same year an average
enrollment of only 95 children, ages 4-12, with expenses
($12,870.96) far out-running tuition receipts ($4,916.00). Yet,
for Dewey's school, there were no complaints about "slowness
of growth," but only talk of expansion and the need for an
endowment.
Trustee Andrew McLeish, an executive at Carson, Pirie,
Scott & Co., in a typed letter (June 9, 1899) suggested that the
Academy should have "two to three times the number of
students now enrolled." He urged that business management of
the school "should include a large and active part in the work of
publicity and promotion" and, "if it is considered timely now, I
would favor reconsideration of the co-educational feature with a
view to changing it at the proper time: but this may be considered confidentially by the Board without that fact becoming
known at the school, or elsewhere. The school needs an endowment. It is a necessity."
The "co-ed question," as it came to be called, was up for
discussion again at the board meeting of December 27, 1899,
but no action was taken.
One week later (January 4, 1900), lawyers Eli B. Felsenthal
and Frederick A. Smith presented a written opinion that the
university charter, which stated that the university was to
provide "higher education to persons of both sexes on equal
terms" did not apply to MPA, but if MPA were construed as
coming under the "higher education" provision, then a separate
academy for girls would satisfactorily meet the requirement.
What is not addressed here, however, is how separate
academies for boys and girls would attract more students than a
co-ed school.
A second legal opinion was sought, and John Wilson, of
Wilson, Moore & McIlvane, wrote to E.B. Felsenthal (February
22, 1900) that the first clause of the University of Chicago
charter, article 2, stated that the university would offer "higher
education to persons of both sexes on equal terms."
This clause did not, Wilson continued, "require the university to furnish opportunity for education to persons of both
sexes on equal terms in each and every academy, college or
other institution of learning under the control of the university.
Such a construction of the clause in question would, in my
opinion, be unnatural, unreasonable and wholly untenable and it
is clear that the university has the power to limit the educational
facility of Morgan Park Academy to one sex only."
T. W. Goodspeed, the board secretary, wrote (February 25,
1900) to President Harper that it had been reported to the
committee on the Academy that there was no legal obstacle to
"boys only" at MPA. The committee recommended to the board
that all-boys at MPA begin on July 1, 1900. "I am requested to
say," he added, "that the committee was divided upon the
question, the casting vote of the chairman making it three to
two."
boys) were from Morgan Park and 11 (7 boys, 4 girls) from
Chicago. Ifhe felt that having twenty-five girls in the dormitory
was a problem, he did not say so.
The next Spring, in 1898, the trustees' committee on the
Academy recommended that MPA be "exclusively for boys.
After a full discussion, and wide divergence of views, the
following resolution was adopted: "Resolved, that a dormitory
and gymnasium for girls are a necessity of the situation at MPA
and that unless these can be provided it will not be best to
endeavor to continue co-education at the Academy."
Trustees were asked for their opinions, but they were not
recorded. The oddly-worded resolution suggests that the issue
was not the number of girls in attendance, but whether it would
be worthwhile spending money for facilities for girls.
By May of 1898, however, it was decided to allocate $1000
to renovate Morgan Hall, converting it into a dormitory and
gymnasium, exclusively for the use of girls.
Despite this positive step on behalf of the girls, it did not
signal a full endorsement of co-education. The President s
Report, 1898-1899 worried that "the growth of the Academy at
Morgan Park has not been satisfactory." It was acknowledged
that there might be many causes - the increase of public high
schools, new preparatory schools, higher costs at MPA, and that
co-education at an academy and a high school were entirely
different, for at the high school virtually all live at home. It was
suggested, however, that "the real occasion for the slowness of
growth" is [that] the co-educational policy is not the correct one."
Academy dean Wayland Chase (who succeeded Thurber)
stated, in the same report, that 110 boys and 68 girls attended
MPA in 1898-99, but the figure was distorted by a large
summer school enrollment of girls and that, ordinarily, boys
outnumbered girls by 2-1.
Here are the figures from Chase's report:
Attendance by quarter:
spring
winter
Year
summer
autumn
Boyslltirls/total Bovs/l!irls/total Bovsll!irlsltotal Bovs/l!irls/total
72 27 99 71 21 92 56 17 73
92-93 65 40 105
93-94 50 20 70
78 30 108 74 31 105 67 35 102
95 47 142 92 48 140 83 45 128
94-95 63 27 90
95-96 63 39 102 125 46 171 116 44 160 105 37 142
96-97 43 24 67 106 41 147 93 41 134 84 38 122
97-98 30 27 57
85 42 127 83 42 125 74 40 114
StatIstIcs are always InstructIve, but surely they can be read
in more than one way. If one considers the autumn quarter
enrollment, for example, one might note, among boys, four
years of steady increases, followed by two years of alarming
decline (125 to 106 to 85). The enrollment of girls in the
autumn quarter, on the other hand, showed variation, to be sure,
but no alarming decline.
The attrition rates (comparing autumn quarter enrollments
to spring), furthermore, show, in every year but the first, a
greater decline among boys than girls. The girls, in short,
looked like a better bet for staying the course than did the boys.
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practically unanimous vote," made MPA all boys after July 1,
1900. "The question after all is an economic one and must be
settled from an economic point of view," the University Record
(April 6, 1900) noted. It did not mean, however, that the
university considered co-education impracticable and undesirable. "The university could not afford to devote one of its halls
to a use for which there seemed to be no call, when the particular hall was needed for another use."
The board adopted a resolution (March 20, 1900) to make
MPA an all-boys school and an additional $800 was appropriated for advertising the Academy as an all-boys institution. The
amount allocated for advertising for the co-ed MPA had been in
the range of $1 00 to $125 per year.
The University of Chicago Record (June 28, 1901) was
quick to pronounce the "boys only" policy a success. "The
belief, entertained by advocates of this change, that a growth in
numbers would result, has been justified," the Record stated,
"since the number of boys this year in our halls has considerably exceeded the number of both boys and girls there last year.
There have been occasionally heard from the boys expression of
regret over the change, but the opinion of the majority is
unquestionably one of approval, since beyond any doubt the
average boy prefers to attend a boarding school for boys only.
To deduce conclusions or make comparisons relative to the
amount and quality of work done by boys before and after the
change would be premature. It is interesting, however, to notice
that last year of the 118 boys in attendance, six attained
scholarship rank, this year of 133, seventeen were successful,
the requirements for this work remaining the same."
Perhaps more boys, without girls to "distract" them, did
attain scholarship rank, but the enthusiastic "growth in numbers" is perhaps a little misleading. The very same publication
had reported that winter enrollment at MPA was 137 and 133 in
the Spring does not seem to be more than 137 in the Winter.
Meanwhile, University High School (an upward extension,
grade-by-grade of Dewey's school) got under way as a co-ed
school, but MPA was described as "resembl[ing] more a
traditional boys' boarding school such as Tom Brown at Rugby
makes familiar to us."
"A School for Boys Only" is the heading on page nine of
the 1902 Calendar ofthe Academy. It explains that the school
was co-ed, 1892-1900, but "the number of girls in the dormitories increased but very little, while the gain in attendance of
boys was satisfactory, the attendance of boys had nearly reached
the capacity of the two boys' halls, further enlargement in
numbers could be obtained only through adding to the boys'
dormitories or by increasing the attendance of girls. Considerable increase of girls was not probable. Therefore, after careful
investigation, full discussion, and long deliberation, the trustees
decided that after July 1, 1900, the Academy should be for boys
only."
It sounded very reasonable, but the girls of MPA didn't see
it that way. In 1897, when a change in the co-education policy
seemed imminent, a committee of girls - H. Louise Darby,
Edith Coffin Bellamy, Margaret Selby Gilman, Jessie Francis
Wheeler - was empowered by the girls to draw up this
statement and send it to Harper and the university trustees.
Their petition is worth quoting in full, for it gives a very
different picture:
In view of your recent action that you will provide
no boarding arrangements for the girls of Morgan Park
Academy next year, the entire body of girls of this
Academy beg to submit the following statement:
We are apprehensive that this act may mean the
gradual elimination of girls from the school, because
there are exceedingly few parents who could be
persuaded to permit their daughters to attend a coeducational academy except under the care of the
institution in the home life of a dormitory, since few
of us are old enough to take care of ourselves, the
average of the girls who enter this academy being
fifteen years. With the dormitory girls gone, the
number of girls will be very small, leaving in many
classes but one or two among a great number of boys,
and this would soon lead to their withdrawal. We
understand that you may perhaps build a dormitory for
its girls within a year or two. If that be true, the
clientele which we have generally built up in the face
of so many difficulties during the past five years
should be most carefully conserved. There have been
forty-six girls in attendance this year. We have already
lost some of our number through the uncertainty
connected with the houses. Some of us near the close
of our courses, who entered the academy in good faith
that home life protection would be afforded until the
end of our preparation, feel along with our parents that
it somewhat unjust to be forced to change schools,
always done at a great loss. By the lapse of a year in
which no boarding arrangements are made, the
interests of the girls will be dealt a blow from which
they will not recover for years.
We wish to call your attention to a few general
reasons why no step should be taken towards the
weakening of co-education in Morgan Park Academy.
For consistency in administration on the part of
the University: If in our college and university you
make the same demands on us as on our brothers, and
expect us to take equal rank with them, why render us
unable to do this by depriving us of equal opportunities for preparation? Good preparatory schools for
girls are unfortunately lacking in this part of the
country and it seems unjust to turn them out of the
best Academy in the West. The fact that you are
gradually extending the scope of the Academy to
junior college work is but one more reason for
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girls, that the untidy slate of the dormitory drove away some
girl s, that the promise to build a dorm for girls latcr only made
the prese nt situation more diffi cull, th at the girls found the
supervised life of the dormitory afforded " home-life protection," th at the gi rl s were a positi ve innuence on sc hool life, that
the village was in favor of continuing co-educa ti on, that the
faculty on two occasions had voted to continue co-education arc stro ng ones, indecd . There is no record of any rcspo nse to
thi s petiti on, but over Harper's signarure in th e upper left-hand
co rn er o f the first page is this note: " Dear [trustee] Mr. Walker,
Kindl y read this co mmuni cation and re turn."
When the decision to di scontinue co-educati on at Morgan
Park Aca demy becam c known, there were community objections. The Morgan Park Womens' C lub, for exampl e, protested
against droppin g co-edu cati on at MPA and as ked the board to
reconsidcr.
The board placed the letter " on file."
A pe titi on (Ju ne 18. 1900) from Morgan Park residents
as ked for a meeting w ith th e UC board about the co-cd question. Thc petition was referred to the co mmittee on th e Academy, whi ch was asked to meet w ith th e village co mmittee.
Another petition came fro m Morga n Park residents a week
later. It asked that :
I . daught ers o f residents be admitted as day pupils
2. allow girl s already enrolled to fini sh
3. gi rl s in home of mi ssionaries' children be admitted as
day pupil s
consistency in thi s matter.
For the sa ke of th e Academy itself: The genera l
to ne of Morga n Park Academy is fa r above th at or the
ave rage boys' school, and thi s is du e to th e innuencc
of th e g irl s in th e sc hool life. The mission of th e girls
in the dormitori es is to fOfm the cente r o f social life, as
well as to stimulate sc holarship in the classroom.
Ifpu blic opinion has an y weight in thi s question,
it ca n be truthfully stated that the citi zens of the village
of Morgan Park are heartily o pposed to any measure
that tends toward the eliminating the girls from the
Academy, not only fo r the sake of th e ir daught ers but
for th e sake of th e tone of the village. 0 stronger
argume nt for co-ed ucation in preparatory sc hool s
could be prese nt ed than th e facl that our fa culty,
brought together five years ago, mos tly from boys'
schools and prejudiced against co-edu cation in
preparatory instituti ons, afte r three years experi ence
voted un anim ously on December 18, 1895 that g irls be
retained, and a few weeks ago on March 2, 1897,
reite rated th at vote.
We have so ught long and earn est ly for reasons for
the recent acti on, but th e only one a ll ege(~ so far as we
ca n find, is that we do not pay OUf exp cnses. [so me
statist ics are here omitted]
Ex pe nses pe r month
$56.50
Room re nt al per month
53.33
Est imated deficit per month
3. 17
To offset $28.53. th e deficit for aile year. the
young women of th e cottage pay into the uni ve rsity
$900 tuition w ithout ex tra expenses for instruction.
Would it be economy to lose $900 in orde r to save
S28.53? It wi ll be urged that thi s is not th e true stat e o f
affairs, but only an estimate on the cond it ion that the
cottage be ful l. We acknowledge that th e cottages have
not been full all of thi s year, but please note. A wee k
before sc hool opened in October. the cott ages prese nted anythin g but an attractive appearance; it was
quite enough to di sco urage any girl to see the bare
room s, th e shade less windows, and th e fl oors covered
with rubbi sh. Owing to the de lay in app ropriation, th e
houses we re not completely furni shed unt il a week or
more after sc hool ope ned.
We understand fully that yo u do not intend to
remove the gi rl s from the Academy bu t later to build a
dormitory for them. But what we ask is thi s: that to
bridge over thi s se ri ous ga p, one or two cottages may
again be provided for the girls, and that they be ready
for inspect ion early in th e summer, so th at parents may
be enco uraged to send thei r daught ers he re. It is our
honest conviction th at the cottages wi ll then be fi lled
and pay expenses.
The points made in this doc ument - that the un certainty
ort he future of co-ed ucation at MPA affccted enrollm ent of
recommended that
I and 3 not
and that an
inquiry seek to
establish "costs
and feas ibility
of providing
separate [my
italics] instructi on for gi rl s
who desire to
fi nish at MPA."
Harpe r stated that two or three of
the g irls co uld move straight to the uni versity and the rest could
compl ete courses at Morgan Park Hi gh School . wh ich had
opened in September 1900.
The board decla red it "inex pedient to continue by any
spec ial arrangement the instruct ion of girls in th e Acade my."
An cditorial. in th e Academy Neil'S (March 22. 1900).
argu ed that the di scon tinu ance of co-education would put MPA
" on a footing with th e very best eastern preparatory schools."
Furthenno re, the ed itorial slated, "a ll th e di ssatisfacti on,
disco ntent and co mpl ai ning evinced by th e students has
rcsult ed either di rec tl y or indirectly from th e sys tcm of co-
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education in use here."
The co-education question even disturbed the academic
tranquility of the University of Chicago.
Freshmen boys and girls debated the merits of co-education
and George Fox took the position that "boys can't study when
girls are around." Florence Lane cmmtered with: "You young
men have got to go through life with women, why not learn to
live peacefully with them here at the university?"
The boys won the debate, but a reporter then asked,
"What's to be done?"
"Ask President Harper," was the quick rejoinder.
The debate topic was a very relevant one, for the university
was actually considering having separate (but, of course, equal)
classes for men and for women.
Charles R. Henderson, of the department of sociology,
advised Harper that he favored separation of the sexes. "The
experience at Morgan is instructive," he wrote, "for junior
college women are still adolescents." He did not say whether
junior college men were adolescents or not.
Harper, meanwhile, continued to speak in favor of coeducation. He wrote (December 14, 1901) to Belle A. Dow, of
Geneva, IL (in response to a query about co-education), that
"there is no question whatever, based on the 10-year experience
at the University of Chicago that it is the natural and satisfactory form for any college education. I have never been opposed
to it, but I now regard it as the natural order of things."
When word that the university was considering gender
segregation got beyond the confines of the Midway, there were
objections from some alumni.
Mrs. W. 1. Weber (the former Pearl Hunter, UC class of
1899) wrote (September 4, 1902) to Harper, reminding him that
he spoke to the graduating class of 1899 and told them "coeducation was one of the foundations of the university; one of
its central elements and principles."
An undated, printed petition, circulated by the Woodlawn
Womens' Club, was presented to president Harper and the
trustees, protesting against segregation of men and women as "a
reactionary movement in education." The Lakeview Womens'
Club also protested the proposed action.
Corinne Coggeshall, who graduated from the university in
1902, wrote to trustee Ryerson, "I am convinced that this
proceeding [segregation] would cause me forever to be humiliated at the action of my dear alma mater."
Olympia Brown-Willis, of Washington, DC, who sent a son
and daughter to the university, complained to Harper that only
"some disgraceful, dreadful scandal could justify such a step
[as gender segregation]."
Marion Talbot, dean of women at the university, in urging
Harper to decline a gift for the construction of separate buildings for women in the college, argued that "it would injure
women's education and set back the 10 years of co-education at
UC." She reminded him that the scholarly attainments of
women were estimated by the faculty to be the equal of men
and added, "if the trustees could know how eager girls and
women are to study as thinking beings and not as females, they
would hesitate in justice to women to adopt this measure."
The University of Chicago trustees voted, 19-12 (with
Harper voting with the majority), for segregation of college
classes by gender. Many votes came by letter. Voting for the
separation of men and women were John D. Rockefeller Jr., ET.
Gates, historian 1. Franklin Jameson, physicist Albert
Michelson, and theologian Galusha Anderson. Voting against
was Edmund James, of the extension division.
The attempt to provide separate (but equal) classes for men
and women simply did not work. It proved to be hopelessly
impracticable, and was gradually (and quietly) abandoned over
the next decade.
Morgan Park Academy [later, Morgan Park Military
Academy] remained an all-boys institution (except for summer
school and, later, the junior college) until demilitarization in
1959.
Such is the story, as far as the official explanation goes, but
it seems as though the facts did not always square neatly with
the inclinations of those who made the decisions.
President Harper was notorious for spending large sums of
money on a variety of academic endeavors which did not
always produce financial returns or balanced budgets. He
seemed to operate on the principle (enunciated, later, by
Thorstein Veblen, whom Harper hired to teach economics at
Chicago) that universities should exist primarily for "the
perpetuation and accumulation of knowledge."
The University of Chicago would not go under, surely, if a
dormitory on the campus of Morgan Park Academy failed to
operate each year with a full complement of girls.
Perhaps the decision to drop co-education at Morgan Park
Academy and to institute a "separate-but-equal" policy for men
and women at the University of Chicago had more to do with
the temper of the times than it did with economics.
Some, obviously, were quite pleased with the new arrangement on the Midway. Frank Abbott, a University of Chicago
professor, told Harper the segregating of boys and girls in
university classes was a good thing. "One of the great improvements," he said, "lies in the fact that an instructor succeeds now
in getting the attention of a class at the beginning of the hour
and holding it to the end."
When the British Mosley Commission came to study
American schools in 1903, one member of the committee
attributed the poor performance in American schools to the
"preponderance of female teachers." He also blamed women
teachers for the lamentable fact that "the boy in America is not
being brought up to punch another boy's head or to stand having
his own punched in a healthy and proper manner."
Separate classes for men and women at the University of
Chicago and an all-boys school at Morgan Park might, no
doubt, have remedied that "lamentable fact."
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Park Hall, the girls' dormitory,
is destroyed by an 1895 fire
There was a gas explosion in Park
Ha ll on February 15, 1893 that "a lmost
proved disastrous," the Ulliversity News
reported on February 22, 1893.
The elegant bu ilding, which had
been constructed in 1873 for Sn muel
Sheldon Norto n to house the Mt.
Vernon English, Classical, and M il itary
Academy, was being used by 1892 as a
lamp (53.50), and " fancy work" ($ 1.50).
"It is my beli ef, " Academy dean
Charles Thurber wrote to University of
Chicago presidcnt William Rainey
Harper (Dece mber 19, 1895), "that
th ese estimates [or the girls] are
conservat ivc." Hc noted that Cora
Baker, Edna Goss, Eva Cleve land and
Clara Wolfe wcre "all most
girls' dormitory for Morgan Park
Aca demy of tile University of Chicago.
Two years later, however, th e rea l
disaster occurred. Park Hall burned to
the ground on December 15, 1895.
Some 5500 worth of goods, which had
been rescued from the burning building
by firemen and students, were also
burned in ano th er fire which started
olltside in the lurmoi I.
The personal losses of lhe students
from the fire ranged from $39 1 to 525.
An inventory or lhe losses affords a
glimpse of what young lad ies brought
with them to the Academy. At the top
end was Agnes Butler, whose losses
included: two trunk s (5 15), six winter
dresses (550), 5 sum mer dresses ($20),
silk "not made liP" ($40), a winter cloak
(S20), a spring cape (S I 0), books (S30),
jewelry (S25), bri c-a-brac ($25), opera
glasses, "all pearl " ($50), even ing
dresses (S50), money ($25), underwear
(S25), and shoes (S6).
Gertrude Doietrich lost a total of
5343, inc luding a "va luable library"
(S 150) and 16 foreign gold souve nir
spoons (S40).
The Homer sisters lost $20 I,
including a silk umbrella (54), two
diamond breast pins (S50), an "expensive dress" ($40), books (55), skates
(53.50), and a te lescope ($2.50).
Eva Clevela nd lost S 168, including
S38 worth of books.
Lilian Earhart's losses were the
most modest, estimated at S25. She lost
a trunk (S I5), bedd ing (S5), a stud ent
fire, Thurber added, many losing
everything they had in th e world.
"The losses of the servants and
student s we rc relative ly grcat and the
loss of the university is relat ively very
linle," Thurbcr continued, and he
req uested "generous treatment" of those
who had suffe red.
Room s, to serve as a temporary
girl s' dormitory, were rented from Dr.
G. Anderson and some girls wc re
hOllsed with M iss Robert son, a facu lty
member.
The insurance on the Park Hall
bui lding and furniture brought just
S 1400.
After th e fire, William Talcott, who
still owned th e land on whi ch Park Hall
once stood, offered to sell it to the
university. The deal was conc luded on
September 8, 1896.
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excell ent and in every way descrving
young wo mcn" who could not stand thc
loss, for all those named were working
in va ri ous ways to pay th eir own tuition
and board.
Th e servant s also lost heavily in the
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An MPAjMPMA Hollywood tale
It was a tale that had Hollywood written all over it.
The movie star and her mobster boyfriend are quarreling.
He becomes abusive. The 14-year-old daughter of the star, to
protect her mother, stabs and kills the boy-friend with a kitchen
knife. The most famous lawyer of the day, the "lawyer to the
stars," is called to the scene before the police. There are
headlines and speculations, but the homicide is ruled justifiable
and the girl goes free.
The Hollywood star was Lana Turner. Her daughter was
Cheryl Crane.
There is an Academy twist, a sub-text if you will, to this
Hollywood tale.
The slain "mobster" was Johnny Stompanato, who attended
Morgan Park Military Academy in 1940-41. The "lawyer to the
stars" was Jerry Giesler, who attended Morgan Park Academy
1904-06.
Jerry Giesler [pronounced Geese-Ier], in his 1960 "as-toldto" autobiography, The Jerry Giesler Story, devoted only a few
paragraphs to his three years at Morgan Park Academy of the
University of Chicago. "The episode that sticks most in my
mind about that school," he wrote, "was the great prune strike.
We decided that we were being fed too many prunes, so we
refused to eat in the mess hall. Our belligerence made the front
pages of the Chicago papers. I was one of those who bravely
kept away from the mess hall and ate instead at lunch counters
and soda fountains until the Academy gave in. My attitude
during this episode will probably not surprise some of the
district attorneys I have faced in California courtrooms."
Giesler was an insatiable and omnivorous reader and he
was advised to leave school to "give his eyes a rest." He went to
Los Angeles to live with a friend for a while, at a time when
Sunset Boulevard was still unpaved, and he never finished high
school and never attended college.
One could in those days, however, enroll directly into law
school and this Giesler eventually did.
His desire to become a lawyer actually began much earlier,
in a current events class in an Iowa elementary school. Each
student had to make an oral report on a current event read about
in the Chicago papers and Giesler told about a lawyer that
impressed him, Clarence Darrow.
The case he reported on was Darrow's successful defense
of two members of the "one big union," the International
Workers of the World, who had been accused of killing Idaho
governor Frank Steunenberg with dynamite.
"It was the first time I had ever heard of Darrow," Giesler
explained, "but as I read about him and his handling of the case
excitement mounted within me. I contracted a case of hero
worship for Clarence Darrow then from which I have never
recovered."
"His victory," he added, " filled me with a desire to study
criminal law. The battling and the tension which Mr. Darrow
faced appealed to me. They still do. I've been asked what I
admired about Mr. Darrow most, his tactics, his strategy, or his
courage. I couldn't slice it that thin. I admired the whole man."
Later, when Clarence Darrow was in Los Angeles to defend the
McNamara brothers, who were charged with killing a number
of people by dynamiting the Los Angeles Times building in a
bitter, often brutal, labor management dispute, Giesler had the
honor of helping to defend his own hero.
Darrow had been accused of attempting to bribe two of the
jurors in the case and Giesler, who acknowledged that although
he was one of the attorneys of record, the credit for the acquittal
belonged to Darrow himself, whose final argument brought
many in the court room to tears. Giesler must have had some
impact on Darrow, however, for he later invited Giesler to join
his Chicago firm. Giesler declined, but he was certainly aware
of the honor implied by such an offer.
Most of Giesler's book, however, is devoted to the cases
that earned him the reputation as "lawyer to the stars." He
represented actresses in a number of celebrity divorces,
including Zsa Zsa Gabor from George Sanders, Shelley Winters
from Vittorio Gassman, and Marilyn Monroe from Joe
DiMaggio.
He successfully defended other Hollywood luminaries,
including Charlie Chaplin (Mann Act [a law introduced in
1910, which made it a crime to transport a woman across state
lines for sexual purposes, but often called the "Blackmail
Act"]), Errol Flynn (rape), Robert Mitchum (marijuana), and
Busby Berkeley (second degree murder, with an automobile).
Giesler also defended Edward G. Robinson Jr., the son of
the great "tough-guy" actor, who had been charged with the
armed robbery of two taxi drivers after being identified as the
perpetrator by both men. Each driver also stated that he had a
very good look at the hold-up man's hands and each testified
that he was not wearing any rings. Giesler won his case by
showing that Robinson wore a ring, given him at his bar
mitzvah, and that it had never been off his finger since. His case
demonstrated once again, Giesler said, "the non-existence of
such a thing as a positive identification."
Another of his famous clients was Lili St. Cyr, who was
charged with indecent exposure after performing her strip-act at
a Hollywood night club.
"When Miss St. Cyr opened at Ciro's," Giesler explained,
"a few ultra-conservative matrons were on hand - goodness
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apparentl y, fro m Johnny's being excl uded from Turner's
glamorous, high-profi Ie 1ife as an actress. Tu rner, on her side,
thought it would not hclp her image or he r career to be seen in
publ ic wi th someone who was a known associatc of gangsters.
Johnny was furious (a nd abusive once aga in) when Turner
said that he, under no circumstances, wo uld be allowed to be
her esco rt at the Academy Awards. It was also Turner's fear of
adverse publi city that seemcd to prevent her from asking for
poli ce protecti on from Stompanato.
It was after another altercati on, on Good Friday in 1958,
that Cheryl Crane stabbed and killed Johnny Stompanato in her
mother's bedroo m.
Lana Turner was called to testify at th e inquest, and many a
Hollywood wag noted that it was a ro le she had played before.
She had in th e film based on Grace Metalious' novel, PeYfOll
Place ( 1956), been th e subj ect of a co urt room interrogation
about crimes committed by her daugh ter.
In the real li fe drama of th e inqucst into the death of
Johnny Stompallato, Lana Turner - under the guida nce of
questi ons posed by her lawye r, Jerry Giesler - recolill ted th e
eve nts that led up to the stabbin g of her lover.
The ten men and two wo men on th e coroner's jury deliberatcd for less than half-an-hour and returned to report that
Johnny Stompanato's death, caused by a knife-wound by Cheryl
Cran e, was a j usti fiab le homic ide.
Jerry Giesler's aut obiog rap hy, publi shed three yea rs after
Slompanato 's death, made no mention ofl he casco
knows why - and th ey bccame upset by Miss SI. Cyr's strip
act, so upset that they complai ned about it to th e law."
Lilli St. Cyr came on th e stage full y dressed, including a
large hat, and stripped down to a net bra and G-strin g before
step ping into a bath-tu b. The tub was l'ransparent and illumi nated, and one could wa tch her undul ations (to thumpin g music,
of co urse), in the make-believe act of bathing. When she was
finishcd, a maid held a towel betwee n th e audience and her, and
it was over.
A woman sheriff, and two deputies, atte nded SI. Cyr's nex t
pe rformance and ag reed with th e malrons: her simulated bath
was a bit too stimulating. She was arrested for lewd and
lascivious behavio r.
She coul d have been convicted of only indecent exposure,
however, if it co uld be proved that she had performed nude.
Giesler demonstrated, first, that th e lowel used in her act was
not diaphanous. He also produced th e bra and G-string which
she wo re in-a nd-oul o rlh e tub, quaintly calli ng them her
"brassiere and shorts." Giesler modest ly concluded, " I th ink it is
fair to say th at I succeeded in hav ing that case laughcd into
acquittal."
Giesler's ex trao rdinary success in th e court-room came, he
believed, from being prepared. "A lawyer," he sa id, "should
know the oth er fellow 's case as well as he knows his own." He
also never bullied th ose on the witness stand, for he found th at
being ge ntleman ly and co urt eo us worked more to his adva ntage. He also adv ised yo un g lawyers to stay calm ira surpri se
occurs in a trial. "The truth," he insisted, " is neve r harmfu l. The
tr uth may overthrow th e opponent's case too."
Johnny Stompanato 's li fe after IPMA is, at best, cloudy.
I-Ie seems to have been give n to exaggerati on about his past
ex ploits, but newspapers seemed to focu s more on th e "murder
in the star's home" th an on the past of the vic tim. He had been,
he once sa i (~ a war ve teran, and had conve rt ed to Islam to
Jllarry a Turkish WOJllan. ~l hat happened to her is not know n.
He also claimed to have managed ni ght clubs in Chi na.
He did make his way to Holl ywood eve ntually and, tak ing
advantage of his " Holl ywood good looks," he deve loped a
rep utation as a gigolo, specializing in attracti ve, older women.
It is a matt er of record thelt he was bri elly marri ed to actress
Helen Gil bert, who ack nowledged in di vorce proceedin gs th at
she support ed Johnny.
Stol11panato also worked for reputed mobster Mi ckey
Cohen, fi rst as a bo uncer in one of his night clubs an d then as
his bodyg uard.
When Johnny $ tOl11p<:1l1ato met Lana Turner in 1957, he
was using the name Jo hnny Steele. " By the time I found out his
real name," she related, "we were already havi ng an affair."
Johnny fo llowed Lana to England, where she was wo rk ing
on the film Another Time. Allo/her Place, and it was th ere,
acco rdin g to Turn er, that he bega n be ing abusive. He was soon
deported from E n g l a n(~ howeve r, fo r entering the cou ntry on a
false passport (iss ued under the name John Steele).
The pattern of abuse continued, much of it stemming,
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An MP rvlA classmate remembers Johnny
by
Bill Gelz [42]
When Stompanato entered M PMA in 1940 as a fres hman, he
was not popular and made few if any fri cnds. I was a junior at the
tim e. As boa rd ing st udcn ts, we saw each other frequcntly. As a
frcshman. Johnny was subj ect to all the disciplines and harassments associate with our hazing system.
That system was relat ive ly l11ilc~ and did
not invol ve any phys ical hazing. Mostly, it
required th e plcbe to do chores for upper
ciassmcn, walk along the sides ofthc
hallways, nallcn their backs agai nst thc
wa ll when an upper ciaSSIllCI1 wa lked by.
shine shoes and butt ons of uppcr classOlcn,
etc.
Johnny in the 194.
Stompanato appare ntly, like many
Skirmisher. The
boys his age, did not take to discipline or
ca l>tion rea d: " No
au thori ty. He was rebcllious. He came to
wonder' the 14MPM A with a chip on his shoulder,
yc:tr-old s go for'
obviously
nol there by choicc.
you ."
It was probab ly this att itude that led
to my confrontat ion wi th him. In front of other cadets, he
challenged me to a fight. We went behind Al umni hall wit h several
cadets fo llowi ng. He beat the s- out of Ille.
Ancr that incident, he befriended me, probably because I
stood lip to him (and did not case his plcbe hazing). I may have
been his only friend on campus. I do not believe he lastcd the futl
year al Morgan Park . Military discipli ne W,IS not his piece of cake.
I often wondered th at if he had sl<lyed the course, how di Ocrelll his
life probably would have been.
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r9Z0:JWilliam Droegemueller:
1928 Olympic Medal Winner
Th e j o urnali sts at the 1928 O lym-
pics, held in Amsterdam, had plent y to
write about.
Genera l Do uglas MacA rthur,
presi dent
til e Ame ri can O ly mp ic
co mm ittee, had anno unced, as tho ug h
he were giv ing an o rder, th at the athl etes
of the Unit ed Stat es were " represe nting
or
the greatest nation 0 11 earth. We did not
co me here to lose g racefully. We cam e
here to w in and win dec is ive ly."
And the American athletes did
d utifu lly win, fo r the thi rd co nsecuti ve
time, the un offic ia l nat io nal stand ings.
The headlines, however, concenrratcd
C hi cago, al so had her mo ment in the
Her tra ck caree r had beg un o nly
five sha n mo nth s be fore and she edged
o ut two Ca nad ialls to wi n the go ld
meda l in the 100 meters w ith a time of
12.2. Severe injuries in a 193 1 cras h o f
a bi-plane see med to end her athl etic
ca ree r, but she came back to w in a go ld
medal in the 4 x 100 relay at the 1936
ga mes in Berli n.
Even correspo ndent s had th eir
share of attentio n, for two foo tba ll
lege nds, Wa lter Ec ke rsa ll and Knut e
Rockne, we re se nding di spa tches to
C I~i cago newspapers fro m Am sterda m.
SUIl .
The re was ano ther C hi cagoa n who
was competin g in A mste rdam: too:
William Droegelllllelier [24l , the 1928 Big
Te n and ' CAA po le va ult champion. He
set the Olym pic record w ith a va ult of
4. 1 mete rs, bu t had to se ttl e for th e s il ver
medal as tea mmate Sa bin Ca rr, of Yale,
set a new Ol ympi c standard o f 4 .2
meters fo r th e go ld . Droegc mue li er had
defeated Carr earli er in th e Olympic tri als.
Droege muelle r had bee n a po leva ulter at North weste rn fo r fo ur years
and had also been a w ide rece iver in
foo tball. I-I e played basketball as well.
I-Ie was th at rare student-athl ete who
on other thin gs.
Th ere was controversy, of co urse.
Wo men, despite the obj ec ti o ns of
Pope Pius IX and others, we re allowed
to compete in Olympic track & fie ld
eve nt s fo r the firs t time. So me wcre
even shocked, for example, by the
olTieial photograph of the British
women's gymnasti cs team . The re we re
co mplaints that th e wo men sitting in th e
fro nt row, with one leg crossed ove r the
Di ll er, were no t ve ry lady-like . Th ere
were objectio ns, too, which suggested
the pho tograph revealed a bit too mllch
leg to be dece nt.
There we re a lso sto ri es about Paavo
Nurmi , the g reat Finni sh di stance
runner who, competin g in hi s third
Olympics, won hi s ninth gold medal.
T he America n tea m trave ll ed to
Roosevelt ,
Amsterdam aboard the
whi ch doubled as a hote l and training
fac ility.
A Chicago youn gster from La ne
Techni cal hi gh schoo l, Johnny
s.s.
Wcismueller (later a Hollywood star as
Tarzan) wall hi s second success ive 100mete r free-sty le go ld m eda l and
ancho red th e US free-sty le relay tea m to
a world reco rd .
Betty Ro binso n, a l 7-year-o ld g irl
fro m Ri ve rdale, a suburb sOllth o f
Dr. William Droegemueller was one of a
half-dozen alumni profiled in a 19305
M PMA promotional piece, The Proof is ill
the Puddillg.
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(9l0{)excelled on borh th e playing field and
in the classroo m. He was Phi Beta
Kappa and number one in his medical
c lass.
Drocgcl11ueller gave mllch or th e
credit for his track success to his
Nort hwestern coach, Frank Hill. " He
paced my train ing," Droegcmuellcr said,
"so that I ca me up to the O lympi c trials
at the peak of cond ition, both mentally
and physica lly."
Some twe nty yea rs later,
Drocgcl11ucller, re necting on his
Olympic expe ri ence sa id, "As the years
go by it has been of inc reasi ng perso nal
satisfaction 10 have represented
Northwestern University and to have
co me th ro ugh for om world 's grea test
track coach - Frank Hill - in the
1928 Olympic games. After all , it is not
what the ga mes are but what th ey
represe nt from the old traditions of
anc ient times and the idea ls of the
modern games that ac tually co unts."
The Olympic sil ver medall ist lOok
up pole vaulting as a sophomore at
MPMA and, by the end of th at season,
had cleared 10'6." He was over cleven
feet by his seni or yea r. Eac h new height
established a new MPMA standard for
the pole VH ult. His steady progress
continued at No rthwestern . I-Ie was up
to 12 '6" as a sop homore, 13'3" (a
Northwestcrn record ) HS a junior, and
13 '9" as a senior.
At the 1928 conference meet,
Droege mlleller (t he Wi ldcat captain) set
a confcrence and wo rld indoor dirt-floor
mark of 13 fee t 2 and one-halfinches.
When the Olympic gamcs were
over, there were no ticker-tape parades,
speak ing tours, or endorscments for
William Droegemllcllcr. It was the end
of his athl etic career and he quietly and
simply resumed his mcdical studies.
I-Ie was extremely modest about his
athletic accomplishmcnts. His son,
Glen, for exam ple, did 110t lea rn of his
father's Olympic medal until he was
about ten-years-old, and only then
because hi s mother told him about it.
" His pat ien ts would have never
known abollt his ath letic career," Glen
said.
"My father," Glen adde(~ "exempli fied the O lympic spirit for that generation. He part icipated because he loved
his co unt ry and was qualified to
represent it. He didn 't do it for money."
Dr. Droegemueller latcr was an
opthamologisl, with offices in Evanston
and Winnetka, lIntil World War II
(where he se rved as a major in the
military campa igns in North Afri ca and
Italy) . Afte r th e war, he moved to
Greeley, Colorado for hcalth reasons
and deve loped a large private practice
th ere. I-Ie retired in 1973 and died in
1989.
He was posthumously inducted into
the Nort hweste rn Uni ve rsity Hall of
Fame in 1989.
And his Olympic medal?
It was stolen, al ong with his watch,
while hc was on an emergency call
when he was interning at Cook County
Hospital.
William D.-oegemueller clears eleven feet in a 1924 pole vault at MPMA_
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World War II: cadets write
to the colonels at MPMA
school. Doubtless some of the boys will give you the
inside news.
I think you know that your friend, Major
DeGrandpre, along with Capt. Storr and Lt. Gentleman, were called to the marines over a year ago. Major
De Grandpre and Al Gentleman are on the coast, at
Charleston, S.C. and Capt. Storr is in Iceland. We have
had good letters from them.
Some time when you get a few minutes off, write
something. I will treat it as a family letter and pass it
on to your friends. We would like to hear from you.
Best wishes to you in your very great service.
Abells received a reply from Brown, January 11, 1942:
A few days ago I was very pleasantly surprised to
receive your very nice letter. It was very thoughtful of
you to write, as it means quite a bit to receive mail
from one's friends across the sea.
I'm awfully sorry the reception of your radio
wasn't better, but it was quite nice of you to even try to
listen. Yes, it was me you heard, as I was the first to
broadcast that day.
It has been called to my attention that there was an
article in the Chicago Tribune stating that I had asked
for my discharge from the Royal Air Force. It also
stated that we Americans are bored with the inactivity.
These statements are not true. I have not asked for any
type of discharge and we are certainly not bored with
inactivity, as we get our share of work, although during
the winter months our business slacks down a bit due
to the weather - nevertheless we are on duty every
day.
I have thought continually of old MPMA ever
since my graduation from that grand school. I think the
happiest days of my life were spent there. I guess I
gave the personnel gray hairs, but I hope they didn't
mind too much. I am looking forward to visiting the
old school at my earliest opportunity.
With the United States in the war now, I guess I'm
not the only MPMA man who is fighting for what we
all are certain is the correct way of life.
I have received two letters from lads at the school,
and [ certainly appreciate them, and I will answer them
at my earliest opportunity.
Too bad about the MPMA football team last year
- maybe they will have better luck next year.
[ hope you and the rest of the school won't mind,
but I put the MPMA crest on the side of my airplane.
He was apparently a man of few words.
Lt. George Freer, an instructor at Morgan Park Military
Academy in military science before he was recalled to active
service during World War II, sent his picture "to all of my
friends at MPMA this 1944 Yule season," and signed it, simply,
"Sarge."
He was one of many of the former MPMA instructors and
cadets who wrote to the colonels (Abells and Jones) - or to
principal Hugh Price - from training camps and battlefields
around the world during World War II.
There were 875 MPMA cadets who served in World War II
and the following letters offer a brief sampling of the range of
things that concerned the young men who were fighting for our
country.
The letters actually began before America became involved
in the war.
One former cadet, John R. Brown [39], had gone to
England to become a member of the Eagle Squadron of the
British Royal Air Force. A note from Brown's father informed
Hugh Price that his son was to be broadcasting over the BBC
short wave on November 14, 1941 - three weeks before the
Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.
Three days after the broadcast, Harry Abells wrote to
former cadet Brown:
Little did I think that when we visited at Coe
College that my next communication with you would
be in the form of a letter to pilot officer Brown away
over in England.
Through the courtesy of your father [and] Mrs.
Scott, in the office, [we were told] of your broadcast of
last Friday evening and the opportunity the boys would
have to listen in.
Promptly at 6: 15 I endeavored to get the short
wave over our radio. About all I could secure was a
touch of music and then the sound of a voice. I hoped
it was my friend Jack. Possibly it was not. In any event,
I was thinking about you, wishing you well, being
proud of you, and pulling for you.
Capt. Gray, in his own particular manner, suggested to the boys that they might like to write to you.
The address is such a long one that it is being posted
on the bulletin board.
One of the things Mrs. Abells and I had planned to
do when I retired was to take a trip to England. As
things stand, you will have to visit the old country for
the three of us.
Everything is going remarkably well here at
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It is about eighteen inches square, and in maroon and
white (on the shield) and gold and black (for the eagle
and the motto). I guess it's a little sentimental, but I
thought of those six MPMA lads who sacrificed their
lives while carrying the Morgan Park spirit in the last
war, and I thought I would do my best to carry on
where they left off. So far I have been lucky enough to
shoot down one bomber.
I believe I'll close here. Please give my regards to
Mrs. Abells and the rest of my friends including Capt.
Gray and Mr. Casmier.
I shall write again and send a picture of the crest
on my "kite," as we call them. Until then, I remain,
John Brown.
Even those who didn't finish their studies at MPMA had
the Academy on their minds when the war came. John Bour, for
example, wrote [January 5, 1942] to ask for a recommendation
for officers' candidate school:
If you remember, many years back, my mother,
who thought a great deal of you, wanted me to be an
army man and had the confidence in you and your
staff to make me such. I, however, had other ideas. I
didn't graduate from your upper school so I didn't
complete her wishes.
I am asking you to give me a letter of recommendation, if you so kindly will, for entry into officers'
training school. Some day Colonel I would like to
make you very proud of me.
Abells promptly wrote a letter of recommendation for
Bour. The requests for such letters of recommendation were
quite frequent, as one might imagine.
Abells war-time correspondence with former cadets was
quite voluminous, but he was never too busy to write to cadets
overseas.
One cadet who replied [March 13, 1942] to a letter he had
received from the colonel was John Anderson [41], who was in
the Royal Canadian Hussars and stationed in London:
I can't tell you how much I appreciate receiving
your letter. The list of boys in active service is certainly a long one. The old school is definitely doing its
bit. I'm getting in touch with John Brown [in the RAF]
by letter today. Already American uniforms are
appearing on the streets of London. It fills me with
pride to know that some day I'll have the satisfaction
of welcoming some of our MPMA boys amongst
them. I'm grateful for the inclusion of my star on the
service flag and shall endeavor to merit the honor.
Hugh Price also helped in the extensive correspondence.
He, too, maintained a nice, friendly, almost chatty informality
in his letters. Here is his response [December 30, 1942] to Pvt.
Bill Drury[41]:
Thank you so much for your recent post card
telling us of your enlistment in the service. I know that
Mrs. Price will be very glad to hear from you too, for
she has asked so many times what had become of Bill.
You may possibly run into your former teacher, Lt.
Max Johnson, who is a private in the coast artillery at
Camp Wallace [Texas]. There is another alumnus
there, too, Major Roland Hubert [10]. If I hear of any
others, I will send you word of them.
You would be amazed to know of the number of
our boys in the service and the wonderful work they
are doing. Over 400 are now on active duty.
Some, like Arthur 1. Buffington [23], had graduated almost
two decades previously, and still kept the colonels informed of
their activities. Buffington wrote [January 22, 1943] } to Abells
from Keesler Field, Mississippi:
Sorry I was not able to write more in the letter
Ken Pringle sent you last week. As I mentioned, we
were both delighted to find that the other had been
associated with MPMA.
Why we have landed in the air corps we cannot
determine. We are both assigned to the quartermaster
corps. I believe we are to be sent to school to learn
English grammar and punctuation and some other
things which I believe we already know or could
acquire in a few days. But such is the Army.
We are both trying to figure out how to get
transferred out of our present assignments. Ken has a
number of connections in the Army and I have a few in
the Infantry. I want to get into the Infantry because I
feel I am a sure bet for a commission very shortly in
that branch due to my training at MPMA and four
years in the Michigan national guard.
Ken is applying for officers' candidate school
immediately because he has been in for three months.
As soon as I've been in that long I'll enter my application. Ken says he will use your letter of recommendation again, with better luck this time, he hopes.
We are kept very busy from 5:30 a.m. to 6:00 at
night and sometimes later than that. This first week
seems like a year, but I imagine time will pass very
fast. We will stay here at least three more weeks and
then we will probably be transferred.
Arthur 1. Buffington provided Harry Abells with an update
a short time later [February 4, 1943]:
Thank you for you very nice letter. Ken Pringle
has been transferred to another camp, and it looks as
though his case has received proper attention and that
he is headed for a commission shortly. We got to be
good friends in the short time we knew each other and
I think we will probably keep track of one another in
the future. I found him to be a splendid chap. Because
our backgrounds have been similar and there were few
others with the same interests that we had, we were
naturally drawn to one another.
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somewhat similar to malaria, as has most of the crew.
During the course of the year he has been made a
lieutenant and, just recently, a lieutenant commander,
and he is executive officer and navigator of the ship.
Abells had written to Robert Cass [October 17, 1941] after
receiving the following letter (undated, and with no return
address) from the ten-year-old son of Richard Cass:
My father went to Morgan Park, and his name
went down [on the military honor roll] in a hall at the
Academy. Some day I hope I can come too. Right now
dad is a lieutenant in the Navy. He is on the US.S.
Jamestown. We are in Norfolk, Virginia. I am in the
fifth grade. I have a brother and a sister. I am going to
come to the school some day. You don't know how I
feel.
Sincerely yours,
Dick Cass
A few days ago [Abells wrote to Robert Cass] we
had a delightful, joyous letter from your nephew Dick
Casso Naturally, I wished to recognize the lad's
interest. I wrote to him, but now I find we haven't his
address. Boy fashion, he did not think to give it to us.
Will you please forward this letter?
I wish you might be with us tomorrow. It is
homecoming day for the alumni. They are playing a
football game in the afternoon. We really need a spark
plug or quarterback or somebody else to give the
signals. We have a fine lot of young fellows on the
team and, with no disparagement to individuals,
because they have some good academic scholars in the
group, I would say, in modern language, the football
IQ is low. However, we are expecting to give an
excellent account of ourselves this Saturday.
Your old friends, Col. Jones, Capt. Gray, and
Hugh Price are like old wine - they get better with
age.
Ruth [Abells' daughter], as you perhaps know, is
married and living in New York. She is happy and
well. Mrs. Abells keeps up her high spirit, but she is
having a good deal of trouble with pain and lameness
in her hip. She is kept more or less closely at home.
As a business man, you will be glad to learn that
we have a large enrollment this year. Last Monday
night the finance and budget committee presented a
report to the board of trustees. It was a very encouraging statement. Best of all, the old Morgan Park spirit is
high and the Academy is doing fine service.
Sometimes, of course, cadets had very good reasons for
not being better correspondents. Lt. Jim Gardner [42] demonstrated that point in his [August 5, 1943] letter to Hugh Price:
I'm sorry that I haven't written to you before this,
but as you probably know, I've been rather busy
fighting in Africa and Sicily. This war game isn't what
My purpose in writing you now is to see if you
will write a letter of recommendation for me. I have
learned that I do not have to wait 90 days to apply to
officers' candidate school, but can proceed immediately because of my four years of service in the
national guard and my two years at MPMA. I will
appreciate this very much, because you can appreciate
that I wish to go ahead as rapidly as possible.
My best regards to all of my good friends at
Morgan Park. I feel very proud of the progress the
school is making and follow it with great interest.
Robert Cass [19] was not in the service, but at home in
Waterloo, Iowa. He thought, however, that Colonel Abells might
like to know about the recent military experiences of his
brother, Richard, who graduated from MPMA in 1926. He
wrote [August 19, 1943]:
It has been a long time since I have dropped you a
note, but I want you to know that I am thinking of
you, Colonel Jones, your families, and the school,
often.
It occurred to me that you might be interested in
knowing something about Dick inasmuch as he had
quite an adventure during the last year or two. He was
called back to the Navy as a lieutenant (jg) in January
of 1941. He served as engineering officer on a private
yacht which the Navy had taken over for the purpose
of training men in gunnery and navigation. During the
summer of 1941 the yacht made cruises with Annapolis midshipmen every two weeks. In the fall of 1941
this yacht went to a Navy yard and all the fancy private
appointments were removed, the silhouette lowered,
the ship moderately armed and equipped with extensive repair shops, storage tanks, etc., and was assigned
as a tender for PT boats. Those are the small 70 foot
launches that have been so effective in the evacuation
of the Philippines. Towards the end of July 1942,
Dick's ship sailed from the east coast, and while we
have never heard directly from him about its itinerary,
we suspicion that it went through the [Panama] Canal
and ended up in the New Hebrides, where it picked up
eight PT boats and moved up to service same in and
around Tulagi and Guadalcanal.
An article captioned "In the Dark of the
Solomon's Moon," in the August 7th issue of the
Saturday Evening Post, refers to this ship as a private
yacht know as the Cauldwalder and as the "ugly
duckling," and except for a few tours, possibly to the
New Hebrides and New Caledonia for supplies, it has
been in and around Tulagi ever since the 151 of October
1942.
Dick has been expecting to come home any time
but to date we have not seen him or heard anything
definite. He had dengue, which is a tropical fever
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the movies make it out to be, and I'm sure it will be
over soon, now that the fireworks have started in
Europe.
Say hello to some of the old fellows and the
instructors for me. I'd sure like to hear from them. If
you see the folks, tell them that you heard from me
and not to worry. I haven't much time left right now,
but I'll write again, that is, if I'm still here.
Another letter (undated, but probably also 1943) was
forwarded to the Academy by the parents of Lt. Charles
Coursen [42], who had already been awarded a purple heart
during the African campaign:
Jerry [the Germans] finally got me but good at
last. Prepare yourself for some bad news - I have a
broken neck and some other very minor wounds. It
hurts quite a bit but not too bad. I have all sorts of
braces around me.
It happened like this. We were in Italy and I had
my patrol up on a cliff fifty feet high. The Germans
saw us and fired at us with 88mm guns. The first few
shells went over our heads. Then one hit the cliff below
us - must have hit a land mine -anyway it blew the
cliff and us up. Nobody was killed but some are hurt
pretty bad, I've been told.
Another 1943 letter, from Mrs. Charles H. Bowles to
Abells, stated:
It is my deep-rooted opinion that you never lose
interest in any boy who was ever associated with you
in the Academy -and so as the mother of William
Elliott Bowles (whom you will remember), I want you
to know that William has been in service from
November 16, 1942 and is now overseas, having
fought in North Africa and Sicily. He writes often and
is wearing badges of honor. I feel it is due you to
know how your boys are responding and I personally
am glad to write this to you and know you will receive
it in the spirit in which it is sent to you.
One note of gratitude, obviously in response to some words
of encouragement, came to Abells on October 13, 1943. It was
signed by "Eddie," but no last name was included:
I will never forget what you wrote to me as long
as I live. When I wrote that letter to you I just wanted
you to know that I am going out like any other Morgan
Parker and carry that spirit everywhere.
Some, like Lt. Charles C. "Willie" Getz [42], wrote [1943]
in matter-of-fact terms of potentially perilous moments:
I have seen a little action in completing a tour of
thirty-one missions over Germany. After completing
my tour, I worked for several weeks in supreme
headquarters in London. I am now back in combat. I
am flying P-52 Mustangs this time.
As for decorations, I have the distinguished flying
cross and the air medal with a silver oak leaf cluster
(represents the award having been presented six
times).
I have not run into any former cadets, but am
always on the look out.
Another mother, Mrs. Rose Dornan wrote [February 1944]
to Abells that her son, John, had finished basic training:
His drill instructors [at MPMA], if they remember
John, will be amused to know that the Army had the
same difficulty making him march correctly, as they
did.
Some of the correspondence, obviously, also had to deal
with the reality of war: casualties. Mrs. Lyda Dempsey wrote
[March 22, 1944] to thank Abells for all that had been done to
memorialize her son, Robert [36], who was killed in a flight
over Sicily on July 9, 1943:
I just cant let another day pass without telling you
that I think that the obituary you wrote is a perfect
masterpiece. It is a fine tribute to our Robert. I read it
over each day and always think how much he would
like it. The last bit where you said he had a full life
were his words to me. He tried so hard to make me
understand what would happen to him and to prepare
me for the time when the message would come.
Always he said that I should say over and over that he
lived a short life but a full and happy one.
In a subsequent response to Mrs. Dempsey [May 20, 1944],
Abells noted that another part of the reality of war - scarcity
of materials - made it impossible for him to fulfill a special
request she had made:
[Capt. Casmier] mentioned that you would like to
have a plate made similar to those we have at the base
of our memorial elms. It is impossible to secure metal
at this time. Ours, at present, are of wood, painted,
[with] plaques made by Thomas 1. Turgeon, 9820 S.
Leavitt.
As the Allies moved steadily in the direction of Berlin and
Tokyo, it became apparent that MPMA cadets were even taking
time for a little site-seeing along the way. Lt. M.C. Bergen
wrote [July 17, 1944] to Abells, for example, about Italian
tourist destinations and old friends:
In Italy now, quartered temporarily on the outskirts of one of the larger cities. Have seen Capri, and
Vesuvius, visited Naples.
I ran into Bill Ricker [39] down here. He is
recovering from wounds in both legs. He will return to
the front when well.
You will be interested to know that in my squadron, out of 17 officers, three of us are Morgan Parkers.
There is Elmer Johnson, who taught in the Academy
around 1929, and Dr. Miles Winder of the Academy
class of 1932. Isn't that a coincidence? We have been
together now for two months. They both asked about
you and Col. Jones.
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w in, at hi s age. He di ed as he had li ved, w ith hi s ch in
up and no doubt w ith a smil e o n hi s li ps, for he was a
good sportsman , as well as a good so ldi er. The loss is
hard to tak e, ye t we who s ur vive will always remember
him as a you ng man , no matter how many years pass
before we, too, an swer th e ca ll that ca nn ot be evaded.
The war correspo ndence o f tile co lonels did not neglect
those older so ns o f MPMA , th ose who we re pe rhaps too old for
mililary se rvice. One such lette r wa s se nt [Octobe r 12, 1944] to
Ell sworth Buck [10] after Abc lls Icarned thai th e New York
congressman 's son was mi ss in g in acti on:
Yeste rday I received a clipping from Illy daught er
Ruth , who is in New York C ity, that yo ur son, Lt.
Orlando 1. Buck, was mi ss ing.
It is imposs ib le to exp ress our fee lin gs through
wo rd s. You and th e moth er and wife have our s incere
sympathy during thi s anx io us time.
It was only last week that Lt. Ted Fahrenwald,
11 538 Longwood Drive, who was first reported
mi ss ing and then killed in action and nex t a German
priso ner, v is ited us at the Academy. It was a real
resurrection for the m ot her. We have had several of our
boys reported mi ss ing and finally found to be safe.
Our faith and humbl e prayers go w ith Lt. Orlando Buck.
One Iener, with a somewhat more cheerful tone, suggested
that in the eyes of many the war might soo n be over. Nata li e E.
Diemer reminded Abe ll s [March 29, 1945] that her brother,
Th eodore , was a 1924 g raduate of MPMA and asked if the
co lo ne l wou ld write a reco mmendati o n for her for the Marine
Co rps women's rese rve.
" It was not rea lly so awfully lo ng ago," she wrote, "that I
used to go to your dances and date some of yo ur students."
Abe lls reco mmended her hi gh ly.
Remember me to Mrs. Abe ll s and Ruth and all my
friends. It wou ld be so good to see you aga in.
Co l. Paul Franson, th e military instructor at MPMA for s ix
years, wrote [July 23 1944] to Abe ll s that he had a lso been
doing a little touring:
I have been busy skipping arollnd and have
cove red a great deal of ground. I have had a very
interesting trip to Africa (Morocco, Casablanca, and
A lgiers) and Italy, north of the bridgehead in the
Garigliano. (That has long been passed by our armies
that are still heading north.) Glad to see that o perati o ns
now cover Flo rence and Ancona. It was ve ry int eresting. I saw the great Vesuvius in all its g lo ry and ruin s
of Pompe ii. It is a pleasure and inspiration to rece ive
good news from the many former students and to
know th at th ey are holding their own and that many
exceeded my expectations. The waf news looks
favorable . I hope it keeps up. This game is rather
rugged in s pots. It requ ires intest inal fortitude - men
that have it, me n th at look like men and smell like
men , ho nest to God men.
Geo rge Do lli ver wrote [August 28, 1944] to thank Co l.
Abe lls for hi s kind and thoughtful express ion of sy mpathy after
hi s so n, Jo hn [32], had been killed in action o n Sa ipun :
He was a good son and a good citi ze n, and th ere
are so me things we can never forget - that he offe red
hi s se rvices vo lu ntarily; that , as an office r in the state
troops, he cou ld have asked for preference, but he
chose to enli st as a pri vate; and that, once commissioned, he had opportunity for easy serv ice in th e
America n training or elsewhere, but selec ted combat
service . In fact, he fair ly fought for the privilege of
go ing ove rseas to fight - no t an easy " p ri vil ege" to
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(960;1The new Morgan Park Academy,
a personal recollection
by
Frederic (Ted) B. Withington
and married JoAnn Souter and we had three daughters, Sue,
Sarah and Ann. After that I became upper school principal at
Sidwell Friends, and remained there until I received the call
from Morgan Park.
At that initial interview, in March 1958, I was told that
dropping enrollment and limited financial resources had led
some members of the board to seriously discuss creative,
possibly radical solutions to save the school. It was decided,
apparently, to copy the model of successful eastern prep
schools and change Morgan Park Military Academy back to
Morgan Park Academy. I never did learn all the details of what
must have been heated discussions leading to what turned out
to be an extremely controversial and upsetting decision. A
board member had told me that if the board could not get the
right person to lead in this reorganization and rebuilding, it
would have to be closed. I was also told that a new board
president, Arthur Horton, had promised to raise the necessary
money to renovate buildings and develop a new school program.
There was understandably a strong reaction when the board
of trustees announced my appointment and the decision to
demilitarize the school. The turmoil went on all during the
spring and summer of 1958.
A group of parents and alumni organized to fight the plan
to change the school and the board was surprised by the
amount of opposition. A meeting was called in April, with the
publicly stated purpose of introducing me as the new headmaster.
It was standing room only in the second floor assembly
room of Blake Hall and tension was heavy in the air. I felt
anxious and on the spot and the audience proved to be generally hostile.
I promised that no major changes in the military program
would be made for one year. (I am not proud of the fact that we
soon partially broke that promise under the pressure of changing circumstances.)
The controversy boiled along during the summer and
simmered into the fall when school was to start. A substantial
number of families withdrew their students. The board,
however, led by the president, Arthur Horton, Ray Spaeth,
Gordon Gilkey, Gerry Gorman, and Al Daniels, among others,
held firm. I was given strong support in my organizing and
planning for the "new" Morgan Park.
In the summer of 1958 our family moved into the
headmaster's house at 2203 WIll th Street. They were aware
of the hostility of many in the school and community. We even
got anonymous and ominous phone calls at all hours of the
Ted Withington, headmaster ofMorgan Park Academy from
1958-1966, wrote his account ofthose years at MPA in 1992.
The original document, with copies ofphotographs and
newspaper clippings, is more than 40 pages. What follows is an
abridged and edited version of Withington S memoir.
In mid March of 1958 I received a telephone call in
Washington, D.C. where I was principal of the upper school of
the Sidwell Friends School.
The person at the other end said, "I'm Ray Spaeth and I'm
on the committee of the board of trustees of Morgan Park
Military Academy to search for a new superintendent and we've
been given your name by the Harvard placement office as a
possible candidate."
I immediately said, "I'm not really interested in heading up
a military school."
Ray told me the board was about to make a decision to
convert Morgan Park Military Academy to a non-military
school and would like me to be a candidate to head up the
transition. He was persistent and I finally agreed to go to
Chicago for a preliminary interview.
I was offered the job on the spot. I accepted the position a
few days later and my wife, JoAnn, and I thought it a big step
up professionally.
Little did I know what I was in for!
Before I continue, however, let me tell you about my
background.
I grew up in the Hawaiian Islands, where my grandparents
had gone at the tum of the century. My grandfather was a
lawyer and my father became a congregational minister who
was for a while chaplain and teacher at Kamehameha, a school
for students of Hawaiian ancestry. I had a wonderful childhood
on the campus of the boys' school which was run, incidentally,
as a military school.
After schooling in Honolulu I attended Exeter, in New
Hampshire, and then went on to Harvard. My main interests in
school and college were the sciences and particularly athletics,
where I was on the football team and "starred" in track.
In January 1943 I left Harvard and joined the army air
corps, where I became a B-24 pilot. I flew 24 missions and was
shot down twice, the first time crashing in Poland and the
second time bailing out in Yugoslavia. I was awarded the air
medal with clusters, the distinguished flying cross and the
purple heart.
After the war, I returned to Harvard, finished up and went
into teaching. In 1947 I began as a math teacher and coach
(track and football) at Governor Dummer Academy, a boys
boarding school in New England. In my nine years there I met
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Dutch elm disease claims another victim during the 1960s.
night, threatening our sa fety. We were harassed in ot her ways ,
too, wi th garbage being thrown into our yard and fire crackers
hurled at our house, 10 name just a few of (h e unpl easant things
which were done to li S.
Once the school year started, however, many of th e
opponents reali zed that the board wa s not going to back down ,
and things began to calm dowll. Some of the di ssenting parents,
neve rtheless, did co ntinue to contest the changes in th e sc hool.
A letter (December 18, 1958), signed by parents of so me
cadets, and sent to indi vidual board members, stated that "(We)
fee l that you may not' be getti ng the true picture
the situation
that ex ists at present at M.P.M.A. (You) do n't und erstand that
the experiment you undertook as a calculated ri sk is turning out
to be too ri s ~'Y."
During the 1958-59 year, in sp ite of sporadic contin ued
res istance, th e reviscd program of the school began to take
hold.
Some of the stud ent leaders who had been cho se n under
th e military program, perhaps urged on by the ir parcnt s, tri ed to
di srupt some of the changes we installed.
One area that we addressed was haz ing. Alth ough officially
prohibited, it was unofficially tol erated and we felt that haz in g
wa s dri ving away so me of the more tal ented and sens itive
student s.
We suspended two students for a se ri ous hazing in cident
and we heard that the o lder student s were planning a food strik e
th e nex t evening at dinner. They had threatened physical harm
to any student who ate that night. We, w isely, chose to serve
steak that night and there was not mu ch des ire for a hunger
strike. That see med to be a turning point.
Opposition, intern al and ex ternal , see med to co ll apse,
a lth oug h many parents and student s co ntinued to harbo r
resentment for years afterward.
A llh oug h the transition co ntroversy caused th e student
body to shrink in size over the first two years, the average IQ
sco res of the student body rose dramati cally. It seemed that th e
board 's surmi se was co rrect: a g reate r number of stTonger
student s wo uld be attracted to the Academy if it were not
military.
In the fall of 1959 the first girls sin ce 1900 were admined
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tha t, life in the classroom during our j uni or yea r remained muc h
the same, only l11uch tougher!"
The tra nsit ion frol11 military to a solid college preparatory
day school was completed by 196 1 and th e only trace of the
military that remained was th e weekly visits of Sam thc barber
to th e basement of Hanse n Hall.
Over the nex t several yea rs, there were significant physical
changes to the campus and buildings. My first move, on
arriving at MPA , was to move the headmaster's office to
I-Ianse n 1-1 <111. (La te r, I learned that the offi ce I had moved into
was once occupi ed by Harry Abell s.) The previous superintendent of the military sc hool had a suite of rooms 0 11 the second
fl oor of Alumni Hall , but I fe lt that was too remote fro m the
central acti vit ies or th e Acade my.
Blake I-Iali, und er suspicious circumstan ces (alt ho ugh
arson was neve r proved) burned down in 1962 and the insurance money helped reduce our debt and allowed us to renovale
other buildin gs.
East Hall was also eJosed in 1962 (and demolished in
1964) because it co uld not meet fire and safety codes. Also
demolished that yea r was the un attracti ve house whi ch had once
se rved as an infirmary.
During the early 60s we, like many communiti es nationwide, we re plagued by Dutch elm disease and many of the
stately, venerab le Amc rican elms had to be destroyed. We
plan ted new trees, but the former beauty and character of the
campus cou ld not be replaced overn ight.
The board dee ide(~ for reasons of safety (traffic on III th
was intensifying), to sell the Abells Field lots and confine
to the Academy (although there had bee n g irls on the ca mpus,
from 1933 to 195 1, at Morgan Park Juni or College). There we re
five elementary sc hool girl s th e first year: Gai l Scruggs, Vicki
Hannemann [68], Kath erine Brandt, Po lly I-lort on and Camilla
Cornelius [67].
There had been some informal talks with the Lorin g
School for G irls abollt a possible merge r, but nothin g came of
them. In 1960, cleven girls from Loring entered MPA and they
ca lled th emselves Alpha Lamba (G reek , fo r the " first eleven") .
A co-cd fi rst and second grade were also added in 1960.
The number of board ing students cont inued to shrink and
was di scontinued altogether after the 1964-65 sc hool yea r.
Morgan Park Academy thus became a co-educational day
schoo l, with an enro llment that matched the hi gh point of th e
mi litary days.
During the 1959-1960 school year, in fact, most of the
mil itary symbols were removed. The 1960 Academy yea rbook,
Oasis, note(~ in retrospect, that the changes were not as
dramat ic as fi rst feared.
"The big change to civilian life (sc hool blazers, white shirt
and ti e) at th e start of our junior yea r was not as monumental as
we had ex pected, chiefly because orthe many gradua l changes
that had taken place th e previous year."
The Oasis also took note of other changes: " Blake Hall had
been [closed and] turned over to th e pigeons in December
[ 1959] because of new fi re laws [after the Our Lady of Angels
School fire had killed many] and all of the camplls artillery had
simp ly di sa ppeared over Spring vacation . [Morn ing assemblies
replaced] the dawn inspections on frosty Post Walk . Other th an
Ross Beatty, who became board
president in 1962.
Mrs. Thomas Cunningham (left) and Mrs. E. William Leger were the
first women to serve on the boanl of trustees. T hey were elected in 1963.
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ath letic activities to south of I 12th Street.
When th e commun ity learned of thi s plan, there was an
uproar, for th e deve loper was planning on construct ing a twelve
slory apartment bui lding. In a compromise, the deve loper
agreed to construct two story co ndo mi niums (somethi ng quit e
new at th e time).
Two Acade my hOll ses, at th e edges of the campu s we re sold
by the mid -60s and to the wes t, whe re the te nni s co urts had
been, a developer put up apartment buildings.
These variolls moves limited plans for futu re expansio n and
I broached, wi th several board members, the possibi lity of
movin g the Academy to an area ncar Palos Park . Board membe rs fe lt ve ry stro ngly, however, that th e Academy belo nged in
Beverl y-Morga n Park.
FUlld-raisi ng, almost from th e beginning, was a major part
or my job and an annual g iving program was illstitued in 1960.
Ross Beatty replaced Arthur i-lorton as president or th e
boa rd of trustees in 1962. Although he and I often disagreed on
schoo l policy and operat ion, we worked fai rly we ll together.
Ross reall y cared about the school and devoted a great deal of
time and anent ion to it.
Art hur Baer, president of the Beverly Bank, became the
treasurer of the MPA board in 1960. No t only did he become, in
many ways, the most influential board member and, incidentally, my favorite mentor, but he an d hi s wife Alice we re also
rea lly responsible fo r
convinci ng Mrs.
Pillsbury to contribute
the money for the art
center to the Academy
and the community.
The first two
wo men on th e board,
elected in December of
1963, lVere Dorothy
Cunningham, mother of
two Morgan Park
Acade my boys and
Mrs. Wi llard Lager,
also a parent.
To show the
strength of our board
and to furth er publi cize
the school, we put out
in the 1962-63 school
year a beauti ful
expensive brochure
with pictures by the
th en renowned photogra pher Arc hie
Lieberman . It listed the
board of Trustees wh ich
then also included, in
Girls were front-and-center in
additi on to the people I have already told abo ut, Thomas
Kidd oo, .Jerry Clair, John Donnell y, Ed I-10k in, Ha l Jennings,
J.o. Johnson (our financial consc ience in th e early days) and
Walter Snodell .
An impressive list!
Most of these people were either alumni of tile Academy or
parents of current students.
A strong board oftrustees is criti cal for any sc hool to
thri ve and Morgan Park had durin g my tenure tru ly outstanding
board members. (The bankers on the board certainly helped
since we needed healthy loans all during the first years.)
The fa th ers' club and the mothers' club, which began in the
mi litary days, continued to be stro ng and positi ve influences.
Afte r th e first-year difficulties were over, JoAnn and I became
personal friends with many parents and felt part of a warm and
fri endly community.
The fathers' club continued to support the at hletic programs and Elean or Smalley, of th e mothers' club, orga ni zed
and ran for severa l years a very successful school store in the
basement of Hansen whe re th e PX (post exchange) had been
moved after the ra mshack le bui ldi ng which once hOllsed it had
been to rn down.
When I first came to Chicago to head Mo rgan Park , th e
depa rtment of edu cation of the State of Ill inois and the North
Centra l (regional) Association of Secondary Schools and
Colleges were
responsible for
accrediting the
Acade my.
In 1962-1 963,
however, we were
able to persuade the
state th at th e Central
States Associati on of
Independe nt Schools
was a more suitab le
accrediting body fo r
non-publ ic schools.
Our eva luation,
in October of 1963.
said "the spirit of the
schoo l is relaxed,
happy, friendly and
yet business-like. A
genera l awareness of
the need for high
academic standards
prevai ls with much
recognition of
outstanding wo rk. At
present time this
interest is a healthy
one but one to watch
Katy Geo rge's 1965 E nglish class.
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1960:)In the summer of 1961, a critical problem first arose.
Under the pressure of various civil rights movements, a number
of Negro children began to apply to the Academy. None was
admitted, however, for the feeling was that the school was not
yet secure enough to add a potential integration controversy to
the still simmering pot of demilitarization.
For four years, I attempted to convince the board that it was
time to accept Negro students, but they felt, rightly or wrongly,
that the community was unstable enough and that the school
was not strong enough to make that key move.
In 1963, I drafted a resolution for the board to approve that
said, in part, that "although Morgan Park Academy has always
accepted properly qualified students from all religions and
almost all racial groups, including Orientals, it has not in recent
years admitted Negro students. While we sincerely believe that
no qualified student should be denied the opportunity of
education at Morgan Park Academy - we must acknowledge
the fact that current patron support is vital to the continuation
and improvement of the school. We take it for granted that
Morgan Park Academy will accept Negro students in the future.
But first the Academy must attain an impregnable financial
basis; it must achieve a recognized position in the field of
independent private secondary schools; it must have student
demand of sufficient volume and quality to insure the inviolability of its educational standards."
The board, perhaps wisely, refused to approve this statement because they felt that such "advanced" thoughts of an
over-eager headmaster should not be put in writing at that time.
In April of 1965, however, things started to come to a head.
To give a sense of that moment, I quote from JoAnn's letter to
her relatives back East: "This has been a momentous week. Ted
and three of our faculty members signed an open occupancy
petition, which appeared in the paper. Our new faculty member,
Stan Carmichael (a bearded, former Episcopal priest) and his
wife, are strong civil rights people, go to a Negro church, etc.
They not only signed the petition, but asked all the faculty
members to sign it, saying, 'I do not think your job is in
jeopardy because Ted has already signed the petition'. They
also asked if anyone wanted to buy tickets to a (black activist)
Dick Gregory benefit and our Mississippi faculty couple were
highly upset by this, and went to the trustees with it. The
trustees have been irritated by Stan's pro-integration actions
anyway, and this was the last straw. Another thing that upset
some of them ... we have a group of students who go into the
Negro area every Monday night to tutor the slum children.
These students got their parents' permission (some reluctantly)
before they took part. This is a YMCA project (Ted was on the
YMCA board) and many schools in the area are taking part.
However, in this neighborhood we are in, none of these things
are approved of. The board has called a meeting for tomorrow
night to discuss this. The president of the board (who is one of
those most upset) has told Ted not to let Stan Carmichael sign
his contract for next year until he hears further from them. Ted
carefully to eliminate the possibility of reaching the point at
which competition for grades and scores becomes overdominant and less opportunity is afforded for sincere, intellectual pleasure learning."
The report said we must give "more attention for the
programming for girls, as the female enrollment begins to
balance that of the male."
In a letter to my mother, in October of 1964, I noted that
the "future depends a great deal on what happens to this area
racially and religiously (now more Roman Catholic each year).
Our school has about twenty per cent Catholics, ten per cent are
Jewish, six per cent are Greek Orthodox and the rest various
Protestant groups. No Negroes, unfortunately. We are in the
middle of a very strong "white backlash" area and the feeling
runs high, higher even than a year or two ago perhaps. I hope
that there will be a swing back and believe it or not I think that
in their hearts people know that this anti-Negro feeling is
wrong. However, fears are strong here and that is not good."
About this time JoAnn and I decided to host an exchange
teacher from Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia, under Marshall
Tito, was considered a communist country and "communist," in
those days, was a bad word. We heard that some of our parents
(and perhaps even a board member or two) suspected that the
Withingtons were communist sympathizers.
By the middle 1950s, Morgan Park Military Academy
(because of the dwindling enrollment) had become less
successful in athletics. In the fall of 1960, we were admitted, in
some sports, to the Private School League of Chicago, which
included North Shore Country Day School, The Latin School of
Chicago, The Harvard School, The University of Chicago
Laboratory School and Francis Parker. All had strong academic
reputations and their acceptance of us helped publicly confirm
our new status as one of the leading schools of the area.
We joined another league for basketball, playing such
schools as Luther South, Luther North, Wheaton and Trinity
Christian.
Girls' team sports began later and the very modest program
included, at first, only field hockey and basketball. They only
played two or three games and attended "play days" with girls
at other schools. In the first days of co-education and even later,
cheerleading was the big "athletic" activity for the girls.
Fraternities existed during the military days, much to the
consternation, I have heard, of Harry Abells. Cadets were
discouraged from joining organizations outside of the Academy.
The feeling was that there were more than enough legitimate
organizations for students to join. When the school demilitarized, fraternities, for a time, seemed to become stronger.
The 1963 Bulletin ofInformation acknowledged the
existence of fraternities and sororities, but students were not
expected to wear insignia of such organizations nor were they
allowed to engage in any activity on campus that would suggest
such membership. Academy year books, nevertheless, often
carried full-page advertisements for such organizations.
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to ld him he had already made a verba l ag reem ent, and that the
contracts have been se nt out. This is the first meet ing o rth e
board without Ted . Many of the board members are strong
boos lers cfTed, have worked like dogs fo r Ted and th e sc hoo l,
but where th e Negro question is conce rn ed, most of them feci
as th e co mmunity docs. They arc death ly afraid if ' lhcy' get into
thi s neighborhood it will go comple tely black , as many sur-
hcadmaste rs of independent sc hools of the central stat es. This
co uld have not come at a bette r lime for us, because Ted had a
chance to ta lk to many o f his friend s and reinforce his beliefs.
There are ve ry few schools of any stature that have not integra ted, and of co urse Ted IHis wa nt ed to integ rate the school for
ycars, but has been told over and ove r again, 'we are not ready,
we hn ve to wa it ' . Thi s he has don e, but if th e board is going to
tell him he ca nn ot mcet or tal k with Negroes, or wo rk toward
thc day when we ca n integ rate, then he can not be part of thi s
schoo l. 'While we were at Cul ve r, we heard an address by Fathe r
Hesblll'gh, the president of No tre Dame. His wo rd s seemed to
address our situation prec isely. He said that when he took ovcr
as president of Notre Damc, he adm itted to his predecessor, ' I
don 't know anything about be ing an adm inistrator ' and Father
Cava naugh replied, ' it is really qu ite simp le, you first decide
what is right , and then yo u go ahead and do what is right,
wililO ut counti ng the cost. '"
T he issue was not resolved unti l after I had le ft the
Ac ad emy. In the summ er o f 1966, the first black students were
admitted to Morgan Park Academy.
ro unding neighborhoods have. And they are abso lutely agai nst
any kind of integralion in any way. Ted fee ls thi s is basically a
question of whether or not a faculty membe r (or th e hea dmaster) is free to purslle hi s own be lie fs and cOllvictions, or whet her
he isn't. He absolutely will not fire Stan Carmi chael, whol11 he
think s is one o f th e best English tcac hcrs we have eve r had . He
has done a supcrb job with our dramatic club, and many of th e
kids think he is grcat! Most of the faculty do nothing for civil
rights, keep their mouths shut, and ncver rock th e boat, but wc
fccl that all kinds of men on thc fac ulty are needed. Stan was
over tonight, and offc red to resign if Ted want s him to, but Ted
said hc did nOI, and Stan signed hi s co ntract, both of th em
knowing what may be ahead ofthcm. Just as thi s all start cd Tcd
and I left for Culvcr, Ind ia na to attend the meetings oft hc
Q
Bob Ca hill 's 1966 Latin class had two girls and fi ve boys. T he girls are Sa ra
Dauer and Susan Shimmin. John Thompson is just to the right of Ca hill. The
othc,·s ar-e unidentified.
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The first post-military championship
The first post-military co nference
champion ship for Morgan Park Academy ca me in fo o tba ll in 1962.
The twenty-five members orthe
tcam, under head coach Mac Lewis,
backfield coach Ro n Brya nt , and line
coach Pat Bryan , gathe red fo r a week of
two -a-day pre-season drill s a l Lake
Geneva, v..' isconsin . The week culminated in a scrimmage against a loca l
team from Williams Bay.
No score was kept, but MPA piled
up 700 ya rds whil e hol din g its opponent
to a negative 47.
A wee k-later, in a nOll-conference
opener against North Shore Co untry
Day, th e Acade my wa s so undl y defeated
4 1-6. It would be the on ly lo ss of the
season.
The next opponent, al so no nconfere nce, was Franci s Parke r. MPA,
led by Kings ton Heath and Roger
McGuire on offense and G us Newberg
o n de fen se, came away with a 32-1 3
W1l1.
The co nference ope ner (a lso hom cco m ing), agai nst Walther Luthe ran , was
not decided ull til the fi nal seconds.
Walthe r scored o n a scree n-pa ss with
abollt 20 seconds left to take a 13-12
lead.
On the f irst play after the k ick-o ff,
Roger McG uire hit C huck Anderson
with a tou chd own pass of more than 50
yard s, g iv in g MPA an 18-13 w in in th e
clos ing second s.
Howie Meyer sco red th e o nly
to uchdown in a 6-0 w in over Luther
South , the pre-seaso n fa vorit e to w in th e
co nference titl e .
Whea ton Academy, a team that had
been in the habit of beat in g MPA by 20
or more po ints, was next o n the co nfe re nce sc hedule. Defense dom inated a
game p Jayed in rain and mud and fOllr
playe rs - Bruce Caley, Petc
Va nderSterre, and Gus Newberg we re res ponsibl e for 42 tack les and
three fumb le recove ri es as MPA won a
hard-foug ht 12-2 decision .
The tit le show-down, aga inst
undefeated defending conference
champs Luther North , was a 14-0
v ictory for MPA.
Th e final game, again st a winl ess
No rth Park team , was a 44-26 romp,
with MPA scoring five limes through
the air and tw ice on the ground. Heat h
scored three times and Lew Kreyd ick
tw ice in leading MPA to a 5-0 mark in
co nference play.
Seven playe rs (A I Bruno, Warren
C ri st, Dave Fry, Kingston Heath, Larry
Lawrence, Roge r McGuire and Joe
To rnabeli) won a ll-co nfere nce honorable mention, s ix (C hu ck Anderson,
Bruce Caley [also the tea m's 1110st
va luable player], Lew Kreyd ick, Howie
Meyer and Gus Newberg) we re named
to th e sccondteam , and Pete
VanderS terre
won a place as
a n ai l-conference guard.
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firs. rou·, L. 10 R.: Cri .. !., LJ\Ht:nc .... Hilchoock. CtHuJHain .\l1der!oJl, C., eo·cupll!in Tomobcni. ~ewlJerJ:, )1::m=hnU. Wchon, )lcGt.·
Serond TOK' : Coach Brynnt, Bruno, Katcher, l\!lIlplt" Vonrier lerre. Jallle&On~ Anricnlen, It, Otley. Fry, Coach Lewis.
Third rt/It': \,.,nu. )IOllturC'lI. HC:lIh. Kreydick, Eilel, ~Ionlsomcry, :\feyer, Uorok, Wognum, Ho£kcJJe)'. M~r. Erickson. Will.
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Demetrios Douros:
our man at the Olympics
by
Barry Kritzberg
Whe n Dcmctri os Domos [98] gradua ted from M PA he
th ought it al so signaled th e end of hi s baseba ll career.
He had had a pleasa nt tim e playing base ba ll at MPA for
coac hes Jo hn To rrez and Tom Drahoza l. I-Ie was three-time allconfe rence, and some of hi s hitting m arks are still high on the
Illino is Hi gh Sc hool Assoc iatio n chart s. In hi s four seaso ns at
MPA , DOllros drove in 101 run s and hi s .478 batting average
rank s 21 st on th e a ll-time IH SA list.
" Demel-ri cs and Jon Freeman [98] we re the best thi rd-basel
sho rt stop co mbo I have
eve r coached at M PA,"
Tom Drahozal said. " They
were al so mode l student!
athl etes."
But he was admitted
to the prestigioll s guaranteed profess iona l program
ad mi ssion (G PPA) at the
Uni ve rs ity of Illinois at
Chi cago and he did not see
how he co uld purs ue the
rigors of medi cal school
and also mee t the time
demands of co llege
athl etic s.
He devoted all of hi s
allen lion 10 hi s med ical
studies and co mpl eted the
undergraduate po rtion of
hi s prog ram in three yea rs.
Th ere might be a
place for the cas ual
summer pick- up ga me, but
baseball was, fo r the most
pa rt, no mo re than a
pl easant memory.
Then something
unexpec ted happened.
During the summer of
Douros in
2000, wh ile Demetrios
was in Greece to take a course on th e archaeo logy of At hens,
hi s parents ca ll ed to te ll him th at th ey had heard (v ia sa te ll ite
te levision) that Greece was planning on fieldin g a baseba ll team
far the 2004 O lympic s.
Base ba ll was a stran ge, fore ign ga me to mo st G reeks, so
the Olym pic cO lllmittee was seeking ex peri enced players of
Gree k descent to tryo ut fo r the team.
Demetrios, though born in the U.S. , had li ved in Greece,
held dual citi zenship, and wa s fluent in bo th Eng lish <Ind Gree k.
He could eve n playa little baseball.
He contacted the president of the Greek baseball fede rati on
an d presented him self as a candidat e and: even though he hadn ' t
played in two yea rs, it somehow seemed poss ible, sin ce the
number of G reeks (eve n in America) w ith base ball expe ri ence
was extremely limited.
In 200 I: he was invited to play for Maro usi 2004, the
perennial c hampi o ns of Gree k
baseball. To do that, he wo uld
have to " decompress" hi s
medical studies - tak in g two
years to compl ete th e work of
o ne - and mi ss occasional
lectures to ny to Greece to play
in tournament s.
He unhes itating ly dec ided
to accept the offer from
Maro usi 2004, even though it
did not g uarantee him a place
on th e team that wou ld represent G reece at th e A th ens
O lympi cs.
In fact, nothing wa s
certain , and th ere were many
obstac les (so me of them
politica l), many ups and downs,
and no guarantees of any kind.
He played o n Greek team
whi ch wo n the " B poo l"
European champion ship in
2002, playing at least some of
eve ry game of the to urnament.
In 2003, with G reece mov in g
up to the "A pool ," he played
less, for mos t of the team was
made up of players rec ru ited
fro m American minor league
uniform.
team s.
He wondered about hi s chances of actually being selected
for the Greek Olympi c team and did no t know until July 28 two week s be fore the ope nin g ce remon ies of the 2004 gmncs.
He lea rn ed orit first by seeing hi s nam e li sted o n th e roster
of Greek team in Baseball America. The next day he rece ived
the official wo rd and o n August 3 he was on hi s way to Athens.
" I know that Demetri os has wo rked hard and made
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it played its best ga me agai nst C uba, th e eve ntua l go ld medal
winnc r, los ing by just o ne run , 5-4.
Dcmclri os played o nly brie ny in o ne game, but it hardly
mattered. Just bei ng o l1lh at firs t G reck Olym pic bascba lltcam
was ho no r enough.
Th e G reek fa ns, tho ug h the ir know ledge of baseball was
sca nl , fill ed Ihe 9000-seat stadium for eve ry game and chee red
li ke bleacher-bum fan at ics. It did no t ma tter that th ey cheered
as lo udly fo r a po p-up as for a tripl e, for they, too, see med to
se nse th ai j ust be ing there was ho no r e no ugh in deed.
Among th e fans c hee ring wildly fo r Demet ri os and Greece
we re hi s parents, Jo hn and Vas iliki, and hi s sisters, Maria [94]
and Nik i [95].
His parent s had always bcen somcwhat skeptica l abo ut the
va lu e o f games, but thi s was special and th ey d idn 't need a
scoreca rd to te ll th em th at.
sacrifices to be o n the G reek O lymp ic bascbalilcam," To m
Dra hozal said. "Words ca n' t ex press how proud I am of what he
has accomplished."
It d id not seem rca l, howeve r, unt il he moved into hi s roo m
at the O lym pic village w ith 450 o th er Greek at hl etes and so me
10,000 at hl etes fro m othe r cou ntri es.
He met tenni s slar Venu s Willi ams, boxe r Evallder
Ho lyfield, 400-l11eler worl d reco rd ho lder Mi cha el Jo hn son, and
scores of o lh ers. He sa t next to socce r g rea t M ia I-i amm o n a
bus ride on another occasion.
I-Ie a lso saw two basketball ga mes - U.S. vs. Ango la and
Greece vs. Lith ua ni a - a nd o ne ni ght of track & fie ld, whi ch
feat ured the fi na ls of th e 200 meters and the io ng jump.
His scats we re exce ll ent fo r both .
I-I e had a pren y good seal for baseba ll , too.
The Greek lea m had a 1-6 record (defealing o nly Ita ly), bUI
Q
Demetrios DoUl·os (left), relaxes with his senior teammates on the 1998 MPA baseball team: Mike Rose,
Jon Freeman, Allan Claybon, and Josh Sinclair.
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ZOOO:J"1 wish 1 had known"
by
A lex Shoushtari
I still have my MPA gym shirt
bear down on us. We wc rc sick of knowing eve ryo ne , sick of
hea rin g about the MPA co mmunity, and sick of a ll the inane
gossip: who liked who, who smokcd c iga rettes at Java after
schoo l, who was secretl y very, very horny. MPA was n't a real
high school. It wasn 't Bays ide or Capcside or anything that
rese mbled the teen movies. He ll , if Peter Parker we nt to MPA,
he 'd date Mary Janc by defau lt. Iron ly IVe had more girls to
choose fTom, if on ly we had a footba ll tca m, if o nl y we had
more variety in our classes, we 'd be havin g the rea l hi gh school
expe n ence.
If talk is cheap, uif-onIys" arc damn ncar free.
)f on ly we could just gctlO co ll cgc. Thi s bccamc everyone's
mantra se nior year. Escape from our little bubblc.
When I crash-landed on the sho res of Lake Michigan in
September 2000 to start my freshman year at Northwestern, I
was exci ted to be finally at a real sc hool. 1800 people in my
class? Are yo u se ri ous? I wou ldn ' t know everyo ne's fa mili a l
hi story or have th e sa me s tupid sc hedu le as that o ther annoying
kid. ) could drink as much alcohol as 1 w(Hlted, I could stay out
late as I pleased and I co uld curse like a sa ilor. And, most
exc iting of all, I'd be ab le to meet pcople from a ll around the
country and share my experiences (a nd hope full y my sali va).
I met people from Cat ho li c sc hool s, from large publ ic
schools wi th powerho use deba te programs, from single-sex
schools to international school to schoo ls in South Dakota even
smaller than MPA. The va ri cty o fb ackg rou llds aston ished me.
Time and time again, I thou ght to myse lf, " Wow, you mu st have
had a lot more fUll than me in hi gh sc hoo l."
I became good friends wi th a few people who a ll we nt to
large high schools w ith the stereo typica l c li ques, cheerl eade rs,
A P classes, and burnouts. I heard their storics , and to my
surpri se, they sounded a lot like min e. We all had funny prom
stories and ta les of rej ection and losing homecom in g games and
the one g irl with the hotter-t hall -thou arrogance. We a ll had
spent hours in base ment s on weeke nds cursing th e c ultura l
vac uum of o ur placid s uburban homes and drinking surrept itiollsly when so-and-so's parents wcre gone for the weekend.
But in a way, ) had more than they did . I had stories about
my favorite teacher who knew me by name beca use I had class
w ith her for four years alit! she advised me for newspaper. )
recounted how one of my teachers knew Midd le English and
spem hours collecting old information about o ur military
schoo l's origi ns. Best ora ll , I co uld boast about having every
opportunity to get invo lved in anyth ing from \~/ YSE to wrestlin g to newspaper to the radio (I use that term loosely). My
fr iends at «rea l" hi gh schoo ls ne ver fen lIy got th e chance to
experience th e th ings I did because somconc uSlially beat them
from freshman year. Not ('he sol idcolored va ri ety, mind yo u; those look
li ke you've been gut-shot. When J
attended Morgan Park Academy back
before the turn o f th e century, th e
regulation gym attire co nsisted of easy,
breat hable mesh shorts and a while
shi rt emblazo ned with ou r sc hool's
name in block letters and so me kind of
A lex Shoushtari official seal that may bc defunc t now. I
have it ri ght here in front afmc. h is reminiscent orlhe AT&T
globe; apart from the book they've placed in the middl e,
conve ni ent ly ope ned to two pages that have a torch and a
mIcroscope.
I hat ed th at shirt in high sc hool. On ly a square attend s a
5choollhal has a logo incorporated with a microscope as part of
physical education. It seemed blasphemous - separation of
academics and gym was an un spoken custom at every normal
high sc hool. Of cou rse, we weren' t anending a " normal" high
schoo l. Our faculty-student ratio ri vals the a ile from Little
House all the Prairie. We compete for state champio ns hip s in
WYSE. We 're a small college-preparatory school. As the MPA
brochures say, ninety- nine per cent of its stude nt s go o n to
prestigious co ll eges all across the United States. So, is it any
surpri se that ninety- nine per cent of its student s share mentalities that anticipate th e payoff of that stati stic?
"God, I can 't wa it to get to college."
" I hear you ca n wea r your ripped pajamas to class and
stuff."
"Dudc, yo u do n't even have to go to class."
" Man. Coll ege."
We're soc iall y stifl ed, aren ' t we? Weekend after weekend,
J'd make lo ng co mmutes to visit my fri end s and we'd do the
same, stupid s uburban ritual s. Bowling. Movie. Baker's Square.
\Ve'd se t up base ment ca mps and waste the hours away making
inside jokes and wondering what we were mi ss ing wh ile we
were stuck inside Hansc n Hall. "What do people do at rea l high
schools?" \rVe all came lip with d ifferent answers.
" I bet they throw lo ts of pani cs and SlUff."
"They 're probably 110t as sex ually frustrated as we arc."
"Yeah, thin k abou t how many people are in th ei r c lass."
" You could ask a g irl out and not worry about hearin g
about it from so meo ne else in third period."
Yeah. That was the least common denominator. Alth ough
yo u might deny it some times, th e size of your hi gh sc hool
matters. M PA is so small that sometimes the wa ll s scemed to
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zooo:}
"Yeah. My hig h schoo l."
"Oh, coo l. I-Iow was itT'
It was fUll , actually. I just wish I had knowJl it at the time.
out of a limited spot.
Now, every co upl e of weeks, I wa lk aroll nd Nort hwestern
Uni ve rsity with pride, wearing my ye llowi ng, pit-stain ed MPA
gy m shi rt. It usua ll y elic its the same types of quest ions.
"Morgan Park Acade my?"
Q
Did he catch-her in the rye?
Mike Weil, MPA English
teacher and coach, married
Kathleen Robug in Rocky
Mountain National Park, June
26,2004.
The bride, a fourtb gl-ade
teacher at Providence-St. Mel,
worc fairly traditional wedding
attire, save for her] 959 (sic!)
pale blue (" for a blue occasion,"
the bride explaincd) Adidas
Rekord sneakers (not pictured).
The g.-oom wore a propel'
black suit, but his 1959 (sic!) red
Adidas Rekord sneakers and his
lucky argyle socks added a
sporting touch to the occasion.
The umbrellas (not of
ehel' bourg) were snapped into
action when the rains rolled in.
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Sanjay Bhoiraj [94] horses around on his
wedding day.
Other guests at Sanj ay's wedding: Rita Yeretsian
[95], Rita 's guest, Nitin Bhojraj [99] and Anj ali
Waikar [95].
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Guests include:
Barbara Bechtel, Mike Bechtel [94], Neha, the
bride, Sanj ay Bhojraj [94] the groom, and Ka nnan
Arumugam [94].
.. .Meanwhi le, at the same time on another Ooor
of the Hi lton, Sid Kakodkar [96] was also
getting married.
Alumni Events 2005
•
January:
•
Friday 28, Alumlli Wille and Cheese:
Chicago
Arizona Reunion: TBA
Lookingfor those Cubs vs White Sox spring
training tickets in Mesa Arizona.
February:
April:
•
Florida Reunion TBA
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Southern Califomia: TBA
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Sunday 27, Young Alumni Ski Trip:
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Saturday 16, Reception and Play: on campus
From campus to ski area. Contact Alumni Office.
May:
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March:
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Saturday 12, Salute to Excellence:
All-school and alumni benefit in Chicago.
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Wednesday 25, Senior Breakfast: on campus
A toast to our host
and hostess!
Top Row:
Bud Qui st [52]. Bill Getz [43]. Harold Baex [52]. Stan Eigelberner[54].
Bob Tierney [52]. Sara White [71]
r li,?I/,ol11 row:
Ken Zubri ck [52]. Jack Barak [64] Linda Lints [74] Espana l
Maria and Ken Zubrick [52] our gracious
Los Altos hosts August 7. 2004.
David C uadros 1861. wrote that six members of class of 1986 have kept up for 18 years ...
"We have an event every year in a different city. This latest trip was to Myrtle Beach."
Leji 10 righl:
Ri cardo Ugarte [86] an attorney in Switzerland; Ted Paris [86] in banking in New Jersey;
Scott King [86] consultant in Atlanta; Adam LaTour [86] consu ltant in Florida; Manu
Kacker [86] dentist in Los Angeles; David Cuardros [86] a consultant in Chicago.
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(dec.) [29], mother of George, Jr. [50],
grandmother of George, III [77], Mark [79],
great grandmother of Emily [05], Matthew
[08], Annie [1 0], and Julie [1 4]
Robert F. Schuldt [48]
Julia Anne Evans Day [49]
Lloyd L. George [49]
Carol Schuldt Lyons [49]
Joan Herdlein Yardley [49]
Fred W . Heitmann [34]
Harold F. Wood [37]
Gino Cantele [51]
Arthur Gorlick [53]
Edmund Burke [41]
Robert Freed [54]
Camilla P illsbury [41]
Ira Cahoun [56]
Will iam S. Appleton [42]
William M . Hutchins [42]
Patricia Jones [74]
George L. Stemmler [44]
Dr. Edward Strenk, father of James [75], Eileen
Hofstetter [76], and Thomas [78]
Jerol Miessler Whitfield , wife of Robert
Whitfi eld [44]
Medgar Drayton Armstrong [81]
Richard L. Berliner [45]
Dr. Kathy Kin1 [83]
Lee Skarin [45]
Robert Fuka [47]
George R. Silagyi, father of Timothy [03]
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SCHOLARSHIP FUND ESTABLISHED
To HONOR THE MEMORY OF
DICKAYERS
Morgan Park Academy lost a dear friend when Dick Ayers
[36] died in July 2003. Fortunately, his generous spirit continues
to enrich his alma mater, as our fifth grade students travel to his
family's farm each year in Bement, not far from Champaign, to
learn about agriculture, nutrition, climate and technology in the
fanning industry. Last May, while the students were learning
about water erosion and crop rotation and climbing aboard a giant combine, the Ayers family made a
tremendous gift in Dick's name. The A. Richard Ayers Scholarship Fund was established with a gift
of$50,000.
Dick Ayers led a rich and fulllife. Alier earning his diploma from MPMA in 1936 and
enrolling in courses at Morgan Park Junior College, he continued his education at the University
of Illinois , Yale University for Army Air Forces Technical Training School and Armour Tech (now
Illinois Institute of Technology). Dick was a skilled engineer and inventor, toiling farmer , loving
husband and proud father of five children. Morgan Park Military Academy gave him the break that
helped shape his future , he said , and was a turning point in his life. He was a high school sophomore in 1933, living just three blocks from the Academy. His family was struggling to cope with the
recent death of his brother from a sudden illness. Colonel Hany Abells (superintendent at MPMA)
approached him at his home one day with an offer of an education at MPMA in exchange for working in the mess hall and sharing his talents on the baseball field. He jumped at the offer and went on
to achieve great success.
Dick was a captain in the Army air forces in WWII and in the air force in Korea, earning
several medals and honors. He went on to raise his family and operate a I ,ODD-acre farm in Bement,
growing corn and soy. He founded Central Illinois Manufacturing Company in 1957 in Bement and
was the town's mayor from 1965-69. Dick remained actively involved in Academy alumni activities
for many years, serving as alumni association president from 1983- 1985. He was also a member of
the MPA board of trustees from 1982-1986 and was inducted into the MP A Hall of Fame in 1995.
Dick Ayers achieved much in life , but remained a humble, gracious gentleman, mindful of
hi s Beverly roots. He maintained his fervent commitment to th e
Academy his entire life and spoke often about his plans to "do
so mething for the Academy." Last sp ring Helen Ayers , Dick's
widow , fulfilled hi s promise. Mrs. Ayers noted that Dick's children
"knew how much the school meant to him and wanted to honor his
memory in this way." Though he entered MPMA because of his
athletic talent, he believed in the value of a good education. "He
wanted his family gift to provide the opportunity for others like him
to find their paths to success at the Academy, " stated Mrs. Ayers.
An old adage states , "Generous people are happy
people." Dick Ayers epitomized generosity and happiness during
his life. The Academy was truly blessed by its relationship with him
these many years. Our thanks go out to Dick and to his whole family for earning a permanent place of honor that will benefit
students for years to come.
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205
Gilbert Rubenstein 1291 recalls a
story in a past issue of the our
ma gazine referencing the 1929
baseball
team being
of obvious
interest to
care researc h and develo pment; publi sher of hea lth care magazine , au-
thor of fi ve books and consultant'.
Hi s awa rds include; MPMA Capta in
" D" l-I ol1 or co mpany 1935 ; Fellow
Ameri ca n Coll ege of Hosp ital
him, as he
was in PICtured in that
..-r"'-.fF.11 photograph.
H e writes, " I
wou ld like to
mention that
I truly enj oyed the history sections of the magazine, partic ul arly
reading about Harry D. Abells,
Hayden E. Jones, Jea n L. Taylor,
Roy S. McIntosh, John DeGrandpre and Francis Gray, who were
all at MPMA in my time. Best of
all for me, was lack Tadanier's
story about hi s experience with
Capt. Gray. Unfortunately for
me, I had a similar introduction to
him during my 'first three minutes
of my first class'. My experience
with him provided the story under
my picture in the 1928 Skir-
misher. I cannot resist mentioning that it is 75 years ago last June
' 04, that I graduated from
MPMA."
Mr. Rubenstein is an attorney in
Flint, Michigan.
James H. McClure 1351 writes that
after MPMA he attended Washington
and Lee Un ivers ity and the University of Chicago. His work experiences included management of ten
plants; engineering; serving in
WWII; trade associa tion work and
cllrrentl y the family real estate management office in Illinois and Florida.
When asked what he ' s been up 10
la t-e ly, he stated "stayin g a li ve.'~
W ith Jim and hi s wife Audrey' s five
children, a nd a bakers dozen number
of grand children, hobbies which include "growin g odds and ends of
fl owers and vegetables including
hundred year old grapes," in add itio n
to the co mings and goings between
the two states, Jim McClure and famil y still find time to attend current
Academy events. He says" I've
been blessed with an unusually interesting life whi ch I believe MPMA
made me able to enjoy."
Donald and Hazel Carner
I dOll'1 know ahoUl the grapes Jim,
blll yo/{'re a peach ! sg
Executives; Ac hievement Award
from th e Long Beach Memorial
Medical Center; Award of HOllor
from th e Ameri can Society of Hospital Pharmacists; Gold Medal
A ward n·om the American College
of Hospital Adm inistrato rs and the
1995 Morga n Park Hall of Fame.
.lim and Audrey live in Northbrook,
IL. and Nap les, FL.
Hi s hobb ies include auth or and publisher, and as oflate is a manage-
2005 Milestone Years
ment consultant. He married Hazel
Kruse in 1940 afte r courtin g seven
305
Donald Carner 135] highlights
hi s educational and professional
accomplishments. He graduated
fTom the University of Chicago
School of Business BA [39],
MBA [48] Health and Care Management; Cha irman/ CEO of four
years and they ha ve three chi ldren,
fOllr gra nd children, two great-grand
children. He writes that he
" rece ntl y ha s been in contact with
th e on ly two other 1935 classmates,
.lim McClure and Bill Hu gi ll. "
Don and Haze l li ve in Sa n
Rafael, Califolllia.
medi cal centers, two health care
insurance corporation s; health
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1955: 50th
1960: 45th
1965: 40th
1970: 35th
1975: 30th
1980: 15th
1985: 10th
1990: /Stl,
1995: 10th
This is your reUl,ion year!
ClassNotes
405
Mary Ellen Stoeber Richards 1401
writes us that she had attended Grinne ll College and the McLean School of
Dra ma when the war ca me along. She
had marri ed MPMA alumnus Bill
Ri chards [40], fifty plus years ago befo re his recent passing. They were
blessed with 2 children, son Billlll
and daughter Caroline who are both
successful business people. Mary has
three grandsons, the oldest just graduating from Whea ton College with honors and is go ing to the Uni versity of
Virginia for post graduate work in art
and architecture. The second grandso n
is a sophomore at New England College and the younges t boy a strai ght
'A' student and running back on his
football team. Ma ry is busy as a lay
leader ill her Methodi st church, an
elected town offi cia l. a fire volunteer
and her fa vorite sport. golf. Mary
writes, " I do hear from many from the
class of 1940, a nd of course remember
Bill' s team being champs in football...
llIule/elltell ami ""tiel/ ... I am so proud
of my generati on and what they accomplished."
Mary resides in East Wakefi eld, Nt! .
Joseph Grassi 1431 is hav ing a ' busy
retirement ' with his beautiful bride of
many
years, his
foxy new
tires, and
creatin g a
wake on
La ke
Michi gan
with his
boat.
Joe and
Linda li ve
in Chicago.
Ciao bello. and many (h anks/or your
continued supporllo y01l1' alm(llJl(l (er.
sg
J. Robert Gilbert 1451 writes that he
was Captain of 'B ' Compan y and left
early to the army air corps for pilot
training. He flew with the 442nd
Troop Carri er Group in ETO dunng
WW II. A fter the war he fo rm ed
Empl oyer Benefi ts Inc. in Reno, NV
and it's now run by hi s so ns Jo hn and
Peter. Hi s home is in Lake Ta hoe and
he winters in Gold Canyon, AZ.
Bob, a big ',hank you '/01' sending
Ihose photograp hs. 11 is my hope fa
disfl'ibule Ihese l1I agll ijice11l dOClIlIlems
10 y0 1l1' c/assl1I ales and I/Ieir./cllllilies.
sg
Harold Koelbel 1451 received his BA
from Aq uinas College in Gra nd Rapids, MI. I-Ie retired in 1984 onl y to
return to his industry and currentl y is
th e pu rchas ing manager for Peerl essWinsmith, Inc. in Springville, NY .
Jerome Levine 1451 tell s tiS th at he
graduated fro m DePaul Uni vers it y,
and is an att orney. His accomplishments include President of the Illinois
Chapter of the Ameri can Academy of
Matri monial Lawyers. He specializes
in fam ily law and medi at ion in Skokie
lL. I-Ie's marri ed 56 yea rs with two
married children and fo ur grandchildren. Mr. Levine res ides in
No rthbrook, IL.
Ronald R. McCormick 1481 wrot e a
lett er to our writer-historian and archivist, Barry Kri tzberg, reco un ting the
dedi cati on address of Hansen Hall by
Mr. Price. Ronald writ es, " fo r me
th e military training combined with
the ri go rous academic program
served me well through a career in
the USAF and later the aeros pace
industry as a human facto rs enginee r. In 1970, I was listed in the
American /II/en and Womell of
Science, as a member of the LT V
Li fe Science Laboratory, for my
work on the Apollo prog ram. In
\985 -87, I was empl oyed by Lockheed Aerospace Compa ny where I
was the lead human factors engineer
on the X30 aerospace plane. I taught
human factors engineerin g, as an adj unct professor of aero nautical science,
fo r 20 yea rs for Embry-Riddle Aeronauti cal Uni versity in Fort La uderda le
FL. I recentl y retired fro m Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton where
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I was a member of the Student Psychological Co unseling Center for 30 years.
Presentl y I work with my wi fe Barbara
as a photo-publicist in Boca Raton.
I' m writing all this to you because it
takes a long time for th e effects of education and educators to out picture in
the li ves of their students. I sometimes
wonder why edu cators both er with li S
when we we re young. The 1928 Hanse n Hall dedi cati on address 1110st adequately answe rs the question of why
those wo nderful instru ctors I had at
MPM A both ered. I shall al ways be
grate ful for th e four years I spent as a
student at MPM A."
Ronald and Barbara reside in Pompano
Beach FL.
We wish Stanley Nichols 1481 and his
famil y we ll as they rebuild their home
which was lost in th e California wildfires. Currentl y th ey have a temporary
address in Redl ands, California.
Jack Wittgren 1491 is back in totlch
and happily li ving in Me nominee,
Michi gan .
Attention Alumni/ae
Mentoring Program
Are you looking to make a difference
in the lives of MPA students and
recent graduates?
Why not consider mentoring.
If you are interested in an emerging
volunteer program contact:
Joe Morrow [97) via
[email protected]
Tbankyou!
ClassNotes
60s
Judii York and Karren Junkunc
160J with that te n other Loring
c lass mates are planning the ir 45th
Lorin g rcunion in 2005 in Chi cago.
Edward Rund 1611, sent in a photograph with a note attached that
sa id, "follo win g our 40th reuni on in
June 200 I, a numbe r of our classmates who li ve in the area decided
to form a group including spouses
which we call th e 'Alumnuts' . We
70s
Susan \Vaitlms
1781 Wescott
sends in a pi cture
of twe nt y month
old Serena!
Tisa Morris
1791, a fo rm er
L-~~~~--.J a ss i s t a nt state 's
attorn ey and prosecutor since 199 1,
was recently appointed poli ce
supe rintendent for the Chi cago
Poli ce Deparlment' s Offi ce of
Professional Stand ards.
80s
Alicia Martinez-SJlencer 1801
mo ved from Te mpe, AZ to
Powell, 0 1-1.
get together for an outing plus lunch
or dinner about every th ree or four
months. Usua ll y we eat out, but on
occasion are hosted by one of the
coupl es in their home. ft provides
an opportuni ty fo r good fri endshi p,
entertainment, and enhancing our
stori es o f the good old days at
MP A. We are always atte mpting to
enlarge the 'Alumnuts' by inviting
other 196 1 classmates in th e area to
join us."
Ed li ves in G lenview, fL.
To the 'A lzmlllllts ': the Academy is
pleased to hear 0/ slich comradeship. We wan l to hear ala hundred
such g ath erings . sg
Jill Susan Lodi 164J Gilstrap
writes to say that her husband has
retired fTom his law practi ce and
they have moved to Center Island in
the San Juan Islands.
Tina Maten·a 1851 writes " after
completin g my residency at
New Yo rk Uni versit y, I returned
to Chi cago to do a fe ll owship in
Child Psychiatry at the Uni versity o f Chi cago. In 1999, 1 marri ed a class mat e from medi cal
sc hoo l. We have two bea utiful
children and we are expec tin g a
third in the rail of 2004. I stay quite
busy workin g, pl ayin g tenni s and
ra ising a fa mil y."
John StoJlka 1851 is now li ving in
Palos Park, Illinoi s.
90s
Am y Danielewicz 1901 Mc Combs
is" still c linical director of We ll s
Ce nt er in Jacksonville Il, an alcohol/drug treatm ent cen ter, supervising an all trcatm ent sta ff and pro vidi ng detox, residential) outpati ent
and famil y coun se lin g to 225-25 0
pati ent s. I am in chargc o f th e yearbook at our chil dre n's elemcnt ary
sc hool thi s yea r, which brings back
MP A mcmori es of Saturday mornings in th e li brary. Our daught er,
A ndrea, is seve n and will be in the
2nd gra de; son, Brandon is fi ve and
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entering kindergarten. The newest
additi on is Nathan Christopher, born
March 22, 2004."
Sanjay Bhojraj 1941 was wed to
Neha on April 11 , 2004 at the
Conrad Hilton Hote l in Chi cago.
Liz Boyd 1951 Pirnal and husband
Mike, li ve in Westlake, 01-1. She
says, " I' ve joined Grove Street Brokers as a personal wine broker and
J' m startin g my own co mpany teaching wine classes. We are just fini shing a kitchen renovation. No children yet, just a crazy cat named
Pi xel. We are looki ng forward to our
yearl y tr ip to Stratford. Maybe we ' ll
see Mr. Kritzberg there one year.
After having gone tw ice to Stratford
whil e at MPA, it' s so mu ch fun going as an adult when you can enj oy
a ll Stratford has to o ffer."
Sid Kakodkar 1961 was marri ed on
the sa me day as Sanj ay Bhoj raj on
another floor of the same Hilton
Hotel in Chi cago!
Sama ntha Chears 1981 was awa rded
a doctorate in pharmacy (with honors) from Florida A&M University in
May 2004.
2000s
Ben Kaspar 1011 is in Spokane WA
go in g to school at Moody Northwest.
" I' m in my fourth of six yea rs, training as an airplane mechani c and pilot.
I plan to work in the most inaccessible
places in 3rd world countri es, landing
and fl ying out of short dirt airstrips.
As 1 go to school I work part time as
a che f. Thank you for the cooking
classes, Mr. Hibbs."
Andrew Kalafut 1021 a magna Cllm
laude graduate, earned a double degree in computer science and mathemati cs whil e maintaining dean's
scholarship standing all four years
from Bradl ey Uni ve rsity in Peoria, IL.
Andrew pl ans to attend the University
of Indiana 's gradu ate PhD program in
computer science.
Katherine Adams
AfiyaAhmed
Andre Artis
Nida Badawi
Molly BaulIl
Sabine Chishty
Max Cook
Clarence Cross
*Connor Currier
Herschel Daniels
Gyanba Ekua Davis
Chase D'Louhy
Gillian Dryjanski
Christopher Edwards
Jordan Maria Everett
*Jordan Gulino
Michael Keane
*Darnell Kimble
*Melinda Kraus-Perrotta
Bold-face names denotes
I-Ionor Scholarship Wi nne r
* denotes
Commenda tion
winners
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Henry Kruchko
*Jenna Luetkehans
Maura Marmo
Kathleen Mekarski
Max Nichols
Douglass Nolan
Karli Ortmann
*Matthew Raglin
Joseph Raser
*Alexa Razma
Daniel Reiter
Timothy Riggenbach
*Lauren Robinson
Amber Sipich
*Kyle Vogt
Ashley Walker
Julian Wells
Matthew Wiegel
Edward Wimp
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2004 Legacy Families
Kermit Kelly MPA [73]
Alumni Leadership Award 2003.
Great uncle Charles Orr [35] and uncle
Charles [58] and brother Martin [69] all
went to the Academy...and mom
Jane Orr
attended
the junior
college.
Gail ScruggsLauryn [69]
also brother
Charles Scruggs
[56] attended
MPA.
Ariel Lauryn
MPA Valedictorian 2004.
Brother Eric Lauryn will be a 2007 graduate.
AJ Kell y
MPA 2004
Ron Drynan, Jr. MPA [79]
(left) former alumni
association officer and
president.
Brothers, John [79] and
Dotlgias [86], sister Ruth
[84] and father Ron
Drynan, Sr. [49] (below)
attended MPA.
Amelia Rogers
MPA 2004
Rogers
[69]
I "n'~..,. alumni assOCIation officer
president.
Mike's older daughter
IChristina [99] attended MPA.
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PATHWAY BRICK CAMPAIGN
Honor a family member orfriend with a persOlwlized pathway brick on the Morgan Park Academy campus.
Your contribution of$100 will provide a permanent tribute for a loved one and SUppOJ1 outstanding education
at MPA. Each brick may be primed with up to three lines, including an individual orfamily name,
as well as your message (class year, "in memory of," etc.).
Fill in the boxes be/ow with your message. Leave a space
between words. Each line accommodates up [014 charaaers,
including spaces. Bricks are placed in the Jones Bowl pathway
between the flagpole and the Arts Center. To order additional
bricks, simply copy thisform.
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Name:
Address: -,_ __ _ _ _ __ _ _ __ _ _ __ _ __
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Pltone:
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Clteck
VISA / MasterCard
Metltod ofPayment:
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Exp. _ _ __
Signatllre: _ _ _ _ _ _ __ __ _ __ _ _ __ _ __ _
Make your check payable to:
MORGAN PARK ACADEMY
Please fax or mail your completed form to:
Byfax: 773/881-8017
By mail: Morgan Park Academy
Development Office
2153 W . III til Street
Chicago, IL 60643
*Your dOllotioll is tax-deductible to tlte exff!l1ll/ta/ tlte illlema/ Revel/tic Code allolYs. Since YO llr bn"ck remoius 011 fhe properly of Morgol/ Park
Academy, 110 goods or services are pnwitied to Ihe dOltor by Morga/1 Park AC(l(/emy il/ excltallgefor a elt aritable dolta/jOit .
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Ms. Melissa Maggiotto
Mrs. Karen Schulenberg
Meersman [SO]
Ms. Marilyn Meunier [72]
Ms. Michelle Murphy [SO]
Oberweis Dairy
Mr. Marc Odier & Mrs. Marilyn
Hanzal
Rev. William O'Donnell
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Owens
Ms. Lynda Pariso
Mrs. Jane George Przyborski [66]
Mrs. Ellen Weiss Rissman [71]
Mrs. Nancy Montgomery
Runyon [74]
SchoolCash.Com
Dr. Ronald Seavoy [49]
Mr. Robert Shetler [46]
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Dr. Leon Slota & Dr. Susan Lambert
Mrs. Allison Reitz Smith [77]
Sony Electronics
Ms. Anna Stange
Ms. Jean Waterman
Mr. Michael Webb [9S]
Mrs. Susan Waitkus Westcott [7S]
Mr. Robert A. Whitfield [44]
Mr. and Mrs. Kurt Williamson
Ltc. Robert Woolson [39]
Salute to Excellence 2004
Platinum Society - $5,000 +
Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth Bielinski
Dr. and Mrs. Wilfred Boarden
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Fuller
Jam Associates
Joint Marketing Specialists, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. William Mastro
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Nichols
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Salerno
Mr. and Mrs. James Seward
Gold Society - $2,500 +
Balemaster - Illinois Tool
Dr. Terrence Bartolini & Dr. Carol
Braun
Mr. and Mrs. John Biel
Mr. and Mrs. Crane D'Louhy
Mr. Richard Guminski & Mrs.
Chris Guminksi
Mr. and Mrs. Kermit Kelly
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Linnerud
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Pellar
Dr. and Mrs. Antanas Razma
Mr. Irv Ruder
Dr. and Mrs. M. Nabil Shabeeb
Mr. and Mrs. James Smith
Mr. Aloysius Stonitsch & Mrs.
Helen Witt
Ms. Linda Wolgamott
Silver Society - $ 1,000 +
Mr. and Mrs. J. William Adams
Ms. Michelle Alfano-Ortiz
Ms. Joyce Bonner
Dr. James Bray & Dr. Linda Janus
Mr. and Mrs. Alex Brusha
Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Catania
Mr. and Mrs. Sanjiv Chadha
Mr. Shawn Concannon
Mr. and Mrs. John Craven
Crown Corr
Mr. and Mrs. Ronney Deanes
Mr. and Mrs. William Dods
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Erzen
Mr. Michael Flannery & Ms. Susan
Larson
Dr. and Mrs. H. G. Frank
Dr. Arvind Gandhi and Dr. Jayshree
Bhatt
Mr. Jeffrey Gilbert & Ms. Malinda
Steele
Dr. and Mrs. Richard Green
Ms. Donalda Hingston
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Hoyles
Mr. Darrell Jackson and Dr.
Valencia Ray
Johnson, Jones, Snelling, Gilbert &
Davis
Dr. John Keane & Dr. Shirley
Maides-Keane
Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Kenny
Mr. Kenneth Konecki
Mr. David and Mrs. Gail Scruggs
[69] Lauryn
Marina Cartage, Inc.
MastroNet
Mat Leasing, Inc.
Ms. Elizabeth Olesker
Mr. and Mrs. Joel Pelz
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Petkus
Dr. and Mrs. Gerardo Reyes
Mr. and Mrs. Neal Rosner
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Sipich
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Slaughter
Mr. and Mrs. Mariano Sori-Marin
Mr. and Mrs. John Stratta
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Taft
Thilman & Filippini
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Thomas
Mr. and Mrs. John Tubutis
Dr. Samir Wassef & Dr. Wafaa
Hanna
Bronze Society - $500 +
Ms. Nancy Alfano
Auburn Supply Company
Mr. and Mrs. Jeremiah Barry
Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Baum
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Bertoletti
Mrs. Cheryl Blackwell-Bryson
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bollacker
Mr. James Bremer & Ms. Margaret
O'Brien-Bremer
C & C Waste Management
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Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
and Mrs. Rachit Dhingra
and Mrs. Kevin Doherty
and Mrs. Thomas Dryjanski
and Mrs. Robert Eichinger
and Mrs. Clarke Gillespie
Joseph Grassi [43]
Steven and Mrs. Sara White
[71] Grassi
Mr. James Hansen & Mrs. Roseann
de la Paz-Hansen
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Harmening
Mr. David and Dr. Maria Hibbs
Mr. and Mrs. David Jones
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Jucewicz
Mr. James Kowalsky & Dr. Vicki
Williams
Dr. and Mrs. Ajit Kumar
Dr. & Mrs. Joseph LaBlanc
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Lambrecht
Dr. Rachel Lindsey
Mr. and Mrs. Elias Litos
Mr. and Mrs. Minas Litos
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Marmo
Dr. and Mrs. Danilo Martinez
Mr. Jay Mikulski
Mr. and Mrs. John Mikulski, Jr.
Mr. John Mikulski
MPA Folks
Mr. Marc Odier & Mrs. Marilyn
Hanzal
Dr. Brian O'Leary and Dr. Elaine
Cheng
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Olivieri
Dr. and Mrs. Richard O'Young
Dr. Peter Perrotta & Dr. Sharon
Kraus
Mr. and Mrs. Terence Raser
Mr. and Mrs. Rodd Rasmussen
Dr. and Mrs. Mohammed Sahloul
Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Sharp
Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Sheppard
Mr. Allan Teske
Mr. M. L. Tew [48]
Ms. Barbara Thomas
Mrs. Brenda Thomas-Asaju
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Thompson
Mr. and Mrs. Dean Vallas
Mr. Hobart Van Deventer [39]
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Verdino
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Volkmann
Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Walker
Mr. and Mrs. James Wardlaw
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Wiegel
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wimp
Gala Club - $100 +
Dr. and Mrs. Anil Agarwal
Alderman Ginger Rugai
Ms. Lynn Alleruzzo & Ms.
Charlene Crotty
Mrs. Margaret Allison
Arlington International Racecourse
Mrs. Harriet Arnold
Mrs. Helen Ayers
Beverly Area Planning Assocation
Mr. Jerome Bonner and Mrs. Joyce
Ann Gardner-Bonner
Dr. and Mrs. Larry Brown
Ms. Jessica Bushey
Mr. and Mrs. James Campbell
Campbell & Company
Mr. and Mrs. John Cater
Mr. Robert Cecrle [50]
Center for Pych Services
Chesterfield Savings & Loan
Association
Mr. and Mrs. Nick Choinis
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Cohen
Mr. and Mrs. William Collins
Country House Restaurant
Mr. Robert Crist [70]
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Dal Corobbo
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Danielewicz
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Deanes
Mr. and Mrs. Dalyn Drown
Dr. C. Elise Duffy
Mr. and Mrs. Randy Emer
Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Engelien
Mr. and Mrs. John Enright
F & B Construction Services
First Attorney Consultants, Ltd.
Mr. and Mrs. John Fitzgerald
Mr. Francis Flynn [4S]
Franklin Framing, Inc.
Mr. William Gaps [52]
Ms. Alice Gately
George Poulos & Associates
Dr. C. W. Getz [42]
Ms. Dorothy Weisand Giese [64]
Mr. Donald Glover
Ms. Elizabeth Gradle
Dr. Marlene Green
Mr and Mrs. Michael Gruber
Mr. Harry Hager, Jr. [4S]
Mr. Gary Harada
Ms. Patricia Hibbs
Ms. Dawn Hillstrom
Mr. Edward James
Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Javorski
John Sheehy & Sons Funeral Home
Ms. Teresa Jones
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Keelan
Dr. and Mrs. Antoun Koht
Mr. Edward Kole [53]
Mr. and Mrs. John Kolzow
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Kosinski
Mr. Donald Kreger [47]
Mr. Gus Kumis [69]
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Lazo
Dr. Richard Lewis
Mr. William Liptak [49]
Little Company of Mary Hospital
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Long
Mr. and Mrs. George Macey
Ms. Melissa Maggiotto
Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Maloney
Mr. Edward Mancini
Ms. Susan Mangels
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Marovitch
Ms. Connie McGee
Mr. and Mrs. Donald McGrath
Robert and Mary McGuire
Ms. Fern McNamara
Mr. James Meek [50]
Midwest Anesthesiologists
Ms. Maria Mohl
Dr. Deborah Montgomery
Mr. Robert Montgomery [72]
Morgan Park Auto Service
Mr. and Mrs. Niko Mourgelas
MPA Alumni Affairs
MPA Business Office
MPA Mothers' Club
MPA Physical Ed Department
MPA Salute
Ms. Michelle Murphy [SO]
Rev. William O'Donnell
Dr. and Mrs. Allan Olthoff
Orthospine Center, Ltd.
Ms. Michele Ostrowski
Dr. and Mrs. Kaushik Pandya
Mr. and Mrs. Scott Panozzo
Dr. and Mrs. Dilipkumar Parikh
R. W. Collins, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Cornel Raab
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Mr. and Mrs. Julius Rhodes
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Roos
Mr. Frank Ruafflo
Mr. Michael Salerno [02]
Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Sarabia
Ms. Susan Shimmin' 66
Ms. Verneta Simon [7S]
Mr. Gene Simonson [45]
Mr. Vijay and Dr. Priti Singh
Mr. John Stack [61]
Mr. John Stewart [47]
Mr. and Mrs. Jason Stone
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Story
Dr. and Mrs. Rhay Street
Ms. Debbie Summers
Ms. Martha Herriott Swift [52]
The Washington & Jane Smith
Home
Mrs. Winnie Theodore
Ms. Angenette Thomas
Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Thrall
Mr. Thomas Tieman [ 4S]
Tinley Park Frozen Foods
Ms. Jean Tourville
TR Communications, Inc.
Ms. Janice Tucker-Shepard
Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Vasquez
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Voss
Ms. Jean Waterman
Mrs. Elizabeth White
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Williams
Dr. Mark Williams and Dr.
Stephanie Whyte
Mr. and Mrs. Kurt Williamson
Dr. and Mrs. Leon Witkowski
MPA Club - Up to $99
Ms. Mary Bayer
In Memory of Richard Berliner [45]
Mr. and Mrs. Aldolph Biel
Ms. Christine Burdick
Calabria Imports
Mr. and Mrs. Antony Carter
Ms. Mary Cascio
County Fair
Mr. Francis CuIlina
Ms. Carole Dwyer
Mr. and Mrs. George Eck
Ms. Lynn Fisher
Florida Plastics International, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. James Griffin
Ms. Cynthia Heywood
Mr. and Mrs. John Higgins
Ms. Rosa Jackson
Mr. and Mrs. Brian Kane
Kenneth Mercury - Insurance
Agency
Ms. Sharon Kinsella
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kunke
Ms. Roberta Lester
Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie Lewis
Ms. Lori Ludwig
Mr. Thomas Malcolm
Hon. Kathleen McGury
Mr. and Mrs. David Mekarski
Ms. Mary Miller
Mrs. Helen Morong
Mortenson Roofing Company, Inc.
Ned Savide, DDS, Ltd.
Mr. and Mrs. Byron Nelson
Ortigara Musicville
Palos Sports
Patio Food Products, Inc.
Mr. Carl Pettigrew
Ms. Debra Powell
R. Jean Gallery in LaGrange
RAE Products & Chemicals
Southern Illinois University
Southern Living at Home
Mr. Bryan Spencer & Mrs. Pamela
Randle-Spencer
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Ms. Kathleen Sternagle
Steuber Florist
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Storti
Suburban Bank & Trust Company
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Swanson
Town Liquors
Ms. Anne Vasselli
Mr. Kevin Waller & Mrs. Jean
Roche
Walsh Services, Inc.
Wentworth Tire
Mr. Gerald Williams
Mr. and Mrs. James Woods
Salute Giving In Kind
A Woman's Place
Mr. and Mrs. 1. William Adams
Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum
Dr. and Mrs. Anil Agarwal
Dr. and Mrs. Azaz Ahmed
Ms. Nancy Alfano
Dr. Liza Allen
Ms. Peg Allison
Alverno College
American Theater Company
American Gramaphone
Loni Anderson
Julie Andrews
Anonymous
ARS Recording Studio
Henny Backus
Joan Baez
Ball State University
Bally Total Fitness
Mr. Daniel Baltierra
Banana Leaf
Barry University
Baseball Alley
Dr. Garfield Batchelor & Dr. Minakshi Joshi
Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Baum
Bella Flowers & Greenhouse
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Bertoletti
Dr. and Mrs. Ken Bielinski
Dr. and Mrs. Wilfred Boarden
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bollacker, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bollacker, Sr.
Mr. Dave Bonnan and Ms. Jean Doyle [79]
Border's Books
Mr. Jim Bremer & Mrs. Peggy O'Brien-Bremer
Ms. Ann Brown
Dr. and Mrs. Larry Brown
Ms. Antoinette Bryant
Jeremy Bulloch
James Caan
Calabria Imports
The Calphalon Culinary Center
Calyx and Corolla
Mr. Alan Canfield [59]
Carnegie Mellon University
Carr Gardens
Jose Carreras
Jim Carrey
Carthage College
Ms. Jean Catania
Mr. and Mrs. Sanjiv Chadha
Ray Charles
Chicago Bulls Training Academy
Chicago White Sox Training Academy
Chicago Blackhawks
Chicago Historical Society
Chicago White Sox
Chicago Wolves
Chicago Children's Museum
Chicago State University
Chuck's Pizza
ClaremontiMcKenna College
Coe College
Cole Taylor Bank
Ms. Edna Coleman
Colgate University
ComedySportz of Chicago
Ms. Janet Concannon
Concannon Vineyard
The Cooking Hospitality Institute of Chicago
Country House Restaurants
Mr. and Mrs. Pat Cox
Craven Creations
Mr. and Mrs. John Craven
Joe Crede
Dairyland Greyhound Park
Mrs. Karen Danielewicz
De Paul University's Merle Resking Theater
Mrs. Dolores Delaney
University of Denver
Dermatology Center Associates
Mrs. Gail Desch
Dinkel's Bakery
Ms. Jean Doyle
Mrs. Sandra Drabant
Richard Dreyfuss
Mr. Stephen Driscoll
Mr. and Mrs. Dalyn Drown
Governor Michael Dukakis
Kyle Earman [09]
East Bank Club
East Meets West Acupuncture
Edie Falco
Mrs. Linda Edison
Edward Cardiovascular Institute
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Jack Gibbons Garden
Mr. Darrell Jackson and Dr. Valencia Ray
John Carroll University
The John G. Shedd Aquarium
Mr. Erin Johnson
Joint Marketing Specialists
Kalamazoo College
Kamahachi Restaurant
Mr. John Keane
Mrs. Kathy Keelan
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Kelly
Mr. Kermit [73] and Rose Ann Kelly
Kelly Grafix
Ken Arlen Orchestra
Kendall College
Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Kenny
Mr. Harry Klein [56]
Dr. and Mrs. Antoun Koht
Mr. James Kowalsky
Ms. Mary Kreis
Lisa Kudrow
Mrs. Gina Kurkul
Lake Shore Athletic Club
Lake Surgical Associates
Language and Music School
Laura B Day Spa
Mrs. Maria Lazo
Lehigh University
Jay Leno
Leona's Restaurant
Lettuce Entertain You Restaurants
Mr. Greg Lochow
The Looking Glass Theater
Louie's Chophouse
Loyola University
Macalester College
MacMurray College
Tobey Maguire
Ron Majers
Marian College
Rose Marie
Mrs. Gayann Marmo
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Marmo
Marquette University
Mr. and Mrs. William Mastro
MastroNet
Martina McBride
Senator John McCain
Mr. and Mrs. Don McGrath
Tim McGraw
McKendree College
Menards
Metropolitan Limousine
Mia Alexandra Salon and Spa
Mr. and Mrs. John Eichinger
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Eichinger
Eli's Cheesecake World
Elmhurst College
John Elway
Mike Farrell
Maria Fermi
Fitzjoy Riding Stables
Mr. Mike Flannery and Ms. Susan Larson
Fogo De Chao
Four Seasons Hotel
Fox News Channel
Fox and Obel
Francescas's Vicinato Restaurants
Fuji Japanese Steakhouse
Mrs. Sharon Fuller
Fuller's Car Wash
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Garcia
Garden of Yoga
Gideon's Crossing
Mr. Jeff Gilbert and Ms. Malinda Steele
The Glass Junkie
Golden Eagle Martial Arts
Ms. Elizabeth Gradle
Grand Valley State University
Granite Place
Mr. Steve and Mrs. Sara [71] Grassi
Grinnell College
Mr. Donald Grover
Mr. Michael Guihan [91]
Sammy Hagar
Harrah's Casino
Harvard University
Mrs. Sara Haskins
Tony Hawk
Hawthorne Race Course
Charlton Heston
Mr. David and Dr. Maria Hibbs
Mr. and Mrs. John Higgins
Hillsdale College
Hilton Oak Lawn
Mrs. Donalda Hingston
Hollins University
David Horowitz
Howard University
The Humane Society
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hunt
Rachel Hunter
Illinois Institute of Technology
The Improv
Indiana University
Innisbrook Wraps
University of Iowa
Ithaca College
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Miami University
University of Michigan
Mr. John Mikulski "in memory of Gerrie Mikulski"
Mr. John Mikulski
Millikin University
Mr. and Mrs. Niko Mourgelas
MPA 4 Year Old Preschool
MPA 1st Grade
MPA 2nd Grade
MPA 3rd Grade
MPA 4th Grade
MPA 5th Grade
MPA 6th Grade
MPA 7th Grade
MPA 8th Grade
MPA 9th Grade
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MPA Lower School
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MPA Upper School
MPA Cheerleaders
MPA Fathers' Club
MPA Mothers' Club
MPA Spanish Students
MPA Music Department
MPA Kindergarten
MPA 3 Year Old Preschool
MPA Summer Program
Mrs. Alyssa Mullaney
Eddie Murphy
Tara Murray
Ms. Terra Murray [94]
MyChauffer
Mr. and Mrs. Byron Nelson
New Mexico College
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Nichols
Marcus Nichols [11]
Max Nichols [08]
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Nichols
Noral Jewelers
Northern Illinois University
University of Notre Dame
Nova Quarter Horses
Oak Lawn Hilton
Oakbrook Racquet and Fitness
Ms. Susan Oczkowski
Mr. Marc Odier and Mrs. Marilyn Hanzal
Ohio State University
Mr. and Mrs. Allan Olthoff
Magglio Ordonez
Mary Kay, Inc.
Lucy O'Young
Pacini Restaurant
Passions
Performance Limo
Mr. Al Petkus
Mr. Carl Pettigrew, Sr.
University of Pittsburg
Pitzer College
Pizza Hut
The Pleasant Company
Portia Paperweights
Premier Designs
Mark Prior
Purdue University
Quincy University
Mr. Dale Ralston
Mrs. Liz Raser
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Raser
Mrs. Joyce Rasmussen
Mr. Ryan Rasmussen [05]
Ravinia Festival
Dr. and Mrs. Antanas Razma
Reading on Walden Bookstore
Reed College
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Reiter
Relaxation Station
Replogle Globes, Inc.
Governor Ann Richards
Mrs. Beth Robertson
Rock Island Grind & Grill
Kenny Rogers
Mr. Michael Rogers [69] and Ms. Karin Nelson-Rogers
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Roos
Victoria Rowell
Royal Travel
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Salerno
Mr. Michael Salerno [02]
Schezwan East
Ms. Dawn Schneider
Score Tennis & Fitness
The Second City
Sesame Inn
Mr. and Mrs. James Seward
Dr. and Mrs. M. Nabil Shabeeb
Mark Shale
Mr. Jim Shaw
Shaw's Crabhouse
Ms. Susan Shimmin [66]
Silver Lake Country Club
Simply Stated
Ms. Becky Singh
Mrs. Kathy Sipich
Mrs. Martha Slaughter
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Smith
Southern Living at Home
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Southwest Airlines
Spirit Cruises
Jerry Springer
St. Mary's College
St. Xavier University
Ms. Anna Stange
Ms. Kathy Sternagle
Steuber Florist & Greenhouse
Mr. AI Stonitsch and Ms. Helen Witt
Subway #6267
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Swanson
Syracuse University
Richard Szkarlat & MPA Maintenance Crew
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Taft
Mr. Allan Teske
Theatre Building - Chicago
Ms. Brenda Thomas-Asaju
Ms. Angenette Thomas
Mr. and Mrs. Steve Thomas
Three's Company Interiors
Through the Looking Glass
Tinley Park Meats & Frozen Foods
Tommy Bahama
Trinity College
Truefitt and Hill
Mr. and Mrs. John Tubutis
TUSA of Palos Heights
U. S. Airforce Academy
Untouchable Tours
Valparaiso University
Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Vasquez
Kelly Starr & Patrick Berklich of Vedder Price
Victory Gardens
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Volkmann
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Wardlaw
Dr. and Mrs. Jesse Warlow
Washington University
Mr. Michael WeB
Mr. and Mrs. Marc Wells
Western Illinois University
Mrs. Elizabeth White
Mr. Mark [79] and Mrs. Jeri Wiegel
William Woods University
Mr. and Mrs. Bryron Williams
Dr. Vicki Williams
Wilton Enterprises
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Wolgamott
Ms. Linda Wolgamott
World Wrestling Federation
Wynton Marsalies Enterprises
Zanies Nite Club
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Annual Giving Fund - Gift In Kind
Mr. and Mrs. 1. William Adams
Ms. Michelle Alfano-Ortiz
Mr. Vernon Bell & Ms. Adrienne
Henry
Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth Bielinski
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Blondis
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bollacker
Dr. and Mrs. Melvin Bunn
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Churchill
Mr. and Mrs. Antoun Collins
Mr. and Mrs. William Collins
Ms. Claire Concannon [85]
Mr. and Mrs. John Craven
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Dryjanski
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Eichinger
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Frierson
Mr. and Mrs. Steven Grassi
Dr. and Mrs. Rodney Greene
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Harmening
Mr. David and Dr. Maria Hibbs
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Ingram
Mr. Darryl King & Mrs. Cynthia
Pleasant-King
Dr. and Mrs. Daniel Luetkehans
Mr. Thomas Malcolm
Mr. Hershey Norise & Mrs. Emma
Webb-Norise
Mr. Richard Patrick & Dr. Nanette
James-Patrick
Mr. Kshetij Patwa & Dr. Kathryn
Bryan
R. W Collins
Dr. and Mrs. Gerardo Reyes
Mr. Michael Rogers & Ms. Karin
Nelson-Rogers
Mr. Nathan Ross & Mrs. Stephanie
Cox-Ross
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Salerno
In Memory of Mr. James Stokes [54]
Dr. and Mrs. Rhay Street
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Taylor
Mrs. Brenda Thomas-Asaju
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Thompson
Mr. and Mrs. John Tubutis
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Williams
Mr. and Mrs. Wladyslaw Wodziak
Funds
Campaign
Ayers Scholarship Fund
Claudette LeRose Scholarship Fund
Crist Scholarship Fund
Crist Scholarship Fund
Crist Scholarship Fund
Crist Scholarship Fund
Francis S. Gray Scholarship Fund
Francis S. Gray Scholarship Fund
George Wiegel Scholarship Fund
George Wiegel Scholarship Fund
George Wiegel Scholarship Fund
George Wiegel Scholarship Fund
MPA Faculty Endowment Fund
MPA Faculty Endowment Fund
Restricted Giving
Donor Name
In Memory of A. Richard Ayers [36]Mrs. Helen Ayers
Ms. Claire Concannon [85]
The Robert and Barbara Crist Foundation
Mr. Robert Crist [70]
Mr. Warren Crist [63]
Mrs. Josephine Kirk [71]
Dr. Calvin Johnson [46]
Martha G. Moore Foundation, Inc.
Mr. Ronald Elmore and Mrs. Janet Wiegel-Elmore [60]
Dr. Raymond E. Wiegel [31]
Ms. Joanne Wiegel Meier [57] and Family
Ms. Jean Wiegel
Mr. and Mrs. Barry Kritzberg
Salute to Excellence 2004
Mr. Mark [79] and Mrs. Jeri Wiegel
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Annual Report 2003·2004
Audited Financial Summary
(July 1, 2003 • June 30, 2004)
Assets:
Cash and Cash Equivalents ............................................ $
708,214
Investments............................................................... $
766,718
Receivables ................................................................ $
594,935
Pre-paid Expenses....................................................... $
139,898
Plant and Equipment..................................................... $
2,051,270
LongTerm Receivables .................................................._$..:....-_ _
34_6~,3_3_6_
Total Assets ••....•...........•.•••..•..•••.••••.•••••.•••....•...•...• $
4,607,371
Liabilities and Net Assets:
Liabilites
Accounts Payable......................................................... $
136,552
Notes Payable ............................................................. $
36,942
Accrued Payroll/Expenses .............................................. $
148,428
Deferred Revenue........................................................ $
1,410,321
Long Term Liabilities ..................................................... _$..:....-_2.....:,_10_9~,_19_9_
Total Liabilites... .•••.. •••••..... ••••••....•••...•••...••........•..•. $
3,841,442
Net Assets
Unrestricted................................................................ $
(1,263,382)
Temporarily Restricted ..................................................._$..:....-_2.....:,;....02_9~,3_1_1_
Total Net Assets •..•••••.••••••••.....•••••....•••..••............... $
765,929
Total Liabilities and Net Assets: .••••••....•••...•••..•••..••....•. , $
4,607,371
Income:
Tuition Income............................................................. $
5,504,348
Program Services......................................................... $
250,840
Student Services ......................................................... $
43,973
Auxiliary Services......................................................... $
96,820
Investment Income ........................................................ $
11,709
Annual Giving and Fundraising ........................................ $
1,189,845
Other Revenue ............................................................._$..:....-_ _
15_0....:.,,6_1_3_
Total Income .•..........•.....••••.•.....•••••••••••••••••••••••••..•. $
7,248,148
Expenses:
Employee Compensation............................................... $
4,142,879
Employee Benefits........................................................ $
1,004,595
Instructional Expenses................................................... $
132,332
Student Services .......................................................... $
162,308
Auxiliary Services......................................................... $
76,828
General Administration .................................................. $
287,264
Admissions and Marketing .............................................. $
75,774
Advancement and Fundraising........................................ $
338,809
Building and Grounds.................................................... $
41,981
Utilities....................................................................... $
186,607
Computers and Major Projects ........................................ $
29,779
Other Operating Expenses............................................. $
185,457
Bad Debt Recovery....................................................... $
(8,502)
Depreciation ................................................................ _$..:....-_ _13_5~,3_1_4_
Total Expenses ..•...........................................•......•. $
6,791,425
Net change in assets ................................................ $
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456,723
INCOME
2. 1%
16, 4%
Tuition Income .. "......... .. .......... ..... .......... ..... ................ " .
Program Services .. . .
Investment Income ..... ....... ... ............. . " ... ......... .
Annual Giving and Fundraising ............ .. . .... .. .................... .
Other Revenue
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
Total Income ............. ..... ... .. .. .. ......... . ... ••••. ...... ... .....
$
Student Services
Auxiliary Services .................. .
5.504 .348 75.9%
3.5%
250.840
43.973
0.6%
96.820
1. 3%
11,709
0.2%
1.189.845 16.4%
150.613
2.1%
7.248,148 100.0%
EXPENSES
Employee Compensation ......... ••.............. •••
Employee Benefits ................... .. ...... .
Instructio nal Expenses ...................... .•"
Student Services .... ..... ..... .. ......... ... .. .
Auxiliary Services .......... .
General Administration .......... .
Admissions and Marketing ................ ...•. •............. ... .. •.......
Advancement and Fundraising ........ .... . .. ................... ........ .
Building and Grounds .................. .. ..................... .. .......... .
Utilities..
.. ........ ................................. .... ....... .. ..
Computers and Major Projects .....
Other Operatin g Expenses
Bad Debt Re cove ry.
Depreciation . ........ .
Total Expenses ......... ............. ................. .. ..... .. ... ..... ..
Total Income .... .......... ...... ........ ... .. ... .. .... ....... .. ............
Total Expenses ... ...... . .. . ... .. . .......... .. ... ... ............ .. ... .. .. ..
Net increase in assets.. ......... .......... ....... .. ............. ... .. ...
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$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
S
4.142.879 61.0%
1.004 ,595 14.8%
132,332
1.9%
162.308
2.4%
1.1%
76.828
287.264
4.2%
1.1%
75.774
338,809
5.0%
41.98 1
0.6%
2.7%
186.607
0.4%
29.779
185,457
2.7%
(8,502) -0.1 %
2.0%
135.314
6.791 ,425 100.0%
S
7.248,148
-.:S"--_-'6"',7"9",1".4,,,2,,5,,$
456,723
Board Designated Unrestricted Net Assets
As of June 30, 2004
1 Henry W. Kennedy Memorial Fund
1 Davis Boyd Fund
2 Morgan Park Academy Endowment Fund
4 Heilman Family Endowment
1 Donald E. Coller
1 Ross Widney Beatty
4 Loring Fund
2 Alice H. Baer
1 George E. Wiegel Memorial
3 Edward E. Ford Foundation
3 Martin Wolf Fund
1 Jerome A. Thrall Scholarship Fund
1 Andrew Bitta Scholarship Fund
2 Donald Mancini Fund
2 War Memorial Fund
1 Captain Gray Fund
3 Claudette LeRose Fund
4 Mrs. Patricia Grassi Memorial
1 Phyllis Montgomery Fund
3 Morgan Park Academy Faculty Endowment
4 Morgan Park Academy Restricted Fund
4 Morgan Park Academy Undesignated Fund
4 Morgan Park Academy Staff Endowment
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
2004
4,132
2,438
23,229
1,743
8,827
34,354
51,330
336,651
11,792
165,335
11,957
45,809
13,448
201,698
3,185
47,942
7,768
513
3,080
130,949
20,423
128,042
3,431
$ 1,258,076
1 Combines to make the Scholarship Endowment Fund value
$
2 Combines to make the Capital Endowment Fund value
$
3 Combines to make the Faculty Endowment Fund value
$
$
4 Combines to make the Undesignated Endowment Fund value
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171,822
564,763
316,009
205,482
2003
4,091
$
2,414
$
$ 22,996
1,725
$
8,541
$
$ 34,010
$ 50,816
$ 343,956
$ 11,180
$ 163,680
$ 11,838
$ 45,350
$ 13,314
$ 199,679
3,153
$
$ 32,612
7,195
$
$
508
3,049
$
$ 105,111
15,269
$
77,160
$
3,397
$
$1,161,044
Mark your calendars and
plan to attend
Salute to Excellence
Saturday
March 12, 2005
Four Seasons Hotel
Chicago
Sara White 1711 Grassi ami
Headmaster, Bill Al/allls display
Alumlli Leadership Award for
Jerome A. Thrall IMPMA 44}.
Event Co-Chairs
Marilyn and Marc Odier
Parents of Thomas [12] and Mackenzie [14]
Event Information
Betsy Olesker
773-881-6700 ext. 230
www.morganparkacademy.org
/lose A 1111 all(/ Kermit 1731 Kelly,
Co-Chairs ofStllllte 2004
Proceeds will benefit the effort to build a new gymnasium complex.
Please join us for a
festive evening of dining,
dancing, auctions and fun at
Morgan Park Academy's
biggest social event and
fundraiser of the year.
EvelYOtle who's /Ulvillg/itll, raiseY01t1" h(fllt/s!
Engaging in timehonored rituals like springcleaning sometimes can
have surprising results.
Martha Herriott Swift
1521 , a former foreign
language teacher and
department chair at MPA
and her husband, Dean
Miller, were moving a
piano when something unpiano-like fell out of the
back.
The un-pia no-like thing
proved to be a photograph
of the 1904 graduating
class of Morgan Park
Academy ofthe University
of Chicago.
How the photograph
got there is, of course,
anyone's guess, but it may
have had something to do
with .f rving Herriott 1041 , the fellow at the right end of the top row, who was Martha's ancestor.
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