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Our Mission
At Dublin School, we strive to awaken a
curiosity for knowledge and a passion for
learning. We instill the values of discipline and
meaningful work that are necessary for the
good of self and community. We respect the
individual
learning style and
unique potential each student brings to our
School. With our guidance, Dublin students
become men and women who seek truth and act
with courage.
Dubliner
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Fall 2014
The Magazine of Dublin School
“Involve me
and I will
understand.”
• A View Without a Room
• The Rock Garden
• Looking Back with No Regrets
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Dublin School Graduation—The Class of 2014
First Row:
Blythe Lawrence, Pembroke Bermuda (Gemology Institute of America, London), Mylisha
Drayton, Endicott, NY (Clark University, MA), Yiran Ouyang, Shenzhen China (Wesleyan
University, CT), Stephanie Figueroa, Lawrence, MA (Middlesex Community College, MA),
Riley Jacobs, Dayton, OH (Ohio University), Mekhi Crooks, Brooklyn, NY (Emmanuel College,
MA), Molly Witten, Bethesda, MD (Wheaton College, MA), Atsede Assayehgen, Cambridge,
MA (Barnard College, NY), Anna Sigel, Manchester, NH (Wheelock College, MA) Anna Rozier,
Westport, CT (St. Olaf College, MN) Alyssa Jones, Jaffrey, NH (Mt. Holyoke, MA) Molly
Forgaard, Hollis, NH (Bennington College, VT)
Middle Row:
Zhiyu Pan, Shanghi, China (Emory University, GA) Dong Min Sun, Seoul Korea (School of the
Art Institute of Chicago, IL) Yuan Feng, Shenzhen China (UC Santa Barbara) Julia Marcou,
Singapore (Clark University, MA) Mo Zhou, Shezhen, China (UC Santa Cruz, CA) Alex Rogoff,
Beachwood, OH (Lynn University, FL) Ben Wright, Acton, Ma (Florida Institute of Technology)
Max Clary, Chevy Chase, MD (Lewis & Clark University, OR) Phoebe Knox, Scituate,
MA (Simmons College, MA) Tyler Jones, Brooklyn, NY (Pomona College) Kenny Navedo,
Washington, NJ (Wesleyan University, CT) Charley Neisner, Leverett, MA (Lasell College, MA)
Ben Phillips, Norwell, MA (Franklin & Marshall, PA) Adam Bloom, Dayton, OH (Trinity
College, CT) Brendan Palmer, Dublin, NH (Clarkson University, NY)
Back Row:
Shutong Luo, Beijing China (Renssalear Polytech Institute, NY) Edward Lawrence, Pembroke
Bermuda (Dalhousie University, Toronto) Suk Hun Cho, Seoul Korea (New York University)
Emmet Darman, McLean, VA (Wheaton College, MA) Andrew Parnes, Mount Kisco, NY
(SUNY Brockport, NY) Cem Ozdeliorman, Istanbul Turkey (Lynn University, FL) Peter
Dunphy, Fairfax, VA (Wesleyan University, CT)
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Fall 2014 • Volume 2 • Number 1
14 The Genius
of Place
“What a prospect! And what a
potential! It would be the most
beautifully located school in the
world!”
By Henry Walters
20 From My Side
of the Desk
Students were asked to limn a
teacher they admire in a few words
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22 The Power of
Endurance Sports
“Why are people in New Hampshire
so proud of their Granite State?”
By Brad Bates
26 Choose a Job
You Love...
“And all I ask is a merry yarn from
a laughing fellow-rover, And quiet
sleep and a sweet dream when the
long trick’s over.”
By Jan Haman
Departments
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2 Message from the
Head of School
4 Season Opener
6 Dublin Life
26 Truth and Courage
34 Alumni News & Notes
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Erika L. Rogers
Director of Development and
Alumni Affairs
Associate Editor
Donna Stone
Alumni & Parent Relations
Copy Editors
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Design
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Printing
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Photography
Bill Gnade, Peter Imhoff P’13, 18,
Anne Mackey, Donna Stone,
Rachel Portesi
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every effort to ensure that it is accurate.
Please send any comments, omissions, or
corrections to Erika L. Rogers, Director
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On the cover:
Tatum Wilson ’16 in a Dublin
School iDesign course.
Photograph: Peter Imhoff
Quote: “Involve me and I will
understand.” –Chinese Proverb
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Building Endurance
By Brad Bates, Head of School
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elcome to this edition
of The Dubliner! This issue
is filled with topics near
and dear to my heart: the power of
endurance sports, the role of our
extended campus in the education
of our students and alumni, faculty
making a difference in the lives of
young people, alumni following their
dreams, and the generosity that
allows our community to continue
to build on the enduring vision of
the Lehmann Family. Speaking of
enduring, I have been thinking a great
deal about the role of endurance in
the education of our students. What
makes something enduring? Most
things that are lasting and permanent, like the Lehmann’s vision, took
significant effort, time and persistence to create. We live in a popular
culture defined by the pursuit of instant gratification, one celebrating shortcuts to success and
pleasure. I would argue, however, that this culture leads to unhappiness, depravity, and isolation.
Dublin School, from its founding in 1935, with its emphasis on Work Gang, deep academic work,
the arts, the out- of- doors, athletics, meaningful relationships and community effort, stands as a
beacon of hope against such a culture.
Students and adults learn at Dublin that joy, reward, confidence, fulfillment, health, growth
and even love result from commitment, sacrifice, struggle, failure, persistence, and grit—or what
I would refer to as endurance. Lest this sound overly draconian, I would argue that our students
are among the happiest you will find in this country. Tatum, the young woman on the cover of
this magazine, represents a great example of someone who finds success through endurance.
Tatum is one of our most curious and hardest working students—she challenges herself with
difficult courses like the iDesign class where the photo was taken, and goes above and beyond to
achieve lasting understandings. She is the top cross country runner in the River Valley Athletic
League, qualified for the New Hampshire team at the 16 and under New England Championships
in cross country skiing, and rowed in the four-oared boat that earned a bronze medal at the
Scholastic National Regatta last June. While I cannot speak for her, Tatum appears to be quite
happy, proud and humble — qualities that I discover over and over again in our Dublin School
students and alumni.
I hope you enjoy this issue and I thank Erika Rogers and her wonderful team for putting
together such a terrific magazine. ■
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Dublin School
Board of Trustees
2014-2015
Chair of the Board,
Peter Imhoff and
Brad Bates enjoying
another day at Dublin.
President
Peter Imhoff P ’13, ’18
Dublin, NH
Co-Vice President
Michael J. Mullins ’93
Boston, MA
Co-Vice President
L. Phillips Runyon III P ’88, ’92,
GP ’18
Peterborough, NH
Treasurer
George B. Foote, Jr.
Dublin, NH
Secretary
Sharron Smith P ’92
Hinsdale, NH
Head of School Wish List
Current Need/Wish Granted...........................Cost
Dining Hall Expansion.................................................................................. $1,500,000
PRISM (Programing/Robotics/Innovation/Science/Math) Center ................ $850,000
Faculty Housing............................................................................................... $500,000
Teacher Excellence Endowment Fund............................................................. $250,000
New Hard Surfaced Tennis Courts.................................................................. $200,000
Library Renovation.......................................................................................... $150,000
International Travel Fund............................................................................... $100,000
Dorm Furniture................................................................................................ $100,000
Learning Skills Center Renovation.....................................................................$50,000
Athletic Field Irrigation .....................................................................................$50,000
4-Wheel Utility Vehicle.......................................................................................$50,000
Trail Snow Groomer............................................................................................$40,000
Tree Chipper for Trails and Slopes.....................................................................$14,000
Chemistry Fume Hoods (2) ................................................................................$10,000
Tractor Mowing Attachment..............................................................................$10,000
Funding for Senior Mastery Projects...................................................................$5,000
Basketball Equipment...........................................................................................$3,500
Flatbed Trailer.......................................................................................................$3,500
Large Format Photo Printer.................................................................................$2,500
Smaller gifts towards any of these needs are always appreciated.
Trustees
William A. Barker
Dublin, NH
Jami Bascom P ’13, ’15 (ex-officio)
Parents’ Association
Greenfield, NH
Bradford D. Bates, P ’17 (ex-officio)
Head of School
Dublin, NH
Robert C. English ’86
Washington, DC
Patricia Fletcher H ’05
Worcester, MA
Joseph C. Gibson P ’12
Waterford, VA
Alexander M. Lehmann
New York, NY
Jason D. Potts ’96
Boston, MA
Brett S. Smith ’88
New York, NY
William C. Spencer ’86
Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Alexander T. Sprague ’87
Castro Valley, CA
Timothy Steele P ’11, ’13
Hancock, NH
Nicholas S. Thacher
Dedham, MA
Susanne K. Vogel
Dublin, NH
Carl Von Mertens
Peterborough, NH
Maurice Willoughby ’84, P ’17, ’18
(ex-officio)
Alumni Association
Glen Rock, NJ
Lifetime Trustees
Louisa L. Birch ’57
Dublin, NH
Carlos E. Bosch ’46, P ’78, ’79, ’83
Hamilton, Bermuda
Judith Hoyt Goddard H ’11
Chatham, MA
Paul S. Horovitz P ’92
Gloucester, MA
David E. Howe H ’95
Peterborough, NH
Margaret A. Johnson
Hanover, NH
Carleton R. Ladd ’60, P ’87, ’88
Milton, MA
H. Gilman Nichols, Jr. ’46
Brunswick, ME
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The Andromeda Galaxy
This image was captured at the Perkin Observatory by Director
Joseph Putko as a result of advanced imaging techniques to
expose the greatest detail in the galaxy. The Perkin Observatory
balances STEM independent studies with lab activities for courses
and extensive community outreach.
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Commencement 2014
Excerpts of graduation speeches
B r a d f o r d D. B a t e s
“When I think of the Class of 2014 the word that
comes to mind is “change.” In my six years at Dublin
I have never witnessed a group of individuals change
and grow as much as all of you have during your time
here. You have also seen the school go through many
changes, and that, I am sure, has been both exciting
and at times disorienting. With change, something is
lost and something is gained. What I hope you know is
that all of you have been catalysts of that change. You
have challenged our faculty, staff and administration to
broaden our programs, bring more rigor to our classes,
and seek out greater competition in athletics. Through
two powerful ceremonies over the last two evenings we
have celebrated your accomplishments and your impressive growth. I am so proud of all of you and excited
to see where you will go from here. You are ready to
leave, and yet I believe your class will keep coming back
to Dublin and will help take care of it for the future
generations of young people trying to find their way
through the swamp that adolescence can be.”
Mylisha Dray ton ’14
“I often tell people that Dublin is like my second
home. It is hard to explain, but, to quote Sarah Dessen, home is “Not a place, but a moment, and then
another, building on each other like bricks to create
a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire
life, wherever you may go.” That is exactly why Dublin
is our home. Within this little campus there is so
much. The size does not affect its abilities because
what makes Dublin so special is the aggregate moments that pass us each day. It’s not at every high
school that you get Milk and Cookies every Tuesday
night and spend the night bonding with your dorm
mates; it’s not at every school that your advisor
becomes one of your best friends, and it’s not at every
school that you can be proud to say that you are not
only a group of faculty and students but a family.”
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Peter Dunphy ’14
“There comes a part in every graduation speech to
thank Dublin. I thank Dublin for opening doors that
certainly would not have been opened without it. I
thank Dublin for being the reason that my class is
able to attend the prestigious universities that we
are attending. I thank Dublin for installing a sense of
confidence in me. I am comfortable enough to voice my
opinion and have the courage to speak at graduation
in front of many people that I have never met before,
and more frightening than that is speaking in front of
the people who know me best. I thank Dublin for being
personal enough with me to understand who I am as
a person and under which situations I thrive. I thank
Dublin for helping me realize my potential as a leader
and supporting me with leadership opportunities.”
Nicole Sintetos, Faculty Speaker
“So, my dear, brilliant, infuriating, hilarious, and
insightful Class of 2014: I think it only fitting that
we would end our final exchange, no longer merely as
teacher and student, but as initiated mutual accomplices in life, with an esoteric and cheesy poem about
the passage of time. Come to think of it, it might even
be by Emily Dickinson. And, if you look under the seat
of your chair, you will find your personal copy because
you can’t be fully initiated unless you read it out loud
with me.”
Finite— to fail, but infinite to Venture—
For the one ship that struts the shore
Many’s the gallant—overwhelmed Creature
Nodding in Navies nevermore.
Look back on time with kindly eyes,
He doubtless did his best;
How softly sinks his trembling sun
In human nature’s west!
—Emily Dickinson
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Three Cheers for Ignorance
Commencement Speaker Tim Clark
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ongratulations, seniors. You have completed four more
years of education and lived to tell the tale. You’re on top
of the world. Now you get to go back to the bottom.
But for the next few weeks, you have a chance to bask in the
glow of all that you have learned. And lots of people will remind
you of the priceless value of knowledge.
Not me. I am here to say three cheers for ignorance.
Somebody has to. Ignorance has few defenders. Ignorance is
the bane of our society, we are told. Americans, we are told, are
ignorant of geography, ignorant of mathematics, ignorant of
science, ignorant of grammar, ignorant of our own history and
language. Ignorance is the enemy. Let’s declare war on ignorance!
Let’s not. Instead, let’s take a closer look at our ignorance,
examine where it comes from, and how it happened. In fact,
let’s celebrate our ignorance.
So here’s my first cheer: Ignorance rules!
The last thousand years of human history have seen a
continuous and astounding increase in our awareness and
understanding of everything from the intricacies of atomic and
subatomic structure to the awesome grandeur of the universe
and its beginnings. But, ironically, every advance in knowledge,
every step up the mountain, has given us a wider and grander
view of what we don’t know.
In those thousand years we have gone from a time in which
one intelligent person might reasonably expect to learn, in one
lifetime, almost everything known, to a time in which all of us,
collectively, have no chance whatsoever to learn even the tiniest
fragment of what is knowable. As the physician and writer Lewis
Thomas put it, “The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th
century science has been the discovery of human ignorance.”
The more we know, the more we know what we don’t know.
“Our knowledge can only be finite,” said the philosopher Karl
Popper, “while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.”
So what are we to do about this apparently hopeless situation? Let’s revel in it! Which brings me to my second cheer:
Ignorance is bliss!
A few years ago, an international team of physicists
announced their discovery that neutrinos have mass. Don’t
ask me to explain it; my ignorance of physics is nearly perfect.
But it was big news that threw scientists into a tizzy all over
the world. “It’s very exciting,” said Nobel Prize winner Leon
Lederman of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. He
added, “It also exacerbates and emphasizes our total confusion.”
More recently, scientists studying the very nature of the universe concluded that 95 percent of it is made up of something
called dark matter -- and we have no idea what it is.
About the only thing that makes a scientist happier than
proof of success is proof of failure. The failure of a theory means
we don’t know what we thought we knew, and that’s good.
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There’s more to be learned.
Another physicist, Heinz
Pagels, wrote: “The capacity
to tolerate complexity and
welcome contradiction, not
the need for simplicity and
certainty, is the attribute
of an explorer.”
That’s so beautiful I have
to say it again: “The capacity to tolerate complexity
and welcome contradiction,
not the need for simplicity
and certainty, is the attribute of an explorer.”
Ignorance will cure
your melancholy, too. My
favorite book is The Once
and Future King, by T. H.
White. It is the story of
King Arthur, from his boyhood to his last days. One
day, when the boy Arthur
is depressed, he goes to his tutor, Merlin the wizard, who gives
him this advice:
“The best thing for being sad is to learn something. That is
the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling
in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the
disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may
see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know
your honor trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There’s only
one thing for it then - to learn. Learn why the world wags, and
what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never
exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or
distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the thing
for you. Look at what a lot of things there are to learn - pure
science, the only purity there is. You can learn astronomy in a
lifetime, natural history in three, literature in six. And then,
after you have exhausted a million lifetimes in biology and
medicine and theocriticism and geography and history and
economics - why you can start to learn to make a cartwheel out
of the appropriate wood, or spend 50 years learning to begin to
learn how to beat your adversary at fencing. After that you can
start again on mathematics, until it is time to learn to plow.”
Isn’t that wonderful? Ignorance not only presents the opportunity for learning, ignorance is the prerequisite for learning.
Ignorance is the vacuum that nature won’t tolerate, the well that
never runs dry, the itch that can’t be scratched away. The writer
Chet Raymo put it this way: “Ignorance is a vessel waiting to be
filled, permission for growth, a foundation for the electrifying
encounter with mystery.”
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And finally, my third cheer: Ignorance will keep
you humble!
There’s a story about the great Danish physicist
Niels Bohr. He was walking along the beach one
day with a student, and the student was telling
Bohr what a great man he was, how much he knew
about the workings of the universe. Bohr picked up
a pebble and showed it to the student. “This,” he
said, “is what I know.” Then he turned and flung the
pebble into the waves. “And that,” he said, pointing
at the sea, “is what I don’t know.”
Bravo for Bohr! More human misery has been
caused by people certain of their own wisdom than
by people who aren’t entirely sure they’re right. As
the poet William Butler Yeats wrote, “The best lack
all conviction, while the worst are filled with passionate intensity.” Joshua Slocum, the first man to
sail alone around the world, once remarked that
he was never so frightened at sea as when he was
aboard a ship whose captain knew exactly where he
was. “Icebergs? Nonsense! There are no icebergs in
these waters! Full speed ahead!”
The people who framed our constitution knew
the same thing. They weren’t making an efficient
government. They wanted a clumsy, hog-tied, slowmoving, Rube Goldberg kind of government, which
couldn’t decide anything of importance very quickly.
They wanted an ignorant government, because they
knew that an infallible government—“the divine
right of kings”—was a constant threat to the liberty
of its people. In the words of the great judge Learned
Hand, “the spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not
too sure that it is right.”
I’ve quoted philosophers, writers, poets, scientists, and a judge—I’d like to finish with a comedian.
Josh Billings was the pen name of Henry Wheeler
Shaw, a 19th century New England humorist who
specialized in puncturing windbags. He gave ignorance its due in fewer and better words than anyone.
“It is better to know nothing,” he said, “than to know
what ain’t so.”
Good luck, seniors. Here’s wishing you a future
full of mystery, doubt, and confusion. To paraphrase Niels Bohr, here, this little hilltop in New
Hampshire, is what you know. Out there is what
you don’t know. So be explorers. Distrust certainty;
embrace contradiction. And may you forever regard
the incomprehensible and magnificent universe
around you with ignorant and wondering eyes. ■
Originally appeared in The Old Farmer’s Almanac Millennium Primer, copyright
Yankee Publishing, 1999
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Dublin School 2014 Academic/Athletic Awards
Paul W. Lehmann Award
Mylisha Drayton ’14 (Endicott, NY)
This award is named after Dublin’s founding headmaster and is given by
the faculty to that member of the graduating class who best exemplifies
sturdiness of character, academic vigor, and excellence of influence in all
areas of school life.
Scott C. O’Neil Award
Grant Holliday ’15 (Wilton, NH)
This award is given in memory of Scott O’Neil (who died in a motorcycle
accident after his junior year) to that member of the junior class who, in
the opinion of the faculty, best exemplifies the spirit of Dublin School.
Dartmouth Alumni Club
Lillian Campbell ’16 (Milford, NH)
This award is given to a sophomore who excels in English and is involved in
extra-curricular activities. The book is given by the Dartmouth Alumni.
Bonnie Riley Book Award
Talia Cohen ’15 (Riverdale, NY)
This award is named after former Dublin School English teacher and Academic Dean, Bonnie Riley, and is given to a Junior who exhibits mastery
in English and overall academic achievement.
H. William Evans Community Service Award
Noelia Calcano ’17 (Irvington, NJ)
The faculty determines this award. The criteria include a demonstrated
strong sense of commitment to community service and the potential to
become a leader in the Dublin School community.
Franklin Pierce University Award
Will Utzschneider ’15 (Chestnut Hill, MA)
This award is to honor a junior with a strong academic record, considerable
extracurricular involvement and a record of service to the community.
The Molly Shugrue “Shooting Star Award”
Talia Cohen ’15 (Riverdale, NY) &
Jesse Garrett-Larsen ’15 (Dublin, NH)
Awarded in memory of Elizabeth “Molly” Shugrue, Dublin School 19982000, presented to that student with outstanding acting talents and
promise.
Carol Heath International Student Award
Shutong Luo ’14 (Beijing, China)
This award is given to an international student in the senior or junior
class who is a respected member of the community, who has achieved
academic success, participated actively in extra-curricular activities, and
who has demonstrated leadership in promoting international understanding in the Dublin community.
Nancy Lehmann Tour Guide Award
Kenny Navedo ’14 (Washington, NJ) &
Benjamin Phillips ’14 (Norwell, MA)
This award is given for their dedication to the school and their position
as school ambassadors.
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Jason Potts Theater Technology Award
Alyssa Jones ’14 (Jaffrey, NH)
Summa Cum Laude Award
Max Clary ’14 (Chevy Chase, MD)
Dean of Students Award
Mylisha Drayton ’14 (Endicott, NY) &
Tyler Jones ’14 (Brooklyn, NY)
H. William Evans Faculty Award
Erin Bouton (Dublin, NH)
The recipient of the Faculty Achievement Award is determined by the
Head of School based on the accomplishments of the teacher or staff
member who, in the opinion of the Head of School, deserves the honor.
Criteria for the award normally include effort and achievement beyond
the call of duty.
Charles Latham Jr. Distinguished Faculty Award
John Adams (Dublin, NH)
The recipient of this award is chosen by a special committee which
includes the Head of School, Dean of Academics, student representatives and a current parent. This award is honoring an exceptional Dublin
School teacher.
Edward Whitney Distinguished Student-Athlete Award
Tyler Jones ’14 (Brooklyn, NY)
This award is intended to honor a student-athlete who not only exhibits
great athletic ability, but does so with honorable sportsmanship. Named
in honor of a great Dublin School friend, Trustee, and benefactor, Ned
Whitney H ’91, and determined by the Athletics Department and Head
of School, the award is given annually to one Dublin student-athlete who
embodies the mission of the School and the Athletics Department. This
student-athlete routinely exhibits sportsmanship, teamwork, dedication,
and a passion for his or her activities while maintaining a high level of
diligence to improve their skills and the experience of their teams.
Norm Wight Distinguished Coach Award
John Adams (Dublin, NH)
This award is given annually to a Dublin School coach who embodies the
mission of the school and the Athletic Department by instilling pride and
sportsmanship in their participants, while exhibiting high standards for
excellence through creative instruction and passion for his or her activities.
Female Athlete of the Year
Mylisha Drayton ’14 (Endicott, NY)
Male Athlete of the Year
Benjamin Phillips ’14 (Norwell, MA)
In Grateful Appreciation of Service to
Dublin School Athletics
Matthew Talley 2011-2014 (Dublin, NH)
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Welcome, New Faculty!
Tiye Cort recently received her Masters degree in teaching at
Emmanuel College while teaching at Mother Caroline Academy
in Boston. Ms. Cort is teaching English, working with freshmen
girls in Corner House, coaching lacrosse, and helping with the
Admission Office.
Stephanie Clark is our new Athletic Trainer and will be living
in Wing and Hollow. Ms. Clark graduated from Keene State
College and has been busy building her experience at places like
Florida Gulf Coast University and Phillips Exeter Academy.
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Originally from Peru, new Spanish teacher Evelin Gamarra
Martínez brings thirteen years of teaching experience to
Dublin School, most recently at Boston College, where she also
received her second Masters degree. Ms. Martínez will be living
in Little House and coaching girls’ soccer this fall.
Clark
Spencer Fetrow moved to Dublin from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he received his undergraduate and
graduate degrees before working for the last seven years in their
Admissions and Visitor Relations offices. Mr. Fetrow will be living in Tuttle House, and will coach lacrosse in the spring when
not out on the road spreading the good word about Dublin.
Gamarra Martínez
Patrick Marr enters Dublin as our new Musical Director. A
presence on campus throughout this past spring, Mr. Marr
recently graduated from Concordia University in Montreal after
growing up in nearby Keene, NH.
Fetrow
Emily Cornell, our new Director of the Learning Skills Program, has moved into the Bungalow with her family after moving to Dublin from the Uruguayan American School in Montevideo. Ms. Cornell went to high school in Tokyo, graduated
from Cornell University and received her Masters of Science in
Teaching Students with Disabilities from Pace University.
Marr
Simon McFall and his family moved into Valley House earlier
this summer after a long drive back to their home state from
Utah where Mr. McFall was working as the Dean of Students at
Juan Diego High School. On top of his Dean of Students duties
this fall, he is also coaching the boys’ varsity soccer team.
Cornell
Jonathan Phinney has joined the Dublin community as a new
tutor in the Learning Skills Program. He received his Bachelors
degree in English and his Masters of Fine Arts degree in
Writing, both from the University of New Hampshire. Having
worked in a variety of classroom settings and also with students 1:1, he brings valuable experience to the tutorial team.
He currently lives in Harrisville with his daughter Amelia. McFall
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And finally, we are thrilled that some familiar faces will be returning to Dublin School on a part-time basis. Henry Walters will
be teaching English and coaching basketball; Bill Farrell will be
working on a residential team and coaching alpine skiing, and Dr.
Bill Kennedy will be teaching in the Technology Department. ■
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“Education is not the
filling of a pail, but the
lighting of a fire”
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or over 75 years, Dublin School teachers and tutors have
been following this wisdom as they work with students
to become confident, curious and independent learners.
After an initial generous bequest from alumnus Tom Griffin ’46,
two families made additional gifts to help us design and build
the new Griffin Learning Center. Up until the present academic
year, tutors have worked in small offices spread across the Dublin
campus. With the new Griffin Learning Center, our 8 tutors
and 39 tutees are now together and under the same roof on the
top floor of the David Howe Administration Building (where
the Alumni and Development Offices used to be). The official
dedication of this beautiful new space will take place on Saturday,
December 13, 2014.
“The Dublin School Learning Skills Program (LSP) stems
directly from the School’s Mission – Respecting the individual
learning style and unique potential of every student” says new
LSP Director, Emily Cornell. “We meet students where they are
and help them to set and achieve their goals. Every student has
different needs and will take different paths to get where they
wish to be. I am proud to be a part of a program and team that
not only recognize but embrace this personalized approach to
learning.”
Today Dublin’s LSP provides academic support in a
1:1 setting to 39 students with a wide range of learning
challenges. Students meet with experienced LSP tutors in
regularly scheduled daytime classes, either two or four times
weekly depending on their needs. “Much of the work that we
do with students focuses on strategies for enhancing learning
skills, including effective organization, time management,
active study strategies and prioritization” continues Ms.
Cornell. “These skills are taught on an ongoing basis through
the use of course content and nightly assignments.” Tutorial
sessions can also provide instruction and opportunities
for further practice in the areas of reading, writing, and
mathematics. “Our ultimate goal is to help our students attain
higher levels of achievement while taking increasing control
and ownership over the learning process. The support that
each student requires to reach this point varies, and we strive
to meet these needs.” ■
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Somewhere
in the Dublin woods is an old copper
lamp, waiting to be found. Its genie—what the Romans would have
called the genius loci, or “spirit of the place”—must be a hard-bitten,
rough-bearded, sharp-tongued Yankee who won’t stand for any dillydallying over wishes; whatever boon you’re begging, better figure it
out well in advance.
When I find the lamp, there will be no hesitation: give me some time-travel. Not to rub
shoulders with Triceratops, not to talk shop with the philosophers of ancient Athens—no, send
me back a mere four hundred years, right in this place I’m standing, when white pines the size of
twenty-story buildings were common as dandelions, and the music that echoed between them
Genius
The
Place
of the
Story and Photographs by
Henry Walters
was the long-forgotten language of the Abenaki. Can you imagine the stillness of the woods
under those dynastic trees? Some of the trunks measured well over fifty feet in circumference.
Eight large men, joining hands, could hardly have put their arms around them. Such little light
filtered through the dense canopy that the understory was like park-land, with few brambles or
shrubs to block one’s passage. Native tribes also used fire to control the undergrowth, keeping
sight-lines clear for hunting. Walking across an unbroken red carpet of pine needles, one could
actually be, as the saying goes, “quiet as an Indian.”
Where are those pines now? Gone to make masts for the king’s ships, gone to make ridgepoles
for colonial barns, gone for boards into countless houses long since rotted down to mulch. The
woods in which they grew, though, are still there and still growing, all around us, all these hundreds of years later. Smash through the brambles, tromp through the brush: genie or no genie,
here’s a landscape that will transport you.
What ties a school to the land on which it sits? If that land’s a parking lot, the connection may
be tenuous. If the campus is a manicured French garden boxed in with hedges, perhaps students
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learn to play a good game of hide-and-seek. But if the school is over four hundred acres carved
(and uncarved) out of a granite hillside, in a place flush with unchecked growth and wilderness
and rot; where a family of gray foxes rears kits a stone’s throw from the soccer pitch; where six
hundred feet of elevation separate the top of campus from the bottom; where class is held in a
stream-bed as easily as indoors; where a holiday means climbing a mountain—then how difficult to separate a school from its woods, and how much that education owes to the landscape in
which it takes place!
The land’s its own genie, one with much to grant and much to teach.
A View Without a Room
“We were like pioneers. We had nothing at all.” So Ed Hawkes ’46 remembers his first years at
Dublin School. The history of the institution’s early days reads like a narrative of an experimental
colonial expedition—colonists who not only landed on a rock, but decided to plant a school atop
it. When Paul Lehmann first laid eyes on the site of the future campus, he was on skis, in the
dead of winter. He had three pupils, no money, no trustees, and no teachers other than himself
and his young wife Nancy. The Great Depression was not an opportune era for adventurous startups. A single house with six fireplaces would be the only roof over his head. How did he know this
place was for him? As he later wrote:
“…Then the clincher: surrounded as the house was, closely and almost completely, a view to
the east through a slot cut in the dense woods suddenly and almost miraculously appeared! …
The sunlit hills of Peterborough, the Temple Range…. What a prospect! And what a potential! It
would be the most beautifully located school in the world!”
If Dublin owed its founding to a quasi-miraculous view of sunlit hills, the rugged landscape
in the immediate foreground soon occupied Lehmann’s attention and that of his students. In
the next decade he and his handful of teachers and students built a school house, outbuildings,
two playing fields—in the case of Memorial Field, creating turf where none existed,—vegetable
gardens, a ski slope, cleaned up from a devastating hurricane, plowed the roads at all hours of
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the day and night, pruned orchards, polished the town church inside and out,
heated the school and much of the town with countless cords of wood…and
on and on. Oh yes, and a full schedule of classes were conducted. An early
flyer advertising the school read: “The students will have the unique experience of helping to create a new school.” The offer was very literal—if anything, “helping to” may have been an understatement.
What students did have, then, says Hawkes, was “an axe in every locker,
maybe a Swedish bow-saw, too,” and the knowledge to use them. From all
accounts, they seem not to have resented the Work Gangs to which they were
assigned, but—blasphemy!—looked forward to them. “It was a totally different time,” Hawkes recalls. In the wake of the Great Depression, everyone
knew someone who had signed on with the Works Progress Administration,
often for public works projects such as building bridges, roads, and buildings. There was no stigma in getting one’s hands dirty, nothing in manual
labor to resent or be ashamed of. In fact, the clearing of the first ski slope (“a
rocky, stubborn, ornery hillside”) was conceived and carried out by students
themselves. (“We could see fun at the end of it,” says Hawkes, “so we had fun
“Dublin School today will never
Dublin School of 1935,
change, you dry up
doing it.”) Every work project, Lehmann made certain, had a clear purpose,
improving life at the school in direct and palpable ways. “Any labor honestly
undertaken is honorable,” was the creed, and it became one of the stones on
which the fledgling institution was built.
The responsibilities of such labor meant a good deal of independence as
well. Stan Swaim ’54 sweeps his hand over a topographic map of the town of
Dublin and gives a wide grin: “I fished all these little streams from Harrisville
to Jaffrey,” he recalls, “and knew every little fall and hole along the way.” Did
teachers mind him spending weekends stalking brook trout from sunup to
sundown? Quite the contrary. “They saw that at that time of my life, I was
craving solitude. Probably they were the ones that suggested I go out fishing.”
John Wight ’64, son of longtime Dublin teacher Norm Wight and a teacher
himself, corroborates Swaim’s view of the early faculty. Student engagement
with the outdoors, he recalls, “spun off the skills and interests and strengths
of our teachers.” Even as the character of a school shifts over time, the influence of its adults—not as taskmasters, but as people—remains important.
“Dublin School today will never be—should not be—the Dublin School of
1935, 1945, 1955,” says Wight. “If you don’t change, you dry up and blow
away in the wind. But you need faculty who are passionate about the outdoors, who know how to make use of it, and who will involve kids in their
own interests.”
Cutting trees, pulling stumps, smoking out gypsy moths; planing boards,
feeding stoves, planting and watering and tending; straining and hauling and
reforming the land…. All this work to make room for learning—work which
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itself constituted a crucial part of learning. But how much did this engagement with the stubborn soil constitute a land ethic? If those first pioneering
classes of Dublin School were connected to the natural world by necessity,
how might that connection be preserved when that necessity was met? How
to keep the spirit alive for those who would come to inherit their landscape
and their traditions, the students of today?
Re-teaching the Pioneer Spirit
When Caleb Davis arrived at Dublin as a teacher in 2001, he found a place
whose traditional ties to the land “had slowly but surely melted away.” Over
the course of decades, the School’s pioneering ethos had naturally given way
to new priorities, among them, increased class time, interscholastic sports
teams, and broader offerings in music and the arts. For Davis, however—an
outdoorsman, through and through—these welcome additions were not
without a catch: “People weren’t lining up for camping or skiing or hiking
or breathing the air,” he recalls. When the mental exercise of the classroom
begins to ring hollow, he felt, as it will do from time to time, kids will always
be—should not be—the
1945, 1955. If you don’t
and blow away in the wind.”
need the restorative powers of the land under their feet, the call of the real,
physical, untamed world. Like the mythical wrestler Antaeus, who gained
strength each time he was thrown to the ground, students, too, need to be
thrown. Sitting in tutorial across from a pupil, Davis would see “the lights go
out in the eyes. And nine times out of ten, what those eyes were saying was,
I’m waiting for this game to stop.”
How to fend off apathy? Set the body a high but reachable bar, a task that
an individual can accomplish on his or her own, given a hefty dose of grit
and determination. Endurance sports that engage the rocky New Hampshire
landscape invite kids to a worthy opponent and a worthy goal—and no taskmaster but the one in their own heads. Davis began training with a number
of Dublin students for the Canadian Ski Marathon—an annual ski tour, not
a race—in which participants select their own level of difficulty, skiing up to
one hundred miles in two days through Quebec’s Laurentian mountain range.
In order to train for the event, Dublin School’s contingent created a network
of cross-country ski trails around the boundaries of campus—carrying out a
full survey of those boundaries in the process. What began as a little group of
inexperienced skiers, cutting their own rude course through the woods, soon
turned into a phenomenon. Davis credits current Head of School Brad Bates
for fostering the endurance sports—and the spirit they require—at Dublin:
“He’s taken us from zero to sixty in no time.”
Davis came to think of Dublin School as a place where kids could experience
a taste of “the pioneer stage,” no matter the era. “In my mind, kids are always
looking for that challenge, looking for something that’s real. The environment
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gives that to them. It gives them a feeling that, although they’re young and
inexperienced, they’re capable—and the importance of that discovery does not
change with time, with the advent of new technology, with anything.”
The Land as Teacher
If the land teaches capability, how to draw students onto the land, to interact with it, to get it between their toes and into their blood? The Canadian
Ski Marathon may not be for everyone, but every Dublin graduate does have
a “persistent level of engagement” with the environment that is braided
together from many sources. Sarah Doenmez, Academic Dean and longtime
history teacher, uses those words in pointing to ways in which Dublin’s
traditional outdoorsy spirit has been imported into the academic curriculum.
Jesse Jackson’s ninth-grade STEM classes (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) can frequently be seen bushwhacking in all weathers through unfamiliar terrain; for these students, a unit in forest ecology
is their introduction to Dublin School. The offering of Advanced-placement
“Why examine wetland water
when we have the chance
Environmental Science requires hands-on identification of the particular
plants and trees of our immediate surroundings, as well as an understanding
of the larger ecological systems of which they form a part. Add up three days
of camping to begin each year; a day climbing Monadnock each fall; an Earth
Day project; Work Gang; not to mention countless bonfires, sports practices,
winter skating, hikes to Eagle Rock…—then multiply by four. The sum total
of a student’s active outdoor education at Dublin is significant, and to many,
life-changing. Jackson explains: “Why examine wetland water samples in a
lab when we have the chance to put on waders and visit the wetland itself?
They will remember how cold the water felt, how sunny or how windy it was,
what birds they observed… Their education becomes a tangible thing: a real
memory, not an abstraction.”
When thinking about the acquisition of a new piece of property, says Brad
Bates, the question in his mind is simple: “Does it add educational value to the
school? Does it expand the radius of youth?” The recent purchase of new parcels has tried to do just that. Eighty acres recently deeded to the School from
the Lehmann family are explorable by a world-class set of Nordic ski trails,
open to the greater Monadnock-area community, as well as to the student
body. Twenty acres of meadow, just downhill from the Lower Playing Field,
are now School property and will be kept open, providing crucial habitat for
declining bird species such as tree swallows, bobolinks, and kestrels, among
others, and giving students a peek into the grassland ecology that once dominated the New England landscape. One hundred fifty years ago, this is what
New Hampshire looked like; now such grassland can be found only in small
pockets. The lower side of this meadow may eventually be used as a site to
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generate solar power: though Dublin students are no longer heating dormitories with their own cord wood, they continue to engage with the bare necessities, with issues of sustainable living, and with the land that still allows for it.
To the screen-enchanted eyes of today, what does the land have to offer?
Wood to heat our boilers, yes. An amazing vista, also. Places to explore, to
get lost in. The smell of wet leaves underfoot in the fall. A snowy playground
in the winter. Maple syrup in the spring. But something else, too, something
harder to name. The way a hemlock finds a foothold on a sheer rock ledge
and won’t let go. The way the root of Indian Cucumber tastes when you’ve
been hiking all day and have to dig it out with your own thumbnail. The way
a century-old apple tree keeps bearing fruit when the orchard’s overgrown.
The way it feels to follow a stone wall for a mile till you hit some settler’s
cellar-hole, “slowly closing like a dent in dough,” as the local poet wrote. Or
the way a pry-bar in the hands of a hundred-pound Brooklyn girl upends a
two-hundred-pound hunk of granite. Lessons that are learned without ever
having been assigned.
samples in a lab
to put on waders and visit
the wetland itself?”
Or if not lessons, then images—images of time winding itself like a watch
each morning, each season, each year, and of the years unwinding, slow and
smooth as thread off a spool. What was a meadow has grown up to blueberries and pin-cherry saplings; shrub-land, loud with the scratchy laugh of yellowthroats and Morse-code of chattering swallows, turns into moose maple
and yellow birch; decades later, in the same place, red trillium blooms under
great red oaks and white pines, young heirs to those unbroken forests that
reigned before the white man, or any man.
Like the land, a school changes shape but not identity, persons but not
essential personality. Dynamic and steady, growing and constant, it stands in
the shadow of its graduates, even while new shoots spring up below—shoots
which will eventually come to alter the whole composition of the forest. The
analogy is literal: a school is not only like the land, it is planted on it. After
almost 80 years, Dublin School has become part of the lay of the land—forming it, and being formed by it. Inevitably, one partakes of the other, exchanging nutrients, sharing wisdom, swapping stories.
In the steady drizzle of a Saturday morning, a band of colorful raincoats
trudge by, brandishing clippers. They have their sights set on the invasive
oriental bittersweet, which is expanding its territory near Memorial Field.
There’s a little grumbling, but a Work Gang is not to be trifled with—the weed
doesn’t stand a chance. If they find that copper lamp in the midst of all that
tangle, a genie might well pop his head out to ask, “What else do you desire?
Shall I clear out this bunch of bittersweet?” It’s possible they might accept.
They also might put the lamp down and say politely, “No, thanks—we can
handle it.” ■
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From My Side of the Desk
Students were asked to limn a teacher they admire in a few words
Cox
Foreman
Adams
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Jason Cox, “A Spike on the
Seismograph of Necessity”
Technology Teacher and
Assistant Director of IT
If someone were to ask me what being
an autodidact means, I would reply
that it could be summarized as being
a student whose curiosity transcends
what is required of them. You see, what
is required is often monotonous and
repetitive. In the Dublin community
some individuals stand out as spikes on
the seismograph of necessity and inspire
others to create their own outliers in the
printout. They cause tremors, bumps,
and shakes when you listen for them. Mr.
Cox breaks traditions, invests his time in
new concepts, and stretches the typical,
“need” into the, “Why not?” Humble yet
sharp as a bright red spike drying crisply
on a piece of pin feed paper, Mr. Cox displays and encourages others to question
proposed truths and to push the boundaries of what we can do at our school.
—Deiter Brehm ’17
Jenny Foreman,
“Very Much the Dancer”
Arts Department Chair and
Learning Skills Tutor
I am not a dancer. I have been known to
trip over nothing and my own mother
has told me that I look like a penguin
when I run. To make matters more
complicated, I don’t know my rights and
lefts. (I kind of do if I really think for a
minute and imagine holding a pencil, but
it is far from instinctual at this point.)
Still, this fall, I’ve been participating in
Dance as my sport. Luckily, Ms. Foreman,
affectionately called “Jenny,” is very much
a dancer. She is also very much a singer,
actor, and director. More impressive,
however, is her ability to balancer her
considerable talent with immeasurable
patience and kindness. Warmups often
involve an “across the floor” component,
which involves some degree of fancy
footwork, occasionally coupled with
fancy arm work, and an inherent knowledge of right and left can be of great use.
But Jenny will tell me, “use your downstage foot.” She knows that I’ll know
that because she was the director of last
year’s musical, “Little Shop of Horrors,”
(I was in the cast), so she appeals to my
strengths instead of calling out my weaknesses and eventually I get the move.
—Tali Cohen ’15
“A Perfect Man,” John Adams
Mathematics Department Chair
Mr. Adams, also my four-year advisor,
has been my best mentor in and out of
the classroom, during my time at Dublin
School. I understand what his beautiful
girlfriend sees in him: he is a humble,
hard-working, and responsible man.
What my father defines as “a perfect
man.” I really love how Mr. Adams wants
to contribute to this school in a lot of
ways not only in academics, but also in
athletics. I think he has the potential to
be a dean someday in the future. I will
never forget his aggressive, tough coaching in Lax during my freshman year. I
really want to thank him for everything
he taught me that helped me to grow
over these four wonderful years at Dublin
School.
—Man Jae Yang ’15
Patrick Marr, “Is the Unicorn”
Musical Director
I hear that our music program really
came “alive” when music teacher Mario
Flores stepped onto campus. Though
he was only here for a few years, Flores
left a legacy. So, last year when I heard
someone joyously talking about this guy
“Patrick,” I thought that he might be like
Channing Tatum, causing girls to swoon
endlessly over him. I wanted to know
more about this potential “successor”
to Mario. I scouted around and finally
found him seated behind the piano in the
upper FAB, giving extra help to students.
He was not Channing Tatum’s identical
twin. I didn’t know what to think. I left
for summer vacation with this question
burning in my mind. I also wanted to
know how he would be as a teacher for
the dubliner
Advanced Jazz Theory. Was I even suited
to take the class because I doubted my
ability? I wanted to love the class.
Cue first week of classes… I finally
get to discover the elusive Patrick, now
known as Mr. Marr. Within the first few
minutes I understood what makes people
love Mr. Marr; he is a unicorn. Someone
rare, powerful, and entrancing. The first
thing one learns about Mr. Marr is his
Quebecois patriotism. Second, his passion for music. Going to Advanced Jazz
Theory is the highlight of my day. I came
in expecting classical music theory and
lots of traditional repetition. NO! Mr.
Marr would be furious if that were to be
taught and chooses to embrace a 21st century approach to theory. Class varies each
day as where we practice piano to help
improve listening skills for scales. This
then helps when we cover more advanced
theoretical ideas. With this combination I
should be soon able to competently write
my own music. Class is not all fast paced
theory. We like to have fun. Some of the
ideas we have covered cannot even be
played like a piece of music written in 2/
sqrt 2. Throughout the many moments in
the class we get to learn much about the
eccentric Mr. Marr.
One of the fondest moments was
when we stopped in the middle of writing scales and discussed our hatred (Mr.
Marr especially) for Yoko Ono. We discuss how the Beatles could have done so
much more if Yoko did not steal Lennon.
To top it off we amusedly wondered why,
when she is such a terrible musician
herself, Lennon decided to work with her
instead of the Beatles.
Mr. Marr is the unicorn that will bring
life to the Music program and to Dublin.
This is why my favorite academic hour at
Dublin is Advanced Jazz Theory.
—Max Brooke ’16
“The Silent Teacher,” Earl Schofield
Visual Arts Instructor and Putnam Gallery
Director
I call him “The Silent Teacher.” Schofield.
I remember calling his name once in my
first week and mispronouncing it with
a soft c, like show-field. He made some
indignant sound, corrected me, and went
to loaf comfortably elsewhere or maybe
do some very absorbing work. Most likely
the latter. I have since neglected to call
him by his real name except on a few rare
occasions. My parents gave him the
pet name, “Earl the Pearl.” Sometimes
I think they like him a good deal more
than I do.
He often slips quietly into my
cubicle, my tiny study, my little room,
and watches in silence. If he deems
it needed, he will offer some concise
scrap of wisdom, or ask a question in
his lowest murmur. “I can’t hear you,”
I’ve said all too often.
He may repeat himself, he may not.
Perhaps he didn’t hear you at all. He
may be thinking. One never knows. I
simply have to trust that if he thought
it important enough, he would say it
again, a little louder this time.
I am perfectly happy to tune in to a
good podcast, or a playlist and ignore
the good people of Dublin School.
Maybe he lets me do this because he
would rather be doing it alone too, but
feels that he ought to be a good sport.
There was a time, however, when he
insisted I join the group on a hike.
“Us introverts,” he said, “have to push
ourselves to hang out with people
sometimes. If I leave you alone 90% of
the time, you can hang with the group
the other 10%.” Valid, I think.
Schof doesn’t talk that loud, or even
that often, but I don’t really mind. Is
talking really so necessary when you
teach art? Is it really so necessary for
other classes? I don’t know. But silence
has sure taught me a lot.
—Daria Gross ’15
Marr
Schofield
Sintetos
Nicole Sintetos, is “Inspirational”
English and History Instructor
Ms. Sintetos is by far the smartest person I’ve ever met. Not only is she one
of the best teachers I’ve ever had, she
also single-handedly creates the most
hardworking students. She manages
to make her classroom as much fun as
it is challenging. Through the rigorous
structure of her classes I have learned
how to question, appreciate and understand large amounts of work without
becoming overwhelmed. She reminds
me almost every day that my brain is
more beautiful than even I realize and
inspires me to be a better learner and
to keep my mind open.
—Erin Tourgee ’15
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The Power of Endurance Sports
By Brad Bates
E
ndurance sports have been part of the fabric of my life.
They have connected me to family, to friends, to place, and to
myself. It is extremely rewarding to have the opportunity to
work with such a fine group of faculty as we expose the next generation of students at Dublin School to the power of endurance sports.
Roger Duncan, the now deceased former headmaster at my own
independent high school, used to regale us with stories in our weekly
assemblies about a fictional academy in Maine called Kennebec
Academy. We quickly learned that the stories were really about us and
he was using fiction to get at deeper truths than any speech could
deliver. When I was asked to share my thoughts on endurance sports,
a subject so near and dear to my heart, I decided to humbly follow in
that tradition and share two stories that I hope reveal the power of
endurance sports when it comes to the education of the young men
and women of Dublin School. These are stories of victory, failure,
friendship, delayed gratification, process, commitment, pain and joy.
They are stories of endurance.
The Catch
Tchutcka…tchutcka…tchutcka…tchutcka…tchutcka…
The “stroke,” the girl who sits in the stern of a four-oared
rowing shell, cannot see the boys’ four that her boat is
racing over her right shoulder on this cold and foggy April
morning on Thorndike Pond. She can only hear the sound
the oars make when they turn in the oarlock just before
the oar catches the water. Tchutcka……tchutcka… This
morning the sound captures what she feels—she and her
three boat mates have achieved perfect timing—you can
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see it on her face, calm and less strained than earlier in
practice. It was not always this way. The new girl sitting
two seats behind her, who came from a different school
with a different coach last year, different style—faster
with the hands and slower on the slide than the Dublin
style. The new girl adapted, but the other three girls
adapted to her as well.
Tchutcka…tchutcka…tchutcka…tchutcka…tchutcka…
They are on their fifth and final 1000 meter full pressure interval “piece” on their way back to the dock. They
warmed up on the first two pieces, hit peak times on
three and four, and now, here in the middle of the 1000
meters, they were running on fumes and guts. This is
what it is all about, the stroke thought to herself. “What’s
crew like?” her friends always asked her, “is it fun?” How
could she explain the beauty of the sound of their oarlocks at that very moment and the work that went into
achieving that sound, she wondered. She snuck a glance
over at her coach, trailing behind them in a cold, metal
motorboat, checking his stopwatch and straining to see
them through the fog and early morning light. She smiled
inside thinking about how many times he had woken
up early to prep their boats, adjusting each rigger to fit
their individual rowing styles, before driving them to the
lake. How many thousands of meters had these four girls
rowed on the ergometers with him, how many kilometers
had they skied up and down Beech Hill to prepare for
practices like these? The fifth interval—this was the one
the dubliner
that required endurance and commitment.
Tchutcka…tchutcka…tchutcka…tchutcka…tchutcka…
Breaking the silence and the rhythmic echo of the oarlocks, the voice of the coxswain steering the boat started
in a whisper, “hold it…not now ladies…hold it…when I say
go, we go…not now…hold it…wait for the boys to finish
their move ladies…then we go…” The sound from the
oarlocks of the boys’ boat reveals that they are not connected today, they are not allowing the boat to glide, they
are muscling each stroke and not relaxing enough to let
the boat run up underneath them as they move down the
tracks under their seats towards the next catch. The girl
in the stroke seat smiles, she knows the boys don’t like it
when the girls stay close. The last piece of the day is about
technique and composure, not power. Her coxswain interrupts her thinking, “…in three strokes we go...” She could
feel the girls behind her ready to explode with power—the
coxswain was creating just the effect he wanted—he knew
them well. “3…2…1…NOW! ….Power Ten on this one!..I
need ten of the biggest strokes you have ever pulled!” She
felt the surge, the boat lifted higher in the water, stroke
rate went up, they started moving on the boys. Her coach
looked up from his watch, smiled with pride and gave the
engine more gas—that was the stroke’s favorite part—
him having to speed up to match their change in speed.
“8…9…10…paddle!” The piece over, they could barely
follow the coxswain’s commands and keep paddling. He
commanded them to “weigh enough,” the crew word for
stopping to row. They glided silently through the yellow pollen on the surface of the pond and listened to the
boys complaining. The stroke of the girls’ boat smiled at
the coxswain, reached behind her instinctively and met a
waiting hand, squeezed.
Fun is not the right word, she thought to herself.
The Rock Garden
He’d been thinking about it since the first day he showed
up for mountain biking practice in September. The other
kids whispered about it, they talked around it. “Just wait,”
they said, “you think this trail is hard…” “He clearly has
never ridden through the rock garden,” they would say
to the rookies. This was his first season riding a bike for
competition; he grew up riding bikes around his block and
through the alleyways of his neighborhood, but never in
the hills of southern New Hampshire. He was in the “C”
group, the beginners, and the coaches waited for weeks
before taking the “C’s” up towards the top of Beech Hill,
where the mysterious rock garden could be found. With
each day his mix of excitement and fear grew. Once he was
riding along a rocky trail and asked one of the “A’s” if the
trail was similar to the rock garden. The “A” just laughed
and muttered “oh dear” to himself before speeding off,
seemingly dancing over the jagged granite in the path.
Finally the “C” coach felt his “C’s” were ready and the
peloton of riders made their way up the hill passing the
sandy layers near the Harrisville Road and finding more
and more rocks as they climbed toward the summit of
Beech Hill. As the coach pedaled ahead of him he tried to
remember everything he was coached to do when riding
into a path filled with rocks and boulders—hands relaxed
on the bars, light on the seat, fluid motion with the pedals, and eyes looking where you want to go rather than
where you fear going! Soon he found his wheels moving
with less effort, they had reached the summit and were
heading downhill—toward the rock garden. He rode twelfth in line, the first riders well ahead of
him in the fading early November light. The white birches
popped out of the gray background and appeared like
fence posts along the winding trail. Soon he began to hear
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whoops and hollers through the trees and
assumed that the better “C’s” had reached
the rock garden. The rider in front of
him appeared nervous so he instinctively
applied his rear brake to give himself a little
distance. Feeling the strong grip of the disc
brake reassured him and reminded him
how well he had tuned his bike in anticipation of this ride—a full hour of tightening
and tuning in the Outing Club the previous
night while everyone else was shooting
pool in the student center. Tuning the bike
helped him relax and get some space before
study hall and after a busy day of classes
and riding.
He could sense something was wrong.
Briefly taking his eyes off of the trail he
noticed that two riders had fallen, one hitting a sharp rock and
bending his wheel’s rim, the other sent off the trail after trying
to go over rather than around a boulder. Refocusing his gaze
he worked to put the fallen riders out of his mind. Suddenly,
before his front wheel, he could see nothing but rock. “Damn
granite,” he thought. “Why are people in New Hampshire so
proud of their Granite State?” His hands sweating he reminded
himself to stay confident. He looked for a path and attacked the
rock garden with resolve, lifting his pedals rather than pushing
down, pulling his body off of the seat, twisting and turning with
his upper body to keep the bike from careening off of the trail.
Halfway through the garden he noticed
that none of the riders had made it and
they stood on either side of the trail holding their bikes, watching quietly at first and
then suddenly joining in a cheer for him to
finish his improbable ride. This unexpected
distraction sent him straight into a boulder
that stopped his bike cold. Panicking, he
bunny-hopped his bike to the right and
started pedaling—something he had seen
an “A” rider do the previous day on the
stone wall in front of the School House.
It worked! One more series of rocks to go.
Just as he thought to himself, “I made it,”
he hit a wet root and his rear tire slid, sending him toppling into the leaves and sticks
on the side of the trail. It had been the best ride of his life. Back in the Main House
everyone wanted to see the bruise on his thigh. He showed
them with pride. Coach stopped by his table, reminded him to
get some ice for the injury, and told him that he would be riding
with the “B’s” tomorrow. Back to the rock garden. ■
Facts about the author: Brad was a three time All-American nordic skier at Junior Nationals
and four-year varsity skier at Dartmouth College. As a rower Brad was a member of his high
school eight that won the Princess Elizabeth Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta and
he was a four-year member of his college’s varsity heavyweight team, which he captained his
senior year.
Joy is earned.
This time, I am experiencing it lying in a lycra suit with my back on the snow,
my arms and legs flung from my side, my diaphragm rising and collapsing rapidly. It is here that I am perfectly content.
I have just completed my leg of the four-man team relay for the New
England Prep School Nordic Ski Championships. I managed to pass three skiers from other teams during my leg, which was a 2.5 kilometer sprint with a
large uphill section. During my leg up the steepest section of the course, I felt
my triceps burning from poling, and heard my lungs emitting the sound that
a donkey might make as I gasped for oxygen on that frigid afternoon. In that
moment, my body yearned to give up, and drop to the ground from exhaustion.
At this point it’s about willpower. Not quitting. Instead I picked up my pace,
pushing even harder. I have a mantra in my head: push to the end. I give every
ounce of energy left in my body to pounding as hard as I can to the finish.
As I get to the line of blue dye that is the finish, I tag my teammate for his
leg, and then collapse onto the ground. I am filled with endorphins after pouring my energy into getting here. My grit overpowered the state of physical
agony and exhaustion I was in to put in a solid leg for my teammates. This is
why I love Nordic skiing: it is all about testing how much grit you really have.
The sport embodies one of my school’s core tenets: joy is earned through hard
work. Since coming to Dublin, I have embraced this motto, and have been able
to find a deep sense of satisfaction from commitment to a process. Whether it
be on the Nordic ski trails or in the precalculus classroom, I am perfectly content here because I have embraced this belief – Joy is earned.
– Will Utzschneider ’15
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Developing Trust - A Coach’s Perspective
An interview with Erika Rogers and coach Rodrigo Villaamil
Erika Rogers: Talk me through the narrative of what is
going on in your head as a coach when you’re watching your
team run a race.
Rodrigo Villaamil: Of course there is a lot of adrenaline
going on. You realize that you are a competitive person as
an athlete, but you are also a very competitive person as a
coach. It is a similar feeling, but when you are running, you
at least have some control,
but when you are coaching,
you have no control. But I will
tell you that the emotions are
much stronger when you are
coaching. You are connecting and feeling the emotions
through these other people
and you are appreciating their
effort and their commitment.
It is very powerful.
ER: Can you see when you
are watching a race or a practice that the kids are putting
together the pieces that you
have laid out over the season? Can you see that “click”
moment?
RV: Well, that is interesting
because we have been doing
a kind of scientific method with the students after Joanna
Smith (co-coach) and I attended a coaching clinic. The thing
is that the athletes have to trust us completely. Different
days in practice there are different levels of effort they have
to do. It is crucial that when we say to run slow, they run
slow. Then when we need them to run at 90% they develop
the self-discipline to push hard but not go full out, 100% is
for the race. They must trust the system. It is almost mathematical, if there are no accidents, they know what their
time will be – they must trust the training.
ER: So do the student athletes who develop that level of
trust and follow the system, have greater success than those
that don’t, even if they are not as strong as the other athletes?
RV: Yes, because our athletes are also kids. They show
the same mentality as in the classroom, not all their choices
are rationale. If they have mistrust in the system, but they
experience that week after week they are improving their
times, then they very quickly start to trust. They begin to
use the vocabulary, they share what they have learned with
their friends and parents, and they begin to own it and really
improve.
ER: How does that relationship between creating a
successful training recipe, following that recipe and having it
execute itself during a race, compare to what you as a teacher
have to do for a course?
RV: The coaching part, at the end of the day, can be much
more powerful depending on the student. Because as a
teacher, if I am unhappy with the results of a test or evaluation, I always can find another way to allow the student to
show me their ability. But in
a race, it is completely objective. It is 5-kilometers and a
time. There is nothing I can
do to change the result.
ER: Do you think that
very black and white consequence of a race is a learning
tool for a student when they
have to apply that same kind
of trust, disciple, and belief
to academics?
RV: Completely. Long
distance running is exactly
a metaphor for academics
because you need to have
commitment, you need to
have consistency, and you
need to find your own strategy. Some people start slow
and then speed up towards the end, some try to go as fast
as they can the whole way. It is the same in the classroom.
They must find their own learning style for success through
trial and error and learn to strategize, how to recover from
failure, so they can run the next race, take the next test.
ER: Finally, what has been the most memorable moment
of this season?
RV: The girls’ championship race. I wanted us to win the
championship because the girls had been doing very well
all season. You have to understand that in cross-country
running, the combined score of the top 5 runners is what
determines your standing. So the #5 girl is important
because it does not matter how well the top 4 do, since if
the #5 girl places too low, you will not score high as a team.
Our #5 girl had an injury, so our #6 had to run. I told her
we needed her to give her very best effort. This is what she
had been working for. When she came across the line she
was completely exhausted, she held nothing back, she ran an
excellent race and we won the championship. Thinking back I
can still feel the knot I had in my throat. I didn’t cry because
I am from Uruguay and men don’t cry in Uruguay, but . . .
very emotional.
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truth and courage
“Choose a job you love and you will never
have to work a day in your life.”
By Jan Haman
T
his article was inspired by the words of Marina
Keegan, in her final essay for the Yale Daily News,
entitled “The Opposite of Loneliness,” prior to her 2012
graduation from that school. Five days after Yale’s commencement exercises, Ms. Keegan died in an automobile accident. Her
encouraging words to her fellow graduates, along with some of
her other writings, were subsequently gathered by Yale faculty
and students and published into a successfully received book of
the same title. These are some of her musings:
“Some of us know exactly what we want and are on a path to getting it, but [some of us] are not quite sure what road we’re on and
whether we should have taken it . . . What we have to remember is
that we can still do anything. . . We’re so young, we’re SO young . . .
we have so much time. [But] we can’t, we MUST not lose that sense of
possibility, because in the end, it’s all we have.”
As I read these words, I thought about the many Dublin
alums I have known and the roads they have taken. Many have
pursued careers via “paths of passion,” what Harold Bloom
referred to as “investing in their youthful pride and exuberance,
both in self-development and in the improvement of society.”
(Marina Keegan was a protégé of Bloom.) Consequently, I went
in search of several alums who have chosen “the road less traveled,” and I settled on four gentlemen of varying class years. I
know there are hundreds more, but here are their unique stories.
Waise Azimi ’00
his father, now heavily involved in the international effort
Waise Azimi ’00 and his sister, Sara, came to Dublin via
to rebuild Afghanistan, invited him to visit sites throughout
Afghanistan and the Philippines as a result of their father’s
northern Afghanistan. “This time, I planned out my shoot. I
search for a boarding school similar to La Martiniere College,
seized upon issues that had consequences for the country’s
the one he attended in his youth in India. “Somewhere,” says
future, like the booming narcotics trade, and the ongoing
Waise, “we could really grow and flourish as he once did, and
effort to rid Afghanistan of countless mines left over from
that’s how we ended up at Dublin.” Both Azimis had spent
the Soviet occupation.” The end result was a short film, titled
time in different parts of the world and brought with them to “Afghanistan After,” that provided a brief overview of the tranDublin a great curiosity about people and places. But both exsition following the Taliban ouster from power through the
perienced homesickness almost immediately. “However,” says
combined efforts of U.S. and Northern Alliance forces. “I was
Waise, “it helped having Sara living just a few minutes’ walk
proud of the work and I wanted to keep going. I have never
away. I arrived a shy, socially awkward, struggling student
looked back with any regret.”
and left Dublin with a great GPA and a lifelong friend in my
Waise says that his most challenging and rewarding experiawesome roommate, Lowell Flanders, and many small, but im- ence as a director is “Standing Up.” As far back as 2002/2003
portant personal accomplishments.”
Waise was aware that the Coalition
After his two years at Dublin, Waise
would not be able to achieve a successwent on to the American University
ful end game in Afghanistan without a
of Cairo, and then transferred to Bard
reliable local partner in place to eventuCollege. By then he had already develally take over the counter terrorism. “In
oped a passionate interest in film. “I
short,” he says, “if the Afghan National
took a slew of film studies courses with
Army was not strong enough to stand up
great professors like Adolfas Mekas
on its own against the terrorist threat,
and Scott MacDonald. But lookall the gains and sacrifices the U.S. had
ing back, I now realize that my love
made in blood and treasure to root out
for filmmaking began thanks to my
and eliminate Al Qaeda would eventufather. On two separate occasions he
ally be rolled back. At the time we knew
invited me to accompany him on Asian
nothing about this new army that was
Development Bank business trips. The
taking shape. I set out to shed a light
first was to the Northwest Frontier
on the work being done to raise a new
Province of Pakistan, and the second to
Afghan National Army and I wanted to
Afghanistan after the U.S. intervention.
put a very personal, human face to the
Waise Azimi ’00
Both times I scrambled around to boryoung Afghan men who would one day
row a video camera to document those trips.”
make up the first line of defense in the war against terror. To
The first video Waise shot chronicled his travels to the mas- do that, I went back in the summer of 2006 and spent four
sive Afghan refugee camps. “It was extremely simple and rudi- months at the Kabul Military Training Center alongside the
mentary, but it got me fired up, and I knew that I wanted to
recruits of Battalion SS as Afghan and Coalition officers tried
learn more and try again!” He got that chance in 2003 when
to mold them from raw recruits to professional soldiers. The
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result was “Standing Up.” It premiered at the International
Rotterdam Film Festival and was also part of a special film
series on Afghanistan at the National Gallery of Art in
Washington, D.C.”
When asked about advice he would give to perspective
Dublin student film makers (of which there are many these
days), Waise says he would urge them “to pick a story they
know they can shoot with the resources they have at hand.
I would tell them to find like-minded collaborators and
make a short film in their hometown or on a road trip with
friends.” He emphasizes the need to have something to show
future employers, “and the only way to do that is to shoot
something! Lastly, the road to success is long and steep and
sometimes it never rewards filmmakers with the kind of professional success they desire. I would advise anyone looking
at a film career to enjoy the journey and worry less about the
final destination.”
Waise continues to use his craft for social good, and is currently working on a documentary short. “I am honored to have
the opportunity to direct a film documenting the important
social relief work that the NGO WeDpro is doing with communities around the Philippines affected by super storm Yolanda.”
Lowell Flanders ’00
phylogenetics, mapping out evolutionary lineages of the
Waise’s friend and roommate, Lowell Flanders took quite
animals. “We also assist external researchers, housing a few
another road after graduating in 2000. He attended George
on site and sending specimens on loan to many other research
Washington University and was about to graduate in 2004
institutions. I try my damnedest to avoid interacting with the
with a history degree, when, Lowell says, “I realized there
public—you should see the crowds in the public spaces these
really wasn’t much I could do with that, so a few weeks before
days! I do sometimes give tours though, and the thing everygraduation, I declared for a Biological Anthropology degree
one wants to see is the Latimeria (coeleanth) which is a huge
and commenced in May 2005 with a Bachelors in History and ‘primitive’ fish. My duties mostly involve keeping things runBiological Anthropology. The bio/anth degree was fortuitous
ning smoothly. I catalog specimens and process our backlog,
in that I took a few museum studies courses which introduced which, for way of perspective, still contains some unprocessed
me to museum studies as a discrete field.”
specimens collected by the USS Albatross (commissioned in
A few years later, Lowell returned to GWU for a Master of
1882).”
Arts degree in Museum Studies with a concentration in collecHe says that in the hours before the museum opens,
tion management and physical anthropology. Between those
he likes to stop in the very quiet Hall of North American
degrees he contracted for the Department of the Interior as a
Mammals. “It’s a diorama, and as such, is a bit antiquated,
Records Management Specialist in the Office of the Secretary.
but it evokes a significant history-it reminds me why this
Soon thereafter, he made the leap to the Smithsonian
Museum is important, even if it evokes a particular sort
Museum of Natural History as an intern in the Department of of Jack London-y mindset about the environment we have
Ichthyology. “My favorite was working with the illustration
moved beyond.”
collection. They have material from Ito
As cool as working at the Museum of
and Charles Bradford Hudson, pretty
Natural History is, says Lowell, “It is not
much the Audubon of fish illustrafinancially rewarding in the least.” So he
tion. If you ever have a chance to see
has taken a second job at the National
it, the Smithsonian’s storage facilSeptember 11 Memorial and Museum.
ity, the Museum Support Center, is
“I applied on line and they brought
absolutely amazing. It has all worked
me on after very extensive training. We
out pretty well considering that when I
had to learn a whole lot of data about
first started, pretty much everything I
the place and the exhibits - although we
knew about fish I had learned from Ms.
leave the truly in-depth interpretations
Rogers’ marine bio course in my Junior
to the docents. We spent a great deal of
year—way back in the Spring of ’99!”
time preparing for challenging visitor
Nowadays, Lowell is a Scientific
interactions—which with the various
Assistant in Vertebrate Zoology in
controversies are legion—and not a little
the Department of Ichthyology at the
time with people experiencing grief.”
American Museum of Natural History,
When asked about the museum’s openLowell Flanders ’00
“a Mecca of sorts, hence why I sacrificed
ing week, which was devoted to families
my life in D.C. to come to New York
of the victims, Lowell said, “It wasn’t
City. Like most of the museum, our department exists primar- easy. I remember my first shift down there, just handling that
ily for research. We have close to 300,000 lots of fish, which
amount of ambient sadness. Of course, it was also, at that
adds up to maybe two million or more specimens. These are
point, that I think the museum was most fulfilling its purpose.
mostly stored in ethanol, but we also have large skeletal and
These are the people, these families, it exists to serve. I’m glad
‘cleared and stained’ and cryogenic tissue collections. There are we could do that for them.” He says that since that first week,
only a few pertinent exhibits we provide specimens for. One of “The vibe has changed a bit, now it’s the sort of normal NYC
our Curators is responsible for the Milstein Hall of Ocean Life - tourist crowds coming in, so obviously the visitors are less
where the huge whale is.”
reverent. People actually want to know where the gift shop is
Lowell and his colleagues work in systematics/
. . . I can’t see the need to bring home a souvenir! But I still like
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seeing visitors’ expressions when I explain they are, in fact, in
the footprint of one of the towers and now directly beneath
the pools. It feels rare nowadays to see people express awe
at anything, anymore. The monumental open spaces are
breathtaking, especially as they illuminate the vast ingenuity
of human engineering inherent to the original work, demonstrated by the massive slurry wall and all that implies about
the absent structures, and the tenuousness of any enterprise.
It only takes a handful of believers and many tons of jet
fuel to destroy decades of work and thousands of lives. For
a museum about one of the most horrific single events in
American history, I feel it does the best job possible. Being
appropriately respectful, informational, and not completely
soul crushing.”
Tony Bessinger ’78
The latter happens on his summer days off. His regular
summer job is driving a 117-foot, high speed, Catamaran
ferry every day to Oak Bluffs/Martha’s vineyard from Qounset
Point, RI. For a creative outlet, Tony blogs daily about all
These words from the poem “Sea Fever” by the English
kinds of marine events around the globe. “Right now,” he says,
poet, John Masefield, are ones that Tony Bessinger ’78
“this is simply a source of amusement for me and my readers, I
has embraced in his life close to the sea. After graduation
am an Internet geek; my iPad is never far from my side and I
from Dublin, Tony “dabbled in a few
read everything! All the time!”
things, including college,” he says, but
He has basically retired from sailing
ultimately ended up in the Caribbean,
now. “My last race to Bermuda was in
working around and on boats. “The
2010 and we won our class. It was a
sea has always been part of my life.
good way to end it, I think.” Tony says
After the Caribbean years, I settled
he does not really miss racing. “I’ve
in Newport, got married, and started
been through one hurricane and many
working at ‘normal’ jobs, such as
storms, and now, vow/pray/hope never
restaurants, etc. I worked the seasons
to do so again.”
for several years; summers in NewWhen asked about travel, he says,
port, winters in Florida, but I always
“Sailing has taken me many places.
kept sailing. Living in Newport, which
I’ve been through the Panama Canal
I regard as one of the most beautiful
twice, once in a 46-foot Catamaran,
places I’ve ever seen, draws you natuonce in a 160-foot sloop. I’ve done a
rally to the sea.”
Transatlantic race on a 146-foot ketch,
Tony has taken many jobs that
raced in 10 Newport-Bermuda Races,
afforded him the opportunity to be
and sailed, in total, over 100,000 miles.
Tony Bessinger ’78
on or near the water, including crew
The countries I’ve been to pretty much
member on yachts, manager of a chart
include the entire Caribbean, with the
department in a nautical bookstore, editor of a national sailing
exceptions of Cuba and Jamaica. My adventures have taken
magazine, professional delivery crew/captain/navigator, and,
me to Colombia, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Mexico,
of course, professional racing sailor. “In my 30s I worked at
Spain, France, Italy and Canada.”
the Armchair Sailor Bookstore in Newport, running the chart
department. The owner there let me take as much time off as
“I must go down to the sea again, to the vagrant gypsy life
I needed every year to race boats at the grand-prix level, which
To the gull’s way and the whale’s way where the wind’s like a whetwas a perfect blend of learning more about navigation and
ted knife.”
developing my racing resume.”
Tony spent his 40s as an editor of Sailing World Magazine
He seems content to have put the ‘gypsy life’ behind him
which also allowed him time to race as much as he wanted, as
these days, perhaps because of other responsibilities. “I have
long as he wrote about those races. That experience led to an
two children, my daughter, Beckett, who is 11, and my son,
eventual position as the Electronics Editor for three magaEmerson who is eight years old. When we delivered one of the
zines in the same company. “It was a great job that taught me
fast ferries on which I work to Bermuda last year, I realized
to write - my basic writing skills were learned at Dublin - but
it was about the 36th time I’d sailed out there. But, in fact, if
my writing abilities are also a result of a life-long voracious
you told me today that the rest of my maritime career would
reading habit.” These days Tony spends his winters teaching
consist solely of trips around Narragansett Bay and deliveries
monthly two-week classes that prepare students to take the
up and down the Intracoastal Waterways, I’d be delighted!”
U.S. Coast Guard Captain’s license examination, as the head
instructor at Confident Captain/Ocean Pros. He also does
“And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover,
hands-on training for Confident Captain, Inc., teaching chilAnd quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick’s over.”
dren as well as recreational and professional mariners, including law enforcement, in the skills of driving powerboats.
“I must go down to the seas again to the lonely sea and sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by;”
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David Fetherolf ’74
artist’s diary, “but it was 1800 square feet in NYC with a huge
“I was four and a half when I informed my parents I needed a
skylight and great light! And we were young . . .”
‘cello in order to live. Then I did the horrible things little boys
How did the starving artist become an accomplished music
do when their desires are being thwarted and I got a ‘cello and
engraver, a co-founder of BYTE MUSIC/Skeeter Press, had
lessons for my fifth birthday,” says David Fetherolf ’74, who
his Concerto for Violoncello accepted for performance and
chose music, more specifically, composing and music engravrecorded by Vienna Modern Masters? Well, as we said, the
ing, as his life ‘road.’ And what a long and winding road it has
road was long, and so is the story, and it includes years of
been! “Even during kindergarten I would come home and play restaurant work, making fortuitous connections, and just
4 LP records in the same order. first, “Muggsy Spanier,” then
plain creative tenacity. Also, a ‘novel’ detour into Purchase
“Jazz at Storyville,” then Harry Belafonte’s “Mark Twain and
College. “The first thing I told them, of course, was that I had
other Folk Favorites,” and I’d finish off with Stravinski’s “Fireno lower degree. But they were looking for grad students and
bird Suite,” conducted by Stokowski. I
so they said: ‘No problem.’ They’d
still have these records.”
just confer a B.A. on me and put me
After Dublin, David’s original
in the Master’s program. By the time
plan included Harvard, but, “Plans
I graduated, the SUNY system had
changed. Had I done that, I most likely
re-configured the school as Purchase
would have studied Constitutional
College Conservancy of Music.” Now
Law, which is still one of my fields of
he had an official degree: Master of
interest. Being a Constitutional lawyer
Music, Magna cum laude. “As we used
is probably the only profession that
to say in New York before Metro Cards,
would make me more of an outcast
‘that and a token would get me a ride
in America than being a composer of
on the subway.’” One of his Purchase
contemporary concert music. But that
professors urged him to get a PhD at
didn’t work out as expected.”
Yale. “He’d already spoken with the
Instead, David took private ‘cello
Dean, who knew me. The only reason
lessons with Nathan Stutch, who at
to continue would be to land a teachthe time was the associate principal
ing job. And although I loved teaching
with the NY Philharmonic, and then
David Fetherolf ’74
at Purchase, I hated the way associate
theory with Vladimar Padwa at NYU.
professors were treated at Pratt, where
Soon he enrolled at Orange County Community College where, Carrie worked. Also I had to consider that and the surety of
“I did the usual routine: chorus, piano, theory, etc. But after
tens of thousands of dollars of debt as well as leaving my
our first theory class, Doc (Dr. Marvin K.Feman) called me
fledging business. I decided to forgo Yale.”
into his office and handed me his personal copy of Piston’s
Today, David and Carrie live on Staten Island, and his official
Harmony Book. He told me the class would hold me back, so I
title is Editor/Production Manager, Premier Works T G. Schirmer/
should just work my way through the book. He also taught me Associate Music Publishers. “What that means is that every new
how to transpose properly and by sight, asking me to play the
work by any of our contract composers comes across my desk to
baritone sax parts in the concert band on my ‘cello.”
be edited and sent out for engraving. I see the work through to
Such became the unorthodox and eclectic music education
the final process . . . Then comes the fun part. For most orchestral
route that David chose, including entry into the Longy School
works I go to the premier rehearsals and work with the composer,
of Music in Cambridge. In fact, when, during an auto ride, he
conductor, musicians to hone the work. As with book editors and
told his father about Longy, his dad slammed on the brakes
writers, my work with composers varies from true gratitude, to
at the South Boston exit on I-93 and said, “If you want to
those who won’t allow me to touch their music.”
waste your life, you can walk from here.” However, says David,
Between Purchase and G. Schirmer there were many more
Longy was a wonderful place for him. “It was a lot like Dublin. years of absorbing all types of music and new skills, several
My class sizes averaged about 6 students and the teachers
entrepreneurial experiences, and the fun of co-founding
were all dedicated and concerned about our excellence. Thank
Random Access Music, a composers’ collective. “We’re one of
you, Bonnie Riley! After two years I changed my major to
the most active new music groups in the city. We give three
composition, mostly because the older I got, the less comfortconcerts each season and we also started and curate the
able I was on stage.”
Queens New Music Festival, which is a four day, 8 or 9 concert
By 1980, he had finished at Longy and married Carrie, his
affair with groups from all over the world. We just finished our
bride of 35 years now. They moved from “our lovely little
third year of doing that.”
apartment in Sommerville into the wilds of Brooklyn. We
David’s musical path has been unusual, but consistent.
found an unheated, raw loft space to rent near Pratt Institute “Music has been my touchstone. . . My life has been a long aural
where Carrie was finishing her Fine Arts degree. If you’ve read hallucination. I walked around my paper route when I was
Patti Smith’s book, Just Kids, you’ll know how we lived and
eleven, composing giant, Romantic symphonies in my head after
have a good picture of the neighborhood we lived in.” David
reading about Berlioz’s dream orchestra of 400 players. They
and Carrie’s Brooklyn loft experience reads like a starving
stayed there because I didn’t know how to get them out.” ■
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A Special Homecoming
O
n September 27, 2014 Bonnie Allen Riley came home to the
School House. It had been 33 years since she daily held forth on
Keats’ “Grecian Urn” in Room 3, or gave wise homilies on the
efficacy of good manners before the fireplace upstairs. Now, on this particular
Saturday of Alumni Weekend, Bonnie settled down into a big red “easy” chair
near that same fireplace, surrounded by many of her old students and older
colleagues.
A vison of grace and wisdom, her aged patina
“To me, Bonnie has always been the
seemed to match comfortably with the sun-lit
consummate master teacher. She taught me to
warmth of the pine-paneled walls and polished
coax adolescents to love Shakespeare, to dance,
oak floor boards in the upper School House. She
to love politics, Africa, the English monarchs
shared that it was in this same room in 1950, that
and the purple finches that hover against
she danced with the young women in her summer
the small-paned windows of Room 3, which
dance school, an endeavor that led to her teaching
I inherited. In everything she taught in that
career at Dublin School. Bonnie spoke about
those days, expressing her joy when “dancing in
this lovely room.” It was obvious to all that those
memories are still precious to her. At one point she
cozy, cramped room with the carved wooden
desks, or on the dance floor of the old Arts
Building, she was the lady, une Grande Dame,
that paragon of grace and beauty.”
—Jan Haman
asked everyone to, “Stand, join hands, hips under,
shoulders relaxed. . . Now feel like a dancer!” Moments later, she recounted living in Salzburg during WWII, while
studying dance with Isadora Duncan’s sister, Elizabeth. “A great teacher!”
exclaimed Bonnie. Then she asked for a show of hands from the teachers in
the room, before extolling the virtues of pursuing such a noble profession.
One by one, her former students knelt by her chair, and as Bonnie held their
hands, they thanked her—a touching moment for a lady who has positively
touched so many lives.
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Remember
Slides?
T
his summer we digitized over
3,000 slides from the Dublin
School photo archives. Wow—
What a treasure of memories!
But we need your help to sort and
label them all. If you are interested in
helping us sort slides from the 70’s, 80’s
and 90’s please contact the alumni office
at [email protected]. We are
working to get many of these images
sorted before next year’s Alumni/
Reunion Weekend—October 2-4, 2015.
(Mark your calendars!)
You can also look for these images
on “Throwback Thursday” on the Dublin
School Alumni Facebook page! ■
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FOCUS ON THE PAUL W. LEHMANN AWARD WINNERS
Where are they now?
This award is named after
Dublin’s founding headmaster
and is given by the faculty to
that member of the graduating
class who best exemplifies
sturdiness of character, academic
vigor, and excellence of influence
in all areas of school life.
Grier Murphy ’92
B u s i n e s s Wo m a n , W i fe , M o t h e r a n d
Charlottesville Fan
1985 Jeffrey B. Wurgler
1986 Michele R. Bridgewater
1987 Neil E. Ciley
1988 Alexandra C. Ladd
1989 Amy R. Andrus
1990 Sean B. Lockwood
1991 Rebecca A. Parker
1992Emilie G.
Runyon
1993 Hannah Smalltree
1994 Anna Blair
1994 Christopher J. Flynn
1995 Jed McGiffin
1996 Michael E. Kitces
1997 Samuel G. Miller
1998 Adam A. Milukas
1999 Richard Seo
2000 Sarah C. Bryan
2001 John T. Ying
2002 Rafi R. Jaima
2003 Rhea W. Davis
2004 Mari J. Alberico
2005 Taylor Phillips-Hungerford
2006 Seong Ho Hong
2007 Daniel C. Shaw
2008 Jacky C. Cheng
2008 James F. Kirk
2009 Jemila K. Grant
2010 Chris Riley
2011 Meredith Hoffman
2012 Ashley Arana
2013 Tyson Laa – Deng
2014 Mylisha Drayton
A
fter earning a Bachelor of Arts from the
University of Virginia, Grier opened a small
café on the UVa “Corner”, the popular area of
restaurants and shops near the University. The café
thrived for 7 1/2 years and inspired the opening of a
mobile food truck and a second location on the now
famous Downtown Mall (a pedestrian mall similar to
those in Boulder, CO and Burlington, VT). Grier sold
the business in 2004 and became a real estate agent
in her beloved Charlottesville, VA. Picking up on her
architect husband Kevin’s passion for design, Grier
has become known for her talent in helping clients
identify key properties and find the home that makes
them want to put down roots and explore all that
Charlottesville has to offer. Grier and her husband
have even purchased their first investment property
that they are running as a short term vacation rental.
In between all this, Grier and Kevin have 2 boys,
Quinn (6) and Silas (4) and enjoy traveling, hiking,
biking and volunteering in the community. “My
experience at Dublin is one of the most vivid periods
of my life. I LOVED the four years I spent at Dublin.
I learned how to be independent, how to manage my
time efficiently, how to juggle all of my activities and
responsibilities, and how to cultivate amazing friendships. The confidence and skills developed at Dublin
showed me that I had what it takes to open my own
business. I knew it at the time, but I especially know it
now, I was lucky to have been given the 4 years I spent
there.” ■
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Scenes from
Reunion 2014
(Above) James Teuscher ’64, Gretchen and Jimmy Johnson ’64 and
Daniel Holder ’64 (Below) Cathy Jessup ’78, Forrester “Chip” Smith,
Jr. ’79, Jessica Landsman-Baker ’79 and Dan Steele ’79
(Above) Dan Holder ’64 (Below) Bonnie Riley, Jan
Haman, Mary Cornog, Scott Holland and Michael Cornog
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Darryl Outellette ’83 and Annette Harris
Powell ’83
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Look Who
Attended
Reunion 2014
Class of 1964
50th Anniversary
Daniel Holder
Jimmy Johnson
James Teuscher
John Wight
Class of 1974
40th Anniversary
David Fetherolf
Harry Sloan
Craig Thurston
(Above) The Class of 1974: Craig Thurston,
Harry Sloan and David Fetherolf (Right)
Jemila Grant’09, Ali Avery ’09, Ian Probst ’09,
Ashlee Virtue ’09 and Olivia Loria ’09
(Below) Joe Anderson ’79, Dan Steele ’79,
Forrester “Chip” Smith, Jr. ’79, Dan Hale
’79, Jessica Landsman-Baker ’79 and Max
LeMarchant ’80
Class of 1979
35th Anniversary
Joe Anderson
Dan Hale
Jessica Landsman-Baker
Forrester “Chip” Smith, Jr.
Dan Steele
Class of 1984
30th Anniversary
Samuel Bellavance
Chris Bilotta-Woods
Maurice Willoughby
Class of 1989
25th Anniversary
Garrick Boyd
Hadley Sullivan
Hadley Sullivan ’89 and husband Terry, AK Kim ’86
and Diana Elkavitch
(Below) Front row: Jemila Grant ’09, Middle row:
Erika Rogers, Genesis Mullins ’06, Jan Haman,
Ashley Farrell ’06, Olivia Loria ’09, Ashlee Virtue
’09, Back row: Richada Grant ’04, Alexandria
Farrell ’08, Rodist Parker ’05, Brent Ford ’05 and
Michelle Knapp
Class of 2004: (front row) Nick Terrasi, James
Lloyd, Mari Ciresi, Lakena Outlaw, Fredia Kat,
Tamara Berkeley, (back row) Jonathan Savage,
Scott McCarty, and Richada Grant
Class of 1994
20th Anniversary
Lawrence Guthrie
Colin Hill
Jessica Nemore Tolk
Andrew Wyndham
Class of 2004
10th Anniversary
Tamara Berkeley
Mari Ciresi
Richarda Grant
Fredia Kat
James Lloyd
Rebecca Long
Scott McCarty
Eric Meils
Nick O’Connor
Lakena Outlaw
Jonathan Savage
Melissa Stremel
Nicholas Terrasi
David Thompson
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Look Who
Attended
Reunion 2014
Class of 2009
5th Anniversary
Ali Avery
Jemila Grant
Olivia Loria
Ian Probst
Ashlee Virtue
Non-Reunion Year
Attendees
Charles Moizeau ’50 Jamie Huntington-Meath ’67 Guy Jackson ’67 Ron Eschenbrenner ’75 Cliff Pafford ’75 Jose Resto ’75 Dave Bliss ’77 Cathy Jessup ’78 Oen Kennedy ’80 Max LeMarchant ’80 Homeyra Bakhshnia ’81 Tracy Bean ’83 Darryl Ouellette ’83 Annette Harris Powell ’83 AK Kim ’86 Richard Maher ’92 Deborah Wyndham ’97 Brent Ford ’05 Rodist Parker ’05 Angela Russell Leblanc ’05 Ashley Farrell ’06 Genesis Mullins ’06 Scott Olsen ’07 Alexandria Farrell ’08 Anna Guinard ’10 Julian Lind ’10 Richard Thackston ’10 Rose Will ’10 Eddie O’Donnell ’11 Peter Bascom ’13
(Above) Rose Will ’10 and
Anna Guinard ’10 (Above
right) James Lloyd ’04 and
Nick O’Connor ’04 (Right)
Forrester “Chip” Smith,
Jr. ’79, Jessica LandsmanBaker ’79, Oen Kennedy’80
and Max LeMarchant ’80
(Below) Dan Steele ’79 and
Dan Hale ’79
(Below) Sybille & Dan Holder ’64,
James Teuscher ’64, Gail & Charles
Moizeau ’50 and Susan & John
Wight ’64
Former Faculty
Michael & Mary Cornog
Peter & Alice Duston
Michael & Diana Elkavitch
Scott Holland
Bonnie Riley
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A Song in My Heart
S h e l o v e d l a u g h te r, s i n g i n g , g o u r m e t co o k i n g ,
all things musical, and, most of all, people.
“W
e lost a truly good person yesterday,” wrote J. Bruce Scott ’75, shortly after Frona Avery
passed on November 28. “The world should stop . . . a dear lady has died. She was brilliant,
thoughtful, passionate,” said Sara Hall Thomas ’77. Added Sarah Bauhan, also ’77: “She had the
most powerful voice I think I ever heard—what a range.”
Frona’s ‘range’ covered more than mere musical notes, as those of us who worked with her here at Dublin,
can bear witness. Zipping around campus in her little green Subaru with the license plate “2&Fro,” she was
as comfortable in the Dublin kitchen cooking for us and Monadnock Music as she was directing the band
for “Marat/Sade” in the ’70s, running her restaurant, Deacon Brodie’s Tavern in the ’80s, or tutoring and
guiding students in the ’90s. Together, we were the Mutt and Jeff, the cup and saucer, producing the Dublin
Community Theater, complete with art shows and film festival, and creating an enduring arts program here
that included visiting artists who lived on campus, and didn’t want to leave—probably due to Frona’s cuisine.
Fro could do it all.
Here is what her students said when dedicating the yearbook to her. “It is difficult to interact in all aspects of
life at Dublin School without finding you there before us, deeply involved. You are a friend, a confidante, a tireless advisor and a fantastic human being. You have taken us camping, cooked our meals, planned our menus,
helped us clarify our values, and taught us how to play instruments, to read music, to sing. You have directed
our music, led our chorus, and refereed our kitchen jobs. You are Dublin’s Wonder-woman of 1976.”
This is what Frona told The Dubliner in 1976. “My father asked me, ‘Do you want to be a cute little girl, or do
you want to be a person?’ I was going to be an engineer. My father was an engineer, and I was going to be that,
too. Until I got my scholarship . . . and later I was singing in a band six nights a week, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. It’s then
I decided I didn’t want to do it all my life; it came to me that I really wanted to teach. Music is a life that can go
many ways . . .”
Her life was never far from music. We’re told that at the end, when asked what she would like, she answered,
“Music.” A church choir came (she always was a member of a choir) and sang some hymns, then did Pete Seeger
and Woody Guthrie. Frona even sang along.
She will be remembered by all she touched and sang with. —Jan Haman
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Recently Published
Works by Dublin Alumni
and Faculty
The Lehmann
Legacy Circle
“I will always be thankful for
my years at Dublin School
and what I learned there. It
Cathy Barrows ’74
Mrs. Wheelbarrow’s
Practical Pantry
was a lot more than just the
academics. Dublin helped
make me the person I am today, knowing that Truth and
Courage is the foundation on
which to build a life. I hope
that what I have been able
to give back over the years
Michael Light ’81
Lake Las Vegas/
Black Mountain
will in some way show how
appreciative I am and always
will be.”
—Joe Joslin ’54,
Lehmann Legacy Member
The Legacy Circle, founded in 1989 by two Lifetime Trustees, Henry
Ben Tripp ’84
The Accidental
Highwayman
S. “Pete” Hoyt ’41 and Nancy Lehmann, wife of Dublin’s founder, is
designed to provide Dublin School’s alumni, alumnae and friends
with an opportunity to make Planned Gifts to the School – above
and beyond their support of the Annual Fund. Membership in the
Legacy Circle is growing because so many have found that they can
provide immediate or deferred income or major gifts to the School
while preserving or enhancing their own income.
Henry Walters,
English Teacher
Field Guide A Tempo
You do not have to be wealthy or elderly to consider Dublin
School in your financial planning. A planned gift can be as simple
as deciding to give appreciated securities instead of cash, including
Dublin School in your will or creating a charitable trust.
For additional information please contact Erika Rogers, Director
of Development and Alumni Affairs at (603) 563-1230 or erogers@
dublinschool.org.
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Congratulations
Young Alumni
Amber Beam ’10, Bachelor of
Science in Nursing, Registered
Nurse, Keene State College
(Keene, NH)
Zak Doenmez ’10, Bachelor
of Arts, Political Science and
Government, Clark University
(Worcester, MA)
Doenmez
Beam
Hoffman
Natalie Hoffman ’09, Bachelor
of Fine Arts, Accessory Design,
Savannah College (Savannah, GA)
Julian Lind ’10, Bachelor of
Arts, Sociology, Clark University
(Worcester, MA)
Ryan Limero ’10, Magna Cum
Laude Bachelor of Science,
Elementary Education, Sociology
and Anthropology, Elmira College
(Elmira, NY)
Limero
Lind
McCutcheon
Jordan McCutcheon ’10, Bachelor
of Arts, Goucher College
(Baltimore, MD)
Ian Probst ’09, Bachelor of Arts,
Goucher College (Baltimore, MD)
Chris Riley ’10, Bachelor of Arts,
Special Education and Teaching,
Goucher College (Baltimore, MD)
Emily Rueggeberg ’10, Bachelor
of Arts, Art History and Politics,
Mount Holyoke College (South
Hadley, MA)
Janice Sharpe ’09, Bachelor of
Arts, Social Work and Juvenile
Justice, Wheelock College
(Boston, MA)
Rueggeberg
Riley
Probst
Nicole Smith ’09, Bachelor of
Arts, Social Work and a minor in
Criminal Justice, Franklin Pierce
University (Rindge, NH)
Sunny Zeng ’10, Bachelor of
Arts, Economics, Smith College
(Northampton, MA)
Masters
James Kirk ’08, Master of Science,
Management and Mechanical
Engineering, Worcester
Polytechnic Institute
(Worcester, MA)
Vanessa Martinez ’07, Master
of Arts, Communication in
Management, Simmons College
(Boston, MA)
Sharpe
Kirk
Smith
Martinez
Zeng
Outlaw
Lakena Outlaw ’04, Master of
Arts, Psychology, Cedar Crest
College (Allentown, PA)
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Hard to Say Goodbye
Homer boat builder and musician Renn Tolman ’51,
passed away peacefully in his tiny beachfront cabin on
July 5. He was 80. He was well-known in Alaska coastal
communities for designing and building the Tolman Skiff,
a practical dory-style vee-bottom boat that found wide
use among hardy seafarers on Kachemak Bay and around
the world. His skiffs can be found in Germany, Norway,
Australia and other countries. An old-school outdoorsman,
he traveled far across open water on hunting and fishing
trips. At his death he had just completed a new design,
the Tolman Trawler. As a flute and pennywhistle player in
local bands and a step-dance teacher, he played a central
role in Homer’s thriving contra dance scene, providing an
authentic link to the New England and Cape Breton traditions he treasured. After a threeyear stint in the Army as an intelligence unit radio operator, he returned to graduate from the
University of New Hampshire in 1959 with a B.A. in History. He taught in a private school, did
graduate work briefly at Harvard, and then moved to the West in 1963. He is survived by his
late-in-life love, Betsy Street of Nelson, NH; his former partner of many years, Mary Griswold
of Homer; a sister, Elizabeth Skinner of Mohawk Valley, NY; and, among other relatives,
cousins Barry Tolman of Nelson, NH; Mary Robinson Shonk of Dublin, NH; Susan Woodward
Springer formerly of Seldovia; and Colin Tolman of Homer.
Timothy Platts Brown ’56 passed peacefully with loved ones by his side on October 23 at
his home in Keene, New Hampshire. Timothy attended and graduated from Dublin School and
went on to Deerfield (Mass.) Academy and Hanover (Ind.) College, where he was a fraternity
brother in Beta Theta Pi. Upon graduation he enlisted in the Army Reserves. He completed his
enlistment and was honorably discharged on Oct. 26, 1966. Tim worked for Texas Refinery
Corporation based in Fort Worth, Texas. He was a salesperson for the New England territory,
prior to retirement in 2012. Previously, he was employed at Homestead Woolen Mills in West
Swanzey and had also worked at Noone Mills in Peterborough.
Ripley Beal Crowell ’59, of Mashpee, Massachusetts, passed away unexpectedly on July
7, 2014. He was the beloved husband of Katherine (Falconieri) Crowell. Ripley was a retired
employee for the Town of Plymouth. He was a member of the Elks Club in Plymouth and the
Falmouth Car Club. He loved gardening, classic cars especially his truck, and most of all his
loving family.
Stanley “Lee” Tebbetts ’59, of Perrysburg, Ohio, died on June 15, 2014, at the Cleveland
Clinic. Lee was born on March 13, 1940, in Bronxville, New York. He joined the Marine Corps
and served honorably for four years, specializing in intelligence and code work. He was a very
loyal and proud member of the Marines, as he said, “once a Marine, always a Marine.” When
he finished his service, he returned to Dartmouth College and graduated. He also attended the
C.I.A., the Culinary Institute of America in New York, and became a chef and learned hospitality administration. In Ohio, he bought a restaurant in Perrysburg and rebuilt it himself. It
became the “Rose and Thistle Bar and Restaurant” on Louisiana Avenue. He has always enjoyed
the sociability of knowing his customers and has cherished his many friends. He also enjoyed
skiing, and flying airplanes.
Grant Murray Kennedy ’79¸ of Canandaigua, New York, unexpectedly passed away at
the age of 54 on September 11, 2014. He is survived by his three children, Grant, Richard
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and Alexis. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from Ashland
University in Ohio. He was a graduate of the Cincinnati School of Mortuary Science. He was
a licensed funeral director and owned and operated Kennedy & Son Funeral Home Inc. from
1986 to 2008, in Canandaigua and Bloomfield. He was a member of the Disaster Mortuary
Operational Response Team, Region II (DMORT) and responded to the Katrina disaster in
New Orleans and the Flight 800 aviation accident in New York. He was a member of Kappa
Sigma Fraternity, First United Methodist Church, Canandaigua Rotary Club, Masonic Lodge
256, Merrill Hose Volunteer Fire Co., Canandaigua Chamber of Commerce, Canandaigua Yacht
Club, Ontario-Wayne-Yates County Funeral Directors Association and New York State Funeral
Directors Association. He enjoyed skiing, boating, fishing, cooking, woodworking and spending
time with his family.
Nitza Delgado Hollinger ’82, passed away on June 20, 2014 peacefully at
her home in Nikiski, Alaska with her husband, two sons and sister by her side.
She was 49. She attended Dartmouth College where she earned her Bachelor of
Arts degree in 1986. While at Dartmouth, she was a leader in the movement to
create a Latino student organization, now known as La Alianza Latina, which
is still vibrant and thriving today. After working three years in Admissions at
Dartmouth, she continued her education at Northeastern University School
of Law in Boston, MA where she earned her Juris Doctor degree in 1992. She
moved to Anchorage, in 1992 and married her husband, Mike Hollinger, who
she met there during her law school internship. After a short time working
in the legal field, she began focusing on her true love—teaching. She taught
people of all ages—whether young or old; she had an amazing ability to connect and effectively teach others. Shortly after their first child was born, Mike
and Nitza moved to Nikiski. It was there that they also welcomed their second
son into their lives. She chose to stay home with her boys pouring her life into
them—caring, loving, and homeschooling them as long as her health allowed.
Near her journey’s end, she offered the following words of wisdom: “In life
there are those things that are urgent—that want your immediate attention. Then, there are
those things that are important. Never lose sight of what is important. People are important.
Relationships are important. Never trade the important for the urgent.”
Nitza Delgado
Hollinger ’82
and family
Douglas Sayers ’98, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, formerly of Northampton and Carlisle
passed away on August 7. He was 34. He was survived by his parents Anne and Lew Sayers,
of New Hampton, NH; his fiancé Lonnae Cameron of Haverhill; a brother, Tracey Pratt, of
Meredith, NH. He was a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and was the IT
director of 3BL Media of Northampton.
Past parent and friend of the School, Elizabeth Story Wright, 75, of Dublin, New Hampshire,
died peacefully at RiverMead in Peterborough, New Hampshire on July 12. Among her remaining survivors is her husband of 41 years, Thomas P. Wright; her son, William Wear ’85 of
Amherst, MA.; and her step-son, Spencer Wright ’79 of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Story lived in
Philadelphia and Tucson before moving to New Hampshire. She attended Smith College and
worked as a teacher prior to living in New Hampshire. She was an active member of her community, serving on the boards of Monadnock Family Services, Monadnock Conservancy, Cheshire
Bank, New Hampshire Public Television, the school board for the town of Dublin, and in 2006
she was named “Dublin Citizen of the Year,” after successfully leading the Beech Hill-Dublin
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The Ubiquitous Bottle
A s s e e n o n “ D u b l i n S c h o o l Wa te r B o t t l e ”
Facebook page
O
ur Dublin School water bottles have been traveling
all around the world. Please share with us your Dublin
water bottle photos on our Facebook page or send
them to the alumni office at [email protected]. If you
would like a water bottle, please contact Donna Stone in the
Alumni Office at 603-563-1285 or [email protected] ■
Rob English ’86
Better than a pot of gold
AK Kim ’86
Sunday waffle time in Hancock, NH
Marc Risney ’86
Checking out the constellations
at the Griffith Observatory,
Los Angeles, CA
Spencer Norcross ’86
Some quality time drift-boating the Jackson River for trout
Mandy Schofield ’93
Enjoying fireflies in the garden at night
Zander Sprague ’86
Making a visit to the
Buckingham Palace,
Westminster, England
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report of giving
The Power of
Conversation
Erika Rogers, Director of Development
R
eceptions, lunches, emails, Tweets, Facebook
posts, videos, Dubliners, birthday cards, phone calls,
and good old-fashioned hand written notes… Every
year I wonder what combination of these acts of communication helped to inspire the generosity displayed in this report.
No matter how many ways we have to connect, at the end
of the day it never feels like enough. Because each time we
connect with an alumna, a friend, or a parent, Dublin School
gets stronger and more capable of fulfilling its mission.
For example, a newspaper posting leads to a scholarship, a
conversation during a campus tour leads to a major capital
gift, a phone call leads to a new fitness center, and a Dubliner
piece inspires an annual fund gift. The list goes on and on
and it all starts with a conversation.
The names on these pages represent the 493 trustees,
alumni, parents, faculty and friends who together have
shared $915,297.43 with Dublin School this past year.
This total includes the largest amount ever given to
the Annual Fund—$380,948.54—a school record !
These unrestricted gifts are incredibly important to the success of Dublin School. They not only help pay for salaries,
campus upkeep and financial aid, but when gifts exceed
the budgeted Annul Fund goal, Brad and his team have the
ability to say “Yes” when a teacher or student has a new idea
that would enhance an academic, artistic, athletic or residential program. I cannot tell you how much your support
empowers every person on campus to be involved with the
innovative, creative thinking that is currently transforming
Dublin School.
We are very grateful for the many Capital gifts that are literally transforming campus. We now have a Griffin Learning
Center, a beautiful new space above the Louise Shonk Kelly
Recital Hall for our amazing learning skills program. The
Griffin Learning Center is named in memory of John (Tom) Griffin ’46 whose generous bequest
to Dublin School helped begin the project. We also have a completely renovated fitness/strength
training facility in the bottom of the Whitney Gymnasium made possible by several gifts, including
one in memory of alumnus Jason Richardson ’90. Gifts have also been made to support the Perkin
Observatory, the Dublin Nordic Center, the Monadnock Dormitory, the Robotics program, and the
School’s Marketing and Sustainability efforts. Finally, we are indebted to the donors who each year
invest in the long-term success of Dublin School by making gifts to our ever-growing endowment
through funds such as the Norm Wight Endowment Fund, Lehmann Endowment Fund, FordSteffian Fund and Latham Faculty Fund.
Every year we strive to find new ways of enabling our alumni, parents and friends to join us in
the life of our amazing small School. Conversations with all of you help to connect us with the past,
support what is going on right now, and shape the future of our School. So, let’s keep talking! And
on behalf of the Students, Faculty, Staff and Trustees of Dublin School—Thank you. ■
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2013/2014 Donors
July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2014
Mrs. Jennifer Whitesel & Mr. Stephen
Whitesel, P ’15 *
Mr. George E. Withington ’56 ***
Ms. Joan Kleinman & Mr. Samuel
Witten, P ’14
Mr. & Mrs. Willard Wood, P ’13
Mr. & Mrs. David Worthen, P ’13
Ms. Avis Wright & Mr. Richard
Wright, GP ’16
Pumpelly Ridge
$500 - $499
Truth and Courage Society
$50,000+
Anonymous (3)
Mr. James Goddard & Mrs. Judith
Hoyt Goddard, H ’11 ***
Mr. Paul M. Lehmann ’59 *
Dublin Society
$10,000 - $49,999
Mr. Paul Brooke & Ms. Kathleeen
McCarragher, P ’16
Ms. Kathleen E. Darman, P ’14
Miss Patricia A. Fletcher, H ’05 ***
Mr. & Mrs. George B. Foote, Jr. ***
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph C. Gibson, P ’12 *
Mr. & Mrs. Steven Goldsmith, P ’15
Mr. Edward Z. Hawkes II ’51 ***
Mr. & Mrs. David E. Howe, H ’95 ***
Mr. & Mrs. Peter Imhoff, P ’13 *
Mr. Robert W. Kirkland ’82 ***
Mr. Alexander M. Lehmann *
Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Phillips, P ’14
Mr. Thomas P. Putnam ’61 ***
Mr. & Mrs. Gregory A. Richardson,
P ’90
Mr. Stephen Schuetz, P ’15
Mr. Liwu Song & Mrs. Qun Liu, P ’14
The Honorable & Mrs. George R.
Sprague, P ’87 ***
Mr. & Mrs. Carl Von Mertens ***
Mr. & Mrs. Jonathon Wright, P ’14
Founder’s Society
$5,000 - $9,999
Anonymous
Mr. Nathaniel Bates ’53, GP ’17 ***
Mr. & Mrs. Elmer H. Close ’54,
P ’87 ***
Mr. Robert E. Desel, P ’17
Mr. Jose A. Garcia ’67, P ’12 **
Mr. & Mrs. Scott Martin, P ’17
Mr. Michael J. Mullins ’93 ***
Mr. Joseph R. Mullins, P ’93
Mr. H. Gilman Nichols, Jr. ’46,
P ’71 ***
Mr. & Mrs. Kurt Simon, P ’17
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Mr. Timothy Steele, P ’11, ’13 *
Ms. Elizabeth G. Von Klemperer,
GP ’15
Mr. & Mrs. Steve Walker
Headmaster’s Society
$2,500 - $4,999
Mr. & Mrs. William A. Barker, P ’85 **
Mr. & Mrs. Bradford D. Bates, P ’17 *
Mr. Jonathan F. Bourne ’58 ***
Mr. & Mrs. Todd DeSisto, P ’15
Mr. Robert C. English ’86 ***
Mr. & Mrs. Zubin Gandevia, P ’17
Mr. Donald Haynes & Mrs. Nancy
Lehmann Haynes ’55 ***
Mr. Yijun Jiang & Ms. Feng Wang,
P ’15
Mr. Seoung Ki Jung & Mrs. Eun
Young Kim, P ’15
Mr. John Kerrick, P ’14
The Family of Nicholas Lemieux
Mr. Richard D. Simmons ’50 ***
Mr. & Mrs. Edwin O. Smith, P ’92 ***
Mr. William C. Spencer ’86 ***
Monadnock Summit
$1,000 - $2,499
Mr. & Mrs. Mark Alter, P ’15
Mr. Charles V. Ball IV ’43 ***
The Barth Family ’13 *
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Bascom, P ’13, ’15
Ms. Cecily Bastedo ***
Mr. Michael W. Bergeron ’70
Mrs. Louisa L. Birch ’57 ***
Mr. Ben Blanchard ’47 ***
Mr. & Mrs. Carl Blicker, P ’82, ’84,
’97 ***
Mr. & Mrs. Eric Bostrup, P ’17
Mr. William H. Bucknall ’69 **
Mr. Gerard Caron & Ms. Sheila Cusak,
P ’15
Mr. & Mrs. Loring Catlin Jr., P ’17
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen C. Caulfield,
P ’89 ***
Mr. James H. Cole ’66 ***
Dr. & Mrs. R. William Cornell ’52 ***
Mr. James H. Davenport ’50 **
Mr. Frederick Eaton **
Ms. Joanne Eustis & Mr. Christopher
Eustis, P ’89 ***
Mr. Richard B. L. Fleming ’86 **
Mr. Nathaniel J. Foster ’98 *
Mr. & Mrs. Lee Foster, P ’98 **
Mr. Yanfeng Ge & Mrs. Lihong
Fan, P ’13
Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Grill, P ’15
Mr. & Mrs. Mike Gordon, GP ’17
Mr. F Wade Greer ’48 ***
Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Gross, P ’15
Mr. & Mrs. John Halacy, P ’16
Dr. & Mrs. Edward I. Hawthorne,
GP ’09
Mr. & Mrs. Paul S. Horovitz, P ’92 ***
Mr. & Mrs. Marc Isaacs, P ’15
Mr. Weimin Ji & Mrs. Shuqing
Wu, P ’16
Mr. David A. Johnson ’95 **
Mr. James L. Johnson ’64 ***
Mr. & Mrs. Samuel A. Lewis, Jr. *
Mr. Michael Light ’81 ***
Mr. YiLong Ma & Mrs. Lei Zhang,
P ’16
Mr. Stewart S. Macsherry ’62 ***
Dr. Rosebeth Marcou, P ’14
Ms. Cynthia McGinty, P ’10 *
Mr. Charles J. Moizeau ’50 ***
Mr. Harvey Pastan, GP ’17
Mr. Ronald P. Pertnoy ’72, P ’99 ***
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Petrone ***
Mr. Jay Phillips ’61 *
Ms. Felicity Pool & Mr. Allen Davis
Mr. Jason Potts ’96 ***
Mr. & Mrs. Philip S. Robitaille, P ’95,
’97 ***
Mr. Thomas P. Rockwell ’37 *** (dec.)
The Honorable & Mrs. L. Phillips
Runyon III, P ’88, ’92, GP ’18 ***
Mr. David W. Shiras ’50
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Utzschneider,
P ’15
Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Von Bothmer
Mr. & Mrs. Yunpeng Wang, P ’15
Anonymous
Ms. Jill Adams & Mr. Cecil Adams
Mr. & Mrs. Peter Barnes, P ’03 **
Mr. Christopher Birch & Mrs.
Alexandra Burke **
Mr. & Mrs. David T. Boothby, GP ’13
Ms. Mary L. Brown ’75 & Dr. Tove
Matas ***
Mr. & Mrs. Neal Brown, GP ’17
Ms. Debra Charlesworth, P ’13
Ms. Karen Clement *
Mr. & Mrs. Peter Coffin, P ’16
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Coreth, P ’82 ***
Ms. Sally Wallace & Mr. James
Dunphy, P ’14
Mr. George A. Eddy III ’66 *
Mrs. Joseph G. English, P ’86 ***
Mr. H. Kimball Faulkner ’48, ***
Mr. David D. Fetherolf ’74 & Mrs.
Carrie Lynn Fetherolf *
Mr. & Mrs. Charles S. Goodwin,
P ’04 *
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph S. Hart, P ’97 ***
Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Hicks, P ’15
Mr. Jeff Holland ’87 ***
Mr. & Ms. Billy D. Horton, P ’13 *
Mr. James S. Huntington-Meath ’67 *
Ms. Jill Hutchins & Mr. Raymond
Hutchins
Mr. Thomas R. Jackson ’58 ***
Ms. Margaret A. Johnson ***
Mrs. Teresa Khanna, P ’17
Mr. William C. King ’52 ***
Mr. William Kinnane ’96 *
Mr. G. Bourne Knowles III ’55 ***
Mr. John & Dr. Ali Lichtenstein,
P ’03, ’05 **
Ms. Jihong Liu, P ’13
Mr. & Mrs. Charlton MacVeagh,
Jr. ***
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Mayer, GP ’17
Mr. Scott C. McCarty ’04 *
Ms. Betsy Neisner & Ms. Mary
Barnett, P ’14
Mr. Scott C. Olsen ’07
Mr. & Mrs. Patrick J. O’Rourke, P ’16
Mr. Max Ouyang & Mrs. Cindy Yang,
P ’14
Mr. Thomas K. Paine ’65 ***
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Parnes, P ’14
Mrs. Dorothy Peterson *
Ms. Ann Ranelle
Mr. Marc S. Risney ’86
Ms. Erika Rogers & Mr. Thaddeus
Rogers***
Mr. Pete Schenck ’50 ***
The Scrivens, P ’16
Mr. John D. Seidner ’88
the dubliner
Mr. Brett S. Smith ’88 ***
Mr. Jason E. Smith ’92 ***
Mr. Richard R. Stebbins ’55 ***
Mr. Daryl Stutes & Ms. Jill Batty,
P ’17
Mr. Jonathan W. Teuscher ’63 **
Ms. Sally Thacher & Mr. Nicholas
Thacher ***
Ms. Kathy Wichert, GP ’17
Mrs. Jane S. Young *
Eagle Rock
$200 - $499
Anonymous
Mr. & Ms. Peter Antonellis, P ’12 *
Mr. Jonathan S. Avery ’67 ***
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Bachman, P ’16
Mr. & Mrs. Chris Bartlett, P ’13
Mrs. Martha Bean
Ms. Alex Bean
Ms. Rebecca Beauzay **
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Bloom, P ’14
Mrs. Nancy H. Borden *
Mr. Jeffrey S. Bragg ’61 ***
Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Braley, P ’87 ***
Ms. Melissa Bride & Mr. James Bride,
P ’16
Mr. & Mrs. Christopher P. Chesney *
Mr. & Mrs. John S. Clarkeson ***
Mr. & Mrs. Forrest Cook, GP ’98,
’03 ***
Mr. Jason Cox
Ms. Melissa B. Cross, P ’06 *
Ms. Dora P. Moncada Currea ’73 ***
Mr. Jorge A. Cutillas ’76 **
Ms. Veronique Chopin de La Bruyere,
P ’06, ’08 *
Rt. Reverand Thomas P. Devlin,
Jr. ’67 *
Mr. & Mrs. John M. Dopp, P ’12
Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Ferguson, P ’16
Mr. Michael Fertsch & Ms. Marlene
Spears, P ’13
Mr. & Mrs. Todd M. Fulshaw, P ’16
Mr. Richard K. Fox *
Ms. Kim Goodman ’90 **
Mr. Dick Hammond & Ms. Alice
Hammond **
Ms. Alicia Hammond & Mr. Ron
Hammond *
Mr. Roy A. Hamrick ’69
Mr. Matthew T. Hollister ’87 & Ms.
Nicole Arpiarian
Ms. Joyce D. Hopkins ’96 **
Mr. & Mrs. Mike Horridge, GP ’16
Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Hungerford,
P ’00, ’05, ’07 **
Mr. David A. Johnson ’95 *
Mr. & Mrs. Hooks Johnston, GP ’17
Mr. & Mrs. Chauncey O. Johnstone
’60, P ’91 ***
Ms. Rosalinda Maldonado Kalani
’76 **
Dr. William Kennedy & Ms. Jeanne
Dietsch
Mr. Brad Koontz ’84 & Ms. Tomo
Koontz
Mr. Richard A. Kronick ’58 ***
Mr. & Mrs. Edward Lawrence, P ’14
Mr. & Mrs. William Limero, P ’10 *
Mr. & Mrs. Robert N. Lord, P ’06 *
Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Love, P ’16
Mr. & Mrs. James W. MacAllen,
P ’94 ***
Ms. Anne M. Mackey **
Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Marcus P ’91
Mr. Lars F. Matson ’03
Mr. Lauren McMason ’81 & Ms. Emily
McMason ***
Ms. Deb McWethy **
Mr. Juan Navedo & Ms. Yolanda
Navedo ’81, P ’14 *
Mr. Eric Nemitz **
Mr. & Mrs. R. Henry Norweb III,
P ’89 ***
Mr. Rick O’Connor ’67 ***
Mr. Henry S. Otto ’47 & Mrs.
Elizabeth Otto ***
Mr. Clifford Pafford ’75 & Ms. Gail
Bielizna **
Capt. John S. Phillips, USC (Ret),
GP ’00, ’05, ’07 **
Ms. Molly Phillips-Hungerford ’00 *
Mr. Lorenzo R. Rasetti ’85 ***
Mr. Peter K. Read ’60 ***
Ms. Jo-Anne Regan, P ’03, ’05 ***
Mr. & Mrs. Neil Robinson, P ’06
Mr. Laurance P. Runyon IV ’88 *
Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Sandstedt, P ’17
Ms. Carolyn Castle Schmidt ’83
Ms. Lucy C. Shonk *
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Sigel, P ’14, ’17
Ms. Elizabeth A. Smith, P ’13
Mr. & Mrs. W. Richard Smyser **
Mr. Alexander T. Sprague ’87 ***
Mr. David P. Stewart ’65 ***
Mr. John E. Swenson ’59
Mr. William E. Taylor ’62 *
Ms. Maureen Quirk, P ’15
Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Thirkield,
P ’11 *
Mr. & Mrs. Richard G. Verney
Mr. & Mrs. Alexander Vogel *
Mr. Joseph Walier & Ms. Judith
Walier, P ’84 *
Mr. Carl Werowinski & Ms. Sally
Pendleton, P ’17
Mr. & Mrs. Peter Wheeler, P ’12
Mr. & Mrs. Maurice Willoughby ’84,
P ’17 *
Ms. Hong Jung Yun ’02 *
Trustees
Mr. & Mrs. William A. Barker, P ’85 **
Mr. & Mrs. Bradford D. Bates, P ’17 *
Mr. Robert C. English ’86 ***
Miss Patricia A. Fletcher, H ’05 ***
Mr. & Mrs. George B. Foote, Jr. ***
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph C. Gibson, P ’12
Mr. & Mrs. Peter Imhoff, P ’13 *
Mr. Alexander M. Lehmann
Mr. Michael J. Mullins ’93 **
Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Phillips, P ’14
Mr. Jason Potts ’96 **
The Honorable & Mrs. L. Phillips
Runyon III, P ’88, ’92 ***
Mr. Brett S. Smith ’88 ***
Mr. & Mrs. Edwin O. Smith, P ’92 ***
Mr. William C. Spencer ’86 ***
Mr. Alexander T. Sprague ’87 ***
Mr. Timothy Steele, P ’11, ’13 *
Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas Thacher **
Mr. & Mrs. Alexander Vogel *
Mr. & Mrs. Carl Von Mertens ***
Mr. & Mrs. Maurice Willoughby ’84,
P ’17
Lifetime Trustees
Ms. Louisa L. Birch ’57 ***
Mr. & Mrs. Paul S. Horovitz, P ’92 ***
Mr. & Mrs. David E. Howe, H ’95 ***
Mr. James Goddard & Mrs. Judith
Hoyt Goddard, H ’11 ***
Ms. Margaret A. Johnson ***
Mr. H. Gilman Nichols, Jr. ’46,
P ’71 ***
Former Trustees
Mrs. Cathy Solomon Barrow ’74 &
Mr. Dennis Barrow ***
Ms. Cecily Bastedo ***
Mr. & Mrs. Carl Blicker, P ’82, ’84,
’97 ***
Mr. & Mrs. Forrest Cook, GP ’98,
’03 ***
Mr. & Mrs. Michael L. Cornog ***
Mr. & Mrs. Frederick T. Ernst,
P ’77 ***
Mr. & Mrs. Christopher J. Flynn,
P ’94 ***
Mr. Richard K. Fox *
Mr. James S. Huntington-Meath ’67 *
Mr. Joseph J. Joslin ’54 ***
Mr. Robert W. Kirkland ’82 ***
Mr. Paul M. Lehmann ’59
Mr. Michael Light ’81 ***
Mr. & Mrs. Ken Lindfors ***
Mr. & Mrs. Charlton MacVeagh,
Jr. ***
Mr. John E. Mattson, ’71 **
Mr. Joseph R. Mullins, P ’93 **
Mr. Rick O’Connor ’67 ***
Mr. & Mrs. Brian O’Neill, P ’07 *
Mr. Ronald P. Pertnoy ’72, P ’99 ***
Mr. Richard D. Simmons ’50 ***
Mr. Jason E. Smith ’92 **
The Honorable & Mrs. George R.
Sprague, P ’87 ***
Alumni
Ms. Erica S. Bullock Arpin ’08
Mr. Jonathan S. Avery ’67
Ms. Cathy Graham Bakkensen ’70 ***
Mr. Charles V. Ball IV ’43 ***
Mr. Nathaniel Bates ’53, GP ’17 ***
Mr. Christopher B. Behn ’83
Mr. Michael W. Bergeron ’70
Ms. Louisa L. Birch ’57 ***
Mr. R. Clifford Black ’61 **
Mr. Ben Blanchard ’47 ***
Mr. Brian Blicker ’84 **
Mr. David G. Bliss ’77
Mr. Dean E. Bliss ’99 *
Mr. Jonathan F. Bourne ’58 ***
Mr. Jeffrey S. Bragg ’61 ***
Ms. Mary L. Brown ’75 & Dr. Tove
Matas **
Mr. William H. Bucknall ’69 **
Ms. Jennifer L. Bullock ’90 **
Ms. Kayla A. Bullock ’06
Mr. Roger Burke ’47 ***
Ms. Lisa C. Cameron ’06
Mr. & Mrs. Elmer H. Close ’54,
P ’87 ***
Mr. James H. Cole ’66 ***
Mr. Garrett Connolly ’10
Dr. & Mrs. R. William Cornell ’52 ***
Mr. Joseph P. Craugh III, ’83
Mr. James Cuddihee ’61 & Mrs. Carol
Cuddihee ***
Mr. Joseph D. Cummings ’66 **
Ms. Dora P. Moncada Currea ’73 ***
Mr. Jorge A. Cutillas ’76 **
Mr. James H. Davenport ’50 **
Mr. John T. Dearborn ’72 ***
Mr. Thomas P. Devlin ’67 *
Mr. Jonathan Dirrenberger ’92
Mr. Roger J. Donahue, Jr. ’73
Mr. George A. Eddy III ’66
Mr. Robert C. English ’86 ***
Mr. Ron Eschenbrenner ’75 & Ms.
Rebecca Ryle ’76
Ms. Ashley M. Farrell ’06
Mr. H. Kimball Faulkner ’48, ***
Mr. David D. Fetherolf ’74 & Mrs.
Carrie Lynn Fetherolf *
Mr. Richard B. L. Fleming ’86 **
Mr. Abbot R. Foote ’61 **
Mr. Nathaniel J. Foster ’98 *
Ms. Meghan C. Foucher ’99
Mr. Jose A. Garcia ’67, P ’12 **
Mr. Bakari A. Gaynor ’99
Mr. David N. Giambro ’72
Mr. Douglas Gibson ’12
Mr. Edward F. Glassmeyer ’59 ***
Ms. Lara Weller Gleason ’96 **
Mr. J. Michael Gomarlo ’61 **
Ms. Kim Goodman ’90
Mr. Michael C. Gorman ’06
Ms. Lauren K. Goodwin ’04
Mr. John M. Gray ’88
Mr. F. Wade Greer ’48
Mr. Roy A. Hamrick ’69
Mr. William D. Hanson ’85
Mr. Edward Z. Hawkes II ’51 ***
Mr. Donald Haynes & Mrs. Nancy
Lehmann Haynes ’55 ***
Mr. Christopher H. Hodgman ’48 ***
Mr. Daniel S. Holder ’64 ***
Mr. Jeff Holland ’87 ***
Mr. Matthew Hollister ’87 & Ms.
Nicole Arpiarian
Ms. Joyce D. Hopkins ’96 **
Ms. Katharine A. Houde ’13
Mr. James S. Huntington-Meath ’67 *
Mr. Guy L. Jackson ’67 ***
Mr. Patrick T. Jackson ’57, P ’84 ***
Mr. Thomas R. Jackson ’58 ***
Ms. Amanda Schofield Jenkins ’93
Mr. David A. Johnson ’95 *
Mr. James L. Johnson ’64 ***
Mr. & Mrs. Chauncey O. Johnstone
’60, P ’91 ***
Mr. Joseph J. Joslin ’54 ***
Mr. Pierre A. Jospe ’66 **
Ms. Rosalinda Maldonado Kalani
’76 **
Ms. Kathryn A. Kaminski ’73
Mr. William C. King ’52 ***
Mr. Peter L. Kingston ’71 **
Mr. William Kinnane ’96 *
Mr. Michael E. Kitces ’96
Mr. Norman E. Kitching ’55 **
Mr. Robert W. Kirkland ’82 ***
Mr. G. Bourne Knowles III ’55
Mr. Brad Koontz ’84 & Ms. Tomo
Koontz
Mr. Richard A. Kronick ’58 ***
Mr. Paul M. Lehmann ’59
Mr. Michael Light ’81 ***
Mr. W. Scott Little, Jr. ’60 ***
Dr. Michael J. W. Logan ’61
Mr. Stewart S. Macsherry ’62 ***
Ms. Vanessa Martinez ’07
Mr. Lars F. Matson ’03
Mr. John E. Mattson ’71
Mr. Scott C. McCarty ’04 *
Mr. Peter McDonough ’61
Mr. Lauren McMason ’81 & Ms. Emily
McMason ***
Mr. Samuel G. Miller ’97
Mr. Charles J. Moizeau ’50 ***
Ms. Caroline Morgan ’76 ***
Mr. Weld S. Morse ’69
Mr. Michael J. Mullins ’93 **
Ms. Yolanda L. Guerra Navedo ’81,
P ’14
Mr. Milton G. Nichols ’51
Mr. Spencer K. C. Norcross ’86 **
Mr. Timothy G. Norris ’62 ***
Mr. Nicholas E. O’Connor ’04
Mr. Rick O’Connor ’67 ***
Mr. Scott C. Olsen ’07
Mr. Henry S. Otto ’47 & Mrs.
Elizabeth Otto ***
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Mr. Clifford Pafford ’75 & Ms. Gail
Bielizna **
Mr. Thomas K. Paine ’65 ***
Mr. Alexander J. Pappas ’08
Mr. Frederick L. Pease ’57 ***
Ms. Alisha N. Perelta ’03
Mr. Ronald P. Pertnoy ’72, P ’99 ***
Mr. Jay Phillips ’61 *
Ms. Molly Phillips-Hungerford ’00 *
Mr. Thomas P. Putnam ’61 ***
Mr. Jason Potts ’96 **
Mr. Lorenzo R. Rasetti ’85 ***
Mr. Peter K. Read ’60 ***
Mr. John P. Rich III ’54
Ms. Meg L. Richards ’09
Mr. Marc Risney ’86
Ms. Julia K. Robinson ’06 *
Mr. Thomas P. Rockwell ’37 *** (dec.)
Mr. Domingo Rosa ’76, P ’97 **
Mr. Randall W. Roy ’83
Mr. E. Alexander Rubel ’53 ***
Mr. Laurance P. Runyon IV ’88 *
Mr. John Sandri ’03 *
Mr. Pete Schenck ’50 ***
Ms. Carolyn Castle Schmidt ’83
Mr. Rolf Schroeder ’79 **
Mr. John D. Seidner ’88
Mr. Richard S. Seo ’99
Ms. Pauline R. Shaffer ’03
Mr. David W. Shiras ’50
Mr. G. Peter Shiras ’44 ***
Mr. Richard D. Simmons ’50 ***
Mr. Brett S. Smith ’88 ***
Mr. Jason E. Smith ’92 **
Mr. Jeremy T. Smith ’69
Ms. Ann M. Sollinger ’03
Mr. William C. Spencer ’86 ***
Mr. Alexander T. Sprague ’87 ***
Mr. Richard R. Stebbins ’55 ***
Mr. David P. Stewart ’65 ***
Mr. Anders Jon Svendsen ’12
Mr. John E. Swenson ’59
Mr. William E. Taylor ’62 *
Mr. Jonathan W. Teuscher ’63 **
Ms. Michelle L. Thirkield ’11
Mr. Christopher U. Thoma ’60
Mr. Timothy Weissmann ’00
Mr. Tucker Wheeler ’12
Mr. & Mrs. Maurice Willoughby ’84,
P ’17
Mr. Edward H. Winslow III ’53
Mr. George E. Withington ’56 ***
Mr. Benjamin Wright ’14
Ms. Hong Jung Yun ’02 *
Current Parents and
Grandparents
Anonymous (4)
Mr. & Mrs. Mark Alter, P ’14
Ms. Barbara Arrowsmith, P ’17
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Bachman, P ’16
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Bascom, P ’13, ’15
Mr. & Mrs. Bradford D. Bates, P ’17 *
Mr. Nathaniel Bates ’53, GP ’16 ***
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Bloom, P ’14
Mr. & Mrs. Eric Bostrup, P ’17
Ms. Ann Brehm, P ’17
Mr. & Mrs. Donald Brehm, GP ’17
Dr. & Mrs. William R. Brice, GP ’16
Mrs. Melissa Bride & Mr. James
Bride, P ’16
Mr. & Mrs. Neil Brisson, P ’15
Mr. Paul Brooke & Mrs. Kathleeen
McCarragher, P ’15
Mr. & Mrs. Neal Brown, GP ’17
Mrs. Janet F. Campbell, GP ’16
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Mr. Gerard Caron & Ms. Sheila Cusak,
P ’15
Mr. & Mrs. Loring Catlin Jr., P ’17
Mr. & Mrs. Eric Clarke, P ’16
Mr. Martin Cline, GP ’14
Mr. & Mrs. Peter Coffin, P ’16
Ms. Barbara Cusack, GP ’15
Ms. Kathleen E. Darman, P ’14
Mr. Robert E. Desel, P ’17
Mr. & Mrs. Todd DeSisto, P ’15
Ms. Sally Wallace & Mr. James
Dunphy, P ’14
Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Ferguson, P ’16
Mr. & Mrs. Todd Fulshaw, P ’16
Mr. & Mrs. Zubin Gandevia, P ’17
Mr. & Mrs. Maurice Glaude, P ’16,
’17 *
Mr. & Mrs. Steven Goldsmith, P ’15
Mr. & Mrs. Mike Gordon, GP ’17
Ms. Marjorie Green, GP ’17
Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Grill, P ’15
Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Gross, P ’15
Mr. & Mrs. John Halacy, P ’16
Ms. Jan Haman, P ’80, ’82, ’83,
GP ’15 ***
Mr. & Mrs. Nelson Hayden, P ’17
Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Hicks, P ’15
Ms. Robin Holloway, P ’15
Mr. & Mrs. Mike Horridge, GP ’16
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Horton, GP ’15
Mr. & Mrs. Marc Isaacs, P ’15
Mr. & Mrs. Ron Jaynes, GP ’17
Dr. Scott Jaynes & Dr. Annika Brown,
P ’17
Mr. Weimin Ji & Mrs. Shuqing Wu,
P ’16
Mr. Yijun Jiang & Ms. Feng Wang,
P ’15
Mr. & Mrs. Brice S. Johnson, P ’16
Mr. & Mrs. Hooks Johnston, GP ’17
Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Jones, P ’14
Mr. Seoung Ki Jung & Mrs. Eun
Young Kim, P ’15
Mr. John Kerrick, P ’14
Mrs. Teresa Khanna, P ’17
Mrs. Caroline Knox, GP ’14
Ms. Cynthia Latta, GP ’17
Mr. & Mrs. Edward Lawrence, P ’14
Mrs. Eleanor M. Lee, GP ’14
Ms. Joy Lewis, P ’17
Family of Nicholas Lemieux ’16
Ms. Jihong Liu, P ’13
Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Love, P ’16
Mr. Yi Long Ma & Mrs. Lei Zhang,
P ’16
Dr. Rosebeth Marcou, P ’14
Mr. & Mrs. Scott Martin, P ’17
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Mayer, GP ’17
Mrs. Evangeline McFall, GP ’17
Mr. Michael McLinden & Mrs.
Theresa Calabro, P ’16
Mr. Juan Navedo & Ms. Yolanda L.
Guerra Navedo ’81, P ’14
Ms. Betsy Neisner & Ms. Mary
Barnett, P ’14
Mr. & Mrs. Patrick J. O’Rourke, P ’16
Mr. Max Ouyang & Mrs. Cindy Yang,
P ’14
Mr. & Mrs. Halit Emir Ozdeliorman,
P ’14
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Parnes, P ’14
Mr. Harvey Pastan, GP ’17
Mr. Phil Pastan & Dr. Christina
Pastan, P ’17
Mrs. Nancy Pendleton, GP ’17
Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Phillips, P ’14
Dr. & Mrs. Steven Price, GP ’17
Ms. Maureen Quirk, P ’15
Mr. & Mrs. David Robinson, GP ’15
Ms. Laetitia Rodde, P ’15
Ms. Lisa Rogers, P ’15
Mrs. Nan Rosenthal, GP ’14
Mr. & Mrs. Charles Rozier, P ’14
Mr. & Mrs. Bud Sandstedt, GP ’17
Mr. Dennis Sandstedt & Dr. Karen
Sandstedt, P ’17
Ms. Rachel Schine, P ’15
Ms. Rena Schine, GP ’15
Mr. Stephen Schuetz, P ’15
The Scrivens, P ’16
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Sigel, P ’14
Mr. & Mrs. Kurt Simon, P ’17
Mr. Liwu Song & Mrs. Qun Liu, P ’14
Mr. Daryl Stutes & Ms. Jill Batty,
P ’17
Mrs. Frances Sullivan, GP ’15
Mr. John Twomey, GP ’17
Mr. Carl Werowinski & Mrs. Sally
Pendleton, P ’17
Mrs. Jennifer Whitesel & Mr. Stephen
Whitesel, P ’15 *
Ms. Kathy Wichert, GP ’17
Ms. Joan Kleinman & Mr. Samuel
Witten, P ’14
Mr. & Mrs. Jonathon Wright, P ’14
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Wright, GP ’16
Alumni Parents and
Grandparents
Anonymous (6)
Ms. Doris Abans, P ’01 **
Mr. & Mrs. John Peter Alberico,
P ’04 *
Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Allan, P ’96
Mr. & Ms. Peter Antonellis, P ’12
Mr. & Mrs. William A. Barker, P ’85 **
Mr. & Mrs. Peter Barnes, P ’03 *
The Barth Family, P ’13
Mr. & Mrs. Chris Bartlett, P ’13
Mrs. Mary M. Blair, P ’91 **
Mr. & Mrs. Carl Blicker, P ’82, ’84,
’97 ***
Mr. & Mrs. David T. Boothby, GP ’13
Ms. Marika Brahe, P ’90 *
Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Braley, P ’87 ***
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen C. Caulfield,
P ’89 ***
Ms. Debra Charlesworth, P ’13
Mr. & Mrs. Elmer H. Close ’54,
P ’87 ***
Mr. & Mrs. Forrest Cook, GP ’98,
’03 ***
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Coreth, P ’82 ***
Ms. Melissa B. Cross, P ’06 *
Mrs. Rhonda Cutler & Mr. Anthony
Cutler, P ’05 **
Mr. Caleb Davis, P ’03, ’06 **
Ms. Veronique Chopin de La Bruyere,
P ’06, ’08 *
Mrs. Evangeline Deacon, GP ’09
Mr. & Mrs. Suleyman Doenmez,
P ’05, ’07, ’10 ***
Ms. Anne Gunther Donaldson, P ’70 *
Mr. & Mrs. John M. Dopp, P ’12
Ms. Margaret Dudley, P ’10 *
Mr. & Mrs. Peter Duston, P ’90 ***
Mrs. Joseph G. English, P ’86 ***
Mr. & Mrs. Frederick T. Ernst,
P ’77 ***
Mrs. Joanne Eustis & Mr.
Christopher Eustis, P ’89 ***
Mr. Michael Fertsch & Ms. Marlene
Spears, P ’13
Mr. & Mrs. Christopher J. Flynn,
P ’94 ***
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Forest, P ’04 **
Mr. & Mrs. Lee Foster, P ’98 *
Mr. Jose A. Garcia ’67, P ’12 **
Mr. Yanfeng Ge & Mrs. Lihong Fan,
P ’13
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph C. Gibson, P ’12
Ms. Helena Gilman ’09
Mr. Lewis Gilman ’09
Mr. & Mrs. Leonard J. Goodman,
P ’90 ***
Mr. & Mrs. Charles S. Goodwin,
P ’04 *
Dr. Thomas Grace, P ’96
Ms. Denise Grant, P ’04
Mr. Jeffrey B. Gray, P ’01
Ms. Winifred Gray, P ’88
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph S. Hart, P ’97 ***
Mr. & Mrs. David T. Helm, P ’08
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Hill, P ’11 *
Mr. & Ms. Billy D. Horton, P ’13 *
Mr. & Mrs. Paul S. Horovitz, P ’92 ***
Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Hungerford,
P ’00, ’05, ’07 **
Mr. & Mrs. Peter Imhoff, P ’13 *
Mr. Patrick T. Jackson ’57, P ’84 ***
Mr. & Mrs. Charles F. Johnson,
P ’95 ***
Mr. & Mrs. Chauncey O. Johnstone
’60, P ’91 ***
Mr. & Mrs. Willard H. Jost, P ’88,
GP ’09 **
Mr. & Mrs. Richard E. Kann, P ’91 **
Mr. G. Bourne Knowles III ’55
Mr. Herbert A. Krumbein & Ms. Sara
Naphtali- Krumbein, P ’12
Ms. Elizabeth K. Ladd, P ’89 ***
Mr. John & Dr. Ali Lichtenstein,
P ’03, ’05 **
Mr. & Mrs. William Limero, P ’10 *
Ms. Jihong Liu, P ’13
Mr. & Mrs. Robert N. Lord, P ’06 *
Mr. & Mrs. James W. MacAllen,
P ’94 ***
Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Marcus, P ’91
Mr. Eric Matson P ’98, ’03 **
Mr. William & Ms. Carlene McCarty,
P ’04 **
Ms. Cynthia McGinty, P ’10 *
Mr. & Mrs. John J. McKenna, P ’71
Mr. Peter McLean & Ms. Carol Ann
Pala, P ’12
Mr. & Mrs. John Meffen, P ’98, ’00 ***
Mr. Joseph R. Mullins, P ’93
Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey L Nemore, P ’94
H. Gilman Nichols, Jr. ’46, P ’71 ***
Mr. & Mrs. R. Henry Norweb III,
P ’89 ***
Mrs. Marion O’Connor, P ’67
Mr. Philip O’Donnell, P ’11
Ms. Robin Oliver, P ’12 *
Mr. & Mrs. Tom Olsen, P ’07, ’08 *
Mr. & Mrs. Brian O’Neill, P ’07 *
Mrs. Jane C. Pafford, P ’75 *
Mr. & Mrs. George D. Pappas, P ’08 *
Mrs. Ruth Pease, P ’57, ’58 ***
Capt. John S. Phillips, USC (Ret),
GP ’00, ’05, ’07 **
Mr. Roland Poirier & Mrs. Susan
Moch Poirier, P ’12
Dr. & Mrs. Bruce A. Ratcliff, P ’87 ***
Ms. Jo-Anne Regan, P ’03, ’05 ***
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Mr. & Mrs. Gregory A. Richardson,
P ’90
Mr. & Mrs. Neil A. Robinson, P ’06
Mr. & Mrs. Philip S. Robitaille, P ’95,
’97 ***
Mr. William Rogers & Ms. Susan
Phillips, P ’13
The Honorable & Mrs. L. Phillip
Runyon III, P ’88, ’92 ***
Mr. & Mrs. Lewis H. Sayers, P ’98 ***
Mr. & Mrs. Edward L. Shugrue,
P ’00 **
Mrs. Janet Silvers, P ’80 ***
Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Sistare, P ’13
Ms. Elizabeth A. Smith, P ’13
Mr. & Mrs. Edwin O. Smith, P ’92 ***
The Honorable & Mrs. George R.
Sprague, P ’87 ***
Mr. Timothy Steele, P ’11, ’13 *
Ms. Randi Stein, P ’90, ’98
Dr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Stinson III,
P ’03 **
Mr. & Mrs. Philip T. Struhsacker,
P ’72 ***
Mr. Paul Terrasi & Ms. Joanne Musch,
P ’04 **
Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Thirkield,
P ’11
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Utzschneider,
P ’15
Ms. Elizabeth G. Von Klemperer,
GP ’15
Mr. Joseph Walier & Mrs. Judith
Walier, P ’84 *
Mr. Yunpeng Wang & Mrs. Xiuli, P ’15
Mr. Jonathan Weis, P ’06 **
Mr. & Mrs. Peter Wheeler, P ’12
Ms. Wendy White, P ’05 **
Ms. Denise Wilkinson, P ’09 *
Mr. & Mrs. Willard Wood, P ’13
Mr. & Mrs. David Worthen, P ’13
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas P. Wright,
P ’79, ’85
Faculty and Staff
Mr. John Adams
Mr. Larry Ames
Mr. & Mrs. Bradford D. Bates, P ’17 *
Ms. Alexandra Bean
Ms. Rebecca Beauzay **
Ms. Susan Bergeron
Ms. Erin Bouton *
Mrs. Melissa Bride & Mr. James
Bride, P ’16
Mr. Jason Cox
Mr. & Mrs. Suleyman Doenmez,
P ’05, ’07, ’10 ***
Mr. John G. Emerson
Mr. William Farrell & Mrs. Shelly
Farrell
Ms. Jill-Marie Felton
Mr. Mario Flores
Ms. Jennifer Foreman
Mrs. Carrie Glaude & Mr. Maurice
Glaude, P ’16, ’17 *
Ms. Jan Haman, P ’80, ’82, ’83,
GP ’15 ***
Mrs. Alicia Hammond
Ms. Nellie Herman *
Mr. Bradley Hoffman & Mrs.
Gretchen Hoffman
Mr. & Ms. Billy D. Horton, P ’13 *
Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Hungerford,
P ’00, ’05, ’07 **
Mrs. Jill Hutchins & Mr. Raymond
Hutchins
Mr. & Mrs. Peter Imhoff, P ’13 *
Mrs. Katri Jackson & Mr. Jesse
Jackson
Mr. Brooks Johnson & Mrs. Emily
Johnson
Dr. William Kennedy & Ms. Jeanne
Dietsch
Ms. Michelle Knapp **
Ms. Anne M. Mackey **
Mr. Sean Macy & Mrs. Holly Macy **
Ms. Dawn McClellan
Mr. Eric Nemitz **
Mr. Dylan Pierpont
Mr. Joseph Putko
Ms. Jo-Anne Regan, P ’03, ’05 ***
Mrs. Erika Rogers & Mr. Thaddeus
Rogers***
Mr. Laurance P. Runyon IV ’88 *
Mrs. Dorine Ryner & Mr. Peter Ryner
Mr. Earl Schofield **
Ms. Nicole Sintetos
Mr. Mark Sirois *
Mr. Walter Snitko *
Ms. Donna Stone & Mr. David Stone *
Mr. Rodrigo Villaamil
Mr. Jonathan Weis, P ’06 **
Mr. Jay Whitaker *
Mrs. Jennifer Whitesel & Mr. Stephen
Whitesel, P ’15 *
Ms. Hong Jung Yun ’02 *
Former Faculty and Staff
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Arwe
Mr. Scott Bertschy & Ms. Jean
Hansen **
Mr. & Mrs. Michael L. Cornog ***
Mr. Caleb Davis, P ’03, ’06 **
Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Day
Mr. & Mrs. Peter Duston, P ’90 ***
Mr. Richard K. Fox *
Mr. Robert A. Haslun ***
Mr. Donald Haynes & Mrs. Nancy
Lehmann Haynes ’55 ***
Mr. Scott Holland ***
Mr. & Mrs. Nelson B. Howe *
Mr. & Mrs. Willard H. Jost, P ’88,
GP ’09 **
Mr. Edwin O. Kerman **
Mr. Paul M. Lehmann ’59
Mr. & Mrs. Samuel A. Lewis, Jr. *
Mr. Christian Maitner *
Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Marcus, P ’91
Ms. Deb McWethy **
Ms. Sarah H. Mongan *
Ms. Robin Oliver, P ’12 *
Ms. Joy Putnam
Ms. Cynthia Ritter *
Ms. Lucy C. Shonk *
Mr. & Mrs. Peter Ulrich
Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Von Bothmer
Mr. & Mrs. Alexander Vogel *
Mr. & Mrs. Carl Von Mertens ***
Mr. & Mrs. Arthur W. White *
Friends
Mrs. Jill Adams & Mr. Cecil Adams
Mr. & Mrs. Edward Auchincloss
Mrs. Martha Bean
Mr. Christopher Birch & Mrs.
Alexandra Burke **
Mrs. Nancy H. Borden *
Mr. Seth Brenzel & Mr. Malcolm
Gaines
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Carter *
Mr. & Mrs. Christopher P. Chesney
Mr. & Mrs. John S. Clarkeson ***
Ms. Karen Clement
Mr. John Curran
Dr. & Mrs. Francis De Marneffe
Mr. Peter Drake & Ms. Nancy Drake
Mr. Frederick Eaton **
Mr. Bill Goodwin & Ms. Barbara
Summers *
Mr. & Mrs. William Gurney
Mr. Dick Hammond & Mrs. Alice
Hammond *
Ms. Marguerite Ladd
Mr. Alexander M. Lehmann
Ms. Harriet S. Leonard
Mr. Robert Lord
Mr. Frank D. Millet **
Ms. Stephanie E. Newell
Mr. Sean O’Kane
Mr. Robert Perkin
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Petrone ***
Mrs. Dorothy Peterson
Ms. Felicity Pool & Mr. Allen Davis
Ms. Ann Ranelle
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Smith
Mr. & Mrs. W. Richard Smyser **
Mr. & Mrs. Steve Walker
Mr. Thomas Warren & Ms. Ann Marie
Warren
Mrs. Jane S. Young
In honor of
Theo and Robin Ginsburg
Ms. Veronique Chopin de La Bruyere,
P ’06, ’08 *
Edward and Lillian Hawthorne
Edward and Lillian Hawthorne
Educational Foundation
Andy Hungerford, Rich Connell, and
Dylan Pierpont
Mr. Tucker Wheeler ’12
Hadley McDonald Sullivan
Mr. & Mrs. Henry Norweb III,
P ’89 ***
In memory of
H. William Evans, Joseph Grew English,
Ann Hutchinson, Terry Dwyer, and
Dr. Richard Kerwin
Mr. Robert C. English ’86 ***
Joseph G. English, P ’86
Mrs. Joseph G. English, P ’86 ***
Jason Richardson ’90
Mr. &Mrs. Gregory A. Richardson,
P ’90, Kim Goodman ’90
Todd Walier ’84
Mr. Joseph Walier & Mrs. Judith
Walier, P ’84
Foundations, Business and
Matching Gift Companies
Akron Community Foundation
Baldwin Foundation
Bank of America Matching Gifts
Cisco Systems Foundation
Franklin Fund
GE Foundation Matching Gifts
Program
Henderson Foundation
Intel Foundation Matching Gifts to
Education Programs
Millipore Corporation
New Hampshire Charitable
Foundation
The New York Community Trust –
JTS Fund
The Perkin Fund
Pfizer Foundation Matching Gifts
Program
Qualcomm Charitable Foundation
Salesforce.com Foundation
The Sally Foss and James Scott Hill
Foundation
The Star Family Foundation
TIAA-CREF Foundation Matching
Gift Program
Union Pacific Railroad
Wells Fargo Foundation
Worthen Foundation
We have made every effort to be as
accurate as possible in recognizing all
those who have contributed to Dublin
School from July 1, 2013 to June 30,
2014. If your name has been listed
incorrectly or omitted, please contact the
Development Office at (603) 563-1285.
Bill Evans
Mr. Frank D. Millet **
William Newell ’43
Ms. Stephanie E. Newell
* Indicates 5 years of giving ** Indicates 10 years of giving *** Indicates 15+ years of giving “(dec.)” Indicates deceased
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last word
“They who simply climb
to the peak of Monadnock
have seen but little of the
mountain. I came not to look
off from it, but to look at it.”
—Henry David Thoreau
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It’s about
PEOPLE.
Dublin School is
fueled by the countless acts of
professionalism and kindness
that go on every day, behind
the scenes, by an amazing
group of people. Be part of the
“behind the scenes” support by
making a gift to the Dublin
School Annual Fund every
year. Together, we are creating
an extraordinary school.
Gifts to the
Annual Fund can be
made by filling out the
remittance envelope in this
magazine or online at: http://
www.dublinschool.org/givingonline/. Please send your gift
in before the end of the fiscal
year on June 30, 2015.