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Choate's Alumni Magazine -- the Summer 2012 edition features Commencement and Reunion and stories from Choate Rosemary Hall's Peace Corps Volunteers.
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ON THE COVER Madeline McCabe ’12 graduated cum laude and will matriculate at the University of North Carolina in the fall.
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Choate Rosemary Hall Alumni Magazine
Director of Strategic Planning & CommunicationsAlison J. Cady
EditorLorraine S. Connelly
Design and ProductionDavid C. Nesdale Class Notes EditorHenry McNulty ’65
ContributorsLorraine S. ConnellyRobert J. DeMarcoHenry McNulty ’65Rachel Bloch Mellon ’12Ian J. MorrisMagalay Olivero
PhotographyDonald R. BennettDeron ChangAl FerreiraJohn Giammatteo ’77Ian J. Morris
Life TrusteesCharles F. Dey Bruce S. Gelb ’45 Edwin A. Goodman ’58Herbert V. Kohler, Jr. ’57 Cary L. Neiman ’64 Stephen J. Schulte ’56 Edward J. ShanahanWilliam G. Spears ’56
2012-2013 Board of TrusteesSamuel P. Bartlett ’91 Michael J. Carr ’76 Alex D. Curtis Richard S. Elman David R. Foster ’72Robert B. Goergen, Jr. ’89 John F. Green ’77 Linda J. Hodge ’73 Christopher M. Hodgson ’78Brett M. Johnson ’88 Warren B. Kanders ’75 Cecelia M. Kurzman ’87 Edward O. Lanphier ’74 William Laverack, Jr. Gretchen Cooper Leach ’57 Kewsong Lee ’82Robert A. Minicucci ’71 Linda H. Riefler ’79 Marshall S. Ruben Henry K. Snyder ’85M. Window Snyder ’93 Jeanette Sublett Thomas M. Viertel ’59 Benjamin S. Walton ’92
Editorial Advisory Board Christopher Hodgson ’78Judy Donald ’66Howard R. Greene P ’82, ’05Dorothy Heyl ’71Henry McNulty ’65John Steinbreder ’74Francesca Vietor ’82Heather Zavod P ’88, ’90
Contact the Editorial OfficeCommunications Office, c/o Choate Rosemary Hall333 Christian Street Wallingford, CT 06492-3800Editorial Offices: (203) 697-2252 Fax Number: (203) 697-2380Email: [email protected] Web site: www.choate.edu
Submissions to the MagazineAll submissions to the Bulletin should be made via email or through regular post. Photos should be supplied in hard copy format or in digital format at 300 dpi. Every effort is made to accommodate all submissions. However, the Editor reserves the right to refuse images that are not suitable for printing due to poor quality and to edit content to fit within the space allotted.
Choate Rosemary Hall Bulletin is published fall, spring, and summer for alumni, students and their parents, and friends of the School. Please send change of address to Alumni Records and all other correspondence to the Communications Office, 333 Christian Street, Wallingford, CT 06492-3800.
Choate Rosemary Hall does not discriminate in the administration of its educational policies, athletics, other school-administered programs, or in the administration of its hiring and employment practices on the basis of age, gender, race, color, national origin, sexual orientation, or non-job-related handicap.
Our Commitment to the EnvironmentThe Bulletin is printed using vegetable-based inks on ChorusArt Silk, an FSC-certified paper which contains 70% recycled content, including 30% post consumer waste. This issue saved the equivalent of 32+ trees, 13,488 gals. wastewater flow, 92+ lbs. water-borne waste not created and prevented over 2,938+ lbs. of greenhouse gases from being emitted into the atmosphere.
Printed in U.S.A. 1112-161/17.5 M
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Contents s u m m e r 2 0 1 2
D E P A R T M E N T S
Campus ConnectionNews about the School
Alumni Association News
Class Notes
Readers' Corner
In Memoriam
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F E A T U R E S
Headmaster’s Letter
A Musical Landscape
Commencement 2012
Reunion 2012
A History of Outreach
Insight: Pauline Anderson Reminisces
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W I T H D I S T I N C T I O N
SIXTH FORMER NAMED PRESIDENTIAL SCHOLAR
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AUTHOR AND CHILDREN’S ADVOCATE GEOFFREY CANADA
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SOCIAL ACTIVIST AND FOLK SINGER PETER YARROW
2012 CHARLES KRAUSE '51 FELLOW IN RHETORIC, AUTHOR
AND JOURNALIST ISABEL WILKERSON
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THE GREAT MIGRATION
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A Musical Landscape
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In June, 35 students in the Choate Rosemary Hall Orchestra, along with Maestro Philip Ventre, embarked on a 10-day Italian tour of Rome, Florence, and Sorrento that included performances of the works of Brahms, Haydn, and two great Italian composers – Rossini (“L’Italiana in Algeri Overture”) and Respighi (“Ancient Airs and Dances Suite No 1”). The Orchestra also premiered an origi-nal work, “L v B or Not to Be,” by one of their own, violinist and composer Michela Bentel ’13 from Locust Valley, N. Y. Says Michela of the piece, “It began as an assignment from my composition teacher, Anthony Aibel, who gave me the opportunity to write a piece for the Long Island Philharmonic. The program they were performing was to inspire and educate young children in classical music.” Using themes from Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1, she wrote a contemporary classical adaptation. To hear her first symphonic piece played in Italy to rousing applause was, she says, “exhilarating.” She has written another piece for the Choate Rosemary Hall Orchestra entitled “Chiaroscuro” that student musicians will begin working on next fall and premiere at a Parents’ Weekend concert in October. How fitting that on day trips to the Accademia and Uffizi Galleries in Florence and visits to St. Peter’s and the Vatican Museums in Rome, student musicians had the opportunity to view the great art of the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Says third former and oboist Sonja Eliason, “The music we performed created an auditory landscape that perfectly matched the visual landscapes we saw every day.” Violist and sixth former Benming Zhang, a student in Headmaster Alex Curtis’ spring seminar in Baroque art, was able to see in person the chiaroscuro techniques employed by Caravaggio in his painting “The Inspiration of Saint Matthew” at the Contarelli Chapel, Church of San Luigi dei Francesi, in Rome. Says Ben, “Dr. Curtis’ seminar helped me appreciate the art we saw on this trip and understand the Baroque elements and artistic styles of these paintings and churches.”
Visiting the ancient ruins of Pompeii en route to the Sorrento performance, orchestra members rediscovered the antiquity that inspired Respighi’s three suites of “Ancient Airs and Dances.” In preparation for the concert tour, Arts Concentration student and violinist Taylor Lemmons ’13 spent time listening to multiple recordings of the program pieces. She says, “I also began to read more about Italian culture and history and the lives of Rossini and Respighi so I could play with an awareness of the emotions that these composers might have been trying to evoke when they wrote their works. I felt that if we were able to capture these emotions in the way we played, Italian audiences would be able to connect even more with our performances.” Flutist Alma MacBride ’13 says, “I was very nervous to play for audiences with no connection to Choate, but I was even more nervous to play Italian music in Italy. However, once we received positive reactions to our performances, I played the Resphigi and Rossini even more enthusiastically.”
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At the center of the learning experience for student musicians is Maestro Ventre, who has employed his dedication and talent for the past 42 years without the slightest diminishment in energy, enthusiasm, or ambition. And what does he demand of his musicians in return? “It’s simple,” he says. “Excellence, dedication, and sincerity of purpose.” His players consistently deliver all three, in good measure. Under his baton, the Orchestra has performed at venues around the globe, from France and Italy (the latest concert was their eighth visit) to Spain and China. The Chamber Orchestra was the first high school group to play at the Great Wall of China in 2000. And in December 2009, members of the Chamber Orchestra received an invitation to perform at a holiday reception at The White House. In 2010, in recognition of his distinguished teaching, Choate’s Board of Trustees awarded Ventre the Karl J. and Augusta O. Monrad Faculty Chair. In 2011, he received a U.S. Presidential Scholar Teacher of Recognition Award. He continues to direct the Wallingford Symphony Orchestra in residence at Choate Rosemary Hall, now in its 38th season. In 1970, then-Headmaster Seymour St. John wanted a music program that was “second to none.” Ventre has provided that and much more. His student musicians continue to stir audiences at these many crossroads. Benedict Mackay, who heard the orchestra play in Florence, wrote in an email to Ventre, “We were thoroughly impressed by the quality of playing by soloists and the whole orchestra. Clearly, such accomplishment is the result of strong and inspiring leadership and dedicated commitment on the part of your students.” To Ventre and our hard-working student musicians, we say “Bravissimo e bravissima, tutti!”
Maestro Ventre demands excellence, dedication, and sincerity of purpose from his musicians. They deliver all three in good measure.
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Going Forth {Commencement 2012}
O N J U N E 3 , a sunny, cobalt blue-sky morning, 240 graduates of
Choate Rosemary Hall celebrated the School’s 122nd Commencement
with family and friends and began their new lives as alumni. It was
an occasion marked by new beginnings as much as tearful good-byes.
P H O T O G R A P H Y B Y A L F E R R E I R A
“As you embark on the next leg of your journey, do so with confidence and enthusiasm,” he said. “Be bold and take positive risks. Don’t shy away from the unknown, seek it! I want you to be strong and determined, yet flexible and inquisi-tive; be critical in thought, yet carefree at heart; be goal-driven, yet completely willing to change those goals. Don’t be afraid of the future, live it! And, especially, live the life of the mind. Leonardo da Vinci, the great Italian Renaissance artist and scientist, once said, ‘Learning never exhausts the mind.’ It certainly does not. Indeed, I would argue it fuels the mind. We should always be students – on a constant quest for knowledge. Our thirst for personal development must never be quenched, nor should we ever allow ourselves to tire of wisdom. So we must commit to living an inquisitive life; for if we do, we will be rewarded abundantly.”
Four-time Olympic gold medalist Angela Ruggiero ’98 came back to the platform where 14 years before a Choate diploma was conferred upon her, to deliver commencement remarks. As she reminisced about her time at Choate, she told the soon-to-be graduates three things to do in life. “Take risks, take many risks,” Ruggiero said. “You’re building confidence in yourself each time you put yourself out there. If you don’t risk it, you don’t know what you can truly do.” Pursuing passions and believing in yourself were the other two guideposts that Ruggiero offered graduates. “Strive toward your passions and do what makes you happy,” she said.
In his first valedictory remarks as headmaster, Dr. Alex Curtis sounded a note of synchronicity as he urged graduates to take their “passionate pursuit of possibility” to the next level.
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1. CHARLOTTE ARMOUR ’12
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3. GABRIELLE ZACHARY ’12
4. ALEX POLTASH ’12, CURTIS KWAN ’12 AND NORI NAKA ’12
5. SCHOOL SEAL PRIZE WINNER AND CUM LAUDE GRADUATE AUDREY DEFUSCO ’12
6. CONOR LAMBERTI ’12
7. JUBILANT GRADUATES
8. CHRISTOPHER KNAPP ’12
9. RYAN RUIZ ’12
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T H E W E E K E N D K I C K E D O F F F R I DAY E V E N I N G
with a dinner for all classes under the tents. At the Alumni Association annual meeting on Saturday morning, Stephen Gilhuley ’62 was presented with the Choate Rosemary Hall Distinguished Service Award and Headmaster Alex D. Curtis gave special remarks.
Saturday afternoon highlights included the groundbreaking reception for the Ayres-Yankus Varsity Baseball Field honoring two legendary Choate baseball greats – Russell R. Ayres, who coached from 1919 to 1928, and Tom Yankus, who coached for more than 50 years.
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A military roundtable, “I Served,” moderated by John R. Campbell ’62, a recipient of two purple hearts, provided insights from those alumni who served their country in the armed services (See profile p. 35). In addition, this year there were three new panel presentations – A Rosemary Hall arts panel moderated by Davyne Verstandig ’62, Director of the Litchfield County Writers Project and English Lecturer at UConn’s Torrington campus; a health and medicine panel moderated by John Gelb ’72, and a 50 Years of the Peace Corps panel led by Walter Blass ’47 and former President and Principal of Choate Rosemary Hall Charles F. Dey, who both shared their experiences as coordinators for Peace Corps volunteers in Afghanistan andthe Philippines respectively, and by Katie Maeve Murphy ’97, a volunteer in El Salvador. For more on those Choate alumni who answered the call given 50 years ago by President John F. Kennedy ’35 to establish a corps “to promote world peace and friendship” please turn to page 24.
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A History of OutreachStories from Choate Rosemary Hall Peace Corps Volunteers
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They worked in Madagascar, Sierra Leone, Fiji, Moldova, the Philippines, the Central African Republic, Mali, Belize, Togo, Tunisia, and other places they had, until then, seen only in the pages of National Geographic. Some slept in huts, took bucket baths, ate fried slugs, lived without running water, and had to climb to the top of a hill to use a cell phone. And by and large, they loved the experience. They are Choate Rosemary Hall’s Peace Corps volunteers. All of them answered the call given 50 years ago by President John F. Kennedy ’35 to establish a corps “to promote world peace and friendship,” consisting of those “willing to serve, under conditions of hardship if necessary, to help the peoples of [impoverished] countries and areas in meeting their needs for trained manpower.” Kennedy put forth his proposal in an executive order in March 1961; it was authorized by Congress that fall. In the past half-century, more than 200,000 Americans have served as Peace Corps volunteers – PCVs, as they invariably are known – in 139 countries.
And almost without exception, the Choate PCVs recommend the experience. “It is life-changing,” says Anne Marshall Henry ’62, a retired math teacher and administrator who taught in Tunisia. “Living in the Arab world from 1967 to 1969 opened our eyes to a very different culture, and made us much more understanding of the conflicts of that part of the world. We also learned to stand on our own, and turn to each other to solve conflict, rather than to rely totally on family.” Caitlin Unites ’98, who worked in community health in Madagascar from 2003 to 2005, agrees. “I think every PCV feels like they are receiving so much more than they are giving to their community,” she says. “My community really took me in and embraced me. At the end of my two years, I knew I had gotten so much from the experience: I had learned a new language, gotten over any fear of public speaking, developed a passion for public health, mastered the art of baking cakes on a little gas stove, and read over 400 books.” She now works in Washington as a grant writer for Population Services International, a health-related organization. Stewart Wight ’98, now a foreign service officer in the U. S. Embassy in Baghdad, taught English in the Eastern Europe Republic of Moldova from 2003 to 2005. He says his Peace Corps experience “taught me to be patient; things take time to develop in Moldova. I learned Russian, which helped me join the State Department. It helped me understand Eastern Europeans and Russians better, which helped in my Foreign Service tour in Moscow from 2008-2010. Most of all, it helped me grow from a somewhat spoiled college grad into an adult.”
ST E P P I N G F O R T H Some Choate PCVs say the desire to work overseas was with them from an early age. “I always wanted to join the Peace Corps,” says Sara Dowd Ferree ’99, now a grant writer in San Francisco. “I don't remember when I first heard about it, but I do remember hearing a personal story told by a visitor to our Economics class at Choate. He said he finally entered into international development work in his 50s or so, and regretted not doing so earlier.” Sara was an environmental promoter in Jamaica from 2003 to 2005. Cait Unites had the Peace Corps in her blood. “My father was in the Peace Corps in Kenya from 1968-71,” she says, “and I grew up knowing that it was something I wanted to do after college. While I had my heart set on the Peace Corps before I went to Choate, I think that Choate did help to shape me as a global citizen. Choate broadened my world view and allowed me a pretty incredible range of experiences. At what other high school could I have shaken hands with Archbishop Desmond Tutu and listened to former Head of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev and his wife speak about their lives?”
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Says George Zeller ’79, who was an agricultural volunteer in Sierra Leone in the 1980s and Zaire in the 1990s: “As a child, I lived overseas and enjoyed the adventure. Joining the Peace Corps was an opportunity to serve my country, in a peaceful way, and continue those adventures.” He now teaches high school social studies in Warrensville, N.C. His father, Alan Zeller ’43, was in the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone and Liberia, while his brother, Robbie Zeller ’76, served in Fiji. But others had no previous plans for Peace Corps work – retired Choate President and Principal Charles F. Dey among them. “In 1961, I had no thought of joining the Peace Corps,” he wrote last year. “I was new to the Dartmouth administration as Assistant Dean of the College, and had much to learn. With daughters aged 3 and 2, we were getting our bearings in Hanover.” But Peace Corps Director R. Sargent Shriver, a persuasive man, thought college deans were just the right people to lead Peace Corps work, and by 1962 Charley, his wife Phoebe, and their daughters were in the Philippines, where he oversaw 80 PCVs.
N OT I N K A N S AS A N YM O R E Serving in the Peace Corps gave many volunteers a look at a whole new way of life. Anne Marshall Henry, for one, recalls her first days in Tunis: “Staying in a city hotel during our training,” she says, “we encountered the busy mayhem of an Arab city – going into the souk [commercial quarter] for the first time and realizing that this type of shopping was common over there. The bustling of the people, the seemingly atonal music, the colors and smells were all so different from New England. Then, later in the year, after we moved into our
small apartment in a relatively modern building, we discovered that the neighbor across the alley actually had a camel who went in his front door and lived in his interior courtyard.” Meryl Menon, wife of former Choate English teacher Raman Menon, taught French in Ghana – the only female faculty member in the school. She recorded the sounds of her new life on a reel-to-reel tape recorder, sending the recordings home. Sara Ferree remembers transportation issues in Jamaica: “Taxi drivers pulling out their machetes to war over passengers, flat tires, getting sick in the back of the van with it full to the brim with people while hitting a man on a motorcycle – all in one trip! And men blocking the road to demand pay for ‘fixing’ the tire, police checkpoints, and really great – or not! – music blaring with everyone singing their hearts out.” Rachel N’Diaye ’97 (Rachel V. Anderson at Choate) recalls ordinary life in Mali, where she worked in health education from 2001 to 2004: “Our town was on the major thoroughfare between the capital, Bamako, and the main port that supplied Mali with imports, Abidjan in Cote d’Ivoire,” she says. “We would sit at my host mother’s restaurant and watch the trucks drive by. Some were loaded with lumber, others with plastic mats, gas, machinery for the gold mines, and others with traveling salesmen sitting in the open air going from market to market. Trucks coming from Cote d’Ivoire often had pineapples or coconuts hung in mesh hammocks on the side, and others had bags of charcoal on the roof for their family in the city.” Rachel now works for the National Kidney Foundation in Pennsylvania.
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Wendy Shapiro says trying to celebrate American holidays in Africa was a challenge. “I had a very creative Thanksgiving,” she recalls. “Unripe mango is a good substitute for apples – you can make a great pie! I also carved a local pumpkin-like squash, freaking out my neighbor’s kids, who thought I was practicing some sort of voodoo.” Cait Unites remembers one particularly memorable ride in Madagascar: “When I was trying to get to the capital for training during the rainy season, the road was flooded and cars couldn't get through,” she says, “so I had to take a bicycle taxi. I was perched on the back of one bike, and my suitcase was on another, and we had about a 10-kilometer ride to get to the nearest big town. It was market day in one of the villages that we went through, and the street was full of people, and they were all staring at the white girl on the back of a bike, like I was an alien. I had caused such a commotion that nobody even noticed that there was a guy walking down the street stark naked! Nudity was not a normal thing there; walking naked through town would be similar to walking through Wallingford naked. Apparently, a white girl on a bike trumps a naked crazy man!”
FA R F R O M H O M E The work of a few PCVs – a relative handful, thankfully – ended in tragedy. Jennifer Rubin ’79, who volunteered in Togo, was stabbed to death there in 1984; the daughter of her landlord was charged with having two men from a nearby village kill her, and all three were convicted. But for most, tragedy did not strike, although Peace Corps life was not always easy. “Everyone always asks how I coped without electricity or hot running water,” says Cait Unites.
“That's the easy part. I think you can get used to giving up all of that stuff. The hardest part is being so far away from friends and family. I had access to email about once or twice a month. It is hard to get updates from people at home who feel like they aren't doing anything interesting in comparison, but I was hungry for any information I could get about mundane things.” Life in Moldova was no picnic, remembers Stewart Wight. “The winters were hard,” he says. “Very little sunlight, and the school was not really heated. I was assigned a room with south-facing windows, which meant my classroom got up to 50 degrees Fahrenheit in the winter, although the rest of the school was a bit colder. Some classrooms got down to 35 to 40 during January and February, which was tough.” Wendy Henning Shapiro ’89, who worked in agriculture and girls’ education in the Central African Republic from 1994 to 1996, says her biggest problem was frustration. “People have different priorities and a different sense of time and urgency,” she says. “Sometimes people just were not interested in new and different approaches that to me seemed an obvious improvement. There was often a hesitancy or refusal to invest in a change that could have a positive impact over the long term, but nothing evident in the short term. People often approached me for money, and things and this got frustrating. Central Africans are incredibly generous with whatever they have. This is one reason it’s very hard to “get ahead” in that society – because anyone who works hard and earns money is expected to give much of it away. This is a bittersweet issue I still grapple with in my work.” She now deals with African refugee issues at the State Department in Washington.
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Like others, Wendy says the apparent privations of life in the Third World are not all that bad. “The funny part is that the things you expect to be hard – the thatch roof hut, no electricity or running water, limited food choices, red dust everywhere, the heat – these are actually the easiest adjustment,” she says. “You get over that in a couple of weeks, and actually some of the best memories I have are the fun ways we dealt with those ‘hardships’.” Adds George Zeller: “Living in a village without running water, no electricity, and no means of electronic communications, just as most humans still do, was the most worthwhile part of my PCV experience.”
L I F E LO N G O P P O R T U N I T I E S Ask a former PCV whether he or she would recommend the Peace Corps to today’s Choate students, and the answer is inevitably a resounding yes. “Absolutely! It is a life changing experience,” says Anne Marshall Henry. “Yes, the Peace Corps has provided the peoples of the nations where they have been a presence with many worthwhile and valuable types of aid, but it is also an extraordinary education for the volunteers themselves.” Rachel N’Diaye agrees. “Especially for students interested in working abroad, the Peace Corps gives you two years of international experience and valuable language and cross-cultural skills,” she notes. “Many people think that two years is a long
time, but it goes by faster than you would ever imagine. Many PCVs continue on to grad school after their service, and having Peace Corps on their résumé really shows that they have some-thing that not all job candidates have.” Stewart Wight’s advice: “Be prepared, be flexible, and learn to listen. Moldova on the surface is not that much different from the U.S., it's just poorer. But you need to really know the people deep down to understand the differences. Get out and make mistakes, be loud and get noticed. Trying to say everything perfectly in Russian and with cultural awareness was a fool's errand for me. I could never succeed, no matter how hard I tried. People will forgive your rough edges if it’s clear you are on their side and working for the improvement of their kids’ lives. Do your best, meet a lot of people, and listen a lot. You never know what you will hear, or whom you will meet, that will really shape your experience and make you a more effective volunteer.” Says Sara Ferree: “Let go, and don’t try to control the experience.” And Charley Dey, looking back on his PCV years, echoes the message delivered by President Kennedy half a century ago: “Phoebe and I will be ever grateful for relationships with so many volunteers of varied ages and backgrounds – caring and courageous countrymen giving of themselves to others.”
Pauline Anderson: A Reminiscence B Y H E N R Y M C N U L T Y ’ 6 5
Pauline Anderson was the first full-time-professional librarian at Choate, working from
1950 to 1983. This past spring Pauline, who now lives in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., sat
down with Henry McNulty ’65 to talk about her time at School. Here is an excerpt from
that conversation.
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JOHN CAMPBELL ’62
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Best Lawyers
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Immigration Lawyer
HARLAN YORK ’87
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’34 C LEWIS R. DONELSON III
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PETRA MEUSER FOWLER
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LUIS ARMANDO ROCHE Asómate, Hacia Dentro ’57 R H ANN MCNEER MCLEOD
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For more information and online reservations, visit: www.choate.edu/sallyhartlodge or (203) 697-3933.
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’81 MARIE MALCHODI New York Times
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’88 GEOFFREY FLETCHER
’89 TODD ACKERMAN
ALISON GILLMOR CAMERON
RAFE SAGARIN Learning from the Octopus: How Secrets from Nature Can Help Us Fight Terrorist Attacks, Natural Disasters and Disease The Bookshelf
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LYNNE GAYLE BIENEMAN
MIKE MINADEO
MIRIAM O’NEIL
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’10 LIZ OTTENS
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F O R M E R F A C U L T Y
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LISSA MCCALL MOUNCE
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FREDERICK T. KELSEY
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’44 C JAMES W. RUSSELL
Literary MagazineNews
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PHILIP M. PAYNE II
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Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology
CARL V. MALMQUIST
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’60 R H MARTHA SCHRAFFT CHIPMAN
’60 C FREDERICK H. MARKS
Telegram Gazette
’66 R H ELINOR EARLE
The Best of Vermont, Celebrating 200 Years
’74 C JOHN N. HOUPIS JR.
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Brattleboro: Selected Historical Vignettes
’77 R H SARAH VANLAER HANSEN
Family Circle
’94 ROBERT O. LIBERMAN
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1988ANNE DODGE
GILCHRIST
PATRICIA N. ARMS ’38
2002 CATHERINE
BENNET THOMAS BENNET ’04
PHILIP PAYNE ’46
2003 CHRISTOPHER
ST. JOHN PETER ST. JOHN ’06
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BETTY ADAMOWICZ
SALLY THATCHER LANE BRAMAN ’49
ELGA P. LAAN
MARY LOUISE LENNON
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The 3-Degree Putting Solution
The 3-Degree Putting Solution
THE 3-DEGREE PUTTING SOLUTION
Author:
Publisher:
About the Authors:
The Golf Fix
Golf
Global Golf Post
Sports Illustrated
Golfwweek
About the Reviewer:
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Learning From The Octopus:
LEARNING FROM THE OCTOPUS
Author:Publisher:
About the Author:
Observation and Ecology: Broadening the Scope of Science to Understand a Complex World
About the Reviewer:
Learning from the Octopus
[N.B. Sagarin dedicated the book to Paula Loyd ’90, “one of the most adaptable human beings I have ever met.” Loyd, an anthropologist with the Human Terrain Team in Afghanistan, died in 2009.]
The Little Yellow Trolley Car, A True Story
Also of Note ...
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the season 8-7, with a win over Taft. Varsity baseball went 9-12, including an
and third at the New Englands. Varsity softball fell to Westminster in the
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These excerpted remarks are from a talk Rachel Mellon gave to Trustees last April. She will matriculate at Stanford University next fall.
RACHEL BLOCH MELLON ’12
OCTOBER
10/19 FRI 7:30 pm | Main Stage
IMANI WINDS
Since 1997, the Grammy-nominated quintet, Imani Winds, has
toured major concert venues including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center,
Kennedy Center, Disney Hall and Kimmel Center. As part of The Legacy
Commissioning Project, Imani Winds previews 10 new works written
by composers of diverse musical backgrounds, bridging European,
American, African and Latin American traditions.
DECEMBER
12/7 FRI 7:30 pm 12/8 SAT 2:00 pm | Main Stage
CIRCUS MINIMUSKevin O’Keefe has been
performing since 1985 when
he filled a small suitcase with
everything he would need to
perform his “One-Man Circus
in-a-Suitcase” around the
world. Since then, Circus
Minimus has touched the lives
of hundreds of thousands of
families. The circus is where
magic resides, and dreams
still can come true. For the child in us all, tickets are $10 for both
performances.
JANUARY
1/20 SUN 7:00 pm | Main Stage
The Philadelphia Dance
Company (PHILADANCO)
was founded in 1970 by Joan
Myers Brown. Across the nation and around
the world, PHILADANCO is celebrated for its
innovation, creativity and
preservation of predominantly
African-American traditions in
dance.
APRIL
4/12 FRI 7:30 pm | Main Stage
ADELE MYERS AND DANCERS
Adele Myers and Dancers (AMD) is a five-member contemporary dance
company that combines robust athleticism, humor, and a personalized
theatricality for its audiences. With support from the Summer Stages
Dance Festival; Bates Dance Festival; Opera House Arts; and Connecticut
College, the company is pleased to preview “Einstein’s Happiest
Thought,”– a multidisciplinary investigation into the physical state of
imbalance as potential freedom.
2012-2013 GUEST ARTIST SERIES
GUEST ARTISTS TICKET PRICING Adults: $20Seniors (65 & older): $15Students: $15Circus Minimus: $10 for all.
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