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Alumni Engagement Welcomes the Class of 2013 .............................................. 3

Promenade.........................................................4

Senior Concert and Senior-Faculty Convocation .......................... 6

Baccalaureate ................................................... 8

Commencement and Head of School John Palfrey’s Address to the Class of 2013 ..................... 10

Senior Prizes and Awards .............................17

Faces 2013 ....................................................... 18

A Tribute to Becky Sykes ............................ 20

Parting Arts and Letters ..............................22

2013 Class Photo ...........................................24

Photos by Michael Lutch and Gil Talbot


Left: Johannes Verhaegh hugs his mom, Karen.

Top: Theodore Agbi with his mom, Isoken Okhuahesuyi, and aunt, Nicole Francis

Above: Maia Hirschler and her dad, Charles ’72; Mimi Leggett and her dad, Tony ’72; and Samuel Green and his dad, Dick ’72

Below: Kaitlin Poor (center) with, from left, grandparents Carol and Charlie Poor; Zander Buttress; her mom, Katy; sister Lauren and brother Ryan; and dad, Jeff

Inset: English instructor Seth Bardo and Amanda Chatupron-Lacayo

Top: Devon Burger with her mom, English instructor Susan Greenberg, and dad, William Burger

Right: Lucy Frey and her mom, history and social science instructor Emma Frey

Below right: Cameron Morose and Tom Hodgson, instructor in philosophy and religious studies

Bottom: Alexander Hyder with his grandfather, Henry K. Hyder Jr. ’45, and dad, Henry K. Hyder III ’84; his great-grandfather was Class of 1912

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COMMENCEMENT 2013Volume 106 Number 4

PUBLISHERTracy M. SweetDirector of Academy Communications

EDITORSally V. HolmDirector of Publications

DESIGNERKen PuleoArt Director

ASSISTANT EDITORJill Clerkin

PHOTOGRAPHERSCharles Hirschler '72, Michael Lutch, and Gil Talbot

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Cover: A perfect day for an unforgettable event greeted graduating seniors, faculty, relatives, and friends gathered in the brilliant sunshine for Head of School John Palfrey’s first Commencement Address, followed by the traditional diploma circle on the Great Lawn. Photo by Michael Lutch

It means that you have been privileged to receive a very special education. Use the knowledge and skills you learned here to make a difference. Be proud of what you accomplished yet embrace humility as you lead and serve.

Your class number—’13—will be etched on a Gelb foundation stone, and your class will have a permanent place in Andover’s history. Being an alum means you will forever be part of Andover and Andover will forever be part of you. Stay connected. Attend alumni events. Become an Andover volunteer. Return to campus whenever you get the chance. Start planning for your Fifth Reunion in 2018!

We will miss all of you but are proud to see you go. Please keep in touch!

Debby Burdett Murphy ’86Director of Alumni Engagement

Dear Class of 2013:

It seems like just yesterday we all were sitting in the chapel for the Senior-Faculty Convocation, gathered in that special space for one of the last times. Sunday, June 9, dawned picture perfect; in my 25 years of attending graduation ceremonies, your day was one of the most beautiful—ever!

After receiving your diplomas, you were transformed from Andover students to alumni. Though the day was filled with goodbyes, do not think of it as an ending. As the meaning of the word “commencement” implies, this is a new beginning. You now embark on a new adventure and a lifelong relationship with Andover as alumni.

What does it mean to be an Andover alum? It means that you are now part of an extraordinary alumni body. Find comfort in those friendships and connections. Use the network.


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12. James Garth, Pallavi Prakash, Victoria Everett ’14, Garrick Gu, Darlina Lui, and Michael May

13. Richard McAllister and Alexandra Bell

14. Joshua Hayward and Zach Merchant

1. Matthew Deorocki, Max Carrillo-Ostrow, Francis LaRovere, and Alex Kramer

2. Myracle McCoy ’14 and Christopher Amendano

3. Chase Gottlich ’14, Fatoumata Diarra, Justin Wang, Charlotte Doran, Amanda Chatupron-Lacayo, and Kevin Fung

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Senior-Faculty Convocation”Allons! the road is before us!“

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Dean of Faculty Temba Maqubela’s chemistry metaphor set the tone. “Structure and Bonding, Thermodynamics Poten-tial, and Kinetics Transformation. It is an imitation of life!” he instructed. “We are right at the beginning of the celebration and recognition of the good times—the realization of poten-tial. You are merely changing from a localized bonding with Andover to a delocalized bond…. And as the blues man wrote, ‘Let the good times roll!’”

Madeline Silva ’13 eloquently demonstrated that “Andover…has been a place where I have very much found my voice….” Senior Theo Agbi’s deep gratitude to the faculty was palpable: “In class you push us to our breaking points with assignments, and then you follow us out of class and do the exact same thing on the field. But you do it with love.” English instructor and alum Catherine Tousignant ’88 offered a wistful literary reflection on the ambiguous challenge of change, leaving the assembled with Whitman: “Allons! the road is before us! It is safe—I have tried it—my own feet have tried it well—be not detain’d!”

But the evening belonged to Associate Head of School Becky Sykes, moving on after 40 years to head the Oprah Winfrey Charitable Foundation. With tears and hugs she accepted 40 red roses and “gifts of friendship and respect” from members of the Class of ’13.


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4. Sasha Scolnik-Brower

5. David Shin ’14

6. Josy Hicks-Jablons and Anna Stacy

7. Dean of Faculty Temba Maqubela and Associate Head of School Becky Sykes

8. Music instructor Peter Lorenco, Sasha Scolnik-Brower, and Miki Nagahara

9. Classics instructor and chair Elizabeth Meyer and Andrea Vargas

10. Art instructor Emily Trespas and Saroj Gourkanti

11. Eric Ouyang, Samuel Koffman, and music instructor Elizabeth Aureden

12. Associate Head of School Becky Sykes

13. English/art history instructor David Fox and Scott Livingston

14. Didi Oyinlola and English instructor Vuyelwa Maqubela


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The evening was rich with reflections. MJ Engel (right) bared her soul, embracing her various “performances” over her Andover years: “In the midst of this chaotic emotion and calm solemnity, one fact remains certain: we graduate tomorrow… It is impossible to melt all of our experiences into one single universal Andover experience, although we may find threads of each other’s stories in our common act of performing. And, once we peel back the layers and step outside of this performance, what are we left with? Each of us, the actor, the writer, and the director of all our future performances. I call that true freedom.”

Jeri Eckhard-Queenan (below), mother of Michael Queenan ’13 and two other PA grads, told a Masai story of


“Buy the ticket. Take the ride.”

many streams that lead nowhere, but of some that lead to a big river. “Andover is a big river,” she said. She related her struggle to “learn to parent differently” as she stood on the river bank watching her children learn to navigate. “It was hard,” she admitted.

And then it was retiring history teacher Vic Henningsen ’69’s moment. Mixing humor with characteristic sarcasm and concern, he gave the Class of 2013 much to chew on. Invoking the Wizard of Oz, he reminded them that they already have what they came for, that the diploma is only a symbol. Relish the journey, “take time to appreciate and say thank you to those who shared the voyage to this piece of paper, this symbol.” Quoting Thoreau, he regretted that they have been over-protected from real life and encouraged the Class of 2013 to take risks, try new things, be willing to fail at something. And siding with playwright Nora Ephron, he advised them to lean toward life in the moment, rather than always opting to delay gratification. Come down, he said, “on the donut side.” Then, quoting Hunter S. Thompson, he invited students to “Buy the ticket. Take the ride.”

And in a final, maternal moment, Rev. Anne Gardner (right) stepped to the lectern and in a sweet, clear soprano, sang a benediction to the almost-graduates:

We are going. Heaven knows where we are going. We’ll know we’re there. We will get there. Heaven knows how we will get there. We know we will.

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Class of 2013

Good morning. It is my great pleasure to address you all: alumni, faculty, staff, faculty emeriti, friends, family, students, and the graduating Class of 2013. Graduates, I suspect you are experiencing both joy and sadness. I know that is how I experience Commencement: it is a day to be extremely happy for you, and it is a day when we realize acutely how much we will miss you.

You, the Class of 2013, will always have a special place in my heart. I have great affection for you. You are the first graduating class during my time as head

of school. As you take your leave from Andover, you also take with you some amazing adults: five retiring faculty members as well as two iconic leaders at the school, Temba Maqubela, who is becoming the head of Groton School, and Rebecca Sykes, who is becoming the president of the Oprah Winfrey Charitable Foundation.

I am grateful for many things about the Class of 2013. I admire your high spirits and your persistent goodwill. You are a brilliant group of artists, scientists, humanists, and all-around great people. You have lived up to the moniker of being

“…a brilliant group of artists, scientists, humanists, and all-around great people.”

Under a perfect blue sky, the entire Class of 2013 gathered for the last time to hear Head of School John Palfrey’s first Andover Commencement address.


Class of 2013

“…a brilliant group of artists, scientists, humanists, and all-around great people.”

“big, blue, and nice”—given to you by the admissions office when you were selected from extremely competitive pools of applicants—but you have also spoken your mind. You have found the right blend of respectful and rabble-rousing, serious and fun-loving. You have provoked us to be a better school. You leave us a stronger community.

I am grateful to the Class of 2013, also, for teaching me so much about Andover. I have never enjoyed teaching so much as I did with 10 seniors this past winter. You showed me, up close, how creative, clever,

well-spoken, and visionary you can be. You gave me a sense of what you can do with this extraordinary Andover education that you’ve received.

I have loved the chance to see you, more or less each Wednesday, assembled, in your diverse and joyful way, in Cochran Chapel for All-School Meeting. I have marveled at how well you play the cello; how well you perform comedy on stage; how well you sing and dance works from every imaginable tradition. I have been moved by the art that you post along the walls in Elson that I pass every day on Lazola Nyamakazi, Dorothy Jones, and Lydia Kaprelian


the way to my office. I have loved seeing you spike the volleyball and strike out opposing batters and clobber walk-off homeruns. You have talent galore. I am grateful for the introduction—hopeful, inspiring, and challenging—that you’ve offered to me and to my family as we start our own Andover education.

There are two scenes that I am sure I will remember about the Class of 2013. The first comes from the depths of a cold and snowy winter. It had been snowing and snowing and snowing some more—when along came the biggest snowstorm of the year, Winter Storm Nemo, the fifth highest snowfall in the recorded history of the Boston area. We all know that students are required to shovel the spaces outside their dorms—a good practice for life in general. The scene that I will remember was not just the feet of snow, but the crew of students who charged out with their shovels, bundled up from head to toe, to shovel out the administrative buildings and the classroom buildings and the steps to the chapel and the Addison, alongside the OPP staff who had come in over the weekend to operate the plows and dig us out. The shovel crew included senior faculty members, staff, and students of all ages. It was the scene of a strong and considerate community of people who go above and beyond what’s required of them to make Andover a better place.

The second vignette is covered not with the whites and grays of a massive snowstorm but with brilliant sunshine. Just a few weeks ago, on these same lawns, a small group of students worked with faculty to organize the first ever—some are calling it the “First Annual”—Spring Arts Festival. Students here work harder than they should, in many cases, and the experience is more stressful than is healthy. But for an afternoon, that stress was swept aside by a broad arc of balloons that spanned the Vista between Foxcroft and Bartlet, a never-before-attempted avant-garde dance that involved paint on feet and a big sheet of plastic that looked like a slip-and-slide, bands, and lots of face

Inset left: Richard Levy and Will Kim

Above: Lily MacRae, MJ Engel, Madeline Silva, and Garrick Gu

Above right: Flanking Head of School John Palfrey and Trustee President Peter Currie ’74 are the recipients of the five major awards announced at Commencement: Gabriele Fisher (Madame Sarah Abbot Award), Cameron Morose (Non Sibi Award), Piper Curtis (Yale Bowl), Emily Field (Faculty Prize), and Rolando Bonachea (Aurelian Honor Society Prize).

Above right inset: Jennifer Elliott, dean of Abbot Cluster and instructor in history and social science

Right: Christopher Amendano, Andrea Vargas, Jonathan Thompkins, and David Jordan

Right inset: Susanna Rademacher and Claudia Giles

Below right: Ayaka Shinozaki, Stephanie Kim, and Emily Jia

Below: Harrison Roche, Aaron Finder, Paul Turiano, Andries Feder, and Lazola Nyamakazi

Left: Jessica Vocaturo and Giovanna Pickering


paint. It was memorable because of the expressiveness and happiness of all those who participated, but also because it was something created from the imagination—brought about from nothing, in the midst of many other demands on the time of an

Andover student.

Parents: thanks to each one of you. These students are

remarkable, in part, because you are remarkable. Thank you for what you have sacrificed in giving us the great joy of spending one,

two, three, or four years with your children. You have

sacrificed much, not just in terms of tuition dollars and contributions

to the Parent Fund and your time in coming to Andover to see your children. Most important, you have sacrificed in terms of the time we got to spend with your children while they were not with you. You have given us a tremendous gift—the chance to be a big part of their coming of age, as scholars and as people.

I want to leave you, seniors, with a few parting words about your Andover experience and what comes next. Just as Commencement is always marked by the tension between the gladness of accomplishment and the sorrow of a time that will not return, there is much else about today that is marked by two hard-to-reconcile themes. It is much like when a jazz trio or singers in Fidelio come to a part in their music where the notes are dissonant and unstable; our job is either to resolve them, with a consonant chord thereafter, or to live with the dissonance—perhaps even learning to enjoy the dissonance itself.

The first of these tensions is pride in what you have done and the humility that you should hold dear as you leave Andover. You have each worked extremely hard during your high school years. That is part of what makes Andover, Andover. You deserve to be proud of yourselves for what you have accomplished. You have prepared yourselves better than almost anyone else on the planet for what comes next. When you get to college, wherever you go and whenever you get there, you will know what I mean.


At the same time, as you leave us, I urge you to bring with you a strong and healthy dose of humility alongside the pride of being an Andover graduate. One of the things that I love about this school is that people of all ages seem ready to learn at all times. There is a characteristic openness and joy in finding out new things, about how to create ways to improve the world. This is one of the reasons why people seem to work so hard and to sleep so little, no matter how old we are, on this 500-acre plot of land. There is a hunger to improve here at Andover that I hope you will never lose. Part of our shared commitment to diversity comes from the sense that others, from other places and perspectives, know things and can do things that we cannot—yet—do or know ourselves. Though you are the great Class of 2013, remember that you are in fact the third Class of ’13 in the long and rich PA history. This humility is essential not just for you, but also for us as teachers and as heads of school.

Second of the tensions: I hope that you will recall, when you think back on Andover, what you have learned about how to succeed, but also how to fail. You would not be here today if you were not wildly accomplished—you are—and I trust that your Andover experience has affirmed this characteristic in each of you.

I trust that you will recall also the times when you have taken a risk at Andover and failed at something—or at least had an outcome that you did not expect. While you’ve been here, you most likely have taken on things that you never thought you would try. I hope that you’ve managed to skin your knees a few times along the way, that you have found in yourself the force of character to pick yourself up, and that you’ve become more confident in yourself as a result. I hope that we have been there for you, as adults, when you’ve really needed us, but that we’ve been at

Above inset: Clan MacPherson bagpipers

Above: Arianna Chang, Ben Croen, and Julius Bright Ross

Above right: Susannah Hyde, Julia Kichorowsky, Emily Carrolo, Jing Qu, Rachel Andresen, Parker Thomas, and Sara Nunez

Right: Jaeduk Kim, Richard Levy, and Saroj Gourkanti

Far right inset: Hemang Kaul

Far right: Peter Solazzo, Garrick Gu, Lucy Frey, Parker Thomas, and Julia Kichorowsky

Bottom inset: Rochelle Wilbun and Didi Oyinlola

Below: Saroj Gourkanti, Justin Wang, Kevin Newhall, Mark Meyer, Haonan Li, Harvey Molé, Julie Doar, and Ali Belinkie


a safe enough distance when you really needed to do it on your own.

If we’ve done our job right as educators, this tension between success and failure should foster in each of you a sense of entrepreneurship. I don’t mean that each of you must found your own nonprofit or your own Silicon Valley —based tech startup—although I hope that some of you will do so and will make us proud through your work. I mean entrepreneurship in the sense that you will take the great gifts that you have honed through your time at Andover and put

them to great use to do well and to do good in the world, to realize

your personal dreams and to serve others in the true spirit

of non sibi, Andover style—much like the students who grabbed a shovel in Winter Storm Nemo to create a team to help OPP

and the students who put on the First Annual Spring Arts

Festival.

A final tension: Though you leave today in physical terms, I hope you will remain connected in other ways to this place and this time in your life. I hope that you will continue to be involved in the life of your school—Andover—for life. As trustees Peter Currie and Chris Auguste (both here with us today) said to you at the senior dinner with alumni in May, “Use the Andover network and find comfort in those friendships. Stay connected.” You have been students here for one, two, three, or four years, but you will now be alumni for a lifetime.

We have much work to do at Andover to continue to provide the best possible education we can for those who come after you in this increasingly digital age. In this work, we need your help. In the years to come, it is my hope that Andover will continue to thrive as an intense, focused, warm residential school that uses the best of the digital to connect to its alumni body and to students all around the world. There is a tension between the residential and the virtual, but it is a tension that I think can result in great music. I hope that each of you will play a role in that process. I hope that you will stay in touch


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with us through Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr—or using whatever means works for you. I hope that you will continue the great work of the alumni who come before you—alumni who help Andover to be every bit the school, the community, and the private school with a public purpose that we aspire to be.

My Commencement wish for you is that you will each find a way to hold these sometimes dissonant, sometimes consonant ideas in a way that feels harmonious and fulfilling to you. I wish for each of you, more than anything, that your post-Andover life will be productive and happy, full of joy and meaning.

In closing, I borrow words from one of my predecessors, a principal from Abbot Academy, Marguerite Capen Hearsey, who told her class of 1940:

“We have come now to the real good-bye, and there is little more that I can say or would say at such time in your personal lives and in this unprecedented and unpredictable world, than ‘good-bye’ with all its original, reverent significance— God be with you.”

Class of 2013: We will miss you, I will miss you. Congratulations, and thank you.

—John Palfrey Head of School

June 9, 2013

Top: Annika Neklason, Michael May, James Garth, A.J. Pisch, Pallavi Prakash, Krissy Pelley, Garrick Gu, Carolyn Nigro, Nathaniel Smith, and Anna Harrison

Above inset: Gaelyn Golde and Tyler Olkowski

Above left: George Avecillas and Demetri Papageorgiou

Above right: Barbara Cleary, Nona Velez, Zelly Atlan, Erin Wong, and Nikita Singareddy

Right: Amanda Simard, Stephanie Petrella, and Jacklyn Murray

Below: Patrick Naughter, Joshua Hayward, David Crane, William Merchant, and Sahil Bhaiwala

Below inset: Head of School John Palfrey and Aaron Finder

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Major prizes and awards earned by members of the Class of 2013COMMENCEMENT DAy PrizESAurelian Honor Society Prize

Rolando I. Bonachea

Faculty PrizeEmily L. Field

Madame Sarah Abbot AwardGabriele S. Fisher

Non Sibi AwardCameron T. Morose

Yale BowlPiper L. Curtis

GENErAL PrizES & AWArDSAchievement Prize

Alexandra M. Bell

Ayars PrizeNathaniel C. Smith

Fuller PrizeAnjali M. Krishnamachar

Isabel Maxwell Hancock Award

Patrick F. Naughter

Kingsbury PrizeDemetrios Papageorgiou

Richard Jewett Schweppe Prize

Lazola V. Nyamakazi

Abbot Stevens PrizeMolly J. Engel

Sullivan PrizeRashana R. Shabazz

Van Duzer Prize Samuel L. Green

DEPArTMENT PrizES & AWArDS

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Architecture AwardJay H. Reader

John Metcalf PrizeParker M. Thomas

Morse PrizeNatalia C. SlatteryHolland C. Delany

Betsy Waskowitz Rider Art Award

Kristine L. PelleySaroj Gourkanti

Thompson PrizeRachel E. AndresenCarolyn J. Nigro

Video AwardRashana R. Shabazz

Pamela Weidenman Memorial Prize

Alexandra M. DonovanSohyun Lee

ATHLETiCS

Abbot Athletic Award Amanda A. Simard

Phelps AwardHailey NovisSeamus J. O’Neill

Press Club AwardLawrence K. KempGiovanna M. Pickering

Schubert KeyKayla E. Maloney

Harold J. Sheridan AwardNathaniel C. Smith

Raymond T. Tippett Memorial Award

Rory P. Ziomek

CLASSiCS

Catlin PrizeEmily A. HoytConnor J. FraserDavid H. CraneAmelia A. Trant

Cook PrizeConnor J. Fraser

Declamation Prize (Latin 520V)

Patrick M. Niedzielski

Dove PrizePatrick M. Niedzielski

Weir Prize (New Testament Greek)

Garrick H. Gu (Second)

ENGLiSH

Charles Snow Burns Poetry Prize

Annika J. Neklason

John Horne Burns Prize for Fiction

Annika J. Neklason

Charles C. Clough Essay Prize

Connie C. Cheng

Draper PrizeStephanie D. Petrella

Means Essay PrizeAnna C. Stacy

HiSTOry & SOCiAL SCiENCE

Class of 1946 Economics Prize

Emily L. Field

Arthur Burr Darling PrizeShun Sakai

Dawes PrizeChien Hong L. Png

Grace PrizeGabriele S. Fisher

Marshall S. Kates PrizeSung Woo Hong

Lauder PrizeMatthew L. Deorocki

MATHEMATiCS

Bernard Joseph AwardJustin C. Wang

McCurdy PrizeNickhil R. Nabar (First)Jing Qu (Second)

MUSiC

Milton Collier PrizeDakyung Song

Charles Cutter PrizeMiki C. NagaharaAlexander G. Scolnik-Brower

Fuller Concert Band PrizeCollum E. FreedmanVijay G. RajkumarAyaka Shinozaki

Fuller Jazz Band PrizePatrick M. NiedzielskiSamantha V. Martinez

Bassett Watt Hough PrizeJames L.W. GarthVincent W. Lau

Ainsworth B. Jones PrizeTiffany C. LamKatherine E.A. Shih

Carl F. Pfatteicher PrizeAnna C. StacyLauren E. Kim

Edward P. Poynter PrizeJason L. TengJosephine J. Hicks-Jablons

Robert S. Warsaw Music Prize

Sirus K. HanLydia C. KaprelianMari A. Funabashi

Music in the CommunitySkanda K. KoppulaYeo Bi ChoiEric Ouyang

SCiENCE

Advanced Chemistry PrizeChayakorn Pongsiri (First)Gregory F. Young (Third)

Dalton Prize in ChemistryWilliam H. Bloxham

Graham Prize in ScienceEmily L. Field

Independent Research Prize in Biology

William H. Bloxham

Marsh Prize in BiologyLillian E. MacRaeEmily R. Carrolo

Scoville Prize in ScienceSam Khalandovsky

Wadsworth Prize in BiologyEmily L. FieldJulius G. Bright Ross

Wadsworth Prize in Physics 400

Anna B. Harrison (Third)

Wadsworth Prize in Physics 550/580

Gregory M. Cameron (First)Gregory F. Young (Third)

THEATrE & DANCE

N. Penrose Hallowell AwardSusannah M. Hyde

Dance PrizeMadeline M. Silva

WOrLD LANGUAGES

Neuman Prize (Chinese)Raeva S. Kumar

James Hooper Grew Prize (French)

Maia S. HirschlerRozenn Y. Carrio

Stevenson Prize (German)Angela M. LeocataPiper L. CurtisRoss R. Bendetson

Benjamin C. & Kathleen S. Jones Prize (Russian)

Nicole Y. NgStephanie D. Petrella

Donald E. Merriam Prize (Spanish)

Alexandra M. Bell

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Mentor, Teacher, Counselor, Friend. Thank you for all you have given to Andover over 40 years.

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Freedom—Bo Hyung Yoon ’13

Illuminating the Past—Rachel Andresen ’13

Video: Water and Wine (I'm not Sure This Isn't Blade Runner) —Virginia Fu ’13

Frame—Didi Oyinlola ’13

parting ARTS and LETTERS

Fruit

No more my father saysto my prodding spoon,there’s a train comingfrom the fruit fields I’d like to catch.

You’ve barely eaten I saybrushing bits of crackerout of his mustache;I’m tired of your trains.

But you’ve never tasted fruits like these, he says fingering the lip of his bib.Give me an apple and some red wine;I’ll show you.

In his trembling handshe slices a piece, dunks itin the wine and liftsit up to my mouth. I’ll feed you before I go.

—Demetri Papageorgiou ’13


Breathing—Sohyun (Sarah) Lee ’13

The 20’s: Conservatism, Contract and Consumption—Katie Chapman ’14

Portraits of a Filipino Family—Sierra Mari Jamir ’14

Unconscious Subconscious—Molly Magnell ’14

tea

my mother’s hands, softagainst the burnt mud of the clay pot,the crumble of brittle leavesfallingstifflythrough her fingers.

the water simmers.the leaves whisper.they sigh and they sink and they settle—the tea steeps.

shades of earthburn my tongue when I drinkfrom a cup too small,and the golden liquid is quietgentlemore bitter than bittersweet,think too hard and you will miss it—the taste of home.

—Rachel Xiao ’13



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